In the early morning, before dawn, Wu Cheng led nearly 500,000 troops to retreat to Linli City, the city lord seemed to have received the news, waited on the city wall early, saw the army arrived, hurriedly opened the city gate, and led the army into the city.

"Captain Wu, somehow gave up An Li City?" the city lord seemed to be puzzled and asked directly.

Wu Cheng sighed and said: "The grain and grass are cut off, and it is naturally difficult to continue."

"Why? Didn't you just send away more than a dozen carts of grain and grass a few days ago?" the city lord said in surprise.

"Hmph, I guess I was robbed on the way back, that Li Mang led the army to besiege but not attack, leaving the rear avenue alone, presumably to force me to retreat, how could I let the grain and grass reach An Licheng?"

"Hey, but that Li Mang forced you to retreat to my Linli City, didn't he also be able to enter the hinterland of my Xingzhou? As long as your army is still there, he can't move an inch, so why does he do this?" the city lord continued to ask.

"This is also the question I was thinking about, I really don't know his intentions, this person is really imaginative in his use of soldiers" Wu Cheng sighed.

"Is he not sure that he will be able to capture the strong pass, and he will only make a move to force you into my small city?" the city lord never saw that Wu Cheng had long since missed the stubble, and still asked himself.

"Maybe, okay, city lord, I haven't slept all night, I'm very tired, let me rest for a while! Today, you will temporarily close the city gate, send a notice to inform the ordinary people in the city, don't cause trouble" Wu Cheng didn't want to say any more, and directly opened his mouth to drive people away.

"Okay, old decay, let's do it, you can rest" The city lord nodded in response, and then left.

Wu Cheng sighed again and fell on the bed, but he couldn't sleep, looking at the ceiling and not knowing what he was thinking.

Nothing happened for a day.

At night, rested Liu Ming and Liu Lang led the army again and headed towards Linli City.

Li Mang had already repaired a letter and handed it to Liu Jing, asking him to send someone to clean up the city he had built in the rear, otherwise he would divide troops everywhere to defend it, how could his 700,000 army be enough?

In the morning, Wu Cheng went up to the city again, looking at the Daxing army hunting under the banner, and he was angry, so he still wanted to surround me again?

Sure enough, he guessed correctly, and Li Mang was ordering at this time: "It's the same as before, besiege but not attack, this time stay in the south, and then look at the situation first."

"Yes" Liu Ming and Liu Lang took the order, and after a while, the army turned into two dragons again and surrounded the Linli City, this time the south was vacant, because the next city in the south was close to the hinterland of Xingzhou, which no longer belonged to the border pass.

Wu Cheng smashed his fist on the city wall, looked at the army under the city fiercely, and reluctantly turned back to the city lord's mansion.

"How many days will your city have enough food for my army?" asked Wu Cheng.

The lord of the city thought for a moment and said, "In two days, if you forcibly collect grain from the people, you will not be able to say anything."

"Don't... You can't rob the people's food, hey, I can't say that I have to retreat this time, this battle is really fucking aggrieved" Wu Cheng said hatefully.

The city lord nodded, and did not speak again, but his expression was full of worry, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

In fact, his concern was very simple: Binzhou's 500,000 troops could be withdrawn at any time, could he go? What should he do when the time comes? Resist? Maintain the integrity of the officials of the big country? Or should he surrender smoothly? Or should he surrender after resisting? It is no wonder that the city lord's heart is full of thoughts.

Two days later, the army ran out of food again, that is, the old grain used for emergencies in the city lord's mansion was eaten up, and Wu Cheng's heart at this time was to retreat.

At this time, the situation in the city had already been transmitted by the heavenly army in the city and sent to Li Mang, who thought about it for a long time after reading it, and then made a decision, and then he wrote down a few words and handed it over to the heavenly army, ordering him to pass the order.

Li Mang stayed alone for a long time before he called Liu Ming and Liu Lang, two brothers.

"There will be a hard battle tonight, you two let the whole army rest," Li Mang said straight to the point when he saw the two of them coming in.

"King Xian, how are we fighting?" asked Liu Lang excitedly.

"Let's talk about it then, it depends on the situation, go down and rest, don't talk to the army specifically, I will give the order when I see the situation in the evening" Li Mang seemed to be very tired, and he spoke weakly.

"Yes," the two of them were ordered to leave.

Li Mang rubbed his temples, a little uncomfortable, this city is not like what he had encountered before, there are no ordinary people in the city. If you want to win the Binzhou Army in a battle, you must fight in the city, so that the effect of the Heavenly Army can be maximized, but in this way, the civilian people will naturally have casualties, which is where Li Mang is entangled...

At night, the world is quiet.

In Linli City, Bai Qiu and Sanbao converged, took a look at the sharp note and burned it, and then the two of them sneaked into the night again, heading in different directions.

At this time, the Binzhou army had just finished reorganizing and was ready to retreat overnight again, but no one found that when the army was assembled, the east city gate was quietly opened, while the south city gate was tightly closed, and the south wall was already full of heavenly troops.

The city gate was wide open, and the tangle in his heart was gone at this time, after all, the arrow was already on the string, and it had to be sent, otherwise the heavenly army in the city would be in danger.

"Liu Ming, led an army of 200,000 to quietly enter the city, guarded the east gate, and did not let anyone out of the city. Liu Lang, led an army of 500,000 to the south gate, waited for the opportunity, and launched an attack with the heavenly army" Li Mang finished the deployment very quickly, and then the two of them led their teams to leave.

Li Mang sighed lightly at this time, followed Liu Ming's 200,000 troops into the east city gate, and then walked from the city to the south gate, while walking, he looked around at the houses in the city, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Wu Cheng listened to the report from his subordinates, and after the army was completed, he explained a few words to the city lord, and then went out, turned on his horse, and led the army to the south gate.

The long street of Linli City is not too wide, but it is enough to accommodate twenty adults in horizontal rows, and more than 20,000 rows of 500,000 troops, winding like a dragon, almost standing on the long street, with Wu Cheng's departure, the army also moved slowly, and for a time the city was full of rumbling footsteps and the sound of armor colliding.

Wu Cheng was absent-minded, he didn't know what he was thinking, and after turning the corner, he didn't even find that the city gate a hundred meters away was closed, and he led the team forward.

Fifty steps passed in a blink of an eye, and at this time, the guards around Wu Cheng found that the city gate had not been opened, and the arrogant horse hurriedly marched forward for a while, and said in a loud voice: "Brother of the city defense army, hurry up and open the city gate, haven't you received the news?"

Wu Cheng was also awakened by the voice of his subordinates, and casually glanced at what he was about to say in front of him, and suddenly found that something was wrong with the situation, the city gate should be brightly lit, but at this time it was a black light, and the city gate was not open in the first place, no matter how stupid the city defense army was, it would not delay the matter of his dignified Binzhou military captain, right?

"Be careful, hurry..."Before Wu Cheng could withdraw the word, he heard a "whoosh" sound, and the guard planted his horse, and at the same time, he heard the sound of sharp arrows roaring in the night sky in the city.

Wu Cheng took the lead, facing the rain of arrows, and was able to draw his sword to block several arrows, but he was nailed into his body by more arrows, and fell under the horse with angry eyes.

At this time, on the south city gate, the heavenly army continued to load bows and crossbows, and then shot towards the sky, without any aiming at all, one person fired five arrows at a time, and ten thousand people were fifty thousand sharp arrows in the air. This is nothing, I saw Liu Lang a few meters away from the city wall, commanding an army of 500,000 to shoot at the city, regardless of whether he could shoot people or not, in short, he pulled his bow and shot arrows towards the sky.

500,000 bows and arrows roared through the sky, drawing a beautiful arc towards the vicinity of the Binzhou army, although it was not very accurate, but it could not stand the arrows and many people, and the city was filled with the wails and screams of the Binzhou army for a while.

After a long time, the heavenly army's crossbow arrows shot into the air, and then the city wall opened the southern city gate, and Liu Lang also called off his subordinates and led the army into the city slowly.

This wave of arrow rain actually did not cause much damage to the Binzhou army at all, because of the topography of the streets in the city, the team was too long, and the arrow rain flew over a distance of nearly 50 meters and fell in the Binzhou army, and it only shrouded the soldiers within 50 meters in front of the team.

It's just that the most lethal thing is that Wu Cheng died under this wave of arrows, so that the Binzhou army was leaderless, and there was no trace of the enemy when it was attacked.