The time left for the defense of Beiping was too short, and when the bronze duo of the alarm sounded, Zhang Zhaohua even carried a bucket with a few people's girls, and also tested them on a few small questions along the way, asking them how to defend against the enemy's fire attack, how to dodge the flying guns, etc., a few young girls chattered, and the answer was quite correct.

Before Zhang Zhaohua could praise him, the officers and soldiers had already assembled under the morning mist under the city, and the initial attack had already begun, and this attack was tentative for the time being, because it was only carried out at the Lizheng Gate, Desheng Gate and Anding Gate, and on the enemy fortress that was far away, the artillery cart first fired cannon stones at the head of the Li main gate, and the first row of cannon stones roared over, and the soldiers defending the city could not be so timely in defense, so they could only hide behind the female wall.

In an instant, there was a rumbling and screaming. Zhang Zhaohua was shocked in his heart and said, "It's a war!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a round cannon stone flying over her head, these cannon stones were actually inaccurate, and it was impossible to aim at individuals, so it caused very few casualties, and several soldiers were smashed to the ground by the broken masonry of the gatehouse and bled out. Zhang Zhaohua immediately crawled down and commanded the old and weak army to go up to the rescue, but before the shelling stopped, the officers and soldiers under the city fired arrows up.

The rain-like arrows whizzed down, Zhang Zhaohua huddled tightly into a ball, hiding under the haystack, and the other people who had time to dodge in the future, including a soldier's wife, were shot through the chest with an arrow, Zhang Zhaohua remembered her, she was one of the fastest learners when teaching, everything was good, but her voice was a little rough, but her last voice was: "Rush-"

The voice stopped abruptly, and a flower of blood appeared on her chest, and she fell to the ground.

The guard Li Bin saw that when the enemy was about 100 meters away, he shouted and struck, and a rain of arrows poured out from the city tower, harvesting lives in the enemy group. The strikers of the Southern Army should not have imagined that Beiping's counterattack was so fast, and the arrows hit the ground with a pop, splashing up bursts of dust, and more into their phalanx, and suddenly they also fell to the ground.

The general of the Southern Army commanding the attack loudly encouraged the soldiers to charge in the rear ranks: "Those who advance will be rewarded, and those who retreat will die!" The first troops to rush into the city of Beiping will be promoted to the second rank, and the first sergeant to rush in will be rewarded with 200 silver!"

After three trumpet cannons, the official camp changed its formation, and the soldiers with shields and horses in front retreated to both sides, while the sergeants who came out in the middle carried ladders and pushed the "overpass" carts, shouting and rushing up the city wall like ants.

"Aim-" Gao Chi pointed to the Southern Army on the cart and shouted, "Shoot!"

The soldiers defending the city launched crossbow arrows, a group of people fell down with arrows, and the people behind them rushed over the corpses of these people to kill again, inspired by the deafening drums, their brave people have even crossed the moat, into the "sheep and horse city" area between the city wall and the moat, the sheep and horse city is the buffer zone outside the urn city, the southern army killed, crowded at the two gates of the urn city and prepared to hit the door, and the soldier defending the city pushed the wood to roll down, but suddenly heard the back of the southern army camp, there was a sound of gold.

Several sergeants who had climbed onto the urn city looked at each other, but they couldn't help but retreat, the guards Liang Ming and Yibin Yuan Rong seized the opportunity and immediately rushed out, slashing at the southern army who had no time to retreat.

"This is the first defense," Li Rang and Gao Sui touched the wine jug, and said happily: "Fight happily, it seems that the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army is no more than that!"

The southern army did not take advantage of anything at the Lizheng Gate, Desheng Gate and Andingmen, and the Yan army was only killed by the crossbow at Andingmen and Lizheng Gate, and eight people were injured by artillery stones, while under the three city gates, the Southern Army discarded at least a hundred corpses, and although the victory in the first battle was not brilliant, it could boost morale.

Gao Chi was so tired that he was out of breath, his body was bulky, and he was wearing armor, and he fired two arrows in succession, his lips moved, and he wanted to say something, but he still didn't say it after thinking about it.

In fact, this is just Li Jinglong's vanguard force, a total of only 1,000 people, the casualties are not heavy, and it can be regarded as a thorough understanding of Beiping's defense ability, and when Li Jinglong's army arrives, the real tough battle is more than ten times more difficult to fight than today.

Facts have proved that Gao Chi is not right, the fighting spirit of the Yan army is high, and the common people have signed up for the exhibition more, Ji Shan Jin Zhong and Mo Lin of the judge announced the reward, for those who kill, kill, wound, and capture the enemy, those who seize the military capital of war horses, and those who contribute to the defense of the city, they will be rewarded with different rewards, and the sergeants will be promoted by merit, and the ordinary people will be rewarded with silk and rice noodles, and a number of bans have also been announced, all of which are posted in the streets and alleys.

Zhang Zhaohua, like Princess Xu, ate and lived in the city day and night, and had to return to the palace once, and slaughtered all the pigs, cattle and sheep raised in the palace, and transported them to the city wall in a frame to feed the soldiers.

"Open the treasury," Zhang Zhaohua commanded three or five palace people to go in and carry the cloth: "No matter how many things, take them all out and send them to the official treasury in the west of the city!"

"Niangniang," Xiangguan felt distressed: "Those are all good palace yarns and cloud silk!"

A horse of cloud silk is almost the price of five taels of silver, and the silk and satin cloth in this treasury are given by the palace, and there are also several county lords' dowries, as well as Zhang Sheng brought back from Jiangnan to Zhang Zhaohua, all of which are very valuable things, and now Zhang Zhaohua has to take them all out as a reward for the wives of soldiers and civilian women.

"No matter how good things are," Zhang Zhaohua said angrily: "You also have to have a life to endure it! If the soldiers refuse to exert their strength, Beiping City is broken, not to mention these things, even the heads on the neck, they can't be saved, and there is still time to worry about these!"

Xiangguan was scolded by Zhang Zhaohua, and suddenly didn't dare to speak, Zhang Zhaohua drove the carriage to send things to the west of the city, and saw Zhang Qi and Zhang Chang and dozens of old farmers, driving more than a dozen donkey carts over, and the rolling stones from the mining farm were pulled on the cart, Zhang Qi almost didn't recognize her when she saw her, because Zhang Zhaohua didn't say that she should have the appearance of a princess, maybe more unkempt than the Xiangguan who served her, and when she saw Zhang Qi looking her up and down, she remembered that she didn't seem to have washed her face for three or four days.

"Good girl," Zhang Qi couldn't help but say, "You, you-"

Zhang Zhaohua preemptively asked, "I'm fine, what about Brother Chun'er?"

Brother Chun'er was handed over by Zhang Zhaohua to the Wang family to take with him, and Zhang Qi lowered his voice and said: "Give it to your mother, she is smart, and she avoided the cellar when she heard the sound of the cannon!"

The Zhang family is now very rich, and there is a cellar dedicated to storing gold, which is firmly and profoundly, and the Wang family is not too worried, because the Zhang family's residence is indeed close to the city gate, and if there is a stray cannon coming, the Wang family will protect Brother Chun into the cellar to hide.

Zhang Zhaohua also thought about asking the Wang family to take Brother Chun to live in the palace, but when he thought about the current soldiers and palace people in the palace, almost all of them were on the nine city gates, and the palace was empty.

Before he could say a few words, the bronze priest in the city was knocked again: "Enemy attack-"