Three days ago......

Hacking to death the last soldier of the Li Army who rushed into battle with a knife, Zhang Dabiao raised his head and looked around, under the stubborn resistance of the soldiers, there was no longer a standing Li Jun around.

Zhang Dabiao raised the Mo knife and shouted: "Battle, you will win." ”

"The battle will be won. ”

"The battle will be won. ”

"The battle will be won. ”

The soldiers cheered along with Zhang Dabiao to celebrate this hard-won victory.

These soldiers stationed at the gap are all henchmen who have been following him in the southern and northern wars, accompanying him to destroy Ren Feng, fighting Qiongcheng, and surrounding the valley and peak, and they have always been eager to look down on him.

And this time, because of the terrain, they could not give full play to the advantages of their horses, and after dismounting, they suffered heavy casualties when resisting the Li army.

Zhang Dabiao looked at the corpses lying in the open space, and suddenly had mixed feelings, these are all old guys who have been following him all along.

But he didn't have much energy to sigh, so Zhang Dabiao led the troops to transport the dead soldiers back to the civil wall and buried them in the open space not far from the civil wall.

Since you can't take them to enjoy the glory and wealth, at least don't let them be in the wilderness.

After doing all this, the soldiers got a moment of rest.

Zhang Dabiao sat on the earthen wall, looking at the direction of the gap with a Mo knife.

He knew that this was only the first tentative attack of the army, and that it would not be long before the second wave of surprise attacks would come, and he did not know if he would be able to hold on.

But he knew that Han Ming's situation was even more critical than him at this moment, and the only thing he could do was to hold the gap and fight until the last moment.

After about half an hour, a trace of movement began to appear at the gap in the distance.

Seeing this, Zhang Dabiao stood on the wooden wall with a knife, looking at the smoke and dust that had not dispersed in the distance, and his heart was full of war. The surrounding soldiers of the Flame Battalion also clenched their weapons tightly, with solemn expressions.

Today, it's just a battle to the death.

After a while, the second wave of the Li army's offensive arrived, and Zhang Dabiao looked coldly at the rushing Li army, holding a knife in his hand. This time he did not rush down the wooden wall, but clinged to the civil wall and defended it.

The leader of the army was tall and large, and after approaching the wooden wall, he jumped off his mount and took the lead in killing Zhang Dabiao.

If this was before, Zhang Dabiao would definitely rush up with a Mo knife to fight with him for two rounds, but now he has to focus on the overall situation and forcibly press his impulse.

Zhang Dabiao raised his right hand, and the surrounding soldiers immediately set up ** and aimed at the rushing Li Jun on the wooden wall.

Zhang Dabiao stared closely at the soldiers of the Geographical Army who were getting closer and closer, and his right hand was always raised steadily, never shaking a bit.

Seeing that the army was getting closer and closer, Zhang Dabiao could even see the helmet on the head of the general of the army led by him.

When Li Jun was still twenty steps away from the wooden wall, Zhang Dabiao moved.

His right hand fell like thunder, and he shouted in his mouth: "Launch!"

Suddenly, thousands of crossbow arrows shot out from the wooden wall, like a large net, covering the soldiers at the front.

The ** shot at such a close range did not enter the armor of the soldiers of the army, and directly cleaned up the space of 100 meters in front of the wooden wall.

The general who took the lead was not spared, and he was killed on the battlefield with at least thirty crossbow arrows stuck in his body.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Li Army, who were still charging, were extremely frightened and stopped one after another. Coupled with the death of the leading general, I don't know who took the lead in retreating, and all the soldiers of the army immediately lost their fighting spirit and retreated like a tide.

This time, the soldiers of the Flame Battalion on the wooden wall did not cheer, and everyone could see that there would be countless tough battles to be fought next, and all they could do was to walk down the wooden wall, take back the crossbow arrows, and by the way, make up for the soldiers who were not dead.

On the other side of the gap, Min Zheng looked at the defeated soldiers and his face was very ugly.

He was ordered by Zhou to lead 10,000 men straight to the gap, and then attacked Shangjing from the flank to meet the forbidden cavalry. I thought that I would go all the way unimpeded, but I didn't expect the spies to report that the Chu army had already built a civil wall at the gap.

The speed of the Chu army's defense was something he didn't expect, and he thought that he could pass through the gap while the Chu army had no time to react, but it seemed that this plan had failed.

Immediately afterward, he sent a team of 500 men to test the truth, and the whole army was destroyed. Later, a general volunteered to take down the Chu army in the gap, so he transferred another 1,000 people.

Now another two hundred have been lost, and even the leading generals have been retained.

Min Zheng knew that he had encountered a hard bone.

But this did not make him angry, but aroused his competitive spirit, if he couldn't even clean up the Chu army at a gap, how could he afford the heavy responsibility given to him by Zhou Quan.

After the defeated Li army was settled, it was not early, and Min Zheng directly set up camp outside the gap, and only waited for tomorrow to lead the army to attack the gap.

After a night of silence, Zhang Dabiao just sent people to pile up the civil wall higher to deal with tomorrow's fierce battle.

On the second day, when the first rays of morning light shone on the earthen wall, two armies were already standing on either side of the earthen wall.

The gap is narrow, and only 20 people can walk side by side. Min Zheng looked at Zhang Dabiao's improvised earthen wall and was slightly surprised.

He thought that the Chu army had built a fortress in the gap, but he didn't expect it to be this small earthen wall less than two feet high.

The thought that the generals of the Chu army actually leaned against this low earthen wall and blocked his two waves of attacks alive made him a little impressed.

But that's the end of it, he personally led 3,000 men and horses today, and he was bound to win the gap in one fell swoop.

After Min Zheng was ready, the siege of the Li army began. Today was obviously more prepared than yesterday, and the siege troops stepped forward with large shields and high ladders.

When Zhang Dabiao saw the formation of the Li army, he knew that he couldn't be good, and after firing a round of arrows with little effect, he raised the Mo knife in his hand and prepared to meet the Li army.

The earthen wall was not high, and the soldiers of the army could even rush up the city wall on foot.

Zhang Dabiao led the army to meet the battle and killed the soldiers of the Li army who rushed to the city wall. But as soon as one group was killed, another group rushed up, and the soldiers of the besieging army continued to flow, as if they could not finish killing.

As the siege continued, the Flame Battalion began to suffer casualties, and the casualties continued to increase.

If it weren't for Zhang Dabiao standing firm on the earthen wall, the soldiers of the Agni Fire Battalion would not have lasted long.

The siege lasted from morning to mid-day, Min Zheng didn't expect the Chu army on the earthen wall to be so resilient, and after fighting for a whole morning, he couldn't break through the earthen wall.

Seeing that the morale had been exhausted, Min Zheng knew that any further attack would only increase casualties, so he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

With a few crisp gongs, the soldiers on both sides were relieved.

The soldiers of the Flame Battalion, who were still holding on to the earthen wall, watched the retreating Li army, one by one slumped to the ground, and after several hours of fierce fighting, everyone was exhausted, almost all wounded, greedily taking advantage of this hard-won rest.

Zhang Dabiao's hand holding the Mo knife had begun to tremble, he didn't know how many people he had killed, anyway, as long as it was the Li Jun standing in front of him, he was repeating the mechanical slash, relying on the indestructible characteristics of the Mo knife, he easily slashed the enemy in front of him.

It wasn't until Li Jun Mingjin retreated that he had time to pant for breath with the Mo knife.

Looking around, only a few hundred warriors were still standing on top of the earthen wall, and even these hundreds of warriors were covered in blood and crumbling.

Zhang Dabiao's eyes were full of sadness, these brothers who followed him in the southern and northern wars, died and wounded. But even so, they held the gap firmly.

In the afternoon after and for the whole day after, Zhang Dabiao did not see Li Jun. He was a little curious as if the siege had stopped, but the rest of the soldiers were given a precious rest.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhang Dabiao led the soldiers to build the earth wall as soon as possible, but he couldn't find the soil and stones, so he used the corpses of the soldiers of the army as materials, and finally strengthened the earth wall steadily.

On the fourth day, Zhang Dabiao always had a feeling that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings, and the whole sky was also gloomy.

He didn't last long, and a black line appeared on the horizon in the distance. The black line is getting closer and closer, and finally a black tide is formed.

The fourth offensive of the Li army came.