The two sides exchanged rockets, crossbow arrows, and stone-throwing showers at the head of the city, although the defenders of Yangzhou City were not many in number, but they were condescending, and there were winch crossbows, wooden rolling stones and other sharp weapons to defend the city, so they were still equal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xie Xuan, who was on the command platform, felt exhausted. Looking back, the fierce battle on the castle tower was still in full swing, and the soldiers fell in patches, and under the pressure of the opponent's flint rain, many buildings in the city were on fire, and clouds of smoke rose to the sky, spreading in high places, covering the sky and the sun. After only one cup of tea, 1,000 of the 6,000 soldiers defending the city had died on the city wall, and the tragic situation was unbearable to witness.

Zhou Ning accompanied him to look down on the battlefield under the moonlight, his eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice: "Xuan Shuai seems to have no bottom in his heart about this battle. ”

Xie Xuan glanced at him with some surprise, and said calmly: "It was seen by Brother Zhou, in addition to the 30,000 Chu army, the enemy army also has 20,000 Tianshi troops and 20,000 Jianghuai troops, and the troops in the city are afraid that it is difficult to hold, I have sent people to ask Huan Xuan in Jingzhou for help, if Huan Xuan is willing to send troops, the siege of Yangzhou can naturally be solved." ”

Zhou Ning nodded, looked at the city, from the beginning of the war, the Beifu army has been lagging behind, the enemy's army besieging the city is full of 30,000 people, plus the Tianshi army is eyeing the side, the initiative has all fallen into the hands of the Chu army, and the Beifu army can only rely on the geographical advantage and try its best to counterattack.

The battle lasted from late evening until late at night, with heavy casualties on both sides. The Beifu army occupied the geographical advantage, but the Chu army relied on a large number of people.

But seeing that the corpses of the two armies were gradually piled up under the city, the follow-up teams were still surging like angry waves, trampling the corpses to attack the city. In the twilight, countless torches were lit inside and outside the city, shining like day.

Zhou Ning felt sorry in his heart and was silent, in fact, the most tragic fate was not the sergeants of the two armies, but the refugees at the gate of the city, he saw with his own eyes countless refugees died extremely tragically under the arrows.

Touching the scene, Zhou Ning's heart suddenly swelled with an indescribable sadness, not only for this group of refugees, but also for a person in the era of chaos, deeply understanding the emotion of everyone because they want to survive and carry out endless wars.

At this time, I suddenly heard a cheer from the city, and it turned out that the Heavenly Master Army, who had been watching from the sidelines, also joined the battle group at this time, and they scattered their wings and set up ladders at the city wall to start a strong attack. A team of 1,000 people climbed up the ladder one after another.

In the night, the herald of the Chu army shouted: "Listen to the soldiers: the overlord has an order, after capturing Yangzhou City, there is no military discipline to loot for three days, and everyone will be rewarded." The Chu army cheered loudly, and the offensive suddenly became fierce by three points.

Zhou Ning didn't say a word, took a bow from the side, drew the bow and arrows, only listened to the sound of the whirl, the long arrow carried the sound of the tiger and the wind, and flew away, Zhou Ning After entering the innate realm, his strength and eyesight were not what they used to be, and the herald was caught off guard, and when he was hit by an arrow in his chest, he fell off the horse when he landed.

The officers and men of the Chu army couldn't help but look at each other, and their morale was slightly frustrated.

"Good archery!"

Xie Xuan glanced at Zhou Ning and praised sincerely.

After a pause, he suddenly looked up at the sky and said, "It's going to rain soon, and I'm afraid I won't be able to fight tonight." ”

Zhou Ning looked at the night sky, the bright moon was in the sky at the moment, and there was no meaning of rain at all, and he couldn't help but be a little puzzled in his heart.

Xie Xuan said lightly: "For the sake of the general, I don't know astronomy, I don't know Qimen, I don't know yin and yang, I don't look at the formation map, I don't know the strength of the troops, I am a mediocre talent, and I will understand it in the future." ”

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly looked into the distance and said, "Hey, why do they have the siege equipment of the Demon Gate?" ”

Zhou Ning was slightly stunned: "Demon Gate? ”

Xie Xuan was silent, and at this moment, a team of soldiers in yellow armor in the distance quickly stepped forward, and under the cover of the giant shield, they pushed a huge cart forward, and a huge wooden plank rested on top of the car.

In the vicinity of these two vehicles, there were several extremely large siege vehicles.

"It's ...... Ferry car? Lu Xiangsheng lost his voice and said, "His grandmother's mother, where did this group of silverfish thieves get so many siege equipment?" ”

Zhou Ning also frowned, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart.

Under the cover of the giant shield, the wagon was quickly pushed to the edge of the moat. Lu Xiang raised his voice and shouted: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

Arrows rained down on the top of the city.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Chu army holding huge shields immediately closed their shields to protect the Chu army on the cart, and in an instant, the arrows rained down like a torrent of arrows, shooting the shield like a hedgehog, but few arrows could hit the Chu army behind through the gap.

Lu Xiangsheng's face became condensed, if he was reached under the city by this ferry car, and a pontoon bridge was erected on the moat, if he gave up the initiative in this siege battle, he exclaimed: "Xuan Shuai......"

Xie Xuan said lightly: "This group of waste materials is inevitably too underestimated by our Beifu army. ”

He turned his head and shouted, "Come on, prepare a horse for me!" “

Xie Yan said movingly: "Big brother, but you want to go out of the city to meet the attack?" ”

Xie Xuan said: "It is imperative." ”

Xuan looked at the two of them again, and asked lightly: "Lu Shoubei, Brother Zhou, can you still fight?" ”

"Can fight!" Lu Xiangsheng and Zhou Ning glanced at each other, their spirits were shocked, and they shouted loudly.

Xie Xuan nodded happily and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Lu Garrison, you go and order eight hundred light cavalry, follow me out of the city, and destroy the enemy's ordnance!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng agreed.

At this moment, there was a faint roar of thunder in the invisible distance, and Zhou Ning looked at Xie Xuan in astonishment, it turned out that it was really going to rain.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng had already prepared the people, everyone was wearing clothes and hats, Xie Xuan glanced back at everyone, and shouted: "Go!" ”

"Boom"!

Lightning tore through the sky, thunder erupted, and a sudden heavy rain suddenly descended on the world.

The storm came very suddenly, the Chu army that was besieging the city was caught off guard, there was a commotion from the neat military array, and the torches all over the mountains under the city tower were suddenly extinguished by the heavy rain, only a few fires flashed in the tent in the distance, and the city suddenly became pitch black.

At this moment, the city gate opened, and Xie Xuan and the three of them led eight hundred light horsemen to gallop out of the city gate, each with a coat and hat, and the night was integrated, until they were close, they could tell that it was the people of the Beifu army.

Xie Xuan waved the Jiushao Dingyin Sword and went straight into the crowd, the horse was as fast as lightning, and for a while everyone in the Chu army had no time to react, until Xie Xuan raised the sword and fell, they were shocked to realize that the enemy army had been killed.

In the chaos of soldiers and horses, Xiang Yu comforted the restless black horse under his crotch, and looked into the distance with his eyes like electricity.

"Boom"!

Lightning pierced the storm.

The sound of the killing sound of the timpani sword sounded, and the rain curtain was cut in half obliquely, and the light suddenly appeared in mid-air, and even illuminated the dark night sky, a white arc of light flashed out of thin air, and the sword fell, and several Chu soldiers had fallen from the sword.

Through the flash of sword light, Zhou Ning had already seen the heavily protected ferry car not far away.