Chapter 15: Defending the Fort

Huang Fan rode on his horse and looked at Liujiabao in the distance, the walls of the fort were full of torches, like an angry giant beast lying on the ground. He was not so relieved in his heart, and secretly thought that even if he couldn't open the gap tonight, he would be able to disturb the people guarding the fort, and he would be able to attack it during the day tomorrow.

Huang Fan is an old bandit in Cizhou, and he has been eating this bowl since the first Khitan went south. He was originally a merchant in the Later Han Dynasty, trafficking illicit goods on the grassland for a living, although the risk was not small, but the income was also quite considerable. Life is relatively rich, and there is a virtuous wife and a pair of lovely children at home.

Because the Khitan army went south, he was framed as a Khitan spy and suffered imprisonment, not to mention that even his wife and children were killed. It happened that the Khitan Kingdom came to rescue the real spies, and he took the opportunity to escape from prison, raised a banner in Xianghe Mountain, gathered hundreds of people, and became the king of the mountain in the mountain.

And the appearance of Liujiabao, let him like a fish in the throat, every time he went down the mountain to loot, he had to avoid Liujiabao, he suffered a lot of losses here in Liujiabao openly and secretly, he also wanted to capture Liujiabao, but in the fort, there were thousands of people in the fort, and the fort was strictly guarded, he couldn't eat.

And a month ago, Zeng Zhi, the master of the Zeng family in Cizhou, came to the mountain and told him the news that Liu Yan was going to Longcheng, so that he could be angry fiercely, he plundered Liu Yan's caravan, and he had no intention of killing Liu Yan, but Zeng Zhi said that he would tie Liu Yan to the mountain, so as to extort Liu Jiabao for a sum of gold and silver, but the stubborn Liu Yan fell into the river, and he could not see anyone alive or dead.

Xiangheshan and Liu Jiabao had such a big grudge, Huang Fan was very distressed, afraid that Liu Jiabao would lead people up the mountain to seek revenge, and it was Zeng Zhi who offered a clever plan to let Liu Feng return in defeat.

Liu Feng returned to Liujiabao after defeat, and vigorously practiced Ding's construction of the fort, with a posture of vowing to take revenge, Huang Fan couldn't sit still, and listened to Zeng Zhi's clever plan, and gathered a team of nearly 10,000 people in more than a month. Just as Liu Feng guessed, their ultimate goal was no longer Liujiabao, but Cizhou City.

Huang Fan, who had already arrived at the castle, looked at the castle wall, with long spears like a forest, and the burgers of Liujiabao were ready to fight with them, and they couldn't help but feel a little drumming in their hearts.

While he was thinking, he heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air again, and in the ranks of the bandits, there were screams again and again. Liu Feng hid dozens of longbows, and they were not matched with the burgers, but they were only matched with the burghers today, and there were a total of one hundred and ten pairs of longbows and horn bows in Liujiabao, which only he and Liu Yunfu knew.

Huang Fan and Zeng Zhi glanced at each other, they already knew that Liu Feng took most of the forts to guard the Nanzhai wall, and the archers in the fort were also on the Nanzhai wall. Huang Fan was a little happy, this rain of arrows on the fortress wall verified their news, it seems that Liu Feng still hasn't found the traitor, and everything is developing according to Zeng Zhi's expectations.

Although people continued to be shot by arrows, Huang Fan didn't care too much about this manpower, he immediately ordered the black bear to lead people to attack, and also announced that the first to attack the fortress would give priority to the selection of loot and women. And he and Zeng Zhi took more than ten steps back and watched from behind.

Although the bandits were afraid, the big boss gave an order, and at the same time there was a reward, so they still carried a wooden ladder and followed the black bear of the second boss to attack the fortress wall. The black bear scolded and took the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked bandit, holding one, which I didn't know where to get it, and the standard iron shield of the Later Han army also rushed towards the fort wall very helplessly.

Some of the bandits were armed with simple wooden shields, but in front of the longbow, they were like papier-mâché, and the arrows fired by untrained pikemen were still well controlled, although they were not yet accurate, and the bandits stood very densely, so as long as they shot in the right direction, they could have hit the target.

Liu Feng, who was commanding on the fortress wall, saw that the bandits were approaching, and with an order, the burgers threw the burned bricks and tiles in the kiln and the stones that had been prepared for a long time, and the bandits under the fortress wall screamed and retreated.

The yellow fan once again let the black bear lead the people to attack, and before he could get close to the fort wall, he was shot back by a burst of bows and arrows, and then regained his strength and launched another attack on the fort wall.

Although this time it was also uneven, some people seemed to rush forward, some people could not walk, and finally the black bear braved the blow of the bow and arrow on the head of the city, set up a wooden ladder, and finally approached the fortress wall, but he was unable to support it alone, and was smashed back by a burst of stones.

An hour has passed, several times the black bear they have attacked the fortress, forced by Liu Feng and Bayar together, at this moment the yellow fan has been like thunder, in addition to constantly coercing the thieves who escaped back, immediately launched another attack, but also to appease the black bear's emotions, the black bear is his number one general, he doesn't want the black bear to die here, and at the same time begged Zeng Zhi to quickly contact the people in the fort, so that the inside and outside should attack the fort.

From the beginning of the siege of the fort, Zeng Zhi's brows have been furrowed and have not been stretched. Although he didn't expect the bandits to capture Liujiabao head-on, he never thought that Liujiabao's resistance would be so fierce, and hundreds of people had already died, but even the other people on the fortress wall had not been mobilized, and such a battle situation was indeed greatly unexpected by Zeng Zhi.

Now he can only let go, he looked at the yellow fan, knowing that this is a lord who does not see prey and does not scatter eagles, so he put his thoughts together.

He asked Huang Fanzi to personally lead people to attack the fort this time, as long as he attacked the fort wall again, and asked Liu Feng to transfer the people from the east and west walls to the south wall to guard the fort, he would take a group of fierce bandits, and Liu Yanbiao would attack the fort at the north gate.

Huang Fanzi listened to Zeng Zhi's plan and knew whether he could capture Liujiabao, it depended on this attack.

The yellow fan shouted loudly: "Brothers, now Lao Tzu will take you up, we have been beating it for an hour, these bastards in Liujiabao are also tired, let's work harder, strive to attack with Lao Tzu this time, kill!" ”

Led by Huang Fan himself, the bandits finally revealed the fierce nature of the outlaws, this time everyone was no longer greedy for life and afraid of death, and they no longer flinched, and rushed towards the wall under the rain of arrows.

Liu Feng saw that Huang Fan personally led people to attack, and knew that the most difficult moment of the night had come.

"Whoosh" Watching the attack of the bandits, the longbowmen also hurriedly stepped up their archery, and for a while the arrows rained down towards the bandits, and the bandits fell almost in rows.

But Liu Feng saw that there were more and more bandits attached to the wall and climbing up, so he yelled: "Change the gun!" Retreat! ”。

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