The setting sun in the west casts the last afterglow on the earth, which should be a quiet and beautiful scene, but the war in Kunyang continues.

About half an hour earlier, the rebel general Ji Wu led 3,000 foot soldiers to attack the western city wall of Kunyang.

Fortunately, Zhao Yu sent all the county troops to the western city wall, which enabled the county lieutenant Ma Gaikankan to block the rebel attack.

"Ahh

"Ahh

In a terrible scream, a famous county soldier fell with the last nostalgia and regret for the world, turning into a gradually cold corpse, but more county guards are still struggling to resist.

They all knew what would happen if the city was breached by the rebels.

Suddenly, two rebels forcibly attacked the city wall, and with a lot of hard swings and stabs, forcing the county guards to retreat again and again.

At that moment, a figure rushed forward with a roar, sword in his hand slashing at one of the rebel soldiers.

Seeing this, the morale of the nearby county officials was greatly boosted.

"County Lieutenant!"

"It's the county lieutenant!"

Under the admiring gaze of the county guards, the county lieutenant Ma Gai struggled to slash the two rebel soldiers to death under the sword, and immediately panted and shouted: "Brothers, hold on!" Reinforcements are coming soon! ”

As soon as the words fell, hundreds of county soldiers poured up again from the steps on the inner side of each section of the city wall, making the number of county soldiers who had sacrificed more than half of the city walls approaching 1,000 again, and once again forcibly suppressed the momentum of the rebel attack.

"Hooray!"

Some county officials cheered for this, and were excited that they had once again blocked the rebels' offensive.

But in Ma Gai's eyes, there was deep worry.

There is no other reason, but the casualties and losses of his county army are too serious - in less than half an hour, his county army has lost more than 700 people, and countless people have been wounded.

You must know that there are more than 2,000 people in his county army in total.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the losses of the rebels outside the city were not small, according to Magai's personal estimates, the number of killed was probably between 1,000 and 1,500.

The battle loss ratio of less than 1 to 2 is not a remarkable achievement to be honest, but considering that the county soldiers have only undergone a short period of training, and the opponent is comparable to the rebels of the regular army, this record is barely acceptable.

But even so, Margai was worried about the number of people who had lost in battle.

"County Lieutenant!"

Ishihara gasped and retreated to the side of the county lieutenant Ma Gai, and shouted loudly: "The rebels outside the city have not retreated for a long time, and they must find a way to destroy the enemy's long ladder!" ”

Ma Gai took a few moments to catch his breath and looked at the dense array of rebel soldiers outside the city with uncertain expressions.

Ishihara was right, the rebels outside the city were very obsessed with capturing him Kunyang before sunset today, and if his county army could exert an overwhelming advantage, they might be able to scare the other party away, but unfortunately, the county guards under his command were very difficult and reluctant, which invisibly boosted the morale of the rebels and made them believe that they could break through the city in the next moment.

This has led the two sides to a stalemate in a tug-of-war.

"That's right, the rebels' ladder must be destroyed as soon as possible!"

This thought flashed in his heart, and Ma Gai shouted loudly: "Yang Kang, He Feng, are there still oil cans?" ”

"No, no."

In the distance, Yang Dang, the head catcher of Kunyang County, replied loudly.

Also, whether it is meat fat oil, or beans and soybean oil, in this era when civilians basically can't afford to eat meat, they are all relatively precious things, although this time for the defense of the city, the county government has collected the oil stored in the homes of the people in the city in advance, but it has not collected much.

Even, most of them have been transported to the southern city wall and used in the defense of the southern city wall, and the oil tanks on the west city wall are very few, and they have long been exhausted in the defense of the city.

Seeing the panicked faces of the nearby county officials, Ma Gai encouraged: "It's okay, there is no oil tank, we still have a pry bar......

Yes, after learning that the rebels were attacking the western wall, the members of the Brotherhood in the city urgently transported a batch of pry bars to the western wall, but the long ladder used to deal with the enemy army was not effective in the end.

But it's better to have than nothing.

With a roar and a rush of shouts, many county soldiers carried slightly cumbersome pry bars to overturn the long ladders outside the city.

With each long ladder toppled, Ma Gai took the lead in a burst of cheers to boost the morale of the few remaining county officials.

Listening to the cheers on the city wall, Ji Wu, the rebel general outside the city, frowned deeply.

The general Huang Kang sent him to attack the western city wall, which was both a feint attack and a real attack.

The so-called feint attack was to ask him to attract some of the guards, disperse the garrison forces in Kunyang, and share the pressure for his colleague Song Zan to attack the southern city wall.

And the so-called actual attack means that Huang Kang allowed him to act at the opportune opportunity.

After all, as long as you can break through the city wall and attack the city, whether it is the south wall or the west wall, the effect is the same.

As one of the generals under Huang Kang, Ji Wu did not have the idea of fighting for merit, so when he led 3,000 soldiers to the west city wall, he did not consider the problem of feints at all, and only thought about leading the army to defeat the defenders and break through Kunyang before Song Zan.

Although this move is suspected of competing for merit, as long as he relies on his ability to win the credit, Song Zan can't say anything.

However, what Ji Wu didn't expect was that after Song Zan was frustrated by the south city wall, he Ji Wu also encountered strong resistance on the west city wall, so that he attacked for half an hour, and half of the three thousand soldiers under his command were killed and wounded, but there was no progress.

"It's so tenacious, Kunyang people......

With a secret sigh in his heart, a little hesitation flashed in Ji Wu's eyes.

He could see very clearly that the morale of the guards on the city wall was already very low, but the problem was that the morale of the soldiers under his command was also low.

After a moment of hesitation, Ji Wu instructed one of the guards beside him: "You go to the south city wall to see if Song Zan has broken through the city wall; If not, go and ask Song Zan in person, how long will it take him. ”

"Yes!" Ji Wu's guards clenched their fists and left.

Moments later, the escort arrived on the southern outskirts of Kunyang and found the rebel general Song Zan, who was still commanding the siege.

After saluting Song Zan with his fists in his fist, the guard asked without being arrogant or humble, "General Song, General Ji wants to know how the battle is going on your side?" When will they be able to storm the city? ”

Hearing this, Song Zan frowned.

Both of them are generals under Huang Kang, Song Zan naturally knows Ji Wu, in his opinion, as long as there is an opportunity, Ji Wu will definitely take the opportunity to attack the city to grab his credit.

But now, this Ji Wu actually sent someone to ask him, which means that the situation on Ji Wu's side is not optimistic.

Thinking of this, he asked in surprise, "Is there also a 'black turban pawn' on the city wall of Mofeixi?" ”

"Black Turban?" Ji Wu's bodyguard looked confused.

"It's a group of guards with black scarves on their heads." After a brief explanation, Song Zan raised his hand and pointed to the southern city wall not far away.

Ji Wu's guards looked in the direction pointed by Song Zan, and even saw that on the southern city wall of Kunyang, among the many guards, a group of guys with black scarves on their heads could be vaguely seen, these guys were extremely fierce compared to other guards, even if they were one-on-one, the soldiers of his Changsha army could not bargain for anything, and even weaker than the downside.

"Nope." Ji Wu's guard shook his head and said, "There is no such 'black turban pawn' on the western city wall. ”

"Oh." Song Zan nodded.

Even he himself was a little surprised, and after hearing this, he actually felt a sense of relief.

Yes, at this moment in this battle, he has become more and more jealous of the group of 'black scarf soldiers' with black scarves on their heads, for a very simple reason, because these 'black scarf soldiers' are even more brave and fierce than the soldiers of his Changsha army.

In his opinion, if there are five thousand such 'black turban pawns' in Kunyang, then they will basically not be able to win, but fortunately, there seems to be a small number of these elites, at least not on the west city wall, does this mean that there are only three or four hundred 'black turban pawns' left in Kunyang City?

After thinking for a while, Song Zan Zhengse said to the guards sent by Ji Wu: "You go back and tell Ji Wu that there will be a breakthrough on my side soon, and tell him to hold on for a while." …… Of course, if he had a chance, he could have taken the credit for breaking the city. ”

“…… Be. ”

Ji Wu's guard glanced at Song Zan with a strange expression, and left with his fists clenched.

Seeing this, Song Zan set his eyes on the Kunyang South City Wall in the distance.

As far as he could see, there were many guards on the southern city wall of Kunyang, but he knew very well that at least more than half of the guards on the city wall in the distance were vulnerable, just like the slightest untrained civilian, with no courage, but no experience in fighting, not to mention that he could barely stop the soldiers under his command, whenever the crossbowmen under Chen Lang launched a volley, this group of 'militia' was basically killed or wounded one or two hundred people.

He guessed in his heart that it might be because of the crisis in the situation, so Kunyang County sent the people in the city to help defend the city.

This kind of guard is naturally not a threat, and the real obstacle is still the group of black scarf pawns with black scarves on their heads.

But the problem is that the militia, whose strength is no different from that of the rabble, forcibly blocked the attack of his soldiers by virtue of their numbers and casualties, and won a precious respite for the group of black turbans.

Of course, he also thought about taking the opportunity to launch a strong attack, but the problem was that the group of black turban soldiers was on the city wall to breathe, and as long as the battle situation was slightly bad, this group of people immediately took over the militia on the city wall, plugged the loopholes in the defense, and forced his soldiers to retreat again.

Song Zan tried twice, but made no progress except killing many militiamen.

"This Kunyang County is simply ......."

Song Zan frowned, spewed out a breath from his nose viciously, and immediately shouted: "Attack!" Go on the offensive! Let's see how many people can die on the other side! ”

Under his orders, the Changsha soldiers under his command once again stepped up their attacks.

At this time, looking at the southern city wall, there were corpses everywhere, dressed up, and almost all of these corpses were members of the Brotherhood.

Chen Cai, Zhang Feng, Ma Hong, and others led the members of the Brotherhood to resist the attack of the rebels, while directing the other part of the Brotherhood to carry the corpses from the city walls, but even so, there were still at least hundreds of corpses lying on the walls.

As for the total number of Brotherhood members killed in this half hour, it was a shocking more than 2,000, which was more than the total number of rebel soldiers under Song Zan's command who were still attacking outside the city.

It is no exaggeration to say that the average time that these Brotherhood members survive on the walls is only thirty breaths.

But the sacrifice of these people is worth it, at least their sacrifice has given the black tiger thieves veterans a precious respite, and as long as these black tiger thieves still have physical strength, it will be difficult for the rebels outside the city to break through the city in one go - at least in terms of the current morale and fighting spirit of the rebels outside the city, it is basically impossible to do it.

"The enemy, the enemy army is attacking again!"

With a frightened cry from one of the Brotherhood members, many of the nearby Brotherhood members clenched their spears and shields with pale faces.

These spears and shields changed hands several times in just half an hour, and as soon as the previous owner died, they were handed over to the subsequent Brotherhood members, who could carry them up the walls and participate in the defense.

"Mother, Mother......"

A young Brotherhood member, clutching a spear and shield, his eyes reddened, muttered.

If you look closely, it is not difficult to see that his whole body is trembling.

There is no shame in this, after more than 2,000 Brotherhood members were killed and wounded, at this time, he was sent to this section of the wall that seemed to eat people, to resist the group of rebel soldiers who were more fierce than jackals, tigers and leopards, how could a young man who was close to a weak crown not be afraid?

Fortunately, not all of the black tiger thieves' pawns retreated to the inner side of the city wall to rest, under Zhao Yu's order, the only three or four hundred black tiger thieves left on the city wall were divided into two batches to rest in rotation, ensuring that half of the black tiger thieves were assisted by those brotherhood members to defend together at any time - otherwise, it might really be a one-sided slaughter.

Among these members of the brotherhood, Xu Bai noticed the young man beside him who was muttering to his mother, and he was panting, encouraging and motivating the young man who seemed a little timid: "Don't worry, boy, the rebels outside the city, their sharp energy has also been exhausted, and they are just holding on. You don't need to think about killing the enemy, you just need to use the spear in your hand to force those rebels to retreat, if those rebels do not retreat and advance, you can resist with a wooden shield, and I, the Black Tigers, will kill them......"

Similar scenes took place in every corner and almost every area of the southern city wall, where there were black tiger thieves patiently teaching these members of the Brotherhood.

It's no wonder, after all, the more than 2,000 casualties of the Brotherhood members so far are all to give the Black Tigers a chance to breathe, even if the Black Tigers are unruly one by one, and turn a blind eye to the sacrifices of these people—who doesn't have a little gratitude?

Of course, not all of the members of the Brotherhood who have been sent to the city wall so far have died, and some of them have survived this brutal siege by luck, or talent.

These people, who have accepted the teachings of the black tiger thief veterans, have grown rapidly in this vicious battle, although their personal strength has not necessarily improved in a short period of time, but at least they can gradually achieve calm and calm, and if they can do this, they can in fact be regarded as old pawns.

"Bell-"

"Bell—"

"Ahh

In the midst of screams and the sound of Jin Ge clashing, a fierce battle broke out again on the southern city wall.

During this period, members of the Brotherhood were constantly stabbed by the spears of the rebels, and if they were lucky, they were able to cover their wounds and retreat; And if you are unlucky, you can only watch the rebels kill you, but with endless regret and nostalgia.

But these defensive gaps due to casualties were immediately filled by someone who was either a Black Tiger Thief or a member of the Brotherhood.

"Smack-"

"Smack."

While the members of the Brotherhood were killed and wounded, there were also rebel soldiers who fell from the long ladder and from the battlements, and fell into the crowd below, becoming an unknown corpse.

The red blood, not only dripping all over the city wall, but also stained the outer walls of the city wall red, and a pungent smell of blood permeated the entire section of the city wall, which was disgusting.

This is true even in the vicinity of the city gatehouse.

After all, the rebels outside the city also knew that the vicinity of the city gate tower must be the main general of Kunyang, at least the commander of this section of the city wall.

If you think about it, you know that they will not relax their attack on the location of the city gate tower.

I saw that near the city gate tower at this moment, the county commander Liu Bi and the county commander Li Xu were no longer there, only Zhao Yu who was wearing a tiger mask and standing with a sword in both hands.

On the side, there are also Jingnu, Niu Heng, as well as a county pawn, a black tiger thief, and members of the brotherhood.

Speaking of which, the sword in Zhao Yu's hand was not pretending.

A moment ago, when the rebels outside the city launched another offensive near the city gate tower, Zhao Yu also led Jingnu, Niu Heng and the guards of different identities present to personally participate in the fight, so that the sword he was standing on at the moment still had blood on it.

I have to say that looking at Zhou Hu, the leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, standing calmly in the city gate tower with a bloody sword, not afraid of the crossbows of the rebels outside the city, the guards on the city wall, regardless of the county guards, the black tiger thieves, or the members of the Brotherhood, were all greatly boosted.

"Arrows, arrows!"

Near the city gate tower, a county guard exclaimed.

As soon as the words fell, I saw Zhao Yu wave one hand and shouted in a deep voice: "Everyone pay attention to avoidance!" ”

At the same time, the burly Niu Heng stood in front of Zhao Yu with two shields in one hand, blocking all the arrows that were shot at Zhao Yu.

On the side, Jing Nu, who was also wearing a tiger mask, was also unscathed with the wooden shield in her hand.

Glancing at the gap between the two wooden shields, and seeing that the crisis had been resolved, Niu Heng lowered his hands and scolded and said: "Damn, shoot this side vigorously, bully us There is no crossbowman here, and you have the ability to attack!" Lao Tzu took one shield at a time, and hammered his head into his stomach! ”

Listening to Niu Heng's scolding, the nearby county officials, black tiger thieves, and members of the Brotherhood all looked at him with admiration.

These people, but they have witnessed Niu Heng's appearance against the siege rebels, this is really a warrior who can kill people with a shield.

Hearing Niu Heng's words, Zhao Yu, who was standing with his sword, said calmly: "Don't worry, the county government has recruited craftsmen in the city and assigned them to teach people to build weapons to defend the city in the workshop of the Brotherhood, and in a few days, we will be able to get a batch of crossbows......

At this time, a county guard suddenly said with a little awe and timidity: "Zhou, what does the leader of Zhou mean, let's ...... Can we hold on? ”

Zhao Yu turned his head to look at the county guard, and said with a smile: "Of course." …… From the very beginning, there was no chance that we would lose. ”

He looked ahead and said to himself: "The rebels outside the city have been so smooth sailing along the way that they are arrogant and arrogant, and they despise me Kunyang, and they dare to launch an attack when there is only one and a half hours left before dusk, which is really arrogant and arrogant!" …… They think that in just one and a half hours, they can capture my Kunyang County? No, they can't! Twice as long can't do it! …… The rebels outside the city will definitely pay the price for their arrogance, please wait and see, in a few days, the rebels outside the city will be defeated in my Kunyang. ”

Although he was wearing the tiger mask, and the guards nearby were not as good as his appearance and look, his steady and confident tone made everyone feel inexplicably reassured.

In fact, at this moment, Huang Kang, the chief general of the rebels, is indeed secretly regretting.

It's not that he regrets attacking Kunyang County - there's nothing to regret about it, no matter how difficult Kunyang is, his Changsha army must also conquer Kunyang, after all, Kunyang's geographical location is too critical.

What Huang Kang really regretted was that he launched this siege battle with only one and a half hours left before dusk.

Just like Zhao Yu said, the Changsha army attacked along the way, it was indeed too smooth, except for the Zhaoling that had the danger of the Luohe River for a long time, the rest of the county towns along the way, all of them were easy to get.

It was precisely because of the success in the early stage that Huang Kang mistakenly thought that Kunyang County could be easily obtained, even though there was only an hour and a half left before dusk, it was enough to capture this city.

However, he never expected that his 10,000 Changsha army ran into a wall in this small Kunyang County and stormed for more than an hour, but he didn't even attack the city wall.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, but the battle situation had not made any progress, Huang Kang frowned tightly and clenched the reins of his horse in annoyance.

If he had known that Kunyang County was so difficult, he would definitely have calculated the time, arrived outside Kunyang County in the morning, and spent half a day attacking this city;

If he had known that Kunyang County was so difficult, even if it would delay the speed of the march, he must have prepared a few siege cars and rushing cars in advance, instead of just bringing some long ladders.

『…… What to do?'

Looking at Kunyang City in the distance, Huang Kang fell into deep thought.

After a long while, he let out a long breath and instructed left and right: "Pass my order, Mingjin will collect the troops, stay for a few days to recuperate enough energy, and then take Kun ......."

Before he could finish his words, he heard a shout from afar: "General! ”

Huang Kang turned his head to look, and immediately saw two soldiers rushing to him panting, pointing to the southwest direction and saying eagerly: "General Qiqi, there is an army coming from the southwest direction of our army!" ”

"What?" Huang Kang's face changed slightly, and he subconsciously turned his head.

Sure enough, I saw that in the southwest direction, there was a faint group of men and horses rushing towards this side.

"This direction is...... Ye! Not good! It must have been Ye Xian who learned that I was leading the army to attack Kunyang, so he led the army to reinforcements!"

Huang Kang was shocked in his heart, and immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Pass my order, everyone turn behind you and prepare for battle!" …… Someone came, sent an order to Zhang Tai, and ordered him to command the Green Forest Army and fight with us! ”

"Yes!"

After just more than 100 breaths, the 2,000 Changsha Xinchu soldiers in Huang Kang's own formation all turned their backs to the Kunyang city wall and put on a posture of Yingdi.

On the side, the group of green forest thieves led by Zhang Tai also quickly moved closer to Huang Kang's main formation after a panic.

The abnormality of these people was naturally seen by the guards on the gate of Kunyang City.

Immediately, a soldier said to Zhao Yu: "Leader Zhou, come and see, for some reason, the rebels and green forest thieves who stayed in this formation all turned their backs to my Kunyang and put on a posture to meet the battle. ”

"What?"

Zhao Yu was stunned, walked to the city wall with his sword, and looked at the rebels and green forest thieves who stayed behind in the distance outside the city.

Sure enough, those people in the distance did have their backs to him Kunyang and put on a posture to meet the enemy.

And looking further away, Zhao Yu vaguely saw a large group of people, which were rapidly coming towards him from the southwest.

"Is it ...... Yang Ding?'

His face under the mask showed a little strange color.