The second king, Zhang Jinjia, took the lead, and led the 800 death squad to block the flying arrows with the door panel above their heads, and approached the water gate.

Rushing to the bottom of the water, everyone poured fire oil on the gate and lit it with torches. With the sound of crackling flames, the rope above the suspension bridge was burned by the fire and fell with a bang.

Immediately afterwards, the Xiying rebels, who were in charge of the excavation of the tunnel, crossed the suspension bridge and advanced to the bottom of the city wall under the cover of the door panel. Most of these men were miners, and they were already familiar with the excavation work, and soon dug a tunnel wide one man wide into the city.

"Brothers, put out your torches and go into the city with me!" Seeing that the tunnel was dug through, Zhang Jinjia was overjoyed, and immediately jumped into the tunnel, and eight hundred death squad members also followed.

Zhang Jinjia led everyone all the way to the cat's waist, and walked forward in the dark, until he crawled out of the tunnel and found that there was a moon city guarded by the north gate.

"Birds! How can there still be a wall? I don't know who complained, Zhang Jinjia turned around and wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

"What people!" The defenders on the tower of the Moon City were alarmed by the sound, and immediately threw the torches down the city, and under the reflection of the fire, the Moon City was crowded.

"Thieves! The thieves have entered the city! "Finding that there is a Xiying rebel army infiltrating, the defenders called for reinforcements, and at the same time summoned crossbowmen to release arrows towards the moon city, and in an instant, the arrows rained down, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The place of Moon City is narrow, and there is nowhere to dodge in the face of the flying arrows in the sky, and it is too late for so many people to retreat into the tunnel. Just when he was in the middle of retreating, Zhang Jinjia could only attack hard.

"Don't panic, everyone! If you don't want to die, come with me! Zhang Jinjia yelled at everyone, and then saw him roll on his side and flash to the side of the city wall, with his back against the city wall, and command everyone to set up a human ladder to help the wall climb up.

Everyone knows that now that they are in a desperate situation, there may be a glimmer of life when they climb the city wall, so they are naturally brave and take the lead. From time to time, an arrow fell from mid-air, but no one flinched. Zhang Jinjia was brave and brave, and took the lead in climbing the Yuecheng Tower, and the two sides immediately launched a hand-to-hand fight on the tower.

As more and more Xiying rebels climbed the city tower, the officers and soldiers guarding Yuecheng couldn't help but waver a little, and they retreated one after another. The Xiying rebels took advantage of the situation to seize the city tower, and quickly climbed down the city wall with ropes, dispersed a small group of officers and troops in front of the city gate, and opened the gate of Yuecheng.

"My lord! Fast...... Withdraw! Thieves break the ...... The city is broken! A school captain with a bloody body fell down in front of the prefect Wu Dapu with a plop, and shouted breathlessly.

"Panic what! Go pull me a cannon! Turn the muzzle of the cannon and slam the Moon City Tower! Seeing that the lieutenant was still hesitating, Wu Dapu pulled him up from the ground and yelled, "What are you rubbing again?" Just go! ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant hurriedly agreed, hurriedly pulled his legs, and stumbled towards the gun emplacement at the battlement of the city wall.

Soon a hundred cannons were unloaded from the battlements of the city wall by the officers and soldiers and pushed over. Wu Dapu personally held the incense, lit the fuse, only to hear a loud bang, the Yuecheng city tower collapsed, and the Xiying rebels who gathered on the city tower to cheer and celebrate, together with the two kings Zhang Jinjia, were all buried in the fire.

Seeing that the gate of Yuecheng was open, Wu Dapu did not panic too much, nor did he send troops to fight, but ordered the officials and soldiers on the city wall to block the road to the city with dirt bags and rolling logs, condescendingly, and refused to defend the city wall.

At the same time, the outer city gate was also opened by the death squad, Zhang Kewang and Dingguo led the army into the cave city, who knew that as soon as they entered the city, they learned the bad news that the second king Zhang Jinjia was killed in the city tower.

"Hurt me!" Zhang Jinjia is Zhang Xianzhong's cousin, watching Zhang Kewang grow up, he has been taking care of him for many years, and suddenly heard that Zhang Jinjia was killed, Zhang Kewang was sad and indignant for a while, his eyes were black, and he almost fell from his horse.

Although Dingguo was not feeling good in his heart, but when the situation was critical and sad, he hurriedly reached out and held Zhang Kewang's back, held him steady, and then turned around and shouted to the soldiers: "Brothers! Come with me into the city! Capture Wu Dapu alive and avenge the two kings! ”

A large number of Xiying rebels rushed into the city, but who knew that the doors and windows of the surrounding houses leading to the road to the city were blocked by newly piled bricks and stones, and the road was narrow, so the horses could not maneuver.

The officers and soldiers who had been ambushed in the house in advance took the opportunity to stretch out their spears from the reserved small window and stab them out, and the rebel cavalry was caught off guard and fell off their horses one after another.

Seeing that the front team was attacked, Dingguo urgently ordered everyone to raise their guns and stab back, but the window was too small to cause the slightest damage to the officers and soldiers hiding in the house, but it also damaged many brothers.

Zhang Kewang had recovered from his grief at this time, he urged his horse to catch up, carefully observed the fortifications of the official army, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.

It turned out that he found that the position of the small window reserved by the officers and soldiers was almost at the height of the people's chest, which was just right to assassinate horses against cavalry and straight to the chest when dealing with infantry.

However, the officers and soldiers ignored the fatal point, the window is dead, but the person is alive, and only a little cat waist is needed, and this defensive measure is instantly useless.

"Everyone listen to my orders, all dismount, follow me!" Under the leadership of Zhang Kewang, everyone leaned against the wall, bent down and walked quickly, and sure enough, they passed the spear formation placed by the officials and soldiers unscathed.

Disperse the officers and troops along the way, and kill to the bottom of the road to the city, only to see the officers and soldiers relying on the soil bag and defending the city. A hundred cannons were also erected above the earthen bag, and the muzzle of the cannon was facing directly below the road. Several successive charges of the rebels were either wounded by the tumbling logs or repelled by artillery fire, and they were never able to advance half a step.

"Second brother, you have a lot of ghost ideas on weekdays, but what do you have in mind?" The official army occupies the geographical advantage, Zhang Kewang frowned, but he was at a loss.

After a night of fierce fighting, the sun had risen in the east at this time, and the dazzling sunlight was shining on the face, shaking people so much that they couldn't open their eyes.

"There it is!" Dingguo faced the sun, and suddenly slapped his head and had an idea. He immediately ordered everyone to gather all the reflective objects such as shields, armor, and swords, adjust the angles, and reflect all the sunlight to the official and military positions above the road to the city. Under the dazzling sunlight, the officers and soldiers were so shaken that they couldn't open their eyes at all, and they became blind in an instant.

Taking advantage of this short opportunity, Dingguo personally led the team to launch a fierce charge above the city wall again. When the officers and soldiers hiding behind the dirt bags faintly saw human figures in the light, the spears had already pierced their chests.

Although the defense line of the official army was breached, it did not break up, but only retreated slightly, still gathering around Wu Dapu layer by layer, and reorganized the second line of defense.

Zhang Kewang climbed the city wall, went straight to the bombed-out Yuecheng tower, and dug up in a pile of rubble and ruins with his bare hands.

After digging for a long time, the mutilated and half-burnt body of the second king, Zhang Jinjia, was found under the ruins. The moment he saw the corpse with his own eyes, Zhang Kewang once again couldn't control his emotions and hugged the corpse and cried.

After crying, Zhang Kewang wiped away his tears, his eyes were red, he grabbed a steel knife from the ground next to him, and screamed and killed in the direction of the official army: "Give me death!" ”

At this moment, the sound of "bells and bells" suddenly came from outside the city. It turned out that the rest of the siege rebels were exhausted and stopped their offensives one after another, Zhang Xianzhong was worried that Zhang Kewang's men and horses would fall into a heavy siege and become a lonely army, so he hurriedly ordered them to give a signal to retreat.

However, Zhang Kewang had already killed the red eye, and turned a deaf ear to Zhang Xianzhong's orders, and still fought to the death. As reinforcements arrived on the battlefield from various city gates, the situation gradually began to reverse.

"Big brother, withdraw quickly! If we don't leave, we will be made dumplings! Dingguo grabbed Zhang Kewang and didn't let him rush forward, and then ordered his own soldiers to leave a hundred people to be responsible for the break, and the rest of the soldiers protected the body of the second king Zhang Jinjia, quickly disengaged from the enemy, and retreated in the direction of the city gate.

Although the 100 pro-soldiers knew the outcome of staying, they still rushed towards the official army without hesitation.

When everyone withdrew from the city gate, the shouting and killing on the city gradually subsided at this moment. The battlefield that had been noisy all night fell into a dead silence in an instant. Although everyone knew what this sudden dead silence meant, no one said anything, and everyone retreated silently all the way back to the camp.

After this battle, more than 4,000 people were killed in the siege of the city, and countless people were wounded. Zhang Xianzhong was furious and ordered the whole army to rest for half a day, and then continued to attack the city.

However, after attacking for seven days and nights, the defenders in the city under the leadership of Wu Dapu saw the move, and improvised to adapt to the situation, and the Xiying rebels left a mountain of corpses under the city, and they were stunned that they could not capture Luzhou City.

Just when the righteous soldiers were sleepy and lacking, there was news that Cao Governor Zhu Dadian led his troops to come to help, and the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for Zhang Xianzhong.

Faced with the predicament, on the night of 27 July, Zhang Xianzhong gathered the generals in the old camp and urgently convened a military meeting.

Zhang Xianzhong sat paralyzed behind the handsome case, raised his head, rubbed his sore eyes slightly with his hands, and asked with a tired face: "Let's talk about it, shall we fight or withdraw?" ”

"Soldiers are written in the clouds, soldiers are coming to block, and water is coming to cover the earth! Now that the official reinforcements are coming, we can just come to a siege point to send reinforcements, annihilate their reinforcements in one fell swoop, and then turn back and continue to besiege Luzhou! By then, the defenders of the city will be terrified when they see that the reinforcements have been routed! Luzhou City is available today! General Ma Yuanli stood up and said confidently.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't say anything, waved his hand to signal Ma Yuanli to sit down temporarily, and then continued to ask: "Do you have any other opinions?" ”

"Father, our army has been trapped under the fortified city for several days, which is really a taboo for soldiers! Now that the enemy's reinforcements are coming, it is better to withdraw from the siege and go east to attack the enemy's weak points. Speaking of this, Zhang Kewang got up and held the candlestick in his hand, came to the map, and pointed to Chao County, not far from the lower right of Luzhou City.

"Chaoxian?" Zhang Xianzhong stood up from behind the handsome case, stepped forward a few steps to approach the map, and groped on the map by the light of the candlestick.

After Zhang Xianzhong saw that it was almost over, Zhang Kewang continued: "According to the scout's report, that Chongzhen Lao'er heard that Fengyang City was broken, and he has ordered Hong Chengchou to control the joint forces of all walks of life to enter and suppress, if our army continues to sit under the city of Luzhou, then the officers and troops from all walks of life will gather, and they will come to join forces outside the city, and the big thing will go!" And the defenders of Chao County are only a thousand people, and Yan Kuan, the county magistrate, is a wine bag and rice bag, without the slightest vigilance, and it is effortless to take Chao County. As soon as Chaoxian is broken, our army can recover and recuperate, replenish money and food, and avoid the enemy's edge and make other plans. Please also ask the father to decide! ”

Zhang Xianzhong turned his gaze to the other generals in the tent and asked, "Tell me, what about Kewang's words?" ”

From Zhang Xianzhong's noncommittal attitude towards Ma Yuanli's plan to encircle and send reinforcements, the generals all understood what he really thought in his heart, and the casualties in the past few days were too large, everyone was a little disheartened, and immediately said: "We have no objection!" ”

After listening to the statements of the generals, Zhang Xianzhong finally stopped hesitating and made up his mind to withdraw the siege: "Okay! Then withdraw the siege for the time being and attack Chao County! Everyone will go back to the camp to prepare, tomorrow the third watch will make dinner, and the fifth watch will quietly pull out the camp, and the defenders in the city must not be alarmed, and the violators will be dealt with by military law! ”

"No!" The generals got up at the same time, hugged their fists towards Zhang Xianzhong, and then scattered and returned to the camp.

In the early morning of the 28th, before dawn, the rebels of the western camp besieging the city on all sides quietly withdrew to the east and turned to Chaoxian almost at the same time.

The defenders of the city suffered for seven days and nights, and almost collapsed, but it was rare that they had been safe and sound, and they slept unusually sweetly. When he found something strange outside the city at noon, and sent scouts out of the city to investigate, he still found traces of the Xiying Rebels.