At the end of the night, the Liangshan army did not attack Dongping City again, which made Pang Xu, who was full of anxiety because Dong Ping was arrested and the army's heart was shaken, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Just waited until dawn to look at the Liangshan army camp, and found that the team there was still in order, he was a little worried, this crisis has not passed after all, his only hope is that the thief head is seriously injured and died, so that the Liangshan army retreated.

After noon, Pang Xu's hope was finally dashed, because soon, the Liangshan army launched an attack on the city again, although the offensive could not be compared with before, but it was still enough to make the defenders of the city panic, resisting quite reluctantly, a fight down, both sides had casualties.

It's just that after days of fighting, there are fewer and fewer people available to the defenders in the city, coupled with the continuous consumption of defensive weapons such as bows and arrows, stones, and boiling oil, Dongping City at this time is almost at the end of the mountain. If Dong Ping was still there, with his command to inspire the morale of the army, he might be able to hold it for a few days, but now...... Looking around at those soldiers under his command, Pang Xu really doesn't have this confidence.

"I don't know when reinforcements will arrive, and if we don't come, we really won't be able to hold on." Pang Xu looked ahead again, thinking about the only savior, the Qingzhou Army. Whether it is him or Dong Ping, he still admires and respects Sun Tu, the Jingdong Road Soldier and Horse Supervisor, in his opinion, such a crisis is only the Qingzhou Army that has led Sun Du to win many battles and pacify three cottages can be saved.

Suddenly, as if the heavens had received his prayer and given a reply, there was dust on the official road in the distance, and then the outline of an army slowly appeared. This team came quickly, but with a cup of tea, the defenders of the city could see the Great Song Army Banner in the lead, although it seemed that the strength of the army was only a thousand people, but it was enough to inspire people.

"It's coming! Reinforcements have finally arrived! We are saved! Suddenly, cheers rang out from the top of the city, and quickly spread into the city. Although the battle is not over, as soon as the reinforcements arrive, they believe that Dongping City will be able to defend this time, and everyone will no longer have to worry about being invaded by the Liangshan bandits!

The complete opposite of the excitement of the soldiers and civilians inside the city was the reaction in the Liangshan military camp outside the city. They were also the first to spot the approaching army, and as the horns sounded, the Liangshan army, which was still resting, was rapidly moved, and hundreds of men were immediately sent out to meet the official army, apparently to block their advance before they arrived, and to prevent it from cooperating with the defenders of the city.

Soon, the armies of both sides were fighting on the plains a few miles away from Dongping City. Although the reinforcements looked like they had more troops, perhaps because they came from afar, they were still entangled by hundreds of Liangshan troops and could not break through for a while. At the same time, the Liangshan military camp, which already knew that something was wrong, was still sending more troops and horses to reinforce it, and it looked like it had the intention of completely defeating the reinforcements in one go.

This scene saw that the defenders at the head of the city were in a panic, this support army was their only hope, once it was really blocked by the Liangshan bandits with more sufficient troops, or even besieged and killed, then Dongping City would be completely finished. So at this moment, even some soldiers who were still afraid of war and timid before couldn't help but ask Pang Xu for his life: "General, let's go out of the city to receive reinforcements into the city, otherwise...... As long as there are these thousands of troops entering the city, our Dongping Mansion will definitely be safe! ”

"Yes, General, let me wait to go out of the city to fight to relieve the siege of reinforcements, and help them and ourselves!"

Listening to the gossip of his subordinates, Pang Xu was undecided, although going out of the city could help the reinforcements, but the risk was also extremely great. As soon as the city gate was opened, Dongping City was completely exposed to the knife of the Liangshan bandits, you must know that now there are more than half of the soldiers and horses in their camp who have not moved, and they think they are preventing themselves from opening the city to rescue...... However, if you don't go out of the city to help, if the reinforcements are really defeated, the situation will only get worse.

"Calm down, if Dong Dujian is here, what choice will he make......" Pang Xu couldn't help but hint to himself in his heart, wanting to think about it from Dong Ping's point of view, but he still couldn't come up with an accurate idea.

Just when he was suffering, a voice suddenly came from the stone steps below: "Pang Xu, why don't you send troops out of the city to meet the reinforcements?" Have you colluded with the Liangshan bandits, hoping that they will kill and retreat the reinforcements before opening the city and surrendering? ”

This sentence shocked all the soldiers in the city, Pang Xu looked at it, but saw Taishou Cheng Wanli striding in a gloomy face. It turned out that the cheers just now not only lifted the people of the city, but also greatly relieved Cheng Wanli, who had been frightened for a long time.

After arresting Dong Ping and putting him in prison, Cheng Taishou was actually very worried in his heart, for fear that because of his decision, Dongping Mansion would have a chance. It wasn't until just now, when he heard the cheers and knew that the reinforcements had arrived, that he let go of his worries and ran over in a hurry. As a result, what he heard was the news that the reinforcements were blocked by the Liangshan army, and Pang Xu did not dare to send troops to rescue, which made him immediately attack.

Although he had some scruples about Cheng Taishou, Pang Xu still expressed his concerns for the sake of safety: "Taishou, the thieves outside the city are strong, and we must not open the city easily." Let's take a second look, maybe they will be able to stand out from the enemy's siege, and then it's not too late for us to go out of the city to cooperate. ”

"Hmph......" Cheng Wanli was still rational after all, and after listening to this explanation, he no longer insisted on it, but just squinted his old eyes and looked at the battle ahead, and then shouted excitedly: "They really broke through, the Qingzhou army is really powerful!" ”

At the same time, the soldiers at the head of the city also let out thunderous cheers again, as Cheng Taishou said, after an interception and fighting, the Liangshan army failed to block the momentum of the reinforcements' impact, and they quickly tore open the gap, and the entire army had rushed towards Dongping at full speed.

"Quick, get ready to open the gates. Now we are really saved! Cheng Wanli urged again, and the soldiers around him turned their eyes on Pang Xu, Dong Ping was not there, and the defense of the city was naturally determined by him.

Pang Xu was pleasantly surprised, but he faintly felt something strange in his heart, as if something was wrong. But under the constant urging of Cheng Wanli and his soldiers, he couldn't think about it anymore, so he could only say: "Raise the banner and let them enter the city from the west gate, which is where the Liangshan army is weakest." ”

"Quick, you go with the old man to the West Gate to welcome the arrival of reinforcements!" Cheng Wanli nodded with satisfaction, and then led people down to the city and rushed in the direction of the West Gate.

The banner was raised, and the support army quickly adjusted its direction and headed towards the west gate. And the Liangshan army in the camp outside the city also saw their intentions, and immediately dispatched the whole army, diagonally trying to cut off their way. At the same time, the Liangshan army that had been broken out by reinforcements had also quickly turned back and chased over, and the three soldiers and horses rushed towards the west gate of Dongping together, looking really nervous, fighting for the speed of that line.

But apparently, this reinforcement army from Qingzhou was more elite than the Liangshan bandits, and the speed alone was much faster than them, and they rushed to the vicinity of the west gate before the enemy troops who were killed from the camp intercepted the road, and at the same time, a general led by him had already shouted loudly towards the city: "The Qingzhou army came to save Dongping City on the order of Sun Dujian, you guys quickly open the city!" ”

In fact, he didn't need to shout, Cheng Wanli, who came to the West Gate one step earlier, had been urging people to remove the many stone weights that were against the city gate, and hoisted the huge city gate latch with the thickness of people's waists, and then more than 20 people worked together to open the city gate.

With a tooth-souring creak, the city has been closed for more than ten days, and the gate of Dongping, which has been attacked by thousands of Liangshan troops for many days and cannot be broken, finally slowly opened!

At the same time, Pang Xu, who was at the head of the city on the other side, looked at it from afar, his face changed rapidly, and then he shouted violently: "Don't open the city gate, there is fraud!" They are not reinforcements! ”

Until this time, as the Liangshan army that had intercepted the reinforcements just now also rushed to the side of the city, the battlefield there was finally completely exposed in front of Pang Xu's eyes - it was empty, and there was not a single casualty of soldiers on both sides!

This is impossible in a battle where the two sides invested nearly 2,000, and the only explanation is that the fight just now was completely a show, a big show for the defenders of the city!

It was only at this time that Pang Xu suddenly realized where he had just felt the strange place. The fact that the so-called reinforcements were unscathed when they broke through from the enemy's interception, and that their numbers did not seem to have decreased at all, was a big flaw in itself.

However, he had already decided that it was reinforcements that came, coupled with the constant urging of Cheng Wanli and his soldiers, he ignored such a big problem in his eagerness, and issued a wrong order that might lead to the fall of Dongping!

The panic grabbed Pang Xu's heart in an instant, making him anxious to go crazy, but the only thing he could do was to shout loudly, hoping to make the soldiers over there stop this mistake.

However, it was too late. Because at the same time as he hissed and exclaimed, dozens of "reinforcements" had already rushed into the city gates. With the faint shout, the soldiers waiting at the city gate were stunned, and subconsciously raised their weapons in their hands.

But the "reinforcements" in front of them moved faster than them, and dozens of arrows were already coming like a torrential rain, instantly shooting these dozens of unprepared defenders to the ground, and at the same time, they had also rushed forward and guarded the city gate, so that the defenders could no longer control this key point.

Behind them, thousands of Liangshan troops had already gathered in one place, rumbling into the city......

Dongping City was lost in an unexpected way, and at the same moment, on the official road more than ten miles away, a team of 2,000 people was rapidly moving forward, led by Sun Tu!

Is the real Qingzhou reinforcements a step too late......