＆#160; Chen Hongfan is not good at fighting, and Zhao Dangshi knows it. Although it was said that it was nine out of ten, Zhao Dangshi was still worried that Chen Hongfan would perform a "miracle" for himself, so he temporarily transferred Li Yanlang, an outpost officer of the Wuqi Battalion, as a staff officer to "assist" Chen Hongfan to fight.

"Brother is here, and there is no place to go." Under the wind and red flag, Zhao Dangshi stood in front of Chen Hongfan and held a bowl of wine.

Chen Hongfan, who was sitting on the horse, smiled, took the wine and raised his head to drink, and said, "With General Li here, the foolish brother can sit back and relax." While handing the bowl back to Zhao Dangshi, he glanced at Li Yanlang, who was shouting in the queue.

Li Yanlang's military quality in the Zhao camp can be ranked in the forefront, and he is cautious and polite, and his combat style is conservative. Let him help Chen Hongfan fight with all his advantage, at least he can guarantee that he is undefeated, and he doesn't have to worry that he will clash with Chen Hongfan because of personality problems.

Chen Hongfan bid farewell to Zhao Dangshi, led the army to pull, and within a day, he arrived at the North Taishan Temple Town east of Mayao Mountain and north of Xikuma Mountain. The town was surrounded by walls, but the walls were neither high nor wide, and the garrison was poor. But Chen Hongfan saw that he was like a treasure, and he did not hesitate to order the whole army to settle in.

Li Yanlang was shocked when he heard the military order, and Li Chen did not need to defend the city, the traces of the thieves were unknown, and the reinforcements had not arrived, so it was better to maneuver. But in Chen Hongfan's eyes, with the protection of the city wall, it is like an extra talisman, which cannot be given up no matter what. Li Yanlang's persuasion was fruitless, so he had to join Xu Qizuo and Ma Tingshi to urge the army to enter the city.

Stationed overnight, Li Yanlang's worries became a reality. Before waiting for the news of the Henan official army, the sky was just dawning, and at the horizon, countless thieves suddenly appeared.

Chen Hongfan had a drink last night, Shang Meng was asleep, and Li Yanlang, who had been patrolling back and forth in the city and had never taken off his armor, immediately mobilized the troops in the city to wait for him.

The thieves were scattered, and several ticket commanders with a group of sword and shield men took the lead in attacking, but they quickly called Li Yanlang back. The thieves scattered in the four fields immediately began to slowly gather. Li Yanlang looked at the wall and roughly estimated that the thieves who were constantly in contact were as dense as box bees, and the number was more than 10,000. Because there is no march, the visual impact of the chaotic look is stronger.

Of Chen Hongfan's more than 2,000 soldiers, recruits accounted for the majority, and Li Yanlang quickly selected veterans from the ranks and arranged them on the front line, while the recruits were interspersed among the veterans in a certain proportion. In this way, the intensity is balanced.

After a while, the sky gradually brightened, and more and more thieves gathered.

Li Yanlang looked around, the faces of many recruits were already miserable, even veterans, there were many people with trembling hands and feet.

"It's a quick battle." Li Yanlang thought secretly. Soldiers who have not experienced the war generally have poor psychological endurance, and the enemy is outnumbered, and the longer it drags on, the heavier the psychological burden on the recruits. It's better to fight earlier, with a blank mind and just fight to the death. Therefore, he saw that many thieves and robbers in the opposite array jumped out in twos and threes, swaying around the city wall, and without thinking, he lifted his hard bow and shot several arrows in succession, killing three people on the spot.

Seeing this, the thieves who had no fear hurriedly retreated, but on the contrary, the officers and soldiers in the city saw that Li Yanlang was so brave and had their courage to recover.

Li Yanlang's provocation seemed to have played a role, and soon after, I only heard the miscellaneous drums and trumpets in the thief formation sounding in unison, and the timbre was so varied that there was no order at all, and there was no uniform momentum, but it was noisy like a rural gathering.

In the sound of drums and trumpets, the front of the thief array surged, and a large group of soldiers and horses slowly advanced in the direction of the city.

As the distance shortened, the officers and soldiers in the city soon discovered that their opponents had new tricks.

As in the first round, the sword and shield men marched forward with their shields raised, followed by five towering nest carts. These nest carts are three feet high on the top, with wheels on the bottom, and are propelled by more than a dozen thieves, and there are two poles, and between the two poles hang a watchtower like a small house. The watchtower reveals only a row of square holes, in which the crossbowmen hide and shoot arrows out of the square holes.

Behind the nest car, there was a large crash, also pushed by more than a dozen people, covered with water-soaked cowhide. In addition to the crash, there were three or four houses on the left and right, and there were a large number of sandbags hidden inside, which were thought to be used to fill the trench. Between the nest car and the crash, there are a large number of crossbowmen, all of whom move slowly with the car. A large number of thieves slowly advanced with this momentum.

"Why did the thieves come from such siege equipment?" Li Yanlang was shocked when he saw this. Compared with the first wave of offensives, the thieves' preparations this time have obviously improved by more than one notch.

"I heard that the main force of the 'Grim Eye' has arrived." Xu Qizuo rushed up from the city steps, panting like a cow, "The 'old Huihui' is still in Tang County to delay the officers and soldiers of Yu Province, and he sent the 'Ge Li Eye' here first. ”

Li Yanlang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, Ma Shou should have a strategy, and he saw the strategy of the official army to encircle him, so he divided the dragon and opened the road in advance. It's ridiculous that Chen Hongfan entered the city to protect himself, but now he made a mistake, but instead bumped into the muzzle of the two thieves of Hui and Ge.

"Does Chen Shuai know?"

Xu Qizuo responded: "Known." Chen Shuai is sitting in the city, and I have come to inform you that the front line should be prepared and handed over to your Excellency. ”

When the matter came, he became the shopkeeper. Li Yanlang sneered in his heart, but thinking of Zhao Dangshi's entrustment, he could only swallow his dissatisfaction back into his stomach. When I turned my head to look outside the city, the offensive of the five nest cars was already imminent. It seems that He Yilong wants to use arrows to completely suppress the officers and soldiers and attack the city gate.

Li Yanlang looked out of the pheasant, his heart full of anxiety. This time, the thieves were overwhelming, and the front had already crossed the trench in the blink of an eye, and the officers and soldiers in the city tried their best to shoot back, but it was a drop in the bucket, and it had no hindering effect.

The thief knife and axe hand cleared the roadblock all the way and soon forced to the city, followed by the five nest cars that crossed the city at a high level, after the nest car was arranged in place, the thief and crossbowman in the watchtower began to shoot fiercely at the city wall condescendingly, there was no city tower in the temple town of North Taishan, many officers and soldiers who could not dodge were killed by arrows, and the rest of the officers and soldiers could only squat down and raise their shields, clinging to the female wall, and using the dead angle to avoid the thieves' dives.

Li Yanlang was covered by several Peng platoonmen and constantly dispatched officers and soldiers to counterattack. Under his deployment, nearly a hundred crossbowmen were improvised and stood behind a shield wall composed of a team of Peng Platoonists, taking advantage of the gap to begin to counterattack the nest car. However, the nest car relied on good closure to effectively defend against the counterattacks of the officers and soldiers, and the thieves in the nest car were also very smart, and they did not shoot in vain with the crossbowmen of the officers and soldiers who also had the defense of Peng Pao, but focused on suppressing those defenseless officers and soldiers who dared to take the lead. Taking advantage of the nest car, the thieves basically suppressed the head of the temple town in Beitaishan.

Without the obstruction of the city, the thieves' cave house car quickly filled a section of trench and drove to the city under the cover of the crash. At the shouts of the thieves, the ropes that bound the crash were untied, and the Chongcheng wood hung over the crossbar of the crash car. Nearly ten thieves shouted the trumpet and worked together to push Chongchengmu forward.

I only heard a loud bang, and the gate of Beitai Mountain Temple Town was rushed once, but fortunately it was not knocked open. And the dozens of officers and soldiers who were inside the door were shocked. Several officers and soldiers who were at the front and clinging to the city gate almost fainted, and they all began to vomit and even vomit blood to varying degrees. Ma Tingshi, who was in command under the city, hurriedly ordered the reserve to drag down the wounded and replenish the men.

Li Yanlang watched his own passivity, but he was also anxious, in the face of such a grim situation, he summoned Xu Qizuo, who was also in the sky, and shouted at him in the earth-shattering noise: "Go and get the fire oil bottle!" ”

Since the second time he entered Sichuan against Tan Daxiao, he used fierce fire oil to achieve unexpected results, Zhao Dangshi felt that this thing was simple to make and powerful, so he deliberately asked the army to rush to make a batch of fire oil bottles filled with fierce fire oil. Although the number of fire oil bottles produced was not large due to the limited production of fierce fire oil, a lot of them were also given to Chen Hongfan this time for the imperial court.

Xu Qizuo quickly led a team of officers and soldiers to rush back with all the fire oil bottles. Li Yanlang ordered again: "Peng platoon guards in front, and the brothers in the rear throw fire oil bottles far away!" Remember, the oil bottles are limited, don't throw them away, be sure to see them and throw them away, the target is the five nest cars and the crash car under the city! ”

The officers and soldiers were ordered to leave. More than 10 Peng platoonmen in the front held Peng platoon and tried their best to cover it, and the officers and soldiers in the rear each held two bottles of fire oil and gradually advanced.

The thief crossbowmen on the nest car saw a small group of Peng Pai soldiers moving, but they didn't care, and they didn't have the desire to attack intensively, but only shot a few arrows sporadically as a warning. The officers and soldiers holding the fire oil bottles thus approached the edge of the pheasant trench safely. They leaned on the pheasant moat tightly, did not give the nest car the angle of shooting, and then made a quick observation, and then, with the feeling of the first observation, took advantage of the gap, and threw the fire oil bottles in their hands one after another.

Of the dozens of bottles of fire oil, only a dozen of them fell on the five nest cars, and the thieves looked at the salivating black liquid and didn't know why. Occasionally, two knowledgeable people gasped and screamed, reminding their companions to get out quickly. However, it was too late, and the officers and men of the crossbowmen lit the rockets, and the arrows were fired in unison, and everyone suddenly burst into action when they touched the fierce fire oil. The thieves around the nest car screamed and fled in all directions, but they forgot about the traps and bamboo sticks that were densely packed under the city, and fell into a ball.

But even more tragic were the thieves and crossbowmen hanging in mid-air. When the fire spread along the high pole, they had nowhere to run but to sit in the watchtower and let the flames swallow it. After all, I couldn't stand kicking open the door, but I forgot where I was, my feet were empty, and I screamed and fell from the air three feet high and fell to the ground.

The five nest cars were all damaged to varying degrees, and the threat to the city was immediately lifted. At this time, the officers and men carried a large cauldron, and in the cauldron was already boiling dung water. The officers and men all used all their strength to feed, lifted the cauldron with red faces, and then fell down suddenly, and all the dung water happened to be poured on the crashed car under the city gate, and the boiling water splashed everywhere, splitting their heads and covering their faces and rushing to the faces and bodies of the thieves around the crash, and screams were everywhere.

He Yilong stood on a small mound that was temporarily piled up, watching his army's offensive fall short, and he couldn't bear to scold, so he ordered his subordinates to launch three bed crossbows collected from the treasury of the Henan official army and let his subordinates attack. The thieves advanced the bed crossbow to about 700 steps from the city wall, adjusted the angle, and dozens of people worked together to turn the wheel axle and put the huge spear-like arrows on the shelf.

After the three bed crossbows were ready, He Yilong personally ordered the shaft to be loosened. I only heard the three bullets of "jumping", and three huge arrows flew towards the official army city with a "bang".

The officers and soldiers in the city were fighting fiercely, and they did not notice the appearance of the bed crossbow, and it was not until the sharp whistling sound reached everyone's ears that the officers and soldiers began to scatter in panic. But the crossbow bolts arrived in an instant, and the first one happened to hit the city gate, this time, a large hole with a height of a person was cracked under the city gate, and the crossbow arrows that penetrated the city gate crashed into the group of officers and soldiers who were blocked in the city gate, and four or five officers and soldiers who were in the front were instantly shattered, and the rest of the officers and soldiers were carried by the huge impact force and flew to both sides without resistance, and countless people were injured.

The second and third crossbow arrows came almost at the same time, one hit the women's wall, and the other swept past the city, killing two Peng Paimen, grazing Li Yanlang's shoulder, falling into the city, destroying a house and killing several people.

Xu Qizuo was knocked down by the crossbow arrow, his shoulder armor was shattered, a large hole appeared in his shoulder, and his entire arm was almost unconscious. He lay on the ground and struggled a few times, but couldn't stand up, Li Yanlang was afraid that something would happen to him, so he hurriedly asked the officers and soldiers to carry him down to recuperate. But he shouted: "Lao Tzu can still fight, there is no need to go down!" "But to no avail.