Although there are only six thousand left, Shi Bao is not very worried, this is his own lineage, is the guarantee of victory, even if there are six thousand left, he firmly believes that he can take Muzhou City.

Six thousand righteous troops, it is enough to attack Muzhou City, what is most lacking now is siege equipment, obviously it is unrealistic to manufacture large-scale siege equipment, but if there is not even a battering ram and siege ladder, it is simply impossible to take Muzhou City.

Shi Bao was not stupid enough to launch an attack, but sent out 3,000 soldiers to cut wood, make battering rams, siege ladders, and another 3,000 soldiers strictly guarded the barracks to prevent another sneak attack, and at the same time, he sent people to ask Fang Baihua for help, hoping to provide him with enough support.

If you don't ask for help, it's not just that the troops are insufficient, but the most important thing is that there is also a lack of food, if there is no rescue from Fang Baihua, Shi Bao's remaining 6,000 troops will not last long, and they must withdraw regardless of victory or defeat.

Fang Baihua was taken aback when she received the letter for help, how could it be that there were only 6,000 left after 20,000 troops in one day, and another 14,000, how could it be said that there was no more.

Obviously, this is a ploy of the official army, it is just a conspiracy, if Fang Baihua sends people to rescue, he may be able to take Muzhou, but Qingxi Town will be in danger. But if you don't rescue, let alone can't take Muzhou, even Shi Bao's 6,000 army can't be saved.

What to do, this dilemma, only one day after it was thrown, the loss of 14,000 soldiers, if it is delayed, then the consequences are unimaginable. Fang Baihua, who had no idea, began to question Shi Bao's ability, and once he gave up rescuing Muzhou, how would this kid use the betrayal of the Holy Father.

In the end, Fang Baihua still decided to send troops, she asked Fang Long to lead an army of 10,000 with grain and grass to rescue Shi Bao, and she led the rest of the army to defend Qingxi Town to prevent a sneak attack by the official army.

Let Fang Long lead the team with a straw bag, only Fang Baihua can do such a thing, if it was not Shi Bao who led the army when he was attacked yesterday, but Fang Long, I am afraid that the army will be in chaos before it arrives in Muzhou.

It was still the same location, the same sneak attack, it was still the naval army led by Li Jun to launch a long-range attack, the only difference was that the two hundred cavalry under Yang Zhi originally joined the attack.

The cavalry led the team was Shi General Shi Yong, this guy and Yang Zhi knew each other, he had the ability, he was upright, and it was difficult to get ahead under Pan Qi. When he went out on this expedition, Yang Zhi used an extra 10,000 guan to replace Shi Yong and these two hundred cavalry, to put it bluntly, after the war ended, he and the cavalry would not go back.

Shi Yong is like a stone, he never says a word of nonsense, and belongs to the type of person who doesn't talk much. He saw from a distance that the general of the rebel leader was a coward who had no military common sense, so he had a bold idea, and he said to the cavalry under him: "After a while, our cavalry is divided into three teams, Shi Qi, you lead your men to raid from the left, Shi Chang, you lead your men to attack from the right, and I will lead the army directly into the middle army and take down the general of the rebels." Our three cavalry should be kept within 50 zhang apart, so that they can take care of each other. From the start of the sprint, half an hour regardless of whether you can succeed or not, you must evacuate to avoid too much entanglement with the rebels. Remember, your mission is not to kill, but to cover my attack. ”

"Understood." Shi Qi, Shi Chang two brothers are the brothers of Shi Yong's own family, it can be said that they are brothers in battle, fighting tiger father and son, the two brothers know that after this battle, they will not go back, and they will follow Lord Liu to break into a great future in the future, it is obvious that the head of the traitor this time is to vote for the name, and it must be taken, which is related to the fate of the future, and neither of the two brothers dares to be careless.

With Li Jun's order, the stone thrower began to exert its strength, and the boulders in fifty or sixty catties rolled in the air and smashed into the rebels.

When this group of rebels saw the stones rolling in the air and the dense array of arrows, they scattered and fled in fright, and no one wanted to be sent to death, nor did they want to work hard.

Originally, I joined the rebel army and wanted to eat with my family, but from the first day I joined the army to the present, it has been more than half a year, and it can be said that I have not received a single soldier's salary except for the robbery. In such a situation, how can you look directly at this army and sell your life? When you encounter a setback, your first instinct is to run.

In the army, when rushing forward to kill, the soldiers will be infected, and the more they rush to kill, the more people there are, and the more fighting spirit they will have. On the contrary, once you escape, then the infection is more serious, and more and more people are fleeing.

When he was attacked, Shi Long, the playboy, was dumbfounded, he didn't know what to do, when he saw a cavalry sneaking up on his side, this guy's first reaction was to run, anyway, he rode a horse and ran, much faster than two legs.

It will be the courage of the soldiers, and now that the generals have run away, the rebels below are running faster, and no matter whether there are officers and soldiers chasing and killing behind, they just scatter and flee vigorously.

The three cavalry broke up the ranks of the rebels, penetrated directly into the Chinese army, and soon became alive and captured Fang Long, this guy who was scared to pee his pants begged for mercy as soon as he came up, and even told the news of the treasure without reservation.

Shi Yong said to Shi Qi: "We only have two hundred cavalry, if we have a thousand cavalry, we can completely annihilate this group of rebels." ”

Shi Chang said: "Big brother, let's cover up the past like this, and kill as much as we can." ”

"Okay, strike, take care to protect yourself, we try to achieve zero casualties as much as possible." The cavalry is too precious, Shi Yong doesn't want the cavalry to make senseless sacrifices, if he is killed by these rebels, he will die unjustly.

In this way, the rebels ran in front, and the cavalry in the back kept covering and killing like cutting rice, harvesting heads. It wasn't until the rebels ran into the barracks that the cavalry stopped pursuing.

Shi Yong didn't know what the results were, but he could guess that there were definitely less than five thousand people who actually ran into the barracks, which means that the ordinary rebels scattered and fled, after all, there were not many hunters.

The people who actually entered the barracks were at most 3,000, but fortunately they brought a lot of food, and it seems that a large part of the people who ran into the barracks were guarding the food, and most of the teams that really fought fled.

After hearing the report, Shi Bao's nose was almost out, he knew that Fang Long was a straw bag, but he didn't expect that it was hundreds of times worse than he imagined, it was simply a pig, or it was not as good as a pig. 10,000 troops, the other side is only 200 cavalry, even if they stand still and let the cavalry cut down, they will not lose 7,000, which is too cowardly.

In fact, this can't be blamed on the dragon's nest, in the era of cold weapons, the cavalry has a crushing advantage over the infantry, once seventeen Jin cavalry, chasing two thousand Song troops to slaughter, that scene is no less than today. In a word, the defeat of the army is like a mountain, and that kind of great rout is the result of being slaughtered and killed, and it cannot be measured by the number of people.

In any case, there was food, although it was enough for the army to last for ten days at most, which was enough for Shi Bao, and on the morning of the fourth day of arriving in Muzhou, after breakfast, Shi Bao finally launched the first round of siege.

Shi Bao now has only 9,000 soldiers in his hands, he is divided into four teams, the first team of 3,000 people is led by Xie Fei, responsible for attacking from the main gate, anyway, there is no moat, under the leadership of Xie Fei, three thousand rebels carried the siege ladder and killed it.

Immediately behind was the 3,000 rebels led by Shi Qun, and after the first team approached the city wall, they also rushed over, but the goal of this team was not the head of the city, but to kill the city gate.

The third team of 2,000 people, led by Shi Bao's cousin Fan Xuan, escorted the engineering vehicles to slowly advance towards the city gate, which was transformed into a battering ram made from a giant wood that was five or six zhang high and twice as thick as a bucket, and was pushed by seventy or eighty people, slowly approaching the city gate.

The fourth team, 1,000 people, is Shi Bao's personal soldiers, in fact, it is to supervise the battle, logistics support, if this team is used, then there is no possibility of taking Muzhou.

Mu Hong, who was standing in Chengtou, looked at the overwhelming number of rebels, and he said to Yang Zhi with a smile: "The bandits don't know how many of us there are, if they know that we are not a thousand but four thousand, with this amount of troops, they will definitely not dare to attack the city." ”

Yang Zhi is the commander of the Longxiang army, of course, he is in charge of the command, and he has already been ready, just to test the combat strength of the army to defend the city, he said to Mu Hong: "You can't be careless, after all, only a thousand Longxiang army is our own, and the rest is borrowed casualties that are too big to explain, and more is to be strong and be a candidate." ”

The young and middle-aged men in the city are responsible for logistics support, and it is the Long Xiang army that is really defending at the head of the city, among which there are two hundred sailors, which is still insufficient compared to the enemy. However, when defending the city, the pressure is obviously much less, and as long as the defensive position is not chaotic, it will not be easily overcome.

When the rebels were two hundred paces away from the city wall, Yang Zhi raised the command flag, and the Long Xiang army began to prepare to shoot, and when the distance was one hundred and fifty paces, Yang Zhi ordered the firing, and eight hundred arrows were fired at the rebels like flying locusts.

Less than two hundred fell in the first round of shooting, and the large force continued to sprint forward. Soon the second round of arrows flew, which would have fallen more than a hundred, and the third round had only fallen less than a hundred.

After three rounds of shooting, the rebels' vanguard had already reached the city and began to push up the siege ladder to attack the city. It was at this time that the rebels were relatively concentrated, and the trebuchet was finally launched, and seventy or eighty pounds of boulders smashed into the middle of the rebels, and a large number of them were stoned to death, which caused a huge psychological shock to the rebels.

The rebels began to show signs of retreating, and it was at this time that the second team arrived and continued to attack, but the rebels learned wisely and spread as much as possible, so that the casualties were significantly reduced.