The firelight swayed in the wind, and Wei Chi's face was uncertain in the firelight.

The earth-shaking killing sound of the Northern Zhou soldiers had already sounded under the city in front of him, but at this moment, Wei Chi's thoughts were not in this Zhangshan County.

Yang Jian, who has a ghostly heart, Wei Xiaokuan, who has always been good friends with Yang Jian, Wang Liang, who is hostile to Yang Jian, and those civil and military ministers in the court who have their own thoughts······

When Yu Wenyong was still there, no one dared to make any changes.

But what if Yu Wenyong is critically ill?!

Wei Chi didn't dare to imagine what he would face and how he would choose.

Although Wei Chi Yu knew that those imperial doctors in the palace had always been cautious, minor illnesses could drag them on for more than ten days or even a month or two, not to mention serious illnesses that were related to life and death. However, Wei Chi Yu knew that this news that Yu Wenyong was seriously ill and the army was slowing down was only transmitted to the level of commanders and commanders of various places, which means that even Wei Chishun actually didn't know about it now.

And what this means, Wei Chi can know it. As a recognized young male master, if Yu Wenyong is just a minor illness, there is no need to make such a big move, and it is mysterious, which can only show that the current imperial doctor may even have nothing to do about Yu Wenyong's illness.

Listening to the sound of killing echoing in the wind, Wei Chi was in a trance.

When Yu Wenyong ordered the Northern Expedition, when Yu Wen Yong's body was abnormal, and when Nan Chen began to attack Jiangling, Wei Chi Yuan, every soldier in the night and in the firelight, and even the entire Northern Zhou Dynasty, unknowingly came to a dangerous crossroads.

Which direction is unknown!

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"Bang!" The stone slammed down on the shield, and this was only the first one, followed by a hail of stones of all sizes, crackling and crackling.

The Northern Zhou people marched all the way, and the main force also did not carry large siege equipment, and it was obviously too late to build it now, but they did carry some small trebuchets, which were small stones thrown into a net.

Of course, these small stones cannot be compared with the huge stones thrown by large trebuchets in terms of power, but the advantage is that there are enough of them, hundreds of small trebuchets are lined up, and the stones are pouring towards the city in a torrential rain and hail, although they are hit by stones and will not die directly, but the nose and face are still indispensable.

"Boss, hurry on, it's too dangerous here!" Li Ping struggled to raise the shield and said with difficulty, he didn't know how many times the shield in his hand was hit by stones, and he didn't know how long this stone rain would last.

Li Xinchen looked down through the gap in the shield, and the Northern Zhou soldiers of the brigade were raising the ladder and rushing towards the city wall, while the arrows shot by the Nanchen crossbowmen from the gap in the shield had no way to stop them.

These Northern Zhou people didn't even use a shield, they ran directly and frantically forward, thousands of troops and horses galloped, and even the entire Zhangshan County trembled. And countless torches danced and flickered among them, like a flowing sea of flames, pouring and tumbling and roaring from the sky, trying to slap the enemy in front of them into powder.

In an instant, the tide roared!

The arrows fired by the Nan Chen soldiers kept knocking the running people to the ground, but soon their positions were overtaken by those who followed them, and a torch was extinguished and replaced by a brighter torch.

The whole sky was as bright as day.

The strength of the enemy made Li Xinchen hold his breath, but at this moment, he had no room to retreat.

The words have already been said for that part, all Li Xinchen can do now is to grit his teeth and lead everyone to stand on this city wall, blocking the rushing and tumbling tide until everyone falls.

"Dang!" There was another soft thud, and a stone slammed against the shield, but after a few moments, there was no more sound, except for the cries of the city that had turned the river and the sea down.

"Withdraw the shield and set up the crossbow!" Li Xinchen pushed away Li Ping, who had not yet come back to his senses, and shouted loudly with all his might.

And Chen Zhishen, Cao Zhong and the others also came back to their senses and shouted one after another: "Quick, the crossbowmen come up, the shields are withdrawn, pay attention to alternate cover!" ”

"Lao Zhang, take your people to Lao Tzu!"

"Quick, crossbowman, quick, slow Lao Tzu will throw you down first!"

"Ten people over there, shoot the foot!"

"Tiezi, why are your people slow?! Let them hurry down and get out of the way! Otherwise, Lao Tzu wants your heads! ”

The originally extremely quiet city wall boiled in an instant, countless generals were shouting loudly, countless soldiers were running back and forth, although it looked chaotic, but everyone was doing their part with all their might, and the defenders on the city wall were like a huge machine, running wildly.

Arrows rained down, whistling towards the black-pressed figure under the city, and at this time the Northern Zhou army also rushed to the moat - if it wasn't for being too close and afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, the trebuchet would definitely not stop.

The arrows pierced the chests of the soldiers in the front row, and they didn't even have time to shout and struggle before they fell into the moat, which had been rendered bloody. The second row of people in the back was inevitably a little chaotic, and they were gathering in a mess towards a few places that had been filled in by the forward soldiers who had attacked the city before.

The arrows shot down from the city were also concentrated in those few places where the river could be crossed, and soldiers continued to fall to the ground with arrows, or even fell directly into the river. Their corpses were stacked on top of each other's last siege companions, and the flesh-and-blood dikes that blocked the river were expanding at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Li Xinchen pursed his lips in the city, he was still a little curious about why the enemy would adopt such a formation, but now he understood that the sandbags and stones carried by those soldiers on their shoulders were not what Wei Chi Yuan really wanted to use.

Wei Chi Hui was using the flesh and blood of the front-row soldiers to expand the originally relatively narrow passage, and once the moat was filled in many places, the entire Zhangshan County would lose its most important outer barrier.

At that time, the only thing the defenders of the city could rely on was really only the thin city walls.

This is the most cruel, and it is also the best way to break through the city quickly at this moment, after all, in the face of the defenders, the attacking Northern Zhou army has an absolute superiority in strength.

They are not afraid of sacrifice, or rather, they are now trading sacrifice for time that is more precious to them!

Li Xinchen knew before that Wei Chi Hui liked to win by surprise with his soldiers, so he was keenly aware of Wei Chi Hui's strategy of bypassing Jingshan with light troops, but he still didn't expect that this old general would be so ruthless and resolute and indomitable in a head-on confrontation.

This famous general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is really worthy of his name and the trust and respect of tens of thousands of Northern Zhou Dynasty soldiers.