The dull beat of the drums suddenly sounded, and the drums reverberated in the sky, as if thousands of troops were slaughtering, and in fact it was.

The people in Baoji County were awakened by the earth-shattering drumming, and Li Yi was also one of them, even in the city, he could hear such a strong drum sound, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

Liu Kui suddenly ran in and hurriedly reported, "Your Majesty, Li Changfu's rebels have been killed under Baoji City, there are tens of thousands of people, and they have surrounded Baoji. ”

Li Yi's face showed fear, and he spoke incoherently nervously, "Liu Yuma, immediately protect me from Baoji, and we will go to Fengzhou." ”

Liu Kui was embarrassed, "Your Majesty, the rebels have a large number of cavalry, and this time out of the city is tantamount to a live target, I am afraid that if we don't wait to retreat to Fengzhou, we will be caught up by the rebels." ”

At this moment, everyone else also ran over in disheveled clothes, including Tian Lingzi and Yang Fugong, as well as a group of court officials.

Although these people have different thoughts, they are apprehensive in the face of the attack of Li Changfu's army.

Everyone then complained a little about Li Yu and Tian Lingzi, if it weren't for Li Yi's hesitation and Tian Lingzi's strong opposition, how could they be trapped here. If you leave Baoji yesterday, maybe you will already be in Fengzhou by this time.

But at this time, it is useless to complain about this, and it is necessary to find a way to solve the problem at hand.

"So what now?" Li Yi panicked.

"Your Majesty, although we can't break through now, we can defend the city. Now there are tens of thousands of troops in the city, and as long as the defense is done properly, the rebels have not broken the city so much.

His Royal Highness King Shou has already led reinforcements to arrive, as long as we hold on for a day or two, we will be safe and sound when His Highness's reinforcements arrive. Liu Kui suggested.

"Liu Juma said it easily, and King Shou didn't know that we were trapped here. If King Shou has a different heart, what if he waits until the city is broken? "Tian Lingziyin**.

"Is there a better way for Grandpa Tian?" Liu Kui said coldly.

Tian Lingzi was speechless for a while, he naturally had no way to save the current crisis.

"Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that what Liu Juma said is reasonable, and I think that King Shou will not sit idly by and watch His Majesty fall into danger." Yang Fugong said seriously.

As for whether King Shou can arrive in time, Yang Fugong has no bottom in his heart, and Tian Lingzi's words are not impossible.

"Your Majesty, Weichen will send an elite team to break through to Fengzhou to ask His Royal Highness King Shou for help while the rebel encirclement has not yet been closed, and His Royal Highness will definitely come to rescue Your Majesty." Liu Kui said.

Li Yi also forgot about the threat of King Shou, the imperial brother, to him at this time, and then saved his life first, at least King Shou would not kill him, and the rebels outside were not easy to say.

Thinking of this, Li Yi calmed down his emotions and looked at Liu Kui with a look of expectation, "Liu Yuma, I ordered you to be fully responsible for defending the city, and you can command all the troops in this Baoji City." ”

"Your Majesty." Tian Lingzi was in a hurry, but before he could argue, Liu Kui knelt on one knee, "Please rest assured, even if Weichen gives up his life, he will protect His Majesty." ”

The army of Baoji City is mainly divided into three forces, namely the Shence army controlled by Tian Lingzi and Liu Kui and the army brought by Yang Shouxin, adding up to tens of thousands of people.

In fact, there is a fourth force, that is, the defenders and servants of Baoji, but the number is small and can be ignored.

With Li Yi's words, Liu Kui naturally would not let go of this great opportunity to seize Tian Lingzi's military power. Except for the house where the thousand people who stayed during Li Yi's time, everyone else was transferred to the city wall for defense, and the thousand people left behind were naturally to prevent Tian Lingzi from jumping over the wall.

Since it was not expected that it would be surrounded by rebels, the fortifications of Baoji were poor. Liu Kui ordered that all the houses near the city wall be demolished, and the wood was cut off to be used as rolling wood, and bricks and stones were used to defend the city wall.

On the tower of the city, looking at the rebel army outside the city, the faces of these thousands of soldiers showed horror, whether it was Liu Kui's subordinates or Yang Shouxin's subordinates.

There are actually not many rebels outside the city, only 30,000 or 40,000 people, but there are only more than 10,000 soldiers in the city, and the gap in number is too big, and the Shence army has already been a frightened bird.

As soon as noon arrived, the war drums outside the city rang out, and tens of thousands of rebels rushed to the city wall like a tide after the drums sounded, holding shields and spears, carrying dozens of siege ladders several zhang long, one by one they were excited, and the sound of killing resounded in the sky.

The rebels outside the city did not even have the basic temptation, and simply crossed the moat and began to attack the city.

The arrows of the Shence army on the tower of the city rained down, constantly shooting at the rebels under the city, even if there was a shield defense, but the dense rain of arrows still made the rebels continue to fall.

The morale-boosting rebels did not give up the attack by this number of casualties, and braved the rain of arrows, more than 20 siege ladders were erected at the head of the city, and iron hooks hooked the battlements, and the rebels below began to climb up the siege ladders to attack.

A large amount of masonry and rolling logs were lifted by the defenders and smashed into the climbing rebels, and as the screams were heard, the rebels continued to fall down the ladder and hit the ground hard. But soon new rebel soldiers climbed the ladders, and elsewhere within the walls, many rebels carried ladders to expand the attack.

After the siege began, the rebels under the city walls began to counterattack, a large number of sharp arrows were fired at the city walls, and the defenders on the city tower began to suffer casualties. As the rebels counterattacked more and more vigorously, the defenders, whose casualty numbers were constantly expanding, were desperately suppressed, and could only hide behind the female wall and start the counterattack with the help of shields.

Under the cover of their own crossbowmen, the rebels who were besieging the city finally climbed the tower, and as the first rebel soldiers rushed to the tower, more and more rebels followed suit.

For a time, there was danger in several places in the city tower, and a large number of rebels who rushed up the city tower started a melee with the defenders.

Seeing that the city tower might be lost at any time, Liu Kui didn't care about anything else, and rushed into the enemy pile with hundreds of personal soldiers. At this time, Liu Kui was holding his horizontal knife, and for a while, the sword light on the city tower flickered, and several rebel soldiers besieging Liu Kui were killed on the spot in a few rounds.

Liu Kui's bravery and leading example inspired the soldiers of the surrounding defenders, and with the addition of those hundreds of personal soldiers, it didn't take long for the nearby rebels to be killed.

However, the situation on the towers was still not optimistic, and the demoralized defenders faced the strong rebels, and the towers were constantly being attacked by the rebels. Liu Kui saw that he couldn't take care of everything, so he ordered to organize several small troops to be responsible for rushing to the city tower captured by the rebels.

The battle was fierce, with arrows flying and corpses strewn across the field.

Compared with Liu Kui, who led the defenders with all his might, the rebels outside the city did not invest more troops, but allowed these tens of thousands of people to attack.

Although Li Zhen's residence was some distance from the city wall, there were still some stray arrows nearby, and the deafening shouts of killing made Li Zhen, who was less than five years old, cry on the spot.

Zhang Junning hurriedly coaxed his son, but still couldn't coax him. And not only Li Yi's eldest prince Li Zhen, second son Li Sheng, but also two daughters were crying, which made the frightened Li Yi frown.

"What are you crying about? Cry again, just throw it out! Li Yi said angrily.

Seeing that Li Yi was angry, Zhang Junning hurriedly called a pair of children by his side and coaxed a few eunuchs and palace maids to avoid touching Li Yi's brows.

This time Li Yi's escape was better than last time, although all the concubines were not brought, but Zhang Junning still took a few of the heirs who gave birth to him.

Li Yi does not have many heirs, and after being the emperor for so many years, he has only two sons and two daughters, and they are all very young.

However, Li Yi didn't have much affection for his children, and even the concubines who gave birth to Zhang Junning became cold.

The shouts of killing outside also made the faces of the concubines, ministers, eunuchs and palace maids in the house pale, and just when they thought that the city was about to be broken, suddenly the drums sounded, and the rebels chose to withdraw their troops after paying the price of thousands of casualties.

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Although the rebels temporarily withdrew their troops, Liu Kui's expression was heavy after the results were counted. In the afternoon's fighting, the defenders suffered more than 3,000 casualties, while the rebels suffered only 5,000 casualties.

It seems that the rebels have more casualties, but the rebels are the besieging party, and it is normal for them to have more casualties.

However, the 5,000 casualties accounted for only one-eighth of the 40,000 rebels, while the more than 3,000 casualties under Liu Kui accounted for one-third of the entire Baoji defenders.

When Liu Kui reported the battle reports one by one, everyone's expressions were very solemn. Today the enemy army only invested 10,000 people to attack, they lost more than 3,000 people, tomorrow the enemy army will definitely invest more, will the rest of them still be able to hold on?

"Liu Juma, have the soldiers sent out to ask for help have broken through?" As soon as Liu Kui finished speaking, Li Yi summoned and asked.

Liu Kui didn't want to deceive the other party, so he stubbornly said, "The soldiers asking for help have broken through, but when the Tiance Army gets the news and rushes to support, it will be at least tomorrow afternoon." ”

"Tomorrow afternoon? Isn't it soon? Why are your Aiqing's faces like earth? "Li Yi is a little strange.

Yang Fugong stepped forward and explained, "Your Majesty, today's attack by the rebels is just a small-scale temptation, mainly to find out our details, and tomorrow the rebels will attack on a large scale."

Liu Juma was right, no matter how fast the reinforcements were, they would not arrive until tomorrow afternoon, and the rebels would probably be engaged in the main attack tomorrow morning. Therefore, whether you can make it through tomorrow morning is the most crucial. ”

Yang Fugong actually didn't want to explain, but if he explained, Li Yi would definitely be in a hurry. But if you don't explain, the other party may misunderstand and even be too optimistic

As he expected, after he finished speaking, Li Yi's face changed drastically, and he suddenly became ugly.

Li Yi looked at Liu Kui, "Liu Yuma, can you lead the rest of the army to hold out until reinforcements arrive?" ”

Liu Kui's face was embarrassed, and he bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen will definitely do his best." ”

"Is that possible if you can't hold it?" Li Yi said lightly.

"Your Majesty..."

Liu Kui wanted to explain, but Li Yi directly flipped over the things on the table in front of him and roared loudly, "Get out, get out!" ”

(End of chapter)