When it was about to get dark, Ling Yi led an army of 120,000 to the north gate of Qianmian City, and he ordered the whole army to camp on the spot.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Situ Zhan said: "General, I think this Qianmian City is also a strong city, if it is attacked, I am afraid that many soldiers will be lost." ”

"Attacking the city, the soldiers will inevitably be killed and wounded, is it because of this that we will not attack the city? Let the soldiers rest for one night, cook food on the fifth watch tomorrow, and attack the city as soon as it is dawn. I will let my own soldiers supervise the battle in the rear, and those who dare to retreat will be killed on the spot, without mercy! Ling said.

Situ Zhan originally wanted to persuade Ling Ju again, but when he saw that Ling Ju's face was not good, he kept silent.

At dawn the next day, the soldiers of the Ling army rushed towards Qianmian City like a tide under the cover of catapults. Cen Liangzhi came to the city in person and led the defenders to resist desperately.

Ling's army attacked for nearly two hours, lost thousands of soldiers, and failed to capture the city. Some of the soldiers tried to retreat, but their heads were cut off by the soldiers who oversaw the battle.

Seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Ling Ji stomped his feet angrily. Situ Zhan said: "General, let the soldiers withdraw first, such a hard attack is not a way, and if you continue to attack, it will only make the soldiers die in vain." ”

Ling Ji sighed and ordered, "Ming Jin! Mingjin retreats! ”

Ling Ju and Situ Zhan returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, and the generals also came in one after another.

"In two hours, not a single person could take the city, not a single one! Yesterday we were unfavorable, and today we were frustrated in the siege, I don't think this battle should be fought, let's go back to Yinghui City as soon as possible! Ling Ju scolded sharply.

All the generals bowed their heads, and no one dared to speak.

Situ Zhan thought for a while and said: "General, we can build an earth mountain within a hundred steps from the city wall to attack the city, the height of the earth mountain is higher than the city head, when attacking the city, let the crossbowmen stand on the earth mountain, condescendingly, and shoot the Zhanzhou army at the head of the city, so that it will be easier for the soldiers besieging the city to attack the city." ”

Ling Ji listened, nodded, and said, "Good idea, generals, just do what Mr. Situ said, and do it quickly." ”

"Obey the general's orders."

Cen Liangzhi saw that the soldiers of the Ling army had retreated, and said to Zong Yanxiao: "It is said that the Ruizhou army is good at defending the city, and my Zan army is not bad. ”

"What the envoy said is that now that the morale of my Zan Zhou army is high, we will definitely be able to defeat Ling Ju." Zong Yanxiao said.

At this time, a pro-soldier said to Cen Liangzhi: "Let you take a look, the soldiers of the Ling army are piling up dirt mountains. ”

Cen Liangzhi looked outside the city and said, "General Zong, it seems that Ling Ji wants to build a mountain to attack the city, what should we do?" ”

"You should quickly order the crossbowmen to shoot the soldiers of the Ling army who are piling up the mountains of earth with strong bows and hard crossbows."

Cen Liangzhi shouted loudly: "Crossbowmen listen to the order and shoot the enemy!" ”

"No!"

A rain of arrows struck, and many of the soldiers of the Ling army who were piling up the mountains of earth were shot to death, and Ling Yi shouted: "Shield hand, rush to the front to block the feather arrows, slinger, immediately load the stone projection!" ”

It took two days and two nights for the soldiers of the Ling army to finally pile up two dirt mountains, which were more than two zhang higher than the head of the city.

Seeing that the earth mountain had been built, Ling laughed loudly: "The earth mountain has been completed, and you can start attacking the city." ”

The war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Ling army began to attack the city again. On each hill stood nearly a hundred crossbowmen, who were condescending and constantly firing arrows at the city. The defenders at the head of the city raised their shields to cover them, but many were still killed by arrows. Zong Yanxiao picked up a hard bow, put on a feather arrow, and shot at the Ling Jun crossbowman on the earth mountain, and he shot more than a dozen people one after another.

The soldiers of the Ling army quickly rushed across the moat, and when they reached the foot of the city wall, they set up hundreds of ladders and began to climb towards the city. The rolling wood and stones on the top of the city fell down, and many of the soldiers of the Ling Army who were climbing the ladder were directly smashed to the ground.

Huwei General You Zhisheng held a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and was the first to attack the city, and then more and more Ling soldiers rushed up. Zong Yanxiao and Ning Lupan led the defenders to fight to the death and did not retreat, Ning Lupan's steel knife cut out of the gap, he changed to another steel knife and continued to fight.

The soldiers of the Ling army below also crashed open the city gate, and Sheng Banyan led the spearmen to block the city gate, and the Ling army could not advance an inch.

Cen Liangzhi put on armor and held a sword, and said to the heavily armored infantry in the city: "You are the elite of my Zhanzhou army, and now the enemy army has attacked the city, you follow me to the city tower and repel the enemy army!" Come with me! ”

Cen Liangzhi rushed to the city with a heavily armored infantry army, the soldiers of the Ling army slowly couldn't resist, and You Zhisheng was also stabbed in the left shoulder with a spear.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable to him, You Zhisheng shouted loudly: "Brothers, withdraw!" ”

When the soldiers of the Ling army heard this, they all went down the ladder to the city, and some soldiers were slow to move, and they didn't have time to go down to the city, and died on the head of the city. The soldiers of the Ling army at the gate of the city saw that You Zhisheng had withdrawn, and they also retreated, and Sheng Banyan hurriedly closed the city gate.

Cen Liangzhi saw that the front of the city wall was full of soldiers who had died in battle, and even the water surface of the moat was covered, and said, "This is really a vicious battle! ”

After more than ten days, the soldiers of the Ling army continued to attack the city, but they were repeatedly frustrated and never succeeded in capturing Qianmian City.

Yu Moyuan heard that Ling Ju was leading an army to attack Qianmian City in Ruizhou City, and knew that the time had come, so he led an army of 90,000 to the east to conquer Ling Ju.

Yu Moyuan led the army to surround Chunfan Village, attacked day and night, and attacked the village for three days and three nights, most of the soldiers of the Ling army guarding the village were killed, and a small part was captured alive, and none of them escaped.

"Bring the food in the village, tear down the wall, and smash all the equipment guarding the village." Yu Moyuan ordered.

"Childe, there is the Canglu Pass ahead, we should quickly march and take the Canglu Pass." Shangguan Huang said.

Yu Moyuan shook his head and said: "The city wall of Cangyuan Pass is too high, it is difficult to capture it urgently, the last time our Ruizhou army attacked for more than a month and did not take it, this time we can't attack hard, we have to take another way to march." ”

Zuoqiu Hu smiled and said: "If the army can't enter the Cangqi Pass in the east, then there are two ways to choose, one is to go south, and when you reach the river, you can take a war boat down the river and capture Yinghui City. There is also a road, which requires more than 300 miles of troops to the north, and then to the east through the Hundred Purple Valley to Yinghui City. I don't know which way Childe wants to go? ”

"Which way does Sir, sir, think we should go?"

Zuoqiu Hu didn't think about it, and said: "It's definitely not okay to take the waterway, we don't have so many warships." It was only possible to march eastward from the Hundred Purple Valley. ”

"Sir's words are exactly what I want, and we will rush to Baizi Valley immediately." Yu Mo said from afar.

Seeing that he had been unable to capture Qianmian City for a long time, Ling was very bored and paced back and forth in the big tent of the Chinese army.

Situ Zhan came to the outside of the big tent, and the soldiers guarding the tent door said to him: "Mr. Situ, the general has been frowning for the past few days, eating very little, and is still worried about the siege of the city. ”

"Maybe we should withdraw." After speaking, Situ Zhan walked into the big tent.

"Mr. Situ, you're here. I've got a plan, I don't know if it's feasible, you can listen to it. Ling said.

"What's the plan?"

"Cen Liangzhi put most of the Zan Zhou army in Qianmian City, so there are not many defenders in Zan Zhou City, I want Fenwei General Tao Shanling to lead an army of 20,000 to bypass Qianmian City, take Zan Zhou City, and capture Cen Liangzhi's lair. In this way, Cen Liangzhi will not be able to take care of each other, and his Zhanzhou army will also be in turmoil, and at that time, we can easily take Qianmian City. ”

Situ Zhan paused and said, "Has the general thought about it, if Taoshan can't capture Zhanzhou City, what should we do?" The city of Zhanzhou City is afraid that it is even stronger, even if there are only 3,000 defenders, it will be difficult to capture it in a short time. ”

At this moment, a scout ran into the big tent, knelt down and said, "General, Yu Moyuan led an army of 90,000 to Yinghui City, less than two hundred miles away from the city. ”

"What did you say!" Ling Ju was taken aback, "The Ruizhou Army has broken through the Canglu Pass in such a short period of time? ”

"The Ruizhou army did not capture Canglu Pass, they marched east from Baizi Valley." The scout said.

"What about the defenders of the Hundred Purple Valley? Are they all wine bags and rice bags? ”

The scout replied: "The Ruizhou army attacked the defenders of Baizi Valley in the middle of the night, and the leader will be shot by the Ruizhou army with random arrows. ”

Ling Ju said to Situ Zhan: "Mr. Situ, we have to retreat this time, you go and pass the order, let Tao Shanling lead the army of 30,000 to break, we will withdraw our troops tonight." ”

"General, we can't withdraw our troops like this. If General Tao is cut off, the Zhanzhou army will definitely chase and kill him. Situ Zhan said.

"Then how to withdraw the troops."

"Tonight, we will only withdraw our troops, not our camps. When they saw that our battalion was still there, they would not have thought that we would withdraw, and therefore they would not have led our army to chase after us. ”

"I see, you want to leave them with an empty camp to confuse the Zan Zhou army, so that we can retreat in peace. Well, just do as you say. Ling said.

After a watch, Ling Yi led the army to withdraw quietly, and the Zhanzhou army did not know it. The next morning, Cen Liangzhi found that there was an empty camp outside the city.

"The old thief is really scheming, he took advantage of the night to withdraw his troops." Cen Liangzhi said to everyone.

Ning Lupan said: "Envoy, the last general is willing to lead troops to chase him over and kill him for a while." ”

"General Ning, you don't have to chase it, the old thief has already gone away, and you can't catch up." Cen Liangzhi said.

In the palace of the capital of Xuanguo, Da Xiyue said to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, Yu Moyuan, the son of Yu Shengwei, has already led the army eastward to crusade against Lingjiao, and now there are not many defenders in Ruizhou, we can take this opportunity to take the eight counties of Ruizhou in one fell swoop." ”

The Emperor of Xuan said: "The praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch is behind." I ordered you to lead 100,000 soldiers to the south, attack Ruizhou, and seize the land of the eight counties. ”

"Obey."