Although Lishui City is not big, it is also a rare fortified city on the left and right, and the Tibetan soldiers on the left and right sides of the north city gate can be stationed in up to 2,000 soldiers.

Of course, at this time, the Chishan Army only had a small number of cavalry scouts outside the northern city to monitor it, and it was impossible for the guard general Xu Bin to deploy the scarce defenders in the northern city too wastefully.

At present, there are only 200 defenders in Beicheng, and under the command of the county lieutenant Wei Yanzhang, they are watching the movement outside the city.

The Wei family can not be compared with the Shangliu family in Lishui, the clan has more than 1,000 people, and the life of the collateral children who occupy most of the proportion of the clan is relatively embarrassed and dilapidated, but the lineage has hundreds of hectares of fields in the county and more than 1,000 slaves, but it is also the number one township family in the county.

Wei Yanzhang is not the head of the Wei family, but when he was young, he studied the law with Shang Wensheng in the Ministry of Officials, and later entered the county government as an official, and when his daughter Xiaolan married into the Shang family, and married Shang Zhongjie, the second son of Shang Wensheng in the Ministry of Officials, he relied on the support of the Shang family and served as a county lieutenant in Lishui County, so far he is one of the best figures in the Wei family.

Since the Chishan Army swept the land on the west flank of Maoshan Mountain, many children of the Wei family fled to Shangjiabao to avoid trouble.

It's just that after Shangjiabao was captured by the thief army, Wei Yanzhang heard that Shang Zhongjie fled to Xuanzhou in the south with a part of his people, and whether his daughter Xiaolan escaped safely, or fell into the hands of the thief army and was trampled on, but there was no news.

There is no sign of the thief army attacking the city for the time being, the night is dark at this moment, and there are only a small number of thief scouts wandering outside the northern city, and most of the defenders in the northern city are sleeping soundly in the hidden soldier cave under the city, but Wei Yanzhang has no way to sleep.

When he ascended to the city gate, he saw a guard of a sentry on the city wall, and many of them were sleeping on the ground with their backs to the battlements with guns, spears, knives and bows, and he did not wake up, as long as there were still people watching the movement outside the city.

Outside the city, there were forest birds flying in fright, the sound of flapping wings, and occasionally the dull neighing of warhorses.

It seems that some of the thieves' troops moved outside the northern city in the dark, but the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the city is always several times faster than that outside the city.

But he went to the city again, and saw that the gate was tightly bolted, and saw a group of men and horses coming in the south street with fires.

Although Wei Yanzhang is a county lieutenant, since the Chuzhou army crossed the river, all the armies and camps sent Xu Bin to lead a battalion of the Nanya forbidden army to garrison Lishui.

Seeing that this team of less than fifty people openly raised fire and walked towards the north city gate, Wei Yanzhang thought that the guard Xu Bin came with Hu Wei to check the situation of the night, and he led people to the front of the horse.

In order to prevent a small number of thieves from infiltrating the city to break the defenses, horses were also placed between the inner side of the city gate and the main street, and a sentry post was set up.

Several torches were behind the team, the torches at the head of the city were blown by the night wind, and the faces of the first few people were hidden in the shadows, which was not real, but looking at the figure of Xu Bin, Wei Yanzhang asked in a loud voice while moving people away from the horse: "Xu Du hasn't stopped so late?" ”

Before Wei Yanzhang's words fell, he saw a shorter man in black on the opposite side suddenly raise his hand, and a sword light pierced his face.

The two sides were only three or four zhang apart, separated by three rows of rejection horses, between lightning and stone fire, Wei Yanzhang's face didn't have time to dodge, and a short sword shot through his left cheek, piercing out of his brain, and before he could say a word, he was killed.

"Senior Sister Yao, shoot a sword with one hand and kill yourself!"

Li Zhen couldn't help but praise when he saw this scene, thinking that at such a close distance, in addition to being full of vigilance, otherwise, I am afraid that few people can escape Yao Xishui's sword assassination.

The people of Jinling all know that Yao Xishui's sword dance is unparalleled, and who knows that her sword dance is very sharp.

However, Li Mo's subordinates are not slow.

From where they stood, to the gate of the city, and the nearest entrance to the city wall, there were two columns and three rows of six horses.

When the alarm started, not only the guards of the night guard on the city wall would react very quickly, but there were more than 150 guards of the three guards in the hidden caves on the left and right sides, and they would rush out with swords in a very fast time when they heard the call.

If they can't control the city gate hole as soon as possible, open the city gate, and welcome the ambush soldiers outside the city to enter, the defenders in any other part of the city can quickly reinforce here within a stick of incense.

Hardwood, the outer side of the side of the spikes to prevent the impact of the rejection of the horse, each one more than a zhang long, almost more than two hundred pounds of weight, seeing Li Zhen lift the halberd to mount, exhale, a rejection of the horse will "soar" to fly, three or four zhang away, in front of the city gate hole that the dozen or so guards who have just returned to their senses smashed over.

Seeing this scene, not to mention that the dozen or so guards in front of the city gate cave were so frightened that they dodged, Yao Xishui was taken aback.

Every time Li Xiu said that Li Xiu Wuyong was the crown of the Li family's sons, and no one in Hongzhou could match him, Yao Xishui thought that Li Xiu was just talking, and Li Zhen was also very shy on such occasions every time, but where did he think that his seemingly thin arms really had a thousand catties of strength?

In front of the city gate, even if there were two guards who couldn't dodge, they were smashed by the flying horses and smashed their bones and limbs, screaming again and again, and they couldn't do it when they saw it.

No matter how powerful Li Mo is, it is impossible to pick up all six rejection horses a few feet away, but half of the other five are picked up, but it is easy, and then he wields a halberd like a windmill and kills the dozens of guards in front of the city gate cave who are so frightened that their faces are frustrated.

Wei Yanzhang was called Yao Xi to assassinate him with one move, and the rest of the guards in front of the city gate cave were ordinary guards, where was anyone Li Qian's opponent? Seeing that every time he cut down his halberd, he brought out a rain of blood, and some people hurriedly raised their shields to block, but they were also split by Li Qian and his halberd with a shield, as if entering a no-man's land.

More than a dozen people rushed to open the city gate, and Yao Xishui and the remaining thirty elites climbed the city wall from the climbing roads on both sides and seized the north city gate tower for the first time......

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Faintly hearing the sound of fighting in the northern city, and then seeing the fire light coming out of the hole in the city gate, Li Pu knew that they had succeeded.

Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng immediately drove their horses over the shallow trench, and personally led the guards who were stranded in the wilderness in the north of the city before nightfall, and pretended to be scouts and galloped towards the north city gate.

Li Xiu led more palace cavalry guards and more than 500 new soldiers newly recruited, and ambushed in the woods farther away in the northeast corner, at this time, more than 200 cavalry guards were also brazenly launched, trampled on the horse's hooves, as if thunder was rolling in the depths of the earth.

Li Puchi went to the north city gate, but when they moved away the obstacles such as horses and antlers at the city gate, the guard general Xu Bin also led reinforcements to kill from the inner streets and alleys as soon as possible, and was collecting the guards who were killed in the north city and lost their armor, wanting to recapture the north city gate.

The defenders reacted so fast!

Seeing this scene, Li Pu was secretly frightened, worried that his youngest son Li Qi only led more than a dozen people to guard the inner side of the city gate cave, and was accidentally scattered by the guards, not to mention their success tonight, and the casualties would be extremely heavy.

Although Li Pu and they also launched an attack in the middle of the night, after the fall of Shangjiabao, the defenders were like frightened birds, and their vigilance was extremely high, and they were not in the same state at all as the defenseless defenders of Danyang City.

The guard general Xu Bin and the county commander and the county Cheng even invited the patriarch of the family to the county government to discuss the matter, and persuaded the family to send troops and food to fight the thief army.

Hearing the bell ringing from the attack in Beicheng, the sound of hundreds of fierce battles spread extra clearly in the quiet night, Xu Bin immediately gathered the guards around him, the county government officials and the family soldiers brought by the patriarchs, and gathered 200 people to rush to the gate of Beicheng.

It doesn't take a cup of tea before and after, and it can really be said that the reaction is fast.

It's just that Li Zhen is extremely brave, and the more than 50 ambush soldiers he led are all fierce elites who have been cultivated by the palace of Zhedong County for many years, and they suddenly attacked, and the defenders of Beicheng did not react at all, and they were killed.

It was also thanks to Xu Bin who led his men and horses to come to reinforce very quickly, and the sneak attack on Lishui City did not form the situation that was as quickly disrupted as when Han Qian led his troops to attack Danyang.

The city gate was narrow, and the inside of the city gate was fighting again, there was no room for the cavalry to charge and fight, Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng moved away the obstacles such as horses and antlers outside the city, and then dismounted with the guards and entered the city to fight.

Although the roads on both sides of the city gate are under their control, there are more than 100 defenders from the corner towers on both sides to the north city gate tower at this time.

Seeing that the youngest son Li Zhen was extremely brave, and guarded the inner side of the city gate cave with dozens of brave men or shields or halberds or knives or bows without retreating, making it difficult for the defenders who came from the long street to advance half a step, Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng first led the men and horses to the wall from the city road to ensure that the key point of the North City Tower was not recaptured by the defenders.

This also made it easier for them to shoot arrows from the inner battlements and suppress the attack of the defenders on the inner side of the tower against the city gate hole.

Although he was worried about it for the time being, Li Pu stood on the north gate tower and saw the guards coming from all directions in the city, and he was secretly frightened, and he regretted that he would listen to the agitation of Li Xiu and Yao Xishui, and risk attacking the city, and it was hard to imagine that if this battle was lost, how would he raise his head in Yueyang in the future.

Even if a considerable part of the garrison was attracted to the east city before nightfall, the circumference of Liyang City was only eight or nine miles, and it was only a few miles from the county government to the north city gate, and it was only two miles from the east city and the other two cities to the north city gate through the county government.

When Li Xiu led more than 600 horse infantry to the north of the city, the defenders on the inner side of the city and from both sides of the city wall exceeded 1,000 people.

Even if Li Pu and Chen Mingsheng rushed over to meet the ambush soldiers in the city as soon as possible, in the face of Xu Bin's organization of the first batch of reinforcements to rush to the north city gate, the manpower was still too small, and they could only barely control the narrow space above and below the north city gate, so that Li Xiu led his troops to arrive, and did not free up more space for them to deploy troops.

In the case of a small difference in the size of the troops, Li Xiu certainly hopes that the fierce elite combat power in his hands can be fully deployed.

In this way, they can find the opponent's weak point as quickly as possible and cut into it fiercely, exert more pressure on the weak point, first kill some of the defenders, and then spread the most chaotic side to the elite part of the defenders, and finally break up the defenders' offensive as quickly as possible and obtain the final victory.

This is the tactical point that my father has been instilling in them all these years.

Although they are confident that they can win the final victory in this battle in a narrow space, the defenders can also concentrate the few elites to fight with them. At the same time, the defenders can also muster more bows and crossbows to shoot, forcing them to resist even more awkwardly.

If the elite cavalry guards of the County King's Mansion had been suppressed for a long time in such a small space inside the city gate cave and could not be killed, their casualties tonight would have been difficult to control.

However, what Li Xiu feared did not happen.

Li Zhen fought on the front line with half a stick of incense, but there was no sign of exhaustion, his chest was boiling, he had not rushed to the depths of the counterattack array launched by the defenders from the inside of the city, mainly because the city and the city needed brave generals to stabilize their positions, and he should not be too impatient, he saw Li Xiu leading more than 20 soldiers into the city at this time, so he shouted: "Ah Xiu, you come to supervise the formation!" ”

Before Li Mo's words fell, he brandished his halberd, rushed forward with the left and right soldiers, and pointed directly at the location of the main defender Xu Bin.

Yao Xishui stood in front of the battlement of the North City Gate Tower, and saw the battlefield inside the City Gate Tower most clearly.

The main general of the guards, Xu Bin and Li Mo, are less than 20 zhang apart, and they are about 20 zhang away from the battlements on the inside of the North City Gate Tower.

It's a pity that Xu Bin has more than a dozen elite guards on the left and right watching the movements around him like a civet cat, and there is no way to shoot him with bows and arrows.

At this time, nearly 300 well-armed soldiers of the Nanya Forbidden Army had already killed from the barracks near the county government and were attacking the city gate at her feet.

Before Li Qian led the soldiers to guard the city gate cave, he could see that in the narrow space of more than ten zhang square, the soldiers and horses were becoming more and more crowded, and Yao Xishui suspected that the soldiers who were like a tide could force the defense line composed of more than 30 people led by Li Zhen in front of the city gate cave.

Yao Xishui was also frightened, her heart was pounding, and she was about to fly out of her throat, she knew very well in her heart that whether she could withstand this wave of offensive was very important.

The situation didn't worry her for too long, and the next moment she saw Li Mo, who let go of her hands and feet, like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, killing from the inside of the city gate hole, and every halberd slashed out, it was like a dim rainbow blooming in the night.

Even if the guards on the top are mostly holding fine iron shields, no matter how sharp the halberd is, it is difficult to split the fine iron shield in one fell swoop.

Li Mo's left and right pawns, cooperating seamlessly, advancing and retreating like an ape, they don't know how many times they have practiced between them, as long as there are defenders' offense and defense are split by Li Mo, they will advance with knives and spears, or pierce or split, poke blood holes and break blood holes around each other.

In just a few breaths, Li Qi wielded a halberd, and cooperated with the soldiers on his side to kill and kill six or seven guards, killing the guards in front of him with fear and coldness, and no one dared to step forward to parry.

It's too strong!

Yao Xishui felt that he was going to scream uncontrollably.

Seeing that every time Li Qian took a step forward, the armor in front of him was forced to take a step back, or to avoid the two wings, but in the narrow space in front of the city gate, more than 400 soldiers were squeezed into both sides, which also made the defenders more and more crowded, and the elite guards of the county king's mansion got a more open offensive surface, with Li Mo as the spearhead and knife, and fiercely pounced on it to fight.

The guard general Xu Bin dared to stand close to supervise the battle at first, but when he saw Li Mo getting closer and closer to him, he couldn't control the chill from the tail vertebrae, and he finally didn't have the courage to personally raise his knife to fight Li Mo, so he thought about retreating a little bit in order to make more space to slow down, but he moved with the guards on the left and right, and the soldiers of the county king's mansion standing on the north gate tower shouted with a knife and a shield:

"Xu Bin's dog thief escaped, Xu Bin's dog thief escaped, catch this dog thief and reward millions of dollars!"

The guards in front of the city gate became more and more panicked, some people turned around and fled, and others were also defeated, at this time, Xu Bin was no longer allowed to calmly stabilize his position, seeing that the left and right formations had become chaotic, he finally gave up his last insistence and fled in the direction of the county government with the left and right guards.

The army is defeated like a mountain, the defenders advance like a tide, and retreat like a tide.

Seeing this scene, Li Pu revealed an irrepressible sense of weakness from the depths of his bone marrow, his hand pressed the battlement wall tightly, and his intuition vest was soaked with sweat, and he knew that the victory or defeat of the battle of Lishui Raid on the city would be separated at this time.

"Congratulations to Master Hou for having this tiger!" Chen Mingsheng was also ecstatic and congratulated Li Pu and said.

From the battle of Jingshan Nunnery, they were used as bait by King Xinyang Yuanyan and suffered a heavy setback, they were first driven out of Danyang City by the Chuzhou army, and then taken away the military power by Han Qian, who was lurking alone in Jinling, and then watched Han Qian turn over the clouds and rain to stir up the situation of the entire battle situation and open the situation of the Chishan army, they were really suppressed for too long.

But all the suppression is released and vented at this moment.

Li Pu also secretly regretted it at this time, he had known that Mo'er was a dragon, and he should have let Mo'er do it at the beginning of Han Qian's formation of the Chishan Army, and he would not have let Han Qian gain power to this point.

However, it is not too late to make amends.

Moe Er is so brave, standing on the battlefield as if he has entered a no-man's land, are you afraid that there will be no merit in the future, and you are afraid that you will not be able to open up a bigger situation?

At this moment, Li Pu couldn't wait to pull Han Qian over, let him see how brave Mo'er was, and let him see how fierce the Li family's sons were.

Yao Xishui was excited, and when he saw Li Pu's ecstatic appearance, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he secretly felt that the palace envoy's strategy might need to be adjusted slightly.

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Gao Shao and Zhang Ping marched from Dongcheng step by step, and when they led people to join the city to attack the city gate tower that had little resistance, Li Xiu, Li Mo, and Chen Mingsheng each led a cavalry along the streets and alleys to rampage through the city and kill the rout.

At this time, it had only been more than half an hour since the ambush in Beicheng.

Looking at the cavalry in the city and the soldiers standing up and down the north city wall, the elite cavalry guards of the county king's mansion entered the city, and together with the new soldiers who followed the actual combat experience in the city, the casualties may be more than 100 people, which shows that the fierceness of the cavalry guards of the county king's mansion is really not beyond the reach of ordinary elites.

They didn't see with their own eyes the situation where Li Qi was invincible and almost single-handedly pushed the battle situation smoothly, but in order to observe the combat power of the cavalry of the county palace at close range, they also arranged for several people to follow Li Pu and Li Xiu's uncle and nephew from Beicheng last night.

At this time, the people sent by Gao Shao rushed to Dongcheng and described in detail the fierce battle at the North City Gate.

Gao Shao was also secretly frightened, the mediocre and incompetent Li Pu had such a tiger!

Maybe this is Li Yu, as the first general of Dachu, even if he has retired for many years, he still has a real heritage under his command, right?

As for Li Pu, Gao Shao believed that he might not have expected his son to be so powerful, otherwise such a sharp and boundless battle axe would have been sent out to kill all directions.

Gao Shao secretly felt that things had become a little troublesome, Li Pu stayed in Jinling in the name of the Propaganda Liaison Envoy, nominally not under Han Qian, which also meant that Li Xiu and Li Qi led their troops under Li Pu, but they didn't need to be controlled by Han Qian.

Li Jiaerlang is so brave, if they take Lishui City, most of them will expand their forces as soon as possible, and they probably won't listen to Han Qian's greetings in the future, right?

Gao Shao was only rough in pen and ink, and immediately called Zhao Jicheng to join the army, and he recorded the battle of Lishui Beicheng in detail, and rode a fast horse to Donglushan to report the news, and he stayed according to the established plan and cooperated with Li Pu to clean up the follow-up battle.

Even if there is no Li Qi to show supernatural powers, according to the prior agreement, Lishui City will be attacked by Li Pu and them, and after it is captured, Li Pu and they will be responsible for defending it, and naturally Li Pu will lead the search of the city.

However, Gao Shao led his troops to occupy Dongcheng, and the garrisons hoarded the war materials, prisoners, chariots and horses in Dongcheng in advance, but he would not be polite, and ordered them to be collected and prepared to be loaded and transported to Donglushan.

After dawn, the faint morning light once again shrouded Lishui City, and the battle was almost completely over.

Except for six or seven hundred remnants of soldiers and a small number of children of the family who responded in time, as well as a small number of officials who fled from the south and west gates, Lishui City, which had gathered nearly 20,000 people for refuge before the war, was completely in the hands of Li Pu.

"General Gao, this battle is hard, you have been running around for days!"

When the overall situation has been decided, in the morning light, Li Pu took more than a dozen people from the county government to the Dongcheng Gate Tower to see Gao Shao and Zhang Ping, he was refreshed, and saw that Gao Shao, the general under Han Qian, was also extremely polite, and called each other with courtesy.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, I never thought that the two General Li Xiao were so powerful, and we didn't have any strength, and we can only say that we can work hard." Gao Shao's life has gone through ups and downs, and he has long developed a calm temperament, Li Zhen and the county prince's mansion are so brave, it is always a good thing for them to face the current situation, and there is no need to say anything sour or strange.

"We captured the county guard Zhen and several heads of families in Lishui County in the chaos last night, I believe that the Marquis of Changfu has some friendship with them, and I can't bear to hurt their lives, so I know that they are affectionate, and persuade them to serve His Highness. They repented, deeply feeling that the usurpation of the first emperor by the Anning Palace was a great rebellion, and they also deeply regretted their previous aids and abuses, and were willing to serve Yue Yang and make meritorious contributions. As a liaison envoy for consolation, I feel that I should give them this opportunity," Li Pu pondered his words and said to Gao Shao and Zhang Ping, "After General Gao goes back, talk to Lord Han and ask Lord Han what he thinks?" ”

Seeing that Li Pu was about to cross the river and demolish the bridge so soon, and wanted to drive them out of Lishui City, Gao Shao snorted and said, "It's easy to say, I'll come back to meet the adults." ”

Zhang Ping had a secret headache, Li Pu was able to persuade Wei Zhen and other people from the family to join him so quickly, probably to bring out the name of the old prince, and he did this clearly to sing against Han Qian's strategy of recruiting slaves and maids into the army at this time, and then the two of them stayed in Jinling on behalf of Yue Yang, one as a solicitation envoy, and the other as a consolation liaison envoy, to get along like this?