When the war in the city was about to come to an end, Li Zhenxiong's troops and Yin Wanhu's troops outside the city were in a dilemma. First of all, the Yuan cavalry of Li Zhenxiong's department has lost nearly 200 cavalry, not counting the loss of the two teams of Han cavalry from Dizhou!

Although the camp of the Jing'an Army has been basically completely destroyed, except for the area inside the earthen wall, the seized materials have also been basically burned. But the defense of the earthen wall is really tenacious, the arrows carried by the Yuan cavalry are basically finished, and the defenders inside still insist on fighting to the death at the entrance of the passage, especially those bed crossbows, although the radius of the attack is only more than 100 steps, but the Yuan cavalry has to face the strong killing of the opponent when approaching the earthen wall.

These three-step long crossbows are definitely a nightmare for the Yuan Cavalry, and the huge impact force when they reach the attack can even send the war horse flying in the air!

As for the damage brought by the Yuan cavalry to the battalion, Li Zhenxiong estimated that it was not under 200 people, because of the geographical advantage, although the combat strength of the defender was weak, he could always hold on to the battle.

As for Yin Wanhu's department, he and Ji Xiancheng have always attacked and defended each other in the wild, and who has won much good with each other. There were no less than three or four hundred dead and wounded on both sides.

In the faint morning light, looking at the field, countless corpses were scattered on the ground, broken guns and swords, and broken military flags were abandoned everywhere.

In the big tent of the Jing'an Army, the noble heartache looked at the large number of wounded people in front of him one by one, almost all of these subordinates were injured under the arrows of the Yuan cavalry, and some of them were even wearing several arrows. As for those who were hit by the throwing axe, they were almost killed on the spot.

There were not many Langzhong in the camp, and the only few doctors ran back and forth to pull out arrows for the wounded, apply medicine, and bandage wounds.

Looking at it, there are at least more than 30 wounded people in this tent, and there are already four big tents for the wounded!

As for the hundreds of people who had already died in battle, they could only be temporarily placed behind a wooden platoon and left for burial after the war. Li Zhenxiong's actual estimate of the casualties of the Jing'an Army was actually relatively small, and there were now more than 300 casualties in the battalion.

"My lord, the Tartars' arrows are far less now, and I guess their quiver should be empty! But our crossbow bolts are no more. "A hundred households rushed in in a hurry and said goodbye to the noble.

"Let's go, let's take a look outside." Gao Shang settled down and went out of the tent to the earthen wall. There were not too many subordinates and masters in the camp, just before the war, some of the soldiers of the Qin Zhanshan Department were led into the camp, which happened to be supplemented by the soldiers, although there were not many people, only more than 100 people, but these soldiers were soldiers after all, and it was just right to supplement the earthen wall defense.

Gao Shang went up to the earthen wall, and in the morning light, he saw that the Yuan cavalry in the distance was gathering in front again, and now it is clear that the Yuan cavalry still has about six or seven hundred cavalry, and the banner number is Tang Wuwei and the Han cavalry of Dizhou.

Under the earthen wall, there were already corpses of Yuan soldiers and horses, mixed with a few corpses that were fallen outside the wall by the soldiers of the baggage team. Most of the obstacles such as wooden stakes outside the wall have been demolished by the Yuan army, and some of the walls have even begun to loosen, the fence has broken, and the bed crossbows on four platforms have been completely damaged after multiple fires. So far in the battle, only twenty-one of the nearly thirty bed crossbows originally prepared, and the crossbow arrows have almost missed, but fortunately, there are still some homemade arrows. At the same time, the arrows shot by the Yuan cavalry were also carefully collected by Tong Kui, temporarily and urgently beaten, repaired, and then handed over to the best archery soldiers in the camp.

Gao Shang thought for a moment and ordered: "Pile up a few more earthen platforms in the camp, and use the wooden rafts to set up a few obstacles to each other, in case the Yuan cavalry rushes in, it must not be allowed to gallop freely in the camp." "This is the preparation of the noble for the last battle.

Seeing Lu An nervously directing the craftsmen to repair the bed crossbow and crossbow arrows, Gao Shang praised him greatly, and Lu An and other craftsmen have made great contributions to this day.

Ji Xiancheng led the Jing'an army and part of the Shuntian army to finally become a foot soldier who pressed Yin Wanhu, although the Yuan army was not defeated, but it retreated step by step, even if Liu Qi gathered the remnants again to rush to support, it was not effective.

What is annoying is that most of the newly recruited soldiers in Liu Qi's camp actually mutinied and fled, which not only caused the Yuan soldiers defending in the rear to be impacted, but also greatly boosted the morale of the Shuntian army. These mutinous soldiers did not take the initiative to attack the Yuan army again, but scattered in groups, and in the morning light they could be seen bypassing the opposing sides from a distance, and went straight to the camp of the Wanjin Haibu, if they were collected by them, they would be a force to be reckoned with.

The most frightening thing for the Yuan army outside the city was that there were bursts of shouts of "abandon weapons and surrender, spare your life" from inside the city, and seeing the movement of the Shuntian soldiers on the city wall waving the banner excitedly, the fool also knew that the Yuan army in the city was finished!

Yin Wanhu anxiously kept looking in the direction of Li Zhenxiong, where the smoke was rising, and it could be seen that the Yuan cavalry had broken through the camp of the Jing'an thief army, but it had not returned for a long time, and the opponent's offensive in front of him had not been weak! There are fewer people than each other, and now it's really hard to support.

"All units withdraw to the camp to defend!" Yin Wanhu finally made up his mind that there was no point in field battles, so he retreated to Liu Qibu's camp first. At the same time, someone was sent to inform Li Zhenxiong.

A golden gong was sounded, and under the coordination of Yuan army officers at all levels, the Yuan army formation slowly moved its body like a giant worm, and retracted back into Liu Qi's camp step by step.

Seeing this, Ji Xiancheng also withdrew his troops.

The commanders of the two sides breathed a sigh of relief, and the night's battle finally came to an end! Now that the sky is slightly brighter, it is time to quickly reorganize the soldiers of all units and prepare for the next battle.

Yin Wanhu hadn't relented yet, and a soldier galloped over: "Report, the army of the first commander can arrive with a stick of incense!" ”

Hearing that the reinforcements were coming, the generals' spirits couldn't help but lift.

Although the county town of Linqu was lost after a night of fighting, after all, it still captured the enemy chief Liu Zhengfeng, almost completely defeated Qin Zhanshan and Xiahouen, and the Shuntian garrison in the city was almost completely wiped out, and the other bandit troops were also more or less killed by the official army, of course, the losses of their own troops were also amazing, mainly because the Yuan army that entered the city can be said to be all annihilated, which directly led to the complete failure of the Yuan army's goal of seizing Linqu County, and the strength was greatly damaged, and it was no longer able to continue to take the initiative to attack, and changed to a defensive posture.

Ji Xiancheng knew about this military situation almost at the same time. "Order all the troops of Wanbu, Xiahou and Qin to enter the city, and the defense of the city will be jointly presided over by General Qu Bo and General Mingxiong, and the Jing'an army will temporarily withdraw to the battalion!"

The large battalions of Wanbu and Xiahou have been destroyed a lot by the Yuan army, and the defense facilities in the battalion are obviously insufficient, so it is not easy to stay in these two battalions and hold on. Therefore, the Jing'an army should hurry back to its own camp.

Soon, a forest of guns and halberds and flags appeared on the horizon north of the city, and this was the arrival of the Yidu infantry army!

In the following three days, he also mobilized a large army to take a number of strong attacks on Linqu County.

Linqu is a small city, the city wall is not more than ten zhang high, there is no moat, there were originally ten captured catapults were also destroyed by the Yuan army after entering the city, Mingxiong dismantled it and reassembled it into five, fortunately, there is no shortage of rolling wood and stones in the city. The Yuan army had nearly 10,000 troops, twice as many as the defenders, and although some parts of the city had been lost repeatedly, they were all in danger.

During this period, he also used various methods to attack the city, such as erecting ladders, using nest cars, rushing cars and heavy crossbows, etc., and even sending soldiers to dig wall stones, but in the end they were all fruitless.

This time, the Yidu Yuan army was a rushing battle, and the bulky siege equipment such as catapults were not carried, but after two days, it was found that the city was well defended, so it had to transfer some catapults and heavy crossbows from Yidu City.

The power of these sharp weapons is indeed amazing, hundreds of stones of different sizes flew towards the city wall, smashed the upper wall battlements and part of the wall to pieces, and the ten-zhang high city wall finally collapsed one or two zhang. The rate of fire and impact of the heavy crossbow are equally astonishing, dozens of large beds are fired at the same time, and the giant crossbow as thick as an adult's arm pierces directly into the wall like a meteor, at least a foot into the ground, and after a few rounds of heavy crossbow shooting, at least nearly a hundred giant crossbows are inserted high and low on the outside of the wall.

The besieging soldiers can make full use of these giant crossbows and climb up with their hands and feet! Because there is only a layer of bluestone on the outside of the wall, and the middle is all adobe. The regulation of bluestone is completely smaller than that used in Yidu City, the thickness is only two or three inches, the width is about one and a half feet, and the length is four feet, so after a few rounds of heavy crossbows, many bluestones are directly cracked by the giant crossbow, or peeled off, revealing the earthy yellow adobe inside!

With catapults and heavy crossbows, the Yuan army's assault on Linqu greatly increased the threat. Two days ago, due to the lack of equipment, the Yuan army attacked the city through self-made ladders, hooks, claws, etc., and as a result, it lost at least seven or eight hundred people several times! The walls of Linqu were almost undamaged.

An important reason for the great losses of the Yuan army was that the simple beds and restored catapults in the city played a huge lethality. Although the Yuan army rushed to the city and destroyed several beds as much as they could, it did not have much effect, but instead folded one thousand households, five main and one hundred households.

Although the soldiers under Mingxiong and Qu Bo came from various departments of the Shuntian Army and lacked unity and cooperation, because they were defending and the geographical advantage was obvious, after dividing the defensive areas of each department and setting aside the reserves of mobile defense, the battle of city defense was still thrilling on the whole. Qu Bo, Wan Jinhai, Xia Houen and other generals were all ordered by Mingxiong at this time, and when they saw that Mingxiong was not afraid of danger, they all secretly admired it.

In contrast, the defense of the Jing'an army camp outside the city was in danger several times. Because the main camp was seriously damaged in Li Zhenxiong's attack, Ji Xiancheng could not use the original camp to defend, and finally after all of them retracted into the earthen wall, fortunately, Fang Xue took advantage of the gap when the Yuan cavalry was frightened and withdrew, and withdrew most of the wounded and noble subordinates and masters to the city in time.

Because the main direction of attack of the Yuan army was the northern city, the blockade of the southern city gate could not be completely realized for a while, and almost all the soldiers who stayed behind the earthen wall at this time were the soldiers of the Jing'an army.

But even so, the space in the inner camp was limited, and the earthen walls could not accommodate thousands of soldiers, so Ji Xiancheng had to divide some soldiers into the city to assist in defense, leaving only 800 soldiers in the Chinese army camp.

The Yuan cavalry played little role in the battle, and did not comment on Li Zhenxiong's early command, and now only asked the Yuan cavalry to cooperate with the infantry to launch several attacks on Tucheng, and at the same time blockaded Tucheng and Linqu County, basically severing the internal connection of the county.

Since the Yuan army invested in the siege of the city, the defense of the county has deteriorated greatly. After two days, the catapults in the city were completely destroyed in the confrontation with the Yuan army, and only half of the bed was left. The crossbow bolts were almost exhausted, and some rudimentary crossbow bolts had to be made for emergency, because of the lack of iron weapons, these crossbow arrows could not all be equipped with iron arrows, and the lethality was naturally greatly reduced.

In order to deal with the heavy crossbows of the Yuan army, especially the hundreds of huge arrows on the city wall that were deeply rooted in the wall, Mingxiong had to transfer a large number of stones to defend, and used a small amount of fire oil and other materials, threw a large amount of firewood under the city, ignited, and finally burned most of the crossbow arrows after several hardships.

In order to deal with the Yuan army's catapults and heavy crossbows, Ming Xiong ordered Huang Er and Wan Jinhai to gather the war horses in the city, and suddenly rushed out of the city when the Yuan army besieging the city was defeated, aiming directly at the opponent's siege equipment, and finally destroyed more than half of these heavy firepower after continuously breaking through the multiple obstacles of the Yuan army's cavalry. Although the effect of the raid was good, it paid the price of at least three hundred casualties!