"Shang Hu, you are such a big dog, think about how much food you have eaten in my family over the years, and you know how to feed the dog to watch the guardian master, you anti-bone dog actually joined the thief army, and you are not even as good as a cheap animal!"

Shang Xi was wearing a collar of heavy armor that did not fit well, holding the big knife of chopping horses, and saw Shang Hu, who had escaped that night, wearing heavy armor, poking out most of his body from outside the battlement, scolding angrily, together with the three soldiers around him, raised his sword and spear and slashed at Shang Hu.

It is said that Shang Hu has a body of dead strength, Shang Xi only knew how to send him to do things, but he didn't feel anything, at this moment he knew how strong Shang Hu's dog thief was, and he saw Shang Hu's body shrink slightly, so he used an iron shield to block three spears, a straight ridge to chop the horse's thorns and chops, and half of his body was like an iron cast in front of the battlement.

Immediately afterwards, Shang Hu held the iron shield and swung to the left, and a heavy spear seemed to be stabbing from the right side quickly, Shang Xi couldn't dodge, and was stabbed in the chest.

Although the heart guard blocked the thorn, and the half-finger-thick nail only made a deep mark, which did not penetrate, Shang Xi still felt that his chest was smashed hard by a heavy hammer.

Although he is also good at dancing with guns and sticks, he just stays at his hobby, and only when he fights to the death, does he know that in front of people who are born brave, the gap is still so big.

Shang Xi was frightened for a while, and wanted to stabilize his position to knock Shang Hu out of the city first, and then he didn't want to work at this time, and more than a dozen new soldiers of the Chishan Army rushed up at the battlements on the left and right, especially the general on the left wearing blue and brown heavy armor, the heavy spear in his hand was fast and heavy, and the power was unimaginable. The flap of one person's head was split in half, and the white pulp flowed out, which made people feel heartbroken.

The general jumped into the battlement, leaned his back against the battlement wall, held a shield in one hand and waved it in the other, swinging away four or five defenders who wanted to get close, Shang Hu and the other three Chishan soldiers took the opportunity to jump over the battlement, stood beside the Qingjia general, and formed a small defensive formation against the battlement wall, thinking about opening up a larger space on the fortress wall.

Shang Xi gritted his teeth and rushed forward, and the heavy spear in the hand of the blue-armored general was like a poisonous Jiao drilling into his chest.

Shang Xi saw that he couldn't stop it, so he squatted slightly, and thought about borrowing the chest protector to block the stabbing again, and then took the opportunity to raise his knife and slash back.

The frustration after the hammer smashing did not come, Shang Xi felt a chill in his chest, and looked down to see that the heart mirror was directly pierced by this spear, and half of the foot-long heavy blade of the spear had been deeply pierced.

The strong are even stronger, Shang Xi thought that Shang Hu was already born brave, but he didn't expect that the same heavy spear in front of him was in the hands of the general in front of him, which was even more powerful, and directly pierced the half-finger-thick deck of the heart goggles.

"Hand the spear!" Kong Xirong kicked Shang Xi, who had not completely lost his breath, away, smashed into a small space on the fortress wall in front of him, and shouted behind him when he raised his shield to block several arrow feathers shot from a distance.

The Heavy Spear stabbed with great speed and great force, and it was not difficult to break through the Bronze Heart Mirror that was thicker than the scales of the Zha Armor, but it was difficult to pull out the stuck Heavy Spear with a backhand, and it was better to waste that time, it was better to directly change the blade and fight again.

A heavy spear was handed from behind, Kong Xirong just took it, and there was a wind breaking the sky on the left front side, raising the shield and facing each other, and his arm was numb, and he saw that the defense soldier who came up from the side was wearing a collar of broken leather armor, but his strength was amazing, but it was a pity that in addition to his strength, the cooperation of his hands and feet was very rough, and he obviously did not temper his martial arts for a long time.

This person has no martial courage, but after chopping the horse and the big knife to no avail, he didn't know to defend his chest and abdomen first, Kong Xirong saw that there were more than a dozen guards rushing over on the left and right, and he wanted to save his strength to defend the entrance of the wall, so he raised his spear and stabbed the man's neck obliquely.

"Leopard head, stop! General Kong, be merciful! ”

Kong Xirong heard someone behind him shouting in a panic, the heavy spear was slightly deflected, and when he pulled back, the spear sank, and slashed through the right arm of the guard, pulling out a half-finger-deep bloody wound, forcing him to let go of the horse cutting knife.

"Whoosh!"

The sound of breaking the sky was heard again, and Kong Xirong raised his shield, but this time it was a heavy crossbow arrow fired from the sentry tower in front of him.

It was also thanks to Kong Xirong that he was holding a fine iron shield, a fist-sized cluster of heavy crossbow arrows, and forcibly shot a fine iron shield more than a finger thick into it, but fortunately it was not shot through, and Kong Xirong was almost knocked down by the huge force that came from it.

It's a pity that the defenders of Shangjiabao only have five bed crossbows, three of which have been destroyed, and the remaining two are not yet a mortal threat to the Chishan army in the annexed city.

Kong Xirong saw that the Shangjiabao guard who was injured by him in the right arm and knocked down the blade, he didn't retreat, and wanted to pick up the knife to fight, so he shook the ash pole of the heavy spear and pulled it back, beating the guard two steps back.

At this time, the new soldier named Shang Hu, who shouted at his subordinates to be merciful, rushed forward, and the big fist of the bowl hit the guard soldier twice in the face:

"Leopard head, you are blind, it's me, Huzi! Where are the mother and the little sister? ”

In the fierce battle of the chaotic soldiers, there was no room for the slightest mistake, and while the defense soldiers were in a daze, Kong Xirong used the spear shaft to pull it over, and hit the neck of the defense soldier fiercely, knocking him unconscious.

More and more soldiers in the rear climbed to the top of the city with the help of ladders, and dozens of pounds of large iron shields were also carried up on seven or eight sides.

Only then could he take the time to point to the recruit at the head of the city who had been knocked out by him, and asked Shang Hu who was guarding the side: "Is this your brother?" ”

"General Xie Kong's grace not to kill."

"Your two brothers have good strength, but their skills are too rough." Kong Xirong pouted and said.

The sharp edges of the heavy spears used in the guard camp are all quenched fine iron made by secret methods, which are extremely hard and extremely sharp; With such a large amount of force, the force is appropriate, and the speed is fast enough to break through the half-finger-thick heart goggles.

Of course, Shang Hu was born as a slave, unless he was trained as a family soldier since he was a child, otherwise it would be a luxury to practice his fists and feet.

And he has only been in the army for 20 days, and his body is still quite thin, with no strength and bravery, but he gave his brothers a year or two to raise them stronger, practice martial arts hard, and boil his body, but he has the opportunity to become two brave generals!

Kong Xirong, and so did himself.

Although he has been practicing martial arts under the strict supervision of his father Kong Zhou since he was a child, he has never survived the battlefield of life and death.

In the first few battles in Xuzhou, he was also vain, but his hands and feet were rough, he couldn't grasp the essence of battlefield fighting, and his body and bones were not boiled to the limit of iron casting and copper pouring.

When he fought against the Chenzhou Xijia brothers on the battlefield, he was even knocked to the ground, if it wasn't for the soldiers around him to protect him, maybe he would have died on the battlefield long ago.

In the current situation, even if he is still inferior to the original washing and shooting tiger, he will not be as embarrassed as he was at the beginning.

"Whew!"

Soon there was a louder cheer from the city, as if a wild wave was surging, as if the spring tide was stirring, and it was the soldiers who rushed down from the city gate to open it.

The terrain on which Shangjiabao was built was sixty or seventy meters higher than the plains on the periphery, and the defenders could naturally clearly see that the offensive on the flank of the elite of the Chuzhou army, which they had high hopes for, was ruthlessly smashed by the Chishan army.

This further undermined their already low morale.

The Shang clan and several other descendants of the clan who retreated to Shangjia Fort, no matter how much they promised, it was impossible to redeem the defeat at this point.

Seeing that the gate of the fort on the north side was captured and opened, hundreds of elites of the Chishan Army rushed in, Shang Zhongjie and several other disciples of the gate lords who fled into Shangjia Fort to avoid disasters were guarded by a small number of elite troops, so they couldn't wait to escape from the small gate on the south side to the mountains and forests deep in Donglu Mountain, which made the guards abandoned in the fort even more unmotivated, and they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Shang Hu was still thinking about his mother and little sister in the fort, and he was worried that his younger brother Leopard, who had just woken up, had not yet made a clear mistake in his mind, so he wanted to find two familiar colleagues to help take care of the leopard's head, so he could go into the fort to find his mother and little sister.

"Tie a white sweat towel around his neck!" Kong Xirong took out a white sweat towel from his waist and threw it to Shang Hu.

The uniforms and armor of the Chishan Army and the Chuzhou Army are the same, and most of the recruits do not even have military uniforms, they all wear the original shabby robes, and they mainly wear white sweat scarves around their necks to distinguish them from the enemy during the melee.

Seeing that Kong Xirong asked his younger brother to tie a white sweat towel directly around his neck, that is, he directly agreed that his younger brother would directly join the camp, Shang Hu kowtowed, and dragged the leopard's head, who was still a little stunned, down the Dengcheng Road, and went inside to find his mother and little sister......

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Han Qian climbed the dilapidated north wall of Shangjiabao, looked at the steep ravine more than ten zhang deep in the north, and the remains of the young general's pawns rolled down to the bottom of the ravine, and he didn't have time to carry it out for burial, but he didn't expect that the small Shangjiabao still called the Chishan Army to suffer more than 600 casualties.

Coupled with the casualties accumulated in the flanks for several days, the Chishan Army won this battle, not even if it was wounded and bruised, and the casualties exceeded 2,000.

Treating so many injuries and illnesses will almost exhaust the medicine brought by Xuzhou.

In the early days, the blockade of Anning Palace on their side was not strict, after all, Han Qian's first attack on Jinling was Danyang City, and some scarce materials could still be rushed over by boat, but the next Anning Palace would inevitably urge the soldiers and horses of Jiangzhou and Chizhou to strengthen the blockade of the Yangtze River waterway - before the Wuya Army Naval Division dared to go down the river and fight a decisive battle with the Lou Boat Army, it would be extremely difficult to transport the scarce materials from Xuzhou by waterway.

The northern section of the fort wall of Shangjiabao has a zhang more than width at the top, which is no different from the ordinary city wall, but the rammed earth wall core is wrapped in a stone, which is mixed with lime and clay after boiling glutinous rice, which is more solid than the brick-covered city wall.

Even if you build more than a dozen or twenty whirlwind cannons, you don't want to collapse a big gap for more than half a month.

It is no wonder that several families on the left and right had the confidence to flee to Shangjiabao instead of Lishui City.

It's just that the danger of the city is in the hearts of the people.

This is a simple truth that most people can understand when they say it, but they can't really understand it.

Accompanied by Yao Xishui, Li Pu and Zhang Ping, who was unable to ride a fast horse and was left behind after his left arm was crippled, rushed to Shangjiabao, and the general trend here had been decided.

They climbed the fort wall and walked to Han Qian's side, seeing that the Chishan Army had organized the transfer of women and children at the southern foot of Maoshan to Shangjiabao, and then listened to Han Qian's words from standing at the head of the city and instructing Wei Chang, the deputy commander of the guard battalion, to lead him to lead four hundred crossbow horsemen to the south and go deep into the vicinity of Jilong Mountain in the north of Xuanzhou.

This battle will greatly deter the family gate lords who are left and right in the counties, I am afraid that no family gate valve has the courage to defend its fortress alone, then for them, before the Chishan army has not reached, it is an inevitable choice to retreat into the big city of the state and county with their children and a small number of elite soldiers.

Han Qian ordered Wei Chang to lead the crossbow cavalry to the front line at the northern foot of Jilong Mountain, in order to deter those family gatekeepers who wanted to flee south into Xuanzhou City, and did not dare to take too much grain and other bulk materials.

Food will always be an eternal theme of war.

Li Pu looked at the wooden arrow towers on the left and right corners, half of them were destroyed, but the moat above the North Fort Gate, the four walls were made of stones, and there was almost no damage in the battle, and it could be seen that the battle to storm here was not as fierce as imagined.

It's better to let this shaft successfully capture Shangjiabao!

Li Pu's heart seemed to have a lot of ants crawling and gnawing, and the pain was not painful, but it was indescribably unpleasant and uncomfortable.

Shangjiabao alone gathered tens of thousands of slaves and maids from various families, from which more than 2,000 young and strong Ding Yong, plus the momentum of this battle was much greater than the previous small fights, forcing the surrounding families and clans to flee to the prefecture and county towns defended by a large number of soldiers and horses, more slaves and maids without the supervision of the master, they will gather more unscrupulously to Maoshan and Donglushan, it is hard to imagine that in another month, the strength of the Chishan army will continue to expand to what extent?

At that point, Han Qian will really have the strength to nail it to Maoshan and wrestle with the Chuzhou Army and Anning Palace, right?

"Your Excellency!"

At this moment, a soldier wearing scaly armor and bloodstained with blood who had not yet had time to clean himself passed by the city and happily beckoned to the head of the fort wall.

"Found your mother and brother and sister?" Han Qian asked.

"I found it, this is my brother Leopard Head, General Kong allowed him to enter the camp at the head of the city, and he will be directly by your side on an errand in the future." Shang Hu replied under the city, very happy, very excited that Han Qian still remembered the things in his family.

"Okay, you take him to familiarize yourself with the situation first. When I came over, I also heard the blind man say that he wanted to pass on his ancestral Tongyang Diao family gun, and I also heard General Kong say that your brother is very powerful, and a knife will make his arm numb for a long time - you have to take your brother to find Diao blind to learn his family heirloom Diao family gun to see if he has bragging. Han Qian said.

Li Pu looked at the two brave generals under the fortress wall with envy, especially the soldier who greeted him, who was jumping around, and his blood showed his outstanding achievements in this battle.

Whether it is the original Wuling Army or the current Xuzhou State Camp and Chishan Army, there are very few people who can really be called brave generals.

After all, the children of the soldiers and the children of Zuo Si are all from hungry people, and their physical foundation is poor, so the probability of being able to produce brave generals is naturally low, Zhao Wuji, Lin Haizheng, Lin Zongjing, and Wei Chang are all extremely rare brave generals, and the others are more familiar with military affairs and military formations, and it is impossible for more than 50 children of the Han family and more than 500 children of Zuo Si to be brave generals with one enemy and ten or one in a hundred.

Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others have a previous foundation, including Zhou, they are over forty years old, and their bodies begin to decline, and they are rich and experienced in governing the army, and they serve as the Marquis of Duyu.

Feng Xuan and Yang Qin are martial arts, but they are only rampant in the countryside.

Kong Xirong said that he was the first brave general of the Chishan Army, but he was not looked at by Li Xiu and Li Qi's cousins.

However, these days, the slaves and maids who have come to Spear Mountain, especially those who dared to be runaways in the early stage, have several brave generals who have the ability to lift three or four catties of stones.

Of course, what embarrassed Li Pu even more than this was Han Qian's insistence on capturing Shangjiabao, and his prestige would become more and more prosperous, and even the disadvantages of recruiting slaves and maids into the army and enmity with the family were covered up a lot for a while, and what was even more embarrassing was that they had done nothing in the west flank - the defenders of Lishui City did not have the courage to go out of the city to fight at all.

"At this time, it may be a good opportunity to forcibly seize Lishui City, can you give Li Xiu a chance to perform?" Li Pu hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind to ask.

Yao Xishui also stared at Han Qian.

The world is full of unfairness, but sometimes it's also fair.

Li Xiu and Li Qi were born in a wealthy family, and they usually don't take the generals from mud legs in their eyes, but they have no military exploits, and they are not tough enough to speak after all.

The Shenling Division behind Xinchang Marquis Li Pu and them have a deep enough foundation in Yueyang, but in this era of turmoil and rampant military generals, they cannot build great military exploits on the battlefield, and the foundation can never be considered stable.

Li Pu wants to compete with him for the right to speak in Yueyang, and it is impossible not to fight a tough battle.

In this turbulent and rampant era of military generals, people always bully the weak and fear the hard, and the right to speak also belongs to the tougher side.

Han Qian glanced at Li Pu, nodded casually and said, "Okay!" ”

"The Evening Red Mansion has some deployments in Lishui City, but I still need to borrow some soldiers and horses from you to attract the attention of the defenders." Li Pu said with a shy face.

In addition to a battalion of the Nanya Forbidden Army, there are also county soldiers and clan soldiers gathered by local families, with a total of 2,000 defense soldiers.

Normally speaking, in addition to the reserve soldiers and horses, the four city gates in the east, west, north and south are usually guarded by about 300 soldiers and horses.

Even if Li Pu and the others have sent more than 100 elites to infiltrate Lishui City through the Late Red Mansion, they can take advantage of the defenders' unpreparedness to launch a violent attack from the inside, but the battle to capture the door will be extremely fierce, and they may not be able to succeed in taking the door.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Li Pu also needs Han Qian to borrow some of his soldiers and horses and deploy them to the side of Lishui City to make a feint to attract the attention of the defenders.

"Then please ask Lord Zhang and General Gao to lead two battalions of soldiers and horses, and wait for Hou Ye's moderation." Han Qian said, now that the Chuzhou army has not reacted, there is no pressure on their eastern flank for the time being, and it is better to attack Lishui City sooner rather than later, and he will not bargain with Li Pu for anything, and his intuition makes Gao Shao lead two battalions of soldiers and horses to cooperate with them.

Although he guessed that Han Qian would be happy to see them defend after capturing Lishui City, and share the pressure on the right flank for the Chishan Army to gain a foothold in Maoshan, but Han Qian cooperated so well that there was no difficulty, Xinchang Hou Li Pu and Yao Xishui were still quite surprised, and they were stunned for a while, before they arched their hands to Gao Shao and said, "There is Lao Gaojun." ”

"It's easy to say......" Gao Shao arched and said, anyway, he was going to play soy sauce, if the elite of the county king's mansion could force the rebellious soldiers out of the city, and the recruits could still get the opportunity to fight in the field, but there was nothing to excuse.