The battalion general hurriedly asked Lan Ziyi:

"Master Hou, what should I do? Can the brothers outside be saved? ”

Lan Ziyi replied:

"Save! How can you not save?

The morale of that battalion had completely collapsed, and if they didn't go out to meet the 5,000 men, they would all die under the city. “

On the side, Tao Zhutu asked:

"But young master, there are so many thieves outside, and they have been prepared for a long time, how can we save them?"

Lan Ziyi looked at the vast number of torches outside the city and frowned,

From the city wall, the thieves who poured up from all sides held torches high to form a huge fiery serpent.

This fire snake first opened its bloody mouth to bite the forbidden army, and then coiled its body around the prey, shrinking little by little, and plundering the space for the prey to live little by little, so that the forbidden army surrounded in the middle slowly suffocated until it was stiffened, and then the fire snake could swallow it.

The besieged forbidden army was already in danger, they were shot, speared, and arrowed, their torsos, heads, and limbs were wounded, and they were bleeding everywhere.

The fallen comrades crowded on the narrow road and groaned, they were seriously wounded, but they were not dead, unable to fight but blocked the passage of the comrades around them,

The soldiers of the Forbidden Army were crowded on the narrow road and it was difficult to turn around, and the attacks from all sides made them tremble and exhausted.

The main general is dead in battle, there is no one to command, the army's heart is already unstable, but there is nowhere to escape,

The thieves had intended to wipe them all out here from the beginning, and they would soon be wiped out if no one rescued them.

Lan Ziyi looked at the scene outside the city, his head was racing, trying to find a way to rescue.

Then a soldier said:

"Look at the east gate, there are torches outside the east gate."

Lan Ziyi's heart was not good, and he turned his head to look east,

Even if the flames in the city are monstrous, they still can't hide the light from the dense torches outside the east gate.

There was much more light gathered there than outside the North Gate, so it was evident that there were more people there than here.

The torches formed a hollow circle, and from a distance you could see clearly the movement of the circle in all directions.

The people inside should be breaking through, but the outer perimeter of the thieves is too thick, and the circle formed by the torches is only twisting back and forth, and slowly even the twisting is gone, and the swing of the inner circle can't set off a trace of waves.

Tao Zhutu looked at the scene outside the east gate, and read distractedly:

"Big brother!"

Lan Ziyi gritted his teeth and sighed, temporarily expelled the safety of the peach tiger from his brain, and then asked the battalion general next to him:

"Why are there so many people over there?"

The battalion general replied:

"The east gate is closer to the place where the horses are placed on the mountain, so there are four cavalry battalions stationed outside the east gate, and I and the battalion that just left the city will be crowded to the north gate before running to the north gate."

Lan Ziyi asked again:

"How many people were around in that circle?"

The battalion general replied:

"Probably, twenty thousand."

兰子义 says:

"That is to say, all the cavalry of the forbidden army stationed in the east gate has gone out."

Lan Ziyi scolded the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of those fools in his heart, and muttered in a low voice:

That is to say, the thieves knew the distribution of troops in the city, and only after the ambush at the east gate and the north gate was ready did they light torches on the eastern slope.

Damn, I don't even know where the forbidden army is stationed in the city. “

The battalion general on the side asked:

"Master Hou, what should I do now?"

Lan Ziyi felt that everything in front of him had been slowed down now, and everything that happened had become one painting after another flashing in front of his eyes, how could the words of the battalion general be so far away from him? I can't hear you well from afar.

What to do? My head is about to explode, what should I do?

The east is too far to be saved, and how can you save too many thieves in the north?

The thief is like a snake that kills its prey to death, and there is no flaw at all.

No, how can there be no flaws.

If it is a human being, there will be flaws, and what is not flawed is the fear in the heart, not the thousands of troops outside, and the snake still has seven inches.

So where are the flaws in the thieves?

They are numerous, and they are prepared,

But in any case, they are a group of civilians who have not long taken up arms, even if their commander is a wise general, this group of civilians is still a civilian, and they cannot become disciplined soldiers in such a short time.

Discipline, yes, is discipline, this is the strength of the officers and soldiers, is the weakness of the thieves, although the forbidden army does not listen to his Lan Ziyi's orders, but this is only because of the estrangement between the generals, to put it bluntly, this is a political failure, not military incompetence, the daily training of this group of forbidden troops gives them the ability to carry out orders, now is the time to take advantage of this,

What's more, Lan Ziyi still has the Jihu Camp in his hands, which has been born and died with him.

Thinking of this, Lan Ziyi's heart suddenly brightened, and the pictures of the fragments just now were connected together,

The battalion general next to him still asked in Lan Ziyi's ear:

"Hou Ye, Hou Ye!

I ask you what to do now? “

Lan Ziyi came back to his senses, was yelled at, turned around and said:

"What to do?

What else can you do when you go out of the city to meet the enemy? “

Tao Zhulu had just climbed up panting from under the city wall, and when he heard Lan Ziyi say this, he said:

"I am outnumbered of thieves, how can I go out of the city to meet the enemy?"

兰子义 says:

"We think there are many thieves because we can see clearly from the city wall.

How can the thieves see how many of us are outside the city?

The night is not only on the side of the thieves, but also on our side. “

Without giving anyone else a chance to interject, Lan Ziyi began to give orders,

He first pulled the battalion general aside and said to him:

"Take your men to the gates of the city,

Leave five hundred men on the wall, and let them fill the wall with torches, and wait for me to sound the trumpet, and then the rest of the men will make a loud noise, and the louder the shouting, the louder the war drums, the better, and then light the torches together. “

The battalion general asked:

"If torches are planted all over the city wall, how can they be lit together if there are fewer people?"

Lan Ziyi replied angrily:

"That's your business, it's none of my business."

The battalion general didn't dare to say much after hearing this, so he hurriedly turned back and arranged for his soldiers.

Then Lan Ziyi said to Tao Zhutu:

"Let's go, come with me and take the Jihu camp out of the city."

Then he said to Tao Zhulu:

"General Zhulu will stay on the city wall, your injuries are not healed yet."

桃扵鹿 says:

"The eldest brother has been surrounded by thieves outside the city, and his life and death are uncertain, if I let Wei Hou go out to die, and shrink behind to save my life, how can I be worthy of the father and fellow villagers in Luoyan Pass?"

Lan Ziyi originally wanted to insist, but when he saw Tao Zhulu's firm eyes, he knew that he couldn't resist him, so he sighed and led the two brothers of the Tao family down the city wall.

The soldiers of the forbidden army are busy preparing, some are climbing the city wall, and the rest are waiting at the city gate.

Lan Ziyi shouted at the forbidden army below on the steps of the city wall:

"One person with two torches, wait for me to sound the hammer and light it."

The forbidden army downstairs gladly accepted the order, and then prepared to leave the city.

Lan Ziyi then walked down the stairs and sighed:

"It's a pity that I didn't bring a lance this time, and I suffered a little."

桃扵鹿 says:

"The thief shield bearer has a spear, and now he is throwing it at the gate of the city, and we can pick it up and use it."

Lan Ziyi nodded and said:

"Good!"

Then he ordered the forbidden army to pick up the spears thrown on the ground and hand them to the Jihu battalion, saving the time for the Jihu battalion cavalry to dismount.

After everything was ready, Lan Ziyi took the Tao brothers to step on the horse,

Lan Ziyi turned his head and instructed the general of the forbidden army camp who led the team behind him:

"You take people to wait in the city gate, and when the sound of the hammer rings, you will bring people out immediately, and you must spread the momentum so that the thieves don't know the truth."

Then Lan Ziyi stared at the battalion general fiercely and said:

"If you listen to my orders to go out of the city later, I promise to win a great victory, and when the time comes, I will definitely give you an official and a knight.

If you cower and leave me alone outside the city, and when the thieves have annihilated us all outside the city, they will attack the city with all their might, and you can ask yourself if you have what it takes to defend it. Even if you are lucky enough not to die in the end, don't forget that I am the only son of the prince of the dynasty, and if you let me die here, the whole family will not be able to pay for my life if I drag it out.

Got it? “

What Lan Ziyi said is true, at this time, the military situation is urgent, and the battalion general asks himself whether he has the ability to command the whole army instead of Lan Ziyi.

Coupled with the thunderous methods that I saw with Lan Ziyi just now, now I was coerced and lured, even if there was a raging fire on the side, I felt that I had fallen into the ice cave of the thirty-nine days, and my body was covered with cold sweat.

The battalion general hurriedly knelt down and buckled his head, and said:

"The last general was originally the Hou Ye before and after the saddle, and he didn't give up his liver and brains."

Lan Ziyi ignored the frightened battalion general, but instead lak Ma shouted:

"Jihu Battalion, follow me out of the city."

The cavalry of the three hundred tiger battalions shouted after hearing the order, and followed Lan Ziyi to gallop out of the city gate.

After leaving the city, Lan Ziyi led the cavalry soldiers to quickly approach the periphery of the thieves.

On the side, Tao Zhulu asked:

"Wei Hou, the thieves have been ambushed here for a long time, and maybe they will set up a trap. We can't rush through like that. “

兰子义 says:

"We don't have to rush over, we just need to move within the range of the bow and arrow support on the city walls.

We don't have a bow in Jiangnan, but now we do. “

Tao Zhulu suddenly realized when he heard this, and hurriedly commanded his subordinates to hang the long weapon on the horse and take out the bow and arrow.

The soldiers ran back and forth along the edge of the wall's bow and arrow, aiming at the thieves and firing their arrows.

The thieves hold torches high and expose themselves completely in the night, one live target after another.

In addition, the thieves are in a dense formation, and the bows and arrows of the Jihu battalion are shot, and every hit must hit.

Although the thieves were on guard against the city gate, they still didn't make enough preparations, after all, in the eyes of the thieves, the main forces of the officials and troops who went out of the city were all surrounded, and how many people could be left in the city.

was shot violently by the Jihu battalion, and the thieves instantly broke a lot of people.

When the thieves mobilized manpower to defend against their attack on the side of the city gate, the attack on the besieged army was loosened, not because the thieves did not have enough manpower, but because the thieves' organizational ability could not organize external defense while besieging them.

As soon as the thieves pulled out their spearmen and crossbowmen and approached the city gate, the besieging formation inside fell into chaos, giving the besieged army precious respite.

The besieged soldiers had lost hope of survival, and at this time the battle was also pulling people back, and when they saw that the thieves' offensive was loosening, they immediately understood that the city was sending reinforcements, and suddenly their courage increased greatly, and they began to re-form the formation and prepare to find an opportunity to break through.

Lan Ziyi led the cavalry to move around the bandits, and the range of the thieves' spears could not reach the cavalry of the Jihu battalion, and the cavalry disappeared into the darkness with a single shot of crossbow arrows, and after a while they fired from another direction.

This kind of harassment that can't kill and can annoy people to death makes the thieves full of anger and nowhere to vent, and the people around them fall one after another but there is nothing they can do.

It wasn't until the leader of the thieves shouted that the thieves felt understood.

The leader of the thieves shouted:

"Brothers, there are not many demon cavalry, they only shoot a few arrows at a time, we don't have to be afraid."

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