In any case, the defenders standing on the city walls had the advantage of being condescending, with a wider range and longer range of bows and arrows, which gave them a great advantage over the archers of the dry army who stood under the city and shot arrows because of the battlements that could be used as cover.

Although the archers of the dry army were highly skilled in archery, they had no cover in front of them, which was equivalent to becoming a live target for the defenders' archers, and at first they could still shoot at the defenders' archers, and the two sides suffered casualties on both sides, but they soon could not hold on, and had to retreat out of the range of the defenders' archers.

Without the suppression of the archers of the dry army, the defenders could let go of their hands and feet when defending, and as soon as they slammed down the stones, the soldiers of the dry army who climbed not only could not continue to climb the ladder, but also fell down.

At this time, the offensive of the cadres began to be blocked, and the defenders also made full use of their own advantages.

"Quickly put out the fire under the city!" Niu Dali immediately ordered.

Some soldiers rushed over with blankets and covered the fire, rolled on it, the fire was extinguished, the city fell into darkness again, and the cadres began to storm again.

Therefore, the defenders continued to pour fire oil, and then threw torches down to ignite the fire oil and burn wood, and the cadres under the city were exposed and suppressed again, and the cadres continued to extinguish the fire······

Just as the two sides were fighting fiercely up and down the front city wall, Li Bao and the two hundred people of the Dragon Guard finally attacked, and the two hundred people put down many ropes from the cliffs on the left and right sides, and the soldiers grabbed the ropes and stepped on the cliff wall to move down little by little.

At first, all the officers and soldiers of the cadre army were cautious and did not make any sound.

When they were about to descend to the city wall, the lowest soldier of the Qianjun army was still more than 20 meters high from the city wall, and a soldier stepped on a stone that had been divided, and the stone rolled down, making a "bang, bang, ······" sounds.

"What's going on?" The three sentinels who heard the sound looked up at the top of the cliff, only to see some gravel falling, and beyond that it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

The Dragonguard soldiers who were clutching the ropes and stepping on the cliff wall all stopped descending, and they all turned around and wrapped the ropes around their waists, then took down their crossbows and aimed them at the observation posts below.

The three Song army observation posts looked up and observed for a while, but they didn't hear any other movements, and they didn't see anything, thinking that it was only the occasional falling gravel, which was also normal, and it was not surprising that weathered gravel often fell from the cliff wall.

"It's a false alarm, it's okay!" One of the observation posts spoke, and turned to continue his round.

At this time, another observation post said: "To be on the safe side, let's shoot a rocket!" Then he took off his bow and arrows, put them on top of the torch and lit the fuel pack, and put the arrows on the bow and arrows to shoot upwards.

With a whoosh, one arrow hit the sentry's forehead, two more from the darkness above, and the other two sentries fell at the same time.

The sound of the sentry falling to the ground with an arrow alarmed the defenders who were resting against the wall, and one of the soldiers raised his shield in front of him and shouted: "Not good, there is an enemy attack, an enemy attack!" ”

The team officer reacted occasionally and shouted: "Everyone defend, form a formation to defend!" ”

The soldiers of the Dragon Guard on the cliff fired arrows with their crossbows, and some of the defenders who did not have time to block them with their shields were hit by arrows one after another, or were wounded or killed by shooting.

The archers of the defending army also began to fire arrows, but there were not many defenders guarding here, and there were one hundred and fifty men on the front wall, and fifty men in reserve, and only fifty men on each side of the wall.

The strength of the cadres was twice as large as the defenders, and the dragon guards on the cliff were pulling ropes down while firing arrows, and some were shot and fell, and some defenders on the city wall were shot and died.

The Dragon Guard soldiers, who had the fastest decline, quickly landed, and several defenders rushed over with knives and spears, "Kill—"

The soldiers of the Dragon Guard of the Dry Army who landed on the ground immediately raised their crossbows and aimed them at the defenders who rushed over and released their arrows, "whooshing" twice, two of the defenders were shot, and another of the guards rushed quickly, and the soldiers of the Dragon Guards quickly pulled out their swords to fight.

More and more dragon guards landed and fought with the defenders, these dragon guards soldiers were powerful, one could fight several, the defenders were killed and retreated, and suffered heavy losses, there were only fifty people on one side of the city wall, and they were soon killed to only a dozen people.

The situation here was discovered by the guard general Xu Xiaojie, and he immediately sent a reserve of fifty people to reinforce it, but these fifty people did not play a big role at all, and they were quickly wiped out by the Dragon Guard.

Under the leadership of Li Bao, the dragon guards gradually killed the city tower from the side wall to the front city wall, and the defenders who were attacked on the flanks were in a state of confusion, and they couldn't resist for a while, and they were killed and retreated straight to the top of the city tower.

All the remaining defenders were pressed into desperate resistance near the tower.

The battle has been fought so far, the defenders are already sure to lose, and the remaining more than 100 people are guarding the city tower, but the range of activities and space here are too small, and they can't break through at all, but they can retreat into the city, but they will be caught up and killed if they can't run far.

"Brothers, don't be afraid, it's a big deal to fight with them!" A Song army officer shouted.

The guard general Xu Xiaojie carried a blood-dripping sword and said loudly to the remaining more than 100 people: "Brothers, as the so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, the people of the Qianguo have always laughed at our Great Song Dynasty for having no ministers, no dead soldiers, and everyone in the army is afraid of death. No, some of my Great Song Dynasty are hot-blooded men, but those officials are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they take the lead in escaping, so my Great Song Dynasty's soldiers and horses will be defeated when they face the attack of the cadre army! Today, we are going to let the people of Qianguo see whether we are a bad race or a bloody man, brothers, it is time for us people to be loyal to the country, and kill me-"

"Kill-" The remaining more than 100 soldiers of the Song Army broke out with great combat effectiveness in the case of putting life and death aside, and they were extremely brave, and the cadres who surrounded them were killed and retreated again and again, and the encirclement was once expanded more than twice.

A cadre general said angrily: "Everyone listen, form a formation to defend in a unit!" ”

Once the officers and men of the cadres and soldiers cooperated, their combat effectiveness was more than doubled, and they used their military formations to block the defenders' crazy counterattack, and the physical strength of these defenders was limited after all, and after being blocked from counterattacking, their momentum dropped sharply, and many people's strength was consumed too quickly.

"Attack-" The general of the cadre army gave the order to attack, and the spears were quickly stabbed out together, step by step, and the surrounded defenders were stabbed down one after another.

"Kill, kill, kill me-" The guard Xu Xiaojie roared loudly while swinging his sword and slashing fiercely, his hair was scattered, the shape was ferocious, and he killed several cadres and soldiers in a row.

"Rush up and surround him!"

Two soldiers of the cadre army rushed over to isolate Xu Xiaojie from the soldiers under his command, he was besieged, spears kept stabbing around him, and there were constantly slashing knives around him, and he was constantly stabbed in his body, and some attacks were blocked by armor, but there were still weak points in the defense that were injured.

In the end, the armor on his body was cut to tatters, and a war knife stabbed him in the soft underbelly from the side, and after the war knife was withdrawn, the defense took away all his strength, and he withered on the spot, and no longer had the strength to fight, and a spear pierced his body, and immediately the blood flowed profusely.

Gradually, the fighting stopped, the battle was over, and a strong smell of blood filled the city walls.

Half an hour later, a soldier ran over and reported to Zhao Junsheng and Niu Dali: "Your Majesty, General, our army has captured Huya Pass, searched the pass, and eliminated all hidden dangers!" ”

Niu Dali turned to Zhao Junsheng and hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, do you want to enter the customs to rest?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "It's going to be dawn soon, don't do it!" Strengthen the vigilance, everyone else goes to rest, and after dawn after eating, they will pull out the camp and go north! ”

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng returned to the camp tent and slept for more than an hour, and the biological clock made him wake up naturally, and he began another day of thunderous martial arts.

After breakfast, Zhao Junsheng went into Huya Pass to take a look, the corpses in the pass had been buried, they had been cleaned up by the soldiers and had become tidy, and there were still many dried blood stains on the city wall.

He left 200 men to guard the place, keep in touch with Dongfang Chen, Lu Shuang, Yang Lie and others, and then led the army to continue north.

The army soon arrived in Dangyang County, and the defenders in Dangyang County learned that the Huya Pass had been broken, and saw the dense cadre army under the city, where did they still have the heart to resist? So the officials and defenders of the city surrendered.

However, a few days later, Zhao Junsheng led a large army to Yicheng, the people of Yicheng were panicked, and the defenders in Xiangyang City were greatly shaken.

On this day, Zhao Junsheng's army came to the city of Yicheng.

"This is Yicheng, it is said that Pan An, a peerless beautiful man in Chu during the Warring States Period, was a native of Yicheng, and Yicheng was still called Yan at that time; Also, during the Three Kingdoms period, the famous Ma Liang brothers were also from Yicheng, Ma Jian knows, right? The battle of the street pavilion was defeated, and Zhuge Liang slashed the horse with tears! ”

Li Bao said: "I can't imagine that there are so many celebrities here!" ”

At this moment the gates of the city opened, and several small officials walked quickly, followed by two hundred defenders.

"It's ······"

Niu vigorously said: "Your Majesty, it seems that they want to surrender!" ”

Zhao Junsheng was quite surprised: "Yicheng is the gateway to Xiangyang in the north, so they let it out so easily?" ”

Waiting for those few little officials to come over with the soldiers, they knelt down and reported: "The villains and the two hundred soldiers in the city surrender to His Majesty the Emperor Daqian, please spare our lives for the sake of us not resisting the army!" ”

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Why are there only a few of you officials, the county order?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, they all ran away! His Majesty's men and horses broke through the Huya Pass, and several major officials such as the county commander abandoned the city and fled, and the villains knew that they couldn't hold it, so they surrendered! ”