All the people sighed excitedly or regretfully, at this moment, the fortress was broken.

But a miracle happened, in the cheers or sorrow of everyone, the fortress shook for a while, but once again stood firmly, the bloody god-like god of war stood firmly in the broken armor, in the stunned eyes of all the officers and soldiers, the fortress was a black tower-like man, struggling to stand up under the support of a woman dressed in white like snow, waving the battle flag with one hand, holding a snow-bright scimitar in the other, like a god of war standing between heaven and earth, a firm but confident roar: "Come on, Zhang Yuan dog officer, come on, all the dog officials in the world, Cao Meng is standing here, let's continue to fight. ”

There was silence like quiet death, only the passionate voice of the invitation to battle was abundant in this vast battlefield: "Come, Zhang Yuan dog officer, come on, all the dog officials in the world, I, Cao Meng, stand here, let's continue to fight." ”

Immediately after that, one after another god-like figures appeared at the head of the city, although sparse, although each wounded and bloody, but no one could face it, they roared loudly with Cao Meng: "Come on, Zhang Yuan dog officer, come on, all the dog officials in the world, my brother Chuang army is standing here, let's continue to fight." ”

The stunned officers and soldiers were silent for a while, but suddenly there was a cheer on the mountain watching the battle, although the number was small, but it was full of heaven and earth, after the cheers, one or two more voices joined the roar above the fortress, "Come, Zhang Yuan dog officer, come, all the dog officials in the world, our brothers are standing here, let's continue to fight." ”

The village warriors who were shocked by the explosion looked at the death-like military formation behind them with a depressed expression, if those overseers had not retreated, then they would have dispersed in a hurry by now.

Qianhu and Zhang Yuan couldn't help but be angry in this earth-shattering invitation to fight, but seeing that they were still like soldiers, and looking at the thinner thieves on the fortress, Zhang Yuan suddenly shouted with red eyes: "Fight, fight to the death." ”

The monotonous voice echoed in the ears of all the officers and soldiers on the battlefield, this was a response, a response to humiliation, and the uneven shouts sounded among Zhang Yuan's disciples, slowly becoming louder, and slowly finally converging into a wave of sound; "Stand, fight to the death."

One is for faith, the other is for humiliation, all people, whether they are enemies or invading soldiers, have been inspired by the sound of this death battle to the blood of men, the two armies once again put on a position, and a real battle to the death will begin again.

The big explosion just now didn't actually explode inside the city walls at all. When the captain of the sergeant squad rushed to the back of the city with ten explosives bags and ten brothers, the veteran soldier of the officer army was secretly leading his men desperately, but carefully chiseled the ice city, the ice cube was unscathed under the blow, but it was weak under the steel drill, and soon dug out a deep pit the size of a basin, but this was far from being able to stuff nearly 500 catties of gunpowder, let alone put the gunpowder in and seal it, if it can't be sealed, then the ignition of gunpowder can only be played with a look at the smoke and fire, so it has to continue, Then send someone to get into the hollowing out of the inside, become a medicine room, in the middle of the city also came to a person leaning down to look down, at that time the old soldier was scared half to death, quickly led people to lie down in the dark shadow of the city wall, even the atmosphere did not dare to take a breath, waited for a long time, the person who visited turned around, in the city to give a few words and walked away, then the old soldier breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered to those men who chiseled the ice wall, taking advantage of the shouts of the front village to attack the earth and the dense sound of war drums, continue their work, but more cautious, The pace slowed down again.

When he was waiting for the tense construction, suddenly there was a roar in the city, and at that time, a small but flashing fire thing was thrown down at himself, and the veteran was scared to death, and he subconsciously knew that this was the artifact of the king of heaven that had been passed down by word of mouth, and he left his brothers to run away with a scream, but how could manpower run past the explosives? With a roar, the explosive bag instantly ignited the 500 catties of gunpowder discarded by the officers and soldiers under the city, and the ten high-explosive packets drove the 500 catties of gunpowder to explode.

At that time, the squad leader of the sergeant and all the people in the back city were either wiped out in ashes and bones, or were shocked to death by the huge shock wave, and none of them were spared, and the fortress that was as strong as granite could not resist the vibration of this huge shock wave, shook violently, and began to crack, and the entire Houzhai city wall was even more crumbling like powder, but God forbid that it just did not fall, and the last poisonous plan of the official army went bankrupt.

Cao Meng and the captain of the women's army hugged each other to death, but after a while, the shaking subsided, and the sound of the crack of the fortress ice castle slowly stopped, and everything returned to normal.

At that moment, Cao Meng rushed forward with enthusiasm, raised the banner of breaking the word with one hand, and waved the saber in his hand with the other hand to shout heroically to the city.

That Zhang Yuan and Qianhu were also inspired by the humiliation of the thieves led by Cao Meng, and once again beat the drums of war and launched a fierce attack on the Black Tiger Thief Fortress, and the ant-like crowd once again covered the surface of the fortress, and the shouts of killing clashed again.

Zhang Yuan and Qianhu were stimulated by their blood, but those townsmen were already frightened, in their subconscious, this thief really had the help of the Heavenly King, and he would not die in such a big explosion, so where could we mortals defeat? At that time, he was already extremely depressed, and he had already been fighting for half the night, and he was already exhausted, and it was extremely difficult to move his body, if it weren't for the Governor team staring at him, everyone would have dispersed in a hurry. This gave a breath of relief to the exhausted soldiers like Cao Meng, so the battle fell into a stalemate again.

Zhang Yuan was in a hurry under the city, seeing that the moonlight was already in the west, and the time had reached the second half of the night (1-2 o'clock in the morning) Thinking about the signal sent by Cao Meng for help has had an effect, it is not much, it is really one or two thousand young and strong people to join, and it can completely cause irreparable defeat to the already exhausted side. That's a real failure.

The Chen family disciple suddenly stepped forward and said loudly, "Brother, I have a plan to break the deadlock. ”

When Zhang Yuan, who was already six gods and no owner, heard this, he grabbed his hand as if he had grasped a life-saving straw and said, "What do you have planned, tell me quickly." ”

The children of the Chen family were stared at by Zhang Yuan's blood-red eyes, and they couldn't help but be afraid, but they didn't dare to say anything about their own strategy.

When Zhang Yuan saw that he suddenly became angry, he lost his former amiability, and said loudly like a wounded old wolf: "Say it quickly, or I will cut you." ”

The Chen family's Xiaoqi shrank his neck at that time, gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Brother, in fact, I can't use this strategy until the last resort, otherwise the consequences will be very serious." ”

"Isn't that a last resort? If we don't take down this fortress guarded by 500 people today, then what face do you and I have to see the governor and my colleagues, and don't be ridiculed and die by Li Yuanhao's gang? Also, let everyone know that the township Yong we have worked so hard to form is so combative, so can the government let our brothers form an army again to take revenge? And what other gentry landlord is willing to raise money again to supply you and me. ”

What Zhang Yuan said was indeed like this, if it was really with an army of 5,000 with complete siege equipment, as well as countless gentry donations, and 2,000 signatories, but it took time and effort to shake the ice fortress that was hastily built by the thieves and defended by 500 thieves, it would be even more difficult to make a comeback. How many wishful thinking and countless plans were made before, but they all became empty. Do you think Zhang Yuanneng is not in a hurry? Now it is a tiger riding a tiger, and if you don't enter, you have to enter, so Zhang Yuan's eyes are red.

Seeing that Zhang Yuan was already like a mad tiger, Xiao Qi didn't dare to hide it anymore, his face became hideous, and the hissing sound in his mouth was like a poisonous snake, and he said in a low but vicious voice: "Little brother's strategy is a strategy for burning jade." ”

Zhang Yuan was also intimidated by this little brother's expression, and leaned back, but immediately stepped forward and said, "What is the burning of jade?" ”

"Now urge the army to storm the city fiercely, try to entangle the thieves, and then my brother orders the elm spray to shoot at the head of the city together, and then ask all the archers to go into battle and shoot all over the sky, under this double blow, the thief is an iron-beaten King Kong bronze Arhat, how much can he live?"

"Hiss-" Zhang Yuan took a sharp breath of cold air, couldn't help but take a step back, and looked up and down at this vicious brother for a while, but did not speak.

The thousand households were even more pale and trembling, and the entire air on the originally hot battlefield was cold. This strategy is inevitably vicious, and it can't help but make people's backs chill.

Zhang Yuan looked at Xiao Qi blankly, but Xiao Qi lowered his head very innocently and said nothing.

At this time in Zhang Yuan's heart, it was like a chaotic ups and downs like turning over the river and the sea, this strategy was ruthless and ruthless, but if you think about it, if you want to use the fastest way to win this nail before the thieves reinforce the army, this is still the only feasible way, about those who are about to be cannon fodder to attract thieves and fight in the city, Zhang Yuan should not even consider it, or that sentence, in this era of natural disasters, everything is lacking, and the only thing that is not lacking is the lives of people who are about to starve to death.

But there is also a fatal thing in this jade burning strategy, that is, the military heart, once Zhang Yuan implements this strategy by unscrupulous means, then the military spirit of this Xiangyong will also be scattered, think about it, which other Xiangyong will still kill the enemy so desperately in the next battle? The chilled soldier is the most ineffective soldier.

"Boom, boom, boom" Five earth-shattering loud noises continued to explode, and when they turned their heads, there was already a miserable howl under the fortress where the corpses were piled up, and the stumps and broken arms were constantly flying, and the thieves used the mysterious weapon in their hands to drive Xiang Yong off the city again.

Looking at the increasingly low morale and the increasingly difficult siege, Zhang Yuan hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Order, the supervising team organizes the township to attack the city, the archers come forward to prepare, and the elm wood sprays and starts loading." Lower the elevation angle, and the whole army will obey my orders and carry out the final battle. There was no longer a single voice in the command's flag array, and all of them looked at Zhang Yuan, who was originally rich and kind in front of them, with pity in their eyes, looking at the brothers who were about to be covered by their own artillery fire and feather arrows, and their faces were like ashes.

People say that if you want to make people die, you must first make people crazy, and this is the case with Zhang Yuan now.