The corpses in front and behind the north gate were removed, the roads were opened, and the poles of the brigade, with greedy and excited expressions like a muddy tide, swarmed in, these poles, not only Gao Yingxiang's troops with a black banner, but also Zhang Xianzhong's, Luo Rucai's, and the fifth battalion of the Revolution, and more miscellaneous battalion heads, now, Gao Yingxiang finally let everyone into the city, everyone can finally let go of looting and slaughtering.

Ji County is not big, and more than 300,000 poles can't fit it, but the elites of the various battalion heads integrated by more than 100,000 are still okay, so that the entire Ji County will be stuffed.

With the entry of hundreds of thousands of pole elites, the morale that was originally inspired by the arrival of Chunlan made the advantage of the Chuang army and the Jixian Signing Ding army reversed again, and it was an impossible reversal, all the people and the Signing Ding had to retreat to the city wall, watching their homes being occupied by the poles, and their belongings being looted by the poles.

Ji County, lost.

To be precise, Ji County is about to fall.

"What should I do?" Thousands of households in Ji County, as well as that Zhang Xianzun, stood at the head of the city, looking at Ji County with dense poles stuffed, watching his people being slaughtered by poles, and they were already anxious to jump the city wall.

Guangwu stared at the pole that was getting closer and closer to the city wall, frowning, he was really unlucky, he had to lose his defense in every battle, compared with the great exploits of the other brothers in the army, he was only a failure or a failure.

"There will be a way, there will be." Guangwu's anxiety now is definitely no less than others, but he knows that here, in addition to the master mother, is his own burden is the heaviest, and at the same time, he also knows that he can't be in a hurry now, and he must come up with a way to win this battle, otherwise, even if King Chuang is a protector, then he will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the army, and let him get out of this vigorous group, then he will not let him kill him.

"General Guangwu, how can we turn this situation around?" Chunlan stood behind Guangwu and asked softly, in fact, Chunlan also knew that the situation was irreparable, and the fall of Jixian County had become a foregone conclusion.

"Auntie, let's withdraw." Erlang hung his injured arm and said bitterly: "The fall of Jixian is irreparable, what we should do now is to take advantage of the fact that the city gates on three sides are still in our hands, while the warehouse fortress has not fallen, and there is still a way to retreat, quickly transfer the people." ”

Guangwu nodded unwillingly, things have come to this point, and it can only be like this, fortunately, it is still too late to evacuate, and this is really thanks to Erlang's foresight when he presided over the construction of the ferry and warehouse.

A captain heard their conversation on the side, and knew that this battle for the defense of Ji County was a failure, so he was unwilling to smash his fist on the battlement, and said hatefully: "***, good ID Ji County, it's so cheap Gao Yingxiang's house, it's really unwilling." ”

Yes, who can be willing to work hard to build the richest county in Shanxi, but the pole is cheapened in vain? In particular, in this Ji County, there is a huge amount of materials stored from various places through the ferry, and once these materials fall into the hands of Gao Yingxiang Liukou, then they will greatly enhance their strength and will be extremely unfavorable to the defense of the base area in the future.

"I can't hand over Jixian to the pole, even if I burn him, I will definitely not hand over a single grass or tree to the pole, otherwise, we will not be able to explain to King Chuang." Zhang Xianzun gritted his teeth.

Defended for fifteen days, it was fifteen days of blood and fire, his own brothers, his own people, countless casualties and wounds, although there are soldiers to compensate, although there are righteous businessmen to help, but those who have passed away will not be able to come back, those who have lost their loved ones, will never be happy again, but in the end it is still lost, for the Daming County Order, who has unconsciously regarded himself as a member of the army, he was the first to see the great harm after the fall, so he was ruthless.

Guangwu suddenly turned his head and stared at Zhang Xianling, this look made Zhang Xianling at a loss, thinking that his actions violated the rules of the army, and quickly explained: "Brother Guangwu, don't misunderstand, I am also anxious for the future, once Liukou gets a large amount of materials in Ji County, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Guangwu suddenly waved his hand, interrupting Zhang County's explanation, and said with a resolute face: "Please don't explain, I know what I should do." ”

When Zhang Xianling heard this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, patted his chest and said: "It's good if General Guangwu has a plan, it's good." ”

Guangwu turned around and saluted Chunlan respectfully: "Please organize the people now to retreat from the people in the city, and I will take the remaining brothers to take back the northern city wall." ”

Chunlan nodded, knowing that the defeat was decided, and it was useless to fight again, she could only retreat the people to the base area, as long as the people were guaranteed, the fourth brother would be happy, as for Gao Yingxiang's upcoming attack on the base area, Chunlan was not worried at all, as long as there was another day or two, the fourth brother would come back to preside over the overall situation, as long as the fourth brother came, then everything would be solved, Chunlan had confidence in the fourth brother.

Yes, not only Chunlan, but all the people of this Ji County have confidence in King Chuang. When Chunlan's 300 women's army began to encourage the people to retreat, although everyone was reluctant to give up their homes, everyone knew that King Chuang would definitely regain his homeland and would definitely help everyone build their homes, which everyone was convinced of.

Transfer the people, Chunlan of course supports, but, Guangwu asked to personally lead the team to recapture the North City Gate, this proposal was of course opposed by Chunlan, since it has been decided to give up, then, there is no need to sacrifice the lives of the brothers to seize the North Gate that has been lost, it is not necessary at all.

However, Guangwu insisted that his reason was that with the four gates in hand, he could safely cover the evacuation of the people.

It seems that this excuse is a bit far-fetched, but Guangwu insisted, and he no longer objected, this point, the evacuation was done in a measured manner, after all, Guangwu is the head of the garrison of the three counties, and this is his defense area, of course, he is the master.

"Erlang, can you get me some gunpowder?" Guangwu turned around and asked Erlang.

Erlang nodded and said: "There are not many strong yams, after all, it is not easy to refine that thing (this is an external statement) However, gunpowder is still there." Erlang said this, and asked suspiciously: "What, do you still want it?" ”

"Yes, the more the merrier."

Looking at Guangwu's serious demeanor, Erlang seemed to know his thoughts, so he looked at Aunt Chunlan who was far away, and then looked at the huge Jixian County, which was already full of people, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I will give you all the gunpowder." After thinking about it, he said: "Also, I have many, many more manganese salts trafficked from all over the world, and I will give them to you." ”

Guangwu nodded, without excitement or excitement, then turned around, beckoned the whole team, and began to seize the north gate along the city walls.

The battle to capture the north gate and the northern wall was not fierce at all, because the city wall was narrow, which was suitable for spear combat, especially since the pole had already occupied the city, and at the same time, seeing that the people had begun to evacuate, they were no longer interested in holding the city wall, and the resistance was not strong, so the city wall was taken very smoothly.

Gao Yingxiang was very satisfied with the success of this plan, standing on a gorgeous dazzling hall of a wealthy family, smiling and comforting at this respectful and humble master, as well as the gentry who gathered, nodding with satisfaction, and was embarrassed to accept their filial piety. Seeing the filial piety of those gentry, I really sighed in my heart, this Ji County is indeed rich and people can't believe it, and when the war subsides, it will be necessary to clean it carefully.

At this time, a personal soldier rushed to him and hurriedly reported to him the news of the loss of the North City Gate, which made Gao Yingxiang raise his eyebrows, what does the thief Lu Shi mean? Haven't you already started evacuating? Why do you still have to counterattack the North City Gate? What's the point?

He comforted the gentry who were sincerely afraid: "Everyone sit down for a while, and I will come when I go and see." Then he didn't bother to pay attention to the sycophant gentry, and hurried to the drum tower in the middle of the street in Ji County with a personal soldier.

The drum tower is the commanding height in Ji County, standing here, you can clearly see all the scenery in Ji County, of course, including the city gates on all sides.

When Gao Yingxiang boarded the drum tower, the horse had already gathered a group of big and small leaders, and when they saw Gao Yingxiang coming up, they hurriedly gave up their seats.

After Gao Yingxiang nodded and replied, he glanced at everyone, almost all of them were here, but Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were missing, and Cao Cao asked casually. "Self-contained, why is you not here?"

A cronie hurriedly replied: "General Chuang gathered outside the city with his men and horses, saying that it was to prevent Lu Shi'er's counterattack." Leader Zhang and Leader Luo were still there just now, and now they don't know where they are. ”

For his nephew's actions, Gao Yingxiang nodded with satisfaction, the closest and most practical is his nephew, the loss must be not small, and when the matter is over, he must come up with the biggest one to reward him, as for Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, it must be to organize people to loot, those two people are very fine, they don't contribute to the war, but they are cheap, and they will definitely not fall behind. When the war is over, I must find some way to rectify them.

With this thought, standing on the drum tower and looking around, I saw that the battle had ended on the four city walls, and there were dense Lu Shi thieves' subordinates on them, and- what is that?

Gao Yingxiang suddenly saw some equipment, which was being installed by the thief Lu Shi's men, and looked carefully, but it was a huge bed crossbow, this look, I couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air, bed crossbow, this huge weapon, in the hands of others, that is the most expensive equipment, but in Lu Shi's hands, it is simply the usual tight, although I know that Lu Shi has a lot of bed crossbows, but I didn't expect it to be more to this extent, on the four city walls, almost ten zhang away, one was erected, surrounding the entire Ji County, and now, his own subordinates, the opportunity is all surrounded by the general.

Seeing the huge bed crossbow array, Gao Yingxiang suddenly felt uneasy, and this uneasiness instantly permeated his whole body, and also made his originally fiery heart fall to the bottom of the ice in an instant.