Gao Yingxiang was still late after a few days of delay, and led more than 20,000 people from Baoji County to the outside of Longzhou City.

Different from when I saw Gao Yingxiang in Huangyang, Gao Yingxiang's troops expanded again after detouring to Baoji County, which shows that this time they came down, and they collected and coerced a lot of displaced people along the way, and looted almost all the villages along the way, it seems that its momentum is much greater, and when they appear outside Longzhou City, it undoubtedly makes both the enemy and the enemy here have a shocking feeling.

Fortunately, the Xingtian Army has already learned this kind of scene in Huangyang, and this time when they saw Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and horses again, everyone only looked at them slightly, but they didn't feel too shocked like the last time, and this time they faced the elite officers and troops under the command of He Renlong, and they were able to defeat it, which also made the Xingtian Army more confident, and they were really a little scornful of such a so-called army composed mainly of displaced people.

But as Gao Yingxiang's current position in the rebel army, Xiao Tianjian also lost face, and after learning that he had led his troops to Longzhou City, he went out of the camp to meet Gao Yingxiang's arrival with Li Zicheng.

Twenty or thirty thousand people is not a small number, plus most of them are homeless people who have not undergone strict training, although it looks spectacular, but just setting up camp is a huge project, but for people like Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng who have led the army for many years, they will not let them be busy, and their own personnel in the camp are responsible for this kind of work.

Gao Yingxiang led the elite under his command to walk in front of the team, and from a distance, you could see the huge banner in front of his army, which was also quite majestic.

Seeing Li Zicheng dismounted and standing on the side of the road, waiting for Gao Yingxiang's arrival, Xiao Tianjian also turned over and dismounted, standing beside Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng glanced at Xiao Tianjian, but did not express any dissatisfaction, now they are a cooperative relationship after all, Xiao Tianjian is neither his subordinate nor Gao Yingxiang's subordinate, so in terms of identity, Xiao Tianjian and him stand side by side, naturally there is nothing wrong, and Xiao Tianjian will naturally not surrender his identity, standing behind Li Zicheng, causing people to misunderstand.

Gao Yingxiang is still brightly dressed, the armor is distinctly dressed, looking at the horse from a distance can be said to be majestic, under the escort of the generals slowly along the avenue, when he saw that Li Zicheng and his party were already here to greet him, Gao Yingxiang slightly urged the horse, accelerated the speed, made him sit down and trotted in front of Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian, turned over and jumped off the war horse, laughed and patted Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian, who bowed to him, and said: "I finally see you again, good!" Not bad! ”

"The subordinates failed to take down this Longzhou City as agreed, but let He Madman lead his troops to withdraw to the city, and ask King Chuang to punish him!" Li Zicheng said to Gao Yingxiang with a look of shame.

Gao Yingxiang's eyes flickered, and he said with a smile: "As the saying goes, it is in the people to make things happen!" This matter is nothing, but we didn't expect Longzhou to be so difficult to fight, and this He madman is also so treacherous, and he actually left heavy troops in Longzhou City in advance, so it's no wonder you guys!

However, on the way here, I heard about General Xiao's defeat of the He madman at Dashiqiao, and we are really not mistaken, the soldiers under General Xiao's command are indeed a fierce army! Awesome! ”

Xiao Tianjian also bowed his hand and said politely: "Where! King Chuang praised it falsely, where are the brothers under his command as powerful as King Chuang said, it's just a fluke! It's a pity that in the end, we couldn't stop the madman He from returning to Longzhou City, but we still need to go here to preside over the overall situation! Ashamed! ”

With a team of soldiers under the command of Gao Yingxiang to come over, Gao Yingxiang cordially and Li Zicheng, Xiao Tianjian talked about Longzhou City, and Xiao Tianjian paid attention to Gao Yingxiang's team, and saw Gao Yingxiang's trip to Baoji County, although he did not lay down Baoji County, but it still grew a lot, the first few days he heard that after Gao Yingxiang's soldiers surrounded Baoji County, he sent troops to sweep in Baoji County, large and small fortresses they captured more than a dozen, looting all kinds of materials can be said to be countless, He also slaughtered several Zhuangzi with fierce resistance, so that some large families were in danger, and they did not wait for Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and horses to kill their Zhuangzi, so they wrapped some soft things in advance and fled from Baoji County.

Therefore, this trip to Baoji County, although it did not achieve the original purpose of Gao Yingxiang, but after receiving the material supplement of these more than a dozen Zhuangzi, Gao Yingxiang's strength has been quite restored.

And now Xiao Tianjian looks at the past, it can already be seen that after this period of rest, the equipment and complexion of the soldiers under Gao Yingxiang are much better than when they first arrived at Tianlong Village, and the originally scarce war horses are now a lot more, at least they can gather a team of more than 1,000 cavalry, and the soldiers on the horses are wearing armor, and their strength is obviously recovering quickly.

Moreover, Gao Yingxiang's team is a little larger than when he first saw him, and it is obvious that he has collected a lot of homeless people from Baoji County and joined his team.

Xiao Tianjian looked at so many people and horses, and after rolling in front of him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, Gao Yingxiang was really not afraid of many people, and led so many people to rush here, just to solve the problem of their food, I am afraid that Longzhou will be completely empty.

Seeing more and more Gao Yingxiang's teams rushing to the outside of Longzhou City and starting to besiege the city and camp in a chaotic manner, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but start to move again in his heart.

After nightfall, Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and horses gradually drove over, and Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were still experienced in the end, knowing that it was easy to be taken by the enemy at this time, so when Li Zicheng led people to meet Gao Yingxiang, he sent soldiers and horses to guard the gates of Longzhou City to prevent He Renlong from sending troops out of the city to sneak attack, so that Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and horses could firmly gain a foothold outside the city.

And He Renlong obviously saw that the mutant army outside the city had already been on guard, so he stayed in the city honestly, closed his door, and there was no battle between the two sides.

Li Zicheng set up a banquet for Gao Yingxiang in the camp to catch the wind and wash the dust, Xiao Tianjian naturally also went to the banquet to accompany him, and several parties discussed the siege of the city overnight, and Gao Yingxiang also expressed the idea of wanting to use Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian Army to attack Longzhou.

But Xiao Tianjian still refused Gao Yingxiang's proposal on the grounds that they suffered great losses after the war, he Gao Yingxiang had so many generals here, and wanted him to come out and attack Longzhou City, even if he was a pig brain, he would not do such a loss-making deal, so Xiao Tianjian naturally would not agree to Gao Yingxiang's request, and only promised to provide artillery in the army to cooperate with them in attacking the city, but he also took the opportunity to propose that the gunpowder consumption in the army was huge and was no longer enough to use, and asked Gao Yingxiang to find a way to solve a batch of gunpowder for him.

Gao Yingxiang saw that Xiao Tianjian refused to fall into the trap, and he did not force it, after all, as we all know, killing the enemy by one thousand and losing eight hundred, the Xingtian Army fought alone in Dashiqiao, dealing with the officers and troops who exceeded them three or four times, although they occupied the terrain advantage and won a great victory, but if they wanted not to pay some losses, it was also impossible, if he forced Xiao Tianjian to lead his troops to attack the city, this kind of thing would make people laugh at him for relying on the strong and bullying, so Gao Yingxiang also nodded to show understanding, let Xiao Tianjian rest as soon as possible and recover his strength, and promised to mix a batch of gunpowder for Xiao Tianjian to meet Xiao Tianjian's requirements.

As for the siege of the city, Xiao Tianjian didn't care too much, with the strength of Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang, even if he conquered Longzhou City and captured a large number of materials in the city, then the materials that could be distributed to him must be pitiful, so sitting in the banquet, Xiao Tianjian came and kept silent, just listened to them discuss the siege of the city, and took the opportunity to learn some experience in the siege.

The large number of people is actually an advantage, that is, Gao Yingxiang They never worry about the lack of siege troops, tens of thousands of people gathered outside Longzhou City, and immediately surrounded Longzhou City, and the strength of the two sides became much different, so that He Renlong no longer dared to easily go out of the city to raid the camp of the people's army.

And Gao Yingxiang arrived in Longzhou early in the morning of the third day, he and Li Zicheng each raised troops, and began to attack the city on the east and west sides of Longzhou City, and the siege battle that had been silent for a few days immediately started again, although Xiao Tianjian led his troops out of the camp, but he watched the battle from a distance behind, and he ordered his generals to take the opportunity to observe some of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's command of the siege methods, and learn more from the experience of attacking the city.

And the siege war together, it was very fierce, the righteous army was sent out in batches, like ants carrying the ladder to besiege the city ants attached to it, but the official army on the city fought quite resolutely, all kinds of arrows and stones rolled wood like rain to beat the city, all kinds of artillery was fired out of the city repeatedly, the whole Longzhou city was like a pot of porridge, and the artillery fire was filled with gunsmoke.

After being strengthened by thousands of people in the headquarters of He Renlong, the strength of the defenders has increased greatly, and the defense is much tighter, the city wall is so long, although Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng have a lot of troops, but each time they can put into the battlefield is two or three thousand people, although Gao Yingxiang sent out waves of his subordinates in a day, but they were still repelled by the defenders again and again.

And the Xingtian Army did receive hundreds of catties of gunpowder from Gao Yingxiang to them, enriching some of their gunpowder reserves, so they did not hesitate to take out a part, and some of the artillery in the general was transferred out to assist Gao Yingxiang in attacking the city, the quality of these gunpowder can be said to be uneven, and the ratio is not uniform, so the use of it has a great impact on the accuracy of the artillery, plus Huang Shengqiang was ordered to preserve his strength, so the artillery of the Xingtian Army is basically arranged on the range limit, and it looks like it is booming and rumbling. But in essence, the threat to the defenders of the city was not very great, and it only contained the artillery fire of some of the defenders of the city.

In this way, for three consecutive days, Gao Yingxiang personally supervised the battle, and continued to storm Longzhou City, but the result was very unsatisfactory, and the loss was very large, but it was only two attacks on the city wall, and in the end it was still repelled by the He Renlong Supervising Army, Gao Yingxiang ordered to stop the siege, and led the troops to change the siege outside the city, and no longer attacked like this.

In three days, the casualties of the rebel army were at least more than 2,000 people, which was a great blow to the morale of the rebel army, and Gao Yingxiang also knew that if he continued to fight like this, it would not be good for him, so he turned to a change of law to take Longzhou City.

In the past ten days, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng used various means to dig tunnels, attack with fire, and surrender...... But because He Renlong led his troops to defend the city resolutely, the materials in the city were not very poor, and He Renlong also ordered the big families in the city to take out a part of the money, grain and labor army, and reward the meritorious people, so that Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng couldn't take Longzhou City by all means, and they couldn't help but feel a little depressed.