Immediately, a sound of gold sounded outside the city, and the rebels gathered under the city had no choice but to turn around and withdraw from the city wall, retreat to the outside of the moat, and then drag those shield carts, and retreat outside the city under the cover of the shield carts.

The defenders of the city saw the thieves retreating like a tide, and suddenly let out cheers in unison, and many officers and soldiers took advantage of the chaotic scene when the thieves retreated under the city, and immediately began to fire cannons at them, and many of the rebels fell under the artillery fire of the officers and soldiers in the city on the way to retreat.

Seeing that it was already in the afternoon, this siege battle organized by Li Zicheng lasted for three hours, but in the end it still ended in failure, and the loss of soldiers was nearly five or six hundred people, and even the Xingtian Army who helped the battle, after this battle, also suffered a lot of losses, killing more than 40 people on the spot, and wounding 50 or 60 people, which suddenly reduced the number of soldiers in the battle by nearly 10%, such a loss, even Xiao Tianjian felt that he could not afford it.

So after the rebels retreated, Li Zicheng looked at the Longzhou city that was still standing in front of them, and had to reluctantly announce the withdrawal of troops and return to the camp to rest.

This battle exposed the weak side of the rebels' ability to attack the fortifications, and in the case that all kinds of weapons were inferior to the defenders, they paid a heavy price in this siege, and the defenders were only about one-fifth of their losses compared to their attacking side, which also included the number of officers and cavalry who were killed when the raid out of the city failed.

Xiao Tianjian knew that Li Zicheng was in a bad mood, and he didn't want to stay with Li Zicheng longer, so after confessing, he returned to his camp.

After Xiao Tianjian returned to the camp, several of his main generals had already gathered in his big tent, all of them had very ugly faces, and they were gathering together to talk about today's battle situation, and they all stood up immediately when they saw Xiao Tianjian.

"Subordinates, see the general! ……”

"It's good that everybody's here, sit down! Huang Shengqiang, how are your injuries? Xiao Tianjian was a little relieved to see that these main generals were all there and no one was absent, but when he saw Huang Shengqiang hanging on his arms and bandages on his arms, he immediately asked.

"Thank you for the general's concern, my subordinates are fine, it's just a minor injury! It's that Deputy Huang is seriously injured today, and it is estimated that he may not be able to save one arm! Huang Shengqiang hurriedly replied.

Xiao Tianjian frowned, didn't continue, but asked a few other people, "Report your losses!" ”

Yan Chongxi immediately stood up and said, "Six of his subordinates were killed, three were seriously injured, and four were lightly injured!" Dead a team general! ”

"Eight of his subordinates were killed, four were seriously wounded, and ten were lightly wounded! Three stone cannons are lost! Li Xuanzhu then got up and replied.

"Six of his subordinates were killed, two were seriously wounded, four were lightly wounded, and one was destroyed by a stone cannon!" Feng Gouzi also stood up and replied.

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After the loss was reported, Xiao Tianjian sighed slightly, the battle of several sentinels of the Xingtian Army came down, the minor injuries were not counted, the serious injuries plus the number of dead more than sixty people, the loss was not small, this is still the result of them only playing a supporting role in the battle, if they are allowed to take the lead in attacking the city today, it is estimated that the losses will at least quadruple, if it goes on like this, after a few battles, his Xingtian Army will return to the level of a few months ago.

"General, the brother sent out by the stone sentry yesterday is now back and is asking to see him outside the tent!" Just when Xiao Tianjian had a headache for attacking Longzhou City, Tietou reported outside the tent.

"Let him in!" Xiao Tianjian immediately replied, although Xiao Tianjian is here to help Li Zicheng fight, but he will not leave everything to Li Zicheng to do, especially the officers and troops of He Renlong's department, who are the biggest threat to them at the moment, Xiao Tianjian doesn't want to rely on Li Zicheng's news to judge the situation, so after arriving here, he immediately asked Shi Ran to send a team of scouts to the direction of Baoji to find out the news of He Renlong's department, and it is this scout who is back now, they should have found out the news of He Renlong.

A scout general with a dusty face immediately strode into the big tent, and after stroking Xiao Tianjian's chest, he immediately replied: "General! The news has been found under the mark of what you ordered yesterday, He Renlong has led 3,000 officers and troops, and is hurrying back to Longzhou, with their speed, they will be able to arrive here by noon tomorrow at the latest! Please, the general decides! ”

When everyone heard this, their faces changed, this time they really saw the strength of the official army and the border army in Longzhou City, Li Zicheng and them had so many soldiers and horses, there were only a thousand less officers and soldiers in the city, and they suffered such a big loss, and this time He Renlong brought back three thousand soldiers and horses, so they may not be able to fight Longzhou City next.

Originally, this time Xiao Tianjian and even his generals were not very optimistic about attacking Longzhou City, and they suffered a lot of losses after the two battles, and He Renlong rushed back to Longzhou City so quickly, so what should they do next?

Xiao Tianjian immediately asked the scout, "Where did you meet He Renlong's soldiers and horses?" ”

"Back to the general! The mark is in the Badu Town, fifty miles away from here, encountered the night of the He people and the dragon department did not collect, and the mark also fought with them, killing them two nights! Then he found out that He Renlongbu was in Badu Town, so he didn't dare to slack off, and quickly came back to report to the general! The scout replied immediately.

Xiao Tianjian was a little surprised by his reply, with the current combat effectiveness of their scouts, it was difficult to confront Ye Bushu in the border army, and this time they encountered Ye Bushu of He Renlong, and actually killed the other two people, which obviously surprised Xiao Tianjian.

"Who followed you when you went to investigate the news of He Renlongbu this time? Who killed the opponent at night? Let's be honest! Xiao Tianjian then asked this scout general with great interest.

The scout team general coughed lightly in embarrassment, but he didn't dare to hide it, and immediately replied: "General Hui, it's Li Lingfeng and Li Shichang!" The two nights he didn't collect were all done by him! ”

This time Xiao Tianjian understood, it turned out that his guess was really good, and the skills that could kill the two people who didn't collect the other party at once were definitely not weak, and there were not many people in the scout team who could have such skills, Li Lingfeng was one of them, so it seemed that he could include Li Lingfeng in the Heavenly Army, and it was obviously a treasure.

"Alright, you go down first! The brothers who went out to do business this time were each rewarded with five taels of silver, and Li Lingfeng recorded his merits once and rewarded ten taels of silver! Xiao Tianjian waved his hand.

"Thank you, General! Retire under the mark! The scout party bowed in thanks, then retreated.

"It seems that this time it is a bit troublesome, the speed of He Renlong's reinforcement is very fast, beyond Li Zicheng's expectations, if Gao Yingxiang does not bring troops to come, this Longzhou City may be difficult to fight!" Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly and said to the generals in the account.

"General, in that case, let's just get out of here! In my opinion, since Longzhou City is so strong, it is better for us to change places! Shaanxi is very big, why should we fight with them here? Yan Chongxi suddenly said to Xiao Tianjian.

"No! So inappropriate! After all, we have just left Huangyang, and we are not very familiar with the situation in Shaanxi, although Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng may not be able to conquer Longzhou City, but if we leave now, we will definitely blame them, and there will be many disadvantages for our actions in the future! At present, you might as well wait and see the changes here, in the case of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, they are determined to win Longzhou City this time, and they will definitely gather more righteous troops to besiege Longzhou, the general may as well wait and see the changes here, it is best to defeat Longzhou, we are just a guest army, as long as Gao Yingxiang does not force us to take the lead, there will be no great losses! If it really doesn't work, it's not too late for us to find an excuse to leave! Now it's best to send more scouts to the surrounding area to find out the news of the officers and soldiers, and after we find out the truth of the surrounding officers and soldiers, it's not too late for us to decide to stay! Fu Deming, who hadn't spoken much, heard Yan Chongxi's words, and immediately stood up to refute Yan Chongxi's proposal.

Several other people looked at Xiao Tianjian and didn't say anything, just waiting for Xiao Tianjian to come up with the idea.

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "What Mr. Fu said is very true, at the moment we have just left the boundary of Huangyang, and we don't know much about the situation in Shaanxi, if we take the liberty of leaving here now, it is still a small matter to offend Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, once we venture to go to other places, we will encounter a large number of officers and soldiers, it will be very dangerous for us!"

The main purpose of Gao Yingxiang this time is to capture Longzhou City to obtain a large number of military supplies, since He Renlong did not fall for the rush to Baoji County, then presumably Gao Yingxiang will also rush here soon, in this way, even if Gao Li can't beat Longzhou City, he will never be defeated by He Renlong!

Although we have fought against the official army twice in Huangyang, we still have too little experience in dealing with the official army compared to the king of Gao Chuang and Li Chuang! So this time, we should follow them for advice! Don't forget that! You have to learn a little more from them! It's not in vain that we're here this time! ”

The generals saw that Xiao Tianjian also meant to stay here for the time being, so they didn't say anything more, and what Xiao Tianjian and Fu Deming said was indeed the actual situation, they were not very clear about the situation of the officers and troops in Shaanxi at the moment, if they ventured to wander around, if they accidentally ran into Hong Chengchou's large group of officers and soldiers, I am afraid that it would be too late to cry, so it is better to temporarily follow Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng to act together with the large group of rebels.

Xiao Tianjian's orders Shi Ran never slackened, and after the account was released, he immediately gathered his scout team together, with a group of ten people, and sent a total of three groups of people, and immediately set off to Qingyang, Pingliang and other places to investigate the news of the local officers and soldiers, and told them that once they found the traces of a large number of officers and soldiers, they would immediately report back.

And after Xiao Tianjian discussed the next action with Fu Deming in the tent, he immediately set off to Li Zicheng's camp.