Liu Jiexuan stood on the city tower, looked out of the city, and saw a stream of yellow dust rising high in the distance, knowing that this was Huang Zide's cavalry approaching, and then looked into the city, but saw smoke rising in the direction of the prefect's yamen. He knew that this was the fire that Hu Yidao had set after they got it, so he said happily: "Hu Yidao, this kid is really good, well done!" ”

Dang Shouyi also said beside him: "Now that the enemy army is leaderless, as long as the army arrives, this city will definitely be defeated." It's really ...... to say this trick of the long man" He originally wanted to say "vicious", but he felt that it was not good to evaluate himself like this, and wanted to find another word, but he didn't think of it for a while.

The city of Ruzhou is not on the front line, and the army is not much, but there are only four or five thousand people, of which there are about a thousand soldiers who can really fight. And Liu Jiexuan was only a few dozen people around him, and in order to blend into the city, they had neither armor nor spears and shields. If it weren't for the success of Hu Yidao's beheading tactics, even if Liu Jiexuan took the city gate, it would be difficult for him to hold out until Huang Zide arrived. But looking at the situation now, it shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish this goal.

But Liu Jiexuan soon realized that he might be a little too optimistic, on the right side of the city wall, a group of officers and soldiers began to assemble, numbering about two or three hundred, and a large officer in iron armor was shouting something to those soldiers. Probably pre-war mobilization.

"This guy is good." Liu Jiexuan whispered, and then shouted loudly: "Prepare to fight!" Get ready for battle! ”

There are more soldiers on the opposite side than on this side, and they are better equipped, so the pressure of this battle will be very high. However, Liu Jiexuan also knows that as long as he can block this round of counterattacks, the overall situation will be determined......

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Hu Yidao and Fan An went outside from the prefect's yamen to kill, and the few people he left outside killed inside together with the thirty or so people brought by He Zhangqi, and the two sides quickly killed the officials in the palace and converged together.

"A knife! Good job! He Zhangqi saw the two heads carried by Hu Yidao, and immediately praised loudly.

"General He, what are we doing now?" Hu Yidao asked.

"Set a fire first, and then go to the west gate." He Zhangqi said.

"Okay!" Everyone answered, and someone found some oil lamps, paper, or something and set them on fire.

Seeing that the fire was burning, He Zhangqi said, "Okay, let's go to the West Gate." Hu Yidao, you take them over, and Lao Tzu uses your horse to take the first step. After saying that, he went out with a few men, got on their horses, and hurried in the direction of the west gate.

At this time, Liu Jiexuan was directing everyone to lift up some door panels and wheelbarrows below, and put them on the city wall as a breastwork and a big shield. The officers and troops on the opposite side gradually approached. They had some archers and began to throw a rain of arrows towards Liu Jiexuan's side. Liu Jiexuan's people had no armor, so they could only rely on the door panels of the shops they had temporarily taken from the street as shields. These things were not convenient, so in a short time, more than a dozen people were already injured by arrows.

Fortunately, Liu Jiexuan's side also has an advantage, that is, they occupy the city tower. Dang Shouyi took four or five soldiers, holding bows and arrows captured from the officers and soldiers who had just guarded the city gate, climbed the city tower, and condescendingly attacked the archers of the official army. The city tower is higher than the city wall, which also increases the effective range of the bow and arrow, plus Dang Shouyi's own archery skills are outstanding, after climbing the city tower, he fired three arrows in a row, and shot the three archers of the official army. The others hurriedly hid behind various obstacles. The arrows he shot at Liu Jiexuan and the others also became few and crooked. Although the archers of the official army were more numerous, they were suppressed by so many people on the city tower at this time.

The officer over there was very angry when he saw that his archers were hiding and did not dare to come out to shoot arrows, but he looked at Huang Chen, who was rapidly approaching outside the city, and knew that his time was running out, so he divided his soldiers into two ways, some of them went down the city wall and killed from the bottom of the city wall in the direction of the city gate, and he himself took another hundred men with spears and killed along the top of the city wall towards the tower.

Liu Jiexuan has limited manpower and lacks long weapons, so although they are all elites, in the face of a complete military formation, they can only fight and retreat, and they have retreated to the vicinity of the city tower.

There were a number of pillars near the tower, and the presence of these pillars limited the use of spears. Relying on the change of terrain, Liu Jiexuan temporarily stabilized his position. But the situation below the city walls is getting more and more troublesome. The battlefield under the city walls was more open, and the numerical superiority of the officers and soldiers was better used, and once they broke through the hole in the city gate and closed the city gate, the rest of the matter was difficult.

At this moment, suddenly a few cavalry rushed over from the east and killed directly from the back of the officers and soldiers, although the number of these cavalry was not large, and the number of people killed in this raid was only three or four, but the sudden blow still made the officers and troops below temporarily fall into chaos.

As soon as the cavalry rushed over, they turned their heads and looked like they were going to charge again. Although they did not really rush forward again, it also made the officers and soldiers dare not rush forward for a while.

But on the city wall, after the officer drove Liu Jiexuan and the others into the city tower, he did not rush into the city tower and fight Liu Jiexuan to death, but let more than 20 people block the exit of the city tower with spears, and then led the remaining dozens of people down the stairs to kill. Almost at the same time, Hu Yidao also led more than 30 people to kill from the back of those officers and soldiers on the ground. As a result, a very strange phenomenon appeared on the battlefield, that is, the two sides were entangled together, one layer of the official army, one layer of the revolutionary army, another layer of the official army, and another layer of the revolutionary army, and everyone was entangled and chaotic.

In a sense, this situation is actually beneficial to both sides, and for the officers and armies, this situation increases the contact area of the troops, so that they can give full play to their numerical superiority; For the revolutionary army, this kind of melee makes everyone's formation scattered, and this kind of chaotic battle is more beneficial to their best elite.

Liu Jiexuan and Dang Shouyi were blocked in the city tower and couldn't rush out, Dang Shouyi was okay, he could still shoot arrows, and he could also support the battle below from the city tower, but Liu Jiexuan's archery skills were very average compared to Dang Shouyi, and even compared with ordinary archers, in addition to being able to pull a stronger bow, there was no advantage. But there was no strong bow here that he needed to pull open.

Liu Jiexuan thought about it, called a few people, and walked to the other side of the city tower. He looked down, and there seemed to be no one below, so he bit the knife in his mouth, jumped to the corner of the eaves, and then climbed the corner of the eaves with both hands, swung down, and jumped lightly to the ground. Behind him, several soldiers descended to the city wall in the same way. Liu Jiexuan made a gesture to them and asked them to touch it from the other side, he took the knife in his hand, and went around from the right side of the city tower, and suddenly rushed from the left side of the pikemen who blocked the door, and when those pikemen did not react, he raised a knife in his hand and slashed down one, and the attention of those pikemen was immediately attracted to him, several spears turned around and stabbed at him, Liu Jiexuan jumped back and dodged these shots. It was at this moment that the soldiers came out from behind the pikemen. Several more were cut down at once. At this time, Dang Shouyi also rushed out of the city tower with others, and the pikemen who blocked the door were suddenly in a mess, the formation was chaotic, and they were almost killed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Jiexuan led people to kill all these pikemen, and he didn't care about resting, so he asked his soldiers to replace them with those people's spears, and then rushed down the stairs and rushed towards the city.

At this time, the situation under the city was gradually less optimistic for the revolutionary army, after all, there were more officers and soldiers, and the equipment was better. He Zhangqi had already been slashed, but he dodged quickly, and the injury was not too serious, and Hu Yidao was also hit by an arrow in the leg. If the situation remains deadlocked for a short while, I am afraid that the revolutionary army will be defeated. But at this time, Liu Jiexuan led more than 20 people to kill, and immediately reversed the situation, and at this time, the sound of the hooves of the cavalry outside the city had clearly reached everyone's ears.

The officer of the officer refused to give up, and he rushed towards the city gate with a few men. He Zhangqi stopped him with a big sword, and the officer shouted, "Kill the thief!" Ignoring his own defense, he used all his strength with a knife in both hands, and slashed towards He Zhangqi with a desperate knife. He Zhangqi blocked it with a horizontal sword, but he was slashed backwards by him. The officer approached and shouted, "Kill the thief!" At the same time, it was another knife, and it was still chopped off the head. He Zhangqi held the hilt of the knife with one hand and the back of the knife with the other to block it, but he was chopped back a step back. The officer kept shouting: "Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Kill the thief ......" At the same time, one after another smashed on He Zhangqi's knife like iron. As if he was holding a sledgehammer, he smashed He Zhangqi back step by step. In the previous battle, He Zhangqi was stabbed in the shoulder of his left hand, and he had just taken the time to tie it with a triangular cloth belt. But at this time, the continuous force to block caused the wound to crack open again, and the blood suddenly stained half of his arm red. His hands trembled under the stormy onslaught. Finally, when the officer slashed again, He Zhangqi held his hands on his hands, but his feet were weak, and he fell to the ground at once. The officer slashed down again, and He Zhangqi rolled on the spot. The knife slashed at the ground beside him, sending sparks flying everywhere.

The officer took advantage of the situation and kicked He Zhangqi in the ribs, kicking He Zhangqi almost fainting, and then he raised his knife high and was about to cut it down. But at this moment, a war horse rushed straight from outside the city gate, and the cavalry on the horse stabbed his spear straight at the officer. The officer dodged the stab in a flash, but was hit by another horse that was rushing straight ahead, and was knocked out several feet away at once, and the knife in his hand flew a long way away. The officer tried to struggle to his feet, but then a horse trampled over him......

The appearance of the cavalry immediately broke down the remaining officers and troops, and they fled in all directions screaming.

He Zhangqi got up and walked up to the officer, and Liu Jiexuan also walked over. They looked down at the officer, who had fallen to the ground, and saw two large horseshoe prints on his chest, a clearly recessed one—apparently his ribs had been broken. The officer wasn't dead yet, and a big gulp of blood was pouring out of the officer's mouth, but he still seemed to be saying something.

"What a man! Flag bear, you were almost finished just now. Liu Jiexuan said, "I don't know what he's talking about?" ”

"I know," He said, "he's talking about 'killing thieves.'" ”

Liu Jiexuan listened, shook his head and said, "What a tough guy!" It's a pity that he is also a fool, he didn't understand who is a thief in this world! ”