With an order, Zhao Lie led the team to rush to the second floor first. As soon as he arrived at the staircase, the figure flashed, and a burly figure covered in armor stopped him with a knife, and shouted: "Zhang Shuai has an order, no one is allowed to climb the stairs during the war, and quickly return to the main formation to hold on." Those who violate the order will be killed! ”

Zhao Lie's figure was stunned, and he didn't need to look closely to know that the only person who could say this was Zhang Shijie's bodyguard and Zhang Ba's cousin: Zhang Xiong.

Zhao Lie looked at this bearded armor general who was six or seven points similar to Zhang Ba, and said in a loud voice: "Zhang Shuai, the last general suggests readjusting the defense. ”

After about seven or eight breaths, a person appeared at the guardrail of the stairs, with a fiery red man, bright armor, and a sword hanging from his waist, glaring at Zhao Lie, not angry and arrogant: "What does Xin'an Hou propose?" ”

Zhao Lie stood on the steps, raised his head and saluted: "The battle situation is just now, can Zhang Shuai see the truth?" ”

Of course, Zhang Shijie saw it clearly, because of this, his face was very ugly at the moment, and he said with a calm face: "The battle situation is as dangerous as an egg, Xin'an Hou has something to say, and it is better to retreat to the defense line if he has nothing to say." ”

Zhao Lie didn't talk nonsense, and said in a deep voice: "The special combat team and the musket team both have long-range firepower, so as not to let the enemy get close as much as possible, so as not to incur unnecessary losses. With the intention of hunting, the musket team and the special combat team all boarded the tower to set up defenses, each defending one side. In this way, you can not only attack the captives from a high position, but also protect yourself with guardrails. Please Zhang Shuai Jundu. ”

Zhang Shijie groaned, Zhao Lie's proposal seemed feasible, and he also knew that he didn't have many reservists on hand, and if the musket team continued to lose like this, even if there were guns, there would be no one to replenish, which would be frustrating and vomiting blood.

Zhang Shijie motioned to Zhao Lie and wait, and the figure disappeared from the guardrail. Zhao Lie knew that Zhang Shijie was going to discuss with Wen Tianxiang, although this deputy marshal had always been stubborn and self-serving, and he did not deal with Wen Tianxiang, but after all, the defensive battle of Yacheng was dominated by Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie was the deputy marshal. Therefore, Zhang Shijie pulled out again, and when it came to guarding the imperial plan, he couldn't help but discuss with Wen Tianxiang.

When Zhang Shijie's figure reappeared, he first nodded to Zhao Lie, and then raised his hand to Zhang Xiong.

Zhao Lie raised his hand and made a move, and the special combat team members behind him rushed forward. Soon, Huang Tiancong also received an order to withdraw the remaining musketeers to the tower and hand them over to the command of Xin'an Hou. As soon as the special combat team and musket team withdrew, it was inevitable that there would be fluctuations and panic among the Song soldiers. You know, if there were no two guns in the formation, how could the Song soldiers with less than two hundred soldiers face thousands of yuan soldiers?

Huang Tiancong, who was half bloodstained, carried the big knife that had been changed three times, and shouted: "What a panic! This defense envoy is still here! The Dragonbird brothers and the musketeers did not retreat, but went upstairs to deploy guns to better kill the enemy. The more we hold the staircase, the more they kill......"

Before he finished speaking, a cold arrow shot out, and it actually passed through Huang Tian's cheek, and he was speechless immediately.

Left and right hurriedly cut off the tail of the arrow, but they didn't dare to pull out the arrow.

Huang Tiancong's eyes widened angrily, his two fingers caught the arrow that was pierced, and he pulled it out violently, and suddenly blood spurted out, and his black beard turned into a red beard. At this time, the South Gate defense envoy was speechless, took the medicine bag with one hand and pressed the wound to stop the bleeding, and raised the long knife diagonally with the other hand, pointing at the Yuan army that was surging under the black pressure, and a voice that could only be distinguished by careful listening rolled between the blood teeth: "Kill-"

On the tower, there are Long Feiyi, Zhang Junbao and others who command the deployment of the special combat team and the musket team, but Zhao Hunt does not have to worry about it.

Zhao Lie's eyes swept away, and at first glance, he saw Wen Tianxiang rarely wearing Mingguang armor, sitting firmly on the chair, with a sheathed long sword wrapped in yellow silk on his knees, his expression was calm, there was no sadness or joy, and he did not have the slightest panic when he was surrounded. Seeing Zhao Lie looking over, the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty stroked his sword and smiled: "Let Liyu smile." However, this sword is not a sword of killing, but a sword of loyalty. ”

Zhao Lie was slightly stunned, nodded slowly, understood what Wen Tianxiang meant, and remembered the oath that the Great Song Dynasty had made to live and die with the tower. The so-called thing is only three, it seems that Wen Tianxiang will never be captured for the third time.

Zhao Lie listened to the fighting sound downstairs like a tide of roaring and shouting, and solemnly saluted Wen Tianxiang: "Prime Minister rest assured, Hunt, you will never let a Yuan soldier set foot on this building!" ”

……

On the top of the mountain, under the umbrella, Ali Hague and his son watched the battle from afar.

Hearing the heart-pounding, almost non-stop gunfire in the city, and seeing the Yuan soldiers who were approaching the tower again and again, and being repulsed again and again, Brother Guan's eyebrows kept shaking, and the ambition he had when he crossed the sea earlier had already been thrown into the sea, and he stared straight at it and muttered: "It's too miserable, it's too miserable...... Atta, if it goes on like this, even if it wins, it will be a miserable victory......"

Ali Hague sighed slightly, how could he not know? The reason why he was so crazy and attacked at any cost was not only because his eldest son died at the hands of Zhao Lie, but more importantly, he knew very well in his heart that today's battle was only the last battle launched by the Yuan army against Yacheng. Once the Dragon Bird Boat Division appeared on the sea, the Yuan army, which was attacked by the enemy, would never dare to send two-thirds of its troops to attack the city like this, and at most it could only attack with half or even less than half of its troops—but if even two-thirds of the troops could not defeat Yacheng, what use could half of the troops do?

If you can't capture Yacheng today, it means that Ali Hague's southern expedition has completely failed, not only has he not been able to remember his merits like Zhang Hongfan, and enjoy the great glory of destroying the country and captivating the king, but he has become a laughing stock in the court, and his status in Xue Chan Khan's mind will inevitably decline, and his ambition to become the prime minister of Jinghu Province is doomed to fail. This is something that Ali Hague cannot afford in any case.

Therefore, Ali Hague could only grit his teeth and fight and use his life to block the gun's hole. Anyway, his most elite Beiting Army is almost dead, and his heart has long been painful and numb, and now he wants to die, and it is also the Dead Han Army and the New Annexed Army. It doesn't matter how many of these Nanban die, is it possible that they are still kept as prisoners of the Song people, and they can't fight back after being absorbed?

If you can't beat it, can you still besiege it? Ali Hague didn't think about this plan earlier, but since the moment he learned that his son had failed to lose The Hague, this plan ended in nothing.

If you want to besiege the enemy, you must first ensure that your food routes are unblocked, otherwise you will end up sooner than being surrounded. This is what the Hague did before, but the grain route was cut off by the Dragon Bird Army, and several thousands of people immediately collapsed, and finally ended up in a fiasco. Now Ali Hague is the same, as long as the Dragon Bird Military Boat Division arrives, his sea transportation line will be finished, how to besiege it? As for the reinforcements from Jinghu Province in the Yuan Dynasty, not to mention whether Ali Hague has the face to ask for reinforcements or whether he has time to call reinforcements, just a Qiongzhou Strait is a terrible roadblock. Due to the fact that there is a strait, and the coastal ships have almost been requisitioned by Ali Hague, it is not a matter of a month to re-recruit ships, transfer troops and horses from various state capitals, and collect grain and grass. From ancient times to the present, cross-sea operations have been a huge and complicated project, and it is almost impossible to carry out two operations in a row.

Historically, the Yuan Dynasty made two expeditions to Japan, and just preparing various sea ships almost exhausted Korea's national strength, and finally because Korea secretly cut corners, the seeds of failure were planted.

I have to say that the choice of the place to stay this time is really appropriate, if the Xingchao is not in the cliff city at the end of the cape, but on the land, I am afraid that I don't know how many times it has been flattened.

Ali Hague was pondering, when suddenly a burst of earth-shattering cheers erupted from the city, and when he looked up, he saw that the Yuan armies on both sides had already converged at the entrance of the tower, and were rushing up the stairs.

Brother Guan's excited voice came from his ears: "Okay! Great! Burst into the tower! ”

Ali Hague tightened his fists, stared at the Yuan army banners that kept pouring into the tower, and said softly: "Wen Tianxiang, we are going to meet again." ”