The battle for Fort Xiping had been going on for three days, and corpses were already piled up under the fort. The defenders of Xiping Fort on the city wall also suffered heavy casualties, and less than half of the original team of more than 4,000 people could still stand intact on the fort wall.

The most important thing is that the equipment to defend the city is almost exhausted, and if they continue to fight, they can only fight with Jiannu to the end.

This afternoon, the Han army flag has been on the top of the city several times, if it were not for Hei Yunhe and his personal army team as firefighters to drive the Han army flag off the fort wall, Xiping Fort might have been occupied by the Jurchens.

In the big tent of the Black Cloud Crane at night, Li Maochun and Zhang Mingxian sat opposite the Black Cloud Crane. There were three pots of old wine and a small pot of mutton in front of the table for three.

Zhang Ming first grabbed the wine jug and took a big sip, then squatted the wine jug on the table and said, "Brother He! Those Changxing soldiers eat big fish and meat all day long, and the brothers can't hold on to the wall anymore and don't come to help. It's not a thing! ”

Li Maochun also said: "That's it! I think that group of people called Changxing Army is just donkey and eggs, and maybe they will be scared to pee their pants when they hear that Jiannu has landed in the city. Ha ha!! The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

After laughing, Hei Yunhe said: "Don't talk nonsense, in my opinion, that Zhang Dou has a good way of leading the troops, and his Changxing Army is by no means a wine bag and a rice bag." In the past few days, they have not moved, maybe we will suffer a little loss and then take action! ”

He couldn't understand why Zhang Dou turned a blind eye to the crisis on the fortress wall, and still let the Changxing army stay in the barracks instead of participating in the defense of the city.

It may be that he offended the chief soldier, and he believed that Zhang Dou would definitely take action at the most critical moment in Xiping Fort.

They talked about something else first, and soon the flask had bottomed out, and they were a little drunk.

Li Maochun suddenly looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and said, "Brother He! That's all we have in Xiping Fort, and if we want to go further, unless we have a lot of silver, it's simply impossible. ”

Hearing Li Maochun's words, Zhang Mingxian also said: "It's not! But don't think about going to Zhang Dou's Changxing Army. I've asked people to inquire a long time ago, if you want to join their Changxing Army, okay! But at least you have to survive the first two months of hard training, and your small body can be wasted for you in a month! ”

Zhang Mingxian said disdainfully, although he and Li Maochun were guerrilla generals at the same time. He climbed up from the lowest creep little by little, and every time he was promoted, he was meritorious.

And this Li Maochun is different, he has a good uncle. As soon as he arrived here, he was a guerrilla general, although he usually called him a brother and a brother, but Zhang Mingxian, who was a little drunk today, began to despise Li Maochun without concealing his mouth.

When Li Maochun heard Zhang Mingxian's words, his face turned red for a while and white for a while, and it took him half a day to recover his color. He took a deep breath and said, "Brother Zhang is laughing, what Brother is talking about is not Changxingjun. It's ......," he said before pausing and gesturing out of the city.

The three of them immediately stopped talking, and the room was quiet and could be heard of needle drops.

Zhang Mingxian's originally lowered face suddenly raised, his eyes were bloodshot and revealed two fierce lights, and he grabbed Li Maochun's collar and said, "You kid dare to betray the court and take refuge in Jiannu?" Lao Tzu tore you alive! ”

Zhang Mingxian's appearance frightened Li Maochun, he grabbed Zhang Mingxian's wrist and tore it: "Brother Zhang, let go!" Aren't we drinking and talking nonsense! How could I, Li Maochun, surrender to Jiannu? Let go! ”

"It's not okay to drink and talk nonsense!" Zhang Mingxian grabbed Li Maochun's collar like crazy and didn't let go.

"If you don't say it, you don't say it! You let it go! Li Maochun was extremely embarrassed, he didn't expect Zhang Mingxian, who has never liked to talk, to have such a reaction.

"Ming Xian! Let go! The voice of the black cloud crane made Zhang Mingxian calm down a little, he let go of the hand that grabbed Li Maochun, and still stared at Li Maochun with red eyes.

Heiyunhe also stared at Li Maochun and said, "Li Maochun! Lao Tzu doesn't care if you drink too much today, as long as Lao Tzu finds out that you have signs of taking refuge in Jiannu, Lao Tzu will kill you alive! ”

"Yes! Be! How dare you take refuge in Jiannu, you just drank too much nonsense! Hmm~ nonsense! ~Hehe......" Li Maochun explained awkwardly.

The three of them drank unhappily this time, and on the way back alone, Li Maochun's eyes showed a fierce light.

Two fools who don't know how to lift, if you don't show you a way out, then leave it for Zhang Dou to be buried!

That night, a feathered arrow wrapped in a letter shot out of Xiping Fort, and the next day the Jurchens attacked the city much weaker, and it was simply an errand.

Luo has always been very happy, he announced in front of all the soldiers that the Jurchens are about to hold on and want to retreat, as long as they hold on for a few more days, as soon as the enemy withdraws, he will report to the meritorious person, and promotion and fortune are just around the corner.

Zhang Dou didn't see it that way, in his opinion, it must be the Guangning army that arrived at Pingyang Bridge. The Jurchen decisive battle is imminent, as long as the main force of the Quang Ninh army is defeated, the small Xiping Fort defenders here do not have to worry.

Li Maochun's opinion was also different from Luo's, he thought that it must be the Jurchens outside the city who received the letter. The breach of the city was tonight, so the siege was relaxed during the day.

Looking at the thunderous defenders of Xiping Fort, everyone returned to the camp and began to prepare.

"My lord! Shouldn't we go to the city and fight, there are a lot of people who are saying bad things about you these days. The brothers have been coming to Xiping Fort for several days, and if they don't move, their bodies will rust. My lord! Ma Bao whispered beside Zhang Dou.

These days, they are standing still, and many people in Xiping Fort are pointing at the Changxing army behind their backs.

The arrogant Changxing Army had never been so angry, they didn't dare to come to Zhang Dou, so they found Ma Bao to talk about it.

Ma Bao also wanted to participate in the war for a long time, and today I heard Luo consistently say that the Jurchens were in a hurry to retreat. If they don't fight back in such a battle, they can't afford to lose this person.

Looking at Ma Bao, who was accompanied by a smiling face, Zhang Dou shook his head helplessly. He said, "Go and call them all!" Let's do it tonight! ”

Ma Bao ran out excitedly to call someone, but Zhang Dou stared at the map of Pingyang Bridge.

In the dead of night, a dark shadow rushed up to the south gate of Xipingbao. The man took out a fire fold from his arms and blew it vigorously a few times, and the fire fold suddenly emitted a striking red light.

The man drew a large circle in the air three times with a fire fold, and saw a flash of fire appear in the dark night in the distance, and he also drew a circle in the air three times.

Seeing the signal of response, the man whispered to the person behind him, "Open the door!" Hurry up! In a few moments, the south gate was slowly opening.

The sound of horses' hooves came from inside and outside the city, and the people at the head of the city woke up suddenly after breathing a sigh of relief.

Wrong! There is the sound of horses' hooves outside the city, right, why is there also the sound of horses' hooves inside the city?