The self-proclaimed Emperor Wulie of Anyang always felt a little uneasy on the tower of the southern city. Today, when the officers and troops attacked, a lot of fires were lit and smoke was released, although it was not as thick as the black smoke drifting from the north, but it also made it impossible to see the distribution of the officers and troops in the city, which was a rare situation before. It was precisely because he couldn't see the specific deployment of the officers and troops that he couldn't see clearly, so although he noticed that the officers and troops besieging the city were a little half-hearted, he didn't dare to relax in the slightest, because who knows if this was deliberately paralyzing himself? Moreover, the officers and soldiers also dug tunnels under the city, and I didn't know where they had dug up, so who knows if there will be any officers and soldiers who will suddenly emerge from the ground.

The black smoke drifting from the north city suddenly faded a lot, and he came to the north side of the city tower to look over, he couldn't see the situation clearly from too far away, but he seemed to be able to see the fire. He had no choice but to instruct his entourage: "Send someone to inquire about the situation in Beicheng." ”

"Yes." The subordinates received the order, went down to the city tower and sent someone to inquire. In a short time, someone ran up the city wall panting and shouted, "Report! The northern city is in crisis, and the enemy has rushed to the city walls. The lieutenant was seriously wounded by an arrow, and asked me to wait to come and ask for reinforcements. ”

Wang hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The messenger said: "The enemy used the smoke as a cover, pushed the wooden building under the city wall, lowered the wooden bridge and let people rush up the wall." Moreover, the wooden tower was higher than the city wall, and the crossbowmen shot arrows from a high position, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties. The lieutenant personally led the people to charge and kill, but was shot by the enemy's crossbowmen and was in danger. Please send reinforcements quickly, otherwise you won't be able to hold it. ”

The king was furious and asked, "Why don't you set fire to the wooden building?" ”

"The wooden building is still a foot away from the city wall, and the oil bottle must be exposed. The enemy had many bows and crossbows, and most of the brothers who threw oil bottles were killed or wounded. Although there are also a few wooden buildings, there are too many wooden buildings. And the enemy's ladder came up again, and more people had already rushed up the walls. ”

Wang Ze was so angry that he stomped his feet, and immediately ordered his subordinates to bring people with him to Beicheng for reinforcements. Just as he was about to go down the tower, he suddenly heard a deafening sound of war drums from the south, and the officers and soldiers let out a tsunami-like cheer. He leaned on the arrow window and looked at it, and saw that several large flags were faintly unfurled in the smoke, although he could not see the words on the flags from too far away, but with experience, he knew that it was the life flag of the chief general of the official army.

At this time, the flag of life is unfurled, which means that the Lord will personally supervise the formation, ready to start the real attack. Looking at the height and number of those life flags, it seems that the commanders of the officers and armies are there. Does that mean......

The new emperor hesitated. The tunnels under his feet, which he didn't know how many and where to dig, always made him feel unsafe. In the end, he left half of his men in the southern city, and only brought half of the mobile force to reinforce the northern city.

North Side.

Although the oil bottles and torches thrown by the defenders set fire to some of the carts, it would take some time for them to burn up, and the crossbowmen on the carts continued to shoot at the defenders of the city. Coupled with the constant stream of arrows like locusts in the city, many people simply did not have the opportunity to throw oil bottles on the building cars. Moreover, the overpass was put down, and the officers and soldiers who rushed out of the building car at the first time cut a foothold on the city wall with their tomahawks and javelins, and then immediately spread out one formation after another along the city wall to both sides. Then, more hand-to-hand infantry emerged from the carts, rushed across the overpass, jumped onto the walls, and joined the fight.

At the same time, when the building car attracted most of the attention of the defenders, the ladders of the officers and soldiers were set up at the head of the city, and more and more officers and soldiers flocked to the city.

When Wang Ze was still hesitating, Du Meng saw that the brothers on the city wall were decreasing, and the official army had already controlled several sections of the city wall, so he understood that it was a matter of life and death. With the help of others, he put on another piece of armor, grasped a shield in his left hand and a copper hammer in his right hand, and shouted to his brothers gathered around him: "Brothers, don't let the officers and soldiers rush up, then everyone will die!" These days, everyone has eaten and drunk spicy food, and has lived a happy life, which is enough, and today is to sacrifice this life and kill the official army with me! After shouting, he rushed to the officers and soldiers in the first place.

The people behind also shouted "kill" and immediately rushed to the officers and soldiers with him.

In front of him, a defender wearing only a silk jacket was slashed to the ground, revealing an officer holding a shield, and Du Meng immediately picked up the copper hammer and smashed it. The officer heard the heavy wind and hurriedly raised his shield to cover it, but the shield could not resist the heavy lever weapon, and with a click, the shield was smashed and hung down. Du Meng took advantage of the situation to swing the copper hammer, and the copper hammer just swept the helmet of the officer, and the officer flew out diagonally.

Du Meng immediately brandished the copper hammer and rushed towards the officers and soldiers in front of him, and the copper hammer was stained with blood and brains. The crossbowmen on a building car in the distance spotted them and kept shooting arrows, Du Meng carried a shield to cover the bow and crossbow, and at the same time relied on his two layers of armor to be cut by a knife and stabbed by a spear, just smashing all the way to the officers and soldiers in front of him. Such a desperate style of play made the officers and soldiers who faced him frightened and retreated again and again.

With him as the spearhead, a group of Xuanyi Army veterans behind him finally recaptured a section of the city wall controlled by the official army. But the crossbowmen on the carts parked in front of the city wall shot several of them in succession. Du Meng was furious and was about to jump on the overpass and rush to the building car, but at this time, another officer and army rushed from the city wall, so he had to turn around to deal with it.

This officer army was very different from the one just now, with shields in front and pikemen in the back, and always maintained a neat four-way column in the advance, so that Du Meng immediately sensed the threat.

When he turned around and jumped off the female wall and returned to the city, several veterans of the Xuanyi Army had already died at the hands of these officers and soldiers. He saw with his own eyes that a brother had just separated a spear when he was smashed in the chest with a javelin. At such a close distance, it was difficult for the armor to resist the javelin that had been lit with steel, and the javelin passed directly through the chest.

Another veteran slashed at the officer's shield bearer with an axe, and two spears stabbed at him from the left and right, and he hurriedly retreated. However, the shield bearers of the officers and soldiers rushed up with him, and the battle axe struck his head, and the veteran hurriedly resisted with the handle of the axe, but two spears stabbed him again, one cut his face, and the other pierced his lower abdomen, although it may not be able to completely tear the armor, but it pushed him back. At this time, another spear stabbed at him, and both spears at the same time picked up the veteran and threw him out of the wall.

Seeing that the old brothers died tragically one after another, Du Meng was so anxious that the blood hit upward, and he raised the copper hammer with a strange scream and rushed over. On the opposite side was also a shield bearer, who was the first to chop a battle axe, and Du Peng used a copper hammer to force it, and the battle axes of the officers and soldiers did not know where to fly. But before Du Meng could swing the copper hammer and smash it down, the heavy sound of breaking wind made him quickly hide his head and shrink his neck while covering it with a shield. With a thud, a javelin slipped off the surface of the shield.

Du Meng was about to attack on one side, but a little cold light flashed in front of him, and he hurriedly slammed the spear with his hammer, and at the same time felt that he had been hit hard in the leg. A spear didn't completely pierce the armor, but it tore off several pieces of armor, causing a piercing pain in his leg. As he struggled to stand still, the shield-bearer, who had lost his tomahawk, rushed over with his shield and slammed it into his shield, knocking him to the edge of the wall.

He hunched behind his shield and waited to attack, but a spear plunged into his armpit from the side, and although it didn't pierce the heavy armor, the blow barely caught his breath.

Another spear actually plunged under his leg, and then with the combined force of the two spears and the shield hand, Du Meng rolled over and fell out of the city wall.

Three or four feet high city wall, Du Meng thought to himself when he fell: It's over, I'm going to die.