As soon as Cai Xinghai entered the city, he saw many torches shaking on the opposite side, and the soldiers defending the city were right, the king of the East China Sea really let the mob in.

He was faced with several choices: he was faced with several choices: he could not be denied such a choice as there were so many enemy soldiers; Or Ying, who died in the streets, although stupid, but also fell into the reputation of a loyal minister; Or hide, although the city is not large, there are many buildings, some of which are quite strong enough to hold for a while.

But in Cai Xinghai's eyes, these choices are not bold enough, even the battle, there is a trace of timidity that can be done, the palace cut off the veteran's life, but did not remove his courage, he does not have the rich experience of Fang Daye, he does not have Chai Yue's strategy, but when the two armies meet in a narrow way, he knows what to do.

"Ascend to the city!" Cai Xinghai shouted, and then took the lead and rode up.

Shenxiong Pass is wide in the south and narrow in the north, and there are two ways to climb the city on the north wall, which are located on both sides of the city gate, one is a step, and the other is a flat slope.

Cai Xinghai brought a hundred cavalry, plus the guards at the north gate, a total of more than 150 people, but the enemy on the opposite side had several thousand.

Cai Xinghai dismounted, stood on the city wall and looked south, the surrounding soldiers were all panicking, especially the dozens of guards, their bodies trembled, and they couldn't figure out what the new general was going to do.

Cai Xinghai didn't do anything, just watched, and after a while, he laughed and said, "You don't need to worry, it's just a rabble." He turned around and said to the soldiers: "If these people go straight to the north gate after entering the city, it will be difficult for the gods to defend it, but you see, the torches are scattered, which means that this is a group of robbers, who only want to loot, and do not know how to seize important places at all." ”

Everyone was a little relieved, Cai Xinghai became more and more calm, walked a few steps back and forth, and continued: "At most one day, the Broken Iron City will definitely send reinforcements, we only need to hold this section of the city wall, and we can leave a passage for the reinforcements." ”

One of the original guards said in a trembling voice, "What about the city gates? ”

Cai Xinghai waved his hand, "Let it be given to them, there are cliffs on both sides of Shenxiong Pass, and the enemy can't bypass it, so we just need to hold these two passages." ”

Cai Xinghai divided the cavalry he brought with him and the original guards at the north gate into two teams, and there were some rolling stones and wooden things stored on the city wall, but it was not enough, he personally led people down to the city, and carried some more from the library, without any chaos, and even shouted trumpets, and there should be no bandits all over the city.

Half an hour later, the torches in the city were getting closer and closer to the north gate, and Cai Xinghai led people up to the city to prepare for the battle.

The city was already in chaos, the robbers belonged to several gangs, the first to attack and loot was the yamen and the major warehouses, most of the doors were closed, more or less able to resist for a while.

There were several armories under the walls of the northern city, which attracted a group of robbers, who were not interested in the towers and gates, and rushed into the warehouses that were already open, and found that most of them were wood, stones, iron balls, and other things, and they couldn't help but be disappointed, and after snatching some weapons, they retreated, and finally someone noticed the soldiers on the city wall.

A small number of robbers tried to climb the walls, but at the end of the two passages were blocked by a deer fence, and soldiers with crossbows faced them and ordered them to retreat.

The robbers did not insist, but threw down a few cruel words and went down, the city was full of treasures, and there was really no need to capture a section of the wall.

Cai Xinghai walked around the city wall, cheering for the soldiers on both sides, he was a veteran, he could tell jokes, and he didn't even care about his identity as a eunuch, "It's not painful when you are stabbed, and it's hard to endure when you are injured, it's the same as coming back from the dead, so it's not simple to say that eunuchs, there are thousands of robbers, Lao Tzu doesn't care about it at all." ”

There was still some food in the city tower, which Cai Xinghai personally distributed, and as for the horses, they ate the beans they carried on the side.

In the second half of the night, several bandit leaders came to persuade him to surrender, Cai Xinghai was neither angry nor arguing, standing on the city wall and replied: "We are a group of soldiers, there are old and young in the family, we dare not be at ease with all the heroes, I just hope to hold this section of the city wall and give an explanation to the boss in the future." In short, we can't go down, so please don't come up, so let's not get into the river water. ”

The robbers thought that the people on the city wall were all soldiers stationed at Shenxiong Pass, and they believed Cai Xinghai's words a little, they discussed for a while, some people wanted to attack hard, some people wanted to attack with fire, and they argued for a while, but they still decided to grab things first, but they sent minions to occupy the city gate below, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

At dawn, the robbers were still dividing up the contents of the warehouse, and there were even a few fires, and they could be seen standing on the city wall, everything was as Cai Xinghai expected, this was a rabble, and the soldiers were more confident, although the food had been eaten, they were not as panicked as last night.

The robber leaders seemed to have made a discussion, and soon after dawn, the city was not so chaotic, and a large amount of grain and utensils were piled up on the streets, as if to be divided afterwards, and the robbers divided into a dozen groups, divided into different areas, knocked and smashed doors door by door, and threatened the inhabitants inside.

Finally, a team of robbers came to the north gate, and sternly asked the soldiers on the strong wall to come down and surrender immediately, if not, what would happen, Cai Xinghai knew that he couldn't hide this time, so he shot under the wall with a crossbow, the strength was very strong, the accuracy was a little worse, and the ears of the shouting robbers swept by.

Frightened and furious, the robber immediately ordered an attack, but he clearly did not understand the difficulty of the siege and underestimated the determination of the defenders.

Hundreds of robbers walked in two paths at the same time, but the passage was relatively narrow, at most ten people could advance side by side, and they could march from the bottom to the top, so they could not go too fast.

With just one volley, the robbers retreated, leaving behind several corpses and a dozen wounded, who had come to rob the property and food, and if there were gold, silver and jewels on the walls, they might be willing to charge desperately, just to occupy, no one was willing to give their lives.

The wounded screamed repeatedly, and Cai Xinghai was very generous, standing above the city wall and shouting at the robbers in the street, allowing them to send people to carry the dead and wounded away.

The attack was blocked, and the robbers scattered again, but every once in a while a group of people would come and try to attack the city by various means.

The most common is persuasion, promising all kinds of benefits, supplemented by many threats, Cai Xinghai did not refuse sternly, but chatted with them, delaying time, and when the other party found out that he had been deceived and scolded angrily, he was not angry, but said goodbye.

There was also a strong attack, a direct attack was not possible, and no minions were willing to accept the task, and a gang of robbers tried to attack with fire, and the rockets were shot from afar, which fell into the snow under the wall, and quickly extinguished.

Another group of robbers brought the bed crossbow stored in Kamio-pass, and fiddled in the street for a long time before shooting an arrow, and did not fly above the city wall, but aimed directly at the city gate, and a small group of robbers guarded in the door hole, was caught off guard by a sudden attack from his companions, one was pierced by a huge arrow, and died without a word, and the others jumped with their heads in their arms, and even the city gate was gone.

Near noon, the timid residents of the city took the initiative to open the door, and the houses with poor doors were knocked open, and the rest were deep mansion compounds, which were difficult to capture for a while, and the robbers gathered more and more at the north gate, and this small area became a thorn in their eyes.

The robbers sent out their masters, and about two dozen people lined up in the streets, armed with strong bows, and shot arrows at the walls, and after two rounds of attempts, they found their position and were able to shoot at the wall.

Cai Xinghai did not allow anyone to return fire, and ordered all the soldiers to hide behind the walls and shields.

After a few rounds of shooting, the masters found it useless and had to give up.

The soldiers on the city wall did not pose a direct threat to Shenxiong Pass, and the intention of the robbers to attack was not particularly urgent, they were busy for a night and a morning, and they were already tired and hungry, so they rushed to cook, and not long after, the smoke of the cooking was everywhere.

Another robber came to persuade him to surrender with cooked food, Cai Xinghai hoped to trick some food over, but he was spotted by the other party and fired a few arrows at each other, but no one hurt anyone.

In the afternoon, the robbers were full of food and drink, and some of them were still looting and smashing on the doors, while others were determined to take the northern wall, which had nothing to do with robbery, but a matter of the face of each village.

They removed the door panels, hung some armor, and formed a dozen simple giant shields, dozens of people lifted or lifted, protecting the front, back, left, right and above, forming a moving house, slowly advancing up from the slope passage.

This move posed a real threat, and the strong bows and crossbows on the city walls could only barely shoot through the giant shield, and it was difficult to hurt the people inside.

Cai Xinghai quickly ordered to stop shooting, and ordered the soldiers to stand on the top of the slope and throw stones and iron down, some slipping and others remaining on the door panel. The counterattack worked, and the robbers could not bear the increasing weight, and when they were still a dozen steps away from the entrance of the deer fence, they finally threw down the door panel and dispersed, half of them were crushed underneath, and struggled for a while before escaping.

Cai Xinghai didn't take advantage of the situation to shoot, he didn't want to anger the enemy too much, if this group of robbers swarmed up desperately, he really couldn't hold it.

The robbers decided to take the simplest and most effective way of besieging the city until they starved the defenders to death.

They didn't know that 3,000 Chu troops were hurrying towards Shenxiong Pass.

At sunset, the figure of reinforcements appeared on the mountain road, Cai Xinghai breathed a heavy sigh of relief, he finally did not defend this section of the city wall in vain, the reinforcements were all lightly armed, if no one opened the door, they would not be able to attack it for a few months.

Next, Cai Xinghai has to open the city gate.

This is the most dangerous moment, the robbers in the city are sharing the spoils, and they have not yet found the abnormality outside the north gate, but there is a group of people staring at the city wall, Cai Xinghai just moved the deer fence and led the troops down the city from the steps to the city, and was discovered by the robbers.

One of the fiercest battles at Shenxiong Pass took place, Cai Xinghai personally led fifty soldiers down the city to protect themselves with shields, and the rest lined up on the city wall, shooting arrows into the streets to prevent the robbers from approaching, but some people still rushed to the city gate through the rain of arrows.

The minions who were killed by the giant arrow were still in the door hole, Cai Xinghai took the lead, and blocked the city gate with forty soldiers, and the other ten opened the city gate.

Most of the robbers haven't reacted yet, so there are not too many attackers, Rao is so, Cai Xinghai and the others also have to bear several times the enemy.

Cai Xinghai was stabbed in the shoulder, but he finally heard the sound of horses' hooves, and the robbers who attacked the door finally realized that something was wrong and turned around and fled.

Cai Xinghai and the others immediately gave way, and he shouted at the reinforcements: "Occupy the south gate, go and occupy the south gate!" ”

He wanted to trap the robbers all over the city, and give them to the tired marquis as gifts, so that his trip would be worthwhile. (To be continued.) )