The night is long, and the darkness is boundless.

Inside and outside the wild goose city, the fire spreads, as if inlaid with brilliant diamonds on the ground.

In the midst of shouts and killings, the Yan army and the Song army, like two torrents rushing from the east and west, collided and intertwined in Yancheng, setting off stormy waves.

Regardless of whether the Yan army or the Song army is, they all plan to use their own strength to defeat the other party and conquer the other party.

The Yan army refused to defend the city, the whole army was fierce, but there were very few strong soldiers to defend the city, and the Song army was several times outside the city, and the city wall was seriously damaged and collapsed in a large area.

More Yan troops were buried under the boulders that attacked in the air, and their deaths were unbearable, no matter how powerful they were, in the face of the absolute strength of the Song army, they gradually fell behind.

Step by step, step by step, after fierce battles, the Song army swarmed up the low city wall and fought with the Yan army.

The Yan army went forward to fight to the death, but unfortunately showed weakness after all, and the Song army that flocked into the city, relying on its numerical superiority and its own combat effectiveness, surrounded and annihilated the Yan army.

Within an hour, the city wall was completely lost, and in nearly two hours, the east city and the eastern part of the central street were all lost.

The Yan army was defeated again and again, the number was reduced again and again, and the advantage of the Song army was reduced again and again.

At midnight, Gu Yue and Lei Zhanhu led 10,000 Yan troops to retreat to Xicheng, lurking in the streets and alleys of Xicheng, and in various houses, the whole army was extremely embarrassed.

Although they still maintained their strong combat effectiveness, however, after fighting hard all night, every Yan army seemed to crawl out of their plasma, and everyone had more or less wounds on their bodies.

It's like a lone wolf lost in winter, hiding in the vast snow, licking its wounds, and struggling to survive.

When the battle came to this point, whether it was Gu Yue, Lei Zhanhu, or Yue Zhenchuan, they were all surprised.

As the old saying goes, Lei Zhanhu clearly realized that when the city wall was lost, when the eastern city was lost, the Song army chased and fought fiercely, and they relied on the western city, not to mention holding on for two days, whether they could hold on until dawn was also unpredictable.

Gu Yue, Lei Zhanhu was scattered, holding a knife and leading the Yan army, standing on the main street of Xicheng, stepping on the sandbag in the middle of the street with one foot and the ground with the other, paying attention to the situation on all sides of the street.

At this time, they were covered in blood, and Gu Yue's left arm was slashed by the Song army's war knife, the knife was extremely deep, and the blood continued to flow out. On Lei Zhanhu's right leg, there were two arrows inserted, and when he moved slightly, the arrows swayed back and forth.

The Song army approached, Lei Zhanhu looked serious, full of worry, very worried, and said to Gu Yue: "General Gu, the Song army is attacking the city, as expected, Yancheng has lost most of it, and we are afraid that we will live up to the general's expectations." ”

With the same strength, Lei Zhanhu was sure to easily defeat the Song army, however, the Song army had 80,000, and the Yan army was only 20,000.

The enemy is outnumbered, a large area of defense is lost, how to stop the Song army, Lei Zhanhu has almost no good way.

What's worse, after a bitter battle in the middle of the night, the Yan army is extremely short of weapons, especially arrows, and at most half an hour, it will lose the possibility of killing the Song army with an arrow array.

Now that the Song army is surrounded from all directions, Lei Zhanhu is becoming more and more worried about the situation of the Yan army!

"General Lei, hold on, it's really not good, burn Yancheng, even if you die in battle, you have to inflict heavy losses on the Song army, and strive to delay time and block the Song army." Gu Yue gritted the ring knife with his teeth, tore off his battle robe, and tied it to the wound.

The matter has come to this point, only to divide and block, otherwise, what should we do?

At this time, there were more and more Song troops approaching on all sides, as if countless torrents were rushing over from all directions, trying to bury the Yan army!

Yue Zhenchuan, Wu Xiaoyun, and the two Zhonglang generals were not in a very good situation, Wu Xiaoyun's three Zhonglang generals were all wounded, and they saw the Yan army shrinking into the West City, like a bloodthirsty beast, trying to swallow each other.

The Song army was murderous and eager for revenge, Wu Xiaoyun suggested to Yue Zhenchuan: "General, the Yan army has lost most of the defenses in the city, and is doing a battle of trapped beasts. ”

In the fierce battle tonight, Wu Xiaoyun was shocked, he had never encountered such a strong-willed army as the Yan army.

This group of people, even if they lost the defense of the city wall and retreated to the city, still relied on their strong will to fight with the Song army for every inch of land.

In every important place, the troops were left behind until they died in battle.

In order to seize all streets and alleys, the Song army almost risked their lives to fight, otherwise, they would not have thought of taking it from the hands of the Yan army.

The Yan army, which was in its early 20,000s, also included half of the remnants, and in its blocking, the Song army suffered more than 20,000 casualties.

At this moment, Wu Xiaoyun probably knew why Huang Shaofeng was defeated, and when he saw the Yan army retreating into the West City, from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to come into direct contact with the Yan army.

Yue Zhenchuan didn't want to take a simple method to wipe out all the Yan army, the more fierce the battle with the Yan army, the more he could appreciate the tenacity of the Yan army, and if he continued, the Song army would lose more than 50,000 casualties if he captured Yancheng, and the gains outweighed the losses.

However, the Yan generals were extremely cunning, and had long expected that the city wall could not stop the pace of the Song army, except for a few Yan troops who stayed in the middle of the street, most of the Yan troops hid in houses, pavilions, and alleys in the city.

If you are not careful, seven or eight Yan soldiers, or more than ten Yan soldiers, rushed out, shot a wave of Song troops with the rain of arrows, and then fought with the Song army. If there is no large Song army, the Yan army will flee and move to the place to lurk, so the trick will be repeated.

If a large number of Song troops appeared, these disabled and extremely tenacious Yan troops would fight to the death with the Song army.

In the end, the Song army's casualties continued to increase.

At this time, Yue Zhenchuan heard Wu Xiaoyun's suggestion, but he didn't take it, and even if he did, he didn't gain much.

The expression on his face was cold, and he didn't hesitate much, and instructed the three Zhonglang generals beside him: "Wu Zhonglang, Han Zhonglang, Zhao Zhonglang, you each take the army under your tent and go to the west of the city, no matter what method you take, before dawn, you must completely annihilate the Yan army, and this general doesn't want to see the Yan army alive." ”

"Yes!" Three Zhonglang hugged their fists.

The suggestion was not taken, and Wu Xiaoyun was slightly disappointed, but at present, he was leading the troops alone, and he could still adopt his own plan.

The three lieutenant generals led the troops, in the night, into the alleys in all directions, and soon, in the alleys, there were shouts of killing and screams.

Wu Xiaoyun led 10,000 Song troops, in order to cover people's eyes, broke into the alley, cleared the Yan army, and gradually returned to the central street.

A group of elite Song troops, holding up the crossbows, marched forward in unison, lined up in a neat sequence, moving forward, constantly shooting, there are traces of the Yan army to shoot and kill, there is no trace of the Yan army, also shooting, in short, do not give the Yan army a chance to resist.

In the dense rain of arrows, the Yan army hiding in the houses, restaurants, and shops on both sides of the street was suppressed to the death, and they could only hide.

If the Song army breaks in, the Yan army will fight hard and fight to the end.

However, most of the time, the Song army would march along the central street and throw torches into the empty houses to force the Yan army out.

Xicheng, in the middle of the street, Lei Zhanhu, Gu Yue witnessed the actions of the Song army, glanced at each other, hidden behind the sandbags set in the middle of the street, Gu Yue said: "General Lei, fight, you personally ignite the oil and fire, even if you die today, you must let these Song soldiers be buried in Yancheng." ”

"Good! I'll take someone there right away! Lei Zhanhu said loudly, patted his left arm on Gu Yue's shoulder, and said, "General Gu, take care!" ”

"Take care!" Gu Yue nodded, a little aggrieved, if there is no accident, after parting ways, they will have no chance to meet.

Without hesitation, Lei Zhanhu got up from behind the sandbag, took more than a dozen veterans around him, and quickly retreated, and soon disappeared into the dark night.

"Kill!" Behind the sandbag, Gu Yue witnessed the Song army approaching, and in order to help Lei Zhanhu buy time, he suddenly raised the ring knife and roared like a beast from his mouth.

Suddenly, the windows and doors of the houses on both sides of the street suddenly opened, and the dense Yan army raised their crossbows and shot in a swarm.

A dense rain of arrows, like a trickle, shot from both sides of the street.

Wu Xiaoyun led the Song army, with the rain of arrows, in the middle of the march with his toes high, suddenly heard a roar, his eyes looked ahead, as if there was a Yan army haunting, wanting to give a military order, when the whole army was marching, he suddenly encountered a Yan army arrow rain attack, too late Suddenly, Wu Xiaoyun was hit by an arrow in the left ribs, and hurriedly hid, for fear of encountering the Yan army's arrow rain shooting.

In a hurry, under the protection of his cronies, he rolled over and rolled down on the inside of the door of a shop, and looked up at the opposite restaurant to shoot Yan Jun, Wu Xiaoyun was furious and scolded: "This group of bastards, at this time, I still want to pull Song Jun back!" ”

Having said that, he found a hiding place, but it does not mean that the Song army in the street as a whole has found a hiding place.

A rain of arrows swept through the streets on both sides of the street, and the panicked Song army rushed to dodge and collided with each other, but instead reduced the degree of progress.

Not only did he not flee, but on the contrary, he became a live target of the Yan army, and in the rain of arrows, a miserable scream came out of his mouth.

A large number of Song troops fell in pools of blood, and the smell of blood filled the middle of the street.

However, the Yan army's arrows were limited, and after two rounds of arrow rain shots, the Song army suffered heavy casualties, and the Yan army's hands ran out of arrows, and the arrow rain stopped.

Yan Jun, who was hiding in two parts of the street, grabbed the ring knife, roared, rushed out from both sides of the street, went straight to the middle of the street, and went away in a panic.

At this moment, the Yan army had no arrows and could not inflict a weighing blow on the Song army, so they could only hold a soldier in their hands, collide head-on with the Song army, and fight in close combat.

Gu Yue also led the army, like a fierce tiger jumping out from behind the sandbag, leading hundreds of Yan troops to fight with nearly 10,000 Song troops.

This battle was completely desperate, and when the Yan army rushed out, they had the idea of fighting to the end.

As the battle broke out, although the Yan army was crushing the Song army that fled in panic, but in the Song army, the two lieutenant generals surnamed Han and Zhao heard the shouts and killings from the Yan and Song armies, and led the army to quickly surround them from all sides.

Soon, the fighting Yan army fell into the siege of the Song army.

"Kill, annihilate the Yan army, leave no one alive!" Seeing the arrival of reinforcements one after another, the Song army had the advantage, and Wu Xiaoyun, who was not lightly injured, rushed out of the courtyard with great momentum and shouted loudly.

After finishing speaking, he coughed twice in a row, and spit blood out of his mouth!

The Song army attacked fiercely from all directions, the Yan army continued to fall, and the number decreased sharply, and when he saw the defeat, Gu Yue said loudly: "Resist, the whole army resists, fight to the death!" ”

In the fierce battle, the Yan army was forced to assemble, leaning on each other, hearing the ancient Yue language, and muttering the Yan army song in their mouths.

In the face of death, the Yan army did not compromise, did not flee, and wanted to fight to the death.

At this time, Yue Zhenchuan rode his horse to the middle of the street, sat on a war horse, and saw that there were still thousands of Yan troops, surrounded by the Song army, insisting on fighting to the death.

Shocked, he was furious and shouted: "Fight the battle, leave no room alive!" ”

At this time, not long ago, Lei Zhanhu, who had just left, rushed out, raised his ring sword and shouted: "Brothers, counterattack the Song army!" ”

With that, he and a few veterans rushed into the chaos from the gap in the west.

Seeing Lei Zhanhu go and return, Gu Yue was surprised and delighted, but he asked suspiciously, "General Lei, what's the matter, why did you come back so quickly, could it be that you encountered the fierce resistance of the Song army?" ”

"Reinforcements, reinforcements, General Gu, reinforcements are coming!" Lei Zhanhu was overjoyed and shouted excitedly like a child.

"What, reinforcements, the general came back with his troops?" Gu Yue asked in surprise.

On all sides of Yancheng, only Hou Mingfeng's legion went to bury Mapo, and if reinforcements appeared, only Hou Mingfeng led the legion to kill.

However, if Hou Mingfeng brought the Yan army back, all their efforts would be in vain.

Lei Zhanhu shook his head, turned around and raised the ring knife in his hand, and said, "General Gu, where do you look?" ”

When Gu Yue heard the sound, his eyes looked in the direction pointed by the Lei Zhan Tiger Ring Knife, and at the end of the street in the west of the city, Zhao Hongru was dressed in a black cloak and held a ring knife, and he rushed to kill angrily.

Behind him, the ironclad infantry with a repeating crossbow shot the Song army on all sides, and rushed over!

"Whew, there is salvation, there is salvation!" Gu Yue took a long breath, and couldn't help shaking his whole body.

Maybe excited, maybe reinforcements arrived, and the pressure was released.

"Whoever dares to hurt Lao Tzu's soldiers will be slaughtered!"

Zhao Hongru rushed over, his body blocked in front of Gu Yue and Lei Zhanhu, witnessing the casualties of the Yan army, the ring knife in his hand, pointing to the Song army in front, and shouting to the ironclad infantry behind him.

For a while, the ironclad infantry who came in from the west gate pulled their crossbows and fired at the Song army.

At this time, the Song army was completely blinded, the Yan army, how could there still be a Yan army.

Yue Zhenchuan, Wu Xiaoyun, Han surname, Zhao surname two Zhonglang generals, as if petrified.

The Yan army, the Yan army in iron armor, is it not the iron infantry?

However, in the intelligence, there was no news about the ironclad infantry at all, and at this moment, they appeared, could it not fall from the sky.

In a panic, when he was at a loss, Yue Zhenchuan hurriedly rode his horse and turned around, shouting: "The whole army evacuates, quickly withdraw from Yancheng." ”

Although the boiled duck was about to fly, however, after learning that the army in front of him was ironclad infantry, Yue Zhenchuan had all the murderous aura eliminated, and he had no confidence that he would defeat the ironclad infantry.

If the whole army does not withdraw from Yancheng, will they wait to be killed alive by the other party?

The queen of the army retreated, and a messenger of the Song army found Yue Zhenchuan's figure in the chaotic army, and shouted with a pale face: "General... General, a large force of swallow horses, rushed into the city from the east gate, the brothers can't hold on, general, quickly evacuate from the west gate. ”

After saying that, the messenger looked in the direction of the west gate, and when he saw the Yan army fighting violently, he knew that his previous words were completely meaningless, but more panicked.

"Wu Xiaoyun, what's going on, your spies, how did you find out the news, so many Yan troops, lurking in all sides of Yancheng, never got any news, this time, Lao Tzu was killed by you?" There were fierce tigers in front and wolves in the back, and they captured Yancheng, but instead let them be surrounded by the Yan army, Yue Zhenchuan was furious and asked Wu Xiaoyun why.

However, in the face of the Yan army's flanking attack, do these still matter?

Wu Xiaoyun was speechless and couldn't explain.

I am deeply aware that today, if he is not killed by the Yan army and returns to the barracks, he will also be ambushed by the Song army due to incorrect intelligence, and he will suffer heavy losses, and he will be severely punished by Yue Zhenchuan and the general, and his life will not be guaranteed.

When Yue Zhenchuan and Wu Xiaoyun were talking, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves came from the east of the street, like the sound of death, approaching.