The head of the city is closed by the water, climbing like an ant and falling like rain.

Suo Chao, a pioneer officer wearing a red-tasseled lion helmet, a crimson robe and a finely embellished iron leaf armor, waved his folding iron war knife in his hand in the enemy bushes like a wheel;

In a few breaths, a fountain of blood with half of the limb holding the weapon splashed up and sprayed in front of him, staining the heart guard on his chest a red color; And at his feet, there were already piles of four or five corpses that had been cut open and killed.

For a while, he was covered in blood, and he looked particularly terrifying and shocking, and even the defenders who surrounded him couldn't help but slow down.

Not far away, the warrior who had just emerged outside the battlement was hit by a canister of fire oil thrown from his back, and in an instant, at the end of the ladder, it turned into a ball of fireball and rolled down.

And more spilled fire oil flowed down the ladder, burning and rolling the group of Southern Dynasty soldiers who were lining up and trying to climb hard, and they all screamed and dodged and fell away.

And Suo Chao was once again forced to the edge of the city wall by the surrounding defenders, and could only rely on the battlements, slashing and slashing with the bows left and right, and the enemy stabbed the weapons.

"I have to ask for the support of the brothers from the front army,"

He gritted his teeth and commanded loudly, otherwise the casualties paid by the headquarters would obviously be too great.

Then, he saw a firework being launched from under the city wall where he was.

In the face of the defenders who tried their best to fight back, they continued to insist on fighting for an extraordinarily long and torturous time, when the iron leaf armor on his body had a few more cuts, and the soldiers who followed Suo Chao also replaced several stubbles;

A dozen smoking orbs were suddenly thrown into the aisles of the city at the sound of a whistle, rolling on the ground with a gurgling grunt, and scattered around by the feet of the people who had kicked them around.

Although the defenders were so frightened that they rushed forward to extinguish and slap like a nest, they still inevitably missed most of it, and at the moment when a quick-eyed defender picked up one and was about to throw it down.

A dizzying, dull thud burst out behind the crowd and threw the defender's fingers to the ground

Immediately afterward, some stumps and flesh flew above the heads of the people near the left like a spring, dripping their heads, faces and bodies into blood-colored mottles;

Then, as if it had been the first step, a series of loud and loud noises resounded one after another in the aisles of the city;

Suddenly, it was like a huge force that shook up and threw up the city, lifting the dancing or tattered human bodies over their heads like papier-mâché grass and slamming against the hard bluestone walls.

Some were simply knocked down by the air wave or blown away outside the city walls, and then, in the terrible and desperate screams, like ripe fruits, they fell into the sea of corpses and blood below the city, and disappeared with a sound, or stumbled on the broken siege equipment, and the bones and flesh were so broken that they never regained their human form.

Then there was the smoke and dust that suddenly erupted along both ends of the aisle, and in an instant the soldiers of the two armies who were fighting were all wrapped in disgrace, and for a moment they were already blinded and unable to see each other.

Then, there were more brave soldiers and warriors in the siege, and their morale was boosted and they used their speed to speed up, and they rushed forward without hesitation to compete with each other to hold their weapons, and jumped into the smoke and dust rolling at the head of the city.

After the smoke and dust cleared, most of the mottled colors of the original mixture of enemies and friends had been replaced by the main color of the large scarlet robes of the besieging southern army.

A larger number of soldiers who had newly arrived in the city bypassed the somewhat exhausted Suo Chao like flowing water, and along the city road that had become much wider, stepping on the corpses piled up all over the ground, shouting and roaring wildly.

Then, from time to time, they collided head-on with the defenders who turned or turned the corner, and fought head-on again. However, under the stacking of more and more superior numbers of soldiers who ascended the city, these remnants of the defenders who re-emerged, seemingly heroic and unusually resisted, did not make this irreversible process a little more twists and turns.

Although the battle was still not over with the stubborn enemy rising everywhere, the friendly forces that had established themselves on this section of the wall were cleared.

After a short rest and bandaging of the >, Suo Chao also felt relieved, and with the surging flow of people, he slowly walked towards the corner where he was still fighting. It's just that when he turned the corner of a corpse, he only felt that his chest suddenly seemed to be hit by a sledgehammer, and he couldn't help but feel a fishy smell gushing out of his throat, and then overflowed in his mouth, and he was suddenly pushed backwards several steps, leaning against the wall to stand firm.

"Be careful ...... Suo Xianxian"

"The pioneer officer was injured ......"

The sergeant next to him was already shouting and surrounding him, supporting his somewhat sliding body, and then he spit out a mouthful of blood in his mouth, only to feel the pain of being squeezed and pricked in his chest.

Only then did I find that the two large pieces of the circle on the chest had been shattered on the right side, and a mirrored hole that was broken like a spider's web was already full of red color and blood that kept coming out.

At this time, the enemy who was sneaking up on the castle tower in the distance was also driven to kill and fall, but it was a northern soldier with a flintlock hair, and then he was chopped into meat in a venting manner.

Then, on the other side of the tower, there was a sudden loud noise, and then it turned into a scream and exclamation that shook the sky; Large expanses of smoke and firelight, along with the stench of scorched smoke from buildings and human bodies, quickly rose behind the walls, and were blown by the wind to the top of the city on their side.

Suddenly, these soldiers who were on standby and resting in place were shrouded in a fierce choking sound.

After it took a lot of effort and time to reopen the city gate not far away, Suo Chao and his subordinates, whose faces had been blackened, knew what happened later.

In the case that the head of the salient in this section of Bishui Pass has been completely lost and irretrievable, those defenders have already taken some kind of pre-set measures to break the rear, and the new force of the follow-up pursuit has suffered a big loss.

They prepared a plank-covered oil trough under the city walls, broke the cover and let the oil mixed with fire oil flow all over the ground before the defenders retreated, and then when the partially broken defenders stood on these planks and fought and retreated.

In the end, regardless of the enemy and me, they set fire to it, and immediately burned the soldiers of the Southern Army who were pursuing the victory.

The pursuing troops, which were blocked by the fire and separated under the Waiguan City, were also met by the Northern Dynasty troops arrayed across the fire and were waiting to shoot back; There were many inevitable casualties on the spot, and several battalion leaders were unable to form an army and scattered on the spot; Han Tao, the left commander who was in charge of leading them and was known as the "Baisheng General" in the Southeast Route Army, was also killed on the spot by several bullets.

And Yu Xin, the third commander of the Weining Army, known as the fierce general of "Yu Leopard", was also the fastest to rush forward, but was cut off by the fire at the other end of the outer city, and was almost completely destroyed under the siege of the enemy.

As a result, Suo Chao took the lead in ascending the city and Pingsi gained a firm foothold, and the brave general who opened the way for the army became one of the few bright spots in front of the army that deserved to be praised and exemplary.

As a result, he also established the name and new nickname of "urgent pioneer".

It's just that there is still a fly in the ointment; Zhou Ziyu, the commander of the army who summoned him to the past, fully affirmed his achievements in ascending the city, patted his chest to assure and praise his merits;

But it also vaguely expressed that he took the initiative to summon in the battle, and the soldiers of the former army came to help, somewhat expressed some dissent that was really out of place, and the attitude that he could only make an example.

Then, he took care of his own problems. Wounds elsewhere are all right, and with his rank and merit, the army has to deal with them properly; But the wound where the circle was broken and embedded in the flesh on the chest was a little tricky.

Because although the wound is not deep, the broken fragments of the circle guard and the lead may be embedded in the flesh and skin, and it cannot be taken out intact with ordinary means and tools.

At present, the most adept at dealing with firearm wounds in the army is undoubtedly the former military headquarters that is also famous for its use of firearms, so several subordinates supported this Suo Chao and quickly found the front army garrison located in the rear of the city.

And as a difficult brother in a sense, he met Li Qiong who came to change the medicine in the field ambulance camp, and he only felt that the various stories of the same temper and the old man at first sight were later words.

At the same time, under the order that "only firearms can deal with firearms", the brigade of the former army was also able to drive up the outer gate tower that had been captured, and began to occupy the commanding heights and shoot at the northern army that retreated to the inner gate.

After a later delay in preparation, a deafening explosion and roar also resounded in the city; However, under the cover of the rows of firing guns and throwing crossbows at the head of the wall, the reinvigorated Electors began to attack the inner city along the blocked wall junction.

Some small siege equipment was also carried into the city gates, and began to bombard the inner part of the city occupied by the enemy army......

In front of a large sand table map of the camp outside Luodu City, the right privy envoy and the head of the Zhenjing army and horses, Zhang Shuye, the Duke of Yanshan, was also silently listening to the report of his subordinates.

"......About eighty percent of the newly built civil engineering work in the eastern and southern districts outside the city has been completed."

"During this period, hundreds of people died of exhaustion...... More material is needed"

"Do you want to take a ...... from the people in the city?"

"The animal power to pass through the three bridges in Heyang is urgent, and the backlog of materials and equipment on the north bank is increasing day by day."

"We need to levy more people from within the city to serve as ......"

"The Seven Military Orders That Have Been Invested on the Southern and Western Fronts of Kinai......"

"At present, there are four military orders that have been lost for a long time and have been determined to collapse,"

"The rest can be confirmed to return to the north bank of the river and the east of Luoshui, and the three military commanders have lost more than half of ......"

"Urgently waiting for the rear of the armor to be replenished before the war can be restored"

"Bishui Pass is urgent, please ask for help......"

"The fourth general of the Divine Standard Army, who guards the pass and supervises the war, asks for priority to replenish gunpowder, lead and fierce fire oil......"

"Report, Longmen Mountain Victory......"

"Yang Yuanjun once again successfully ambushed the vanguard of the southern rebellion, killing more than 4,000 people"

"Request again for the expedient use of the Black Lin Ride......"