"Whew-"

The desolate horn suddenly sounded, piercing the dreary afternoon sky, and everyone on the Chongyang city wall was stunned, and they all looked towards the mountain pass.

A large blue flag turned out of the mountain pass, and the dust behind the flag was flying, and the footsteps were scattered, and countless water bandits converged into a turbid stream, rolling forward along the avenue. A few startled birds fluttered and circled, but they could not find a place to stay, so they had to flapp their wings and fly into the distance.

Li Zicheng called himself the King of Shuide, and the uniforms and banners of the Dashun Army were all blue, and Song Jiang pretended to be in the name of the Dashun Army, so he also wore a blue battle flag.

There was silence on the head of Chongyang City, and the young men held their breath and stared at the mountain pass, seeing that there were more and more black water bandits, and there was a tense and depressing atmosphere in the air.

"What are you doing? Whoever pokes his head out to see the excitement again, be careful that Lao Tzu cuts him! The horsewhip in Meng Bao's hand waved up and down, splitting his head and covering his face and slapping the young man in a daze: "Poke your mother, don't hurry up and work!" Let you see, let you see......"

Only then did the young men react, hurriedly carrying brick and lime bottles and other equipment to defend the city, and climbed to the top of the city in groups, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, and lined up in a sparse and uneven line behind the female wall.

Meng Bao's guards formed a military law team, patrolling the city with broadswords in their arms, and a military judge loudly proclaimed military orders.

"Those who retreat from the battle, slash! Those who do not obey military orders will be killed! Who's a noiser, slash! ……”

Wang Kefan and the county officials stood on the city tower, holding the battlements and watching the military appearance of the bandits. At the moment of the great enemy, Lu Chuanying's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, Xu Bingzhong's expression was quite calm, but his hands were subconsciously pressing against the wall tiles, and the joints of his fingers turned white for a while.

One, two, and three ......, more and more blue flags appeared in the field of vision, and the bandits finally all appeared, and there were three or four thousand people in the big eye. They did not have uniform uniforms, most of them wore short coats of green loess cloth, and some were even shirtless, and from a distance they looked like the withered grasslands of autumn, mottled and dull in color, covering a huge field.

The horns whimpered, the flags waved, and the bandits stopped advancing and slowly gathered around the Chinese army. Suddenly, the bandits shouted in unison, raised their knives and guns together, and flashed a dazzling light in the strong afternoon sun!

The young men at the head of the city all changed color in horror, and a young man sat on the ground with a plop on his feet.

"Drag him down and beat him with twenty sticks!"

Xu Bingzhong commanded coldly, but his eyes kept staring at the city.

The crackling sticks sounded, and the young man kept wailing and screaming, but he couldn't cover the noise of the bandits.

After the whole team of the bandits was completed, they divided into two groups, with 2,000 soldiers as the front team, and approached forward again, until they were a thousand steps away from the city wall, they did not stop, brandished their weapons and shouted, and constantly threatened and cursed the city wall, and several cavalry even rushed to the moat, galloping back and forth, arrogant.

Under their cover, the rear team of 2,000 bandits dispersed, some cut down trees, some set up camps, and also erected a simple nest car for lookout next to the Chinese army's Daxu to check the movement in Chongyang City.

On the city tower, Lu Chuanying cautiously leaned out, just to take a look with a few water bandit cavalry, the city tower and the moat were only a stone's throw away, even their noses and eyes could be seen clearly, and there was murderous anger in their hideous eyes.

Facing these vicious water bandits alive, he only felt that his breath was short of breath and his legs were weak, and he hurriedly retracted behind the battlements, and said to Wang Kefan in a trembling voice: "The thieves are brave, it's better not to go out of the city to fight, just hold on to the city for a few days, the enemy army will run out of food, and they will retreat." ”

"Yin Gong (the honorific title for the county Cheng) rest assured, the water bandits are tired from afar, and while their foothold is not stable, the Gongyi battalion just went out of the city to rush and kill for a while." Wang Kefan pointed to the flag of the Chinese army of the water bandits and said: "This water bandit is only the front army of Song Jiang, the strength is limited but the enemy is rash to advance, our army will definitely be able to win the battle!" ”

A gust of south wind blew through the fields, and the Chinese army in the water bandit formation moved in the wind, and the word "Du" on it was clearly visible. The scouts sent had already ascertained that Song Jiang's army and baggage troops were still thirty miles away, and under the city were the vanguard of the water bandits, and the main general, King Dulong, was the leader of the seventeen water villages.

The strength is weak, and King Du Long is overconfident, and only sends 2,000 people to serve as guards, which is a rare fighter.

"Can a virtuous nephew be sure? In case of defeat, not only will the soldiers be lost, but also the morale of the city will inevitably be frustrated...... "At the juncture of the battle of life and death, Xu Bingzhong lost his usual free and easy demeanor, and he couldn't make up his mind between gains and losses.

Wang Kefan interrupted him without hesitation: "The young people in the city are brave, but the thieves are in high spirits, and if they blindly defend it, there is a danger that the city will be broken, so they must go out of the city to face the battle!" ”

Cold weapon combat is mainly hand-to-hand combat, the level of morale directly affects the victory or defeat of the battle, the water bandits lightly advance the enemy, but also means that the morale is high, the soldiers of King Du Long are approaching the front of the moat, and thousands of water bandits have been shouting non-stop, all in order to intimidate the defenders in Chongyang City.

If it is an elite veteran who has survived a hundred battles, of course he will not be intimidated by this kind of bluff, but the young and strong people in the city are all improvised patchwork, and they have already been scared out of their courage.

In this way, in the hands of King Dulong, the water bandits can calmly build camps, build all kinds of siege equipment, and wait until Song Jiang's large army arrives, take advantage of the advantage of troops to launch a battle to climb the city, and break through the low city wall of Chongyang in one go.

Ready to fly, have to fight!

After passing down the military order, the Gongyi battalion soon came to the west gate.

In the past few days, a seven-foot-deep trench has been dug behind the gate, and a low wall of barricades has been built behind the trench as the second line of defense after the city gate is lost.

Eight hundred recruits crossed the ditch and lined up in front of the gate, waiting for the gate to open, and the guards behind them removed the gangplanks from the trench and sealed the gap in the low wall with knife carts.

Using the bows and arrows allocated by Niu Zhongxiao, Wang Kefan was equipped with dozens of archers and firecrackers, who followed the horse road to the top of the city, joined the archers under Meng Bao, and lined up outside the city. The archer picks up the bow and adjusts the string, carefully smooths the feathers of the arrow, takes out the wrench and puts it on the thumb; The firecracker reloads the bird's gun, lights the firerope, and silently waits for the order to fire.

Wang Kefan took a bird gun, nodded to Xu Bingzhong, and then put the bird gun on his shoulder, aiming at a water bandit cavalry who was showing off his might under the city......

"When—"

With a crisp gunshot, the water bandit cavalry fell off the horse, and the war horse was frightened and galloped wildly, but the water bandit's right foot was stuck in the stirrup, and it was dragged out more than ten meters before it was thrown off, and the corpse was motionless and no longer human.

The sound of the guns was an order, and the musketeers and archers at the head of the city fired together, and immediately knocked down another water bandit cavalry, and the remaining few were lucky not to be hit, and hurriedly turned their horses and fled backwards.

With a bang, a burst of cheers broke out on the top of the city, although only two enemies were eliminated, the courage of the young men was strong, and they laughed and scolded the water bandit cavalry who fled in embarrassment. Meng Bao waved his hand, and several young men with loud voices stood up, scolded the water bandits under the city loudly, opened and closed their mouths and did not leave the next three roads, greeting the women in King Dulong's family every word.

The water bandits shouted and screamed for a long time, and their mouths were already a little dry, but after losing two cavalrymen, they lost another step in momentum, and in this scolding battle between the city and the city, they couldn't help but lose the upper hand.

As soon as the morale was discharged, the formation of the water bandits was faintly loosened.

"Open the gates."

Taking advantage of the water bandits' surprise and hesitation, Wang Kefan turned around and went down to the city with archers and firecrackers. The gatekeeper pushed the winch with all his might, slowly lifted the jack gate, removed the top latch, and pushed open the two tall and thick iron-clad pine gates.

The gates opened, and the battlefield appeared.

Different from the unobstructed view from the city tower, the army of water bandits seemed to be more dense at this time, with swords and guns like a forest, people cascading on top of each other, big banner nests and cars standing majestically, and horns and drums resounding through the sky. Seeing the Chongyang City Gate open, the water bandits waved the command flag in the formation, adjusting the formation indiscriminately, and some of the brave ones were still moving forward, wanting to rush up and grab the city gate.

is about to start a life-and-death struggle, the recruits are silent, only the spear in their hands is clenched hard, and then clenched, their expressions are a little stiff, at this time, a group of old and young women and children suddenly appeared on the low wall behind them, led by Wang Kefan's mother Liu, Fu Shihua and Xicui stood behind her, and the others were also villagers who came from Hengshili.

"Mother, what are you doing?"

Wang Kefan asked in amazement, but Liu ignored him and blessed the army.

"In today's battle, there is no thief ...... me. If we win, we will offer you all the kings with fine wine, and if we fail, we will be willing to kill you here, and blood will be splashed on the city! ”

Silence, but in silence there is an explosion. Eight hundred recruits rushed forward with enthusiasm, like a volcano that suddenly woke up, puffed up their chests together, and held their heads high to face their fathers and elders on a blind date, and they couldn't help themselves.

Wang Kefan raised the bird gun with one hand, raised his arms and shouted: "The thieves and robbers offended me Chongyang, and we are all children of Hunan and Chu, and today we will fight to the death with the thieves to protect our family and hometown!" ”

"Fight to the death, defend your home and hometown!" Eight hundred people responded in unison.

"In today's battle, there are no thieves with me!"

"In today's battle, there are no thieves with me!" The recruits roared together, and the sound shook the sky.

Military Heart is available.

"Gongyi Battalion, follow me out of the city to kill the enemy!" Wang Kefan pointed to the dense water bandits outside the city and gave an order.