More than 80 ironclad soldiers were divided into two parts, each with the city tower as the center, led by Li Yanzhi and Zhou Xing respectively, and killed in the east and west directions of the city wall.

As far as Li Yanzhi's eyes could see, they were all yellow-skinned and black-haired Han family sons and daughters fighting together. The consumption of the Qiang tribe in the past few days was so great that they could hardly organize a powerful attack now. In the Zhao army, these Han people rose from the second echelon to the front line and served as the vanguard of the siege. These Han people were all the soldiers of the wealthy families in Longxi and Guanzhong who had been recruited by Liu Zhao and the displaced people who were coerced by them.

Although these tribes are also rarely trained, compared to the Qiang people, who are called rabble, the combat power of these beggar troops is significantly higher. The enemy forces that fought the defenders from Dengcheng were well-organized and well-founded. The tacit understanding between the soldiers and the soldiers, and between the generals and the soldiers, brought great trouble to the Lingju auxiliaries who were guarding the city. During the battle, Li Yanzhi saw many auxiliary soldiers being stabbed with knives and guns and then falling, which made him feel more and more sad.

These auxiliaries have experienced dozens of battles in the past eight days, and the initial timidity and fear are long gone. In its place, it was all perseverance and numbness. In the days when they were stationed in the city, the auxiliaries had long been accustomed to the inexplicable pleasure of stabbing their swords and spears into the enemy's body. The smell of blood, which at first made them sick, no longer feels so pungent and unpleasant. After experiencing the baptism of these battles, even these auxiliaries can be called an elite.

However, seeing that both sides in the city were sons of the Han family, but they were fighting each other like enemies who did not share the sky, Li Yanzhi couldn't help but feel the pain in his heart, waved forward with a knife in his right hand, and roared angrily: "Kill with me!" "In this battlefield where swords meet each other, no one has much choice. Li Yanzhi is the same, if he wants to keep his soldiers, he must kill all the enemy troops who have landed in the city. Even if these enemy troops are the sons of the Han family who are of the same culture as him and his subordinates.

More than 30 ironclad foot soldiers marched in unison, cooperating with the garrison auxiliaries on the city, and launched an offensive against the enemy like autumn wind sweeping leaves. Li Yanzhi slashed hard, and he will split an enemy general facing him in half from the waist. The enemy's upper body was broken and fell on the city, but his consciousness was still clear. He stared in disbelief at his still uncollapsed waist down, wailing in pain as he reached out to touch his belly in horror.

However, when he reached out his hand, he only felt a piece of intestines that had fallen out of his body. When he lifted the intestine in front of him, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and yelled like a nervous breakdown. Li Yanzhi saw his miserable appearance, but suddenly thought of Niu Erzhuang who was on the north bank of Jincheng. His nose was sore, and his body stepped forward uncontrollably, raising his hands and slashing them down.

The frightened and heart-rending howl finally stopped abruptly with a knife slashed out by Li Yanzhi. Li Yanzhi stepped on the internal organs and wreckage of the enemy general he had just killed, and continued to stride forward. After walking a few steps, they saw Qin Dayong in the front row with two or three foot soldiers, entangled and fighting with enemy troops several times their size. A pair of auxiliaries were on the flank, fighting with them against the enemy, but they were unable to break through the enemy's barrier and join these ironclad soldiers.

Li Yanzhi rushed forward and rushed up from Qin Dayong's side. Qin Dayong was holding the long knife in his hand and fighting an enemy general with two knives in front of him. The two of you have been fighting for more than ten years, but they are still in a state of stalemate, and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat.

Qin Dayong only felt that a gust of wind suddenly blew by his side, and then the sound of gold and iron resonating sounded in front of him. looked closely, but it was Li Yanzhi who stepped forward with momentum, and with a powerful oblique slash, he forced back many enemy soldiers on the side. When these soldiers were defeated and retreated, the position of the enemy's double sword commander Zuo was highlighted.

The flanks suddenly emptied, causing the enemy general to hesitate involuntarily. However, at this moment, Qin Dayong's powerful straight slash was also slashed at his head. Seeing this, the enemy general couldn't help but be shocked and hurriedly dodged. Qin Dayong, who was a little clumsy in the past, used ten percent of his strength in this blow, and the knife edge was also with a strong wind, as if it could open mountains and crack stones.

The enemy dodged sideways, but only as fast as the head was spared. Qin Dayong's straight slash slashed straight into the enemy's left shoulder. The blade sank into his shoulder, blood slowly oozing through his clothes and leather armor. The sharp pain caused the knife in the enemy's left hand to fall to the ground in an instant. Qin Dayong did not draw his knife immediately, but pressed down with all his might, until the severe pain forced the enemy general to kneel on one knee.

At this time, Qin Dayong's annoyance came up. Fang had just fought with this enemy general for so many rounds, which undoubtedly made him anxious, but also felt a great loss of face, and at this time, he used more force in his hands, so he wanted to torture this enemy general to death.

Seeing this, the subordinates around the enemy general hurriedly waved their swords, wanting to step forward to save their commanders. However, Li Yanzhi took a step forward with his left foot, and the knife in his hand was already stabbing straight out. One of the enemy sergeants who rushed first was caught off guard and was stabbed through the long blade in his hand. The soldiers on the other side saw that their companions fell to the ground and spasmed, and they rushed towards Li Yanzhi like crazy with a ring knife in their hands.

Li Yanzhi saw that the comer held the knife in both hands and held it high above the top, jumped in the air and slashed towards him, but he also calmed down a little, and the knife in his hand faced the opponent's ring-headed knife. Li Sima, who had been in battle for a long time, was slashing with the soldier's knife in the air, and the huge force from the knife body shook the soldier's mouth numb, and the knife was out of his hand in an instant.

Li Yanzhi took advantage of the momentum and slashed out, and the head of the enemy soldier slowly slipped off him with half a shoulder. Li Yanzhi was expressionless and kicked the corpse down. Then he turned around, and with a wave of the long knife in his hand, the head of the enemy general Zuo, who was slashed by Qin Dayong and firmly pressed to his knees, also flew up.

Although the long knife in Li Yanzhi's hand is also a long-bladed knife in the shape of an axe blade, this knife is used in the fight in the city repeatedly, and after eight or nine days, no less than thirty or fifty enemy soldiers have been hacked and wounded, and now they also feel that the blade is a little dull.

Seeing that Li Yanzhi had cut down the enemy general, Qin Dayong came back to his senses, looked at Li Yanzhi, and saw that his face was a little uncertain, so he hurriedly carried his knife and continued to lead his soldiers to continue to fight with the enemy army who landed in the city.

As the battalion entered the battle and gradually fell under the siege of those auxiliaries, the enemy soldiers who fought at the head of the city were killed or beheaded. The battle gradually began to develop in favor of the Lingju soldiers. However, as lieutenant generals in the army, Li Yanzhi, Qin Dayong, Zhou Xing and others still led troops to rush to the front line without fear. They fought bravely against the enemy army with their perseverance, and undoubtedly played a good role model for the soldiers under their command.

Inspired by the generals who came to the front line, although the soldiers were exhausted, everyone was not far behind. The infantry of the Zhao army who ascended the city were soon divided and surrounded by the soldiers of Lingju County, who were about the same number, at the head of the city, and gradually showed a situation of exhaustion.

Not far from the city wall of Lingju South Gate, a young man with yellow skin and black hair and a brocade hat and ermine fur was observing the situation of Lingju City on a high slope. From time to time, he turned his head and whispered to several generals on the left and right, and then cast his gaze at his own soldiers who were gradually exhausted at the head of the city.

"Du Ziming, it seems that your attack is going to end in failure again. Do you want to continue to send people to the city for reinforcements? The young man in the brocade hat and ermine fur looked at a general in the armoured armours on the side and asked in stiff Chinese.

The general who was called bowed slightly on his horse and said, "King, although our army has suffered many setbacks in attacking the city these days, I have also seen some clues......

The young man in the brocade hat mink Qiu is Liu Yin, the king of Zhao Nanyang, this time he led the army deep into the cool realm, which can be said to be a temporary intention, although he also sent a fast horse to inform Chang'an in advance, but he did not get the approval of Liu Yao, the lord of Zhao State. Seeing that his 20,000 horses were under the city, and he could not advance an inch for eight or nine days, he was more anxious than anyone else. It's just that the generals and tribal patriarchs of all clans under his command have already done their best, and Liu Yin is not too harsh on them.

"Oh? Du Ziming, what have you discovered, you might as well tell me about it. Liu Yin was interested in what the Han general said, and signaled himself to listen.

"I don't know if the king has ever heard a common saying in the Central Plains, called 'will be the courage of the army'. Ling Ju was only a county of soldiers in the city, at best more than 2,000. Our siege of the city is not that the soldiers do not need to die, but why do we not have to advance an inch under the city? They are all ordered to live in the city because of the enemy's stronghold, and they are good generals. ”

Du Ziming looked at Liu Yin's expression without the slightest fluctuation, and then continued: "I have heard the words of the soldiers who fled back from the bloody battle in the city these days, and there are some soldiers defending the enemy in the city, all wearing iron armor and covering their faces. The swords in the hands of the soldiers under our command could not hurt them at all. Instead, each of them had a long knife six or seven feet long. Compared with the two, our army has fallen behind in an instant......"

Liu Yin nodded: "With what Ziming sees, how will he break the enemy?" ”

"As far as you can see, the enemy forces are well distributed. In the past eight or nine days, the casualties of the defenders in the city must have been more than half. However, the enemy did not show the slightest hint of fatigue. Du Ziming recalled the various situations since the start of the war, and said: "Every time we wait for the soldiers to climb the city and fight a bloody battle, we will repel the enemy army. However, as soon as the enemy soldiers came forward to fight with us, their morale immediately doubled, and they were able to cooperate with the ironclad infantry to defeat us! ”

Du Ziming thought for a moment and concluded: "From this, I dare to assert that the enemy will be on this city, and even, above this south gate!" ”

Liu Yin smiled: "Ziming, what you said, you know it." But I wonder what you have to do to get me to find this enemy and try to get rid of him? ”

Du Ziming arched his hand on the horse and said: "Then it depends on whether the king is reluctant to give up!" ”

Liu Yin raised his eyebrows: "How do you say this?" If I can break the enemy army here and occupy Lingju, I can't ask for it, so why don't I want it? ”

Du Ziming: "Since this is the case, please ask the king to send his elite cavalry to the city." The enemy will not be able to resist it. We can see where there is a fierce battle in the city, and where there are enemy ironclad soldiers. Then a cavalry group of horsemen concentrated their arrows at the place where the battle was fierce. If the enemy is wounded or beheaded, the enemy army will surely collapse! ”

Liu Yin pondered for a moment, frowned, and said, "In this way, wouldn't it be that our soldiers and soldiers in the city will also be covered by arrows?" You say that the enemy's iron armor is covered and the sword is difficult to penetrate, how can the arrows of our army be easily shot to death? ”

Du Ziming: "Don't forget, the king, I'll wait for those!" After that, everyone looked in the direction of Du Ziming's finger, but they saw several huge trebuchets behind the formation.

"It's up to you! A quarter of an hour later, Liu Xuan's troops abandoned the city of Madeng and wanted to divide and surround the enemy army in the city, so that the enemy general would lead the ironclad infantry to come to support. Liu Yin looked at the head of the city, and sighed leisurely: "I don't want to avoid Jincheng, but I still can't enter this small Lingju city." Now that the best time has passed, even if we conquer Lingju, we will have to return to the army......"

A general stepped out and hugged his fist to Liu Yin to receive the order, but it was Liu Xuan who was named by Liu Yin. Although he knew that he was leading his troops forward, it was only to lure out the enemy generals, so that his bow and trebuchet could find an opportunity to carry out this "decapitation operation". However, Liu Xuan still took the order without hesitation. He went to the cavalry team waiting behind the battle, summoned more than a dozen of his subordinate centurions, ordered more than 1,000 of his own men, and galloped to the city. Suddenly, the cavalry galloped through the drizzle. Although there is no smoke and dust in the sky, it still looks spectacular.

More than 1,000 Huns rode to the moat under the city, and then dismounted one after another, each holding a weapon and climbing towards the head of the city along the siege ladder left by the beggar army. Every time two soldiers were left to lure the horses back to the camp, and the rest of the Hun cavalry who participated in the landing of the city were desperate to kill the head of the city!

With the Hun cavalry landing in the city, the infantry of the Zhao army, which was already showing a tendency to be overwhelmed, was excited again, Li Yanzhi saw that he could have repelled the Han begging soldiers who had climbed the city, but he did not expect such a sudden change, and he was in a hurry, looked at his own soldiers who were gradually becoming unsupported, and shouted: "Change the formation!" The front battalion is in the front, and the auxiliaries are in the back! ”

Li Yanzhi's password was passed on by the surrounding soldiers, and the Lingju county soldiers at the head of the city moved according to their words. Soon, the soldiers of the Battlefront Battalion in full iron armor were all concentrated in the front row of each team. The long knives in everyone's hands were all tinged with a dazzling red blood, and it was shocking to look at. The auxiliaries followed one after another, and the tips of the spears in their hands also showed a cold light of choosing people to eat.

The uplifted beggar army joined forces with the Hun cavalry who climbed to the top of the city, and began to attack the Lingju county soldiers who were surrounded on three sides. However, thanks to Li Yanzhi's good arrangement in the battle, under the expressionless slashing of the soldiers of the Zhanfeng Battalion, whether it was the Hun cavalry or the begging soldiers, they all fell in a pool of blood. The corpses piled up on the city, so that the soldiers of the two armies who were still alive and fighting had almost nowhere to rest.

Li Yanzhi looked at the Hun cavalry who had ascended the city with an unkind expression, and his anger burned in his chest, almost irrepressible. He raised his long knife, and as soon as he said the word killing, one of the Hun horsemen closest to him had already fallen in response!

However, at this moment, a rain of arrows suddenly covered the city, and Li Yanzhi was caught off guard, and his left arm facing the battlements was hit by an arrow! The rain of arrows came suddenly, and the unsuspecting soldiers on both sides fell to the ground one after another!