When Li Congjing stormed Huaizhou, the offensive and defensive battles in Zezhou were equally tragic.

Outside the city, on a building car in the formation of Li Dong's coalition army, Li Jitao and Dong Zhang were watching the battlefield situation.

"General Li, Li Congjing's bird has disappeared in Luzhou, the rangers you and I sent out either don't come back, they can't even find the corpse, or they don't see the Hundred Battles Army, what the hell do you say Li Congjing is doing?" Dong Zhang held on to the railing and said to Li Jitao beside him.

Li Jitao snorted coldly and said: "General Dong doesn't have to worry about it, Li Congjing is just playing tricks, Zelu and Luzhou, I have a lot of rangers walking around, and I have strictly controlled the main roads, so it's just that he doesn't show up, once he shows up, he will definitely not be able to escape the eyes of my rangers." At the moment, the most important thing for you and me is to take Zezhou City as soon as possible! ”

Dong Zhang glanced at the head of the city, and said in a deep voice: "Zezhou's defense is strict, beyond your and my expectations in advance, and Li Congjing is nowhere to be seen, in a certain opinion, you and I might as well change the siege city to a besieged city, so that we can also save our strength and deal with Li Congjing's calculations, lest you and I become a tired army and be attacked by him when the time comes." ”

Li Jitao's eyes lit up, and he pondered: "It is not impossible to besiege the city, when the food in the city is exhausted, this city can be broken, but it is ......"

Before Li Jitao finished speaking, a sergeant rushed upstairs to the car, "pounced" and knelt down in front of Dong Zhang, crying: "General, Huaizhou is besieged and in danger, please return to help quickly!" ”

"Dong Zhongming?!" Dong Zhang was surprised when he saw the person coming, and walked to help him up, "What did you just say?" Huaizhou is besieged? Who is surrounding Huaizhou? ”

The embarrassed Dong Zhongming said mournfully: "It's the Hundred Battles Army, Li Congjing!" A few days ago, they suddenly arrived in Huaizhou, the soldiers were well armed, and they stormed the east gate as soon as they came, the momentum was fierce, General Dong Huaide fought desperately, and he couldn't resist their offensive, Huaizhou was about to be unable to defend, please return to the general quickly! ”

Dong Zhang's color suddenly changed, his hands trembled, and he exclaimed: "What a treacherous Li Congjing, he actually attacked my Huaizhou!" Hateful, hateful! General Li, there are only more than 1,000 defenders left in Huaizhou, I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand the onslaught, so they must return to help! ”

Li Jitao hurriedly grabbed Dong Zhang, "General Dong, no, no!" This is clearly Li Congjing's strategy of differentiation and disintegration, and it is a routine to clean up the towns of Luzhou before, if General Dong comes back to help, he is in the arms of Li Congjing, and he must not act like this! ”

Dong Zhang broke away from Li Jitao's hand and paused: "Huaizhou is in danger, can you save it?" ”

"General Dong! Then Li Congjing only has 3,000 people, and you also have 1,000 defenders in Huaizhou, how can he attack it overnight? The top priority is to Ke Zezhou first, and then return to the division, and copy Li Congjing's back road, then Zezhou and Li Congjing will both be defeated by my hands! If you return to the army at this time, the siege of Zezhou will be lifted, and you and I will be ruined for many days! Li Jitao analyzed the situation and tried hard to dissuade him.

"No, not three thousand, it's six thousand!" Dong Zhongming hissed and shouted, "Li Congjing led nearly 6,000 people to attack Huaizhou, and 4,000 people were gathered at the East Gate alone. ”

"Six thousand?! Where did Li Congjing get 6,000 people?! Li Jitao was shocked.

"Where did you get 6,000? It's not your Luzhou people! Dong Zhang glared.

Li Jitao opened his mouth and was speechless.

Dong Zhang paced back and forth, rubbing his hands uncontrollably, his brows furrowed into the word "Sichuan", and he was thinking hard about how to deal with it next.

"General......

"General Dong......"

Dong Zhang stretched out his hand to stop the two, "Let me think, let me think about it......"

On the same day, a total of three waves of people came to Huaizhou to ask Dong Zhang for help, and one wave was more urgent than another. When it came to the third wave, Dong Zhang finally made up his mind to return to Huaizhou.

For him, the capture of Zezhou is a credit, and there is no big problem if he doesn't conquer it, and losing Huaizhou is his guilt, so he doesn't know how to choose?

Just when Dong Zhang ordered to return to the division, what surprised him was that Li Jitao actually said that he was willing to lead An Yijun to rescue Huaizhou with him!

"Instead of General Dong coming back alone, it is better for you and me to go together, so against Li Congjing, I am sure to defeat him in one fell swoop! I only hope that after Huaizhou's predicament is solved, General Dong can pour out the strength of Huaizhou, return to the division and take Zezhou with a certain one, don't embarrass someone! Li Jitao's words were pertinent.

Dong Zhang excitedly held Li Jitao's hand, "General Li is righteous, Dong will not let the general's prestige be humiliated!" ”

The bitterness in Li Jitao's heart, only he knows that as a rebel general, if Zezhou can't take it, how can he stay in Luzhou safely? Sooner or later, they will fall into a situation of sitting and waiting to die. And defeating Li Congjing first and avoiding the big trouble is also the best policy!

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Huaizhou.

The siege of the Hundred Battles Army has entered its third day.

On the first day, the first battle was started by the headquarters of the Hundred Battles Army, and then it was replaced by the temporary war battalion, and the onslaught was carried out day and night, and it was another day.

On this day, Li Congjing also arranged an ambush outside the west gate that was originally released, and before the siege, he allocated a cavalry under command to Sun Erniu, and strictly ordered: "If there are people and horses who break through Huaizhou, you must not let one go, otherwise you will come to see you!" ”

The catapult continued to bombard the head of Huaizhou City, before the army officially launched an attack, Li Congjing summoned the generals to lecture in front of the battle, "A city guarded by more than 1,000 people, I attacked it with four times the force, and the siege equipment was excellent and sufficient, but it could not be overcome in two days!" When I was in Qimen before, I waited for half a year, practiced hard every day, thought that I was proficient in the formation, and I never thought about the first big war, but I actually delayed the war so far, it was really a great shame! ”

What he said was actually a bit against his will, except that the first battle was started by the headquarters of the Hundred Battles Army, and the follow-up attacks were all served by the temporary war camps, and Li Congjing's purpose in using them was just to consume Huaizhou, but this did not prevent him from using this as a reason to boost morale before the general offensive was launched.

Li Congjing paced back and forth on his horse and continued: "Before sunset today, if Huaizhou is not restrained, the envoy will personally go into battle; If Huaizhou was not defeated before the child, the envoy would rather die on the battlefield! ”

After speaking, he shouted: "Where is Zhang Xiaowu?!" ”

"The last general!" Zhang Xiaowu came out of the queue and said loudly.

"This envoy ordered you to draw the elite, and the formation of the trapped team has been completed?"

"Returning to the commander, two hundred trapped soldiers have been assembled!" Zhang Xiaowu roared.

"Good!" Li Congjing waved his hand, "Today's siege, 5,500 people are all in battle!" The south gate and the north gate were attacked by the temporary war camp at the same time, and the headquarters of our 3,000 war army mainly attacked the east gate, in order to break the enemy with one blow! ”

"Herald: Siege!"

"The commander of the envoy order: siege!"

"The commander of the envoy order: siege!"

"The commander of the envoy order: siege!"

The sound of trumpets and war drums thundered in unison, resounding throughout the land, and the military formation composed of 3,000 and hundreds of war troops shouted in unison, stepping on neat footsteps, and crushing towards the head of Huaizhou City. When entering the range of the bed crossbow, the first 1,000 soldiers strode out and rushed forward.

Going upstairs to the car, Li Congjing and the railing of the guard road looked at it.

Huaizhou City Tower, under the bombardment of the catapults of the Hundred Battles Army, has collapsed most of it, it looks dilapidated, a large section of the female wall on the east wall has been shattered, you can see the horse road behind the female wall, the suspension bridge in front of the city gate has been damaged, and there is an abandoned crash car next to it.

In the midst of the shouting, the army had begun to take over the city.

This time, the first to go into battle were the troops of Wu Hook and Shi Congda, who commanded the infantry army.

Shi Congda is an old commander, and when he was in Qimen before, he had a conflict with another commander, Ding Mao, because of the matter of the residence, and then Li Congjing asked them to fight in front of the army to resolve the suspicion. Wu Hook is young, he has been an orphan since he was a child, he has been in the army for many years, he is a straight old man, he is outstanding, shrewd and capable, and his thinking is very flexible.

Rushing to the front of the trench, the iron arrows at the head of Huaizhou City fell like a torrential rain, and someone was hit by the arrow in an instant. Wu Gou dragged back a sergeant who had been shot through his armor by sharp arrows, and with a wave of the knife in his hand, two rows of large shields around him immediately blocked the front with large shields, blocking the iron arrows at the head of the city, while three rows of archers drew their bows behind.

As the knife in Wu Gou's hand fell, the first row of archers withdrew with their hind feet, the bowstring was full, and they shot neatly at the head of the city, only to see the arrows into points, points into arrows, and fell on the head of the city in the blink of an eye. These archers of the Hundred Battles Army were extraordinary, and they immediately shot many Liang troops, and some Liang soldiers fell directly from the city.

Immediately Wu Hook waved the knife in his hand again, the second row of archers sharpened their arrows off the string, and as soon as the Liang army came out of the city, they were covered by iron arrows, and there were many casualties, which frightened the remaining Liang army archers, and quickly shrank their necks and hid behind the female wall.

The shield bearers parted, the bridge was erected on the moat, and a Liang army general at the head of the city jumped to his feet and shouted, letting the Liang army archers return fire, but before they could move, the third row of archers behind Wu Hook fired another volley, and an iron arrow hit the Liang army impartially, so panicked that the sergeant next to him hurriedly pulled him back, and even more people jumped out to block the arrows for him.

Three rows of archers took turns to shoot and suppress the city, taking advantage of this moment, the Hao Bridge was erected, and the ladder cart pushed across the Hao Bridge.

This scene made Wei Dao on the upstairs car sway, and he couldn't help blurting out praise: "Commander Wu is really a wise general!" ”

Li Congjing didn't speak, but he already looked up to Wu Hook again in his heart.

Rushing through the open space in front of the city wall, Wu Hook's department pushed a few ladders close to the city wall, the flag officer beside him kept waving the order flag, and his soldiers were divided into two parts, one part raised a shield under the cloud ladder to cover, supplemented by archers to suppress the Liang army on the head of the city, and the other part climbed up the ladder with thunder stones and rolling wood, and climbed up with monkey vigor.

The first few sergeants were hit by stones and fell down, some fell on the carriage, and survived, and those who fell on the ground were choked up.

Wu Gou shouted at the top of his voice, the archers under the ladder, as if stimulated, jumped out, and shot at the head of the city in bursts, and after a while, he organized three rounds of arrow rain to cover the tactics, suppressing the head of the city, and creating conditions for the sergeants who climbed the ladder.

But the Liang army at the head of the city is not a rice bucket, risking death to fight back, and the combat style is also brave.

Shi Congda commanded his subordinates to push the nest cart, and at this time also leaned on the city wall, the nest cart was higher than the city wall, and had an advantage over the enemy itself, he was not in a hurry to erect a wooden plank on the city wall, and on the nest cart, he ordered the archers to look down and release arrows. That means that you have to clear a place before you go to the wall.

"Give Lao Tzu all the arrows hard, don't hide them! The day before yesterday, Ding Mao's gang didn't attack the city, this time we must let him see it! "Shi Congda has been on good terms since he reconciled with Ding Mao, but the competition between the two departments has intensified.

On the nest car, almost everyone is an archer, from all angles, no money, try to put arrows at the head of the city, the thunder stones on the head of the city can not hurt them, they take advantage of it, refuse to suffer a little loss, that posture, it is like they are defending the city.

Seeing that the nest car and the ladder had stabilized their positions, Li Congjing ordered: "Ling Mengsan breaks the city gate!" ”