After the deafening cheers of the Yuan army's camp, there was an uproar. Then the rumbling drums exploded, and Yuan Bing, who had been busy for a day and two nights, could not rest for a moment, and under the supervision of the supervising team, he stayed up all night until his eyes were red, and lined up in a military formation. Climb the fourteen-zhang high earthen wall to the drum, hide in the cowhide tent at the top of the ditch, and throw arrows at the head of Linzi City. The church guards stationed on the walls of Linzi also fought back.

The two sides exchanged fierce crossbows.

However, most of the archers were recruits who had touched the bow and arrow for the first time three days before, and it was okay to shoot a large enemy formation, after all, there was no need to aim, and a random arrow could always kill someone if they pressed a large group of people. But now it's different, the Yuan soldiers hiding in the firing port are all individuals, and they need extremely strong point shooting ability. The vast majority of the church's recruits are simply hard to shoot.

In addition, the number of bows and arrows in Linzi City is seriously insufficient, and the bows and arrows that are now distributed in place are all improvised with sharpened wooden sticks wrapped in iron heads, although they can penetrate the human body, it is difficult to penetrate the cowhide tent at a distance. This further weakened the archers' lethality.

On the other hand, Yan Liang's army is fourteen zhang high from the wall, one step higher than the Linzi city wall, condescending, plus their bows and arrows are regular iron-headed flying feather arrows, which are full of lethality.

After three rounds of shooting, a corpse fell at the head of Linzi City, killing more than 1,000 people, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total strength of the defending city. On the other hand, Yan Liangjun's casualties were only a handful and did not suffer any substantial losses.

Li Su saw that this was not going to work, and he had to fight his soldiers to continue shooting. Then he ordered everyone to stop shooting arrows and hide behind the female wall, pheasant moat, or bamboo and wood standing cards prepared overnight.

Suddenly, all the guards on the city wall in Yuan Jun's sight were hiding behind the bunker, and the bows and crossbows could not be shot, and the stones could not be smashed.

Yan Liang issued the order to launch a general attack at the right time. The Yuan army array, which was ready to go, rushed to Linzi like crazy, without the bow and arrow on the head of the city, and went all the way smoothly, and soon set up hundreds of cloud ladders on the head of the city.

At the same time, Yuan Bing, who was standing on the embankment, also put the plank on the battlement of the city wall.

Li Su, who was hiding behind the bamboo plaque, observed Yuan Bing's eastward direction without blinking, and at the moment when Yuan Bing was about to set foot on the city, he shouted violently, "Brothers, for the glory of the Holy Mother, kill the thief!" ”

The church guards suddenly rose up from behind the women's wall and bamboo signs, resisted the continuous arrows from the distance with a large shield, and overturned the ladders and planks that hit the city with the hooks of the long poles prepared in the morning.

Yuan Bing, who was rushing straight to the head of the city along the ladder and planks, was caught off guard, and fell to the bottom of the city with the board, killing hundreds of people on the spot. The church guards then rushed back to hiding behind the bunker before Yuan Bing's second round of arrows.

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For the rest of the day, the two sides were locked in a scorching tug-of-war. Yuan Bing kept building wooden planks and ladders on the wall, and the church guards kept overturning them. And so on and so forth.

5,000 church guards guarded the four walls against more than 20,000 Yuan soldiers...... The difficulty can be imagined. But they persevered, and in the face of Yuan Bing's crazy offensive, they fought with all their strength, fearless of death. It lasted for three hours, and after paying the price of 1,241 casualties, the first Yuan soldier set foot on the head of Linzi City.

The guards of the city unleashed their swords and spears and slashed them to the ground. Then came the second Yuan Bing, and the third ...... More and more Yuan soldiers poured onto the city wall. A fierce white-knuckle battle broke out on the city wall in an instant.

At first, the recruits of the church were afraid of this life-and-death contest, after all, these Yuan soldiers in front of them were all veterans who had just come down from the battlefield in Youzhou, and they were veterans who had experienced the battle array and killed people like numb. Can these new recruits, who have just put down their farming tools and picked up their weapons, be opponents?

But after a short encounter with Yuan Bing, the recruits immediately discovered that Yuan Bing was nothing more than that. The spear that stabbed and the knife that slashed was soft and didn't have much strength. Not to mention the martial arts, he was far from being his opponent in the competition of strength, and then his confidence increased greatly, and he opened and closed with Yuan Bing.

It's just that they don't know, where is Yuan Bing's lack of strength? Instead, after digging the soil for a day and two nights, he was already so tired that he almost collapsed. Before he had time to rest, he was forced by Yan Liang to attack the city. Until now, the upper eyelids are still with the lower eyelids, and everyone walks frivolously, so it's strange that they can have the strength to fight.

As a result, the church guards became more and more courageous, and the Yuan soldiers who rushed to the city became more and more frustrated, and often a group of three or five guards chased after more than a dozen Yuan soldiers, and finally forced them to a corner of the city wall and killed them as quickly as possible.

Yan Liang saw that the situation was very unfavorable to him, and after a while, the reserve team rushed to the city wall with the beat of the drum.

Unlike the first Yuan army on the city wall, the reserve team rested for most of the day after the construction of the distance moat, and recovered a lot of physical strength. It can be said that it is a new force. The church guards on the city wall, due to the lack of troops, have no chance to rest, and have been fighting for more than four hours in a highly tense battle, with serious physical exertion.

Compared with the two, the superiority is superior, and the Yuan army has more than 5,000 people in reserve alone, which is more than the total number of guards defending the city.

Therefore, as soon as the reserve army reached the city wall, the battle was immediately reversed, and the defenders of the city were defeated and retreated, and it was difficult to defeat them.

Linzi guarded Li Su in a hurry, "Resist it for me, resist it for me." The traitors must not be allowed to take the sacred city of Linzi. He took the lead, carrying a sword and personally going into battle, leading a team of personal soldiers to fight desperately.

Li Su is fierce and unstoppable, and Luan Lu is also inspiring. Dressed in a divine robe, he led his 32 workers and propaganda team members barefoot to completely ignore the bows and arrows shot from the mound, holding a long sword in one hand and the "Sutra of Our Lady" in the other.

Seeing that the main general was so brave and the patriarch was so fearless, under the leadership of the example, the soldiers were naturally not afraid of death, and started a desperate battle with Yuan Bing, and would rather pay the price of their lives than let Yuan Bing take a step forward.

The battle gradually entered a stalemate stage, and the two sides used the center line of the cross-section of the city wall as the benchmark, fighting back and forth, and fighting non-stop. The number of casualties on both sides skyrocketed, and each time they fought, they left corpses on the ground, piling up higher and higher, forming a waist-high hill. By this time, the number of casualties on the side of the church had exceeded 3,000, which means that there were less than 2,500 left.

2,500 men guarded the four city walls and faced an army of nearly 20,000 Yan Liang......

Under the extreme disadvantage of numbers, the defenders of the city were about to be unable to support it.

Just as Li Su was ready to destroy the city, he heard a burst of monstrous angry shouts in the city. Then, thousands of men, women, and children, armed with wooden rakes or iron pots, poured onto the city wall and fought with the Yuan soldiers.

An old man, supported by his immature grandson, found Luan Lu and said to Luan, "Patriarch, we are here to help you defend the city." ”

Luan Lu wiped the blood stains from his cheeks and corrected in a gentle tone: "Old man, you are not helping me defend the city. It is to help the people of heaven guard her city on earth. Our mother will see the credit for you and the people, and she will write down your merits. and when you ascend into the kingdom of heaven, I will grant you a greater city. With that, Luan Lu took off the silver cross from his neck and drew a cross in front of the old man, "May Our Lady bless you!" ”

"Our Lady bless!" The old man also drew a cross in front of him. He then raised his cane, which symbolized his status as an elder, and shouted, "Folks, fight for the dog thief!" ”

"Fight for it!"

The people went crazy and killed Yuan Bing. Their initial shots were relatively gentle, and their tactics were relatively jerky. But as familiar faces turned into corpses and fell to their side, the first thing that came to people's minds was horror.

At this moment, a familiar voice remembered, "Great Mother of God, may thy name be holy, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; Our daily bread is given to us today; forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; He will not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, and the authority, and the glory, are Thy forever. ”

Luan Lu's magnetic voice instantly infected the people. Oh, yes...... What are you afraid of! Fight for Our Lady and She will be with us, and after death we can ascend to heaven and enjoy never-ending beauty. Compared to ascending to heaven, what is there to be nostalgic for in this mortal world of endless battles!

The lamp of faith in people's hearts was lit in an instant, but at this time, a sudden change arose. An arrow slashed through an abominable curve and slammed into the tall figure, which was too familiar to be more familiar, piercing through the chest, and blood gushing out like the rays of the sun, staining the holy robes red. Then, the man who was hit by the arrow vomited a large mouthful of blood on the tattered Virgin Sutra in his hand.

"Luan Lu......" Li Suden went crazy and shouted hysterically. The slashing action in his hand then became a little faster, and he smashed through the layers of Yuan soldiers like crazy, approaching in the direction of Luan.

However, when he was only less than a hundred steps away from Luan Lu, he saw Luan Lu, whose mouth was full of blood, smiling at him. Afterwards, Luan Lu respectfully placed the "Sutra of Our Lady" on the ground...... This action obviously consumed a huge amount of his physical strength, so when he stood up straight, he gasped several times in succession.

After a few breaths, his eyes were full of strength and excellence, and he moved, running at high speed, and carrying down the spear stabbed by a Yuan pawn with his flesh. The iron spear entered his body, and the rosy blood bloomed again, and he shouted frantically, "Demon, go to hell!" Our Lady is with me. ”

Seeing Luan Lu's hysterical appearance, the Yuan soldier was frightened and tried his best to pull out the iron gun. But Luan Lu grabbed the gun and refused to let go, and couldn't pull it out.

Then, apparently rushing to the top of the wall, a huge thrust came from the top of the wall, pushing him backwards...... retreated, until he retreated to the root of the city wall, and finally his feet were empty, and he fell under the city with Luanlu.

At the last moment of falling from the city, Luan Lu used all his strength to leave his last words, "Our Lady's people are invincible!" Resolutely can't let the Yuan thief capture Linzi! ”