readx; At the fourth watch of the night, due to his serious injuries and old age, Deng Shaoyu, the Marquis of Dingyuan, died in Yangzhou City. Pens, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info please search! Although the fastest updated novel This old man is not as good at fighting as his ancestor Deng Yu, but he dared to stand up at a critical moment and send charcoal to Yangzhou in the snow, so the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou all cried after learning of this bad news.

But the battlefield doesn't believe in tears. After being crossed by reinforcements in the middle of the night, the thieves invested more troops in the south of Yangzhou, and lit a bonfire every few zhang away, illuminating it as if it were day. A large number of cavalry tightly sealed the river bank, and then brought in countless thieves armed with shovels, dug into trenches and accumulated soil into mountains, and concocted other three practices, in an attempt to completely besiege Yangzhou City.

The short night passed quickly. This night, Shi Kefa stayed up all night: he had to rearrange the city defenses, arrange the 1,000 newly reinforced guards, and prepare food and lodging for these 1,000 people, and he had to write a recital overnight to report the fierce battle in Yangzhou and the martyrdom of the Marquis of Dingyuan to Nanjing and Beijing.

Enemy hatred and hatred, Sun Xuemo, Yang Yuxing

However, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, including Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, seized the time to sleep for two or three hours. They are so tired, and tomorrow there is an even bigger battle to be fought. Although the sacrifice of nearly twenty soldiers was the heaviest loss for the Guanning Iron Cavalry since the Battle of Ningyuan, they had no time to grieve, some were only full of anger, and this vengeful anger was destined to be poured out madly in a few hours!

The next morning, there was another roar of slaughter outside the city, and a new wave of thieves began to attack in an all-out way. This time, Lao Huihui and others invested more than 20,000 thieves, and at the same time attacked the city on all sides, and the momentum was quite huge, which frightened the 1,000 guards who had just come to reinforce them, and some people peed their pants on the spot.

However, Cao Wenzhao, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, knew at a glance: although the enemy army was numerous, it was still a feint, because they did not carry too many ladders and other siege equipment, and the purpose was to cover the earth-piling operations behind. The thieves had been piling up the earth all night, and in many places it was now half the height of the city wall, and it was less than thirty steps from the wall. If it is piled up like this, in another day, it will be as high as the city wall; By tomorrow, it will be even higher than the city walls, and the defenders' terrain advantage will be gone.

If it was yesterday, the officers and soldiers really didn't have a good way to deal with it, after all, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was too weak, and the arrows were too expensive, so they didn't dare to use it easily. But now it was different, and the reinforcements brought a large number of arrows, all of which were newly made in Nanjing. Although the quality was a little poor because of the rush to work, at least the number reached nearly 200,000, which was enough for Guan Ning Tieqi to "squander" for a while.

With Cao Wenzhao's order, an archery "feast" began. The 900 soldiers of the Guanning Iron Cavalry were scattered on the four walls, not shooting at the infantry who were feigning to attack the city, nor at the cavalry who were eyeing from afar, but only at the "sappers" who were carrying soil to the dirt mountain, and the archers who had already climbed half of the dirt mountain.

Tushan was only thirty paces from the city wall, a distance that might still require all the strength of the rogue archers, but it was too simple for the soldiers of the Guanning Iron Cavalry. They have all practiced martial arts since childhood, and almost all of them have the ability to penetrate the Yang in a hundred steps, and they are shooting arrows in cavalry battles. Now, this method of shooting at a slow-moving or stationary target more than 30 paces away is simpler than drinking saliva. For a while, the bowstring sounded endlessly, accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking the sky, one sharp arrow after another flew accurately towards the target, and it was definitely not a miss, and one arrow shot down one. In less than a cup of tea, the thief "sapper", who was in full swing just now, was shot down thousands of people at once, and the vicinity of Tushan became a world of death!

As for the militia Tuan Yong and the newly arrived Weisuo army, Cao Wenzhao did not let them be idle. Although he knew that their archery skills could not be compared with the Guanning Iron Cavalry, Cao Wenzhao still gave them a part of the arrows and let them shoot those rogues who feintmed. These enemies have already attacked the city, and the straight-line distance between the two sides is only a few zhang, and there are many thieves, and the formation is very dense, which just gives Tuan Yong and the guards an opportunity to practice.

Without the harassment of the thieves and archers, the regimental warriors fought very bravely today. They kept firing their bows and arrows at the enemies under the city, and stoned those who did not have bows and arrows, killing and wounding many of them. Especially the Cao Gang Gang Leader Militia Temporary Group Training Pan Yingzi, she herself knows martial arts, after yesterday's day of actual combat, archery skills have also improved a lot, the thieves under the city have no false arrows, not much effort has shot dozens of enemies, and all the shot is eyes, throat and other vital parts. Every time she shot an enemy, the regimental warriors at the head of the city erupted in cheers, because they were all her gang's men. The thief was shot in fear, and a beautiful girl with a bow and arrow immediately frightened her.

And the performance of the guards from Nanjing was much worse. At the beginning, when the thieves swarmed up, some people were even so frightened that they wanted to run down the city, but fortunately, Shi Kefa repeatedly ordered that anyone who retreated from the battle was immediately beheaded, so they did not dare to escape.

Even if they didn't run away, these old soldiers didn't dare to fight at first, but just shrank under the women's wall, for fear of being shot by stray arrows and taking their own lives. However, after the battle went on for a while, they found that the thieves had no effective means of attacking the city, so they gradually became emboldened and dared to probe down the city

Tuan Yong saw that the Nanjing Guards were so cowardly, and they couldn't help but laugh at it. Although Pan Yingzi had instructed in advance that the people had come from Nanjing to reinforce them, no matter what the combat effectiveness was, they were finally here to help us Yangzhou people, and we should not be rude to others; But most of these Tuan Yong were born in the Cao Gang, and their temperament was very rude, and when they saw the cowardice of the Wei Suojun, they had already forgotten the words of the gang leader.

Although the guards were not good, they were also men, and they were all red-faced, and finally some people couldn't help it, so they stood up and stretched their bows and arrows to shoot at the thieves under the city. And the arrow actually hit the ass of a fleeing rogue, and the pain made the man jump three feet high. The guards who released the arrows couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Shot!" Lao Tzu also shot one! ”

"Good! Well shot! ”

Pan Yingzi took the lead in cheering, and the group warriors also understood the meaning of the helper, and cheered one after another, after all, their temperament is still very simple. Encouraged and gradually overcoming their fear of war, more and more people stood at the head of the city with their heads held high, shooting left and right at the thieves who had no ability to fight back. Although most of them missed, the morale was finally boosted.

The thieves didn't expect that today's defenders' counterattack would be so fierce, Lao Huihui and others were discussing whether to send archers and cavalry to attack closely, and suddenly heard the sound of horns sounding outside the camp, and after a while, his subordinates hurriedly came to report: "The big man is in charge of the plate, and there is another group of officers and soldiers from the north, all of them are cavalry!" ”

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