Early the next morning, Liu Qi left Lei Tong to lead 5,000 people to guard Shouyang, and then he raised an army of 90,000 and killed all the way to the city of Didao.

said that Cheng Yi and Yang Qiu at the head of the city saw the black and oppressive Han army under the city, and they couldn't help but turn pale. Originally, they thought that Liu Qi led the army to attack Lintao, at most only twenty or thirty thousand people, but now that they see the banner like a forest, the soldiers under the city will gather and swarm, even if there are no 100,000, it is almost the same, even if the previous army is absolutely difficult to hold without being damaged, not to mention that their 20,000 army has lost forty percent? Although they have now used all the officials in the city, they have only gathered 15,000 people, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to defend against the menacing Liu Qi army with such a force.

In addition to the superiority of the opponent in numbers, the troops they have are also rare elite soldiers in the world.

The first thing that attracted people's attention was naturally the 20,000 cavalry led by Ma Chao!

The sergeants at the head of the city were already afraid of Ma Chao's bravery, and with such a large number of cavalry under his command, they were even more worried in their hearts.

What made the sergeants at the head of the city even more frightened was that they saw that the elite infantry under Liu Qi who had slaughtered the Xiliang cavalry at the foot of Niutou Mountain were also there, one with a frosty face, sharp eyes, and a strange weapon in his hand that they still couldn't name, and all the confidence in defending the city suddenly turned into a bitter smile.

A rare trace of fear flashed on Yang Qiu's face, he knew that under the attack of the heroic Liu Qi's army, they would definitely not last long. Then he said with a pale face: "Brother Cheng, what should I do?" The gap between friend and foe is too bad, in my opinion. We might as well ......"

Cheng Yi shouted loudly: "Brother Yang, this matter should not be mentioned again, the matter of eating the king's fortune and being loyal to the king, since we are ordered by General Han, we naturally have to stick to the city, how can we lightly betray?" There is no other thing today. Everyone is desperate to stick to it, and it is best to keep nature. If you can't keep it, you have to be loyal to the country. ”

Yang Qiu sighed and stopped talking, but said secretly in his heart: "Don't pretend to be loyal here." I don't know about you yet? When the army was killed to the right of Fufeng, you personally slashed Ma Chao's wife, knowing that even if he surrendered, he would not let you go, so he decided not to surrender, but what does this have to do with Lao Tzu? Besides, although you know that you will die, there is no need to drag the whole city to accompany the funeral. There is a kind of self-suicide directly, and Lao Tzu believes that you are really loyal. If you don't surrender, that's your business, I'm not so stupid. Han Sui is brutal, Chu Gong is benevolent and righteous, and you can know who is the master of the Ming Dynasty by comparison. I can't be buried with you, as long as there is a chance later, Lao Tzu will definitely take refuge in the master. ”

Cheng Yi naturally didn't know what Yang Qiu was thinking, he was now trying to save his life. In fact, he didn't care about what Yang Qiu was thinking, and immediately ordered: "Send three hundred soldiers to drive away the people in the city." Let them help defend the city, who has not followed. Regardless of killing, within half an hour, the people must be brought to the city. ”

After that, he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Soldiers, you have also seen, now the enemy soldiers are coming to the city, we are facing a severe test, but our wives and children are all in Jincheng, if we can't stop the enemy's attack, our wives and children will be killed by the enemy, so if it is a man, stand up bravely and fight to the death with the enemy army who invaded our city." ”

"No, fight to the death to protect your wife and children." The soldiers at the head of the city were suddenly aroused to blood, and they all roared loudly, although they faced hundreds of strong enemies, they did not have half of their fear.

Liu Qi under the city naturally heard the roar on the city, and he couldn't help frowning a little when he saw this scene, because such a scene had also happened among his own soldiers, but at the beginning, he was trying to defend the city, but now he was attacking the city, and he who swore to defend it became the enemy.

Although he admired the blood and courage of the enemy soldiers and admired Cheng Yi's encouragement or bewitchment to the soldiers in the city, Liu Qi would not show mercy to his subordinates, because this was on the battlefield, and mercy to the enemy was irresponsible to his own soldiers, and Liu Qi wanted to make the Xiliang army completely realize the terrible nature of his own side through this battle, which would be conducive to the next battle against the entire Liangzhou.

"Kill." Liu Qi knew that it would be useless to say anything at this time, because the enemy army had already begun to release arrows to the city, so he ordered the army to start attacking the city.

"Kill." Meng Huo, Zhang Ren, Yan Yan and Shamoke and others suddenly shouted in unison, and they all took the lead and led the army to the city, raising their shields to block the arrows shot by the enemy, in order to protect the siege team behind them and build a ladder.

At the same time, Huang Zhong's Tuifeng battalion soldiers used their bows and crossbows to attack the enemy troops on the city, and for a while they saw arrows like flying locusts, and many archers on the city were killed by arrows, and many of them fell directly from the city, even if they did not die before, they were all smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and they died so much that they could not die anymore.

"This, this, I didn't expect the enemy army to be so powerful, and even used crossbowmen to directly suppress the archers in our city." The enemy had no choice but to hold their shields, and the archers, under the protection of the shield soldiers, shot arrows under the city, and the sparse rain of arrows hit the shield soldiers who had been on guard for a long time, causing almost no casualties.

Not long after, the ladder had been built, and just after Liu Qi's order, the general attack began.

"Kill." Liu Shi and Liao Hua personally stepped forward and led the Praetorian Guards to start a fierce siege battle.

The shields in their hands are all specially made, not to mention ordinary bows and arrows, even with spears are difficult to penetrate, coupled with Huang Zhong's Tuifeng battalion's suppression of the defenders so that most of the defenders can not show their heads at all, so they can only hide behind the female wall, so these are almost no casualties and climbed to the top of the city.

What followed was naturally a fierce battle at the head of the city.

But the tragic word in this fierce battle mainly refers to the Xiliang army, because they are all cavalry, but they are most accustomed to fighting on horseback, which is really awkward for them to fight on foot in the city, not to mention that their opponent is the most elite infantry in the world, there is no one, so as soon as they come up, the Xiliang soldiers fell into the slaughter of the other party.

The Xiliang army thought that they were already a rare elite division in the world, but now they felt that they had really insulted the word elite, because their opponents could really be called elite, as if they were the only ones in the world who could be worthy of the word elite.

Their weapons are the sharpest iron knives in the world, and the weapons of the Xiliang army are as weak as rotten grass under their knives, and the various hardships they have undergone are beyond the dreams of these Xiliang cavalrymen.

These Praetorian Guards are very quick to use their swords, and often they can kill their opponents on the spot without a second sword, and even if the opponent is not dead, it is only their robes that make up the sword, and it will never be them again, because in the following time, they either escort their own robes, or launch an attack on the second person.

Such a high killing efficiency is absolutely shocking, and such close cooperation is definitely jealous and maddening, the Xiliang army saw the enemy's crazy slaughter, but they didn't even have the power to fight back, this is not to say that they are not brave and good at fighting, but the other party is more heroic and good at fighting than them, so that they have become lambs to be slaughtered in front of the powerful enemy army.

And at this moment, I don't know who suddenly shouted: "There are no enemy troops at the West City Gate, everyone flee quickly." ”

This roar was even more effective than the ferocious army under Liu Qi's command, making their last trace of will to resist completely dissipate.

Now the enemy army is like a fierce and savage butcher, they can only be cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, and then suddenly find that there is still a way to live, and if they still defend the city in such a situation, then they will go on a hunger strike with absolute pigs, not even pigs.

Therefore, there was still some sporadic resistance on the city, but it was clean in an instant, if it weren't for the corpses of Xiliang soldiers piled up on the city, everyone even thought that the fierce battle just now was like an illusion.

This time Cheng Yi did not die in battle, he originally saw that he had no way to live, so he had no choice but to fight hard, but now he suddenly found that the way to live was in front of him, but he suddenly found that it was actually better to live than to die 10,000 times before, so he almost did not hesitate, the first column rushed down the city wall, and then went straight to the west gate.

And Yang Qiu did not choose to surrender, because he still remembered his wife and children in Jincheng, if he could survive by himself and not drag down his wife and children, this would naturally be the most perfect ending, so he almost followed Cheng Yi and rushed out of the city gate.

Liu Qi saw that the enemy army was fleeing in a hurry, but he was not in a hurry to chase after him, he ordered the sergeants to enter the city, first to rectify and repair, in order to accumulate strength to continue to attack Jincheng, and at the same time immediately set an example to calm the people, especially for those who were forced to drive to the head of the city to defend the city, and even more comforted.

Fortunately, this time Cheng Yi and Yang Qiu fled in a hurry, not caring about the materials in the city at all, but let Liu Qi pick up a big bargain, he hurriedly ordered the opening of the warehouse to release grain, help the people, and take out the copper money and cloth in the treasury to relieve the people and stabilize the hearts of the people.

The people here have been helped by Liu Qi, and naturally they are grateful to Liu Qi like the people of Lintao, and they praise Liu Qi's name.

And at this time, Ma Chao, who was ambushed outside the West Gate, could not bear it anymore, since this expedition, although he led his troops to capture Lintao, but he did not encounter resistance at all, and two of the tough battles were mainly fought by Chu Gong's own soldiers, which was really unbearable for him who was determined to take revenge. Therefore, he endured the mania in his heart, and did not wait for all the enemy troops to escape, so he immediately ordered the 20,000 cavalry under his command to cover up and kill from behind, and pursued all the way, and according to Liu Qi's order, he rushed directly to the city of Zhiyunwu in Jincheng County.

"This is the last battle, as long as I capture Yunwu, I will be able to take revenge, but it's a pity that the dog thief is not here, otherwise I will definitely sacrifice his heart and liver to the family." Ma Chao looked at Yunwu City in front of him, with tears in his eyes, and muttered. (To be continued)