For a while, there was chaos outside the city, with the help of the reflection of the firelight, you could see the figures in the golden artillery array, and there was a sound of shouting and killing everywhere and the sound of panicked golden soldiers shouting for enemy attacks.

"It's done!" Gao Huaiyuan was immediately overjoyed, and slapped his hand on the female wall of the city wall, and soon they saw that there were more and more fires outside the city, and the fire was burning even more vigorously by the wind.

In the firelight, they could see countless figures fighting together under the firelight, and screams and exclamations resounded through the night sky.

Looking at this chaotic scene outside the city, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered Mingjin, and then the rapid sound of hitting cymbals sounded on the city wall, and it was heard far away in the night sky.

At this time, there was also a reaction in the Jin Soldier Camp in the distance, and a team of torches swarmed out of the Golden Soldier Camp like a long dragon, rushing towards the place where the fire started, and the sound of more people shouting and neighing sounded in the night space.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ran to the northwest corner of the city wall, where a team had already been prepared to respond, and the crossbowmen had already prepared the crossbow here and pointed out of the city.

After a while, I saw a team rushing forward, stepping on a simple bridge to quickly rush across the moat, back to the city, at this time a large number of Jin soldiers who followed also arrived, the angry Jin army chased these Song troops for a moment, as if they would not kill them all, but they just chased to the side of the moat, and the head and face were shot on the city A rain of arrows, and a large number of them were shot on the spot, blocking them on the outside of the moat.

And those Song troops who went out of the city to attack turned around and demolished the simple bridges across the city river, blocking the pursuit of the Jin army, and then leaned against the city wall, pulled ropes or hanging baskets, and struggled to climb up the city.

After the golden soldiers who were blocked on the outside of the city river were confused for a while, they were organized again, with shield hands in front of the arrows, the archers began to shoot at the city in an organized manner, and for a time the rockets in the night sky were staggered back and forth, and the archers on both sides were inseparable.

By the light of the rockets fired by both sides, the city wall reflected the figures of the trappers who were climbing the city, and the embarrassed and angry golden soldiers turned their bows and arrows one after another, aimed at them and began to release arrows, causing many traps who had climbed into the air to be hit by arrows in their backs, fell down heavily, and died tragically under the city.

Gao Huaiyuan personally pulled a rope, and his arms struggled alternately to drag a trapper onto the city wall, and a large number of soldiers and civilians who rushed to help also struggled forward, dragging those ropes and hanging baskets, and grabbed the remnants of the trappers who fell outside the city to the city, at this time more Jin soldiers also chased outside the city, and the two sides launched a large-scale confrontation in the northwest corner of Huangzhou City, arrows flew all over the sky, and the swishing sound was endless.

In this way, the two armies shot at each other here until dawn, which ended with the temporary retreat of the Jin soldiers, and a large number of corpses of the Jin soldiers were left outside the city, becoming a group of victims of this battle.

Hu Lu Thorn can no longer make a calm demeanor, angry and depraved outside the city, pointing at Huangzhou City and scolding, scolding the Song people for being extremely cunning, the overseer stepped forward and began to storm Huangzhou City, and threw the attack plan discussed last night to the back of his mind, and the whole army pressed on, as if he wanted to break through Huangzhou City in one fell swoop, so as to eliminate his hatred and hatred.

The defenders in the city naturally expected the reaction of the Jin army after being attacked, and had made various preparations in advance.

This time compared to yesterday to the defenders took a big advantage, after the night of the sneak attack, outside the city Jin soldiers put those stone cannons were all burned, into a pile of smoking rags, although the Jin army is outnumbered, but there is no heavy weapons to cover, in the firepower can only use archers and the city to shoot, completely can not suppress the defenders of the city head of those bed crossbows and throwing carts, although the number of people, but has always been the Song army defending the city suppressed can not break through the moat this line of defense.

The dizzy Hu Lu Thorn not only launched an attack in the north of the city, but also began to attack in the east and west of the city near noon, which greatly increased the pressure on the defenders of Huangzhou.

Gao Huaiyuan is still sitting in the north of the city, commanding the defensive battle here, and handing over the defense of the west of the city to Zheng Tizhi, which is the weakness of the Jin soldiers' attack after all, and it will be easier to defend.

This battle was fought until the afternoon, the Jin soldiers finally built a temporary bridge over the moat, rushed through the moat, but then they were beaten back by the arrows and cannons that were cut down, seeing that their losses were too great, Hu Lu had to be dissuaded by the deputy generals, and withdrew the soldiers and horses, and after a day of fierce fighting, the casualties of the Jin soldiers reached at least about 1,000 people, but there was no way to take Huangzhou City as usual.

Only then did Hu Lu thorn begin to understand, this time he had gnawed a hard bone, and he had to reorganize his troops and horses outside the city, and find another way after resting for a day.

During the two days, the soldiers and civilians of Huangzhou City played a momentum, which greatly stabilized the morale of the Huangzhou army, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city began to have confidence in the offensive and defensive battle of Huangzhou, and they were no longer as panicked as they were a few days ago.

What Gao Huaiyuan didn't know was that the war he was inadvertently involved in this time actually changed history, because in the actual history of the first battle of Huangzhou, after the siege of Anzhen's army, he quickly conquered Huangzhou City and ransacked it, and this time, because of his involvement, he blocked the Jin soldiers from the city, turning a beautiful blitzkrieg of the Jin soldiers into a tug-of-war.

In this way, Hu Lu launched a fierce attack outside the city of Huangzhou for five days in a row, but the defenders of Huangzhou were repelled every time, and each time he lost his troops, so that after five days, he had to stop and rest for three days, looking at this small Huangzhou city all day but there was no way.

The two armies were in a stalemate in Huangzhou, and it was a stalemate until the ninth day later, and Fusan Anzhen finally went to Huangzhou in person, a few days ago after he won the battle of Macheng, and then sent Hu Lu Thorn to attack Huangzhou City, and then divided his troops into two ways, all the way west to attack the Hanyang army, he himself personally led 10,000 soldiers and horses, turned out of Macheng to attack Qizhou City east of Huangzhou, and captured Qizhou City in three days, captured a large number of Song troops, and unexpectedly captured more than 70 Zhao clan relatives in Qizhou, which achieved the biggest victory of this time when he led his army south.

However, to the surprise of Fusan Anzhen, the city of Huangzhou, which I thought Hu Lu would be able to take lightly, became the rock they encountered in this battle for a long time, so they rushed over from Qizhou and joined forces with Hu Lu who arrived in advance, and the strength increased to about 20,000.

But at this time, they have lost the best opportunity, because after many days of fierce fighting, the military and people of Huangzhou City have now adapted to the days of this kind of war, showing great resilience, under the leadership of Jiang Fang and Gao Huaiyuan, these officials, up and down twisted into a rope, the more brave they became, often the city wall was damaged during the day, and the Huangzhou soldiers and civilians were repaired overnight at night, plus the direction of Ezhou continuously sent various supplies and materials through the waterway, and also increased troops to Huangzhou many times, As a result, the current defensive strength of Huangzhou City has not only not weakened, but has been greatly enhanced.

Even Gao Huaiyuan began to relax from the tension in the first few days, and he was able to sleep peacefully every day, and the soldiers in the city took turns to fight, basically accepting the tempering of the war, and they were about to become a bunch of old fritters.

Looking at the war-blackened city wall of Huangzhou, Hu Lu stood behind Fusan Anzhen with a frustrated face, and whispered to Fusan Anzhen: "Handsome! They are all incompetent, and they failed to take Huangzhou City quickly, please punish the marshal! ”

An Zhen, who had a thick beard, looked at the city in front of him from a distance, shook his head slightly, and said: "The crime of this unfavorable battle should not be on you, but the handsome man despised this small Huangzhou city!" Ben Shuai thought that Huangzhou had few soldiers, and it was enough to send you to take Huangzhou, if it wasn't for Ben Shuai's light enemy, if he personally led the army to come, it might not be like this, and you don't have to blame yourself too much!

Ben Shuai is very curious now, when did the Song army have such a good general here, and he can actually win more with less, so that a general like you is also frustrated here! I thought it would! Have you found out who the city guards are? ”

After hearing this question, Hu Lu Thorn felt that his face was quite gloomy, and he bowed down and replied: "It's all humble and incompetent, a few nights ago, the enemy sent troops out of the city to sneak attack the artillery carts brought by the humble position, and burned all the artillery carts with the humble position, and captured several Song troops in the chaotic army, and it has been found out that the defender in the city is the Huangzhou soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Jiang Fang, but the main soldier is a young county lieutenant from Daye County, surnamed Huaiyuan, this person is very cunning, the military in the city is mostly dispatched by this person in the center, and the humble position is defeated by him, So far, Huangzhou City has not been taken! The lowly office is now eager to break his body into thousands of pieces to vent his hatred! ”

Fusan Anzhen stroked the hilt of the knife on his waist, searched in his heart, and then shook his head and said, "Jiang Fang, Gao Huaiyuan? I haven't heard of it! Maybe it's new! It seems that there is no shortage of talents in the Southern Dynasties, and they are still unfinished!

It seems that Ben Shuai is going to meet them today, pass on my general order, prepare all kinds of siege equipment today, and the whole army will go out of camp early tomorrow morning, and attack Huangzhou City in one day! If we can't take Huangzhou City tomorrow, then we will withdraw our troops and return to Xizhou!" ”

After listening to the arrangement of the servant An Zhen, Hu Lu was suddenly startled and hurriedly asked, "Dashuai!" Why do you have to withdraw your troops after only one day? ”

With a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth, he shook his head and said, "Hu Lu Thorn, this time this time Ben Shuai sent troops, do you think that the Holy Lord still wants us to break through the Yangtze River in one fell swoop and take down this half of the rivers and mountains of the Southern Dynasty?" Definitely! If we want to break through the Yangtze River and win the Southern Dynasty, only tens of thousands of people in our area are not enough at the moment!

Now that we are swaying in the wind and rain, the Mongol army has invaded and occupied our northern territory one after another, and even Shandong is also in its pocket, and now only the hinterland of the Central Plains is left in the huge Jin country, how can we continue to go south?

This time, we sent troops just to deter the Song army and make it dare not invade north for a short time, just to buy some time and strengthen the defense against the Mongols! It's impossible to cross the river and go south!

And now we have achieved our goal, even breaking several cities in the Southern Dynasties, for the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, it has played a role in knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger, so it should be accepted when it is good, otherwise if the Song people are in a hurry this time, they will send troops to the north, and my Dajin country will be even more vulnerable to the enemy, and Dajin is in danger!

What's more, although we have achieved some results at the moment, but the Song army Huaidong and Jinghu Road armies are on their way here after hearing the news, once these Song troops rush here, it is impossible to win with our troops!

Ben Shuai has already received the news, the Song army Ezhou deputy capital Hu Zaixing is now leading the army to storm the Tangzhou area, and defeated our Tangzhou, Congyi led the army is fighting against it in Sanjiahe, with the ability of Hu Zaixing, Congyi may not be his opponent, and the scout is coming, Meng Zongzheng's loyal army is now coming out of Suizhou towards here, the fastest may be here within two days, we only have one day tomorrow to attack Huangzhou, whether to capture Huangzhou City or not, we must withdraw our troops back!

So you go down and prepare, don't tell the news to the soldiers below, one day! We only play for one day! Ben Shuai wants to see how powerful this defender of Huangzhou City is! ”

After listening to the explanation of the servant An Zhen, Hu Lu Jian understood his thoughts, so he immediately bowed down and replied: "Obey the order!" Tomorrow, I hope that the marshal will sit in the army, and he is willing to lead the army to attack the city in person, I don't believe that I can't take this small Huangzhou city! ”

Fusan Anzhen nodded, and without saying anything more, the entire Jin army camp immediately began to get busy again, and the craftsmen of the accompanying army, under the orders of the officers, began to repair and build various siege equipment overnight.

The actions of the Jin army naturally fell into the eyes of Gao Huaiyuan, who was standing at the head of the city, he put down the monoculars in front of him, turned around and walked down the city tower with an expressionless face, and soon ordered the generals and officers of the city to go to his residence immediately.

After a short time, the commanders of the various armies rushed to Gao Huaiyuan's temporary station in the north gate after hearing the news, and stood in two columns in the courtyard.

Gao Huaiyuan stood in the middle of the courtyard, his expression was very serious, and everyone felt that today's atmosphere was a little different from the past, they all stood still with bated breath, no one spoke, and waited silently for Gao Huaiyuan to speak.

After seeing that the big and small guards in the city had already arrived here, Gao Huaiyuan looked at the faces of the people with his eyes, and some of the officers were still wrapped in bandages, and the fierce battles of these days have been a great test for them.

In terms of the military system of the Song Army, most of these people used to be either homeless or ruffians, or idle soldiers, this time they can follow him in Huangzhou City Gao Huaiyuan to fight this part, Gao Huaiyuan has been deeply satisfied, most of these people are not good people, they are soldiers just to make a living, but at this moment, they can insist on defending the city hard, and the Jin army to fight to the death, at least it shows that many of them have chosen to fight for the country in the face of major rights and wrongs, and in the face of national danger, which makes him feel admired.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please robe! Gao will invite you here today, the first to thank you on behalf of Jiang Chan and the people of Huangzhou, everyone has worked together to resist the enemy army under the city for several days, and the more brave the more you fight, Gao is deeply admired! At the same time, thank you for your trust in Gao, so that Huangzhou will stick to the near future! Everyone's achievements, the people of Huangzhou will remember it! Thank you very much! Gao Huaiyuan did not immediately say anything about the battle situation, but bowed deeply to the generals on both sides and said some words of gratitude to them.

His words immediately made everyone a little ashamed, because these days, they all see that Gao Huaiyuan is the one among them who is really busy with the defense of Huangzhou, every day Gao Huaiyuan has to appear in the most dangerous place in the city, commanding the army and the people to repel the attacks of the Jin soldiers again and again, if the contribution is indispensable, then Gao Huaiyuan is definitely worthy of the first credit, but today he thanked them, so that everyone hurriedly returned the salute, and even said that he did not dare to take it.

Even Jiang Fang, who was sitting in the middle, stood up and thanked Gao Huaiyuan, which also showed that Gao Huaiyuan had won the hearts of the people in Huangzhou.

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, Gao Huaiyuan changed his words and said: "Today, Gao Mou invited you here, and there is one more thing, that is, the matter of the golden soldiers outside the city!"

Although everyone has defeated the Jin army under the city these days, the next battle will be even more tragic! Because everyone has also seen that the commander of the Jin soldiers, Fusan Anzhen, has led the army to rush outside the city, which has greatly increased the strength of the Jin army outside the city, and the arrival of Fusan Anzhen is a famous general of the Jin country, and this time the arrival will definitely launch an all-out attack on the city, and now the Jin army is busy preparing various siege equipment outside the city, which means that the real test for us will come tomorrow!

No matter what we have done before, if we can't resist the attack of the Golden Soldiers tomorrow, everything will be in vain, so that we will waste all our efforts! Gao dares to ask everyone here, can you have the confidence to block the attack of the Jin soldiers tomorrow? ”

After hearing Gao Huaiyuan's words, all the officers in the courtyard suddenly felt a feeling of blood boiling, and shouted in unison: "The lower officials have confidence!" Please ask Lord Gao to command! ”

Looking at the looks on everyone's faces, Gao Huaiyuan knew that the purpose of his gathering of everyone here today had been achieved, so he was a little relieved in his heart, and nodded with satisfaction: "This place is the place where I was born and raised, although Gao is not from Huangzhou, but he is also a Song person, there are still tens of thousands of people in the city, their life and death will be entrusted to our shoulders, any retreat will bring them deep suffering, we can't retreat, and there is no room for retreat!" It can be said that the only way to fight to the death in the city is to repel the Jin army and keep the city! This official will swear to die in Huangzhou City to live and die together! Fight until the last drop of blood is drained! I hope that you can join this official in the battle tomorrow, and once again let the Jin Army experience the determination of our Song people!

The army you are in is also the Yue family army under the command of Yue Wang Ye back then, and this is the time to prove the prestige of the Yue family army that will never give up! ”