The sudden change startled everyone, and Du Deming hurriedly rushed out, "Shopkeeper Wang, what's wrong?" ”

But when he rushed forward, he was surprised to find that the coachman had slashed the reins with his sword, and the two horses jumped up and ran forward.

At this moment, there was a sudden thunderous sound of horses' hooves not far away, and I saw the cavalry under the moonlight rushing towards the city gate.

Du Deming was so frightened that he was about to shout, but his body was hit hard by Shen Guang who rushed out of the carriage, Du Deming staggered in a few steps, and his standing was unsteady, 'Plop! 'Fell into the moat.

"Come and save people!"

Shen Guang shouted to the soldiers in the city: "Captain Du has fallen into the river." ”

A series of accidents stunned the soldiers defending the city, and no one knew what was going on, as if the city gate should be closed first, but the captain was still outside the city.

At this moment, the head of the city 'dang! While! While! A rapid alarm sounded, and a thief soldier shouted at the head of the city: "The Sui army is coming, close the city gate!" ”

The soldiers guarding the city gate no longer hesitated and immediately began to close the city gate, but what they didn't expect happened, Sun Ying and dozens of his subordinates drew their swords one after another and killed the soldiers defending the city.

Suddenly cut down the seven or eight soldiers who were pushing the city gate, screams were everywhere, and the rest of the soldiers were so frightened that they retreated, dozens of soldiers were Shen Guang's subordinates dressed up, they were all extremely brave, and the thieves and soldiers were defeated and retreated, and the soldiers quickly blocked the gap in the city gate with an iron bolt, so that the city head could not close the city gate.

Shen Guang's carriage was indeed cast with pig iron, weighing about thousands of catties, extremely heavy, and pressed on the suspension bridge, making the suspension bridge impossible to pull up for a while.

The soldiers of the thief army at the head of the city pushed the winch desperately, only to hear the drawbridge 'quack! Ga! 'Rattle. Pulled up little by little, Shen Guang was in a hurry, and pulled the axe from the carriage to the iron wedge of the drawbridge, he frantically chopped dozens of axes in a row, and the sawdust was splashed everywhere, and finally 'Zheng! There was a loud bang. The iron chain on the left flew up from the suspension bridge, and the suspension bridge shook violently, and the suspension bridge that had just been pulled up two feet fell heavily to the ground.

At this time, the cavalry of the Sui army took the lead in killing, Pei Xingyan took the lead, jumped on the drawbridge first, brandished the horse lance to kill the city, five hundred cavalry took the lead in killing the city, and the thief soldiers at the head of the city were so frightened that they scattered and fled. No one cared about the city gate and drawbridge anymore, and the dense Sui soldiers behind them came to cover up and slaughtered into the city.

Sun Ying was stunned, he actually saw the main general Zhang Xuan, "Didn't the general lead the army to attack Zhuan County?" Sun Ying hurriedly asked.

Zhang Xuan laughed, "I don't go to Lixian County, how can Sun Zhian be willing to go out of the city?" ”

Sun Ying suddenly realized that the attack on Liyu County was just a cover. The real target of the Sui army was still Fei County.

"Where is Sun Xuanya?" Jang Hyun asked loudly.

"General, please come with me!"

Sun Ying turned his horse's head and galloped towards the temporary palace with Zhang Xuan and hundreds of soldiers

Just when the alarm bell sounded at the head of the city, Sun Xuanya's personal soldiers also felt bad. Regardless of suspicion, they rushed directly into Sun Xuanya's bedroom, and in the frightened screams of Huang Meiren, the soldiers splashed cold water on Sun Xuanya who was sleeping.

Sun Xuanya was unconscious, covered in water, and he suddenly said angrily: "What's the matter! ”

"The King. There was a critical alarm bell from Beichengtou, which may have been killed by the Sui army. ”

"Ahh

Sun Xuanya was shocked, and suddenly woke up, he was very nervous, "Where did the Sui army come from?" ”

"I don't know. I heard a very rapid alarm bell. ”

Sun Xuanya was also anxious, and hurriedly ordered: "Put on my clothes and go to the city to have a look." ”

As soon as he reached the door, he heard shouting on the street outside, "Oh no, the Sui army has entered the city!" ”

Sun Xuanya seemed to step on the air and fell into the abyss, he suddenly shouted, turned around and ran towards the mansion, and the soldiers hurriedly grabbed him, "King, get out of the city quickly!" ”

Sun Xuanya was completely frightened, forgetting that there were still 10,000 soldiers in the city, he instinctively wanted to escape, several personal soldiers brought his war horse, he just turned over on the horse, but there was a loud shout behind him: "Where did the Sun thief escape?" ”

I saw a general holding a two-moon Fang Tian halberd in his hand, flying like a horse, rushing towards the wind, "Zhang Xuan is here, Sun Thief is ordered!" ”

Zhang Xuan swung his halberd and flew out of the two personal soldiers who were blocking him, and went straight to Sun Xuanya.

Sun Xuanya was so frightened that her soul was scattered, and the war knife in her hand was 'Dang Chang!' When he landed, he crouched on the horseback and ran desperately, but at this time, a rider rushed to the side, only to see him jump up, hugging Sun Xuanya's waist, and the two rolled to the ground together.

"It's you!"

Sun Xuanya fell dizzy, but still recognized the man who threw him off the horse, which was his nephew Sun Ying.

Sun Ying pulled out his dagger and shouted angrily, "I want to avenge my father today!" ”

He jumped up and threw himself at Sun Xuanya, the dagger in his hand was shining with cold light, Sun Xuanya's left arm had been broken when he fell off the horse, and he was so painful that he couldn't resist, he couldn't help but close his eyes in despair.

At this time, he remembered the scene when he killed Sun Daqing back then, and he also cut Sun Daqing's throat with a dagger, and he didn't expect that he still died in the hands of Sun Daqing's son.

Providence!

But after waiting for a while, he didn't feel the pain of the dagger piercing into his body, he slowly opened his eyes, only to find that several Sui soldiers had pulled Sun Ying away, Sun Ying struggled desperately, shouting excitedly, "Let go of me!" Let me kill him! ”

As soon as Sun Xuanya raised his head, there was a pair of cold eyes above his head, and he couldn't help but sigh, "If the general spares my life, I am willing to surrender!" ”

Zhang Xuan sneered, "It's useless for you to surrender, Meng Rang has already occupied your position in Linyi." ”

"What?"

Sun Xuanya was stunned all of a sudden, and her mind became blank

At noon the next day, the battle of the thief army to attack Mengyin Fort had been going on for more than an hour, although the thief army was dozens of times that of the Sui army, and had an absolute advantage in strength.

However, the slope up the mountain is very narrow, and there is no room for 10,000 people to attack at the same time.

The thieves also slowly advanced, with crossbow arrows in hand, their legs trembled, some strode forward, others cowered, the formation was slightly messy, they were getting closer and closer to the city walls, the neighing and shouting mingled, and the drums above and below the city rumbled, boosting the morale of their respective soldiers.

Two hundred steps..... One hundred and fifty steps.... One hundred steps, already within the killing range of the Sui army's crossbow arrows, the thief army brushed the ground and raised the shield, and the first two rows formed a shield wall.

But Li Shoujie did not give the order to shoot arrows, he stared nervously at the shield wall of the thief army, these shields are thin wooden shields, although the strong power of the crossbow arrows cannot be blocked within eighty steps, but if you add the cloth armor worn by the soldiers, I am afraid that the lethality is too small.

Eighty steps, Li Shoujie still did not give an order, and many Sui army's palms were soaked in cold sweat, which they had never had in many years of fighting, and they had not released arrows at eighty steps.

Many soldiers secretly looked at Li Shoujie, this young guard is inexperienced, doesn't he know that not shooting at eighty steps is a taboo for crossbowmen?

At this time, the drums at the foot of the mountain suddenly accelerated, and the thief soldiers also accelerated sharply, shouting and killing the castle overwhelmingly, their tactics were very clear, using superior bows and arrows to suppress the Sui army, and then began to attack the city in a big way.

The thief finally rushed sixty steps, and Li Shoujie finally shouted: "Projectile!" ”

Thousands of powerful crossbow arrows shot upwards at the same time, and the dense arrows shot out of the parabola, and the arrows were like a strong rain, whistling towards the attacking enemy group, but the powerful crossbow arrows flew through the shield wall of the first few rows of soldiers, and shot directly into the group of archers behind.

Without the shield to cover, the powerful arrows shot directly through the leather armor, straight through the body, the soldiers fell to the ground one after another, screaming on the ground and wailing, in an instant people turned on their horses, nearly 400 people were shot over, the momentum of the thief army's attack was a setback, and then the second round of 1,000 arrows also shot, within 50 steps, the 3,000 attacking thief army lost five or six hundred people.

Many thieves tried to turn around and escape, and Sun Zhi'an, who was supervising the battle behind, was furious and shouted: "The knife and axe hand presses it, and those who retreat are immediately killed!" ”

Hundreds of swordsmen rushed forward and slashed down dozens of thieves who had fled back, and the thieves had no choice but to run desperately upwards against the dense rain of arrows.

There were still thirty steps, and the arrows of the thieves also began to shoot overwhelmingly towards the city, gradually suppressing the crossbow arrows of the Sui army.

At this time, the crossbow arrow array of the Sui army suddenly stopped, and Sun Zhi'an was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered: "Send the siege ladder!" ”

One after another, improvised siege ladders made last night were sent up, and at the same time, three thousand thieves archers shot arrows at the city, and thousands of arrows intertwined into a dense rain and flew through the air.

Despite the terrifying momentum, most of the archers fired from a distance of sixty or seventy paces, and from the bottom up, most of the arrows failed to inflict effective damage on the Sui army.

At this moment, countless rolling logs rolled out from behind the battlements, and the huge rolling logs fell to the ground, tumbling and smashing towards the thieves on the hillside.

The thieves on the hillside were too dense to dodge, and the thieves were smashed over one by one, and the wails resounded through the hillside, although most of the soldiers who were hit did not die, but there were too many wounded, and they immediately lost their combat effectiveness.

In just a quarter of an hour, hundreds of rolling logs and stones were thrown out of the castle, and thousands of thieves were killed and wounded. ”

'When! While! While! ’

The bell for the withdrawal rang, the bandits on the hillside retreated like a tide, and the third attack was again heavily damaged.

There was a cheer from the top of the city.

At this moment, a group of cavalry in the distance rushed towards the direction of Mengyin Fort, and Sun Zhi'an recognized from a distance that the person who was the leader turned out to be his nephew Sun Ying.

He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, could it be that something happened in Fei County? (To be continued.) )