readx; Li Huan has been looking forward to the return of his two defenders of Xingdao and Gucheng since noon, he also knows that the army cannot come back so soon, but he is very worried that these two armies will encounter accidents, from the current information sent by his scouts, the Anxi army camp has not moved, it is still resting, which makes him slightly relieved, he is afraid that the Anxi army knows that there are two armies in Gucheng County and Xingdao County, and the Anxi army sent troops to intercept it, judging from the current situation, the Anxi army is Luo Baodao, and it is so quick to take Baocheng County, It should not be known about the garrisons in Xingdao County and Gucheng County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Huan continued to comfort himself, despite this, his heart was still heavy, there was always an uneasy palpitation in his heart, at dusk, he received information from the Gucheng County army with a pigeon letter, Gucheng County Garrison Deputy General Su Yu led part of the army has arrived twenty miles away, there is no abnormality all the way, which makes Li Huan breathe a long sigh of relief.

At this moment, a scout came running from afar, rushed to the city and shouted: "Marshal! ”

"What's going on?"

"After receiving the news from the front, the main force of the Anxi Army has been dispatched, and about 20,000 cavalry are rapidly moving towards this side, less than 20 miles."

"Ahh

Li Huan exclaimed, did the main force of the Anxi Army arrive so soon? Needless to say, they must have heard about the troops withdrawing from the east and rushed to intercept them.

"Hurry! Come back soon. ”

Li Huan prayed in a low voice, he was anxious, why didn't the army in Gucheng County come back?

"Look, marshal! They seem to be coming. One of the soldiers shouted as he pointed into the distance.

Li Huan tried his best to look into the night, only to see a group of figures faintly appear a few miles to the east, about three or four miles away.

"Pass my order, light the torches and prepare to open the city!"

When the army that came back from Gucheng County was still three miles away, the defenders of Nanzheng began to prepare, the city walls were full of torches, thousands of soldiers poured into the city, Li Huan also stood on the city gate, frowned and looked into the distance, vaguely he had seen the team clearly, there were only about three or four thousand people, he had some doubts in his heart, didn't the defenders of Gucheng County have five thousand people? Where are the more than a thousand more?

Soon, the army of Gucheng County approached the city and stopped a hundred steps away, there were only more than two hundred war horses in the army, and the rest were infantry, their team was scattered, looking very tired, Li Huan sighed slightly, this is his army, and the gap between them can be seen in the details, if it is the Anxi army, the team will not be scattered for a few days and nights, but it is the gap in these details that makes them far from being the opponent of the Anxi army.

In the dark night, dozens of horsemen rushed forward, led by the deputy general Su Yu, who raised his head and shouted: "Marshal Li, the last general Su Yu!" ”

"What about you generals?" Li Huan leaned on the head of the city and asked.

"General Li is transporting grain in the back, let me come back first."

No wonder there are more than 1,000 people missing, it turned out that they went to transport grain, Li Huan scolded in a low voice, "When is it now, still care about food!" ”

With a wave of his hand, he ordered, "Let them into the city!" ”

The drawbridge rumbled down, the city gate was wide open, Su Yu turned his horse's head and turned back and ordered: "Queue up to enter the city!" ”

The soldiers were full of spirits and stood in three columns, but this is the rule of the Anxi army, the army must be in three teams when entering the city, and a natural habit has been formed, although Zhao Chongjie has taken into account many details, such as the deliberate scattering of the army arrangement, etc., but he is still difficult to cover everything, and inadvertently revealed a little bit of the style of the Anxi army when the army lined up to enter the city.

But this little change in style made Li Huan frown, his army has always been lined up in two teams when entering the city, and he has never seen three teams into the city, but although he has a little mustard in his heart, he doesn't realize the authenticity of this army, he has to feel a little abnormal.

A team of soldiers approached the city gate, stepped on the drawbridge and walked into the city cave, Li Chongjie disguised himself as a captain, riding a horse in the middle of the team, he couldn't help but look up when he walked on the drawbridge, it happened that Li Huan was also looking at him, the two looked at each other, Li Huan was stunned, how could there be such a mighty officer in his army, he had never seen it, and his horse was also abnormal, not a Shudi mountain horse at all, what was going on?

At this time, he finally had doubts in his heart, and then looked at the soldiers, the doubts in his heart were even stronger, many of his troops were natives of Hanzhong, or Shu people, and they were generally not tall, and they were a little thin, but these soldiers in front of him were generally burly, and some soldiers even had a bit of a bearded face, Li Huan began to feel bad, at this moment, his eyes fell on the Modao heavy armored infantry who were about to approach the city gate, although they couldn't see their faces clearly in the dark, but what were the two-zhang long weapons in their hands? There had never been such a weapon in his army.

A cold sweat flowed down Li Huan's back, he suddenly understood, and immediately shouted: "Quick! Close the gates and pull up the drawbridge! ”

All the soldiers were stunned, and they didn't react for a while, Li Huan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, grabbed the placket of the captain of the city gate and shouted: "Damn, are you blind?" They are the Anxi Army, close the door! ”

The city was suddenly in chaos, and the soldiers shouted: "Close the door, it's the Anxi army!" ”

Li Chongjie, who had just crossed the drawbridge, knew that he had been spotted by the enemy, and he also shouted: "Brothers, rush into the city!" ”

The Anxi army didn't line up anymore, they roared angrily and rushed towards the city, when the drawbridge began to creak and rattle, and immediately rushed up to more than a dozen Mo Dao soldiers, swinging their knives and slashing the iron chains, only to see the flames splashing everywhere, 'Click! With two sounds, the left and right chains were cut off one after another, and the suspension bridge, which had risen three feet up, fell again.

At this time, half of the 3,800 soldiers of the Anxi Army have rushed into the city, but Nanzheng City is divided into the inner city and the outer city, they only rushed into the outer city gate, between the inner and outer city is the inner moat, there is a stone bridge on the river to connect the inner and outer city, the stone bridge is about 100 steps long, four zhang wide, only by rushing through the stone bridge and breaking the inner city gate, is it really entering Nanzheng.

The terrain is very unfavorable to the Anxi army, the Hanzhong army has found that they are the Anxi army, nearly 20,000 defenders are coming from all directions, at this time Li Huan has calmed down from the initial panic, he immediately organized soldiers to counterattack, there are more than 4,000 soldiers on the outer city wall, they have opened their bows and arrows, the dense rain of arrows shot at the Anxi army outside the city, the soldiers of the Anxi army raised their shields to meet each other, and began to fight to kill the city, falling behind is a thousand Mo sword heavy armor infantry, they are wearing heavy armor, not afraid of arrows, The arrows of the Hanzhong army did not have much effect on them.

And in the outer city gate and on the stone bridge there are more than 2,000 Han Chinese soldiers, they have no time to withdraw to the inner city, the inner city gate has been slammed shut, more than 2,000 soldiers have become the first batch of enemies in the fierce battle of the Anxi army, the shouting of killing shook the sky, the outer city cave and the stone bridge are densely covered with soldiers on both sides, in the narrow space, the two sides launched a bloody battle.

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Ten miles away on the avenue, Li Siye is leading 20,000 cavalry to the south of Zheng, a neat team of cavalry lined up on the official road, they have no cover, they also know that they can't avoid the spies of the Hanzhong army, they let go of the murderous spirit, a huge sound of horses' hooves knocking on the uneven ground, only to see the torches like a long dragon, the Anxi cavalry is dense, Hengge is in the saddle, and the mighty march towards the south of Zhengcheng, they are not marching fast, before getting the news of Zhao Chongjie, Li Siye will not launch an attack with all his strength.

According to Li Siye's original plan, he was ready to use the power of gunpowder and the Modao army to storm Nanzheng City, and if he wanted to take the strong and well-defended Nanzheng City within three days, he could only use the earth-shattering thunder to break the city, but the retreat of the defenders in Gucheng County and Xingdao County gave him a God-given opportunity, he could completely annihilate one of the armies, and then pretend to retreat to deceive Nanzheng City.

From the news he just received, Zhao Chongjie has completed the first half of the army, solved the withdrawal of Gucheng County, and now they are close to Nanzheng City, although Li Siye has experienced a hundred battles, but at this moment he is still a little nervous, he knows that there must be a mistake in Baimi, they can't do everything, among them, the military appearance and temperament of the Anxi Army are completely different from the Hanzhong Army, as the commander, Li Huan will not see this?

I'm afraid that a bloody battle for the city is inevitable, just thinking of this, I saw a bright arc rising in the southern sky, and suddenly exploded in mid-air, this is a signal that Anxi has launched an attack, Li Siye immediately ordered: "The whole army is speeding up, and march at full speed to Nanzheng!" ”

The 20,000 cavalry accelerated suddenly, and the chaotic sound of horses' hooves swept away like a storm towards the official road in the south.

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The battle to attack Nanzheng has been carried out to the extent of white-hot, the corpses on the hundred-step stone bridge are piled up, the blood is flowing like a river, nearly 2,000 people who did not have time to withdraw The Hanzhong army was basically slaughtered, only a few hundred people were left to lean on the inner city gate to support the Anxi army's wave after wave of attacks, they scolded desperately, and kept smashing the city gate, trying to make the city gate open a crack so that they could retreat into the city, but the city gate did not move at all, the inside had been closed tightly, and they had only one way to fight to the death, There is not even a way to surrender, either you die or I live, and no one will consider prisoners of war at this time.

But the dense arrow rain of the Hanzhong army eased their pressure, the inner and outer city walls were crowded with the Hanzhong army, more than 10,000 people, they released arrows from both sides, the arrows were like flying locusts, the overwhelming arrows were dense and impermeable, the Anxi army at this time also suffered heavy casualties, the dead have reached more than 1,000 people, even the main general Zhao Chongjie's war horse was also shot dead, he leaned against the bridge pier, more than a dozen personal soldiers guarded him with shields, commanding the battle in the rain of arrows.

Zhao Chongjie was worried, now the Anxi army is very passive, sandwiched between the inner and outer cities, as if being ambushed, the enemy shoots the arrow rain before and after makes it difficult for the Anxi army soldiers to take care of the front and back, can only use the shield defense back to back, but in this way, they can not launch an attack, a large number of troops are suppressed in the outer city cave ten zhang long, five zhang wide, a short section of the city cave was crowded with nearly two thousand people, dense as hail arrows rushed into the city hole, fifty Anxi army soldiers held a huge shield, formed a shield wall at the mouth of the city cave, Effectively resist the incoming arrows, but despite this, the inside of the cave is still too dangerous, and if the Hanzhong army attacks the cave with fire, his army will surely suffer heavy casualties.

Now they can only hold out until reinforcements arrive, but Zhao Chongjie is unwilling to go that far, it is a shame for him, what is the difference between this and not capturing Nanzheng City?

Zhao Chongjie's only hope is the Modao army, they are not afraid of arrows, use them to capture the outer city, there is a narrow path next to the outer city gate, about thirty steps long, straight to the city wall, at most can only allow three people to walk side by side, this is the convenient way for the soldiers to go up and down the city wall, and at this moment it is the key way for the Anxi army to capture the South Zheng City.

At this time, the road was crowded with more than 100 Anxi Mo knife soldiers, one side is the city wall, and the other side is facing the overwhelming arrows, the Mo knife army is not afraid of arrows but relatively speaking, their armor is strong, and a few arrows occasionally are indeed difficult to shoot through, but if it is dozens or hundreds of arrows, no matter how strong the armor is, it will be pierced, in order to cover the Mo knife army, there are dozens of ordinary soldiers on the very edge, they have no weapons in their hands, each holding two shields, intensively defending the arrows shot from the inner city.

At this time, this road has become the focus of contention between the two sides, hundreds of crossbowmen of the Anxi army under the cover of shields, shooting at the Hanzhong army above the road, although they are not many, but the arrow is extremely accurate, basically suppressing the Hanzhong army above the road, making it difficult for them to attack the Modao army on the road with boulders and rolling logs, and effectively guarantee the siege of the Modao army.

In order to keep the outer city wall, the Hanzhong army also invested nearly a thousand people, forming a dense defensive meat wall and the Mo knife army to fight, the two sides in the battle for the road to the city entered the white heat, the Mo knife soldiers are unstoppable, the long Mo knife waved, it will be splashed blood, the enemy soldiers were cut off by the waist, or the head was chopped off, but after killing a batch will come on a batch, endlessly, the dead bodies are stacked on top of each other, they are piled up three feet high, seriously obstructing the road to the city, and the Mo knife hand behind continues to pick the dead corpses off the city wall with a long handle, and falls into the inner moat, But the Modao soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, and in the battle for nearly half an hour, nearly 100 people had been killed, many of whom fell into the river and drowned.

At this time, Lin Haixiong has rushed to the front, his nickname is 'Mo Dao Killing God', he is one of the sharpest seven killing knives in the Anxi Mo Dao Army, he is one zhang tall, burly and abnormal, strong and long arms, a two-zhang long Mo knife in his hand like a butcher knife in the Shura field,

The knife flashed, only to see the head rolling, the flesh and blood flying, the limbs separated, the screams resounded through the night sky, he roared, jumped onto the city, Mo knife waved, four Han soldiers were stopped and cut into eight sections, and then backhanded a knife, three heads flew up, and blood spurted out of the neck.

Lin Haixiong's fierce god frightened the dozens of Hanzhong soldiers around him, they had never seen such a murderous killing god, they were all so frightened that their legs trembled, Lin Haixiong roared wildly, waved his knife and threw himself at dozens of soldiers, several slashes, and more than a dozen people were in different places, and the Hanzhong soldiers shouted in fright, turned around and fled.

Lin Haixiong looked up to the sky and laughed, he waved his hand, and shouted like thunder: "Brothers, go to the city!" ”

As more and more Modao soldiers and other Anxi soldiers rushed to the outer city, the tide of battle began to reverse, and thousands of Hanzhong troops in the outer city could not withstand the impact of the Anxi army, and withdrew to the inner city from the passage on the city wall.

At this time, there was a loud horn sound in the night sky in the distance, only to see a sea of torches appeared outside Nanzheng City, the 20,000 main force of the Anxi army finally arrived, the balance of victory was tilted towards the Anxi army, the outer city has been occupied by the Anxi army, their morale was greatly boosted, and the defenders on the inner city were defeated and retreated, especially nearly a thousand Modao army, they lined up and waved their swords, forming an indestructible array, approaching the inner city tower step by step, no one could reach their advance, and all those who resisted would be split into slices of meatAll those who resist will be trampled under their feet, they are the gods of war and the first army in the world.

The gate of the inner city finally opened slowly, and the Anxi cavalry held high their swords and torches, and a torrent of fire rushed into Nanzheng City.

Hanzhong Jiedu made Li Huan see that the general trend had gone, so he had to sigh, and then opened the southern city, led thousands of remnants of the army to flee to Shuzhong, only one day and one night, Li Siye led the 40,000 Anxi army to take Nanzheng, which means that they occupied Hanzhong.

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(To be continued)