The slaughter of Zhang Xuan's army quickly reversed the situation, first of all, the thief army in the north could not support it and was quickly defeated, and at the same time, the arrival of reinforcements greatly boosted the morale of Pei Renji's troops, and they continued to launch tough counterattacks against Wang Bo's army.

Wang Bo saw that he could not defeat the Sui army, so he had to give the order to withdraw the army, 'Dang! While! While! The gong sounded for the withdrawal, and more than 10,000 thieves quickly retreated south, leaving corpses all over the ground.

The war finally subsided, and in the hundreds of acres of wilderness, there were corpses everywhere, bleeding profusely, and stumps and broken arms could be seen everywhere, which was terrible to see. In this ambush battle, the Sui army suffered heavy casualties, and it was also the largest casualty since the establishment of the Flying Eagle Army, at least more than 3,000 soldiers were killed, and thousands of soldiers were missing, plus the casualties of the soldiers in Xintai County, the total casualties of the Sui army have exceeded 5,000.

Although the thieves also paid the price of thousands of deaths, the huge losses of the Sui army still made the morale of the Sui army low, especially the commander Pei Renji blamed himself, almost committed suicide, and was snatched by his own soldiers.

Qin Qiong was hit by an arrow in the leg, and he was bandaged, he was supported by the soldiers and walked to Zhang Xuan's side and said: "The marshal has been injured, the military doctor is healing, the marshal asked me to tell the general, he will remember General Zhang's rescue grace, but now Dong'an County is in danger, please go to the rescue immediately, and the marshal will ask the saint to ask for guilt!" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded silently, he knew that Pei Renji's injury was just an excuse, the fundamental reason was that he was ashamed to see himself, and it was better for him to save face, so Zhang Xuan hugged his fists and said, "Since this is the case." I immediately led my army north, and asked the general to tell the commander to send more scouts. Prevent the thieves from killing the carbines! ”

"General Zhang, don't worry, I will pay attention to these things, I wish General Zhang a victory!"

Zhang Xuan saluted Qin Qiong with a fist, turned over and ran towards the front army, he was very worried about the situation in Dong'an County, and immediately led the army to march quickly to Dong'an County, which was dozens of miles away.

Qin Qiong watched Zhang Xuan leave and found Pei Renji again. At this time, Pei Renji sat on a big rock and was silent, no one knew what he was thinking, and no one dared to come forward to disturb him. At this time, Qin Qiong stepped forward and saluted, "Dashuai, he's gone!" ”

Bae Renji sighed softly. "How are your injuries?" ”

"A little flesh wound. It's not a big deal. ”

"This time it is indeed thanks to General Zhang's timely killing, otherwise I would be a Qingzhou sinner."

"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, don't blame yourself too much."

Pei Renji smiled bitterly, "It's not a matter of self-blame, it's a matter of requiring me to take responsibility, okay, don't mention this matter, let the brothers clean up the battlefield!" ”

Qin Qiong immediately arranged for soldiers to clean up the battlefield. He also ordered more than 100 scouts to patrol the south and closely monitor the movements of the thieves

Dong'an County has suffered an extremely bloody battle in the past two days. The thief general Guo Huan led 3,000 men to raid Dong'an County, in an attempt to cut off the Sui army's northern retreat and annihilate the Sui army in Langya County.

This is an extremely important step in Wang Bo's game, and the capture of Dong'an County is also equivalent to opening the southern gate of Beihai County and Qi County, and Wang Bo's wish to return to Qi County may be realized.

There was originally no moat on all sides of Dong'an County, but Wei Chigong organized the people and soldiers to dig a five-foot-deep trench around it, and introduced Yishui into the trench, forming a circle of simple moats.

Although the moat was built, the time was too short, so that the Sui army did not have time to build a drawbridge, and the city gate became the main point of attack of the thief army, and the three thousand thief soldiers were densely arranged in the wilderness outside the southern city, they were extremely excited, and their eyes were full of wolf-like longing.

The lord general Guo Huan gave an order that as long as they attacked the city, the property and women in the city would belong to them.

The attack of the thief army did not go well, Dong'an County is by no means an easy lamb like Xintai County, and Dong'an County actually has Sui army defenders.

But the defenders couldn't stop the rampant ** of the thief soldiers, hundreds of tall and strong men held a five-zhang long giant tree, shouted, and crashed towards the gate together, the stones on the city fell like raindrops, and people were constantly smashed to the ground, and the two thousand thieves behind fired arrows in unison, shooting at the head of the city.

Although the bows and arrows of the thief army were far less sharp than those of the Sui army, they were numerous, and the dense rain of arrows still pressed the Sui army on the head of the city to the point that they could not raise their heads.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang on the ground, and the giant tree slammed against the city gate, and the city wall trembled, and the city gate shook violently, but it was not rushed open.

"Bump again!" Guo Huan shouted with a wave of his horsewhip.

Hundreds of people quickly retreated, and at this time, the arrows of the thief soldiers slowed down slightly, and the stones on the head of the city fell again, and dozens more were smashed into the moat.

"Damn, how many defenders are there on the tower?"

Guo Huan suddenly saw clearly that only some Sui troops had gathered at the city gate, and the rest of the city walls were deserted.

No wonder no Sui army did not shoot sharp bows and arrows, it turned out that there were not many guards in the city, Guo Huan suddenly became excited, and shouted: "The first one to rush into the city can pick ten beauties." ”

His words caused a wild cry from the thieves, and more than a thousand people rushed forward, holding high their shields to protect the soldiers holding the wood, and thousands of large shields protected the giant tree tightly, like a hundred-legged giant insect with scale armor.

The wood slammed into the city gate again, and the stones on the city fell down, there was no effect just now, and it smashed on the shield with a clanging clang, at this time, the thief soldiers under the city fired arrows again, and dozens of Sui soldiers couldn't dodge, were shot by the arrows, and fell from the city with a scream.

There was another earth-shattering impact, and the city gate shook violently, like an old man on the verge of dying, about to fall with a bang, and the last blow was only the last blow.

Chi Gong, the captain of the city, already knew that the city gate was about to be unguarded, and looking at the locust-like thief army under the city, he couldn't help but sigh, "I am ashamed of the trust of the general, and I still failed to hold Dong'an County." ”

Zhang Lin, the lieutenant behind him, said to him anxiously: "The city will be broken, please evacuate immediately, I am willing to lead the army to drag the thief army and buy time for the general." ”

Wei Chigong shook his head, and said with a solemn expression: "I am a city guard, and I should live and die with the city, and An Neng will leave the fathers and brothers of the city and flee!" ”

He waved his stick and shouted, "All the soldiers will go down to the city with me to meet the battle." ”

The five hundred defenders shouted and followed Wei Chigong to the city.

At this time, the third assault of the thieves had been launched, and the crashing wood had retreated a hundred paces away, and they had accumulated their energy and rushed forward with a shout, and in their hearts this collision would give them complete access to the wealth and women of the city.

'Boom! With a loud bang, broken wood splashed everywhere, and the dilapidated city gate could not withstand the force of a thousand pounds, and was finally slammed open.

A hundred thieves with hammers in their arms rushed into the city gate, and they shouted: "I am the first to enter the city!" I'm in town! ”

The thieves fought desperately for merit, but soon, everyone closed their mouths, only to see that a large group of Sui soldiers were already waiting in the city, led by a fierce general, who was extremely strong, holding a big copper rod, like a god.

"Kill!"

Wei Chigong roared, rushing into the enemy group like a gust of wind, waving the big stick, and hitting the thief soldiers with flesh and blood and brains bursting where the copper stick passed.

In a moment, more than 20 thieves were killed, and the Sui soldiers behind him also followed Wei Chigong to kill, killing more than 100 thieves who rushed into the city with heavy casualties and corpses all over the place.

The remaining dozens of thieves screamed, threw down their rams, and fled out of the city.

Guo Huan was furious and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

Hundreds of thieves rushed up and threw their bows and arrows at the city gate, the Sui soldiers had already prepared, although the city gate was completely broken and could no longer be used, they raised their shields together to meet each other, forming a shield gate at the city gate.

Although the arrows were dense, they could not be shot into the city, and the bow and arrow attack did not work.

At this time, a thief general whispered to Guo Huan: "It is estimated that the Sui army is concentrated here, and the general can divide his troops to kill them from other places!" ”

Guo Huan woke up and made a look, this thief general immediately led more than 1,000 thief soldiers around the west city, there were really no soldiers guarding the west city, more than 1,000 thief soldiers took the ladder, rushed to the head of the city, and killed the Sui army gathering place in the south city.

The more than 1,000 thieves killed from the west made the Sui army quickly fall into a situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back, and Guo Huan, who was outside the city, also led the army to launch another attack on the southern city gate.

A piece of long wooden planks set up the moat, the thieves attacked the city gate like a tide, the Sui army was attacked by the enemy, Wei Chigong had realized that the general trend had gone, he roared, "Bloody battle to the last man, never surrender!" ”

The soldiers of the Sui army shouted one after another: "Bloody battle to the end!" ”

The two sides engaged in a bloody battle inside and outside the city, the blood mist filled the sky, the Grim Reaper laughed fiercely at the city, and the soldiers were cut down and trampled like straw, their necks were cut off, their heads rolled into the river, and the ground was covered with flesh and blood.

Everyone's eyes were red, although the soldiers of the Sui army fought hard to the end, but in the face of six times their own thief army, their number became smaller and smaller, and even the lieutenant Chi Gong was wounded in three places, and he was gradually exhausted.

At this moment, there was a great chaos behind the thieves, and from a distance, I saw the yellow dust rolling, as if a cavalry was killing from the south, and instantly rushed into the thief army that was eager to enter the city.

"Our cavalry is coming!"

The Sui army cheered, hugged each other and cried with joy, and Wei Chigong also saw clearly that the leader of the general was Pei Xingyan.

Wei Chigong raised his iron rod and roared, "That's our General Pei, our reinforcements are coming, brothers, go out of the city and kill the enemy!" ”

The siege of the thieves was forced to stop, and they turned around to meet them, but they were far from being the match for the cavalry, and the five hundred cavalry rushed and killed in the enemy group, and the horses galloped, and the morale was high, and the attack was sharp.

"Retreat! Fall back! ”

Guo Huan hissed and shouted, and at this time, Pei Xingyan rushed towards him, frightened him into distraction, and he didn't have time to wait for the soldiers, so he turned his horse's head and retreated south in a hurry.

The main general fled, the thief army had no intention of fighting, was killed by the Sui army, lost his armor and fled all the way, Pei Xingyan led the soldiers to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill, the thief army suffered heavy casualties, and there were less than 1,000 escapees. (To be continued......)