Night gradually fell, and the catapults of the Qin army, which had roared all day, finally fell silent.

The Shouchun city wall, which had endured a day's bombardment, was finally at peace.

Ji Ling didn't get up, he leaned back on the battlements, looked at the stars in the night sky, and took a deep breath of dust and smoke to fall down the fresh evening breeze.

As a commander of the army, he knew very well that the Qin army's catapults did not continue to roar, not that the Qin army had given up the attack, but that the real attack was about to begin, and the current situation was just the most calm before the war.

The silence did not last long, and just as the Huainan army on the city wall took a long breath for the Qin army's catapults to stop roaring, a neat shout came from the Qin army's camp.

Hearing the shout, Ji Ling hurriedly stood up and looked out of the city.

A lit Qin army phalanx was slowly advancing towards the city wall.

Patches of torches were like scurrying elves, burning their bodies, dispelling the darkness of the night and bringing a light to the earth that was not very strong.

Seeing the Qin army's phalanx advancing towards the city wall, Ji Ling hurriedly shouted to the Huainan army at the head of the city: "All armament battle!" ”

His shout made the Huainan army, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly nervous again, and turned over and climbed up one by one.

The archers set up arrows on their longbows and aimed at the Qin army outside the city, while the heavy infantry stood behind the archers with their weapons, quietly waiting for the Qin army to launch a strong attack on the city wall.

The general offensive of the Qin army, which Ji Ling and almost all the Huainan army thought would take place, did not happen.

The Qin army's array, armed with torches, had stopped when it was out of range of the Huainan army's archers.

Due to the long distance, and it was night, although the torches held by the Qin army were bright, they made the blind spot of Ji Ling and the Huainan army on the city wall deeper, and Ji Ling and the Huainan army couldn't see what kind of phalanx the Qin army advancing towards the city wall was.

Just when Ji Ling and the Huainan army at the head of the city were wondering why the Qin army didn't continue to advance, the Qin army's phalanx suddenly rose up, and then countless ignited arrows flew up into the sky.

It was only then that Ji Ling understood that the Qin army advancing towards the city wall did not really want to launch a strong attack on Shouchun City, but to send a signal to the dragoon guards who had entered the city earlier!

At the same time, in the alleys in Shouchun City, Deng Zhan was looking up at the sky.

Ever since it got dark, he had been waiting, waiting for a signal from outside the city to them.

Pieces of rockets shot into the sky, reflecting the sky red, seeing the flames, Deng Zhan was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted to the dragoon guards who were still dormant: "Your Highness has sent a signal, let's go!" ”

The dragoon guards, who had been dormant all day after attacking Shouchun the night before, heard Deng Zhan's shout, and rushed out of their dormant room, drew their long swords, and followed Deng Zhan towards the city gate.

The dragoons were so close to the city gate that they did not shout when they rushed out, and the Huainan army guarding the gate did not notice at first that their target was the city gate.

When the dragoon guards appeared in the sight of the Huainan army near the city gate, it was too late for the Huainan army to take precautions.

"Kill!" Seeing that he was about to rush to the city gate, Deng Zhan finally let out a roar and took the lead in rushing towards the Huainan army inside the city gate.

The dragoons who followed him also roared in unison, brandished their long swords, and pounced on the Huainan army.

Ji Ling, who was on the city wall, heard a shout of killing coming from inside the city, and hurriedly ran to the side of the city wall near the city.

What he saw was a group of dark figures slamming into the city gate defenders.

Seeing this scene, Ji Ling hurriedly shouted to the Huainan army on the city wall: "Hurry up and go down to the city and support the city gate!" ”

With Ji Ling's order, thousands of Huainan troops ran under the city wall to support the Huainan troops guarding the city gate.

"Hurry up and report to Your Majesty, just say that the city gate is in danger!" The soldiers were swarming towards the city, and Ji Ling turned his head and shouted to one of the soldiers behind him.

Ji Ling asked people to report to Yuan Shu and asked Yuan Shu to send troops to help the city gate.

At this time, in the palace, Yuan Shu was also anxious like an ant on a hot pot, walking back and forth.

There were bursts of shouts and killings outside, and the Qin army in the secret passage finally broke through the earthen wall behind the most Lu and crashed towards the Huainan army guarding outside.

Due to the distance was too advanced, the formation of the archers of the Huainan army was just a flurry of arrows, and it was scattered by the Qin army.

Although most of the arrows fired by the Huainan army went into the dark passage, they did not bring many casualties to the Qin army.

The secret passage is not very high, and when a person stands in it, the top of his head can almost touch the top plate of the dark passage.

Before crashing through the backmost earthen wall, all the Qin troops had already placed their shields in front of them, and the arrows shot by the Huainan army were almost impossible to shoot the Qin army in the dark tunnel due to the cover of the dark passage and the protection of the shield.

The Qin army, who rushed out of the secret passage, roared angrily, waved the Pu knife in his hand, blocked the shield in front of him, and collided with the Huainan army's bow and arrow array.

The Qin army poured out of the dark passage like a tide, and the heavy infantry of the Huainan Army lined up behind the bow and arrow array also let out a cry and rushed up against the Qin army.

Rushing to the front of the Qin army was Tai Shici, who was holding a halberd in both hands.

Tai Shici, who was hiding behind the soldier's shield at first, rushed out of the dark passage with the Qin soldiers at the front after the Huainan army archers shot the first arrow.

The arrows fired by the Huainan Army's bow and arrow array were very different from the Qin army's crossbow array.

When the Qin army's crossbow array fired arrows, the crossbowmen fired in teams, and after the arrows in the front, the arrows in the back followed by the arrows, while the people in front squatted down to put new arrows on the crossbows.

In this way, the arrows can continue to fly towards the enemy.

However, the arrows fired by the Huainan Army's bow and arrow array were fired by everyone at the same time, although a whole puff of arrows would cause a large area of damage to their enemies, but there was a gap between the two launches.

If the Huainan Army's bow and arrow formation was like this when the two armies were facing each other, they would still have a chance to retreat and hand over the battlefield to the heavy infantry behind them.

It's just that at the moment, the Qin army is killing from the dark passage, and there is no advance array at all, but after rushing out of the dark passage, it is in a straggler battle sequence, and rushes towards the archers of the Huainan army.

Tai Shici, who was running at the front, held a halberd in both hands, and before the Huainan archers could put the second arrow on the longbow, he had already rushed to the front of an archer.

Tai Shi Ci rushed to him, and the Huainan Army archer was stunned for a moment, and was about to draw out the long sword at his waist to fight with Tai Shi Ci, when a short halberd had already drawn an arc of light and slashed at the top of his head.

Before his hand pressed on the hilt of the long sword, the Huainan army felt a pain on the top of his head, and then his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.

Like cutting a watermelon, a halberd split the brain of a Huainan army, Tai Shici roared angrily, waved the halberd in his hand, and rushed into the array of Huainan army archers, but in an instant, seven or eight Huainan soldiers fell under his short halberd.

was knocked out of a gap by Tai Shici, and the array of archers of the Huainan Army suddenly burst into a commotion.

The riot caused by Tai Shi Ci to the Huainan Army's archer array was just the beginning, and immediately after, more Qin troops brandished Pu swords and shields and crashed into this Huainan Army array composed of pure archers.

The heavy infantry of the Huainan Army, which was lined up behind the archers, also let out an angry roar at this time, and rushed towards Tai Shici and the others.

Leading the heavy infantry of the Huainan Army in the rear was a young Huainan general.

He may not know that Tai Shi Ci is powerful, or maybe although he knows how powerful, he thinks that he can kill Tai Shi Ci, and when he led the army to counterattack the Qin army, he actually chose to rush directly to Tai Shi Ci.

was slashing at the Huainan Army, Tai Shi Ci suddenly heard a burst of shouts in his ears, and a knife light slashed straight at his neck.

Picking up the big knife and slashing at Tai Shi Ci was the little general Huainan who led the army.

Seeing that the big knife was about to slash at Tai Shici's neck, the corner of the little general Huainan's mouth pulled up a smug smile.

His smile was fixed on his face forever as soon as he pulled it.

Because his big knife did not slash Tai Shici's neck, on the contrary, at the moment when his smile just rose from his face, a halberd had already pierced his throat.

The sharp halberd pierced through the throat of the little general Huainan and came out from the back of his neck.

With round eyes and a face full of disbelief, the little general Huainan stared at Tai Shici deadly.

He refused to believe to death that Tai Shici, who had not taken any precautions against him at all, could plunge the halberd into his throat first after he swung his big knife and slashed down.

Obviously, he didn't take this little Huainan general in his eyes, Tai Shici suddenly pulled out the short halberd after a halberd pierced his throat, and waved the double halberd and pounced on the other Huainan troops.

Tai Shici didn't take the little general Huainan in his eyes, but the Huainan army that followed the little general to launch a counterattack against the Qin army was stabbed to death by someone who saw him just one move.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Huainan Army, a few of whom were relatively timid, shouted in horror in the face of the Qin army's slashing: "The general is dead!" Run, everybody! ”

With the frightened shouts of these Huainan soldiers, fear spread like a plague among the Huainan army.

There is still a steady stream of Qin troops rushing out of the dark passage, and I don't know how many Qin troops are ambushed in the dark passage.

After the death of the main general, the Huainan army's fighting spirit has fallen to the bottom, many people are already fighting and retreating, and even some people who are at the bottom of the city are still fighting, bowing their heads and running towards the dark alleys in the city.

More and more Huainan troops fled, but the Qin army became more and more courageous, and gradually they were about to occupy the outer courtyard of Yuan Shu's palace.

Just when Tai Shi Ci led the Qin army to expand the results of the battle and rushed towards the backyard of the palace, a shout suddenly came from outside the palace: "Tai Shi Ci is so arrogant, a certain Qiao Rui, I am here to meet you!" ”