Bai Yijie shouted to Han Feng: "Don't go back to the mountain, you must capture Zhang Rou alive!" Han Feng replied and rushed forward with a whip, but his martial arts were no match for the experienced Zhang Rou. Zhang Rou counted the short spear in his hand, and his moves were all aimed at Han Feng's vital point, and he had to withdraw his iron whip and take a few steps back, unable to attack closely.

Behind him, Wei Sheng suddenly shouted, "Don't talk to him too much!" Spray him with a gunpowder gun! ”

Han Feng dodged and gave way, and Wei Sheng and Ren Xiongwei rushed up with a fast gun. The gunpowder canister on the fast gun snorted white smoke and was about to be fired.

Zhang Rou was stunned, and the two pro-soldiers pounced, and the flames of the gunpowder canister were sprayed on the two pro-soldiers who were desperate. The rest of the soldiers dragged the furious Zhang Rou and hurriedly descended the ladder, Han Feng struggled to knock down the two armor soldiers who were guarding the ladder with an iron whip, took the city guard hook gun from the partner on the side, and stabbed Zhang Rou on the ladder with a shot.

But it was too late, Zhang Rou's body was as agile as an ape, she slipped down the ladder to the ground, and with a slight vertical, she had already stepped on the ground, turned around and raised her big bow and shot an arrow, and the arrow grazed Han Feng's head.

Han Feng looked angrily at the great achievements of the city that he had missed, while Zhang Rou raised his eyes angrily and stared at the Song soldiers who were showing off their might at the head of the city. Since belonging to Genghis Khan, the Zhang family has won a hundred battles, when has there been such humiliation. Moreover, this battle was not a defeat by bravery, but a fear of the power of firearms. Although Zhang Rou was unwilling, she had to admit that Zheng Yunming's fire shot was really difficult to parry at close range. He was not a reckless fool who blindly relied on brute force, and did not seize the opportunity to successfully charge into battle in the interval between the firing guns, and it was already the choice of those who knew the army to retreat immediately. But it is really depressing to be defeated by this inconspicuous black powder.

Ren Xiongwei cut the flagpole of the Beidou flag planted at the head of the city into two sections with a knife, and the flag fell straight down the city wall. The sound of the drums and horns of the army outside the city who witnessed this scene came to an abrupt end, and the Song troops above and below the city all raised their arms and cheered, and the world's famous brave general Zhang Rou was actually repelled by them, which is a record worthy of boasting of by any Song army.

Bai Yijie was not happy at all, he whispered to Zheng Yunming: "Zhang Degang, the tiger general of the world, missed the opportunity to kill him today, I don't know when Lu Dao will have such a good opportunity in the future." ”

Zheng Yunming changed the sword box, and at this time calmed down a little, only to hear his heartbeat was tight and powerful, he felt that the blood all over his body seemed to be gathered in his heart, calmed down for a long time, and said: "The important thing is to keep the present, as for the future, we still have the opportunity to deal with this Mongolian's right-hand man." ”

The Mongol army attacked the city in a big way, but was unsurprisingly repulsed by the defenders of Xiangyang. On the west city wall, with the tactical failure of the general Zhang Rouqin to lead the death squad to assault, more than a dozen ladders of the Mongolian army were destroyed by the defenders one by one, and the Mongolian soldiers on the city either slipped down the ladder to flee for their lives, or were annihilated at the head of the city. The Jurchen Wanhu Jiagu Liuqi, who was in charge of the siege in the south of the city, focused his attack on the vicinity of the south gate, and used huge bamboo rafts to carry rushing carts across the moat in an attempt to forcibly destroy the city gate. However, the city gate specially reinforced by Yang Luo was difficult to destroy for a while, but Wan Wensheng, who guarded the south gate, poured boiling oil on the city, throwing rolling stones and sassalwoods to kill and injure many people. The Shi Tianze Department at the north gate was just clamoring for an attack. The most dangerous battle on this day took place at the East Gate, the Mongolian army was responsible for the East Gate Raid, and the army was in charge of the army's Qianzhongshu to save trouble and glue Chongshan, but the prestige of the Glue Chongshan fell sharply in the army because of the failure of the previous siege of Xiangyang, and the actual commander was the Qianlu can also be that Yan Tu Hu, who had a bad reputation in the Southern Dynasty before the Southern Expedition, and almost no one noticed that there was anything special about this grassland general who came from the north of the desert to participate in the Southern Expedition.

But as soon as the two sides fought, he led his troops and horses to launch a fierce attack, and the fierceness of his offensive was almost comparable to that of Zhang Rou. Although the number of Sanzhong militia troops guarding the east city wall was large, the quality was far behind the Jing Chu army on the west city wall. Under the fierce offensive of the Mongolian army, they retreated one after another, and the veteran Hu Xian killed several people one after another but could not stop it.

Zhao Kui, who received the urgent report, personally led the middle and rear armies, the Youyi army and the general's army as a reserve, and went to reinforcements with the Jing'e Metropolitan Division, and he ordered Chen Guang, the chief general of the Youyi army, to be the front commander, and he sat in the city to supervise the battle, and successively killed 19 officers who retreated, and finally stopped the army's rout. Chen Guang used the urn city as a support point, echoed each other through the three towers in the east city, and used firearms to open the way to recover the city wall foot by foot, and finally drove the army of Te Wuhu off the city wall.

In this battle, the three militia units lost more than 1,000 people, and what was even more shocking was that the Mongol army almost stormed the city. Once a powerful enemy occupies the east gate and engages in street fighting, even Zheng Yunming is not very sure that he will be able to expel them from Lu. This behavior of the militia naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the powerful generals.

The review meeting to be held in the evening was originally proposed by Zheng Yunming. The original tradition in the army was to hold a banquet immediately after holding a day, called rewarding the soldiers, but in fact, it was to appease the generals and colonies, so that they could urge the soldiers to fight with their hearts. Calm behavior, such as holding a review meeting after the war, is mostly done by famous generals. For example, Li Jing and Yue Fei, in Zhao Fan's era, no one thought that they could beat the level of Li Weigong and Yue Pengju, everyone happily toasted and drank, completely ignoring the final decision and thinking after every war. But Zheng Yunming, the first general under Zhao Kui, was born as a scholar, and his special identity originally had a bit of ascetic tradition. In addition, this official is actually quite conceited, his target is not only Li Jing Yue Fei, under such a high target value, it is inevitable to put forward strict requirements for the generals of his subordinates and colleagues.

Bai Yijie shook his feather fan and said to Zhao Kui who was seated: "Although the three loyal and righteous people are quite numerous, they are just militia after all. What's more, these three military horses have been established for many years, and they have long been trained laxly and unable to fight. Put them on the wall of the east city as the first line of troops, sooner or later there will be a big incident, for the sake of today's plan, only let the Zhenwu army be in charge of the west city, the Tulong army is in charge of the east city, and the subordinate teams under the system can provide support, in order to achieve the effect of being completely unbreakable. ”

Zhao Kui didn't express any attitude when he heard this, but just asked, "What do the generals think of this?" ”

Before the others could speak, Zheng Yunming stood up first and said, "I don't agree." ”

"Of course, Senator Bai is kind-hearted, and he is a character who is cautious and does not leave any trouble." Zheng Yunming forgot to glance at Hu Xian under his seat, this veteran general who has fought in Jinghu for many years obviously has a very bad face. He continued: "Since Hu took over the militia, there has been a marked improvement in both discipline and combat effectiveness. I still remember this time last year, when the militia ravaged the streets, stole chickens and dogs, and the lawsuit even hit me, an unrelated camp manager. Since the beginning of this year, there has not been a single lawsuit involving tens of thousands of troops in the three militias, and there have been fewer quarrels with the people. Last year, these militiamen were not qualified to go up the walls, because if the enemy fired an arrow, they would panic and disturb themselves. There is no need for the enemy to storm the city at all, they will abandon the city first. Now they have been able to fight for three or four rounds under the strong pressure of the enemy, all because of the effectiveness of governing the army after Hu Tongzhi took over! I have absolute confidence that Hu Tongzhi and his militia will be able to hold the walls of Dongcheng, and of course, it is impossible for them to hold on to such a powerful Mongol army in the face of a sudden attack. I am willing to lend a total of 3,000 people to Hu Tong, including the rear army, the right army and the general shooting army of Zhenwu Army, to assist the militia to defend the city together! ”

Hu Xian shook his white beard, since Zheng Yunming sold him this face, of course he would not refuse. After Zhao Kui agreed, he asked, "What is the situation in the direction of Fancheng?" ”

Wang Deng replied: "Looking from afar, I can only see from a distance that the soldiers of Fancheng City are attached to the ants, and the flags are like forests, and it seems that Fancheng is also facing a lot of pressure today. ”

Zhao Kui was silent for a while, and muttered: "According to the usual practice of the art of war, it should be necessary to attack Fancheng with all your strength first, and when Fancheng City is broken, Xiangyang City's morale will be low, even if you don't take the initiative to surrender, the difficulty of attacking will be reduced." Today, Xiangfan is intact, but the troops are divided into two ways to attack at the same time, I don't think the Mongol commanders will be stupid to this point. ”

Wan Wensheng said: "What else is there to say, what Zheng Guanren said is not right, there must be something terrible in the Tartars urging them to speed up the pace of action, this look is like the strength to take Xiangyang in ten days." ”

Bai Yijie shook his feather fan and slowly analyzed: "If the Tartars want to attack and win quickly at this time, it will definitely not be because of domestic turmoil or foreign invasions. Then send an envoy to force the peace talks, extort a sum of money and then leave, no matter how bad it is to monitor with a small number of men and horses, the army will slowly retreat, and no Song army will dare to pursue them. Now they are attacking the city so disregarding casualties, and once they can't attack it and withdraw temporarily, they will inevitably face the pursuit of our army. In other words, they are facing a reason that is not imminent but the time limit is getting closer, and what is this reason? ”

None of the generals in the hall could answer this question, and the hall fell silent for a short time.

In an eerie silence, Chen Guang suddenly hurriedly walked in from outside the hall, finished saluting the envoy, turned to Zheng Yunming's side, and whispered a few words in his ear. Zheng Yunming's face changed slightly, and then he whispered a few words. Chen Guang said goodbye and left.

Everyone in the hall looked at Zheng Yunming from the system to the envoy, it was already the time to hold the lamp, what urgent but unimportant things would be there at this time, would Chen Guang break into the important place of the White Tiger Festival Hall, but he would not be able to work the envoy?