The "black-necked toad" wasted his efforts to squeeze to the front of the crowd, but saw a few naked people playing with the sharp blades in their hands, rushing into the crowd without dying, and killing several officers and soldiers everywhere they went, as if they were in a no-man's land.

This "black-necked toad" has also seen the world, knowing that these people are barbarians born and raised in Lingnan Province, although this group of people fight martial arts are commonplace, but they have their own unreasonable momentum and courage, unless it is a well-trained and battle-hardened army, otherwise there is no one who is not frightened by their combat methods as soon as they fight.

The "black-necked toad" originally only received the order to investigate the military situation in front, and when he saw such a situation with his own eyes, as long as he quickly turned around and went back to report to Qiu Yizhi 1510, he would have completed his mission.

However, this "black-necked toad" was originally born as a bandit, and he was the most windless person, and he couldn't see it anymore when he saw these barbarians so arrogant and domineering. So he secretly moved to the gap between the two barbarians' attack ranges, pressed the sword on his waist with his right hand, and suddenly stabbed the knife hard, and immediately inserted the barbarian through. The "black-necked toad" succeeded in one blow, without mercy, and saw the opportunity, and with a backhand knife, he cut off the left foot of a barbarian on the other side, causing the barbarian to lose his balance and fall to the ground, and was immediately chopped into minced meat by the sergeant surrounding him.

The officers and soldiers who were originally cowered by this group of people who rushed into the crowd saw that this unknown big man was so decisive and brave, and suddenly came to the spirit, and the little fear and horror of Fang Cai had long since disappeared, shouting and cheering each other up, relying on the strength of the crowd, and in a blink of an eye, they surrounded this group of barbarians one by one and hacked them to death.

The action of "black-necked toad" is just a casual act he did, and he did it, at best, it was just to increase the talking point when bragging in the future, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he actually saved the lives of himself, Qiu Yizhi, his cronies, brothers, and even tens of thousands of troops!

It turned out that Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, had the advice of Wen Honghui, the leader of the Tianzun Sect, and adopted the method of blasting engineering, wanting to blast the Jinling city wall out of a gap that was enough for the army to carry out the formation and calmly break through. But I didn't expect that the Jinling city wall was built thick and strong, and after several explosions, the city wall did not move at all, only the Wuding Gate in the south collapsed.

Although this Wuding Gate is not a narrow gate, it is not enough for tens of thousands of troops to open up a formation and assault the whole army, and the blasting that has been painstakingly completed before is about to turn into useless work. However, Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, deserved to be a famous general who had experienced a hundred battles, and seeing that the situation on such a battlefield was not as smooth as he imagined, he suddenly had a plan and immediately ordered the whole army to concentrate on attacking Wudingmen.

As he expected, in the face of such a large-scale attack by the Lingnan Army, the official army really concentrated a large number of troops in Wudingmen. Although the individual combat effectiveness of the officers and troops was inferior to that of the Lingnan Army, after all, they had a numerical advantage and a city defense to rely on, and finally slowly squeezed out the Lingnan Army.

But all this was within the expectation of Lingnan Wang Zhenggui. When he saw that the officers and troops had gathered so many troops in the small space inside the Wuding Gate, he sent barbarian soldiers who were not afraid of death, carrying twenty or thirty canisters filled with explosives, and detonated them in the crowd.

In such a violent explosion, these barbarians were naturally blown to pieces, but even the thousands of nearby court officials and soldiers were also blown to pieces - even Qiu Yizhi, who was far away above the tall building, was also blown up.

Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, who was far away outside the city, heard the sound of explosions in the city from afar, and knew that the plan had succeeded, and he would definitely kill and wound many defenders, so he urged the army to attack inside the Wuding Gate.

But Qiu Yizhi in the city saw that the enemy army was attacking Wudingmen with all his might, so he gave up guarding the city wall, and ordered all the defenders in the city to go down to the city to meet the Lingnan army, and actually pushed back the Lingnan army that attacked the city.

Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, was not in a hurry, so he repeated the trick and ordered those ignorant barbarians to enter the city, wanting to detonate explosives in the crowd as they were, killing and injuring a large number of enemy soldiers.

But he didn't expect that at this juncture, a bandit "black-necked toad" was killed, and under his leadership and encouragement, the official army killed all the barbarians who rushed into the crowd in a short period of time, and the space that finally rushed out was squeezed back in an instant, and there was no chance to detonate a large amount of gunpowder.

If a soldier with a slightly clever mind sees such a situation, he must know that his mission cannot be completed, and he will immediately return to his camp with an altar and jar full of explosives, and wait for a new order from above to take action.

But these barbarians transporting explosives were a tendon, and only transported two or three jars of explosives into Jinling City, but they didn't know how to be flexible at all, and still took out the fire medium and ignited these jars of explosives as they were ordered before.

The explosives in these jars exploded almost at the same time, although the weight was insufficient, but the power should not be underestimated, in addition to killing hundreds of defenders around them, the impact force sent out was far away, so that Qiu Yizhi, who was nearly a hundred steps away from the detonation point, was also chest tightness and could not breathe for a while, and almost fainted.

However, because the "black-necked toad" wanted to quickly return to Qiu Yizhi to report the battle situation, he turned his back to the location of the explosive explosion, and the heavy armor behind him took the shock wave from the gunpowder explosion, and actually threw the 150 or 60 pound man high, impartial, and happened to fall in front of Qiu Yi's horse.

Qiu Yizhi saw the "black-necked toad" falling from the sky, and heard the explosion just now, knowing that something must have happened again, so he hurriedly dismounted and helped the "black-necked toad" up, and asked, "What's wrong?" Did King Lingnan use explosives again? ”

Qiu Yizhi's eighteen personal soldiers, including the "black-necked toad", knew the method of attacking the city with explosives, so there was no need to hide it in front of him.

The "black-necked toad" was puzzled when he heard this question, his brain was very straight, he couldn't speculate and reason, he didn't see it with his own eyes, he just treated it as if it didn't exist: "Explosives? I only saw a group of barbarians slaughtered into the city, and they were all killed by me with three or two knives, where did the explosives come from? ”

Although the words "black-necked toad" did not answer the point, with Qiu Yizhi's cleverness, he also knew that he was not far from ten, and he had already speculated that the king of Lingnan must cherish the strength of the Lingnan royal palace and refused to let these capable soldiers and horses make the ashes of explosives, so he thought of using barbarians to transport and detonate explosives.

These barbarians do not know death, and they are indeed difficult to deal with.

Qiu Yi couldn't think of any way to deal with it for a while, so he looked at the resourceful "Bansong Layman" Lin Shuhan beside him with a little help-seeking and turned his head to look at Liu Qing, the envoy of Jiangnan Dao - they were both wise and foolish, literate and martial, but they both looked at themselves with blank eyes, but they couldn't say anything else.

While the three of them were looking at each other, they suddenly heard another explosion in the direction of Wuding Gate, followed by the hysterical cries and screams of the defenders.

Qiu Yizhi was already accustomed to the impact of this explosives explosion, but his brain calmed down, and he whispered to Lin Shuhan: "I don't know how much explosives the King of Lingnan has prepared, and it is not a way to consume it like this...... I wonder what the gentleman has planned? ”

Lin Shuhan is a weak scholar, after such rounds of explosives explosions, his internal organs have already turned over the rivers and seas, and he barely concentrated on listening to Qiu Yizhi's words, but once he started his brain, he had a headache again, and he only said a few words, "Heroes don't eat immediate losses" and couldn't go on anymore.

However, these words are exactly in line with Qiu Yizhi's intentions, he can follow the rules and cannot follow the rules, which is exactly in line with his flexible and changeable way of fighting. But if you abandon Wuding Gate now, then the king of Lingnan will break through the city defense from here in one fell swoop, and this Jinling City will not be able to defend it.

The code is dead, and if you retreat, you will be defeated.

That's a real problem.

When Qiu Yizhi faced this dilemma—no, it was actually the dilemma of being forced to face this dilemma by Lingnan King Zheng Gui—and finally realized the feelings of those who were forced into a dilemma by himself before.

In his mind, the faces of the later general Bai Wenbo, the Jiangnan Provincial Assassin Shi Yin Chengliang and his son, the Tianzun sect leader Wen Honghui, the second son of the Lingnan King Zheng Yu, and the former emperor Zheng Yao kept appearing in front of him, one by one with a contemptuous expression, as if laughing at himself: "You kid also have today?" ”

Qiu Yizhi shook his head hard, trying to shake these faces away from his mind, but after several close-range explosions, his entire brain was shaken, and after shaking it a few times, he only felt that his mind was even more confused, and he still couldn't solve this life-and-death problem.

But Zheng Gui, the king of Lingnan, who came up with the question, no longer gave him a chance to continue thinking, and in an instant, he suddenly heard a series of huge explosions from the east and west directions.

Seeing two fast horses galloping from the direction where the explosion came from, two herald soldiers on horseback ran in front of Liu Qing, almost fell off the horse, knelt on the ground and said in a panicked tone: "Oh no, the thunder has destroyed the Sanshan Gate and the Zhongshan Gate again!" It's over! ”

"Fart!" Qiu Yizhi was in distress, and when he heard the two heralds shouting loudly to shake the hearts of the army, he suddenly became angry, "What thunder? It's a demon law! Didn't Mr. Lin tell you to get ready for dog blood? Why don't you transport it to the city and splash it down? The demon law is naturally cracked! ”

"Also, Fang just ordered the soldiers of all sects to come to Wuding Gate for reinforcements, and also told them to return immediately to hold their positions, and there is no need to come back. Got it? Qiu Yizhi ordered again.

The two heralds saw that Liu Qing had not yet given the order, and this civil official in the seven-grade small county order was actually giving orders here, and he didn't know what kind of identity Qiu Yizhi was. But seeing that the chief officer Liu Qing had no opinion, he had no choice but to give a military salute and get on the horse to give the order.

Qiu Yizhi was still unyielding, and shouted loudly at the backs of the two: "Pass the order, don't bewitch the people and shake the morale of the army, otherwise the military law will be engaged and will not be spared!" ”

This is just a routine disposition in a difficult situation.

Liu Qing listened to these orders, and the panic in his heart was not alleviated in the slightest, and he whispered in Qiu Yizhi's ear: "Your Highness Yi, the four gates of Jinling have now been broken through three ways, in fact, the entire Jinling City has been captured by the King of Lingnan, so it is better to ...... Why don't we withdraw first? ”

This is what Liu Qing plucked up a thousand courages to say - although he is a military general, although he is a little incompetent, but after all, he is also a person from Youyan Palace, the old Youyan army has advanced and retreated in battle, even in the face of the Turkic elite cavalry who have come and gone without a trace, he is not afraid, if he is forced to withdraw from Jinling City by Zheng Gui, an anti-king, it is really too faceless.

Qiu Yizhi listened, but only sighed: "It's difficult to run now, there are soldiers and horses of the king of Lingnan on three sides, and there is a Yangtze River in the north, and it is blocked by the Japanese ships brought by Yin Chengliang and Yin Tai, we don't have wings, and we can't fly out." ”