Even if the battle is difficult, it must be fought!

Guo Chongwei did not hesitate to recruit from the west of the Later Zhou Dynasty, continued to continue the Tushan attack, commanded the Hou Zhou soldiers to dismantle two of the four earth dragons outside the East City without stopping, dumped the soil bags and the fragments of the earth buildings on the city wall into the trench on the inner side of the city wall, and focused on the west gate of the urn city to start piling up the earth mountain, preparing to spread the earth mountain all the way to the second city wall of the Northern Han defenders.

Seeing this situation, the defenders of the Northern Han Dynasty, who had been silent, first tried their best to suppress the progress of Hou Zhou Tushan with improvised arrows on the second city wall, and then later, there were fewer and fewer arrows, and there were fewer and fewer defensive soldiers to be seen on the city wall.

"The other party has no arrows! I can't stand it! This good news spread among the soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and everyone became more energetic in building mountains.

In the early afternoon of the 5th of July, when the head of Tushan successfully kissed the second city wall, Hou Zhou, who had long been tired of the earth-moving work for several days, immediately divided his troops into three routes, ran all the way up the city wall, and then split into two and attacked both ends of the city wall; The soldiers on both sides ran down the dirt hill and went straight to the big gaps on the north and south sides.

At this time, a sudden change occurred.

Flames burst on several firewood piles on the top of the second city wall, and then six remaining Northern Han dead soldiers came out of the firewood piles, and quickly lit the dry firewood piled up under the battlements on the south side with the torches in their hands.

Although the six Northern Han dead soldiers were immediately hacked to death by the angry Hou Zhou soldiers, the fire had successfully spread, and a wall of fire was ignited in the southern half of the city wall, which not only blocked the subsequent Hou Zhou soldiers, but also forced all the Hou Zhou soldiers who had already climbed the city wall to the northern half.

At this moment, the roar of sharp arrows that made the Hou Zhou soldiers tremble suddenly came from the north, which had been quiet, and the arrows that were as dense as the rain jumped up to the city wall from behind the buildings and trees at the same time, knocking down the Hou Zhou soldiers who could not dodge in a row.

When the soldiers on the city wall screamed, the soldiers on both sides also ran to the gap between the north and the south.

Seeing that the land in front of him was blank and unobstructed, one of the leading lieutenants raised his head and chest covered by his shield, and shouted from his side: "Brothers, rush, kill these bastards!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the Captain who had stepped forward had disappeared, and then a terrible scream sounded from below.

The soldiers of Houzhou, who were running rapidly, could not retract their feet, and they followed in the footsteps of this lieutenant and fell into the trap of sudden collapse. Just as these soldiers were panicking, a rain of arrows shot out from the buildings and debris in front of them, and once again shot down the soldiers in the first few rows.

When Guo Chongwei led people to the second city wall, he found that there were no less than 3,000 dead and wounded soldiers up and down the city wall at this moment, his face suddenly turned blue, and his eyes were red and he stared at the buildings not far below the city wall.

The buildings in front of me have basically been demolished from the courtyard gates, fences, and wooden beams, looking dilapidated, and occasionally the breeze blows, and there is a clangling sound, as if the city has been a ruin. At the entrances of several streets, all kinds of debris are piled up horizontally and vertically, forming barricades. If you look closely, behind the barricades, above the roofs, around the corners, you can occasionally see one or two flickering figures.

After observing for a while, Guo Chongwei, who was surging with anger, kicked out a large piece of the battlements in front of him, and roared angrily with a wave of his arms: "Continue to fill in the earth and advance, and then the whole army will assault!" Pass my orders, leave no one alive, slaughter the city! ”

The order was quickly passed to everywhere, and the officers and soldiers of the Hou Zhou who had been in a hurry were all crazy, and under the protection of the big shields in the front row, most of the Hou Zhou soldiers took off their armor, took off their shirts and trousers, and all of them were used to cover the soil, and quickly filled the trap arrays on the ground on both sides into several narrow passages.

With the marching drums getting louder and louder, the fully armored soldiers in front and the poorly clothed soldiers in the back, rushed along the newly opened passage to the rear buildings. There were still arrows, but they were all scattered, which further boosted the confidence of the Hou Zhou soldiers, who shouted one by one, brandished their weapons and rushed to the intersections.

Suddenly, a dense barricade of arrows was fired from behind all the barricades, aimed at the unarmored soldiers in the rear, who screamed and fell to the ground.

The fall of these soldiers further stimulated the Houzhou soldiers to hurry up, and the officers who led the team shouted at everyone to speed up their pace and rush forward to fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

After all, the number was superior, and the soldiers of the Later Zhou rushed to the barricades like a tidal wave and attacked forward along the streets. At this moment, arrows began to shoot from the rooftops and tree tops next to them, killing conspicuous targets one by one steadily, accurately, and ruthlessly.

Almost unanimously, the commanding officers on several streets continued to send a small number of soldiers to sweep the houses where arrows were fired, and the ranks of Houzhou soldiers on the main roads continued to shrink.

After advancing for about three miles, the various Later Zhou armies encountered the tall and large barricades again, and this time, the Northern Han soldiers no longer hiding, but guarded the barricades in full armor.

On one side are the soldiers who have long been determined to die, and on the other side are the soldiers who have lost their minds in the fight, and the two sides do not talk nonsense at all, and directly attack and kill with knives, and one by one the cruel small battlefields are officially opened.

In the afternoon, Guo Chongwei, who had not received further news from the front line, couldn't sit still, and took a group of personal guards down the city wall and walked to an east-west street to check the battle on the front line.

In front of a house, two Hou Zhou soldiers were stomping on a Northern Han soldier with a knife, and the Northern Han soldier covered in blood kept scolding, and when he saw the opportunity, he grabbed the calf of a Hou Zhou soldier with one hand, opened his big mouth and bit it hard.

The Hou Zhou soldiers screamed in pain, swung their knives out with all their strength, and slashed deeply into the necks of the Northern Han soldiers. The Northern Han soldier suddenly closed the account, but a sharp mouth did not let go. The annoyed Hou Zhou soldier swung his knife sharply, breaking the Northern Han soldier's teeth, and before he got out, the really angry soldier kicked the Northern Han soldier twice.

"Well, he's dead! What's going on? Guo Chongwei hurriedly stepped forward and frowned.

"Ah, return to General Guo! This man was an outlaw left behind by the Northern Han Dynasty, and he lurked in this courtyard, first dodging and wounding two of our soldiers with arrows, and then smashing one with tiles, and finally he was forced by us to jump down from it, and knocked another one unconscious. We couldn't get angry, so we hacked him to death! The bitten Houzhou soldier said with hatred and kicked the corpse again.

Guo Chongwei was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Are all the Northern Han soldiers you met along the way so crazy?" ”

The two Houzhou soldiers glanced at each other, nodded, and replied, "We have also met other squads, saying that they have encountered all crazy people, and the losses are not small!" ”

Guo Chongwei looked up, looked at the streets and the buildings on both sides where there were still battle scenes from time to time, and immediately shouted loudly: "Send the order quickly!" Send all the soldiers into the city, don't divide the troops, keep attacking along the streets, and after digging through the whole city, the whole city will be burned to me with a fire! ”

As soon as the tactics change, the effect is immediately apparent. The 60,000 elite Zhou troops, heavily armed, rushed along the three main streets, ignoring the occasional cold arrows fired by the roadside, and soon converged with the forward troops, swept through the barricades like a frenzy, drowned the resisting Northern Han soldiers, and headed straight to the west.

In the evening, the three armies successfully converged, and a single charge took the west gate guarded by only a few men, completely surrounding the entire Jinju city. As soon as the entire city was taken, the relaxed Houzhou soldiers scattered along the inner city wall and began to collectively play with fire, by the way, encircling and killing the Northern Han recalcitrant elements who came out of the fire circle.

The greedy flames sparked the buildings in Jinju Castle, which had been exposed to the sun for many days, and immediately swelled sharply, raising its body and expanding in size, and soon engulfed the entire Jinju Castle, and the blazing fire reflected the darker and darker night sky.

On the turbulent Fen water, the Northern Han Dynasty standing on the bow of a warship made Liu Chengjun's eyes crack, his teeth bit his chapped lower lip into deep blood marks, and he punched the side of the ship fiercely, looking up to the sky and roaring: "My nearly a thousand brothers in life and death! They did not die in battle, but in this fire! I swear to the heavens! I, Liu Chengjun, are inseparable from the pseudo-Zhou oath in this life! ”

Yang Ye beside him unfolded a small note in his hand, glanced at the crooked font on it, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Liu, we have fought in the streets." Next, let's go to Xi, Ci, and Jiang to fight guerrillas! ”

The note only has the words "street fighting, guerrilla", which is the trick that Lin Feng left for Liu Chengjun before saying goodbye.

Liu Chengjun glanced at Jinzhou City in the fire again, and there was a burst of sadness in his heart, after three consecutive months of bloody battles at the head of Jinzhou City, there were less than 4,000 of the 13,000 Northern Han defenders left! However, the monstrous hatred immediately surged, making Liu Chengjun's body tremble instantly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, our brothers continue to fight side by side!" Let Sanzhou become the grave of the pseudo-Zhou soldiers! ”

The warship slowly turned around and sailed to the west bank of Fenshui.