He was halfway through his words, but when he saw Lin Shuhan also running over in a panic, he nodded to him as a greeting, and then continued: "The method of blasting and attacking the city, whether it is the enemy or me, is a killer move, once it is used, there must be a certainty of victory, the king of Lingnan is old and spicy, there should be a back move, not to be taken lightly." ”

Qiu Yizhi's words, Lin Shuhan didn't disagree with a word, so he also bowed his head and said: "It's futile for us to talk nonsense here, it's better to lead the army over and take a look." ”

So Qiu Yizhi ordered Zhao Chengxiao to gather soldiers and horses and go to Wudingmen immediately.

Qiu Yizhi's more than 200 elite soldiers, the combat experience is already very rich, heard the movement in the city from afar, and knew that there must be a change outside the city, before listening to the above orders, they have been neatly dressed and lined up in the open space of Lin Shuhan's manor.

Seeing that these people were in high spirits and high morale, Qiu Yizhi couldn't help but feel a little confident in his heart, so he got on his horse and shouted: "Go, take a look!" ”

Before she walked out of the gate of the manor, she saw that Wei Chi Jiming also caught up from behind, and when she heard that the Lingnan Army was attacking the city, she immediately changed into a man's strong outfit and wanted to act with everyone.

Seeing this, Qiu Yi said to Yu Chi Jiming: "Ji Ming, you go back and protect your sisters, there can be no accidents." More than 200 people are by my side, and they are enough, can't they protect me? After that, he didn't wait for Wei Chi Jiming to agree, immediately stepped on the sweaty horse, and galloped away outside the manor.

Since Qiu Yizhi's army raided Mingzhou Port and captured a large number of military horses of the Lingnan Army, these pro-regiments under him have been trained, and each of them has been assigned a war horse.

Now is the critical juncture of the enemy's siege of the city, Qiu Yizhi does not care about the prohibition of galloping horses in Jinling City, leading his soldiers and horses, and galloping along the main road in the direction of Wuding Gate.

Along the way, the closer you get to Wudingmen, the more pungent the smell of sulfur in the air becomes, and the stronger the smoke and dust. On both sides of the road, there were already many soldiers and civilians, carrying wood, bricks, sandbags and other things in their hands, shoulders, and on their backs, walking quickly in groups, all with a look of surprise and confusion on their faces.

These people were sent to repair the Wuding Gate, and they were all the first time to see the earth-shattering scene of blasting the city gate, so they were naturally shocked and frightened, and it was very rare to be able to send materials to the door with a hard head.

After walking a few more steps, there were more and more soldiers waiting for the battle, and several leading officers saw that Qiu Yizhi's team was wearing clothes that were not regular Jiedu Army or Forbidden Army, and they all stepped forward to stop them: "The front combat area, no trespassing!" ”

Qiu Yizhi took out the gold medal arrow he carried with him, which frightened them away and continued to move forward to the Wuding Gate.

But seeing that Liu Qing was really commanding in front of the Wuding Gate, although he was a little panicked, the rules were not chaotic, and the Wuding Gate, which was blown into pieces, had been blocked by him with various building materials, and surrounded the broken gate, and also tangled up two or three thousand soldiers and horses, and temporarily established a position around the door. However, although these soldiers were still able to stand in formation, their expressions clearly showed panic and panic.

When Liu Qing saw Qiu Yizhi coming, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, hurriedly took a few steps forward, helped Qiu Yizhi off the horse, and whispered in his ear: "Your Highness Yi, what's going on?" ”

Qiu Yizhi remembered that Liu Qing was also a person who had followed Emperor Zheng Rong to fight the "Battle of Rebellion", how could he still make a fuss when he saw such a scene, and couldn't help but be a little disdainful: "When the emperor personally attacked the capital Luoyang, weren't you not there, aren't you like this today?" ”

Liu Qing said in a low voice: "At that time, it was not said that the thunder came and collapsed the city wall of Luoyang, but it was the emperor's blessing to the sky. Now that the thunder is coming again, does it mean that the prince of Lingnan also has the favor of heaven? By the time he reached the last few words, his voice was so low that he couldn't even make out himself.

Qiu Yizhi knew the reason.

When the emperor broke through the Luoyang city wall, it was not a thunderstorm at all, but he used the siege method passed from the Western Regions by the Tianzun Sect, digging tunnels and then burying explosives, which collapsed the Luoyang city wall in one fell swoop. Today, the Lingnan King broke through the Wuding Gate in the same way, but the person who came up with the idea was changed to Wen Honghui, the leader of the Tianzun Sect.

However, this method of dynamite siege is a secret among secrets, and Qiu Yizhi didn't want to explain it to Liu Qing, so he only said: "Don't talk nonsense, the emperor was a god from heaven, and the destiny of heaven returned." At most, the king of Lingnan is only the dominant side, and what he does is just demon law. Let me ask you, before the explosion, did anyone do anything under the city? ”

Liu Qing thought for a while and said, "His Royal Highness Yi said this, it's true. It seems that in the early hours of this morning, someone piled up a few jars under the city wall and city gate in the dark, and I didn't think the movement was very big, and the Lingnan Army had no follow-up support, so I didn't care about him......"

Qiu Yizhi immediately took over the conversation, deliberately raised his voice, and said, "So, this must be a demon law. Wen Honghui, the leader of the Tianzun Sect, survived and ran to the side of the King of Lingnan to help the abuse, this is the sin he did. If someone talks about the destiny of heaven and shakes the heart of the army because of this, he will not be spared! ”

After hearing these words, Liu Qing seemed to have some confidence, and hurriedly summoned a herald and parroted him to go down to pass the word.

Qiu Yizhi said again: "The demon methods of the Tianzun Sect are all handed down from the Western Regions, there is no big deal, compared to my authentic Dao method in the Central Plains, it is even more backward, and Mr. Lin beside me has his own magic method to break him!" As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Lin Shuhan.

Lin Shuhan was almost scolded in his heart - he is an upright Confucian master, and he pays the most attention to "strange power and chaos that the gods do not speak, and Liuhe does not care about the existence outside", and he is most disgusted by such demonic words and tricks, but now Qiu Yizhi wants him to think of some ethereal way to crack it, can he not be angry?

But he thought about it again, and the folk drums and dramas all said that those people with high wisdom and resourcefulness - such as Zhang Liuhou, Zhuge Wuhou, and Liu Chengyi - were people who were prosperous in Taoism, and they knew how to crack the demon law, which was also the proper meaning of the question.

(Zhang Liuhou, Zhang Liang; Zhuge Wuhou, Zhuge Liang; Liu Chengyi, Liu Bowen. ）

Therefore, although Lin Shuhan was disgusted in his heart, he knew that the most important thing now was to boost morale, and besides, there was no reason to talk about these hard soldiers who didn't know a few big words, so he had to search his intestines and scrape his stomach, and finally remembered that he had really seen a few words in a certain wild history nonsense.

So Uncle Lin said with a sad face: "Yes, yes." Let's kill a few dogs, let out the blood, and smear it on the weapons and armor, and the demon law can naturally be broken. Lin Shuhan was very resistant to these ethereal demon spells, so after saying these absurd words, he glared at Qiu Yi fiercely.

When Liu Qing heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Okay, I'll send someone to kill the dog and take the dog's blood!" ”

Qiu Yizhi nodded and said: "It's okay, but these are all trivial matters, and the most important thing at the moment is to guard Wuding Gate." Now that the city gate has been blasted open, the king of Lingnan will definitely attack the city in a big way, but fortunately, the Jinling city wall is still stable, so you will order the soldiers and horses in the city to prepare for battle immediately according to the countermeasures to resist the attack of the enemy's whole army! ”

Liu Qing listened and memorized, and listened to Qiu Yizhi's words, so he recruited a few more heralds, and parroted the order.

As soon as Liu Qing gave this order, the people in Jinling City closed their windows and closed their doors, and the soldiers and men came out of their garrisons one after another, and moved quickly to their respective posts, and the whole Jinling City suddenly became noisy, like a busy market, as if returning to the bustling scene before.

In order to facilitate the command of the operation nearby, Liu Qing temporarily requisitioned a restaurant directly opposite Wuding Gate about 100 paces away, and together with Qiu Yizhi and others, he overlooked the city gate on the upper floor, waiting for the whole army of the king of Lingnan to attack.

However, after half an hour's effort, the defenders of Jinling City had already taken their places, and the walls were well defended, the flags were waved, and the rolling wood and stones were all ready, and they were completely prepared to deal with the enemy's attack.

Qiu Yi looked at it from afar, and felt a little at ease.

He thought that although the King of Lingnan had broken through the Wuding Gate and opened a gap in the thick and solid city wall of Jinling, he only had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands now, far less than the hundreds of thousands of defenders in the entire city of Jinling. Under such an obvious comparison of forces, no matter how good the king of Lingnan is and how brave the Lingnan army is, it is difficult to break through Jinling, a fortified city that has been held for half a year.

It's just that no matter how many troops the defending side has, they can only passively wait for the enemy to attack.

Qiu Yizhi was no exception, he could only sit in the command post converted from a temporary restaurant, and he spoke with Liu Qingyou without a word, with a little nervousness and eagerness to try, waiting for King Lingnan to make a move.

Lingnan King Zheng Gui did not let him wait too long, only heard a few faint bursts of artillery outside the city, and then the war drums beat, and the sound of shouting and killing became louder and louder, closer and closer, and clearer and clearer.

This is the most ordinary sound on the battlefield, but Qiu Yizhi sounded a little inexplicable nervousness today, so he involuntarily stood up from his seat, slowly paced to the railing, looked at the ruin-like Wuding Gate in front of him by the railing, and muttered: "Has it finally begun?" ”

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps downstairs, and it turned out to be a herald soldier under Liu Qing who went upstairs to report the battle situation: "The Lingnan Army is attacking Wuding Gate, with more than 4,000 people attacking the city gate on foot, and more than 6,000 people, using more than 200 ladders, to attack the city walls on both sides of Wuding Gate. ”

This kind of action was also expected by Qiu Yizhi, and without waiting for Liu Qing to speak, he said to the herald: "Don't panic. Our army is also the main guard of Wuding Gate, and more than 20,000 soldiers and horses have been hoarded in the city and under the city, which is more than twice as much as the enemy army. The Lingnan Army also carries a head on two shoulders and kills the enemy seriously, and I have a heavy reward. ”

The herald felt strange when he heard it, Qiu Yizhi was just a county order from a remote county, and now the dignified Jiangnan Dao Jiedu envoy was upstairs, why did he rush to give the order first. But he saw that Liu Qing himself didn't have the slightest opinion, so he didn't dare to ask in detail, and after a military salute, he walked downstairs quickly with a stomach full of questions.

The Lingnan King seemed to be determined to take it, and used all his strength in his first attack.

Qiu Yizhi was on top of the tall building, and soon saw countless cloud ladders erected on the city wall, and the soldiers of the Lingnan army who climbed to the top of the wall through the cloud ladders were five or six hundred people - they all fought bravely to be the first, and their martial arts were obviously stronger than the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and they had made a lot of breakthroughs on the top of the city wall in a short time. The defenders, on the other hand, could only rely on their numerical superiority and did their best to keep the walls from being completely occupied.