Seeing that the east was on fire, many Xiqiang rebels were helpless. According to Zhang Ning, although the Heavenly Spirit Fire Rain still belongs to the category of mortal fire, its power is not to be underestimated, reaching out is a sea of fire in the range of 200*200m2, and then a little wind to help burn one or two, it is absolutely difficult to control after the fire spreads.

What's more, the area around Liangzhou is already dry and lacks water, even if there is Half Moon Lake nearby, it is too late for the rebels on the Western Wall to draw water to fight the fire! Therefore, although the Xiqiang rebels are vigilant, they can only sigh in the face of the sea of fire that has become a climate. Many Xiqiang soldiers are secretly sighing, fortunately, only wooden rafts, poplar wood, etc. are burned, and the camp where they are stationed is not on the stall!

At this time, Yang Rui had already left the scene. Taking advantage of the momentum when the fire started, Yang Rui spent a little time to put Zhang Ning back into the ring, and still used the Daofeng Flying Carpet to make a detour back to the place agreed with the leader of the thieves.

After about a quarter of an hour, all the thieves leaders gathered one after another, and Yang Rui put them into the ring again, and flew over Half Moon Lake and returned to Ledu City. Until this time, the fire on the east side of the city was still raging, and there was a great tendency to continue!

At that time, when Yang Rui and Zhang Ning rushed to set fire, they found that there were really not a few wooden rafts made by the Xiqiang rebels, and they were piled up to occupy an area of hundreds of meters, and the height of the piles was more than one person!

And the remaining poplar wood is also piled up like a hill, if it weren't for the speed of access to the ring has been limited by the system, it would be a lot of wealth to take these woods away directly!

There was enough fuel, so the fire in the east of Ledu City lasted until midnight before it was gradually extinguished, and the Xiqiang rebels were trying to escape the aftermath of the fire. It has taken the initiative to retreat a distance of dozens of miles. And before and after the fire burns. There has already been another round of counterattack by the Xiqiang rebels who have gathered. The number of Xiqiang rebels has increased by nearly 300,000 again!

Soon after the arrival of the Xiqiang rebels in the 22nd round of counterattack, the sky was getting brighter, but the impact of the night fire had not been eliminated, and the Xiqiang rebels did not take any measures for a long time, until the Xiqiang rebels in the 23rd round of counterattack came again, and the rebels were busy again.

These Xiqiang rebels have collected a lot of timber one after another, and the number of rebels outside Ledu City has exceeded more than 1 million at this time, and the ability to collect materials under the large number of people is naturally not low. The amount of timber recovered in the short time to recover is already considerable.

However, at this time, the Xiqiang rebels no longer want to make a wooden platoon, and it is only a few hours before Yang Rui completes the task of defending the city! In the end, when the Xiqiang rebels who counterattacked in the 24th round arrived, the rebel soldiers directly held wooden sticks of various colors and sizes and began to cross the river and attack!

Although this move of the rebels is a bit funny, it is also within normal reason, the auxiliary river outside the city of Ledu blocked the way of the Xiqiang rebels, and the other party wanted to attack the city and only forcibly crossed the river.

However, for these Qiang people in the northwest, it is still very difficult to cross the river with a log. Yang Rui could see clearly on the city wall that after many Xiqiang rebel soldiers went into the water, they just missed some interference from their companions and scattered the wood, and this situation was not uncommon. There are still many soldiers who have lost their support in the auxiliary river, struggling all over the river.

See this scene. Yang Rui immediately took almost all the military strength out of the East City Gate, and set up a position along the Fuhe River, preparing to block the Xiqiang rebels for a while.

At this time, Yang Rui made arrangements to excavate the Fuhe River, and all the excavated soil and stones were piled up on the inner side of the Fuhe River, forming a long mound similar to a dike, at this time, Yang Rui evenly deployed 20 junior generals, 600 4th-order melee soldiers, and more than 1600 4th-order and 5th-order archers to the high point of the mound, just waiting for the Xiqiang rebels crossing the river to enter the attack range!

There is a certain risk in doing so, if the Xiqiang rebels charge quickly, it will be difficult for Yang Rui and his subordinates to have a chance to retreat! Moreover, Yang Rui's number of soldiers seems to be quite a lot, and they are very sparse after being dispersed on the long mound, and only a few meters away can be distributed to a soldier, and they can only use the terrain to block the Qiang soldiers a little in the early stage, and it is impossible to keep fortified on this front line!

Yang Rui dared to put all these elite soldiers in front, and it was also because of the 10,000 Yellow Turban 1st Order soldiers who were transferred from the "Yellow Turban Transfer Order"! These 10,000 low-level Yellow Turban soldiers were originally going to be resurrected from the battle, and only after the resurrection of the battle could Yang Rui really have their ownership, so they were real cannon fodder, and they would lose if they didn't die!

At this time, 10,000 Tier 1 Yellow Turbans were all deployed by the elite soldiers in front of them, and a "safe passage" was reserved in the middle of each handful of Yellow Turban soldiers to ensure that the elite soldiers in front of them could be safely evacuated in an emergency; And once the elite soldiers need to evacuate, it is time for the Yellow Turban soldiers to come into play and block the eye-catching!

The fifty or sixty-meter-wide auxiliary river was much narrower than most moats, but it was wide enough for the completely waterless Xiqiang rebels, and after a long period of tossing, the first group of these Xiqiang rebels crossing the river could reach the other side of the river!

However, as soon as they emerged, most of them were given a feathered arrow at the first time! The archers and soldiers under Yang Rui were all at least rank 4, and before the Xiqiang rebels who rushed over formed a scale, these soldiers did not bother to shoot and killed their targets one after another.

At present, the archers and soldiers under Yang Rui have all used the fine iron feather arrows produced by the blacksmith shop in Xiamo Village, and the attack power has already increased to a higher level, but the cost of the feather arrows has also increased a lot! Fortunately, before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Yang Rui signed an ore purchase and sale agreement with Linwen Village, and the iron ore was basically the same as that taken from plain water, which greatly reduced the cost of making fine iron feather arrows.

It can be said that the attack bonus of the Iron Feather Arrow is also one of the important reasons why these archers can defeat the enemy in one hit! However, this situation only lasted about a quarter of an hour, and as the number of Xiqiang rebels crossing the river continued to increase, the number of Xiqiang rebel soldiers who successfully crossed the auxiliary river gradually increased, and they flocked to the mound occupied by the archers.

"Whoosh"

"Whoosh"

As the number of rebels pouring onto the mound increased, the defending archers did not dare to hold on to their superiors, even if they were of a higher rank, and they all used their bows to shoot arrows! At this time, the competition is no longer about accuracy, but about the speed of shooting arrows, and in the face of the crowded rebel soldiers crossing the river, almost as long as the arrows are shot out and the strength is enough, they will definitely be able to hit one or several enemies!

As a result, although there were many soldiers who came up from the rebels, they could not rush up to the mound for a while, and the battle situation suddenly became stalemate and balanced, and the rebels were never able to rush to the mound for about a quarter of an hour, even if there were occasional rebel soldiers rushing to a closer position, they were all solved in time by the nearby junior generals and 4th-order melee soldiers!

In a quarter of an hour or so, Yang Rui noticed that a total of more than 400 mission forensics had been obtained, which meant that the number of Xiqiang rebel soldiers who had been exterminated exceeded 20,000! Most of these attacks are condescendingly performed by archers, with each archer shooting an average of more than 10 opponents! The only thing that's a bit of a pity is that the items that these Xiqiang rebels have dropped can't be obtained for the time being.

However, the Xiqiang rebels are not only so capable, and after a short time, the rebel soldiers who rushed up to the mound were obviously much stronger than before, and some of the soldiers had improved a lot in terms of defense and speed, and they often did not fall down after several arrows! The high-ranking soldiers of the Xiqiang rebels also participated in the charge.

The addition of these 4th-order rebel soldiers has effectively increased the intensity of the attack, the height of the rebels rushing up the mound is constantly being refreshed, and the number of soldiers who occasionally rush closer has also increased, and the junior generals and 4th-order melee infantry have also begun to join the battle, and even a few 4th-order infantry soldiers have also suffered some damage!

At this time, the timing of letting the junior generals, archers and melee soldiers retreat was almost appropriate, but before retreating, Yang Rui commanded 10,000 first-order Yellow Turban soldiers to rush forward for a while, and under the cover of the archers, these Yellow Turban soldiers took advantage of the terrain to dive for a while, and some even rushed directly to the bank of the Fu River, only to be summoned back by Yang Rui.

Of course, these Tier 1 Yellow Turban soldiers lost a lot in the process of diving and returning, and about 20% of the Yellow Turban soldiers hung up directly! However, after all, it was tens of thousands of people rushing together, and there was also the long-range cover of the archers, and the impact of these Yellow Turban soldiers caused the attack of the Xiqiang rebels to suddenly stagnate, and the progress they had originally made was beaten back to the state when they first launched the attack!

The most important thing is that under Yang Rui's orders, the seven or eight thousand 1st order Yellow Turban soldiers who returned did not return empty-handed, they had already picked up most of the more conspicuous items that burst out on the mound, mainly including skill books and equipment and other items!

A counter-charge by the Yellow Turban soldiers, the offensive of the Xiqiang rebels was eased a little, and they had to push the survival line up the mound step by step again! By the time the rebel soldiers had barely filled the slope of the mound and approached the top of the mound again, nearly a quarter of an hour had passed.

The Xiqiang rebel soldiers who rushed up this time were obviously much denser than before, and Yang Rui almost did not hesitate to command the Yellow Turban soldiers to launch a counter-charge again, but this time after the Yellow Turban soldiers repelled the Xiqiang rebels again, Yang also took advantage of the interval when the opponent's attack was stagnant to pull all his subordinate troops back into Ledu City.

And just a moment after Yang Rui closed the East City Gate, the Xiqiang rebel soldiers had already swarmed to the foot of Ledu City! (To be continued......)