Xiao Tianlei and his entourage arrived at the bottom of the city, and the Shanyue soldiers at the head of the city exchanged passwords and passwords, and the city gate was opened, although the Shanyue soldiers at the head of the city knew Xiao Tianlei and others, and they still strictly followed the rules.

From the place where the wild boar ridge was pioneered, Xiao Tianlei formulated a lot of strict rules and regulations, and he himself has always strictly abided by them, in addition to improving the efficiency of doing things, the purpose is to improve the discipline of his subordinates, so that they can really become an army, and avoid some mistakes. Now that the army has officially taken up to occupy Lingzhou, the army must be more regularized, and these regulations must be strictly observed, and no one shall be exempted, lest some people take advantage of the loopholes and sneak into the spies or deceive the city.

The gate of Guancheng is an iron-clad iron-clad wooden gate, which is huge and thick, and there are hundreds of door nails nailed to the door, which is extremely difficult to destroy. There is more than one door at the city gate, in addition to the inside and outside two iron-clad wooden doors, in the city gate hole, there is also an iron fence that can take off and land, because a more reasonable mechanical design is adopted, although it is heavy, but it is effortless, and it is very quick and convenient to open.

Passing through the city gate hole, entering the city, only to see a long and narrow passage, more than ten meters wide, fifty meters long, both sides are erected high walls, from the wall can be condescending to attack, even if the city gate is breached, it is not equivalent to breaking through the city. In addition to these, many of the designs of Seki Castle are designed to maximize the damage to the enemy, which can be said to be a big pit, and whoever jumps in will be unlucky. It's just that many organs and defensive equipment have not yet had time to be installed, and the defense still mainly depends on manpower. The forts on the hills on both sides were intended to be used as batteries, but now there are no cannons, only simple trebuchets, and it is no problem to drop some stones and bombs.

Guarding this gate is Zheng Biao and several other brothers, as well as hundreds of Shanyue warriors and soldiers, in addition, Xiao Tianlei has arranged the snow ape Nunu to be on standby in the city, but so far, there has been no chance to play.

Because of the proper design, the defense of the fortress is very strong, and it does not need too many people to guard at the same time, so the people defending the city are divided into several shifts to take turns to guard, and they will not be too tired. Zheng Biao and the others were quite excited, although in the private chat system, they had already reported some of the situation of guarding the pass on the spot last night, and when they met, they still told about the battle with some masters who seized the city last night. Although those masters are far from being able to threaten the defense of Guancheng, there are also some thrilling battle plots, fortunately, the martial arts of everyone in Guancheng are not weak, and some strong bows and strengths have been prepared to deal with martial artists.

Xiao Tianlei and Zheng Biao and others were talking about it, and someone came to report that someone in the city called himself the general of Zhennan, and brought some people who said that they wanted to see the guards of Guancheng. As soon as they heard that it was the new general of Zhennan, Xiao Tianlei and others were a little interested, and when they went to the city, they saw more than a dozen people under the city, led by a short and sturdy red-robed general, riding a curly-haired black horse, and looking at the city.

The red-robed military general is the new Zhennan general Song Shixiong, Song Shixiong was born in the Song family of Liangzhou, a family of military generals, and his ancestors were also one of the generals at the founding of Great Xia. Song Shixiong has been practicing family martial arts since he was a child, martial arts are naturally not bad, he previously served in Liangzhou as a military officer, Liangzhou has had more heroes and heroes since ancient times, and the green forest is a hero, Song Shixiong likes to make friends with heroes and heroes everywhere on weekdays, black and white are very open, and he has a wide range of contacts, Song Shixiong also recruited a group of subordinates, plus he has a very set of troops, and also pulled up a strong soldier, in Liangzhou and several nearby states, we all know that Song Shixiong has a group of proud soldiers. In the eyes of officials in the DPRK and China, Song Shixiong was more than enough to deal with the Brotherhood, and another reason was that Song Shixiong did not belong to any faction, which was the result of a compromise between the DPRK and China. In addition, Song Shixiong is also a tyrant in Liangzhou, a little unruly, for the imperial court, he is also a thorn-like figure, let Song Shixiong be the general of Zhennan, left Liangzhou, Song Shixiong also lost his foundation, drove the tiger and devoured the wolf, it can be said that he can count in one fell swoop.

Song Shixiong has also heard of the brotherhood, of course, what he hears the most is how big the business of the brotherhood is and how rich it is. became a general in Zhennan and was ordered to wipe out the Brotherhood, but for Song Shixiong, it was a pie-in-the-sky good thing, the Brotherhood was just a gang, and Song Shixiong often mixed up in the rivers and lakes, what kind of characters have not been seen? Although there are all kinds of rumors that the brotherhood is very powerful, Song Shixiong is a little unimpressed, how powerful can a group of hairy boys be? It's some of the heroes and heroes of Liangzhou he recruited, the sworn brothers, which one is not a skill? Song Shixiong is confident that if he is not reused, he can bring his brothers to the battlefield in northern Xinjiang, and he can also shine and become famous all over the world.

So, after getting the appointment and will, Song Shixiong took active action, not only bringing his subordinate troops, sworn brothers, and recruiting some heroes and heroes, but also recruiting many friends on the rivers and lakes along the way. Song Shixiong and the brothers have already said that if the brotherhood is destroyed, everyone will share the property money of the brotherhood and make a career in Lingzhou.

Song Shixiong himself is a military general, but there is no shortage of wise men, his brothers, friends have a lot of strategists and wise figures, after getting some information from Xuanwuwei, quickly formulated a plan to raid the Brotherhood, contact the garrison of Lingzhou, to wipe out the Brotherhood in one go.

In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, Song Shixiong only brought some masters and think tanks, and led some 3,000 elite cavalry to Lingzhou, but when he led his troops over the Nanyue Mountain to copy a shortcut, there was a Guancheng blocking the way on the road ahead, he didn't know that there was a Guancheng here in advance, thinking that it was a checkpoint of the imperial court, and he stepped forward to call the door, and as soon as he signed up, he was attacked by the head of the city.

For a while, the situation was unclear, unable to pass through the city, in order to continue the previous plan, had to take a detour back to the official road to Lingzhou, as a result, in another city blocked by a city, more dangerous than the previous city, this time did not wait for the name, the city began to attack.

At this time, Song Shixiong and others also guessed that Guancheng might be the handiwork of the Brotherhood, the situation in Lingzhou was different from the information transmitted by Xuanwuwei, as well as the original imagination, the original raid plan naturally could not be achieved, but Song Shixiong wanted to ask those officials in Lingzhou, are they blind and deaf, and the Brotherhood has established such a Guancheng without knowing? And those Xuanwu guards, don't they say that they are very powerful, monitor the world, and are well-informed, and they don't notice any movement? Judging from the old and new gates, they should have been newly built, but how could the Brotherhood establish these gates under the noses of so many people, but no news was leaked? In fact, it doesn't matter how you build it, what matters is how you break through the city.

At this time, strategies such as deceitful cities are not used, it is very difficult to attack the city directly, and the casualties are large, not to mention that there are no equipment, and there are no craftsmen to build temporarily, and the rest is to attack the city with ants, and the whole army will press up, but the casualties are also large, these elite soldiers are Song Shixiong's family foundation, and he is reluctant.

Song Shixiong wanted to arrest these guys for questioning and punishment, but first he had to find a way to break through Guancheng, he still didn't believe it, so many people, there was no way to take a small Guancheng? It's just that they came for a surprise attack, they are basically cavalry, they didn't think they would attack the city at all, and naturally they didn't bring siege equipment, but there is no way, Song Shixiong brought a lot of masters this time, among which there are many outstanding martial arts, so Song Shixiong sent some masters to climb the city wall at night and try to capture the city.

It is not uncommon to send some martial arts masters to seize the city, and some insurmountable obstacles for ordinary people are not a problem for martial arts masters. Speaking of the city wall, it may be a little difficult to jump on it alone, but if someone helps, plus some grappling hooks and ropes and other equipment, it is not impossible, but it consumes a lot of gangqi.

As a result, Song Shixiong was very disappointed, the defense of the city head was tight, and he couldn't see who was defending the city at all, only to see that most of the masters who climbed the city wall were shot wounded and killed, or they were knocked down and fell half to death, and several of them climbed the city wall, but there was a fight at the head of the city, and then there was no movement. The martial arts master failed to capture the city, so Song Shixiong sent some people to try to go over the mountain to check the situation, but as a result, the people were sent out and never came back.

This time, Song Shixiong and his 3,000 cavalry were all under the Guancheng, and it was not impossible for the cavalry to attack the city, at least they had no way at the moment, many ideas could not be realized, Song Shixiong was very angry, but he was not willing to retreat, it was too much. Besides, as a general of Zhennan now, he has the responsibility to quell some rebellions in Lingzhou.

Song Shixiong did not give up, thought of other methods, tossed for half a night, exhausted the methods, except for his own people killed and injured a lot, there was no effect, the night was not conducive to the siege, at this time, Song Shixiong's subordinates were also sleepy, helpless, retreated and repaired, while discussing countermeasures, everyone had different opinions.

Until the early morning of the next day, a group of people did not discuss a result, there were many ideas, but there were almost no uses, Song Shixiong and the others were also tired and rested for a while, so Song Shixiong decided to come forward in person and try to find out the bottom of it.

"The city is a friend of the Lingzhou Brotherhood?" Song Shixiong clenched his fists and said, speaking in a tone that did not look like a general of the imperial court at this time, but like a character in the rivers and lakes.

Xiao Tianlei and the others discussed, and Zheng Biao came forward as the general of Guancheng and replied: "What kind of general, what is the matter with me?" ”

"This general is the new general of Zhennan, and he is ordered to garrison Lingzhou, and your brotherhood will build a fortress here to block the road of my army, what do you mean?" Song Shixiong asked, deliberately pretending not to know the reason.

"Yo, you old boy pretending to be confused, too lazy to talk nonsense to you, aren't you just here for our brotherhood!" Zheng Biao directly debunked Song Shixiong.

Song Shixiong was not embarrassed at all, and shouted loudly: "This general was ordered to wipe out the Brotherhood, and the army was overwhelmed, you dare to resist the city!" Your brotherhood is a rebellion! ”

"And then?" Zheng Biao asked.

Song Shixiong was stunned for a moment, and continued: "I heard that the leaders of the brotherhood are all boys who have not grown up with hair, and a group of hairy boys dare to rebel!" You don't know how thick the sky is! ”

"And then?" Zheng Biao asked again, as if he didn't know the consequences of the rebellion.

Zheng Biao kept asking this, Song Shixiong felt like a fool, his face was gloomy, and he continued: "Rebellion is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan!" Can a mere brotherhood stop the summer soldiers? Sooner or later, I advise you to abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible, open the city, and let my army pass, I will ensure that you are okay, if you wipe out the Brotherhood and make a contribution, you will not have a future! You can rest assured, I, Song Shixiong, do what I say, who in Liangzhou doesn't know that I Song Shixiong is righteous and re-promised, and I will never treat the people who follow me badly......"

Before Song Shixiong finished speaking, Zheng Biao interrupted impatiently: "Okay, okay...... Don't talk nonsense, if you come to attack the city, say a few words of bullshit, you want people to surrender, your head grows on your ass? ”

Song Shixiong was suddenly furious: "Boy, you dare to insult me like this, you are looking for death!" ”

"You're scolding yourself, who is to blame?"

"Uh......" Song Shixiong realized that he couldn't say Zheng Biao, and said angrily: "Boy, do you dare to come down and fight with this general?!" ”

"You and I are as stupid as you are! If you tell me to go down?! If you don't come down, you're angry! There is a kind of you come up, and the master will fight here and wait for you! ”

"......" Song Shixiong also often mingles in the rivers and lakes, and has dealt with all kinds of people, but it is the first time he has met such a muddy kid, with a powerful mouth and cunning, his face is red, he exhaled a long breath, and said to a few people around him: "Let's go back first." ”

Song Shixiong took people to the city, said some scenes, persuaded to surrender is to give it a try, and did not expect success, the main purpose was to bring a few people to observe the city and find out if there were any loopholes. It's just that these boys of the Brotherhood are really bastards, Song Shixiong secretly said that if he is caught, he will definitely die an ugly death! I want to take Seki more and more.

Song Shixiong angrily returned to the barracks, and after discussing it for a while, they came to a conclusion that the Guancheng in front of him was indeed newly built and built very strongly, but it was not without shortcomings. In the end, the city is newly built, the city defense equipment is not complete, the city head of the city is not many people defending the city, the breakthrough is not no chance, it should be said that now is the best opportunity, it is estimated that now Lingzhou is not stable, the brotherhood should be busy pacifying the interior, so, only sent some people to defend the city, if you wait for the brotherhood to send more people, and then complete the defense equipment of the city, it will be much more difficult!

Song Shixiong listened to everyone's inference, and also made up his mind, as a general of Zhennan, the rebellion of the brotherhood, even if it was reported to the imperial court and exterminated, it still had to fall on his head, rather than attacking Guancheng again when the time came, it was better to try to break through Guancheng now, even if he couldn't attack Lingzhou, open a gap to Lingzhou.

So, Song Shixiong led his troops back a few miles and camped in a relatively open valley, which was not an ideal camping spot, but there was no way, and there was no other suitable place to camp. Because of the cavalry attack, many things were not brought, such as grain, grass, supplies, etc., and they had to wait for the auxiliary soldiers behind to send them, and they could only set up a simple camp.

When Song Shixiong's whole army was encamped, on the fortress on the top of the hill on the side of the side that had been named by Xiao Tianlei as Nanyue Pass, Xiao Tianlei and Zheng Biao and a few others looked at the camp set up by Song Shixiong's army from afar. If Song Shixiong retreated like this, Xiao Tianlei had no other ideas, since he didn't leave, Xiao Tianlei pondered how to eat Song Shixiong's army. In fact, as long as the Shanyue army in the back arrives, and then use some means such as snow ape Nunu, golden ape Wukong, and bombs together, it is completely possible to defeat Song Shixiong's army head-on, but Song Shixiong is not a fool, and when he sees that the situation is wrong, it is estimated that he will directly lead people to run away, and that also exposes the hole cards of the brotherhood.

In fact, there is a simpler way, Song Shixiong's army is rushing, and there is not much grain, grass and materials with him, so it can completely let other brothers in Guancheng detour behind it, cut off its grain and grass, and besiege it for a few days, basically collapse without a fight, or can also come back and forth.

However, no matter which strategy is used, personnel scheduling and deployment take time, and the world is always changing, if Song Shixiong suddenly changes his mind and the whole army withdraws quickly, no matter how well he plans, it will be in vain, Xiao Tianlei can only wait for the opportunity and adapt to the situation. However, Song Shixiong seemed to be really determined to capture the Nanyue Pass, and he was quite anxious, so he sent several generals to fight under the city the next day. (To be continued.) )