In the face of the surprise invasion of the Good Friends Association, the biggest mistake of the officers and soldiers was not expected.

The wing commander of the first wing believed that the thief army had also sent out the forces at the bottom of the box, so he mobilized all the reserves without leaving behind, trying to concentrate all his strength to break through the encirclement. Xiang Hua's 200 Dharma Protector Buddha soldiers happened to be killed at the next time, and the officers and soldiers who had no more troops could only passively resist, but there was no other effective way.

Because he didn't need to command the overall situation, Xiang Hua wore chain mail and carried a big knife, and personally killed at the front.

After joining the rebel army, Xu Shizhong once fought against Dian Yong, who was recognized as the strongest. In terms of personal combat strength alone, he thinks that he is far inferior to Dian Yong. The Xiang Hua in front of him, although he looks a little worse than Dian Yong, is not inferior to ordinary imperial generals. The officers and soldiers who dared to stand in front of him would only hold up three or five moves at most, and then they would be killed by the light of the snowy sword.

Splashed with warm blood on his face, Xiang Hua was stunned without even blinking his eyes, wiping it casually, and continued to lead the team to kill without stopping. His face was covered with blood, and there was an invisible evil aura, which made him look like a killing god, and the officers and soldiers who were hostile to him were all terrified.

With him as the vanguard, the Dharma Protector of the Good Friends Society is slowly but surely breaking in.

"Captain, let's lead the team back to help!"

The guards next to him knew that if they continued to leave it alone, the ranks of the officers and soldiers would be cut into two parts in an instant. At that time, let's not talk about what will happen to this half of myself, and the other hundreds of officers and soldiers will definitely be finished. There will only be one of them, and they will be surrounded and annihilated.

However, the co-captain also has a bitterness that he can't say.

A situation that can be understood by pro-soldiers. How he didn't know. But for now, this is the case. The officers and soldiers are already at the end of their crossbows. Even if you forcibly shake off the enemy in front of you. Turn around and kill back, and you may not be able to fight in the face of the newly joined 200 thief army. What's more, this will inevitably drag on for a long time, and the thieves may be able to take the opportunity to make adjustments and bring in more displaced people.

If one is not good, these more than 800 officers and soldiers may be completely wiped out!

Even an ambush like Xiayang Valley was lucky to escape, but it was wiped out by a thief army that was not even the main force a step outside Longshan City. How was he willing?

Can't go back!

The Wing Captain has already made up his mind to take a gamble with the thieves. Let's see if the thieves will complete the division and encirclement before him, or if they will be the first to break through the blockade of the frontal Taiping Camp Brigade and rush into Longshan City!

Perhaps it was the luck of the empire that the defenders in Longshan City also made a move at this time.

The reason why the defenders of Longshan closed the city gates and waited for reinforcements was because they were well aware of the strength of the imperial official army. Since the Wu'an army arrived, the rebellion could be put down immediately, and they naturally couldn't take risks. But the ongoing battle outside the city made it impossible for the officers and troops defending the city to sit still.

It can be seen from the fact that the thieves can unscrupulously deploy troops to encircle and suppress the officers and soldiers of this wing. The reinforcements from Wu Anlai did suffer a big loss in Xiayang Valley, so much so that they only escaped this one wing. And now. Even the only reinforcements were besieged.

This is already the only force in Taiping County that can put down the rebellion.

If they really sit idly by and let them be eliminated by the thieves, Longshan Mansion will fall into a desperate situation of isolation and helplessness for a long time in the future, and it is only a matter of time before it is breached.

On the contrary, if you can rescue the officers and soldiers of this one unit, take them into the city......

In the case that the main force of the thief army has not returned, and the remaining forces are all used to intercept the Wu'an official army, the risk of going out of the city to meet is there, but it is not high. Once successful, the huge gains are enough to reverse even a certain defeat.

It is now the year 671 of the continental calendar, and the imperial government at this time is not as bloated and incompetent as it was after the Wudou Midao Uprising. Under the co-captain Mo Lunti, Zhang Qisheng was silent for half a minute, and finally nodded with difficulty.

He decided to take the risk!

The worst result was that the officers and soldiers who responded were left behind, and Longshan City was destroyed a few days in advance.

For an official who has already ended his political future, Zhang Qisheng doesn't care about many things.

The military situation was urgent, and there was not much time to delay, and Mo Lun quickly gathered three hundred officers and troops, which was almost the total number of soldiers left in the city defense battalion in Longshan Mansion. After the defense of the city was temporarily taken over by the militia, Mo Lun took these soldiers of the city defense battalion with a sad face to the west gate.

It was the only city wall that was not surrounded by an army of displaced people.

Moments later, the iron gates were raised, the gates slowly opened, and the drawbridge over the moat was lowered. Three hundred officers and soldiers quickly rushed out of the city and rushed towards the battlefield where the battle was still raging.

At this time, the officers and soldiers of the first wing had not yet found anyone to respond, and the first to find out was the rebels.

Although Xu Shizhong didn't think that the officials and troops of Longshan dared to go out of the city, he still carefully arranged for people to keep an eye on the movements in the city. When the city defense battalion was assembled and the militia took over the change of defense, the rebel soldiers had already discovered the change. Now seeing the city gate lowered and the drawbridge opened, Xu Shizhong no longer doubted it.

The city defense battalion defending the city really dared to come out to respond!

This courage made him somewhat impressed.

I have to say that these hundreds of city defense battalions have indeed seized an excellent opportunity. Even if the rebels found out about their movements, they would not have enough strength to stop them for a while.

At the critical moment, those displaced people cannot be counted on.

If there were no additional hole cards, Xu Shizhong's blocking plan would have ended in failure. Although it did kill and wound many officers and soldiers and caused them trouble, it did not achieve any decisive results. Thankfully, he did have a card in his hand.

This was an urgent transfer from Xiayang Valley by Chen Wu.

A team of 60 horses!

In order not to be discovered by the officers and soldiers of the first wing, the horse team led by Ning An deliberately walked more than ten miles and bypassed the officers and soldiers by taking small roads. After getting this hole card, Xu Shizhong arranged it into a large convoy loaded with grain and grass. If the city defense battalion of Longshan Mansion could not come out, Xu Shizhong was ready to use it to attack the officers and troops of the First Wing at the last moment, and lay down the victory in one fell swoop.

But now, it's time to use this card to intercept the city defense battalion that is out of the city!

A team of sixty horses is not much, but at the right time and in the right place, it is enough to change the tide of battle.

got Xu Shizhong's order. They joined the fray at the right time. Appeared in front of the army of the commander of the Longsan City Defense Battalion.

Smoke and dust from horses' hooves. There was also a slight tremor on the ground, which attracted Molun's attention from afar.

Seeing this unexpected horse team, his face changed.

Since the number of thieves and horses is not large, how can Mo Lun immediately order the team to maintain the array and quickly retreat, there is a chance to evacuate safely. After all, there are trebuchets and bed crossbows on your own walls, and the thieves and horses dare not chase too close. But in this case, it is bound to be tantamount to giving up the only reinforcement.

The dilemma was in front of Morun.

He didn't have much time to think about it, looking at the rapidly approaching team of thieves. He hesitated for a few seconds, gritted his teeth and decided to hold on.

Thieves can quickly produce good infantry in a short period of time, but cavalry is not so easy to achieve. In the face of these enemies, who can only be called horse teams, Morun felt that with the strength in his hands, he should be able to hold out for a while.

If the besieged officers and soldiers can't rush out before it gets completely dark, he will give up!

Coincidentally, when Moren made this difficult decision, the wing commander of the 1st Wing also gave a painful order - to completely abandon the officers and troops who were surrounded in the second half.

Speaking of which, this decision was still influenced by the team of sixty people.

I saw that the thief also hid a horse team in his hands. and stopped the Longshan City Defense Battalion that responded, and Mo Lun knew that there was only the last line of life left in front of him. If you wait for the city defense camp of Longshan to retreat. When the Centaur team comes back, he will completely lose the opportunity. Even if you fight with the thieves on all sides, you actually lose.

The main forces of the thieves are all in Xiayang Valley, and they are absolutely happy to replace a wing of the official army with these troops left behind.

Rather than fall to that result, it is better for a strong man to break his wrist!

He summoned all the troops in his hurry, completely gave up the entanglement with the Buddhist protectors of the Good Friends Association, and used the last bit of strength to attack the Taiping camp.

The repeated battles wounded almost everyone in the officers and soldiers. Even the co-captain himself already had five or six more sword marks on the chain mail on his body, and his body was completely depleted, and it was extremely difficult to even lift his legs. But the will to survive finally made them burst out with the power of returning to the light, and in the unwilling expressions of the Taiping camp rebels on the opposite side, they forcibly chiseled a gap.

Straight ahead, empty!

There is no longer a queue of thieves.

Seeing that a bloody road had finally been fought out, these exhausted officers and soldiers were overjoyed, and without waiting for the soldiers of the Taiping Battalion to re-plug the gap, they rushed towards the Longshan City Defense Battalion that responded.

Seeing this, Xu Shizhong couldn't help but sigh with a little regret.

He had already done a good job, but the time for the rebels to be established was too short. Even the most elite Taiping Camp can only go so far. If he could have been given another month, or if he had one more Taiping Battalion brigade in his hands, the outcome of this battle would have been completely different.

It is no longer possible to completely annihilate the officers and troops of this wing.

However, Xu Shizhong didn't plan to let go too much.

After doing everything he could command, he also summoned the guards around him, the soldiers of the volunteer battalion who were injured and retreated, and the few new battalion soldiers who still dared to fight, and personally led the team towards the gap like Xiang Hua. At the same time, Xu Shizhong also sent riders to contact Ning An's horse team, asking them to give up interception and return to the main battlefield for reinforcements.

Almost at the same time that the Dharma Protector and Buddha soldiers of the Good Friends Association blocked and sealed the more than 300 officers and soldiers in the second half of the official army, Xu Shizhong also led people to re-plug the gap that had been penetrated. Although the remaining officers and soldiers were still dying, after Ning'an's horse team rushed back, it was irretrievable.

Of the nearly 900 members of the 1st Wing of the 2nd Garrison Brigade of Wu'an, only more than 100 people followed the Wing Commander to kill them.

Although he was very reluctant in his heart, the previous battle was still in front of him, forcing the captain to admit the combat strength of these thieves. After meeting with the Longshan City Defense Battalion led by Mo Lun, the two looked back at the battle formation of the thief army that had been tightly surrounded, sighed gloomily, gave up the idea of continuing to rescue, and quickly retreated towards the city.

This move means that the sniper battle personally commanded by Xu Shizhong has achieved a victory that is not perfect, but it is also brilliant. (To be continued......)