On the sixth day of April 2716, Lu Xiu led your five hundred soldiers to successfully trek all the way to the outside of Wuqi County in the northwest of Yanghe County.

You must know that long before Lu Xiu rushed to support, He Gen, as the defensive general of Wuqi County, has been on the verge of being beaten, and has been forced to choke enough by the five hundred people outside the city wall several times in a row.

Now, Zhang Erliu's troops outside the city are still there, and the defending officers and soldiers in the city have already been forced to exhaust themselves by the offensive and defensive battles in the past half a month, but at this time, they suddenly killed a new force like Lu Xiu, and it is also the kind of army that can be regarded as elite in marginal quality, how can this make He Gen, as the defensive general of Wuqi County, not feel desperate?

Outside the city wall, Lu Xiu led the 500 soldiers under him to say hello to Zhang Erliu first, to show that he had no intention of stealing merit.

Under Lu Xiu's rather friendly attitude, although the capable and short Zhang Erliu was a little dissatisfied with being given part of the credit by Lu Xiu at the critical time when the city was about to be broken, but under the threat of Lu Xiu's development potential and the five hundred elite soldiers he brought, Zhang Erliu finally dispelled some bad thoughts in his heart, and honestly completed the process of merging and reorganizing troops with Lu Xiu.

"Early tomorrow morning, we will directly storm the city wall and forcibly crush the other party with a dignified and upright momentum, what does Brother Erliu think?"

Lu Xiu reorganized and arranged the group of soldiers under his command who had traveled all the way and were dusty all over his body, and at night he and Zhang Erliu began to discuss the specific steps of tomorrow's siege.

In the previous period of fighting siege warfare, He Gen from the various families in Wuqi County scavenged more than 300 soldiers, plus the government's own military reserve force, a total of more than 300 people, after half a month of arduous siege and defensive battles, Wuqi County has nearly 200 defenders, and Zhang Erliu's original five or six hundred soldiers are only less than 300 remaining.

And this is due to the fact that Zhang Erliu's soldiers are more elite than the ordinary militia, and the construction of the city wall in Wuqi County is not too high, otherwise Zhang Erliu's subordinates at this time may have to be less than one-third.

Since ancient times, siege warfare has always been the attacking side to suffer a lot of losses, casualties are bound to be heavy, even in this world where generals have martial arts means, siege battles are also a tragic thing that requires countless lives to fill.

Inside the tent, Zhang Erliu sat sideways, listening indifferently to Lu Xiu's mouth constantly spit out tomorrow's specific siege plan, Zhang Erliu's dark face suddenly smiled and said:

"Since Brother Lu plans to break through in one fell swoop, then we will definitely not do that kind of thing to shrink eggs, as long as Brother Lu is willing to let his soldiers take the lead, my Lao Zhang guarantees that there will definitely be no one under our soldiers who is afraid of death."

Zhang Erliu had a simple smile on his face, and there was no intention to take the lead in his words.

For the unfinished meaning hidden in Zhang Erliu's words, Lu Xiu understood it clearly in his heart, and it was obvious that for Lu Xiu, a rising star who was recognized by General Zhang and deliberately asked him to come to share the merits, although Zhang Erliu did not dare to completely offend, he also had a little resentment in his heart.

Therefore, although he did not dare to harm himself, he would never use the lives of his subordinates to charge into battle, and even if he could not let his subordinates take the lead in charging and climbing the wall to prove the strength and value of his army, his soldiers under Zhang Erliu might not even cooperate with him.

"What Brother Erliu said, it's just a county town of Wuqi, I believe that with Brother Erliu's hard work some time ago, these soldiers under my command will definitely be able to successfully break through no matter how bad they are."

After saying this, Lu Xiu smiled and talked to Zhang Erliu again about some gossip that had happened recently in the red-robed rebel army, and did not mention anything related to the siege again.

On the morning of the second day, just after the rooster crowed and the morning sun had just risen, Lu Xiu directly led the group of soldiers under his command to take the lead in attacking and charging.

"Smack, smack, smack!"

The ladders used in the siege were placed on the periphery of the city wall in Wuqi County by the soldiers, perhaps because of the meat specially prepared last night, or the rewards that could be obtained after the city was broken, so that Lu Xiu's group of soldiers, who were originally mostly bandits, were very excited, and they all showed quite enthusiasm for attacking.

In this process, the defenders on the wall of Wuqi County were very skilled in picking up all kinds of stones, lumps and other debris piled up on the wall, and fiercely smashed down the soldiers who were constantly climbing up the ladder below, and for a time the screams outside the city wall continued to sound, and the sergeants of the Lu Xiujun were smashed to the ground by the stones and bricks that fell on the head of the city, and then were trampled to death by the compatriots.

"Humph!"

"Charge with the leader!"

Lu Xiu watched his group of soldiers who had been trained with great difficulty being smashed and killed by the lumps of soil on the city wall little by little, and couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, he was holding a wide shield, and his body easily dodged several stones that fell from the wall to him, and he jumped from the ladder to the city with his toes little by little.

Regarding Lu Xiu's arrival, He Gen, the guard who was standing in another position at the head of the city, saw it clearly, and immediately led several guards beside him to rush towards Lu Xiu's location.

Lu Xiu saw the arrival of the opponent's defender He Gen, he did not panic at all, he waved the long-handled war knife in his hand and rushed bravely from the crowd to kill, constantly swinging his knife and slashing and harvesting the lives of one after another city defenders beside him, directly killing the defenders of this small section of the city wall where he was located, and no longer had any ability to defend the city wall.

The group of guards who were directly completely crushed by Lu Xiu's crazy slashing could only watch as one after another Lu Xiu's army sergeants climbed up from the position of the city wall where Lu Xiu stood, supporting and guarding Lu Xiu's side, forming an opposition to their own side.

"Dare to be a traitor, dare to provoke the majesty of my court, accept your life!"

Seeing that the situation on his side was completely collapsed, the guard general He Gen was so angry that his eyes were on fire for a moment, and he roared and frantically rushed towards Lu Xiu's direction, trying to rely on his own personal force to successfully strangle Lu Xiu on the city wall, and once again correct the situation that was about to collapse.