"What...... What the? Tao Xu was choked by E Dali's words, "How can you be my son-in-law?" ”

"Not yet," E Dali said with a big grin, "but it won't be long before Tao Siniang will marry into my cottage and be my wife!" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about? Father! Take him down! These people are Montenegrin bandits! Tao Siniang raised her eyebrows, this is Shiji City, it is her own territory, how can she stand being insulted by this vulgar mountain bandit here?

As soon as these words came out, the city was shocked again, these people turned out to be villains?

E Dali looked around, he didn't pay attention to these soldiers who were raising their knives at him, "Do you really want to feel uncomfortable at this time?" Although we are mountain bandits, now we are invaded by the enemy, and I am on the side of you! ”

"Don't put gold on yourself!" Tao Siniang was blocked behind by Yan Yunhai, "If you hadn't rushed out, would you have been able to go back to Shiji City?" ”

"Stop arguing!"

E Dali was about to reply, but Yuan Fan suddenly pointed into the distance, "Didn't you notice?" Just now, the cavalry of the southern country was obviously chasing us, but after bypassing the southeast corner of Shiji City, they disappeared from behind us. ”

At first, everyone didn't know why Yuan Fan suddenly said this, but looking at his fingers, they suddenly understood.

But I saw that the black-armored cavalry that had just disappeared appeared in the east of the city, and was charging towards Shiji City at full speed!

Tao Xu narrowed his eyes, it was too unreasonable, the cavalry rushed to the city? Even if the horse is killed under the city, it is impossible to shake the walls of Shiji City in the slightest.

The speed of the cavalry team became faster and faster, and Tao Xu's hand was raised, wanting to wait until the cavalry reached a sufficient distance, so he ordered the arrow to be released.

I saw that those cavalry did not charge in a straight line, but faintly drew an arc with a large radius, and when they approached Shiji City, each knight raised his hand as if he was holding something in his hand.

"They...... As if to throw something? Yuan Fan said to himself, "It can't be a grenade, right?" Immediately, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, "No, no, this is the era, where is there such a high-level weapon!" ”

"Shoot the arrows!"

The cavalry finally rushed into the land of an arrow, and the archers at the head of the city put away their arrows with joy, and the thousands of cavalry below, they didn't need to aim at all, they could shoot arrows into the cavalry pile at will!

"Raise your shield!"

With the roar of the cavalry general, the first few rows of cavalry brushed down a wide black shield from their backs and blocked them in front of them.

"Throw!"

"Hoo ......"

More than a thousand riders waved their arms in unison, and dense black balls flew out of their hands and rowed straight towards Shiji City.

No, to be precise, it came straight to the east gate of Shiji City!

"What is this?" Tao Xu exclaimed, and the others on the city wall were also stunned, throwing stones? The cavalry launched a stone-throwing attack?

"Damn! It's really a grenade! ”

Yuan Fan finally understood what these southern soldiers were doing! At the beginning, the cavalry that appeared in the north of the city and the infantry in the east of the city were not tasked with attacking the city, but by destroying the city gates!

The first round of cavalry assault on the north of the city was a bluff, and they circled the city after encountering the slightest resistance, giving the defenders the illusion that the cavalry could not attack the city.

At this time, the siege convoy that appeared in the south of the city, and the attention of the city defenders was suddenly diverted, after all, only siege equipment can "knock" the defense, this is common sense!

In fact, it did work. The infantry in the east of the city were much weaker after the cavalry flicked a shot, allowing them to reach the city with minimal losses.

They did not enter the city at this time, but planted something like gunpowder at the city gate, which explains why when the southern army rushed to the foot of Shiji City, they only divided a small part of their forces to deal with the mountain bandits who had not yet entered the city, while a large part of the troops were secretly making small moves at the east gate.

In the end, the last round of the Southern cavalry's assault was to throw this stone-like grenade at the city gate, detonating the explosives buried under the city gate! This kind of coordination and tactics, I don't know how long they have been rehearsing!

"Boom!"

Even if Yuan Fan understood, it was too late, those "stones" smashed into the explosives that had been buried in advance, and Shiji City instantly trembled violently like an earthquake. Although this explosive and "grenade" were newly invented in the southern country, the power of a single one is not great, but it can't stand much!

Yuan Fan only felt a loud noise in his ears, and then a huge wave of incomparably hot waves rushed over, and the soldiers and mountain bandits on the head of the city were directly overturned to the ground, and the soldiers near the top of the city gate were blown to pieces almost instantly.

Fire, smoke, chaos, screams.

Yuan Fan was actually standing relatively close to the city gate, although he reacted that Nanguo wanted to use a hot weapon and dodged it a little, but the explosion still made him unconscious. In a blur, he vaguely remembered that Diao Laoqi, who was standing in front of him, seemed to block a few flying stones for himself, and he was afraid that he was more than lucky.

"The gates are broken! The gates are broken! ”

"Quick! Protect the adults and retreat to the inner city! ”

"Yang Lang!"

"Siniang! Are you alright? ”

"Oh my God! My arm...... Arms! ”

"Ahh My leg! ”

The city gate tower was chaotic for a while, and Tao Xu was also shocked by the explosion and fainted, even if he was still awake, there was no room for him to command this situation.

And the one who just shouted "protect the adults and return to the inner city" turned out to be He Bijiang! He was lucky to be in this nest, the place where he was standing just now happened to be a safe place, so except for some tinnitus, he didn't even have a single abrasion on his body, which was really lucky.

Fortunately, the soldier in charge of the command flag was only slightly injured, and he listened to General He Bian's orders, standing on a high place and waving the yellow flag representing the retreat.

The soldiers on the other city walls didn't know what was happening in the east of the city, they only heard a loud noise and violent shaking, and only then did they realize that the outer city had been lost, and they had to start retreating like the inner city.

Although Shiji City is not big, but it is divided into inner and outer cities, generally border cities and counties will be built in this way, if the enemy army is too strong, break through the outer city, the defenders can also retreat to the inner city, waiting for reinforcements.

Soon, the army of the Ming Kingdom retreated to the inner city, and Yuan Fan also woke up at the right moment, and easily put back the old man Jing who fell to the ground and wailed - the left arm of the old man Jing didn't know where to fly.

This time, without the East Gate, Shiji City is no longer an insurmountable fortress for the infantry of the Southern Kingdom. They slowly entered the city.

Seeing that the Ming army had retreated quickly and had completely run into the inner city of Shiji City, the southern army did not choose to attack at the first time, but stationed around the inner city, it seemed that they wanted to avoid more battles and wanted to persuade them to surrender.

Compared with the unhurried arrangement of positions by the southern army in the outer city, the inner city at this time was a different scene.