"Yellow flares! It's yellow! The soldiers at the head of the city were excited.

Tao Xu also breathed a sigh of relief, the red signal flare was used by the southern country, and this yellow signal flare was the communication method of the Ming country!

Reinforcements have arrived! Reinforcements arrived so quickly!

The reinforcements of the Ming State were mainly cavalry, and the vanguard force probably had more than 1,000 cavalry, which was coming quickly. When they released signal flares to reveal their identities, it was too late for the south to commit more troops to the north of the city.

Like a red whirlwind, the Ming army directly tore a hole in the north gate of Shiji City, because the outer city has been occupied by the southern army, so they did not close the city gate at all, at this time it was convenient for the reinforcements of the Ming State.

More than 1,000 cavalry killed from the north of the city, and the soldiers of the inner city, who had been prepared for a long time, hurriedly opened the door and let them in.

"County ...... Lord Prefectural? How are you? When he saw the generals of these cavalry clearly, Tao Xu shouted loudly.

That's right, the one who led more than a thousand iron horsemen into the city was Ling Su, the county commander of Shiji City and Ling Zhihan's father!

"Of course it's me, I'm the county order of the imperial court, guarding the city, how can I not be there?" Ling Su said in a deep voice, he looked back at the person behind him, "General Zhang, your partial general performance is still very good!" Although the outer city was lost, he still held on to the inner city. ”

This General Zhang is the first person in the army of Shiji City, he saw that Shiji City has not yet planted the flag of the southern country, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, hearing Ling Su's words that seemed to be both positive and negative, General Zhang smiled bitterly in his heart. He knows his brother-in-law, he doesn't have any ability at all, to be honest, it is already a big surprise to be able to do it now.

But seeing that General He Bian jumped out, he bowed down and said: "Lord County, don't you dare to say that, where will I defend the city, this is all the credit of Judge Tao!" I'm just delivering orders and running errands. ”

General Zhang looked at Tao Xu in surprise when he heard this, he thought that he would be enlightened, but he didn't expect that people were just puppets. If you say that, it makes sense, but I didn't expect that the old man Tao who felt this way would still know how to defend the city!

Tao Xu took a step forward and said: "Now is not the time to talk about this, the top priority is to organize a counterattack, since the reinforcements have arrived, we should give the army in the south a little bit of strength." ”

Hearing Tao Xu's words, Ling Su and General Zhang shook their heads.

"It's hard, we can only defend it now." Ling Su sighed and said.

"Guarded?" Tao Xu was surprised, "My lord has brought nearly two thousand troops, and I see that there seem to be no less than a few thousand people in the distance outside the city, just counting the number of people, we will not fall behind!" ”

General Zhang said: "Alas, how can there be so many people, there are only more than a hundred people in the woods in the distance, but the dust and torches brought up by running back and forth by them make it seem like thousands of people." ”

It turned out that Ling Su and General Zhang and his entourage walked slowly towards Wen County, and Ling Su was still thinking about how to deliver a speech at the Yan family's wedding. And just as they were about to reach the boundary of Wen County, the military intelligence report of Shiji City caught up with them from behind.

As soon as Ling Su saw the content of the information, he was so frightened that he had already sent someone to investigate, but he didn't expect to leak the enemy in, and the "demon accomplice" who visited the county government at night turned out to be true!

He was about to turn around and return to Shiji City, but was stopped by General Zhang. If you go back at this time, just a few of them will have no effect at all. And in terms of time, even if they rush back to Shiji City, they should be much slower than the army in the south.

Since this is the case, it is better to go to Wen County first and borrow troops and then go back to the rescue.

But when they arrived in Wen County, they learned that there were not many soldiers in Wen County at all, and the total number of all troops was only 4,000. And the county commander of Wen County was worried that if the target of the southern country was the border of the Ming Kingdom, he would definitely not attack only one place in Shiji City, and maybe Wen County would also be attacked, so the county commander of Wen County did not dare to lend all the soldiers and horses.

To put it mildly, Ling Su finally said that he had moved the county commander of Wenxian County to borrow all his cavalry, but there were only 1,700 cavalry, which was really a drop in the bucket for the besieged Shiji City.

And if Shiji City is surrounded at this time, it is difficult to say whether this point of soldiers and horses can break through.

Ling Su pondered for a while, and thought of the strategy of Zhang Fei of Dangyang Bridge to scare Cao Cao, and found more than a hundred soldiers with torches in their hands to open the distance, and then tied branches to their horsetails and ran back and forth in the woods, creating the illusion that there were many infantry.

Then he led more than 1,000 cavalry to rush to Shiji City, betting that the southern army did not know their reality and would mess with itself.

Sure enough, this plan succeeded in allowing them to storm the inner city of Stone Chicken City.

After listening to Ling Su's words, the soldiers defending the city were silent, it turned out that it was a bluff, and they were still the weaker side.

Seeing that everyone's morale just rose seemed to be low, Ling Su hurriedly spoke: "Don't be discouraged, when there were no of us as a thousand people just now, you could all defend so well, this time with an increase in troops, you will definitely not let the army of the southern country go further!" Moreover, the military information of the invasion from the south has already been spread, and I believe that it will not be long before our real reinforcements will arrive! ”

At this time, a herald ran over in a puff of smoke, "Report Tao...... Lord Ling? You're back? ”

This soldier wanted to report the battle situation to Tao Xu, but who knew that he saw the county honor, and he was speechless in surprise for a while.

"What is there to be alarmed when I come back, tell me quickly, what is the military situation?"

"Yes! Mountain bandits in the west of the city...... Mountain bandits......"

"What's wrong? Is it not blocked? Tao Xu said hurriedly, "Hey! I knew that these loose bandits were not people to be trusted! ”

The herald hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, they are very heroic, not only blocking the enemy troops on the west city wall, but also killing them!" ”

……

Shiji City West City.

Edali joined the battle with hundreds of brothers, instantly turning the tide on this wall. To be honest, the army of the southern country did not expect to be able to kill the western city wall so easily, and the backup was insufficient, so the "efficacy" of the mountain bandits was magnified a lot.

Not only did they quickly kill the bandits, but they also took advantage of the chaos to kill them and chased the southern army for several streets!

"His grandmother's is just a bunch of rubbish, not enough to compare to me!" E took a sip and said viciously.

"King, our task is to defend the Western Wall, and now we have overdone, there are too few of us, and we are all our own brothers, so it is not appropriate to chase deeply!" Yuan Fan persuaded on the side.

E nodded vigorously, and when he saw that there were no more fish from the southern army, he took his brothers and walked back.

As soon as he returned to the edge of the west city wall, Yuan Fan suddenly screamed "ah".