Nie Wuzheng was neither willing to hand over Jia Qianqian, nor did he agree to use her as a shield, and these subordinates were not reluctant at this time, after all, things had not deteriorated to the point of being out of control.

Long Xiao's siege operation finally began, and the siege sergeants who served as the vanguard carried ladders and pushed ballistae throwing stone bullets to rush towards Xuancheng, and the archers covering the siege behind also fired a dense rain of arrows at the head of the city, forcing the defenders of the city to dare not expose their bodies to the wall. The disciples of the base camp defending the city also immediately shot down with a burst of arrows. Long Xiao's sergeant braved the rain of arrows to shoot stone projectiles at the city wall, although all the disciples in the base camp knew martial arts, but because everyone was crowded together, there was no place to avoid, and they avoided the bow and arrow, and they would also be carelessly hit by stones, so more than a dozen people were injured. But this injury is too far from the losses suffered by Long Xiao's army under the city.

Long Xiao's sergeant finally couldn't avoid the dense and accurate rain of arrows, and after losing more than 100 people, they retreated to safety one after another. Long Xiao, who had been watching the battle, did not have a trace of expression on his indifferent face. General Yang sighed on the side: "The Great Prince, the people of Xuancheng are all martial arts, and their archery skills are accurate, and it is difficult for us to win by attacking the city like this." Long Xiao said coldly: "I didn't expect these hundreds of people to be able to attack this city wall, I just let them try the strength of Xuancheng." Long Jie sighed in his heart, the lives of more than a hundred soldiers were buried lightly.

The first siege operation ended like this, and the disciples of the base camp on the wall of Xuancheng looked at the retreating army of the Great Yan Kingdom, and they all smiled happily. I didn't expect that the army of the Great Yan Kingdom was so vulnerable, and with such a pustule, I was not afraid of doubling the troops. Nie Wuzheng stood at the head of the wall, without any expression on his face, Long Xiao just didn't take the lives of these soldiers seriously, and used them to practice his hands. Such a ruthless person is even more difficult to deal with, after all, the disparity in the strength of the two sides is too great, the war has only just begun, and it is too early to rejoice now, and it is too light to underestimate the enemy.

Mu Sichen, the commander of the outer city who was standing beside Nie Wuzheng, asked, "Young master, should we go out of the city to rob the camp tonight and give them a dismount?" Nie Wuzheng shook his head, "Although Long Xiao has no experience in leading troops, General Yang Tingshan, who has been guarding the border for many years, has a lot of experience. This kind of large-scale war can not be solved by relying on martial arts, no matter how many masters we have, we can't stand the other side's many people, layer by layer of flesh walls are pushed up, even if you stand still and let you kill, you can kill you weakly, besides, the two brothers Long Jie and Long Xiao are also martial arts masters, where will it be so easy for us to succeed. ”

Mu Sichen said: "Then we can only passively wait for them to attack the city before we can kill them?" ”

Nie Wuzheng smiled indifferently, "Of course not, if there is a chance, we will naturally go out of the city to disturb them, but there is no hurry now, you want to fight other people's ideas, others are still calculating us, I estimate, Long Xiao will take action tonight, you give the order, and the people who guard the city tonight are vigilant." ”

"Yes! Young master. Mu Sichen promised in his mouth, but he was a little disappreciative in his heart.

After the first victory, the atmosphere in Xuancheng suddenly became much more relaxed, and Xiao Ye couldn't help but tell Jia Qianqian the good news, but Jia Qianqian couldn't be happy. It doesn't matter who wins or loses, as long as someone is killed or injured, she will be sad. She hated her inability to stop the war, and she hated herself even more for being the key person in causing it.

In the middle of the night, Long Xiao commanded the men and horses to attack the city, this time he did not make a small fight, and directly used all the means he could, 70,000 troops, except for 10,000 people to suppress the formation, the remaining 60,000 horses, all participated in the siege. This time, all the arrows shot at the top of the Xuancheng city wall were tied with flammable materials, poured with wax oil, and shot up after ignition, and 5,000 archers took turns shooting arrows with fire upwards, and the entire outer city of Xuancheng was reflected in the light of red for a while. The siege sergeants, under the cover of rockets, stone bullets, and to the rumbling drums of war, carried ladders and shouted and rushed to the city walls.

Many Xuancheng disciples who did not keep vigil and the ordinary people who were sleeping were awakened, and when they saw the skyrocketing fire in the outer city, they were all stunned, could it be that the situation was reversed and the Xuancheng disciples were vulnerable? Except for the too old and too young, all the young adults in Xuancheng flocked to the outer city, and they wanted to do their best to keep their only home. A large number of people crowded into the outer city, which caused the inconvenience of defending the city. There were too many people to dodge, but instead let the aimless rockets and stones have a place to use, and suddenly someone's clothes were on fire, and everyone was busy putting out the fire and couldn't care about the flying stones, and there was a scream for a while.

Seeing this scene, Nie Wuzheng, who came from the inner city, flew over everyone's heads, stood on the high part of the city wall and roared with all his might, "It's not the disciples of the base camp who are guarding the city, all go home, those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

The people who arrived for reinforcements also seemed to realize that they had not done a good job, and retreated back to a place where the rockets and rocks could not attack. Others directed the crowd to disperse to help extinguish fires in some buildings.

Mu Sichen commanded his subordinates in groups of three, one of them was responsible for covering the other two, blocking the rockets and stones that fell on them, and the two of them were single-mindedly dealing with the sergeants who were building cloud ladders to attack the city. After the initial panic had passed, they began to use their precision to defeat the soldiers who tried to climb up with arrows or stones.

Long Jie saw that Xuancheng had resumed its orderly defense, and that there were more and more casualties on his side, so he couldn't help frowning and said, "Don't attack, Mingjin withdraw his troops!" ”

Long Xiao saw that the other party had organized an efficient counterattack again, so he had to follow Long Jie's advice, and Ming Jin withdrew his troops.

In this battle in the middle of the night, Xuancheng also suffered twenty or thirty casualties, although Long Xiao's soldiers were still much higher than those in Xuancheng, but the disparity between the forces of the two sides, Xuancheng without any help, one person died, which was one less combat effectiveness.

Since the guards in charge of the daily patrol in the inner city couldn't hold their breath and ran to the outer city to help, Xiao Ye also went out to inquire about the situation, and Jia Qianqian, who was awakened by the sound of siege, ran to the outer city without any hindrance. When Jia Qianqian arrived, Long Xiao's army had already retreated. The disciples of the base camp were putting out the fires everywhere, bandaging their wounded companions, and carrying the dead disciples to put them together. The relatives of these people had already rushed to cry bitterly when they got the news, and the whole outer city was in disarray and desolation, and the war finally showed its cruel side mercilessly.

Jia Qianqian stared at everything in front of her blankly, and her body couldn't help but tremble, the deaths of these people were all related to her, and she was the victim.

When Nie Wuzheng saw her, he flew over and wanted to hug her. Jia Qianqian pushed him away violently, and roared angrily: "Nie Wuzheng, these people were all killed by you, you should have let me go a long time ago, it was because of your domineering that these innocent people lost their lives in vain, and it also made my conscience uneasy."

Nie Wuzheng didn't defend himself, and directly rushed up again and dragged Jia Qianqian away from the terrible scene. sent Jia Qianqian to *, and then said helplessly: "Qianqian, as long as it is a war, it is inevitable that there will be casualties, you don't have to blame yourself." Stay here obediently, and when you repel Long Xiao, I will accompany you again. He said coldly to Xiao Ye, who came back in a hurry: "Take care of Miss Jia, and let her go to the outer city, you won't have to live." After saying that, he hurried to the outer city.

Jia Qianqian sat at the table in despair, and Xiao Ye stepped forward to persuade: "Miss Jia, it's almost time, go to sleep." Qianqian suddenly grabbed Xiao Ye's hand, "Xiao Ye, you also have relatives guarding the city in the outer city, right?" Xiao Ye nodded, "Both of my brothers participated in tonight's battle. Jia Qianqian's eyes tried to shine with hope. Xiao Ye, you must not want your two brothers to die or be injured, right? Help me get out, I'm the only one out of here. The war will end."

Xiao Ye waved his hand in fright, "No, it's really not good." If I let you go, the young master might kill me. Jia Qianqian sat down again, it seems that this road will not work.

This midnight attack finally let the people of Xuancheng see Long Xiao's strength, and also made them feel that death was close at hand. Everyone's faces were very heavy. Nie Wuzheng, who had not slept all night, convened important leaders early in the morning to discuss the future defense of the city, and just after the discussion, he saw that one of the guards who had been guarding his father came to him. The guards asked Nie Wuzheng to go to the small temple, and the city lord had something to say. Nie Wuzheng guessed that it must have been the sound of the siege last night that alarmed his father, and let him know Xuancheng's situation at this time, so he let him go to a small temple. Although his father was a monk, at such a critical moment, Nie Wuzheng still hoped to get his father's share and support, so he followed the guards and hurried to the small temple.

After Nie Wuzheng left, four or five Xuancheng girls dressed up rushed in*, and the leaders were Mu Fanggu and Lu Dong'er. Xiao Ye hurriedly came out to stop it, but where could she stop these noble female generals who were strong in martial arts and extremely hard in the background. Several people rushed into the back room, Jia Qianqian was eating breakfast without a bite in despair, and Lu Dong'er screamed strangely: "You fox spirit, demon, our brothers and sisters in the base camp lost their lives because of you, you are still in a good mood to eat and drink." With that, he swept all the food on the table to the ground. Jia Qianqian raised his big eyes without any expression, and looked at the group of unfamiliar guests in front of him with some indifference.

Mu Fanggu didn't make a move, but said coldly: "Jia Qianqian, if there is no war, maybe I will let you go, but you shouldn't bring the shadow of death to Xuancheng, so now it's time for you to play the role you played when you first came to Xuancheng." ”

Jia Qianqian was still silent with an indifferent face, as if she hadn't heard or seen the group of murderous women in front of her. The scene last night stimulated her too much, and those vivid lives lay there silently in the blink of an eye, making her feel that she was the executioner.

Fang Gu gave an order: "Take her away and escort her to the city wall, I want to see how attractive she is, whether the prince of the Great Yan Kingdom cares about her, whether he will retreat for her!"