The officials, soldiers, guards, and secret guards on the city tower were all relieved to see that the commander was defeated by Li Xiao and fell off the city tower, and their sense of fear suddenly decreased. I don't know if I can fall from the top of the ten-meter-high city wall and kill him.

A soldier shouted, "That damn Jiangcheng man, kill my son." ”

"My father was also killed. I...... It's not over with the people of Jiangcheng. ”

A young soldier walked to the female wall of the city tower, looked at the city tower, and shouted: "Come up, son of a bitch, you are so 'capable', why was you knocked down the stairs by a child?"

Zhou Dongcang said loudly: "Look at how amazing our Yuanyang City is? ”

"What is the No. 1 warrior in Jiangcheng?" "What? He is the No. 1 warrior in Jiangcheng?" "Haha...... It's so peculiar that one of our children defeated the first warrior in Jiangcheng. ”

This is a group of people who don't know the truth, or a group of people who urgently need to get back face.

The deputy commander saw that the commander fell from the city tower and hit the ground with his buttocks, and was shocked that the first warrior of Jiangcheng was defeated by a child, and the defeat was so ugly. He looked back at the siege equipment that was about to be assembled, and said, "Commander, the siege ladder and stone throwing vehicle are ready. ”

The commander Wang Qianjun did not respond to the deputy commander's words, he really wanted to tear Li Xiao on the city tower in half. He was not injured on his body, and as a Qi Refining Cultivator, he knew that the reason why he fell from the city tower was because of two forces of Qi that restrained his hands and feet. He guessed that the kid on the city tower and the two white-bearded old men were from the Qi Refining Gate Sect. Xin Dao: I can't see what level that kid's Qi Cultivation Realm is? I can't offend such a Qi Refining Cultivator.

The commander covered his face with his hands, and after sighing in the sky, the royal qi flew up, flipped back in the void, and landed on the back of the horse jujube red horse behind him, he drank a few times in his mouth to turn the horse's head, clamped the horse's belly, and ran towards the back of the whole army, and said: "The deputy commander makes Chen Zheng, command the attack." ”

Deputy Commander Chen Zheng responded: "Yes." ”

Twenty cavalry escorts were also with the commander.

The young soldier on the tower of the city shouted loudly: "Look, everyone, that Jiangcheng man is so frightened that he has fled." ”

There was a cheer from the castle tower. The healers began to help the wounded, and the soldiers began to "clean" the city.

Li Xiao and the two Taoist leaders were invited to Zhou Dongcang.

Zhou Dongcang looked at the three of them and said, "Which immortal mountain are the three from?"

Mao Daochang stopped Wen Daochang from speaking and pushed Li Xiao to the front. Li Xiao looked at Zhou Dongcang's kind face and said, "I am from Hongxing Village, the market of Jinniu Town, and these two Dao Masters are from Yuanyang Mountain. ”

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Mao Daochang frowned.

"What's your name?"

"I ...... My name is Li Xiao. ”

"You're from the Golden Bull Market, who else is in the family?"

Li Xiao thought of her parents, the second girl and Aunt Li, and was silent.

Zhou Dongcang, who is nearly sixty years old, is good at observing words and feelings, combined with the great drought in the Central Region, guessing that Li Xiao may have lost his family, "Do you want to go to the main hall of the Taoist Sect of Yuanyang Mountain with the Taoist chief of Yuanyang Mountain?"

Go to the main hall of the Dao Sect of Yuanyang Mountain?No, before I become a peerless powerhouse, I don't want to see Wushang Immortal Elder again. Li Xiao shook his head, "I ......"

Mao Daochang answered: "Are you willing to take this child in?"

Wen Dao said in his heart: Senior Brother Wushang does not allow me and my senior brother to accept apprentices, and it is okay for us to return this child to Yuanyang Mountain and hand it over to my junior brother.

Zhou Dongcang smiled kindly, "Of course I can take this child in." ”

Li Xiao looked at Zhou Dongcang's smile, felt very uneasy, and hurriedly said, "I still have to look for ...... Looking for my mother and my sister. ”

Zhou Dongcang's eyes flashed, his face changed, and he grinned: "Hehe...... Once you find it, go to Hirayama Academy to enroll. Next month, Pingshan Academy will start recruiting students. ”

While the city tower was talking, the deputy commander under the city tower said sharply: "Give you an ultimatum, if you don't open the city gate, we will attack the city." ”

Zhou Dongcang said to Jiang Tao: "Tell the enemy army downstairs to get out of here, and attack if you want to." Less nonsense. ”

Jiang Tao looked at the siege equipment and the dense cavalry downstairs, and was timid in his heart, can this city be defended? He closed his eyes for a moment, and before he could speak, he heard the master of the workshop beside him shouting angrily: "If you want to attack, you can attack, if you want to roll, you can get out, and talk nonsense without stepping on horses." ”

The master of the workshop did not have the power to decide to surrender, but he could choose to fight. Although fighting a war, like engineering, does not require him to do it himself, he only understands engineering, not warfare. He believed that with the weapons piled up on the tower, he could withstand the attacks of tens of thousands of people under the city.

People who don't know how to fight will overbelieve in the existence of winning more with less.

"Everyone, I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin," the deputy commander was annoyed, "I give an order, you will all be dead, your belongings will be stripped of your belongings, and your wives and daughters will be stripped of their clothes......"

"Shut the foul mouth of the mud horse. The owner of the workshop was the first to scold.

"......" all kinds of insults came down from the city tower, and they were heard endlessly.

The "opening remarks" of the war had already been finished, and the deputy commander stood in front of the whole army, and he drew three command flags from his waist, two of which were hung down, and one of which was held high. Then the hand that raised the flag was quickly lowered. Each of the four thousand men besieging the city sounded orders, and the heralds rode their horses back and forth.

Soon, the drums of war beat in unison, and the sky soared.

The crowd on the upper floor of the South Gate curiously crowded to the female wall to watch Jiang Longwei's avant-garde siege equipment. The 10,000 cavalry under the city looked a little crowded, dense, piece by piece, like neatly arranged insects, in good order.

"What a terrible ladder!" Three ladders that can be raised more than 10 meters are equipped with shields, winches, grappling hooks and other equipment, and there are six wheels under them, which can be pushed; the main ladder is docked under the city, and the ladder up to the city is erected on the main ladder, this new type of ladder can be as far as possible from being destroyed by the defenders before the battle; the top of the ladder can be adjusted up and down along the city wall, so that the soldiers can attack the city wall.

"Is there a repeater on it?" Each ladder was topped with about ten intervening repeaters, which were made of fine iron and required the cooperation of three strong men to fire.

"Lots of bobble-throwing trucks. "More than 30 stone-throwing trucks with a length of more than six meters can throw more than 700 steps of stones each time, and the stone-throwing vehicles are only 150 steps away from the head of Yuanyang City. This is to bully the city of two words without a sharp weapon to defend the city, so dare to park the stone throwing cart so close to the city to eat the pool.

"What are those? Is it oil?"

Above the tower of the south gate, there were only more than 700 defenders, all of whom were soldiers of the city defense battalion and guards of the main office, who had never seen such siege equipment and did not know what a real siege battle looked like.

Zhou Dongcang said: "Fellow soldiers, colleagues, please be quiet, please choose your own weapons and guard the south gate with our soldiers." As long as we hold out for a moment, reinforcements will arrive. ”

"Reinforcements?" "And reinforcements?"

"I have already sent Sun Tu and Li Liang to the camp of Hutou Mountain to take over Yuanyangwei, and they are about to arrive. My junior brother, Mei Shuanglin, the owner of Meishan Villa, will also lead the disciples of Meishan Villa to come to help. ......”

"Great. I'm still thinking about how we can resist ...... with such a small number of soldiers" "Master Zhou, there are 10,000 enemy soldiers under the city!" ......

"Please be quiet. We also have reinforcements. ”......

As he spoke, a large number of footsteps sounded in the city, and the footsteps came towards the south gate. Everyone was confused, and Zhou Dongcang said excitedly: "Great." Listen, the officers and men of the Hutou Mountain battalion have already arrived. "The Yuanyang Wei army entered Yuanyang City from the north gate and went straight to the south gate.

Under the castle tower, the throwing arm of the stone throwing cart has been loaded with stone bullets, which were poured with oil and ignited, and soon the stone bullets were heated by the fire and cracks appeared.

The command flag waved, and as the order of the respective centurion was given, more than twenty people shouted together, slowly twisting the power arm of the stone throwing car. The huge sound continued, and thirty stone bullets that were on fire were thrown at the head of Yuanyang City.

After a small number of stone bullets hit the city wall, they made a loud bang, shattered into a pile of stones, and fell along the city wall.

Most of the stone bullets fell into the city, and thousands of Yuanyang guards in the city, holding shields to defend passively, dozens of soldiers were hit by stones, rubble, and flying bricks, and died on the spot.

Sun Tu, the new acting commander of Yuanyangwei, loudly reprimanded the soldiers, maintaining formation, raising their shields, and working together to resist the onslaught of stones, rubble, and bricks.

Several stone bullets hit the city gate tower, stones and gravel flew everywhere, and more than 20 ordinary soldiers were killed and wounded.

The officers hid behind the shield array of the city defense battalion, and no one was injured.

In the second round, flint shells continued to attack. Twenty-three out of ten people on the tower were killed or wounded.

In the third round, there was no fire, it was all stone bullets. A stone bullet hit the two shields that protected Jiang Tao. The two shields split into five or six pieces, and the shield-bearer killed one and seriously wounded the other.

Jiang Tao said to Zhou Dongcang: "Master Zhou, the stone bullet is too powerful, your old man should go down to the city tower, right?"

"I can't go, if I go, the officials will also go, and if the officials leave, the soldiers of the city defense battalion and Yuanyangwei will also go. When the time comes, the south gate will be self-defeating. ”

Jiang Tao thought to himself: That's right. The difficulty of defending the city, the main officials fled, and they would definitely not be able to defend it.

"Commander Jiang, get ready, after the stone bullets, there are cloud ladders and repeater arrows. After that, it will be the battle of the city, and we must hold out until the battle of the city. "Jiang Longwei, who crossed the South Gate Pass, did not bring heavy rams, rushing cars, etc.

"Lord Zhou, the enemy army is a fierce regular army, and they have participated in the war to pacify the city of Essi. I'm afraid we won't be able to hold the city. ”

"Hey...... With me, I can keep it. ”

"We can hold the city, but there are too many enemy troops under the city. ”

"To repel the enemy army, you still have to rely on one person. ”

"Who?"

"There is only one person in our Yuanyang City who is really brave and resourceful and can fight. ”

"Li Liang!" Jiang Tao blurted out, "Where is Li Liang?" ”

"He will lead a thousand Yuanyang guards to detour behind the enemy army. When the enemy launched the battle of the city, we and Li Liang flanked the enemy inside and outside. ”

"It turns out that Director Zhou has been prepared for a long time. ”

"Today, I let the officials of the presiding office, big and small, experience such a big battle firsthand, and it will be easier for us to prepare for the establishment of the Pingshan Academy and the expansion of armaments in the future. In fact, this is also a strategy of Zhou Dongcang to eliminate dissidents and consolidate the position of the number one in Yuanyang City - to turn the bureaucrats who do not obey his control into martyrs and make room for his own people.

"Director Zhou is a staple and wise. "It's important to praise leadership appropriately.

The ladder has been raised. On top of each ladder there are about ten repeaters, and each repeater is equipped with about ten crossbow arrows. Loading, aiming, and firing are done by three people working together. More than 300 crossbow arrows were fired at the same time, enough to shoot more than 100 people.