Chapter 366

The cavalry scouts went out in all directions to inquire about the news, and at the fourth watch, the sound of gongs in the dark and dreary Xin'an County was everywhere, which made people panic, and the soldiers defending the city in their sleep got up one after another to climb the city.

Half an hour later, on the dark and dreary horizon in the north, a long dragon composed of torches quickly surged to the city, and after a while, the open ground in the north of Xin'an County became a sea of torches, and a black shadow stood under the torches.

The thieves are still accustomed to raid warfare, and the experience of Liankexiong County and Rongcheng tells them that the county defenders are only hundreds, and there is no need to think about anything else, and the strong men who are driven away are the first echelon as cannon fodder, and the rest of the people and cats can be conquered by rushing up in the back, and it will not take an hour for Xin'an County to be held in their hands.

This westward attacking team was led by Liu Qi and Zhao Luozi, Zhao Qi was brave and fierce, Liu Qi was scheming, and the two cooperated very tacitly, which is why Liu Liu asked these two to command the Western Road Righteous Army. The two of them also lived up to their expectations, Liankexiong County and Rongcheng County, less than 4,000 men surged to nearly 6,000 after conquering the two counties, this is still the result of only catching strong men in the county seat, if there is enough time, they can sweep through the small towns and villages inside and outside the county town one by one, at least double the number of troops.

A few days after the incident, even if there were already 4,000 people, there were only a few hundred people with blades in their hands, and the rest of the people could only hold simple blades such as wooden sticks, straw forks, kitchen knives, and wood knives, and only a pitiful dozen sets of armor. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the Bazhou Guard sent thousands of sets of armor and blades, and dozens of war horses, but even so, when the troops were divided, Liu Qi and Zhao Qi only had six hundred sets of armor and blades on hand, and only a dozen horses, and the rest were still wearing tattered clothes and holding all kinds of weapons.

But after breaking Xiong County and Rongcheng County, hundreds of sets of armor and blades were looted, hundreds of horses were also robbed, and dozens of carts were also made in the arsenal of Xiong County, which suddenly made Liu Qi and Zhao Qi feel very confident; More than 50 ox carts were piled up with grain, gold and silver and went south with the army, some of them ate and some were rewarded, and they won successive battles, and their morale was also uncontrollable.

Along the way, if it weren't for the uncomfortable crying of the two thousand strong men caught, Liu Qi and Zhao Qi couldn't wait to sing on horseback.

At this rate, after sweeping all the counties and towns in Henan, the soldiers and horses reached at least tens of thousands, and it would be easy to capture the big state capital, and then it would be the capital, and then it would be the little emperor Zhengde to drive down the throne, and then it would be the days when the wine was spent every day, women slept casually, silver was spent casually, and wine and meat were full.

Liu Qi and Zhao Qi didn't take this Xin'an county town on the southward road in their eyes at all, and the two of them led 3,000 people to attack the west and north city walls respectively, betting that whoever broke through it first would sleep with the most beautiful woman in the city.

At the beginning of the siege, the clever rebel generals have summed up the routine from the limited experience of several sieges, the cannon fodder strong men who were caught by the pioneers rushed to the city wall carrying simple ladders and hook claw ropes, once the low city wall was hooked by the ladder with iron hooks, and the ropes hooked up to the city, victory was within reach, and the purpose of these strong men who were driven by the swindlers and guns was to absorb the bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers at the head of the city, and set up the ladders and ropes for the siege, and then ...... Then they can die.

Then things are simple, it is only a matter of time before they climb to the top of the city, the meager forces in these small counties are simply unstoppable, once there is a breakthrough, it will be done.

However, this time things became a bit big, Liu Qi, who was responsible for the attack at the west gate, obviously only saw a few defenders at the head of the city in the morning fog of dawn, and after ordering the cannon fodder to charge, he suddenly found that there were more dense defenders on the city wall, and then, the rain of arrows like flying locusts poured down one by one, and the cannon fodder fell into a large number of people.

"What's going on? Why are there so many people in Xin'an County? Liu Qi opened his mouth and asked several temporarily promoted rebel generals around him.

"I don't know, it stands to reason that I can't." The rebel generals wore ill-fitting armor and shook their heads like rattles.

"Quickly go to General Zhao's side and take a look, are the defenders in the city concentrated on the city wall of the West Gate? This made Zhao Crazy pick up the cheap. Liu Qi shouted.

A volunteer general rode to the north of the city, and before he could find Zhao Qi's figure, he first saw the figure of the cannon fodder fleeing back with his head in a hurry, and then he saw the dense officers and soldiers guarding the city under the light cyan sky.

Zhao Qi came to Liu Qi's west gate in a hurry, and the two of them had horror in their eyes, could it be that the officers and soldiers had blocked the way south? There is nowhere to go now, and I regret that I shouldn't have been delayed in Rongcheng County for two days, if I just rushed south from Dawang Town.

Liu Qi was quite calm, and asked Zhao Qi: "How many people are estimated to be guarding the city over there?" ”

"There should be thousands."

"I estimate that there are thousands of people on my side, which means that there are only 2,000 defenders in the city."

"Two thousand? I don't know how many are left in the city, brother, let's kick to the hard bones, this is the main force of officers and soldiers. ”

Liu Qi bit his lip and was silent, watching the cannon fodder people turn over on their backs and be put down by the officers and soldiers at the head of the city, there are only dozens of ladders and ropes on the city, which is not enough to attack the city at all, he was a little deflated, and was about to discuss withdrawing from the army with Zhao Qi to go around, suddenly the city head shining in the morning sun was shining, Liu Qi squinted, and suddenly shouted: "No, madman, what kind of soldiers do you see on the city?" ”

Zhao Qi squinted and saw that most of the soldiers on the city were wearing red and yellow, and their armor was extremely gorgeous, which was not the armor of the officers and soldiers of the guard at all; Mixed next to them were two or three hundred county soldiers dressed in rat-like rattan armor, and the rest were ordinary people who were throwing stones down with their bare hands.

"That's the armor of the brocade guard, damn it, the brocade guard helps defend the city? Where did this broken county come from so many brocade guards? ”

Liu Qi bared his teeth and smiled: "Crazy, do you still need to ask?" It must be someone sent by Baoding Mansion, see no, the people have been transferred to the city wall, it can be seen that there are no more soldiers and horses in the city, and if they die, they will be the head of the city, and we are going to get rich. ”

Zhao Yi was stunned and said, "What kind of wealth?" I'm about to be beaten into a dog, and the casualties will be at least more than five hundred, Seventh Master, aren't you crazy. ”

Liu Qi said disdainfully: "You know a hammer." Jinyiwei these dogs have the best weapons, I heard that they have an embroidered spring knife, that thing is not something that ordinary people can wear, you think, after we captured here, stripped their armor, with their embroidered spring knife, riding their horses, how majestic this should be, I wanted to be a Jinyi Weiti when I was a child, but unfortunately there is no chance, this time I can fulfill my wish. ”

Zhao Qi licked his lips and said: "I'm really moved when you say this, you're right, they just have such a few people, we have six thousand people, and the consumption also consumes them, but the casualties are too great." ”

Liu Qi chirped: "Casualties? Won't Lazhuangding come back after capturing a few more county seats? You go back to your north, and we'll go up in a swarm this time, and we'll take the city anyway. ”

Zhao Yi agreed to ride his horse back to the north city wall, and under the pressure of the overseer army composed of bandits, the rebels who had been repulsed once launched another attack; A volunteer general led people to drive the cannon fodder forward, and the two strong men were frightened by the rain of arrows shot down from the city just now, and they were spread on the ground and did not move, and were hacked to death on the spot by the general of the righteous army without hesitation.

If you rush forward or have a way to live, if you don't rush, you will die on the spot immediately, the lesser of two evils, you will naturally rush forward, and live for a while.

Driven by the big sword and spear, thousands of thieves rushed to the city wall desperately, thousands of scattered stragglers spread out in the open space under the city, the defenders at the head of the city obviously did not have enough firepower, plus each person carried only a pot of more than a dozen arrows, this Xin'an county town treasury slowly said arrows, not even a stone was prepared, although the brocade clothes guard flag school struggled to fire arrows, but finally let a large number of thieves rush to the city wall.

More than 100 simple ladders set up the head of the city, hundreds of ropes were thrown on the head of the city to hook, the thieves roared and climbed to the head of the city, and the city wall less than two zhang high could reach the top in dozens of breaths if the book was not disturbed, and the shape was extremely dangerous.

The defenders at the head of the city can no longer shoot arrows, they have to swing their knives to cut the ropes, deal with the thieves climbing on the ladder, and also guard against the sporadic shooting of thieves and arrows.

Song Nan stood on the tower above the gate of the North City, the cloak behind him was hunting in the wind, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand was not raised to participate in the battle, but slowly put it into the sheath, and at the same time, his slender fingers were on the thing on his waist.

Wang Yong, a thousand households in the guard camp, stepped forward and whispered, "My lord...... Unstoppable! ”

Song Nan sighed and shouted in a low voice: "Let's do it!" ”