Qiu Yue and Hou Dabiao stood at the head of the city with a sigh of relief, looking at the back of the rebels who retreated, Qiu Yue sighed: "It's really powerful, the Jinyi Guard Fire Gun Camp is worthy of its name, waiting for the suppression, if there is no fifty fire guns from you, the city will be broken." ”

Hou Dabiao wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said: "It's really a fluke, the firecracker ammunition has run out, if they insist on having a meal any longer, the firecracker will become a waste." ”

Qiu Yue was stunned and said, "No ammunition? ”

Hou Dabiao nodded and said: "This time I came to the northwest with very sufficient ammunition, each person is equipped with more than 100 shotguns, but I didn't expect it to run out so quickly, one or two pieces of silver can only make five shotguns, originally everyone saved it, but just now I had to bombard indiscriminately, and hundreds of taels of silver were all thrown away." ”

Qiu Yue blinked his eyes and said: "Silver is a trivial matter, you don't have ammunition, and then He Jin will attack again, it will be difficult." ”

Hou Dabiao spread his hands and said: "No way, Lord Song still has some ammunition around him, but because they know that we have to defend the city, they only left ten ammunition per person, even if they get all of them, it will be useless, and they will run out when they speak." ”

Qiu Yue scratched his head, looking at the rebels under the city who seemed to be charging again, looking at the few six or seven hundred soldiers on the city, and a large number of wounded soldiers who were squirming in the city and losing their combat effectiveness, his heart was anxious.

There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves in the city gate, and everyone followed the reputation, and more than 30 horsemen arrived at the small square in the city gate, and it was Song Nan who came; Hearing that the battle at the head of the city was fierce, Song Nan led the people to roughly clear out dozens of absconding palace guards in the city, and hurried over, dismounted and strode to the city tower, Qiu Yue and Hou Dabiao had already come to the top of the stairs to greet each other.

Song Nan frowned and asked, "Is the attack fierce?" ”

Qiu Yue hurriedly said: "The rebels are 5,000 people, the strength is three times that of us, and the head of the city is almost lost. ”

Hou Dabiao said: "But my lord, the ammunition is out of stock." ”

The corners of Song Nan's mouth twitched, and he scolded in his heart, from firecrackers to ammunition, all the money was his own, and he spent tens of thousands of taels of silver before and after, this guy was generous, he would fight as much ammunition as he wanted, and he was not stingy at all.

"Hey, you have to use your brains to fight, more than 1,500 people rely on the attack of 5,000 lost dogs in the fortified city, and they have run out of ammunition, what kind of battle are you fighting?" Song Nan sighed.

Qiu Yue was stunned, he thought that he could get Song Nan's praise, but he didn't expect to be ridiculed.

Qiu Yue was a little unconvinced: "The rebels' desperate onslaught, it is already quite difficult to defend. ”

Song Nan snorted, walked along the city wall for dozens of steps, turned around and said: "General Qiu, you can actually let them attack the city wall, no wonder it is so tragic, in fact, they can't attack at all, just refuse the enemy to drag them outside the city, they will be defeated." ”

Qiu Yue said: "How to resist the enemy outside the city? Can't you tie them up with iron chains? ”

Song Nan heard Qiu Yue's disbelief, and said warmly: "To fight a war, you have to use the terrain and resources, and you don't know that there are a lot of resources in the palace, why don't you send someone to carry them to the city?" I told you to prepare to defend the city, but you didn't actually do anything. ”

Qiu Yue said: "I moved the bow and arrows up, otherwise how can I hold it?" ”

Song Nan said: "Bows and arrows are wanted, why don't you use the fire oil in the palace warehouse?" And the rolling wood and stone on the interior wall, why not move here? ”

“…… The lower officials think that there is no need, and there is not enough manpower, so the time is urgent......"

"Come on, don't say it; Blind confidence in advance and poor consideration, that's why you guarded it so hard, and you were given a treasure knife, and you used it to cut watermelon; Lord Qiu, you have to learn a lesson, after this incident, you will definitely be promoted to a knight, if you are allowed to guard the border town alone, you must learn more about how to fight. ”

Qiu Yue was speechless, as a border town general who had been in Rongma for half his life, he was also famous in Ningxia Town, but he didn't expect it to be so unbearable in Song Nan's mouth, and Song Houye's requirements were so high? Qiu Yue was a little unimpressed.

Song Nan looked along the city wall with his hand, Qiu Yue silently followed behind, and Hou Dabiao came up and whispered: "General Qiu, don't be discouraged, the adults are also for your good." ”

Qiu Yue said: "The requirements of adults are too high. ”

Hou Dabiao said with a smile: "Don't be unconvinced, if you think about the battle of Xinpingbao of Lord Song, dozens of people retreated under the siege of tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry, you think it is natural to be scolded today; The same is to defend the city, on that day, Lord Song of Xin'an County led more than 1,000 people to fight off nearly 7,000 thieves unharmed, the city wall of Xin'an County is still a broken city wall in disrepair, can you do it? ”

Qiu Yue opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a long time.

"Pass my order, immediately organize the people to carry fire, oil, stones, civil engineering and other things to the city wall, He Jin still has to come hard, this time he can't even touch the city." Song Nan turned around in front and ordered.

The people of the city were ready to assist in defending the city, and as soon as they started it, they immediately took action, and in less than an hour, the city was full of materials carried from the palace.

He Jin originally wanted to launch a second assault immediately, but seeing that the soldiers had just suffered a miserable white and their bodies were exhausted, he knew that this was also one of the causes of defeat, so he gave them extra kindness, let them eat their stomachs, and spare more than an hour for them to sleep.

After noon, the drums and trumpets in the rebel camp sounded in unison, and the rebel soldiers were driven up from their sleep. He Jin made up his mind that this time he would go all out to attack, and he would never give up until he reached his goal. In order to deal with the death-like fire at the head of the city, he gave the only more than 700 pairs of iron armor among the generals to the troops who were ready to enter the city, hoping to use these 700 people to be firmly nailed to the head of the city after they landed in the city, so as to buy time for the follow-up soldiers and horses.

The shouts started, more than 3,000 rebel soldiers stepped on the cold and hard ground and shouted and rushed to the city wall, the arrow rain at the head of the city fell mercilessly, one by one the soldiers fell on the cold ground, but this could not stop the advance of the formation, after the meal, the first batch of 1,000 people had arrived at the bottom of the city, the ladders were put up on the wall, the rebels stepped on the layers of corpses under the city to climb the ladder and climb up quickly, and the first attack, the previous charge and the current climb were smooth, and the resistance of the city head was obviously insufficient.

Song Nan stood on the city tower and watched it clearly, and when the flag waved, the soldiers guarding the city who were dormant under the wall battlements rose up, rolling wood and stones rolling down, mixed with buckets of liquid poured down with a spicy smell.

Immediately after, dozens of torches fell from above, and the city suddenly burst into flames, and the flames continued into pieces, wrapping the rebels on the ladder and the corpses under the city together and burning, in the flames, countless rebel soldiers twisted their bodies and let out heart-rending screams and fell down, forming countless fireballs on the ground, rolling and crying.

The entire southern wall was a hellish sea of fire at the root, the living soldiers and dead corpses were burning, the pungent smell of burning made people vomit, and the charred smoke rose into the air, and it was impossible to get even half a step closer.

Many soldiers who were on fire swooped into the moat dozens of steps away, and the flame-ridden bodies met the icy water, and after the stinging green smoke came out, the exposed bodies were shattered, shining with a strange blood-red color, and after a moment of calm, these people died quickly, and the shapeless corpses floated and sank in the river, making it impossible to look at them again.

This scene made everyone in the city and under the city tremble in shock, the soldiers defending the city did not expect that the fire oil would have such a huge power, and the rebels besieging the city also stopped in horror when they saw the first group of 1,000 people being swallowed up in the sea of fire.

He Jin, who was riding a horse and driving the soldiers to attack with the rear team, looked at this qiē blankly, looking at the soldiers and horses who fled back with a ghost crying wolf, he didn't have the slightest intention of stopping it, and he couldn't stop it.

"General, withdraw the troops, we can't capture Ningxia Town, we only have two thousand people left." A general whispered in He Jin's ear.

"Withdraw...... Withdraw ......," He Jinmu said, his eyes still staring at the fire under the city wall and the figure struggling in the fire.

"Shall we go back to the West Cliff or to Pingyu City? There are still a few hundred soldiers there. There is also a foothold. ”

"Back to Xiya, I haven't lost yet, there are still 5,000 men and horses in Xiya, I still have 7,000 soldiers and horses on hand, after returning to Pingyu City, I will open and close the pass to seek support, I will remember this qiē today, I will ask for it back." He Jin gritted his teeth, and fire was about to burst out of his eyes.

He Jin quickly gathered 2,000 remnants of his army and retreated, in order to escape from this hell quickly, he even abandoned many baggage equipment, just to be able to leave this place quickly; A group of defeated generals ran south for more than an hour, and finally relieved themselves, and found a safe place to rest on the side of the road, and the soldiers sat on the ground in shock, and the whole army was as silent as death.

He Jin came to the soldiers, opened his mouth to say something, and suddenly found that he had nothing to say, and hesitated to hear a cavalry scout rushing in front of him, and shouted: "General, general, there is a large army arriving on the road ahead." ”

He Jin was stunned for a moment, and said happily: "Is it Ding Guang who led the army to help?" ”

The cavalry scout shook his head and said, "Not really." ”

He Jin quickly took a few generals to climb the hill near the left and build a pergola to look to the south, this time the soul was scattered, an army was coming from the south, holding a golden and dazzling flag, that was the banner of the Beijing camp, that was the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and it was not the soldiers and horses left by Ding Guang to guard the West Cliff at all.

"The west cliff was broken, the officers and soldiers crossed the river, and we ...... Finished. He Jin hurriedly said these words, his chest churned and he felt a sharp pain, and with a whoop, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fell to the ground.