The bloody battle has finally arrived.

Zhang Zhongxing himself took the lead, and rushed up with the three hundred warriors under his command carrying the ladder.

The county seat of Fenyi is only one zhang high, and even the ladder of the people's house can be climbed up casually.

As early as the first day of coming to Xinyu, Xie Xuelong collected more than 300 ladders and built several small catapults.

For a while, the three city walls of the southeast, north and south of the city were attacked by officials and troops.

Before the siege, the official army also had a hundred archers who were responsible for firing arrows on the city walls to suppress the fire.

These hundred archers are the only long-range attack means in the Nanchang Guard, in order to be able to succeed in suppressing the thieves, Xie Xuelong also brought out these hundred archers.

It's just a pity that it's winter, and it's a northwest wind.

The officers and soldiers fired arrows against the wind, causing the power of the bows and arrows to be greatly reduced, and by the time the arrows flew to the city walls, they were already crumbling.

The officers and soldiers all commanded Tongzhi Zhang Zhongxing's superb martial arts, and he took the lead, commanding the soldiers to carry shields and wooden planks and ladders to attack the city.

Soldiers with shields were at the front, used to block the stones and arrows thrown down from the walls.

Planks were used to lay on the moat.

The moat is shallow and narrow, and it doesn't need much wood to lay on it to allow the officers and soldiers to move forward.

On the top of the city tower, the rebels took out the stones, bricks and other things prepared in advance and threw them frantically towards the city.

The small county town of Fenyi was besieged on three sides by 3,000 officers and troops, and the two sides fell into a bloody battle as soon as the war began.

At this time, there was no need for the commander to shout frantically to command, and the people on both sides were red-eyed.

Although the rebels were from a group of peasants, they already had basic combat effectiveness after a short month of training.

Coupled with the victory in last night's battle, the morale of the rebels was unprecedentedly high, and they felt that the officials and soldiers of the imperial court were nothing more than that.

They picked up the spears in their hands and stabbed them frantically under the city wall, and as soon as the spears went down, there was a rain of blood.

All of a sudden, there was a river of blood up and down the city wall, and the corpses under the city wall fell down one after another, and in a short time the moat that was less than a foot deep was almost filled.

At the cost of a few hundred killed, the officers and soldiers finally climbed the city walls.

The first one to climb the city wall of Fenyi was the commander of Tongzhi Zhang Zhongxing.

Zhang Zhong exercised a sixty-pound long knife, the long knife body is eight feet two inches long, and a knife can directly stop people and split them in half.

Zhang Zhongxing climbed the city wall and directly killed six soldiers of the righteous army, and for a while, the soldiers of the righteous army were afraid of their bravery, and no one dared to approach.

When the officers and soldiers behind him saw that the general was so powerful, they were immediately encouraged, and in a short time seven officers and soldiers from the city wall followed.

Seeing that Zhang Zhongxing had already led people to rush to the city wall, Xie Xuelong and a group of officials who were watching the battle behind were greatly demoralized.

"General Zhang Shenwu, Weizheng, quickly beat the drum, the whole army will attack the east gate!"

"Yes, sir!"

Qiu Shangyi called the herald and ordered the drumming to march, and the more than 3,000 villagers behind also began to move frequently, preparing to attack the city with all their might.

In the era of cold weapons, as long as there is a gap in the siege battle, there will be a steady stream of troops behind the city wall to storm the city wall.

At this time, Mo Qian, who was commanding the battle in the city tower, was also shocked to see that the official army had actually killed the city wall so quickly.

Cao Guoqi, who was beside him, saw that Zhang Zhongxing was carrying a blood-stained broadsword, and killed more than ten members of the righteous army in three strokes and five divisions, and immediately said to Mo Qian: "Lord, go down to the city quickly!" ”

Unexpectedly, Mo Qian shook off his hand and said: "What are you afraid of, the city has not been broken yet, send the order down, defend the city with all your might, and tie the official army firmly under the city." ”

Mo Qian is waiting, he is waiting for all the troops of the official army to be used to attack the city, and when the time comes, the defense behind the official army will be empty.

Last night, he sent Peng Jin, Hong Yi, and two people to lead a thousand troops to take a boat from the south of Fairy Lake to the rear of the official army.

However, the general of the official army who attacked on the city wall had good force, and this person must be killed, otherwise before Peng Jinhong and Yi Jiu arrived at the combat position, Fenyi City would be breached.

He shouted, "Where is General Lu? ”

Lu Zhao, who was fighting the city wall, heard Mo Qian calling him, and ran over with a blood-stained waist knife.

"Lord!"

"Kill this man quickly! The order goes down, and if you kill this general, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be five hundred taels of silver! ”

Lu Zhao turned his head to look at Zhang Zhongxing, who was on the city wall, and happened to see him slash his brothers to death.

"Yes!"

"Come on, follow me!"

Lu Zhao ordered twenty of his own personal soldiers, these twenty people were all brought by him from Wentang Town, and they grew up together since they were children, and they practiced martial arts with their masters.

Twenty-one people quickly rushed towards Zhang Zhongxing with weapons, and after a while, Zhang Zhongxing and several officers and soldiers around him were surrounded.

At this time, Zhang Zhongxing had already protected a small area on the city wall, and the ladders behind him and the officers and soldiers were constantly climbing up.

"Brothers, kill!"

Lu Zhao took the lead in attacking, and the three-foot-two-inch long waist knife in his hand killed three officers and soldiers in an instant.

The other twenty men worked together, and in a short time they wiped out all the soldiers on the city wall.

Zhang Zhongxing saw that there was such a good hand among the thieves, and he suddenly didn't dare to be careless.

He tore a corner from his clothes and wrapped it around the palm of his hand to prevent the blood from slipping on his hand.

"I can't imagine that there are also strong martial arts men among the anti-thieves, let Grandpa Zhang take a look at the ability of your group of anti-thieves, and have the ability to let the horses come!"

Saying that, Zhang Zhongxing also beckoned to Lu Zhao and the others.

Such a naked provocation instantly ignited everyone's anger.

"Brothers, the lord has an order, behead this enemy general, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be five hundred taels of silver!"

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and when the twenty good hands heard such a big reward, they were not calm in an instant.

One of the soldiers rushed over with the knife in his hand, but he didn't expect to be killed with a knife before he could reach the enemy general, and his head was cut off.

The rest of the crowd couldn't help but be shocked when they saw it!

"General, what should I do?"

"What are you afraid of, he doesn't have three heads and six arms, let's go up with twenty of us!"

The general personally took the lead, and the rest of the soldiers naturally did not dare to retreat.

Twenty people carried the waist knives in their hands and killed Zhang Zhongxing, some attacked the head, some attacked the chest, and some attacked the crotch of the pants.

Zhang Zhongxing was not afraid at all, the long knife in his hand was impenetrable, and he killed the four soldiers around Lu Zhao in just two moves.

When Lu Zhao saw that Zhang Zhongxing was so brave, he couldn't help but start beating the drum in his heart.

"This person's martial arts are so superb, I'm afraid that my twenty brothers can't take him, so they need to outwit him!"

Lu Zhao called a personal soldier next to him and said, "Sanwa, go get your bow and shoot the general!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Sanwa went to get a bow, and Lu Zhao called thirty more people to besiege Zhang Zhongxing.

Zhang Zhongxing saw that there were so many thieves, and hurriedly waved the long knife weighing fifty catties in his hand, trying to drive them away with the knife, so as to buy time for the soldiers behind him to enter the city.

But at this critical moment, a sharp arrow suddenly flew in, and an arrow hit Zhang Zhongxing's right arm, and this time Zhang Zhongxing's arm instantly lost his strength, and the long knife was almost unstable.

Lu Zhao and his soldiers saw that they could not miss the opportunity, and instantly rushed up, almost chopping Zhang Zhongxing into meat sauce.

Lu Zhao personally cut off Zhang Zhongxing's head, and then raised it high to demonstrate to the officers and soldiers outside the city.

The second-rank military officer of the imperial court was killed, and the officers and soldiers were stunned.

"General Zhang is dead, General Zhang is dead!" The officers and soldiers shouted as they looked at the heads on the city walls.

At this time, the rebels on the city wall also worked together to kill all the officers and soldiers who attacked the city wall, and instantly consolidated the city defense.

Xie Xuelong, who was watching the battle under the city, couldn't help but be surprised when he saw Zhang Zhongxing's head being cut off.

Zhang Zhongxing's bravery is well known in the army, and he is a general in the army, and if he is killed, it will be a devastating blow to the morale of the officers and soldiers.

He immediately ordered the soldiers who were going to attack the city to withdraw immediately.

But at this time, the three thousand Xiangyong had all been sent out, and they were waiting under the city to attack the city, and it was not a matter of time and a half to withdraw if they wanted to withdraw.

"Mingjin is reluctant!" Xie Xuelong shouted loudly.

At this moment, suddenly there was a shout of killing from behind the officers and soldiers.

Xie Xuelong, who was at the back of the camp, and a group of officials looked back, only to see that a fire had broken out in the camp at some point, and the shouts of killing in the camp shook the sky.

"Not good, grain and grass!"

This is the first answer that comes to everyone's mind.

The thieves actually sent a detachment to the rear of the officers and soldiers to attack the camp, and burned the army's heavy grain and grass.

At this time, the officers and soldiers who were fighting in the front also saw the thick smoke in the direction of the main camp.

"The camp is on fire, the camp is on fire!"

For a while, the officers and soldiers were panicked, because the camp stored half a year's military rations for the army, and now that the thieves have burned, won't they have to go hungry to fight in the future?

At this time, Xie Xuelong and a cadre of officials were also taken aback, they never expected that the thieves not only used the killing of Tian Younian to provoke the official army to attack the city, but even ambushed a team in the rear of the army in advance, and when the army entered the scorching situation, they suddenly killed and burned the army's heavy grain and grass.

This battle has basically been lost so far.

Xie Xuelong looked up to the sky and sighed.

"God bless me!"

At this time, there were shouts of killing from the rear of the army, and I saw a group of troops under the banner of anti-thieves rushing over.

In front of the anti-thief army were the thousands of people who were requisitioned from Nanchang Mansion.

These people did not have the slightest combat power, and they were defeated as soon as they encountered the rebels in the camp, and they did not even have the most basic resistance.

The people scattered and fled, and the general of the rebel army, Peng Jinhong Yijiu, did not chase blindly, but directly led a thousand rebel soldiers to go straight to the ass of the official army and kill him.

Before leaving, the lord had already ordered that as long as they entered the camp of the officers and soldiers at the most anxious time of the siege, and burned the grain and grass of the officers and soldiers, the battle would be won.

Sure enough, the fire in the camp of the officers and soldiers was together, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was in chaos.

At this time, the two of them led thousands of men and horses, raised more flags and rushed over, and completely destroyed the military spirit of the officers and soldiers at once.

"Run, the thieves are coming, run!"

I don't know who shouted this in the army now, and suddenly everyone in the camp of officers and soldiers began to flee.

The first to flee were the villagers belonging to the rear army, who ran the fastest, and the more than 3,000 people fled in less than a quarter of an hour.

The remaining more than 1,000 officers and soldiers who were besieging the city saw that half of the army had run away, and their fighting spirit was immediately broken, and they didn't care about attacking the city or not, so they ran away.

Mo Qian saw that the official camp was in chaos, and said to Lu Zhao beside him: "Open the city gate immediately, and the whole army will attack!" ”