Outside the dark city, the summer insects chirp from time to time, all kinds of strange sounds resound, early summer is the period of reproduction of all things, even this dark night is full of vitality.

But all this can't hide the troubled mood of Fan Yong, Gao Qian, Zhang Hui and others, who are now lying in this barren grass beach outside the city, patiently waiting for news in the city.

Even in the summer, the mosquitoes pounced on the bodies of the rebel soldiers, biting out painful and itchy red envelopes without making any sound, showing the perseverance of these rebel soldiers.

Since Zhang Wu Daze's departure, Fan Yong's three brothers have not been in a good mood, and the reason for his bad mood is Wang Ze. Fan Yong felt that he had treated Wang Ze sincerely, showed all his strength to Wang Ze, and hoped that the two sides would form an offensive and defensive alliance to attack Zhangwu County City together.

It was easy to wait for Lao Liang to bring a letter to him, saying that most of the officers and troops in Zhangwu County had been transferred, and when he was about to organize men and horses to attack, Wang Ze was reluctant to send troops under the pretext that it might be a 'yin' plot of the official army, and wanted to prevent himself from leading the army to attack Zhangwu County.

Attacking Zhangwu County has been his plan for many years, he has not had a good opportunity in the city for so many years, and now he has finally waited for such a good opportunity, how can he not attack, and the news from Lao Liang makes him have to be moved.

In the end, Wang Ze finally did not agree to attack Zhangwu County with him, Wang Ze's choice made Fan Yong very disappointed, but he believed that even without Wang Ze's help, he would definitely be able to successfully defeat Zhangwu County by leading more than 10,000 people this time.

At that time, he and others will use Zhangwu County as a base to attack Yingzhou and Gaoyang County, these two places are also the distribution places of Henan immigrants in those years, and the soldiers in Fan Yong's army have relatives in these places, so Zhangwu Yijun also has a good mass base in these two places.

Today, near Hai, Fan Yongcai led the righteous army to this depression more than two miles outside the city, where a large area of barren grass beach was formed because of the low-lying terrain, and the barren grass was enough to be a person high, but it was also a good hiding place.

Forcibly endured the mosquito bites in the grass, and after waiting for an hour, he found that the fire on the city tower shook three times, Fan Yong knew that this must have been the success of Lao Liang and others, so under the command of him, Gao Qian and Zhang Hui, tens of thousands of righteous troops quietly went to the city 'gate' to lurk over.

When there were still more than 100 meters away from the city gate, I heard a loud shout: "Open--city--'gate'--na······" City Gate, Karma ····· It slowly opened.

Fan Yong scolded in a low voice, he didn't know what kind of madness Lao Liang was making, if he didn't shout, wouldn't he be able to better deal with the county soldiers in the city?

But at this time, it was too late to say anything, Fan Yong took the lead in rushing to the city with a horizontal knife in his hand, Gao Qian and Zhang Hui followed, and then the rebels were 'chaotic' and crowded towards the city 'gate', just like some people who listened to rumors and went to the supermarket to buy them.

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall in other directions of the city had already noticed that something was wrong on this side, so they kept sending signals to gather their comrades, and the sound of troops marching could already be heard in the distant streets.

Fan Yong rushed for more than 100 meters and suddenly found that something was wrong, according to the prior information, the defenders in the city of Zhangwu County are now at most more than a thousand people, so in addition to the soldiers on the surrounding city walls, there are at most three or four hundred people in the city.

It is not enough for such a small number of people to guard the county guards, arsenals, and grain depots, and how can so many people rush over, and now just listening to the footsteps of soldiers rushing over on the streets of the city, it is impossible for one or two thousand people to have such a big movement.

Immediately after that, Fan Yong heard heavier footsteps in the city, and then saw a team of troops dressed in iron armor appear on the street in the distance, if Wang Ze was there, he would definitely be surprised to find that the army in front of him was so similar to his own iron armored battalion.

There are three or four hundred ironclad soldiers in front of them, but the weapons they are holding are not the horse-chopping swords equipped by Wang Ze's ironclad army, each of these soldiers in front of them is holding a long spear and axe, the tip of the spear is more than a foot long, and the blade of the axe is one and a half feet long.

Until now, even a fool knew that he had been tricked, and seeing that the situation was not good, Fan Yong shouted to the rebel soldiers behind him: "Trick!" Get out of town, everyone! ”

However, tens of thousands of Zhang Wu's righteous army shouted and rushed into the county city, where was it so easy to turn around, and when the team behind knew that the plan was running out, the righteous army in the city was already fighting with the Qi army in desperation.

This 'engagement' battle showed the strong combat effectiveness of the Qi army's spear and axe army, seeing that their own soldiers were killed under the Qi army's swords and axes, Fan Yong and the three of them were really angry, but what could they do!

Under the command of the officers, they took more than 300 iron axes and ironclad soldiers as the vanguard, followed by halberd warriors, pikemen, and crossbowmen, and these soldiers had already turned into a tight killing machine in the battles on the frontier.

Now this machine has started to move against the Zhang Wu Righteous Army, indifferently harvesting a large area of life and blood, and of course, their own military exploits.

After thousands of dead and wounded, the rebels who rushed into the city finally escaped, of course, Fan Yong of the palace also escaped, as soon as he went out of the city 'gate', he saw Lao Liang's face covered with blood and was trampled under Gao Zong's feet, and it seemed that he was beaten not lightly.

Gao Qian escaped a moment earlier than Fan Yong, and as soon as he got out of the city, he saw Lao Liang, who was squeezed out of the crowd, standing there like a stupid person, Gao Qian suddenly became angry, if it wasn't for this guy to send a letter to himself and others, how could he be so big, and suddenly came up with a punch and kick, Lao Liang was still so stupid and didn't fight back.

Fan Yong immediately stepped forward to stop Gao Zong's beating, he said: "Second brother, let's go quickly, Lao Liang must have been fooled, otherwise it would be impossible to deceive us!" ”

Seeing that Fan Yong exonerated Lao Liang, Gao Qian, who had always been unable to tolerate sand in his eyes, said unconvinced: "Even if he is fooled, he can't wash away his crimes, and today we have lost thousands of brothers!" ”

Before Gao Qiang's words fell, he heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves spread far away in this night, and Gao Qian said happily: "Big brother, it must be Xiahou who led the army to save us!" He's got thousands of cavalry! ”

Fan Yong was also pleasantly surprised: "I really didn't misread Xiahou, I didn't expect him to come to support us, if only we had listened to him earlier, so that we wouldn't have to kill and injure so many brothers!" ”

As the horses approached, there was a scream of the killing of the rebel soldiers in the distance, and Zhang Hui's face suddenly changed greatly: "Big brother, second brother, this is not Xiahou's cavalry, this is still the cavalry of the Qi army, there must be thousands of people listening to the voice!" ”

Fan Yong, who was still smiling, suddenly had a bitter face, and he said calmly: "The official army really set a big trap, I can't imagine that I have been cautious all my life and in the end I will still be carried away by 'desire', and I don't even see such a simple trap!" ”

"Why did the eldest brother say that, it's not like I haven't seen it!" Gao Qian looked worried, but he still comforted Fan Yong, "We still have more than 8,000 brothers, and there are only 1,000 cavalry in the official army, so we can always escape some of them!" ”

Fan Yong smiled bitterly: "Zhangwu Daze is so close to Zhangwu County, if we are not solved, how dare the government transfer Zhangwu County's army with confidence, I'm afraid that the county soldiers who were transferred away by Dayday today would have already been preparing to ambush us halfway!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard neat footsteps from another direction in the distance, it seemed that these Qi troops couldn't wait, and they were in a hurry to grab military merits.

At this time, the clouds gradually dispersed, and the moonlight began to shine on the ground again, faintly you can see the costumes of all parties, on the left is more than a thousand cavalry, on the right and in front is thousands of Qi troops, and the Qi army in the county town behind is also pouring out from the city gate, and the Zhang Wu Yi army has been surrounded.

At this time, one of the soldiers who came out of the direction of the city stood up, and he shouted at the rebels: "Haha, Lao Liang, your wife and children were all 'killed' by me back then, and you actually took refuge in Zhangwu Daze and the thieves with the intention of revenge, you didn't think that we would know about it a long time ago, your calculations are not all in vain!" ”

This person is the leader of the county soldiers left behind in the city--- County Sima, and he is also a member of the Haoqiang Zong clan of Zhangwu County.

At this time, Lao Liang, who had been stunned, suddenly returned to his soul, he 'drawn' the horizontal knife on his waist, and rushed towards Jun Sima with both hands raised, trying to hack him to death with a knife to avenge his wife and children.

But under the protection of so many soldiers, Lao Liang's efforts were doomed to failure, and after listening to the sound of a pivot, Lao Liang was instantly 'shot' into a hedgehog, but Lao Liang still glared angrily, stood there with a knife supporting his body, and never fell down even when he died.

Looking at Lao Liang's tragic situation, Fan Yong's tears flowed out, Lao Liang and he have known each other for nearly ten years, although he doesn't know himself, he is also a rare friend, and he can't imagine that he will die tragically before he gets revenge.

Thinking of the suffering, Fan Yong was also a little depressed, and he said to Gao Qian and Zhang Hui: "Brothers, I am all to blame for today's mistakes, and I hope we will continue to be brothers in the next life!" ”

However, Gao Qiang's fighting spirit did not decrease, and he said loudly: "Big brother, even if we die, we will drag a few officials and soldiers to hell, and if we die, we can't die in vain!" ”

Zhang Hui wiped the horizontal knife in his hand, and then echoed loudly: "Fight bravely to kill the enemy, only death!" After hearing this, the rebel soldiers next to him also shouted, "Fight bravely to kill the enemy, only death!" "The 'waves' and 'tides' swept the entire battlefield, making the Qi army can't help but change its 'color'.

So the Qi army quickly began to encircle, and the rebels could not continue to shout, if they were to boost their morale, although the Qi army could win at that time, but the casualties were too great and they would still be reprimanded by the superiors.

Under the high fighting spirit, the soldiers on both sides quickly became entangled, but the cavalry of the Qi army was useless, because the soldiers on both sides were entangled together, and they could not see clearly at night, and if the cavalry attacked, they would hurt their own soldiers.

However, although the two sides fought fiercely on the battlefield, Lao Liang's body had been standing there, and no one dared to touch it.

As the battle continued, under the siege of nearly 6,000 Qi troops, the number of Zhang Wuyi's army gradually decreased from the original more than 8,000 people, and only more than 5,000 remained, and of course, the Qi army also killed more than 1,000 people.

Seeing that the righteous army was about to be overwhelmed by the siege of the Qi army, Fan Yong felt extremely desperate, only to hear another rumbling horse's hooves in the distance, and a voice shouted: "Leaders, don't panic, I'm here to save you!" ”

Hearing this familiar and unfamiliar voice, Zhang Hui couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "Big brother, this time it's really Xiahou's cavalry who came to save us!" ”