In the cave of the city gate, a thousand households of the southern army with scattered beards and blood stains led hundreds of subordinates were moving away the bricks and rough wood that blocked the city gate. After a few days of fierce fighting, the thick and sturdy city gate of Zhangye Gate has long since ceased to exist.

In Beiping City, which was only two or three zhang away, Zhang Yu, the general of the Yan army with a vicious demeanor, shouted and reprimanded, and a group of Yan soldiers hurriedly piled up the masonry and rubble demolished by the surrounding houses towards the city gate hole. The angry shouts and roars of the enemy soldiers faintly reached the ears from the cracks in the masonry, but the city gate hole was a dead end, and the cannon and rockets at the head of the city could not reach it, so it was constantly filled to prevent the enemy from rushing into the city.

With a roar of fighting, dozens of southern soldiers finally rushed to the city along the ladder.

Zhang Yu looked back and saw this situation, and hurriedly led dozens of his subordinates to rush up to the city along the ramp, brandishing weapons and killing these enemy troops.

About an hour later, under the frantic movement of the southern soldiers, the masonry and rubble in the city gate cave were finally dug to a thickness of only a few feet.

Dozens of southern soldiers struggled to lift a piece of wood that was thick above the waist and sharpened in the front, rushed into the city gate hole, and slammed forward.

Under the fierce impact of the overwhelming force, the city wall also buzzed. ”“

The Yan soldiers inside the city gate saw the enemy's fierce impact momentum, and they fled one after another in fear.

Seeing that the city was about to be broken, Qu Neng, the governor of the southern army, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and urgently dispatched Sima of the Chinese army to ask Li Jinglong, the commander of the army, for reinforcements. He is a veteran general in the army, knowing that even if he breaks through the city gate, he still needs to face a hard battle, and his tens of thousands of horses and horses not only suffered heavy casualties under the night battle, but also tired, if you want to grasp the defeat of the thief Zhu Di and Zhu Quan's fighter, you must have Cao Guogong Li Jinglong to send a large army to help, in order to succeed.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan standing on the tower of the city gate, heard the report of his pro-army, saying that the city gate was about to be lost, and immediately rushed down from the city head with a long sword, and ordered a group of soldiers to push up the Saimen knife cart that had been prepared for a long time.

After a group of grizzled Southern sergeants rushed into the city gate with weapons in hand, they saw that on the open ground in front of them, dozens of wooden carts rushed towards them under the impetus of Yan sergeants, and they were suddenly so frightened that their faces were colorless, and they turned around to escape but pushed and shoved by the influx of friendly troops behind them, and they stabbed the Saimen knife carts with countless sharp spears and sharp war knives all over the ground, which was miserable.

Qu Neng saw that the city gate had been opened, and there were knife carts blocking the road in the city, so he immediately ordered with a calm face. The two cannons, driven by a group of southern soldiers, slowly came to the city gate.

Zhu Neng, the general of the Yan army in the city, saw that the enemy's offensive was slowing down a little, and was about to lead his soldiers to carry bricks and stones, and then block the city gate, when he suddenly heard a loud bang in the city gate. Not far in front of him, several Saimen knife carts facing the city gate, together with the Yan soldiers behind them, were torn apart by artillery fire, and broken wood stumps flew all over the sky.

A group of Yan soldiers and colonels in the city were stunned by such a terrifying scene in front of them, and before they came to their senses, a group of southern soldiers swarmed into the city gate cave and killed forward.

On the snowy long street, Zhu Di knew that the army's heart was collapsed in an instant, and he raised the long sword in his hand and shouted angrily: "Go with this king to kill the enemy." With that, his legs slammed into the belly of the sweaty BMW, and he rushed forward.

Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and other Yan army generals saw Zhu Di disregarding life and death like this, and they only felt blood surging in their chests, and they followed quickly with swords and spears in their hands. Seeing that these rebellious leaders and brains were so fearless of death, the fear gradually disappeared, and they danced their weapons with their hands in a fierce rage, and surrounded and killed the southern soldiers who broke into the city gate.

After all, the city gate cave is only more than a zhang wide and narrow, and there are only more than 100 soldiers in the southern army who were able to rush into the city in a hurry, and they suffered heavy casualties in the face of the enemy troops who surrounded and killed them from all directions. Under the strict orders of Qu Neng, the governor of the southern army, thousands of soldiers of the southern army poured towards the city gate, but the city gate was a bottleneck-like narrow terrain, and the troops were difficult to deploy, and they were always at a disadvantage of being outnumbered.

In the midst of the goose feathers and heavy snow, dozens of ladders climbed the city wall, and countless soldiers of the Southern Army attached themselves to the ladders in the dark night, facing the arrows of the defenders overhead, rolling logs and rushing up.

When Zhu Di was about to ride his horse and lead the army to rush and kill, Zhu Neng stretched out his hand and firmly grabbed the reins of the horse, and said categorically: "Your Highness, please watch the battle, and the last general will go to rush and kill." He has been following Zhu Di for a long time, and he knows that His Royal Highness King Yan has always liked not to avoid arrows and stones, and personally leads the army to fight. In case of injury to the enemy's artillery stones, the Yan army in the city must collapse the whole army.

Zhu Di stretched out his hand and pulled out an arrow on the armor on his right shoulder, turned his head and shouted to a Chinese army Sima: "Quickly go to the camp of Brother Quan's army and give him an order, let him lead the army to attack the enemy's flank along the city wall." He knew very well that at this moment it was a 100,000 urgent life and death juncture, not far outside the city, Li Jinglong still had hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, if he couldn't repel Qu Neng's gang of thugs as soon as possible and recapture Zhangye Gate, he couldn't recapture Zhangye Gate when it was dawn, plugged the gap, and when the enemy reinforcements came and stormed the city, the general trend was gone, and he was unable to return to the sky.

Zhu Quan was wearing armor and was pacing back and forth in the tent, and when he heard the order, Sima of the Chinese army told that Zhangyemen had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the two armies were in a bitter battle. At this time, the city was about to be destroyed, and he had to lead the army to rescue, but if these tens of thousands of cavalry advanced rapidly at night when the line of sight was not clear, I was afraid that before I saw the enemy, I would have to collide with each other, trample, and suffer countless casualties. If this is the only one who stays in the city and contains hundreds of thousands of mobile troops of the southern army outside and suffers heavy casualties in the night battle, Li Jinglong can calmly command the large army to besiege Beiping, thinking about this, Huo Ran stood still, turned his head to Jing Jun on the side, Sima Chao ordered: "Order all the troops to assemble, carry a thousand war horses, blindfold them, and all the troops abandon their horses and fight on foot, and follow this king to Zhangye Gate." ”

At the Zhangye Gate, the bloody battle between the two armies continued. A group of southern soldiers with shields in hand and crowded together maintained a tight formation, slowly entering the city through the city gate. With a dense flurry of bowstrings vibrating, countless arrows shot from the strong crossbow in the hands of the Yan soldier on the eaves of the roof in front of the city wall, and smashed into the shield like hail.

The southern army Chino, who was hiding in the shield array, was about to order the two wings of the army to disperse to make room for the friendly troops who entered the city one after another. Rolling wood and stones on the city wall directly above the head, pushed down by the enemy one after another, smashed the brains of the soldiers, broke their hands and feet, and the soldiers who were lucky not to be stoned to death were also frightened, turned around and wanted to retreat into the city gate hole, but could not get down the formation of chaos, one after another to the arrows flying from all directions, and pounced on the ground.

On the hillside of the land half a mile outside the city gate, Qu Neng, the governor of the southern army, was roaring at a Chinese army Sima in front of him and asked: "Zhangye Gate has been taken by the old man, and the marshal refuses to send reinforcements to come?" ”

At this moment, with the sound of rapid footsteps, a Southern army scout rushed to the front, knelt down on one knee and said: "Tens of thousands of enemy troops are attacking along the side of the city wall, and they have reached two miles away. ”

Qu Neng looked at the flickering torches under the city wall in the dark night in the distance, and couldn't help but sink his face and say nothing.

At the head of Beiping City, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, saw that Zhu Quan led the army to attack, and immediately passed down the military order, let Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng lead the army to storm the city gate passage, and after repelling the enemy army, he went out of the city to join Zhu Quan.

The two artillery pieces that were originally placed at the head of the city and bombarded the southern army condescendingly finally moved to the city and aimed at the city gate hole with great effort from a group of sergeants.

With two thunderous cannon shots in succession, a group of unavoidable southern soldiers in the city gate cave flew flesh and blood. Armed with a spear, Zhang Yu led a group of Yan soldiers to rush into the passage and engage in a fierce battle with the enemy.

Under the city wall of Beiping is half a mile away from the Zhangye Gate, Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, knows that even if Zhu Laosi has the intention to help, there are enemy troops outside the city gate, and he is afraid that he may not be able to rush out many people in a hurry, so he immediately ordered the army to suspend its advance, and drove the thousands of blindfolded war horses to rush forward to impact the enemy formation not far away.

The soldiers gathered the torches in their hands to the tail of the war horse and burned them under the order of thousands and hundreds of households.

The blindfolded horses were frightened by the flames, and they screamed and rushed away in the dark night, rushing away like a tide.

In the dark night where you can't see your fingers, countless arrows and guns knocked down the galloping horses, but although these beasts are docile on weekdays, they are frightened and run wildly, and their momentum is as unstoppable as the tide of rage. Many war horses were still desperate to knock down the Lupan obstacle set up by the southern army after being hit by several arrows, and rushed forward. Two or three hundred surviving war horses rose up and galloped down with four hooves and finally rushed into the formation of the southern army, which aroused a miserable cry when they landed, and in the dark night, I don't know how many soldiers of the southern army did not react, and they were killed under the wild hooves of the fierce horses.

The formation of the southern army was inevitably scattered under the shaking heart, and Zhang Yu, who was covered in blood, led more than 100 Yan soldiers and soldiers under his command to finally forcibly attack the city and rush into the ranks of the southern army, rushing left and right, unstoppable.

Sheng Yong, who was standing beside Qu Neng, saw Zhu Quan leading the army to attack, and the Yan army came out of the city gate, turned to Qu Neng and said in a deep voice: "The general refuses to send reinforcements, and in the foolish opinion of the last general, I am afraid that it will be difficult to succeed tonight......

"Command all the armies, fight and retreat." Qu Neng looked at the Yan army that kept killing from the city gate in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh and pass down the military order. Seeing the night sky under the light of the torches and the heavy snow of goose feathers, he screamed in his heart: The hateful marshal refused to send troops to help, and our army took Zhangyemen under today's bloody battle, but it was in vain.

Sheng Yong, who was standing on one side, secretly thought to himself in his heart: If the marshal dispatches tens of thousands of troops to help, even if he can't attack the city tonight, he will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the tens of thousands of Yan cavalry outside the city. He had already guessed that the tens of thousands of horses that were commanded by Zhu Quan at this time and attacked and killed at night must be the Yanshan guard cavalry who refused to retreat into the city.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who stood at the head of Beiping City, strictly forbade the enemy army in the night to be defeated or chaotic, and remembered that Li Jinglong's army outside the city was not far away, and immediately ordered Zhang Yu to lead the army back to the city.

In the dark night, Zhu Quan knew the stakes, and immediately issued a military order to stop the pursuit.

When Zhang Yu led the army to collect the captured southern soldiers outside the city, the Yan soldiers in the city began another busy work under the leadership of Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and others.

Under the heavy snow in the middle of the night, the city gate tower was unconsciously covered with a layer of white snow on the broken city wall bombarded by the artillery fire of the Southern Army.

Zhu Quan and Zhu Di walked on the top of the city, and saw the Yan soldiers carrying a water tank full of water, and the bucket came to the city, splashing the water that had been prepared during the day on the city wall.

In the biting cold wind, the water stains on the city wall did not flow far before gradually solidifying, Zhu Quan reached out and touched the thin ice layer on the city wall, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Dao Yan, who was wearing a black monk's robe, saw that the enemy army was temporarily retreating at this time, and walked slowly to the head of the city, seeing the busy scene of the Yan soldiers, he smiled and said: "It is snowing heavily tonight, it is really His Royal Highness Tianzhu, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this Beiping City will be solid tomorrow." Between his tongue and tongue, a burst of white vapor was fleeting in the cold wind.

Zhu Quan's feet slipped the next step, and there was a nauseating smell of blood in his nose, and he couldn't help but be a little afraid, and secretly thought to himself in his heart: If Li Jinglong disregards casualties tonight, he emphasizes tens of thousands of troops to reinforce Qu Neng. If this heavy snow falls a few days later, the army in the city will drag this wheel battle with heavy casualties and demoralization, I am afraid that Zhu Laosi and I will not be able to laugh.

After a night of heavy snowfall, the weather suddenly turned to bitter cold, and later, after the well water was pumped from the well, it condensed into ice before it could be lifted up the city wall. A group of Yan soldiers had no choice but to burn the fire and melt it, and repeatedly splashed it on the city wall while the well water was not condensed.

At dawn on the second day, the wilderness outside Beiping was covered with a thick layer of snow. Looking at it from afar, the tall city wall of Beiping seems to be vaguely integrated with the snow-white between heaven and earth.

The heavy snow fell all night, but it finally stopped, and Zhu Quan had already led his army back to the camp under the city wall at this time. I saw him slowly come to the base of the wall, stretched out his hand and pulled out a three-foot long sword and slashed it hard. The sharp blade slashed on the thick ice on the city wall, shaking his arm slightly numb, but only leaving an insignificant white mark on the city wall, and the anxiety of the soldiers coming to the city for several days disappeared for a while, because he knew in his heart that at this time, Beiping not only became an unbreakable fortified city because of the heavy snowfall, but also outnumbered and outnumbered, and the unfavorable situation in which his side had always been passively beaten would gradually reverse because of this heavy snowfall.

The deafening cannon sound sounded again, Wu Jie, Marquis of Anlu, Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, Geng Xuan, the governor of the capital, was captured by the general, and Li Jinglong, the prince of Cao Guo, commanded the army to attack again.

The artillery fire of the Southern Army was still fierce and abnormal compared to the previous days, but the effect of the artillery bombardment on the ice-covered city wall was not as good as before.

Dozens of ladders climbed the city wall again, and the soldiers of the Southern Army bravely rose in the biting cold wind.

The siege ladders were easily pushed down by the Yan soldiers guarding the city, and the southern soldiers attached to them let out a tragic exclamation and fell off the city. It turned out that after repeatedly splashing water into ice last night, Beiping City at this time has become a veritable "ice city", the bricks and stones of the city wall are covered with solid iron and stone, and the ice that does not leave your hands is slippery, and even if the end of the ladder is on the city wall, it also pushes the Yan soldiers to the ground effortlessly.