The dust and ashes were quickly blown away by the wind, and Li Jin's figure suddenly appeared next to the team officer, and it was this guard commander who smashed the stone bullet at the critical moment to save his life!

The frightened team officer was grateful, and was about to kneel down to thank him, Li Jin stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "You don't have to say anything, remember your duty, it's enough for me to guard this section of the city wall!"

The sergeants next to him looked at it with excitement in their eyes.

Li Jin, as the supreme commander of the guard, can sit in the center and give orders, but he resolutely chose to command the battle at the forefront and completely won the trust and admiration of the soldiers.

Boom! Boom!

Below the city walls, all the catapults fired at full speed, throwing stone bullets as fast as they could, and as the enemy siege engines approached, the stone bullets were replaced by more lethal fire oil bombs.

I saw that in the hazy sky, dazzling lines of fire were drawn in an instant, and huge fireballs dragged the black tail smoke, whistling and smashing down in the Chu army's car array!

The fire oil bomb is a sharp weapon used to deal with the enemy's siege equipment, it is made of a special leather bag, which stores extremely flammable fire oil, ignited and thrown out with a catapult, smashed into the enemy's chariot or the ground, will immediately explode to form a sea of fire, which cannot be extinguished with water.

Bang!

The catapults and siege engines of the Chu army were suddenly encircled by flames, and one catapult was hit by a fire oil bomb. Suddenly a raging flame ignited, and it collapsed in an instant, knocking down more than a dozen soldiers next to him.

More soldiers were hit by the flying fire. They were on fire, wailing and rolling to the ground to extinguish them. A disgusting scorching smell permeated the air.

In just the first wave of attacks, at least a dozen catapults and siege engines were burned, and hundreds of Chu soldiers were burned in the fire!

War has always been cruel and merciless.

However, the guards had fire and oil bombs, and so did the Chu army, whose catapults approached a sufficient distance. He immediately switched to a fire bomb to return fire.

Fireballs bombarded the inside and outside of the city wall violently, turning the southern city wall into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye, and many of the guards were unfortunately burned by the flames from the explosion of the oil bombs, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.

It's just that the guards have been prepared for this for a long time. The auxiliaries guarding the rear immediately rushed forward with sandbags, and they used sand to extinguish the flames, while rescuing wounded comrades and damaged equipment.

The Chu army took advantage of this opportunity to push dozens of siege vehicles to the city wall at the fastest speed.

These tall and sturdy war machines were arguably the key to the siege, and the soldiers of the Chu army could hide behind a solid shield wall, and once they were close to the wall, they could easily climb up and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

There were seven or eight siege engines advancing the fastest, and it was only a hundred paces away from the city walls.

"Fire Talisman Attack!"

Dozens of samurai immediately poked out from the battlements of the city wall, all of them holding yellow rune paper in their hands, and released them at the approaching siege vehicles.

Whew, whew!

Huge fireballs appeared out of thin air, whistling forward. Hit the siege engine with a snap of your fingers.

Each siege engine was hit by five or six fire balls, and was immediately blown to pieces of wood and killed and wounded, although the flames released by the talisman were not as powerful as the fire oil bombs, but the advantage of accurate hits and numbers made the attack still effective.

Several siege engines halted their advance, some collapsed on the spot, and the soldiers hiding in the vehicles suffered heavy casualties, while others continued some distance, but were bombarded by more fire charms. They turned into huge fires.

Many soldiers who were on fire desperately jumped out of the burning frame to escape, and then they were crushed to the ground by the collapsed wood, and the sound of the explosion of the fire, the cracking of the wooden frame, and the sound of wailing and screaming were intertwined, making people tremble when they heard it.

In the Chinese army camp behind the Chu army, Wei Yue put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and his expression was extremely gloomy.

He led a group of his generals to stand on a makeshift observation platform, observing the battle situation ahead through a clairvoyant mirror, and giving orders according to the battle situation.

"Didn't you say that most of the fire talismans of the Yan army were burned by our people? how do you see that the number they have is very sufficient, and the power of the fire talisman is much greater than that of ordinary ones, can anyone tell me what's going on?"

The Flying Tiger Commander said in a deep voice, the flames jumping in the tiger's eyes revealing the anger in his heart.

Knowing that he was invincible, many of Wei Yue's arrangements were arranged based on the information he had obtained before, judging from the news transmitted back from the city, the Lingyang City Guards should be very short of fire talismans, but he saw that the warriors of the guard army released hundreds of fire talismans in one breath without the slightest softness, where it seemed that there was little inventory.

The officer next to him, who was in charge of internal security espionage, was suddenly sweating profusely, and he didn't dare to take a breath when he lowered his head.

Wei Yue didn't immediately pour out his anger on their heads, and said lightly: "Pass my order, send all the siege vehicles that have been built, and order the Chengxia army to attack with all their strength at any cost, all of you will go down to supervise the battle and suppress the battle for me, and those who dare to retreat in fear of the battle will be killed!"

In the current situation, attacking with all his strength is equivalent to sending him to death with all his strength, but even the generals of the Chengxia Kingdom next to him did not dare to resist, because they knew very well that Wei Yue would definitely not mind using military law to kill the disobedient.

After the generals retreated, Gongsun Hong, the military advisor who had been standing next to Wei Yue, said slowly: "Master Hou, it seems that the situation in Lingyang City is more complicated than we expected, looking at their current defensive ability, it is useless to press all the 50,000 Chengxia troops before and after, if the Chengxia army is exhausted, I am afraid it will be difficult for you to explain after you go back, and besides, do you really want to take Lingyang at any cost?"

This time, the 50,000 Chengxia army that followed the Flying Tiger Legion to the north to conquer Lingyang can be said to be most of the strength of the Chengxia vassal states, if they are used as cannon fodder under the Lingyang city wall, the whole army will be annihilated, no matter how incompetent and cowardly the Chengxia King is, he will not swallow his breath, otherwise how can he explain to his subjects.

At that time, the Great Chu Emperor would not ignore the accusations of King Cheng Xia, and those forces in the court who opposed Wei Yue took the opportunity to make waves, which was something that Gongsun Hong was deeply worried about.

There is also the Flying Tiger Legion is the foundation of Wei Yue's foothold in Great Chu, if he pays a heavy price in order to capture Lingyang, it will definitely be worth the loss, and it is very likely that he will be driven by other legions to pick peaches.

Wei Yue was not angry at Gongsun Hong's tactful persuasion and even criticism, he smiled bitterly: "Military advisor, I know what you said, but I have to send it when I am ready to fly, you also know that I have always supported the three princes in the court, and now the call for the seven sons to win the heir is getting higher and higher, if the Flying Tiger Legion does not come out with decent battle medals, what do you say the three princes rely on to overpower others?"

Gongsun Hong was silent.

The position of the crown prince of the Great Chu Dynasty has been vacant, His Majesty is in the prime of life, and he has already put down his words and said that the position depends on the performance of the princes, and the third prince is not only Wei Yue's nephew, but also supports the Flying Tiger Legion, and the two are inseparable in the eyes of others.

This situation is almost insoluble, Wei Yue took the initiative to provoke the battle of the Northern Expedition, and has been carefully preparing for this for several years, if he can't achieve his goal, he will definitely not be willing to stop.

Becoming a king or defeating a king, from the moment he embarked on the journey, in fact, Wei Yue was already advancing and retreating!

Seeing that his most trusted subordinates were worried about themselves, Wei Yue was also a little unbearable in his heart, and said: "But what you said is also reasonable, we can't let the Chengxia army really run out of blood, I will send the Killing Battalion to help, once the situation is opened, immediately use the main force to capture Lingyang in one fell swoop!"

The Slaughter Battalion is the famous Dead Soldier Forward Battalion of the Flying Tiger Legion, with 3,000 soldiers in the battalion, most of whom are death row prisoners, outlaws, soldiers who have violated military law and even disciples of the sect who have been degraded by the sect.

Normally, the Killing Blade Battalion is only used as a breaking blade when the enemy and us are in a stalemate, and Wei Yue is now sending the Killing Blade Battalion, in addition to not allowing the Cheng Xia army to wear and tear too much, he also has the idea of a quick victory.

A protracted battle of attack and defense of the fortress was by no means what Wei Yue was willing to see.

His gaze couldn't help but return to the front line, where the battle was entering a fierce ** stage!

"Attack, attack with all your might!"

"Those who retreat will be killed, and the first person to kill the city wall will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver!"

The battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, and tens of thousands of Chengxia soldiers carried cloud ladders, stepped over the burning flames and the corpses of their comrades, and braved the rain of arrows, stones, and oil bombs to launch a tidal attack on the city wall.

Under the fire talisman of the guards and warriors, none of the siege vehicles could successfully stick to the side of the city wall, and the soldiers only desperately climbed up with the help of ladders, and they were knocked to the ground halfway through the climb.

Suddenly, dozens of black-armored warriors jumped high from the crowd and swept to the city wall with the help of cloud ladders, waving their swords in their hands, like a violent whirlwind sweeping across the land, and those who stood in their way were invincible, and immediately created a bloody storm among the defenders!

There is no doubt that they are all masters and powerhouses in the Chengxia army, intending to use surprise attacks to tear apart the defense line of the guards, but how could the guards not be prepared, and hundreds of elite warriors immediately surrounded and killed.

A black-armored warrior of the Chu army happened to jump near Qin Yun, and after he slashed down a guard soldier with a knife in his hand, he launched an attack on Qin Yun without thinking, and the snow-bright blade roared and slashed at Qin Yun's vital point!