Chapter 135: Falling Short

Qu Neng rushed back quickly in the first few waves, and four hundred people went up, and after a while, he lost a quarter of his staff.

And Qu Neng's request was to withdraw after a quarter of the reduction, which made Liu Jiang above look like the officers and soldiers could not withstand the heavy casualties.

By the time the fifth wave went up, the feathered arrows at the head of the city were obviously shooting at a slow pace.

There was a longer gap between the two cannons.

Several of the besiegers climbed to the top of the city, and then they were stabbed to death by the southern army and thrown under the city.

Of course, such a situation occurs everywhere in Beiping City, and there are many officials and soldiers who go to the city, but they will still be defeated in the end.

Soon the seventh wave will come.

This is the most elite that Qu Neng has prepared.

But he looked at the situation and immediately said, "Let Qi Baihu's team go first, you can wait a little longer."

Because he found that the resistance of the city head was still a little fierce, he simply consumed another wave.

In this way, the original seventh wave has become the eighth wave.

There were only ten waves in his hands, only three remaining, and the other wave was all archers.

Qu Neng immediately called his son Qu Yu: "Quick, go and report to the commander, our army is about to capture Changyi Gate, please send reinforcements to support the commander."

Qu Neng deliberately let his son go, not wanting his son to go to the battlefield.

Qu Yu took the order and left.

The generals are incredible, this doesn't look like it's going to be defeated?

"Go, go up, go up." Qu Neng rushed forward with the last two waves and a wave of four hundred archers.

By the time the previous wave retreated, the eighth wave of true elites had already moved forward quickly.

These four hundred men were all strong men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five, and had participated in numerous battles.

Because he was too young, he probably didn't even participate in the war.

They carried a total of ten new ladders, half of them with shields.

The black-pressed crowd rushed forward.

Liu Jiang at the head of the city immediately felt that this southern army was completely different from the previous one, because almost half of this southern army was holding shields.

"Special mother, the one who comes is not good, quickly, call people, call reinforcements." Liu Jiang is also a good general, although he was fooled by Sheng Yong in front, he immediately saw the clues.

As soon as he finished speaking, a large number of soldiers and horses under the city had already arrived, and ten ladders had set up the city wall.

Then 400 archers poured in from behind.

"Shoot." Yu Tongyuan waved his hand.

Whizzing, swishing, the sky was full of arrow feathers, like a black curtain rushed towards the city.

"Ah" The defenders at the head of the city screamed all kinds of screams, and Liu Jiang was also frightened and retreated, and quickly picked up a shield from the ground and put it in his hand.

As soon as he mentioned his hand, he immediately squatted on the ground, just listening, fluttering, clanging, like the sound of rain, some shooting on people, some shooting on the wall tiles.

Suddenly, one of the soldiers screamed and fell beside him, and he turned his head to see that the soldiers had been shot three arrows in the face.

"Mother's." Liu Jiang scolded and almost didn't dare to look up.

There were many people and arrows on the opposite side, and they shot at the top continuously, and their defenders screamed and retreated.

"Stop." Yu Tongyuan stopped immediately after shooting five rounds in a row.

"Kill." At this time, the soldiers and horses attacking the city in front of them surged up, and there were no arrows to shoot down at the head of the city.

The defenders just now were either killed and wounded by this wave, or they shrank their heads and did not dare to come out.

Liu Jiang heard the screams and knew that he was going to fight hard.

He raised his shield and shouted, "The Southern army is coming, knock them down."

At his instigation, the defenders moved forward again.

But the defenders had fought so far, and the archers had shot their arms in pain, and Qu Neng's soldiers and horses were a new force waiting for work, and they put their shields on their heads and climbed up frantically.

Although some people were beaten down one after another, they still rushed to the city with a sharp spirit.

Six of the ten ladders in the middle rushed up.

The city immediately shouted all kinds of killings, and the two sides fought hard at the city head.

Qu Neng

It was on a horse, he reined in his horse and said to Yu Tongyuan, why don't you shoot arrows?

Yu was stunned, our army has already gone to the city?

"Keep shooting, shoot in, stop them from reinforcing the troops." Qu Neng said sharply.

Yu Tongyuan's face changed slightly, is this even his own person going to shoot?

But the order was like a mountain, and he did not hesitate: "Take a few steps forward, keep shooting, shoot in."

I have to say that Qu can still be ruthless.

Because of too much experience, there were several official troops attacking the city wall in front, and the official archers below stopped shooting, for fear of shooting their own people, and the people who went up were quickly killed by the Yan army.

Because the reinforcements of the southern army are faster than the reinforcements from the city.

Now Qu Neng didn't care about it, and let the archers continue to shoot in, even if it hit his own people, he was at a loss.

Whoosh, the arrows flew towards the wall like rain, Liu Jiang was useless with the shield, pounced, hit a few arrows on the shield, and was also shot in the shoulder, he screamed in pain.

Then, seeing that something was wrong, he quickly raised his shield above his head and withdrew.

"Quick, get out of the main wall."

couldn't hold it at all, the rain of arrows was flying overhead, and a steady stream of officers and soldiers climbed up to the city.

Liu Jiang knew that the urn city could no longer be defended, so he hurriedly retreated.

The southern army went downstairs one after another, and the officers and soldiers were in great demand, and there were shouts of killing everywhere.

After Qu Neng under the city saw a steady stream of officers and troops on the wall, he finally turned around and glanced at Yu Tongyuan, breathing a long sigh of relief.

At this time, he also had a team of 400 people in his hands, and quickly ordered them to follow, while watching around.

His son Qu Yu has not yet returned, and there are other Ming troops attacking the city on their left and right nearby.

"Yu Tongyuan, you go to the north to see who is in command, and ask them to gather troops and horses to come over and prepare to enter the city."

As soon as Qu Neng saw that the reinforcements had not yet arrived, he could only use other siege soldiers and horses, so he didn't know if the other party was willing or not.

Yu Tongyuan took the order and left.

Qu was able to make all 400 archers throw away their bows and arrows, pick up their swords and guns, and prepare to enter the city.

At this time, the shouting of killing in the city shook the sky, and the southern army killed by the official army retreated one after another, and then went down from the two wings, but after going down, it was found that a large number of southern troops had been blocked at the end of the urn city in front.

Liu Jiang saw that it was not good before, and he had already asked someone to find reinforcements, and a large group of reinforcements would arrive and be blocked under the main city wall.

The officers and soldiers didn't care about them, the back row turned around first to open the city gate, and there was a sequence formation in the front row.

These soldiers and horses are all Qu Neng Sichuan's guards, well-trained and experienced.

Boom, the gate of Beiping City, which had been attacked for more than ten days without success, finally opened with a bang.

The overwhelming cheers outside the city greatly boosted the morale of the officers and soldiers.

Qu Neng was excited, and his face turned red.

Li Jinglong said that the first person to enter the city was the first to do so.

But he's calm, and it's not the time for him to go in yet, otherwise it would be hilarious to be trapped in the city.

Why aren't there any reinforcements yet? Qu Neng looked around, very anxious.

At this time, the entire city of Beiping was fighting, attacking the city everywhere, and there were friendly troops on his left and right.

He also asked Yu Tongyuan to go to the friendly army to borrow troops.

But the allies are attacking their positions, and even if they want to assemble and mobilize now, it will take time.

And time is often the most precious.

At this moment, there was the sound of a war horse galloping in the distance.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way." Qu Yu galloped to the horse and ran in front of Qu Neng in one breath.

"What did the marshal say?" Qu Neng asked urgently, "Where are the reinforcements?"

Qu Yu has been gone for a long time, and he actually rode back alone?

"The marshal said that soldiers are being used everywhere, let us resist first, and he will find a way to support his father."

"Special mother, this is not nonsense, what does Li Jinglong mean?" There were 100 households who scolded on the spot.

Before Qu Neng could finish speaking, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the city, and then, boom, it seemed that there was an artillery cannon first.

In the city, the Yan army dragged two cannons and fiercely attacked the officers and soldiers at the gate

Boom, at close range, both artillery pieces hit the group of officers and soldiers fiercely, and the officers and soldiers who had just lined up in the front row were beaten on their backs and screamed again and again.

Then thousands of horses galloped on the opposite side, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out frantically.

"Brothers, you can't retreat anymore, in Beiping City, it's all our mothers and children—" Liu Jiang waved his horse lance and roared on the left side, and the follow-up cavalry rushed towards the door like a torrent.

Qu Neng's infantry was originally in a fairly orderly formation, but they were hit by two cannons at close range, and the bombardment was miserable.

Now the Yan army concentrated a cavalry charge, and the front immediately couldn't resist.

The two sides fought a bloody battle in the urn city, and there was a steady stream of reinforcements coming up behind the Yan army, and it was the cavalry rushing to the front, and Qu Neng stared left and right, and could not see the support of reinforcements.

Liu Jiang watched the officers and troops retreat one after another, and at the same time saw that his subordinates also fell to the ground, and couldn't help but call a team of people: "Chop the horse, chop the horse, knock the horse down."

The cavalry and officers in front of them were killed in battle, and the horses were all in the middle of the urn city, neighing or standing still.

Liu Jiang asked the horses to be hacked to death directly, and more than a dozen unmanned war horses were killed, and immediately lay in the middle of the passage between the urn city and the main city, blocking the passage tightly, and now both sides are difficult to travel, and the middle of the urn city is full of corpses of people and horses. c

At this time, a bunch of archers from the city wall of the Yan army came here.

Liu Jiang waved his hand, and the archers climbed to the top of the pile of corpses, Zheng, Zheng, Zheng, condescendingly shot at the officials and soldiers.

There were also archers who came to the top of the main city wall and shot at the opposite side of the urn city.

Liu Jiang also commanded people to carry the fierce fire oil over and throw it on the city wall above the urn city, and the fire on it suddenly soared into the sky, and the officials and soldiers fled in all directions, and some climbed the wall and hurriedly went down from the ladder, because it was full of fire, and it burned bigger and bigger.

Under the city.

Someone ran to Qu Neng covered in blood and cried, "General, I can't stand it, without the support of reinforcements, my brothers can't stand it."

"We can't fight anymore, if we continue to fight, our brother from Kawanaka will die." Someone else shouted.

Qu Neng looked up at the front, the officers and troops were retreating one after another, and there were already more than 100 people who had originally entered the city, and they retreated outside the city along the city gate.

Before, he laughed at Liu Jiang for not being able to keep, but he didn't expect Liu Jiang to be very powerful and react quickly.

He lit a fire on the top of the urn city, forcing the successor officers and soldiers not to dare to climb up.

However, everything is Li Jinglong's fault, if you trust me and give me reinforcements, I would have attacked a long time ago, Qu Neng clenched his fists, thinking in his heart, it's not that I don't do my best, it's your own people who are dragging back, and I, Qu Neng, are the saints and the emperor.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Tell the brothers to withdraw."

With the order to retreat, Qu Neng's subordinates retreated outside the city like a tide, while Liu Jiang pressed forward step by step, and then piled a large number of corpses of officers and soldiers and war horses outside the city gate, piled up as high as a mountain, and first blocked the route of the officers and troops to attack again.

Hum, as the city gate closed again, Qu Neng took a deep breath, his face flushed.

In his mind, he couldn't help but think of Zhu Gaoxu's words that day, if the emperor reuses you, he will not wait until now, in case you make the right bet in the future, when the time comes, you still have to move forward?

The emperor reuses Li Jinglong's waste, how can he win?

(End of chapter)