Soon a lot of soldiers came out of the Jin army, not carrying weapons, only a white cloth wrapped around their arms, and they drove one cart after another to Luojing City. The Liang army knew that these Jin troops were here to collect the corpses, and the soldiers fought for the country, even if the corpses could not be transported back for burial after death, they had to turn the corpses into ashes and bring them back to their hometowns, which was the proper meaning of the army, so the Liang army did not stop it, and also left all the corpses on the city wall and took them away by the Jin army, but the long ladders used by the Jin army to attack the city were drawn up by the Liang army, even if they were used for fire, they could not be used by the Jin army to attack the city.

Li Jian stood beside Li Mao, watching the Jin army under the city carry the broken corpses to the car in the pungent smoke and blood, and said to his grandfather: "Judging from today's siege, that Qiu Feng is nothing more than that!" ”

"Shut up! Hugh is talking nonsense! Li Mao reprimanded unhappily, "You will fight with others in the future, you can't underestimate the opponent at any time, even if the lion fights the rabbit, you must do your best, make the worst plan before the battle, make the most detailed arrangements, and go all out when the battle is coming, this is the way to win." Today's battle, if I get along with Qiu Fengyi, we will not be half a point better than him, we are taking advantage of the thick walls of this Luojing City, we must not be arrogant, underestimate others, remember to remember! ”

Seeing that Li Jian couldn't help but nod his head, Li Mao said again: "In today's battle, Qiu Feng is mostly tempting, you see, he will definitely be more fierce every time he comes to attack the city." ”

Sure enough, in the next two days, the Jin army's offensive became more intense.

Stone bullets, arrows kept shooting at Luojing City, the soldiers of the Jin army carried the long ladder and ran to Luojing City, and there were more and more Jin soldiers who climbed up on the city wall, and the casualties of the Liang army were getting bigger and bigger, and most of the Liang troops in the city were also thrown into the city wall.

However, this is all a trick, in the past two days, Qiu Feng sent several teams to lurk at other city gates, taking advantage of the fact that the defenders were attracted by the battle at the main city gate, and climbed the city wall with a long ladder at the weak point of the guard, and when the defenders found the warning, the Jin army often had already boarded a lot of people, and the sound of fighting sounded on the city wall.

Fortunately, Li Mao was prepared, he sent Li Tianxuan to patrol the city wall with his soldiers, the city wall of Luojing City is wide enough to ride a horse, whenever there is a dangerous trumpet, Li Tianxuan will take people to ride horses to the Jin army that attacked and retreated. Later, Li Jian and Li Mao also joined in, and the uncle and nephew fought back and forth with the attacking Jin army on the city wall, because Li Tianxuan was protected, Li Jian was safe and sound, and Li Tianxuan himself suffered several injuries, all of which were minor injuries and were fine.

At night, the Jin army was even more rampant, using a stone thrower to attract the attention of the Liang army in the city, and then sent soldiers to take advantage of the dark night to quietly put the ladder on the city and then secretly climb up the city to sneak attack, the first few times they really succeeded, several slack Liang troops were killed by the sneak attack of the Jin army, and then the Jin army tried to attack the city at night, fortunately the reinforcement of the Liang army to the death battle will be the sneak attack of the Jin army retreat. In addition to the sneak attack on the Jin army, they also sent archers with superb archery skills to lurk under the city in the dark night, waiting for an opportunity to shoot the city guards, this trick made the Liang army unable to defend itself, and several Liang generals were injured by arrows in two nights.

Even the great general Li Mao has been attacked like this.

That night, Li Jian followed Li Mao to inspect the city defenses, and talked to a general on duty at night at the main gate of Luojing City, while Li Jian stood at the pheasant moat and observed the Jin army camp outside the city.

Suddenly, Li Jian's heart was flustered for no reason, and a sudden feeling of uneasiness filled his whole body at once. His throat was dry, and he looked around, only the soldiers guarding the city wall at night stood at the pheasant moat, listening carefully, occasionally the defenders of the city had someone talking, but it was still quiet at night, and there was no noise above the city, and no abnormal sound could be heard, but the panic in Li Jian's heart was getting deeper and deeper!

There are not many people in the city, the captain of the night vigil and the soldiers are patrolling around the city wall, and the armor leaves on their bodies are also sonorous with their pace, Li Mao is still talking to the general, there is still a brazier burning next to them, the flames are swaying by the wind, everything is normal, even the Jin army camp is very quiet, if the Jin army has any abnormal movements, the sentinel hidden in the dark night has already warned him, but he does feel that the uneasiness is getting stronger and stronger, It was like standing in the ice and snow and taking off his warm clothes one by one, which made him more and more frightened.

There seemed to be a voice for Li Jian to hear, very slightly, maybe he heard it, or it could just be an illusion, but the ensuing heat made Li Jian only hear his rapid heartbeat like a drum between heaven and earth, his face was flushed and his eyes were red, he stepped forward, and his right hand was in the air against a black shadow that shot out, and then the sharp pain from his right hand made the hot feeling and the rapid drumming sound stop abruptly, leaving only silence, and then he heard an exclamation around him.

Li Jian grabbed a sharp arrow, to be precise, he actually didn't grasp it steadily, the arrow was the thickness of his thumb, the black oil and black arrow shaft, the three-edged armor-piercing arrow was shining with cold light, I don't know what kind of strong bow it was shot from, although Li Jian held it, but the force of the arrow was too great, and the living creature still sneered forward in Li Jian's palm, grinding off a layer of skin and flesh in Li Jian's palm, and slammed forward with Li Jian, and the direction of the arrow was the general Li Mao, When the arrow almost slipped off the end of the arrow in Li Jian's hand, Li Mao stretched out his hand and tightly grasped the sharp arrow that was shooting at him.

With a slight flick of his wrist, Li Mao said, "Don't let go yet." ”

Li Jian hurriedly let go of his hand, but ignored the wound, watched his grandfather quickly take his hard bow from the body of a servant, put the three-edged armor-piercing arrow on the bowstring, looked at the boundless dark night under the city, tilted his head slightly and listened sideways, and then pulled and released the bow with both hands, and the sharp arrow flew straight to somewhere under the city, and as soon as the string sounded there, a miserable scream came from afar.

Li Mao snorted lightly, and returned the bow to his servant, and when he turned to look at his grandson, he was very surprised, and said in his heart that this kid was so clever that he could find the arrow shot by the other party before himself, which was beyond the old man's expectations.

Most of the martial arts passed down by the Li family are the fighting techniques in the army with the skills of the army to temper the muscles and bones, like the arrow just now, it is not difficult to find, and it is not difficult to dodge, but to do this, it takes at least a dozen rolls on the battlefield, and only people who come alive between life and death can do it, this child not only found that he could actually catch the arrow with his hands, which was beyond Li Mao's expectations.

When he went down to the city, Li Mao asked Li Jian, "How did you know that an arrow would be shot there?" ”

Li Jian replied honestly: "I don't know, I just feel very nervous for no reason at that time." ”

"Well," Li Mao didn't know if he was satisfied with this answer, but he was very satisfied with his grandson's performance in front of the battle, and it seemed that he should no longer be regarded as a child, he should be honed and honed in advance, so he said, "You have been making trouble for me to give you something to do, so let's do it, starting tomorrow you will go to replace General Zhang to inspect the whole city, and there can be no chaos in the city during the city defense, I will inform General Zhang of this, and you will go to hand him over tomorrow." ”

"Whoa!" Li Jian was overjoyed when she heard this, and solemnly saluted her grandfather.

On the fourth day, the momentum of the Jin army's siege of the city was the most violent, and wave after wave of the Jin army hit Luojingcheng like angry waves, but Luojingcheng was like a reef protruding from the sea, allowing the huge waves to be monstrous but still immovable. The Jin army fought from morning to noon, Li Jian remembered that in the morning, there were only stone bullets from the Jin army that fell into the city, smashing a lot of houses, and there were also some casualties among the people in the city. There were also many Jin arrows flying over the city walls and into the city. Listening to the boiling sound of killing outside the city wall, Li Jian really wanted to go to the top of the city to fight, but he still had his messenger to inspect the city, and he suddenly felt that this was probably his grandfather's deliberate action in order to prevent him from going to the city to fight. Seeing that the Liang army was transferred to the city, he began to worry about his grandfather and uncle, and he could hear that the Jin army was rushing to the city wall outside as if they were crazy.

In the afternoon, a herald finally hurriedly found the city patrol team led by Li Jian and shouted: "Young general, the general ordered you to bring people to guard the south gate!" ”

Could it be that the south gate was attacked by the Jin army? The Jin army has been doing this in recent days, fighting hot in one place and then sneaking in another place, don't think too much, Li Jian immediately led his soldiers through the streets of the city to the south gate, and when they boarded the south gate, they found that the south gate was calm and sound, it turned out that Li Mao was blocking the Jin army at the north gate, but the Jin army attacked fiercely, and had to transfer the troops stationed at the other city gates, and was afraid that the other gates would have an accident before sending reinforcements from all over the city. The soldiers at the south gate had almost been exhausted, and they all rushed to the north gate to fight, and Li Jian actually became the main general here after he arrived. Li Jian ordered his soldiers to closely monitor the movements under the city, and on the other hand, he looked at the north gate in the distance, where he could see the stone projectiles fired by the Jin army's stone thrower falling from the sky, and black smoke rose there, and the sound of fighting could also be heard, Li Jian's heart couldn't help but hang, he suddenly realized that if this Luojing City was broken and the Liang army was defeated and retreated, he would definitely go out of the south gate and retreat to the hinterland of Liang State. Thinking of this, Li Jian's heart became even more worried.

After Li Jian guarded the south gate for nearly an hour, he heard a sudden burst of cheers from the north gate, he looked over, and saw that the banner of the Liang army was still fluttering on the north gate, so he was relieved. Looking at the sky before evening, it seems that the Jin army is attacking fiercely today, and under the counterattack of the Liang army, the casualties must be very heavy and unbearable, so the troops are withdrawn.

After a while, the original guard stationed at the south gate returned from the city wall with people, and after the two met, Li Jian saluted and asked about the situation at the north gate, and the general sighed and said, "Miserable! The Jin army went crazy today, and regarded human life as cheap as grass, so the young general might as well go and see for himself, and it would be better to leave it to the last general here. ”

When Li Jian heard this, he called a lieutenant and asked him to return to the city with his original soldiers who were patrolling the city, and he asked the guard for a horse and went to the north gate.

The closer you get to the north gate, the stronger the smell of blood, and when she saw the battlefield outside the north gate, Li Jian, who thought that she had experienced the siege battle on the first day, was still taken aback.

I saw that the Jin army camp and Luojing City were almost filled with corpses, and the two rushing cars were burned into two fires before they reached the city gate, and the rest of the dozens of ladders scattered on the battlefield were also in flames, some of them had been burned down, only a few wooden wheels and a base were smoking, Li Jian also saw that nearly half of the dozens of stone throwers outside the Jin army camp were also burned, which was strange, could it be that his uncle rushed out with the cavalry? The corpses on the city wall are pillowed, there are Jin army and Liang army, all kinds of weapons are scattered and soaked in a pool of blood, and the blood flows out one by one along the hole of the rain on the city wall, and a scarlet curtain is hung on the city wall.

A team of people and soldiers together with the style of clothing and armor to carry the wounded or dead Liang army down the city to be properly settled, but the severed head should be carefully identified, and their own people are naturally treated well, if it is the Jin army, they will be thrown under the city and even the corpse will be thrown down, anyway, the Jin army will come to collect the corpses of their own people.

When he arrived at the city tower at the north gate, Li Jian saw Li Mao sitting on a big chair, and there was blood on the armor, which made Li Jian feel horrified, Li Mao saw that his face changed and said with a smile: "Don't panic, it's not the old man's blood, the old man's hands are itchy today, and he also cut a few, I don't want to have some hands, and it is just a disadvantage." ”

Having said that, the fact that the general who commanded the first army actually cut people with a knife shows how dangerous today's battle is.

Then Li Jian saw that his uncle Li Tianxuan was hanging an arm with a piece of bleeding white cloth, and a few places on his body were also bandaged, and hurriedly went over to ask, but Li Tianxuan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's a small injury," and raised the injured arm and said, "It didn't hurt the muscles and bones, just take care of it for a few days." As he spoke, he raised his chin in the direction of the Jin army and said, "Soon after I went out, I was entangled by their cavalry, otherwise I would have liked to find an opportunity to cut down that Qiu Feng." ”

After hearing this, Li Mao said, "How can it be so easy! However, Qiu Feng made a bloody investment today, but he almost lost all his money, which made the old man very happy! ”

As he was talking, he heard someone say, "General, look! ”

Li Mao looked in the direction that the man pointed, only to see a corpse and flames under the city, but the Liang army did not come to clean up the corpse, only two horses slowly approached one after the other, and the Liang soldiers in the city had already drawn their bows and arrows, but were stopped by Li Mao.

"It's Qiu Feng," Li Mao said, "It seems that he wants to meet the old man." As he spoke, he looked at Li Tianxuan's hanging arm and then at Li Jian who was standing beside him, and said to Li Jian, "You go with me." After saying that, he commanded loudly: "Open the gates!" ”