At night, the people have moved into the city, and there is no sound outside the city, only the Jin military camp in the northwest direction is shining in the sky, and occasionally there is the neighing of war horses, and the defenders of Xingyang City look at each other, trembling and frightened.

Feng Ling stood on the city wall at this time, watching the defenders' expressions. Knowing that the massacre of Li Yan by "10,000 people" had frightened the courage of the soldiers, and made the defenders terrified, they could only be appeased one by one.

Fortunately, today, he Feihe sent a message to shock the civil and military, dissecting the enemy and planning to move the Chen Palace, and the name of the young master had already spread all over Xingyang. In addition, when they learned that the Qin army would come to the rescue in the near future, the soldiers were somewhat confident. In the middle of the night, Feng Ling was finally pacified, and then sat cross-legged at the head of the city, unsheathing his sword on his lap and resting for a while.

The night will pass and the dawn will come. When the first rays of dawn shone on the city tower, the black armor Jin cavalry appeared on the northwest field, and the horse's hooves were clattering, which was exciting. Followed by the 40,000 infantry army, the Chinese army waved in the wind, surrounded by spear sculptures, the dawn reflected on it, the cold light shining.

The army ten miles away pressed the border, and the formation was as dull as a dark cloud, which made many soldiers standing at the head of the city shudder, tremble, and could barely hold bows and spears in both hands.

Seeing this, the generals defending the city hurriedly urged all the soldiers, people, and archers of the arrow stacks to stand by at their respective posts.

Compared with the army of tigers and wolves in the Jin Kingdom, Chen Guo, a soldier who had basically never fought a battle, had a high morale and made a judgment. If it weren't for the defense of the city, but the two armies rushed to kill, the Chen army was afraid that he would immediately lose his armor and flee in defeat.

The Jin army formed a formation three miles away from the city, and saw that Xingyang City and Wengcheng were full of soldiers, and the archers of the arrow stacks Zhang Xian, they knew that the Chen army refused to surrender. Despite this, Li Yan still ordered the army to open the way, led the second cavalry to move forward slowly, until he stopped three hundred steps away from the northern city, and shouted to the city: "I am Li Yan, the general of the Jin State, and I am invited to come to discuss with Chen Jun at the behest of the Jin Jun." ”

Chen Jun had already ascended the North City Tower accompanied by Gongzi Ziyou and sat in the Dingcheng Tower. Hearing that Li Yan came to invite him, he got up and asked: "I am Chen Jun, I ask myself if I have always paid tribute to your state as the kingdom, and I have paid tribute every year, and I have never slackened off in the slightest, why did Jin Jun use the unknown reason to raise inexplicable soldiers and do extermination." ”

"Jin Jun thinks that Chen Guo does not respect Jin Guo, there is a reason, I am a subordinate, how dare I speculate. Now that the two countries are fighting, does Chen Jun think he can win? If you can't win, please go out of the city and surrender, I will protect the life of the prince and marquis, but Gongzi You dares to ask to die. If they do not obey, the prince will suffer misfortune after the city is broken. ”

At this point, Chen Junfang knew that the disaster of the Flower Society had become the disaster of destroying the country, and he secretly said in his heart that the Jin Jun was too small and his heart was vicious. But it is also in vain, the country is weak and small, how to fight with it.

Seeing that there was no room for maneuver, Chen Jun looked sideways at Feng Ling and asked with a question, and Feng Ling nodded. Knowing that Feng Ling had been prepared and the war was inevitable, Chen Jun immediately sighed and said: "The princes under the rule of the Son of Heaven will destroy other people's countries for no reason, abandon etiquette and ancient systems, and this move of Jin Jun will be spurned by the princes of the world." But if you want to destroy my Chen country, not only the widows should not be, but the people of the city will not agree. The widow asked himself if he was a belligerent, but the general's act of breaking the city and slaughtering was really the anger of the world, and in order to avoid the disaster of the slaughter of the common people and soldiers, the only way to hold on to the city was to defend it. ”

"Since Chen Jun insists on not surrendering, it is useless to say more, I decided to attack the city at the right time, and I hope that Chen Jun will do it himself." After that, Li Yan turned his horse and went back.

At this time, it was already three o'clock, and there was still an hour and a half before Jin Jun attacked. The general ordered that the Bei'e Fu, which had been assembled overnight, be brought to the city. It was one and a half feet long, half a thousand miles wide, and two feet high, and was made of hardwood boards two inches thick. The middle and upper halves of each side are opened, and the mouth is about four inches. There are two hanging ropes tied to the top, each rope is 12 feet long, tied to a special gallows, and four people are responsible for the ropes for lifting. The rear can be opened, and one person hides in it, holding three double-headed spears, which are controlled by the gallows and suspended on the outside of the city wall, so as to charge the ladder siege soldiers left and right. This device is simple and easy to understand, and can be operated by ordinary soldiers, but it is extremely powerful, and it is not afraid of bows and arrows.

The soldiers stood in columns, the archers were in place, and the equipment was complete. Just wait for the Jin army to attack.

Li Yan rode back to the Chinese army, and when he saw Chen Jun fighting like this, he ignored it. With the morale of the two cities and the power of 20,000 people, I don't believe that Xingyang City, which has 6,000 defenders, can't be defeated. Immediately summon the heralds, order the baggage to build a catapult torch cart, install a crossbow bed ladder, and attack the city immediately after completion.

The atmosphere is becoming more and more tense, and a big war is about to break out. Feng Ling stood with his sword on his back, standing at the highest point of the city tower and looking into the distance, inspecting the movements of the Jin army.

The clock rang, and the Jin army started. The shield soldiers formed eight phalanxes on each side of the northwest, and forty-two people raised their shields to open the way, followed by the crossbow bed and the catapult cart, followed by the Jin crossbowmen, and other foot soldiers interspersed. The Jin army was still one and a half miles away from the city of Wengcheng, and several archers of the defending army suddenly lost their bowstrings and fell to the ground one mile before the Jin army. Knowing that it was caused by Chen Jun's timidity, the soldiers of the Jin army couldn't help laughing, and Li Yan immediately ordered the siege of the city. The crossbow bed immediately let go, and countless huge arrows came out of the string, one of which shot into the arrow stack of the urn city, and the two nervous ones didn't have time to react, and they fell to the ground and died with a scream. At this point, the crossbow beds above and below the city shot at each other in the air, and the attack and defense finally began.

The Jin army marched 300 paces in front of the city, and the archers began to shoot at each other. In an instant, from time to time, soldiers were shot by arrows above and below the city, or fell to the ground, or fell to the head of the city. The siege personnel are dense, although there is a shield array to support, but the combination of lifting the ladder and pushing the stone torch cart has been killed and wounded, the corpses are horizontal and vertical, and the blood is hot and yellow sand.

It stands to reason that Sergeant Chen's combat strength is much weaker than that of the Jin army, and the Jin army will not die too much, how can it be so abnormal? At first, the Jin army did not feel that there were heavy casualties, and gradually there were fewer people standing in front of them, so they felt that something was wrong.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, the forward general Xiao did not spare no time and hurriedly called the messenger to report the battle situation to the Chinese army. Not long after, Li Yan received the battle report, climbed the general platform to take a look, and sure enough, the Jin army had already suffered more than 1,000 casualties before they rushed to the edge of the urn city. So he ordered the shield to be strengthened and advanced slowly.

After the herald soldiers came and went, the Jin army lost nearly 1,000 losses. On the other hand, the Chen army still relied on archers to shoot, and the target was unanimously shooting at the Jin army, which could not be protected by the shield. Li Yan raised his eyes and looked at the city tower, and saw a young man in a green shirt standing on the top of the city tower, holding a sword and shaking his fingers left and right.

It turned out that before the war, Feng Ling had instructed General He, and what Feng Ling Jianfeng pointed to, He Jianzhong commanded the archers' arrows to shoot in the direction of Jianfeng. Feng Ling has been taught by the divine master since he was a child, and he has achieved a small success, and his eyesight is excellent. Now that we are looking at the enemy, we can naturally see the weaknesses of the local defense.

Although there were casualties, Li Yan only regarded the Chen army as a dying struggle, and still ordered the Jin army to attack. Finally, the Jin army touched the wall after paying nearly 3,000 soldiers. The remaining shieldmen and foot soldiers set up the ladder together and began the battle to ascend the city. As soon as the Jin army began to climb the ladder, Chen Jun immediately put down a Bei'e Fu from the city between every two cloud ladders. Bei'e Fu is more than four feet under the city, the board is thick and hard, the arrow can't be pierced, and the spear under the city can't reach, and it suddenly gives the Jin army in the city a catastrophe.

As soon as the Jin army climbed to the height of Si Qian, they were killed by the soldiers who lived in Bei'e Fu with double-edged spears left and right, piercing one by one, and there was nothing to resist. Even if there were fish that slipped through the net, or were killed by the soldiers in the city with wood and stones, or were pushed away from the city wall by the Chen army in the city, the Jin army suffered countless casualties.

Gradually, the blood flowed from both sides, and the Chen army, under the command of the young master and the guard, was red-eyed, and forgot about the fear for the time being. I saw that the rocks were constantly falling on the top of the city, and the arrows were shooting endlessly.

When the army all rushed to the city, the archers no longer needed to point at Fengling, and could shoot indiscriminately at the dense positions of the Jin army. Feng Ling freed up his hand again to command the rope bearers to raise and lower the preparation of the Efu, and rushed to kill the Jin army in the city.

For a whole hour, no one in the Jin army successfully landed in the city, and only the foot archers shot down more than 100 Chen soldiers. Affected by casualties, the Jin army involuntarily postponed the siege. Chen's army survived the first wave of the offensive, and the morale of the army and the people was greatly boosted.

Li Yan, the chief general of the Jin army on the stage, frowned, he really couldn't understand why Chen Jun was so bold and determined to dare to fight the powerful Jin army. He Jianzhong's ability to lead the army can withstand the beast-like attack of the Jin army. After a long time of attacking and not seeing results, Li Yan was so angry that he pushed away the drummer, personally beat the drum to promote the battle, and asked the sergeant to carry out the drum and crash into the city gate

As the drums intensified, the Jin army began a new round of offensive. However, Feng Ling had already ordered the soldiers to block the two gates in the northwest with boulders, and it was difficult for the Jin army to break through, and climbing the wall became the only way for the Jin army to break through the city.

Another hour passed, under the rapid attack of the Jin army, after the Jin army paid more than 8,000 casualties, finally one person climbed the city wall. But before he could expand the results of the battle, he was hacked to death with a knife. The main general Li Yan was stunned, but he was helpless.

At the end of the day, the Jin army's offensive plummeted, and it was almost two consecutive hours without making any contributions, and the soldiers were tired and tired, and it was difficult to continue the battle. Seeing this, the chief general of the Jin army had no choice but to withdraw his troops. In these two attacks, nearly 1,000 soldiers and civilians were killed by the Chen army, while nearly 10,000 were lost by the Jin army.

The Jin army retreated five miles away to the village, and Li Yan instructed the army to set up a stove to cook, and urgently summoned the generals to enter the account and discuss the matter. Li Yan sat in the right position, that is, he asked the generals what strategies they had to break the city. I never thought that Chen Jun would be able to defeat the Jin army, and the generals looked at each other, but no one said anything.

Wu Xiunian, who joined the army, looked up and down, stepped forward and said: "Chen's army is well defended, although it is not surprising, but the rules and regulations are not chaotic, the command is appropriate, and he can often gain insight into the weaknesses of our army. In the future, why do you see that the people of loyalty do not have this ability, there will be capable people to help. ”

"Now that there are capable people to fight together, how should our army break it?"

"Just now, our army captured a few Chen pawns who fell into the city and did not die, and brought them over to ask."

Li Yan ordered the soldiers to go to the slave camp to pick up Chen's pawn, and he arrived in a moment. Without verbal intimidation, Chen confessed truthfully.

Knowing that there were disciples of the gods who helped defend the city, and also learned that the city defense equipment on the city wall was unheard of by Bei'e Fu, the Jin army was caught off guard, no wonder the losses were huge. Hearing that the Qin army helped Chen Guo three days later, the generals of the Jin army were stunned. If Xingyang City cannot be captured in time, and when the Qin army arrives, the Jin army has no choice but to withdraw.

Wu Xiunian thought for a while and said: "Looking at today's weather, there must be no rain, and there is a high ground eight hundred steps northwest of Xingyang City that is suitable for arranging the "rocket soldiers". ”

All the generals echoed and said yes.

Seeing that a strong attack could not be done, in order to avoid excessive casualties, Li Yan ordered all armies to temporarily suspend the truce, and then ordered the partial general Ji Zuoche to secretly prepare a "rocket soldier" and raid Xingyang City tonight.