Cui Feihu really didn't expect the progress to be so smooth. When the scouts in front reported that the headquarters of the Left Direct Army had retreated into the barracks, Cui Feihu was still worried that the fight would become a stalemate, so he detained only one battalion of the Sixth Regiment of the Reserve Army in his hand, and the rest also went south.

However, Cui Feihu didn't know at this time that the first brigade where Wu Feixing was located was progressing more rapidly. The right straight part responsible for the siege in the direction of the North Gate is less than 5,000 people, and the advance camp is actually in the direction of the north city of Waizi City, blocked by the city wall. The first brigade came out, and immediately cut off the right wing of the right army besieging the city in half, and then Wu Feixing attacked the camp with the second regiment as the main force, and the right direct army was caught off guard, the camp was breached, and the rout army also fled to the east. At this time, the Shangzhi army organized about 3,000 people to come to help, but it was hit by the rout, and then the three regiments were crossed along a main street from west to east, and the various divisions fell into confusion, and at this time they only retreated to the east.

The various departments sent the information on the counterattack from the north and south like a stream, and the headquarters of Li Congyi's division moved to a military tent inside the east gate of Waizi City, and the staff officers updated the enemy's situation on the sand table in a timely manner. Yu Wancheng twisted his beard and watched the banner of Wu Yuejun's army on the sand table retreat, and he was also overjoyed, but it was naturally not the time to celebrate at this time.

The Changzhou army counterattacked from the secret gate of the city wall, and at the beginning, Du Pu was only slightly nervous under the command of the Shangzhi army, and only ordered all departments to hold their positions and wait for the Chinese army to come to help. But the situation is moving so fast that people can't respond to it. In particular, the Tang army marched and attacked extremely fast. Thousands of people crossed the river, and the earthen dam filled in by Wu Yuejun took less than one-third of the time of the pillar incense, which was too fast.

Du Pu didn't think that the counterattack of the Changzhou army could be so dangerous at first, but he only gathered counterattack forces on the one hand, and at the same time tried to attack the flanks of the two Tang Army attack troops with a small force of 1,000 people; After waiting for the left and right sides to stabilize their positions, then consider leading the main force to counterattack the south or the north.

However, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, first the right direct army in the north was dispersed, and then the left direct army in the north and south also collapsed, and under the expulsion of the Tang army on both routes, it was routed along several east-west streets to the east. At this time, Du Pu finally felt a huge crisis. At this time, Ding Deyu, who was on the east gate of Luolou, was also chilling from the bottom of his heart, the counteroffensive of the Changzhou army was really vicious, and it was actually a plan to annihilate all the Wu Yue troops in Luocheng. At this time, the troops in the north and south quickly poured eastward, and the Wu Yue army in the north only escaped from the second north gate of less than 1,000 people, and it was quickly controlled by the Changzhou army, and the rest fled to the second east gate. And want to enter the city from the east gate of the right straight army head-on, then the reinforcements outside the city rushed into chaos, and then there was a Tang army killed, the city gate defenders were already frightened, no longer have the fighting spirit, have to flee by the wall, then the second east gate also gave up.

At this time, what Wu Yuejun controlled was the east gate and southeast gate farthest from Waizi City, but outside the southeast gate was the canal, even if there was a water camp to help, how many people could escape? The only way to survive is the East Gate. At this time, there are still more than 10,000 people in the Chinese army controlled by Du Pu who have not been impacted, and these more than 10,000 people cannot come to the east gate again, otherwise the rout will have to block themselves outside the east gate! Ding Deyu immediately ordered Du Pu not to retreat, and quickly chose one way to counterattack; At the same time, he ordered the defenders outside the city to camp outside the east gate, collect the rout, and then strengthen the garrison of the east gate tower with 1,000 Song troops.

With Ding Deyu's military order, Du Pu also knew that as long as more than 10,000 people in his Chinese army could not go to the east gate to squeeze the escape route, otherwise in that situation, these 10,000 people would collapse in an instant. However, the city is different from the wilderness, and more than 10,000 people cannot be launched in one go, if they are scattered in this city to disrupt the war, with the advantage of the Tang Army's spear array, Du Pu also feels that he has no certainty of victory. At this time, more news came, and at this time, Wu Feixing and Cui Feihu, who had each been reinforced by one regiment, began to send one and a half regiments of troops each, along the streets, from the north and south, to attack Du Pu's Chinese army.

The Tang army took the battalion as a unit, pushed flat with pikemen and crossbowmen on the streets of the city, and fought with sword and shield soldiers out of the alleys or over the walls. Du Pu no longer hesitated, each with 1,000 people to defend the two Chinese army camps, to guard the back road, and then with more than 8,000 people as the main force, and the original attack on the 2,000 defenders of the Yingchun Gate of the Waizi City, together with 10,000 people, it was a desperate bet to attack the Waizi City!

When he learned that Wu Yuejun finally chose this unlikely but threatening counterattack, Li Congyi also had to admit that he underestimated the heroes of the world.

At this time, the victory of the Changzhou army was imminent, and as soon as the strings in the hearts of the defenders of the city wall were loosened, tension and fatigue surged up for several days; At this time, Wu Yue's direct army was fighting against the water, and if it did not attack, it would become a benevolent, and there would be a state of victory for the mourning soldiers.

The soldiers of the Shangzhi Army pressed on, and a battalion of Cui Feihu guarding the back road could not stop it, so he could only fight and go to the south, and let go of the siege road. Wu Yuejun immediately braved arrows and stones and attacked desperately. Du Pu personally arrived in front of the battle, and the four chief and deputy commanders in the left and right compartments were forced by Du Pu to personally lead the troops to charge the battle.

It is also thanks to the Changzhou army that organized two thousand ironclad mobile troops, the two sides repeatedly tore and killed at the three roads on the south side and the Ningguo army to attack the secret gate, in just over half an hour, the city wall changed hands more than 20 times, and the corpse at the secret door was as tall as a person, and finally Wu Yuejun needed to climb up from the pile of dead people to attack the secret door. The two sides killed fiercely, the most serious during the period, the Changzhou army lost the city wall up to more than 100 meters, almost by the Wu Yue army approached the East Gate Tower, and finally relied on the Ning soldiers to push back with the cooperation of spears and crossbowmen, only to help the Changzhou army recapture the city wall. However, Wu Yue's army was under the city wall, regardless of the two sides of the city, the implementation of indiscriminate coverage of bows and arrows, this kind of fatal fighting, Ning Guojun also suffered heavy casualties, and finally Li Congyi sent the division's guard battalion and reconnaissance battalion up, and also put the transferred trebuchets into battle, so that the offensive of Wu Yue's army was contained.

Du Pu's eyes were red, and in less than an hour, more than 3,000 casualties of more than 10,000 troops were killed, and nearly 400 people fled from the city wall and were beheaded by Du Pu's military law. At this time, the four chambers were all in command and deputy commanders, one died in the city, one was hit by a stone, life and death were unknown at this time, and the other two were also wounded. Liu Xingsheng, the commander of the right wing, approached him and persuaded: "My lord, the morale has fallen, and you can't force it anymore, otherwise there will be changes." ”

Du Pu looked east, and at this time there was smoke burning at the east gate, obviously the Tang army had attacked the east gate, blocking the retreat of the Wu and Yue troops in the city. Looking at the location of the Chinese military camp, it is also the main street that is lit with thick smoke and leads to the east gate, and there are vaguely chaotic soldiers who have fled from the east gate.

At this time, the attack could not be entered, and no matter how strong the soldiers attacked, a mutiny might be inevitable. Although there is no way back, there is always a fight. Du Pu ordered the commander of the right wing to make Liu Xingsheng the striker, go north to seize the second north gate, and want to escape from the second north gate.

In the east of Waizi City and in Luocheng, it almost occupies the area of two of the five stops in Changzhou City, and tens of thousands of people scatter it into it, like a stream into the sea. At this time, we can see the benefits of the establishment of the Ning Guojun. The Ning Guojun took the battalion as a unit, and attacked in a company when it encountered a small alley, and sometimes even a squad dared to rush into the alley to block the rout, and the Wu Yue army had a little formed troops, so it was suddenly attacked, and only the rout was left to run around. Most of the civilians in the eastern city have already taken refuge in the outer city, and the Wu Yue army has fled everywhere in the house.

At the east gate of Luolou, with the successful meeting of the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade, the Wuyue army was blocked and could only flee to the city. In order to buy time for the defenders outside the city, Ding Deyu led a thousand Song soldiers to defend the city tower. But Ding Deyu could only hold the city tower, and the city gate tower was opened by the spearmen of the second brigade, and Gu Dazhuang's department, which had been waiting for a long time, could not hold it back, so he led more than 500 horsemen to flock out of the city.

The cavalry battalion of the 1st Division was less than 200 cavalry, but the cavalry companies of the regiments and brigade headquarters were also not fully formed. In this siege battle, Li Congyi gathered the scattered cavalry and let Gu Dazhuang take the whole training for nearly two months. Gu Dazhuang led the cavalry out of the city, just to take advantage of the chaotic rout of Wu Yue's army to defeat the defenders outside the city.

Qian Weizhi was still drinking tea with Ding Deyu on the east gate tower of the Luocheng city wall in Changzhou in the morning, laughing and talking about the battle situation, but the situation changed color in the afternoon, and the battle situation reversed. At this time, he was also panicked in the military camp outside the city. Previously, Xiong Yuanjia's division of the left direct army was in the north of the city, and the Liang Zhengrui division of the right direct army was in the south of the city. Liang Zhengrui was mainly on alert and harassment in the south of the city, and he returned to the camp the fastest and came to collect the rout. Xiong Yuanjia made a feint at the north gate and immediately withdrew his troops. On the way back, they attacked several times at the second north gate and the second east gate, but the army's spirit was unstable and the offensive was weak. had to abandon the idea of breaking the city and rescuing, so he led the team slowly to the east.

Liang Zhengrui's department was separated by a canal, so Liang Zhengrui only took his personal guards across the river. There was a ready-made military camp outside the east gate, and Liang Zhengrui scattered with his personal guards, guided the defeated troops out of the east gate to regroup, and entered the barracks for repair. If the formation of the armor is slightly reorganized, the defense will be arranged immediately. In this way, more than 2,000 soldiers and horses were gathered, and Ding Deyu ordered that the unorganized defeated troops be expelled quickly. At this time, it was the right straight soldiers who began to escape, Liang Zhengrui hesitated for a moment, and only realized the seriousness when Ding Deyu sent someone over for the third time to ask for the expulsion of the rout in front of the battalion as soon as possible. With this hesitation, there is no more chance.

Seeing more than 500 horsemen of the Tang Army rushing out of the city, Liang Zhengrui was shocked. There are few war horses in the south, and the war horses of each department are often horses for middle and senior generals, and occasionally there is a surplus, which is also used by prospectors or heralds. The war horses purchased by Li Congyi are also quite indiscriminate, but they are also horses. The war horse is not good, Li Congyi only has light cavalry for the time being, but in the general battlefield, light cavalry is enough.

Gu Dazhuang immediately divided the part into three strands, and used a conical array to cut the defeated troops outside the east gate. In the face of the cavalry onslaught, Wu Yue's sergeants panicked. Gu Dazhuang smiled evilly, just stretched out his right hand, and the saber was pulled on the neck of a junior colonel, and the high-speed running war horse drove the saber to cut off the person's neck like cutting butter, and blood spurted out of the neck. Then he swiped the back of another rout in front of him, cutting almost half of his body open.

Liang Zhengrui saw the cavalry attacking in front of the battalion, and he knew that it was going to be bad. hurriedly returned to the barracks, and ordered people to close the camp gate desperately, but Gu Dazhuang only charged, and the rout in front of the camp could no longer be stopped, but they rushed towards the barracks. Liang Zhengrui's personal guards were scattered, and the command of the rout troops that had just been collected was ineffective, and the camp gate was crushed down and collapsed by the rout, and then there were cavalry rushing in, and the rout soldiers in the barracks went crazy again, but fled one after another.

Liang Zhengrui saw that there was no way, so he hurriedly ran to the tent of the Chinese army, found Qian Weizhi who was in a hurry, helped him on the horse and left: "My lord, go quickly!" ”