The bandit camp on the side of Metasequoia City was significantly more alert than the side behind it. Although the wind and snow were getting heavier and heavier at this time, the horse bandit sentries standing guard and patrolling still noticed the abnormality.

First of all, inside the camp, the tent that had been cut by the Starfall Knife attracted the attention of the passing patrols. When the guards got into the tent and saw the corpse with a different body inside, they were so frightened that they hurriedly sounded the gong to warn them, which instantly alarmed the entire camp.

The sentry guarding the fence heard the sound of the gong and immediately became alert. They took a closer look, and soon found Li Jiangyao and the others who were hiding near the fence, and rushed over with a shout.

Seeing that his whereabouts were exposed, Li Jiangyao gritted his teeth, suddenly lifted his internal force, jumped into the air with a whoosh, and almost avoided the arrows shot by the horse bandits, and then turned over in the air and flew directly out of the fence.

With his feet touching the ground, Li Jiangyao did not dare to delay at all, and immediately launched a light skill with all his strength, rushing forward desperately, desperately trying to widen the distance between him and the horse bandit camp.

What he was most afraid of at this time was the archers on the other side guarding the high place, and with only a dozen hard bows, it was very likely that he would take the life of the girl behind him.

Things were as he expected, the ghost alliance horse bandits reacted extremely quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the archers on the arrow tower of the camp had already bent their bows and arrows and shot in their direction.

Li Jiangyao sighed helplessly, so he could only stop and turn around, pull out the starfall knife to block the dense arrows, and retreat while fighting.

As a result, the precious escape time was immediately delayed, and the situation took a turn for the worse. The three camp gates closest to him opened one after another, and hundreds of horse bandits and cavalry swarmed out and rushed towards Li Jiangyao and the others.

This is the end of the order! Li Jiangyao secretly screamed in his heart: On the plains and wilderness, not to mention that he was still carrying a weak woman on his back at this time, even if he was alone, it would be difficult to resist the group charge of so many cavalry.

Even though he had retreated out of the archers' range, it was difficult for the other party to pose any threat to him and the girl. But the cavalry roaring in front of them was even more terrifying than the rain of arrows, and it only took a few breaths for the two of them to be swept into the tide of war horses.

Li Jiangyao knew that he couldn't outrun the enemy who was speeding up and sprinting, and instead of being tortured and killed in the process of fleeing in the wilderness, it was better to give it a go and kill one by one!

He immediately let out a loud shout, shook the long knife in his hand, and faced the rapidly approaching horse bandit cavalry without fear.

But at this moment, in the direction of Metasequoia City behind him, a dense sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded.

"Long live my emperor!" The charging battle horn of the Zhenjiang Protectorate exploded in his ears like thunder.

It was the brothers in the Pegasus Scout Camp who slapped their horses and killed them!

Li Jiangyao's body shook up, and he no longer hesitated for a minute, and immediately turned around and ran.

It turned out that Lin Feng, who had been guarding the city, had already arranged for his subordinates to quietly raise the iron gate of the north gate, and when the city gate was opened, two hundred heavily armored cavalry secretly lined up behind the gate, ready to receive Li Jiangyao into the city at any time.

As soon as the horse bandit camp was in chaos, Lin Feng flew on his horse, personally led the team out of the city, and galloped towards the opposite side.

The distance between the two sides was not far in the first place, and the distance of 1,800 paces was a matter of moments for the cavalry.

Li Jiangyao rushed forward with the girl on his back, and when he saw that he was about to be caught up by the nearest horse bandit, a javelin suddenly flew head-on, hitting the horse bandit cavalryman's chest and directly nailing him to the ground.

At the same time, a horse slammed out, knocking another bandit close to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, countless Pegasus scouts rushed over one after another, blocking the way of the ghost alliance horse bandits head-on, strangling with the other party, and successfully protecting Li Jiangyao and the others tightly behind them.

A familiar voice sounded in his ears: "Chief, are you alright?" ”

Li Jiangyao closed his eyes when he heard this, and let out a long breath: "Lin Feng, I owe you a life. ”

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Ma Mu's first reaction when he saw Li Jiangyao was to rush forward, hug him tightly, and cry with joy.

"Old horse, don't get excited, snot rubs against me!" Li Jiangyao used all his strength to break free from Ma Mu's bear hug, his face full of disgust.

Ma Mu smiled happily: "My lord, you're finally back, it's good to come back......"

Li Jiangyao shook his head helplessly: "What is the current situation with metasequoia?" ”

Lin Feng reported: "The enemy appeared at sunrise this morning, and the size was about three to forty thousand people. They had intended to launch a sneak attack, but our scouts spotted them twenty miles away. In accordance with your predetermined strategy, I will immediately put the whole city on alert. In that case. The other party had no choice but to turn a sneak attack into a strong attack. ”

"By the evening the enemy had withdrawn their troops, and they had launched a total of three large-scale attacks, all concentrated in the direction of Metasequoia's east gate. The other three were feints, seven or eight times in total, but they were all repulsed by us. ”

Li Jiangyao bowed slightly: "Very good, Lin Feng, and Ma Mu, you all did a good job today!" What about casualties on both sides? ”

"The enemy's losses are estimated to be about three or four thousand, and more than 200 people were killed on our side, and nearly 1,000 were wounded." Lin Feng lowered his head in annoyance: "Boss, I didn't command well, I'm sorry for those dead and injured brothers." ”

Faced with the bad situation that half of the defenders were hanging up the lottery, Li Jiangyao couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart, he raised his hand and patted Lin Feng's shoulder: "Brother, don't say that, it's already very good to be able to hold it." The enemy's strength is twenty times that of ours, and the only way to fight to the death is to the death, depending on who commands it. ”

Ma Mu was worried beside him: "My lord, what should I do next?" I never imagined that this time the Turks would come again. ”

Lin Feng said in a deep voice: "Don't be afraid! Before the enemy besieged the city, I had already sent fast horses to ask for help, and as long as I survived these few days, I could wait for reinforcements. ”

Hearing this, Li Jiangyao was silent and did not answer.

There are all indications that the current situation is by no means a whim of the Ghost League or the Turkic Empire.

Rather, it's a big, well-planned chess game.

Prior to this, the Zhenjiang army had lost its troops because of the battle, and then it was exhausted by horse bandits. By now, the garrison of the Zhenjiang Protectorate, located west of the Anxi Kingdom, has been extremely dispersed.

Perhaps at this moment, other places are in trouble similar to theirs.

Reinforcements? I'm afraid I can't count on it.

However, thinking like this, Li Jiangyao couldn't say it in front of everyone. Otherwise, once morale is weakened, that is the real danger.

The most important thing to defend the city is faith. Only faith is the fundamental strength to persevere to the end.

And the source of confidence must be a solid victory.

Thinking of this, Li Jiangyao said calmly: "What Lin Feng said is right. At present, Metasequoia City wants people and money, not only the city walls are tall and strong, but there is almost nothing in the city. We watched the stove, drank the sheep soup, and watched the fools outside sleeping in the cold tents, which alone was much better than them. Want to siege the city? Then you have to ask if you agree to the bow and arrow in your hand! ”

"That's right! Hahaha-" The soldiers were refreshed when they heard this. They suddenly found that it didn't seem to be too bad to be surrounded by the enemy in Metasequoia City.

Li Jiangyao saw that his morale was boosted, and he turned to Lin Feng and said, "Defending the city is the most taboo to defend the city, we must do something to come out, and we can't let the enemy stop too much." ”

"Something?" Lin Feng was slightly surprised: "With this amount of troops right now, is it possible to attack it?" ”

"Then why not?" Li Jiangyao smiled: "Even you don't believe that we have the ability to attack, let alone the enemy." That's what I want to do to take advantage of and surprise them! ”

Lin Feng and Ma Mu couldn't help but look at each other, secretly praising this captain for being full of courage.

In any case, the other side is also an army of thirty or forty thousand, and there are Turkic warriors involved, purely in terms of combat power, today has not been exhausted, causing nearly half of the casualties of the Metasequoia defenders, and the terrible degree should not be underestimated.

In this case, Li Jiangyao actually has to take the initiative to attack, and he may not have the courage to change any general who protects the mansion.

However, Lin Feng had an almost blind trust in his boss, who was born in the martial arts hall, and he replied loudly: "But according to the orders of the adults, I am willing to be the pioneer of the whole battalion!" ”

"If the pioneer is not a pioneer, we will talk about it when the time comes." Li Jiangyao waved his hand: "At the moment, we have another important matter, which must be started immediately." ”

Ma Mu was curious: "What's important?" Aren't you going to sleep tonight? ”

Li Jiangyao showed a hint of a smile: "Sleeping is the top priority, of course it can't be delayed." However, it is only to let the troops who are about to go out of the city to fight. The rest of the people, including some of the people in the city, need to cheer up and play a big show with me. ”

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A scuffle outside the north gate of Metasequoia alarmed all the coalition soldiers and horses surrounding the city.

As the commander of the coalition forces, Duolun, the commander of the Iron Pigeon Army, was also taken aback by the big movement over there. He also thought that the defenders in the city were planning to break through in the middle of the night, so he immediately ordered the entire road to be on alert, ready to block at any time.

However, after waiting for a long time, nothing happened. While Doren was wondering himself, the leader of the Ghost Alliance, Gelhan, hurried to him and reported to him that someone had stolen the camp, and his general, Anlu, had been assassinated.

Then a fierce battle broke out between the soldiers and horses of the Ghost League and the Holy Tang Army on the north side of Metasequoia, and the horse bandits suffered a big loss, and the assassin who came to sneak attack has also been taken back to the city.

After listening to the other party's story, Duolun was so angry that his head hurt: just for this big, he almost blew up the camp?!

Nearly 30,000 Turkic soldiers didn't sleep in the middle of the night, got up to put on clothes and armor, and then poked in the field to drink the northwest wind, just because your ghost alliance was negligent in and was sneaked in by the Holy Tang people to kill a fool?

How unreasonable!

Gerhan was also very depressed. At the beginning of the night, he also personally came out to patrol the sentry and deliberately strengthened the vigilance in the direction of Metasequoia City, precisely for fear of being attacked by the enemy in the dark.

But what is puzzling is how the Zhenjiang army can sneak into the camp without knowing it under their high alert? Hell yes!

On the first day of the siege war, a general in his battalion died for no reason, saying that bad luck was light! It's just unreasonable.

As a coalition partner who is cooperating, Duolun, as the commander-in-chief, is not good at reprimanding Gelhan too much, and he can also see that the other party is annoyed in his heart, worried that the blame will be heavy, which will affect the future cooperation.

So, Duolun suppressed his anger, Wen Yan comforted Gelhan twice, and by the way, told the other party to pay attention to precautions, and then ordered the whole army to continue to rest.

Back in his tent, Duolun took off his armor while secretly scolding the rabble of the Ghost League for being unreliable, who knew that before he had time to lie down, he heard a sudden explosion of "boom-pop" outside, and then the whole sky lit up.

Taken aback, Duolun hurriedly looked out, followed by several explosions that resounded through the night sky. He hurriedly put on his cloak and ran outside the tent, and found fireworks being set off at the head of what turned out to be Metasequoia City.

Bang bang bang, bright fireworks flew up from the city wall, bursting out huge flower clusters, purple and red for a while, very beautiful.

Not only was Duolun stunned by the scene in front of him, but even the Turkic soldiers who had already slept in the tent were all attracted at this time, pointing to the night sky in groups and discussing, unable to figure out what the defenders were doing.

Duolun subconsciously looked around, and found that there were soldiers wrapped in quilts everywhere with blank faces, and his heart couldn't help but tighten, and he hurriedly shouted: "Honking the horn to gather!" Prepare for enemy night attacks! ”