Four days later.

The interior of Tessy County is littered with rubble and ruins.

The houses in the city, near the edge of the city walls, have been almost completely demolished, and several large open spaces have appeared.

At first, the people in the city were able to hold on to the city for the time being with enthusiasm to help defend the city, but later the offensive of Chen Wenlong's army became more and more fierce, and the tactics of tired troops day and night were tiring.

Panic began to begin in the city, and some people began to try to escape, and although they were all captured by the guards, they had little resistance.

Chang Yuan's 5,000 soldiers were even more than 2,000 at this time.

Coupled with the passive resistance of the people, the difficulty of defending the city was greatly increased.

"Big brother, I have caught another group of people who want to escape, our brothers are tired enough to defend the city, and we have to prevent them from secretly dragging them from behind, or we will directly push them to the city wall!"

A hot-tempered general proposed.

Wang Hanting frowned, "General, no, if we look at it like this, the people in the city will be afraid of us." "When the time comes, I'm afraid that the people who are still helping them defend the city together will try their best to escape.

"Send someone to pass it on, and say that the imperial army will slaughter the city after it is broken, and if you don't help, after the city is broken, everyone will not be able to run. Let them hold out for another three days, and in three days there will be reinforcements. ”

Chang Yuan was hit by an arrow in the arm, and after a simple bandaging to stop the bleeding, he didn't even dare to have time to rest, and immediately went to the barracks to sit down.

Chen Wenlong naturally wouldn't preach anything about slaughtering the city, Chang Yuan's resistance had already made him feel bored if he couldn't attack for a long time, if he was preaching the matter of slaughtering the city, wouldn't this force the people in the city to stand with Chang Yuan and them?

Chang Yuan's move was just deliberately tying up the people's with them.

Although the people of the city also went to the city walls to help defend the city, most of them were under the city walls.

Although Chang Yuan didn't let the people go with him to defend the city for the time being, he was only responsible for carrying things and the wounded, but I am afraid that he would not last long.

There are fewer and fewer soldiers on the city wall, and if there are no people to make up for it, I am afraid that Chen Wenlong will not be able to stop him.

The people in the city don't know if the imperial army said that they want to slaughter the city for the time being, and when Chang Yuan said that the imperial court wants to slaughter the city, the people are even more panicked, but it is a desperate panic.

They can't run, let alone let the imperial army attack them.

There was no way out, but the people in the city twisted into a rope instead, and no longer thought about escaping, after all, even if they could run out of the city, the court army outside surrounded them, wouldn't it be death to run out? Originally, I thought that they were just ordinary people, and the luck of those soldiers who might let them go disappeared completely.

Outside the gate of Taixi County.

"This Chang Yuan is really a tiger father without a dog." Chen Wenlong looked emotional.

In just over two years, such a force has been established, and it is one of the major bandit leaders in the north.

It's a pity that such a teaching material is actually an enemy of the imperial court.

"General Chen, I'm afraid the last general won't be able to hold out in the city for a few days, Zhu Zhanping and they helped contain Chang Yuan's men in the north, they won't be able to come in a short time, but Taizhou Mansion is also Chang Yuan's, and the two places are so close to each other, if we don't hurry up and take Taixi County, I'm afraid that when Taizhou Mansion reacts, it will attack back and forth with Taixi County and besiege us."

"If Your Majesty knows that we have returned in vain, I am afraid that he will be furious."

Winter is not suitable for fighting at all, not to mention that the north is already colder faster, Chen Wenlong does not want to march in winter at all, and the winter battle is very harmful to the soldiers, but the emperor's order is difficult, and he can only obey orders.

"General Hao, don't worry, let's take Taixi County tomorrow, presumably the rolling wood has been done, right?"

The back of the city gate in Taixi County was already piled up with all kinds of debris, which were used to block the city gate and were pushed open from the outside.

Chen Wenlong's army did not carry much siege equipment, because it was inconvenient to cross the river.

In the past few days, he sent his soldiers into the mountains, found a huge rolling log, and hurried it out overnight, so that it could be put into use tomorrow.

It was late at night, but the city walls of Taixing County were still brightly lit, and there were patrolling soldiers everywhere.

I thought there would be a sneak attack tonight, but I didn't expect the imperial army to let them spend the night so peacefully.

Chang Yuan had only slept for two hours last night, and he was on the city wall at this time, looking at Chen Wenlong's tent in the distance.

There was a faint trace of uneasiness in his heart, and he called Wang Hanting, "I have an ominous premonition in my heart, and I sent people to keep an eye on the city gates everywhere, so that my brothers under him should be vigilant, I am afraid that we will have a hard battle today." ”

Chang Yuan's military talent is undoubtedly admirable, otherwise he would not have made so many veteran generals willing to follow him, and even many veterans in the imperial court joined him and became thieves.

This allowed him to pull up a force in the north in such a short period of time.

After Chang Yuan's words were finished, Wang Hanting's face was serious and he looked solemn.

Over the past few days, his armor had become bloodied, and his face had long since become stubble.

To tell the truth, if the other party brought siege equipment, they might not be able to defend until today, Chen Wenlong's soldiers are different from the soldiers under other court officers, although his soldiers are also paid empty, and there is not much military salary, but there is one point, all the soldiers under his command are well fed!

I also dare to fight more!

Chen Wenlong does not drink the blood of soldiers like other officers, he tries his best to support the team within his ability, and it can be said that the soldiers under him are not so much to serve the imperial court as to serve Chen Wenlong.

"Don't worry, General, the last general has sent people to patrol around."

Chang Yuan looked at the imperial military camp in the distance where a fire was being lit to make food and smoke was rising, and the uneasiness in his heart gradually expanded.

"General, go down and get something to eat first." Wang Hanting. Walked to Chang Yuan's side and said.

Chang Yuan glanced into the distance again, and then went down the city wall.

The food during the war was more abundant than usual, not only the food was full, but also some meat.

After eating, Chang Yuan went to patrol a wounded barracks, and there were constantly civilians, carrying the dead soldiers out of the wounded barracks.

His face was a little ugly, and many times the soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but died in the barracks after coming down from the battlefield.

He looked at these wounded soldiers, but the food was worse than theirs, he didn't say anything about the flesh at all, and he couldn't eat enough, so he called the barracks man in charge.

Chang Yuan asked sharply, "Why are they all soldiers in the army, and that's how you treat the injured robe?!" ”

The man smiled wryly, "General, it's not that I don't want to give them good food, it's just that we have to give priority to our soldiers who defend the city." Besides, they are afraid that ...... "will not survive."