Shi Min was ruthless to Zhang Liang, but he was good to Li Yue, and distributed one-third of the equipment in the arsenal to the Black Cloud Army.

Iron armor, bows and arrows, spears, swords, and the crossbow machine that Li Yue wanted the most.

Bows and arrows require long-term training, and the physical requirements for soldiers are extremely high, in fact, archers have always been composed of elite members in the army, and a strong man will not have any discomfort if he swings a hundred knives in a row, but even a strong man can not bear a hundred arrows in a row.

However, crossbows do not require long-term training, have high stability, and have a longer range, so that soldiers can become proficient after practicing for an hour.

Shi Min transferred the remaining 8,000 old and weak to Chang Wei to take care of.

The formation of these people has long been broken up, their morale is low, they lack food and clothing, and many of them are wounded.

Chang Wei was not proficient in military affairs, and he did not have the mind to manage it, so he finally fell to Li Yue.

Fortunately, there are a large number of reserve officers in the Black Cloud Army, who were directly transferred to serve as temporary tun commanders and dubo.

He also opened a special hospital in the city to treat the lightly and seriously injured.

Whatever is missing, in a word, Zheng Du can send it within an hour.

In this way, Li Yue was a little impressed by him, the children of the Zheng family are not wine bags and rice bags, Zheng Du can climb to the position of Xingyang Taishou with two thousand stones, and it is not enough to rely on the family shade alone.

Many of the reserve officers knew how to do some simple bandaging and care and assisted Li Yue in treating the wounded.

The lives of those who survived in this era were very hard, and it was impossible for those who were too seriously injured to withdraw to Xingyang.

After two or three busy days, the wounded soldiers looked at Li Yue differently, with a little gratitude in awe.

The 100,000-strong army that followed Li Nong to quell the rebellion was divided into three parts, one part was the Qianren led by Zhang Hedu, one part was the standing army of Yecheng, and the other part was the beggar army from all walks of life.

It's not that the beggar army can't fight, it's just that it's being coerced by defeat.

Shi Min didn't look down on them, Li Yuelai didn't refuse, and every time he saved another person, he had more combat power.

Without Zhang Liang, the city was harmonious.

Shi Min trained his soldiers day and night, ate and lived together, and was bold, and soon won the trust of the new army.

Li Yue's 4,000 Heiyun Army, 2,000 Jingxiang Army, 8,000 Beggar Army, and 5,000 Xingyang Defenders led by Zheng Hui have nearly 20,000 troops in their hands.

Commanding 10,000 men in battle is a threshold.

Historically, many people have performed well in wars with less than 10,000 people, but if there are more than 10,000 people, it will be a mess.

Liu Xuande's soldiers were less than 10,000, and he would only be imprisoned by Zhang Zhao, but he was able to defeat the tens of thousands of troops of Xiahoudun and Yu Ban in the battle of Bowangpo.

But in the big battles of less than 10,000 people, Liu Bei fought well.

More than 10,000 people were defeated, and in the battle of Yiling, 50,000 Shu Han elites were burned by Lu Xun......

Li Yue ordered Zhu Xu's troops to defend the northern city, Chen Duan's troops to defend the southern city, Zheng Hui to defend the eastern city, and Liang Xiao to defend the western city.

The Black Cloud Army rested in the city in case of emergency.

A team of 1,000 people was specially set up to supervise the war, so that Hu Yanhei, Yang Luo, and Zhang Zhu'er took turns to inspect the four city walls day and night.

In the next battle of the Tiger Prison, the Black Cloud Army has already shown its strength.

Wherever the Overseer team appeared, they were silent, not daring to resist in the slightest.

The sound of whipping every day also restored the morale of the beggar army a lot.

At the same time, Li Yue also requisitioned the already small number of people in the city to repair the city walls, empty the houses under the inner city walls, and arrange antlers, trenches, and traps to prepare for street fighting.

Send people to the Wu family, Jingxian, and the Zheng family, asking them to retreat to Heiyun Mountain first and temporarily avoid the edge of the thief army.

Although the morale of Liang Li's 100,000 rebels was low, their combat strength should not be underestimated.

According to common sense, this war will definitely continue, unless Shi Min can really create a miracle, or Shi Bin of Liyang can figure it out, and then the two sides will work together to encircle and suppress the thief army.

Thinking about it carefully, it is more likely that Shi Min will create a miracle.

Li Yue only knew that Shi Min in history was definitely a fierce man.

Four or five days later, the thieves came from the west in smoke and dust and surrounded Xingyang.

After the crushing defeat in the previous battle, the morale of the Colliers Janissaries was much worse than before, and instead of storming as usual, they planned to besiege the city for a long time in a deep ditch and high fortification.

The thieves rode out in the early morning and drove the people back in the evening.

Every day, you can faintly hear the screams and wails coming from the enemy camp......

After besieging the city for three days, he finally couldn't hold it anymore and drove thousands of unarmed people to attack the city.

The cry was terrible.

This is their traditional trick, and it has been used in the attack on Black Cloud Mountain.

Li Yue had no mercy that day, and it is even more impossible now, only by surviving himself can he avenge them in the future.

And now, we can only give them a happy time to avoid the torture of the karma......

A crossbow machine shot down, and the unarmed man fell in a pool of blood.

The blood also irritated the thief army.

Thousands of iron-clad thieves rushed out of the barracks, roaring and shouting forward, cutting down the people who were still standing to the ground and laughing fiercely.

It seems that only by torturing others can you realize your own strength.

The thief army attacked Dongcheng, which was defended by Zheng Hui.

On the four city walls, although Zheng Hui's Xingyang defenders were numerous, they were the weakest one.

Encountering the crazy Colliers guards, one of them became in a hurry and was attacked on the city wall several times.

"Chief, Captain Zheng asks for reinforcements!" Less than half an hour after the start of the war, Zheng Hui's request for help came.

Li Yue refused with a cold face, "Go back and tell him that there are no reinforcements, and all the supervising teams will go to the East Side, retreat one person and kill another, and retreat one to kill another!" ”

"Command!" Hu Yanhei saluted with one hand, his face full of murder.

Ci is not in charge of the army, support is not used like this, the enemy army has 100,000 troops, support now, what will be done in the future?

Most likely, this was just a test by the enemy.

I don't know how long this big battle will last.

Shi Min said that the enemy army would be broken within 20 days, and Li Yue felt that he still had to make preparations with both hands.

Half of Xingyang City belongs to the Zheng family, of course they have to contribute!

However, just in case, Li Yue ordered Zhu Xu in the north city and Chen Duan in the south city to prepare support.

People were forced out, and after the overseers went up, they cut off hundreds of deserters' heads and hung them on the flagpole, and the effect was immediate.

Zheng Hui drove down the Collian guards who had attacked the city wall, and repelled three attacks by the thief army in a row.

And so the day's fighting stopped.

But that's just the beginning.

In the evening, the thieves launched a night attack, attacking from both the north and the south at the same time.

The momentum was huge, not comparable to the size of the thousands of people during the day.

Rows of rockets streaked across the sky and landed on the city walls.

Then came the sword and shield hands, and the axe-wielding armor mixed in the mix, slamming into the walls like a tidal wave.

A fierce battle ensued.

Zhu Xu and Chen Duan both had only 2,000 people, but they all showed their due combat power.

Especially Zhu Xu's Jingxiang army, all of them are the elite of Huan Wen's subordinates, especially good at defending the city, heavy crossbows from afar, rolling stones and wood fire oil nearby, Zhu Xu personally raised a knife to command in the front, and the fight was in full swing, and the thief army did not attack the city wall once.

And Chen Duan in Nancheng is a different style.

There is no need for crossbow arrows, wood and stones, everyone is armed with spears, and as long as the head of the thief army is exposed, there will be six or seven spears piercing at the same time.

Even if a brave axe-wielding warrior climbed the city wall, he would be pierced into a hedgehog by a spear prepared in advance.

In the middle of the night, no one was sent to ask for help.

(End of chapter)