The clothes and armor are mottled with knife marks and gun marks, Xu Mao used to be the guard general of the border army of Qi State, he has fought several battles, and he has never had the fierceness of these days, the army has been constantly defeated, and the morale and military spirit have been hit to a low point.

is like a weapon blank in a wrought iron furnace, repeatedly ravaged and beaten, even he didn't notice, before only a group of defeated troops who would only fight with the wind and dogs, gradually, were knocked out of the outline of the weapon.

"Ready—"

He hurried forward, raised his blood-stained knife, and opened his parched lips to roar. Xu Jinwu, Zhao Ji'an, and Han Jinsu beside him raised their respective weapons and returned to the reorganized military formation.

Woo!!

The horn of the siege sounded again, and the 50,000 army formations, the four battalions in the front, nearly 8,000 people stepped forward, slowly moved, and the faces of the remnants showed the madness of being in a desperate situation, and the infantry shield held the shield to protect the comrades who carried the ladder and began to advance towards the city wall.

The archers followed behind the infantry shields with their arrows on their strings, while the soldiers who were about to climb the city walls followed without any cover, and followed at a distance of five or six feet.

Under the banner of the Chinese army's 'Xu', the blade in Xu Mao's hand was chopped: "- Siege!" ”

The trumpet of the enveloping order sounded in the midst of the army.

The team that was originally slowly advancing the infantry shield and the cloud ladder suddenly accelerated, and their steps were extremely fast, after all, the slow people had already died in the previous few Liang State cavalry pursuits, and those who could survive to this time were all vigorous people in the army.

Stepping into the distance where arrows could be shot on the city, the Tuoba Zongju on the head of the city raised his hand with a solemn face, and the archers who had already been ready stood up behind the wall battlements or shields, and launched a volley at the group of figures rushing downward.

The arrows were like locusts, and the black pressure covered the city.

Feathered arrows soaked in gold juice fell in the thousands, stretching for miles at the foot of the city wall. The remnants of the onslaught wore shields and protected their comrades beside them.

The next second was a 'crackling' sound like a downpour of rain, and a dense stream of arrows struck the shield on one side of the side, and then bounced off or stuck in it.

There are also arrows that penetrate the gaps in the shield and nail the shoulders and necks of people, and the screams of pain suddenly sound under the shield, but the speed of the remnants of the soldiers is extremely fast, and they don't pay attention to the comrades who fell to the ground after the arrows. ”

One breath!

At the foot of the stretching city wall, dozens of hundreds of ladders were pushed from the hands of these soldiers to the city wall, and the iron hook at the top firmly hooked the wall bricks at the same time, the first soldier held the back of the knife, jumped up, stepped on the ladder and rushed up, the upper Liang Guo archer was an arrow downward, and the arrow was inserted in the shoulder and neck of the remnant soldier who climbed the city, and when the blood overflowed, the remnant soldier still rushed forward with his hands and feet, until he was hit by a few more arrows, and then fell straight down from the ladder.

The second remnant soldier followed closely, and when he climbed up the cold wall battlement, he dragged his body with a few arrows and jumped up to the city, brandishing his blade and rushing towards the nearby Liang soldiers, swords and spears intersected, flesh and blood were splashed, and the screams of people were fired, and the ignited rockets were shot at the people, dragging the flames of the figure running at the head of the city, and then being stabbed to death by the Liang soldiers with spears, pushing the corpse and falling off the city wall with flames.

In the field outside the city, the five hundred light horsemen who barely managed to make up were also sent out by Xu Mao, cruising under the city and throwing their bows towards the city, trying to give insignificant cover to the soldiers who ascended the city.

After four days, the tragic siege appeared again at the head of the city.

"Section B of the city wall on the right wing, send two teams to force those Xia soldiers back to the cloud ladder!"

The order given by the Tuoba Zongju looked small on the hysterical city wall, and when the herald who approached heard the order, he rushed to the front and waved the command flag on the top of the city.

After a few more heralds left with Zongju's orders, he personally led his team to kill several enemies who rushed up the city wall on the left side of the city gate and pushed them down.

All kinds of screams, screams, and the sound of swords and soldiers colliding were mixed together, making his ears 'buzz', and Tuoba Zong's "Ah! With a sound, he waved a long knife and slashed to death a remnant of the Qi State who had just emerged, and the blade continued to carry the internal force to splash the wood chips at the front end of the ladder connected to the grappling hook.

"Uncle! Uncle! I led the cavalry out of the city and charged them at the rear! In the distance, Tuoba Congwu rushed over with his own soldiers, covered in blood, shouting and dodging the stray arrows flying up from under the city.

Tuoba Zongju retreated, several pro-soldiers hurriedly raised their shields to block a few flying cold arrows in front of him, behind his shield wall, turned around and yelled vigorously: "Don't go out of the city......"

After roaring this, he pulled Congwu over, and his tone softened: "It's not time yet!" ”

But the high-spirited Tuoba Congwu, broke away from his uncle's hand, squeezed off the shield in front, rushed to the female wall, poked his head out and took a look outside, the city wall that stretched for several miles, the Qi army that was slaughtered by him like cattle and sheep before, was climbing the city wall desperately, this kind of strong offensive was completely unprecedented before.

This made Tuoba Congwu completely feel the naked provocation, he reached out and grabbed the arrow flying towards the door in front of him, snapped it in his hand, retreated behind the shield wall, and said in a roaring manner towards Tuoba Zongju:

"These Qi troops don't remember to fight, we can't let them continue to attack the city like this, they won't be able to hold it-"

"Hold on! Who said it couldn't be kept! ”

Tuoba Zongju loves this emerging young general, his own group of people is already old, and the Liang State needs young generals like Tuoba Congwu to support him in the future.

"You are not allowed to lead troops out of the city, first guard the city wall, once the morale of this remnant soldier passes, it will definitely not last long!"

Outside the city wall, Xu Mao and others attacked the soldiers and horses under their command like a tidal wave, and inside the city wall, the people in Taikang City were like ant colonies frantically carrying the wood and stones guarding the city.

"Throw!" The generals behind the battlements were replenished with new equipment and screamed loudly.

The newly carried logs and stones were thrown from the hands of the soldiers, and some boiling oil was ignited in the pouring, turning into a sea of fire pouring down, pouring on the ladder and the remnants of the Qi State under the ladder.

10,000 Tuoba soldiers, counting the original 20,000 defenders of Taikang, the soldiers of the three county towns, the strength of defending the city is more than 50,000 people, and the other three gates are also stationed with 10,000, there are still 20,000 people here, and it is completely enough to face the 50,000 enemies attacking the city.

But this group of remnants of the Qi State who were constantly defeated and constantly provoked this time, it was completely different from before, almost in a fanatical state, and launched a fierce attack on the entire southern city wall.

And he was keenly aware that the difference this time may be related to the elite cavalry of the Xia State stationed behind the Qi State surrender army, and the other party should have come to supervise the battle, which is why he did not let Tuoba go out of the city from the martial arts, once this Qi State surrender army was defeated again, the Xia State cavalry over there would inevitably attack.

In other words, this surrendered army is actually a decoy, waiting for the Fushan army of Tuoba Congwu to go out of the city!

"Don't let you be fooled!"

When he retreated to the city tower to rest, the fierce siege battle had lasted for two full hours, and it was almost noon, and there was still no sign of the collection of troops from the side of the Qi army.

And the light cavalry of 500 people on the other side was still galloping under the city, suppressing the archers of the Liang army at the head of the city.

……

Eight miles away from Taikang City, four miles away from Xu Mao and other descending troops, on the hill, is a cavalry team of 5,000 people, with the words "Xiang" and "Lu" written on the tooth banner hunting and flying.

In front of the cavalry, there were two leaders, one of them was a beast-faced head swallowing chain armor, a golden crown on his head, a pair of long feathers were erected high, and they were bent backwards to their backs, and under them was a scarlet robe of a flying smoke red cloud horse was also agitated in the wind.

The other rode a large black horse, covered with a black coat, and on the inside was a silver armor carved with war paints, and did not wear an iron helmet, but had his hair neatly combed.

The two of them looked at the picture of the siege in the distance from afar, and used light words to give some simple comments on the siege battle in front of them.

"Barely acceptable." Xiang Yu looked at the city wall over there and said lightly.

"Compared with Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army, it's still too far behind."

Lu Bu also looked over there, and snorted coldly between his mouth and nose.

(End of chapter)