See the fastest updates

Dusk arrives as scheduled, twilight hangs low on the earth, the vast sky is like an endless canvas, and large chunks of colorful clouds are brilliant and colorful, blooming with magnificent splendor.

More than 30,000 forbidden soldiers slowly pressed towards Liyang City from the east, west, and north at the same time, and the battle was about to break out.

After a full day's rest, the soldier's physical strength was greatly restored. In order to prepare for the all-night battle, the army had just eaten a full meal before it set out, and now was the time to boost morale and fight high.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said "Ten rules to surround it", but Yuwen Chengdu did not do it. To the south of Liyang City, he did not arrange a single soldier. Of course, this was not done out of the benevolence of the open side, but to try to prevent the defenders of the city from fighting to the death.

The majestic sound of the horn sounded in the vast field, and the 10,000-foot army gradually accelerated and surged towards Liyang City like a tide from three directions.

Stone bullets and arrows smashed into the city like a rain of locusts, and a death squad led by Long Zhenwu broke through the moat like an arrow from the string to the east gate of Liyang City.

The strange thing is that the Sui army has rushed to the bottom of the city, and there is still a dead silence on the city tower, only the flags are fluttering.

"Boom!" The car slammed open the closed city gate, and Longzhen Wujian was the first to enter the city.

The street was empty, and there was not a single figure in sight, only a newly built earthen wall and criss-crossed deer firewood in the middle of the road, and all the horizontal and vertical slogans were written in coke, such as "This road is not passable, turn back to the shore", "Put down the butcher's knife, immediately become a ghost", "Fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-dung pit", "Brother, your grandmother told you to go to her house for dinner", and so on.

Long Zhenwu grabbed the reins, looked around in amazement, and was a little confused about the reality of the city for a while.

Could it be that Liyang has become an empty city, but why has it not received a report from the scouts? And looking at the situation in front of him, it is not like the Wagang army abandoned the city and fled.

"General, something seems wrong. A lieutenant beside him said suspiciously.

Long Zhenwu raised his eyes to look at Liyang Cang, bathed in the slanting sun in the distance, and said with a sneer: "This group of grass robbers is not all incompetent, knowing that Lu Dao wants to defend a huge city with a rabble of 3,000, he will inevitably take care of this and lose the other and be exhausted, so he simply retreats all the horses into Liyang Cang, trying to concentrate his forces to fight me to the death." ”

He raised his sword and pointed at Liyangcang, shouting: "The whole army is assaulting, there is no advance or retreat!" Rushing into the street with his legs between the horse's belly.

In an instant, he rushed to the first line of deer wood, and the horse was speeding up and rumbling with hooves ready to leap over.

How do you know that Longzhen Wutu felt a sinking body, and with a "boom", even people and horses fell into the pit.

He reacted so quickly that he jumped out of the saddle and spun in the air and fell to the side of the road like a big bird.

Hearing the muffled sound of "bang" coming from the pit, the war horses sighed and wailed, and a pungent smell rose to the sky.

Long Zhenwu looked into the pit with a mixture of anger and saw that his mount had fallen into the yellow and white things at the bottom of the pit, and the more he struggled, the faster he sank.

Seeing this, the Sui army behind him hurriedly reined in his war horse, so as not to fall into the stinking dung pit, and the queue suddenly became stagnant and chaotic.

At this moment, the sound of "sigh" was sprinkled from the roof, and a puff of lime powder was sprinkled from the roof, and it was overwhelming and drifting in the wind.

Many Sui soldiers were caught off guard and were sprinkled with lime powder, and their eyes were painful and they couldn't see.

Long Zhen Wuyun's palm shook the lime powder around his body, and shouted: "Be careful, there is an ambush-"

Before the words fell, a rain of arrows suddenly shot out from the houses on both sides of the street, and more than a dozen Sui soldiers were brought down in an instant.

"Smack!" Long Zhenwu believed that he was superb, and he slammed open a door and broke into a house on the side of the street, but there was no one inside.

"Authentic!" Long Zhen Wu snorted in his nose, and his spiritual sense stretched to cover the entire street building in an instant, and he slapped the firewood pile in the corner of the wall with a palm, revealing a hole on the ground that could only allow one person to pass through.

At this time, Liyang City, which was still silent as death just now, was like a boiling oil pot, shouting and screaming one after another.

In the streets, the Praetorian army that poured into the city was suddenly attacked by a storm, with feathered arrows, bows, bullet stones, hot oil, coals, and pits...... There are traps everywhere, ambushes everywhere.

The Wagang army, lurking in the shadows, took advantage of the cover of night and terrain to attack the west silently. Every street and alley and every house have become a hell and a cemetery for the forbidden soldiers, and they have been beaten to pieces.

Due to the large number of barricades set up on the streets, the power of the cavalry was greatly limited, and even became a mobile target for the crossbowmen of the Wagang Army.

After a while, the first batch of thousands of Sui troops to enter the city suffered more than 30% casualties, but they were afraid of Yuwen Chengdu's military order to advance and retreat, so they could only rush forward.

Long Zhenwu's death squad originally had more than 300 people, all of whom were carefully selected from the forbidden army's Xiaoguo, and they risked their lives all the way to kill hundreds of zhang, but they were shocked to find themselves in a dead end!

Just as they were about to retreat and find another way out, they suddenly heard the "rumbling" behind them shaking the mountains and dust, and a deep pit with a diameter of more than two zhang suddenly collapsed on the ground, cutting off more than 200 people.

More than a dozen forbidden soldiers couldn't dodge and fell in, and were pierced by the sharp bamboo tips that covered the bottom of the pit.

"Wow-" Dozens of broad-shouldered Wagang soldiers suddenly appeared on the courtyard walls on both sides, throwing cylinders of fire oil and bundles of dry firewood into the streets and alleys.

Long Zhenwu's complexion changed drastically, and he swept into the air and shot a puff of darts, but it was too late to stop the Wagang army on the high wall from dropping dozens of lit torches into it.

"Hmmm-" The streets and alleys turned into a raging sea of fire, and more than 200 forbidden soldiers were like turtles in an urn with no way to escape, roaring and struggling in despair like balls of fire.

"Bang, bang-" Long Zhen Wu Gu couldn't chase and kill those Wagang sergeants, and urged his palm to shatter the sections of high walls, opening the gap to allow his subordinates to escape.

There are also many masters in the death squad who have cultivated to the level of entering the room and even the realm of contemplating microscopic things, and they quickly came back to their senses after a short panic, and each of them used their mastery to help Long Zhenwu push down the wall and open up a way of life.

However, the fire was so ferocious, and with more than 100 people crowded in the narrow alleys that it was impossible to evacuate, less than 40 people were able to escape from the flames, and more than half of them were burned by the smoke and their throats were in agony.

"Diao Xiaosi!" Long Zhenwu's eyes were blood-red and terrifying, and his face was hideous and distorted, full of murderous aura.

Only then did he realize that the barricades on the streets were not only to slow down the advance of the Sui army, but also to serve as a formation. And who can build Liyang City into a labyrinth array in such a short period of time, who else will there be besides the kid surnamed Diao?!

In a fit of rage, he kicked the corpse of an enemy soldier who had been shot through the head by his own dart into the fire, and there was no sign of a Wagang sergeant around.

The sky gradually darkened, and the city of Liyang was like a giant fortress, and the night came in the magnificent interweaving of blood and fire.

Tens of thousands of Sui troops entered the city, and with the absolute superiority of the troops, they finally managed to stabilize their positions with great difficulty, and slowly advanced in the direction of Liyangcang, at the cost of nearly 2,000 casualties.

The battle entered the white-hot stage, Yuwen Chengdu stood on the tower of the east gate of Liyang City, watching the soldiers under his command continue to fall, while dispatching troops to give orders, there was no change in the expression on his face.

In order to be able to capture Liyang Cang as quickly as possible, and to help the hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of dependents who are waiting to be fed, what is the point of killing thousands of soldiers in battle?

Mountains of corpses and rivers of blood flowed as time went on, and the pressure on the Wagang Army was getting stronger and stronger, and the casualties were gradually increasing. The lights in the Liyang warehouse were bright and hot, and everyone was involved in this bloody battle that decided the life and death of Liyang City, and even the people in the city were mobilized to save the dead and help the wounded and carry materials and equipment.

Diao Xiaosi was also very busy, he was holding the oil hoof in one hand and the wine jar in the other, and was sweating profusely in the room, carefully supervising and inspecting the preparation of the general's mansion tomorrow morning.

There is no way, the people take food as the sky, such an important and tedious work, Diao Xiaosi really didn't feel at ease to hand it over to others, so he had to come to the scene in person, and every food had to be tasted repeatedly and personally identified.

After nibbling on the oily hooves, he scooped a spoonful of steaming broth from the cauldron with a copper spoon, brought it to his lips and drank it, closing his eyes and savoring it for a long time.

"Little Fourth Master, how does it taste, it's still to your taste, right?" The guy in charge of the stewed soup looked at Diao Xiaosi.

"In order to defend Liyang, the brothers outside are playing with the grandson of Yuwen Chengdu, and they may never be able to drink this pot of soup. ”

Diao Xiaosi put down the copper spoon and said with a heavy expression: "How can you bear to put such a little bit of meat? How can you bear to let them fight all night, and when they are so hungry that they can't even walk, they can only drink a sip of shabu-shabu water?

The leader of the gang turned pale and stammered: "But so many people want to eat, it is ...... to save a little."

Diao Xiaosi patted the shoulder of the gang leader confidently and said, "Don't worry, there will be meat, there will be eggs, everything will be there." ”

After teaching this unlucky gang leader a lesson, Diao Xiaosi decided to continue to inspect, but saw Aoi Kongzi walk into the gang room. His eyes lit up, and he greeted with a smile, "Miss Aoi, come looking for supper?"

Sora Aoi said: "It's very important for me to take you to a place. ”

Diao Xiaosi was stunned, followed Aoi Kongzi out of the room, and came to a secluded corner of the General's Mansion.

Soko Aoi stopped in front of a large locust tree and said, "Look carefully at the marks on the trunk. ”

Diao Xiaosi stared at it, only to see a few shallow scratches on the trunk, if it weren't for Aoi's reminder, I'm afraid no one would have the heart to pay attention to it.

"What is this?" he asked, stunned.

"The secret of the contact of the sect. Sora Aoi replied.

Diao Xiaosi couldn't help but look around, and subconsciously lowered his voice and said, "There are your people in the general's mansion?"

"That's all I can tell you. Sora Aoi said, "Don't forget, I'm still the Dharma King of the Moon Sect. ”

Diao Xiaosi was puzzled: "So what?"

Sora Aoi smiled charmingly and said, "Aren't you very smart, guess for yourself." ”

Diao Xiaosi said dissatisfiedly: "I don't give any clues, how to teach Lao Tzu to guess?"

Sora Aoi said: "Okay, I can give you a little hint - this time it is the four killers of the "Moon Black Wind High" under the King of the Moon Law that are the best at disguised assassination, tracking and poisoning. Diao Sang, good luck!"

"Killer, poison!" Diao Xiaosi was startled, vaguely guessed the other party's intention, and was about to try to get more clues from Aoi Kongzi's mouth, when the figure in front of him flashed and was already faint.