Although the commander has changed, the combat strength of the rebel army has not improved, Gao Yingxiang sent his own family and horses and several small groups of rebels to attack the city together, and the battle situation is still not improving. The morale of the officers and soldiers on the city wall is high, and there are sufficient weapons to defend the city such as crossbow arrows, torch stones, and hot oil.

The two sides fought for a whole day, and the rebels failed to attack the city wall, but lost seven or eight hundred people, and when it was dark, Gao Yingxiang had to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

In the next two days, the rebels sent men and horses from all walks of life to take turns, and the direction of the main attack changed from the west city to the south city, and then to the east city, but the battle situation of the siege did not change much, and the rebels on each road lost their troops and lost their generals, and they could not attack the city wall at all.

Comparatively speaking, the officers and soldiers defending the city suffered little damage during these nine days, and the only slightly threatening siege was the half-day assault of the "Jinliang Village" sent by Wang himself.

Seeing that it was the tenth day, all the people in the city thought that Huaiqing City must be able to be defended, and the general soldier Yu Jue was even more convinced that although there were many rebels and horses outside the city, they were simply a group of rabble with no combat power, what Gao Yingxiang Zhang Xianzhong Li Zicheng was, but they were all peasants born with mud feet, and they dared to come out to rebel, so it was better to go home and pick up dung!

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ autumn breeze is bleak.

The hillside was overgrown with weeds, the grass was green and slightly grayish-yellow, surging in the breeze, like a sea layer by layer, while the maple trees in the forest in the distance were already fiery red.

Hua Bushi rode a white horse and stood on the hillside, and the snow-white Confucian shirt rose in the wind, making it even more elegant. His face was solemn, and he looked into the distance, looking straight at Huaiqing City in the distance.

Beside him, one on the left and one on the right, there was a beautiful woman on each of the two horses, it was Yang Jiangyi and Chu Yiyi. And Li Zicheng was holding a tall blue and black war horse on his hips, standing a little farther away.

This Li Chuang hung a large black iron sword more than four feet long on the copper ring in front of the saddle, dressed in a black iron helmet on his head and wearing iron armor.

Behind these people, there were more than a dozen personal guards, and further back, on the other side of the hillside, were three thousand well-equipped elite infantry, that is, all the men and horses of the "Biluo Village". These soldiers were blocked by the hillside, and they could not be found from the direction of Huaiqing City.

"The weather was great today. Hua Bushi suddenly said.

Li Zicheng said: "Yes, it is a good weather suitable for fighting!"

"How many people did the rebels lose in the three days of siege?" Hua Bushi asked.

Li Zicheng said: "1,353 brothers died and 976 brothers were injured. ”

Hua Bushi said: "If you want Yu Jue to relax her vigilance, this kind of damage is already very low." ”

Li Zicheng said: "On the battlefield, death and injury are inevitable, I hope that these more than 1,000 lives can be exchanged for the opportunity to break the city today, and it will not be in vain!"

Hua Bushi nodded, and then asked: "Can the patrol outside the city be arranged? At present, we must not let any information from outside the city enter the city, especially carrier pigeons, and so on. ”

Li Zicheng said: "I have laid archers outside the city, don't say pigeons, even flies can't fly in!"

His eyes flashed, and he said, "Brother Shi thinks that how long can Zhang Xianzhong block reinforcements in Huangshiyu?"

Hua Bushi said: "Although Zhang Xianzhong's 8,000 men and horses are less than Zhang Yingchang's troops, they can all be regarded as elites, and they have an ambush in Huangshiyu and occupy a favorable position, which can block the officers and troops for at least three hours." ”

Li Zicheng said: "So, we only have three hours to spare, and we must defeat Yu Jue and attack Huaiqing City?"

Hua Bushi smiled faintly and said, "Three hours is not short, isn't Brother Hongji confident?"

Li Zicheng hahadaxiao said: "Brother Shi's strategy is unparalleled in the world, and all the soldiers in Biluo Mountain are not vegetarians, how can I not have confidence, brother!

In the three days since Gao Yingxiang became the commander, the rebel army has attacked the city for days, lost thousands of people and horses, and has never climbed the city wall for a single step, and now there are only three hours left, Hua Bushi and Li Zicheng are full of confidence, it seems that Huaiqing City is already in the bag!

This siege plan had been decided three days ago.

According to Hua Bushi's earlier thoughts, after the secret letter was discovered, the leaders of the rebel army from all walks of life naturally would no longer let Wang Ziyong be the commander, even the men and horses under his command would probably not be willing to follow this collaborator and surrender. However, unexpectedly, the soldiers of "Jinliang Village" did not abandon Wang Ziuse, and still followed him to withdraw his troops.

It seems that although Wang Ziyong is selfish and short-sighted, he is not completely without merit, and he does have a good way of treating the men and horses of his own "Jinliang Village", so that these soldiers are still loyal to him under such circumstances.

Although there are many people in the 36th Battalion of the Righteous Army, most of them are fish belly, and there are not a few teams with real combat power. As soon as Wang Ziyong left, there were more than 10,000 people in the "Jinliang Village", and with the strength of more than 30,000 righteous troops outside the city, it was impossible to storm Huaiqing City in a few days.

The only way is to lure the officers and soldiers of the city out, and the two sides will fight outside the city, and the rebel army will have a chance to win. However, the official army has the advantage of defending the city, and the main general Huaiqing General Yu Jue is not a fool, so how easy is it to lead him out?

The first step in Hua Bushi's strategy was to convince Yu Jue that the combat power of the righteous army was low, and he had the idea of underestimating the enemy. A few days ago, the king himself was defeated in successive battles, and his troops were defeated, but he did this unintentionally. In the next three days of siege, the rebels continued the incompetence of the previous days, the troops were scattered and disorganized during the siege, and they were already heavily damaged before they rushed to the city wall, and they could not threaten the officers and troops defending the city at all.

After a few days of siege warfare, this step seems to have been completed well, and now, it has reached the critical moment to decide the winner!

At this time, the siege battle had begun.

The main direction of attack chosen by the rebel army is still the East City Gate as yesterday, and there are more people and horses than in previous days, more than 10,000 people, who seem to know that today is Zuihou day, so they set up a frame of a decisive battle.

Tens of thousands of horses lined up three miles in front of the city, even if the formation was a little crooked and scattered, but it was quite imposing. Gao Yingxiang personally went into battle to supervise the battle, his armor was distinct, he wore a red robe, and the horizontal knife immediately stood under the banner of the word "handsome" on the highest side of the formation, which was very conspicuous. There are more than ten leaders of the rebel army by Gao Yingxiang's side, all of them are fully armed and have raised their eyebrows, and they are majestic.

After the formation was arranged, the drums sounded, and more than a thousand soldiers rushed out, carrying more than 20 ladders and rushing straight towards the city wall.

The rebels quickly rushed to the moat and leaped into the river to begin swimming. And the arrows on the city wall poured down like locusts, and the crossbow machine and the torch stone cart began to fire, and where the fire flashed, there was a deafening roar, and it turned out to be a row of artillery guns fired together!

Although the rebels in the moat raised their shields to protect them, how could they resist the attacks of so many heavy long-range weapons? In just a few moments, more than half of them were killed and wounded, and only three or four hundred of the more than 1,000 people remained, and the entire section of the river was stained red with blood! Judging from such a situation, before they could break under the city walls, none of these rebels would die.

The chief soldier Yu Jue is on the city gate tower at this moment. He was about thirty years old, with a long green face and a long beard, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he was born very powerful, and he wore a helmet and armor, and his whole body was draped, and a black sheath knife carried around his waist was more than half a foot longer than an ordinary waist knife, and the blade was much wider.

Next to Yu Jue stood a civil official in his forties, dressed in a robe and looking elegant, but it was Shi Dongchang, the prefect of Huaiqing Mansion.

Looking at the soldiers of the rebel army who suffered heavy casualties in the moat under the city wall, Shi Dongchang said: "General Yu is really like a god, and he actually calculated that these thieves will attack Dongcheng today, and transferred these ten Hongyi cannons to this side, and they can bear it now!"

Yu Jue laughed twice and said, "Master Shi has won the award! These mud-legged croppers don't know how to use soldiers, and when the last general saw the movement of men and horses in their military camp yesterday, he knew that he was going to attack Dongcheng today." In fact, even if they don't attack the east, it makes no difference if they attack Huaiqing at will, they are just here to die!"

Shi Dongchang said: "What General Yu said is extremely true! There are generals guarding Huaiqing Town, what are the tens of thousands of grass robbers in this area? With the ability of General Yu's troops, if Lord Fan had sent you to lead the troops to suppress the bandits earlier, I am afraid that the bandits in the Yu Realm would have been pacified long ago, so why should you let that Ming Xuandu Governor Zhang Zongheng come to get power and make trouble?"

Shi Dongchang is the prefect of the fifth grade, and his official rank is one level greater than that of Yu Jue, but he is a civil official who does not know how to fight, and now he is using Yu Jue, the general of the army, at this time, and he specializes in picking up nice words.

After receiving the praise of his boss, Yu Jue smiled even more, and said: "In the past, the last general heard how fierce Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong were, but now it seems that everything is not true!

Shi Dongchang said: "Okay! When these thieves retreat, Shi will definitely go to the governor to ask for credit for General Yu." Now Master Fan is lacking generals who can lead the army to fight, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers but no one to lead them, so that Zhang Zongheng and his ilk can show off their power in the Yu Realm, which is unstoppable. General Yu has meritorious service in defending the city, Lord Fan must reuse it, and when the general rises step by step in the future and leads tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, just don't forget about Shi someone!"

Yu Jue was almost a little carried away, and immediately bowed his hand and said deeply: "Thank you Lord Shi for your support, if he is really fortunate to be promoted in the future, he will naturally treat Master Shi as a great benefactor, how can he forget!"