The art of war goes like this: attack the enemy with troops first, attack the enemies next, attack the troops next, and then attack the city.

The biggest advantage of the Hebei Allied Forces is to use 200,000 troops to tightly surround Mubiao City. When the city runs out of ammunition and food, the rebels will naturally surrender. However, the highest order from Zhong Xuan is to capture Mubiao City as soon as possible and The rebel king who took the lead in the rebellion at the Daning border area was captured, so that the other rebel armies would retreat in the face of difficulties.

The Lord of Jiqing City, Yueyang Hou Zhu Zhenyou, originally wanted to achieve greater results at a relatively small cost, but he first underestimated the strength of King Jing, and secondly overestimated his allies. After several attempts to no avail. , an informant letter was sent to Zhong Xuan from the Qianjing camp, and in exchange for the imperial envoy's accountability to Zhu Zhenyou face to face, Zhu Zhenyou had no choice but to take the strategy of attacking the city.

On the ninth day of October, the Hebei Allied Forces began to attack the city.

More than a hundred Pili Chariots in the formation took the lead in attacking. The kerosene dragged out a long tail of smoke and hit the wall of the west gate of Mulie City. More than thirty Pili Chariots in the Jingning Army's position in the city counterattacked with all their strength. More than a hundred fireballs streaked across the blue sky. Thick black cracks were left in the sky, intertwining into a network in the sky. After a brief meeting, they each smashed towards the enemy formation with the sound of howling wind.

The walls of Mubiao City are very strong. Sixty-seven out of ten of the enemy's stone throws were blocked by the city wall. The remaining ten percent collapsed at the top of the city, and another twenty-three percent fell into the city and set fire to civilian houses. The Hebei Allied Forces did not have strong fortifications, so they could only The formation should be dispersed as much as possible to reduce the hit rate of flints shot in the city. Even so, every time a flint from the Jingning Army hits the ground and explodes, the Hebei Army within two feet will be killed or injured.

Thunderbolt chariots fired three volleys, and the Hebei coalition forces had rushed to the arrow range of the Jingning army. Locusts rained down behind the battlements of the archery tower on the west gate of Mulie City. Below the city, the Hebei elite held up their iron shields to defend themselves. When they rushed to the city moat, Forming a shield formation, strong archers raised their bodies to attack in the shield formation. For a moment, gray-black locust winds blew up and down the city wall, and arrows whistled one after another. Outside the city wall, on the plains, the shields were densely covered with feather tails like wild grass. .

Fifty armored archery towers were erected high in the Hebei coalition formation, as high as the city wall. Archers from both sides fought fiercely between the towers and the city wall. The infantry under the city used the shield array to cover and threw tens of thousands of sandbags into the moat. The trees were covered with bamboo sticks. The large trench with sharp stakes was quickly filled with forty or fifty passages, and the Hebei Army laid thousands of wooden planks on the sandbag road. The archery tower passed through the trench and tried to build up the convex outer wall of the "mountain" city wall.

Thousands of long poles of the Jingning Army stretched out, trying their best to resist the arrow tower and not getting closer. The Hebei Army in the arrow tower slashed the heads of the long poles with swords and axes, and the arrow tower gradually came close to the top of the mountain-shaped wall. When they got closer, there was an iron wall on the top of the arrow tower. The plank smashed down the city head, and the Hebei Allied Forces swarmed out from behind and rushed madly at the defenders on the city wall.

The Jingning Army did not panic. They separated to the left and right, and a black hole was revealed. The pipe was long and slender, with a bellows at the back and an oil barrel underneath. A sergeant held a torch and placed it on the mouth of the pipe. When the bellows swelled, the fire oil stirred up. When it was shot out, it burned violently when it encountered fire, like a dragon spitting flames. A tongue of flame instantly swallowed up the Hebei army on the iron bridge.

This weapon is called the "Fire Dragon". The fire dragon spit out flames and instantly burned the iron bridge into a cannon. The dead soldiers in Hebei were covered in flames and fell down the high wall one after another while wailing and became dead bodies. The flames continued and burned. The first few arrow towers that approached were set on fire, causing them to temporarily lose their attack power, and they slowly moved back to extinguish the fire.

At the city wall, hundreds of ladders were set up at the top of the mountain-shaped city. The Hebei army was like moths flying into a flame, like ants blocking a river, climbing up in groups, and falling from the city in groups. The defenders' rolling logs, stones, and kerosene gradually ran out. , all rely on the "Spike Roller" to show its power.

The main body of the "Spike Roller" is a cylindrical iron stake with cast-iron spikes on the outside. Both ends are hung with hinges. It rolls down from the ladder, causing disaster to the enemy troops. When it rolls to the bottom, it is twisted up with an iron chain and moved to the other side.

Set up a ladder.

At the city gate, the Hebei Army's rams smashed through the repaired city gate again, and poked a big hole in the Qianjin Gate. They attacked desperately inside the urn city, leaving half the urn of corpses behind, and then built an iron shield passage to seal the inside.

The four "residential guest houses" blocked by the city gate were smashed to pieces.

Seeing that the enemy was about to break into the city, Shi Zhoulong personally went down to the city and led Shang Han to lead his team to intercept them.

Shi Zhoulong took the lead in the fight with a cooked copper stick. He had a ferocious Rakshasa look on his face. Bones and tendons were broken wherever the copper stick struck. Shang Han next to him swung behind his stick moves, and aimed a sharp knife at the throat.

The heart, left and right ribs, and back and forth greet each other. The warriors of the Cangshi system in the Central Plains use either swords or axes to block the city gates and ferociously harvest souls.

The offensive of the dead soldiers of the Hebei Army was immediately stalled by the ferocity of these gangs, and they could only use long weapons to resist the stone troops in order not to lose the battle results they had obtained. After a moment of confrontation, two black towers suddenly broke out from the rear of the Hebei Army, brother.

The two have the same nose, the same mouth, the same sideburns and beards, and the same dark arms. The only thing that can be distinguished is that one is holding an iron mace, and the other is holding two fine steel whips.

The "Double Black Towers" squeezed through the crowd, and the boss's mace hit Shi Zhoulong head and face.

Shang Han said "be careful", Shi Zhoulong withdrew the copper stick and put his hands up. Only a loud sound of urn gas was heard in his ears. A strong wind surged from the place where the weapons collided. The two armies were forced to fight.

Due to the power, he couldn't help but take two steps back.

The mace was blown away by the wrought copper rod, and several pieces of the green bricks at Shi Zhoulong's feet were broken into pieces.

"Big Black Tower" uttered a curse word from Hebei and turned his mace to strike again. "Er Black Tower" had already swung his iron whip towards Shi Zhoulong.

Shi Zhoulong twisted the cooked copper stick and swung the two iron whips away. The head of the stick took advantage of the situation and poked it into the chest of "Er Black Pagoda". The mace came from the middle and swept away the copper stick. The copper stick took advantage of the situation.

With a twist, the end of the stick swept towards the "big black tower" again.

"Two Black Towers" took the opportunity to swipe their iron whip at Shi Zhoulong's back, but Shi Zhoulong ignored it and still attacked the "Big Black Tower" fiercely. Seeing the opportunity, "Two Black Towers" used both arms with all their strength, and were very

It was necessary to break the enemy's spine into three pieces. Who could have imagined that he had just walked halfway when a sharp knife stabbed diagonally like a ghost and pointed it accurately at the tendon of his left wrist. The "Er Black Tower" hurriedly withdrew his attack and prepared to return.

When attacking Shang Han, Shang Han had already sneaked around behind the "big black tower" and attacked him. Oncoming was Shi Zhoulong's cooked copper stick.

The four generals fought fiercely in the inner city gate, forcing the brave men of both armies to move forward. Three of the four were powerful and heavy, and one was agile and fast. For a while, no one could embarrass the other. Bai Qian, the commander of the reserve team in the city, saw this.

Urgently summoning strong crossbowmen and giving an order, the crossbowmen crowded the doorway. Shi Zhoulong and Shanghan forced the "double black towers" away and hurriedly withdrew from the formation into the city. Seeing the opponent's crossbow formation, the "double black towers" hurriedly retreated

Behind the heavy shield bearer.

There was a crossbow wind in the doorway. After the crossbow wind, Commander Jingning's boring man rushed to the front, forked the Hebei Army's iron shield formation and rushed out. At the same time, the spearman behind the long boring man rushed toward the Hebei Army.

The Hebei army also resisted with all his strength, and from time to time released cold arrows from the gap between the shields.

The battle for the gate was extremely difficult, and the defenders struggled to hold on, blocking the Hebei Army outside the gate and preventing the Hebei Army from entering the city.

At this moment, at the base of the outer city wall, in the city gate hole, and inside the urn city, the corpses were piling up higher and higher. Zhu Zhenyou saw that the west gate of Mubiao City was strongly defended. The losses of the headquarters and the three city armies were increasing, while Yan Yunhai was bluffing at the south city wall and refused to advance.

After half a step, not many people died. I couldn't help but feel very angry, and my steel teeth almost wanted to bite them into pieces.

He issued five military orders in a row, telling Yan Yunhai to climb to the south wall of the west gate to the death. The latter was hindered by the military orders, so he stepped up his offensive and tightened his grip. Zhu Zhenyou took advantage of the gap and immediately led his troops and horses to quickly circle north in an attempt to

Assault on the North Gate.

Dou Guankui had only 5,000 troops guarding the north gate. Seeing the enemy's strength, he immediately sent a signal to King Jing for help. King Jing quickly ordered Wan Qi Ma Zhu to lead 8,000 reserve troops to the north for reinforcements.

The flat ground at the north gate was limited, so the Jiqing Army could not push tens of thousands of troops toward the city wall at once, so they could only concentrate their superior strength to attack the city gate and rush up the ladders to greet them. The Jingning Army relied on the mountainous city walls to hold on to the elite troops of Hebei, and the ladders were not called.

Attacked, but the city gate was smashed soon, and there was still a "residing guest" master in the doorway. The Jiqing army was also really tough. Shengsheng smashed the sword wall next to the corpse of his companion, and after the "residing guest"

The Jingning Army launched a desperate fight, and the defenders did not have to block the passage. However, within an hour, the area around the "residence" was already blocked by dead bodies.

Seeing that the city gate was blocked, Zhu Zhenyou ordered to strengthen the ladder offensive. Rolling logs and rocks poured down from the city head, and mountains of corpses were piled under the city. King Jing saw that the battle at the north gate was becoming more and more difficult, so he boldly ordered Huangfu Lianzhi to abandon the east gate and lead two thousand more

The reserve army supported the North Gate, and the morale of the defenders at the North Gate was greatly boosted, and they were able to block the most ferocious offensive of the elite Ji Qing Army.

After the blood-stained sunset finally fell into the ferocious silhouette of Luxuan Mountain, the Hebei Allied Forces abandoned nearly 10,000 corpses and retreated, setting up camp and reorganizing themselves. The Jingning Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties and took advantage of the cover of night to rush to Ximen.

, the damaged city gate of the north gate was re-reinforced.

We have long heard that the Hebei Army is fierce, and today’s battle will reveal its true form. Such a hard battle is already frightening, and we don’t know how many more will come after. The Jingning Army healed their wounds and did not dare to think too much about what will happen tomorrow. They just held on tight.
Chapter completed!