"Boom, boom, boom..." The loud artillery fired a volley and fell on the mound. When the mound was only two meters high from the city head, the Yan Army cavalry began a large-scale charge.

A desperate fight began. Whether it was the Peking Army or the Yan Army, both had no way out and devoted all their combat power, because this battle was a battle of life and death. If you didn't win, you would die!

The artillery fell on the mound, causing mud to fly, and many incoming enemies were knocked off their horses. However, there were too few artillery in the city, their reloading was slow, and their accuracy was poor. It was impossible to form a carpet strike. After this bombardment,

Still, thousands of cavalry rushed to the city.

"Form up, the Huotou Army will set fire." Zhou Tianshou gave an order, and thousands of shield-hands raised their large shields to the ground at the top of the wall, while the Huotou Army sprayed kerosene outwards with a loud roar.

A "wall of fire" that is ten meters long and several meters wide.

However, this wall of fire still couldn't stop the charge. The enemy rushed through the wall of fire and earth with their horses and hit the shield array hard. With a crash, the shield array was knocked open and a large hole was opened. Hundreds of enemy troops had already charged.

When they reached the city wall, they started hand-to-hand combat with the defenders without saying a word.

On the narrow city wall, the soldiers of the two armies were glued together. Naturally, the Huotou army could no longer set fire and had to temporarily retreat to one side. The shield bearers also quickly retreated a few meters and formed a shield array again on both sides of the city wall. As for those who were entangled by the enemy

The garrison officers and soldiers on top were not interested in fighting, and rolled to the ground one after another, behind the shield formation.

As soon as our own troops left, the Huotou Army who had been hiding behind the shield formation saw the enemy rushing towards the shield formation again. Without caring about anything, they set fire directly. Once the enemy was pushed back a few meters by the fire, the shield formation took the opportunity to approach.

Since there were already many casualties on the war horses when they broke through the first line of fire and shield formation, the incoming enemy lost the strong impact of the war horses and had to switch to infantry. However, they were not as familiar with the tactics and cooperation as the Peking Army, and they just fought independently.

, were naturally outmatched, and were forced back bit by bit. They crowded into the narrow city wall of more than ten meters with the follow-up troops, and became a mess.

Seeing that the first wave of impact was blocked, Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and the second wave of cavalry came forward. This wave of cavalry did not rush straight through, but changed to a sideways attack. Because the soil slope was in the shape of a gentle slope, it could go up and down from several directions, and

This cavalry galloped back and forth along the base of the city wall, and kept shooting arrows back and forth to cover their accomplices who were attacking the city.

Faced with the rain of arrows flying in droves, the defenders hurriedly raised their shields to block them. If they did it once or twice, it would be fine. However, the Yan army outside the city was already addicted to shooting arrows. In short, they kept shooting back and forth.

The defenders were so overwhelmed that they could not lift their heads. Under such a dense rain of arrows, many defenders were injured, and their ability to stop the enemy became weaker. The enemy took the opportunity to expand their position.

"Slowly retreat, retreat beyond the range of the enemy's bows and arrows." Zhou Tianshou gave the order, and the shield array began to slowly move back. However, the defenders did not abandon the city head position and retreated to the city wall where the mounds of earth were not reached.

For a while, as soon as the arrow rain attack weakened, they began to stabilize their position and continued to resist on the spot.

On this section of the city wall that was tens of meters long, the two armies were engaged in a tug-of-war. Seeing that there was a large gap in the city wall, the enemy troops below the city swarmed up again. Facing the enemy troops that came up like a tide, it was even more difficult for the defenders.

To regain the position, we can only fight with the incoming enemy on the spot. The banging of swords is mixed with screams one after another, and the corpses on the top of the city are piled higher and higher. The incoming enemy can already

Jump over the shield formation from the pile of corpses and jump behind the shield formation to kill.

Wan Lei did not take command before the battle. He waved his saber and fought with a group of soldiers. Facing these powerful enemies who kept jumping over the shield formation, they did not hesitate at all. They stabbed with their spears, chopped with their knives, and used shields.

He smashed them and directly attacked the enemy in groups, and the hot blood spurted out in all directions, dyeing the armor on Wan Lei's body red.

There were countless defenders on both sides of the city wall who were stubbornly resisting. When the enemy came and saw that they couldn't get away no matter how hard they charged, they simply stopped charging. They threw dozens of ropes into the city and slid into the city so that they could rush into the city and cause destruction. Faced with a steady stream of enemies.

If the enemy troops who crossed the city wall and entered the city were ordinary defenders, they would have abandoned the city and surrendered long ago.

However, the Peiping Army is not an ordinary army. Under Wan Lei's constant "bewitching", they will not surrender even if they fight to the last man. What's more, there are their relatives and their friends in the city, and they are even more...

It won't go down.

No, as soon as the Yan army entered the city, they encountered the defenders who had been waiting for a long time. As the saying goes, when two armies meet, the one who waits for surprises wins. Before the enemy could gain a foothold, the defenders started smashing bottles.

The scene of bottles flying everywhere is no different from a street gang fight.

However, what was in the bottle was not wine, but kerosene. Once the rocket was fired, there was a sea of ​​​​fire under the city wall, which became a crematorium for hundreds of enemy soldiers. The enemy soldiers on the city saw their companions dying in pain in the fire.

Struggling, but daring to jump down, he finally gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and then went to gnaw on the two hard bones on both sides of the city.

The battle on the city wall was still going on fiercely. Zhu Gaoxu, who was supervising the battle below the city, was very annoyed when he saw that his army was not making much progress. He kept adding more troops to the city wall. The section of the city wall that was dozens of meters long had become a piece of land.

The Shura Wall has corpses stacked one on top of another, even as high as the female wall. Without the protection of the female wall, many people would fall down the city if their feet slipped.

The death toll of the enemy was rising, and the defenders could not afford to lose. Section after section of the shield array was broken through, and the soldiers fell one after another. Some of them were seriously injured. They suddenly hugged the enemy and jumped down the city, dying.

I also need to pull a backrest...

Anyway, everyone is going crazy!

At this time, Wan Lei's body, face and hands were covered in blood, and his true face could not be seen at all. As for how many people had died under his sword, he had lost count, and there was no need to count, because he knew,

The bloody battle will not stop until all the incoming enemies are killed.

Fighting from the first half of the night to the second half of the night, the enemy finally forced the defenders to the city tower and occupied a staircase leading down to the city. To their surprise, they found that there were no defenders on the stairs. However, when they went down the stairs,

When they rushed, they found that most of the stairs had been demolished at some point. They squeezed one by one and finally fell down in pieces.

After stepping on such a trap, the unlucky ones who were not thrown to death were also furious: What kind of fucking army is this? They even cut off their own retreat. However, before they could curse, they were beaten to death.

Kerosene was poured all over them, and before they could even get up, they were surrounded by fire.

Seeing that the stairs under the lower city had turned into a crematorium again, the enemy troops of the city finally understood one thing: unless all the troops above and below the city were killed, they would never even think about setting foot in Peiping. They understood this clearly.

, the enemy suddenly became murderous and slashed at the defenders on the city with their swords. The original offensive and defensive battle turned into a war of attrition.

On a high building in the inner city, Emperor Jianwen and his party were also watching the battle. They had never seen such a lifeless battle. Even Xu Huizu, who had experienced many battles, was secretly afraid. If these two armies really fought against the imperial army,

Up, even if the imperial army had several times the strength, it would still be defeated, because the imperial army simply did not have such a life-threatening spirit as they did.

No one wants to face a desperate army. Xu Huizu really hopes that these two desperate armies will fight together to prevent them from becoming a disaster in the future. However, he also knows that this is an illusion. The Peking Army has already planted the seeds.

The seeds of bravery and ruthlessness, even if this army is finished, their descendants will still be brave and ruthless.

"Unless we kill all the people in Peiping." This idea just flashed in my mind and was rejected, because after this battle, the Peiping army will become famous no matter whether it wins or loses. Not to mention whether the imperial army can

Kill everyone in Peiping. If the court really does this, the court will be completely discredited in the future.

Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots is not possible, so we can only be gentle and let the people of Shuntian Prefecture live a stable life for decades, and the aggressive and aggressive nature of the future generations will be reduced, so there is no need to worry about it.

Xu Huizu secretly made up his mind to prevent the imperial court from becoming an enemy.

Besides, it would be good to let these people help guard the border. After all, the Tatars in the north are also evil-minded. Xu Huizu believed that as long as he tried to win over them, he could divert the trouble to the north. When these two groups of people fought, both sides would suffer, and the court would take advantage of it.

Make profit.

Just when Xu Huizu was making a small calculation in his mind, Huang Zicheng, who was completely covered with chaff, gave advice to Emperor Jianwen: "Your Majesty, the Peiping Army is ferocious and aggressive. We must not keep them. They must be wiped out in one fell swoop to avoid future troubles."

"Sir Huang, what do you mean by that? Do you want His Majesty to be as dishonest and unrighteous as you?" Xu Hui looked at Huang Zicheng with cold eyes and asked sternly. To be honest, he hated him very much, both in public and in private.

Qi Huang and his ilk.

For public purposes, these nerds not only encouraged the emperor to cut down vassal vassals indiscriminately, but also used people to quell the rebellion when they caused trouble. As a result, the court was defeated in successive battles and the imperial army suffered heavy losses; for private purposes, these nerds were not good at running the country or the military, but they were good at forming cliques.

Experts say that the civil servants are now in power in the court, which has seriously damaged the interests of the noble group headed by Xu Huizu.

After hearing what Xu Huizu said, Emperor Jianwen also had a sad look on his face. He had never wanted to eradicate this army and avenge the humiliation. However, he still remembered that he had just made an oath and wrote the oath as an imperial edict.

It has been stamped with a jade seal. If you break the promise in person, your reputation will be ruined in the future and you will remain infamy forever in history.

And Emperor Jianwen swore to be a "wise king", and he could do without anything, except his reputation. He would not easily give up on destroying his reputation. But if he did not do it, he could not bear this tone.

Just when Emperor Jianwen was hesitant about whether to break the contract, the battle on the city became more intense. Zhu Gaoxu personally went into battle and threw all his troops into the battle. The top and bottom of the city were crowded with people, like swords in the snow.
Chapter completed!