August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Bianjing, Hangzhou and other places, literati and talented people were still brewing Mid-Autumn Festival poems, but Muzhou City had already fallen into silence. The refugees who rushed in hid, and the officials who were still in the city all arrived on the city wall and looked at the end of Xin'an River tremblingly.

The autumn wind was flying, and Cao Hua was still wearing martial uniforms, without armor, standing on the city tower, waiting quietly.

The trembling with the civil servants must have been that the soldiers between the walls were quite stable, holding the strong bow and crossbow in their hands tightly. The crossbow on the bed had been sterned, and someone next to him was preparing with a torch.

In order to get the crossbowmen to make the right mark, Cao Hua installed Han'er's telescope on a bed arrow as a sight. Unfortunately, there is only one telescope. Without glass in the city, it cannot be made in a short time, and its function is better than nothing.

Although Muzhou City has empty troops, it has sufficient weapons. Thirty bed crossbows lined up on the city walls, and more than 500 defenders gathered around.

Xie Yijun looked at the city wall that looked a little empty, thought about it, and walked up to him:

"Cao Hua, the army is approaching and may collapse at once. Even if it does not collapse, the soldiers will be exhausted three days later, and the rest will be the only way to see the sky."

Cao Hua's expression was calm: "It's only a day to be able to guard. People have been sent to ask for help. Reinforcements may arrive in advance."

In fact, Cao Hua was also unsure, but as a person in charge, he had to relax even if the sky fell, so as not to transfer the pressure to his subordinates, so he continued to be cold and arrogant as usual.

Xie Yijun was wearing a facial armor, and she couldn't tell her expression, but her hand was placed on Cao Hua's shoulder and sighed quietly.

Cao Hua stood for a moment and felt a little strange: "Xie Daxia, you are wearing men's clothes now, and it's not good to be so intimate with me."

Xie Yijun snorted lightly and took her hand back.

As the morning light began to show its head, the rebels had not yet emerged from the river. On the stone stairs behind the city wall, Zhao Fei and his maid carefully climbed up the city wall, carrying a food box in their hands.

There were soldiers full of tense swords everywhere. Zhao Fei didn't show any unusualness. She buried her head in the pile of rolling wooden stones and went straight to the city tower.

Zhao Fei was wearing a palace dress, with a round and jade figure, and it looked like the only color on the city wall at this time.

The magistrate Ye Juzhong and several officials saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and whispered:

"How can the princess be a daughter-in-law come to the city wall at this time and go back quickly."

Zhao Fei nodded slightly: "Don't worry, sir, I'll just come and take a look."

Cao Hua quickly walked up to him, raised his hand and signaled Zhao Fei to walk back: "Sister Fei'er, let you stay honestly in the inn, why are you here to do?"

Zhao Fei picked up the food box in her hand and smiled gently: "I heard from the Cha Gu that Prince Cao hasn't rested these days, so I stewed some soup..."

Cao Hua looked at the hundreds of defenders who looked at each other and could only speak seriously:

"I, Cao Hua, have the responsibility of guarding the city, and should eat and sleep with the soldiers. I appreciate the princess' kindness, please go back!"

Zhao Fei blinked her eyes, looked back at the defenders, and said softly, with a little serious expression. After thinking about it, she said in a low voice:

"It's my negligence, so I'll keep it for Prince Cao?"

Seeing this scene, Xie Yijun turned his head and felt a little helpless, and said intimately: This princess in the court is too weak. Cao Hua obviously pretended to show the defenders here. If he really wanted to send food and let it go, he would just leave.

Cao Hua had been brewing for a moment, and Wu nodded gently: "Okay, Sister Fei'er, let's go back first."

Zhao Fei smiled apologetically and prepared to go down to the city. As soon as she turned around, she looked sideways at the far away of Xin'an River outside the city.

Cao Hua also looked at it in a blink of an eye and saw that bamboo rafts appeared one after another at the end of his sight, and more and more, rushing towards Muzhou City like a torrent.

"Enemy attack!"

The war drums sounded at the top of the city wall, and the soldiers, Tong Shu, pulled out the sword and shouted loudly to the defenders on the city wall to take their seats.

The Black Feather Guard also quickly dispersed to all parts of the city wall, one to beware of a good man who forcibly climbed the city, and the other to act as a supervisor.

Zhao Fei was still looking at the awning with her hands, and her body was wrapped around her with an arm, and she lifted it up and threw it into Han'er's hand.

Zhao Fei was still confused. Before she could turn red, she was held down from the city wall by Han'er.

Cao Hua ran to the crossbow, directed the crossbowmen to turn the direction, and right the ship that appeared on the river...

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Fang Fei, the prime minister of Fang La Army, led more than 10,000 rebels and arrived at Muzhou City by water. The ships used were not warships, but more than 40 merchant ships and pleasure boats collected from all over Muzhou, and there were temporary bamboo rafts around them, with hundreds of rebels carrying them down the river.

There are no available soldiers in the city and cannot ambush along the way. The rebels can be said to be unobstructed.

Prime Minister Fang Fei stood on the deck of a merchant ship, behind him were the unparalleled soldiers holding bows, arrows and spears, and other siege equipment were also placed on it.

Looking at the towering city in the distance, Fang Fei did not hesitate for a moment and ordered his generals:

"Shi Sheng, there are only two thousand defenders in Muzhou City. You can take 3,000 people to the Shuimen to attack the city. I personally lead my troops from the riverside to attack the East Gate. Be sure to capture Muzhou before reinforcements arrive."

Shi Sheng was burly, and he held his head high and fisted at this, laughing: "I can capture the city only two thousand defenders, and I can only capture the city before the Holy Lord arrives."

Fang Fei frowned slightly, and was about to remind him, "Don't be proud of the enemy," when he heard a sharp whistle in the air approaching.

Many rebels looked up and saw a trail of black smoke slid out, rising from the city tower of Muzhou City, crossing two miles at an astonishing speed, and falling towards the team gathered by the ships.

"It's a bed crossbow."

Fang Fei frowned, and the rebels seized twenty bed crossbows. He naturally knew that this weapon could reach a range of thousands of steps and a single arrow could penetrate more than ten people.

However, shooting arrows at such a distance is obviously a matter of taking chances. Fang Fei didn't care about it even if he shot it.

The crossbow arrows came in full force, but no one shot, and fell like a requisitioned pleasure boat. The rebels on the deck had already dodged all over the place to avoid being injured by mistake.

The spear-like crossbow arrow, even if it spans about two miles, still had a terrifying power and directly poured into the dome of the pleasure boat and nailed it into the cabin.

Several leaders on the boat looked shocked and ran to the window to watch, and said in surprise:

"This thing is really amazing. If you cum, you'll have to... "

Bang—

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang, accompanied by a huge firelight appeared in the pleasure boat.

The power was not too great, but it formed a large fireball, and the splashing tinder fell on the dome, walls, and floor of the pleasure boat. In just a moment, the cabin turned into a sea of ​​fire, and rolled black smoke and fire snakes rushed out of the entrance of the window.

"It's on fire!"

Hundreds of rebels on the pleasure boat were suddenly panicked and rushed to put out the flames.

Fang Fei, who was in the middle command, was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and hurriedly scolded:

"Hardly ignition oil, cover it with a damp cloth, and it will all spread out! It will all spread out!"

The entire cabin was lit in an instant, and the pleasure boat was filled with flammable objects such as curtains and screens, which could be extinguished in a short time.

On the city wall in the distance, more than a dozen black lines rose up and attacked at an astonishing speed, pouring into the ship. In order to resist the strong bow and crossbow of the court, there were shields and objects in the cowhide on the bow. However, the crossbow arrows facing the bed were no different from those of paper, and they could not be stopped at all.

However, when shooting arrows from two miles away, you can only look at the sky. Some crossbow arrows fell into the river water, or directly penetrated the bamboo raft. The lead bamboo tube was covered with oil cloth, and after falling into the water, it could still explode and float and burn on the river surface, but the lethality was minimal.

The command troops quickly sent orders, and hundreds of gathered bamboo rafts quickly spread out on the river surface. Only a few ships turned into fireboats. The panicked rebels jumped into the water from above and swam to the nearby ships. This had no effect on the team of more than 10,000 people.

Fang Fei ordered the big ship to land in an orderly manner, allowing the bamboo raft, which was not afraid of the bed, crossbow, to continue to attack the Water Gate along the river.

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Above the city of Muzhou, I saw the thick smoke and fire rising from the end of my vision, and a shocking cheer burst out.

Tong Shu's face turned red and she frantically drove more than a dozen crossbowmen to work together to pull the crossbows on the bed, ready to continue to attack.

Cao Hua only experimented with the feasibility of the low-end version of the "rocket". Seeing that it could indeed ignite the ship, he raised his hand to stop the defenders on the city wall from wasting arrows and spoke:

"Tong Shu, Li Bairen, you will take the defenders to defend the water gate. Do not rush to shoot arrows, just shoot ladders, crashes and other siege equipment, and be sure to hit the target with one arrow."

"promise!"

The defenders reacted very quickly this time, and even the judge Ye Juzhong rushed into the team with excitement.

Cao Hua held a sword in his hand and was waiting for many black feather guards on the city wall, waiting for Fang La's army to climb up the city wall.

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Fang La had just started his campaign, and only had 20,000 troops, and a Qingxi County could not serve as a base, so he had to capture a prefecture in order to gain a foothold.

Shezhou is fully equipped with garrisons and is not easy to chew, but Muzhou is wiped out due to Yan Tan's mistakes, and the city is already empty.

If Fang La wants to accomplish something, he must capture Muzhou City as a stronghold before reinforcements arrive, turn off the offensive to supplement military supplies and then seek Shezhou, Hangzhou and other places. Fang La ordered to capture Muzhou for three days, which is precisely because of this reason. If Muzhou cannot be defeated, the rebels can only wander in the wilderness, facing the endless Song Dynasty imperial guards, they will not be able to accomplish anything at all.

Therefore, the Fang La army's offensive on the first day was so fierce that it was outrageous.

The enemy general Shi Sheng led three thousand rebels to attack Dongshuimen. There was no assistance from siege equipment on the waterway, and there was only a simple wooden ladder. After arriving, he threw objects such as flying claws onto the city wall with the cover of bows, arrows, shields, etc. and forced them to climb up.

The bed crossbow cannot deal with the simple bamboo rafts, and the ordinary crossbow arrows cannot break the shield. The defenders can only wait for the rebels to cut off the ropes or use rolling wood to block them. Three thousand people climbed from all over the city wall. The defenders here were unable to resist and were rushed to the city wall by many rebels.

However, what Fang Fei did not expect was that the defenders of Muzhou City were incredibly powerful. According to the experience of the battle in Xikeng, Fang Fei predicted that Muzhou's defenders would not resist for too long and would be defeated and break the city.

However, today when the rebels attacked the city wall many times, they were forced back by the almost crazy defenders, leaving only a corpse under the city wall.

Most of the Fang La army were composed of village men and pawns, and the individual combat capability was definitely not as good as that of the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty. The opponent also had a huge advantage in defending the city, causing huge casualties in a short period of time.

For this purpose, Fang Fei specially sent an elite team of 100 people, led by general Shi Sheng to the city. This team is a master of the world who has won over. He has extremely strong single-player combat capabilities, far from comparable to ordinary imperial guards. As long as he rushes up, he can gain a foothold and opens a gap to allow endless rebels to climb the city.

As a result, the elite rushed forward. The only difference between them and ordinary pawns was that they spent half a cup of tea and were killed. Even the general Shi Sheng was injured and jumped off the city wall in a hurry to be killed.

Fang Fei was shocked when he heard the news. Through Shi Sheng's report, he realized that in addition to ordinary defenders, there were dozens of extremely powerful officers and soldiers standing on the city wall. He could not resist any of them. Killing people was like chopping melons and vegetables, and he specifically picked out good men in the team.
Chapter completed!