In the fifth year of Kaiping, November 13th, west of Lingzhou, Jiming Village.

The fourth day of defending the city.

The brutal siege has been going on for more than an hour.

Xue Meng stood at the top of the city holding a special broad-bladed sword, with five or six soldiers carrying large shields protecting his flanks, fighting with the Wu army who kept jumping up the city wall.

Last time, because of Pei Yue's divine soldiers, Guo Rong, the leader of the Western Wu Dynasty, was killed by the owl in front of the battle. Thousands of infantry fled back to the camp, causing heavy losses. For a period of time after that, Zhang Qingbai did not use troops against Jiming Village again.

Therefore, Pei Yue was able to get thousands of reinforcements and a large amount of food and grass from Ning Zhong, and at the same time, the city wall was further repaired and reinforced.

If not, it would be difficult for Jiming Village to survive until now.

Outside the city is Xiwu's 30,000-strong army, including 5,000 cavalry, and the rest are infantry. Jiming Village has a special structure, with only east and west walls, and the east wall is too narrow, so the west wall is Xi Wu's main attack direction.

.This section of the city wall, which is less than two miles long, cannot accommodate too many soldiers. In addition, the number of defenders in the city is close to 6,000, so both sides can only constantly rotate soldiers.

Precisely because the troops that appeared near the city wall were always physically strong, this offensive and defensive battle was extremely brutal from beginning to end.

After the last disastrous defeat, the Xiwu people were determined to take down the hard nail of Jiming Village this time and take the southern military village system as their own. They were very well prepared and had all kinds of siege equipment.

And there was no testing or tug-of-war at all, it was the fiercest offensive from the beginning.

Xue Meng wielded his long sword and knocked a Western Wu infantry directly off the city wall. The infantry was thrown to death from a height of more than ten feet.

Xue Meng didn't even bother to take a look, and continued to advance forward with the knife, using his strong strength to forcefully cover a distance of seven to eight feet.

There were corpses lying on the city wall, including Liang Jun and Wu Jun. In comparison, there were more Wu Jun.

In the distance, a middle-aged man in his late forties with a vigorous figure, with the cooperation of a young man, kept killing Wu Jun who climbed up the city wall.

He has now returned to his real name Dong Daqian, and the young man next to him is naturally Qi Huaijing.

The two of them escaped from Daokou Stronghold together. After being rescued by Pei Yue, they participated in the battle of Jiming Stronghold together, and were finally left in this military stronghold. Dong Daqian had a fateful relationship with Qin Xian's father Qin Huai.

He changed his depressed and indifferent attitude in previous years and worked extremely hard to help Qin Xian train his sergeants, which naturally won Qin Xian's greatest respect.

"You brat, be careful!"

Dong Daqian kicked down Wu Jun who was trying to sneak attack Qi Huaijing, and then stepped forward to add another blow.

Qi Huaijing smiled sheepishly. He was still as simple and simple as before, but the only difference was that he was no longer cowardly and dared to fight back desperately in the face of the crazy Wu Jun.

Under the city tower, Qin Xian looked at the whole scene, and every change in the battle situation fell into his mind. He still had reserve troops in his hands. At least this time the Wu army's siege battle would definitely end in failure.

But what about next time?

He thought of Pei Yue, who was far away on the northern front, and wondered if he was well. He had not heard from Pei Yue for a long time since the last time he saw him. The situation was now critical, and even Marquis Cheng'an's command could not be sent in. More

Not to mention Pei Yue's situation.

You can't always count on Pei Yue to come down to earth and save you.

Perhaps that first meeting was a farewell, and the fate of myself and the comrades around me seemed to have been doomed.

Live and die with this military stronghold.

Especially after Wuwei Hou Ningzhong led his troops to flee back to the Guping camp in panic, and after the Xishui Village and Nanshan Village fell one after another, Jiming Village completely became a precarious and isolated city.

Qin Xian raised his gun and walked away, no longer thinking about Ning Zhong, that disgusting-looking trash.

After the Battle of Lulongzhai, Cheng'an Hou Lu Min retreated all the way to Guping Camp. Wuwei Hou Ningzhong, who was originally responsible for the response, only sent the remaining cavalry under his command, but he led the infantry to retreat in advance. As for Lu Min's initial plan

, Ning Zhong's mission of supporting and protecting Jiming Village was also forgotten by him.

No one knows how such a waste could take the position of head coach of Gu Pingjun.

What is even more puzzling is that he first marched rashly, resulting in the first big defeat, and then successively violated the tasks assigned by Lu Min. However, in the end he was not punished too severely, and was only temporarily deprived of the command of the Guping Army.

, was detained in a temporary prison in Guping Camp.

Although the current strength of the Guping Camp is close to 40,000, its composition is extremely complex, including nearly 20,000 Beijing troops, more than 10,000 Guping troops, and thousands of defeated soldiers who escaped from various military camps. If we only judge based on the number of people,

At this moment, the Xiwu army approaching the city did not seem so scary, because forty thousand to seventy thousand was not a huge disparity, not to mention that Liang Jun was the one defending the city.

However, Qi Yunhou Yinwei, the deputy commander of the Western Army, understood that military strength could not explain anything.

All the 40,000 soldiers in the camp were defeated. Now the Wu army was so powerful that it became a very difficult task to hold the camp.

He sat worriedly in the festival hall, not even bothering to think about why Lu Min didn't severely punish Ning Zhong, that loser.

"Marquis Qi Yun, do you estimate how many troops can be mobilized from the north?" Marquis Cheng An looks much older, no longer as confident as when he left Kyoto, and his eye sockets appear slightly sunken.

Yin Wei frowned and said: "Although the northern front achieved a great victory in Xishan, the Longbow Army fought fiercely, and their defense line was also very long. Even if they abandoned eleven military strongholds and only held the Longbow Camp, Ji Ninghou

The number of troops we can allocate is no more than 20,000."

Lu Min pondered: "Where is the Zangfeng Guard now?"

Yin Wei replied: "The battle report sent by Marquis Jining said that Pei Yue led the Zangfeng Guards to Hucheng."

"Nonsense! If he doesn't come to help defend Guping Camp at this time, why would he go to Hucheng?" Lu Min scolded angrily.

Yin Wei smiled bitterly and said: "Master Junji, according to the messenger's report, he found Jining Hou in Xishan Village. At that time, the Tibetan Front Guards had left. Tang Youzhi handed all the cavalry under his command into the hands of Pei Yue, and there was no way to recover them. Everything was done.

foregone conclusion."

There was a gloom on Lu Min's face. He did not expect that the Northern Front would be able to win a big victory, nor did he expect that Pei Yue would be so bold as to rush to Hucheng non-stop after the battle.

There is no doubt that this disrupted his next plan.

He did not continue to get angry about this matter, and said to Yin Wei with a solemn expression: "At the moment, we can only mobilize troops from Jinshui Camp and Longgong Camp to at least block Zhang Qingbai to the west of Lingzhou."

Yin Wei remained silent.

This move can affect the whole body. If the reserve forces of the two major camps in the north and south are taken away, and if they are defeated by Zhang Qingbai again, the consequences will be disastrous. The two people here today will definitely become Daliang's eternal sinners.
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