Fortunately, there are not many other things in a place like Ninan-gun, but there are many trees, and there are many big trees with waist thickness.

It is not a problem to cut down a few such trees, make a sledgehammer for the city, and a heavy wooden shield, but only need some siege equipment for defense and attack, and there is still a lot of hope for defeating Xianglin City.

Just when Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses appeared outside the adjacent city, Fan Xiong in the city was also ready at this time, and he hurriedly came to the top of the city tower under the leadership of the eunuchs, planning to have a wave of peace talks with Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, if it can be negotiated, it is naturally the best.

"Whose soldiers and horses are under the city? Why are you besieging my Linyi country? ”

The old king Fan Xiong stood on the city tower, pretending not to know where Liu Zheng and the others came from, and shouted a word.

Liu Zheng and the others led the soldiers and horses to just plan to attack, and tested the reality of Xianglin City, when they heard the words of inquiry coming from the city tower, they were also curious, and did not rush to attack, but asked a rhetorical question.

"Who is Your Excellency?"

"I am Fan Xiong, the king of Linyi Kingdom!"

When Liu Zheng heard this person's words, he immediately nodded, and then a look of sarcasm appeared on his face.

"It turns out that you are the king of Linyi Kingdom, so you took advantage of the fire to rob and attack my Rinan County, it was your order?"

Liu Zheng got straight to the point, and immediately made Fan Xiong's face a little unpleasant, but he still patiently continued to talk to Liu Zheng.

"It was indeed I who ordered my son to lead a part of the soldiers and horses to Rinan County for a tour, but I only let him have a fight with the Han officers and soldiers, but I didn't let them slaughter the city to vent their anger, although it was my fault, but I was ignorant of Xiao'er, and I beg your honor to forgive me once. On behalf of all the people of Linyi, I would like to present 5,000 gold and silver and a box of jewels as compensation! Closed to this! ”

Since it is a peace talk, it is useless to say so much nonsense, Fan Xiong is smart, and he directly opened his mouth and threw out his thoughts, as long as he shows enough sincerity, he can make these Han officers and generals under the city think about whether they should talk about peace.

Liu Zheng was indeed stunned by Fan Xiong's words.

As soon as he opened his mouth to say that it was a peace negotiation and a matter of compensation, it was indeed beyond Liu Zheng's expectations.

And five thousand gold and a box of jewelry, this price is not low, but it is more than the income of many big families in a whole year, and a small country like Lin Yiguo, speaking of which, can get so much, it can be regarded as a big price.

However, Liu Zheng will not be tempted by this money, the purpose of his coming here is to destroy the Lin Yi Kingdom, otherwise he will not be able to explain to the dead soldiers.

No matter how much money is compensated, it can't make up for the families of the dead soldiers, as well as the people who were plundered, Liu Zheng has to take it back from the Linyi country.

So Liu Zheng didn't think about it, and shouted directly at Fan Xiong on the city tower.

"Fan Xiong is right, what your son has done, he has lost his conscience, and heaven will not tolerate it, it is not a few thousand gold that can calm you, you occupy the land of my Han, I can not care, but you slaughter the city and kill people, I have to tell you about this matter, this is playing with fire, you can't calm the families of those dead soldiers with money, I can only tell you, in the next life, teach your son well, don't let him be a bear child again!"

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he no longer paid attention to Fan Xiong, and directly gave the order to attack the 9,000 army behind him.

"Charge!"

As soon as the battle flag waved, the order to charge was given, the horn of the attack sounded, and the nine thousand soldiers who had been ready for a long time rushed to Xianglin City at this time.

"Kill!"

The shouts of killing immediately came from under the city of Xianglin City.

Fan Xiong, who was standing on the city tower and planned to continue to talk with Liu, and even planned to report the bargaining chips and the money for compensation to Fan Xiong, saw that the other party did not negotiate with him at all, and knew that the road of peace talks was no longer possible.

With a gloomy face, he watched as the soldiers and horses began to rush towards the gates of Xianglin City, some soldiers with huge logs rushed in, and some soldiers with huge shields also began to appear, and he knew that this would be a fierce battle.

"Alas, what about General Su, let General Su defend the city!"

Fan Xiong stopped talking, and immediately asked the generals who were better at leading the army to defend the city.

This Xianglin City has an army of 20,000, and the soldiers and horses gathered from all sides have all arrived at Xianglin City a day ago, and now there are nearly 10,000 troops on the city tower.

All kinds of defensive equipment are available, and they have been prepared for a long time.

Under the command of the general, the defense was tight, and as long as the enemy attacked, they used the tall city walls to hold off the enemy's attack, and it was not a problem.

Liu Zheng and Xu Huang and others did not participate in the siege battle, as generals, they only needed to command the soldiers and horses, and this was just a tentative attack.

Liu Zheng did not regard this first attack as an all-out battle.

After all, with only 9,000 soldiers and horses, it is not so easy to break a royal city like Lin Cheng.

The battle lasted for more than ten minutes, and the soldiers under Liu Zheng's command approached the gate of Xianglin City, and used the siege equipment to hit the city gate several times, and there was no shaking as it should be.

In addition, the city wall is quite high, and it is not practical to build a ladder to attack the city.

Liu Zheng never wanted to set up a cloud ladder as a method of attacking the city, that kind of method can only be used when he has a great advantage in troops, and he can only have a chance to attack forcibly regardless of losses.

Otherwise, in the case of equal forces, assuming the ladder, it will only increase the probability of casualties, and the possibility of breaking the city is very small.

After seeing that it was very difficult to attack the city, Liu Zheng directly ordered a retreat.

This is the end of the tentative assault.

"Xu Huang, let the soldiers retreat, this is like Lin City is really well defended, it is not easy for us to fight down, and continuing to attack the city will only increase casualties, it seems that we have to think of another way."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he said a word to Xu Huang, Xu Huang nodded, and also saw the problem.

Immediately the order was given, and the gong was sounded.

Ming Jin withdrew his troops, and the soldiers who received the news immediately began to retreat.

An offensive and defensive battle, which ended quickly.

The soldiers of Lin Yiguo on the city tower breathed a sigh of relief, but their faces did not look much better.

In this battle, although they tried their best to defend, they also found that the soldiers and horses of the Great Han Dynasty under them were not so easy to deal with, and the attack of ten minutes did not seem to cause much loss to the men and horses of the Great Han Dynasty.

I didn't even see many dead and wounded soldiers and horses.