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(I've collected more than four thousand, celebrate myself first, and have one more chapter today!) Thank you, brothers

A boulder roared and flew into the air, hanging the sound of the wind and fell, smashing heavily on the city wall, and suddenly the city bricks on the city wall flew wildly, and the city bricks peeled off to reveal the rammed earth city wall core below, and the people on the city wall felt a heavy vibration under their feet.

The defenders exclaimed: "Return to the cannon!" Their return cannon is starting to fire! Be careful......"

A few of the return cannons finally came within range of their power, and with only fifty paces left from the city wall, the artillery guards struggled to pull down their arms and load the boulders they had brought with them into their bags made of cowhide.

At the officer's order, someone knocked open the wooden wedge that controlled the cannon rod, and the huge cannon arm was whistling up by the heavy counterweight at the other end, and the boulder slashed through a semicircle in the air before flying out.

Several artillery trucks immediately exerted their tremendous power, smashing large stones into the walls of Longzhou City, stirring up pieces of broken bricks and stones on the city walls.

Every time the defenders on the city wall feel a vibration under their feet, they will invariably exclaim, looking at the tall artillery carts outside the city in horror, for fear that when the next stone falls, it will hit their heads, and some arrows shot by the thieves under the city at this time are nothing, compared to such flying stones, the arrows are just like a joke, as long as an arrow is not critical, there is a possibility of survival, but if it is hit by these boulders, then there is no need to think about anything, only a dead end.

Yang Yulin looked at the thieves who were crossing the moat in the tide outside the city, and looked at the few artillery trucks that were abusive, and his heart was both shocked and angry.

Obviously, the enemy's firepower today is going to be raised by more than one grade, they have not yet landed in the city, and they have caused more than 100 casualties to the defenders, so if He Renlong can't return in time to help, then this Longzhou City is really a bit dangerous.

Yang Yulin pulled out his waist knife and slashed down a villager who ran past him in a panic and wanted to escape from the city wall, kicked his body out with one kick, and fell heavily into the city.

"Don't mess around! Call me! If anyone dares to flee from the battle, there will be no forgiveness! He glared at his panicked men around him, threw away his sword, which was still dripping blood, snatched a strong bow from one of his own soldiers, and shot it at the city.

This eagle arrow flew out like lightning, far away from the neck of a member of the Xingtian Army standing next to the artillery car, the Xingtian Army's subordinate froze for a moment, I couldn't believe that he was standing so far, he was actually shot by an arrow, and after stumbling a few times around his neck, he fell on his back to the sky.

Yang Yulin's meritorious work with one arrow immediately provoked the applause of many officers and soldiers around him, so the morale that had just been frustrated was immediately encouraged again, and although several artillery trucks outside the city were very powerful, but after all, there were traces to follow, as long as you were careful, there were not many chances of being hit and killed.

So the officers and soldiers who defended the city and the villagers began to regain their morale again, and they fired cannons and arrows at the city, and the entire southern city wall of Longzhou City was suddenly wrapped in a cloud of gunsmoke.

A large number of Li Zicheng's subordinates who were trying to break through the moat were instantly knocked down by the dense bullets, if it weren't for those archers and the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army who got up in time to counterattack the city, it is estimated that in just a moment, the defenders would be able to completely defeat the two lines of soldiers and horses of Gao Jie and Li Guo on the side of the moat.

Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but lament in his heart, when the war developed to this extent, the siege of the city had become an extremely dangerous thing, and the defenders always had the advantage of geography and firepower, the situation would become even worse.

This time, fortunately, the Xingtian Army followed Li Zicheng to attack Longzhou, and the Xingtian Army has always been in the position of the guest army's assist, if the Xingtian Army is allowed to attack this time, he dare not imagine that the more than 1,000 soldiers he has worked hard to cultivate, I am afraid that after a battle, he will lose more than half of it here.

It seems that the siege is still a technical job in the end, and if the opponent's firepower is not fully suppressed at the moment, this kind of thing he thinks it would be better for the Xingtian Army to do less in the future, Li Zicheng can afford to lose, he can't afford to lose, or there is still a more powerful cannon, only by completely suppressing the artillery fire of the defenders can he carry out the siege, otherwise he doesn't plan to do more in the future.

Although the artillery fire of the defenders is still very fierce, but after all, with the cover of a large number of shield vehicles, a considerable number of Li Zicheng's subordinates were able to reach the side of the trench safely, and Li Zicheng also sent a lot of archers, hiding behind the shield cars under the city to release arrows to the city, and Li Zicheng's archers are the elite of their army, each of them is a good archer, only a short standard, can be taken very accurately, but it also killed and injured a lot of defenders on the city wall, plus the fire hammers of the Xingtian Army also rely on the cover of the shield car, Constantly hiding behind the shield car and firing a salvo towards the head of the city, but it also suppressed the fierce artillery fire of the defenders to a certain extent, and there were people on both sides of the city wall who paid the price of their lives at every moment, so that the two sides attacked each other on both sides of the moat and the city wall, and some of Li Zicheng's troops took the opportunity to operate, and after several repeated impacts After paying dozens of lives, Gao Jie and Li Guo finally opened up the trench in front of them, paved out a few passages, and hundreds of soldiers immediately held wooden shields and rattan cards, They carried long ladders and swarmed across the moats and scattered at the foot of the city walls.

As soon as Li Zicheng saw that Gao Jie and Li Guo had broken through the moat, he was suddenly overjoyed, and waved his hand and shouted: "See Xiu, it's time to send someone up to help Li Guo and Gao Jie!" ”

Tian Jianxiu also put on a hanging iron cotton armor at this time, and immediately agreed, and waved and shouted: "Brothers, it's time for us to go!" After pouring it in, the good wine and meat tube are full! ”

Seeing Tian Jianxiu acting like this, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but be a little stunned, because in his impression, Tian Jianxiu was a rather elegant person, and he would not be so rude at all, and today it seems that this kind of elegance is also time-sharing, and when he really wants to go into battle, Tian Jianxiu will show such a heroic style, so he secretly expressed his admiration.

With Tian Jianxiu's shout, Li Zicheng once again rushed out of nearly 500 soldiers, these 500 or so people are obviously different from the 2,000 people sent out earlier, most of these 500 soldiers are armored soldiers, and they are all strong, with a fierce look, at a glance, you can know that these 500 people are battle-hardened veterans, it can be seen that Li Zicheng has indeed invested a lot of money this time, and even the combat power at the bottom of the box has been taken out.

As soon as these 500 soldiers came out of the battle, they shouted in unison: "Kill! Pour it in, eat his mother, drink his mother! After the call, a group of people followed Tian Jianxiu and rushed towards the city of Longzhou together.

Xiao Tianjian felt that this was a little familiar, and he just followed it with a sentence called 'King Chuang is here and will not pay for food', but when he thought about it, he laughed a little dumbly, Li Zicheng is not King Chuang now, and it seems that he has not completely understood why he rebelled now, how can he shout such a slogan now!

"These five hundred people are the pawns of the foolish brother! These brothers are all experienced soldiers, all of them are not afraid of death, many of them are brothers who followed the foolish brother very early, today it depends on whether they can take this Longzhou City! Li Zicheng pointed at the five hundred elite soldiers who rushed out with a horsewhip and said to Xiao Tianjian with some pride.

Xiao Tianjian looked at these more than 500 elite soldiers like wolves and tigers, and couldn't help nodding yes, knowing that these 500 people should have a good performance.

Sure enough, as soon as Tian Jianxiu led these more than 500 elites to appear, the morale of Li Zicheng's subordinates in front was greatly boosted, and some soldiers who were still hiding behind the shield cart did not dare to show their heads, but when they saw these 500 people rushing up, they all picked up the guys, and also rushed through the moat, raised the long ladder, and rushed up to the bottom of the city wall.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of rumbling horses' hooves from the direction of the West Gate, and a Li Zicheng's subordinate galloped quickly towards the direction of the Chinese army. Suddenly, 200 cavalry officers and soldiers from the west gate of the city were killed, and our people were scattered, and they were rushing towards this side! ”

After Li Zicheng heard this, his face changed, and Xiao Tianjian's heart twitched violently, and now they are all focusing on the attack on the south gate of Longzhou City, originally they all thought that according to this situation, the pressure on the defenders in the city will be very large, and it is estimated that they should not be able to draw out manpower at this time to come out to attack, and most of the elites around Li Zicheng have been dispatched, once the cavalry of this official army is killed, this siege battle will be over, If it is not done well, it is likely to cause even greater chaos, maybe just these 200 cavalry can kill them and defeat them, in that case, I am afraid that the losses of their two armies will be great!

The situation on the side of the Xingtian Army is not much better, because to help Li Zicheng, most of the soldiers and recruits in his army were sent into battle, either to cover the artillery team, or to be responsible for operating those artillery carts, and the musketeers and archers poured out, leaving less than 400 soldiers who had not yet gone into battle, and these 400 people went to meet the 200 cavalry of the officers and soldiers, without the support of bows and muskets, with only the spears and swords in their hands, they could not eat the cavalry of this group of officers and soldiers, and only the dozens of cavalry of Shi Ran's scout team could be used, So as soon as he heard that the official army had sent a cavalry out to attack and harass, he immediately became nervous.