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With a "hula", the rebels retreated again. This was the fifth attack of the rebels on the imperial city in less than half an hour, except for the first time, which lasted a little longer, and the next four times were almost like this, and they retreated in a hurry. No matter how Chen Yi scolded him in the back, it was useless.

It turned out that after the rebels' first attack was frustrated, Chen Yi saw that the imperial city was well guarded, and immediately changed his tactics and divided the rebels into two parts, and the more than 3,000 trained people who had originally followed from the Taihu Lake area as the main force were all left behind as the rear army. He temporarily recruited nearly 6,000 rebels in Lin'an and Jiankang to serve as the vanguard, in an attempt to let them consume the defenders' strength and physical strength first, and then the main rebel army would attack and capture the palace in one fell swoop.

But what Chen also didn't expect was that the weakness of the army composed of a bunch of ruffians and scoundrels was undoubtedly apparent at this time, and everyone was competing to take the lead when it was time to get money to eat, and when it was time to play with their lives, they were all perfunctory. In fact, many people didn't even touch the side of the city wall, and were thrown two stones by the Song army in the city, and after shooting a few arrows, they immediately turned around and retreated.

A few of the fastest runners were still talking and laughing while retreating, as if boasting that they were flexible in their reactions, quick to see the opportunity, and not injured. But when they looked up, they were taken aback, only to see Zong Tianxuan's face was iron-blue, standing in front of the formation with a sword, and behind him more than twenty steps was a row of archers, bows were stringed, bows were full, and pointed straight at the rebels who fled back.

Zong Tianxuan said sharply: "Listen, you all listen, turn back immediately, continue to attack the city, and anyone who crosses my position will be killed in a hurry." ”

Although the rebels who fled back were stunned, they still did not stop and still ran backwards, but when they just crossed Zong Tianxuan, the archers behind immediately released their arrows and immediately shot down a large group of people. At the same time, Zong Tianxuan personally swung his sword and beheaded several people who took the lead in retreating. The others knew that this time it was real, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to run anymore and stopped at the same time.

Zong Tianxuan continued: "Give me to go back and attack immediately, if you capture the imperial city, you will be rewarded, and the gold, silver, treasures and beauties in it will be robbed by you, but if you dare to retreat and flee, those who are unfavorable in battle will be killed in a hurry." ”

But although the rebels stopped, they did not dare to go back and attack the city again, and they stopped for a while. Zong Tianxuan was furious and said, "If you don't go back to attack the city, I will immediately order the arrows to be released, and all of you will be shot here first." ”

At this time, someone in the deserted army said: "Damn, isn't this forcing Lao Tzu to die?" Why don't you do it? "This person's name is Wang Shun, he was a scoundrel in Jiankang City, relying on his own arm strength, and he has practiced for a few days, and he is also ruthless in fighting. With more than a dozen little splashes under his hands, he oppressed the good in Jiankang City on weekdays, and he was used to playing arrogant, and he was quite bold, so he was also a little unscrupulous, after listening to Zong Tianxuan's words, he threw the knife in his hand and said to the people left and right: "Damn, brothers, let's stop doing such a death errand, let's go." ”

He took the lead in making trouble, and a few small skins under his hand also coaxed, "Go, go, let's go, let's stop the errand of sending to death, let's go." However, a few of them didn't dare to pass by Zong Tianxuan's side in the end, but walked to the side, wanting to bypass the side. Someone has to take the lead in everything, and when someone takes the lead, everyone else is ready to move.

Zong Tianxuan sneered and said, "If you want to leave, it's not so easy." As he spoke, he turned his body up, and he came to Wang Shun and a few others, and his sword fell. Before anyone else could see it clearly, Wang Shun and the other five people were killed on the spot. At this moment, all the people were calmed, and the best way to deal with the scoundrels was to be more ruthless than them, so looking at the five bloody corpses, no one dared to move a single step.

Zong Tianxuan then said sharply: "It's not so easy to leave, anyone who wants to escape is also a dead end, now you either go to attack the city, or die here immediately, you choose for yourself." ”

At this time, everyone knew that there was no other way to choose from the Book of Scriptures, and instead of being killed by Zong Tianxuan and these people like this, it was better to fight to the death to attack the palace, and maybe there was still a glimmer of life. Therefore, after a moment of silence, everyone "Hula" and rushed towards the palace again.

At the same time, Zong Tianxuan ordered people to set up an archery supervision formation behind the team, and those who dared to retreat and flee were unceremoniously shot and killed, and took the disciples of Tianji Palace to inspect back and forth, and killed those who were ineffective in battle and shrunk on the spot, leaving no room at all. Therefore, the rebels also cut off the last trace of luck, and could no longer be perfunctory as the previous times, so they had to fight desperately, almost as if they were not afraid of death, and stormed the city wall with all their might.

Fortunately, the Song army is also psychologically prepared, and has also prepared a large number of tools to defend the city, stones, bricks and tiles, like raindrops from the city wall, desperately fighting, plus Zhao Yueru in the back of the command properly, now although there are two teams of Song troops to participate in the defense, but Zhao Yueru did not let the two teams of Song troops go into battle together, but took turns to defend in order to maintain the Song army's sufficient sharpness and physical strength. At the same time, Zhao Chen also organized hundreds of young and strong chamberlains and palace maids in the palace to deliver water and food to the Song soldiers who had been rotated, and bandage their wounds. Therefore, for a while, the two sides were inside and outside the city walls, stalemate, and it was difficult to solve.

The rebels stormed for more than half an hour, and although they attacked the city wall many times, they were still repelled by the Song army each time, and in a short period of time, the number of dead on both sides rose sharply. The casualties of the rebels were close to 2,000, while the casualties of the Song army were more than 500.

At this time, the sky had darkened, and both sides lit countless torches inside and outside the city wall, illuminating as if it were daylight, although the rebels suffered huge losses, but behind the supervision of Zong Tianxuan and others, under the pressure of frozen arrows and knives and guns, they still did not dare to retreat at all, and still struggled to attack the city wall, one by one, like crazy.

In such a situation, it also brought great pressure to the defense of the Song army, and the gaps in the city wall were opened one after another, but fortunately, Tie Chenglin, Gu Xueping and others ran back and forth on the city wall, desperately plugging the leakage, so that they could be regarded as able to ensure that the city wall was not lost. On the city walls, many corpses were also left in the imperial city, including rebels and Song troops.

Even if they were dozens of steps away, Zhao Chen and the others could still smell a strong smell of blood, which was shocking to watch. Zhao Chen couldn't help but say to Zhao Yueru: "Liuniang, don't we still have a team of soldiers?" Is it to transfer them to the war as well? ”

Zhao Yueru shook her head and said, "Not yet." She pointed to the rear of the rebels in the distance and said, "Official, you see, the rear of the rebels is still not moving, which means that they are now using a part of their forces to consume our sharp energy and physical strength, and after our whole army is tired, we will launch the final onslaught." Therefore, our last army must not move until absolutely necessary. And now we can withstand it, don't look at the rebels' fierce attacks, but most of them are forced by the warlords, but the rigid ones are easy to dismantle and difficult to last. That's why I divided our soldiers into two groups and took turns to fight in order to maintain their combat effectiveness for a long time. I think that in less than half an hour at most, the strength of this group of rebels will reach the limit. At that time, they will definitely send the main force in the rear, and then it will be our chance. ”

Zhao Chen nodded and said, "It's still the sixth sister who makes sense, and it's up to the sixth sister to decide." ”

At this time, Zhao Yueru sent someone to transfer the last team of Song troops over, but they were still waiting, just ready to fight, but not into the battlefield. At the same time, Tie Chenglin and Gu Xueping were transferred from the battlefield and let them rest. He muttered to himself: "Now the rebels can only change their formations." ”

Sure enough, the two sides fought fiercely for less than two quarters of an hour, and the number of rebels was nearly half of the casualties, and the physical strength was finally unable to support it, and the breath of holding was finally exhausted, although the overseer team killed more than ten rebels in a row, but the manpower was limited after all, and it could not be forced, no matter how forced, the rebels' offensive gradually slowed down.

And at this moment, the rear of the rebels finally began to move, Zhao Yueru's eyes lit up, and the moment she was waiting for had finally arrived.

At this time, Zong Tianxuan also knew that although the Song army had a certain amount of consumption, its combat effectiveness was still very strong, and it was far from what he expected. In fact, if you let this rebel army come down, rest for a while, take a breath and go up to attack for an hour, maybe you can consume the Song army a lot. But now that the formation has changed, Zong Tianxuan also has unspeakable hardships, because he received news from Yijing that outside the city, Li Xianzhong's army began to dispatch with Yijing.

The people of the front division of the palace are stuck on the edge of Xuanwu Lake, because most of the city gates are sealed by the rebels with bricks, mud and sand, so if they want to enter the Jiankang Mansion, the nearest place of the people and horses of the front division of the palace can only take a detour to the Dinghuai Gate, but it only takes one hour at most, that is to say, now Zong Tianxuan only has one hour to break through the palace and capture Zhao Chen or Yang Yan's family, so there is no time to slowly consume the strength of the defenders, so he can only invest all the last strength, and he is desperate.

Therefore, Zong Tianxuan decided that this attack would not only put all the strength of the rebel army into it, but also all the disciples of Tianji Palace such as Xie Qingfeng and Song Yiren, as well as Pan Bing, Pan Ren, Pan Fu and others, all of them would fight and make a final effort.

At this time, Zong Tianxuan glanced in the direction of Zhengyangmen again, and now he only hoped that Shi Miyuan could transfer Li Quan's men and horses into the city as soon as possible to resist Li Xianzhong's men and horses, so that there might be a glimmer of opportunity.