The thieves raised the wooden shield against the sparse sharp arrows, and quickly stepped on the bamboo ladder to cross the moat and rushed to the city gate, and soon the iron cable of the drawbridge was cut, and the drawbridge fell with a bang, and the thieves behind rushed over with a thick log and hit the city gate heavily.

Under the walls of the Yan family's mansion in the city, the dense officers and soldiers arrived and formed a phalanx to wait, and on a small building in the distance, Liu Qi waited nervously beside Zhao Zhen for the thieves to break in, "Bang, bang, bang......" The heavy city gate finally collapsed under the violent impact, and the thieves howled and swarmed in.

The visual impact of a hundred and a thousand people swarming through is completely two concepts, especially in a not very open area, the main road from the city gate to the city center and the streets and alleys in other directions are already a sea of fire, and the "inner ying" on the slightly higher houses around them are trying their best to guide the black pressure on a swarm of locusts to rush north according to the route that has been laid out, and then burrow into the city of the Yan family through a large gap in the long courtyard wall.

This large area of the house has been skillfully transformed by thousands of officers and soldiers, and some of the alleys have been blocked by collapsed houses or fires, and the thieves are quickly divided into three groups along the route designed by the officers and soldiers, and at the end they collide with the officers and soldiers who have already formed a phalanx.

Liu Qi finally saw with his own eyes the magnificent scene of the war in the era of cold weapons, and the thieves saw that the officials and soldiers who had been prepared in the faint light of the fire also felt that something was wrong, but they had no way to retreat, after a short panic, the thieves brandished knives and guns like crazy wave after wave of impact on the phalanx of the officers and soldiers, and the two rows of sword and shield hands in the front were stubbornly holding the wooden shields to prevent them from being knocked away by the crazy thieves, and the halberd behind them desperately stabbed the body of the thieves with iron halberds.

The deafening roar was mixed with a terrible scream, looking at the dazzling blood splashing several feet high, the bloody wind and blood rain scorched Liu Qi's nerves that he thought were already very tough, he gritted his teeth and forced himself not to lower his head and close his eyes, although he had personally experienced two scenes of fighting for his life, and had killed several people with his own hands, but the tragic scene in front of him was far beyond his ability to bear.

In the eyes of the thieves, the thieves have done a lot of evil and rebellion, and only by getting rid of them can they return the world to a prosperous future, but in the eyes of the thieves, the officials and soldiers are the culprits who oppressed their wives and displaced, and only by killing all the officers and soldiers can they live.

Both sides hate to get rid of each other and kill each other quickly, in their eyes, there is no difference between killing a pig and slaughtering a chicken, but what Liu Qi sees is a piece of fresh life devouring each other, he really can't bear to watch these poor lives disappear meaninglessly, but he knows in his heart that he will often face such things in the future.

If you want to leave here and go home, you have to kill, until Zhang Jiao gives the first place to win his heavenly book!

is bent on escaping this cruel world, but the premise is to face or even create such a tragedy with his own hands every once in a while, Liu Qi fell into a deep contradiction.

Zhao Rong on the city wall saw more than 30 cavalry holding broken banners mixed with the tail end of the thief army rushing into the city gate, although he could not be sure that it was the thief leader, but watching the officials and soldiers in the city gradually lose strength in the face of the thief soldiers' desperate fight, he was afraid that once the official army formation was broken through, it would cause chaos among a large number of poorly trained soldiers, so he and his subordinates shot rockets and chirping arrows as signals.

These thieves have survived in many years of fighting, and they are stronger than most of the officers and soldiers in terms of combat skills, experience and physical fitness, and the officers and soldiers are mixed with a large number of weak soldiers left behind and the disheartened Yan family's private army who have just been recruited.

If it weren't for the fact that the thief army was deliberately transformed into a labyrinthine mansion and scattered, resulting in a lack of troops to actually engage in battle, I am afraid that there would be no chance to carry out the predetermined plan at this moment.

The officers and soldiers who were lurking everywhere finally waited for the signal to be issued, and threw their torches stained with cold sweat to the place where the fire was started, and in the blink of an eye, all the preset fire points on the city wall, in the houses, and in the small buildings quickly ignited a fire, and the walls around the Yan house were also covered with officers and soldiers with torches, bows and arrows, and the strong men who were recruited after the phalanx were also galloping desperately on mules and horses.

All the officers and soldiers shouted: "Surrender or kill!" Surrender or kill! ”

The thieves who stormed the formation of the officers and soldiers were knocked down by the sudden rain of arrows, while the thieves who were blocked behind by the narrow streets and still swirling in the labyrinth were frightened by the sudden increase in the number of officers and soldiers around them and the deafening sound of horses' hooves in the city.

It seems that the officers and soldiers have been prepared to lure us in?

The thief leader Xu Xi was also stunned, he thought that Jiangzhou was already in his bag, but who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, he would become the prey of falling into the trap, and the huge contrast made Xu Xi almost vomit blood.

"Qu Shuai, we've been tricked, get out of the city quickly!" The soldiers around him shouted, and without waiting for Xu Xi's reaction, he pulled up the reins of the horse and turned around and ran.

In fact, the sudden momentum of the official army did not frighten Xu Xi, after carefully observing the terrain, he had seen through the reality of the defenders, but it was a pity that the panicked behavior of the guards around him made many subordinates who did not know why began to retreat in a panic, and how many of them could listen to him?

"Zhao Zhen, old thief, will take revenge in the future! Remove! In this case, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to regroup the army and continue to attack, and after a while, a large number of thieves followed the trend and turned around and fled, and the defeat was so unjust that Xu Xi was furious, and he had no choice but to roar and rush towards the city gate first.

Seeing that their own Qu Shuai took the lead in running, the thieves' already crumbling military heart suddenly collapsed, and they rushed to flee to the city gate, but when they saw the city gate, the city gate was full of their own people crowded together, and the original suspension bridge was crooked on one side and had been burned, and in front of the thieves was a moat that was more than ten zhang long and two people deep.

The thieves who knew how to water had already jumped into the moat to swim across the river, and many of those who didn't know how to water were squeezed down the river by their own people, and Xu Xi also abandoned his horse at this moment, and fled to the opposite bank with a deep foot and a shallow foot on the bamboo ladder set up by his own soldiers.

The soldier holding the wooden shield behind him screamed and was shot in the thigh by a sharp arrow, and at the same time he fell into the river and brought Xu Xi in, fortunately, the bamboo ladder was still firmly erected on the river, and after choking a few mouthfuls of water, Xu Xi still firmly grasped the bamboo ladder, and luckily avoided the random arrow and successfully swam to the opposite bank.

It is in line with the well-known adage that has been circulating among street gangsters for a long time: those who come out to mix will have to pay back sooner or later.

The privilege that only a handsome man has on weekdays - the fish scale iron armor on his body that once saved his life, but at this moment, he is soaked in water and weighs down like a thousand pounds of weight, making it difficult for him to run for his life like the most inconspicuous pawn under him.

Soon there was the sound of rumbling horses' hooves on both sides, and a fire dragon came straight towards them, although there were only fifty horsemen, but the few thieves who swam across the moat under the rain of arrows still had the slightest sense of resistance, and immediately knelt down and surrendered, Xu Xi and the only two remaining soldiers held their swords and confronted the cavalry in despair.

The six or seven hundred thieves who survived at the gate of the city saw that the back road was extinct, and they also threw away their swords and guns and surrendered to the official army, turned around and looked at the subordinates who were trembling on their knees, Xu Xi had mixed feelings in his heart, why was God so unfair, he was not incompetent, he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a party commander, not by the spell of the Taiping Dao, nor by the slightest trick, completely with his own mind and the knife in his hand to fight one battle after another.

Over the years, nine out of ten Yellow Turban troops in various states and counties have either been wiped out or surrendered voluntarily, but the men and horses led by themselves have persevered.

Taking the opportunity to attack Jiangzhou this time, Xu Xi made extremely cautious arrangements, in order to prevent the officers and troops from detecting and setting up an ambush on their own back road, and only after ensuring the safety of the two wings did they start attacking the city, and carefully maintained the formation and only sent a few soldiers to test the defenders, until the city gate was breached, and then let go of the attack.

The information in the city has been verified several times, and from the weak combat strength of the officers and soldiers, the sparse sound of archery and the sound of bravado and repeated hooves of horses, it can be known that the information provided by the city is indeed true.

But why is it the dominant self that is now defeated?

He has 3,000 elites in battle, and he can suffer such a crushing defeat when he has the help of internal assistance and a sudden attack?

Xu Xi didn't understand what was going on anyway, and a knight urged him to step forward and shouted, "You still don't surrender?!" ”

"Hahahaha............!"

Xu Xi laughed miserably, his laughter revealed endless desolation, he thought of his father who died unjustly because his land and property were swallowed up by the big clan in collusion with the government, his mother who committed suicide with hatred, his relatives who died of cold and starvation, and the enemy who died tragically after suffering from his own torture.

"Surrender? Hmph, the will of heaven is so unfair that I can't do anything, how can you and other nobodies be qualified to show off their power in front of me? The husband is happy to take revenge, and if he dies, he will die, how can there be any reason to grovel?! ”

Others surrender or have a way to live, but if they fall into the hands of the enemy, they will only suffer more humiliation, so they can avenge their family revenge, and they have been in the limelight for a while, and this life is worth it!

With a long sigh, Xu Xi ordered the two soldiers to disarm and surrender, and raised their knives to slash their necks.

"Qu Shuai!" The two pro-soldiers didn't have time to stop Xu Xi from committing suicide, and stepped forward to support his fallen body with a cry.

Xu Xi grabbed the hand of his own soldier hard, opened his mouth unwillingly, but did not make a sound, and then died with a crooked head.

"Ahh The two pro-soldiers frantically waved their knives and pounced on the cavalry, poofing twice, two sharp arrows pierced their chests, and the cavalry dismounted one after another, led by Xu Xi's and the heads of the two pro-soldiers, and the rest went to tie up the thieves who knelt down and surrendered.

After cleaning the battlefield, Zhao Zhen, who had not slept all night, climbed the city wall, and the guards verified the results of the battle and reported them to him.

Seventeen leaders, including the thief leader Xu Xi, were either beheaded or captured, only three wanted criminals were wanted by the imperial court and the state government, and only three were at large, and more than 8,000 old and weak women and children abandoned by Xu Xi had no food and grass inside and a large army outside, and they were already fish and meat on the chopping board waiting for the officials and soldiers to receive at any time, and the remaining more than 2,900 thieves who tried to attack Jiangzhou City were beheaded by more than 700, nearly 300 were burned, drowned, and trampled on each other, nearly 300 were seriously injured, more than 1,600 surrendered, and only 30 or 40 people escaped. It can be said that Xu Xi, the Yellow Turban thief army with the largest number of people and the most serious disaster in Yizhou, has been completely wiped out.