Qin Shuhuai took out ten smaller porcelain bottles, then covered his mouth and nose with a cotton cloth, held his breath again, and carefully packed the white and transparent tensed tendons into these ten porcelain bottles, and then hid them on his body.

Then he went out of the house, and saw that Zhiren and other masters had been waiting in the outer hall for a long time, so he greeted them and asked them to rest in the yamen first and wait and see what happened.

The Demon Church is attacking the city again, this is the consensus of many people.

The reason is very simple, if you can capture the inner city first and eliminate the more than 50,000 officials and troops in the inner city, the Demon Sect can annihilate the official army and the martial arts alliance army that came to reinforce at a lower price. If the imperial court and the Wulin coalition army give up reinforcements by then, it will be fine, they will occupy the whole of Gansu and connect with Gao Yingxiang's southern Shaanxi region. In this way, they will have full control.

On the 23rd day of May in the third year of Chongzhen, Meng Wei, who was scouting outside the city, came back to report that the Demon Sect was assembling on the streets five hundred meters away from the inner city, and it seemed that it was preparing to attack the city.

Qin Shuhuai immediately ordered Zhao Wu'er, who had already returned, to inform Hong Chengchou again, and asked him to ambush him on the spot near the official road after arriving at Gongjing. And asked him to pay close attention to the Demon Sect spies, if he found that the Demon Sect spies were haunted on the road, then even if he didn't reach Gongjing, he wouldn't move forward, and he would be ambushed wherever he went. After the ambush was completed, someone was immediately sent to Lanzhou City to inform the ambush location.

Zhao Wu'er answered, and immediately climbed out of the wall and disappeared into the night.

Qin Shuhuai was still not at ease, and sent another good hand from Xiaochengjing.

It didn't take long for the black suppressed demon cult soldiers to really press over, and this time they chose to attack the north gate.

However, the north gate has long been sealed with bricks as well. Under Cao Wenzhao's arrangement, the defense of the north gate can be called tight.

The north gate was defended by a total of 10,000 troops, of which 2,000 were at the head of the city and 1,000 were in the firearm holes under the battlements. There were 500 birds in the shooting hole, and they were divided into three groups, one group immediately retreated after shooting, the second group went up, the second group retreated after shooting, and the third group went up. After the third group has finished shooting, the first group with ammunition is loaded, and so on. In addition, because the firearms passage was relatively wide, there were also 500 pikemen hidden in the shooting holes, who were supplemented by the birdmen, who were to stab the people on the ladder when they did not have time to reload their ammunition and there was a vacuum of attack. In addition to these 3,000 men, there were 7,000 people under the city, ready to support at any time.

In addition, there are six Franc cannons at the north gate, 500 archers, 200 crossbowmen, and at the same time, fire oil, asphalt, boiling oil, thunderbolts and other weapons have also been transported to the city.

I have to say that Cao Wenzhao has used the resources in the city to the extreme. Moreover, Qin Shuhuai suddenly changed his normality, saying that all the materials can be used in unlimited quantities tonight until they run out!

At three o'clock, the Demon Cult's attack officially began.

As the majestic horn sounded, on the roof not far from the inner city, the archers of the Demon Sect took the lead and frantically poured arrows towards the city to suppress it.

However, the Ming army at the head of the city had already prepared, and they either hid behind the battlements or under the big shield, and there were not many substantial losses.

To put it bluntly, the walls of the inner city are fifteen meters high, and the buildings of the common people outside are only how many meters? There were not many high-rise buildings in the Ming Dynasty, and the government could take into account the current situation when building the inner city, and it was never allowed to build too tall buildings near the inner city walls, so even if the demon archers stood on the roof, they were only about ten meters high at most.

After blocking the first wave of attacks by the Demon Cult archers, the Ming archers and bird guns on the city wall launched a fierce counterattack. Although their cultivation is not as high as that of the Demon Cult archers, and the strength of the bow and arrow is not as strong as theirs, the key is that they are condescending, and they also have battlements as protection - no matter how strong the Demon Cult archers are, it is impossible for them to shoot through the battlements made of bricks with one arrow, right?

Therefore, the Ming army archers, with the cooperation of the bird guns, easily suppressed the demon sect archers.

Demons kept rolling down from the eaves and falling to the ground with a thud and thud.

And during the archer battle between the two sides, the soldiers of the Demon Cult rushed to the city one after another, erecting rows of ladders - this is the real purpose of their archers' suppression.

At the same time, the masters of the Demon Sect came over in droves!

Zhao Wuxian, Chu Yun, Yu Zhu, and the seven mysterious men in black robes, with the blessing of powerful light skills, all crossed the city. There were also seven or eight masters who came up with them, and all of these people came up by stepping on the city wall, at least they were around the fifth rank in Xiaocheng Realm.

And on the side of the Ming army, a group of masters have been waiting for a long time!

Qin Shuhuai, Meng Wei, Zhiren, Wang Datong, Shangshui Shitai, Chang Wuji, and Sun Bai (Sun Cheng was seriously injured and could no longer fight) all crossed the city and started a big battle with them.

Qin Shuhuai still played against Zhao Wuxian, Zhiren against Yu Zhu, Wang Datong against Chu Yun, and Meng Wei, Chang Wuji, Shangshui Shitai and Sun Bai dealt with the Seven Apostles of the Demon Sect together.

This time, it was the masters of the Demon Sect who had the upper hand.

After Qin Shuhuai and Zhao Wuxian made a few moves, they led him to a certain roof in the inner city as usual. Zhao Wuxian knew that Qin Shuhuai was going to transfer him, but he still followed with a sneer. This time, there are seven apostles in the city, and he can let go of his hands and feet to kill Qin Shuhuai!

Zhiren and Yu Zhu continued to learn from each other, although the two of them did their best, they still won or lost in a short period of time.

Wang Datong originally had an advantage against Chu Yun, but Chu Yun found two good players from Xiaochengjing to besiege Wang Datong this time, making Wang Datong extremely passive, often taking care of one and losing the other, and there were dangers.

If the three of them can barely be considered a tie with each other, then the battle between Meng Wei, Chang Wuji, Shangshui Shitai, and Sun Bai and the Seven Apostles is one-sided!

The seven apostles of the Demon Sect, each of them made a wide-mouthed steel knife, in terms of internal force cultivation alone, none of them were under Chang Wuji, and in terms of sword skills, their sword skills were very different from those in Middle Earth, and combined with their elegant and ghostly light skills, Meng Wei and the others could not adapt for a while.

What's more, there are seven of them, and Meng Wei and they only have four, so they are even more at a disadvantage.

Not long after the two sides fought, Sun Bai, who had the lowest cultivation among the four, was stabbed, and three fingers on his left hand were cut off.

Seeing that the other party was not enough, the ambassador sneered in his heart, what about the entire martial arts joining forces? I, the master of the Sun and Moon Sect, how could I lose to your Central Plains martial arts? My seven apostles have not used the great array now, you are so unbearable, if you use the great array, won't it be easy to destroy you?

He originally wanted to do it overnight and take down these four people first. However, when he saw that the Ming army at the head of the city was counterattacking too sharply, so that the Demon Sect soldiers under the city fell one after another, he had to change his mind.

At the head of the city, the counterattack of the Ming army was indeed extremely fierce. Since Qin Shuhuai had already ordered that there was no need to save supplies, as soon as the Demon Sect soldiers gathered, the fire oil jars above were smashed down one after another, and after they were ignited, there was a sea of fire under the city, burning at least two or three hundred Demon Sect soldiers.

In addition to the oil and oil, the artillery of the Ming army also continued to exert its might. Six Fran cannons opened fire one after another, taking away one demon soldier after another. Many Demon Cult soldiers were burned and shelled again, and their bodies were covered in black, yellow, and red, which was so terrifying that people couldn't bear to look at them directly.

At the same time, the birds, bows and arrows of the official army are also constantly exerting their might. Under this dense network of firepower, every breath and every moment there are demon cultists dying.

These soldiers are all elites who have been cultivated in the sect for many years, and one of them dies less!

Therefore, he immediately decided to let the four apostles drag the other four people, and he took the other two, together with the remaining seven or eight Xiaocheng Realm masters, to turn the Ming army upside down first!