The south gate of Lanzhou City, outside the moat.

Inside a seemingly ordinary demon tent, there was a huge hole.

A person crawled out of it with a gray face, this person was tall and had a strong breath, it was Chen Hou, the master of the Demon Sect's Thick Earth Banner.

Jin Gang, the leader of the Ruijin Banner, had been waiting outside the cave for a long time, and when he saw Chen Hou coming out, he hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand, and asked, "Lord Chen, you have worked hard!

Chen Hou didn't have the slightest expression on his face, and he didn't even look at Jin Gang with a straight eye.

Said coldly, "It's all right." ”

Then he walked out of the tent.

Jin Gang smiled at Chen Hou's back and said, "Thank you Chen Qi Master for helping personally!"

Chen Hou ignored him, and disappeared into the night with a few brothers with thick soil flags.

Jin Gang watched Chen Hou leave, with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth.

On the night of May 19, a loud roar pierced the quiet night of Lanzhou City.

With the south gate of Lanzhou City as the center, the mountains suddenly shook within a radius of five miles, like a huge earthquake attacking.

In the chaos and noise, the ground of the south gate suddenly collapsed, and the entire south gate and a section of the city wall above the city gate collapsed, revealing a gap of about ten meters long.

Many officers and soldiers on the city wall were buried in the ruins amid the deafening roar.

Qin Shuhuai guessed correctly, the Demon Sect's thick earth banner really dug an underground passage, which went straight to the south gate of Lanzhou City, and it was exactly the same. Subsequently, they used a large amount of explosives to blow up the south gate.

Just when the officials and soldiers were in shock, a large number of black-pressed demon cultists, shouting slogans in their mouths, killed them like locusts.

Xia Lu, the deputy commander-in-chief of Gansu who was ordered to guard the south gate, was stunned, and it was not until he saw the Demon Sect building a wooden bridge over the moat that he realized that they had attacked the city, and quickly commanded the soldiers to counterattack.

The Demon Cult quickly put one "wooden bridge" after another on the moat. The so-called wooden bridge is actually a ladder that is put down on the river. Most of the Demon Cultists have some light skills and have received special training, so they can cross the bridge by stepping on the ladder.

The Demon Sect quickly erected more than thirty cloud ladders, forming more than thirty simple wooden bridges.

Naturally, the guards of the city wanted to destroy the ladders, so they poured out from the south gate and rushed to these ladders.

By the time the officers and troops arrived, more than a hundred Demon Sect masters had already crossed the river. Some of them stepped on the ladder, and some even stepped directly on the water, easily crossing the fifteen or sixteen meters wide moat, and from this light skill, we knew that they were at least above the small realm.

Each of the ladders used as bridges was guarded by seven or eight Demon Sect masters, and after the officers and soldiers went up, they started a fierce battle with them.

The first batch of Demon Sects that crossed the bridge were all good hands, and the lowest cultivation level was around the second and third levels of the Xuantong Realm.

The first batch of more than 500 officers and soldiers rushed out, but they couldn't break through their defenses, and they didn't even touch the edge of the ladder.

Xia Lu saw that it was wrong, and immediately ordered two hundred crossbowmen, plus a thousand infantry to rush to help.

At the same time, the five hundred archers on the head of the city opened fire with full firepower, and the arrows rained down like a dense rain towards the Demon Cult soldiers on the opposite bank. The excavation of the moat was carefully considered, and the other side of the moat was the best range for the archers at the head of the city. Therefore, although the Demon Cult also prepared defensive measures such as large shields, it still lost a lot of soldiers - after all, the shield could not protect everyone, and if you want to cross the river, you will definitely expose your body.

In addition to the archers, the Fran cannons on the battlements also began to wield. Because Lanzhou City received all the Franco cannons from the nearby cities, the number was amazing, and there were as many as eight guns at the South Gate alone!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Fran cannon opened its bloody mouth and spewed angry flames, like a man-eating beast, and with each explosion, it would bring down a group of demon cultists.

However, the Demon Cultists were like machines, there seemed to be no fear or hesitation in their eyes, no matter how many people fell around them, they still rushed forward desperately!

The raging fire burns my body! What joy is life, and what pain is death!

The Demon Cult Disciples who were still unable to cross the river in the rear chanted in unison! The majestic singing voice was like a burst of heart booster, making the Demon Cult soldiers in front even more crazy!

Despite the heavy casualties, more and more Demon Cultists successfully crossed the river, and now there are more than 500 Demon Cultists on this side of the moat.

Fortunately, the second batch of reinforcements from the Ming army had also arrived, and the two hundred crossbowmen began to wield their might.

Because the primary goal of the Demon Cultists crossing the river was to protect the ladder, they all fanned out and guarded it densely around the ladder. There's no better target for a crossbowman!

"Whoosh!"

The strong crossbow swept frantically towards these demon sect soldiers, and in front of the powerful crossbow arrows, these demon sect soldiers were not steel and iron bones, and began to fall in pieces!

Soon, several of the ladders of the Demon Sect were lost, and the officers and soldiers quickly went up to cut down these ladders together, and then threw this side into the river.

Seeing that something was wrong, the Demon Cult immediately changed its tactics, and the Demon Cult soldiers who crossed the river surrounded one after another, giving up most of the ladders and defending only ten.

The good hands in the Demon Sect also rushed into the crossbowmen's array, and with their strong cultivation, they killed the crossbowmen of the Ming army!

Xia Lu sneered, is it great if you have good kung fu?

At the sound of an order, another thousand Ming troops were dispatched, plus a hundred crossbowmen, and vowed to block the Demon Cult outside the moat.

The Demon Cult sees the South Gate as the only breakthrough. Because to blow down a city wall, with the power of gunpowder at that time, thousands of catties of explosives were needed, and the Demon Sect could not muster so many explosives to blow up another gate.

Therefore, the battle at the South Gate was extremely crucial, and the Demon Sect naturally sent many good hands to help in the battle.

At this time, those who had already crossed the moat, in addition to the one-eyed scattered man Xiao Buyi, there were two other scattered people - one by one Lao'er, and the yellow-shirted monk Zhao Bu who was holding a crescent moon shovel.

As the three of them are famous Demon Sect Wusan, they are naturally not in vain. Xiao Bu was shocked by the cold spring sword, the sword technique was full of coldness, and the sword technique was weird, and the sword tip set off bursts of blood mist where it passed. One by one, the old man's skills are like wind and lightning, and his heavenly essence qigong is that day, Qin Shuhuai also secretly marveled. One by one, the old man's weapon is a cold iron claw, the whole body is black, and each claw rushes to the neck of the Ming soldiers, but all those who cover their necks and die, it is very terrifying. And the yellow-shirted monk also has a great background, this person once killed the seven heroes of Kansai in one person in the Kansai area, and his name shocked the martial arts, and the crescent shovel in his hand was even more indestructible.

The three of them entered the crossbowman formation of the Ming army, and soon a large number of crossbowmen fell, so anxious that the Ming soldiers rushed to the crossbowmen's side - on the battlefield, it is common sense to protect the crossbowmen! As long as the crossbowmen are still there, the pressure on the other arms will be much less.

Under the bleak moonlight, in the jumping firelight, fighting, screaming, wailing, and roaring are intertwined, like purgatory on earth.

The Demon Sect, under the leadership of the Wusanren, temporarily stabilized the situation, and saved eight of the ladders with the lives that were constantly filled.

A large number of Demon Cultists stepped on the ladder and crossed the river quickly!

And the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, under the leadership of part of the Guanning Army and the Datong Army, also showed great courage and fought to the death against the Demon Sect by the moat!

Somewhere more than a thousand miles away, eight fast horses were speeding forward. After arriving at a certain official camp, they each changed their fast horses and continued to gallop!