The Ming army still stubbornly counterattacked, and also used thunderbolts and crossbow arrows. However, they were still inferior to the Flame Banner in terms of the Thunderbolt and the power of the explosion, and there were not as many of them as they were, and they were soon at a disadvantage.

A large number of Demon Cults, under the cover of thunderbolts, rushed through the ruins.

The two sides soon engaged in a fierce fight.

Cao Wenzhao commanded the soldiers to block the Demon Sect while arranging for the army behind to begin to retreat. If you don't retreat at this time, I'm afraid you won't be able to retreat after a while.

He had no choice!

As for the soldiers of the Ming army who were still fighting hard against the Demon Sect at the head of the city and in the ruins, he could only announce that he would give up! It was impossible for him to let the official army engage in street battles with the Demon Sect, because everyone knew that there was no chance of victory!

Many Ming soldiers retreated with tears in their eyes, there were their brothers at the head of the city, and their brothers in the ruins, and they could only watch as they were slaughtered by the Demon Cult.

At this time, the Ming troops at the East Gate, North Gate, and West Gate had all retreated to the inner city.

The inner city is a rectangular space 800 meters long and 600 meters wide, and the remaining 62,000 troops of the Ming army are crowded in it! If the inner city is broken, these armies may not even have a chance to break through the siege, and the annihilation of the whole army is not alarmist!

But Cao Wenzhao did not surrender, and he did not abandon Lanzhou City, so he could only retreat to the inner city and fight to the death with the Demon Sect!

Fortunately, the inner city walls are fifteen meters high and three meters wide, and their configuration is only slightly lower than the outer city walls. Moreover, the 21 Franc cannons at the north, west, and east gates, including most of the firearms, oil, and asphalt, were all transported to the inner city wall, so the officers and soldiers still relied on it to some extent.

The Ming soldiers who fought hard at the south gate saw that the army had withdrawn, and their faces were full of despair.

Quite a few of them collapsed and chose to surrender!

However, the Demon Sect, which had suffered heavy losses in Lanzhou City, had already been killed, and even if the official army surrendered, they would kill it correctly. As the supreme commander, the left protector Zhao Wuxian, as well as Purple Elder Chu Yun, Jin Elder Yu Zhu and others, because of the serious consumption of true qi in the great battle just now, at this time, seeing that the general trend had been decided, they had all withdrawn from the battlefield and went to the other side of the river to meditate and recover their true qi and physical strength.

Therefore, no one took care of the killing. Demon cultists have always been fierce, as long as no one restrains them, they are like uncontrollable beasts, just caring about killing happily!

As soon as the Ming army saw that they would die if they surrendered, they suddenly became angry and fought desperately.

"Brothers, both horizontal and vertical are dead, kill!"

"Killing one is enough, killing two earns one!"

"Come on, a bunch of dogs, grandpa will be afraid of you?"

"Twenty years later, Lao Tzu is still a good man!"

The desperate resistance of these Ming troops created the necessary conditions for the smooth withdrawal of other troops from the south gate into the inner city.

However, courage does not equate to strength. About half an hour later, the remaining Ming army in the south of the city was basically slaughtered, and even if there were a few hundred people left, they were no longer able to stop the Demon Sect from entering the city!

Since there is no gate in the south of the city, the Demon Cult soldiers are swarming in from the collapsed ruins!

The whole process only took a little more than an hour!

After Cao Wenzhao entered the inner city, he immediately inspected the arming of the inner city.

In view of the lesson that the outer city was defeated by the masters of the Demon Sect, Cao Wenzhao not only sent all the crossbowmen to the city wall this time, but also sent all the masters in the army to the city wall - an army of 62,000, there were only twelve masters above the Xiaocheng Realm, and thirty-eight masters of the Xuantong Realm of about the third rank.

These fifty people were divided into ten groups, each group of five people, dressed in ordinary soldier armor mixed in, once they found the Demon Sect masters, they went up to besiege in groups!

After clearing out the remnants of the Ming army, the Demon Cult repaired a little.

In the first battle of Chengnan, the Ming army lost nearly 10,000 people, while the Demon Sect only lost more than 3,000.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Left Protector Zhao Wuxian and the others finished their breathing, returned to the city again, and led the army to the inner city.

The streets of the city were empty, and the people were shivering in their houses with their doors and windows closed.

However, the Demon Cult did not commit any offence to the people during the march, and even accidentally broke the things that the people in the city left outside their houses, and they would also leave scattered pieces of silver as compensation - their ambition to the world can be seen.

The Demon Cult army that participated in the attack on the inner city numbered about 50,000 people, and they quickly surrounded the inner city.

It didn't take long for siege ladders and battering rams to arrive.

Many archers and crossbowmen of the Demon Cult climbed onto the roofs of nearby houses, where the terrain was higher and convenient for suppressing the crossbowmen and artillery at the head of the Ming army.

After everything was ready, Zhao Wuxian sent Xiao Buyi, a one-eyed scattered man, to come forward to persuade him to surrender.

Xiao Buyi shouted to the city with his strong true qi, "Brothers of the Ming army, I, the rebels of the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, are only to eradicate the tyrannical Ming, to bring peace to the world, and to restore a peaceful and prosperous world to the people of the world! I have no deep hatred with your army, so why do we have to fight to the death? If your army is willing to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and stop the army, I will treat each other with courtesy and respect each other, and I will not teach the brothers in your army to be harmed!"

But I saw an arrow shot from the city, and went straight to Xiao Bu's forehead.

Xiao smiled disdainfully, reached out lightly to catch the arrow, and then broke it.

He was not very interested in persuading these Ming troops to surrender, so he was even more lazy to shout. Turning back to Zhao Wuxian and said, "Protector Zhao, it seems that these Ming troops are stubborn, let's prepare to attack the city." ”

Zhao Wuxian looked up at the sky, and then nodded with a cold expression.

At the sound of an order, the Demon Cult besieged from the east, south, west, and north.

A large number of Demon Cult soldiers rushed up with ladders. In addition, under the cover of wooden carts equipped with baffles, the giant wooden banner also rushed to the city gate with a huge ramstick.

The Ming soldiers at the head of the city immediately launched a fierce counterattack! They frantically poured oil and asphalt downwards, and then set them on fire!

The raging fire ignited countless Demon Cult soldiers, and except for a few who were lucky enough to be extinguished, most of them were burned alive in their wails and struggles.

The fire forced the Demon Cult to retreat temporarily.

After more than two quarters of an hour, the fire gradually went out.

The Demon Cult went on the offensive.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty repeated their old tricks, and the Demon Sect withdrew again.

Cao Wenzhao understood that the Demon Sect was deliberately consuming the fire oil and asphalt in the city. After several days of consumption, all the materials such as fire oil and asphalt that were already in the south of the city were obtained by the Demon Sect, and now there is less than half of the original inventory left in the inner city, and if it is done five or six more times, it will definitely be consumed.

He immediately ordered that fire oil and asphalt should only be used when the Demon Cult was gathered under the city walls. In addition, a portion of the oil and asphalt should be used to deal with the most threatening attack hammers.

Soon, the Demon Cult launched its third attack!

Only this time, the east gate, the north gate, and the west gate are all feints, and only the south gate is a real fight!

The Demon Sect was ready to repeat its old tricks, and before attacking the South Gate, the Left Protector Zhao Wuxian led the two elders and three scattered people to the head of the city, causing chaos, and the rest of the Demon Sect soldiers rushed forward again!

This trick has been tried and tested!

Now that the main force of the Ming army, which is the best able to fight the four major armies, has basically been lost, and at least two-thirds of the Gansu soldiers on the city wall are located, so they think that capturing the south gate of the inner city will only be easier than when they attacked the south gate of the outer city before.

As long as the south gate of the inner city is captured, then the Ming army inside will have no way to retreat, either surrender or die!

In this way, the existence of the Ming army in Gansu will be completely wiped out!

Zhao Wuxian looked at the city head coldly, and then jumped up, and the top shield easily crossed the city wall in the face of the dense rain of arrows.

At the head of the city, he saw a few good hands in Xiaochengjing at a glance.

I sneered in my heart, just a small realm, is it worthy of fighting with this Dharma protector? There is no one in the Ming army!

Just ask the world, who can stop my Sun and Moon God Sect?

Change the world, starting today!