The Jizhou Army's crazy attack made most people have the same idea as Chang Xi.
Are the enemies crazy?
With Yuan Tan personally watching the battle, strict orders and supervision from generals at all levels, and the temptation of generous rewards, Jizhou soldiers began to burst out with unprecedented energy.
At the end of the day, the Jizhou Army was really just one step away from achieving complete victory several times.
Although they managed to hold on, almost most of the people in Fenggao were already despairing. After all, the balance of victory was now clearly tilted towards the Jizhou people.
Even if I hold on today, it’s useless!
Because if this trend continues, Fenggao will surely fall within a day or two at most!
Just when the morale in the city was low, several iron cavalry quietly slipped through the gaps in the encirclement line in the night and approached Fenggao silently.
There is no way, after fighting to this extent, even the Jizhou Army, which is far superior in numbers, is exhausted, and it can no longer be perfect in guarding against such a small group of troops.
Chang Xi, who had just returned from inspecting the wounded barracks, heard that the reinforcements' envoy had arrived. He didn't even bother to change out of the blood-stained general's helmet and immediately ran over.
When Chang Xi saw the leader, he was stunned on the spot.
this...
Are these Zhou Mu’s personal soldiers?
The identity of the visitor made Chang Xi realize almost instantly who the leader of the reinforcements was this time.
After realizing this, Chang Xi's face showed endless ecstasy.
At this moment, he didn't even think about how many people Wang Zheng had brought, nor did he care about what the soldier would discuss with him next.
Since the Zhou Mu is here in person, this battle must be won!
In this regard, Chang Xi is inexplicably full of confidence!
...
On the other side, Yuan Tan and the generals are also trying hard to search for another Xuzhou Army. Although they don't know the current specific location of the other party, their intentions are naturally very clear to the Jizhou Army.
The purpose of burning the granary is nothing more than to force them to withdraw voluntarily...
So since the siege of Fenggao is still going on, how could the leader of the Xuzhou Army give up?
Yuan Tan even considered encircling Fenggao City on all sides, completely blocking the escape routes of the people in the city, and at the same time conducting reconnaissance on this lurking enemy.
However, this naive idea was immediately dissuaded by Guo Tu and others. It happened that there was another enemy nearby. If they took the initiative to divide the troops, wouldn't it be playing into the enemy's plans?
Not to mention that the current strength of the Jizhou Army has been severely weakened, so it is difficult to achieve this.
After all, since ancient times, whenever faced with a fortified battle against a large city or pass, the attacker's losses would inevitably be greater than those of the defender. So far, nearly 4,000 people have been killed or injured in Fenggao City. How can the Jizhou Army fare better?
If the troops are forced to be divided, not only will tomorrow's siege be affected, but part of the divided military strength may be eaten up by the enemy's concentrated strength and night attack.
In the end, Yuan Tan did not lose his mind and finally gave up the idea.
On the one hand, he ordered the sentries to expand the scope of the warning and try to determine the exact location of the enemy. On the other hand, he naturally mobilized his generals to swear oath again. After all, tomorrow is the second day...
How could Yuan Tan, who came from a family of Confucian classics, not know how to understand the truth behind the method?
Conquering Fenggao within three days is his bottom line, but for ordinary soldiers, the sooner the better!
...
When the sky became bright again, the loud shouts of killing also rang out again.
After a night's rest, the soldiers of the two armies, who had somewhat recovered some strength, once again fought together under the supervision of their officers.
Our own army has indeed reached the end of its strength.
After fighting for a long time, Chang Xi, who was standing at the city gate tower, had clearly felt this.
Although he joined Wang Zheng's command not long ago, Chang Xi participated in or watched several battles, which can be said to have a deep understanding of the heavenly army.
This is a powerful army that far surpasses most peasant rebel armies, and even officers and soldiers, in terms of fighting spirit, combat effectiveness and morale!
But now...
Looking around, Chang Xi saw weakness for the first time on the faces of many heavenly troops today.
The Heavenly Army is like this, and the other Fenggao defenders are even more unbearable. Nowadays, a large area of the army is afraid of the enemy and tired of war. This is normal.
No matter how strong and brave you are, you are still a living person. After a long period of fighting, when your body and mind are exhausted to the extreme, you will inevitably begin to collapse.
What's more, the most critical point is that everyone is starting to despair.
Although there were countless dangers before, with the efforts of Chang Xi, the Tianjun, and the Tianzhu Battalion, they still forcibly blocked the enemy's attack again, but everything could not be done again. Today, everyone has understood in their hearts
Enlightenment.
If there are no accidents, before sunset today, there will probably be a moment that determines the outcome.
Perhaps today it was just the city wall and the outer city that was lost, but they could still retreat to the streets and alleys of the inner city and continue fighting with the county government. It was possible that the battle could last for days or even a week.
But the most critical point is that once the outer city can be breached, the fall of the inner city is just around the corner. Chang Xi and the defenders know this, and Yuan Tan and the Jizhou Army are no exception!
Under such circumstances, the dilemma caused by the burning of the enemy's granary disappears!
The Jizhou Army will definitely change its unsteady thoughts and completely give up the idea of leaving!
However, it was clear that the situation had reached an extremely critical juncture, but today's soldiers were surprised to find that their Commander Qu was different from the previous few days.
He is still busy commanding the soldiers on the front line, still fighting in person, and his expression is still focused and serious...
But for some reason, everyone could see that Chang Xi was no longer panicked, let alone fearful and desperate...
What's going on?
At this time, Chang Xi naturally did not know that his disguise had been seen through by these direct descendants. He looked at the city, and the Jizhou army was still scattered all over the mountains and plains, but Chang Xi no longer cared about this. He even had the leisure to work hard among tens of thousands of people.
Search for the location of General Yuan Tan's headquarters.
This young general is the legitimate son and grandson of the Runan Yuan family, one of the top noble families in the world!
This kind of Tianhuang Guiwei, who is destined to be noble and aloof from birth, and a member of the family, is precisely the existence that a loser like Chang Xi hates and hates the most!
I'm afraid this kid now thinks he is only one step away from victory, right?
I wonder what the expression on his face will be like when he falls into the abyss again?
Just thinking of this made Chang Xi feel very happy.
These Jizhou people outside the city obviously didn't know that just as the long day was about to pass, Wang Zhenghe's troops had secretly moved to a place only fifteen miles away from Fenggao City.
Under normal circumstances, this distance would already be within the detection range of Jizhou's sentry cavalry. However, the problem is that after fighting for most of the day, the Jizhou soldiers are already exhausted, and those sentry cavalry who do not participate in the frontal battlefield are already exhausted.
, everyone was in a irritable mood and had to be responsible for the martial law around them, and it was starting to feel a little powerless.
Furthermore, Wang Zheng had considered this point when he set out. As soon as the army was activated and entered the area where its whereabouts might be exposed at any time, he would immediately accelerate and march straight to the north gate of Fenggao City.
Asking the soldiers to contact Changxi in advance is also to prepare the other party to respond!
What's more, they chose the time very well. When they arrived near Fenggao City, it was just about to get dark.
Do the Jizhou people's army dare to rush out to intercept them when it's dark?
If it was when they first arrived at Fenggao City, the Jizhou Army, which had gathered strength from Linzi and was confident of a great victory, would have had no problem with their morale and morale, but now...
We have been fighting hard for many days under the city and have not made any progress. The siege battles in the past few days have been even more brutal and heart-wrenching. Coupled with the current shortage of food and grass...
Under such circumstances, neither Chang Xi nor Wang Zheng felt that Yuan Tan still had the courage or that the Jizhou Army still had the ability!
The next development of the situation was as expected.
Seeing the sun setting in the west and dusk approaching again, everyone in Fenggao breathed a sigh of relief. According to past experience, the Jizhou Army would begin to take the initiative to withdraw at this time. Even when the offensive suddenly intensified yesterday, the timing was also so unpredictable.
two.
But this time they were disappointed,
After a short rest, the Jizhou army did not organize a retreat. Instead, it began to integrate its formation and assume a posture to attack the city again.
Seeing this scene, the defenders on the top of the city immediately became nervous.
What's going on? Chang Xi also had confusion and worry in his eyes.
On the one hand, he was worried that the soldiers under his command would not be able to tighten up after they had just relaxed, which would become a huge hidden danger. On the other hand, Chang Xi was also worried that if the Jizhou army got involved, Wang Zheng's troops would not be able to take advantage of the opportunity.
Entered the city.
Under the dim sunlight, an invisible chilling air began to pervade.
Later, Chang Xi saw the formation of the enemy troops under the city changing. They separated to the left and right, and a column of men and horses approached from the center. The leader was a young general.
I don’t know what the other party said, but tens of thousands of people cheered like a mountain roaring in the valley. Then, the enemy rushed towards the city wall again.
Is this Yuan Tan?
Chang Xi's eyes flashed with disgust, but when he saw those black heads approaching quickly, his face turned pale again.
At this moment, Chang Xi felt his heart skip a beat, as if he heard a horn coming from an unknown place. It was so powerful that his heartbeat jumped in response.
He immediately looked to the north, but found nothing.
Chang Xi frowned and asked the soldiers beside him: "Did you hear a horn sound?"
"What horn sound?" Several people stared at each other and replied at the same time: "I have heard the sound of drums. Don't these Bei Laos have to beat gongs and drums every time they attack the city?"
Did I hear it wrong?
Chang Xi had no choice but to calm down. Today, the Jizhou army was uncharacteristic and was about to launch an offensive again. Under such circumstances, it was not suitable for Zhou Mu to lead the army into the city. He must have waited until dark.
Thinking of this, just when Chang Xi was about to take command, there was another "woo" sound!
The voice was a bit ethereal, as if coming from a very far away place like above the clouds, but it sounded clearly in Chang Xi's ears.
It rang again.
wrong!
Chang Xi paused and immediately raised his head and looked to the left and right. This time, several soldiers stopped and looked around as well.
This time, they all heard the trumpet sound!
Low and powerful, majestic and clear, it appeared suddenly, but shocked the entire plain outside Fenggao City.
It was as if a prehistoric giant who had been sleeping for hundreds of years casually snored when he turned over, but it was enough to make the sky darken and the earth shake.
This time, even everyone on the battlefield couldn't help but stop their movements and look around.
"Why did the trumpet sound suddenly sound?" Everyone on the top of the city also asked in confusion.
In order to keep it secret, except for the Tianjun and Chang Xi at the North City Gate, most of them didn't know that Wang Zheng actually took action personally this time, and was even more prepared to take the initiative to "seek death" when Feng Gao was about to fall.
"Ha ha."
Chang Xi let out a chuckle, walked to the city wall, and replied: "Since it is a trumpet, of course there is an army ready to charge!"
charge?
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then reacted intelligently and immediately screamed.
"Shuai Qu is talking about the reinforcements that burned down the grain road?"
"Hey!"
Chang Xi didn't turn his head, but stared at the north intently, with a hint of excitement in his calm tone, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Zhou Mu's unparalleled martial arts with my own eyes, and I don't know how strong he has to be. It’s called divine power.”
Why did you suddenly mention Wang Zheng?
One of the guards was puzzled. Just as he was about to ask a question, he felt someone pull his shoulder. When he looked back, he saw that his colleague was silent and just pointed at Chang Xi. The man looked in the direction of his finger. Hao Ran saw Chang Xi holding his hands on the city wall, his joints turning white from exertion.
"Look! What is that?"
At this moment, because they were at a high place, some of the sentries in the archery tower were the first to see the vision and started shouting.
everyone...
Including the defenders in Fenggao City and the Jizhou troops below the city...
Including Yuan Tan, Guo Tu...
They all turned their heads and looked in the direction of the soldiers' shouts.
That's the north.
At the end of the plain, a tiny black spot first appeared, then gradually expanded, slowly increased in number, and finally turned into a black torrent, rushing towards Fenggao.
In the flying dust, the cold light of many swords and guns was faintly visible, and in the billowing dust and smoke, it was like the starlight mixed in the twilight, and those shiny black armors were still shining even in the twilight!
Along with the low sound of the horn, those figures quickly approached and gradually became clearer.
At this time, everyone saw that it was just a few thousand soldiers with cavalry in front and infantry behind.
In front of the Jizhou Army of nearly 30,000 people under Fenggao City today, a few thousand is really not an important number, but for some reason, everyone who watched this army approaching from the beginning to the end felt that it was simply It is an overwhelming torrent, unstoppable.
The horn sounded again, this time the tone suddenly became sharper, no longer calm, but shrill and shrill, like a demon roaring or a giant beast roaring in mourning!
At the same time, that army pierced into the enemy formation like a sharp arrow!
Seeing the sudden fighting below the city, everyone above the city took a breath of cold air, even though they knew it was their own reinforcements, and seeing that this army was so terrifying that it could be invincible in an enemy formation that was ten times their size, This kind of fighting power still completely shocked them.
"Oh my god, are these people really flesh and blood?" A soldier murmured to himself.
"Otherwise you would think..." Amid the surprised gazes of the crowd, Chang Xi was rarely very calm, and just said calmly: "Why are the elites of Zhou Mu called the Heavenly Army?"
The last ray of sunlight lingering on Fenggao made the infantry on the top of the city discover at the same time...
Since the siege, the defender Chang Xi showed a smile again.
A relieved smile.
On the 37th day when the Jizhou army attacked the city, Xuzhou Muwang Zhengqin led his elite troops and advanced from the outermost perimeter, killing generals and trapping them. It was as if they were in a deserted land among the thousands of troops, trampling on countless corpses along the way as they continued to approach their own city. .
When he learned that Wang Zheng was coming to the battlefield in person, Yuan Tan was shocked and then overjoyed. Before he could figure out how to completely intercept the opponent, the Sentinel Cavalry reported again that Wang Zheng's army had entered the city!
At this time, it had only been a cup of tea since the other party showed up.
On this day, the entire Fenggao situation underwent a fundamental change.