Gaizhou City is the only way to enter the Central Plains from Tian Hu's territory, and it also faces the threat of the imperial army. Tian Hu has heavy troops stationed here, and also has a large amount of ordnance and food. Tian Hu attacked Puzhou,
Many soldiers and horses were taken away from here, but there are still fifteen thousand people left here.
The quality of the soldiers and horses here is much better than that of Zhaode and Jinning. They are considered to be the most sophisticated troops under Tian Hu. Of course, this excellence is relative. For Liangshan, the troops here are simply rubbish. The bottom layer
Soldiers occasionally train. At the top, some of the officers have not been in the army for a year and a half, and some don't even know how many soldiers they have.
At this moment, the guard general of Gaizhou City is named Fang Qiong, and there are two deputy generals, one is General Chu Heng and the other is named Yu Yulin.
These three people, plus An Shirong, who was killed by Wu Dong in the tavern, were all the four most powerful generals under Niu Wenzhong. Niu Wenzhong was the number one military master under Tian Hu, but unfortunately he also died in that
In the nameless tavern. For a master of military operations, such a death is undoubtedly the most tragic.
In the government office, Fang Qiong called Chu Heng and Yu Yulin over. Both of them looked unhappy. Chu Heng was listening to a play at home, and Yu Yulin was playing with a beauty. Being called over, he was naturally unhappy.
"General Fang, what happened? I heard that you closed all the city gates. What happened?" Chu Heng asked lazily.
"The situation is bad. I just got the news that Wei Sheng and Zhao De were captured." Fang Qiong said.
"What?" Chu Heng and Yu Yulin were both shocked, looking in disbelief.
"I have sent someone to inform the king, hoping that the king can come back as soon as possible." Fang Qiong said.
"Should we send troops to assist Weisheng, Zhaode?" Chu Heng asked hurriedly.
"No need. Gaizhou City is extremely important. If we leave, what will happen if someone attacks Gaizhou City?" Fang Qiong said.
Fang Qiong is not a mediocre person. He knows the importance of Gaizhou City and must not give up here. Even Weisheng City, although established by Tian Hu as the "capital", is far inferior to Gaizhou City.
importance. Weisheng City can be lost, but Gaizhou City must not be lost.
"General Fang, who conquered Weisheng City? Was it the army or not?" Yu Yulin asked at this time.
"They're not official soldiers... the person who reported the news said they were rogue bandits," Fang Qiong said.
"Rogue bandits? Are they a group of people from Songjiang in Shaohua Mountain?" Yu Yulin frowned.
"Probably not. Song Jiang and others are still trapped on Mount Huashan. How could they come to Hedong?" Fang Qiong said.
In this era, news spread very slowly. Although Wu Dong had defeated the imperial army and rescued Song Jiang and others from the mountain, a group of people in Tian Hu across the Yellow River still did not know the news. Fang Qiong still thought that Song Jiang was on the mountain, so
First, this statement was denied.
"Do you think the king can take back Wei Sheng City?" Chu Heng said.
"Well...it is said that the number of rogue bandits is not very large, only about a thousand. The king has an army of 70,000. It will be easy to recapture Wei Sheng City." Zhang Qiong said.
"I hope... Your Majesty, it's true that when you left Weisheng City, you didn't leave a single soldier behind. Otherwise, how could Weisheng City be taken over so easily? I heard that all the beauties of Your Majesty are in the palace of Weisheng City.
I don’t know if it’s been occupied by bandits inside.” After saying this, Chu Heng burst out laughing.
They are all Tian Hu's subordinates, but Tian Hu's prestige has been getting lower and lower over the years. They are still afraid of Tian Hu, but now they are their own people, so they can joke around casually.
Thinking of the stunning beauty of the women in Tian Hu Palace, Fang Qiong and Yu Yulin couldn't help but laugh lewdly.
At this moment, a soldier suddenly knocked open the two gates. He looked anxious, panting and speechless.
"What happened? Why are you so scared?" Fang Qiong frowned.
"General... something big... something bad... someone is attacking the city!" the soldier gasped.
"What?" Fang Qiong and the others were startled. The three of them immediately stood up and walked out of the door. Sure enough, they heard the shouting of killing outside.
"Let's go and take a look at the city wall!" Fang Qiong said anxiously.
The shouts of death they heard seemed to come from the west, so they all headed towards the west wall. However, after walking for a while, they found that there were also shouts of death in the east, south, and north.
"What's going on? Where is the enemy attacking the city?" Fang Qiong stopped immediately, grabbed the soldier, and asked.
"General Qi, there are enemies on all sides." Xiao Bing said.
"What? How many enemies are there?" Fang Qiong asked.
"I don't know... I was anxious to report to the general, so as soon as someone attacked the city, I came immediately." Xiao Bing said anxiously.
"Let's go, let's go to the west wall first." Fang Qiong thought for a while and said.
Fang Qiong and the others came to the west city wall and saw that someone had already climbed up the wall. The three of them did not dare to neglect, and immediately took their weapons and slashed at the enemies on the wall. After a while, they finally drove the enemies off the wall.
, Fang Qiong and the other three breathed a sigh of relief.
"Quickly, go and move the rolling stones and the wood... Also, heat the oil pan and pour hot oil on it later." Fang Qiong hurriedly ordered.
As the frontier city of Tian Hu's territory, Gaizhou City naturally has a large number of defense facilities. There are a lot of rolling stones, wood, etc., but because there is no one to command them, the soldiers on the city wall have forgotten about it.
Immediately, someone went to the warehouse to move the rolling stones and wood, and someone set up an oil pan next to it.
Fang Qiong turned around and said: "Two brothers, you go to the east and north city walls respectively to supervise the battle. You must not let the enemies rush up. I think these enemies are the ones who occupied Weisheng City."
Chu Heng was stunned and said: "Where are they from? How come they have just captured Weisheng City and are going to capture our Gaizhou City so soon?"
Fang Qiong said anxiously: "You go to defend the city first. After we defend the city, we will talk about this matter."
At this moment, countless rolling stones and wood were thrown down from the city wall, and countless oil pans were set up, and hot oil was constantly poured down.
In a matter of moments, countless soldiers in Liangshanbo were hit by rolling rocks and trees, with their heads bruised and bleeding, and some were seriously injured by the hot oil poured on them and were dying.
But at this time, no one even stepped back. They were still charging up with simple shields. Fang Qiong above looked at him with eyes wide open, unbelievable. How can ordinary bandits be so powerful? Even the Song Dynasty
None of the officers and soldiers were so brave.
According to historical records, the officers and soldiers of the Qin and Han Dynasties were so powerful, but it is no longer the Qin and Han Dynasties, is it?
Hu Sanniang stood in the distance. When she saw the scene here, she hurriedly ordered a retreat. The Liangshan soldiers left quickly. A layer of corpses was left on the ground. Fang Qiong and others in Gaizhou City breathed a sigh of relief.
Fang Qiong wiped his sweat while thinking about the origin of the enemy. Although the number of enemies was not as large as the garrison in Gaizhou City, they were all extremely fierce and not afraid of death. I really don't know where such ferocious enemies came from.
"There were such powerful bandits in the Song Dynasty? If there were no city walls, the fifteen thousand people in Gaizhou City would not be able to match the thousands of them. Fortunately, fortunately, there is a city wall." Fang Qiong still had lingering fears.
thought.
"It seems that there are the most enemies attacking the west city wall, relatively few in the south and north, and the least in the east." Fang Qiong quickly discovered the pattern of Liangshan's army's attack, and immediately burst out laughing and said: "The son of the east wall will be attacked."
Withdraw half of them and move them to the west wall. No...only 1,000 people will be left on the east wall, and the rest will all be withdrawn to the west wall."
So most of the defenders on the east wall withdrew to the west wall.
After that, the Liangshan army ignored the casualties and attacked several more times. In all cases, the west wall suffered the main attack, and the east wall had the least number of attackers.
The garrison of Gaizhou City was exhausted. They had rarely fought in recent years, and all of them were veteran soldiers. Late at night, they could not help but fall asleep leaning against the city wall.
At midnight, suddenly there was a loud shout of killing outside. Fang Qiong hurriedly called up the soldiers on the wall and asked them to quickly defend the city.
At this time, the West City Wall still encountered the most attacks. The West City Wall was in chaos, but it recovered quickly and blocked Liangshan's attack.
"With such a high city wall, unless you are gods, you can't climb up?" Fang Qiong yawned and said secretly.
Outside the city wall, Hu Sanniang stood there quietly, thinking: "It's time."
As she watched, the Liangshan soldiers who attacked the west city wall began to retreat continuously, leaving only a few hundred people there. These hundreds of people were shouting and shouting. On the surface, they were still shouting to kill, but the actual attacking force was
has been greatly weakened.
It was dark outside and it was impossible to see clearly what was going on outside. Fang Qiong just thought it was the same as before and didn't take precautions.
The same is true for the city walls on the south and north sides. The shouts of killing continued, but Liangshan's soldiers continued to retreat.
Most of the thousands of Liangshan soldiers and horses are concentrated in the direction of the east city wall at this moment. They carry simple ladders and various temporary siege weapons, just waiting for the final order.
Yang Xiong looked at the tall city wall in front of him, gritted his teeth, and said coldly: "Charge!"
There were almost no cries of killing here, but they were soon discovered. It was dark, and there were no enemies outside. The defenders on the east wall thought there were still as many people as before. Someone immediately resisted, and many rolling stones were thrown downwards.
go.
Yang Xiong climbed up the ladder, and a huge stone hit his head. Yang Xiong roared, swung the big knife in his hand, picked the stone aside, and continued to move forward.
This time Shi Xiu also started to participate in the battle. Shi Xiu had an iron gun in his hand, and his speed was actually a few minutes faster than Yang Xiong. There were fewer rolling stones on his side. After a while, he rushed to the city wall, and there were many defenders immediately.
Rushing over, Shi Xiu used the iron spear in his hand as an iron rod, sweeping across a large area continuously.
He was extremely skilled in martial arts. After a while, Yang Xiong also rushed to the city wall. The sword in Yang Xiong's hand was also sweeping across the city wall. A large open space had appeared on the city wall. Liangshan soldiers took this opportunity to continue climbing up the city wall.
There are more and more soldiers in Liangshan.
Gaizhou guard Chu Heng was originally at the South City Gate, but he had a nephew who was an official at the East City Gate, so he came here to talk to his nephew.
Hearing the shouts of killing outside, Chu Heng laughed and said: "I wonder who these people are? Why are they so stupid? How can they break in with such a high city wall?"
Chu Heng has seen it today. The enemy only has five or six thousand people in total. It is as difficult as climbing to the sky to attack Gaizhou City. So he feels at ease now.
"Uncle, let's have a drink. My side of the east city gate has the fewest enemies and is the safest." His nephew said with a smile.
"Okay!" Chu Heng couldn't help but laugh.
The two of them were drinking and eating roast lamb. I don't know how long it had passed, but suddenly there were many footsteps outside.
Chu Heng frowned and said, "What's wrong?"
At this moment, the door was suddenly knocked open, and countless spears were stabbed inside. Chu Heng was shocked, but he was a little dizzy after drinking. Before he could stand up, many spears were pierced in his face.
, pricking him like a hedgehog, and his nephew followed him and fell into a pool of blood.