Xu Wuji walked down the city tower, covered in blood lying beside the wall. The exhausted soldiers were gasping for breath, not even bothering to move, let alone getting up and saluting his official. ○ Baidu search: ○Piaotianwen.com ○ Bree○ Xu Wuji looked at the soldiers around him, sighed, and turned around to ask the military officer behind him, saying, "How many soldiers do we have on hand now?"

"Report to the general that there are now seventeen teams and three cavalry teams in the city."

"That's the point?" Xu Wuji was slightly stunned and turned around and asked, "I just took a quick look at it. There were at least 6,000 people. Even if a team is full, it is only 120. Is this a lot worse?"

"General, although there are many people here, most of them are broken up. The leader of the team didn't know where they ran, so--" The military officer stopped here and his meaning was very clear. The Wu army was beaten up by the raid, and the command sequence was greatly damaged. Most of the soldiers were completely broken up. Although there were a large number of people, most of them were just scattered soldiers with no combat power.

Xu Wuji paced back and forth for a few steps, suddenly stopped and said sternly: "If you send the order, all the teams will be divided into two teams. The deputy team leader will be the team leader, the chief flag leader who died in battle will be filled, and so on. The vacancies will be drawn from these people. I will give them two quarters of an hour. There will be thirty-four full teams in front of me. Whoever has half a person will all get out of me and be the big-headed soldiers!"

The military officer was slightly stunned, and then understood Xu Wuji's meaning, and hurriedly bowed to take the order and said, "Yes!" Soon, Xu Wuji's order began to be executed. The Wu army officers began to roar loudly, waved the whip in their hands, kicked the defeated soldiers sitting on the ground, and drove them into the ranks of their own team. Xu Wuji frowned and looked at his subordinates in a mess. He knew very well that his only way to live was to defend the city and wait for assistance. After all, the Wu army was newly defeated. If they ran away, they would be chased by Liang's cavalry, and they would probably not survive. It would be better to take a gamble on luck.

After about half a cup of tea, a sound of war drums came from the west. Xu Wuji's heart skipped a beat. He climbed the city to see that Liang army was pressing towards this side along Jiacheng. Obviously, the enemy was preparing to defeat him in one go. He looked back at his troops under the city. At most, only a dozen teams had been reorganized. Xu Wuji gritted his teeth, looked back at the empty horizon behind him, and ordered his teams to set up formations and prepare for the battle.

Since the Liang army had already broken through Jiacheng, they could attack along Jiacheng. The Wu army piled some debris on the ground, forming a barrier perpendicular to the Jiacheng wall to resist the enemy's attack. The width of this barrier is only more than 40 steps wide, and at most two or three hundred people can be spread out. Although this is conducive to the defense party to save troops, once the enemy breaks the gap, it will form a situation of trampling on each other. The defenders do not have enough space to reorganize resistance. Therefore, Xu Wuji only deployed four infantry teams behind the barrier, and most of the remaining troops were placed in a spacious place near the East Gate. In order to prevent his subordinates from escaping, he also blocked the East Gate with soil bags and stones in advance, and prepared for a battle against the water.

The battle first appeared next to the barrier. The small number of Wu's army's melee guns had just shot two rounds, and the Liang army's selection rushed to the front of the barrier. These selected soldiers were all tall, covered in heavy armor, swinging bones, long axes, horizontal swords and other short soldiers bravely climbed the barrier. The Wu army hiding behind the barrier used a spear to stab the enemy with their heads, and people kept falling down. However, the Liang army's selection rushed towards him like crazy, and the battle quickly entered the white heat. On the walls on both sides of the barrier, the Wu army's selection advantage was even greater. They were waving their short soldiers and shields, and the battle immediately entered the most.

In the cruel stage of blood and blades, blood was splashing everywhere, and people kept screaming and falling from the city wall. The Wu army's formation began to loosen. The early defeat obviously affected their fighting spirit. The Liang army's selection quickly defeated the defenders of the city wall, forcing them to retreat step by step. Liang army following the selection began to stand high and shoot the Wu army behind the barrier with a crossbow and a small number of firearms. The Wu army, suppressed by firepower on both sides, could not resist the attack on three sides, and began to form and retreat. At first one or two people, more and more people began to turn around and escape backwards. The defense line behind the barrier finally collapsed.

At this time, the Wu army's original formation sounded a trumpet sound, and then a loud shout came out: "Escapers who have escaped before the battle will be executed. The wife and children in the family will be sent to the government as slaves!" Immediately afterwards, a red light flashed in front of the Wu army. The dozen Wu soldiers who fled in the front seemed to be struck by lightning and fell to the ground. Then the Wu army's front-line troops lowered their spears, and the sharp spear tips reflected a biting cold light under the sunlight.

Under the coercion of the Wu army generals, the fleeing Wu soldiers had to turn around and fight to the death. At this time, dozens of cavalry rushed out of the Wu army's original formation. The vanguard of the Liang army was caught off guard and was knocked down dozens of people at once. The offensive was frustrated. The generals of the Liang army's front line hurriedly replaced the second team, allowing these soldiers who had consumed a lot of physical strength to retreat to the back and take a breath. For a moment, the battlefield suddenly calmed down.

Xu Wuji walked through the ranks, patting the shoulders of familiar soldiers from time to time, calling their names and nicknames. He had a special ability: as long as he met once, even if he had only talked for a few words, he could hand over the other party's name even if he hadn't seen each other for many years. When Xu Wuji walked through the front row, he walked to the front of the formation and shouted loudly at all the Wu soldiers: "We have come from Huangzhou to attack Ma Chu in the south, pacify Jingnan, siege Xiangcheng, and slaughter the city and land. There are actually many people who kill fathers and brothers, and make up for their children. The Liang army is also a hater. If you lose today, how can you survive? The city gate behind you is closed, and the road in the middle of the city is narrow. Only by fighting to the death can you get out!"

When the remaining soldiers of the Wu army heard this, they clamored in unison to express their determination to die to the commander. As Xu Wuji said, since they left the army, they have killed countless Liang soldiers, and tens of thousands of people starved to death in the siege. Now that the lonely army is away, it is impossible to run back to their hometown alone. If they are defeated, they will definitely be dead. Xu Wuji turned over and jumped on the war horse, threw his helmet to the ground, and then drove his horse to the front and rushed towards the Liang army.

The Liang army easily broke through the barriers. He thought he was sure to win, but he didn't expect that the Wu army suddenly came over and suddenly became in chaos. The barriers of the Wu army were the narrowest section in the city. The distance between the two parallel city walls was only more than 40 steps wide. When the Liang army arrived here, they were already crowded. The front was impulsive and the Wu army suddenly squeezed into a group, and the formation was in chaos. The Wu army had the intention to die. Seeing that it showed a chance to win, the morale was even more vigorous, and they attacked harder. Seeing this, Xu Wuji hurriedly asked the personal soldiers on the side to dance the flag. Dozens of loud voices from the Wu army behind the formation saw the signal and hurriedly shouted loudly as agreed in advance: "Reinforcements are here, Longwu Army is here!"

It turned out that the two armies on the left and right of Longwu were elite soldiers in front of the Wu Palace. This time, they followed Lu Runxing's northern expedition and made many contributions. They were very famous in the Liang army. The soldiers of the Liang army were in the Jiacheng and could not see the situation outside the city. When they heard this news, the morale of the army was suddenly in chaos. Some people immediately abandoned their troops and fled. Although the Liang army officers tried their best to suppress them, they could not maintain normal order and organization in such a crowded manner. Liang army immediately trampled on each other and started to kill each other.

In just half a cup of tea, the Liang army attacking the East Gate was defeated, with more than a thousand corpses, most of which were trampled on each other and killed each other. The Wu soldiers chased to the old camp of the South Gate before retreating back to the East Gate to defend. The Liang army was defeated and his morale was suddenly deteriorated. He was unable to attack the Wu soldiers at the East Gate for a while, and the two sides became stalemate.

Outside the west gate, Kong Jie said to Wang Yanzhang with gratitude, "General Wang, you have led a large army to help this time, and lifted the siege of Xiangzhou City. All the people in the city have received great kindness from the general. Please accept Kong's bow!" When he said this, Kong Jie was about to bow down and Wang Yanzhang hurriedly reached out to stop him: "This is the duty of loyalty to the king, why should Gong Kong be too polite?" At this point, Wang Yanzhang pulled him aside and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Kong, let me ask you, how many soldiers can fight in the city and how much food is there?"

"There are more than a thousand stones of food, as for the soldiers who can fight!" Kong Jie looked at his left and right, stretched out a finger and shook it gently in front of Wang Yanzhang.

"There are more than ten thousand people? Fortunately, it's okay!" Wang Yanzhang immediately showed joy.

Kong Jie shook his head quickly and said, "How many are there? There are only more than a thousand soldiers in the general's mansion. In order to save food, the other officials and soldiers only have one meal a day, so it's okay to keep the plate. If you go out of the city and fight, you will be afraid that you will collapse at once. How can you get the formation!"

When Wang Yanzhang heard this, he was extremely disappointed. He had just raided the second army to attack the Wu army, but he did not divide his troops to siege the three and one, forcing the Wu army to give up the barrier at the east gate of Jiacheng. In this way, whether it was to pursue the cavalry or to cover the evacuation of the remaining troops in Xiangzhou City, he could choose freely. However, he did not expect that the Wu army would retaliate against the poor rats and defeat the pursuers. Now the only way out is to defeat the remaining troops of the Wu army first, and then lead the remaining troops in the city to leave. After all, there are only more than a thousand stones of food in the city, but more than 30,000 troops in the army. It is only a few days' worth of food. This Xiangzhou city is no longer a fortress, but a cage for rats, and you must leave quickly.

In this moment, Wang Yanzhang had already thought clearly and said to Kong Jie in a deep voice: "King Xianggong, the army will be destroyed without savings. Now there is no food in the city. If I lead troops into the city, it will be harmful. Now, the plan is better for Kong Gong to lead the army to retreat first. With the back of my palace, only a thousand people will be left in the city to defend the inner city, thinking that they are entrenched behind. I wonder what Kong Gong thinks?" @ya
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