Chen Yingliang's empty city plan was not discovered by Zhai Rang and Li Mi, but was betrayed by the poor people of Gong County. For a long time, the Wagang Army had a reputation for opening warehouses and distributing grain everywhere. The poor people who were struggling on the verge of death had long been looking forward to the Wagang Army.

Break open the Luokou granary and collect the mountains of grain there

Food rations were distributed to the people who were about to starve to death, so as soon as they were forced by the government to pretend to be officers and soldiers and chased them to the edge of the mountainous area, smart people immediately ran into the mountains and found the Wagang Army officers and soldiers to inform them about the so-called brigade of officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain.

In fact, they are all disguised by ordinary people.

One can imagine the shock and anger of Zhai Rang and Li Mi when they heard the news. Zhai Rang was so angry that he cut off a large tree as thick as an arm with a knife and shouted loudly, "The traitor son of a bitch actually took advantage of a group of common people."

He came to pretend to be an army, but I actually fell into his trap. I am really blind, so blind."

Li Mi's hands were clenched into fists, and his knuckles were clenched so hard that they turned white. It took a lot of effort to hold back a sentence, and he gritted his teeth: "You are a traitor, so you are cruel."

"Come down the mountain, come down the mountain immediately, all of them." Of course, after the anger, they immediately went down the mountain and charged. The elites of the 7,000-watt army all had red eyes, their steps were flying, and they went back down the mountain with thunderous roars. Slogans to capture Chen Yingliang's traitor alive kept coming, and they wanted to kill Chen Sangliang.

There were also countless Wagang soldiers who were cut to pieces with thousands of swords.

There was no suspense. In front of the Wagang elite who crawled out of the mountain of blood and blood, Gongxian County Magistrate Chai Xiao and the rural soldiers under his command were unable to even slow down the Wagang Army's footsteps. They didn't even wait for the Wagang Army to kill them.

When they arrived in front of them, Gongxian's rural soldiers and officers had already dispersed in a rush, and the people of Gongxian who had suffered from the oppression of the harsh government were even more confused.

They went too far. Not only did they not help Chai Xiaohe resist the Wagang Army, but they also defected to the Wagang Army. If Chai Xiaohe hadn't seen the opportunity and fled for his life, some people even tried to capture Chai Xiaohe alive and sacrifice it to Zhai Rang and Li Mi.

In the blink of an eye, Wagang Army was surrounded by tens of thousands of local people to help.

The next step was naturally to re-enter Luokou Cang. Through the introduction of local people on the way, Li Mi soon learned that Chen Sangliang had rushed to Luokou Cang in advance. Considering Chen Sangliang's ability to conquer and fight, and

Destined to have Dongdu reinforcements coming towards Luokoucang in a steady stream, Li Mi quickly found Zhai Rang and said to Zhai Rang: "Your Majesty,

, we have wasted too much time. There must be a lot of preparations at Luokou Cang. We may not be able to capture Luokou Cang quickly. To be on the safe side, we should divide our troops into two groups, attack Luokou Cang along the way, and carry out the execution together.

Backup plan. If the backup plan succeeds, then even if we cannot successfully capture Luokou warehouse, we will still be defeated."

"Sure." Zhai Rang agreed and ordered: "You bring two thousand troops to implement the backup plan. I will attack Luokou Cang and capture Luokou Cang. I will skin the traitor Chen Yingliang with my own hands."

"Your Majesty, be careful. If the situation goes bad, please retreat as soon as possible." Li Mi agreed and warned Zhai Rang before going down to organize two thousand elites to act alone and implement a backup plan for precautionary measures.

At the same time, on the Luokou Cang side, 1,500 defenders, 1,000 Hulaoguan reinforcements and more than 200 soldiers have all returned to Cangcheng under the command of Chen Yingliang. Targeting the short weakness of the Cangcheng wall,

The disadvantage of not having a moat to protect the city is that water will accumulate in the moat, which will cause the food stored in the cellar to rot. Therefore, Luokou Cangcheng lacks this very useful feature.

Effective defensive means. In short, in view of these weaknesses and shortcomings, Chen Sangliang also quickly deployed strategies to defend against the enemy, asking the defenders to pile up a large amount of flammable materials behind the city gate so that they could set fire to block the city gate at any time. Two thousand defenders climbed onto the wall.

For the defense, 500 people served as the reserve team, and the supervising team was held by Chen Sangliang's personal troops. At the same time, the supervising team also assumed the task of putting out fires and filling leaks at any time.

"Soldiers, don't be afraid that the reinforcements from Dongdu are heading towards Luokou Cang. The Hulao Pass side will definitely send us more reinforcements. As long as we hold on until dawn, there will be no danger. We have defended Luokou Cang.

Your Highness the King of Yue, I will give you a double reward for those who retreated cowardly. By the way, I will tell you that the Wagang thieves hate our government soldiers the most. Even if they surrender, they will be buried alive by them. If you don’t want to die, give it to me and Wagang.

The thieves fought hard"

After letting the soldiers spread this threat and inducement, the southwest of Luokou Cang was already a sea of ​​fire, and countless torches were rushing towards Luokou Cang like a tide. Seeing this area of ​​torches denser than the stars in the Milky Way, I had never been there before

The Luokoucang garrison soldiers on the battlefield inevitably felt a little weak in their legs. The guard Deng Chengchun also had chattering teeth and said a very depressing sentence, "Chen Liushou, the thieves are huge, can we hold on?"

"If you can't defend it, I will kill your whole family." Chen Sangliang said coldly: "If the Wagang thieves are allowed to rush into Cangcheng, I will kill you immediately and then kill your whole family."

Seeing Chen Sangliang's face turned green and ferocious, Deng Chengchun swallowed a gulp of saliva, and then hurriedly howled crazily at his subordinates, "Brothers, stand up straight. If the Wagang thieves dare to come, we will fight with them. If anyone dares to retreat,

Run away, I will kill him with my own hands. Did he hear that? I stood up straight and fought with the Wagang bandits."

As expected by Chen Sangliang, in order to buy time, the Wagang Army concentrated its troops in the southwest corner and launched an attack to the south and west of Luokou Cang at the same time. Zhai Rang, who was good at bullying the crowd, also used the local people as cannon fodder.

pushed ahead and pointed

They decided to attack the wall section violently, thinking that even if the defenders resisted to the end, they could use the corpses of the common people to pile up the stairs to the city, so that the soldiers of the Wagang Army could rush directly to the wall, while the Wagang Army would hold the formation behind, and other soldiers

Carrying chopped trees to attack the fragile barn door.

Four corrections, the attack and defense of Luokou Cang officially started. Under the cover of the archers of the Wagang Army, the common people in the vanguard strode forward carrying stones and trees, shouting and rushing towards the warehouse wall. They were responsible for throwing the trees and stones under the wall to build

The soldiers from hundreds of tile hills were divided into two teams, carrying wooden sticks to hit the southwest warehouse door. Chen Sangliang immediately ordered to fire arrows to suppress it, intending to use long-range weapons to cause casualties to the people in the van, intimidating the people not to step forward, and reducing the number of people.

Warehouse wall pressure.

Chen Sangliang's abacus was very good, but unfortunately the order was poorly executed. It was as if the defense battle of Dongdu had reappeared. The defenders of Luokoucang, who had never been on the battlefield, were so nervous that they couldn't even draw their bows and let go.

The arrows fell to the ground one after another when they reached the middle. Not only did they not hit the enemy

The threat posed by the people, on the contrary, also boosted the enemy's morale, causing the cannon fodder civilians to rush forward faster. While Chen Sangliang was cursing, he had no choice but to order his own soldiers to serve as archers temporarily, draw strong bows and shoot sharp arrows.

Only then did it pose a real threat to the enemy.

Arrows were flying like locusts in the sky, and torches and heads were surging on the ground. In order to get rid of the tyranny and not to starve to death, the cannon fodder people stepped forward one after another, risking their lives, carrying bags of firewood and straw, and charging with hoes and iron forks in their hands.

Even though they were inexperienced, unfamiliar with their cooperation, and their charging speed was not fast, these common people still took advantage of them.

Showing astonishing courage, they stormed the wall of the warehouse. The defenders on the wall tried their best to fire arrows to stop them, but they still couldn't make the people's team collapse and flee like moths flying into the flame. After these people rushed to the wall, they immediately waved their hoes and dug hard.

They rammed the earth to close the wall in an attempt to dig down the wall and help the Wagang army enter the warehouse.

Relying on the cover of these common people, the flying echelon team served by Wagang Army soldiers also began to move forward. They also deliberately mixed in the crowd without lighting torches to avoid being discovered by the defenders in advance and attracting bows and arrows to suppress them. As a result, Zhai Rang's move was also very effective.

, until the flying echelon of the Wagang Army approached the warehouse wall

Within five feet, the Luokou warehouse defenders, who were severely inexperienced, issued a panic warning. Then, before the archery team concentrated on covering them, the light and flexible bamboo flying ladders were already leaning against the warehouse wall one after another.

The battle-hardened Wagang soldiers climbed up the stairs and directly hit the top of the warehouse wall.

Brutal hand-to-hand combat unfolded on the top of the low warehouse wall. The defenders used axes, hammers, and logs to smash the Wagang Army's flying ladder, but they still could not completely stop the Wagang Army soldiers from rushing up the warehouse wall.

After a Wagang Army soldier rushed to the warehouse wall, he usually caused several casualties to the defenders. Knives and guns were fired at the top of the warehouse wall, and the sound of killing was loud. The west gate and the south gate

The fighting was also fierce at both places. The Wagang army's wood-ramming made the barn door clang. The defenders on the wall tried their best to smash stones to stop the attack, but with little success. The experienced Wagang soldiers could always flexibly avoid the incoming stones through the sound of the wind.

Even if they were hit, as long as the injuries were not serious, they would not retreat. Occasionally, those who died in battle would be immediately replaced by others, and their morale and fighting spirit were far better than those of the defenders on the city.

What made Chen Sangliang relieved was that the royal team sent by Pei Renji performed well and tenaciously withstood the frontal battlefield of the South Gate. The number of times that the Wagang Army was able to rush to the South Gate warehouse wall was obviously much less. However, the West Gate

But Deng Chengchun's team on the battlefield has always made Chen Sangliang worried. He doesn't know how Deng Chengchun became the guard of Luokoucang, and he doesn't know if he usually has any

There is a training army, but his subordinates' performance in front of the Wagang Army can only be described as a complete mess. They have neither morale nor fighting spirit and lack of skillful cooperation. They have allowed Wagang Army soldiers to rush to the warehouse wall many times, and each time they have to pay several times the effort.

The incoming enemy could only be driven back with casualties, so Chen Sangliang could only go to the Ximen battlefield in person, personally command and supervise the battle, and be ready to wipe Deng Chengchun's ass at any time.

"When we go back, we must replace all the defenders of Luokoucang, especially this Deng Chengchun." This was the thought Chen Sangliang gritted his teeth in his heart.

Zhai Rang, who was experienced in the battlefield, quickly discovered the weakness of the west gate of Luokou Cang. He immediately invested a thousand reserves at the west gate and attacked the western section of the Luokou Cangguan wall with all his strength. As a result, due to lack of light and too many people under the wall,

For this reason, it was not until the reserves of the Wagang Army rushed to the city that

Only then did Chen Sangliang discover that the Wagang Army had sent additional elites to the Ximen battlefield. Considering that the soldiers under Deng Chengchun were too poor and incompetent, Chen Sangliang had no choice but to order General Ying Yanglang of Jishan Prefecture.

The reserve team led by Zhang Jike was immediately dispatched to reinforce the Ximen battlefield.

The performance of the reserve team under Zhang Jikao surprised Chen Sangliang. They were also second-line troops. Although the 500 soldiers brought by Zhang Jikao also had the weakness of serious lack of battlefield experience, their fighting will was no less than that of any first-line elite.

Everyone in the army came to the battlefield in danger, and even after being injured, they stayed at their posts.

The soldiers did not retreat, and there was even a tragic and heroic scene of a seriously injured soldier carrying a Wagang soldier and rolling down the warehouse wall to die together. Zhang Jiqiao himself also took the lead, killing the enemy with a sword himself, and leading the soldiers to firmly withstand the impact of the Wagang elite.

, compared with his colleague Deng Chengchun's battlefield performance, there is a world of difference.

"Talents! I never imagined that there could be such talents in this Luokou warehouse with its crotchless pants." Chen Sangliang was very surprised and praised - of course, if Chen Sangliang could know, in history, after Luokou warehouse was captured by the Wagang Army,

, Zhang Jikao led these hundreds of people and were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops on the nearby platform for more than half a year. Not a single soldier surrendered, and the entire army was annihilated until the water source was finally cut off. Chen Sangliang must not be so surprised.

At this time, Zhai Rang had also discovered the sudden strengthening of the defense on the west wall of Luokou Cang. He guessed that Chen Sangliang must have joined the reserve team. Seeing that it was already halfway through the fourth update, Zhai Rang didn't have much time left for him.

Gritting his teeth, he simply ordered a full-scale general attack and personally led the charge. The main target was still the west gate of Luokou Cang, which had performed poorly before. Even if there were strong reinforcements, the previous weak soldiers still had huge flaws.

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The offensive and defensive battles became intense, especially at the west gate of Luokou Cang. Hundreds of flying ladders were constantly put up on the warehouse wall, and Wagang soldiers continued to climb up the ladders. The Wagang soldiers who did not have bamboo ladders relied on their nimbleness to even

He even climbed the warehouse wall with bare hands and used a human ladder to enter Luokou.

Damn the warehouse, slogans kept coming and going amidst the shouts of killing. The people under the wall of the warehouse were also rushing in, digging out the earth wall that was only rammed a few months ago. Some sections of the wall had even been dug out to a depth of nearly one foot.

There was a pit, and the defenders on the wall were yelling, but there was nothing they could do.

If Zhang Jikao's army had not performed well, if Chen Sangliang had not brought more than 200 veteran Qiao Peng veterans, Luokou warehouse would have been defeated by the Wagang army just like in history. But even if

In this way, the Ximen side is still in danger. The powerful Wagang elites continue to rush to the warehouse wall, constantly causing casualties to the defenders.

, the flesh-footed soldiers under Deng Chengchun kept turning pale and fleeing quietly into the warehouse. However, the supervising team under Chen Sangliang had no time to find and stop them. They all went into battle with their swords and fought bloody battles with the elites from Wagang who were constantly climbing up the wall.

, Chen Sangliang himself also wielded his sword to kill the enemy under the protection of Sangouzi and Yuchi Jingde, and was no longer free to direct the battle.

The west gate was already vulnerable to the Wagang Army. Fortunately, the defenders lit the fire inside the gate in time to prevent the enemy from entering the warehouse. The fire rose and the smoke billowed, making the flesh-and-blood battlefield even more cruel and intense.

A huge number of people have gradually spread towards the North Gate and East Gate. The defenders in that area are howling like ghosts and running around in a panic. Many people are completely at a loss. Chen Sangliang, who has been restrained on the main battlefield of the West Gate, cannot free his hands to control it.

When the people lacked siege weapons, they could only dig hard at the warehouse walls and could not directly attack the warehouse. It was not difficult to deal with it. The Hulao Pass soldiers distributed on the two battlefields also played the role of the backbone in time, and there was no big problem for the time being.

Danger.

Zhai Rang also committed suicide under the warehouse wall at one point, less than a hundred steps away from Chen Yingliang's handsome flag. Unfortunately, the two bamboo ladders next to Zhai Rang were knocked over by falling wood one after another, and Zhai Rang was unable to find them and rush to the pass.

The wall has the opportunity to kill the enemy with a sword in person.

The sky was gradually getting brighter. Just as the corpses under the wall were gradually piled up to half a person's height, and the fragile wall was about to be dug through by the people, the familiar military song that Chen Sangliang had been waiting for for a long time finally came from the west. Eight hundred reports

The officers' white robes fluttered and they rode on Dawan's fine horses.
To be continued...