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Chapter 405 Against the Tide

Guo Ning remained silent.

The two stood at a high place, and the wind from the north violently blew the flag behind them, making a fluttering sound.The torch held high by the attendants was also blown to flicker; under the firelight, although his face was calm, there was light and shadow shaking on his face and armor.

Guo Zhongyuan said again: "General Wang's side is still attacking the city, don't we..."

Guo Ning raised his hand to signal: "Wait a little longer."

"As ordered."

In the past six months, Guo Ning has been sending people to infiltrate various departments of the Red Coat Army to collect information.He probably knows better than Yang An'er the looseness and weakness of the Red Coat Army.

Just like the Yidu Mansion in front of you.This place was originally an important town of Dajin, where the General Manager's Mansion, Transshipment Department, and Commanding Army Department were stationed. At its peak, there were 11 households, seven counties and seven towns under its jurisdiction, all rich and prosperous.

When the Mongol army invaded Shandong, Wanyan Sara, the commander of the East-West Route Commander stationed here, took many young men from the city and stationed them in Linzi, a smaller and stronger city, and handed over the place to Zhang Lin, the governor of the city. stay behind.

Later, Wanyan Sala was defeated by the Mongolian army, and Zhang Lin had contact with the Red Coat Army, so he surrendered to Yang An'er along the way.But Yang An'er's core areas of influence are in Juzhou and Mizhou, and it is Li Quan and Li Tieqiang who led the headquarters from Weizhou to take advantage of the situation to control Yidu, Binzhou, and Zizhou.

This Li Tieqiang had clearly conspired with the Mongols in an attempt to harm Ding Haijun, so when Guo Ning led the troops to pay a visit to Yang An'er, he asked Yang An'er to deal with him.

But Yang An'er did not do this in order to unify the ministries so as not to arouse suspicion. He only supported Binzhou Yin Chang and Yidu Zhang Lin a little bit to contain Li Quan's strength.In this way, Li Quan respected Yang An'er as the leader of the Red Coat Army in name, but in fact he acted on his own, and even Cong Yi continued to mobilize soldiers and civilians to disperse them to Zizhou and Binzhou to start farming.

Just half a month ago, Li Quan also mobilized a fairly large convoy between Gaoping County and Yidu Prefecture in Zizhou. It is said that more than 2 people were recruited at one go and ordered to go to Zizhou to assist in the autumn harvest.

During this process, Li Quan's general Liu Qingfu also proposed to take over the Yidu, Boxing, Shouguang and other salt farms controlled by Yidu Prefecture, which almost led to conflicts between the two.

Liu Qingfu recruited two thousand elite soldiers into the city overnight, and seized two city gates and treasury.After all, Zhang Lin was lacking in force, so he could barely suppress the dissatisfaction of his subordinates and swallowed his anger.

In this way, although Yidu City is still a big city, the people in the city are not united and its strength is not gathered.Guard Liu Qingfu claims to have [-] elite soldiers, but he has to defend the inside and the outside. He dare not relax everywhere and there are loopholes everywhere.

This is obviously a godsend opportunity.

More than [-] people from the Ding Navy marched forward courageously and launched a fierce attack. Guo Ning had all the advantages in people, harmony, location, and time.Our own side suddenly exploded again, and Li Quan was scattered in the rear, making it difficult to rescue in time.This momentum is like a thunderbolt hitting a rotten tree... Why can't you break the city?
But after several fights today, Ding Haijun really failed to break through the city.

The number of defenders is indeed limited as reported by the intelligence, but they are extremely elite.With this elite as the backbone, the people in the city are surrounded by strong men, and then relying on its own high city and deep pools to line up rolling trees and stones, Yidu Mansion has become a hard bone.

Of course, Guo Ning believes in the power of Ding Haijun, if he insists on biting down, he will be able to crush it.But is it worth it?Is it necessary?

Thinking about it again, why did this city, which was supposed to be taken easily, suddenly become a tough one?What does this mean?
Guo Ning pondered for a while, then slowly said: "When fighting during the day, there is often a group of heavily armored warriors haunting the city. Although the number of this group is only a few hundred, everyone is proficient in martial arts and extremely fierce. Our army went to the city four times today. Two of them have gathered momentum, but that team of soldiers ran to support, and drove our army down the city abruptly!"

Guo Zhongyuan bowed and said: "I have ordered to catch him alive and ask him for details."

Guo Ning nodded: "The ordinary prisoners we captured today all said they didn't know the details of this group of soldiers... This matter is very suspicious. How can the defenders not know who their fellow soldiers are? Hey, if Lao Wang Even though we can break into the city, we have to guard against this group of soldiers fighting us in the city."

Guo Zhongyuan was stunned: "General Wang, is there a chance to break the city?"

"Wang Shixian participated in the reception of Shandong refugees before, and had a lot of contacts with Zhang Lin's troops in the city. In addition, Yan Ning was the guard of Yidu City last year, and he also has contacts in the city. Just then, the two reported that they saw them in the city. Familiar officers, Xianghao led the army to fight. Therefore, I wrote a letter with code words, shot them on the top of the city, and instigated them to fight anyway."

"So that's how it is." Guo Zhongyuan stood on tiptoe and looked towards Shizijian in the west of the city: "No wonder General Wang is still entangled with the enemy. This is to wait for acquaintances to go to the city, and then we should cooperate with each other."

"Exactly. Let's see how it turns out." Guo Ning pressed the golden knife on his waist, and took a few steps in that direction: "Your troops are exhausted from fighting for a long time today, and rest for a while. After the west of the city is shaken, I will ask Zhao Jue to lead people Attack the east gate as a countermeasure."

To the south of Yidu City, there are mountains such as Jiangjun Mountain, Wochan Mountain, and Wangcheng Port, which are not suitable for deploying a large army.Therefore, today's attack on the city is to start from the east, north, and west, which is also the number of ways to encircle the three ques and one in the art of war.

At this time, by the west gate, Wang Shixian ordered his subordinates to fire more pine torches and continue to attack under the night.With the rumble of drums in the camp, and the shouts of orders from various officers to dispatch, Wang Shixian himself stood at a distance of hundreds of steps from the city wall. Three soldiers each held a large shield, guarding the left and right, and the shield crackled from time to time. The ground bounced off the arrow.

Not far from his side, Yan Ning led a team of elite soldiers, ready to respond to the chaos at the top of the city and follow up the onslaught.

And ahead, Zhang Hui didn't use a big gun, but held a long knife in his mouth, and led hundreds of soldiers around the ladder, rushing forward.

On the top of the city wall, the crossbowmen of the defenders poured arrow rain on the crenel, and raised the extra-long row of forks beyond the crenel, trying to push down the ladder.

As soon as the first ladder was built on the city wall, the fork arrived, and the soldiers who were responsible for pushing the ladder shouted repeatedly, trying to stabilize the ladder.There are more than a dozen soldiers who are strong and strong, directly boarded the wobbly ladder, ready to climb the city at any time, but they were covered by arrow rain, and five or six people fell down immediately.

Those who fell to the ground were all broken and fractured, and some people's internal organs even exploded from their stomachs, splashing into a huge flower of blood.

This situation was so tragic that the attacking soldiers were inevitably delayed for a while.

Zhang Hui was furious, and climbed up the second ladder by himself, climbed twenty or thirty steps in one breath, and shouted: "Whoever retreats will be killed, follow me!"

Yan Ning, who was watching the battle from behind, said in a deep voice: "Jiang Jing's department is about to be transferred, and Jin Dai is also here. He is the leader of Zhang Lin's attendants, and there are more than 50 people under him, all of whom are good players!"

When shooting bows and crossbows at the top and bottom of the city, Ding Haijun stuck a letter of persuasion on the arrows and informed his internal response in secret words.And Nei Ying on the city also shot back immediately, and also tied a note on the arrow cluster, marking it in secret words.

So Yan Ning already knew that apart from Li Quan's subordinates, there were also two subordinates of Zhang Lin, a local tycoon in Yidu, who were active in this section of the city wall.That Jiang Jing is a brave man from Yidu, famous for his strong physique, and a good friend of Yan Ning; and Jin Dai is one of Zhang Lin's trusted attendants, who has received a lot of money from Wang Shixian.

Since the two responded, it meant that Zhang Lin was also on Ding Haijun's side, and the city would be destroyed under the combination of inside and outside.

At present, the offensive and defensive sides fought for a while. Zhang Hui went back to the city once, but was forced to retreat by the defenders. He was climbing the third ladder, ready to attack again.

Suddenly, there was loud drumming from the top of the Ximen Tower.

The offensive and defensive sides were all surprised, and they looked up one after another.But in front of the city tower, forty or fifty bloody heads were lifted high, and then thrown out with all their strength.

The head fell to the ground with a bang, and the blood in the cavity flowed like a stream.

People in the city shouted in unison: "This is how the rebels will end!"

A fine soldier grabbed the braid of the head and brought it back for Yanning to see.

Yan Ning held the torch to illuminate it, and when she looked closely, she was suddenly angry and angry, almost dizzy.

One of the heads was the Jiang Jing that Yan Ning had just mentioned, and the others were his subordinates.There are still a few heads, even old and weak women and children.It seems that the defenders have wiped out Jiang Jing's entire family!
Yan Ning hurriedly turned to look at Wang Shixian: "Jiang Jing is dead, I'm afraid something will happen to Jin Dai!"

Wang Shixian sighed: "Don't talk about Jin Dai, even Zhang Lin in Yidu Zhizhong, I'm afraid he will also be in trouble!"

"What can I do?"

There is nothing to hesitate, Wang Shixian ordered in a deep voice: "...and retreat!"

(End of this chapter)