"The city lord is absolutely right." Zeng Chengfei said: "If we capture Qiujin this time, the two cities in the northwest will be ours. By then, if we go east, we can wipe out Yan Xiao in Fengshan."
Speaking of Yan Xiao, Xue Qian said: "Fengshan Yan Xiao is very powerful, I'm afraid it won't be easy."
Zeng Chengfei said as if he didn't care: "No matter how powerful he is, he can't defeat our powerful army."
"Destroy Qiu Jin first and then talk."
After Xue Qian finished speaking, he divided the army into two, and divided his troops into two groups to take Huanta City directly.
On the upper floor of the south city of Circle Tower City, Qiu Jin finished inspecting the fortifications and was discussing military matters.
Yuan Zhida said: "City Lord, Xue Qian is coming in two groups now. As long as he defends the city, Xue Qian will definitely not be able to get in, and he will naturally retreat when the time comes."
"Can't we go out and fight?" Qiu Jin asked.
Yuan Zhida said: "If we go out to fight in the city, it will be good to win. If we don't win, we may not even be able to defend the city."
"City Lord, I am willing to go out of the city to fight Xue Qian." Leng Yue said from the side.
Qiu Jin was hesitant at first, but now after listening to Leng Yue's words, he felt a little impulsive and said: "Okay, Leng Yue, you take one flag of troops to the west gate and beat me hard. I will personally guard this place."
"Yes." Leng Yue responded, turned around and walked down the tower, leading the army to the west.
Xue Qian led his army to the city gate, set up a formation, surrounded the south gate of Huanta City, and then stepped forward and shouted: "Is Qiu Jin here? Do you dare to come down and fight?"
Qiu Jin was on the top of the city tower. Looking at Xue Qian's arrogant appearance below the city, he wanted to get down immediately, but he still controlled it.
"Hmph, you still need me to go down, I advise you to get out of here." Qiu Jin shouted from the tower.
The angrier Qiu Jin shouted, the more proud Xue Qian became. He laughed and said: "The city will be mine soon. If you don't surrender, how long will it take?"
"Hahaha, watch me shoot you within a hornet's nest." Qiu Jin shouted to the bottom of the tower, then turned around and ordered all the archers to set their arrows.
There was a sound of "swish, swish, swish", and several rows of archers on the tower took out arrows from their quivers, placed them on the bow strings, and formed a formation facing the bottom of the tower.
When Xue Qian saw that Qiu Jin was about to attack, he immediately took a few steps back. With a wave of his hand, the archers from the two battalions formed two square formations, drew their bows and arrows and rushed forward.
Seeing Xue Qian's archers start to attack, Qiu Jin shouted: "Shoot them down and don't let them get close."
As soon as the voice fell, "swish, swish" hundreds of arrows flew out and shot at Xue Qian's front archers.
So many arrows were shot down at once that Xue Qian's front row of archers couldn't resist and fell down.
"Charge." Xue Qian's archer battalion commander shouted and led the archers forward to within shooting range.
On top of the city tower, a wave of arrows happened to be exchanged, and Qiu Jin shouted: "Hurry up and kill."
Another wave of arrows fell, falling on Xue Qian's army like raindrops. Several people fell to the ground along with the arrows.
"Fire arrows, don't stop, suppress the archers on the tower." An archer battalion commander yelled desperately, and the arrow shot out from his hand, hitting an archer on the tower.
A succession of arrows were shot out by the archer battalion commander, flying towards the city tower, falling on the protective wall and the army, disrupting the formation of the archers on the city tower.
Seeing that the archers were already fighting Qiu Jin's army on the tower, Xue Qian said: "Zeng Chengfei, lead an attack with one flag."
Zeng Chengfei was a bandit, and he was very scheming. It was very dangerous to attack the city gate. Once the city gate was broken, the troops inside would rush over and rely entirely on their combat power, otherwise they would definitely be killed.
But I couldn't say no at this time, I could only say: "Yes, City Lord." He raised his silver knife and shouted: "Brothers, charge me."
As soon as the shouts died down, the troops behind them shouted loudly and rushed forward. Zeng Chengfei followed the troops and fought out together.
The large-scale attack was too late for the archers on the tower to resist, so they could only shoot at will.
Qiu Jin stood in front of the protective wall, waving his silver spear to shoot down the flying arrows.
Seeing Xue Qian's army arrive at the city gate, Qiu Jin retreated to the back and ordered the commander of the archer battalion to stay at the gate. He went down from the gate, gathered a regiment of spearmen, and blocked the city gate.
Zeng Chengfei was at the city gate and ordered the soldiers in front to attack the city gate.
Under the waves of attacks, the city gate flew out into the city with a "bang" sound.
"Kill!" Zeng Chengfei shouted while holding up his silver knife when he saw the city gate was broken.
The troops around Zeng Chengfei rushed past Zeng Chengfei amidst shouts of killing and rushed into the city.
"Stick up the spear and thrust forward." Qiu Jin shouted.
The city gate was blocked by a regiment of spearmen. The spearmen in the front rows straightened their spears and moved forward under the push of the soldiers behind them.
The two armies fought in the city gate, spears piercing the attacking soldiers, and they fell down row by row.
Xue Qian's army behind them continued to rush forward under the command of Zeng Chengfei, disrupting the formation of Qiu Jin's spearmen and starting a chaotic fight in the city gate.
The one in front fell down, and the one behind followed. Unknowingly, Zeng Chengfei rushed to the front and met Qiu Jin.
Looking at the fighting strength of both sides, it was clear that they were not ordinary soldiers. Qiu Jin pointed his silver gun at Zeng Chengfei and asked, "Who are you?"
Zeng Chengfei smiled crookedly: "Listen up, I am Zeng Chengfei, the fox known as the bandit, and you should be Qiu Jin, right?"
Qiu Jin sneered twice: "You're just a shameless bandit. You can't call Qiu Jin's name, so go to hell." Qiu Jin stabbed Zeng Chengfei with his silver spear.
On one side of Zeng Chengfei's body, the silver gun passed through Zeng Chengfei's chest. He turned his steps and turned his body along the silver gun towards Qiu Jin. The silver knife in his hand fell towards Qiu Jin with the turning body.
Qiu Jin retracted the silver gun and held the gun body with both hands to block Zeng Chengfei's attack.
The two armies fought fiercely in the city gate cave. Qiu Jin and Zeng Chengfei fought for more than 20 minutes. They couldn't resist and retreated.
The troops behind him passed by Qiu Jin, sealed Zeng Chengfei, and surrounded him for a fight.
Zeng Chengfei saw that he had rushed too far and was surrounded by Qiu Jin's soldiers, so he immediately moved back and retreated to his own army.
More than an hour later, the two armies were in a stalemate at the city gate. Xue Qian outside the city saw that Zeng Chengfei could not break through the city gate, so he could only order the withdrawal of troops.
Zeng Chengfei received the order and led the army to retreat from the city gate cave while fighting, and returned to Xue Qian.
Xue Qian was not happy at first. When he saw Zeng Chengfei, he became even more angry and cursed: "What are you doing? You can't build a city gate in half a day."
After returning in vain, Zeng Chengfei knew that Xue Qian would scold him, so he thought about it on the way back and said: "City Lord, calm down, there will be a second time if we didn't capture them the first time. The main reason is that this time they weakened their energy, and they will attack again." It will definitely destroy the city.”
Now we can only rest and prepare the army for the second siege. Xue Qian had no choice but ordered Zeng Chengfei to prepare for a second attack on the city. He captured another person and asked, "How is the progress in the west?"
The soldier replied: "The battle report just came, the attack on the city has already begun."
