"Yes." After the two commanders responded, they led the archers and rushed to the city gate entrance in two groups: left and right.
When the archers arrived, the troops attacking in the city gate immediately withdrew.
Zhang Shunxiao's eyes were red from the killing, and he followed the retreating army to pursue him. Just after leaving the city gate, arrows from both sides flew past the retreating crowd and shot at Zhang Shunxiao.
Unexpectedly, there were so many arrows flying towards him. Zhang Shunxiao immediately stopped and held the Blue Water Dragon Spear in both hands and danced it in front of him. His energy moved with the air current in the air. The flying arrow arrived in front of the Blue Water Dragon Spear, was blocked by the rotating airflow, and fell to the ground.
The troops behind him immediately rushed out, stood in front of Zhang Shunxiao, and used their weapons to hit the flying arrows.
"Lord, retreat quickly." A battalion commander leading the army shouted.
There were too many enemies in front of the city gate, and it was useless to rush out. Zhang Shunxiao stepped back and joined the army: "The enemy has archers, everyone retreat into the city." He led the army back into the city.
When they retreated to the city, there were already more than ten corpses in the city gate. Zhang Shunxiao led his troops to lie beside the city walls on both sides of the city gate, and arrows were still sparsely flying out of the city gate hole.
Zhang Shunxiao quickly and cautiously put his head out, then immediately retracted, and saw Li Qun'ao's archers outside the city gate, with their bows open, facing the city.
"What happened to the archers on the tower?" Zhang Shunxiao asked angrily.
A soldier said in a panic: "Lord, there are only more than a hundred archers left on the city tower. They can't resist Li Qun'ao's long-range attack, let alone stop Li Qun'ao's siege army below the city."
Zhang Shunxiao had no choice but to lean against the city wall, relax as much as possible, and slowly regain his strength.
Li Qun'ao's archers did not dare to enter the city gate and just stood quietly.
Xiu Jie's army came slowly from a distance. Li Qun'ao became anxious and shouted: "Fight in."
The archers at the city gate picked up their feet, raised their bows, and moved forward slowly.
Zhang Shunxiao listened to Li Qun'ao's archers slowly moving inside the city gate. The footsteps were getting closer and closer to his ears. His body turned sharply, and the blue water dragon spear followed him to the middle of the city gate: "Here I'll kill." A force of energy drew out from the tip of the spear and attacked the two archers in front.
The two archers were knocked away directly. Zhang Shunxiao waved the Blue Water Dragon Spear to block the flying arrows. The troops behind him swarmed in and attacked Li Qun'ao's archers.
Those archers had no time to draw arrows to attack, and were killed by Zhang Shunxiao and his army. They retreated in panic, and were blocked by the army behind them. There were screams for a while, and hundreds of people fell inside the city gate, forming a thick layer. corpse.
When Li Qun'ao saw that the situation was not good, Xiu Jie immediately came behind him and immediately ordered all the troops to attack.
Under the command of Li Qun'ao, thousands of people blocked the entrance to the city gate and slowly moved into the city gate in order.
Xiu Jie arrived in front of Li Qun'ao and saw that the city had not yet been captured, and said angrily: "What's wrong with you? You can't even capture Red Maple City."
"Come on, Lord." Li Qun'ao said with shame, lowering his head, obviously lacking in confidence.
Futuo looked at the crooked flags on the city gate and the sparse figures, and said: "Zhang Shunxiao has suffered heavy casualties under Captain Li's attack. He just relied on his own fighting power to barely defend the city gate. The lord can Order Wang Han to lead the army at the east city gate to attack Hongfeng City. If both sides attack at the same time, Zhang Shunxiao cannot take care of both, and Hongfeng City will be destroyed."
Xiu Jie laughed wildly and said: "Hehehe, okay, Wang Han, quickly lead the troops to attack the east city gate."
"Yes." After Wang Han said that, he immediately led his army to separate from Xiu Jie's army.
Inside the city, Zhang Shunxiao was about to rush into the city gate again. When he saw Xiujie's flag in the distance, his heart sank, knowing that the next battle would be more intense.
"Lord, lord..." Hong Fengliu ran over from a distance and shouted loudly. "
Zhang Shunxiao turned around, watched Hong Fengliu running up to him, and asked, "Why are you here?"
Hong Fengliu said: "Lord, Xiu Jie has arrived. Lord cannot rush into the city gate. If he encounters Xiu Jie, he will be in danger."
"What should we do? Who will guard the city gate?" Zhang Shunxiao asked anxiously with a very unhappy tone.
"Let a part of Xiujie's army come in first, then the lord leads the army to rush in along the city wall, seal the city gate, and cut Xiujie's army into two sections. We will besiege Xiujie's army from all sides and kill them before moving on. Let some of it come in.”
"Okay, let's do it." Zhang Shunxiao did not use any of his brains. He directed the army to arrange the formation according to Hong Fengliu's strategy. He selected dozens of soldiers with level two combat strength to lie beside the walls on both sides of the city gate.
Xiu Jie's army quickly rushed through the city gate and arrived at the empty inner square. Seeing Zhang Shunxiao's army hiding in the distance, they stepped up their pace and shouted to kill in all directions.
Hundreds of people entered the inner square. Zhang Shunxiao raised his Blue Water Dragon Spear, walked out from the side of the city gate and shouted: "Kill..." With one powerful shot, he stabbed a soldier of the Xiujie Army. He pushed his arms hard and stepped forward with his feet. , started running on tiptoes on the ground, pushing the soldier forward, and bumped into several soldiers before stopping.
The troops behind Zhang Shunxiao followed and rushed out. Xiujie's army was unprepared and was attacked from the side, and was quickly cut into two parts.
Thousands of soldiers in the city surrounded and killed the hundreds of soldiers who rushed in.
Zhang Shunxiao was about to let in the second wave of people. When he saw Xiu Jie's army retreating, he could only lead the army to clear the battlefield.
Futuo followed Xiujie back to the military camp and asked, "Lord, why are you retreating?"
"It's getting late, so it's not easy to fight. Besides, their boring gourd style of attack is really difficult. Let's attack the city with Wang Han outside the east city gate tomorrow."
Futuo said: "In this case, tomorrow the lord can go into battle in person and defeat Zhang Shunxiao."
"Okay, pass on the order, have a good rest today, and defeat the city in a battle tomorrow."
"Yes." Li Qun'ao next to him echoed loudly.
As the sky darkened, the wounded soldiers in the city used the moonlight to bandage their wounds. Zhang Shunxiao walked back and forth among the scattered troops to check the situation.
Hong Fengliu followed Zhang Shunxiao and said: "Lord, there are no archers to defend the city tower. Let's bring a group of newly recruited militiamen up. It's better than nothing."
The newly recruited militiamen had not received much training and had almost no combat effectiveness.
Zhang Shunxiao nodded helplessly and said: "That's the only way."
Hong Fengliu looked hesitant, hesitated to speak, thought for a long time, and then said: "Now the main roads in the north have been blocked by Mu Shiyi, but as long as the lord leads the army in the city to fight out, we will definitely be able to break through."
Zhang Shunxiao stopped and looked a little unhappy: "You want me to give up Red Maple City?"
Hong Fengliu lowered his head, sighed and said, "If I don't leave now, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave tomorrow."
"Then let's have a decisive battle." Zhang Shunxiao replied resolutely with a resolute expression.
Hong Fengliu was indifferent and speechless, looking at the empty distance through the moonlight.
