The Child Emperor

As soon as Cai Xinghai entered the city, he saw many torches swaying on the opposite side. The soldiers defending the city were right, the East Sea King really put the mob in.

He was faced with several choices: either flee, there are so many enemy soldiers, this choice is understandable; or face, die on the street, although stupid, but also end up with the reputation of a loyal minister; or hide, although the city is not big, the buildings are beautiful Quite a few, some of which are sturdy enough to hold for a while.

But in Cai Xinghai's eyes, these choices were not bold enough. Even facing the battle, there was a hint of timidity. The palace cut off the lifeblood of this veteran, but did not remove his courage. He did not have the rich experience of Fang Daye. There is no Chai Yue's strategy, but when the two armies meet on a narrow road, he knows what to do.

Climb to the city! Cai Xinghai shouted, then took the lead and ran up on horseback.

Shenxiongguan is wide in the south and narrow in the north. There are two ways to climb the city wall in the north wall. They are located on both sides of the city gate, one is a step and the other is a flat slope.

Cai Xinghai brought a hundred cavalry, plus the guards at the north gate, a total of more than 150 people, but there were several thousand enemies on the opposite side.

Cai Xinghai dismounted, stood on the city wall and looked south. The surrounding soldiers were all panicked, especially the dozens of guards, whose bodies were trembling, not knowing what the new general was going to do.

Cai Xinghai didn't do anything, just watched. After a while, he laughed loudly: You don't need to worry, it's just a mob. He turned around and said to the soldiers, If these people go straight to the north after entering the city Even the gods are hard to guard the gate, but you see, the torches are scattered, indicating that this is a group of robbers who only want to loot and do not know how to seize important land.

Everyone felt at ease, Cai Xinghai became more and more calm, took a few steps back and forth, and continued: At most, one day, Iron Broken City will definitely send reinforcements. We only need to defend this section of the city wall, and we can leave a passage for reinforcements.

An original guard trembled: What about the city gate?

Cai Xinghai waved his hand, Let it go to them. There are cliffs on both sides of Shenxiong Pass, and the enemy can't get around. We only need to guard these two passages.

Cai Xinghai divided the cavalry he brought with him and the original guards at the North Gate into two teams. There were some rolling stones and wooden objects on the city wall, but they were not enough. Chaos, even shouting horns, should not exist for the robbers who roam the city in chaos.

After half an hour, the torches in the city were getting closer and closer to the north gate, and Cai Xinghai led people up the city to prepare for the battle.

The city was already in chaos. The robbers belonged to several gangs. The yamen and major warehouses were the first to attack and loot.

There are several armories under the city wall of the North City, which attracted a group of robbers. They were not interested in the city towers and city gates. They rushed into the open warehouses and found that most of them were wood, stones, iron balls and the like. Disappointed, after snatching some weapons, they retreated, and finally someone noticed the soldiers on the city wall.

A small number of robbers tried to climb up the city wall, but there were deer fences at the end of the two passages, and soldiers behind them with crossbows faced each other and ordered them to retreat.

The robber didn't insist, he threw down a few harsh words and went down. The city was full of treasures, so there was no need to capture a section of the city wall.

Cai Xinghai walked up and down the city wall, encouraging the soldiers on both sides. He is a veteran and can tell jokes. He doesn't even care about his eunuch status. It’s the same as resurrection, so it’s not easy to say eunuchs, there are thousands of robbers in the mere, and I don’t care about them at all.”

There was still some food in the tower, and Cai Xinghai distributed it himself. As for the horses, they ate the beans they brought.

In the second half of the night, several robber leaders came over to persuade them to surrender. Cai Xinghai was neither angry nor arguing, but stood on the city wall and replied, We are a group of soldiers, old and young in our family, and we dare not be at ease with all the heroes. I hope to defend this section of the city wall and have an explanation for my boss in the future. In short, we can't go down, and please don't come up, everyone, let the well water not make the river water.

The robbers thought that the people on the city wall were soldiers stationed at Shenxiong Pass, and they believed Cai Xinghai's words a little bit. However, they sent minions to occupy the city gate below, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

At dawn, the robbers were still dividing up the property in the warehouse, and there were even a few fires. You could see it from the city wall. Everything was as Cai Xinghai expected. This was a mob, and the confidence of the soldiers increased, even though the food had already been eaten. , but they were not as frightened as they were last night.

The robber leaders seemed to have had a discussion. Soon after dawn, the city was not so chaotic. A large amount of food and utensils were piled up on the streets. It seemed that they had to be divided after the event. Door-to-door knocking and smashing, threatening the residents inside.

Finally, a group of robbers came to the north gate and sternly demanded the soldiers on the strong wall to come down and surrender immediately. If not, what would happen? Cai Xinghai knew that he could not dodge this time, so he shot down the wall with a crossbow, with great strength. His head was slightly off, and he passed by the ear of the shouting robber.

The robber was shocked and angry, and immediately ordered an attack, but he obviously did not understand the difficulty of attacking the city, and underestimated the determination of the defenders.

Hundreds of robbers divided into two paths and walked on two passages at the same time, but the passages were relatively narrow, at most ten people could be allowed to advance side by side, and they could not go too fast.

With just one salvo, the robbers retreated, leaving behind several corpses and a dozen wounded people. They came to snatch property and food. If there were gold and silver jewels on the city wall, they might be willing to charge hard, but In order to occupy, no one is willing to sacrifice their lives.

The injured screamed incessantly. Cai Xinghai was very generous. Standing above the city wall, he shouted at the robbers on the street, allowing them to send people to carry the dead and wounded away.

The attack was blocked, and the robbers dispersed again, but every once in a while a group of people came and tried to attack the city by various methods.

The most common is to persuade to surrender, promising various benefits, supplemented by many threats, Cai Xinghai did not refuse strictly, but chatted with them, delaying the time, and when the other party found out that he had been deceived and shouted angrily, he also Don't get angry, but hand farewell.

There are also strong attacks. Direct attack is not enough. No minions are willing to accept this task. A group of robbers tried to attack with fire. They shot rockets from a distance, fell into the snow under the wall, and quickly extinguished.

Another group of robbers brought in the crossbows stored in Shenxiongguan, and after playing with them on the street for a long time, they shot an arrow. Instead of flying to the top of the city wall, they aimed directly at the city gate. There was a small group of robbers guarding the gate. The sudden attack of the companion was caught by surprise. One was pierced by a giant arrow and died without a word.

Near noon, the timid residents of the city took the initiative to open the door, and those whose doors were not secure were knocked open. They are thorns in the flesh.

The robbers dispatched their masters, and more than twenty people lined up on the street, holding strong bows and shooting arrows at the city wall.

Cai Xinghai did not allow anyone to fight back, and ordered all the soldiers to hide behind the city walls and shields.

After a few rounds of shooting, the masters found that it was useless and had to give up.

The soldiers on the city wall had no direct threat to Shenxiong Pass, and the robbers' attack was not particularly urgent. They had been busy for one night and one morning, and they were already tired and hungry, so they rushed to the stove to cook.

Another robber came to persuade him to surrender with cooked food, but Cai Xinghai hoped that he could trick some food to come over, but the other party saw through it and shot each other a few arrows, but no one was hurt.

In the afternoon, the robbers were full of food and drink. Some people were still looting property and knocking on doors, while others were determined to attack the northern city wall. This has nothing to do with robbery, but the face of each village.

They removed the door panels, hung up some armor, and formed a dozen simple giant shields. Dozens of people lifted or lifted them to protect the front, rear, left, right, and top, forming a moving house, which was slowly pushed up from the slope passage.

This move posed a real threat. The strong bow and crossbow on the city wall could only barely shoot through the giant shield, and it was hard to hurt the people inside.

Cai Xinghai quickly ordered the shooting to stop, and ordered the soldiers to stand on the top of the slope and throw stones and iron blocks down. Some slipped and others stayed on the door. The counterattack worked. The robbers couldn't bear the increasing weight. When they were more than ten steps away from the entrance to the deer gate, they finally dropped the door panel and dispersed. Half of the people were pressed down and struggled for a while. escape.

Cai Xinghai didn't take advantage of the situation to shoot, he didn't want to anger the enemy too much.

The robbers decided to take the simplest and most effective way to siege the city, besieging the city until the defenders were starved to death.

They did not know that three thousand Chu troops were rushing towards Shenxiongguan.

At sunset, the figure of reinforcements appeared on the mountain road. Cai Xinghai breathed a sigh of relief. He finally did not guard this section of the city wall in vain. The reinforcements were all marching lightly.

Next, Cai Xinghai had to open the city gate.

This is the most dangerous moment. The robbers in the city are dividing the spoils. No abnormality has been found outside the north gate. However, a group of people are staring at the city wall. Find.

The most intense battle at Shenxiongguan took place. Cai Xinghai personally led fifty soldiers down the city and protected themselves with shields. The rest lined up on the city wall and shot arrows on the street to prevent the robbers from approaching, but there were still people. Through the arrow rain rushed to the front of the city gate.

The minion shot by Ju Ya was still in the doorway. Cai Xinghai took the lead and blocked the city door with 40 soldiers, while the other 10 opened the city gate.

Most of the robbers haven't reacted yet, so there are not too many attackers. If this is the case, Cai Xinghai and others have to endure enemies several times their own.

Cai Xinghai was stabbed in the shoulder, but he finally heard the sound of hooves, and the robber who attacked the door finally realized that something was wrong and turned around and ran away.

Cai Xinghai and others immediately gave way. He rushed to the reinforcements and shouted: Occupy the South Gate, go and occupy the South Gate!

He wants to trap the robbers in the city and give it to Marquis Juan as a gift, which is worthwhile.