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Chapter 140: Precariously at stake

The rest time after this war was very short. After a brief discussion, the pirates finally decided to defeat the Fortress City no matter what. In order to vent their anger, Zheng Balang sent troops to sweep the four camps outside the city, hoping to capture the soldiers' families as a means of gaining power. However, when hundreds of pirates entered the battalions, it suddenly turned out that the four camps had been empty, and there was not even a single entry.

The crazy pirates set fire directly on fire and ignited four camps. The tents were lit one by one, and the wind was setting fire. Soon the island was already burning, and half of the islands were burned red. The pirates' burn basically showed their determination to attack. Although no one of the many merchants at the Four Pier of Shaman Island came to rescue, the fire, the troops on the three islands surrounding Shaman Island, Daxiezhai South Island, North Island, and Daheishan, could no longer pretend to be unconscious. Even if they symbolize, they had to send troops to Shaman Island, and they would arrive at the latest after the dawn was dawn.

The pirates divided several troops to attack the east and south, trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain. However, although half of the two walls were demolished, they were still half high. On this side, Li Jing arranged many people to guard the place with spears and bamboo poles. When he saw the pirates coming, he just poked them hard, smashed stones, bought hot oil, and boiled water. The pirates did not have much feint to attack, but after a few attacks, they were called back by Zheng Balang Qianqian.

The Shamen Town Army deliberately kept a few gaps and waited for the pirates to enter. It was because of these three gaps that the pirates could enter easily every time, but they did not enter much each time, which led to an army of only ones, which became a tactic of adding fuel to the oil and defeated twice. Zheng Balang was angry and refused to send the soldiers in little by little. He knew that if he continued to fight like this, his soldiers would be unable to wield the advantage of his troops, and could only fight with the Shamen Town Army little by little, and he could not take advantage at all. He directly summoned the pirates, removed the wood from the camp gate from the camp outside the castle city, and temporarily made a hammer.

Hundreds of pirates carried more than ten hammers and hit the city wall beside the gap. Yu planned to directly knock the broken wall between the three gaps and open it into a larger gap. In order to cover these intrusions, Zheng Balang personally gathered all the pirates with bows and set up arrows behind to cover them. Li Jing in the city tried to lead the sword player to rush up twice, but was repelled by the rain of arrows both times, and he could not stop those intrusions from hitting the wall.

After two tentative attacks, several more wounded soldiers were added. Li Jing decisively ordered the retreat to the shield wall.

Zhang Chengzong cut a bloody hole on his forehead and grinned at Li Jing, "Master, this is not enough to fight, the bandits have become smarter now, and there are bows and arrows behind them." Liu Shouqian frowned and said, "But letting them hit the wall like this is not a way. Once the wall is knocked open and the three gaps are connected together, we can no longer place a group of kills a group of people as before. At that time, the pirates rushed in and advance step by step, but they could only fight hard." He paused and said, "General, why not let my brothers out of the city from the east, go around the back of the pirates to sneak attack, and attack them inside and outside."

Li Jing knew that until now, there was probably no shortcut to take. The next battle could only be a force. However, he had been calculating the time. It had been more than an hour since the war started, and it was not far from Liang. He had been waiting for news from Lin Wei, but he didn't know what the situation was going on there.

"Okay, you two will lead a team of servants and bring all four hundred auxiliary soldiers. They have not participated in the battle just now, and it is time to go on the field. You quietly leave the city from Dongcheng and go around the right wing of the pirates. Don't do it first, just lie in ambush there. According to the agreement, Deputy General Lin and General Lin should be attacking the fleet of the Pirate Wharf, which is probably soon. As long as they take down the remaining pirates on the fleet, they will return to the army to fight. They have 200 clans, more than 100 cavalry, and a team of Qiu Shengong's Iron and more than 200 crew members on the Haining. As long as they arrive, you will immediately strike out from the right wing."

The three-entry agreement was made, and once Lin Wei returned, he would immediately siege and fight back from three sides. If Lin Wei did not come back, then without Li Jing's special signal, they would have to lurk outside the city and not be exposed.

At that moment, Li Jing sent another team to the dock to check the war at the dock and notify them of Li Jing's plan.

Then, Li Jing asked the soldiers to take advantage of the last time to eat. The rice was prepared early, with steamed buns, boiled eggs and meat. Although they were both cold, they didn't care about these things at this time. They all held swords and weapons in one hand and ate them hard on the other hand. A meal was already eaten in less than a moment.

"Bang!" Another broken city wall was knocked down, and the gap became bigger and bigger.

Li Jing immediately summoned all the troops, with the square shield soldiers in the center, and the 700 spear soldiers on both wings, followed by the sword shield soldiers, and then the crossbow soldiers covering the formation. Everyone knows that this time is no better than the previous two times, so they can only fight hard. The first two times Li Jing fought an active counterattack, but this time, he made up the idea of ​​defending the iron wall.

The more time goes on, the more anxious the pirates become, and the more beneficial it will be to Li Jing and the others. He is now going to drag it, and to Lin Wei and others to solve the pirates at the dock to return. After the pirates are dragged to the Ming Dynasty, the pirates' concerns about the officers and soldiers. As long as he holds up, this victory will belong to them.

More than a thousand nervously formed a moon formation, and torches were burning, shaking the Xicheng like daytime. The cold wind in the night was howling, frost and mist were everywhere, the face was red, and the fingers were bound to the edge. But no one was tired, this was a battle that determined their life and death and Shamen Town.

Li Jing continued all the hundreds of equipment seized on the battlefield, especially the more than 200 iron armor, more than 100 leather armor, and more than 300 bronze helmets. He immediately matched half of the soldiers of the spear logistics soldiers with armor and helmets, and his defense was greatly improved. In addition, Li Jing also equipped many civilians who were transferred to the army and horizontal swords, and temporarily armed six teams of three hundred teams of spears, as well as six teams of three hundred horizontal swords, and six teams of three hundred horizontal swords. He transferred these to the two wings as reserves. Although these newly armed civilians are mostly young and half-old men, they can also strengthen their momentum and make urgent efforts when they are critical.

The collapse of the city walls in succession also means that the pirates' final attack is getting closer and closer.

The cold wind blew on his face, like a knife blew, and the pain on his face was rippling. What he exhaled from his mouth was covered with white air. Li Jing felt that his nose was numb and he could only breathe with his mouth open. Standing in the cold wind, it took a long time to feel that he was about to be frozen, as if his body had merged with the cold iron armor on his body. Time passed little by little, and there was still no movement on the west side outside the castle.

Li Jing watched the Shamen Town soldiers lined up in an array, and there were more people entering than him. They were already shaking with ice and their teeth were trembling.

"Bang!" Another large section of the city wall was knocked down. As soon as the wall fell, three gaps were completely connected, and a large gap of about ten feet long appeared in front of the crowd. Li Jing gritted his teeth. In this way, the city wall had completely lost its defense. Now the pirates can rush in in a neatly arranged square formation.

"Raising the spear!"

"Stay on your feet!"

Li Jing held a long sword and shouted loudly. Whether he could defeat the pirates tonight depends on whether he could hold on to the current wave. The spear soldiers in the first row all obliquely lowered the spears and stabbed them hard into the ground. Then the spear tips in the second row were slightly raised, followed by the third row, the fourth row, the fifth row, and six rows of spears in a row. The bottom layer was almost half mixed with the ground, and then one layer was higher than the other. The last six rows of spears were laid into a fan-shaped steel barbed forest in front of the formation. This was originally a formation used by the spear soldiers to deal with the cavalry, but at this time, Li Jing used it to form a formation to deal with the pirates. The layout of this formation also showed Li Jing's determination to defend.

In front of the collapsed city wall before the dust had dissipated, Zheng Balang looked at the soldiers in the city that had already spread out their sharp thorns like a hedgehog and shrank, and a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Kill me!"

With his death, the pirates suddenly raised a row of twenty crossbow machines. This was a heavy crossbow brought by the Wang family's guards. It was used for many times, with a range of three hundred steps away, and an iron crossbow arrow. Fuyuan crossbow requires two crossbows and is powerful.

Generally speaking, the armor-piercing process is 1, the degree of jing, and the damage process is 3. This means that the Fuyuan crossbow has three hundred steps, and the maximum killing distance for an armor-free target is 300 steps. In fact, the distance should be further, and 300 steps is only an effective killing distance. The degree of jing, and the degree of jing, indicates that the degree of jing, the degree of jing, should be 200 steps, and the strike can be accurately measured within 200 steps. One hundred steps is the armor-piercing damage process.

The distance between the array in the city and the pirates is one arrow and eighty steps away. The shè course of the bow and arrow is generally effective at about sixty steps and eighty steps. Most archers have lost their lethality at night. But what Li Jing did not expect was that the pirates not only have crossbows, but also have heavy crossbows of 300 steps.

Twenty iron crossbows arrived with sharp roars. Before the soldiers in the front row understood what was going on, the twenty crossbow arrows had penetrated into Li Jing's formation. Several screams sounded and a dozen fell down. Except for a few crossbow arrows that happened to be shining on the shield, all other crossbow arrows entered the body. The dense array did not require much accuracy at all, and it completely hit the target. Although the soldiers in the front row were all wearing iron armor, within eighty steps, the iron crossbow arrows produced by Fuyuan Crossbow with a three hundred steps were useless at all.

"Rise the shield!" Li Jing's eyes were breathing with fire. The casualties were already comparable to the previous battle.

Another twenty iron crossbows arrived, and the surprise soldiers raised their shields one after another, and formed a shield wall in front of the formation. However, in addition to the square iron shield of the surprise soldiers, the cowhide logs of the regiments could not block the crossbow arrows at all. They broke into one shot, and even the soldiers behind were also injured.

After wave after wave, the pirate Fu Yuan crossbow kept shining. Although Li Jing struggled to support him, the shield was still broken into the wound. The soldiers kept getting caught in the crossbow and fell to the ground. Seeing that the injured ones could not survive. As the soldiers continued to fall, the array began to become in danger, and there was a possibility of collapse at any time.

Outside the city, Zheng Balang waved his sword and shouted angrily: "Kill me!"
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