On December 29, 2018, Ruikang, the war that had been suspended for more than a year, was once again ignited in Xiongyi City.

This time, Li Bin personally led the army and launched a fierce attack on the southern wall of Xiongyi City.

The commander of the Great Wei army in Xiongyi City is still Tu Lin's eldest son Tu Zhao. However, in order to resist the Zhennan Army landed in Shunzhou Prefecture, Tu Zhao now has only four imperial guards, two guards and about 300,000 township soldiers left.

"Brother, can we defend Xiongyi City?" Tu Shun, Tu Zhao's fourth brother, looked at the terrifying siege equipment outside Xiongyi City and the Zhennan Army's siege troops that could not be seen at first sight, and could not help but lower their voices to ask Tu Zhao beside him.

After the Zhennan Army failed to attack Xiongyi City for the first time, it stationed troops about forty miles south of Xiongyi City.

In the past year, the Zhennan Army has not been idle and has built a large number of ladders, railings and stone catapults. Now these siege equipment have been pushed outside the southern wall of Xiongyi City by the Zhennan Army.

Tu Zhao said in a deep voice: "Xiongyi City is easy to defend but difficult to attack, not to mention that we still have 500,000 troops in our hands, which is enough to block the Zhennan Army."

At this time, Tu Zhao's fifth brother Tu An hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother, do you need to send someone to ask for help from your father? After all, Li Bin personally led his troops to attack Xiongyi City."

Now the only five brothers of the Tu family, Tu Zhao, Tu Shun and Tu An remained in Xiongyi City, while the second Tu Feng and the third Tu Gai led their troops to Shunzhou Prefecture.

Tu Zhao waved his hand and said, "So even if Li Bin comes in person. With Xiongyi City and a 500,000 army here, Xiongyi City is as solid as a god!"

Tu Zhao was confident, after all, Zhennan Army could only attack the southern wall of Xiongyi City.

The southern wall of Xiongyi City is less than eight miles in total. Zhennan Army cannot invest too many siege troops at one time, and even if Zhennan Army has the advantage of military strength, it cannot play out.

The Zhennan Army attacked Xiongyi City for five days and five nights, and did not stop siege on New Year's Eve.

However, under the desperate resistance of the Wei defenders, the southern wall of Xiongyi City was still controlled by the Great Wei army.

The Zhennan Army rushed to the southern city wall many times with a large number of ladders and well railings, but unfortunately they were beaten by the Wei garrison, and hundreds of ladders and well railings were burned down.

Wu Yunzhao, the head coach of the Seventh Town of Zhennan Langqi, who personally led the troops to attack the city, and Wu Tianxi, the head coach of the Eighth Town of Zhennan Langqi, were also injured in the battle on the south wall.

Wu Yunzhao was shot in his thigh by a crossbow arrow, while Wu Tianxi was injured by Tu Shun and Tu An.

Thanks to the timely rescue of other powerful generals of the Zhennan Army, the injured Wu Yunzhao and Wu Tianxi were allowed to safely retreat from the city wall, otherwise Li Bin would lose two generals.

On the morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Ruikang, Li Bin once again led his generals to the exterior battle of the south wall of Xiongyi City.

At this time, the siege troops of Zhennan Army were still launching a fierce attack on the southern wall of Xiongyi City.

Since the siege, the Zhennan Army has been putting pressure on Xiongyi City. Each siege army took turns to launch fierce attacks. The less than eight miles of the city wall were always soldiers of the Zhennan Army siege.

Li Bin turned his head and asked Zhou Yu, "How many casualties have been reached in the past five days and five nights?"

Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "Lord, the number of casualties alone is almost 80,000."

Li Bin sighed, "The city is really not easy to attack. If you continue to attack like this, it is possible to fill in 800,000 people. How many days will it take to dig through the tunnel?"

Zhennan Army had long known that Xiongyi City was not easy to fight, and in the past year, it had dug an authentic tunnel dozens of miles long.

However, because of concerns about being noticed by the defenders in Xiongyi City, before the Zhennan Army launched its second attack, the tunnel was only dug under the city wall.

The reason why the Zhennan Army launched a day and night attack on the southern wall of Xiongyi City for five days and five nights was to attract the attention of the Wei Dynasty defenders and dig the tunnel into Xiongyi City.

Zhou Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord, the tunnel has now extended to almost 400 meters in Xiongyi City, and it is not far from the exit selected by Yunshe. Maybe it can be dug through today."

Li Bin nodded, "Then you can't stop the attack, the attack intensity will be strengthened a little more. For this tunnel, nearly 70,000 soldiers of our Zhennan Army have been killed on the battlefield. These soldiers cannot be sacrificed in vain."

On the southern wall of Xiongyi City, Tu Shun said to Tu Zhao: "Brother, go down and have a sleep, you haven't slept yet again."

Tu Zhao shook his head and said, "I'm not sleepy yet. Let's talk about this wave of offensive from Zhennan Army."

Tu Shun smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, the Zhennan Army has been fighting crazy, and the offensive is one after another, and there is no end at all.

You are the commander of hundreds of thousands of troops, so you can't get tired of your health."

"Second, don't worry, I know my health. But you and Wu should pay attention to rest. This battle may take a long time."

Late at night on the fourth day of the first lunar month, a dry well in Xiongyi City suddenly appeared, and this dry well was located in an alley.

Seeing that there was no one in the alley at this time and the person with his head exposed, he immediately moved flexibly to pull out the dry well.

Immediately afterwards, soldiers in armor kept turning out of the dry well, and this dry well was the authentic exit chosen by Zhennan Army in Xiongyi City.

In order to prevent the destruction of the spies from Zhennan Army, the Wei State had already moved all the people of Wei State in Xiongyi City out of Xiongyi City.

At this time, there were only the Wei army in Xiongyi City, and all the houses in the city had become barracks for the soldiers of the Wei State.

Therefore, it is crucial to choose the exit of the tunnel. If you dig it directly into the house where the soldiers of the Wei Kingdom live, then this tunnel that has been dug through hard will be in vain.

This dry well was selected by several secret spies lurking in the Yunshe City in Xiongyi City. Not only is the location relatively hidden, but it is not far from the south gate of Xiongyi City.

Soon hundreds of people gathered in the alley, and Lu Zhishen was the leader.

In order to seize the southern gate of Xiongyi City, Li Bin sent out all the forty-eight wolve generals under his command, led by Lu Zhishen himself.

The other soldiers of Zhennan Army in the alley are guards of Zhennan Grand Governor's Office.

The alley was not wide and could not gather too many people. Lu Zhishen saw that all the forty-eight wolf generals had come out and dozens of guards from the Grand Governor's Office in Zhennan, so he waved his hand and walked out of the alley with his people.

Outside the alley is the avenue that leads directly to the south gate of Xiongyi City. Because the Zhennan Army's siege has never stopped, people are still coming and going on this avenue.

There were Wei soldiers carrying the wounded and retreating, and there were Wei soldiers who continued to reinforce from a distance to the south wall.

When Lu Zhishen saw this scene, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The soldiers of Zhennan Army who came out of the tunnel had already been replaced with Wei-style armor and military uniforms, but a white cloth strip was tied to their right arm.

Lu Zhishen made a gesture and took hundreds of people straight to the south gate of Xiongyi City.

The more than a hundred Zhennan Army wearing Wei-style armor did not attract the attention of other Wei-style officers and soldiers. After all, on the way to the south gate of Xiongyi City, people were all Wei-style soldiers wearing armor.

After Lu Zhishen brought his people to the south gate of Xiongyi City, he couldn't help but curse in his heart.

In order to defend Xiongyi City, the Wei Dynasty defenders had used many large stones to completely block the gate hole of the southern city gate.

The people of Wei knew that Zhennan Army had a very powerful tincture oil, so they installed a layer of iron plate on the city gate, making it impossible for Zhennan Army to burn the city gate with a tincture oil tank.

Before Lu Zhishen entered Xiongyi City, he had already expected that this might happen, so he could only cooperate with the siege troops to seize the city wall.

Lu Zhishen and his men mingled among the Wei soldiers who had climbed the city and soon as they climbed the south wall of Xiongyi City.

"Hurry, you guys go east, there are a lot of casualties there, you all go there to support!" A general of Wei cut off the crowds of Wei soldiers who came to the city and ordered loudly.

Lu Zhishen happened to be cut off in front of this Wei general.

Lu Zhishen had already seen a fire-riding car approaching by the city wall more than ten meters away. He could see dozens of Zhennan soldiers holding shields struggling to resist the rain of arrows on the top overpass of the sill.

"Kill--" Lu Zhishen suddenly attacked and killed the Wei general in front of him with one knife. Then he led the wolf generals around him to the city wall.

The sudden incident caught the Wei soldiers on the city wall off guard. Soon Lu Zhishen led the wolf generals and the guards who followed the city wall to control a small section of the city wall.

The officers and soldiers of Zhennan Army who participated in the siege tonight knew that tonight there would be their own inner supporters in Xiongyi City and would tie white cloth strips to their right arm.

The soldiers of Zhennan Army on the well railing car cheered when they saw the changes on the city wall. When the well railing car leaned against the city wall, dozens of Zhennan Army soldiers on the overpass successfully climbed the city wall.

Then the continuous Zhennan Army soldiers also climbed the city wall through this well railing and two ladders that were approaching in time.

At this time, some soldiers from Zhennan Army who entered Xiongyi City from the tunnel also began to attack below the South City Gate to prevent more soldiers from Wei from climbing the city wall.

Tonight, the person responsible for commanding on the city wall is the old Wu Tu An, one of the Tu brothers.

A dangerous situation occurred in a city wall just now, so Tu An led the guards to reinforce, but Lu Zhishen took advantage of the loophole.

If Tu An and his more than 200 guards were on the city wall above the south gate, Lu Zhishen would not be able to control a section of the city wall even with forty-eight wolves generals.

Unfortunately, there is no if in reality. By the time Tu'an and his personal guards came back, the Zhennan Army had already controlled at least about two hundred meters of the city wall.

Tu An said to a personal guard soldier anxiously: "Go and find my elder brother and ask my elder brother to bring his troops to support him as soon as possible!"

After saying that, Tu An led his guards to the battlefield where he was fighting on the city wall.

When Tu Zhao and Tu came with the reinforcements, they found that the Nancheng Gate was already full of Zhennan Army officers and soldiers, and some of the Zhennan Army soldiers had begun to carry the stones in the city gate.

Tu Zhao gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, take back the South City Gate and kill me with me-"

When Li Bin learned that his internal and external cooperation had already controlled a section of the city wall, he immediately sent out all the Seven King Kongs, Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry and the Glory Knights under his command, and ordered that this section of the city wall be guarded.

If Zhou Yu hadn't stopped him, Li Bin would have personally taken his pair of black iron rods to the city.

However, although Li Bin did not climb the city himself, a group of great master-level generals in the Zhennan Army also came to the city wall with the siege troops.

This made the counterattack of the Wei State defenders have never achieved any results.

In the end, when the stones in the city gate were moved away and the southern gate of Xiongyi City was opened, the Wei Dynasty defenders were no longer able to make the world come true.

"Brother, please retreat! If you don't leave, it may be too late!" Tu Shun, covered in blood, shouted to Tu Zhao in panic.

Tu Zhao sighed with a dim look, "Where is Lao Wu?"

“Not seen.”

"Well, I'll send orders to all troops to retreat from the North Gate!"

When Tu Zhao gave the order, Tu'an, the old Wu of Tu'an, was surrounded by countless soldiers from Zhennan Army.

Pei Yuanqing looked at Tu An coldly and said, "Tu An, you can't leave anymore. Put down the spear in your hand quickly. I, Pei Yuanqing, can save you from death."

Lu Junyi, who was next to Pei Yuanqing, followed and said, "Tu'an, Xiongyi City has been broken, you can no longer have the chance to turn the tables, hurry up and surrender!"

Tu An wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his left hand. Just now, Tu An and Pei Yuanqing fought against each other and were shocked by Pei Yuanqing's silver hammer.

"My Tu family is born from the Great Wei family and dies from the Great Wei ghost. How can I surrender to your Yan State? If you want my Tu An's life, just let the horse come over!"

Pei Yuanqing and Lu Junyi looked at each other, then rushed towards Tu'an with weapons at the same time...

On the fifth day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Ruikang, Xiongyi City, known as the most powerful city in the Great Wei Empire, was completely captured by the Zhennan Army.

Tu Zhao, the commander of the Wei garrison in Xiongyi City, led the garrison to retreat all the way, while Zhennan Army chased and killed them all the way behind.

In the end, Tu Zhao successfully escaped with only more than 10,000 people in Xiongyi City and near Xiongyi City, and nearly 500,000 people were either killed in battle or captured.

Tu Zhao's younger brother, Tu An, the fifth son of Tu Lin, the Minister of War of the Great Wei Empire and the Grand Marshal of the Imperial Army, was also killed in Xiongyi City.

After the Zhennan Army captured Xiongyi City, it began to divide its troops into multiple routes and launch an attack on the counties and counties of the Cizhou Prefecture of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Xiongyi City was conquered, and the Zhennan Army's battle situation in the south of the Great Wei Empire was equivalent to being fully activated.

Originally, the Zhennan Army attacked the five armies of Kangzhou Prefecture, Cizhou Prefecture, Guzhou Prefecture, Xingzhou Prefecture and Shazhou Prefecture, and were all blocked by the border fortresses of the Great Wei Empire.

Now that Xiongyi City is captured by Zhennan Army, the border defense line of the Great Wei Empire is equivalent to being disintegrated.

The Zhennan Army no longer needs to continue to attack the other four border fortresses. It only needs to enter Cizhou Prefecture from Xiongyi City, and then it can march all the way to Kangzhou Prefecture, Guzhou Prefecture, Xingzhou Prefecture, and Shazhou Prefecture.
Chapter completed!