The second attack of the bandit army retreated hastily due to Yuchi Gong's bravery. The attacking general Lu Mingxing was also seriously injured and almost died at the hands of the Sui general. The bandit army's arrogance in the attack was temporarily frustrated.

At this time, the adviser Yang Ji whispered to Zhang Jin and suggested: "The Sui army does not seem to have much force. They concentrate their forces to defend the city gate. Other defenses will inevitably have loopholes. Why don't the king pretend to attack the city gate and send troops into the city from another place?"

Zhang Jincheng thought for a while and said, "Did you let me break into those holes in the city wall?"

"Of course, the city wall hole is OK. In fact, although we did not bring siege ladders, we could use human ladders or ropes to climb the city wall. There are many ways, so there is no need to siege the city gate."

Zhang Jin said that he was extremely cunning. He ordered Lu Mingxing to attack the city gate just to test the reality of the Sui army. He had already seen that the Sui army did not have many troops, but the bows and arrows were very powerful. No matter how many subordinates died, he would not feel sorry for him. But if his soldiers attacked the city, he would not want to suffer such heavy losses again.

Yang Ji's suggestion is undoubtedly a good way to avoid losses. Zhang Jinsheng nodded and turned around and ordered: "Another knocking on the death drum, the five thousand Yan Luo army feinted the city gate, and only shouting and creating momentum, not entering a hundred steps!"

He said to the general Fu Jin again: "You can lead the three thousand Wuchang Army into the three city wall holes in the north and directly take the city gate!"

"I will send you another order to Gongqing Yang to defend the west gate to prevent the Sui army from breaking through!"

Zhang Jin said that he had eight thousand elite central troops, all of which were equipped by the regular Sui army, well-trained and very strong in combat. Among them, five thousand were called the Yan Luo Army, and the other three thousand were called the Impermanent Army.

This time, in order to annihilate the Sui army from Zhuo County, he dispatched all 8,000 elite troops, and more than 10,000 assisted bandits. Nearly 20,000 troops besieged Qinghe County, and Zhang Jin said that this battle was bound to be won.

A hundred death-seeking drums were beaten again, and the sound of the drums was earth-shaking, "dong!dong!dong!dong!" accompanied by the loud shouts of five thousand Yama troops, creating a huge siege in the dark night.

At the same time, Zhang Jincheng's confidant general Fu Jin led another three thousand elite soldiers to quickly run north of the city under the cover of night. There were three large holes in the north wall, each of which was more than one meter wide. They could forcefully attack into the city from here.

The bandit army had about 5,000 people outside the West City, led by Yang Gongqing, the general of the bandit army. Yang Gongqing was from Zhaojun. He was about thirty years old and had been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He was tall and burly with a beard on his face. He held a 60-pound sword in his hand and was brave and good at fighting.

He was originally a bandit in Handan area, gathering more than 20,000 refugees, robbed families and ravaged Zhao County. At the beginning of the year, he was defeated by Wang Shichong, the general of the Xiongwu Lang of the Sui army. Yang Gongqing had to lead the remaining troops south to join Zhang Jincheng, who Zhang Jincheng attaches great importance to him. His army quickly increased from more than 1,000 people to 5,000 people, becoming Zhang Jincheng's right-hand man.

Compared with the dilapidation of Dongcheng, the city in the Xicheng area of ​​Qinghe County is very complete. There is a dry moat, a suspension bridge and a complete city gate, and the city wall is tall and sturdy, which is difficult to attack.

Zhang Jin said that he was also very clear about this, so he gave Yang Gongqing a task to block the Ximen and prevent the Sui army from breaking through the Ximen. He did not need to attack the Ximen.

It was very quiet outside the Xicheng Gate. Yang Gongqing led 5,000 bandits to form a half-moon array. He was quietly waiting for the moment when the city was broken, and at some point, a large lantern hung on the city tower, which was light and dark in the night wind.

At this time, a soldier pointed at the top of the city and shouted: "Look at General!"

Yang Gongqing also saw it. Three piles of raging fires suddenly lit on the west city wall, which were particularly dazzling and shining in the night. He couldn't help but be stunned. What does this mean? Is it sending a signal?

At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from behind, and then there were screams from the soldiers behind him.

Yang Gongqing was shocked and looked back quickly. In the night, a cavalry broke into his team. It was extremely sharp and its formation was already in chaos.

This cavalry was the Sui army cavalry that left the city first, led by the captain Chen Xu. They were like a group of wolves, lurking a mile away, waiting for orders in the city.

When Chen Guang hung a large lantern on the city wall, Chen Xu immediately knew that their army was about to break through the west gate. He immediately led the cavalry to quietly go around Yang Gongqing's team and waited for three fires to ignite on the top of the city wall.

Three hundred cavalry rushed into the thief army like wolves. The spears were stabbed, the swords were slashed, and the violent war horses rushed to everything unscrupulously, killing the thief army with flesh and blood and corpses all over the ground. The thief army screamed and stumbled around, running around in chaos.

Yang Gongqing shouted anxiously: "Don't be confused, keep your feet steady!"

But his shouting was useless, and the huge impact force brought by the three hundred Sui cavalry made the infantry unable to resist it at all.

Just as everyone was paying attention to the Sui cavalry behind him, the city gate quietly opened and the suspension bridge was put down. More than a thousand Sui soldiers, led by Zhang Xuan, killed from the city gate silently. Zhang Xuan shouted loudly, "Don't fight in love, follow me to break through!"

He shouted loudly, waved the Green Dragon Sphur and took the lead in killing the enemy generals. The Sui soldiers behind him shouted and followed Zhang Xuan to rush towards the enemy.

A hundred steps away, Yang Gongqing was stunned. He suddenly realized that the Sui army was about to break through. Seeing that the leader Sui general came to him like a gust of wind, Yang Gongqing shouted to his left and right deputy generals: "Come to fight!"

His left and right deputy generals, one named Wang Lei and the other named Shen Jin, each of whom used an iron spear. They ran out from the banner, one left and one right to kill Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan had already reached his sight. When he saw two enemy generals surrounding him, he couldn't help but sneer, and the Green Dragon Sphur swept across. Although he was still using the old halberd, he was still more than enough to deal with the two unknown enemy generals. He heard two loud noises and two spears were shaken away.

Zhang Xuan shouted loudly, and the long halberd slashed horizontally, "Puff!" The halberd blade slashed Wang Lei's head, and the headless corpse fell to the ground. Another thief general was so scared that he ran away. He ran away, but was pierced by Zhang Xuan's halberd and the corpse flew out.

When Yang Gongqing saw that the Sui general met, he killed two of his capable generals. He was frightened and sweated in a cold sweat on his back. He did not dare to fight, so he urged his horse to flee to the riot army.

Yuchi Gong was furious and urged the horse to chase the enemy general, but was stopped by Zhang Xuan, "Don't worry about him, breaking through is important!"

Yuchi Gong nodded, swung his iron stick and rushed into the enemy group. He was extremely brave and instantly broke out into a bloody path. Zhang Xuan was behind him and commanded the Sui army soldiers to break through and evacuate.

Under the front and back attacks of cavalry and soldiers in the city, Yang Gongqing's army was in chaos. The half-moon formation was killed in a mouth dozens of feet wide. The soldiers rolled to both sides like waves, but Zhang Xuan had no intention of killing the enemy. He had to evacuate quickly before the main force of the enemy came.

This breakthrough battle took less than a quarter of an hour, and the Sui army soldiers broke out of the siege and quickly evacuated west under the leadership of the commander Zhang Xuan.

......

After Zhang Jincheng's subordinates paid the price of hundreds of people falling into the pit, the three thousand Wuchang Army finally entered the Qinghe County city, but the city was already empty and there was no Sui army soldier.

"King!" A soldier rushed over from the city gate and shouted: "There are no more Sui troops in the city!"

"What!"

Zhang Jin said he was shocked. He thought about it and suddenly realized that the Sui army must have broken through Ximen. He shouted in a hurry: "Go to Ximen and chase me!"

Zhang Jincheng's army rushed into the city gate in a mighty manner and ran directly through the city toward the west gate. At this time, there was already a tragic phenomenon outside the west gate, with corpses everywhere and blood flowing into a river. The surviving soldiers were in chaos and had no formation at all.

"Where is Gongqing Yang?" Zhang Jincheng rushed out of the city and shouted.

The lost Yang Gongqing ran over, and he knelt down and apologized: "I am incompetent and can't stop the Sui army from breaking through, and apologize to the king!"

Zhang Jin said he was furious and whipped Yang Gongqing hard, yelling angrily: "How long has it been since you broke through?"

Yang Gongqing held back the pain and said, "I haven't been away for long!"

Zhang Jin turned around and pointed at the general Fu Jin with a horse whip. "You lead three thousand Wuchang Army to chase the enemy. If you catch up, you will entangle them. I will come to support you soon!"

"Abide by the order!"

Fu Jin waved his hand and shouted to Sanqian’s subordinates: “Catch me!”

He led three thousand troops to chase the night, and Zhang Jinsheng ordered again: "Tell me my order, all the troops will gather outside the west city immediately!"

Zhang Jin said he was really unwilling to accept that if he could collect hundreds of war horses from the Sui army and get the two hundred war horses that Yuwen Shu agreed to, he could build a cavalry he had always dreamed of. His strength would be greatly improved and he could compete with Dou Jiande.

As long as this Sui army is still within his sphere of influence, Zhang Jin said that he would never give up easily.
Chapter completed!