Above the night sky, the moon is sunken and the stars are sparse, but under the night sky, there are fires everywhere.

On Dulonggang, where the low hills were rolling, the Liangshan army gathered again and rushed towards the Zhu family soldiers who were waiting for the battle.

Chao Gai led the way and fought with the soldiers of the Zhu family. Shi Xiu and Ou Peng were afraid that he would encounter an accident, so they hurried forward to fight side by side with him and secretly guarded him.

The troops on both sides immediately fought together, with swords and swords intertwined, and shouts came one after another.

Because it was unfamiliar with the terrain and it was midnight again, the soldiers of Liangshan could not exert all their strength and were blocked by the soldiers of the Zhu family in this pass.

Qin Ming, Yang Xiong and others, who were originally behind the palace, had already retreated to this side, and followed closely the large group of Zhujiazhuang.

In a short while, the Liangshan Army was surrounded by the Zhu family army, and the war reached a fierce stage.

During the chaos, Chao Gai was killed with blood and kept waving the steel gun in his hand.

Suddenly, in the Zhu family's army, a man wearing armor and helmet rode his horse with a silver spear and took Chao Gai straight.

"Brother, be careful!" Shi Xiu shouted hurriedly when he saw the man flying over.

Chao Gai's martial arts skills were not easy. Before Shi Xiu reminded him, he noticed the man who was killing him. He turned around and saw a little cold light thorn.

With a "pong" sound, a spark of metal collision flashed, but the steel gun and the silver gun ran into each other.

When Chao Gai saw that the person who came was well-armed, he must be the important figure in Zhujiazhuang. He wanted to get him in exchange for Yang Lin, he immediately shouted and started fighting with him.

But when a man dared to kill the general, his martial arts were naturally extraordinary. Within a few breaths, Chao Gai passed more than ten moves with him. The two sides had similar strengths and could not decide the winner in a short time.

When Ou Peng, who was nearby, saw Chao Gai fighting with the man, he pulled out his horse to help. After walking several steps, a man suddenly appeared from the side and headed straight for him.

He saw through the fire, and the man was actually a woman in red armor. Without saying a word, he slashed straight at him with both swords in his hand, and the cold air came from the knife.

Ou Peng was shocked and blocked the sword with one side, barely blocking the force of the two swords. But he saw the woman jumping over from the horse's back, kicking him and knocking him down.

Before he could stand up, the woman had handed her two swords between his neck. He had to put down his weapon and was tied up by the soldiers of the Zhu family beside him.

When Shi Xiu saw Ou Peng being captured, he hurried to rescue him, but saw another big man pulling his horse out from the Zhu family army. He tied a flying hammer on the left and right sides of the horses, holding a thick and long iron stick in his hand, and rushed straight towards him.

In a blink of an eye, the man came to him and smashed him with a blow. Shi Xiu did not ride a horse, so he did not dare to easily take the stick with his horsepower. He quickly rolled to the side and avoided him.

The big man hit the ground with one stick and smashed a big hole on the mound.

Seeing Shi Xiu dodge, the man turned his horse's head and smashed it down with another stick. Shi Xiu used the same trick again and turned over and dodged again. The man rode his horse and smashed it again. Shi Xiu hid again. Suddenly, the man made a fake move, and Shi Xiu was still turning over and trying to hide, but he saw the man pick up the flying hammer tied to the horse's back and throw it to him. He couldn't dodge it while rolling and was hit on his back.

Shi Xiu was immediately smashed to the ground. The man rushed forward and took advantage of the situation to win him off.

Suddenly, two knives stretched out from behind Shi Xiu, crossed them in front of Shi Xiu, and stopped the stick. However, it was Zhang Shun and Zhang Heng, the brothers, who had just seen the war on the side, came to rescue them. After protecting Shi Xiu, they worked together to fight Luan Tingyu.

By this time, the Liangshan army had already lost almost all. When they arrived, more than 1,800 people were present, but now there were only a few in three or five. The leaders of the front and back army met together, and looking at the ground shining with the fire, most of them were the corpses of Liangshan soldiers.

The Zhu Long and Zhuhu from the Zhu family followed behind, and Zhu Gai was Zhu Biao, Hu Sanniang, and Luan Tingyu in front of them. At this time, the soldiers of the Zhu family on both sides could already see each other, and it was obvious that they were sure to win.

However, at this moment, a commotion suddenly appeared behind the Zhu family soldiers who were in charge of blocking the attack, and shouts came.

"Brother Chao Gai, don't worry! Song Jiang is here!"

Chao Gai, who was fighting fiercely with Zhu Biao, heard the shouting and was immediately ecstatic and increased his strength a little.

The soldiers of Liangshan, who were originally disheveled in fighting spirit, heard the sound of reinforcements, and were shocked again. They slowly gathered together, delaying the time waiting for the reinforcements to kill through the Zhu family formation.

All the leaders fought to the same place. Apart from the captured Ou Peng, there was still one person who had not been seen, and that was Dai Zong.

It turned out that it was all Dai Zong’s contribution to Song Jiang’s ability to lead the army to help.

Seeing that the situation was urgent and was not good at fighting, Dai Zong took his own initiative and went to ask Song Jiang for help. Song Jiang and others had already been here for some time, but because of Dai Zong's relationship, they rushed over and turned the siege into an anti-siege war.

Seeing that the torch behind him could not see at all, Zhu Biao didn't know how many soldiers and horses came to support Liangshan, so he didn't dare to fight anymore, so he told the soldiers not to care about Chao Gai and others, and to join forces with Zhu Long and Zhuhu, and slowly retreat to the village.

When Chao Gai and others saw the Zhu family retreat, they did not pursue them. The two armies reached a special tacit understanding.

Seeing Song Jiang riding a horse, Chao Gai wet his eyes and said, "Thanks to my brothers come in time, otherwise my many brothers would have to be here all."

Song Jiang quickly turned over and dismounted, pointed to Dai Zong beside him and said, "Brother, don't thank me. If you want to thank me, thank Dean Dai. If he hadn't been flying over for help, we would come slowly, and we would have seen my brother's body."

Chao Gai then remembered Dai Zong who had just disappeared. It turned out that he had gone to ask for help. He immediately dismounted and thanked him, "Thank you brother Dai Zong."

Dai Zong shook his head and said, "You don't have to be polite brother. But today I have given up many brothers and have to discuss the matter of attacking Zhujiazhuang."

Chao Gai immediately looked depressed and lamented: "It's all my fault for being anxious and being obsessed with the Zhu family's words."

Qin Ming comforted him, "Brother, don't be so discouraged. Brother Yang Lin and Shi Xiu were arrested, and brother was also concerned and confused, so he fell into the trap."

Song Jiang also echoed: "Brother Qin Ming said, brother, please relax. When the Zhujiazhuang is coming tomorrow, you will avenge your brothers."

Qin Ming looked at Song Jiang secretly and said to Chao Gai: "This Zhujiazhuang is very prepared and has strong soldiers and generals. It is better to have a lot of tricks and come back."

Chao Gai nodded and said, "This terrain is really complicated. The enemy makes good use of the terrain. What should we do?"

But Yang Xiong said, "Brother, don't worry, Li Daguan from Lijiazhuang, Dongcun, is a local person, why not ask him for advice? I know Du Xing, the chief manager of his mansion, and can recommend it to him."

After hearing this, Chao Gai was overjoyed and said, "It's so good!"

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The next morning, Chao Gai, Song Jiang and Yang Xiong came outside Lijiazhuang.

The gatekeeper knew Yang Xiong, so he went to the mansion to call the general manager Du Xing out. Yang Xiong introduced Chao Gai and the others to Du Xing.

But Chao Gai said to Du Xing: "General Du, please inform him of the official Li, and said that Chao Gai passed by Liangshanbo and admired the style of the official, but he wanted to see him, and he had no other intentions."

Du Xing responded, turned around and went to the mansion to report to Li Ying. After a while, Du Xing came out and said, "My master was injured a few days ago and had a cold feeling recently. He was lying in bed at this time, so I am afraid I can't see you."

Song Jiang frowned and said, "Is it because Master Li didn't want to meet him when he saw that I had just suffered a defeat?"

Du Xing said: "My master is indeed unsatisfied with guests. I understand your intention when you come, and I am very familiar with the situation here. I will tell you: Dulonggang is full of winding roads, and you will easily get lost.

Zhujiazhuang is located at the central hill of Dulonggang, in the village outside the village. Zhujia people dug a river along the village as a guard. There are two front and back gates in the village. If you only attack one gate, you will definitely not be able to take it. There are only more than a thousand troops in his village. If you divide your troops into two groups to attack two gates, you will definitely be able to capture it. Remember, you must go during the day and at night.

In addition, we need to divide some troops to guard against Hujiazhuang in Xicun. Hu Taigong has a daughter named Hu Sanniang. He is very skilled in martial arts and has already had a marriage contract with Zhu Biao. He will get married unexpectedly. If you know that you are attacking Zhujiazhuang, she will lead the army to rescue him."

After hearing this, Chao Gai nodded, bowed and thanked Du Xing, and led Song Jiang back to the camp.

As soon as I returned to the camp, I heard someone come to report that Zhujiazhuang sent people to cut down all the poplar trees along the road.

Chao Gai was immediately panicked, but heard Song Jiang say, "Brother, don't worry, how can they uproot the poplar trees overnight? We just need to follow the poplar roots and find the right way."

So Chao Gai felt relieved again and began to lead troops and attack Zhujiazhuang for the second time.

Together with the remaining remaining soldiers last night, there are about two thousand soldiers now. Chao Gai simply divided them into two. He and Song Jiang each led 1,000 to attack the front and back doors respectively.

The leader's assignment was exactly the same as yesterday, and he only transferred Qin Ming's apprentice Huang Xin to Chao Gai's army.

At noon, the soldiers set out again and hoped that Zhujiazhuang would go to kill him.

After a long time, Chao Gai arrived at Zhujiazhuang, but saw that Zhujiazhuang was ready, and the crossbowmen on the village were all in a state of attracting bows and arrows.

It was already a difficult situation. Chao Gai shouted loudly, letting the infantry with shields go first, and the leaders waited for an opportunity to move.

Seeing that the soldiers of Liangshan attacked directly, the arrows on Zhujiazhuang were suddenly shot towards the slowly moving infantry.

Although the infantry and soldiers who came forward to Liangshan had shields, they were mostly wooden shields, and they were only surrounded by one person. Although they could withstand the flying arrows, many arrows were still shot at the soldiers from tricky angles.

Zhujiazhuang got dozens of divine arm bows from the imperial guards from somewhere. Any crossbow arrow shot from the divine arm bow could directly break the wooden shields of Liangshan soldiers.

As a result, more than 300 shield-holding soldiers in front of Liangshan, in just a few dozen breaths, countless casualties, and their formations were shot unevenly.

Suddenly, the suspension bridge was placed on Zhujiazhuang, and three generals led the troops out, which were Luan Tingyu, Zhu Biao and Hu Sanniang.

Chao Gai did not hesitate and immediately ordered the remaining brothers to cover up and kill them together.

After all, the country army that did not understand the formation started to fight again in an instant. On such a battlefield, the soldiers cooperated extremely poorly, and most of them were fighting for the personal qualities of the soldiers.

Qin Ming, Huang Xin and others, who were from the Liangshan Army, once talked about this issue, and Chao Gai also attached great importance to it, but most of the Liangshan soldiers went up the mountain one after another, and it was difficult to train together.

During the chaos, Chao Gai rushed in, straightened a steel gun and fought with the iron rod Luan Tingyu. After ten moves, he felt a little numb.

Huang Xin, Qin Ming and others saw that Chao Gai was beaten by Luan Tingyu's thick iron stick so that he could only resist, so they drove their horses to kill him.

Zhu Biao and Hu Sanniang, who were watching the sixth place, also followed and intercepted and killed several people.

Qin Ming and Zhu Biao were fighting each other. Huang Xin, Yang Xiong was stopped by Hu Sanniang, but Huang Xin shouted: "Brother Yang Xiong, let's help Brother Chao Gai, I'll deal with this woman."

Yang Xiong didn't see Hu Sanniang last night. He didn't agree with her when she saw that she was a woman, so he nodded and went directly to Chao Gai's place to help.

At this time, Huang Xin took the lead in making a move. He used a black iron sword and slashed Hu Sanniang's face with a sword.

Hu Sanniang clamped the horse's belly and stabilized her body. After Sun and Moon stabbed the swords and clamped the black iron sword that was slashing. Huang Xin pulled it out with force, but he couldn't pull it out.

A cold air flowed down the sword body, and Huang Xin felt his hand froze. In an instant, the Sun and Moon swords were pulled by the Xuan Iron Sword, which directly made his sword take off.

Huang Xin was shocked and pulled out his horse and ran away. However, when Hu Sanniang took away his swords, a red lasso flew towards him from her hand, wrapped around his waist, and pulled him off his horse. The soldiers of Zhujiazhuang nearby tied him up.

Zhang Shun and Zhang Heng were ordered to cross the Huanzhai River and cut off the ropes of the suspension bridge, but found that the people in the gate kept shooting arrows at them, and they were unable to advance or retreat for the moment.

At this time, Qin Ming and Zhu Biao had nearly fifty moves, but it was hard to decide the outcome. However, Zhu Biao was already out of breath, but Qin Ming looked as usual. If this continues, Qin Ming will win.

However, Hu Sanniang suddenly joined the battle and attacked him with Zhu Biao. The special strange and cold spiritual energy on Hu Sanniang's sword made Qin Ming brow jump, and he didn't dare to tangle with him for too long. Under the joint attack of the two, Qin Ming fought against the side and waited for his brother's rescue.

On the other side, Luan Tingyu fought against two with one and an iron rod was crossed and vertical, which made Chao Gai and Yang Xiong blush and resisted.

Except for the leader, the soldiers in Liangshan and Zhujiazhuang had almost the same combat power, and there were casualties between them at this time, but Zhujiazhuang had few people after all, so they would inevitably suffer great losses if they continued like this. Therefore, the people in the village who saw the situation on the battlefield quickly beat the drums and drums and asked Zhu Biao and the others to go back.

After hearing the sound of the gong, Zhu Biao and his men stopped their movements and began to pull back. Under the cover of the crossbowman on the gate, the soldiers of the Zhu family tied Huang Xin and returned safely to the village.

Seeing that the enemy had sufficient ammunition and prepared all the defenses, Chao Gai ordered all the soldiers to retreat temporarily.

At this time, there were loud cries around, and Song Jiang led his army to come.

Zhu Long and Zhuhu, who were guarding the back door, just guarded the desperate situation. The suspension bridge did not fall, and Song Jiang had to attack. He sent Li Jun and Mu Hong to cross the river to cut off the suspension bridge rope. He was forced to retreat by the dense rain of arrows. Seeing that the loss was too heavy, he withdrew his troops to return to Chao Gai's side, hoping to make a time difference and break through the village gate in one fell swoop.

However, seeing the scene in front of the village gate, Song Jiang sighed and retreated with Chao Gai.

Zhujiazhuang was in danger and defended. The number of Liangshan soldiers was only twice that of Zhujiazhuang. Chao Gai and Song Jiang were unwilling to attack, so they withdrew to Dazhai to discuss other countermeasures.
Chapter completed!