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Wu Ke, the commander of the famous Huban army, had deployed his troops to the north of the Yangtze River, surrounding Yangzhou City with an impenetrable encirclement. He stood on top of the huge, towering flagship, leaning against the railing and looking at the city on the other side of the moat.

Famous generals from Jinanda had gathered in the city and were packed with battleships, blocking the entire river. The troops were strong and strong, and they were all ready to go. Wu Ke waved his order flag and beat the drum like thunder. His voice shook the clouds. The sea of people began to charge ferociously like a surging tide. At that time, dark clouds covered the sun, and the flag was fluttering in the wind. A war was on the verge of breaking out in Yangzhou.

The heavens gave to him, and he took the blame for it. If it was too late, he would suffer the consequences. The outcome of this battle would determine the rise and fall of the world. The victor was the king, and the loser was the bandit. This was the fate of those who wanted to rule the world.

All the heroes of the realm looked in the direction of Yangzhou. Together, they fought to stabilize the universe. The life and death of the Fortune Pavilion depended on it. Once Yangzhou fell, the northern gate would be opened, and all the hinterlands south of the Yangtze River would be exposed to the famous army.

As the commander of the army, Wu Ke had been ambitious and ambitious since the moment he commanded the army. Taking Yangzhou was just the first step towards achieving a unified Central Plains, and it was extremely important. However, the one guarding Yangzhou was the famous Sword of Mercy, Li Guangling. If so, he would defeat this man and achieve great achievements.

From that moment on, these two men who held heavy weapons and were equally valiant and resolute were destined to fight to the death.

With an army of one hundred and eighty thousand, Wu Ke was able to win several battles in a row like a fierce tiger descending a mountain with unstoppable force. "The momentum of the three armies had reached its peak. They had planned everything before the war, and this colossal machine of war had been in operation for a long time.

On the other hand, Yang Prefecture only had fifty thousand soldiers and horses, and they were all veterans with huge differences in power. The situation was so grim that Yangzhou was in danger. Moreover, under Wu Ke's meticulously planned strategy of "surrounding and reinforcement", the reinforcements of the Flowing Wind Pavilion used the mobility of the cavalry to set up an ambush on the main roads leading to and from Yangzhou. After a night of surprise attacks, the corpses of the reinforcements of the Flowing Light Pavilion were completely destroyed, and the reinforcements of the Flowing Light Pavilion succeeded in disintegrating the reinforcements one after another, leaving Yangzhou in a dangerous situation.

Then he deliberately sent refugees into the city to spread the rumor that the reinforcements had lost Yangzhou and had no one to support them. In a short time, the morale of the enemy had dropped to the freezing point, and the troops had lost their will to fight.

At this moment, that night, Wu Ke used a sneak attack and leapt over the city wall to launch an attack. Luckily, Dongfang Bai just happened to notice the abnormality when he was on his patrol at night. He hit the gong and beat the drums with his troops. After a bloody fight, he finally got back the city wall. When Li Guangling woke up in the middle of the night, the smoke was everywhere. He ordered some random soldiers to sneak into the city and commit murder and set fire to the city to create chaos. They rushed towards the city gates in an attempt to capture and seize the city.

The Life and Death Sword, Li Guangling, and his Junior Brother, Flowing Cloud Divine Sword, Yuwen Yi, separated into two groups. It was not until dawn that all the troops were wiped out, and the enemy's conspiracy was not allowed to succeed.

All of this was just the beginning of Yangzhou's guards' battle.

The next day, angry with embarrassment, Wu Ke launched a deadly attack on Yangzhou like a tidal wave. Below the city, there was a sea of people. The sounds of fighting and furious roars resounded throughout the sky. In order to take Yangzhou, Wu Ke had finally been sent to the battlefield with his meticulously prepared ultimate weapon.

As soon as the siege began, twenty cannons were fired. The war drums sounded and all the cannons fired. Countless boulders were thrown out by the reed. They were like meteorites that were thrown into the sky and hit on the wall. The sound was so loud that it was like the ground was shaking and the mountains were shaking. He didn't manage to escape in time and was smashed into meat paste. Lou Cheng collapsed from the impact. Dust and sawdust flew everywhere.

Li Guangling had already ordered people to prepare the fence. There were many coarse sacks piled underneath, and if it was damaged, they would immediately stack it up and repair it.

Wu Ke used a simple method, and continued to push towards the city with the method of "fill in". It created a huge monster. It had wheels on the bottom, huge trees on the top, and a tower-like carriage. It was a large structure that was wrapped in rawhide and covered in iron. The soldiers were pushing forward slowly, one by one, step by step, they moved closer to the city wall. The head and the tail were connected, and the soldiers were able to transport the wooden boards and rocks inside, increasing their height. Finally, the soil was filled, and it was peaceful.

Furthermore, the worse thing was that these carriages were invulnerable to swords and spears. No matter how many arrows were fired from the city walls, the rocks and trees were useless without the slightest bit of damage. Once the enemy approached and climbed up the city wall, it would be a battle of life and death, and it would be extremely dangerous.

At this point, Li Guangling had people figure out the location of these cars and prepare a large amount of firewood and bellows. Once the enemy approached and burrowed through the city walls, they would desperately stir up the flames, incite the flames, and burn the enemy troops, who did not have time to celebrate, into ashes. The enemy soldiers had no way of dodging and could only retreat. The flames began to pour into the building, forming a larger and more closed bellows. The raging flames caused the enemy to wail and scream, and numerous casualties followed.

Wu Ke was fuming with anger as he ordered people to push out the big siege weapon, the "goose carriage". The goose carriage, as its name implied, was shaped like a goose with wheels rolling down below and its entire body wrapped in iron, being slowly pushed forward by hundreds of people. As it approached the city wall, it pulled the ropes, causing the goose head to continuously peck at the city wall.

When Li Guangling saw this, he jumped off the building in the city. The soldiers standing on top tied up the huge rocks, then smashed them onto the Goose Carriage. They also sent the Death Soldiers to drag the Goose Carriage down with ropes and hooks.

Taking into account the fact that the city wall would be damaged, Li Guangling built another wall inside the city. It had caused a great number of casualties.

What troubled Li Guangling the most was the enemy's siege cannons. The enemy's gun rack was tightly surrounded by wet elms, and wrapped in rawhide and iron leaf, impervious to fire and water. There were 7 cannons, 5 cannons, 3 cannons, 2 cannons and 1 cannons, etc. As for the seven cannons, they were the farthest away. They could shoot out quite a few stones at a time.

Li Guangling led the soldiers in preparing a mooring net at a place where they were vulnerable to attacks. He also prepared a gunny sack and wet horse manure to prevent the enemy's attacks from being ineffective.

In this way, Li Guangling united the citizens of the city to work together and resist the famous army in a steady stream of attacks. They were of the same mind and had suffered heavy losses. They had fought continuously for more than two months to ensure that the city gate was not lost. This forcefully stopped Da Mingtang's strategy and brought a heavy blow to the morale of the Huban army, supporting the arrival of the powerful allied army of Jiangnan's Pingyi Sect and the Flowing Wind Pavilion.

Faced with such a grim situation, Wu Ke received an emergency military order. He looked at the lonely city that was clearly in danger, yet he chose to ignore it. He put everything on the line and launched the fiercest and most desperate decisive battle. Li Guangling, just give up as early as you can, I won't give you another chance.