After a night, the Liangshan army did not attack Dongping City again, which made Pang Xu, who was uneasy because Dong Ping was arrested and his army was shaken, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But when he waited until dawn to look at the Liangshan Army camp and found that the team there was still strict, he became a little worried. The crisis had not passed after all. His only hope was that the thief's leader was seriously injured and died, which made the Liangshan Army retreat.

After noon, Pang Xu's hope was finally shattered, because soon, the Liangshan army launched another attack on the city. Although the offensive could no longer be compared with before, it was still enough to make the soldiers guarding the city panic and resist it quite barely. After a fight, both sides suffered casualties.

However, after several days of war, fewer and fewer guards in the city were available. In addition, the continuous consumption of defensive weapons such as bows, stones, and boiling oil was almost at the end of their lives. If Dongping was still there, with his command and encouragement of the army, he might be able to defend for a few days, but now... look around the soldiers under his command, Pang Xu really doesn't have the confidence to do so.

"I don't know when the reinforcements will arrive. If we don't come again, we really can't hold on." Pang Xu looked forward again, muttering to the only savior Qingzhou Army. Whether it was him or Dong Ping, he still admired and respected Sun Tu, the commander of Jingdong Road. In his opinion, only Sun Dujian personally led such a crisis to win repeatedly, and the Qingzhou Army that pacified three copycats could save him.

Suddenly, it was as if God had received his prayer and gave a reply. There was dust flying on the official road in the distance. Then, the outline of an army slowly appeared. The team came very quickly, but in just a cup of tea, the Great Song army flag that was leading the way could be seen by the defenders on the city. Although it seemed that there were only a thousand troops, it was already exciting enough.

"Here! The reinforcements have finally arrived! We are saved!" Suddenly, cheers kept ringing from the top of the city and quickly entered the city. After the people understood what it meant, they quickly became jubilant. Although the battle was not over, as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they believed that Dongping City would be able to be defended this time, and everyone no longer had to worry about being invaded by the Liangshan bandits!

The exact opposite of the excitement of the military and civilians in the city was the reaction in the Liangshan military camp outside the city. They also discovered the approaching army at the first time. With the sound of horns, the Liangshan army, which was still resting, was quickly mobilized. Hundreds of people were immediately sent out to face the official army, obviously to block their progress before they arrived and avoid them cooperating with the defenders in the city.

Soon, the troops of both sides fought on the plains several miles away from Dongping City. Although the reinforcements seemed to have more troops, perhaps because they came from afar, they were still entangled by hundreds of Liangshan troops and could not break through for a while. At the same time, the Liangshan military camp, who already knew that something was wrong, was still sending more troops to reinforce, and they looked like they were completely defeated by a breath.

This scene made the defenders on the city wall feel anxious. The reinforcement army was their only hope. Once they were blocked by the Liangshan bandits with more sufficient troops, or even surrounded and killed, the Dongping City would be completely over. So at this moment, even some soldiers who were afraid of war and were afraid of fighting before could not help but ask Pang Xu: "General, let's go out of the city to pick up the reinforcements and enter the city, otherwise... as long as there are these thousand new forces entering the city, our Dongping Prefecture will definitely be safe!"

"Yes, General, let us wait for a battle out of the city to relieve the reinforcements and help them help us ourselves!"

Listening to his subordinates' speeches, Pang Xu was undecided. Although he could help reinforcements when he left the city, the risk was also extremely great. As soon as the city gate opened, Dongping City was completely exposed to the sword of the Liangshan bandits. You must know that there are more than half of the troops in their camp now and there has been no movement. I think it is just to be guarding against him to open the city to rescue him... However, if the reinforcements were really defeated, the situation would only be worse.

"Calm down, if Dushen Dong was here, what choice would he make..." Pang Xu couldn't help but hint to himself, wanting to think about this from Dong Ping's perspective, but he still couldn't come up with a clear idea.

Just as he was suffering, a voice suddenly came from the stone steps below: "Pang Xu, why haven't you sent troops out of the city to meet with reinforcements? Are you already colluding with the Liangshan bandits and hoping that they would kill the reinforcements before opening the city to surrender?"

This sentence surprised all the soldiers on the city. Pang Xu looked closely and saw that the prefect Cheng Wanli was strode with a gloomy face. It turned out that the cheers just now not only cheered the people of the city, but also made Cheng Wanli, who had been frightened for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief.

After arresting Dong Ping and imprisoned, Prefect Cheng was actually very nervous, afraid that Dongping Mansion would have a chance because of his decision. It was not until just now that he heard the cheers and knew that the reinforcements had arrived that he let go and hurriedly ran over. As a result, what he heard was the news that the reinforcements were blocked by the Liangshan army and Pang Xu did not dare to send troops to rescue him, which made him immediately start to attack.

Although he was concerned about Prefect Cheng, Pang Xu still expressed his concerns for safety reasons: "Prefect, the thieves outside the city are powerful, so we must not open the city easily. Why not take a look again? Maybe they can emerge from the enemy's siege and killing, and it will not be too late for us to leave the city to cooperate."

"Hmph..." Cheng Wanli was still rational after all. After hearing this explanation, he no longer forced himself. He just narrowed his old eyes and looked at the war ahead, and then shouted excitedly: "They have indeed broken through, and the Qingzhou Army is indeed powerful!"

At the same time, the soldiers on the city wall also cheered like thunder again. As Cheng Taishou said, after a series of interception and fighting, the Liangshan army failed to block the impact of reinforcements, and they quickly tore open the gap. The entire army rushed towards Dongping at full speed.

"Hurry, ask someone to prepare to open the city gate. Now we Dongping is really saved!" Cheng Wanli urged again, and the soldiers around him looked at Pang Xu. If Dong Ping was not there, the defense in the city was naturally determined by him.

While he was surprised, Pang Xu felt something strange in his heart, as if something was wrong. But under the constant urging of Cheng Wanli and his soldiers, he could not think more, so he could only say: "Put the banner and let them enter the city from the West Gate. There is the weakest place of the Liangshan Army."

"Hurry, you go to Ximen with me to welcome the reinforcements!" Cheng Wanli nodded with satisfaction, then took people down the city and rushed towards Ximen. The personal soldiers who were passing Kaicheng's orders were also sent down with him.

The banner was launched, and the reinforcements quickly adjusted their direction and rushed towards the west gate. The Liangshan army in the camp outside the city also saw their intentions and immediately dispatched the entire army, trying to cut off their way. At the same time, the Liangshan army that had been broken out by reinforcements had also quickly turned back and chased after them. The three groups of soldiers rushed towards the west gate of Dongping. It was really nervous when they looked at it, and they were fighting for the speed of the line.

But obviously this reinforcements from Qingzhou were more elite than the Liangshan bandits, and the speed alone was much faster than them. They rushed to the vicinity of the Ximen before the enemy troops who came out of the camp intercepted the road. At the same time, a general led by the army shouted loudly to the city: "The Qingzhou army is here to rescue Dongping City by the order of Sun Dujian, and you can open the city quickly!"

In fact, he didn't need to shout. Cheng Wanli, who had arrived here earlier, had been urging people to move away many heavy stones and objects that were standing at the city gate, lifted up the huge city gate bolt as thick as a waist, and then more than twenty people worked together to open the city gate.

Accompanied by a sour creaking sound, the city had been closed for more than ten days. The Dongping City Gate, which was unable to be broken for many days, was finally slowly opened!

At the same time, Pang Xu, who was located on the other side of the city, looked into the distance and changed rapidly, and then shouted loudly: "Don't open the city gate, there is a fraud! They are not reinforcements!"

Until this moment, as Liangshan's army, who had just intercepted reinforcements, rushed to the city, the battlefield there was finally fully revealed in front of Pang Xu and the others - it was empty, and there was no soldiers on both sides with casualties!

This is impossible in a battle between the two sides, which has invested nearly two thousand. The only explanation is that the battle just now is a show, a big show for the defenders on the city wall!

It was not until this time that Pang Xu suddenly realized what was strange just now. The so-called reinforcements were completely unscathed when they broke out from the enemy's interception, and the number of people did not decrease at all. This itself was a big flaw.

However, he had already determined that reinforcements were coming, and the continuous urging of Cheng Wanli and his soldiers made him ignore such a big problem in a hurry and give a wrong order that might lead to the fall of Dongping!

The fear grabbed Pang Xu's heart in an instant, making him crazy, but the only thing he could do was shout loudly, hoping to stop the soldiers there and stop the mistake.

However, it was too late for all this. Because while he was screaming, dozens of "reinforcements" had already rushed into the city gate. With the faint shouting, the soldiers waiting at the city gate were stunned and subconsciously raised the weapons in their hands.

But the "reinforcements" in front of them were faster than theirs. Dozens of arrows were coming towards them like rainstorms, instantly shooting dozens of defenders who were not prepared to the ground. At the same time, they rushed forward quickly and guarded the city gate, making the defenders unable to control this key point anymore.

Behind them, thousands of Liangshan troops had joined the city and rushed into the city with rumbling...

Dongping City was actually lost in an unexpected way. At the same time, on the official road more than ten miles away, a team of two thousand people was moving forward rapidly. The leader was Sun Tu!

The real Qingzhou reinforcements were one step late...
Chapter completed!