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Even though ten warships armed with artillery cruised the canal for protection, Li Qin was still worried.

He knew that his army was the most vulnerable at this time, and if the Xiaoguo army discovered him at this time and launched a surprise attack on him, he would be in a very passive situation.

"If that happens, even if I can win the final victory with a powerful weapon, I will get a crushing victory, which is not advisable!" Li Qin thought worriedly.

In order to avoid this situation, Li Qin sent light ships to patrol the direction of Jiangdu and monitor the situation in the city; On the one hand, he informed Nangong Haizhu of the water camp and asked him to be ready to launch a cover artillery attack at any time; He further ordered his sergeants to disembark as soon as possible and set up corresponding positions.

In the land of tidal flats, it is not easy for cavalry to fight. Therefore, the first to disembark on Li Qin's side was the saddle garrison, which was equipped with the best weapons and the best at letting go.

After they disembarked, they quickly set up their formation. In the form of pikemen on the outside, musketeers and crossbowmen on the inside, a hollow phalanx that looked large and thin was formed.

Immediately behind the saddle garrison were the infantry of Shenji Town, who were the main force in this battle.

With the addition of Shenji Town, Saddle Garrison Town moved its position forward again to make way for the corresponding space.

After that, it was when Tu Town.

Although these people in Tu Zhen are all recruits in Li Qin's eyes, they have undergone strict training in the end. When it comes to certain actions outside the battlefield, such as lining up and arming, their speed is not much worse than that of veterans.

And after Dangtu Town, the cavalry town also came down.

Together with the cavalry of Shenji Town, they quickly passed through the tidal flats, divided into two roads, and protected the two wings of the saddle garrison town.

In the end, a few hundred pounds of Franc cannons were also carried down, and one hundred and sixty Franc cannons were pulled by 400 artillerymen and 600 people to follow at the end of the line.

Everything went smoothly.

The entire landing process was carried out in an orderly manner from the sixth quarter of the hour to the end of the hour.

There has been no movement in the direction of Jiangdu City, which makes Li Qin really relieved.

At noon, all the troops who had landed had gone ashore, hastily used up their dry rations, and marched to Jiangdu under the leadership of Li Qin.

At this time, Jiangdu City was still in chaos, and it had almost become an undefended city. Although there were still soldiers standing guard on the tall city wall, thinking that it was only for defense, it was just for show.

These soldiers on duty have heard of the good deeds of their comrades and are envious, and they only want to get through the boring time of the current duty and the next shift of people to change the guard as soon as possible, and then find out the secrets in this rich city, and do everything they thought about but could not do before.

Anyway, in a few days, I will have to leave, and I will return to my hometown with the mother-in-law I got in Jiangdu City, and I may never come here again in the future. In that case, what does everything here have to do with you?

Have fun! After I'm gone, I don't care if he floods.

The soldiers thought restlessly. Here they decided to unleash their tyrannical thoughts for several years.

The madness continues, and so does the lust. In this time of madness, who can remember their original duties? There are soldiers at the head of the city who fart and chat, and there are people who are sleeping heavily, but there are no people who are seriously standing guard and patrolling.

They all got carried away, and it wasn't until Li Qin's team approached Jiangdu in a neat formation that they discovered that a large wave of soldiers and horses appeared outside Jiangdu.

"Is it an enemy, or is it a friend?" At first, the soldiers on the castle tower were a little stunned, but soon they panicked: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" The enemy is coming. They shouted loudly.

Because they have already thought about who they are now, where they are now:

No one is their own anymore.

For the rebels who have already rebelled against the Sui, they are still labeled as the Sui army, and those rebels will not treat them differently because they killed the emperor;

And for the officials and soldiers who are still under the banner of the Great Sui, they are even more enemies, because they participated in the killing of the monarch and dared to do a lot of rebellions.

What to do?

The soldiers on the tower of the city were in a panic.

They received information from their superiors that it would be at least ten days before the nearest enemy could attack them, and that they only had to be prepared for that time - the soldiers believed it, and that was why they were bold.

But I didn't want to kill an enemy today, less than two days after Yang Guang died.

"Go and report the news to General Wu Benlang!" There are soldiers who propose so.

They are all Wu Benlang's subordinates of Yuanli, and if they want to find someone at this time, the first thing that comes to mind is naturally their top boss.

"Hmm!" As soon as these statements came out, everyone nodded heavily.

So, someone went down the tower and ran to report the news.

Wu Benlang General Yuanli is a middle-level general of the Xiaoguo Army, and it stands to reason that he should be stationed in the North Gate military camp on the edge of the city tower at this moment.

But that's just under normal circumstances, and in times of chaos now, it's impossible to see the right people where they should be.

The soldiers who reported the news could not find Yuan Li in the barracks, where there were not many soldiers, so they had to inquire about Yuan Li's personal guards.

This guard was wounded in the palace change the day before yesterday, and because he needed to recuperate, he stayed in the barracks.

Because he has been in the camp all along, he doesn't quite understand where his master is. After knowing the urgency of the situation in front of him, he tried hard to recall the words of his colleague, and guessed a possibility from it: "Lord Lang should be at the Han family in Fangcui Pavilion in the city." Yesterday, I heard from them that Lord Lang was very interested in the Han family. ”

Is it? So what are you waiting for? Let's find it!

The soldiers who reported the news rushed to Fangcui Pavilion, the largest green building in the north of the city, to look for someone.

However, before he could reach the Pavilion of Vermilion, a rumbling thunder sounded in the direction of the city gate.

The soldier who reported the news turned his head to look and saw a black smoke rising from the tower, and a huge and scorching red fireball appeared and disappeared from time to time in the cloud of inky smoke, which devoured the tower, turning the beams and pillars and bricks on it into some debris that could not be seen at all, and smashed down from the tower more than ten feet high, and fell to the ground crackling, like a heavy rain.

"Damn! Is this Lei Gong's anger? Is it a punishment for our murder? The soldier watched dumbfounded, and his heart became more and more panicked.

"Heaven forbid!" For a while, the soldiers had the idea of taking off their uniforms and running away.

In fact, he did. Only halfway through, he saw Wu Benlang who came out of the Fangcui Pavilion in front of him with his clothes dressed indiscriminately.

The soldiers saw Yuanli, and Yuanli saw him.

The soldier still wanted to escape, but where would Yuan Li let him go.

At that moment, Yuan Li didn't care about the embarrassment on his body, unfolded his body and ran in front of him like a bird, grabbed his arm, and asked sharply: "Tell me, what happened?" ”

"Enemy ...... Enemy attack! He broke down and cried about the news, and explained the situation to his own general.

"What? Enemy attack? Yuan Li's eyes widened in surprise: "North? Is it Li Zitong, or Du Fuwei? It's strange they shouldn't have come so quickly. ”

Yuan Li couldn't figure out what was going on.

But one way or another, the enemy is coming, this is a fact.

"Look at you stupid, this is just a trick by the enemy, look at you ...... scared" Yuan Li glared at him fiercely at the herald's panicked appearance, and shouted a loud reproach.

Although he also knew that what the herald said was true, and that this movement like Lei Gong was really caused by the enemy, he absolutely could not admit it. As a general, he clearly knew that talking too badly about the enemy would completely cause the morale of these soldiers who could not read a single word to be demoralized.

How can such a thing of "growing the ambition of others and destroying one's own prestige" be done? Yuan Li could only put all the blame on the heralds.

It's just that the black cauldron made him carry it, and Yuan Li didn't even give him a series of disposals for what he really did.

After scolding him sharply, Yuan Li directly sent the soldier to report to his superiors: "Go to the palace to find General Sima Dejiao and tell them the news of the enemy's attack." ”

"Yes!" The herald ran away.

Yuan Li ran to the barracks with dozens of his soldiers. He knew that the current situation in Jiangdu City was very bad, and there was no possibility of dealing with the enemy at all.

In the face of the enemy who had already launched an attack on Jiangdu City, the best way Yuan Li could think of at the moment was to rely on the tall city walls to be a retracted turtle. Taking advantage of the time when the four gates were closed and the enemy would not be able to attack for a while, he found his scattered men first, gathered them, and then saw whether to go up to the city to defend or go out of the city to meet the attack.

"The walls of Jiangdu are so tall and the moat is so deep, it will take them a few days to fill the moat, and we just use this to reunite the army." Yuan Li thought so, he felt that he still had enough time.

Just, is there really enough time?

Just when Yuan Li began to entangle his subordinates, Li Qin, who had fought a round of Franc machine guns, first looked at the soldiers on the head of Jiangdu City who had completely lost their courage to fight in the roar of artillery fire, and then looked at the Jiangdu City Wall, which was tall and abnormal, and even a round of bombardment of a hundred cannons did not cause much damage, and frowned slightly.

The walls were too tall and thick for even their own artillery to be far more powerful than catapults, making it difficult to break the city's defenses.

What to do?

Yuanli's confidence is the problem that Li Qin is facing.

Under the protection of such a tall city wall, Li Qin said that he was not so stupid.

"It's not okay to attack directly. Now, in order to be able to take Jiangdu City as soon as possible, some special means have become necessary. Li Qin thought for a moment, then turned to his guards and ordered, "Go and bring my big black box." ”