Seeing Jiang Bochong organize a position in the city, the Qing general Jia Deng, who was defending here, immediately killed him with his own soldiers. Jiang Bochong saw that Jia Deng led people to attack, and immediately many soldiers of the Restoration Army were cut down by Jia Deng. Immediately slammed into two slashes, forcing the opponent to turn around and kill Jaden.

Both of them are the main generals, and the two of them come and go, and I can't care about the others. The soldiers of the Restoration Army on the city wall fought to the death, constantly answering the soldiers behind to go to the city. At this time, there was a group of soldiers of the Restoration Army, about 20 people, with shovels, steel drills and other tools into the city gate hole, and worked hard to dig out a fear hole at the city gate.

Li Guoying, under the city, saw the Ming Army and said bravely: "These people are under the banner of the Ming Army, it seems that they are not the Ming Army who fled back from Yunnan, this Zhu Dashan can train such a powerful army in just four months, and he can be regarded as a talent, but unfortunately it cannot be used by my Qing Dynasty." ”

Cheng Tingjun said: "It's a pity that he doesn't want to annex the people of Kuidong, those people are unruly people, and he got these people into his own army, I'm afraid it will backfire." You see that the people coming from behind should be Kuidong's people, which are much inferior to the people in front. Cheng Tingjun was talking about the third wave of siege troops, and Zhu Dashan saw that Chen Fuyi's waves of troops suffered too many casualties, so he sent a third wave of troops to replace Chen Fuyi.

The third wave of the army was led by Deng Bingzhi of the Expeditionary Guard, who was formerly a subordinate of Li Laiheng and was now incorporated into He Zhen's subordinate as a Qianhu. Deng Bingzhi came out with the army and saw that the Restoration Army and the Qing Army were both fatally attacked, and the city walls were full of corpses. As soon as he saw such casualties, he suddenly made the mistake of preserving his strength before, and he didn't dare to come forward with the army.

Zhu Dashan was furious when he saw it, and directly sent Peng Changbao, the captain of the guard, to supervise the battle. After Peng Changbao arrived at Deng Bingzhi's team, he said directly to Deng Bingzhi: "Master Hou said, if you can't kill the city wall within a quarter of an hour and replace Chen Fuyi who broke the guard, you can directly exchange your head for another person." ”

When Deng Bingzhi heard this, he scolded Zhu Dashan in his heart for not being human. But Li Laiheng is now willing to listen to Zhu Dashan's command, what is the use of his opposition from a small thousand households. Deng Bingzhi knew that Zhu Dashan could do what he said, even if Zhu Dashan spared himself here, when he returned to Kuidong, Li Laiheng would not be able to spare himself. I had to shout: "If it's a man, rush up to me and kill those dog-day Qing soldiers." Kill," he said, and took the lead and rushed out.

Before, Deng Bingzhi was afraid of death, but now Deng Bingzhi is not afraid of death, and took the lead in rushing out. The other soldiers rushed to their feet. For a while, the sound of killing shook the sky, and soon rushed to the city wall. Now Chen Fuyi's 2,000 people are not many, and the main attack is the Jingyuwei led by Zhang Yongquan. Now seeing Deng Bingzhi rushing over with people, the morale of the soldiers of the Restoration Army who are still besieging the city has risen greatly.

Seeing Deng Bingzhi's men and horses attacking the city wall, Chen Fuyi and others were replaced, and walked to the rear army to rest in place temporarily. Of the 2,000 people who went out to attack the city in the morning, only 700 are still alive. More than 200 others were wounded, which shows the intensity of the fighting.

As soon as Cheng Tingjun finished saying that Kuidong's soldiers were relatively inferior, he saw that Kuidong's army, which was still dragging its feet just now, rushed towards the city wall with a roar like chicken blood, and his face was red for a while. Li Guoying also saw the situation of the Ming Restoration Army under the city, turned his head and glared at Cheng Tingjun and said, "You bring people up, don't beat this wave of Ming Army back, don't come to see me." ”

Cheng Tingjun also felt very embarrassed, and hugged Li Guoying fiercely and said: "Don't worry, Lord Governor, if you can't repel them, I, Cheng Tingjun, will take off my head and give it to my lord." After saying that, he led his own soldiers straight to the city wall.

Jiang Bochong, who had been attacking Shangcheng for an hour, was already too tired to lift a knife, but when the people behind him came to replace him, he was unwilling to retreat. Jaden, who had fought against Jiang Bochong before, had fallen in a pool of blood at this time, and he was out of breath.

Jiang Bochong is really unwilling to retreat now, they have already occupied a position on this city wall, but with the counterattack of the Qing army, the soldiers of both sides of the fast ground reserve have repeatedly contended, but they cannot expand, and the Qing army cannot drive the Ming army out of the city.

At this time, hearing the shouts of soldiers from the city, Jiang Bochong fought again and shouted: "Kill, avenge the people in the south." He shouted and slashed with his sword. As the soldiers of the Restoration Army continued to go to the city, the defense line of the Qing army was also retreating step by step.

Cheng Tingjun had just been angry with Governor Li Guoying and looked at the fierce Jiang Bochong. Directly at Jiang Bochong to kill, Jiang Bochong was killing at this time, and he could take care of Cheng Tingjun who rushed over next to him. Fortunately, a guard next to him found out, but it was too late to rescue.

Seeing that Jiang Bochong was about to be hacked to death, the guard directly sacrificed his life. knocked Jiang Bochong to the ground, and the guard hugged Cheng Tingjun's knife tightly, he had been cut to the neck, blood was gushing from his neck, and his mouth was open and closed, and he couldn't speak, and he couldn't live.

Jiang Bochong rolled on the ground and got up, looked at the guards who died to save his life, and yelled at Cheng Tingjun: "Take your life." It was completely a desperate style of play, Cheng Tingjun saw Jiang Bochong desperately, so he had to give up the knife that was held by the guard, and took out a spear from the left hand side and fought with Jiang Bochong.

Deng Bingzhi under the city was agitated by the guards sent by Zhu Dashan, which would rush to the city wall, and without waiting for Zhang Yongquan's people to give way, he directly grabbed the ladder and climbed to the city wall with the guards. The soldiers who followed behind also rushed to the city wall one after another.

Zhang Yongquan, who was still commanding under the city, rushed directly when he saw that those who came from behind, and without saying a word, he asked Ah Qi, the deputy king of thousands of households, to command, and he took out his waist knife and rushed to the city wall. The attack formation, which was still orderly just now, was suddenly chaotic. The Restoration Army is rushing to the city without their lives.

The city wall of Dingyuan County was not high, and it had been almost two hours since the continuous attack, and the corpses under the city were almost piled high. At this time, the soldiers saw that the ladder was not enough, and even several people joined forces and began to climb the city wall with a human ladder. The Qing soldiers in the city were better, and those people and people watched these Ming soldiers suddenly climb up to the city. Many people were frightened and ran down the city, and the Qing army's defense line was shaken for a while, looking like it was on the verge of collapse.

Li Guoying, who was watching and commanding from the sidelines, was also a little confused, how could these Ming troops suddenly be so fierce and deadly. Deng Ximing next to him hurriedly said: "Lord Governor, these Ming troops are so crazy, I'm afraid the defenders on the city wall can't hold it, why don't you transfer the army outside the city to attack the Ming army attacking the city from the side." ”

Li Guoying also saw that the defense line on the city wall was in danger, and immediately said: "Order Zhao Sancai, Huo Guang first led 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Ming army from the left side. After sending a thousand defenders from other gates to support, I don't believe that this Ming army is a flood beast, and only a few thousand people want to break through Dingyuan City. After a while, the Qing army stationed in the north of the city dispatched 3,000 men and attacked the right side of the Restoration Army.

As soon as the Qing army moved in the barracks, Zhu Dashan knew about it, and immediately said to Hao Yongzhong: "Dingyuwei sent Luo Daniu with 2,000 soldiers to block the Qing soldiers from the north of the city. Hao Yongzhong saw that Zhu Dashan only sent 2,000 people from 1,000 households, and said: "Isn't this a bit less, but there are 3,000 Qing soldiers, and there are more than 20,000 people in the camp." ”

Zhu Dashan said: "It's okay, as long as you build a position to block the Qing army, it won't be a problem." Hao Yongzhong didn't persuade anymore, and asked Luo Daniu to take 2,000 people to the right side to block the Qing army.

At this time, the city walls of Dingyuan County became more and more critical, and with the all-out onslaught of Deng Bingzhi and Zhang Yongquan, the casualties on both sides also rose sharply. Looking at the casualties of the siege, Zhu Dashan had to retreat not long ago, and the 700 people of the 3,000th household of the Breaker Guard continued to be thrown into the siege. Even Yuan Zongdi, who was on the side, came to plead: "This, Chen Fuyi and they have only rested for a while, how can they let them go on again?" And they all have wounds. Let's go for it."

Zhu Dashan said: "We don't have many troops, and now we have nearly 10,000 people who have been pinned, and we can't let others go." Zhu Dashan thought for a while and said to Ma Tengyun: "I remember that there are nearly a thousand people in your thousand households, and you will immediately enter the siege and attack the city with the greatest strength." Ma Tengyun was stunned, the thousand households he led, the casualties in our south were too great before, and he didn't even have time to fill the recruits, he didn't expect Zhu Dashan to call him into battle. But after looking at the 700 people led by Chen Fuyi, they went to attack the city without hesitation even though they were full of injuries. Immediately said: "Hou Ye, don't worry, even if we die, we must die on the wall of Dingyuan." After speaking, he hugged his fist towards Zhu Dashan, then turned to his army and left.

After Ma Tengyun returned to the army, he looked at the soldiers and said, "Soldiers, now we are going to attack the city, and we already have three thousand households and six thousand people attacking the city. Just now, the 3,000th household of the Broken Guard, who had retreated and rested for less than half an hour, went to attack the city with the only remaining 700 soldiers. I'm going to ask you now if you're afraid of death, and if you're not afraid of death, follow me to attack the city. If you don't want to go, just wait for us here, either we will wait for you alive in Dingyuan City, or you will go into the city to collect our corpses. ”

Hearing Ma Tengyun say this, the soldiers in the team immediately blew up the nest and roared angrily: "The general looks down on people, so the turtle son stayed." Ma Tengyun's subordinate Jiang Shangying said: "Isn't this humiliating general? Death is death, why bother to say something sarcastic. Then he turned to the soldier and said, "Brothers, look, if my surname Ma takes a step back, I am raised by a bitch, and you can just hack me to death with a knife." ”

The other soldiers also roared excitedly, and Ma Tengyun said: "Okay, since everyone is not afraid, then go with me to attack the city now, Dingyuan County must be defeated by us, go." After saying that, he took his soldiers to think about the city wall.

On the city, Li Guoying watched the Ming army on the city wall attack more and more fiercely, on the other hand, there were more people in the Qing army, and now they were beaten and gradually began to retreat. Li Guoying roared: "What about the overseer team? Those who retreat will not be spared. Deng Ximing said to Li Guoying: "Your Excellency Governor, are you mobilizing some more elite troops into the city, just now the army outside the city has not yet attacked the left side of the Ming army, and it was blocked." Now that the Ming army's offensive is becoming more and more ferocious, please ask the governor to send reinforcements quickly. ”

Li Guoying looked at the crumbling city wall, and was also a little shaken. He still has 20,000 troops to call on, and he doesn't want to take the same risks as Zhu Dashan. Then he said to the guards: "Go to the camp and let Hou Tianxi bring 3,000 people into the city to help defend, and then let Deng Jiushao bring 2,000 elite soldiers to support Zhao Sancai and them, and ask them to rush through the blockade of the Ming army as soon as possible and attack the left side of the Ming army besieging the city." The guard immediately took orders and went to give orders.

At this moment, Dai Yu, who was defending the south gate, sent someone to report to Li Guoying: "There is an army of 6,000 people in the south of the city, it is Chen Xixian, the governor of Xuzhou, and Cao Chunzhong, the general soldier of Luzhou, who led the troops to Dingyuan and heard from the dispatch of the governor. ”

Li Guoying was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay, it's good to come, I'm worried that there is nowhere to transfer troops, with the arrival of his two soldiers, my Qing generals can have many fewer casualties." Go and let them into town. At this time, Deng Ximing said: "Your Excellency the Governor, slow down. Li Guoying looked at Deng Ximing suspiciously: "What, is there anything wrong?" ”

Deng Ximing looked around and said, "My lord, now that my army is fighting with all its might, I suddenly let six thousand troops enter the city, and there are only people in the city. It's now the end of noon, and I think the two generals Chen and Cao won't bury the pot and cook for the soldiers on the road, if they make trouble, how can they be suppressed? Li Guoying was also a little hesitant when he heard this.

Deng Ximing said again: "And the governor has already transferred 3,000 troops into the city just now, I think it is most appropriate to let General Chen Xixian lead 3,000 into the city, and Cao Chunzhong to take the other 3,000 to the military camp." Li Guoying groaned and said: "What you say is reasonable, just do what you say." Someone immediately sent an order to the south of the city, asking Chen Xixian to bring 3,000 soldiers into the city, and Cao Chunzhong to take 3,000 soldiers to the camp.

The two people under the city were also stunned by this arrangement, but now they can't say much in front of everyone. Immediately, Cao Chunzhong alone took 3,000 people around the city to the barracks, and the messenger took Chen Xixian and his 3,000 troops into the city.

At this time, Jiang Bochong was already tired and out of breath, and if it weren't for the spear in his hand, he would no longer be able to stand. There were only three guards left next to him, and he himself seemed to have been soaked in blood, and his whole body was already dark red, which was the color of blood after it dried up. With the addition of Ma Tengyun in the back, the position of the Restoration Army on the city wall is now getting bigger and bigger. Zhang Yongquan, who attacked the city, broke a hand and was carried down by the guards. Two of his garrisons have been killed. Ah Qi, the deputy king of the thousand households, had also rushed to the city wall, because there were no soldiers to command under the city, and the soldiers were either killed or rushed to the city wall.

The soldiers brought by Ma Tengyun also went up to the city wall, and now they can go up the city wall without ladders. The corpses under the city were almost as high as the city walls, and the blocking battlefield on the right side of the army was also extremely fierce, and the cruelty was no less than that of the siege. Luo Daniu's subordinates asked Luo Daniu to ask Zhu Dashan for help more than once, but Luo Daniu only had one sentence: "Master Hou asked me to take 2,000 people to defend it." Hearing this, the people under his command could only grit their teeth and insist.