Li Guoying watched the Restoration Army under the city almost pour out, and said loudly to Deng Ximing: "Go, let all the people in the city come to help defend the city, and if you dare to shirk and can't come, you will be punished as collaborating with the enemy." Deng Ximing promised to go to Dingyuanzhi County and let him organize the people in the city to go to the city to defend the city.

Li Guoying said to Cheng Tingjun again: "Have the four city gates been arranged?" Cheng Tingjun said: "Back to my lord, it's all arranged, and I was still thinking about whether I was too cautious just now?" Isn't it just a group of rabble, is it a little ...... for adults to act with such fanfare? Li Guoying looked at Cheng Tingjun and said, "A little afraid of the enemy?" Or are you cowardly as a mouse? Cheng Tingjun immediately said: "I don't dare to be humble." ”

Li Guoying said: "There is nothing to dare or not, as long as you can retreat from the enemy and defeat Zhu Dashan, it doesn't matter if you have some gossip." Cheng Tingjun complimented: "Yes, adults are broad-minded, and they don't care about personal honor and disgrace for the affairs of the court, just to quell the rebellion for the court." The lord's loyalty to the court can be seen every day. The lowly rank should take the adults as a model, follow the adults to quell the bandits as soon as possible, restore the peace of the court, and restore peace to the people. ”

Although Li Guoying was very useful in his heart, he still said: "Okay, don't say compliments." Do a good job, and when the time comes, I will remember your credit, and your share is indispensable. Cheng Tingjun immediately said: "Thank you for your cultivation, you will definitely be the governor in the future." After speaking, he stood behind Li Guoying, like a servant.

Jiang Bochong stood in front of the team and shouted loudly: "Brothers, have you seen the Qing soldiers in the city?" Will you let them live and get away with the brutes who kill people and set fires and do all kinds of evil, and who humiliate your wives and daughters, and who kill your parents and mother? It is our shame to keep them alive. Can you promise to keep them alive? The soldiers of the Restoration Army in front of him all said angrily: "No, we have to kill them all." ”

At this time, there was a new recruit, who was recruited from the camp mountain, and said: "They didn't kill my parents, and I didn't see them kill people and set fires." "Because the casualties of the thousands of households were too large, and almost all the establishments were destroyed, Gou Xingwang had to transfer people from the other two thousand households to form a thousand households, and then added some people. This person is the Minzhuang brought by Zhu Dashan from Yingshan County.

Jiang Bochong said it well, and when he saw this person making trouble, he walked directly in front of him and said, "You said you didn't see it, so did you see the tragic situation in Nanfang County?" The recruit saw Jiang Bochong standing in front of him, and said with some fear: "See, Lord Garrison." ”

Jiang Bochong asked again: "Then do you know who did it?" The recruit shrank his head and said, "I heard that the Qing soldiers did it." Jiang Bochong said with red eyes: "Yes, it's those beasts, they don't have any humanity, they are just beasts, we just want to send these beasts to hell." After speaking, Jiang Bochong said to the others: "Think about the people in the south, what is wrong with them? What did they do wrong? The Qing soldiers of the dog day poisoned them, they are unarmed ordinary people. Those who were killed by a thousand also did their hands. Should they be killed? ”

The soldiers standing in front of Jiang Bochong all shouted: "Kill, kill all those beasts." The recruit before, when he saw Jiang Bo rushing away, he said angrily: "Isn't it just an official, what's the big deal, don't let people speak." At this time, the person next to him said to him: "Don't say it, the mother and sister of this garrison have been harmed by the Qing soldiers, I heard that his mother threw herself into the well that night, and now she is left with a sister who is crying and crying all day long, it seems that she is afraid that she will not get better, and it is estimated that she will go crazy." ”

The recruit was startled, and then he knew why the garrison hated the Qing soldiers so much. He said to the veteran who was talking to him: "What kind of things did the Qing soldiers really do?" The veteran said: "Then there is still a fake, the southern county let the Qing soldiers enter for an hour, and now the south is already a family wearing filial piety, and every household is suffering." I really don't know what the south would have become like now if General Gou hadn't brought us back with us at that time. What a sin. ”

The recruit wanted to say more, but the veteran immediately stopped him, told him to pay attention, and then said to him: "Attention, the siege is about to begin, wait for you to follow me, don't run around." The recruit hastened to agree.

The general flag has been promoted to a garrison, and now he is also lined up with a garrison battalion, but not in front. Cheng Bald sat lazily on the side, and one of the hundred households under his command came over and said to Cheng Bald: "My lord, why don't you also boost everyone's morale, it looks like the city is about to be attacked." ”

Cheng Bald said: "What are you inspiring, when the time comes, just follow me up to kill the Qing soldiers, and we are not the main attack." The hundred households were stunned, and they thought about it, the soldiers of this garrison battalion who became bald were all recruits who were replenished from behind, although the backbone of the officers were all veteran elites, but the recruits had never seen blood, so they could only be used as assists and stay behind and wait.

When the bald man saw that all the people were looking at him, he got up and said, "Tell me what is the greatest hatred in the world?" The soldiers present looked at each other, and none of them could answer. The hundred households before said: "My lord said that he laughed, the hatred in this world is more than the hatred of killing his father and the hatred of taking his wife." Cheng Bald said: "Yes, but our Hou Ye said that the chief officer in this army is like a father, and the adjutant is like a mother." But our Lord of Thousand Households, General Cheng Dequn, was killed by the Qing soldiers, and you said that we should seek revenge on them. The surviving soldiers of the original Azi Qianhu suddenly became angry and said, "Of course it should." ”

Cheng Bald said again: "Although we have already killed the murderer of General Cheng Dequn, Lu Guangzu. But the person who instructed Lu Guangzu to kill General Cheng Dequn was Li Guoying, who was now in Dingyuan County. The soldiers all shouted: "Kill in, kill Li Guoying." Cheng Bald pressed his hand and said: "Don't worry, we are not the main attacker, so it's useless to be anxious." ”

Ding Yunfu, who was Cheng Dequn's guard before and is now organized as the general banner, said: "Why don't you ask the Hou Ye to fight for it, and let us go to the main attack?" Cheng Bald scolded: "Bullshit, these recruits who haven't seen blood can go to the main attack, let alone the main attack, and it's one thing to see blood when they see it." ”

Although the people present are all recruits, they still have a person's blood, and now the garrison adults look down on people so much. Everyone present shouted: "The garrison looks down on people too much, you go and fight for the main attack to see if we can fight." Cheng Bald said: "Okay, this is what you said, I can't win the main attack today, but wait for you to fight me well, next time I will definitely give you the main attack, if you mess up for me, give me where I came from, go back." I'm bald, don't be a bad seed. ”

The people present all shouted passionately and resentfully: "We must let the garrison take a good look at our strength." And the bald man on the side slowly smiled. At this moment, the war drums of the Chinese army began to sound, and Cheng Bald knew that this was the army that was about to attack.

There was no moat in Dingyuan County, so the Fuming army quickly drove outside the city walls. Looking at the city wall, there are a lot of ordinary people, everyone knows that the Qing army forcibly let the people go to the city wall to defend the city, originally after the encouragement of the generals, the soldiers are already full of anger against the Qing army, and now they see the people who were forcibly caught on the wall, and they are even more angry.

Seeing this, Zhu Dashan also knew that Li Guoying wanted to defend to the death, so as to consume his morale. Immediately, the flag waved, and Chen Fuyi of Qianhu took his headquarters out of the big formation and began to walk towards the city wall. The team was not moving fast, under the slogan of generals at all levels, the team slowly walked forward, and when it was about to reach the range of the bow and arrow in the city, Chen Fuyi stared at the city wall.

Li Guoying in the city also looked at the Fuming army that began to approach, and said confidently: "Only 2,000 people, come to attack the city, then I will let you see how to defend the city." Watching the Restoration Army slowly approaching the city wall, when the Restoration Army entered the range of bows and arrows, Li Guoying immediately shouted "Release the arrow", and suddenly a black cloud flew up on the city wall, rushing to the Restoration Army under the city.

Chen Fuyi had been staring at the city wall nervously, and when he saw Li Guoying giving an order, he immediately shouted: "Disperse, attack the city." When the soldiers of the Restoration Army besieging the city heard Chen Fuyi's shout, they instantly began to spread out in all directions, and there was at least a distance of more than four feet between people. This is also Zhu Dashan's additional training, the rapid scattering and gathering of soldiers.

Now listening to Chen Fuyi's order, in less than two breaths, the soldiers immediately raised their shields and separated, and only a dozen people were unlucky and were injured by arrows. As soon as the soldiers of the Restoration Army separated, they all ran towards the city wall. It's good to be able to shoot arrows in this era, there are so many marksmen out there. Therefore, as soon as the soldiers of the Restoration Army were separated, the effect of the archers in the city was greatly reduced.

Seeing that Chen Fuyi began to charge, the archers of the Restoration Army behind also began to shoot covered arrows at the people on the city wall. The civilians who were forcibly requisitioned to the city wall did not even have time to hide, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded. When the people saw this, they all retreated. Li Guoying shouted when he saw it: "Go back to guard, those who dare to retreat will be killed." As he spoke, he drew his knife and hacked to death the two people who ran in front of him. The people were so frightened that they didn't dare to run anymore, and they all returned to their defensive positions.

The archers on the city wall also kept fighting back, and for a time the arrows in the sky came and went. Seeing the siege team of the Restoration Army approaching the city wall, the firearms in Li Guoying's team began to wield, and only a sound like fried beans was heard, and a puff of white smoke rose from the city wall. The soldiers of the Restoration Army under the city immediately let out a scream, and the other soldiers of the Restoration Army who were not injured took advantage of the smoke after the firearm was fired, and ran towards the city wall even harder.

The archers of the Restoration Army under the city also kept shooting arrows at the city wall. Seeing that Chen Fuyi and the first wave of people were approaching the city wall. Zhu Dashan said to Zhang Yongquan: "You take the soldiers of Jingyuwei as the second wave, and you must attack the city wall." Zhang Yongquan said: "Don't worry, Master Hou, Brother Chen has given me a way, and I will definitely attack the city wall." After saying that, he took the people of Jingyu and began to rush towards the city wall.

Li Guoying in the city looked at the Ming army that began to go out and said, "Let the archers suppress the Ming army behind, and the front will hand over a firearms team and soldiers defending the city." Then he saw the Restoration Army who had already begun to climb the rock and attack the city, and shouted: "Prepare for close combat, pour gold juice on me." ”

There were already people in the city carrying the gold juice up, and when they heard Li Guoying's order, they hurriedly lifted the gold juice and put it on the wall stack, and poured it down with all their might. During the siege of the city, the general flag was mixed with the soldiers to observe, and when they saw the gold juice pouring on the city, they immediately shouted: "Hide". When the Restoration Army under the city heard the order, those with shields raised their shields one after another, and those without shields immediately shrank the whole person under the shield.

The gold juice in the city was spilled, and although many people were burned, most of them did not hurt their heads and faces, and had little impact on their combat effectiveness. Only those who have already climbed the ladder are burned badly without shelter. When the general banner saw that there was no gold juice in the city, he immediately shouted again: "Attack." Immediately, the Restoration Army under the city climbed up the city one after another, and many people pressed the ladder to prevent the Qing soldiers in the city from pushing the ladder away.

Jiang Bochong, who had been rushing in front, watched the Fuming army under the city not rush to the city wall for a while. Looking at the Qing soldiers in the city, his eyes were already red. Seeing that his soldiers didn't rush up several times, they directly grabbed a ladder and shouted, "Hold the ladder for me." Then he took the knife with his mouth, and climbed up the city with his hands and feet. When the other soldiers saw Jiang Bochong's bravery, they all rushed to climb up.

Suddenly, many soldiers of the Restoration Army were about to climb the city wall, and the general flag observed below, and the situation here was also discovered at this time. Immediately send a signal to the archers, shouting: "Block". At this time, the soldiers with shields on the ladders immediately used their shields to protect the soldiers who climbed the ladders.

The Qing soldiers in the city are still strange, why did the Ming army defend their backs and butts, who could attack there? Immediately, I saw a black cloud flying in the archers of the Ming army behind them, and the Ming army actually carried out covering shooting, and did not care about their own people. At this time, the Qing soldiers finally knew why the Ming army wanted to defend their backs, but before the Qing soldiers could react, the arrows had fallen intensively, and the Qing soldiers in the city screamed again and again for a while.

Without waiting for the Qing soldiers to dodge, the arrows of the Ming army arrived again. After two waves of arrow rain, the Qing soldiers on this section of the city wall suddenly decreased a lot, forming a gap in troops. The soldiers of the Restoration Army on the ladder took the opportunity to climb the city wall, and the soldiers who were more seriously injured on the ladder turned over and rolled down the ladder from the side to make way for the people behind.

Jiang Bochong also took the opportunity to climb the city wall, cut down two nearby Qing soldiers, and then formed a battle formation with the soldiers of the Restoration Army who came up from behind and began to defend. When there were more than a dozen soldiers on the city wall, Jiang Bochong and his soldiers began to attack outwards and expand their positions.