Luo Daniu and Liu Youzhu are both types of people with hot personalities who scold their mothers at every turn.

Before setting out on the expedition, Qin Chuan repeatedly told them that they must not do things at any cost, and would rather spend more time advancing step by step than let Emperor Guan's army suffer heavy losses.

So, it took them more than ten days to build six siege towers, 30 ladders, and 60 shield carts of different sizes.

The siege engines were also built to be extremely strong, and the baffles of the siege towers and shield carts were all made of logs thicker than thighs, which could withstand the bombardment of the cannons of the Great Franc.

Despite having so many large equipment, Luo Daniu and Liu Youzhu still did not directly attack the city, but pulled out the Tianwei General Cannon, the Red-clothed General Cannon, and the Big Buddha Lang Machine Cannon, a total of 26 cannons, and bombarded the southern city wall of Qilan City one mile apart.

There was no castle on the south wall of the castle, and it was the easier side of the four gates to attack.

There were originally a lot of artillery in the city, but there were no Hongyi cannons, most of them were old small cannons of the Weisuo army, such as small Franco, tiger squat cannons, bowl mouth cannons, generals, two generals, three generals, etc.

Moreover, most of the artillery was taken by Xue Dongting and Shi Dekai to fight Lancheng, and they were all thrown on the road when the Zhaishanggou was defeated, and finally fell into the hands of Luo Daniu and Liu Youzhu, including two big Buddha machines.

Today, there are less than forty artillery pieces left in the city, except for five three-foot-and-five-inch Franc machines that can shoot 200 paces, the rest are small cannons that can only shoot about 100 paces.

In the battle of Zhaishanggou, the Ming army that fled back to Lancheng with Xue Dongting and Shi Dekai was less than 500 people, and now the Ming army in the city is less than 1,000, plus several large households of the guardian family, the county government's officials, etc., the total strength is less than 2,000.

Moreover, these defenders are uneven, and the combat effectiveness is difficult to describe.

Luo Daniu and Liu Youzhu's more than 20 artillery pieces did not hit people, but only hit the women's wall, and without any threat, they slowly aimed at the women's wall at the head of the city, bombarding it intermittently.

After a whole day of bombardment, most of the female wall at the head of the south wall was blown down.

In the face of long-distance bombardment, the defenders in the city were powerless, and only hid under the city and listened to the roar of the cannons uneasily.

When it got dark, the cannons outside the city finally stopped firing.

Luo Daniu and Liu Youzhu picked a few high-pitched subordinates, and outside the four city gates, they tore their throats and shouted:

"The villagers in the city, the border army brothers, we are the Guan Emperor Army under the command of the Shanxi guerrilla general Lord Qin, and the attack on Lancheng is not to kill all the fellow villagers and border army brothers, but to kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and kill landlords and heroes."

"Avenge the grievances of the villagers who have been oppressed by the officials or gentlemen, uphold justice, take out the grain they have stored at home, distribute it to the big guys, and distribute the fields they occupy to the big guys to plant."

"Lord Qin is not only a general who leads the army and is invincible, but also a good official for the benefit of the people, the big guy should have heard about Jingle and Lanxian, the dog officials and gentlemen who oppressed the people on the ground and did a lot of evil were all killed by Lord Qin, and the amount of food and silver copied out was too much to count, but Lord Qin did not swallow it alone, but took it out and distributed it to us These bitter haha, and took in those hungry people who were half starved to death."

"Do you know how much hardship Lord Qin has helped hahaha and how many hungry people he has saved?"

"No less than 60,000, now there are 80,000 people in Jingle Lan County, of which at least 60,000 were rescued by Lord Qin, and he used the grain and silver of those gentry and landlords to save lives."

"If there is no Lord Qin, this Luliang Mountain, this Lan Mountain, I don't know how many hungry ghosts will be added."

"Lord Qin said that he wants to let the poor people in the whole world have food, clothing, and fields."

"He also wants to let the big guys stand up and be a man, and kill those dog officials who and pee on our heads, and the gentlemen."

"There are also Tartars in the north, Jiannu in the east, the Tartars raised by the son of a bitch come into our Lanzhou every year to fight the grass valley, kill our babies, sleep with our women, and rob our food, now, the Tartars have been beaten away, but there is a group of Jiannu, these people with a pig's tail on their heads are not a good thing, they are more ferocious and hateful than the Tartars."

"Liaodong is a living example, and when the Jiannu entered the customs in the second year of Chongzhen, the Han people who were taken captive by the Jiannu are now living as pigs and dogs, and life is better than death."

"Now, Jiannu is already on the way to Xuanda, at most a month, it will arrive at Xuanda, and then enter Lanzhou, and then ...... then."

"Don't worry, big guy, my family is going north, just to fight Jiannu, we can't trust those dog officials who can only deduct military salaries, we only believe in Lord Qin, he can win the battle, he can fight Jiannu and Tartar."

"Lord Qin said, in the future, whether it is Jiannu or Tartar, whoever comes to offend us, we will fuck it."

"Fellow villagers, brothers of the border army, as long as you open the city gate, the adults of our family can take out the grain from the big gentry and distribute it to the big guys to eat, and you can distribute the fields to the big guys, and you can help the big guys kill the slaves, kill the tartars, and lead the big guys to live a good life."

The Guan Emperor Residences outside the city shouted dryly, the defenders and people inside the city were silent, and a group of generals and colonels kept scolding, reminding the defenders not to listen to the nonsense of those people outside the city.

After a few Guan Emperor soldiers finished shouting, some people came out one after another.

Several of them were captured by the Ming army during the attack on Lou Fu last year, and because they had not done anything bad, they were able to enter the Guan Emperor army, and they had a full stomach and saved a lot of silver.

The rest are all prisoners who have just surrendered not long ago, and there are more than 1,300 prisoners in the battle of Zhaishanggou, and these are selected from them, and they are more popular and famous, and there is also a general banner among them.

"Brothers of Zhenxiwei, I am Li Renjiu, I have surrendered Lord Qin in the ditch of the village, how comfortable I have been these days, Lord Qin's soldiers can eat three meals a day, two dry and one thin, and there is meat every day, and there is one or two salaries every month, never in arrears, and never deducted."

"If you want to live a good life, let's return to Lord Qin with us, I Li Renjiu dare to swear poisonously, if there is a little deception, I will not die well if the sky thunders and splits."

"Listen up, I'm Wei Zhenhe, I'm going to go north with the Shanxi guerrilla general Lord Qin to kill the Tartars and kill the Jiannu, did you bring the seed with Lao Tzu?"

"Lord Qin said, whether it is Jiannu or Tartar, whoever comes to offend us, we will fuck it, not only that, but I also want to fight with Lord Qin to the Hetao, take back the Naturalization City, and take back the Hetao of thousands of miles of fertile land, is there anyone who is willing to go with me?"

"Brothers, I'm an old garlic head, do you remember me, big guy? When we lost to Lord Qin in Lanhe last year, I surrendered to Lord Qin and became a big soldier in Emperor Guan's army, what Li Renjiu said was true, being a soldier under Lord Qin's account, I could eat three meals a day, two dry and one thin, and one or two taels of silver every month, never in arrears, nor deducted. ”

"Now that I have married my daughter-in-law, I have saved a few taels of silver, and I am ready to build a big house, are there any brothers who are willing to come out and follow us?"

When these people came out to shout one after another, the defenders of the city gradually began to stir.

Because they all know the people outside the city, and they haven't said anything big, they haven't fooled others, and their reputations are there.

At the moment, many people's minds are alive.

They served as soldiers for the imperial court, they were not well fed and clothed, and they were always owed salaries, and they were delayed for several months.

Although Lord Qin is a rebel general of the imperial court, he is the same as the Liukou who does the same thing as killing heads, but Lord Qin's family business is here, Jingle Lan County is his territory, and there are more than 10,000 elite soldiers and strong generals under his command, and the border army of the imperial court has not yet obtained benefits under him, and fighting Liukou is even more like playing.

In the border army of the imperial court, some people have already called him Han Xin in the world, and some people say that he was reincarnated in vain and killed the gods.

Serving him is much more promising than serving Liukou, and it is much more comfortable than being a soldier in the imperial court.

Not to mention anything else, just three meals a day, two dry and one thin, made countless people drool.

Seeing that the defenders were in turmoil, Xue Dongting and Shi De were in a hurry, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to go to suppress it, and then make up some stories, telling how the surnamed Qin fished the people, abused the soldiers, and even said that the daughters-in-law of several soldiers under his account looked a little good, and he forcibly occupied them, etc., etc.

It's just that these newly made up stories are not very convincing.

Because Lanzhou is not far from Lancheng, people only heard that the killing of officers and soldiers surnamed Qin and the landlord Lao Cai Na was called a ruthless, and I heard that he distributed all the fields of the landlord Lao Chai to Kuhaha, and also brought grain out, and set up porridge sheds everywhere to relieve the hungry people, and last year he even set up a porridge shed outside Lancheng.

I had never heard of anything like how to prey on the common people and how to mistreat the soldiers.

Especially the forcible seizure of the soldier's daughter-in-law, there is no rumor about this at all, and such a powerful thing, if it really happened, would have been spread long ago.

Although the defenders in the city were stupid, they were not stupid, and everyone with long brains knew that their superiors made it up to fool them.

It's just that they didn't refute the words of those generals, they just squatted in the corner of the wall, stunned and listened to the stories of those generals.

For a whole night, I didn't hear the shouts from outside the city.

After the Guan Emperor Army finished shouting, it was the turn of the prisoners, and after the prisoners finished shouting, it was the turn of the Guan Emperor Army.

All night, the city did not stop, those who shouted the school gate were dry and hoarse, and finally, after they could not shout, began to beat gongs and drums to cover up the sounds outside the city.

Knocking and knocking, the defenders of the city became more irritable and more unhappy.

The shouting outside the city is okay, and it can be listened to as a story, but the gongs struck by the generals are too noisy and harsh, which makes people upset and angry.

When there was a lot of commotion outside the city, the main force of Emperor Guan's army was sleeping in the camp.

At dawn the next day, after sleeping enough and having eaten enough, Emperor Guan's army began to push the siege equipment and march towards Lan City.