challenged the order of superiority and inferiority, and the method was even more simple and rude, with no sense of art at all. However, after persuading Guo Zhiqi to retreat, the goal was achieved, and Chen Kai acted as if the events of the previous two days had never happened, and there was no further tossing at all.

This also made Li Dingguo breathe a sigh of relief, and returned all his thoughts to military affairs. Next, it was nothing more than Chen Kai's army arriving from Hong Kong. After receiving Chen Kai's order, the towns in Hong Kong also responded quickly, escorted and transported by Jiang Meiao's fleet, and arrived at the front line of Xinhui in batches.

The first to arrive was naturally Chen Kai's Fubiao and another cavalry, Tieqi Town, and the camp was prepared in advance, and it could be directly stationed when it arrived.

The size of Iron Riding Town is the same as that of Hussar Town, but it has not attracted much attention from others. At most, that is, to sigh at the number of cavalry in Chen Kai's troops, this is indeed unique among the Ming army in western Guangdong.

However, when Fubiao arrived, whether it was the generals and staff of Li Dingguo's department, or the Ming army and the righteous army in western Guangdong, they all had a little more reverie - not that Fubiao had such luxurious weapons and equipment, nor how murderous it was, this army was just a unit with little difference from other town-level formations in the Ming army in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian, and at most it was a different proportion of troops.

However, here in western Guangdong, Guo Zhiqi, the governor, does not have a standard camp, even Chengbi, the governor, does not have a standard camp, Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor, does not have a standard camp, and Zhou Tengfeng's Daotai does not have a standard camp, they are nothing more than a name granted by the Ming court. But looking at Chen Kai again, he is a powerful faction with military power, and he has an army directly under him, and his control over the towns under his command is naturally not comparable to the former's false tricks that rely on friendship, rewards, and the prestige of the court and official positions.

"This is all from the battles of Chen Fujun's early battles in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian, and the battles that people have fought, especially the victories they have won, many marshals of the feudal towns can't compare."

The arrival of Fubiao attracted a surprise of stains, the two places are not far apart, nothing more than one is west of the Pearl River Delta, one is east of the Pearl River Delta, and one goes back and forth, which does not take much time. Soon, a local cargo ship was requisitioned, and the other part of the three towns arrived. When the three towns under the banner of Qianchong Town, Houchong Town, and Zhongquan Town arrived, the surprise caused even quickly reached the level of Lianchengbi.

"You mean, those three towns are the same as Fubiao, they are all four battalions and about 2,000 soldiers?"

"Yes, the army, the last general will never be mistaken."

Wang Xing said that, Lian Chengbi's expression changed. Compared with Guo Zhiqi and Zhang Xiaoqi, he also has the experience of appeasing Wang Xing back then, the commander of the Wencun Ming Army has always been based on his horse, although it is not a standard battalion, but it is always better than having no friendship even at all.

Originally, when Fubiao arrived, Lian Chengbi had already begun to raise his estimate of Chen Kai's strength to a higher level. Looking at it now, it is still underestimated, and it is very underestimated.

"Two thousand soldiers in one town, and eight thousand soldiers in four towns apart from those two cavalry towns. I really can't imagine that this shot will come up with an army of nearly 10,000. ”

This order of magnitude of troops, especially those battle-hardened troops in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian, have richer combat experience, more perfect training, and long-term stable control of the occupied areas, and their salaries, grain, grass, and weapons and equipment are naturally not comparable to those of the Ming and righteous armies in western Guangdong.

It turned out that the two sides were not opponents of the same rank at the beginning. No wonder, Chen Kai had to squeeze out Guo Zhiqi first when he met, and he did it so fearlessly.

"By the way, there are follow-up troops."

Lian Chengbi did mention this matter to Wang Xing, and originally thought that the two troops together would be more than 10,000 people - this is very consistent with their earlier understanding of the Ming army in eastern Guangdong. But now it seems that it is already the old imperial calendar.

"Inspector, that side is sweeping through Fujian, and there are so many troops transferred here. The one in Fujian is afraid that he is much better than the king of Xining in terms of strength. ”

"It seems so." Lian Chengbi nodded, and then said: "It's all Chen Kai, this person really can't be underestimated." ”

Thinking of this, Lian Chengbi couldn't help but think of Guo Zhiqi's earlier concession, and there seemed to be concerns about Chen Kai's potential strength in those words. Not to mention, with their current strength, they can't beat Chen Kai. After all, Chen Kai has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, plus Zheng Chenggong behind Chen Kai, this is a gap in hard power, which is too huge.

"If we want to prevent these fortunate people from ruining state affairs, we must first recover Guangdong. Only by recovering Guangdong and having territory can we better control the feudal towns. ”

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Nearly 10,000 troops arrived one after another, well-armed and full of spirit, at first glance it seemed that they were at least much stronger than the ragged Ming army and the rebel army when they first came to converge.

This is reinforcements, and there will be troops to come. The odds of winning are one more heavy, and Li Dingguo is in a good mood. And early the morning of the second day after the arrival of Qianchong Town, news also came from the front outside Xinhui City, saying that the earlier arrangements had been prepared and the next round of offensive could be launched immediately.

"Lian Zhijun and Chen Fujun will follow this king, if they can break the city, they can go north earlier to fight Shang Rebellion and Geng Rebellion."

This is a new round of attacks, Li Dingguo has been preparing for many days, and Chen Kai knows some general information, and since Li Dingguo has been prepared, he will also happily go. Not to mention, just look at how Li Dingguo attacked the city, which can be regarded as a necessary rise in knowledge.

The towns in the department were still resting, and Chen Kai didn't plan to take a piece of the pie from this possible achievement, so he just waited for the guards to arrive at Xinhui City with Li Dingguo and Lian Chengbi.

Outside the city, the forward camps of the Ming army were fearlessly listed outside the normal range of artillery. Chen Kai followed Li Dingguo's guidance, his gaze stretched forward, and he could effortlessly notice several mounds between them. Moreover, from this side, under the mound, there are constantly auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army coming in and out of a hole.

"Collapse method?"

"No, it's digging tunnels to enter the city and cooperating with a frontal attack."

This hand was used by Li Dingguo in the Battle of Zhaoqing, and Chen Kai once thought it was excavation and blasting. However, Li Dingguo's tactics did put great defensive pressure on the defenders of Zhaoqing that time, forcing Xu Erxian to invite Shang Kexi's army. Now, Xinhui's water and land transportation has been tightly surrounded, and Shang Kexi even if he gets the news that Xinhui can't hold on, and wants to send troops to help, he can only fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army earlier, and it is in the control area of the Ming army.

Speaking of which, Zheng Chenggong has played the collapse method a few times, such as Zhangzhou, Changtai or something, that is, every time it ends up detonating before it reaches the city, and it only ends with a big pit outside the city. Chen Kai has pondered this carefully, but he has not had the opportunity to put it into action. But Li Dingguo's relatively primitive method, he has never seen it.

"Primitive does not mean that it must be backward, and backward does not mean that it must be useless."

If he wanted to come, Chen Kai simply continued to extend his gaze. As you can see, the city wall in the distance is towering, and it is difficult to say how high it is, but at first glance it seems to be a fight with the capital city of Chaozhou.

This county seat, which was first rammed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, is a rammed earth city wall. In the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, it was changed to brick and stone masonry, which was the old city. With the continuous development of the city, and the coastal areas were harassed by pirates, during the Chenghua period and the early years of Wanli, the local government presided over the construction of the sub-city and the outer city respectively. The old city, the sub-city and the outer city are integrated, 1370 zhang long, open seven gates, in Guangdong is the third largest city after Guangzhou and Chaozhou.

Chen Kai has seen the first two seats, and both have great origins. However, one of these two cities was lost under Chen Kai's nose, and all he could do was to recover the loss; And the other one, which he took with his own hands, is that the means are not very dignified, at least the car is heavy and it is estimated that he will inevitably shout a sentence of injustice when he reaches the Lord of Yama.

The third largest city was already standing before his eyes, and his gaze was gradually withdrawn from the towering and solid. Everywhere you can see, there is a moat outside the city wall, and on the land between the moat and the battle array of the Ming army, the plum blossom piles are stacked on top of each other, most of them are damaged, and only the ones near the moat are slightly better. What is even more conspicuous is the uneven potholes on the ground, the broken siege equipment, and the bones of one after another are thrown there, explaining the disadvantages of the previous attacks for the latecomers.

Wu Zisheng and Wang Xing launched several siege battles between June and September, all of which ended in vain. When Li Dingguo arrived, he also launched a frontal onslaught, and the results speak for themselves. This time, Li Dingguo prepared for several days in advance, obviously waiting for the soil excavation. It just so happens that Chen Kai has arrived in the past few days, and now he can see it with his own eyes.

"Your Highness, all the tunnels have been excavated to the rammed earth."

When it comes to the rammed earth layer, it is excavated under the city. Li Dingguo nodded, and then the handsome flag was pressed forward, the earth-shattering war drums sounded, and the army pushed the siege equipment slowly forward.

A familiar scene began to reappear in front of him, Chen Kai remembered the first time he watched the siege battle with his own eyes, that was when the Ming army went north to exterminate the Tukou Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long in Dapu County, at that time, it was two Tukou and a city and a village were in a corner, the Ming army launched an attack at the same time, Chen Kai had personally watched Zheng Chenggong command Rongqi Town to attack the city.

That scene seems to be back, nothing more than changing the banner of Li Dingguo. The rushing car and the lookout slowly advanced, followed by the ladder. As soon as they entered the firing range, the artillery fire on the head of the Qing army began to bombard the siege equipment.

Most of them whizzed past from the left, but some hit the siege equipment, some were damaged structures, some caused casualties, and some both. This situation is increasing over time as the distance continues to closer.

However, the Ming army will not always be passively beaten. Pushing closer to a hundred meters, the shooters on the Ming army lookout began to fight back, and even if the Qing army was deceived, even if there were sudden casualties, the strength of the attack on those siege equipment was inevitably weakened a lot.

In the previous siege operations, the Ming army cut down trees and filled in trenches, and a lot of moats have been filled. Attack here, rush the car to reach the city. It wasn't long before the muffled sound of crashing into the walls was faintly heard. At the same time as this muffled sound, the ladder had already set up the city wall, and the sharp soldiers of the Ming army held their shields and climbed on it.

Shouting and fighting, the Ming army methodically launched a frontal ant-attached siege in the era of cold weapons, and the Qing army was constantly bombarding and burning the siege equipment of the Ming army, trying to kill and injure the soldiers of the Ming army. Everything was déjà vu that he had seen earlier, and Chen Kai didn't pay much attention to it, because he knew very well that this was not the point.

The siege unfolded, putting increasing pressure on the defenders. Here, the tunnels were constantly reporting their progress, and soon, an urgent report came that the tunnel had been dug through.

"Sure enough, I was prepared."

Logically speaking, the tunnel is lower than the rammed earth layer, naturally it is lower than the ground inside and outside the city more, the Ming army dug into the city, after the rammed earth layer is to dig up obliquely, dig out one or several exits in the city. Since it was dug through, the Qing army obviously dug a trench in the city. In this regard, Li Dingguo was not surprised, as if he had expected this, just nodded, and in Chen Kai's sight, there were several teams of men holding double knives and wearing felt and milling feet rushed directly into the tunnel.

Chen Kai knew that those people were Luo Luo, a warrior in the Southwest Ming Army who used to destroy the strong and break the formation. Chen Kai couldn't see the situation in the tunnel, but he could understand what was going on there by analyzing and associating it through the battle reports that were constantly sent back.

A few days earlier, the Qing army had already noticed the mounds of the Ming army, Li Dingguo knew that the soldiers were good at fighting, and the guards in the city, such as You Yunlong and Wu Jingong, were also battle-hardened generals, of course they understood what it was.

The offensive at the head of the city was fierce, and the Qing army tried its best to resist the Ming army's ant siege. At this time, the tunnel of the Ming army dug into the trench prepared by the Qing army in the city, and as soon as the two sides met, a melee began. In this way, the Ming army naturally sent Luo Luo in, striving to break through the defense of the Qing army internally. Even if it was the worst, it was necessary to put more pressure on the Qing army, so that it would eventually be crushed by the Ming army.

Luo Luo fought hard with two swords, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated for a time. Who knows, a moment later, the Qing army transferred a batch of hook and sickle spears from above the trench that were specially used to break Luo Luo, which was popular in the Battle of Zhaoqing, and launched an attack from above. Caught in two directions, and with their opponents' weapons still restraining their play, Rollo's ferocious offensive was soon no longer sustainable.

As far as the eye could see, a Ming army officer ran out of the nearest tunnel in a hurry and went straight to Li Dingguo's horse. At this point, Chen Kai no longer needs to continue guessing.