The 5th Battalion of the Left Wing of the Revolution set up the men and horses 20 miles outside the city, with the old battalion in the middle, and the 5th battalion of men and horses on the outside to prevent the family members of the old battalion from being damaged. 【Latest chapter reading. This is the usual practice of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left. The soldiers are fighting, and something happens to the family, who else can fight? Therefore, the protection of the old camp is the most important thing for the peasant army.

300,000 horses, the company camp was camped for dozens of miles, the trumpets shook the sky, and the cries moved the ground.

Lao Huihui and other leaders divided more than 100,000 soldiers into four teams and surrounded Huainan City. However, the peasant army did not attack immediately, and the next day, Lao Huihui and others led 10,000 horses out of the camp gate and came to the city, where hundreds of shield bearers protected the leaders.

At the head of the city, the officers and soldiers came, and they were also waiting for them.

Lao Hui sent a soldier with a loud voice, carried a shield to the edge of the city, and began to shout to the city: "May I ask where is Governor Fan?" We are in our hands to speak to him. ”

Not long after, Fan Ju and Ziyi went to the head of the city, and they were also protected by their own soldiers with shields to prevent cold arrows from being released under the city. Fan Ju also sent someone to shout: "Governor Fan is here, you wait for the thieves to come down quickly, what do you have to say?" ”

Lao Hui sneered back, and ordered people to shout: "I have hundreds of thousands of men and horses in the fifth battalion of the left side, and this is going to level your Huainan, and when it comes to surrender, we are here to persuade you to surrender." As long as you surrender to the righteous army, not only do you have no worries about your life, but you can also come in and sit on a chair, if you don't listen to good words and persuasion, the fifth battalion of the left side will go into the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left. ”

Fan Ju laughed and raised his voice: "Ma Shouying, He Yilong!" You rebels, openly rebel, murder and plunder, and sin are heinous and heinous. Dare not be ashamed, shouting here, it's just nonsense, you wait for death to come, you don't know it. ”

Ma Shouying also laughed: "I'm afraid it's you who is dying." Since you are loyal and die for the court, don't blame me for being ruthless. Everybody is attacking the city. ”

At the sound of an order, the peasant army let out an earth-shattering cry and began to pounce on the ladder.

The city of Huainan City is very wide, and the moat water is drawn from the Huai River, and the river is icy and deep around the city. The peasant army rushed across the ditch, stretched the ladder across it, made wooden bridges, and then began to attack the city.

After Fan Ju finished shouting, as soon as he saw that the peasant army was beginning to attack the city, he retreated to the city and sat leisurely under an eaves not far from the city gate.

Arrows began to be released outside the city, and from time to time stray arrows flew and hit the eaves above Fan Ju's head, Fan Ju was not flustered, just sat there quietly drinking water.

The commander is so steady, and those soldiers are naturally not afraid. Half of them were private soldiers recruited by Ziyi himself, and the other half were deceived by Fan Ju by killing the main generals and deceiving them from the side of the official army, Fan Ju was very good to these people, so these officers and soldiers were also willing to die for him.

At the beginning of the siege here, the peasant army of the other three gates was not idle and attacked together. Inside and outside the four gates of Huainan City, it was dark, and the sun and moon were dark.

Ma Shouying originally thought that there were few people in the city, and the officers and soldiers had always been lazy, so they would definitely not be able to withstand his attack. Unexpectedly, after an hour of attack, the peasant army suffered thousands of casualties, and did not climb to the top of the city.

The peasant army was a little puzzled, because these officers and soldiers were different from what they usually encountered, all of them were not afraid of death, some of them were hit by several arrows, and they did not go down to the city, and continued to fight to the death, and even hugged the peasant army who climbed up to the top of the city and fell down the city together.

This was expected by Fan Ju.

Because of the 10,000 people who were responsible for defending the city, in addition to the five or six thousand people who were their own men, there were also a few thousand people who were the personal soldiers and guards of Li Guoqi and other generals.

At this time, Li Guoqi and others were in the city, and each of them brought hundreds of guards to defend the city with Fan Ju. These guards not only fought bravely, but also loyal to their masters, everyone knew that the peasant army had hundreds of thousands of people, once the city was lost, the other party killed the city, then their masters would inevitably be captured and executed, so these people fought with their lives to resist, and killed the peasant army to the point that the corpses were piled up on a hill under the city.

The 5th Battalion of the Left Wing only had a few cannons with very little power, and the threat to the city wall was not great, so it could only rely on ladders to rush cars and other equipment, but the city was very well prepared, many ladders were burned, and the cars were also smashed in front of the city gate by the officials and soldiers with grinding plates and boulders.

The peasant army stormed for a day without any progress. Seeing that it was getting dark, Lao Huihui had to order to stop the siege and return to the camp to rest.

Several palms gathered together to discuss countermeasures, and He Yilong said: "Fan Ju obviously knows that our hundreds of thousands of troops are coming, or we are still defending this city, will there be any tricks?" ”

He Jindao: "I don't think so, although Fan Ju is the governor, he is not trusted by the court, I think he will not dare to retreat, in case he abandons Huainan and escapes, the court will not let him go." According to my guess, he may want to fight with this strong city, in case he can withstand it, that is the best, in case he can't stand it, and then abandon the city and leave, he will also have an explanation to the court. ”

Liu Xiyao said: "Yes, it must be like this." Fan Ju is treacherous again, the court doesn't trust him, the generals abandon him and leave, I think he will have to retreat if he stays for one more day at most. ”

Ma Shouying said: "So tomorrow we will strengthen the attack, our artillery power is too small, the siege effect is not great, I have already passed the order to go, let my subordinates build a stone machine, it is estimated that it can be used tomorrow." When the time comes, let's make dozens of stone machines and go to the city for a while, the people in the city will be panicked and unstable. At that time, it will be much easier to attack again. ”

He Jin said: "Yes, let's shoot some more letters, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city can capture Fan Ju and come to surrender, and we can hang a heavy reward." I think that when Fan Ju first arrived, the people were not convinced, and under the heavy reward, some people might take risks. ”

He Yilong nodded: "Even if no one catches Fan Ju, it will make them suspicious and suspicious of each other, so that no one will defend this city." ”

The crowd laughed and thought they had a plan. So Ma Shouying set up a banquet in his big tent, and several people pushed their glasses and changed their glasses, and drank them.

After drinking for more than an hour, someone suddenly came to report: "A few people are in charge, someone from Xicheng came to report, an officer and soldier opened the west gate, and the killing generals came out, and they had broken through their camp and killed them." ”

Ma Shouying was taken aback, stopped drinking, and asked, "How many people are there?" ”

The reporter said: "I can't see clearly in the night, according to their estimates, there are almost tens of thousands of horses." Outside the West Gate, there were only 20,000 or 30,000 of our people, and we were defenseless, so we were killed by the officials and soldiers. ”

Ma Shouying frowned: "It's not good, this must be Fan Ju, he knows that he can't stand it, so he rushed to break through tonight." ”

Liu Xiyao hurriedly said: "Then why don't you chase it?" ran away from Fan Ju, and there were endless troubles. ”

He Yilong shook his head slightly: "Don't act recklessly." You know, the 100,000 officers and soldiers outside the city suddenly disappeared, who is sure that they have returned to their respective defense areas? In case they set up an encirclement and waited for us under Fan Ju's arrangement, the black light was blind, we chased after us to the death, and fell into an ambush by others, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

Ma Shouying agreed with He Yilong's thoughts: "Yilong is right, Fan Ju is extremely cunning, since those generals have already come, Fan Ju must have a way to make them obedient." Therefore, we cannot be reckless. ”

Liu Xiyao said: "But if you don't chase it, let's let Fan Ju escape?" ”

Ma Shouying smiled: "He can't escape today, he can't escape tomorrow, he can't escape our knife, and he can't escape Chongzhen's knife." ”

He Jin said: "Old Ma, what do you mean?" ”

Ma Shouying said: "Let's enter the city tomorrow, have a grand ceremony to enter the city, and then announce to the world, saying that the Huainan War, the official army was defeated, and Fan Ju was incompetent, so he led the crowd to flee first, so that those officials in the court can let Fan Ju go?" ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded yes.

He Yilong said: "Just do this, Fan Ju was reprimanded by the court, I am afraid that he will be sentenced to prison, with his character, he will never be restrained, at that time, he will inevitably surrender to us with all his heart." ”

The crowd was rejoicing again.

Because of the fear of ambush, the peasant army did not pursue Fan Ju, nor did they enter the city, but still surrounded them to death, only waiting for dawn to speak.

All of this was expected by Fan Ju, he led all the officers and soldiers, and the generals who stayed in the city, and began to pack up after dark and prepare to break through. Fan Ju made it clear to everyone that the peasant army had attacked the city for a day and had not been able to succeed, and they had already learned the strength of the official army, and they must have thought that the official army would take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen the city defense in order to continue to defend it the next day, so they never expected the official army to break through so quickly.

As long as they can break out of the city, the peasant army will not dare to pursue Huainan City in fear of ambush when it is dark, and they will occupy Huainan City first.

At that time, Huainan was an important town in Anhui, and the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo would never let this piece of fat not eat it, and they would definitely rush into the city and loot it. And it can also use Huainan as a base camp to deter the entire Anhui.

As long as the peasant army entered Huainan City, it was a great success.

How could the fifth battalion of Gezuo guess Fan Ju's thoughts, and after dawn, the gates began to attack again. In fact, there was no need to attack this time, and there was no longer a single officer or army in the city. The peasant army climbed up to the top of the city, opened the gates, and let in the brigade.

Ma Shouying first sent 20,000 men to rush into the city to see the movement.

After these people entered the city, after some searching, they found that there was no shadow of the official army, so they reported it to a few people outside the city.

According to last night's arrangement, Ma Shouying ordered the city gate to be opened, the drums in the army were noisy, and the generals wore red and hung colors, drove the people out, and welcomed them in the middle of the road, making it very lively. He and the generals rode high-headed horses, strutted into Huainan City.

After entering the city, several leaders suggested that the old camp be moved into the city, so as to prevent a sneak attack by the officials and soldiers. Ma Shouying naturally agreed, so the family members of the 100,000 old battalion, miscellaneous servants, and guards all drove into Huainan City.

The peasant army celebrated in the city, and there was no need to elaborate on the sea of wine.

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