"Quick, the artillery fires another round, give the order to the infantry, and the artillery starts to advance after firing."

Liu Ximing almost didn't laugh on the watchtower, these thieves really didn't fight.

However, he still remembered to let the Longxiang battalion practice in actual combat, so he extinguished his idea of letting the artillery bombard to the end.

Half a minute later, the sound of artillery like muffled thunder sounded again on the battlefield.

"Kill"

With the white smoke rising from the artillery position, the three main regiments of the Longxiang battalion began to stride forward with a roar.

At this time, the leader of the Yuan Sect seemed to become angry, and he didn't know what order he had given, and a group of disciples who had been surrounding him began to cut down at the fleeing people, and the entire team was once again gathered by him and pushed forward.

However, these had no effect on the Long Xiang battalion, and the 1,200 soldiers were still moving forward steadily with expressionless faces.

When the two sides walked into the range of 100 steps, they "settled", and the chief officer of each Qu Tun in the first row immediately gave an order.

"Shoot ready!"

"First platoon, fire."

"Second platoon, open fire."

"The rest of the personnel, open fire."

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"

The sequence of the two strikes of the Long Xiang style sounded, and the array of the Long Xiang camp was suddenly enveloped in a puff of white smoke.

You Degao kept waving his arms in front of him, trying to get the smoke to clear as quickly as possible, so that he could observe the situation on the other side.

However, before he could see clearly, there was a loud cry from the opposite side, accompanied by the sound of chaotic footsteps and the sound of weapons clashing.

You Degao's heart tightened, and the speed of reloading in his hand sped up a few points.

Fortunately, at this time, a long and short trumpet sounded again in the camp, which meant that the enemy had begun to retreat, and the camp let itself wait for others to stand by.

You Degao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, at this time the smoke had dissipated, and the army of thousands of people who were originally lying in front of him had collapsed and scattered, all crying and rushing towards Pengzhou City.

"Wan Sheng!" , I don't know if it was Mu Jingnan or who started it, and there was a burst of cheers on the battlefield.

"Sure enough, it's a thief," Huang Zongxi, who accompanied Liu Ximing to watch the battle from the watchtower, said with a little disdain, and his originally clenched fist quietly loosened.

"Brother Taichong can't be underestimated, the Yuan Sect has made trouble in a hurry, and its troops have not been in battle, so they are vulnerable to fighting, but if they go through a few big battles, even the rotten thieves can train a lot of elites."

Liu Ximing looked in the direction of Baoning with a worried face, "The real hard battle is still to come, it seems that old thieves like Zhang Xianzhong are mostly people who dare to fight, and I don't know if Wang Zhongcheng can stop them." ”

As soon as he said this, Liu Ximing regretted a little, what did he do at the threshold of this big victory.

"Hahaha, forget it, let's celebrate first."

Indeed, as Liu Ximing thought, the key to this war is not in Pengzhou, but in Zhang Xianzhong.

The strength of the Yuan Sect is not strong, which is why Liu Jianhou decided to adopt Liu Xi's idea in the first place.

And now he is stationed under the city, not to mention the fire eagle cannon he brought, which is a newly developed mortar cannon, that is, a howitzer, which can make the thieves defending the city drink a pot.

After this battle, the Huiyuan sect that occupied Pengzhou suddenly died down and retreated in the city and did not dare to move, Liu Ximing kept the troops on guard while keeping his eyes on Zhang Xianzhong.

The personnel of the Military Intelligence Bureau led by He Tianlei and Lai Jingjie frequently traveled back and forth between Boryeong and Pengzhou, and kept the news flowing smoothly at all times.

On August 16, while Liu Ximing led people to repel the rebellious troops in Pengzhou City, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to engage Wang Weizhang in Enyang.

In addition to the 5,000 soldiers and horses led by Wang Weizhang, there are also 10,000 people in the Tiger Roar Battalion under the governor's big tent.

These 15,000 people fought several battles with the 40,000 people under Zhang Xianzhong's department, and there was a draw, and Zhang Xianzhong's department had to retreat to Bazhou to garrison.

On August 23, Hou Liangzhu rushed to Tongjiang from Kuizhou with two battalions of soldiers under his command.

Seeing that the armies of both sides were about to encircle Zhang Xianzhong, who expected that Zhang Xianzhong would start to storm Wang Weizhang's department in a hurry, and finally rushed out of Wang Weizhang's place, and more than 30,000 rogues went straight to Pengzhou.

As soon as the news from He Tianlei's side arrived, Liu Ximing was so frightened that he brought Dou Yuquan and others to discuss.

"We can't withdraw now", Dou Yuquan pondered and said: "Our village is on the road to Shunqing, if Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers arrive, we will have to take it captive, and then we can only let him slaughter." ”

"Yes, if I want to think it's better to storm Pengzhou now, as long as I can defend the city, even if there are more thieves, we should be able to hold on for a while, plus we still have a naval army, and we can retreat from the river if necessary."

Yu Yongkai's thoughts made Liu Ximing's eyes light up, "In that case, this news can't be told to He Duan yet, lest this kid be scared away." ”

He looked at Li Biao, "Find a few people to pass the news to He Duan, and say that we got the news, saying that the thieves in the city want to break through, and we will attack the city directly after an hour, and let him cooperate there to attack together." ”

"Whoa"

Li Biao turned around and went to arrange, while Liu Ximing quickly arranged siege tasks to the main officers of the Longxiang battalion.

In fact, there is nothing to arrange, Liujiacun's tactics are nothing more than artillery bombardment, infantry rushing, artillery bombardment after infantry rushing.

Around three quarters of an hour, the originally quiet city of Pengzhou suddenly boiled.

First, the besieging east side of the He Duan was clamoring for a move to attack the city, and then the Liu family's fleet, which had been quietly blocking the river, suddenly began to shell Pengzhou City.

The earth-shattering shouts and the sound of artillery fire made the Huiyuan Sect in Pengzhou City lose sight of one or the other, and most of their energy was suddenly dispersed by the east and west.

After almost two quarters of an hour of fuss, the camp in the south of the Long Xiang camp also began to move, and this time Liu Ximing did not hide his secrets again.

In addition to the forty-eight four-inch fire eagle guns, he took out forty-eight six-inch howitzers from the space.

Because of the use of flowering shells, this howitzer was named the fairy cannon by him, which was taken from the meaning of fairy scattered flowers.

The Blossom Bullet designed by the Bureau of Ordnance is a hollow iron bullet that hits gunpowder and steel balls, ignites it through a special woodpipe fuse, and then explodes, which is far more powerful than a solid bomb.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring his own side, he held it down and did not use it, and at this time, ninety-six artillery pieces fired a salvo, and the momentum was not inferior to the dozens of warships on the river.

There were not many people in the southern city wall of the Yuan Sect, and after this heavy shelling, they could only hold their heads and run around.

"The walls are falling!"

With a burst of cheers, Liu Ximing decisively ordered, "The fairy cannonballs are advancing into the city, and the personal guard regiment, the first regiment, and the first and second regiments of recruits follow the barrage charge." ”

"Wan Sheng!"

The Longxiang battalion soon rushed to the city wall under the command of officers at all levels, and after several rounds of artillery fire, only a small number of diehards were still resisting stubbornly at the city wall.

The guards first threw a grenade into it, then rushed with bayonets, and rushed into the city without suffering much damage.

Seeing this, Liu Ximing immediately made a decision and sent all the troops in the battalion forward, leaving only a new corps to garrison the formation.

At this time, He Duan, who was originally pretending to attack the city in the east, heard that Liu Ximing sent someone to report that the south gate had been breached, and he was so excited that he immediately raised his troops and moved towards the south gate.

At this time, Liu Xi's tactics of encircling three and missing one showed its effect, where could several leaders of the Yuan Sect resist such a fierce attack.

Originally, they were still counting on relying on the city wall to defend it, but they lost the city head in less than half a day, and a group of people were emboldened, and fled directly from the north of the city with more than 2,000 people in the core.

"Stop the pursuit and clear the city of the remnants of the enemy."

Liu Xi's mind is full of news about Zhang Xianzhong, where can he manage this group of Yuanjiao deserters now.

Pengzhou City has been ruined by these people at this time, there were only more than 10,000 people in the county, and almost all the men in the city were pulled by them.

Now that the Longxiang battalion has come in, the men in this group of sub-cities have thrown away the weapons in their hands one by one and run away, who is willing to flee with the Yuan Sect.

Coupled with Liu Ximing's strong orders, after killing dozens of gangsters who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to smash and loot, order in the city was quickly restored.

The men and horses of Long Xiang Camp and He Duan have not yet eased up, and they are about to start busy repairing the city walls and demolishing the camps outside the city.

Liu Ximing had already carried a lot of cement in the space, which was why he dared to order the cannon.

Under the temptation of food, the common people who had fled home were also mobilized, and more than 10,000 people in the city went into battle together, and it only took a day of work to repair and improve the collapsed southern wall, and even stronger than before.