Three days later, Zhang Xiaojun led the headquarters of the escort team to come together, and the Chinese military department led by Liu Juntao joined forces to advance in the direction of Xiao County, and it only took half a day to approach the city, which made Xu Zhaohui shocked and made the 30,000 miners in the city very moved.

At this time, taking advantage of the fact that the people and horses of Yushan Town had not yet begun to attack, Xu Zhaohui cheered up and commanded the deployment of 30,000 miners to the city to refuse to defend.

Xu Zhaohui deployed all the 5,000 most elite miners to garrison the Xu family's old mansion, and the remaining 25,000 miners were divided into five teams, each team of 5,000 people, each city wall deployed a team of men and horses to garrison, and the last team of 5,000 miners was used as a reserve, ready to support the city walls at any time.

After making a good deployment of the city defense, Xu Zhaohui issued a reward order: anyone who kills a young man of the Yushan Town Guard will be rewarded with ten taels of silver; Defeated the Yushan Town Guard, and everyone was rewarded with ten taels of silver!

Although the reward awarded by Xu Zhaohui was only ten taels of silver, it was also a lot compared to the monthly silver of all miners, after all, each miner only had eight taels of silver per month.

When the bounty was issued, the morale of the 30,000 miners finally picked up somewhat, but it was still somewhat sluggish.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also began to deploy a plan to attack Xiao County.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Liu Juntao said to Zhang Xiaojun: "This time to attack Xiao County, I led the Chinese military headquarters to attack the north of Xiao County, and the Xiao army led the headquarters to attack the south of Xiao County. ”

After the deployment was completed, the Central Military Department of the Yushan Town Escort Team and Zhang Xiaojun's headquarters began to arrange troops, Zhang Xiaojun immediately led his men and horses to the south of Xiao County, and Liu Juntao led the Central Military Department to set up a posture in the north of Xiao County, preparing to attack the city immediately.

Half an hour later, the two divisions of the Yushan Town Escort Team had already lined up in formation, all of them were in the center of a large horizontal formation with the main force of birds, the horse team defended the two wings of the horizontal formation, and the long knife hand and the mine thrower were on standby at any time.

Such a formation is not only extremely sharp in the field battle, but also strong in attacking the city, especially in the face of people and horses like the Xu family who lack archers and firearms, the large horizontal formation composed of thousands of birds can be arbitrarily emptied and suppressed at the head of the city, and the thunderers can blow open the city gates!

Looking at the formation that had been lined up by the young men of the Chinese Military Department, Liu Juntao secretly said in his heart: "It would be nice if there was an artillery team here!" ”

In fact, Liu Juntao knows the technique of casting artillery, but he has not practiced it, as long as he finds the right craftsman, he can mass-produce artillery, of course, it is only an artillery such as the big Buddha Lang machine in the late Ming Dynasty, not an artifact like a howitzer in later generations.

However, the actual conditions did not allow Liu Juntao to have artillery, after all, Liu Juntao is only the general training officer of the Yanzhou Prefecture People's League, not a regular official army, at best it is equivalent to the militia of later generations.

If the Yushan Town Guards were only equipped with firearms, under the cover of the chain of interests, Ren Chengwei and the local governments would not embarrass Liu Juntao; But once Yushan Town began to cast artillery, Liu Juntao believed that Ren Chengwei and the local government would turn against him, and even use Yushan Town as the target of the imperial army's conquest, Liu Juntao could still grasp this point.

At this time, Liu Juntao saw that the young man of the Central Military Department had finished preparations, so he yelled: "Press it up and start a war!" ”

"Go to war!"

"Go to war!"

After Bai Yuxing and Tao Jixin received the order, they successively led their men and horses to follow the big horizontal formation and pressed up, and the large formation of the central military headquarters walked towards the north city wall of Xiao County step by step, until it was sixty steps away from the city wall before stopping.

"Thunderbolt! Rush! ”

More than 80 thunder throwers crossed the big horizontal formation one after another, and rushed towards the northern city wall of Xiao County like sharp arrows.

At this time, the five thousand miners stationed on the north city wall were also frightened, the murderous aura accumulated by the Yushan Town Guards for a long time was not something ordinary people could bear, and the miners saw the big horizontal formation that was pressed up step by step, and the morale of the army began to drop sharply, and when the more than eighty mine-throwers rushed up, even many miners began to flee!

Although these miners are far more neat and disciplined than the rest of the Xu family, there is a limit to that, and they must also have strict drills, otherwise everything will be in vain.

Soon, the sporadic rout turned into a large-scale rout, and the 5,000 miners on the north wall fled from the city wall in a hurry before the more than 80 mine-throwers rushed to the city gate, and many of them were scurrying around the city.

Xu Zhaohui was immediately dumbfounded when he heard the news, and hurriedly sent the reserved 5,000 reserves to support the northern city wall, and ordered: Those who escape from the battle will be killed!

However, before the 5,000 reinforcements arrived at the north city wall, there was a loud explosion like thunder at the north city gate and the south city gate, and then the news of the loss of the north city gate and the south city gate came back.

Xu Zhaohui really wanted to cry when he heard the news, and the 30,000 miners he had been relying on were so vulnerable, which Xu Zhaohui did not expect before the station.

Not only did Xu Zhaohui not expect it, but even Liu Juntao outside the north city wall didn't expect that these miners of the Xu family would be as vulnerable as paper paste!

"It seems that the Xu family hasn't practiced these miners well, it's really a blessing!"

Liu Juntao secretly rejoiced in his heart, and then ordered the horse team to rush into the city immediately and take the Xu family's old house; After that, Liu Juntao ordered the long knife hand to open the way in front, and Bai Yuxing, Tao Jixin and other three chief bird gunners then attacked, leaving only one chief bird gunner to garrison the town.

Bai Yuxing shouted loudly: "Rush into the city!" ”

Tao Jixin also roared angrily: "Destroy the Xu family!" ”

More than 1,000 young guards roared angrily and rushed into the north city gate, rushing all the way along the streets of the city, dispersing and covering up the countless miners who had already collapsed.

At the same time, in the south of Xiao County, Zhang Xiaojun also issued an order for a comprehensive attack, and the young men of the department also took the horse team as the forerunner, the long knife hand covered, and the bird gun hand attacked, and the team roared and rushed into the south city gate, Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu The two brothers roared excitedly, and followed the crowd in the city to kill.

The old house of the Xu family.

Xu Zhaohui sat alone in the courtyard, looking at the people and family members who fled in horror all over the courtyard, the whole courtyard seemed to be the end of the world, Xu Zhaohui was already dead at this time, and he was not half angry.

"The head of the house! Let's go! ”

A confidant family member ran over in a panic, shaking Xu Zhaohui and said loudly: "Family master! The people and horses of Yushan Town have already entered the city, let's go! ”

"What about people? What about people! ”

Xu Zhaohui roared angrily: "Where are my five thousand elite soldiers!" ”

"O master!"

The confidant family member wept bitterly and said, "Where are there any elite soldiers? As soon as the five thousand miners in the old mansion heard that the people and horses of Yushan Town had entered the city, they immediately dispersed in a hurry, and they also forcibly seized the property in the mansion, which was simply a group of white-eyed wolves! ”

"How so?"

Xu Zhaohui immediately cried loudly, sitting on the chair like a madman, and the confidant family was dumbfounded.

"Head of the house!"

This confidant family wanted to drag Xu Zhaohui to run away quickly, but he heard a sudden noise from the outer courtyard, and then saw a large group of Yushan Town guards young and strong, led by Bai Yuxing, the general of the Central Military Department.

"Xu Zhaohui!"

Bai Yuxing waved his hand, and the more than 100 guards behind him dispersed, searching and taking people in the Xu family's old mansion.

At this time, Bai Yuxing stepped forward with a team of young men and said coldly: "Xu Zhaohui, the Xu family is finished, it's all over!" ”

Xu Zhaohui stared at Bai Yuxing and the others with red eyes, and suddenly shouted loudly: "It's not over yet!" ”

After speaking, Xu Zhaohui howled and rushed towards Bai Yuxing, and at some point there was an extra delicate dagger in his hand.

Bai Yuxing didn't panic when he saw this, but said lightly: "Kill him!" ”

The guards around him had already put on their bayonets, and when they saw Xu Zhaohui rushing up, the three guards stabbed violently, stabbing Xu Zhaohui to death on the spot in an instant.

Subsequently, all the horses of the Xu family in Xiao County were cleaned up, and the Yushan Town Guards captured a total of more than 27,000 miners, and all the wealth accumulated by the Xu family for decades was seized by Yushan Town.

That night, Liu Juntao and Zhang Xiaojun each led the escort brigade of their headquarters into the county seat of Xiaoxian.