The vanguard responsible for the attack on Beicheng was the pro-army general Yuan Ren, and under his repeated pleas, considering that the troops in the city also needed unified command, Li Qi finally agreed to his request to fight. I hope he won't be as unlucky as Shi Jiantang who died under Zhenzhou City!

Anyway, Yuan Xingqin was not allowed to charge, and Li Qi dragged him to his side and watched the battle together.

The Jinyang army began the siege in the real sense!

As the vanguard, the six hundred warriors dressed in heavy armor launched an attack, the auxiliaries had already pushed the huge ladder to the head of the city, and the pro-army general Yuan Ren carried a machete in his hand, and rushed to the front with the first soldiers.

The defenders were unable to rush through the sea of fire, so they could only cast feathered arrows at the siege troops of the Jinyang Army who were pouring under the city from both sides.

One after another siege ladders began to set up the city, and hundreds of Jin army drafters had begun to climb up along the siege ladders and cloud ladders, and the defense of Zhenzhou City was already in danger. It's just that the fireball thrown by the Jinyang army formed a wall of fire, and the reinforced town army was blocked by the flames and could not rush over, and the Gao Cha, who commanded the defense at the head of the city, was helpless, so he could only stomp his feet in a hurry.

Yuan Ren was wearing heavy armor and took the lead in stepping on the ladder to launch a fierce attack on the head of Zhenzhou City.

The commander of the defenders standing at the head of the city looked very young and obviously inexperienced, and there were several flaws and omissions in the command, which was perhaps the best chance for him to break through the city walls. Yuan Ren climbed to the top of the city, his body jumped up like a huge falcon, and he rushed straight to the town general who was commanding.

Seeing Yuan Ren who jumped onto the city, Gao Cha, as Zhang Yanlang's confidant, did not retreat, but shouted, raised the spear in his hand, and stabbed towards Yuan Ren. I saw Yuan Ren waving his shield and blocking the spear, and his body only turned half a step, and the big knife in his hand slashed at Gao Cha's neck.

The head flew up, and I saw Gaocha's blood-spurting body planted from the top of the city......

Seeing this situation, the town army defending the city was in a panic, and someone was shouting loudly in panic, "The general is dead!" ”

Some people began to flee, and while the town army was panicking, many Jinyang troops attacked the city.

Yuan Ren's spirits were greatly lifted, and he commanded the Xuanfeng who ascended the city to start chasing and killing the panicked Zhen army......

The Jin army had already poured into the city like a tide, and when he saw that the crossbowmen had successfully landed in the city, Li Qi knew that Zhenzhou City had almost been taken down!

By dawn, the Jin army had occupied the northern city and stormed the city.

The Zhenjun saw the city broken at this time, and they scattered one after another, and the Zhenzhou rebel general Han Shi died in the chaos.

However, the whole course of the war was not as intense as Li Qi imagined. When the Jinyang army successfully landed in the city, after occupying a section of the city wall, the southern army entrenched in the city suddenly collapsed.

As a result, the Jinyang army only used more than 1,000 casualties to conquer Zhenzhou Jiancheng, which was defended by more than 8,000 southern troops, Zhang Yanlang died in the chaos, and Liu Yun, the deputy general of the southern army, saw that he could not do anything, so he simply raised the white flag and surrendered.

The generals of this era do not seem to have the slightest idea of being loyal to the party and the country!

This result made Li Qi a little dumbfounded......

What kind of people are these, who say surrender and surrender, and say good loyalty and integrity?!

If you really want to talk about it, that thing really can't be eaten.

After Yuan Xingqin came from the front, he saw that Li Qi was directing his men to disassemble those siege equipment, so he licked his lips and smiled: "This thing is really useful!" "Thinking about back then, the Jin army besieged Zhenzhou City for more than a year, and it took this fortified city to take down after killing four generals, how it has become so easy now, it always feels a little unreal.

"Carving insect Xiaojier, this is the power of craftsmen, if the general has a heart, he will deal with the people who will be the prisoners in the future." Li Qi smiled and said, "There are still some good things that are not used, and they will be used on that Wang Yanqiu in a few days." ”

Li Qi did not let the army enter the city, but ordered Yuan Xingkai to take two thousand Jinyang infantry troops to restore order in Zhenzhou City and pacify the people. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, after the warlords broke through the city, they would plunder and corrupt the military discipline, but this time, after the forbidden army to maintain law and order slashed and killed some military academies who robbed in the city and the scoundrels who robbed while the city was on fire, the chaos after the city was broken was immediately calmed down.

Afraid of Wei Huaide, when his generals saw Li Qi, the young son of heaven, they finally had some fear in their eyes.

Li Qi inspected the city and appointed Yuan Xingkai as the queen of Zhenzhou, and immediately ordered the army to rest outside the city, preparing to go to Quyang for a decisive battle with Wang Yanqiu's main force of the southern army.

Three days after the capture of Zhenzhou, Li Qi led the Jinyang army to Quyang.

This place in Quyang is on the edge of Taihang Mountain, and the east of Quyang City is next to Jiashan, which is guarded by danger, which is not conducive to the deployment of cavalry. Wang Yanqiu is also worthy of being a veteran general who has fought for decades, and in the past he was also known as resourceful in the Liang army, and he had already built a strong walled city on Jiashan, which was a horn with Quyang City. Knowing that the northern army was now in full swing, he ordered his subordinates to defend the city and the camp and wait for the reinforcements sent by Luoyang to arrive.

The news of the fall of Zhenzhou has been transmitted back to Luoyang, Li Siyuan was shocked, ordered the eastern capital to stay, and the general Shi Jingtang led 20,000 people to rush to the aid of Youzhou, and ordered Wei Bo Jiedu to make Zhao Zaili and Qingzhou Jiedu to make Fu Xi also lead the army to help, intending to recover Zhenzhou in one fell swoop.

After Li Qi led his army to Quyang, he immediately went to the front line to inspect it.

Looking from afar, I saw that a circle of walled walls was constructed from rammed earth and wooden piles on the Dongjia Mountain of Quyang City, and the front was full of wooden piles that rejected horses, and there were two ditches that communicated with the Luowen Canal, and the defense of the walled city of Nuoda was very complete.

When it comes to ancient warfare, there are many unpredictable factors involved. The outcome of this war often depends on probability, and it is the same as "swindling money", relying on luck. When you are unlucky, you will lose again and again, and even if you have the advantage of strength, it is in vain. Some people tend to be lucky, and they win several battles in a row. The ancients couldn't understand the reason, and often called this kind of character a lucky general.

After the Tang Dynasty Zhuangzong Li Cunxuan, he has never lost a battle in the past 20 years, and several times he turned defeat into victory, and when he arrived on the battlefield, he was a "lucky general" with this kind of luck.

In Li Qi's view, his cheap father Li Cunqiao has won several battles that are very lucky, such as the battle of Wangdu-Baozhou, which defeated the 200,000-strong army of the Khitan lord Abaoji with more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, the battle of Liu Yang and the battle of Huliupo, etc. Perhaps it was the end of luck after ascending the throne that he finally died at the hands of the rebels.

Although luck is a probabilistic thing, sometimes it is not convincing. It's like someone playing mahjong, obviously there are 60,000 or 90,000 non-stop, but they go to stop a card of 70,000, just when the spectators scolded this person for being a fool, they just gave a "self-touch", and the glasses fell to the ground. Li Qi didn't think he could have the same luck as Zhuang Zong, and because of his cautious nature, he would try to avoid some risky decisions.

His faith came from the insights of the afterlife......