When Liu Juntao led the Chinese military to kill Xiao County, Xuzhou Prefecture, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran also led two more than 4,000 escort teams to kill in the Qulipu area.

At this time, the two received a message from the Exploration Department and learned that there were 15,000 men and horses stationed in Qulipu guarding the Xu family, and there were a lot of troops.

In addition, Qulipu has been built into a large dock fort by the Xu family, with many blacksmith shops and workshops in it, and the Xu family horses stationed in it can get a steady stream of military supplements, plus the money and grain that the Xu family has hoarded here, so that the Xu family horses can hold on to Quli for a long time.

Gao Ran said with some concern: "Mr. Zhang Qian, how can we fight this battle?" ”

Zhang Xiaojun pondered for a moment and said: "No way, since the siege is not successful, then we can only attack hard!" ”

Gao Ran also nodded, after all, the Xu family horses stationed in Qulipu were not afraid of siege, so they could only fight hard.

"However, there is always an order to practice first, and there are many craftsmen and other talents in the song, so we must ensure that these talents have no worries about their lives!"

Zhang Xiaojun also said: "Not only these talents, but also the tools and other objects in the Quli shop, Mr. Lian is also very important!" ”

The two of them were also a little heavy in their hearts, after all, before the battle started, they already had a feeling of being constrained.

However, after all, the strength of the Yushan Town Escort Team is strong, and Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran are not too worried, they just feel a little troublesome.

The next day, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran led their troops to the city and surrounded Qulipu.

The 15,000 Xu family horses in the dock fort were also ready to face the battle, not only gathered hundreds of archers, but also prepared gold juice boiling water, rolling stones and wood on the fort wall, ready to rely on the advantage of numbers and defense, and the Yushan Town escort team.

At this time, Zhang Xiaojun's headquarters was responsible for attacking from the north, and Gao Ran led his troops to attack from the west.

Before the fight, the two discussed again.

Zhang Xiaojun looked at the defense situation of the Quli shop and said: "This Quli shop is like a small and sturdy walnut, it is not easy to fight!" We have to go straight to the hammer and smash it directly! ”

Gao Ran said with a smile: "This is easy to say, then just use all your strength to crush the walnuts in the song." ”

The two discussed it carefully, and then they each returned to the battle, ready to fight.

After a while, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran each led their troops to attack at the same time.

I saw that the two young men each had a general bird's hand, and under the cover of the shield-wielding swordman, pressed towards the north and west sides of the fortress wall.

The archers of the Xu family on the north fort wall took the lead in shooting, and the rain of arrows in the sky continued to fall in the attacking Qingzhuang formation of Zhang Xiaojun's headquarters, and after a while, more than a dozen guards fell down.

However, the horizontal formation of the convoy was still not scattered, and it still pressed towards the northern fortress wall.

Sixty steps from the fort wall!

Liu Youfu, who led the attack, yelled: "Stop advancing!" ”

The young man of the general escort suddenly stopped, and the entire horizontal formation stopped steadily, without the slightest scattering, and let the arrows fall in the formation, and the young men of the escort team also stood still.

"First row! Rack ~ put! ”

I saw that the young men of the first row of guards put the orthodox nine-year-old bird guns in their hands on the shield of the long knife hand, and then opened fire violently, and immediately swept down a large number of Xu family horses on the fortress wall, and the hundreds of archers were even more focused on the object, at least hundreds of archers were shot, and fell in pain in a pool of blood.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Immediately afterwards, the second row of guards and the third row of guards opened fire one after another, and the entire horizontal formation was like a rotating life-killing machine, baptizing the northern fort wall with a fierce rain of bullets.

At this moment, there was hardly any figure on the north fort wall, and the Xu family horses stationed here either withdrew in surprise, or were lying on the ground with "five bodies thrown to the ground", or they had become cold corpses on the ground.

At the same time, a deafening roar was also heard from the west side of the fort wall, and it was obvious that Gao Ran's escort team had also attacked, and the entire Qulipu had turned into a battlefield, and the roar of the fire guns resounded in all directions.

Seeing that the Xu family and horses on the north side of the fort wall could no longer hold on, Zhang Xiaojun saw the opportunity and ordered all his mine-throwers to go out and capture the gate on the north side of Qulipu.

More than 80 mine-throwers at a sentry rushed out in a straggler formation like fairies scattering flowers, crossed the horizontal formation of the guards in front, and rushed directly to the north gate of Qulipu.

At this time, a leader on the fortress wall lay on the side of the wall and looked out, and suddenly his heart was broken, although he didn't know how the more than eighty guards were going to break through the north gate, but he couldn't let these guards get close to the north gate, so he shouted loudly: "Block the north gate!" Block the North Gate! ”

Within the city wall, hundreds of Xu family horses have gathered near the north gate, these men are armed with spears and big knives, and they have lined up behind the north gate, and when they heard the shouts of the leader on the castle wall, they rushed up and blocked the north gate.

These Xu family horses also thought that the Yushan Town Guards were just using wood to attack the city gate, or chopping with knives and axes, so they were ready to fight for the gate.

Who knows, the more than 80 thunder throwers stopped when they rushed to the front of the north gate more than 20 paces away, and then took out the earth-shaking thunder and fire folds one after another.

Seeing this scene, the leader of the Xu family, who was still yelling and blocking the gate just now, suddenly flew out of the sky and hurriedly shouted: "Disperse!" Get out of the way of the North Gate! ”

At this time, the hundreds of Xu family horses who were blocking the north gate were dumbfounded, and they were all dumbfounded when they heard this, and they asked themselves to block the gate just now, why did they want to avoid it now?

Before the hundreds of Xu family horses could figure it out, the north gate exploded in one fire after another, and the violent explosion suddenly overturned the formation of hundreds of Xu family horses, and the stumps and broken arms, the human body flying in mid-air, and the debris of the gate were intertwined and scattered in all directions, such a scene was like hell on earth, so that the rest of the people in the fort were torn apart.

"Boom!"

At the same time, the same roar also came from the west gate of Qulipu, and the hundreds of Xu family horses stationed at the west gate were also killed and wounded, and the entire West Gate was also full of corpses and a mess.

"Block the gate!"

Seeing that the north gate and the west gate had been blown open, the leaders of the Xu family were all shouting hoarsely, asking their men and horses to quickly block the gate and block the guards of Yushan Town who were about to rush in.

But the smoke of the explosion just now has not dissipated, where do the people of the Xu family still have the courage to approach the gate again?

No matter how those leaders of the Xu family shouted, the large number of Xu family horses were wandering around in the fort, and no one was willing to step forward to block the gate at all.

Suddenly, outside the north gate and outside the west gate, there was a sound of iron horses galloping, and then the Xu family horses in the fort were horrified to see that there was a team of fierce iron horses rushing in at the north gate and the west gate, and the Xu family horses along the way were hit by people on their backs, and there were countless casualties, and they couldn't stop the charge of the iron horses at all!

At this time, Zhang Xiaojun saw that the two sentry horse teams of the two divisions had already rushed in, so he immediately ordered a chief swordsman in front and two chief bird swordsmen in the back, rushing into the fort to kill the Xu family's horses.

After Liu Youfu and Liu Youcai received the order, they each led their men and horses to follow the brigade and rushed into Qulipu; On the West Gate side, Chang Hongdao also led his men and horses to kill them.

The long knife hand followed the back of the horse team and kept slashing and killing the defeated Xu family horses, and the bird gunners also loaded their bayonets, gathered together in groups of three or five, or fired in a volley, or stabbed with a cluster of guns, which also killed countless casualties of the Xu family and horses.

The battle lasted until the afternoon of this day, when Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran led their troops to completely capture Qulipu.

In this battle, the two young men of the Yushan Town Guard lost more than 70 people, killed more than 6,000 Xu family horses, captured more than 8,700 people, and the remaining Xu family horses took advantage of the chaos to disperse.

At the same time, Zhang Xiaojun and Gao Ran also captured 247 craftsmen, as well as a large amount of baggage, equipment, money and grain, which can be described as a huge harvest!

On the same day, Zhang Xiaojun sent someone to report to Liu Juntao.