After receiving the garrisons, servants, and helpers in Datong County, Wang Zezhi officially took over Datong County.

The first thing he did when he took over Datong County was to raid the homes of those businessmen who were driving up prices.

What Wang Zezhi didn't expect was that when Wang Zezhi's army entered the city, the servants of the merchants' families knew that something was wrong, and after looting the valuable things in the merchants' homes, they fled.

When Wang Zezhi's army came to raid the house, they found nothing but some scattered silver and grain that could not be taken away.

Wang Zezhi doesn't believe in evil, these guys are all wealthy businessmen in Datong County, and he doesn't believe that they just have a family business.

Wang Zezhi ordered Bai Zhangtang to take his people to search carefully, knowing that they were experts in this area.

But they were busy for a while, and found nothing but the grain hidden in the cellar.

When Wang Zezhi came to the cellar, he still didn't believe it.

He left the cellar and walked up and down in the courtyard of the merchant's house.

After Wang Zezhi's comparison, he found that a wall had obviously become thicker.

He stretched out his arm and measured it, it was longer than his arm, and there must be something greasy about such a thick wall.

"Someone, smash this wall open for me."

The sergeants were ordered to go into action immediately.

"Silver bricks, silver bricks inside." One of the sergeants had only two slashes before he discovered the silver bricks hidden inside the wall.

He screamed, and the sergeants slashed harder.

"Herald, transfer the people of the Construction Corps to me, and pry open the walls, stone pillars, and floors here.

Datong County left 500 soldiers to garrison, and the rest followed me to attack Huairen.

Heralds, order logistics supplies to keep up, we have to fight a blitzkrieg. ”

"Order."

Wang Zezhi left 500 soldiers to guard Datong County, and he took most of the men and horses, as well as the newly recruited soldiers, officials, and helpers, to attack Huairen County.

After Wang Zezhi arrived in Huairen County, he used the same method, the artillery opened the way, and the secret spy responded internally, and within an hour he received Huairen.

After receiving Huairen, 500 soldiers were left to garrison and confiscate the property of the merchants who did not participate in the price hike.

When Wang Zezhi captured Datong County, the merchants of Huairen received the news and ran away as soon as possible.

As a result, Wang Zezhi did not encounter any resistance, and easily found the gold and silver bricks they hid in the walls of their house, between the stone pillars, and under the floor.

After capturing Huairen, continue to advance, and use the same method to attack San'in and capture Mayi.

When he arrived in Shuozhou, he encountered a hard ballast, and Wang Zezhi's arrangement had already been known to the governor of Shuozhou.

When Wang Zezhi attacked Mayi, he began to catch the secret spies in Shuozhou City.

By the time Wang Zezhi attacked, the secret spies in Shuozhou City had already been cleared by him.

The secret agents in the city knew that the matter had been revealed, and desperately sent the news before they were caught.

"My lord, the spies in Shuozhou City have been arrested, I'm afraid there will be less luck." After Yu Zhong received the news, he reported it to Wang Zezhi as soon as possible.

"Looks like we're going to have to build a city."

Wang Zezhi raised a monocular to check the city defense of Shuozhou City.

Shuozhou is under the Datong Mansion, under the jurisdiction of Mayi County, belongs to the state city, the state city is far larger than the county seat, and the city wall is thicker than the county seat.

There are also two red-coated cannons on the city tower, and there are more than a dozen Fran machine guns.

"Order the artillery battalion to bring me their artillery."

"Huh~Bang~" Before Wang Zezhi finished speaking, the governor of Shuozhou City had already ordered the garrison to launch an attack on Wang Zezhi.

Wang Zezhi was three miles away from Shuozhou City, far beyond the range of the red-clothed cannon, and he felt a little inexplicable when he looked at the cannonballs in the distance.

"Order the whole army to storm the main gate of Shuozhou City, and after entering the artillery attack distance, divide into two columns, and trick out their artillery for me.

When their artillery entered the gap in the cooling period, the artillery battalion advanced in full force.

Those two shells are their range, keep your eyes open for me to see, don't capsize in the gutter. ”

"Yes."

The herald took the order and passed the order.

A moment later, 10,000 horsemen began to gallop on horseback.

The dust brought up by the galloping of thousands of horses flew all over the sky, and the governors and garrisons on Shuozhou City heard the sound of horses' hooves like waves from afar.

They looked at the elite cavalry rushing over, and they trembled in fright.

"Don't panic, we have red-coated cannons, shoot them for me." The governor of Shuozhou cheered himself and everyone up, and ordered the artillerymen to open fire.

At the same time as the gunners were firing, the cavalry was about to rush to the spot where the two shells landed.

As soon as they arrived at this position, they divided into two columns, left and right, and rode around Shuozhou City while shouting and galloping.

Maybe it was the sound of the red-coated cannons, or maybe it was the scarelessness of the elite knights.

The soldiers defending the city walls shot all the weapons they could use.

All of a sudden, the red-coated cannons, the Fran cannons, and the bows and arrows began to attack indiscriminately.

However, the cavalry did not come into their range at all.

All of their attacks were in vain.

This is really in response to that sentence, and the operation is as fierce as a tiger, and I look at two hundred and five.

Wang Zezhi's elite cavalry was amused by their operation and began to laugh.

The soldiers on the walls finished shooting their bows and fired their cannons.

One by one, they stared at each other with big eyes and were at a loss.

This is the end of deducting military salaries and embezzling military funds.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, not only officialdom was corrupt, but also the military.

Their garrison lords sold the military supplies issued by the imperial court into silver and put them in their own small coffers.

Now the soldiers defending the city have no arrows and no shells, so they can only watch the enemy attack.

"Don't be afraid, our Shuozhou City is well defended, they can't climb up." Shuozhou Zhizhou looked around and saw that the long-range weapons in their hands were all used up, and hurriedly cheered them up again.

At this time, the city is generally very strong, there are moats or moats in front of the city gate, if the city is stormed, it is Wang Zezhi who has 10,000 elites in his hands may not be able to attack it.

However, Shuozhou Zhizhou miscalculated, and Wang Zezhi did not plan to attack at all.

He used cavalry to consume their ranged weapons, using this as a cover to push the artillery into range.

After the cavalry had withdrawn, the artillery battalion reached the designated position and began to fire a salvo.

This time, Wang Zezhi did not adopt the tactic of bombardment in turns, but fired a salvo of 100 cannons.

The king wanted to crush them with the power of thunder.

"Boom~"

In front of the watchtower on the gate of Shuozhou, Zhizhou was cheering up the soldiers defending the city, when suddenly a cannonball hit and directly blasted him into pulp.

The defender standing next to him was hit by a cannonball and broke his calf.

"Ahh My legs, my legs..."

All of a sudden, there was a constant roar on the city wall, and the screams continued.

After the salvo was over, the Hongyi cannon entered a cool-down period.

During this period, the soldiers defending the city had a missed secret spy, he looked at the guard with a broken leg and screamed, his heart was crossed, he cut off his head with a knife, and shouted: "This dog said that he deducted our salary for several months, not only the salary, but also our weapons and equipment, and now we don't even have weapons, this battle can't be fought at all, this is not a war, this is a death." ”

"Yes, it's death." A soldier defending the city threw the knife in his hand and echoed.

"Brothers should come down rather than be shattered by artillery and die without a whole body." The spy who had cut off the head of the garrison shouted.

The soldiers defending the city looked around and saw a mess.

The battlements of the city wall could not withstand the bombardment of the red-coated cannons, and the soldiers hit by the shells either died on the spot or were missing arms and legs.

"It's a fart, I'm down with you."

"It's down."

The cooldown period of the red-clothed cannon was almost over, and Wang Zezhi was about to continue the bombardment, and the gate of Shuozhou City was opened.

A man on horseback with a white flag planted in surrender came.

Under the city of Shuozhou, Wang Zezhi collected the soldiers who guarded the city according to the previous practice, and the officials who colluded with the merchants, such as the same knowledge, the rebel officials, and the officials, escorted them to Song Tongyin, and all the property of the merchants who participated in the price hike was confiscated.

Wang Zezhi left 500 soldiers to guard the city according to the rules, and now he has sent 2,500 elite soldiers to defend the city.

Fortunately, there are these soldiers to replenish the number, otherwise he would not have been able to maintain the establishment of 10,000 people.

Wang Zezhi ordered the soldiers to distribute the dry food they brought to these people to fill their stomachs, and went straight to Yingzhou without stopping.

In his plan, he wanted to capture the four prefectures and seven counties in Datong Mansion within three days, and only in this way could he control the entire Datong Mansion with lightning speed before the imperial court could react.

The reason why Wang Zezhi is so urgent is because, although he is the chief soldier of Shanxi in name, in fact, if he is not ordered by the imperial court, he will not even be able to transfer the soldiers of Datong Mansion.

Only by capturing the four states and seven counties can he completely control Datong Mansion.