I saw this person hurriedly running to the state office, kneeling in the lobby and saying, "Report, Captain Qi, Captain Qi, three miles outside the city of the Heavenly King, found a large number of Ming troops!" As soon as these words came out, the Shunjun Governor Four Heavenly Kings: Li Yangchun, his hands trembled (swayed) and the teacup fell to the ground, and his hands trembled and pointed at the soldier and asked, "Is this true?" How many centaurs do they have? ”

The soldier replied: "The commander-in-chief in front of him is (the commander of the three armies), and it seems that the number of troops is about hundreds of thousands?" Hearing that so many people came from the other party at once, he suddenly frightened the Four Heavenly Kings of the Shunjun Governor into delirium, and he closed his eyes in despair and thought; The king shouldn't have let me guard this place in the first place! However, now is not the time to complain, the Shun army governor Sitianwang asked the soldiers to retreat, and personally went to the city tower to supervise the battle, intending to fight to the death with the Ming army, in order to defend the city, he ordered to close the four gates, pulled all the heavy artillery to the city for defense, and placed two guardrails twenty meters below the city.

The iron cavalry of the Yulin Wei Qin army marching in front took the lead in coming to the city, and the Shun army guarding the city saw the dusty black pressure in the distance The shouts of the cavalry and the sound of horses' hooves could not help but make many Shun soldiers instantly frightened and their hands kept trembling.

Seeing the soldiers panicked, he himself began to be afraid, but he still took a breath and said, "The shield hand quickly defends, the fire team prepares, release!" I saw a row of smoke in the city with lead bullets towards the iron cavalry of the Yulin Wei Qin Army, shooting twenty iron cavalry of the Yulin Wei Qin Army, and the angry Ming Yulin Wei General immediately commanded, "Set up a formation!" "In an instant, I saw that the iron cavalry of the Yulin Wei Qin Army under the city put out (crab formation) with both left and right cavalry as the main cavalry, and a small number of cavalry in the middle to protect the commander, after all, most of the artillery on the city tower was aimed at the front.

After the formation was completed, the Yulin Wei Qin Army Iron Cavalry began to shoot with a strong crossbow, hundreds of sharp arrows were like a rain of arrows densely shot at the city tower, shooting a lot of artillery shells of the Shun soldiers, after a round of shooting, the Ming Yulin Guard General Soldier let the soldiers change to the thunderbolt and continue to shoot, (bang, bang, bang, bang, bang) so that the rogues had no power to fight back.

Then the generals led by Shangshu of the Ming Army Department also rushed to the city one after another, and the general soldiers of the Ming Gu Yuan Guard rode forward to direct the soldiers to set up artillery, and the commander of the Ming Xi'an Left Guard: Dong Hui, ordered the long-range lethal soldiers to load, and the general soldiers of the Ming Tong Pass Guard also ordered the archers and the fire team to suppress the fire.

Three types of Ming army shot together and the smoke filled the city of Ruzhou, Wu Junzhen braved the rain of artillery shells and infantry swords and cards to push the ladder forward, under the leadership of the Ming Jing guard: Liang Fu, the front team of the Ming army killed under the city, in the face of a large number of Ming troops approaching the Shun army Governor Sitianwang was a little scared, Ma Wei saw that the Liukou did not have many troops, so he came out and persuaded him, "Hey, the Liukou in the city, listen, you have been surrounded by our army, if you know each other, quickly put down your weapons and come out to surrender to save your life, otherwise there will be no forgiveness!" ”

The four heavenly kings, who were already frightened by the Shun army, heard the words of the Ming army's persuasion to surrender and agreed on the spot, and he turned to the left and right generals and said, "Quickly open the city gate to welcome the Ming army." After a while, the gate of the Kung Fu City was really opened, and the Ming Soldiers outside the city were worried that there would be fraud and let the Mingtong Pass Guard enter the city first, Wu Junzhen was afraid that the Liukou would control Li Yangchun first as soon as he entered the city, and brought him to the Ming Tong Pass Guard.

The overjoyed Mingtong Guan Guard asked, "Do you know where the Li thief is?" I saw Li Yangchun shaking his head and saying that he didn't know, but he said, "Oh no, the Li thief asked me to garrison here, but I didn't leave any army!" And their old battalion is in Tang County, and the elite troops are near Xiangcheng County, Xuzhou, but as soon as you come, I guess he will transfer troops to another place? Oh, by the way, all the civil and military officials in the local government are gathered in Baofeng County, which I learned when I received the letter a few days ago. ”

Having said that, the general guard of Mingtong Pass is still a little skeptical? He asked the Ming Military Department Shangshu to enter the city to reveal the news, and after hearing it, Inspector Sun thought it was reasonable? Because the Liukou was in Henan, the political secretary only controlled the southern region, and according to this intelligence analysis, it is very likely that the Li thief was hiding in the vicinity?

So Sun Inspector took targeted action, he first ordered the whole army to go to Baofeng County, Wu Junzhen in case of an ambush persuaded Sun Inspector to advance with cavalry, and the artillery battalion was later to attack and surround the county seat, it happened that Ming Henan General Army: Chen Yongfu, Ming Henan Deputy General Soldier: Bu Congshan, Ming Sichuan General Army: Qin Yiming, and other generals also came in time to meet with all the soldiers and horses, and surrounded Baofeng County together under the letter of the Ming Army Department Shangshu.

At this time, the general army of Ming and Shaanxi: Zuo Guangxian, asked to lead the Ming army in front of thirty (fire chariots), Ming Ningxia Zhongwei General Soldier: for the stamina, then ordered the soldiers to beat the drum and cheer and launched the Ningxia Zhongwei Ming army charge, and the Shun army Baofeng Zhou Mu: Chen Kexin, seeing this, hurriedly shouted to the Shun army defending the city, "The whole army aims at the gunners, put!" Suddenly, (bang, bang, bang) lead bullets quickly hit the charging Ming army and shot dozens of people, among which Ma Wei looked at the relatively loose defense of Xicheng, if it is blown up with [Divine Fire Flying Crow], it is bound to break the city, he immediately pulled Wu Junzhen who was shooting with a gun next to him and said: "Brother Wu, release the Divine Fire Flying Crow from Xicheng to fight over, you will definitely be able to suppress the firepower of the Shun army, and then let our army enter the city from here, so it will be easy to break the city?" Wu Junzhen visually measured the distance between the Liukou soldiers and thought that they could enter the city.

So Wu Junzhen grabbed a soldier casually and said, "Go and inform the general soldier of Tongguan Guard, please send him a Ming army to the city as soon as possible." After receiving the order, the soldier quickly went to report it, and Wu Junzhen pushed the Lu bus to Xicheng first for the sake of the battle power.

At the same time, the fire chariot under the city quickly shot out a rocket to blast to the Liukou who defended the city, and instantly exploded a lot of sparks in the city, a soldier hurriedly ran over to the front of the formation to report the sneak attack on the west city of the Mingtong Pass Guard, the Ming Tong Pass Guard secretly rejoiced after hearing it and took the soldiers to attack the West City.

2,000 Ming troops while pushing the ladder while shooting a small number of defenders in the west city, soon close to the city tower to climb the city and enter the city to occupy the west gate and turn to attack the front gate, unknowingly disrupted the defense of the city guards, Wu Junzhen and the soldiers rushed over with a knife, he saw the general wearing chain mail and threw a saber and flew over to stab the Shun army Baofeng Zhou Mu successfully took the city.

And Ma Wei also killed the resistance under the city gate, pushed open the door to welcome the army into the city, the Ming army troops at the gate of the city came with the sound of horses' hooves, the Ming army department Shangshu waved his hand and ordered: "All the generals above the general enter the city, and the rest of the generals are responsible for leading the battalions of soldiers stationed outside the city, there must be no mistake!" After the army entered the city, they buried pots in the city to make rice, and the generals of the battalions outside the city, such as the thousand households, the deputy thousand households, the hundred households, the thousand generals, the general banners, the general generals, the small banners, and the hundred generals, were also busy counting the number of people while checking the equipment and gunpowder.

This time, in order not to startle the snake, he took the form of scattering troops to surround the exit regiments near Tang County, and suppressed the general army with Ming aid: Bai Guangen, who took the road to the outside of Tang County, because he was afraid that the main force of the Liukou would appear nearby? Therefore, the general army of Ming Yuan did not dare to attack the city easily, so he said to the generals around him, "Who dares to attack the city?" Ben will be rewarded. ”

But no one dared to stand up and squeak, the general soldier of Ming Yuan Ji silently shook his head and ordered the soldiers to bring a monocular to watch the enemy's situation, and happened to meet the general soldier of the Mingtong Pass Guard to catch up, and asked, "Why didn't General Bai come forward to meet the enemy?" Are you afraid of ambushes? "This is a good question, and the general soldiers are very ashamed! The small banner of the Ming Dynasty next to him took a look at the defense of the Liukou in the city, and he thought that there should not be many Liukou garrisons here? Don't look at the many rogues patrolling the city, in fact, there is a high probability that they are bluffing? Wu Junzhen also thought so, but he felt that it was better to send someone to try it just in case, so he proposed: "Lord Gao, the general thinks that he can send 300 people to pretend to be rogue soldiers and sneak into the city to find out the situation?" Is it better to let the follow-up troops into the city? ”

This plan was immediately agreed by the general guards of Mingtong Pass, but the key is who to send? In order to boost morale, Wu Junzhen took the order to take his 300 elite soldiers to put on (deep clothes), hide the fire pistols and sabers in their sleeves, and hang the gunpowder bag around his waist and stuff it into the knee cover in front of him.

Seeing that his friend Wu Junzhen was changing his clothes and preparing for the action, Ma Wei next to him also wanted to participate in the action, but was rejected by the general guard of Mingtong Guan as soon as he asked for help, Ma Wei didn't understand why he didn't let him participate? The general guard of Mingtong Pass said, "Ben will have a task entrusted to you, quickly select thirty flowering shells of poisonous fire flying cannons in the army. In this way, Ma Wei was very unwilling to retreat.

Wu Junzhen, who had changed his clothes, wore a scarf, but he restored the appearance of an elegant scholar in the Song Empire in the past, and his handsome appearance looked like an officer at all, and ordinary people couldn't see that he was an officer at all, and even the soldiers exclaimed, "Wow, Mr. Wu Qian, you wear this costume, but you are very similar to the students of Nanzhili Guozijian!" Wu Junzhen was a little shy, and the general soldier of Ming Yuan said in the back, "This person has some ability, he was more brave when he fought against Jiannu a few months ago, and he is also one of the best generals in the army, but unfortunately his official position is too low!" ”

On the other side, the new Shun King in Jiaxian County also heard some rumors, he hurriedly ordered all the main forces of the Shun army to gather here, and then asked the Shun army Zuofu to pull the generals to hold a military meeting in the county government to discuss how to deal with the Ming army's countermeasures, the right mighty general of the Shun army: the party Shousu, first stood up and proposed: "King Qiqi, the last general thinks that he should concentrate his forces in a battle with him, just like the previous (Persimmon Yuan War) to deal with the Ming army with all his might, I don't believe that I can't beat them?" ”