In other words, Li Dingguo found out that Han Hu planned to take 5,000 Ying Long's army to Lizhou to personally escort another batch of shells, and he was worried in his heart.

The pressure of the 5,000 Ying Long Army on Li Dingguo is really not that there are only 8,000 soldiers left under his command, even if it is doubled, it will not be able to stop the 5,000 Ying Long Army at all, he is constantly thinking about countermeasures, and at the same time hanging far behind the Ying Long Army to monitor Ying Longjun's every move, intending to seize any opportunity.

"Hmph, it must be the thief who killed the 3,000 soldiers and destroyed the cannonballs escorted, sooner or later they will be annihilated and avenge the 3,000 soldiers!" After Han Hu marched in the direction of Lizhou City for two hours, he finally found the spies sent by Li Dingguo to monitor from afar.

Han Hu didn't know that it was Li Dingguo who led the thief soldiers, but he expected that the thief soldiers would have no way to take his 5,000 Ying Long army, and he didn't want to waste time, so he ignored the distant surveillance of those thief scouts for the time being, and rushed to Lizhou City with all his thoughts.

Han Hu and the other 5,000 Ying Long troops still need a day to reach Lizhou, however, at this time, Lizhou City will also change, and it is not peaceful!

A hill only twenty miles away from Lizhou City.

The Qing army's iron cavalry neighed, the powerful horse's hooves shook the ground twice from time to time, and the knight on horseback was wearing red armor, murderous! It was the Red Flag of the Eight Banners secretly sent into Sichuan by Dolgon!

Now, more than three years have passed since the Xuzhou War, after so many years of recuperation, the Manchurian Eight Banners have recovered most of their strength, each flag has more than 8,000 people, and Dolgon in order to increase the strength of the red flag into Sichuan, and from the other flags to draw some men and horses to supplement the red flag, at this time the red flag has 11,000 iron horses!

"Lizhou City!" The red flag lord Tuo Yue said the name of Lizhou City with murderous intent.

After Tuo Yue secretly entered Sichuan with the red flag, he did not go to Chengdu, but went straight to Lizhou City, and his target this time was Lizhou City!

Lizhou City is the second largest city in Sichuan, guarding the eastern gateway of Sichuan, and has been guarded by Qin Liangyu and people all these years!

At present, although Qin Liangyu and Zhou Cao led most of the men and horses to attack Chengdu, there are still 15,000 Ming troops in Lizhou City, relying on Jiancheng, even if 100,000 troops attack, it is impossible to capture it in a short time.

If it is a strong attack, it is undoubtedly impossible for Tuo Yue to take the red flag with more than 10,000 people, but Tuo Yue is not so stupid and does not plan to attack, but takes advantage of the fact that no one in Lizhou City knows that the red flag is close to Lizhou, and he plans to rely on the maneuver of the iron horse to capture Lizhou City by surprise, and at this time he already has a feasible plan in his heart!

In order to conceal his traces, when Tuo Yue entered Sichuan from Shaanxi, he ordered to kill all the people who met them, and nearly a thousand innocent people died under the hands of the Eight Banners along the way!

"How's the preparation?" Tuo Yue asked at a Zhang Jing.

"Back to my lord, it's ready!" That Zhang Jing replied.

"Act now!" Tuo Yue's expression was solemn, and he gave an order blatantly!

"Wow!"

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded, and 11,000 eight-banner iron horsemen galloped fiercely in the direction of Lizhou City!

Because Lizhou City is the only passage connecting Hubei and the second largest city in Sichuan, it is quite prosperous, and people come and go at the gate of the city!

In the past, Lizhou City was guarded by Qin Liangyu and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, and he was not afraid of the enemy's sneak attack, and Zhang Xianzhong's every move was under Qin Liangyu's surveillance, and it was not so easy to sneak attack, so Lizhou City has always been unclosed.

At present, although Qin Liangyu has taken most of the soldiers in the city to attack Chengdu with Zhou Cao, leaving only 15,000 men and horses in the city, most of Zhang Xianzhong's army is also gathered in the front line of Chengdu, and there is no enough army to attack Lizhou, so although Lizhou is more vigilant than before, it has also not completely closed the city.

It was precisely because of such a situation that Tuo Yue made a plan to attack Lizhou City.

The ferocity and mobility of the Eight Banners are not comparable to Zhang Xianzhong's Western Army, and Lizhou City may be able to guard against the sneak attack of Zhang Xianzhong's army, but the same method may not be able to prevent the mobile sneak attack of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

"Huh? How can two of them carry firewood into the city? Suddenly, the Ming army who was guarding the city gate frowned and watched the two monks each carry two bundles of firewood and slowly walked over.

After all, the temple is generally on the mountain outside the city, and firewood can be used to get firewood on the spot, and those who carry firewood into the city are not picked up and sold like ordinary people, however, two monks sell firewood?

Mr. Ming Jun shook his head and was surprised!

Even so, this Ming army didn't suspect anything else, he didn't know that the god of death was already approaching Lizhou City!

When the two firewood monks carried firewood and walked up to the drawbridge into the city, something happened suddenly!

"Boom!"

"Wow!"

I saw that the two monks who were still calm just now instantly showed their fierce colors, pulled out the bright steel knives from the firewood they were carrying, and at the same time threw the firewood they were carrying on their shoulders into the moat!

"Ahh Enemy! This scene suddenly shocked the Ming army guarding the city gate!

"Boom! "Sparks splashed everywhere, and I saw that two monks with knives were already slashing towards the iron locks on both sides of the suspension bridge!

Every move is clear about their purpose.

"Kill!" The general manager of the Ming army roared, drew his sword and rushed forward, and the twenty Ming soldiers also reacted, and the spears in their hands slammed towards the two pseudo-monks who were chopping the iron cables of the drawbridge!

In the face of so many steel knives and spears, the two pseudo-monks continued to chop the two drawbridge iron locks regardless of it!

"Poof! Burst! Burst! ”

The spears pierced into the bodies of the two pseudo-monks.

However, at this time, the two iron cables were finally cut by two pseudo-monks!

"Wow! Wow! "The bodies of the two pseudo-monks fell into the moat at the same time, and then a moat of water.

"Boom"

Suddenly, a rumbling sound came, and countless iron horsemen full of eight banners appeared in the sight of the Ming army defending the city!

Jin Ge Iron Horse, the war horses sitting under the Eight Banners are the top war horses in the Mongolian grassland, and the distance of nearly a thousand meters is half of it in an instant, and it looks like it is about to be killed in front of the suspension bridge!

"Tartar! Tartars! Ming Jun Bai was shocked, and when he saw the money rat tail flicking behind the Manchurians, he instantly thought of the legendary Manchurians.

The sudden appearance of the Manchu people under the city of Lizhou really made the Ming army Baizong stunned, but after all, they were also strictly trained by Qin Liangyu, and they reacted immediately.

"Quick, hook the drawbridge with an iron hook!" The Ming army roared.

Faced with the sudden rupture of the suspension bridge iron cable, Qin Liangyu naturally did not think about countermeasures when he was guarding Xuzhou before, and he had already prepared an iron hook at the gate of each city gate, as long as the iron hook was used to hook the broken iron cable, the suspension bridge could also be recovered!

Faced with the approach of death, the Ming soldiers hurriedly brought iron hooks, ready to hook the transferred iron cables and take back the drawbridge.

However, at this time, the Eight Banners Iron Rider had already rushed to a distance of only 100 meters from the suspension bridge!

"Whew! Shout! "Arrows fly!

The Manchurian cavalry shot unparalleled, and a few arrows shot the Ming soldiers holding iron hooks, and the iron hooks also fell into the moat!

At this time, it is obviously too late to find a new iron hook!

"Close the gates!" The Ming army roared bitterly, no matter what, the Manchu iron cavalry could not be allowed to rush into the city of Lizhou, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable!

The city gate closed slowly, and in order to gain time, the Ming army was determined to die with a few Ming soldiers who were also not afraid of death on the suspension bridge, intending to temporarily block the Manchu Eight Banners with his own life.

However, how manpower resisted the galloping horses.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

The Ming army only had time to insert the steel knife in his hand into the chest of a war horse, and was knocked down the moat by the horse with a rapid warhorse, and at the same time, the war horse that was stabbed by the Ming army also plunged into the moat!

Many Ming soldiers who were closing the city gate were shot and killed, but the Ming soldiers who were hiding behind the two doors pushed the city gate hard.

Seeing that the city gate was about to be successfully closed, a cavalryman with eight banners who rushed to the front suddenly blindfolded the eyes of the horse sitting down with his hand.

"Bang!" The war horse suddenly slammed into the city gate unabated, knocking the city gate open!

Full of Eight Banners Iron Cavalry into Lizhou City!

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