But unfortunately, some of the generals of the Shun army under him were very unwilling! They thought it would be a pity to give up the city they had worked so hard to fight.

Sure enough, the next day, the Governor of Dashun Pioneer: Li Laiheng, just come up with a plan? When the army was about to start, he came to the tent of the Chinese army, opened the curtain, saluted Emperor Dashun, and said: "Your Majesty, there will be a plan to break the city in the end?" ”

Emperor Dashun had just finished breakfast and wiped his mouth, and hurriedly asked, "Oh, what is Qing's plan?" Let's hear it. ”

I saw that the Dashun vanguard Du Du pointed to the soldiers of the Shun army who were carrying the materials, and said, "There are only more than 40,000 people in the Ming army defending the city!" And our army has a full 200,000 troops, plus those local Ming troops who surrendered, the total is not less than 300,000 troops, right? We can give him a siege and cut off food, and see what they do when the time comes? ”

This move was quite approved by Emperor Dashun, and he had also thought about besieging the city before, but he was afraid that Zhou Yuji would jump over the wall in a hurry? So I didn't dare to besiege the city, and now I have no choice but to order the siege with the mentality of giving it a try.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a large number of heavy armor, light cavalry, spearmen, and infantry of the Shun army surrounded the Ningwu Guard's Thousand Households, cut off all the grain routes leading to the Ningwu Guard's Thousand Households, and blocked the checkpoints, and used the Shun Army's archers and firecrackers to fortify the commanding heights and prepare to shoot at any time.

The general soldiers of Ming Shanxi in the city were very nervous after seeing the Liukou launch a siege offensive, and when the general soldiers of Ming Shanxi took the generals to the city to watch, five hundred meters outside the four gates, it could be seen that there were a large number of Liukou troops stationed here, and the black tiger Shunzi pennants outside the city were also all around, which inevitably made the Ming soldiers defending the city a little scared, and they muttered in a low voice, "Look at the posture of the Liukou, is it to eradicate Ningwu and guard the thousand households?" Then we are all going to be martyred! ”

Among them, Mingning Wu Qianhu, who was patrolling the city, heard a few soldiers whispering this, so he opened his mouth and scolded, "Shut up! With the presence of General Zhou Soldier, the little rogues are not worried, and they all cheer up the general to defend the city well. In fact, Mingning Wu Qianhu was also a little scared in his heart, he also forced himself to complete the inspection of the four gates, and when he went down to the city tower, two thunderbolts (boom) in the sky fell in the woods outside the city, and soon it rained heavily.

After a while, the rain became heavier and heavier, causing the city tower to be full of water, and basically the cloth shoes of the ordinary Ming soldiers standing guard were soaked by the rain, causing the soldiers to begin to complain about the weather. Despite this, the soldiers persevered, and after holding out for 5 days, the food in the city was basically eaten! Moreover, it rained continuously, and a lot of rain accumulated in the city, which made the moat in the city begin to rise to the streets, which made the general soldiers of Mingshan West who were sitting in the thousand households began to panic!

When the patrolling soldiers came to report the situation, the general soldiers of Mingshan West immediately made a decision? That is, he personally led the garrison to break through to the west to the high ground, and then left some soldiers to open the moat sluice gate to flood the Liukou near the suspension bridge, so that his Ming army had the opportunity to kill out. Once the floodgates are opened, then the people outside the city will suffer, and this is the only way to repel the rogues and break out of the siege for now.

At this moment, Mingning Wu Qianhu proposed: "Lord Zhou, there is a sentence in the end, I don't know whether to say it or not?" Without hesitation, the general soldier of Mingshan West nodded and asked him to continue, only to see Mingning Wu Qianhu continued: "The wife of the chief soldier, Liu, I heard that she is not only gentle and considerate, but also a person who practices martial arts? Why don't you let Mrs. Zhou lead the people to retreat to avoid the flood, what do you think? This move was approved on the spot, and he personally wrote to his wife Liu, reminding her to take care of herself by the way.

When everything was ready, the general army of Ming Shanxi began to lead the army to kill out from the west gate, and the Shun troops guarding outside the city were startled when they saw the suddenly opened city gate, and thought that the Ming army was coming to surrender? Who knew that the next second the Ming infantry holding halberds rushed out first, followed by the Ming army gunners holding all kinds of firearms to shoot, not only that, but before the lead bullet smoke dissipated, you can clearly see that many dense arrows were shot from the rear and inserted into the Liukou soldiers, and the general soldiers of Ming Shanxi took the lead in wielding waist knives and slashed several people one after another, and their faces were splashed with blood.

This made Emperor Dashun and the generals of the Shun army see that the brave guard battalions of the Ming army, which had been out of food for a long time, could still burst out with such a strong combat effectiveness?

For this reason, Emperor Dashun was very interested, he ordered the soldiers to capture alive the general of the Yongwei battalion Zhou Yuji, so that the Liukou soldiers gathered the encirclement forces to the west to press the border, but the Yongwei battalion outside the city was not vegetarian, the Ming Shanxi general ordered the firecrackers to replace a swarm of bees and hundreds of tigers to shoot the Liukou, and rushed out of a bloody road to the vicinity of the suspension bridge, Dashun Linqu Nan led the Shun army in the back of the non-stop pursuit, the commander Ming Shanxi saw that the Liukou soldiers were fooled, so he turned his head and said to the soldiers around him, "Quickly release the signal flare!" ”

I saw an infantry knife player lighting the fuse (bang) to the sky and hit the signal flare, the Ming soldiers who were left behind in the city immediately pulled the valve mechanism to open the gate, and the water gushed out in an instant and rushed to the rogue army at the gate of the city.

Standing on the high ground in the west, the general soldier of Mingshan West looked at the Liukou soldiers who were disrupted and rushed down the river below, and he smiled happily: "This is the retribution that Liukou deserves, and I don't know if the people have moved to a safe place?" After the flood is over, we should go back to the Thousand Households! ”

But the soldiers have just escaped and few people want to enter the city, but the military order is like a mountain, so everyone is very reluctant to follow the general army of Ming Mountain West to kill down the slope, and it happened to rush to the side of the Dashun Mianhou on the left wing of the Great Shun Emperor, and the Yongwei battalion held a swarm of bees to charge in front of the rapid shooting of the Liukou, and the Shun army stationed here resisted with shields, and let the Shun army halberd soldiers line up in the rear in a horizontal formation in turn.

Then the great Shun Mianhou let the Shun saber card hand come forward to meet the battle, the general army of Ming Shanxi immediately transferred the archers to release the arrows to cover, and then let the Ming infantry charge so that the two armies killed together, the random knife waved almost up and down, some soldiers were beaten off the sabre and choked the neck and rolled on the ground, some Ming soldiers raised the gun pipe to knock the round cap and iron helmet on the head of the Liukou soldiers after shooting the firecracker, so that there were not a few Liukou soldiers who were knocked to death.

In the white-knuckle battle, the Ming army of the Yongwei Battalion always had the upper hand, blindly suppressed the Liukou knife players who rushed indiscriminately, and even rushed to the front of the Liukou halberds, forcing Dashun Mianhou to order the soldiers to open artillery to help the battle.

Seeing that the Liukou army could not defeat him, he opened fire, and the general soldiers of Mingshan did not dare to be negligent, so he asked the Yongwei battalion to go straight to the Liukou artillery crew to kill the Liukou gunners, and killed many Liukou who were too late to shoot in one fell swoop, and simply knocked back the Liukou cavalry and artillery battalion to 10 miles away.

Seeing the Ming army of the brave guard battalion that broke out with strong combat effectiveness, so that Dashun Mianhou did not dare to provoke easily, so he made way to let the general soldiers of Zhou a horse, for which the general soldiers of Ming Shanxi also felt something, he found that the Liukou stopped attacking and quickly evacuated the front army, because the moat and the river water has not disappeared, so the general army of Ming Shanxi led the army to escape to Shenchikou Fort.

At noon, the Ming army Yongwei battalion lined up one after another into the city, the middle of the Ming Ning Wu Qianhu and the Ming Lao Ying Qianhu and other generals bowed their heads and entered the city gate embarrassed, Ming Baode pointed to the castle and said, "Lord Commander, when our army came in to help from the east, in order to be able to march quickly, I deliberately left a batch of materials here, I didn't expect it to come in handy today." ”

When everyone learned that there were supplies in the castle, they all rushed into the city to look for supplies, and the general of Mingshan West whispered to the general soldiers of Mingshan: "The materials are in a corner on the left side of the castle, and there is a branch next to it. ”

Despite this, for the general soldiers of Mingshan Mountain, this is already the end of the road! After counting the number of people, I found that there are only 1,000 soldiers and horses left in the Yongwei Battalion! The rest of the Ming army added up to only 9,000 people, and the materials in the city were only 3 stones, which could not support too many soldiers at all, so the general army of Ming Shanxi was a headache! There are only two ways to go? Either use food from the nearby garrison, or send a fold to the imperial court to directly allocate food for supplies, otherwise the people will take food as their sky, and there will be no food and grass and no reinforcements! It is impossible to compete with the 300,000 army of the rogues.

On the other side, when Emperor Dashun in the camp was thinking about how to exterminate the Ming army in this Yongwei camp and was worried, the prime minister of Dashun stepped forward and proposed: "Your Majesty, our army now has sufficient reinforcements, gunpowder and ordnance, is it necessary to suppress the Ming army by force?" And then give them a dismount, so that the Ming army can honestly surrender to my Dashun, wouldn't that be beautiful? ”

Emperor Dashun felt that this plan was feasible after hearing this, he also very much wanted to take this Yongwei battalion as soon as possible, Emperor Dashun in the camp tent after a brief discussion with the generals about the battle plan, then sent the Shun army halberd cavalry to attack Shenchikou Fort, outside the city a row of murderous eight bronze Frankie meteor cannons and three small general cannons began to fire hot cannonballs to the city (dong, dong, dong), after a round of artillery bombardment, the Ming soldiers of the Yongwei battalion quickly went up to the city tower to fire back, a few soldiers immediately ran to report the situation and planned to cover the retreat of Zhou's general army.

However, the general soldier of Mingshan West suddenly had an idea? That is, the soldiers marched back to the east of the city from the back of Shenchikou Fort to Ningwu to guard the thousand households, and wanted to rely on the city defense to hold a wave, and it happened that when leading the army out of the city, the general army of Mingshan West vaguely saw a team of rogue troops wearing Xuantie armor and armor in the jungle in front? Take a closer look at what seems to be a dozen carts of grain pushing around them?

Immediately, the general soldiers and generals of Mingshan West shouted: "God really help me!" Just now, I was worried about food, but now someone has taken the initiative to send food. After saying that, he sent the infantry sword players of the Yongwei Battalion to quietly lurk at the intersection in front of him to cut off the Liukou road, and asked the Yongwei Battalion Fire Fighters to reload and suppress the fire at any time to raise their guns and shoot, and the archers of the Yongwei Battalion also set up arrows to aim at the Liukou.

Then the general army of Mingshan West made a bold move? I saw him get up and push away the grass and walk out, and when he saw the general of Mingshan Mountain behind him, he was taken aback and said, "Lord Commander, are you...?" ”

Who knew that the general soldiers of Mingshanxi, who walked over, suddenly jumped out of the grass and appeared in front of the Liukou, startling the Liukou soldiers who were transporting grain, and pointed to the Liukou soldiers and said, "Obediently put down your weapons and hand over the food, maybe Ben will be able to spare your life, otherwise there will be no mercy!" The rogue soldier who reacted immediately drew his saber and said, "Look for death!" As soon as the words fell, dozens of arrows flew out of the grass and stabbed at the rogue soldiers, and the brave guards also pulled the trigger and fired a burst of gunfire, accompanied by white gunsmoke.