On February 25th, one of the thirteen leaders of the Chuang army (Eight Kings: Zhang Xianzhong), led the Chuang army south from the East Road to prepare to attack Hu Guangcheng announced the political secretary Huangzhou Qizhou, before the departure of the Chuang army, in order to overwhelm the Ming army from the momentum, so the eight kings specially ordered to send the former military governor of the Chuang army: Wang Dingguo.

Everywhere posted messages claiming; When the army arrives, the high-ranking officials who surrender in Kaesong will enjoy wealth forever, and those who defend the city will destroy their nine clans after breaking the city! wanted to use this to strike at the Ming army and deter the defending army from surrendering, and sure enough, this plan quickly worked.

Ming Jing Wangfu is the honor guard: Hao Chengzhong, when he learned that the army of Liukou was coming, he guessed; This city will not be able to stand it! Once the city is broken, his family and relatives will be slaughtered, so he chose to secretly break into the army as an internal response, and the Ming Jing Palace's Zhengyi Wei used an excuse to Ming Jingyin Prince: Zhu Ci, and said, "His Royal Highness Prince Jing, now the Liukou is vigorously moving around, and it seems that he intends to attack Qizhou?" For the sake of safety, the general believes that it is necessary to arrange for relatives at home to evacuate and evacuate from the city. ”

After hearing this, Prince Ming Jingyin felt that there was some truth, so he agreed to this approach, and let the Ming Jing Palace's Zheng Honor Guard lead the Jing Wangfu Honor Guard, and lead all the families of the Jing Wangfu and the generals in the city out of the palace.

Prince Jingyin of the Ming Dynasty is still guarding the Jingwang Mansion with the Ming army guarding the city, which makes the Zhengyi Guard of the Ming Jingwang Mansion very unhappy! He thought to himself; His Royal Highness Prince Ming Jingyin is not too bad, if he is killed by the rogues because of this, he will be a little unbearable!

He persuaded Prince Jing Yin to evacuate the palace together, and after arranging his family, the Ming Jing Palace's official guard sent a letter to inform the rogues to prepare to attack the city.

At this time, there were only a few defenders left in the city, and the Ming Jing Wangfu was the honor guard; Sure enough, after receiving the letter, the former military governor of the army immediately led the front team to Qizhou City a hundred meters away.

The army set up fifteen heavy cannons such as the general cannon, the Weiyuan cannon, and the bowl mouth cannon, aiming at the city gate and bombarding a few cannons, and the defense of the city was suppressed by the artillery fire of the breaking army.

Just as the army approached the city and set up a ladder to prepare to enter the city, Xu Wenqi, the governor of Ming Qizhou, came to the city tower to boost morale and said, "Soldiers, His Royal Highness Prince Jing, you have transferred your family members to the outside of the city, you can rest assured that you don't have to worry about the destruction of the city, even if we die, we are loyal to the court, and after death, we can be recorded in history so that our children and grandchildren can enjoy the treatment of the court." ”

The soldiers of the Ming army, who had no fighting spirit, heard this, and after this encouragement, everyone cheered up and fired at the Liukou, killing many of the intruders under the city, and raised their guns to shoot the intruders who climbed the ladder, and the Ming army also carried a basket of (meteor thorns), like a ball with spikes, and the rogue soldiers who fell down to the ladder and stabbed the charge were bleeding under their feet, and they rolled down under the ladder to block several waves of attacks.

The former military governor of the army, who had suffered a lot, hurriedly ordered (Mingjin to withdraw his troops).

However, the eight kings in the rear army looked at the front army banner and retreated? He felt that something was wrong and asked people to check the situation, and after a cup of tea, he saw the former military governor retreating in embarrassment, and the eight kings hurriedly asked, "Why do you want to withdraw the army?" Are you cowardly? ”

I saw that the former military governor of the army replied, "The last general doesn't dare, but the morale of the Ming army suddenly boosted for some reason, and the last general thinks that for today's plan, only a night attack will have a chance of winning!" And the Eight Kings got up and walked out of the camp to look at the sky, he felt that there was some truth in this? Because the dark clouds in the sky are overwhelming at this moment, if you take advantage of the rain and night attack, the chances of victory are very high, after all, the Ming army in the city does not have many troops and firearms, so the eight kings ordered the three armies to rest and wait for a sneak attack in the middle of the night.

At the same time, he returned to Shaanxi from the capital to announce the herald of the political secretary Tong Guanwei, and the Qin Cha Ming pedestrian Si Xingren came with 100,000 stone grain, and was commanded by the Ming Tong Guan Guard: Zhang Eryou, when he saw him on patrol, he hurriedly went over to salute the Qin Cha, and took the Qin Cha to see the governor of Ming Shaanxi.

As soon as they entered the Wei command post, some soldiers hurriedly came to report to the governor of Shaanxi, only to see him quickly put down the account book, come out and kneel in front of the Qin Cha to receive the decree, and the Qin Cha took out the holy decree from his sleeve and handed it to him.

This surprised the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty! Thought; Is it a secret decree? He took the holy decree and thanked the Qincha and welcomed the Qincha into the guard command post to wait.

At this moment, the governor of Shaanxi called the herald over and whispered, "Your Majesty, what else do you say besides giving a secret decree?" The herald shook his head and said nothing! The governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty felt a little strange? I immediately went back to the account and opened the secret decree to look at it, but found that it only mentioned food, and the words "soldier source and silver" were not mentioned! The governor of Shaanxi was very disappointed!

For today's plan, he thought that he could only win over the Xi'an Qianwei, Xi'an Left Guard, Xi'an Guard, Shenwu Right Guard, Xi'an Right Guard, Shenwu Qianwei, and Xi'an Middle Guard in the nearby Xi'an Prefecture, and the garrisons of these 7 guards could be relied on.

For this reason, the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty specially asked the Ming Tongguan guards to count the number of people, and found that the newly recruited soldiers were about 80,000, plus the current Tongguan Guard's 20,000 garrisons totaled 100,000 people, if you can win over the 60,000 garrisons of Xi'an Mansion are estimated to be 160,000 troops, and they can still fight against the Liukou.

Subsequently, the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty ordered someone to write a letter and contacted the commander of the Shaanxi Metropolitan of the Ming Dynasty: An Qingsheng, who wanted him to mobilize part of the Yulin Wei Qin army to go south, and let the two Guyuan Wei (the army of the nine-sided town of the Ming Jing Division) jointly protect the local security of the Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Division.

After sending the letter, the governor of Shaanxi Province of the Ming Dynasty went out of his military tent and ordered (the trumpeter) to blow the horn to gather the new soldiers and veterans, intending to see for himself how they were trained. At this moment, the sound of the horn spread in all directions (woo, woo, woo) and all the Ming troops in the barracks were alarmed, and they quickly came to the school field under the leadership of the generals of each battalion.

At this time, Ma Wei also helped Wu Junzhen quickly out of the camp, and when he came to the school field, he saw the soldiers next to the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty beating drums, and then the Ming Tong Guan Wei calmed down: Su Jingyi, so he stood up and shouted, "All the queues, today the Governor will review the soldiers and horses, but those who are excellent will be rewarded with 1 tael of silver immediately." ”

I saw the recruits and veterans in the audience, the standing posture is simply a world of difference, and it is not a type at all! The governor of Shaanxi Ming was a little angry when he saw it, so he got up and said, "You have all been in the army for almost half a month, and I want to see how well you train today?" After speaking, let the commander of the Mingtong Pass Guard give the order to shake the flag, and first let the cavalry of the recruits go into battle, aiming at the drum two hundred steps in front of him and beating the drum with a drum hammer.

So the recruits rode on their horses and charged under the command of the Ming Dynasty Yi Xiaoqi, this novice cavalry did not look very good at riding, and hundreds of people just rode a hundred steps before falling off their horses! However, most of the novice cavalry still managed to beat the drums.

Next is the spearmen and infantry axemen demonstration, and Ma Wei looks a little nervous? Wu Junzhen's expression was naturally without pressure, and the spearmen in the front line stipulated that each person must stab a stake and successfully provoked it, only to see rows of sharp spears quickly stabbing at the stake, and this wave of test spearmen basically passed.

The regulations of the infantry knife and axe hand on the side are to quickly rush over within 100 steps and cut off the head of the stake with a knife, when the order was issued, Ma Wei quickly rushed out, but was hit by the new soldier knife and axe hand on the left and right, Wu Junzhen, who was running in front, saw this and beckoned him to follow, Ma Wei quickly cheered up and squeezed through everyone to the front, quickly pulled out the war knife and cut off the head of the stake, of course, Wu Junzhen did not show weakness He used the rotary knife method, both hands took turns to switch the knife, and actually cut off the heads of the two wooden stakes at once, and won a reward of 1 tael of silver.

After the appearance is the recruit gunner and the recruit artillery battalion, first of all, the recruit gunner is divided into two teams, aiming at the target within 100 steps must hit a bull's-eye to win, which is not a big problem for those recruits who love the big open fire, but there was an accident when loading and pressing the fire?

There are actually many recruits who stab the mouth back and forth with the battle, and they did not control the heat well, which led to the explosion of the mouth! Many recruits were injured by the explosion, but fortunately, the Daming Torch team has always used a mixture of various types of firearms, so most of the recruits who blew up the bore were bird-dead.

For this problem, the governor of Shaanxi Ming felt that it had improved, and in the end, the recruit artillery battalion performed very well, blowing up the wooden stakes 300 steps away according to the regulations, and when he saw Wu Junzhen, he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Ma, what is this?" So powerful? It's much more powerful than a catapult. Ma Wei said helplessly: "This is the artillery of the Ming Dynasty!" "But Wu Junzhen still doesn't know much!

Then the recruit review mode ended here, and the governor of Shaanxi also came to a conclusion that the problem of horseback and firecracker team! He thought to himself; Only the iron cavalry of the Yulin Wei Qin Army and the garrison of Xi'an Mansion can meet the requirements of these two problems, and he thinks about it for a while and feels that the novice cavalry team and the novice fire team must all be replaced with infantry or artillery.

The governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty hurriedly ordered the generals of each battalion to come to discuss the matter, and the rest of the soldiers were dismissed and returned to the camp to rest.

Before I knew it, the time was up, and sure enough, it was drizzling in the sky, and the eight kings decided to lead the army to put on their robes and come to the west gate of Qizhou, and threw them on the city wall with flying claws to stab the dead soldiers of the army to stab the patrol Ming army to break through the west gate.