Li Guo was in Kaifeng City, and when he received an urgent letter from Yancheng, he couldn't help but be terrified.

Damn, how many soldiers and horses does the Tang Army have, how can it attack in the south, east, and center at the same time, such a battle situation is overwhelming, it is simply desperate.

The Tang army advanced so quickly that it was simply unable to make an effective response, even if it wanted to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, it would not be possible.

I really didn't expect that the Tang army was only feints in the south and east of Henan, and the direction that the Tang army really wanted to attack was the weakest central Henan.

The Tang army suddenly attacked Yancheng with a large army, but this sharp hand was ruthless.

If they successfully take Yancheng, there is no doubt that the situation in the entire Henan will be completely chaotic, and the defense measures of the entire Henan will collapse completely, becoming an embarrassing situation in which the north and the south do not care about each other.

Then, the 150,000 soldiers who have been deployed in the south of Henan will become a lone army that has no support, and they may have the worry of self-collapse. Next, the Tang army is very likely to attack from the north and south, swallowing the remnants of the army and the entire southern part of Henan.

If the southern part of Henan is swallowed up, if the 150,000 soldiers and horses are lost, the central and southern Henan provinces have been lost, and the endless northern Henan Plain will be difficult to resist the attack of the Tang army, and it will be a matter of time before it is finally lost.

No, such a terrible thing must not be allowed to happen!

In desperation, Li Guo could only send the 10,000 soldiers and horses still in Kaifeng City, led by his close general Hao Yongzhong, to Yancheng urgently, hoping to enter the city before the Tang army besieged the city, so as to strengthen the defense force in the city.

As long as Yancheng can block the attack of the Tang army in a short time, then he will draw troops and horses from the south and east, and then personally lead reinforcements to Yancheng to rescue, so as to attack inside and outside and crush the Tang army in one fell swoop.

Hao Yongzhong, also known as Hao Shaoqi, was once a flag bearer in the army, so he was nicknamed Hao Shaoqi, after the founding of Dashun State, he was quite a war association, he was named Jibei Bo, and later has been working under Li Guo. Now he received Li Guo's order, led 10,000 soldiers and horses from Kaifeng, all the way through Weishi, Weichuan, Xuzhou, Linying and other places, and went straight to Yancheng.

Due to the delay of the journey, when they arrived in Xuzhou, the soldiers and horses of the sixth and seventh towns of the Tang army had already joined forces, crossed the Great Hidden Water together, and came to the outside of Yancheng.

The soldiers and horses of the two towns rushed to the city, and quickly surrounded this ancient city, which had left a great reputation in history.

At this point, the county seat of Yanxian County quickly fell into isolation and helplessness.

What made the defenders in the city very angry was that these Tang troops who came from afar did not even bother to do the work of persuading them to surrender, nor did they try to rest and recuperate, but immediately began to attack the city.

Although Yancheng is a famous city in ancient times, the defense of the city walls is average. Its original Song Dynasty city wall, has been demolished in the Yuan Dynasty, and then in the early Ming Dynasty to be rebuilt, because the Ming Dynasty at that time attacked the Northern Yuan Dynasty very fast, so after taking this city, did not pay much attention to this ancient city, its new original city wall quality, compared with other ordinary county seats, there is no special feature.

With the passage of more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Yancheng has been in disrepair for a long time, and there are many damages, and it has long been no longer in shape.

What's more, in the late Ming Dynasty, the Liukou and the Ming army had repeatedly fought in the land of Henan, and this Yancheng also changed hands many times, so the damage to its city walls was greatly aggravated, and it could be called barely usable.

When Dashun founded the country and took the central and southern parts of Henan from Zuo Liangyu, Yancheng was not as important as the two cities of Runing and Nanyang in the south, and its city defense did not cost money to repair it, so now, it gave the Tang army an excellent opportunity to attack the city.

With the absolute superiority of firearms, they had to quickly capture this city as a foothold, so the Tang army was too lazy to do such time-consuming and laborious perfunctory work as persuasion to surrender, so they simply took it by force.

At present, the gunners of the 6th and 7th towns of the Tang Army combined, there are a total of 180 heavy dragon bombers. These 180 steel heavy dragon bombardment guns that flashed with silver gray light were slowly pushed by the Tang Army gunners to a thousand meters outside the east gate of Yancheng.

Next, the Don gunners began to fix the gun mounts, adjust the angle of fire, reload gunpowder and shells, and soon made preparations for battle.

These 180 heavy dragon bombardments are lined up along the county seat of Yancheng, these majestic dragon bombardments, the muzzles of the black holes, go straight to the low city wall opposite, and their awe-inspiring momentum makes the enemy troops defending the city scared their legs and feet.

Good guys, these cannons look so scary, you can imagine how powerful and broken they will be once they are fired.

All the panicked defenders saw from a distance that a person who looked like a captain in the Tang army formation raised the red flag in his hand.

"Ready!"

"Put!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

The muzzle of each of the 180 heavy dragon bombardments that fired 32 pounds of shells immediately erupted with crimson afterburners and dazzling golden fire, and in the dense billowing white smoke, 90 jet-black iron bullets, with the howling sound of death, slammed into the eastern wall of Yancheng City.

The huge impact sound that shattered the eardrum sounded continuously, and the one hundred and eighty jet-black 32-pound iron bullets, as if they had eyes, hit the eastern wall of Yancheng fiercely in an evenly distributed state.

On the east side of the entire city wall, more than 130 large holes arranged neatly and evenly appeared in an instant, and at the edge of each large hole, the thick and cracked lines were as dense as spider webs, and they spread unscrupulously to the siege, and the bricks of the large city wall splashed and cracked, and a piece of dust and mist filled the air, and the entire city wall was trembling violently.

On the city wall, a large number of Shunjun defenders who were shocked to the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths bleeding together, everyone was shocked to the blood surged, and the eyes were shrouded in the dust and fog that choked their noses, and the city wall under their feet shook violently like a pendulum, and there were as many as nearly 100 unstable defender soldiers, screaming and falling from the city wall, and then fell into meat cakes.

The soldiers of the Dashun army guarding the western city wall suddenly became greatly confused.

They were already weak in morale and unbearable for a battle, and they were good at preying on the villagers and oppressing the people every day, but it was too much to force them to maintain their composure and combat effectiveness under this strong and fierce battle.

At this time, on the western city wall, there was no need for people to organize at all, and immediately hundreds of frightened defender soldiers, as if they had seen the most terrifying thing in the world, screamed in horror, turned around and fled down the road of the city wall.

The commander defending the city was furious, and he and his guards immediately rushed out to slash and kill the fleeing soldiers, and finally stabilized the situation and restored calm to the western wall.

While the western wall of Yancheng was finally re-stabilized, the next round of artillery bombardment by the Tang army began.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

Another 180 jet-black 32-pound iron bullets, like a heavy fist swung by the god of death, roared in an extremely terrifying posture.

In the deafening sound of the crash, the broken bricks on the city wall rained down, and the dust and mist flew up all over the sky. The dense cobwebs and cracks on the entire western city wall have reached a shocking level.

In the face of such fierce violence and complete death, the struggle and resistance of human beings is almost a joke. The rest of the defenders, no one needed to mobilize, and I don't know who shouted, and these guys immediately abandoned their posts, howled and ran away. Their flight was so resolute, so unstoppable, that it was like a horde of mad beasts that seemed to knock anything in their way to the ground.

Faced with such a situation, the main general of the city head was no longer helpless, and could only flee down the city with those routed soldiers, hoping to form a new defense line in the city to resist the Tang army.

At this time, the third round of shelling of the Don army began again.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

The dazzling firelight flashed, the choking smoke floated up, and one hundred and eighty thirty-two pound iron bullets roared away, and the sound of the huge iron bullets crashing and the dull sound of the collapse of the city wall were continuous, and the smell made people palpitate. After this bombardment, there were nearly 20 gaps in the collapsed city wall, and almost half of the city wall area completely collapsed.

At this point in the battle, the entire eastern city wall had been completely destroyed, and Liu Guoneng, the mayor of the sixth town of the Tang Army, finally began to give a loud order to attack.

"Pass on the order of our army, let the 9,000 musketeers of the two towns march in a straight line and destroy all the enemy troops encountered in front of them. In addition, arrange for the spear and shield battle array to be guarded behind the firecrackers to prevent the enemy from attacking. In addition, the rampant is always divided into two parts, left and right, covering the flanks! “

"Order!"

Soon, in the Tang army's military formation, more than 9,000 musketeers, each holding a flint Lumi musket, lined up in a straight line, and strode forward amid the sound of drums.

Behind them was a line of spears and shields that seemed to be as straight as a line, keeping a distance of five or six paces from the musketeers in front of them, and following in silence.

On both sides of the entire battle array, there were rampant team members dressed in three layers of armor, each armed with heavy weapons, like mecha monsters, divided into two parts, firmly protecting the two wings. In the face of the Tang army's gunners who rushed neatly like machines, and the defenders guarding the entrance of the street, they all felt trembling, and everyone's faces had a look of horror and panic.

And the main general of the defenders standing behind the formation, he looked at the Tang army gunners who rushed in a long row, his face became more and more disgraced, and the despair in his heart was beyond words.

In fact, at this point in the battle, it can be said that the battle situation has been decided, in the case that the city wall has been broken, the enemy army can only be trapped in the streets and alleys, the enemy army has become a turtle in the urn, and they have no way out at all except to surrender with their hands tied.

However, the enemy army was still stubbornly resisting, and they held on in silence, as if they thought they could defeat the Tang army with courage and persistence.

And in this silence, the Tang Army's firecrackers have been getting closer and closer. Sixty paces away from them, the musketeers stopped their advance, formed two rows of squatting and standing in front of them, and began to aim at their targets in front of them, firing their guns.

"Bang bang bang! ……“

The upper and lower rows of firecrackers fired at the same time, and the bright red afterburners of the two rows of firecrackers flew like flying and shaking ribbons. The dense and choking white smoke flew up again, making the entire position suddenly turn into a state of white and invisible. Of the 9,000 firearms, more than 7,600 were fired, and countless tiny three-coin heavy lead bullets formed a dense rain of death in the air, letting out a soft scream, and shot out in front of the panicked defenders on the opposite side.

Tiny buckshot is like a gray killer bee, whistling at whatever it encounters. The defenders who were guarding the front row immediately had a number of them, like a trick, blooming with blood, and those who were hit fell on their backs as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer.

The continuous screams immediately rang out incessantly, and this intensive fire caused at least 600 enemy soldiers in front of the enemy troops in front of them, although they were blocked by shields, to be hit head-on by lead bullets, and they were either dead or wailing.

The Tang army's fierce salvo attack made the enemy troops in front of them finally unable to resist it anymore, and they no longer had the courage to continue fighting, and completely collapsed.

Countless enemy troops fled like frightened wild boars, and at this time, they had no discipline or punishment to restrain them, and these routs were scurrying around the city as if they were crazy, and no one could stop them from fleeing.

Seeing that under the Tang Army's fierce blow, these subordinates of his own suffered such heavy casualties, and the guards who were densely guarded by a group of guards were like white paper, trembling all over.

No, you can't let the Don Army continue shooting like this.

If the Tang army is allowed to fight like this, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are under his command, they will only become the live targets of the Tang army, and they will all die in aggrieved condition. Moreover, in such a state of almost slaughter, the guards who are still willing to stick to it are afraid that they have problems with their heads.

"The whole army obeys my orders! Immediately raise the white flag and surrender to the Don Army! “

The guard finally shouted out these words helplessly, but the guard next to him immediately waved a large white flag, held it high in the air, and shook it vigorously.

"Brother Tang Jun, don't shoot, we are willing to surrender, we are willing to surrender!"

Hearing the untoned shouts of the defenders in the city, Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang Army, immediately ordered all the musketeers to stop firing and accept their surrender.

Soon, the remaining more than 4,000 defenders in the city abandoned their weapons and surrendered to the city in despair under the leadership of the main general.

In this siege battle of Yancheng, after annihilating nearly 1,000 enemies, the Tang army finally took this city garrisoned by nearly 10,000 enemy troops in a very short period of time at a very small cost of slightly injuring a few people.

This is a complete victory over these ancient armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which have sufficient firepower and are very well organized and disciplined. Of course, the insufficiently defended city wall of Yancheng also greatly reduced the difficulty of the Tang army's siege and shortened the Tang army's siege room.

This guard general was pushed by two Tang Army soldiers and came to Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang Army and the mayor of the sixth town.

Liu Guoneng sat on his horse, looking at the defeated general in front of him with a depressed face in a condescending attitude, with a hidden smile on his face.

"Let me ask you, what is the situation outside of Yancheng now? You have to be honest and make it clear to the town, otherwise, don't blame the town for being ruthless! Liu Guoneng shouted at the pale guard.

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