After the axemen and musketeers took control of the city gate and the nearby city walls, Li Shi led the phalanx of spearmen into the city.

Even though he had already controlled the city gate and the nearby city walls, Li Shi was not careless, he ordered the pikemen not to spread out the formation, and entered the city in two columns, and after entering the city, he quickly reorganized the phalanx in the open space inside the city gate.

Inside the north gate of South Zhuangzi is a barn-drying field, which is also a place for the Zhuang Ding guarding the gate to practice on weekdays, which is enough to put down the spear phalanx of eight companies.

On the opposite side of the barn field, directly opposite the north gate is a street seven or eight meters wide, which leads directly to the large school field outside the back gate of Huo Mansion, where Huo Yi ordered the military drill.

Li Shi stood on the barn and observed for a while, and ordered the spear phalanx to change from horizontal to vertical.

In the past two years, after continuous practice, Chen Xian's phalanx has also been constantly changing.

The first is the company-level phalanx, which has changed from a thick phalanx of nine rows and eleven columns at the beginning to a rectangular phalanx with a large wide surface of six rows and fifteen columns today.

Of the six rows of phalanxes, the first four rows were spearmen, and the last two rows were axe-gunners.

The number of the phalanx was reduced from ninety-nine to ninety, and the reduced number was allocated to the musketeers.

The small musket phalanx, which was originally located at the four corners of the phalanx, was also placed on the side of the pike, and the number of people was changed from the original fifty to the current sixty, and the sword and shield hands were eliminated.

The musketeers flanked the pikemen were also lined up in six rows of ten.

After rigorous training, the six-platoon musketeers were essentially able to form a continuous firepower.

Such a formation method, if there is only a single phalanx, it will have a big drawback, the pikemen cannot protect the musketeers well, and the other side of the pikemen, lack firepower.

But the company-level phalanx itself is not used alone, and when the eight company-level phalanxes are put together, their flaws are covered up by each other.

In fact, such a company-level phalanx is still too thin, and in Chen Xian's plan, the battalion-level phalanx of four company-level phalanxes combined is the most basic combat unit of this kind of phalanx.

Four small phalanxes of six rows and fifteen columns can form a large phalanx of twelve rows and thirty columns, and such a phalanx is thick enough to block even in the face of heavy cavalry charges.

Four phalanxes of muskets in six rows and ten columns could form a wide musket firing array of six rows and forty columns, and it would be even more perfect if these musketeers could be equipped with bayonets.

Li Shi observed the width of the street in front of him, turned the six rows of fifteen columns of spears into fifteen rows and six columns, and then under the cover of axe and musketeers, he quickly passed through the slightly narrow street and arrived at the back gate of Huofu at the other end of the street.

Li Shi only sent one company through the streets to test it.

Soon, a small group of axe spearmen returned to the barn to report to Li Shi, the entire Huo family compound seemed to be completely undefended, and the people inside seemed to have run out.

Li Shi thought about it for a while, and summoned two heralds and asked them to go to the south gate to report the situation here to Chen Xian.

After sending off the two heralds, Li Shi left a battalion to guard the city gate, and personally led three companies through the street and came to the back gate of Huofu.

Coming to the back door of Huo Mansion without any obstacles, Li Shi was basically sure that this could never be a trap, and he dismantled two companies of axe and spearmen into four squads and let them enter Huo Mansion to search.

Half an hour later, the axe and gun ran back to the school yard around the walls on both sides of the Huo family's compound, telling Li Shi that the entire Huo Mansion, except for some women and children who were hiding, had escaped.

Li Shi waved his hand to let the axe and spearmen return to the team, and then he asked each company to form a column, around the wall of Huofu, and around the front gate of Huofu.

There are wide streets around Huofu, and the houses closest to Huofu are twenty meters away, which is enough for a column to pass through.

When he came to the front gate of Huofu, Li Shi led people through the street directly opposite the front gate of Huofu and came to the south gate of Zhuangzi.

Although the defenders of the south gate of Zhuangzi also fled, the south gate was not opened.

Chen Xian brought the infantry this time, and he had no intention of attacking the city at all, so he was reluctant to waste his men in the siege, he would rather waste gunpowder to collapse the gate of this Zhuangzi.

Therefore, although Chen Xian knew the situation at the north gate from the herald, and also saw that the defenders at the south gate had fled, he couldn't enter the locked south gate of the south gate, and he didn't even bring a ladder this time.

Li Shi opened the city gate, Chen Xian left a battalion to guard the city gate, and he went to Huo Mansion with Li Shi.

After the two battalions marched into the Huofu compound and occupied the Huofu wall and various gatehouse and sentry towers, Chen Xian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Occupying the fortress-like Huo Mansion and the walls of Zhuangzi, this Zhuangzi can no longer turn over the palm of Chen Xian's hand.

Here, Chen Gendarmes occupied Huofu bloodlessly, but Yang Miaozhen killed corpses all over the ground.

It turned out that Yang Miaozhen and Chen Xian parted ways this morning, but they went to the only wooden bridge north of Nanzhuangzi to cross the Baoping River, intercept spies in the direction of the county seat, and intercept possible reinforcements.

According to Chen Xian's plan, if you want to take down the South Zhuangzi, you have to wait for the cannon to collapse the Zhuangzi gate, if the people in the Zhuangzi know that the gate is blocked with sand, it may not be possible to collapse the gate, maybe you will have to collapse a section of the earthen wall.

A small cannon of three or five catties, although it can collapse this kind of earthen fence, is not easy.

Once the battle drags on to the point of collapsing the earthen wall, I am afraid that it will be difficult to end today, and once it drags on until tomorrow, it is very likely that reinforcements will come from the direction of the county seat.

Yang Miaozhen's task is to eliminate the scouts and small reinforcements sent from the direction of the county seat, if there is a large force of reinforcements, Yang Miaozhen must find a way to destroy the wooden bridge, and send someone to report to Chen Xian, to give Chen Xian time to retreat.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.

What Chen Xian didn't expect was that the famous General Huo gave up Nanzhuangzi without fighting a battle and fled with the cavalry.

In this way, he happened to fall into Yang Miaozhen's ambush.

The lancers sent by Chen Xian's side chased very eagerly, and Huo Yi did not dare to wade into the water, because the beach of the Baoping River was densely covered with stones, so he could only lead the horse through.

Huo Yi was afraid that he would be caught up when he led his horse across the hundreds of meters of river beach, so Huo Yi could only lead people to escape towards the only wooden bridge on the Baoping River.

When Yang Miaozhen arrived at the Baoping Bridge this morning, she hid her horses in the riverside woods not far from the bridgehead, and she took the horse infantry to hide in the willows and bushes on both sides of the southern end of the Baoping Bridge.

Who knew that they didn't wait for the scouts from the direction of the county seat, but waited for the horse team from the direction of Nanzhuangzi.

After careful observation, he found that it was not his own cavalry, and Yang Miaozhen did not hesitate to order his subordinates to shoot and block the attack.

The willow forests on both sides of the south end of the Baoping Bridge are only a dozen meters away from the bridgehead, and a big trap pit was dug at the bridgehead, which made Huo Yi's generals fall into a ball.

In this case, after the horse infantry got on the bayonet, a charge basically solved the Huojia horse team.

When cleaning the battlefield, Huo Yuanwai's body was found......