On the head of Yongning City, the weather was as cold as ice, and Han Changchun, who had barely moved, had beads of sweat the size of soybeans on his forehead.

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that the combat power of my own soldiers was so sparse, there was no heavy long-range strike firepower such as artillery, and there were no firearms such as arquebuses to help, I thought that I could rely on the archers to strike at the thieves a little, but I didn't expect that my own archers had extremely poor physical strength and were extremely biased.

Ordinary archers, without more than three arrows, must have their arms as soft as mud, and most of the arrows shot out can't even touch the enemy's hair.

The county lieutenant who was left behind by Han Fu to supervise the battle had a face as black as the bottom of a pot, and his eyes were full of worry.

In the battle to defend the city, before the enemy army approached the city wall, it was necessary to kill and wound more enemy troops, and now that the beggar army was blocked by the trench, it was a good time to take the opportunity to kill the enemy.

Unexpectedly, the martial arts of their own archers are sparse and usually tight, although not the arrows and arrows are missing, but there are very few of them, if they can't kill and injure the enemy's living force, just this little soldier in the city, as long as the thieves climb the city, Yongning will fall.

On the side of the beggar army, the advance was relatively smooth, except for a few poorly protected beggar soldiers who were occasionally shot by arrows from the city, or wounded or killed.

The wounded and the deceased's own stretcher teams were quickly carried back to their own military formations, the wounded were treated, the deceased wrote down their ID numbers for bereavement purposes, and the bodies were buried nearby.

After fighting for a while, Li Zicheng was quite satisfied, and he trained every day, and the survivability of the soldiers of the beggar army on the battlefield was acceptable, and the morale of the soldiers was relatively strong at present.

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"Take!"

The feathered arrow was nailed to the shield, and the body of the arrow still trembled.

"Damn, this official army's archery skills are not bad" The dog with the shield felt the kinetic energy from the arrows, and secretly exclaimed in his heart that he was lucky.

Just now, his fellow villager Dog Bear was killed by an arrow from the official army in the city and carried to the back.

This bear, I talked to him yesterday, just now I said that death is death, he can't help but be a little afraid, he is an only son in the family, if he doesn't already have a son, and the begging army salary is really rich, his mother doesn't want him to come out.

"I want to live, I can't be, I have to kill someone else to do it." Gou Yu tightened the handle of the knife in his hand a little tighter.

"Walls, walls."

In the eyes of the dogs, there are only city walls.

His team was not slow to move, three trenches, paved with the door panels, and the city wall was in front of him, and the fierce battle had just begun.

"The thieves have landed in the city!?"

The official army on Yongning City is in strict formation, and the thief battering ram is still far away, as long as these people who climb the city wall can be defeated, Yongning City will be defended.

"Bang, bang, bang" The sound of wood and the masonry on the city wall sounded in a row.

"Brothers, up."

The beggar captains took the lead and climbed up the ladder.

"Kill the thieves."

The officers and soldiers in the city shouted, and the soldiers defending the city threw down the rolling logs, boulders, and cannons.

The beggar soldiers were poorly equipped, had no armor to protect themselves, and only had a red turban on their heads, and the boulder was thrown down from the city, with great kinetic energy, and it smashed the soldiers of the beggar army ladder* to burst, and the blood flowed like a kite with a broken string.

"Ahh

The * above and the blood splashed on the people below, and immediately frightened the people behind them to stop in place and scream.

"Hmm"

Before the beggar soldier could finish his call, he was also hit by a stone, and with a muffled grunt, he fell into the city.

Only then did the beggar soldiers who besieged the city feel the cruelty of war, it turned out that fighting is to die, and it is not invincible with a single blood.

"This city is difficult to attack, it is useless to die in vain, everyone retreat!"

I don't know who shouted, and then the begging officers and soldiers begging the city looked back and saw that several of their own robes were running back.

Seeing this scene, how could the soldiers of the beggar army, who were still ordinary people not long ago, not be afraid, they hurriedly followed suit and ran back in great strides.

"Hey, why do you want to run here, aren't you afraid of breaking into the king's military law?"

Gou Yu was still thinking about this problem, not beware of the stones falling from the city, he took two steps forward, he could avoid this heavy blow, how could he not be afraid of a life, so he could only not do what he thought, and also ran away.

"The thief has retreated."

The defenders of Yongning City never expected that the thieves would be so unbeaten, and they would disperse after a little contact.

"Look, the thieves have retreated, and we have defended." Han Changchun saw the thieves retreating, and hurriedly went to tell the county lieutenant about the battle situation with a smile.

"I can see that the thieves have gone away and will come back again. No matter what, you have to hold on, and when the reinforcements come, you can kill all these thieves, and then you can put your heart in your stomach. The county lieutenant replied nonchalantly.

"That's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying," Han Changchun first smiled, and then as if he remembered something, he slapped his helmet and said, "Damn, I almost forgot, I haven't given a reward to the person who killed the thief." Come on, call the man who just killed the thief, and Ben Qian will always give a reward. ”

After a short time, several defenders came to Han Changchun and received a silver reward.

The joy of receiving the reward is infinite, and the one who has not received the reward is somewhat envious, 5 taels of silver, and he can't earn it in a year, and now he can kill a thief.

Han Changchun seemed to feel everyone's intentions, he grinned, and said with a smile: "Don't be greedy, everyone, just fight like this, everyone has money to take." ”

The defenders were inspired by the silver, and some young people still hoped that the beggar army would come in quickly, but now they changed their minds and planned to defend well, so as to kill a few beggar soldiers and make some money.

The morale of the Yongning defenders was greatly boosted for a while.

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"Hey, it's only been a long time, and I'm going to run back, it's really eggless!" Li Zicheng saw his subordinates running back, and there was no anger on his face, but he just smiled.

"I finally remember to run away with blades and ordnance, and it was not in vain for these months of training." Gao Jie said with a faint smile.

"Running away with a blade or ordnance is not an escape? Li Guo, the one who took the lead in running, can you see clearly? Li became a self-enlightened man.

"I can see it all, there are fifteen people in total." Li Guo took the clairvoyant mirror from the front of his eyes and replied.

"Okay, when they come back, take the lock first, and I'm going to march the law. so that they can know that when they are soldiers fighting, there is only one way to kill the enemy desperately, and there is no other way to retreat. Li Zicheng said coldly.

Besides, the few beggar army deserters who reflexively fled after seeing the fierceness of the battlefield ran back to their own army formation, thinking that they were safe, but they didn't watch out for the slanted stab that killed dozens of leaders Li Guo's personal entourage and took them down all together.

"What are you doing, why are you arresting us?" The sergeants looked dazed.

"Hmph, what are you doing, do you know that my beggar army has military law, and you dare to retreat without hearing the order to retreat, you know that there is death and no life today! Come on, tie me up! ”

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Those sergeants who fled only then remembered that the beggar army had military law, and those who did not respect military orders on the battlefield and retreated without authorization died. As soon as they thought of this, their faces suddenly turned to ashes, and they regretted not doing it at the beginning.

Li Guo's pro-army didn't care what these deserters were thinking, they tied them up and escorted them to Li Zicheng, and behind them was the whole army of the beggar army.

"Why don't you listen to the order and retreat without permission?" Li Zicheng was expressionless and asked in a cold voice.

"I'm scared!"

After a while, a voice responded in a trembling voice.

"Who is not afraid, if it weren't for my begging army, you would be afraid of freezing and starving to death, your family would not be spared, you chose to join the begging army, for yourself to survive, for your family to survive, with the court, with the entire Ming Dynasty as an enemy, you are not afraid, today under the Yongning city wall, you are afraid.

You are afraid, who is not afraid, but we can't be afraid, we have failed, everything we have now will be taken away by the imperial court again, we can only succeed, not fail. How can we succeed is to rely on our beggar army, we are an army, we do not respect orders, how can we win the battle, how can we block the killing of the imperial court.

You must die, a shameful death, not a strong man, but a coward, come and behead them! ”

Li Zicheng gave an order, and his own knife and axe came forward, held down the 15 deserters, and was about to be executed.

"King Chuang, the little one should be damned, but I want to ask, will you take my family's property because I am a deserter?" Before he died, a deserter asked in a crying voice.