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For a whole day, Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian did not go out of the camp to attack the city again, but sent a lot of soldiers, scattered out of the camp, and rushed to some villages outside the city.

Although they can't beat Longzhou City with their combat strength for the time being, for the Zhuang Fort on the periphery of Longzhou, their strength to deal with those Zhuang Fort will not be Li Zicheng, so to deal with Xiao Zhuang Fort, their soldiers will still be able to capture.

As a result, it only took less than half a day for them to capture three villages and forts outside the city, and in addition to bringing back the stolen money and grain, they also pulled back a large number of door panels, bed boards and other items, and also collected a lot of bedding, and transported these materials back to their camp with some captured Zhuangding villagers.

In the afternoon of the same day, the camps of the two armies were busy, and many people in the two armies were craftsmen who had been craftsmen in the past, and Li Zicheng, as a veteran of the battlefield, naturally brought some craftsmen with the army, and these craftsmen were busy on the spot.

At the same time, the two armies also sent a group of auxiliaries to cut down a lot of trees nearby, and they were all transported back to their respective camps and handed over to the craftsmen in the camps.

For two whole days, Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian did not launch a new offensive against Longzhou City, but sent their cavalry, constantly patrolling outside the city, and a small number of scouts sent by the defenders in the city had several skirmishes, both sides had casualties, but also limited the reconnaissance of the defenders outside the city, and gradually surrounded Longzhou.

It was not until the morning of the third day that Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian once again gathered their soldiers and horses out of the camp and lined up outside Longzhou City.

Yang Yulin has been a little restless in the past three days, it stands to reason that the thieves outside the city should not act like this, he has sent a fast horse to the direction of Baoji County, and transmitted the news of Li Zicheng's sneak attack on Longzhou to He Renlong, calculating the time If He Renlong returns to Longzhou, he should be able to rush back to Longzhou City soon, but the Li thief outside the city gave up continuing to attack Longzhou, but put on a posture of besieging Longzhou City for a long time, this reaction is obviously a little abnormal.

So he sent scouts out of the city for two consecutive days, to the vicinity of the thief camp outside the city to inquire about their news, but the scouts sent out often out of the city, they will encounter the scouts of the thieves, although the scouts he sent have also gained, but only some small victories, but can not detect the movement of the thieves outside the city, so that Yang Yulin is a little uneasy, for fear that Li Zicheng will play some tricks again.

On the third day, when he heard the news that the thief army outside the city had come out of the camp again, and it seemed that they were coming to attack the city, Yang Yulin was a little relieved, so he immediately dressed up neatly, led a few personal soldiers to the top of the city, and looked out of the city.

As a result, this time, when he saw the situation outside the city, he was immediately surprised.

The two mutant armies outside the city were obviously fully prepared this time, and in front of their formation, lined up, and a large number of strange things appeared in a row.

Yang Yulin is not a rookie, after looking at it with his eyes, he immediately saw that this big strange thing was actually made of a wheelbarrow and a big cart with a wooden board on the top, and a layer of bedding to create a shield car, don't look ugly to the extreme, but Yang Yulin knows that this thing is definitely not easy to deal with, and the bullets in the city are basically ineffective against these things, unless they use a cannon to load a solid iron bullet or a stone bullet to hit it directly, otherwise, they can only watch these things push to the city.

In addition to these shield carts, he was also stunned to find that there were several familiar things in the enemy formation outside the city, and after looking at them from a distance, his heart jumped even more in horror, these things were actually made of crude logs.

Although since the early Ming Dynasty artillery was widely used, the artillery trucks in this cold weapon gradually withdrew from the battlefield, but as a mutant army, they are often very lacking in firearms, when attacking the city, the only firearms are often unable to confront the officers and soldiers defending the city, in addition to filling with human lives, occasionally some such things will be created, used as siege equipment, but this thing often needs a lot of craftsmen to work together, in order to build, and today look at the thief army outside the city, at least seven or eight such return cannons have been built, This shows that there must be many craftsmen among the thief army, otherwise, it is impossible to build so many shield carts and so many return cannons in two days.

Although the firing range of the return cannon is limited, Yang Yulin does not doubt the power of the return cannon at all, once the dozens of pounds of boulders fall on the city wall, it can often be much more powerful than the damage to the city wall by ordinary artillery.

"Quickly charge the cannon and prepare to roll the wood! Hang the wolf's fangs! Fast! Don't delay! As soon as Yang Yulin saw the situation outside the city, he immediately began to arrange for people to be busy.

After hearing the order, the defenders in the city also realized that the situation was wrong today, it was related to the lives of each of them, and the families of some strong men in the city were still in the city, once the city was broken, it would be a catastrophe for them, so they really spared no effort to do their work.

A large number of officers and soldiers and village warriors copied the guys one after another, and in the roar of the officers, they poured up to the city wall from the horse road in the city, and guarded between each battlement, and prepared to guard the palace one after another.

Yang Yulin is known as a prestige in the army, He Renlong really chose the right person to leave him in Longzhou City this time, and the officers and soldiers in the city admired Yang Yulin very much, so that he commanded these officers and soldiers can be said to be like a finger, although they are obviously inferior to the thieves outside the city in terms of strength, but there are not many people in chaos.

The performance of the officers and soldiers also boosted the morale of the strong soldiers who helped defend the city, so these villagers also behaved more obediently, and according to the orders of the officers, they carried batches of rolling wood and stones onto the city wall, and bundles of arrows and barrels of gunpowder projectiles were also transported from the city to the top of the city and placed behind a cannon.

Longzhou City is responsible for the transfer of materials to the west of Xiliang and other border towns, the city is quite rich in material reserves, all kinds of weapons are not lacking, so this has become Yang Yulin's current capital, with these materials, Yang Yulin is not relentless, batches of bees, flying knives and arrows have been transported to the city wall.

Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian stood in front of the army, looking at the busy city wall of Longzhou City from a distance, Li Zicheng took a deep breath and said to Xiao Tianjian: "It depends on how today's battle goes!" If you can't capture Longzhou City today, then it is estimated that Nahe Renlong should also come back! When the time comes, if you and I want to capture Longzhou City, I'm afraid it won't be so simple! ”

Xiao Tianjian didn't have much pressure, originally to fight Longzhou City, it was not his idea, and at the same time, he was not optimistic that the righteous army could lay down a strong city like Longzhou, he came over this time, to put it bluntly, the main purpose was to lead the troops to come to learn the skills of large-scale siege, but whether he could take Longzhou City or not, he didn't pay much attention to it, it was best to beat Longzhou City, he could also get a piece of the pie, and it didn't matter if he couldn't beat it, after all, his material reserves were more sufficient than Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang and other righteous troops, and he didn't coerce the people into joining the gang, the material consumption is much less than that of Li Zicheng.

These days, watching Li Zicheng continue to gather the surrounding homeless people to join his team, Xiao Tianjian never competed with Li Zicheng for these homeless people, and Li Zicheng incorporated these homeless people into his army, so this performance also reassured Li Zicheng, thinking that Xiao Tianjian is not ambitious, such a person will not be a threat to them, and he is much more affectionate to Xiao Tianjian.

"What General Li said is very true, I'm afraid there is only one day left for today! However, from the perspective of the following, if we have sufficient troops this time, we can besiege the city to send reinforcements, send a part of the troops to surround Longzhou City, and set up an ambush on the way back to He Renlong's reinforcements to defeat He Renlong's troops and horses! If He Renlong's soldiers and horses are eaten, then the defenders in Longzhou City will naturally be in turmoil immediately, so that Longzhou should be at your fingertips! It's a pity that our troops are still limited at the moment, and it is not enough to start a war on both sides at the same time, otherwise Longzhou will be taken lightly! Xiao Tianjian said to Li Zicheng easily.

Li Zicheng turned his head to look at Xiao Tianjian in some surprise, and couldn't help but be surprised by Xiao Tianjian's opinion, thinking about Xiao Tianjian's words carefully, it was indeed very reasonable, so he smiled and said: "It turns out that Brother Xiao is still so knowledgeable!" That's a clever plan!

You're right, if the Eight Kings or Cao Cao and Lao Hui are also here this time, it should really be a good way to do it according to Brother Xiao's method! It's a pity that our strength is still limited at the moment!

Let's not mention this for the time being, let's attack the city first! With so many shield carts, the defenders in the city should have no choice but to take us!

Someone, beat the drum and give the order, and start the siege! ”

Xiao Tianjian didn't think he was clever, after all, in the later liberation wars, the G army often used this method, and it can be said that he was familiar with the tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements.

With a rumbling war drum sounded, Li Zicheng's generals dismounted one after another, returned to their own troops, seeing Li Zicheng's Chinese army banner wavering, Li Guo, Gao Jie each led a thousand generals, shouted, led dozens of ugly to the extreme shield carts, towards Longzhou City.

There was a shield car defense in front, and the soldiers in the back carried dozens of ladders that were rushed out to follow closely behind, and the black pressure rushed to both sides of the south gate of Longzhou City.

This time, they launched an attack from both sides of the city gate in two ways, and Li Zicheng was determined to conquer Longzhou City in one fell swoop, so he made a bloody investment, not only sending 2,000 troops at once, but also transferring some of the only firearms in his army to move with them.

And Xiao Tianjian, as an army to assist Li Zicheng, although there are not many troops, they can't sit back and watch Li Zicheng attack the city, so they still do their old job and are responsible for supporting Li Zicheng's army to attack the city.

Several of the cannons that had just been built were operated by the troops of the Xingtian Army, and each artillery cart was equipped with eighty people, pushing these artillery carts towards the city wall.

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