"How many soldiers are there in Hai'an City?"

Faced with Liu Chang's question, Qu Zhenhan immediately smiled: "Don't worry, our spies have been sent out, there are definitely a lot of demons in Hai'an City, otherwise I wouldn't have invited you over!" ”

Liu Chang's sentry was still trying to siege the city for the first time, so he also glanced at the map and asked directly, "This time you are going to use the dragon spear sentry to attack the city?" ”

"Hmm!" Qu Zhenhan told Liu Chang: "I have been to Hai'an City twice, and there was originally a green battalion guarding the flood in it, this is a big city, enough to accommodate large soldiers, and it is the first time since the Red Turban Army attacked such a big city." ”

Hai'an is the history of Hai'an thousand households, Ming Hongwu 20 years set up Hai'an thousand households in the northeast of Ruian County, and newly built Hai'an City, the city is six hundred zhang, two zhang five feet high, and built around the Hao River, each about 170 zhang wide.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, there were no longer thousands of households, and the importance of Hai'an City also declined greatly, and the fortifications were rarely repaired, but no matter what, this was always a large city with a circumference of about two kilometers and a wall as high as seven or eight meters.

The spies of the Red Turban Army came back soon, they couldn't go deep into the vicinity of Hai'an City, but they found out a lot of news: "The Tuan Yong who wanted to oppose us on the road retreated into Hai'an City, it is said that there were more than 200 Tuan Yong in the city, and seven or eight hundred Tuan Yong poured in, Xu Muqian, the old thief, brought another 100 Tuan Yong into the city, it is not easy to deal with!" ”

In the face of such a high ditch and deep fortress, there are thousands of regiments bravely stationed in the city, which is indeed a hard bone to deal with, so Liu Chang directly suggested: "It's no problem to let the dragon lance post go into battle, but this time the artillery team only brought four mountain splitting guns, the distance is too close, can Qu Shuai temporarily hand over the large army artillery team to me." ”

The ancient smoothbore cannon can only fire lead, although dozens or hundreds of lead salvos have considerable lethality to the cluster infantry, but the range is too close, and it has little effect in such a siege battle, so Liu Chang immediately focused on the Red Turban Army artillery team, which has a lot of cannons with a range of up to two or three hundred steps, and it should have a great effect on bombarding the city wall.

Jin Peiquan glanced at Liu Chang and asked again: "What is the trick of attacking Hai'an?" ”

"For such a big city, it should have been surrounded by three queyi, but since the city is guarded by Xu Muqian, an old thief, he is the sworn enemy of our Red Turban Army, and he must have no idea of breaking through the siege as soon as possible, so he can only take one step at a time to see if he can scare the demons inside."

"Scare away?" Jin Peiquan knew that this Liu Jue was not simple, and he came up with a desperate plan: "What a scare method!" ”

"The old way, since there is a white flag, then it is said that Hai'an City will be opened, and the knife will not be collected for three days, see if you can scare away a few timid guys!"

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A few squires from the nearby townships came to Hai'an City, and before they entered the city, they saw a solemn color on the city tower, and they could see heavily armed regimental warriors everywhere, with bird guns, guns, and earth cannons everywhere, and white flags were planted everywhere.

In such a fortified city with a circumference of two kilometers, there are many residents living in the city in normal times, and they are full of nervous confrontation against the Tuan Yong who poured into their homes, and soon the news they got from these squires who usually have a good relationship with them aggravated their nervousness: "Marshal Qu of the Red Turban Army asked us to bring a message to the good people of Hai'an City, he does not want to kill more, please let the people of Hai'an City quickly go out of the city for refuge!" ”

"Hai'an City is full of white cloth, and he is determined to follow the Red Turban Army to the end, in this case, Qu Dashuai is not polite, and he sends troops to attack Hai'an City, and what should the Red Turban Army do if the city is broken, and do not collect the knife for three days!"

In the past, residents outside the city often retreated into Hai'an City to avoid military disasters, but now the original safe Hai'an City has become the main battlefield, and no one wants to become a pond fish that has been affected.

The terrifying mood soon erupted, not only did the residents flee one after another, but the Baibu Club group practice that retreated into Hai'an City was shaken, and when the two teams of dozens of people saw the residents running out of the city in an endless stream, their hearts suddenly had no bottom, and they didn't notify Xu Muqian, so they went out of the city and fled away.

This panic reached its limit that evening, and several spies sent over cried out: "Here we are! Here it comes! ”

It was the brigade of the Red Turban Army, which was vast, full of mountains, full of their yellow flags, and full of thieves wrapped in red turbans, and the Red Turban team also carried a lot of cannons, and one cannon was opened, and it was ready to bombard Hai'an City.

At this time, the city gate was full of residents who had gone out of the city to take refuge, and even the villagers of several villages near Hai'an City fled, leaving only a lonely city of Hai'an.

The Red Turban Army pressed from the north to the south, so the southern city gate was opened, and there were crowds of people shouting everywhere, and there were even regimental soldiers who took off the white cloth and ran home.

The leader of the regiment followed the Red Turban Army to the end, but the regiment was old and young, and once it was gone, the whole family suffered, so he simply took off the white cloth and fled home.

Xu Muqian trembled with anger: "This plan must come from the hands of Liu Jiehu!" This plan must come from the willow family! ”

More than three-quarters of the residents in Hai'an City have fled, and most of the rest are elderly people who do not want to leave their hometowns, and even Tuan Yong has fled a lot.

Xu Muqian wanted to kill people and establish his authority, but the leader of Tuanyong thought that he was from Yueqing and stood on the side of the deserters: "If they want to go, let's go!" At least leave some seeds for our family! ”

After all, the regimental training is formed by clan relations, but in this way, there are only 1,200 green battalion soldiers and regimental training left in Hai'an City, and the reason why there are so many left is because there is another regiment training into the city before the Red Turban Army marches south.

It's just that Xu Muqian looked at the yellow flags scattered all over the mountains outside the city, and estimated that there were four or five thousand people in the Red Turban Army in front of him, especially the black and oppressive artillery team, and he didn't know if the walls of Hai'an City could withstand the bombardment.

He felt his scalp tingle.

It's just that the Red Turban Army outside the city is also heartbroken, this is a big city, bigger than the rock village and Dajing village they have attacked, and the more troublesome thing is that the city wall is two feet and five feet high, I don't know if the artillery team can blast through such a city wall, and there is a Hao River outside the city, even if the city gate is opened, it still takes a lot of trouble to attack the city.

So now the Red Turban Army has only blocked the north gate, and the other three gates are still open, hoping to scare away some more regimental exercises, and Qu Zhenhan hesitated who to send up to attack the city first tomorrow.

It's a chore! Of course, the dragon lance whistle is unwilling to do it, do you want to press your own capital?

When he was hesitating, Liu Chang said: "Be careful of the Qing Demon coming to sneak attack tonight!" ”

Qu Zhenhan knew that the regiment in the city had run a lot, and the residents had run out, and Liu Chang's poisonous plan had a lot of effect, otherwise Hai'an City would be much more troublesome to clean up, but he didn't think that the disadvantaged Qing army would go out of the city to counterattack: "Will the Qing demon come out of the city?" ”

Liu Chang smiled: "I tried my best to be scared and deceitful, and I also surrounded a quesan, and deliberately let the three city gates open, Xu Muqian wants to lift the morale of the army and find out the vitality of the army, except for going out of the city tonight and attacking at night, is there any other way?" ”

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