More than 1,000 soldiers of Lanzhou Wei, under the leadership of Qiu Shike, lined up to the Suwang Mansion in the north of the city, after a short period of depression, they were inspired by Qiu Shike, rejuvenated, the Mandate of Heaven Army is watching from behind, only brave soldiers can be favored by the Mandate of Heaven Army, and eventually join the Mandate of Heaven Army, and those soldiers who are not looked down upon by the Mandate of Heaven Army, who knows what they will do? Look at the way they kill without blinking......

Attacking the royal palace may not only cause casualties, but also have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions and even join the Heavenly Mandate Army, and take a step back...... They didn't dare to imagine that the firearms of the Mandate of Heaven were really ......

The lesser of two evils! Since it is attacking the palace on behalf of the Heavenly Mandate Army, in case of heavy casualties, the Heavenly Mandate Army will not sit idly by!

Suwang's Mansion is like a small castle, the city wall is thick, there is a corner tower in the city gate, from the outside, the blue bricks and blue tiles, palace-like houses, can find some traces, only two lonely stone lions at the door, can be seen, this is a private mansion.

Liu Yunshui's cavalry had already entered the city along the north gate, and the high-headed horses patrolled outside the mansion, although they did not start the attack, they maintained the greatest pressure on the mansion.

According to his intentions, he would have taken down the Su Wangfu a long time ago, but Li Zicheng had not given him a military order, he almost blew the cool breeze in the middle of the night, he knew that this was the case, it was better to let the soldiers take turns to rest, and it would be better to hurry tomorrow.

Qiu Shike came to the front of King Su's mansion, asked the soldiers to stop, waited for the military order of the adult, and came to see Li Zicheng in a panic, but when he was still more than ten steps away from Li Zicheng, he was blocked by the soldiers.

He smiled and kowtowed on the spot, "Governor, how should his subordinates attack the Su Wangfu?" ”

"The general is dead, you are now the supreme commander of Lanzhou Wei, this attack on Suwangfu is completely under your command, I don't interfere, I just wait and see from behind," Li Zicheng smiled faintly, and said: "How to choose the siege method is your business, but we are soldiers, according to the military law of the Mandate of Heaven, we must not disturb the people!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Qiu Shike agreed in his mouth, but he muttered in his heart, the city wall of King Su's Mansion is comparable to the city wall of Lanzhou, and the height is more than one zhang and five, if there is no help from the people...... He suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly said: "Governor, there is a ladder for siege in the armory, and the lowly position will be taken by someone, and the city can be attacked immediately!" ”

"Okay, go and go back quickly, I'll calculate the time for you to see how long it will take you to take the palace." Li Zicheng turned around and signaled, Liu Yunshui sent a team of cavalry, followed by the dozens of soldiers who took the cloud ladder, to prevent them from escaping, and there were auxiliaries of the Heavenly Mandate Army guarding the city gate, but if they fled into the people, it would be difficult to find them for a while.

About a bag of cigarettes, the Lanzhou soldiers came back with six ladders, and after Qiu Shike asked Li Zicheng for instructions, he immediately began to attack Suwangfu.

Li Zicheng and all the Heavenly Mandate troops fought outside the five hundred paces, without giving any instructions, and the battle was completely commanded by Qiu Shike.

The Lanzhou army began to attack from the east gate and south gate of the palace, with the sword and shield soldiers in front, using shields to protect the vital points on the body, followed by archers, firearms such as bird guns also have a few rods, mixed in the group of archers, and did not form an independent army, and the last is the transport soldiers carrying the ladder, these transport soldiers are on the ladder with one hand, and the shield is held in the other, protecting the head.

A smile appeared on Li Zicheng's face, this kind of cooperation, Ji Benshang can be regarded as rigorous, but the defenders on the wall have long been waiting with bows and arrows, and they don't know how many soldiers will have to die before they can approach the wall.

"Whoosh, whoosh, bang......"

The bow and arrow are mixed with firearms such as birds, and the two sides begin to shoot at each other, in terms of the number of people, the two sides are about the same, but the defenders occupy an advantageous position on the head of the city, from top to bottom, the range of the bow and arrow is longer, and at the same range, the bowstring does not need to be full, which is more labor-saving than the soldiers of the Lanzhou guard under the city.

Although he couldn't see the casualties on the city, Li Zicheng felt that Qiu Shike and they suffered more, but Li Zicheng did not stop, how could the battle be zero casualties? In particular, both sides used bows and arrows of similar range.

Li Zicheng asked the soldiers of Lanzhou Wei to attack Suwangfu, not only to make them hand in their names and never turn back, but more importantly, he had further plans.

If there are too few soldiers in custody, if they make trouble and the rear is unstable, it will seriously affect the great cause of the Eastern Crusade.

Although there are more than 5,500 people in the Heavenly Mandate Army of Longyou in this eastward expedition, it will be very thin if it is scattered on the huge land of Longyou, and if these troops can be transformed into the Heavenly Mandate Army in time, even if they help transport grain and grass, it is also good.

The soldiers of Lanzhou Wei do not have the combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Mandate Army for the time being, but as long as they do not implement a mixed establishment, they will not have a negative impact on the original combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

If practice proves that they are indeed the material for the quick to become soldiers, when the Heavenly Mandate Army expands in the future, they will be a ready-made source of soldiers.

With these considerations, Li Zicheng asked them to attack Suwangfu, he wanted to see if these soldiers were eligible to join the Heavenly Mandate Army, as for the casualties of the soldiers, it was inevitable, and now the higher the casualty rate of the soldiers in Lanzhou Wei, the more it can show the value of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Whether he can capture the Suwang Mansion or not, it is not that Li Zicheng has to consider the content, he doesn't even want these soldiers to succeed, once they attack the Suwang Mansion, with their military discipline and military discipline, if they don't turn the Suwang Mansion upside down, if they don't kill a few soldiers, I'm afraid they won't be able to suppress them.

The battle continued, and after paying the price of more than 100 casualties, the Lanzhou army finally approached the wall and leaned the ladder up, and the soldiers began to climb up the ladder.

At such a close distance, it was already difficult for bows and arrows to work, and the soldiers on both sides began hand-to-hand combat, fighting a war of attrition.

Originally, the soldiers of Lanzhou Wei were at a disadvantage, and they ate a large number of bows and arrows at the head of the city under the city, and their morale was somewhat frustrated, but after approaching the wall, under the encouragement of Qiu Shike, the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, at least they were approaching the city head step by step, close to victory.

Qiu Shike personally handled the sword, standing at a distance of 100 steps behind the team to supervise the battle, only seriously injured and cured soldiers will be carried off the battlefield, all soldiers who can still pick up knives and guns with minor injuries are not allowed to retreat, that is, soldiers are not allowed to retreat, unless they are carried off the battlefield.

But the soldiers who had died, no one paid attention to them for the time being, even the soldiers who were seriously injured and could not survive, and they were left to fend for themselves in the screams, and no soldiers carried them off the battlefield.

Li Zicheng felt in his heart, this Qiu Shike is so tough-hearted, he is really a general, it seems that he has to think about his future!

The top of the ladder is like a huge meat grinder, either you die, or I die, more often, it is the mutual injury of soldiers on both sides, in the Ming Dynasty, where the medical level is extremely backward, most of these seriously injured soldiers will lose their consciousness little by little in despair, and finally die.

The fighting level of the two sides is about the same, and the weapons used are from the same place, there is no obvious difference, the soldiers on both sides compare the momentum, and the motivation behind the fight to the death.

The soldiers guarding the city in Ganzhou, as well as the guards of the palace, are obviously more motivated, it is their duty to protect the palace, they are the guards of the palace, they are kidnapped with the palace, if the rebels conquer the palace, they soldiers, guards, even if they can save their lives, will be beheaded in the future, even the rebels who enter the city, I am afraid they will not spare them, raise soldiers for a thousand days and use soldiers for a while, everyone understands this truth.

If you keep the palace, you can not only keep yourself, but you will even get a reward from the palace, and you will even be added to the rank...... The premise of all this must be that the palace is still there.

And the soldiers of Lanzhou Wei do not have the existence of these interests, even if they break the palace, the property and women in the palace are not allowed to touch a finger, if it is not for the firearms of the Heavenly Mandate Army, they will not be stupid enough to fight for the Heavenly Mandate Army, Lanzhou City is broken, they are not a big deal to return to their hometowns to farm......

What puzzled these soldiers was that Qiu Shike seemed to have taken the wrong medicine, and desperately forced them to attack the palace......

But by this time, the soldiers had no way to retreat, even if they wanted to go back to their hometowns to farm, even if they had enough land, they couldn't go back, and they attacked the palace and conspiracy to rebel, which was to punish the nine clans......

Qiu Shike personally supervised the battle, forcing out the morale of the Lanzhou guards, and the tighter the Lanzhou guards' soldiers attacked, the more the defenders at the head of the city refused to back down, and the two sides were like two red-eyed bulls, if they could not decide the final victory, no one would stop the army.

The war knife is still the standard war knife of the Ming army, but the person holding the war knife has already changed a few times, and the blood is like a red shower, one wave has just stopped, and the other wave has risen......

A Lanzhou guard soldier at the top of the ladder, who had just slashed a defender with a war knife, saw a clearing appear at the head of the wall, he held the stone at the head of the wall with his left hand, and was just about to jump over, when a dark arrow flew over quickly, he couldn't dodge, and was in the center of the nest.

The arrow was too close, the arrow penetrated the armor, deep into the bone marrow, the soldier's eyes suddenly darkened, consciousness gradually blurred, he looked up at the arrow that pierced the armor, there was no embankment wall jumped out of a defender, slanted shoulder strap back slashed over, he obviously saw the other party's slashing knife, but he was powerless to dodge.

The collarbone was broken, there was a sonorous sound, and a stream of warm blood rose to the sky, and the Lanzhou soldier made an "ah" sound, his eyes quickly dissipated, his body was weak, and he fell backwards with his back along the knife, and fell heavily under the wall with a "snap" sound......

Li Zicheng saw that the Lanzhou army had suffered no less than 200 casualties, and felt that it was almost enough, so he hurriedly asked the herald to give Qiu Shike an order to withdraw his troops.

Qiu Shike hesitated for a while, ran over to Li Zicheng in person, and fell to the ground on his knees, "Metropolitan Governor ......"

"Your soldiers are all good, the Mandate of Heaven Army will accept them," Li Zicheng said lightly: "But I can't watch them suffer such casualties, they are all rare good soldiers......

"Governor, give the lowly post a little more time, even if it is only half an hour, the lowly post will definitely be able to take the palace......"

"The Mandate of Heaven Army has a military law: all actions are under command," Li Zicheng's face turned cold, and he said awe-inspiringly: "Withdraw the army!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Qiu Shike's face was full of unwillingness, but Li Zicheng had already made a color, so he had to kowtow and run towards the battlefield, "Mingjin, withdraw the army!" ”