After Qiu Shike returned to the camp, he immediately drove the soldiers up, didn't care about washing their faces and breakfast, and hurried to the south city gate, where Li Zicheng and Ma Youshui were already discussing specific tactics.

He hurriedly left the soldiers and trotted over to salute, "Governor, Ma Qianhu!" ”

"Qiu Baihu came so quickly," Li Zicheng may have finished explaining, and smiled at Qiu Shike, "You came just in time, you will enter the city later, your subordinates will stay at the end, in addition to guarding the south city gate, you also have to transfer two hundred soldiers to quickly seize the east city gate and prevent the soldiers in the city from escaping!" ”

"Ah......" Qiu Shike was shocked, this battle has not yet been fought, and the Metropolitan Governor is already calculating what will happen after entering the city, and the Heavenly Mandate Army is acting differently.

However, how to command the war, that is the matter of the Metropolitan Governor and Ma Qianhu, he is just a temporary hundred household officials, and he will be included in that Thousand Households, it is still unclear, and the subordinate soldiers lack strict training, although they are in the name of the Mandate of Heaven Army, in fact, they are far from the combat effectiveness of the Mandate of Heaven Army, and it is a great gift to the Metropolitan Governor to have the opportunity to guard the city gate and accumulate military exploits, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Yes, the Metropolitan Governor, his subordinates obey the order!" ”

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, but he set his eyes on Ma Youshui, "With water, you can attack, the brothers are still waiting for breakfast!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

Ma Youshui waved his hand down, several gunners highlighted the formation, and began to shoot aimlessly at the head of the city, whether he could shoot and injure the defenders, Ma Youshui did not think about it, as long as he brought a threat to the head of the city and suppressed the defenders behind the city wall, his goal was achieved.

The four soldiers, carrying two cloth bags, first glanced at the city, and saw no sign of the defenders at all, they exchanged glances, quickly lifted their packages, and struggled towards the city wall.

What are they doing here? Is it like attacking Lanzhou City, first blowing up the city gate? Qiu Shike's heart throbbed, he seemed to have mastered the routine of the Heavenly Mandate Army attacking the city, just like Li Zicheng said, the Heavenly Mandate Army will always have a trace of law to be found when it fights.

First, the city was besieged, not giving the defenders any chance to escape, and then the city gates were blown open with gunpowder, and then the gunners entered the city, relying on the range advantage of rifles, taking advantage of the defenders' panic, to encircle and annihilate the defenders in the city.

Such a few steps, easy to say, are actually very dependent on rifles, and without the super range of the rifle, how can the soldiers of the blast swagger close to the city walls?

However, Qiu Shike didn't understand why the Metropolitan Governor wanted to keep the troops, in addition to consuming food, most of the soldiers could not meet the requirements of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and they could not join the Heavenly Mandate Army at all.

Qiu Shike was still pondering, and the four soldiers over there had already crossed the city wall and disappeared into the city gate hole.

At this time, there was also a "bang" gunfire in the direction of the north city gate, and it was obvious that the gunmen outside the north city gate also started to act, one south and one north, and the gunshots complemented each other, one after another.

The defenders in the city couldn't figure out the main direction of the Mandate of Heaven for a while, like headless flies, crashing everywhere, plus being tossed by the Mandate of Heaven Army for most of the night, their brains were confused, while staring at the blood-red eyeballs, while hanging their heads, every step they took, they felt that their legs seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

However, the commanders were also at a loss, not knowing where to go with such a heavy step.

Fight or Flight?

The soldiers couldn't make up their minds, so they had to cast their eyes on the commanders for help, at least not to lose the goal of advancing in the city.

The officers were also embarrassed, in the direction of the north and south city gates, there were gunshots, obviously unable to get out of the city, this kind of gunfire tossed for most of the night, cup bow snake shadow, they had long been frightened, and no longer had the courage to face them.

Outside the east and west gates, in the thin mist, there are many figures, so difficult that the enemy has no way to survive at all?

Since there is no way out...... Then they had to rely on the city walls and wait for reinforcements in the city, although they had no idea where the reinforcements were or when they would arrive.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

Suddenly, the sky cracked, the earth shook, even the city walls shook violently, and some of the houses near the south gate were even more crumbling, as long as anyone tried harder, they could step backwards at any time.

A black smoke rose from the loud noise and gradually dispersed, enveloping the vicinity of Nanchengtou, and the floating dust and wood chips were slowly falling under the action of gravity.

Success, success! Qiu Shike clenched his fists tightly, even more excited than he had personally accomplished this feat, if it weren't for the battlefield, he was so excited that he almost jumped up, and inadvertently set his eyes on Li Zicheng, who was stunned in front of the smoke.

"Huh? What happened to the Grand Governor? Is it difficult for him to be satisfied with such an effect? ”

Ma Youshui heard the detailed report of the soldiers, and had already made a move, "Brothers, enter the city and kill!" ”

"Into the city, into the city......"

"Kill, kill......"

The gunners, shouting slogans and marching in orderly steps, rushed to the southern city gate, and the procession was so neat that it did not look like a break into the city at all, but a military parade was held at the city gate.

Li Zicheng sat silently on the back of the yellow-maned horse until most of the gunmen entered the city, and then said to Qiu Shike: "Qiu Baihu, you enter the city behind the gunners, remember to divide two hundred soldiers to seize the east gate, and don't let go of a defender." ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Qiu Shike wanted to march into the city, but suddenly his heart moved, "Governor, what about the west gate?" Do you want to 'surround three queone'? ”

"I'll personally go out of the West City Gate," Li Zicheng smiled faintly and said, "I want to see if there are any defenders who dare to break through from the cavalry." ”

"Subordinates understood!" Qiu Shike found that his question was completely redundant, and the Metropolitan Governor had already calculated it, as long as he followed the requirements of the Metropolitan Governor, he would carry it out.

Li Zicheng came to the west city gate, the thin morning fog basically dissipated, the auxiliary soldiers pulled out a long line that stretched to a hundred steps outside the city wall, and the auxiliary soldiers and hundreds of household officials hurriedly greeted him, kowtowed and saluted, "Metropolitan Governor!" ”

Li Zicheng waved his hand and asked him to get up, "How about it, there are no soldiers going out of the city, right?" ”

"Back to the Metropolitan Governor, I haven't seen the shadow of a single Qinzhou guard, we are hidden in the fog, so that they can't see the truth clearly, and they don't know how many of us there are."

"You have done a good job," Li Zicheng praised, although he immediately changed his words, and said: "However, now that Qinzhou has been broken, the Heavenly Mandate Army has entered the city, and the rout may flee at any time, you must be more careful." ”

"Yes, Metropolitan Governor, if the defenders dare to break through from the West Gate, their subordinates will definitely exchange them for some military exploits."

"Okay, this is what the Heavenly Mandate Army looks like," Li Zicheng pulled the reins, "I still have to go to the North City Gate to have a look, and I'll come back to him later, remember, don't let go of the defenders, these surrenders, I have a lot of use." ”

"The subordinates understand that the subordinates are fighting for their lives, and they also want to take down the Qinzhou army that left the city."

Li Zicheng slapped his horse and went to the north city gate, at this time the gunfire in the city suddenly became much denser, it should be that the gunners met the main force of the Qinzhou army, but it was good to meet it, let the main force of the Qinzhou army be wiped out in the city, lest they escape, outside the east and west city gates, are auxiliary soldiers, and the number is not much, if you really want to meet the desperate Qinzhou army, whether you can resist it, no one can say.

Although there are gunshots at the north gate, it is actually just a bluff, Li Zicheng knows that there is only one gunner from a hundred households outside the north gate, and they mainly rely on the gunfire last night to continue the deterrence of the defenders, and the main force of the Mandate of Heaven Army is all at the south city gate.

Seeing Li Zicheng, the gunmen immediately put their hanging hearts back into their chests, "Metropolitan Governor ......"

Li Zicheng swept towards the city, but did not find the defenders, so he smiled and said: "It's dawn, the defenders still stay behind the city wall?" Do they not know that you have only one hundred? ”

"It's useless to know," the Baihu official said proudly: "We all stay a hundred steps away from the city, the rifle can shoot to the head of the city, but the bows and arrows in the city can't reach us, the defenders can only stare like dogs, we only need a few bullets, we can suppress the defenders behind the city wall!" ”

"Haha," Li Zicheng laughed and said, "Now stop shooting and let the defenders in the city see us!" ”

"Dadu Governor ......" The hundred household officials were stunned for a moment, and then reacted, Dadu Governor wanted to let the defenders understand that the Heavenly Mandate Army outside the city had come to reinforcements, and it was also cavalry, he hurriedly waved his hand at his subordinates, telling the gunners to stop shooting and retreat to two hundred paces away.

Perhaps the sound of gunfire in the city made the defenders at the head of the city understand something, or maybe they were frightened by the rifles, and after a while, one or two defenders poked their heads out of the battlements and saw the cavalry under the city, and their faces suddenly changed.

They only knew the power of the rifle last night, but the threat of cavalry to the infantry, they have a deep understanding from the day they joined the army, and even before joining the army, they have heard of the strong combat effectiveness of the nomadic cavalry, and the army outside the city today, although it is not a nomadic cavalry, but the advantage of the cavalry over the infantry, they have long been deeply insightful.

The defenders at the head of the city suddenly whispered, and saw that the gunmen had retreated two hundred paces away, and more and more soldiers poked their heads out, and terror hung over the faces of each soldier.

Li Zicheng estimated that it was almost over, so he said to the hundred household officials: "Shoot, continue to suppress them behind the city wall." ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" The officials of the hundred households clapped their hands, attracted the attention of their subordinates, and then pointed to the head of the city, and said loudly: "Shoot, don't let them spy on our reality!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang......"

A chaotic shot drove the defenders back behind the city walls, and the defenders, who had no time to escape, suddenly paid the price for their curiosity.

The defenders didn't expect that at such a distance, two hundred paces, the rifles outside the city could still hit the city, which fairy was this?

Could it be that this is their "desire to get away with it" and deliberately attract their own people?

The leader of the defenders looked at his companions rolling on the ground with a gloomy face, but there was nothing he could do, and in order to avoid new casualties, he decided, no matter what, not to let his soldiers emerge from the battlements.