After an hour of hard fighting, He Renlong's subordinates finally filled the trench into a passage three zhang wide.

How long will it take to not charge at this time?

"Dog's ball, heavy cavalry rush over for me!" He Renlong pulled out his sword and ordered in a loud voice: "Those who rush to the city gate will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!" ”

The cannon rang out again, engulfing He Renlong's voice. Iron bullets on both sides flew sideways, stones rolled wildly, and for a while, I saw blood rain all over the sky and miserable screams.

He Renlong's 1,000 heavy cavalry had already been ready to go, and when they heard the order, it was like a torrent, under the leadership of General Qian, flocking to the first line of defense of Gaojun Mountain.

In front of the low wall and between the walls, there are tripwires and falling tigers. The so-called falling tiger is to dig a pit on the flat ground, and lay bamboo sticks, wooden thorns, and even iron needles at the bottom of the pit.

Although the heavy cavalry crossed the trench, facing a defensive formation full of tripwires and falling tigers, one by one the war horses either fell under the stumbling ropes or fell in the pits of falling tigers. The knights who fell from their horses, all heavily armoured and wounded, abandoned their horses, faced the flying stones and iron bullets, and continued to charge after the cavalry.

He Renlong ordered the follow-up troops to bring ladders to keep up with the pace of the heavy cavalry. Because the infantry had no heavy armor to protect them, they could not move forward when they rushed to the vicinity of the second line of defense. The heavy cavalry rushed all the way to the city gate, suffering from the lack of siege equipment such as ladders and city vehicles, He Renlong had no choice but to collect his troops and fight again in the coming day.

When the sky was bright, He Renlong collected his troops and returned to the camp, counted the number of people, and lost more than 300 lives under the city, and more than 1,000 wounded. He also received a piece of news that made the whole army depressed, Deng Xizhao's convoy was ambushed by the thieves and cavalry at Mapuling, and 200,000 taels of military salaries and 100,000 loads of grain and grass were looted.

This news was a bolt from the blue for the Ming army, but it was exciting for the rebels in Gao Junshan.

Gao Junshan also got the news on the same day, and his tiger and leopard army fought a beautiful ambush battle, completely annihilating a transport team of the Ming court, and gained a lot.

Pingliang City.

Cai Zhishan came to Gao Junshan's council hall excitedly, he also got the news, Gao Junshan heard the familiar footsteps, and got up to greet him.

"Good news! Good news! Cai Zhishan's face was flushed with excitement, "Gao Yigong and the Red Army friends fought a big victory. ”

Gao Junshan said with a smile: "The first merit should be Sun Kewang and Feng Shuangli, if it wasn't for their good intelligence work, how could they get such a big victory!" ”

Cai Zhishan put away his smile: "I didn't expect this intelligence work to be so important." ”

Gao Junshan sat back on the Taishi's chair and asked, "Bolan (Cai Zhishan), did you lose a lot of money in last night's battle?" ”

Cai Zhishan sat down on the right side of Gao Jun Mountain: "King Qin, the losses are not very much, or the three stone throwers have been smashed. ”

"Three stone throwers?" Gao Junshan didn't believe it very much.

"Yes, three stone throwers." Cai Zhishan repeated with certainty, "The three stone throwers were all damaged by the official army's Franc machine cannon. ”

"Furlong cannon?"

"Yes." Cai Zhishan explained, "The power of the Franc cannon is stronger than our Tiger Run, and the range is also long, so we can't hit it, it can hit us." ”

Gao Junshan pondered: "If we continue like this, we will suffer, and we must get rid of these Franc cannons." ”

Cai Zhishan asked: "Donglao (Sun Yuanhua) may have a way?" ”

Gao Junshan waved his hand: "This matter is not urgent." Even if he has the technology to increase the range of artillery fire, we don't have the conditions to achieve it at present. I'll see if I can use the Haw Par Army to give the Fran cannon a surprise attack. ”

Cai Zhishan said: "It's too risky to break into the enemy camp. ”

Gao Junshan said: "This matter is difficult to do at once. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and once the opportunity is seized to destroy the Fran cannon, it must be destroyed without mercy. ”

Cai Zhishan said: "King Qin, please rest assured, as long as there is a chance, I will definitely destroy the official army's Franc machine cannon." ”

Gao Junshan yawned and said, "I haven't gone to bed for three days, and today I can finally go back to the Cunxin Hall to sleep." When you go back, you want to hype up the achievements of our Haw Par Army to boost morale. ”

……

Cai Zhishan's position is like that of the city defense commander of later generations, where his camp is most critical, and this time his camp is of course stationed at the south gate.

This is a big mansion on the street of the South Gate, which was originally owned by a family surnamed Deng, and was temporarily requisitioned by Cai Zhishan. There are three courtyards in the house, and Cai Zhishan's Chinese army camp is located in the middle of this courtyard.

Cai Zhishan came back from Gao Junshan, and as soon as he entered the courtyard gate, he heard Ke Tianfei's loud voice discussing: "Haha! Who is our King Qin? That's the reincarnated Zhuge Liang! In the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away. In the first battle of Mapuling, Hong Chengchou's food and salary were robbed, and their winter clothes were burned. ”

More than a dozen generals of the rebel army were surrounding Ke Tianfei, all praising Gao Junshan, and when they saw Cai Zhishan coming, they said in unison: "General Cai! ”

Cai Zhishan had a slight smile on his face: "King Qin instructed that the first battle of Mapuling should be comprehensively publicized downward to boost the morale of our army." But one thing you have to understand is that the turtle grandson is not shrinking into the turtle's shell and not daring to come out, but is preparing for the next bigger attack. You didn't sleep all night last night, but now go back to catch up on your sleep and tell the brothers that you can sleep as much as you want today. ”

As soon as Cai Zhishan said this, all the generals' sleepiness came up, and they all yawned to say goodbye to Cai Zhishan, and the last one to say goodbye to Cai Zhishan was Ke Tianfei: "General Cai, I'm really a little sleepy when you say this, Tianfei will leave." ”

Cai Zhishan suddenly thought of one thing, why not let Ke Tianfei lead people out of the city, and if there is a chance, he can strike at Hong Chengchou's Franc machine gun. Thinking of this, he stopped Ke Tianfei: "Ke Tianfei, please stay, I have something important to discuss with you." ”

But Tianfei heard that there was a mission, so he came to the spirit and followed Cai Zhishan to his meeting room......

Hong Chengchou since the transport team was robbed, half a month did not organize a decent siege battle, He Renlong because his heavy cavalry has attacked the south city gate, clamoring to ask the eunuch supervisor Deng Xizhao to give himself the first credit, Deng Xizhao on the grounds that the city gate has not been breached, ignored, He Renlong held a stomach sulk, plus the military salary, winter clothes are not in place, he began to disobey Hong Chengchou's orders.

At the end of November, there is a light snow in the sky, and at night, the cold is pressing, and the smell of midwinter is getting stronger.

Hong Chengchou transferred some grain, grass and winter clothes from Shanxi for emergency relief. Due to heavy casualties, the Herenlong Department has been transferred. The main reason is that this person did not listen to the dispatch, and Hong Chengchou was afraid that he would stay on the front line and delay the fighter.

What made Hong Chengchou feel most frustrated was that in the adjustment of the troops, his twenty Franc machine guns were destroyed by Gao Junshan.

Originally, these twenty guns didn't need to move their positions, I don't know which nerve of He Renlong was wrong, and insisted that these broken copper and iron blocked his marching route, and forcibly ordered it to move back five miles, which had deviated from the main position, and it was also the weakest place for Hong Chengchou's defense, Cai Zhishan also noticed this movement, so these twenty Franc cannons were all destroyed by the sudden 1,000 men and horses that could fly in the sky.

Afterwards, Hong Chengchou sent people to chase and kill Ke Tianfei, but Tianfei was outnumbered, and a thousand men and horses died in Pingliang City. Twenty Fran cannons were destroyed, and Hong Chengchou held a grudge against Shanghe Renlong for this matter.

With the advent of winter, it brought great inconvenience to the siege army, although Hong Chengchou organized two large-scale attacks, but they were all in vain, the cold and hunger were like a demon, raging in the Ming army, people fell ill every day, and the soldiers' will to fight almost dropped to the freezing point.

Unable to capture Pingliang, Hong Chengchou had to spend the New Year of Chongzhen's seventh year in a snowy tent. Although there was no war, due to the lack of food and salary, the whole army was not happy in this big year, the entire barracks were lifeless, there was no New Year's scene, and the morale of the army was even more sluggish. On the other hand, in Pingliang City, gongs and drums sound all day long, firecrackers shake the sky, and a song and dance rises.

Just after the Chinese New Year, the weather is finally clear. On this day, Hong Chengchou gathered all the general troops in his Chinese army tent, and a new round of siege plans was brewing, and the Ming court sent the eunuch Sun Maolin to bring Zhu Youzhen's holy decree to Hong Chengchou.

A few months ago, more than 100,000 people from the 24 battalions of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Li Zicheng, who had moved to Henan, broke through the Yellow River defense line through Michi, and moved to northern Chu, western Henan, where the Ming army was weak. The Ming army was exhausted by pursuit and suppression, and fell into the dilemma of an excessively long battle line and scattered troops.

After Gao Yingxiang's army captured Nanyang, he divided his troops: Lao Hui returned to attack Huguang, Li Zicheng entered Hanzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to Xinyang. In the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong confidently entered the Shang and Luo regions in Yangxi, and joined forces with Li Zicheng in Hanzhong to capture Chengcheng.

Zhu Youzhen was really panicked, and in order to change the passive situation of "different powers and watching each other," he changed to the principle of "concentrating troops and comprehensively encircling and suppressing," appointed Chen Qiyu as the governor of the five provinces, and unified command of the Shaanxi, Jin, Yuchuan, and Huguang Ming armies.

After Hong Chengchou read the emperor's decree, Sun Maolin took out Chen Qiyu's order and ordered Hong Chengchou to immediately lead his troops to move to Qingyang to prevent thieves from going to Xi'an.

Chen Qiyu's order, Hong Chengchou did not dare to disobey. He didn't have the courage to disobey if he wanted to, there were two prison guards sent by the emperor staring at him in front of him, and he was very unwilling to give the order to withdraw the army. He surrounded Pingliang for three months, and now he says that he wants to evacuate, so his heart is very unwilling.

When several of the generals here received the order to withdraw their troops, they cheered with joy like children, and it could be seen that they were tired of everything here. Pingliang is a castlevania for them, and they can leave this city as soon as possible, and the farther away they are, the happier they are.

In fact, Pingliang is not a castlevania, but because Pingliang has high mountains, and there are high mountains, they don't want to shake Pingliang.