Gao Junshan's army came to Dengzhou, and he ordered He Renlong to be the vanguard, and He Renlong's camp was set up at the foot of the Purple Mountain.

The sun is slanting to the west, the whistling mountain wind blows the trees rattling, He Renlong is wearing battle armor, with Zhou Guoqing, Dong Xueli, He Guoying, He Guoxian four generals went to the city to face the enemy, only to walk out of ten miles, suddenly, heard a strange sound in the bushes, look around, a human head emerged behind the bushes, these people, is the Xiangyong brought by Sun Zesheng, in the blink of an eye, it is already full of mountains and wilderness, shouting to kill.

He Renlong only brought more than 20 personal soldiers, and everyone surrounded He Renlong in the middle, fearing that he would be harmed.

He Renlong shouted: "Fight me out of the encirclement!" ”

He pointed a spear, rode a horse to meet the approaching Xiang Yong, this Xiang Yong wore a brand new "auspicious clothes", it seems that he just did a happy event was escorted to the front line to fight, He Renlong did not have time to see the beautiful patterns on his "auspicious clothes", the tip of the gun pierced a hole in the chest of the new clothes, and could not hear the sound of the cotton cloth spreading, only heard the exclamation of the groom official, a warm blood dyed the groom official's nine new clothes, this Xiang Yong fell to the ground, pulled out, and stopped moving, his bride can only stay alone in the empty room for the rest of his life.

He Renlong spear horizontal, a snake out of the hole, Pegasus pointed to a soil-headed farmer, this person is about fifty years old, wearing a freshly received shabby military uniform, red on the top and blue on the bottom, a black cloth skirt wrapped around his waist, and a new "royal blue satin" six-petal pointed hat on his head.

When the tip of the spear arrived, this person actually dodged the monkey spirit, it seems that he was an experienced, he rolled a carp, hid behind a tree, He Renlong wanted to go up and send him back to his hometown, at this time there were a few lifeless villagers surrounded him, He Renlong "snapped" several shots, stabbed down a piece, and then turned his head to see the cropper, has run without a trace.

This small army of more than 20 people, after killing more than 100 gathered Xiang Yong, they retreated while killing and dispersed the enemy who gathered again, because Xiang Yong had very few war horses, and the combat effectiveness was not strong, He Renlong relied on the rush of the war horse, beheaded more than 30 people.

Xiang Yong only relied on his bow and arrow to shoot down seven or eight knights, and his foot soldiers were not able to hurt a single cavalryman except to block the advance of this small force.

"Where to run!"

Suddenly, there was a loud shout, and a single rider blocked in front of He Renlong.

Who is so bold as to dare to stand in the way of the madman He?

This person is none other than Deng Zhoutong's sentence Sun Zesheng, and he also has a spear in his hand.

He Renlong shook his spirits, stabbed head-on with a gun, Sun Zesheng immediately became skillful, holding a gun in one hand, sideways to avoid He Renlong's spear peak, and casually shot a hidden weapon - a dart with clothes, thinking of a fatal move.

He Guoying, who was following behind He Renlong, shouted: "Hidden weapon——! ”

He Renlong hurriedly dodged, only to hear the wind in his ears, and a hidden weapon almost cut off his left ear.

He Renlong said angrily: "What a traitor, he dares to use a secret weapon against me He Renlong!" ”

When Sun Zesheng heard that it was He Renlong, his heart was half empty, he didn't dare to fight, he turned the horse to leave, He Renlong was willing to let go, and chased after the horse, He Guoying was worried that his uncle would be hidden again, and Pegasus was in front of He Renlong.

At this time, He Guoyong, who stayed in the barracks, was worried about his uncle's safety, and led 3,000 soldiers and horses to meet him, just when he ran into Sun Zesheng who was about to escape, He Guoying and He Guoyong attacked back and forth, and broke one of Sun Zesheng's arms, Sun Zesheng fell off his horse and was captured alive by the two brothers of the He family.

He Renlong got off his horse, walked in front of Sun Zesheng, and said, "You are also a good man, and this handsome man will spare your life." You can leave with your name. ”

Where Sun Zesheng broke his arm, the blood flowed endlessly, and the blood penetrated the battle robe, he looked up to the sky and smiled, pointed at He Renlong, and scolded: "He Madman, as an important minister of the country and an official of the imperial court, you have rebelled and rebelled, you must not die well, and you will be stinking for 10,000 years after death!" ……”

He Guoyong on the side allowed Sun Zesheng to be so presumptuous, and cut off his head with a knife, poor Sun Zesheng, when the head landed, his mouth was still squirming.

Sun Zesheng's bravery, the Ming court did not forget him, after the army of Gao Junshan left Dengzhou, the Ming court collected the body for it, and posthumously presented Sun Zesheng as a doctor of Fengzhi, and the Dengzhou Yamen also held a grand funeral for him.

He Renlong returned to the big tent and immediately ordered troops to attack Dengzhou at night, but was stopped by the deputy general Zhou Guoqing.

The next day, He Renlong launched the first round of attacks on Dengzhou City, ten rushing cars, fifty-four ladders, and a wave of five thousand people rushed to the outer city wall of Dengzhou City.

When he learned that Sun Zesheng had died in battle, Xue Yingling was very sad and swore to the heavens, "I will survive with the city, and I dare not live." ”

Xue Yingling led three thousand villagers to defend the outer city, and because he was determined to die, he held on for five days, and he was not yet broken by He Renlong.

Gao Junshan had never been so anxious as he was today, he began to regret a little that he did not use Cai Zhishan's artillery to attack Dengzhou, and looked at the city wall, the road was full of corpses of the rebels, the blood stained the dead grass and leaves on the ground, and the mourning birds in the distance were like a sad song, constantly echoing in the air.

"Cai Zhishan!" Gao Junshan shouted with all his strength.

Cai Zhishan was beside him, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Cai Zhishan is here!" ”

Gao Junshan pointed to the city wall and was about to say something, when suddenly, his Red Army friends shouted: "Look! Look! They're fighting on their own! ”

Everyone's eyes were turned to the direction pointed by the Red Army comrades, which was the command platform of the enemy's main general, and the people inside were already in a mess and fighting each other.

This was a perfect opportunity, and Gao Junshan understood that it was the enemy who was fighting among themselves, and he immediately ordered Cai Zhishan's 1st Brigade to attack.

Under Cai Zhishan's powerful offensive, the outskirts of Dengzhou City were soon occupied by the rebels.

After the battle subsided, Gao Junshan learned the reason for the enemy's infighting. In fact, it can't be called infighting, it was a riot among the 254 bandits who were imprisoned in the small courtyard of the conscription, and one of them, the leader named Zhang Sanchong, killed the guards, and led more than 200 people to the outer city wall to hack Xue Yingling to death on the wall.

Occupy the outer city wall, the inner city wall is equivalent to a fictitious, because this inner city wall is mainly repaired by Zhang Sanchong, just when they repair a city wall with a considerable collapsed area, they have a bad heart, on the surface the collapsed parts are repaired neatly, in fact, it is all virtual, as long as the corner of the wall is knocked with a hammer a few times, the original repair of the bricks will all collapse.

It was through this collapsed wall that the rebels of Gao Junshan attacked the place of Dengzhou City.

The generals Yu Chengyin and Li Xiguang who defended the city resisted stubbornly and were killed by Zhang Sanchong in the market, because they had a grudge before, Zhang Sanchong's people cut off the limbs of the two main and deputy thousands of households alive, and hung them in the market to show the public, until the blood dripped, and then they died.

Zhizhou Liu Zhenshi led dozens of people such as Li Guoxi, the official of the state, to resist surrender in the yamen of the state capital, Gao Junshan ordered Cai Zhishan to bombard with Hongyi cannons, Li Guoxi was blown into pulp, and Liu Zhenshi drew his sword and killed himself.

On April 27, the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637 AD), the whole city of Dengzhou completely fell into the hands of Gao Junshan.

Nanyang guard general Shanxi general Wang Zhong, after Wang Zhong arrived in Nanyang, said that he was ill for several months, and he ignored Liu Zhenshi's plea for help from Dengzhou Zhizhou, and Ling Yiqu impeached Wang Zhong in front of Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen issued an edict to arrest Wang Zhong and enter Beijing, and soon after he was imprisoned, Wang Zhong died of illness.

After the city was broken, there was a student named Wang Zhongxiang (a student who was admitted by examination and entered the schooling at all levels of the prefecture, prefecture and county during the Ming and Qing dynasties), who usually boasted of being heroic, and after hearing that Yu Chengyin and Li Xiguang died tragically in the market, he actually pulled out his sword and committed suicide to show his dissatisfaction with the rebels in Gao Junshan.

Another person named Ding Yitong saw that the rebels had entered the city, and he was extremely angry, took out the firewood knife at home, hacked several rebels to death, and was finally killed by the rebels, dismembered and abandoned in the market.

After breaking the city, Gao Junshan felt that Dengzhou was very angry with the people of the righteous army, and it was not suitable to live for a long time, so he led the army to leave Dengzhou the next day, crossed the water, and went all the way to Zaoyang.

Just after passing through the water, he received a report from Feng Shuangli and Tian Fang, saying that a large number of officers and troops had gathered on the front line of Zaoyang, and these officers and soldiers had just been transferred from Liaodong to suppress the Kou.

Therefore, Gao Junshan decided to enter Tongbai Mountain to rest and wait for the changes in the situation.

The light car road is familiar, Chongzhen ten years leap on the fourth day of the fourth month, the army of Gao Junshan came to Tongbai Mountain again.

After Tongbai Mountain stabilized, Gao Junshan summoned his advisors to conduct an analysis of the problems exposed by the attack on Lu and Dengzhou.

At the meeting, Gao Junshan spoke first, he said: "First of all, I want to learn from Zhu Youzhen, and come to an edict of self-criticism, that is, self-criticism. Since Suizhou and Zhang Xianzhong divided the troops, we have made a directional mistake, thinking that Lao Tzu is the first in the world, no one is afraid, leaving aside all kinds of righteous armies, and the lone army goes deep, resulting in successive defeats. This is inseparable from my idea of underestimating the enemy, which is at the strategic level. On a tactical level, we ignored the impact of the climate on us, and even more so the use of firearms, always worrying about what to do when the gunpowder ran out, and without the support of artillery, the siege was frustrated again and again. ”

Bailisha took the initiative to take responsibility: "The responsibility is not all on the King of Qin, as a military advisor, I have the responsibility to remind the King of Qin and put forward a constructive plan. ”

Tian Wenju also criticized himself: "I only know that sitting in the military tent to warm up the fire is not enterprising, and my lazy thinking is serious. ”

When Gao Junshan heard this, the atmosphere of this meeting was a little wrong, and they were supposed to analyze the problem, but they made self-criticism in a similar way. He thinks that Bailisha and Tian Wenju are meaningless nonsense, and he must revisit the topic of the meeting and guide the direction of the meeting back to the direction he wants.

Gao Junshan picked up the teacup, drank it all, then cleared his throat and said, "What Bailisha and Tian Wenju said are all empty words with no content, not what I want to hear. I want you to put forward your views on the siege of Lu and Dengzhou, and if you were the commander-in-chief, what would you do? Who will you send to be the vanguard? What should we do today, is it necessary to make some adjustments to our generals? ”