Lu Xiangsheng naturally did not rush to reincarnate, but wanted to drive the thieves in Linfen City to reincarnate. He was attacking the city very seriously, but the thieves on the city wall were ridiculing him with the mentality of watching a play, so when he suddenly moved, the thieves on the city wall were chaotic.

After all, the thieves were prepared, and after a while of panic, they slowly straightened out, rows of huge shields appeared on the city wall, and huge stones were thrown into the sky. It's not enough to smash a stone into a shaft, but the catapult can only roughly aim at a range, and it's very troublesome to adjust the range, so it has almost no way to deal with a moving shaft.

Fortunately, this well was not a siege vehicle, and it could not be directly hit the city wall, and it all stopped when it was still two hundred steps away from the city wall. The sword and shield soldiers below began to hide behind the well and form a group, and the musketeers climbed directly to the top of the well.

Watching the musketeers climb up the well, raising their muskets but not firing, there was a burst of laughter from the tower of the north gate. This King Lu Yan is really sick, he always uses this trick, now he is dumbfounded, we have a huge shield, how can your musket withstand me?

Lu Xiangsheng's next move almost made the thief chief on the city gate tower laugh to the ground, he actually directly led tens of thousands of spearmen, carrying the ladder and rushing towards the city wall!

Forehead drop kidney, this King Lu Yan can't be crazy!

However, they couldn't laugh immediately, as soon as Lu Xiangsheng rushed out, a roar sounded in the Ming army's formation, and a row of cannonballs flew towards the city wall and accurately smashed on the neat shield wall.

For a moment, sawdust splattered, blood rushed wildly, and the musketeers opened fire, and the thieves carrying rolling stones and sassalwood behind the shield were knocked over.

The thieves on the city wall were panicked, although there were not many cannonballs flying from below, but they were all concentrated in the section of the city wall directly in front of King Lu Yan, and now there was no one standing there, if King Lu Yan rushed up, it would be terrible.

The thieves on both sides were driven by the small leader, and squeezed hard into the middle, and after a while, the opening was blocked. However, "boom, boom, boom" another volley of shells flew by, and "pop pop" was another burst of gunfire, and the middle was empty again.

The thieves on the city wall were frightened, no matter how the little boss urged, they just refused to move to the middle, just kidding, didn't you see the corpses on the ground like a sieve, and they still squeezed there, don't you look for death!

They are afraid of death, Lu Xiangsheng is not afraid of death, at this time he has led a team of spearmen to rush to the city wall, the sword and shield soldiers behind the well also followed, the spearmen put the ladder on the city wall, Lu Xiangsheng did not hesitate to lead a team of sword and shield soldiers to climb the city wall.

He basically didn't encounter any obstacles in this section, because the top was emptied by artillery and muskets twice, and no one dared to come over for the time being, Lu Xiangsheng quickly climbed the city wall, and it was too late for them to come at this time.

A sword light lit up, countless heads fell to the ground, and King Lu Yan began his essential work: harvesting human heads.

He was more fortunate in this section, but other places were not so lucky, the thieves on the city wall hid behind the giant shield and threw down the rolling stones and sassal wood, and for a time the number of casualties of the Ming army continued to rise, except for a few ladders in Lu Xiangsheng's section, no one else rushed to the city wall!

The thieves on both sides were rushed by the little leader to Lu Xiangsheng's point, and the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army around him began to fall down one by one, seeing that he was about to be left alone, even if he was a real Hades, he couldn't withstand the thieves who were surging like a tide on both sides! The situation is precarious!

The roar of the "boom boom" artillery sounded again, and the shield arrays on the twenty cloud ladders on both sides of Lu Xiangsheng were all shot up, and the sound of "pop pop" muskets rang out, and there were countless thieves who carried the rolling stone and wood were shot and killed, and the twenty cloud ladders were instantly filled with Ming troops who climbed up, and countless Ming troops poured up the city wall, and Lu Xiangsheng finally gained a firm foothold on the city wall.

The artillery moved to both sides again, and more and more Ming troops rushed up the city wall, although it was still far from capturing the entire northern wall, but the whole situation was irreversible.

The leaders of the thieves on the tower of the North Gate were collectively dumbfounded the moment the cannon sounded, can this cannon still move casually? How did King Luyan bring the artillery here?

The scattered support of the artillery behind confirmed their conjecture, this artillery can really move at will, and it can hit the thief accurately, how can this be played? Muskets and artillery are simply invincible!

The thieves looked at each other with a wry smile, and finally the King of Zijin Liang gave a helpless order: "Withdraw." ”

Lu Xiangsheng slashed frantically on the city wall for a while, and suddenly felt that the knives and guns in front of him seemed to be getting more and more loose, and when he cut down the last thief in front of him, he looked up, fuck, the thief chieftain banner on the city gate tower was gone, and they all ran away!

Lu Xiangsheng was so angry that he yelled: "Someone." ”

A few guards walked out of the Ming army in the thickets behind, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "My subordinates are here." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said angrily: "Order, let the general soldier Cao Wenzhao lead 30,000 cavalry to pursue, guerrilla Li Mingfu, Zuo Guangxian, Cui Zongyin, Li Guoqi each led 10,000 musketeers and then responded, telling Cao Wenzhao not to rush too hard, don't come hard when encountering stubborn resistance, and wait for the reinforcement of the musketeers behind." ”

The guards gave up their hands, quickly climbed down the ladder, and gave the order.

Lu Xiangsheng did not lose any troops in this siege, but he did not achieve any results, and he captured Linfen City, but the thieves ran out.

He was depressed, but Cao Wenzhao was very happy, to say that there are many masters of escape in this thief, like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others are famous for running for their lives, as long as they want to escape, don't want to catch up.

These people have the specialty of escaping, but the other thief chiefs don't, Cao Wenzhao caught a Shu Shuang, he caught a lot of them when he ran a mile or two, and he caught a lot of them after running a mile or two. He chased all the way from Linfen to Yicheng without encountering any resistance, and basically surrendered as soon as he surrounded them.

The guerrilla general Li Mingfu and others in the back simply became professional escorts, and as soon as they walked a mile or two, there were cavalrymen who came to inform them to escort the prisoners, and there were cavalrymen who came to inform them to escort the prisoners, back and forth for thousands at a time, and they didn't know how many thieves Cao Wenzhao had caught, but they kept escorting them back and forth, and they couldn't finish them!

Cao Wenzhao chased to Yicheng and finally met resistance, the thief leader Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang and others fled into Yicheng, they gathered nearly 100,000 horses, which was not at all Cao Wenzhao's 30,000 cavalry could deal with, he could only regretfully lead the army back to Linfen.

Lu Xiangsheng was not depressed at this time, looking at the more and more captives outside the city, he smiled like a flower on his face, whether he was caught in the city or outside the city, as long as he was caught. He originally thought that this time he was busy working for nothing, and he would get the consolation prize of Linfen City, but he never thought that Cao Wenzhao could catch so many thieves for him, such a big bunch, I am afraid that there will be more than 100,000 yuan, and he will catch more than half of them at one time, can he not be happy.

As soon as Cao Wenzhao came back and told him about the situation of the thieves, this is okay, all the remaining thieves have gathered in Yicheng, and there are more than 100,000, no, they can't be allowed to have a chance to breathe, otherwise they will rise up again in a few months.

So, early the next morning, he left 30,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry led by Cao Wenzhao to stay in Linfen to guard the prisoners, and he himself took musketeers and artillery, a total of 100,000 troops, and went straight to Yicheng.

This time he was even more unlucky, before he arrived in Yicheng, the scouts came to report, Wang Ziyong and they fled again, and they all fled to the mountains where Shanxi and Henan meet!

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but look up at the sky, could it be that he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out, why couldn't he catch a thief? I knew that Cao Wenzhao was here, that guy was so lucky that he chased all the way, picked up all the way, and easily picked up more than 100,000 captives!

The thieves and robbers fled into the mountains, Lu Xiangsheng had to give up the pursuit, the mountains were full of wood, and the artillery could not be carried in, and when the time came, he could only be used as a spearman when he encountered the thieves, 100,000 against 100,000, he did not have a slight advantage. Moreover, those thieves are used to drilling into the mountains, and when they get to the mountains, it is like going home, and it is almost impossible to defeat them in the mountains.

Fortunately, the main force of the thieves was either captured or fled into the mountains, and there were not many thieves in other cities in Pingyang Province, so it was a good time to recover. So he personally led 50,000 horses to sit in Yicheng to prevent the main force of the thieves from counterattacking, and the remaining 50,000 horses were sent to the south of Linfen and the west of Yicheng to recover the city occupied by the thieves.

After everything was arranged and everyone calmed down, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly thought that he hadn't reported to the emperor yet. This can't be blamed on him, since yesterday morning he ran all the way from Hongdong to Linfen, personally led people to storm for a while, and took Linfen City. When he was almost busy, the captives were sent in batches, and he had to arrange for someone to guard it, and he had to arrange for someone to check and register, and when he was done, the day passed. The next day he went straight to Yicheng again, although he didn't even see the thieves, but it was also inevitable to receive and arrange defense; After finishing the affairs of Yicheng, he had to arrange people to recover other cities, and when these were all arranged, he could be considered to be okay for the time being, and then he remembered to write a good news to the emperor.

For Lu Xiangsheng, who was born in Jinshi, writing a good news is naturally extremely simple, he wrote the situation of Linfen and Yicheng in a few strokes, and he still felt that he was still unsatisfied, and summarized his use of muskets and artillery in siege warfare, and wrote it on the good news, which was sent to the post station, so that they were sent to the Beijing division for 300 miles.

Zhu Cijiong received Lu Xiangsheng's good news as soon as he returned to Beijing, and he was naturally happy, he originally thought that Lu Xiangsheng would have to stalemate with the thieves for a few months before he could take Linfen, but he didn't expect him to take all of Linfen with Wings City so quickly. As for Lu Xiangsheng's fear that the thieves fled into the mountains, it was not easy to suppress them, but he was not worried at all, it was good to flee into the mountains, Shanxi was almost tossed, and it was time for them to go to Henan, the hardest-hit area of the clan, to toss and toss.

Zhu Cijiong knew that they would go to Henan, but he just didn't remind Lu Xiangsheng, if he reminded Lu Xiangsheng to go to Henan to guard the rabbit and beat the thieves away, wouldn't it be in vain to cheapen the gang of clan moths in Henan!