As soon as Leader Liu led them together, since what Leader Zhang said was so terrible, he himself was not afraid of losing his reputation and turning around and leaving, which means that this army should be a little bit strong. Then they couldn't rush over stunned, so they decided to send some men to attract the officers and troops in the front, and then the others to attack the city on the other three sides.

They really have a few ladders, which are prepared for attacking the county seat. But after coming to the border of Henan, they all wandered outside the county, and it has been useless. Fortunately, they were thrifty enough not to throw away the ladder, otherwise they would have had to make a ladder ready.

Once they had a plan in place, they got into action. The strongest leader Liu led more than 1,000 of his men to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers. The others quickly attacked the other three sides, and after entering the city, the things that the guns found were distributed by Leader Liu.

At this time, Li Mu had already received Li Yan's plan. After Li Yan asked him to defeat the thief, he tried to drive the thief to the south, and Li Yan ambushed in the pine forest in the south to give the fleeing thief a second blow.

Li Mu can only do his best. There should be no problem in defeating the rogue, but he only has twenty cavalry, and he can't drive the thief in one direction at all. And as soon as he saw the thief's tactics at this time, he knew that his mission was basically not completed.

Li Mu confronted the thief in front of him more than a hundred steps away with peace of mind, and he was not worried about the defense on the other three sides. First of all, there is a city wall with a height of one zhang, which is equal to the height of the city wall of a small county town. Moreover, his subordinates have crossbow arrows at a long distance and bombs at close range, and they can hide behind the battlements to reduce casualties. Such a little thief, and attacking three sides at the same time, has no chance of going to the city at all.

He was more than a hundred paces away from the thief, and although the cannon could hit it, the distance was too far for the thief to catch up if he fled. He had already seen archers among the thieves, probably in the midst of other siege thieves, who did not release their arrows.

With a shout, the thieves, who had moved in three directions, began to storm the city walls. Their few archers followed the charge, stopping at a distance of eighty paces and firing arrows at the officers at the head of the city to cover the onslaught of their companions.

Li Yan's soldiers at the head of the city were all hiding behind the battlements and watching silently, the kind of grinding of arrows falling on their bodies during the training of recruits made them basically have no feeling for the feather arrows that fell behind them and did not know where. After the thieves have reached a distance of sixty paces, they start firing freely.

Although most of the bolts miss, the accuracy of the city's crossbowmen increased as the distance approached. Thieves are constantly being shot dead and wounded. After the thieves had rushed twenty paces away, the grenadiers at the head of the city began to throw bombs into the middle of the thieves. Although the thieves were scattered and wore cotton clothes, shrapnel and shock waves were still able to cause some casualties among the thieves.

With the explosion of "boom", "boom", Leader Liu also began to act. He first let his archers start firing arrows, hoping to use feathered arrows to collapse the official army.

But he was completely wrong, and as soon as his archers raised their bows and arrows, the officers and soldiers on that side raised their shields. When the feather arrows fell, it was almost impossible to see a few officers and soldiers falling. Even if one or two officers and soldiers are injured, there will be officers and soldiers behind them to fill in, and the entire formation will not be shaken at all.

He couldn't wait any longer, the archers weren't all divine powers, that is, they could fire ten volleys. If he couldn't rush forward during this time, then the next time he would be covered by archers would be at least half an hour later.

"Brothers, rush forward!" Leader Liu shouted loudly as he swung his knife downward.

His men rushed out with a shout, and he followed in the crowd. Although he is a commander, he can't learn the fear of death from the officers and soldiers, otherwise his subordinates will not obey him. Rushing into the crowd, this is still acceptable, after all, it also rushed up.

At this time, he could not see that the other companions who were attacking from three sides were suffering huge casualties. Especially when they get to the bottom of the city, the more they get together, the more vulnerable they are to the bombs that come up and down the city.

After the last battle with Chen Yongfu, according to Feng Cheng's suggestion, Wang Renhui compiled a schedule for bomb dropping and sent it to the grenadiers for them to retrain and master. Now they deal with the thieves in the city, they all light the fuse and count three times, and then throw the bomb at the enemy bush, so that it basically hits the ground and explodes. If there are cowards, they can be thrown away after counting two times, and they can also cause some casualties to the thieves under the city walls.

Li Mu looked at the distance of the thieves, and after waiting for eighty steps, he immediately ordered: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom", "boom" sounded, two guns fired at the same time under the cover of the big shield, and white smoke filled the air.

There was a crackling sound in the bandwagons of the thieves, and the shields they were holding were either shattered or the people behind them were wounded, throwing them away and falling to the ground wailing.

Before the thieves had rushed out twenty paces, the sound of "boom" and "boom" cannon rang out again, and there was another wail and scream in the ranks of the thieves.

After that, a rain of crossbow arrows was fired, and the casualties of the thieves increased rapidly. They had no shield cover, and the bolts knocked down almost all of the men at the front of them. This was followed by another round of crossbow bolts, which continued to inflict heavy casualties on them.

Under the blows of artillery and crossbow arrows, most of the people who ran in the front rows fell, including Leader Liu, who followed the crowd.

"The leader is dead."

"Leader Liu is dead."

……

Although they were still suffering from the crossbow arrows, they still shouted in fear after seeing Leader Liu killed.

The other thieves shouted as well, and then fled as a matter of course. In an instant, the thieves who were still on the offensive turned into a rout.

The thieves who had attacked the other three walls also began to retreat, and they were completely unable to gain a foothold under the city. Especially near the ladders, bombs were dropped one after another, blowing them up. Some were wounded and fell to the ground wailing for help, but even those who were not injured were also buzzing in their ears and weak under their feet.

The thieves on three sides began to retreat, after all, they did not have to worry about the pursuit of the officers and soldiers. The thieves retreated to the east as they had agreed, but when they saw the men led by Liu fleeing south, they followed.

At this time, Li Mu was preparing for the troops to pursue, and he was really pleasantly surprised to see that other thieves also ran south, and the task given to him by Li Yan was basically completed.

So he didn't pursue it immediately, and let the bandit behind him also run ahead of them, so he let the troops pursue. The troops marched in sequence, following at a trot. And the artillery was not attached to the artillery carriage, but the artillerymen put on ropes and dragged the artillery to follow, so that they could be quickly deployed and fired.

In the pine forest on the south side of the road, a soldier ran in and reported to Li Yan: "General, the thieves are coming. ”