Chen Youzheng raised his head and sighed, and the generals were also very anxious, and said to Chen Youzheng: "General, make a decision early, the enemy is menacing, whether it is to flee or surrender, otherwise what awaits you and me will be destruction." ”

The chief catcher heard the words of the general, and said to Chen Youzheng: "There is a brother, no, you must not mess up at this time, we still have a city to defend, the number of grain and grass in the city can hold out for at least more than a month, and then collect some from the people's homes, and you can hold on for a few days, and then Lord He will definitely send troops to the rescue."

Li Guo's loyal battalion is not impossible to defeat the enemy, he has 200,000 troops, more than 60,000 elites, with the previous experience of the loyal battalion, even if it is defeated, it is very likely to escape, and we will make peace, before and after the flanking of this Chinese army, we still have time and the Huaxia army to consume, it is really not good, with the elite to flee to the hinterland of the Qing army, we can still maintain.

The heavy task of recovering the rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty is up to us, and we must not be sinners for the ages together with the rebels of the Huaxia Army. ”

The general understood that this person was sent here by He Tengjiao, and the longer Chen Youzheng dragged the Huaxia Army here, the more space He Tengjiao could move and transfer, and the more time there was.

Hearing the words of the chief catcher, the general shouted at him angrily: "The enemy has come to the door, look at this group of soldiers under the city, how can we hold off the enemy for a month, do you use your head?" ”

In peacetime, there are many contradictions in the army anyway, the various departments are not used to each other, and quarrels are inevitable, but with Chen Youzheng's pacification and coordination, everyone will be at peace, at most they will hate each other, but now in this situation, the generals cannot let the other party make trouble, otherwise everyone will be killed, and those who are lucky will also be sent to the hard labor camp, he doesn't want to enter the hard labor camp of the Chinese army.

"Do you still have a great Ming in your heart, do you want to surrender to the enemy and be a disloyal minister, the emperor is still suffering in Burma, do you want to betray the court? Don't want to welcome back the emperor as soon as possible? Or do you have two hearts for Lord He and want to stand on your own, you traitor! The chief catcher counterattacked him with benevolence, righteousness and loyalty, stirring up nonsense, and the subordinates on both sides drew their swords against each other, looking tense and tense, and if they disagreed, they would get along and fight.

Chen Youzheng was annoyed when he heard it, but he was helpless, he could usually use his prestige and majesty to suppress these people below, but now the situation is so urgent, if it is not good, these people will point the finger at him, and the pressure will only force the opposing side, this is a common disease in the rebel army, the mountains are numerous, the battle is defective, the opinions are not unified, and in the end he is broken by the enemy, he is a person from the past, he understands how much damage this situation does to a rebel army.

At this time, it is your position to let the strong side suppress the weak one, to uphold justice by oneself, and finally to make peace with the mud, and let the strong party compensate the weak side.

However, now he can't do anything, and he can't even wait for that moment, more and more defeated soldiers are gathered under the city, and more and more enemies can be seen from a distance, and there are enemy banners on all sides, and the 100,000 troops and 10,000 soldiers stationed outside the city have completely collapsed.

At least a thousand people were killed by the trampling on each other, rushed to the front of the fortifications, rushed into the fortifications regardless of the recklessness, and were killed by the soldiers guarding the outside, and thousands of people were killed by the fortifications.

The soldiers on the city walls did not receive orders and did not dare to fire arrows and shoots at their own people, and more and more defeated soldiers crowded under the city walls.

"Pass the order, the guards of the city gates shall not open the city gates and let the defeated soldiers in, personal soldiers, take my token to inspect the city gates, and no one is allowed to go up to the city, and those who violate the order will be beheaded by collaborators, and the heads will be hung under the city gates for public display." Chen Youzheng didn't care about the commotion of his subordinates, and turned his head to deal with the situation.

As soon as the words fell, the enemy had stopped two miles in front of the city gate, the army was neat, the flag was fluttering, steady but not chaotic, a group of musketeers came out of the crowd, facing the chaotic city gate in front of the anti-army soldiers and people, young and strong, calmly formed a wide line of stragglers, holding guns and slowly pressed over.

A mile later, the enemy reached the trench fortifications in front of the city gates, raised their guns, and then waved a flag on one of the flanks, and a continuous stream of gunfire rang out as crisp as fried beans.

The soldiers of the Anyway Army, who were still pushing each other and scrambling to climb over the trenches and running towards the moat, or who could not swim past the moat, were shot one after another, and slowly fell to the ground like exhausting spinning tops, letting out screams of pain.

After the gunshots rang out, white smoke rose, and in the smoke, the second row of soldiers on the other side quickly stepped forward, and then the flag waved, and another row of gunshots rang out, and a large number of soldiers of the anti-Japanese army fell.

Chen Youzheng watched it thrillingly, his heart was pounding, it was not that he had never seen a firearm shooting, but it could shoot so neatly, the lethality was so far, so big, it was the first time, so many anti-Japanese troops, like onions that had been peeled layer by layer, and they had no power to resist.

It's not that there is no blood, reflexively rushing towards the enemy, but the enemy's third platoon has already stood still, seeing them rushing over, scattered shouts rang out in the ranks, and then scattered gunshots, as if all points could counterattack, and they could always block the people who rushed over in time, blocking a hundred meters away, and no one could cross the line of death.

"Fire, fire," the chief catcher was also shocked, and reacted first, jumping up and shouting along the city wall.

Chen Youzheng's anyway army also has artillery, Jingmen County has the red-coated cannons and general cannons placed by the Ming army decades ago, and more than a dozen small generals who were later placed by the Qing army, as well as carrying guns, tiger squat cannons, and firearms are also a lot.

After three rounds of shooting, there was no anti-case army that wanted to impact the defense line of the Huaxia army, most of them knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, the Huaxia army sent some soldiers with guns to guide them, and the soldiers who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy ran to the rear under their guidance, and then the enemy cavalry in the rear drove them to a clearing in the distance, and a group of soldiers with knives and guns rushed up to the clearing, drove them to one place, and then threw them some axes, wood, ropes, and let them work on the spot.

Chen Youzheng and the generals at the head of the city watched this strange scene.

Soon the moat ordered the rebel army deserters on one side, and the defeated army was cleared, except for the wounded and corpses wailing on the ground, there was no rebel army left.

Chen Youzheng looked at the other side of the moat in disbelief, there were nearly seventy or eighty thousand anyway troops, all of whom were coerced people sent by Li Guo's loyal battalion.

Some of them escaped from the camp and disappeared, probably dead or captured by the enemy, some of them were killed by the fortifications outside the city or the soldiers stationed there, and the other part was drowned in the moat, the corpse of the moat is now thicker than the water, if the person who is a little better at light work, can step on the corpse, and use the situation of sprinting, before he falls into the water due to his weight, rush over the surface of the moat that is only ten meters wide, and reach the opposite bank.

There are also some people who have gathered under the city, and the soldiers in the city are selecting those soldiers who were stationed on the other side of the moat and not looking frightened, and pulling them up one by one with hanging baskets, and there are more soldiers defending the city.

Looking up again, the enemy had no time to take care of the place, most of the troops were maintaining order in the distance, and the soldiers who had surrendered were driven to several open areas less than five hundred meters apart, and were building a fence with tools, something like a fence.

Soon, there were many people and great strength, and the fence composed of wood and rope was repaired one by one, and the soldiers of the Anyway Army who built this fence were driven in, and then a circle of soldiers of the Huaxia Army stood around, and in this way, the enemy let the soldiers of the Anyway Army put themselves in a sheepfold.

The soldiers and generals at the head of the city were dumbfounded.

Finally, the artillery at the head of the city had their cannons ready.

"Boom, boom, crackle," the white smoke and black smoke rose from the city, and there was a loud sound.

The Huaxia army did not seem to expect the enemy to do this, and was caught off guard, and was hit in several places by a long-flying shell, dozens of soldiers were immediately killed or wounded, and the Huaxia army had some commotion, and then quickly stabilized under the pressure of the officer's bullets, and the anyway army at the head of the city saw that the Huaxia army quickly retreated, and retreated to a distance of about two miles.

Seeing that the enemy was killed and retreated, the morale of the anyway army was immediately high, and the cheers resounded over the city walls, as if they had won a great victory.

However, soon they were speechless and dumbfounded, and dozens of carriages galloped from the rear of the Huaxia army, and behind the carriages pulled a cannon-shaped object that they had never seen before.

The cart was spread out two miles outside the city, and the artillery of the Huaxia Army skillfully unloaded the cart, drove the carriage and war horses to the rear, and the artillery who followed behind the carriage pushed a cannon one by one, advanced more than ten meters, and then quickly prepared for firing in less than half an hour.

Chen Youzheng felt that something was wrong, and there was already fire over there.

The sound of the cannon was loud, deafening, the smoke was confused, everyone on the city wall felt that the city wall under their feet was trembling, and then they heard a sharp and piercing whistling sound, and the city wall was immediately shrouded in a firelight, and everyone felt as if they were blown by an eighth-level wind, and they rose into the air, and the explosion and the flames of the explosion made them scattered, staggering, ringing in their ears, and their eyes were full of stars, as if the heavens and the earth had changed color, as if the world had changed.

After the artillery fire stopped, Chen Youzheng got up and looked at his body, except for being embarrassed by the smoke and gray face, he was not hurt at all, looking around, oh my God, there are dense dead bodies, few can stand up, many people's corpses are hanging on the wall of his daughter and floating, many people's limbs are mutilated, and the entire city wall is like hell on earth.

The subordinate general was not harmed like him, but he was also embarrassed and embarrassed, he staggered and walked towards Chen Youzheng, "General, hurry up and make a decision, otherwise we will all become minced meat." ”

Chen Youzheng was also frightened, "Surrender, open the city gate, and fly the white flag." ”

(End of chapter)