If Liu Jinzhong led 10,000 horses to escape, Guazhou would definitely not be able to hold it, and Liu Jinzhong, who fled, might not have a good end, and most of them would die under the cover of the Mongols.

Although Yu Yin was a little uneasy about Sun Kewang's approach, he could only acquiesce during the special period, and said that he would explain to Sun Kewang at the meeting.

If Sun Kewang can hold Guazhou, he will keep the westward expansion of the Jin State, and also protect a trade route for the gentry in Guanzhong, which is a great merit, and compared to the merit, the annexation of 10,000 people in the Liu Department can only be regarded as a small flaw.

After getting Yu Yin's understanding, Sun Kewang immediately summoned the officers of the Liu Department to give instructions, and let Zhang Sheng and others take over the 10,000 people.

Liu Bu turned out to be a branch of the Western Army, Sun Kewang still has some prestige among them, plus ten thousand generals, most of the two Tongzhi rode horses first, only two thousand generals were left in the city, and the rest were low-level generals, so it was relatively easy to control.

followed Sun Kewang all the way to the old ministry in Hexi, and when he saw that he had mastered Liu's department, they were all very excited.

When the situation in the city changed, the Mongols outside the city had already set up camp and rushed to make improvised siege equipment.

Liu's 10,000 horses had just changed officers, and the people's hearts were in turmoil, Sun Kewang was still a little uneasy, so he put them in the east and south cities, two walls that the Mongols would not attack for the time being, so that the soldiers and officers could run in for a period of time.

After the Mongols were stationed, Chechnya first went to the city of books, and let the defenders open the city and surrender, otherwise, once the city was broken, the chickens and dogs would not be left after the army entered the city.

Sun Kewang killed the envoy to show his determination to fight.

Seeing that the city did not surrender, Chechen immediately led tens of thousands of horses and horses to set up a formation under the city, preparing to attack Guazhou, and after the city was broken, he hurried to Jiayuguan to join his father Batur Huntaiji.

This southward campaign may be related to the future successor of Zungar, so Chechnya must behave well.

In the early morning, the Mongols and horses set up a formation outside the northern city of Guazhou, Chechen put his hand on his forehead and looked at Guazhou in the distance, he looked at it for a while, and then couldn't help but snort coldly, "Hmph, the small city of Puer, the size of a mucker, dare to stop my iron cavalry of Zungar." That Sun Ke is no more than a first-class coward, and he actually killed my messenger and broke this city, and I will definitely slaughter the whole city to show my military might! ”

Saying that, Chechen looked at Ikminan, the leader of the Hui Special Department on the side: "The Hui Special Department will attack!" ”

The cost of siege warfare is huge, although Chechnya does not look down on the small city of Guazhou, but the siege of the city will have to die, he naturally can't lose the warriors of Jungar, and this kind of thing can only be done by the Hui Special Department.

In the field, the sound of trumpets rose to the sky, and all the attention of the soldiers at the head of the city was attracted to the outside of the city.

Sun Kewang strode to the edge of the city wall, glanced at the Mongolian army array under the city, and saw a gray figure, countless warriors of the Hui Special Department, carrying ladders and simple trench bridges, slowly moving forward.

The Mongol warriors brandished this scimitar and advanced towards the city with a tsunami in their mouths, and the attack and defense of Guazhou finally began.

On the north city, the soldiers of the Jin Army on each section of the city wall were nervously on guard, the gunners next to the iron sand cannon and the bowl mouth gun had been loaded, and they were manipulating the cannon body to find the target, and the archers and gunners were standing on the side of the wall and holding their weapons.

Behind the city wall, next to more than a dozen artillery carts, several soldiers were holding iron rods to pry open the wooden box, one soldier took out a white, bulging stone bullet from it, and carefully placed it in the leather pocket of the throwing rod, and the other soldier held a torch, ready to light a fire at any time.

It turns out that this stone bullet is not an ordinary stone, but a heaven-shaking thunder nicknamed ten thousand enemies.

"King, I'm afraid there are 20,000 people!" Sun Kewang looked at a general beside him, looked at the moving Mongolian soldiers and horses, and spoke.

This person's name is Jiang Jianxun, and he also participated in the anti-Qing struggle in southern Jin in history, but now that the situation has changed, there is more Jin State, a regime that has taken the road of sinicization, and some people who originally embarked on the road of resisting the Qing Dynasty have been absorbed into the Jin State.

"Don't worry, we have perfect fortifications, the Mongols are obviously inferior to the enemy, and they don't have any large equipment, so they want to attack the city, and we just beat them hard to boost the morale of the city!" Sun Kewang squinted at the Mongolian army that was killed, and said in a deep voice.

???? At this time, the vanguard of the Hui Te Department had already entered the range of the Jin army's artillery and artillery vehicles, but Sun Kewang was not in a hurry to attack, and with the experience of defending Luzhou, he knew that it was necessary to wait until he could inflict the greatest damage on the enemy, so that it would be cost-effective.

The city of Guazhou is relatively thin, and if you want to hold the city, one is to improve the morale of the defenders, and the other is to severely demoralize the enemy.

This time the artillery truck threw out not a stone bullet, but ten thousand enemies, it was a thunderstorm, even if this thing was good at using firearms in the Ming Dynasty, there were not many, every time the Jin Kingdom made one, it was not easy, and it must play the greatest effect in order not to lose!

The soldiers of the Jin army at the head of the city could already see the faces of the Hui Te warriors, and the secret soldiers carried ladders and rushed to the front of the Ming army's fortifications, and suddenly the whole ground collapsed, and the Mongolian warriors in front rolled into the pit, and many people were immediately pierced by the spikes.

The appearance of the trap slowed down the speed of the Mongols, and the people behind caught up with the people in front, and the Mongol forwards began to crowd up, and the number of people quickly became dense.

When they erected the trench bridge and moved away from the antlers, more people were blocked on one side of the ditch, and countless people crowded together.

"Why haven't the defenders of the city fought back?"

Seeing that the warriors of the Huite tribe had entered the range of the Jin army, but the artillery in the city did not respond, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The city of the Han people, the defense is generally relatively perfect, the ditch outside the city of Guazhou is vertical and horizontal, the antlers are all over, there will definitely be artillery carts, artillery and other equipment in the city, the Hui Special Department has entered the firing range, but the city does not react, it is indeed a bit abnormal.

Chechen also felt that something was wrong, but it was not his warriors who attacked the city, so he did not study it in detail, but said casually: "Either the defenders are so frightened by our momentum that they don't have time to react, or they just want to wait for our army to get closer and prepare for accurate killing." ”

While the two were talking, behind the city wall of Guazhou, more than a dozen objects suddenly flew out.

This was obviously thrown by a cannon truck, but why is the projectile so small, and the artillery truck should not have thrown a boulder weighing dozens of pounds?

Chechen frowned slightly when he saw the artillery shells flying out, and by this time the shells had already flown over the heads of the troops in front of them and smashed into the deep trenches where the Huitebu warriors were congested.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Suddenly, a few artillery shells flew in the sky, and the stones flew down, like a stone rain, and the frightened Huite warriors below suddenly became short, only to feel that there was a drought thunder above their heads.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Before the warriors of the Huites could react to the explosion in the sky, the remaining shells fell into the crowd, and a series of explosions rang out one after another.

The Huite warriors, who were close to the explosion point, felt an earth-shattering force attack, and their bodies were swept out and fell heavily to the ground.

A centurion was blown away two feet away by the explosion, his face was covered with blood, his body couldn't help twitching, and a large stream of blood vomited blood in his mouth, and none of the surrounding Huite warriors could stand up.

Seeing this, Chechen and Ikminan, who were riding on horses, were immediately silent, and they were all shocked by the thunder that fell from the sky.

This is actually the ignited earth-shattering thunder, with the help of a stone thrower, which has appeared in the Song Dynasty. It's just that it's difficult to control the time of the explosion, so it's rarely used, and the Jin Guo side has made improvements to the lead, but three of them still exploded without landing.

At the beginning of the offensive and defensive battle in Guazhou, beacons were already everywhere along the Great Wall, and pillars of smoke were lit from the beacon towers on the Great Wall and transmitted to Chang'an.

The 80,000 people of Batur Huntaiji and the 60,000 people of the monks began to attack the Great Wall, and the territory of the Jin Kingdom was full of smoke.

In the east of Chang'an, in the backyard of a small wine shop, a secret agent of the Heaven and Earth Society took out a carrier pigeon and loaded it with a secret letter, carried it to the courtyard, and suddenly threw the pigeon, and the carrier pigeon immediately fluttered its wings and flew south by night.

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