Dashun Li Zicheng, now he is ready to fly, he has to send such a large army to Caozhou to attack He Sanjiang, if he can't gain something, wouldn't it have a profound impact on the majesty of him, the leader of the peasant army.

When Liu Zongmin's first division advanced the front to sweep Caozhou City, the main army of Dashun, which had been belated, finally rushed to Caozhou City, converged with the rest of Liu Zongmin's forward, and surrounded Caozhou City.

After nearly a month of stalemate, Liu Zongmin's forward army lost more than 30,000 men, while the He Jiajun, as the landlord, lost nearly 10,000 soldiers.

It seems that the He Jiajun has gained a lot in this stalemate, but don't forget that the He Jiajun itself occupies a favorable geographical position, and when it comes to the strength of the army, it is indeed a lot higher than the Dashun army, and it should have been a matter of this result.

It's just that the number of the He family army is compared with the Dashun army, the background is a lot different, the Dashun army of more than 30,000 people in exchange for the He family army of 10,000 casualties, in the Dashun Li Zicheng they see, but it is also a cost-effective deal, with the arrival of more than 100,000 soldiers of the main force of the Dashun army at this time, the Dashun army gathered under the city of Caozhou, there are more than 200,000 people.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the He family army stationed in Caozhou City, except for the people living in the local area, only had an army of more than 50,000 people, and the dense Dashun army under the city was far away.

"Listen to the people in the city, and call your general to come out and answer!!"

After the Dashun army encamped outside the city was reorganized, on the second day, a large number of troops lined up in a staggered battle formation, slowly approaching the city of Caozhou, and then stopped inside and outside the range of the city's long-range weapon attack, and a messenger roared in a full voice and shouted loudly under the city.

Li Zicheng came to crusade against the rebel in anger this time, although he wanted to tear him alive, but he also wanted to understand why He Sanjiang, who was re-trusted by him, rebelled against him without saying a word, and did not have the slightest call in advance.

"I'm sorry, my general is not in the city now, and I can't come out to meet you, so you go back and tell your lord!!"

Han Yao, the general of the city, sat in the middle of it, clasping his fists at his former colleagues in the city.

"And now you and I are our own masters, so as not to see each other. As for the next time your army and our soldiers will meet, and see who has a hard work, don't blame our army for not being merciful when the time comes!! ”

What Han Yao said at this time was a bit of a deception to the other party, He Sanjiang was originally in the city, but he was waiting for a hard fight some time ago, but after returning to the city, he accidentally had a cold disease, which made him fall on the sickbed all of a sudden.

In order not to frustrate the morale of his soldiers, He Sanjiang simply hid in the official residence in the city to recuperate, and let Han Yao, Wei Long and others temporarily take over the task of guarding the city, but Bai Yushan, as the second in command, was really not in the city at this time.

"Hmph, there are no guts bandits, but they don't even dare to see me!!"

Li Zicheng, who was a little disappointed and even more angry at the same time, was surrounded by the Dashun army, sat on top of Luan and looked at Caozhou City not far away, and then some disgust jumped on his face, and he waved his big hand: "Let's do it!" ”

The siege army of Dashun slowly pressed up, and siege equipment such as siege vehicles, ladders, and arrow towers, under the impetus of countless Dashun soldiers, slowly and firmly marched towards Caozhou City.

"Gunners ready!!"

Caozhou City as the only strong city in the hands of the He army, its armament and troops in the Caozhou City are also extremely heavy, at this time in the face of the siege of the Dashun army under the city, they are also prepared, a cannon from the city wall between the battlements, the black muzzle aimed at the front of the approaching all kinds of siege equipment.

Of course, the Dashun army is not actually without artillery, but Dashun can't cast its own artillery, and the artillery under its command comes more from the capture of the Ming army in these years, so its gunner proficiency is not high, and there will always be various mistakes; The second is that most of the captured artillery is bulky and less powerful, and it always causes the risk of explosions and squibs due to unfamiliar gunners and other operations, which makes them more willing to use the old siege method than to use firearms to siege the city.

"Fire!!"

The artillery from the support of Dayuan Island, and He Sanjiang, the artillery they captured in the fight with the Ming Dynasty in recent years, nearly twenty or thirty cannons were erected in front of the west gate of the Dashun army's stronger offensive, after the commander gave an order, a crackling roar sounded, and the orderly siege array under the city was followed by a meal of people turned over on their backs, and as the key target of artillery, all kinds of siege equipment, it was a heavy loss, several arrow towers were overturned to the ground, and many ladders were also stopped and blown into several sections, Fragments were scattered across the ground beneath the city.

But even so, the offensive of the Dashun army did not end there, and more Dashun soldiers rushed out of the rear battle formation and continued to rush towards the high city in front of them.

At this time, the peasant army of the Dashun Dynasty was no longer the rabble it was at the beginning, and after the brutal elimination of countless actual battles over the years, the peasant army soldiers who were still alive to fight in the Dashun army naturally had a brush under their hands.

Perhaps the opponent lacks the strength of collective combat because of the tactical literacy of the generals themselves, but in terms of individual combat strength, from its martial bravery, etc., Dashun and other armies are no longer the soft-footed shrimps that can only fight tailwind battles at most and collapse when they encounter headwinds.

The battle on the first day was not so much a tentative attack by the Dashun Dynasty army as a battle in which the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng vented his anger at being betrayed by He Sanjiang.

The battle began in the morning and lasted intermittently until ten o'clock in the evening, and the army of the Great Shun Dynasty poured up wave after wave towards the wall of Caozhou City, and was beaten down by the soldiers of the He family army on the city wall wave after wave, and the two sides launched a contest of courage and life as a measure in terms of fighting will and physical fitness.

In the end, the first day of fighting ended with the strong resistance of the He Jiajun army to the offensive of the Dashun Dynasty.

The number of deaths between the soldiers on both sides reached more than 20,000 in one day, of which the losses of the He family army as the defender were naturally less, but the strength of the Dashun Dynasty army was still not to be underestimated, and Han Yao did not dare to regain the slightest contempt for the Dashun army in the post-war summary.

In the next few days, the army of the Great Shun Dynasty relied on the strength of the people and carried out a continuous attack on the city of Caozhou at any cost, so that the troops of the He family army defending the city suffered more and more casualties, and then the troops on the city wall gradually weakened at night, so that the army of the Great Shun Dynasty saw a glimmer of hope.