When the left and right armies won great victories one after another, the battle of the Chinese army led by Jiang Chuan personally to attack Liaoyang City also reached a critical juncture.

After three consecutive days of heavy artillery bombardment, the southern wall of Liaoyang City has been riddled with holes, and a large piece of the city wall has collapsed a big gap, but the gap is relatively high, and it is still a little difficult to attack directly from the gap.

However, although the city wall was not broken, the morale of the Qing army in Liaoyang was on the verge of collapse. Although the three days of shelling killed and wounded only two or three thousand soldiers, the blow to morale was incomparable.

There are less than 15,000 or so people left in the entire defenders, and there are quite a few people, but they are already panicked and rumors.

The enemy's artillery shells that Feiyangu said before were about to run out, and they could only use two days at most, and they were ruthlessly slapped in the face by the facts, because the artillery fire of the Jiang Jiajun on the third day was still fierce.

In fact, on the third day, the intensity of the artillery fire had weakened, but Jiang Chuan asked Li Han to use the method of firing in batches, so that with a limited number of shells, the same firing density could be guaranteed as the day before. It's just that the intensity of the shot is obviously reduced.

It's just that in the two consecutive days of shelling, the Qing army has become a frightened bird, so they don't realize it too much.

When people are in a state of panic, they generally only instinctively look for facts that can confirm their suspicions, but they don't care whether the facts are true or not.

In the eyes of the Qing soldiers, as long as the enemy's cannon is still ringing, it means that the protagonist Feiyangu is fooling everyone.

The second is that the reinforcements that Feiyangu said have not come for a long time, which makes the soldiers feel even more unconfident, which leads to rumors. Some say that reinforcements will not come at all, because Quang Ninh and Gaizhou have also been attacked by the enemy. Some people say that the reinforcements came, but they were ambushed by the enemy on the way, so they couldn't come.

Rumors spread everywhere, so that the soldiers were even more unwilling to stick to it. All Feiyangu could do was to kill some of the soldiers who spread the rumors the most, and then keep refuting the rumors that the two cities were not attacked at all, and reinforcements would definitely come, so as to stabilize the morale of the army.

It's a pity that his words are really a little pale, and many soldiers look at him with suspicion in their eyes. It's just that he is afraid of military discipline and dares to be angry but doesn't dare to speak.

At noon on the fourth day, during the interval of the Jiang army's siege, a group of men and horses suddenly came from the west, waving flags, murderous, and coming towards Liaoyang under the banner of the Qing army.

The Jiang army scouts who were cruising outside the four cities of Liaoyang heard the news and fled.

Seeing this situation, the Qing army in Liaoyang City was immediately overjoyed, knowing that it must be Guangning's reinforcements arriving. Feiyangu was also overjoyed, and a hanging heart was also put down, touching his beard that was not too long, and laughing: "I knew that the reinforcements would definitely return, you little calves are afraid of this and that." Now that the reinforcements from Quang Ninh have arrived, the reinforcements from Gaizhou should not be far away. As soon as the reinforcements arrived, it was time for our army to counterattack. ”

All the generals behind him hurriedly complimented Feiyangu for his wisdom and wisdom, knowing things like a god, and being determined, and Feiyangu was even more proud when he heard it.

Feiyangu sent a team of men and horses out of the city to meet the reinforcements, and when they came to find the reinforcements covered in blood, many of them with blood on their faces, and hurriedly inquired.

The leading reinforcement general said that he had encountered a group of thieves on the way, and after a bloody battle with them, he annihilated the enemy army, and it was too late.

When the defenders of Liaoyang heard this, they suddenly realized, and then they understood why the reinforcements came so slowly, and they were even more grateful for the reinforcements.

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements from the defenders of Liaoyang, the Jiang army outside the city also began to shrink its formation, and hurriedly withdrew its artillery into the camp.

As soon as the reinforcements came, the enemy was cowardly at once, and it seemed that the time for counterattack was not far away, and almost all the Qing troops were relieved, and even began to feel that the enemy was not far from death, and their own side would definitely turn defeat into victory and defeat the enemy army under the city.

Feiyangu knew the news that the reinforcements had arrived after a bloody battle, and he was also very excited, lamenting that it was not easy for the reinforcements to arrive, and also lamenting that the Jiang family's army was too ambitious, and even wanted to eat the reinforcements, but he didn't expect that he was annihilated, which was really happy.

On the one hand, he ordered people to prepare food and treat the reinforcements, and on the other hand, he ordered the reinforcements to enter the city.

The west gate of Liaoyang City was wide open, and after the drawbridge was put down, the Qing army sent out to meet the reinforcements was in front, and the reinforcements were behind, and slowly entered the city through the west gate.

The general of the Liaoyang garrison who led the way was still chattering to the reinforcement general behind him about how he had resisted the fierce offensive of the Jiangjia army in the past few days, when he suddenly heard the reinforcement general behind him call himself, and couldn't help but turn around to look,

What he saw when he looked back was a sneering and hideous face, this was the last sight he saw in this world, because the next second his head was cut off by the long knife in the other party's hand.

After the leader succeeded, he let out a long roar and shouted: "Grab the city gate and go up to the city wall." ”

Although he did not say anything, his soldiers knew it, and half of the men and horses who entered the city rushed up the steps of the city wall towards the wall.

Half brandished his long knife and pounced on the gatekeepers who were still standing on either side of the gate to welcome reinforcements.

The sudden change occurred, and the nearby Liaoyang defenders were stunned, and they couldn't figure out what was going on, so they were cut to the ground one after another, becoming a confused ghost.

Feiyangu, who was coming with people to greet the reinforcements, happened to walk not far from the city gate, and when he saw this scene, he was horrified, and suddenly shouted with a flash of inspiration in his mind: "They are not reinforcements, this is the thief army pretending." Take back the gates for me! ”

As soon as he shouted, the others behind him reacted, and they all drew their swords and rushed towards the city gate, trying to retake the city gate from the enemy.

These pretending to be Qing army reinforcements were naturally a team of men and horses sent by Ran Wu. After Ran Wu annihilated the 20,000 Tartar reinforcements, he originally took the opportunity to take Guangning when the air defense of Guangning City was weak, but after the outpost cavalry arrived, he found that Guangning was heavily defended, and it was not easy to open the city gate, so he made a move and made a move to do the opposite, so that the soldiers of the Jiang army put on the armor of the Qing army, and under the banner of the Qing army, they pretended to be Guangning reinforcements and marched to Liaoyang.

He expected that the Qing army in Liaoyang was eager for reinforcements, and he would not necessarily inquire carefully. This gave him the opportunity to open the gates.

Of course, he can't guarantee that he will be able to open the gates, but even if he doesn't succeed, it doesn't matter, after all, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the opportunities and risks are half and half.

With half the chance, it's worth the risk.

I didn't expect this impromptu trick to succeed easily.

Of course, he also sent someone to inform Jiang Chuan in advance, so Jiang Chuan cooperated with Ran Wu's department to perform a play for the Qing army in Liaoyang, and obviously the effect of this play was very good.

Hearing that the reinforcements turned out to be fake by the enemy, the Qing army in Liaoyang was shocked, angry and afraid, and when they heard the shouts of the main general, some people rushed to the city gate with weapons in a daze, and some people stood in place at a loss.

For a time, the west gate of Liaoyang surrounded the city gate and the city wall to launch a tragic battle, and a group of Qing troops continued to rush towards the west gate under the supervision and order of the generals, and launched a fierce battle with the Jiang army that occupied the city gate.

At this time, after receiving the news of the success of Ran Wu's troops in seizing the city gate, Jiang Chuan also sent Bai Mu to kill the west gate with the personal guard battalion.

At the same time, because of the incident at the West Gate, the number of defenders on the southern city wall was greatly reduced, and Zhao Feng, the commander of the cavalry, led 3,000 dismounted cavalry to rush up from the gap in the city wall that was collapsed by cannons.

For a while, the entire Liaoyang City was leaking everywhere, and there were sounds of fighting everywhere.