Zhang Lexing nodded and said, "What Brother Hou said is reasonable!" This captivity is too famous now, so it's better to be cautious! Since they were able to capture the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop, there must be something special about him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoWhat's more, the more Zhang analyzes this captive army, the more he finds that it is not simple! ”

There are some things that Zhang Lexing didn't say. In the past, they were all in a corner of northern Anhui, and they were in the countryside, so they didn't pay much attention to external news. Now that I know the history of the growth and development of the Holy King who is called the emperor, the more I understand, the more frightened I become, this Holy King has developed too demonic! In just over two years, it has developed from a small force to the largest force that occupies the entire south and now occupies the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is much stronger than the powerful Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the beginning. The key is that the captive army under his command has always won more with less against the Shangqing army, and there is no defeat.

Su Tianfu said anxiously: "So what? Could it be that they sent a letter, and we really took refuge in them? ”

Gong Deshu was also very dissatisfied: "Alliance leader, we twisted the new gathering to form an alliance, the purpose is to resist the Manchus. The Manchu Qing Dynasty, who ruled the Central Plains for 200 years, was not afraid, what was he afraid of? Moreover, we don't grab land with him, and they don't think of us coming to northern Anhui! ”

Hou Shiwei suggested: "Alliance leader, brothers, why don't you take a look at the situation first." Don't take refuge first, don't offend, and see how strong they are. ”

"Yes, it's still true that Brother Hou said! That's it, don't reply to them first, and then capture the city of Maozhou. Zhang Lexing slapped his thigh and decided to settle down.

However, the departure of Han Wanfeng, the master of the Blue Flag, and others still made the Twist Army Mengshan a shadow.

Three days later, the first crypt was about to be dug under the walls to the east of the city. When Zhang Lexing heard the news, he immediately ordered to dig under the city wall within one day, and at the same time ordered someone to fill the coffin with gunpowder, preparing to blow up the city wall in the crypt once the excavation was successful. Unexpectedly, half an hour later, the Twist came to report that the crypt in the east of the city was discovered by the Qing soldiers in the city, and the Qing soldiers dug the crypt in reverse, and poured water into the crypt from the moat connected with the Vortex River, drowning dozens of twist brothers inside.

Zhang Lexing was taken aback and was discovered by the Qing army? Fortunately, they used the crypt method from four directions, not just the east of the city, but also hoped for success in other directions.

Unexpectedly, within an hour, the crypts in the other three directions were also discovered and destroyed by the Qing army one after another, and they were all poured into the crypt by river water, and the brothers who dug the soil in it were drowned in it.

Zhang Lexing was furious, he was enraged by the Qing soldiers in the city, and immediately vowed to avenge the drowned brother, so he wanted to lead the troops to attack the city directly.

Nephew Zhang Yujue persuaded that it was better to make large-scale siege equipment first, and a direct siege would lose a lot of brothers.

Zhang Lexing couldn't wait so much if he could listen to persuasion, so he ordered to attack the city directly. In his opinion, he is the leader of the alliance, unlike Han Wanfeng and their blue flag, and now the other three banners are still listening to his orders and working together, plus a batch of cloud ladders made temporarily in the past few days, desperately killing a group of brothers, they will definitely be able to capture Haozhou City.

At present, the four flags are twisted together, one flag and one city wall, and they are attacking the city together.

Zhang Lexing ordered all the twisters to be divided into two shifts, day and night, taking turns to attack the city. For a time, the sound of killing in Haozhou City shook the sky.

Seven or eight thousand twisters attacked the city together, which caused a great panic among the Qing troops on the city wall. On the city tower, Yuan Jiasan commanded Zhizhou Gong Guoxun and General Song Qing and the other two thousand generals to each be responsible for a city wall, leading the soldiers at the head of the city to fight back. And organized the squires and people in the city to go to the city, boiling oil and boiling water to sprinkle under the city wall, smashing stones and bricks, and for a while, the city wall was guarded at all.

Under the city, Zhang Lexing personally led a group of drummers to beat drums and cheer, and the crowd heard the drums, shouted and shouted, and flocked to attack the city.

Watching the twisters climb up the city wall with a ladder on the road, they bravely attacked the city regardless of life and death. Zhang Lexing became excited, as long as dozens of people climbed the city wall and made a gap, a steady stream of twisting brothers behind would follow, and the city could be broken! Speaking of bravery, Zhang Lexing is confident that the group of twisters under his command will not lose to the Taiping soldiers.

However, to Zhang Lexing's disappointment, although the people were brave, not many people were able to attack the tower. The only few dozen people who attacked the city wall were also beheaded one by one under the brave encirclement and suppression of the Qing army led by several generals of the Qing army in the city.

An hour later, the number of people was converted into thousands, but the city of Maozhou was not damaged at all, but the Qing soldiers on the city only killed two or three hundred people, and they became more and more brave and stronger. On the contrary, on the side of the twisters, after several charges were invincible, their morale declined, and their combat power became lower and lower.

The ladders that the people attacked the city were either burned by boiling oil one after another, or they were smashed by the soldiers and brave people on the city wall with large stones, and there were not many ladders in the first place, and the people could not climb the city wall, so they could only crowd at the city gate and hit the city gate with heavy logs, but they were attacked by arrows, stones and poisonous water that kept falling from the city tower, and suffered heavy casualties.

Zhang Yujue couldn't bear to look at it, so he ran to Zhang Lexing, who was still beating the drum, and grabbed the drum stick, and persuaded his uncle to sound the gong and withdraw the troops. The anger in Zhang Lexing's heart also subsided with the tragic death of the brothers, and he had to take advantage of the situation to order the troops to be withdrawn.

And the other three banners have already retreated to the side. They all understand that the Qing army in the city of Maozhou is a difficult bone to gnaw, and it seems that the Manchu dog official named Yuan Jiasan really has a lot of ability.

Seeing that the method of the crypt was destroyed, and the forced siege of the city suffered heavy losses, in the face of this strong army to defend the city of Maozhou, the people have begun to retreat.

The three general banner owners came to Zhang Lexing and suggested that they retreat to the south, first occupy Mengcheng, and then go to Suzhou and Fengtai in the east or south. Seeing that the three old brothers had such thoughts, Zhang Lexing had no choice but to obey, gathered the twisted people, collected the twisted brothers who died in battle, and retreated to Sanguanji, more than ten miles south of the city of Mizhou, ready to bury the bodies of the dead in battle.

In fact, the twisters are all local villagers, and there are big flags and small flags under the five general flags. Each flag has a flag owner, who is in charge of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands. This is because the banner owner is to command his subordinates with clan, relatives, and township relations, so that his subordinates are all relatives and neighbors, and they can't stay away from their hometowns, and second, they only listen to the command of the flag master, and it is difficult for the flags to coexist, let alone form a joint force against the enemy.

However, because the people who died in the war were all the twisters of Maozhou, according to the local rules, the "righteous land" to be buried should choose a feng shui wonderful place near the water, so Zhang Lexing and they led the twisters to Sanguanji to find such a "righteous land".

After a day's rest, just buried the brothers who died in battle, there was not much food in the army, Zhang Lexing was about to lead the people to the southeast of Yimenji to loot some food, and was about to set off, when he suddenly heard a rumbling shelling sound faintly in the direction of Haozhou City behind him. Zhang Lexing felt strange, so he went down to the spot to guard.

Half an hour later, several scouts galloped over and reported loudly: "Lord of the Alliance, a large army has appeared in the west of Haozhou City, with a red background and yellow five-star coiling dragon banner, which seems to be the army from the south to the Taiping Holy Kingdom. The number of people was about 10,000 people, and they surrounded the city of Maozhou, and began to attack the city without saying a word. ”

Zhang Lexing was taken aback, this gang of captives came so quickly! Yesterday, I just heard from the messenger that there was a general surnamed Peng led by more than 10,000 captives to attack the Guide Mansion in Henan, but I didn't expect that today I had arrived in the city of Maozhou, and directly attacked the city?

However, it seems that there is a good show to watch. Yuan Jiasan, the Manchu dog official in the city, was good at leading troops to defend the city, and his nearly 20,000 strong troops attacked the city, all of which were defeated and retreated, look at how they are outsiders endure hardships! Just right, you can also see how the combat power of these southern barbarians is!

So, Zhang Lexing decided to come down and stay for one more day to see the victory and defeat of the two armies.