After Zhang Ying interrogate with these people who have avenged their grievances, he confirmed their identities and was indeed driven down from Ji Wanggu by Gao Ze's subordinates.

These civilians also exposed a key military intelligence, Gao Ze was stationed on Ji Wanggu, with 10,000 or 20,000 troops.

According to Zhang Ying's judgment, if Ji Wanggu has 20,000 troops stationed, then Ji Wanggu will not be able to bypass it no matter what, and it must be captured. Otherwise, this group of sergeants will be killed from Gushang, and it is estimated that they will not be able to trap these condescending sergeants who are charging from a high position. Once the county seat of Yishui falls, it can immediately cut off the back road of grain and grass transportation in Zhang Ying's department.

How to capture Ji Wanggu, Zhang Ying did not know the fortifications on Ji Wanggu, nor did he know how many roads could go directly to Jiwanggu, and he could not even get close to observe. He really doesn't have a very good way to break the Gu, so he can only humbly ask the people on these Ji Wanggu for advice, how can he attack Ji Wanggu without knowing it.

These people, who have lived on Jiwanggu for hundreds or thousands of years, are of course familiar with the topography of Jiwanggu. They were very grateful to Zhang Ying for giving soup porridge and settling down, so they truthfully informed Ji Wanggu of the truth.

Ji Wanggu has a total of four gates that can enter the top of the Guding, one of which is the Chaoyang Gate on the main road, and it is also a gate for the heavy defense of the Gao Ze Department. The remaining three are facing steep cliffs and must be climbed with vines.

According to the people's description of Ji Wanggu, Zhang Ying drew a brief map of Ji Wanggu on the sand table, he looked at this simple map and pondered for a long time, and asked, "The other doors, really can't go up?" If you really can't go up, what are you doing there when you open the door? ”

The people answered truthfully, except for the Chaoyang Gate, the other gates seem to be close to the steep cliffs, but the local mountain people can also climb the rock with mountain vines. Some mountain people who hunt on the north and east slopes cannot take a long detour to the south gate when they return home, and usually choose to climb from the nearest mountain gate.

At this point, Zhang Ying already had a strategy to break the enemy, and said to Zhu Yihai, "His Royal Highness King Lu, if you attack from the Chaoyang Gate of the South Gate, you will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and it will be difficult to capture." I suggest that the people of Guding lead the way, and we will send 2,000 special combat troops to attack Guding from the North Gate Tazimen and the East Gate Stool Gate. ”

When it comes to fighting, Zhu Yihai has no right to speak, Zhang Ying opened his mouth to ask for advice, which can be regarded as giving him face, where does Zhu Yihai not allow it? agreed with Zhang Ying's tactics.

Zhang Ying once again promised these people who were driven off the top of the hill that as long as they helped the Xuanjia sergeants to attack Ji Wanggu from other gates, they could help them recapture the Ji Wanggu that had lived for generations, and they could also reward each household with ten taels of silver to reward the merit of breaking the Gu.

When these people heard that they could not only snatch back Ji Wanggu, but also have the silver to take, of course, 10,000 were willing to stand on the side of the Xuanjia Army.

Two days later, the Xuanjia army sent troops to Jiwanggu.

Zhang Yingbing was divided into two roads, one was the main soldier, feintting to attack the Chaoyang Gate of the south gate of Ji Wanggu; All the way is a surprise soldier, 2,000 special combat troops, sneak attack from the north gate tower gate, east gate stool gate.

Three days later, in the middle of the night, Zhang Ying ordered the whole army to launch a general attack on Ji Wanggu.

With the assistance of the people of Guding, 2,000 special combat troops took advantage of the night to successfully attack the tower gate and stool gate. The defenders on Ji Wanggu guarded the two gates with less than a hundred people, and before they came to their senses, the sneak attack of the special operations army was swept away.

The divine soldiers of the special combat army descended from the sky, shuttling back and forth from the east and north gates, stirring up the entire defenders of Jiwanggu, unable to organize an effective defense at all, and completely disrupting Gao Ze's defense system in Jiwanggu.

Zhang Ying took advantage of the situation to lead the crowd to attack at the Chaoyangmen of the South Gate, and the defenders supported it for less than six hours, and at noon the next day, the city defense finally collapsed completely. The tide of Xuanjia troops swarmed in and began to annihilate the defenders at the top of the hill.

By the time of Shen, Gao Ze's 20,000 defenders had collapsed, and they were forced to jump off the cliff, and at least 3,000 people jumped into the water, plus 4,000 killed in battle, a total of 7,000 were killed. The remaining defenders were either wounded and unable to fight again, or they surrendered.

Gao Ze himself was also captured alive by the Xuanjia Army and escorted to Zhang Ying and Zhu Yihai.

Zhu Yihai was annoyed by Gao Jie's raid on Huai'an Mansion, and wanted to vent his anger in public, but he was still stopped by Zhang Ying.

The reason why Zhang Ying saved Gao Ze was to listen to important information from him, "Commander Gao, do you want to live, or do you want to be executed by Ling Chi and exterminate the Nine Clans?!" ”

If Gao Ze had the courage to shroud the horse leather, Ji Wanggu would have committed suicide and martyrdom in the battle of Ji Wanggu, and he would not have been captured alive. At present, in order to save his life, Gao Ze has long lost his previous pride, kowtowing to Zhang Ying and others and begging for mercy, "Mr. Zhang, I, I was also coerced by my brother, and I can't resist the heavenly soldiers!" ”

"His Royal Highness King Lu, it was Gao Jie who came to Huai'an Mansion to rob, it was he who went against the grain, lost his conscience, deserved to die, everything has nothing to do with me!"

Gao Ze began to scold Gao Jie and pushed his own crimes to the fullest.

Zhang Ying didn't want to continue talking nonsense with him, and went straight to the point to let Gao Ze provide the deployment of Gao Jie's troops, as well as the defense forces of Yidu County, the Qingzhou Prefecture.

In order to survive, Gao Ze naturally told him that he didn't dare to hide this kind of military information that could be verified at any time.

As soon as Zhang Ying heard that Gao Jie had come to the rescue of Qingzhou Mansion, there were only 40,000 sergeants, and he had already lost 20,000 in Jiwanggu, and the rest were only 20,000 at most in Yidu County.

Zhang Ying's mind suddenly appeared a more daring military plan, a risky plan that was completed in one battle, that is, to spare all the prefectures and counties along the way, advance lightly, and directly attack Yidu County, where the Qingzhou Prefecture was located. As long as Yidu County can be taken, and even Gao Jie can be captured alive, the entire Qingzhou battle situation will be decided in one battle, which is better than the continuous siege of cities and land along the way, and the delay will be delayed.

He directly began to threaten Gao Ze, if he wanted to live, he had to take the Xuanjia army to gallop north to Yidu County, the governing place of Qingzhou Prefecture, and take advantage of Gao Jie's failure to get the news of Ji Wanggu's defeat, deceive the city gate of Yidu County, and let the Xuanjia army enter the city. If they can help the Xuanjia Army successfully take Yidu County, Gao Ze and his family can leave with half of their family wealth.

One side was directly executed by Ling Chi, and the other side was rich and glorious, Gao Ze agreed to Zhang Ying's arrangement almost without hesitation, and repeatedly claimed that he was willing to lead the way for the Xuanjia army, and went to call the city gate of Kaiyidu County to lead the Xuanjia army into the city.

With Gao Ze's promise, Zhang Ying immediately ordered the 500 special combat army sergeants to change into the military uniforms of the Ming army, and escorted Gao Ze to Yidu County to open the city gate. Zhang Ying led 20,000 Xuanjia soldiers to follow ten miles behind, waiting for the special combat army to enter Yidu County and control the city gate, so he led the rear army to rush up, directly take Yidu, and capture Gao Jie in the city alive.

As for the takeover of the county seat along the way from Yishui County to Yidu County, it was handed over to Zhu Yihai's Lu army to carry out and complete.

After the victory of Ji Wanggu, the Xuanjia army did not take a short rest, and rushed directly to Yidu County, just racing against time to seize the opportunity. Otherwise, when Gao Jie got the news and came back to his senses, it was estimated that it would take a lot of trouble to capture Yidu County with just a dozen cannons on the wall of Yidu County, and it would cost many soldiers lives.

After three days of rapid marching, the Xuanjia army had crossed a distance of more than 200 miles, escorted Gao Ze, and rushed to the city of Yidu with light troops.

Gao Ze's life was in the hands of the Xuanjia Army, so he could only honestly call the city gate, claiming that there was an urgent military report from Yishui County, and he wanted to enter the city immediately to meet his brother Gao Jie.

The sergeant defending the city saw that he did not bring many soldiers and horses back to the city, so he lost his suspicions, opened the city gate, and let the group enter the city.

As soon as the sergeants of the special warfare army entered the city gate, they rushed straight to the forts on the city wall, cut down the defenders on the city wall with three strikes and five divisions, turned the cannon to the muzzle, and aimed it at the city.

"Boom, boom!"

The violent sound of artillery sounded not only to ignite the flames of war in the quiet city, but also to report to the main force of the Xuanjia Army ten miles away that the city gate had been captured!

The main force of the 30,000 Xuanjia Army, which received the news from the artillery, rushed towards Yidu City.