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Du Wenhuan's words were fast and urgent, obviously at this time, everything was in chaos.

The thieves dared to go out of the city tonight to assault the positions of the officers and soldiers, which was something that these officers and generals did not expect.

It's no wonder they were surprised, in their eyes, the thieves are just a group of mud legs who can't eat, a group of typical rabble, under the iron hooves of these officers and cavalry, they have never had to flee when they hear the wind, where have they seen the thieves wielding torches and wielding knives and sticks directly attacking the position of the officers and soldiers?

Could it be that these thieves really have a long ability after arriving in Shanxi?

However, no matter what Du Wenhuan and other generals think, it is an indisputable fact that now the four gates of Jingle City are wide open, and thieves are out of the city on all sides.

Sun Chuanting was also taken aback when he heard the report, but as the supreme commander of the officers and troops around Jingle here and now, of course he couldn't show the slightest panic.

"Order all battalions, be sure to hold the camp, and wait until the enemy situation is clarified, and then it is not too late to counterattack!"

Du Wenhuan heard Sun Chuanting's order, and immediately sent people to quickly send orders to the battalions.

At this moment, outside the north gate, Wang Jiazheng and Sun Chuanting coincided, and also ordered the officers and soldiers under his command to stick to the camp, and then decide the next move after the situation was clarified.

The decision of Sun Chuanting, Wang Jiazheng and others was nothing less than correct, except for the cavalry under Sun Chuanting's command, which had been relatively well rested, He Shiyu's department and Wang Jiazheng's department were escorting grain and grass to the north and south from morning to night.

Suddenly attacked by the thief army, it is the correct response to first defend your camp without losing, and then plan a counterattack.

Although the camp temporarily set up by the officers and soldiers was simple, after all, there were basic defense facilities such as trenches, fences and horse rejection deer villages, so in the face of the sudden attack of the thieves, the official and military camp where Sun Chuanting was located outside the south gate quickly stabilized their positions after a period of panic.

The thousands of thieves led by He Yilong and Lin Yangcheng went out of the city from the south gate and quickly advanced to the south, looking violent, and there was a momentum that would not stop if they did not capture the official army camp, but when the thief army that was charging at the front was shot by the crossbowmen of the official army who had been temporarily organized, and after they fell to the ground, the rest of the thief army quickly reined in the momentum of continuing to advance, and just outside the range of the official army's bow and crossbow, while shouting, they threw arrows and rockets into the official army camp.

Sun Chuanting, who was watching the battle from the watchtower in the camp, quickly understood the intention of the thief army, because looking north from the watchtower, in the night, the four gates of Jingle Town were full of fire.

The thieves wanted to take advantage of the fact that the officers and soldiers had just arrived and had not yet gained a firm foothold to break through the siege.

Looking at the sky-high flames outside the west gate of Jingle City, Sun Chuanting knew that it should be the key direction for the thieves to break through.

However, just as he was about to order his cavalry to go out of the camp to counterattack the enemy in front of him, and then go to besiege the West Gate, a hurried voice suddenly came from the watchtower.

"Lord Fujun, Mr. He sent a lowly post to ask for reinforcements! The main force of the thieves is at the East Gate, the thief army is difficult to control, and the East Gate camp is in danger! ”

Sun Chuanting took a look, and the person who came was He Guoxian, whom Sun Chuanting had seen.

Looking at He Guoxian, who looked anxious and flustered under the watchtower, Sun Chuanting looked at the fire outside the west gate of Jingle again, and suddenly remembered what the emperor had said in the secret decree before, and without hesitation, he ordered loudly: "Du Wenhuan immediately led 1,500 heavy cavalry out of the camp to reinforce the official camp at the east gate!" ”

When Du Wenhuan and He Guoxian heard the order, they shouted "get the order", and immediately turned around and left.

At this time, the hearts of the people in the official camp at the south gate have been settled, and the thieves who came to besiege are just bluffing, leaving ditches, fences, and horse rejection deer villages far away, throwing arrow rain, and these arrow rains are not too much of a threat because they are far away and can rarely be shot into the camp.

Du Wenhuan quickly gathered 1,500 cavalry, and after the infantry guarding the camp opened the horse rejection deer village in front of the camp gate, he quickly started to speed up, and rushed towards the thief army three hundred paces away from the camp gate.

Fifteen hundred cavalrymen in helmets and armor galloped away in the rain of arrows from the thieves, and after a few moments, they crashed into the formation of the thieves.

He Yilong and Lin Chengcheng each rode a tall horse, and each of them was followed by more than a dozen cavalry guards, while most of the other thieves were infantry, forty percent of them were armed with bows and arrows, and sixty percent were armed with knives and sticks.

He Yilong waved the steel knife in his hand and cut down three officers and cavalry who rushed in succession, but no matter how brave he was, he couldn't stop his thieves from retreating.

After a while, Du Wenhuan and He Guoxian took the lead in rushing out of the enemy formation.

In the end, except for dozens of unlucky horsemen who fell from their horses, the vast majority of the rest of the cavalry passed through the formation and rushed towards the official camp outside the east gate.

He Yilong and Lin Yangcheng saw that the direction of the cavalry of the official army was heading towards the east gate, and they breathed a sigh of relief at the moment, and then continued to shout the thief army under their command to attack the Ming army camp in front of them.

Compared with the stalemate and stalemate outside the north and south gates, the battle outside the east gate was much more intense.

Since Ma Shouying has decided to enter Xinzhou in the east, he naturally has to be ruthless in the official army camp outside the east gate, anyway, the cannon fodder soldiers under his command are "attached to the army" There are a large number of them, and they are not afraid of losses.

Therefore, since the three o'clock in the ugly hour, after returning to the camp and suddenly waving the army out of the city, the direction of the main attack was set on the official camp at the east gate that He Shiyu insisted on.

The war outside the north gate did not even send a general, but sent hundreds of soldiers back to the camp, and led two thousand soldiers to bluff to contain the Ming army of Wang Jiazheng's headquarters outside the north gate.

Ma Shouying personally led the main force of the Hui Hui camp, drove the main force of the Hui army, and attacked the humble camp of the Ming army under He Shiyu in waves.

The army under He Shiyu was all cavalry, and the cavalry should have ridden on war horses to annihilate the enemy in the movement in order to play the greatest role, but at this moment, in the middle of the night, suddenly facing the enemy attack, the two thousand cavalry under He Shiyu did not have time to mount their horses and encountered a tidal attack by the thief army.

Relying on the fence fortifications temporarily erected during the day, the Ming army under He Shiyu used bows and crossbows to shoot and killed batches of thieves, and the trenches in front of the camp were already full of the corpses of thieves and rebels, but the offensive back to the camp did not weaken at all.

From the time the thieves went out of the city to launch an offensive, to the crumbling fence in front of the camp, it was only about half an hour.

He Shiyu saw that the thieves were swarming and had already crossed the trench, and some of them had already climbed the fence, knowing that his two thousand people alone would not be able to withstand it, so he ordered all his subordinates to mount their horses, and on the other hand ordered He Guoxian to go to Sun Chuanting for help.

As soon as He Guoxian led a small group of cavalry to rush out of the camp from the flank, the fence of He Shiyu's camp was roped by the attached army led by Zhang Xianzhong and dragged to a large area.

With a burst of cheers, Zhang Xianzhong led the Hui army in front, and Ma Shouying led the Hui back camp behind, and finally rushed into He Shiyu's camp like a swarm.

Sun Chuanting, who was miles away, heard the cheers of the thief army outside the east gate, and his heart suddenly tightened, could it be that He Shiyu's camp outside the east gate was breached? ! Could it be that this time the encirclement and suppression of the thieves will also fall short?