Yicheng County.

Wang Guozhong, who occupies the county government, will hold a feast again tonight, and reward his brothers with big fish and meat, good wine and good food.

hugged the girl from a good family who was snatched by her side, and the corners of her mouth continued to overflow.

There was laughter and laughter in the hall, and the prostitutes with rouge covered cheeks in the hall were dancing with long sleeves, and the music was singing in unison.

A feast continued, and the city gradually fell into a night's sleep.

Time, sub-time.

The banquet of the county government continued, the guards of the city were drowsy, and most of the people in the city had fallen asleep.

Yicheng County only opens two city gates, east and west.

The county seat is not large, five miles from north to south, and eight miles from east to west.

The east and west doors have long been closed.

The guards of the city hid in the corners and were drowsy.

At this moment, outside the city, the new army has already been ambushed outside the east and west gates, just waiting for the city gate signal to sound.

Inside the east and west city gates, two new armies, each with 100 people, lay in ambush in the alleys near the city gates, waiting for the signal to be issued.

In the alley outside the county office, there were also two hundred people in ambush, looking coldly at the brightly lit county office.

More than halfway through the sub-hour.

Suddenly a firework rose in the middle of the city, soared into the air, and then exploded into the night sky.

The signal is finally out.

The guards at the city gate had just been awakened by the sound in the air, and dimly saw black shadows silently rushing towards the city gate.

The soldier who saw it first shook his head and asked, "Who is it?" ”

In response to him were two long, glowing pipes.

Rumble!

Explosions rang out under the city gates, and the flames shone brightly.

Screams rang out.

The guards under the east and west city gates were instantly injured by the explosion, and then the rushing figures spread out in formation under the city gates, and the city gates were then opened.

Explosions rang out in the east-west direction.

Wang Guozhong sat on the chair in the county, watching the wine glass shake for a while, and then heard the explosion in the distance.

Instantly startled, he subconsciously got up.

But after drinking too much, not only did he not get up, but he pressed towards the woman next to him.

Below, someone pointed and laughed, looking drunk, while the slightly sober person was already shaking to his feet in disbelief.

When an explosion sounds, there is a change in the city.

Although the rebels also looted a few artillery pieces, the sound of the artillery explosions was not what the ears heard.

Wang Guozhong stood up again with his hands on the table.

But at this moment, a loud bang sounded outside the hall, as if it exploded in the ears.

Then, in the firelight, a figure rushed in.

The men rushed in and went straight into the hall, encircling the entire hall in front of and back.

The soldiers of the New Army, who had long since changed into black uniforms, were armed with flintlock pistols and pointed at the leaders of the rebels.

At the city gate, the rebels in the city had just rushed down from the city walls when there was a burst of gunfire.

Dozens of people fell on the stone steps, piling up the steps of the city wall.

Outside the city, the new army, which had already been ambushed, saw the city gate open and the torches swayed.

Rushed towards the city gate in an instant.

In this way, the mighty brigade of the new army rushed into the city walls.

The soldiers of the new army who entered the city, first under the leadership of the squad leader, rushed to the city in groups.

Gunshots rang out incessantly.

Trampling on the corpses under their feet and dodging the corpses that rolled down, the new army rushed to the city walls.

Fierce battles take place.

The rebels wielding swords and guns retreated rapidly under the overwhelming offensive of the new army, and finally as more and more soldiers of the new army climbed the city wall, it directly evolved into a rout.

However, the steps of the city wall had been occupied, and the rebels could only flee along the wall, and finally they were flanked by the new army.

The rest of the people rushed towards the county government in the city, and under the leadership of the soldiers of the new army who had entered the city before, they rushed in the direction of the county government.

County office.

Surrounded by nearly a thousand rebels, a steady stream of rebels in the distance is also converging towards the county government.

But the strength of one platoon held the front and back doors of the county office.

The rebels organized several raids, but they were all repulsed, leaving only a corpse.

But as the situation began to change, the rebels climbed over the walls and fought for the new army.

As a last resort, the soldiers of the new army could only retreat while fighting, and retreated towards the hall where Wang Guozhong held a banquet.

Half an hour later, the hall was already full of rebels.

And the new army guarding the hall has nowhere to retreat.

The rebels rushed to attack, and the bows and arrows continued to shoot, but the new army pressed the door panel afterward, leaving only a doorway for counterattacks.

In the hall, several rebel leaders rolled their eyes, then glanced at each other, picked up the weapons of the guards and slashed at the new troops beside them.

But before he could do that, he was knocked down by a flintlock pistol, causing a burst of women's screams and cries.

Until Tang Xidong took the brigade and rushed to the county office.

The situation was reversed, the artillery team was still behind, and without artillery support, Tang Xidong could only let the musket team concentrate on firing and directly shoot the rebels surrounding the county government.

Listening to the dense gunfire outside the county office, the rebel leaders who organized the attack outside the hall became even more anxious, but the weapons of the new army were too powerful and advanced in the past.

Under the continuous shooting, only corpses could be left behind, and there was no progress in the attack.

Outside the county office, under the large-scale shooting of the new army, the rebels finally began to flee.

Tang Xidong gave the order to pursue the squad as a unit, and at the same time rushed into the county government with people and began to attack the rebels gathered in the county office.

The battle of the county government lasted for half an hour before finally ending.

Dead and wounded in one place and the rest of the rebels.

The rebels who surrendered on their knees were disarmed one by one by the soldiers of the new army and tied up directly with the clothes on their corpses.

The county government and the city gate have been captured.

Next up are the rebels in the city.

For Tang Xidong, the difficulty is far greater than the first two.

The rebels did not have a uniform uniform, and they were originally composed of a group of displaced people, but now they are hiding in the city, and it is difficult to find them one by one.

After thinking about it, Tang Xidong directly ordered everyone to give up the pursuit and gather in a row at the city gate or the county office.

The county office, Tang Xidong looked at the leftovers in the hall, and there were also anti-army leaders with panicked faces.

Then he looked at Wang Guozhong, who was cold-eyed.

"Kill it!" Wave your hand gently.

There was a burst of gunfire in the hall, and the piercing screams and cries of women.

After that, all the men in the hall died under the gun.

After purging the rebel leaders of the county government, the soldiers of the new army began to confiscate all the belongings of the county government.

A large amount of gold, silver and jewelry were found, and then sealed and put into the cart of the baggage team that arrived outside the county office.

Wang Guozhong was greedy for money, and he counted them roughly, and the value of these possessions was more than a million.

Then, Tang Xidong led the new army to transfer the battlefield again and rushed to the silver warehouse and granary in the county seat.

After a fierce battle, Tang Xidong directly asked the artillery team to open artillery to bombard the stubborn defenders.

After laying down the granary of the silver treasury, it was found that the treasury had already been emptied, thinking about the fighting momentum of the rebels guarding the treasury who had just desperately defended it, it is estimated that these people did not know that the treasury had already been emptied by Wang Guozhong.

The granary has tens of thousands of stone of grain.

Tang Xidong didn't let go of a single grain, and directly asked the baggage team to empty the granary at night and transport it directly back to Pingyang New Town.

And the people of Yicheng County, what does it have to do with him?

By dawn, the battle in the city was over.

A large number of rebels were hidden in the city, but there were no city residents in sight on the streets of Yicheng County.

A night of fierce fighting, the sound of gunfire continued.

The people of the city were already trembling with fear, how dare they go out.

The whole day was spent in silence.

Yicheng was laid, but unfortunately there was no one to garrison Tangxi East.

So with the help of Yicheng County, let everyone take turns to trim for the time being.

A day passed, and the gates opened late at night.

Tang Xidong took his soldiers of the new army quietly out of the city and retreated outside the city.