Early in the morning, on the tower of the northern city, which was not a majestic city, several soldiers of the Shandong army were holding spears and staring intently ahead.

At this time, a sentry patrolling the city came over with a few people, gave a satisfied "um", and followed the wall that was about to walk down the female wall to the other end of the city wall to inspect.

But somehow, suddenly I felt that the silence around me was a little excessive, and even the whistling wind gradually disappeared, and the sentry looked around suspiciously, and this was the only way to find that many soldiers were looking in the same direction blankly.

At the end of the line of sight, the smoke and dust rolled on the horizon, and a big white flag jumped in front of everyone, and the word "Chuang" hit everyone's heart.

Gradually, a thunderous sound gradually came from the sentinel's ears, and even on the city wall, he could still feel the ground trembling slightly.

In the smoke and dust on the other side of the horizon, the first to emerge was a row of soldiers in white armor armed with swords and guns, followed by an endless army.

"The thief, the thief is coming, go and punish the general!"

The sentry's eyes almost didn't fall, and after waiting for so long in fear, this day finally came.

At this moment, he shook his head frantically, shouted at the stunned soldiers, and drew his knife and ran along the wall.

This kind of run is not a direct rout, but a quick response, giving orders and reminders for others to prepare.

"The thieves are coming, prepare for war, prepare for war!!"

At the same time, similar shouts rang out from almost every aspect of the city wall, most of these voices were shocked, and many of them seemed a little panicked, but none of them were resolute.

The soldiers and horses of the intruding army seem to be getting stronger every time they meet, and this time their reaction is not slow compared to the Shandong army barracks.

One of the generals at the front seemed to find that the Ming army in the city had already moved, and immediately waved his hand, and the old battalion soldiers took out a horn from their arms and blew it "woo".

With the sound of this horn, the intruders who were still walking slowly dispersed at once, rushing towards the city with swords and guns and shouting and rushing over, and the Shandong military sentry officer who was supervising the battle in the city was simply shocked and trembling when he saw this scene.

He had never seen this kind of scene in his life, how many rogues were there in front of him, and he couldn't see the end at a glance, 50,000, or 100,000!?

Due to the suddenness of the order, there was still a hula chaos among the intruding army for a while, but it didn't take long for it to reorganize under the strong orders of those old battalions, and then quickly approached the city tower.

The size of the expansion of the city is not large, there is no moat outside the city, although there are no siege equipment in hand, but these intruders are still fearless of death.

At present, the Shandong army and the Chuang army are on the same page in the matter of the domination of Guide Prefecture, and no one is willing to take a step back, and after nearly a month of confrontation between the two sides at the junction of Guide and Kaifeng Prefecture, they finally opened up their posture and prepared for a dignified decisive battle.

Wang Zheng has already said that even if others are in Liaodong, they will never give up when they return to Defu.

At present, the Shandong army has entered Guide in three ways, and it is already a must-fight, and the army is either retreating and taking other places, or it is in line with the last battle.

This is obviously looking for death, and many people are saying that either Wang Zheng is stupid, or he really has that strength, and the first one is obviously unlikely.

Since Wang Zheng can rise all the way from the small Dengzhou, his ability is naturally outstanding, and he will not be stupid in this kind of thing.

The general of the army who is responsible for attacking the expansion of the city is Liu Zongmin, who is very old, don't look at the past, he has no ideas in the past, but when he goes into battle, he is often the one who rushes to the front.

Speaking of Liu Zongmin's name, it is much more famous than the general of Wengzhou Mansion under Wang Zheng's command, and following King Chuang to crisscross several provinces in the Central Plains, just talking about the soldiers and horses in the headquarters, it is even enough to sit on an equal footing with King Li Zicheng.

It turned out that when Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, was the most destitute, he only fled into Shangluo Mountain with Liu Zongmin and more than a dozen other people, although he had reached the point of exhaustion, he was still brave and full of confidence.

At present, with an army of 100,000 to attack a small city, even if it is garrisoned by Shandong soldiers and horses, what can it be?

The only court soldiers and horses that can make Liu Zongmin, the general of the army, jealous, is the Shandong army, and in addition, there are only a few Qin troops left that were the governor of Sun Chuanting, and the Tianxiong army of the governor Lu Xiangsheng.

Although the treatment of these border soldiers in Shaanxi was not much better than that of the officers and soldiers of other provinces in the Central Plains, they won many battles, and unlike those officers and soldiers in the Central Plains who ran around to suppress the thieves and quell the chaos, these border troops dealt with the Mongol Tartars in the west before facing the thieves.

At the beginning, the peasant army failed one after another in several places in Shaanxi, and the biggest reason was these elite border soldiers, and Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng were both capable people, with means and courage, and their subordinates were more or less cohesive.

But in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting has not been released from prison, and Hong Chengchou has been surrounded by Dolgon in Songshan and still does not know whether he is alive or dead.

As soon as Sun Chuanting left, the Qin army, which was very powerful, immediately collapsed and scattered under the pressure of many wealthy gentry, and only gathered again when the governors Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue went to collect them.

However, the two of them could not get the food they needed, and the plague was rampant in the army, and even if these border soldiers were brought together, there was no morale at all.

This situation was deeply reflected in the battle with the Chuang army not long ago, since the death of Yang Sichang, the largest official army that the five provinces of the Central Plains could gather was about to collapse in the battle with the Chuang army.

The final result was that Fu Zonglong was killed in battle, and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, fled back to Kaifeng to survive.

In fact, having said that, Fu Zonglong is the same as Yang Wenyue, both of them are empty governors, and those arrogant generals who are arrogant to the bone even Yang Sichang are not moving, what can they do.

Although the invasion army can improve the morale of the governor-level officials in front of the battle, this does not have a great impact on the officers and soldiers.

Anyway, there are many governors, every once in a while, even if they don't die in battle, the court will arrest them, and many of them will disappear inexplicably, and they may have died in some wilderness.

After the collapse of the official army, these border soldiers in Shaanxi were isolated and helpless, and most of them were collected by Li Zicheng, and they all became the backbone of the army.

At least for the time being, the intrusive army can still rely on the savings of the various towns they occupy to eat for a while, and the embarrassing situation of insufficient food and salary will not happen, and it is a big deal to build another city to distribute it.

Although Liu Zongmin said that he was very arrogant on weekdays, he also knew the value of these officers and soldiers who surrendered and broke into the army, so he naturally gathered a lot, and with such strength in hand, he could protect himself at a critical moment, right?

In the past, the tricky opponents of the Qin Army, the Tianxiong Army, and the White Pole Soldiers had all been played by the imperial court itself, and the only remaining Shandong Army that suddenly popped out of nowhere still had some strength.

If you eat them yourself, wouldn't it be a good opportunity to establish your prestige in the army?

Thinking of this, Liu Zongmin was a little uneasy, and gave an order, but he was not in a hurry to go into battle in person.

No matter how strong the army is, the method of attacking the city has always been the same, and Liu Zongmin is the same, first let the displaced people consume the Shandong army with crowd tactics, and the old battalion is in the formation, and it has been tried repeatedly.

From the beginning of the approaching of the city, the old camp of the invading army was stationed, and only the displaced people were driven to advance quickly, but when they came to a distance of a few hundred paces from the city gate, there was a sudden shout from the city, followed by the roar of birds and artillery.