Liu Zeqing, who was standing on the wall of the inner city, only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he hugged the two female actors sent by the two Huai salt merchants last night, and wanted to lead the troops to Surabaya in three days, who would have thought that when he woke up from Chunmeng, the army was already surrounded under the city, and it was still in the inner city.

One of the soldiers on the side whispered:

"This thief ......"

Liu Zeqing turned around and kicked over, and scolded angrily:

"What kind of thief, this is the official army, and it is Li Meng's team......."

He was still wearing a hastily draped robe, his movements were blown by the cold wind, and he suddenly sneezed, Liu Zeqing was angry here, but several cronies and generals around him were still calm, carefully hiding behind the battlements of the city wall, observing the army below.

Li Meng pointed the telescope at the Caozhou general soldier with a clairie mirror under the city, and the telescope at this time could not be too demanding, but the distance was less than three hundred steps, but it was also a clear look on his face, the fat man with a beard on his face, the so-called strong and fierce could not be seen, but his face was full of fat, he put down the clairvoyant mirror and ordered Wang Hai in a low voice:

"Hit him once with a firecrackle."

At the moment, the distance between the two sides is not far, but you can try, Wang Hai immediately conveyed this order, Li Meng's personal guards are all skilled in various weapons to be selected, and immediately found the most accurate one of the firecrackers, and nervously loaded the firecrackers there.

Liu Zeqing looked at the military horses below at the head of the city, and was really angry in his heart, the reason why he survived to today's position, regardless of the laws of the imperial court, swallowed up friendly soldiers and horses, sent people to assassinate civil and military officials and local gentry who were not friendly with him, and desperately searched in the local area, and extorted tyranny are all one of the reasons for success.

thought that Li Meng, a newly promoted general, might not be as transparent as him. Shameless, who would have thought that the back waves of the Yangtze River would push the front waves, and the other party would kill directly into the city and surround the inner city.

Even the most confused generals understood at this time that the 1,500 soldiers and horses in Surabaya should be a trick to attract their attention. But in order to besiege there, his troops have already moved or are preparing to move there, and within ten hours, I am afraid that he can only rely on the old battalion directly under the ground.

While pondering, a cavalryman rushed towards the inner city, and some of the people in the city took out their bows and arrows, thinking that this must be the one who shouted, and shooting him with an arrow could be regarded as a morale blow to the other party.

Who would have thought that the cavalry was very slow? Controlling the forward, the knight on the horse holding the shield is also a posture of hiding his head and revealing his position, and he staggered to the side of the deep trench, looked up at the head of the city, and the military academy on the city that was already built with a bow also put down the bow and arrows, and this distance must not be missed.

I saw the cavalryman take out a small flag from behind his shield and throw it directly on the ground. Then he turned his horse's head, this time speeding up his horse, and ran straight back to his own formation.

Everyone was very confused about the army under the city doing these things, and Liu Zeqing didn't care about the cold, so he cautiously poked his head out and shouted:

"The city is General Li of Laizhou Mansion, you and I have some misunderstandings in the past, but the trouble is so big, I'm afraid it will alarm the ......."

His mid-air was sufficient, and he could hear it clearly under his voice. Li Meng frowned, and gave a few more orders, and the order was passed down quickly, and a personal soldier raised the flag in his hand and shook it a few times, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion below shouted in unison:

"Break into the king's righteous army, eliminate harm for the people, break into the king's righteous army, eliminate harm for the people!"

Immediately, the shouts in the city were drowned, and looking at the other party's ironclad disapproval, Liu Zeqing's face suddenly turned blue. The soldiers under the city have a basis for advancing and retreating, although they are cloth clothes, they can still see that there is a uniform uniform, this kind of army, how can it be the army of the chaotic people, but the other party does not recognize his identity. It seems that today's situation is endless.

At this time, in the ranks of the shouting castle. Another man trotted out with a stick or something. The officers and soldiers in the city were a little curious, anyway, the other party's brigade was still about fifty steps away from the trench, and the trench was even more distant from the wall of the inner city, so they didn't worry about anything.

I saw the soldier trotting to the place where the small flag was planted, looked at it, calmly took out the fire tube, pulled off the plug and put it on the medicine pool, and then picked up the stick at Liu Zeqing's location.

The Ming army's firecracker is not that shape, and it will not be distinguishable for a while, besides, this soldier's movements are too calm, and it does not look like facing the enemy, but planting farm work in the field. The people in the city didn't react, they just watched.

The sound of "bang", a puff of white smoke came out of the "stick" held by the man in the city, it was a fire gun! Liu Bu and others in the city waited, and then they reacted, many people subconsciously dodged behind, the position of the small flag was almost one hundred and fifty steps away from Liu Zeqing's location, and the fire gun was indeed inaccurate, and it was difficult to hit.

Li Meng just wanted to try his luck, and he really didn't hit, but he hit the edge of the city wall beside Liu Zeqing, and the splashed brick and stone fragments wiped Liu Zeqing's face with a few small cuts, and it hurt hotly.

After the soldier finished shooting, he didn't confirm the results of the battle, and ran straight back to the team to return, Li Meng shook his head, sighed and said:

"If only the cannon were there......."

After sighing with emotion, Li Meng turned his head and asked in a deep voice:

"How long will it take for the artillery to come?"

Standing beside Li Meng were a few well-dressed gentry, in the year of the catastrophe, these people were still very rich, except for the people who sealed the door at the other door in the Jiaozhou camp, everyone else dismounted and let the horses recover their horsepower, only Li Meng was still on the horse.

These gentry stood beside Li Meng cautiously, and when they heard Li Meng ask, the person hurriedly smiled and said:

"Dashuai, when the villains put the cannon in Zhuangzi outside the city, they were afraid of being exposed by this Liu thief, so they buried it deeper, and they didn't know that Dashuai's divine soldiers were so godly, so they arranged for people to dig now, and they should be on the road....... and I hope Dashuai won't be surprised."

It was the first time that Li Meng had been called "Da Shuai", anyway, these squires also knew that although the officials were called louder, there was nothing they didn't like, but looking at Li Meng's eyes calmly, the more panicked this person became, and hurriedly explained:

"The villain will send someone to urge, send someone to urge."

Wang Hai whispered behind Li Meng:

"We have also sent a lot of soldiers over, and we will definitely not waste time ......."

Liu Zeqing, who was at the head of the inner city, changed into armor at the head of the city, and peeked down at the battlement, and he didn't dare to stand up anymore after beating him to death, and the cronies and officers beside him said:

"The soldiers and horses below have just been ordered, but there are only two thousand five hundred soldiers and horses, and they must have rushed over overnight."

"These thieves want to block our three doors, and we have to divide the troops, but we have 3,000 soldiers who have fought old battles, and we are handsome, so it is better to pull them out and do a fight."

Several officers were there to analyze the situation below, Liu Zeqing stared at the gentry who were talking to Li Meng below, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt fire, and he said viciously:

"These bastard things, waiting for the past stubble, will not destroy you all over the door, don't panic, can't enter this inner city, survive more than a dozen hours, we will work together to destroy the thieves in Jiaozhou, go out to fight, we have a lot of people and defend the city, don't suffer, it's a big deal to fight and come back to defend."

No matter what time these officers are, they give priority to preserving their strength, and after hearing the commander's order, the military academy around Liu Zeqing became excited, hurriedly bent down and ran down the city, and began to gather soldiers and horses and arrange tasks.

Li Meng under the city seems to be those gentry digging cannons need some effort, although Li Meng thinks it is a bad cannon, but these cast big guys are nearly a thousand catties of weight, it is indeed not easy to transport, at that time Li Meng's subordinates in the name of transporting crude benzene goods to those gentry who should be in the house when these people are scared, Li Meng can't afford to offend here, but Liu Zeqing next to him is also extremely vicious, can only be buried deeply. Who would have thought that Li Meng would come so quickly, but to be honest, seeing Li Meng in the inner city, although these people were afraid, they were still relieved in their hearts.

Sure enough, it is a new general, obviously the number is small, and he has to divide his troops to guard the other inner city gates, and now there are only about 1,500 people in front of the main gate of the inner city.

The gate of the inner city slowly opened, and the drawbridge was slowly lowered, who would have thought that the cavalry outside saw that the people inside were going out, and made some unbelievable moves, all of them got on their horses and retreated neatly towards the back, this move made Liu Zeqing and his military academies almost laugh, and it was really a rookie!

For the establishment of the inner city, Liu Zeqing almost bulldozed the residential houses around the inner city wall, and Li Meng's cavalry retreated one hundred and fifty steps, leaving space for the other party to line up, and they could still maintain the formation.

Although Liu Zeqing's subordinates are old battalions, Liu Zeqing is famous for speculation, viciousness, and reckless expropriation and looting money, a total of one or two hundred horses, and more than a thousand veterans with shabby cotton armor and chain mail.

Li Meng was at the front of the team, but Liu Zeqing was surrounded by his own soldiers, on the suspension bridge, and when the other party finished arraying, Tang Er opened his mouth and said:

"About two thousand five hundred."