In mid-July, the Huaiyang Army's light division advanced rapidly, and launched a major battle with the five battalions of Gezuo in Yingshang City.

On the first day of the battle, the gate of Yingshang City was wide open, and the people of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo in the city could no longer care about the survival of their headquarters, and fled in all directions.

But the officers and soldiers did not pursue, after making sure of their own safety, they began to remove the bamboo rafts from the boat, and began to build a low wall around the city wall, when the troops of the fifth battalion of the Gezuo were scattered and scattered, several battalions of the Huaiyang army had begun to disperse to various city gates, blocking the city gates.

The 5th Battalion finally understood that in the field battle of the regular army, they had no way to deal with these officers and soldiers, and firearms and spear arrays were almost their nemesis.

What's more, according to what Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, said, this group of officers and soldiers has such sharp weapons as general cannons, which have not been used in battle, and I don't know why.

Groups of three or five routs will naturally avoid the large formation of officers and soldiers, but the officers and soldiers do not pay attention to such soldiers and horses, but as soon as a large number of soldiers want to flee north of the city, they will be immediately attacked head-on.

If the Jiaozhou battalion chased after it at the beginning, the three battalions of the 5th Gezuo Battalion didn't care about the heavy grain and grass in the city, and they didn't care about the rout that might be brought about by the waterway, and ran directly in the upstream direction, maybe they could still run away, but there were too many soldiers and horses in the city than these officers and soldiers, and the 5th Gezuo Battalion fought with the officers and soldiers, and they really didn't suffer any losses. Even Liu Xiyao, who had suffered losses, felt that by making rational use of troops, the advantage of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left should be that it could be eaten, and at least it could repel the officers and soldiers outside. ^Reader

But when I realized I couldn't do it, it was too late to run. The civil engineering work of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty was extremely poor, even if it was an ordinary way to build barracks and camp for accommodation. It is also a private house that can be used by the people, and if the private house cannot be used, it is operated by the conquest of the people's husband and Zhuang Ding.

And these officers and soldiers under the city. Half of them were in front of the garrison, and the other half were digging earth and building walls in the back, and the dry land was in full swing, and a large number of bamboo rafts and wooden fences were carried down from the boats on the river, and they were directly surrounded by the city.

The soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion, from the veterans who received silver salaries, or those recruits who were born in Zhuangding, were treated far better than the Ming soldiers of the same era, and they trained non-stop every day. There is no need to run for a living, and at the same time, enduring such a high salary also requires soldiers to have a higher consciousness.

They also regard civil engineering and siege of the city and all kinds of labor operations as part of their soldiers' duties, and do it as a matter of course, without slackness or prevarication.

In the first few groups of attacks, He Yilong operated a frontal attack and fireships to disperse the officers and soldiers. The strategy of sneak attack by his own light troops failed, and the troops that could rush and fight all suffered heavy losses, first, because of low morale, and secondly, because they had to recuperate and recover, and in a hurry, they could no longer take out troops to fight.

And in addition to the east gate facing Yingshui. The terrain in front of the other three gates was relatively wide and flat, and although there was a lot more room for action, the firearms of the officers and men could also be completely wielded, and each door was two three-pounder guns, as well as two battalions of firearms. *kanshuren*

As long as the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution showed its head, it was beaten back with a split head and a face, and the top and bottom of the three battalions in the city, except for He Yilong, Liu Xiyao and Wei Xiaobei, were still observing the city, and the rest of the soldiers were in the city, and they did not dare to fight.

The 5th Battalion was wounded and killed. The sporadic rout, the casualties are about 5,000, but the sporadic rout is already 20,000 or 30,000, and it is said that it has damaged the vitality of the troops, but inside and outside the city, they also know that this is actually the backbone of the strength is still there.

The army of the displaced people is generally a small number of backbone troops plus a large number of dependent displaced people, if they win successive victories and have a good reputation, then there will be more and more troops gathered around them, if you are unlucky, it is the size of the backbone army.

But with this backbone here, as long as there is another chance, it can regather and restore its strength and climate, and the same is true for the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left.

The people in the city suffered defeat, but they were not too afraid in their hearts, because they knew that there were still backbones, and the officers and soldiers were not in a hurry to attack, so they simply defended the city first and waited for the opportunity.

However, the Huaiyang officers and soldiers outside the city showed their jaw-dropping civil engineering ability in the city, with bamboo rows and wooden frames as the bones, and built a long circle around Yingshang City.

In the past few days, the sentinels who are in charge of looking at the east gate of Yingshui have seen a large number of ships coming from the downstream every time, unloading a large number of equipment and materials, and gradually this low wall has surrounded the entire Yingshang City, even if it is a sentinel who asks for help, he cannot send out the city. Reader kanshuren //

The low hills and ravines on both sides of the east gate were filled in by the officers and soldiers as much as possible, and it was completely impossible to send troops to attack from such a favorable location.

Wait until the low wall of the inner ring is built outside, the soldiers and horses of the Huaiyang army began to camp outside the low wall, and a large number of people also came to the city of Yingshang City by boat.

The soldiers of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo at the head of the city watched as the low wall of the inner ring was thickened and heightened, but another wall was built outside, and it was actually two long encircles the city inside and outside.

The Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo Battalion in the city organized several attacks to break through the encirclement, but they were all beaten to the ground by the officers and soldiers relying on the fortifications, a large number of people were strong, sufficient materials, and the hard work of the Huaiyang Army of the Jiaozhou Battalion and its own soldiers, and the completion of the two long encirclements outside was not slow.

The thieves in the city simply don't move, anyway, there are still savings in the city, in the end to see who can survive!

But it was almost the end of July, and it was said that there was no news at all from the old Hui Hui and the Reincarnation King Department near Yingzhou City, and the three battalions in the city were a little panicked, and they organized several listless breakouts, and the end was naturally a loss of strength in vain.

The strongest strength of the fifth battalion of the revolution is the soldiers and horses cultivated by the old Hui Ma Shouying and the reincarnation of Wang Lin, these two are very many people from the border soldier system to join, and the fight is relatively orderly, and it is brave and tenacious, the fifth battalion of the left is competing for power and profit with each other, and is suspicious of each other, which is a problem from the beginning.

But when the real face of the enemy, the five battalions of the left of the revolution are still unanimous to the outside world, and they have never abandoned anyone, and the hope in the city is that the two battalions of the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution come to the rescue, who thought that there was no sound, this is strange.

In fact, in the minds of Ge Liyan and Zuo Jin Wang, the time when Yingzhou should know the news is almost eleven days different from the time when Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng really knew the news, that is, the estimated time and the real time, because the work of covering the battlefield is very good.

The sentinels of the Huaiyang Army and the wealthy Xiangyong of Fengyang Mansion, and even some of the salt lords were mobilized, just to completely isolate them and give the Huaiyang Army time to build fortifications.

Lao Hui Ma Shouying is a middle-aged man in his early forties, his family was originally from Huayin County, Shaanxi, and later moved to Henan Mansion in Henan to live, because it was a guest residence, so it was a hot temper since childhood, and when he was a teenager, he was recruited by officers and soldiers, joined the Shaanxi border soldiers, and fought with the Kou in the west for more than ten years.

He was able to fight, and his experience in the army made him even more unique, so the old Hui Hui of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution was known as the strongest. Ma Shouying and Lin Yangcheng conquered the city of Yingzhou, plundered the whole city, recruited poor and displaced people to join by releasing grain, rested and rectified, and sent envoys to Henan to contact the Li and Luo coalition forces.

Then what he did was to wait for the three battalions in the back to come up, but he did not make a move, and the envoys who kept sending contacts were also like mud cattle into the sea, and there was no news.

At present, Ma Shouying and Lin Chengcheng have gathered nearly 100,000 people, and then they have to go back, the cost is too great, but at the end of July, the commission really can't wait, and when Ma Shouying decided to return to Yingshang, the news finally came, saying that the third battalion of the fifth battalion of Gezuo was besieged in Yingshang City and suffered heavy losses.

At that time, Lao Huihui almost hacked the person who reported the news to death, thinking not to talk nonsense, it has always been when we besieged the officers and soldiers that we only built civil engineering, dug trenches, and built walls, how could the officers and soldiers do this.

And the inside and outside of the two layers of long enclosures, how did you run out, after careful interrogation, it turned out that He Yilong first went out of the city to feint, and then many people who reported the news fled from all directions, and almost all died on the blockade, that is, he and a few ran over.

Lao Hui and the King of Reincarnation couldn't believe it, so they could only strengthen their vigilance, and on the second day and the third day, there were also spies 6 continuations, which confirmed the news.

At the same time, the scouts and sentinels sent out also returned, saying that the officers and soldiers were indeed the water surrounding Yingshang City, and the city was silent, looking at the situation was very critical, Lao Huihui and the King of the Reincarnation were convinced, but there were still doubts in their hearts, why these people were released, why no news came a few days ago, but now is not the time to think about this.

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