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In front of Fengyang City, Zhang Xianzhong's Kou army gathered and served, I have to say that Zhang Xianzhong has a very good set of morale, just experienced a big defeat, and in the case of extreme lack of food and grass materials, the army can still be successfully assembled, it is by no means a simple thing, and sure enough, the people who can leave a name in history are by no means in vain.

Just as the Kou army was assembling and standby, more than a dozen topless people were tied to wooden carts, and the tortured Ming army was pushed out.

Among them, the leader is Zhen Xing, the general manager of the Qianzong who led the troops to pursue the Kou army, and the others are also battalion officers, Han Yu, who was standing on the top of the city, frowned slightly, and the last thing he wanted to see happened, except for the two hundred battalions who returned to deliver the spoils, the elite of the eight hundred battalions under Zhen Xing's account may have been wiped out, Zhen Xing's greed for merit and recklessness once again changed the proportion of the balance of victory, Zhen Xing's death is not a pity, but it is a pity that the eight hundred elite battalion soldiers.

"Zhang Qian always save me!" Although Zhen Xing knew that this was very humiliating, he didn't want to die, so he could only shout at the city god according to Zhang Xianzhong's words.

A few of the surrounding battalion officers tied to wooden carts did the same, shouting loudly at the city.

At this time, I didn't care about face, the previous few hard-nosed Ming army officers were ordered by Zhang Xianzhong to dig out their hearts and lungs, and directly pulled out their intestines and strangled them to death, and these officers knelt on the side and watched, they were already frightened, they were very afraid of death, as long as they could save their lives, even if they let the Kou army attack Fengyang City, it would not hurt.

Zhang Tanghuai, who had an angry face, clenched the wall with his palm, turned around angrily for a while, took the longbow from the soldiers around him, pulled the bow and shot an arrow at Zhen Xing in the distance.

Zhang Tanghuai knew very well that he was going to save people, whether it was to let Zhen Xing, the head of Qian, continue to shout like this, or the torture and slaughter of these Ming army officers by the Kou army, it would be a great blow to the morale of the officers and soldiers defending the city, although he couldn't bear it, but he didn't have a choice, the arrow roared out, instantly piercing Zhen Xing's chest, and blood overflowed for a while.

Zhen Xing, who was shot into the chest by the arrow, was stunned for a while, and then a look of relief flashed in his eyes, with the annihilation of the eight hundred soldiers, Zhen Xing's heart was full of self-blame, and now being killed can be regarded as a death on the battlefield, but it can be regarded as a well-deserved death.

Zhen Xing was shot and killed, so frightened that several Kou soldiers on both sides fell off the wooden cart and fled in a panic towards both sides.

They didn't expect that Zhang Tanghuai, who was at the head of the city, would have such amazing arm strength and be able to shoot so far, and the Kou army suddenly lost its biggest support.

Seeing that Zhen Xing was shot, full of regret Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered the wooden cart to be moved backwards, so as not to be shot by Zhang Tanghuai again, but Zhang Tanghuai did not give up, but signaled to the generals and colonels around him, and soon a group of Kou troops pressed dozens of scarred Ming troops to the front of the formation, and under the escort of hundreds of Kou soldiers, they walked towards the head of the city.

Han Yu, who was standing at the head of the city, secretly shouted that it was not good, if these Ming troops were allowed to approach, the Kou army would immediately attack, and there would be no chance of rescue at all, but if he did not save him, the blow to the morale of the Ming army defending the city was undoubtedly huge, this kind of trick was used for the longest time outside the pass, and often drove a large number of captured Ming Dynasty people to rush to the front, and went to their corpses to fill in the moats and traps, forcing the Ming army to dare not use artillery, and conquered the Ming army many times.

And now that Zhang Xianzhong is using the wounded soldiers of the Ming army as the vanguard, no matter what Zhang Tanghuai does, there will be huge hidden dangers.

Han Yu, who had made up his mind, suddenly rushed to the side of the Ming artilleryman not far away, and asked a burly chief with a beard with eagerness, "I don't know how many shells there are?" ”

"Gongzi Han, it's gone, it's all gone!" Nashi Chang hesitated for a moment, but immediately reported to Han Yu.

"There is another one, Han Gongzi, but it was soaked in blood before, I don't know if it can be used?" A young soldier who looked to be about the same age as Han Yu stretched out his hand and pointed to a bloodstained black projectile placed on the wall not far away, and then hesitated for a moment and reminded, "If you fill it rashly, it may explode!" ”

Han Yu looked at the wounded soldiers and Kou soldiers of the Ming army who were getting closer and closer, and had already entered the range of the artillery, and said to Nashi: "It's okay, I'll light the fire, you can calibrate the position immediately!" ”

"Where? Han Gongzi!? Although Na Shi Chang basically guessed Han Yu's purpose, he still had this question.

"Aim at those Kou soldiers for me!" Time was pressing, Han Yu said without hesitation.

"Han Gongzi can't, they are all our brothers!" More than a dozen Ming soldiers standing on the side with swords in their hands immediately rushed up and knelt down to plead for mercy, these people were all battalion soldiers under Zhen Xing's tent, they were the battalion soldiers who had escorted the booty to the city and were forcibly left behind by Zhang Xianzhong.

These battalion soldiers didn't expect or care what would happen once the Kou army approached, they just wanted to save people and that's it, how could Han Yu not know what they thought, it's just that war is always cruel, and you can't risk being breached for dozens of people.

Seeing that Han Yu was silent, several battalion soldiers suddenly got up and wanted to step forward, even thinking that as long as they watched Han Yu, this artillery would naturally not be able to fight, and the captain Wang Wei, who was standing on the side, led a group of soldiers to draw their swords and step forward, while protecting Han Yu, they stared at the battalion soldiers with cold eyes, and the atmosphere in the city became solemn for a while.

"You all want to rebel and you can't do it!" Zhang Tanghuai strode over, looked around at everyone and coldly reprimanded Zhang Tanghuai for snatching the torch from Han Yu's hand, "Don't forget, our purpose is to defend Fengyang City, if you come at me with resentment!" Then he immediately motioned to the burly chief to calibrate the gun position.

With a dull loud bang at the head of the city, the whistling projectiles fell towards the Kou army in the distance, and the fire burst at the same time as the earth-shattering explosion, because I didn't expect the Ming army's artillery to be used, until dozens of Kou soldiers who were advancing cautiously were killed on the spot, and the mutilated corpses of the flesh and blood were scattered everywhere, and more people were shocked out, fell to the ground and wailed and groaned, and a group of Kou soldiers reacted.

The Kou army, which had been frightened by the artillery, suddenly retreated, and fled to the rear, and the Ming army that walked in the forefront was affected the least, and saw the opportunity to live again, they fled towards Fengyang City, and suddenly a rain of arrows flew in the sky, and suddenly penetrated the body of the Ming army, and the Kou army, which had been prepared, continued to shoot arrows from the air, and the corpses of the Ming army, which had already fallen, were shot into hedgehogs.

With the drums beating and the sky, Zhang Xianzhong personally supervised the army, and all the troops rushed towards Fengyang City.

Seeing that the Ming army was slaughtered, the morale of the Ming army defending the city was not only not the slightest, but was completely stimulated, and they all waited for the battle with their blades, staring at the Kou army that was constantly approaching the city wall.

The ladder was quickly erected, and several Kou soldiers who climbed up quickly jumped in from the battlements, Zhang Tanghuai led the Ming army defending the city to rush up, the swords slammed together, burst out fierce sparks, and successively made a stabbing sound that made people's teeth sour, but although the morale of the Ming army was high, most of them were recruits, and the characteristics of cowardice were soon exposed, and the forbidden army fought for days, and soon more than ten people in the Kou army gained a firm foothold on the city.

A Ming soldier was slashed severely, and although he avoided the vital point, his entire arm suddenly disappeared.

The Ming army that was completely stimulated to be ferocious, stared at the Kou army in front of him with resentment, endured the severe pain and rushed up with all his strength, holding the Kou army with one hand and falling down the city, and the other Ming troops rushed over one after another, although some people were hacked to death by knives on the way over, but more people followed one after another, and under the crazy rush to fight for their lives, they actually pressed the sharp spirit of the Kou army for a while.

Zhang Tanghuai suddenly slashed a Kou army to death, only to feel that there was a wind behind him, several years of combat experience made him dodge to the right, the blade cut through his armor, Zhang Tanghuai roared angrily and slashed the steel knife at the Kou army behind him, with a burst of blood rising to the sky, his head turned and fell to the ground.

Han Yu, who was hiding behind Wang Wei, continued to shoot the Kou army who dared to come over with the crossbow in his hand, and he had killed five people in a moment, and suddenly Han Yu swept under the city, and was suddenly shocked, I don't know when, the Kou army pushed a few captured defective artillery to the city wall not far away, and at this time it was already aimed at the head of the city, and the direction of these artillery to attack was the position where Zhang Tanghuai led the army to defend.

Han Yu shouted badly, suddenly shook off the protection of the soldiers around him, and quickly rushed towards Zhang Tanghuai.

Zhang Tanghuai was puzzled, obviously didn't know what Brother Han wanted, with a few roars, the defective artillery used by the Kou army suddenly burst because it had not undergone effective maintenance, and several Kou soldiers in charge of the artillery around were killed alive before they could scream.

The reason why the Kou army left the artillery until now is because most of the Kou soldiers who use artillery are two knives, to be precise, they are trying to come, but there are not many artillery shells in the Kou army, so they will be left at this critical moment, but I didn't expect more than half of them to suddenly explode, but many Kou soldiers were killed in battle, but the Kou army's artillery is not all good, three of them still made a huge roar, and the projectiles also flew out.

It's just that one of them took no more than thirty meters, fell into the moat in the distance, splashed some flesh and blood, and one hit the city wall, smashing down a lot of stones and rubble, only this last cannonball went straight to Zhang Tanghuai's location, with a loud bang, more than a dozen Ming soldiers who had not yet reacted to the city were killed on the spot.

Zhang Tanghuai, who fell to the ground, looked at Han Yu who was pressing him down in a daze, with a smile on his face.

Zhang Tanghuai was very happy, if it wasn't for Han Yu's timely rescue, I'm afraid he would have died in the place just now, suddenly blood overflowed from the corner of Han Yu's mouth, his eyes gradually became trance-like, and his face gradually became pale, Zhang Tanghuai looked at it and found that Han Yu's back was blurred, completely blocking the aftermath of the shell explosion.

Zhang Tang Huaihu's eyes were full of tears, and he was about to leave as soon as he picked up Han Yu, but he suddenly stopped, if he left, who should guard this Fengyang City!?

Just when Zhang Tanghuai was hesitating, Wang Weilang, who rushed over quickly, said: "Lord Zhang, if you can trust the lower officials, please hand over Han Gongzi to your subordinates!" ”

"Please!" When Zhang Tanghuai handed over the unconscious Han Yu to Wang Wei, he said in a deep voice: "You kid, don't pretend to be a bear for Lao Tzu, do you hear!" ”

Zhang Tanghuai held the blade, gathered the surrounding Ming army, and fought with the Kou army that rushed to the city again...