On the carved tower of Huaiyuan Fort, Wang Jiayin found that all sides had been surrounded by officials and soldiers, and he was anxious. He handed over the task of defending the city to his generals, went back to pack up his softness, and prepared to break through and escape at night.

Huaiyuan Fort was built on a small protruding dirt hill, the terrain is several meters higher than the surrounding area, when the border army was stationed in the past, there were a lot of transformations, and the city wall was dug very steep on all sides, especially facing the west and north sides of the Mongols.

Zhu Youzhen carefully observed the terrain and found that the south side was slightly gentle, and there was a winding path for the people in the castle to enter and exit.

Although the direction of the breakthrough was chosen, the terrain was too steep, and if the soldiers' lives were really used to fill the ravines under the city, the casualties would definitely not be less. The total number of the four martial arts battalions was only 40,000, which was much less than the bandits, and Zhu Youzhen was naturally reluctant to let the soldiers suffer a large number of casualties.

Coupled with the besieging troops in the northwest and northeast, they were always under the threat of other bandits, and Zhu Youzhen believed that the sooner the attack on Huaiyuan Fort, the better.

Wang Jiayin didn't wait for the night, and in the evening, the flowering bullet fell at the south city gate.

Flesh and blood can't stop the huge energy released when the gunpowder explodes. After the last firing in Tongzhou, the gunners have a better grasp of the accuracy of the artillery.

Coupled with the huge roar, coupled with the fire and heat waves, the defenders of the south city gate were quickly crushed, and they followed in the footsteps of Wang Jiayin, retreated into the city, and gave the city gate to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen and Yang Du led a large army into the city with a swagger from the south city gate, and pursued Wang Jiayin's defeated soldiers in the city. The other three gates were attacked by soldiers from the four armed battalions, and the bandits had nowhere to retreat, and they were in chaos in the streets.

With the assistance of the Fenwu Battalion and the Martial Arts Training Battalion in the city, the other three city gates were quickly breached, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Fourth Martial Arts Battalion slaughtered in the city.

Wang Jiayin only had dozens of bandits left by his side, and he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape from the north gate and defect to Gao Yingxiang. I just happened to meet Yuan Chonghuan entering the city.

If it is Zu Dashou or Man Gui who they meet, they will definitely single out Wang Jiayin, then Wang Jiayin still has a chance to be injured and captured, but Yuan Chonghuan was born as a civil official, and single-handedness is not his strong point.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't know that the person who came was the bandit leader Wang Jiayin, and he dared to flee when the army had already entered the city. He couldn't help but say, commanded the soldiers to slash and kill, and all the bandits who were about to escape, including Wang Jiayin, fell in a pool of blood.

Before dark, the city gradually settled down, and the bandits had no way to escape, but surrendered.

More than 20,000 bandits, all but 3,000 who were killed, surrendered.

Zhu Youzhen was worried that there were still soldiers mixed in with the people, so he left Yangdu's martial arts training camp to search the city and pacify the people in the city.

Man Gui took Liu Yulu's cavalry, as the vanguard, and had already arrived at Mizhi County early, completely cutting off the northward escape route of Wang Daliang's troops.

Man Gui, who had just arrived at Mizhi, was eager to make meritorious contributions, he only had about 3,000 men, and all of them were cavalry, but he was going to attack the county town where more than 4,000 bandits were stationed.

Mizhi County is in a lofty mountain, because the water source is not sufficient, there is no moat outside the city, but because it is close to the military town of Yansui, as a preparatory town to resist the Mongols, the city wall is very thick, up to ten meters, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After leaving behind the corpses of dozens of soldiers, Man Gui had to sit under the city and sigh: "His grandmother's, who built the city wall so thick?" It's just against Lao Tzu. ”

Liu Yuyan stepped forward, "General Man, I have a way to attack the city." ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier? Caused Lao Tzu to lose the lives of dozens of soldiers? Man Gui's big mouth grinned, and he glanced at Liu Yuyan fiercely.

"Didn't I just come up with it? I don't know if it's going to work. Liu Yuyan was frightened.

"Say, see what you have to do."

"General Man, we have a large number of mines and grenades, as long as we can throw them in, the city gate will definitely be blown up."

"Throw it in? Do you have so much energy? Throwing a grenade into the city? Are the archers in the city blind? Will they let you close to the city walls? ”

"General Man, there used to be a trebuchet that could put a grenade in the trebuchet and throw it into the city as a stone."

"Trebuchet?" Man Gui finally understood, "It's better for you kid, assemble the trebuchet immediately." ”

The vicinity of rice fat is high mountains and dense forests, and the materials are very sufficient to cut down trees to make trebuchets, and this trebuchet does not require quality, it is one-time use.

The miscellaneous servants of the army were busy, and it took only an hour and a half to build five improvised trebuchets.

The soldiers set up their trebuchets three hundred paces from the city gates, just outside the range of their bows and arrows. The trebuchet is covered with a white cloth to increase the suddenness of the attack.

Liu Yuyan ordered the soldiers to beat the drums, prepare for the attack, and lead the bandits in the city to the city gates.

Seeing that more and more bandits gathered at the head of the city, Man Gui finally issued a military order to attack the city. The soldiers uncovered the white cloth from the trebuchet, loaded the mines or grenades, in groups of twenty, into the slinging bags, and then pulled down the lead of the grenade, and when the fuse was half-burned, the trebuchet began to fire.

Twenty grenades or mines, the mass is not large, and it is not difficult to throw, but the soldiers did not practice enough, the accuracy was insufficient, and none of the grenades that began to be thrown fell on the city.

However, the loud explosion, the accompanying smoke and flames, still frightened the bandit army at the head of the city, and no one knew what new firearms the officers and soldiers were equipped with.

Under the personal training of Liu Yuxuan, the soldiers gradually adjusted their strength and angle, and the grenades began to concentrate on the city. Five trebuchets were fired one after another, forming a non-stop fire, and the bandits were no longer able to gain a foothold in the city.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the bandits, several soldiers carried a large number of grenades and mines, and in an unguarded situation, entered the city gate hole, stacked these firearms at the city gate, and then pulled down the lead of the grenades, and quickly ran outside the city wall to hide.

"Boom ......"

This super loud sound shook the bandits a hundred paces away, their eyes turned black, their ears rang, and the palpitations in their hearts just now immediately turned into their souls......

The earth and stones on both sides of the city gate cave were also flying wildly, and the heavy wooden gate was broken into several pieces, the largest of which slowly fell after the explosion, falling heavily on the ground, raising countless dark gray and black dust.

Man Gui immediately stopped the trebuchet and personally led a team of 1,000 people to the city gate.

Liu Yuyan was also about to enter the city with him, and Man Gui shouted: "Don't, you will divide the remaining cavalry into two thousand teams and advance along the east and west of the city wall to prevent the bandits from escaping out of the county seat." ”

Liu Yuyan immediately woke up to the fact that the number of his soldiers was less than the bandits in the city, and he could not complete the siege, so he could only use the speed advantage of the cavalry to chase and kill the bandits who escaped from the city.

There are mountains all around, and once the bandits leave the city, it is like a rabbit entering the grassland and a fish entering the sea, where can they still be chased?

The cavalry guards of 3,000 people were divided into three groups, Man Gui led one into the city to drive away the bandits, and Liu Yulu divided into two teams to sweep the bandits out of the city outside the city.

The bandits in the city were already frightened by the sound of the explosion, and they could not organize effective resistance at all, and in front of Man Gui's cavalry, they were simply lambs to be slaughtered.

More than 4,000 bandits were killed by the three-way cavalry, nearly 1,000 were captured, and more than 1,000 people fled into the mountains by taking advantage of the mountains and woods outside the city.

While Man Gui took the rice fat, Zhu Youzhen was not idle, he personally stationed in the north, and Gao Yingxiang in the north was raised, and Yuan Chonghuan's Xianwu camp advanced to Suidezhou, which was Wang Daliang's lair.

Suide's contact with the outside world was completely severed, and Man Gui and Zhu Youzhen were stationed in the north and northwest respectively, cutting off their possible contact with Gao Yingxiang's department, and now both places have become isolated cities.

Wang Daliang was stationed in Suide Prefecture, now surrounded on three sides, the only east side without official troops, but the Yellow River is dangerous, now the official army is gathered around Suide, even if there are boats to cross the river, there is no time to escape.

On the first day, Yuan Chonghuan followed Zhu Youzhen's instructions and ordered Li Yue's troops to attack carelessly for a day, without any gains.

The next day, Yuan Chonghuan simply let the soldiers rest for a day and did not launch any tentative attacks.

On the third day, Yuan Chonghuan suddenly asked Li Yue's troops and Shen Xing's troops to alternate cover and attack the city in an all-round way, leaving only the traveling cavalry guards to supervise the battle behind.

The increase in the offensive intensity of the Xianwu battalion made the bandit army unable to adapt for a while, and after an hour, it finally approached the city wall, and a large number of improvised ladders were set up at the head of the city.

The soldiers of the Xianwu camp outside the city constantly attacked the outcropping bandits with bows and arrows, although the bandits had the advantage of position, they had to dodge the bows and arrows outside the field, and also shoot the soldiers besieging the city.

The soldiers who climbed the ladder had not yet climbed to the top, and when they came into contact with the bandits, they took out their grenades one by one, pulled down the lead, and threw them at the head of the city.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

The continuous sound of explosions made the already exhausted bandit army fall into the abyss. One by one, they stood at the head of the city, letting the grenades explode around them.

The screams of the wounded bandits on the straight road made the bandits at the head of the city sober up. Since they don't know what advanced firearms the officials and soldiers have, and since they can't resist these firearms, the bandits still have one trick, escape.

Wang Daliang was at the head of the city just now, and the Xianwu camp suddenly increased the intensity of the project today, which caught him off guard. A grenade exploded right next to him, and the fragment hit him in the left leg.

Wang Daliang's injuries were not serious, but his guards were frightened by the lethality of the grenades, and they dragged him out of the city under the pretext that Wang Daliang was injured.

The main general retreated, the bandits all fled, and the characteristics of the peasant army were unreservedly displayed in front of Yuan Chonghuan at this moment.

There were more than 10,000 bandits in the city, more than the number of Xianwu battalions, but Wang Daliang was "kidnapped" by some guards with ulterior motives, causing the bandits to flee.

The soldiers of the Xianwu battalion opened the city gates, and Suide was officially broken.

The roving cavalry finally came into play, and they galloped outside the city to intercept the bandits who were leaving the city.

The wounded Wang Daliang was unable to escape and was captured by the rebels, who was the first supreme leader of the bandit army captured by the Siwu Battalion.

Wang Jiayin and Wang Daliang were killed and wounded, the troops were defeated, and the bandits in Shaanxi were only left in the northernmost Gao Yingxiang department, but this one was the strongest bandits.

Because Wang Daliang was defeated and captured, not surrendered voluntarily, Zhu Youzhen refused to pardon him for the crime of rebellion. However, he was willing to make meritorious service and cooperate with the Siwu Battalion to sweep away the remnants of the bandits, and Zhu Youzhen decided to report it to the truth and wait for the court to deal with it.

Zhu Youzhen was not happy for long, and Liu Lin came to report: Gao Yingxiang has transferred back all the bandits who are outside, concentrated in Yansui Town, with a total strength of more than 60,000.