Dense crowds of people flocked in the direction of Kuizhou Capital City.

By this time, all the actions were made public, and there were no secrets to speak of, but the rebels had gained valuable time, and in Li Zicheng's opinion, he had achieved his goal.

When he set off on the evening of the fifth day of the eighth lunar month, Li Zicheng was still a little worried, although intelligence from all sides showed that the Jiangning battalion army had already set off for Bazhou, but who knew whether there would be any changes in Lu Dao, and who knew whether Su Tiancheng had already known the situation in Lu Dao, or whether he was ready. The righteous army and the Jiangning battalion fought many times, each time they were hit by the Jiangning battalion, which included intelligence warfare, Li Zicheng was most impressed by the battle of Zhongdu, which was the most tragic defeat of the rebel army, Su Tiancheng and the Jiangning battalion made accurate judgments, Li Zicheng still does not understand very well.

After the righteous army set off, all the people who met the people along the way were detained, and those who dared to resist were killed, and the news could not be revealed, but after the eighth day of the eighth month of August, he didn't care, and ordered the army to start a rapid march, not to take into account everything around.

The 90,000-strong army is earth-shattering, and it is not a problem to command hundreds of thousands of people to fight, but this time, Li Zicheng attaches special importance to it, which is related to the future of the righteous army.

The topography of the city of Kuizhou is somewhat special, surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is close to the Yangtze River, this is a typical terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but any terrain is pros and cons, the disadvantage of the city of Kuizhou is that the army is easy to concentrate on attacking, and attacking it is not as good as the rest, so that the soldiers defending the city are difficult to guard.

If it weren't for the Jiangning battalion coming to Sichuan, maybe the city of Kuizhou would have been controlled by the rebels, who would have controlled almost the entire Kuizhou Mansion, Baoning Mansion and Long'an Mansion.

At noon on the tenth day of the first month of August, the righteous army advancing along the waterway was only more than ten miles away from the capital city of Kuizhou. The land rebel army, the distance is only more than fifty miles, in order to save time, Li Zicheng made an important decision, as long as he arrives in the capital of Kuizhou, part of the day. Launched an attack around the clock, relying on the advantage in numbers, and took the capital city of Kuizhou in one fell swoop.

In order to be able to successfully take the capital city of Kuizhou, for more than half a year, Li Zicheng can be described as painstaking, when Su Tiancheng decided to let the Sichuan Weisu army stick to many strongholds, Li Zicheng ordered the righteous army to start a small-scale attack on these strongholds, do not care about the casualties, the purpose of this. In fact, it is to further accumulate siege experience, through continuous attacks, the rebels have indeed gained a lot of experience, and slowly began to fully familiarize themselves with siege battles.

Attacking the city is a tough battle, and sometimes you can take some advantage, but most of the time, you need to rely on the bravery of the sergeant. to be able to have a practical effect.

On the other hand, Li Zicheng also increased the rewards for outstanding sergeants. He did not hesitate to take out money, and for the sergeants who made meritorious achievements in every confrontation, they were rewarded with rewards, and those who were ineffective in combat were severely punished. To a certain extent, this also made the sergeants more courageous.

All of this is now time to be shown, and the battle is about to come.

Li Zicheng standing on the bow of the boat. The expression on his face was calm, despite the turbulence in his heart.

The capital city of Kuizhou has entered a state of high alert.

Su Tiancheng and Sun Chuanting inspected all the preparations, the battle to defend the city was divided into three steps, the first step was to give play to the role of artillery, to give a heavy blow to the rogues, the second step was to rely on the soldiers to guard the city gate, to give the attacking rogues the maximum damage, and the third step was to rely on the people of Kuizhou Fucheng to defend together at a critical moment.

The city wall has been temporarily reinforced, in the city of Kuizhou, many houses have been demolished, stones, timber and other materials have been transported to the city wall, the Kuizhou Prefecture Inspection Department patrols day and night, calms the emotions of the people, cracks down on the gangsters who take the opportunity to make trouble, and the entire city has entered a state of war readiness in advance.

On the tenth day of August in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, it was not time.

The scouts who reconnoitred outside the city quickly reported that the rogues who came along the Yangtze River had arrived at the periphery of the Kuizhou capital city, and countless ships carried a large number of rogues.

The wharf of Kuizhou Capital City, commonly known as the Nine Wharf, has been called for hundreds of years.

Nine wharves are still some distance away from Kuizhou City, and the straight-line distance is about three miles away, but the road is winding, and the walking distance is about five miles.

Liukou wanted to attack the capital city of Kuizhou by water, but he only disembarked at the place of Nine Wharf, and it was unlikely that he would land in the rest of the places, there were high mountains on both sides and no roads.

The range of the red-coated cannon and the general's cannon is three miles away, which means that the cannon can fire before the rogue arrives at the Nine Piers.

The grasp of this time point is very important, if it is said that the ships that can hit the Liukou and cause a blockage, the impact on the Liukou's attack is very large, these days, Di Huaixiang and Fang Fengnian, who are in charge of the artillery attack, have taken the soldiers to personally survey and carefully calculate.

Although the order to start the attack was directly issued by Su Tiancheng, the timing of the attack still required Di Huaixiang and Fang Fengnian to be directly responsible.

Not for a moment.

The red flag at the south gate was raised, which was the signal for the start of the offensive.

A minute later, the dull sound of cannons rang out, and the colors on the faces of the people of Kuizhou City, who had never heard the sound of cannons, changed.

The redcoat cannons and the general's cannons began to wield their might.

This battle, which shook the Ming Dynasty and went down in history, began without any special ceremony.

Su Tiancheng stood on the wall of the south gate, his face was calm, the rumbling cannon sound did not affect him at all, Sun Chuanting beside him looked a little nervous, such a critical battle made Sun Chuanting feel more or less excited.

Many soldiers in the Jiangning battalion are in place, their faces, the excitement they show, no one panicked, they have long been used to the expedition, and Su Tiancheng and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are with them, which gives them the greatest fighting spirit and confidence.

The unprepared rogues suffered a heavy blow before they approached the capital city of Kuizhou.

The cannonball fell on the wooden boat, exploded instantly, and the rogue who was blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, did not have time to scream, and fell directly into the Yangtze River, and there were also cannonballs that fell into the Yangtze River and exploded, a huge shock wave made the warship shake, and the river began to chaos in an instant.

Li Zicheng did not expect this scene.

In his impression, the red-coated cannon and the general's cannon are both solid shells, even if they are fired, it is impossible for the warship to have too much impact, at most, the warship hit by the cannonball, with heavy losses, or even silence, but the rest of the warships will not be affected, but this time the shells are completely different, after the explosion, not only the battleships that were hit were affected, but the warships on both sides were also affected by the shock wave and shell fragments.

This is a matter of no way, in order to be able to hurry, the distance between the warships is very close, more than 300 warships, Li Zicheng spent a lot of financial resources to raise.

Seeing that the warships were constantly being destroyed, and the shells of the red-coated cannons and the general's cannons formed a dense firepower network on the river, and the losses were definitely even heavier if they charged hard, Li Zicheng made a bold decision, using the Fran machine gun and the tiger squat cannon to blow up a road in the mountain peak on the right, and the army went ashore through the blown passage and went straight to the capital city of Kuizhou.

The sound of artillery became more intensive, and the shells of the red-coated cannons and the general's cannons continued to explode on the surface of the river, and the rogues also began to fire shells, trying to blow up a passage.

This move of the rogues was soon reported by scouts.

After hearing the report, a sneer appeared on Su Tiancheng's face.

The rogues gave up landing from the Nine Wharves, and they would encounter more difficulties, and it was not so easy to open up the road, not to mention the delay in time, which would also cause chaos and casualties.

Liukou has made changes, and of course Su Tiancheng has to make changes.

The yellow flag was raised, which was a signal that the rate of artillery fire was slowing down.

Half an hour passed.

The rebels forcibly opened a passage.

A large number of sergeants began to abandon ship and go ashore.

The sergeants who had landed on the shore in advance took in their hands the ones that had been prepared for a long time, cut down all the trees and shrubs that hindered the advance, and forcibly opened a passage where no one had walked.

A part of the warships began to break through the blockade of artillery fire and came towards the Nine Piers.

Li Zicheng will not give up the nine docks, the righteous army is divided into two ways to attack, which can disperse the possibility of being hit by artillery fire, and can also make the Jiangning battalion soldiers guarding the capital city of Kuizhou difficult to take care of in the first place, more importantly, such an action can make the righteous army disperse and avoid overcrowding, 60,000 troops, need more passages.

All the changes in Liukou were expected by Su Tiancheng.

The red flags were raised again, this time with two red flags.

In an instant, the red-coated cannons, the general's cannons, the tiger squat cannons, and the Fran machine cannons on the city wall all began to roar, and the cannonballs fired in two directions one after another.

The rogue who landed on the shore was caught off guard, the power of the red-coated cannon and the general's cannon was even greater on land, and the rogue who opened the way in front and the rogue who landed on the shore in the back were blown up to cry dad and mother, as for the warship heading towards the nine piers, it was the tiger squat cannon and the Fran machine gun.

Li Zicheng's eyes were red, he couldn't imagine that he had suffered such a big loss before he launched the attack, which was unbearable, but the attack had been rolled out, and there was no other way to kill a bloody road.

The rebels began to advance under artillery fire, and no one cared about the casualties, everyone rushed towards the direction of the city of Kuizhou, their goal was to reach the city of Kuizhou and start a large-scale attack. (To be continued......)