In this way, Fan Jinyan had the mentality of not entering the tiger's den to get the tiger's son, and went all the way north to occupy the capital of Leizhou, Xuwen County.

However, in the next few days, I received the news that Suixi County and Zhanjiang County were besieged by a large army and lost.

Okay! The retreat was sealed.

Now, Fan Jinyan finally understands Li Zicheng's intentions, he is trying to rob himself of the back road, and he wants to block himself in Leizhou.

However, Fan Jinyan's heart that had been hanging was completely down. The unknown danger is the most terrifying, as long as the danger is in front of you, even if you die for a lifetime, it is better than not seeing and not touching.

As for Li Dingguo, Fan Jinyan finally figured it out, this handsome old guy was looking at the direction of the wind, and it was obvious who he was helping him.

After figuring out these joints, Fan Jinyan cleared the unstable factors in the city and strengthened the defense of the city. On the other hand, he ordered Qin Yuan to take the mountain group to hide in the surrounding mountains, waiting for an opportunity to move.

Sure enough, Fan Jinyan only waited for three days, and the county seat of Xu Wen was surrounded by Li Zicheng's 50,000 troops.

It seems that there are more than 50,000, and there are tens of thousands of people who are actually the kind of people with pitchforks and hoes.

Does this old guy still want to do his old job?

"Master Hou, the last general just looked around and found that there were about 30,000 people at each city gate, and this battle was difficult to fight!" Tang Fei came to Fan Jinyan's side, looking at the white Li Jun camp in the distance, and couldn't help but be a little worried.

Fan Jinyan smiled and said indifferently: "If the war was more than the number of people, then Chongzhen would not have been driven to the south by him back then." Don't look at our army, there are only 20,000 people, but it is not comparable to the common people below! ”

After speaking, he patted Tang Fei on the shoulder and said: "Respond calmly, this victory, my Qiongzhou soldiers will be famous all over the world." ”

Tang Fei was encouraged by Fan Jinyan, and his anxiety went away a lot, in exchange for a firm heart.

In fact, don't look at Li Zicheng's appearance as having more than 100,000 troops, in fact, there are only more than 10,000 veterans of a hundred battles, of which 2,000 are still in the hands of Li Dingguo. If he wins, it's fine, if he loses slightly, Li Dingguo and Qin Yuan, who is wandering outside, are his Li Zicheng's talismans.

There was no hypocrisy on both sides, Li Zicheng just set up camp, and after making sure that Xu Wenwei's water could not be drained, he beat the drum and ordered the troops to prepare to attack.

The drums sounded, and the soldiers in all directions were agitated, and under the shouts of the officers and the warlords, those soldiers who might have been farmers yesterday and didn't even put down the farm tools in their hands gathered together reluctantly and slowly approached the city wall.

Li Zicheng's purpose is very simple, that is, to use these cannon fodder to consume the ammunition of the Qiongzhou Legion.

Of course, Fan Jinyan knew Li Zicheng's intentions, and he also understood that if he stood in Li Zicheng's point of view, in order to avoid casualties among soldiers, he would make the same choice.

However, Fan Jinyan also understands that the common people have never been on the battlefield, and Li Zicheng can't give them a victory and do it rashly, and the result may become very wonderful.

Wonderful?

That's right, because the people are afraid of death, in the face of death, they will choose to escape desperately, if they attack the rear camp, Li Zicheng will not hesitate to choose to slaughter. However, will the Leizhou soldiers think about their fellow villagers? There may be their loved ones inside. Then, the result is self-evident, Li Zicheng will fail.

Of course, this is just Fan Jinyan's subjective speculation, maybe things will not be as he imagined, then the result will be a bad battle.

On this expedition, Fan Jinyan was afraid that something would go wrong, so the ammunition was very sufficient, and the shipboard guns also carried a lot, a full hundred.

However, to deal with more than 100,000 people, it is still somewhat dwarfed.

Therefore, if you want to completely scare these indiscriminate people, you must take a fierce medicine from the beginning.

"Pass the order, as long as the enemy reaches the firing range, he will open the fire to Lao Tzu, and shoot ten rounds in a row."

After Fan Jinyan finished speaking, Tang Fei was startled, obediently, ten rounds, you are really polite, that is a whole thousand shells, do you always know how hard it took the soldiers to transport them here? You're here, the enemy has just tried to attack, and you have lost half of your ammunition.

Of course, Tang Fei didn't dare to say this on the surface, "Master Hou can't, we only brought 2,000 shells."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fan Jinyan waving his hand, "Do you really want to use a cannon to fight mosquitoes?" Don't say 2,000, just give you 20,000, you have to be able to kill 10,000 people, Lao Tzu also admires, these things are easy to attack the city, but it is impossible to defend the city. So! Don't worry about the cannonballs, when you're done, go to the city to find bottles and cans, break them and pour them into the barrels, that's the weapon of killing. ”

Fan Jinyan was right, his intention to bring the cannon was to attack the city, and now it is useless to defend the city, if he can scare off this group of people, it is not difficult for the soldiers to carry it so far. The real wound to the enemy still has to rely on scattered bullets, Fan Jinyan did not scatter bullets, only then did he think that the porcelain and iron pieces in the grenade are the real killing weapons. With the power of cannons, these seemingly inconspicuous small porcelain pieces are no less lethal than muskets.

Tang Fei is not a stupid person, he can understand it at one point, but he is afraid that the officers under his command will be distressed, so he personally goes to explain door by door.

There are also many smart people among the people in the enemy camp under the city, and many of them hold up a door panel on their heads together, carefully guarding the villagers who carry the ladder.

Five hundred meters

Four hundred meters

Three hundred meters

"Put"

Accompanied by the shouts of the officers, the artillery on the four towers spat out dazzling tongues of fire, and after a loud bang, hundreds of shells flew towards the enemy in four directions.

Most of the people have never heard the sound of cannons in their lives, let alone the loud sound of hundreds of cannons in unison, resounding through the heavens and the earth.

At this moment, the only courage is gone, some mothers throw away the weapons (farm tools) in their hands and run backwards, some people are frightened to lie on the ground and dare not get up, and some people even kneel directly, fold their hands, and chant words in their mouths, as if they are praying for God's blessing.

The original attacking side suddenly made a mess, no matter how the overseers shouted, and even drew their knives and cut dozens of people, they still couldn't stop the people from fleeing.

Fan Jinyan couldn't help but laugh when he saw this, but he didn't expect to really bet on himself.

However, halfway through the laugh, he couldn't laugh anymore, and then his face was full of surprise.

The fleeing people listened to it and did not attack Li Zicheng's camp.

Because, just when the people were about to arrive at Li Zicheng's camp, they found that the soldiers were driving thousands of old and weak women and children towards them, including their parents, wives and daughters, sons, and brothers

It turned out that Li Zicheng had become a guard against the collapse of the people, and secretly sent people to arrest the families of thousands of soldiers, although not all the soldiers' families, but no one could guarantee that their families were not arrested, and for the sake of their relatives, they had to be sent to death, they had no choice

(To be continued.) )