The huge explosion blew up a gap of more than ten zhang wide in the wall of Yuncheng, and the masonry collapsed to form a gentle slope, which could no longer play any defensive role. The security soldiers quickly jumped over the city wall and came to the city, where they formed a tight formation in strict accordance with the battle regulations and carefully advanced into the city.

After waking up from the shock of the explosion, the officers and soldiers in Yuncheng and the villagers immediately gathered under the supervision of the officers and soldiers and rushed towards the gap in the city wall, preparing to recapture the city wall and plug the gap.

When the officers and soldiers who shouted loudly for their courage rushed to a place not far from the security army, the security army raised the muskets in their hands, and the continuous gunfire rang out, which wiped out the fighting enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers, and at the same time wiped out the brave soldiers in the streets. After several charges, the officers and soldiers understood that the musket array of the security army was impassable.

The security army repelled the counterattack of the officers and soldiers, the drums of the march sounded, and the whole team moved forward in order. Some clever officers and soldiers hid in the houses on both sides of the street, ready to fight them hand-to-hand when the security forces approached, but they did not expect that the ranks of the security army musketeers were mixed with a few strong men with flamethrowers on their backs. The officers and soldiers had no other way but to flee for their lives amid the screams.

General Liu Lianxiang found that the city wall had been breached, and rushed to the front to command, regardless of life and death. Seeing that it was not the right to organize the official army to charge, he immediately ordered the archers in the city to be mobilized together, and he was ready to test with the security army to see if the long-range attack was powerful with muskets or bows and arrows.

As soon as the archers of the official army were assembled, a dense rain of bullets came from the city walls. The archers were killed and wounded, and those who were lucky enough to survive fled in all directions.

It turned out that the security army was advancing at the same time as the breach of the gap, and sent troops to occupy the city walls on both sides, not only withstood the counterattack of the officers and soldiers along the city wall, but also transported the cannons to the city. The rate of fire of the new guns played a role, and although it was only a few guns, the sound of artillery was so continuous that the pause in the fire was almost imperceptible. The archers were dispersed at once, and the last counterattack of the officers and troops was disintegrated.

Seeing that his archers were scattered, the general Liu Lianxiang knew that the general trend had gone, but he was still unwilling. The fortified city that the court had painstakingly managed for so many years was so broken, and he, as the commander of the defenders, would not be able to see anyone in the future.

So he decided to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, he called his own soldiers, these people eat and drink well on weekdays, and the training intensity is more than ordinary soldiers, and they have all experienced banditry, and they can be ten on the battlefield, and they will definitely be able to kill a few security soldiers when they rush out, which is enough.

Liu Lianxiang ordered his soldiers to line up at the corner of the street and wait for the arrival of the security forces. Those pro-soldiers received Liu Lianxiang's favor on weekdays, and were instilled with the idea of sacrificing their lives for the sake of their masters for a long time, so at this time they did not panic like other soldiers, but obeyed Liu Lianxiang's orders and prepared to attack, even if they knew that they would definitely die if they rushed out, they did not waver.

Listening to the sound of the security army approaching, Liu Lianxiang was the first to rush towards the musketeers of the security army with a steel knife in his hand, and behind him was a group of red-eyed soldiers.

Seeing that another group of officers and soldiers rushed over, the security guards unhurriedly raised their guns and fired in accordance with the regulations, and then retreated to the rear, cleaned the chambers and loaded them, and waited for the next shot. In the meantime, the second row of security soldiers behind him had taken a step forward, raised their guns, and fired the lead bullet. Then he stepped back, and the third row went up again. The security forces that fired first were ready to shoot again, and the entire ranks of the security forces were running like clockwork machines, constantly reaping the lives of officers and soldiers. Liu Lianxiang rushed to the front, but before he could run far, a projectile hit his helmet, and the iron helmet played a role, blocking the bullet so that he was not hurt, even then Liu Lianxiang felt the world spinning. Before he could make any more moves, another shot hit him in the thigh, Liu Lianxiang gnawed on mud at that time, and he didn't know what happened next.

The security army rushed through the defense line of the official army, and Liu Lianxiang's exquisite armor attracted the attention of the security army, and some soldiers went over to dig Liu Lianxiang out of the pile of dead people. Unceremoniously stripped off the armor on his body, only wearing underwear, bleeding from his legs, how embarrassed and embarrassed, facing the muzzle of the black hole, Liu Lianxiang immediately admitted his identity, and saw that he had caught a big fish, and the soldiers of the security army were happy, and the supreme commander of the city defense was caught. Of course, such a good item should be put to good use.

"The general has been arrested, and Liu Lianxiang has become a prisoner!" For a time, this voice spread all over Yuncheng.

The security army did not stop doing anything, pulled Liu Lianxiang over and tied it with a rope, set aside a rope head, held it by his hand, let the officers and soldiers see it, and ordered them to surrender immediately. When the officers and soldiers saw the commander being led by the enemy like a dog, they immediately lost their fighting spirit, and knelt on the ground in groups and begged for surrender.

The soldiers of the security army increased more and more in the gap in the city wall, and continued to spread into the city, and soon occupied the whole city of Yuncheng, and the resistance of the officers and soldiers in the city all laid down their weapons and were concentrated together and imprisoned to prevent any accidents.

The gate of Yuncheng was opened, and Zhang Chu walked into Yuncheng with his generals amid the cheers of the soldiers, and the first thing he did at this time was to immediately send someone to inform the chariot battalion and cavalry regiment participating in the blocking battle that they could withdraw and immediately return to the transfer city to participate in the battle to defend Yuncheng.

Zhang Chu knew that the number of officers and troops led by Hong Chengchou was large, and it was a dangerous move to send the chariot battalion and cavalry regiment to block the attack, but Zhang Chu, as a modern person, still couldn't accept a large number of casualties among his troops. So he tried his best to let the soldiers use the terrain to gain the initiative, and as soon as Yuncheng took Zhang Chu, he hurriedly transferred them back.

Soon, a difficult problem was also placed in front of Zhang Chu's eyes. In the face of Hong Chengchou's tens of thousands of troops, what should the security army do, whether to go out of the city to meet the enemy, or to destroy the official army with powerful firepower above the city, so that the official army will retreat.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Chu made up his mind, brought the wounded into the city for treatment, left a small number of soldiers to hold the city, and the other teams drove out of Yuncheng with Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu decided to defeat Hong Chengchou in this field battle, which made him break the idea of destroying the security army.

Zhang Chu ordered the entire security army to be mobilized, and the whole army began to dig trenches and build fortifications outside Yuncheng to prepare for Hong Chengchou's attack. (To be continued.) )