Early the next morning, Li Long led his army to the southern city and guarded the wall. At the same time, Yang Mingyuan and Fan Qing also came with the soldiers of the institute.

Yanzhou Mansion is a big city, the city wall is six miles and sixty steps long, and in ancient times, it was three hundred and sixty steps as one mile, that is, the metric system is five hundred and fifty meters. That is, the length of the city wall is metric three. Four thousand meters. The unilateral length is 850 meters. The walls are ten meters high and about six meters wide. There is also a moat along the city wall, about six meters wide, that brings in the water of the Surabaya River. Overall, the protection is still very good. Moreover, there were actually three Franc cannons in the southern city, each with five gunners and a captain. It's all in place.

In fact, twenty cannons can't change the overall situation, but after all, it's a habit to begin, and after seeing the artillery, Li Long's heart instinct is also a lot more relieved.

But seeing the soldiers of the two thousand households, Li Long's heart that was a little more optimistic just now, couldn't help but feel half cold, to be honest, except for the sixty family members brought by the two of them, which were still well-equipped and well-armed, the rest of the soldiers' equipment was not as good as his original militia. There are only twenty or thirty sets of iron armor, and there are only nearly a hundred sets of leather armor, and a considerable number of people do not have any armor. Most of the weapons were also damaged, and many of them were rusty. But after all, they were all official weapons, and no one carried a hoe or sickle.

Because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military departments of the thousands of guards in various places became more and more slack, and the commanders and thousands of households did not do their best to practice, and only regarded the military households as hired workers who did not spend money at home, so not only the weapons assembled by the thousands of guards were getting worse and worse, but even the military households were almost completely degenerated into peasants, and the family was not considered a military member, but a private army hired by each commander and a thousand households, but because of this, they got better assembled weapons and had the most combat effectiveness.

And after Yang Mingyuan and Fan Qing saw the military appearance of the Qing soldiers on the city wall, they couldn't help but feel ashamed. Although the weapon assembly of their own family members may not be inferior to theirs, the difference in the spiritual temperament and outlook of the two sides is greater than that of weapon assembly.

However, Li Long didn't have time to worry about whether he should come to the rescue of Yanshu now, because in the distance outside the city, Liukou Yijing was gathering troops and preparing to launch an attack on Yanzhou Mansion. Therefore, Li Long immediately incorporated the two families of the thousand households into the team to defend the city, and the rest of the people also stayed in the city, anyway, they stayed to fight and make up the numbers.

At this time, the troops of the Liukou were assembled and were slowly approaching the walls of Yanzhou City. Li Long took out the binoculars and carefully observed them on the castle tower.

Although it is still not clear how many troops the rogues have, their weapons and equipment are not bad, at least in the first few rows, everyone has armor, and the proportion of iron armor is not small. At the same time, there are quite a few vehicles pushing. Li Long is also fighting the offensive and defensive battles of the city for the first time, so he doesn't know what this thing is for.

At this time, the telescope is not a particularly rare thing, but it is basically a monocular, divided into two truncated cylinders, all pulled out can be more than two feet long, but to Li Long such a binocular, and such a short size of the high-magnification telescope has not yet appeared, the soldiers of Qingzhou Mansion because they often see it, many people have used it, to get used to it, Yang Mingyuan and Fan Qing feel very fresh, I don't know that this is a Western gadget that Li Long picked up from there, it looks much more exquisite than the ordinary monocular.

Li Long saw that the distance was almost the same, so he took out the GPS, turned on the infrared to scan the enemy's situation, and after a few seconds, the screen showed the number of people scanned, 62,000 747 people, 5,183 large quadrupeds, it is estimated that it should be a large livestock such as horses and donkeys, and there are 213 small quadrupeds, I don't know what kind of animal it is.

Seeing this number, Li Long couldn't help but tremble, after he arrived in this era, the largest battle he fought, that is, two or three thousand people, has suddenly been upgraded to 10,000 people, is it too fast all of a sudden.

At this time, the army of rogues gradually approached a distance of more than three hundred paces, and they could see it with the naked eye. I saw that in the open space outside the city, the black pressure occupied a large area. And the arrangement of people and horses is also quite orderly. More than 62,000 people, walking a distance of several hundred meters, can still generally maintain the array is not chaotic,

At this time, Li Long found that the officers and soldiers at the head of the city looked a little unnatural, and since they were soldiers of two thousand households, almost everyone turned pale with fright, and some of them involuntarily trembled. Because most of them are actually no different from the peasant Yijing, and some of them are even fighting with swords and guns for the first time, and it is strange that they are not afraid when they suddenly see such a big momentum. Looking at the Qingzhou soldiers he brought with him, although his face looked very serious, and he usurped his swords and guns tightly, the soldiers of the two thousand households were much better than the obvious.

Yang Mingyuan and Li Long were beside him, and whispered: "General Li, there are too many rogues, I'm afraid we can't stand it, so let's hurry up and ask the governor for help, right?" ”

Li Long looked at it with disdain, this has not yet started, these two guys are frightened, this is not good, you must know that on the battlefield, the extreme emotions of a small number of people can often affect the morale and morale of the whole army, in case these two guys are really afraid to flee, then the defense of the entire Yanzhou Mansion will collapse all at once.

Therefore, Li Longzheng said with a stern face: "Two adults, now that the war has not started, how can you go to the governor to ask for help, if you shake the army's heart like this, if you let the governor know, not only is it a capital crime, but I am afraid that it will also affect the family." ”

The two were stunned for a moment, and then they came to their senses, in fact, the two of them did not have the idea of abandoning the city and running away in their hearts, but when Li Long mentioned it, they thought about the old saying that the monk can't escape from the temple, and they couldn't help but dispel the idea of running away a lot.

At this moment, Yang Dali suddenly came to Li Long's side and said, "General, Liukou has almost entered the range of artillery, can you open fire?" ”

Li Long was also stunned, and then he looked outside the city, only to see that thousands of people walked out of the formation of the Liukou, also lined up in a rectangular formation, and approached the city wall, which was less than three hundred steps away from the city wall. It's just that Li Long is used to it now, and the time to start the battle is only after entering a hundred steps, but he didn't expect that the range of artillery is farther than that of bows and arrows. I am still a modern person, how can I only go to ancient times for a few months, and forget all the modern war thinking.

Therefore, he no longer paid attention to Yang Mingyuan, and said to Yang Dali: "Okay, open the cannon immediately." ”

Yang Dali agreed, and immediately turned back to the cannon to give an order, and the other gunners immediately began to act, filled with gunpowder, then picked up the cannonball, stuffed it into the barrel, compacted, inserted the lead, closed the fire door, and ignited.

I heard three loud roars, "boom-boom-boom", which shook the entire city wall as if it were trembling, and several soldiers near the artillery were shocked to their feet and fell to the ground. At the same time, a large amount of smoke with a choking sulfur smell also rose from the city, and many people choked and coughed.

The cannons fired solid shells. Twenty iron bullets crashed into the rogue formation at a high speed that was difficult to catch with the naked eye, and in the dense crowd, they simply smashed through twenty bloody paths, and all the people and horses hit by the iron bullets were smashed to the point that their heads were broken and their limbs were broken. A series of miserable wails were heard. There was also a stir in the entire ranks.

Although the blow just now finally killed one hundred and sixty or seventy rogues, and the damage to the rogues was slight, after all, it was the official army that launched the attack first, so on the head of Gunzhou City, a burst of cheers immediately broke out, and Li Long also took the opportunity to shout: "Wansheng." ”

When the soldiers of Qingzhou heard this, they immediately shouted together, and under their drive, the soldiers of the two thousand households also joined in, and on the southern city of Yanzhou City, a neat voice immediately sounded:

"Wan Sheng—Wan Sheng—"

Shouting loudly is in itself a way to vent stress and stabilize emotions. Therefore, with the loud shouts of the soldiers, the nervous psychology has calmed down a lot.

In the midst of the shouts of the soldiers, the gunners were nervously cleaning the chambers and reloading them, and when everything was ready, the twenty exterminators fired again, this time closer and more powerful to the rogues. A cannonball smashed more than 20 meters into the rogue array, and a bloody path of dead corpses and severed limbs could be clearly seen on the top of the city.

The corpses of more than 400 rogues formed four bloody paths......

"Wan Sheng—Wan Sheng—"

And the shouts of the officials and soldiers were even louder, and even the two governors who were sitting in the governor's yamen in the city could hear them very clearly. It was only at this time that the officers and soldiers on the city wall basically eliminated their fear of the Liukou, not only Qingzhou, but even the soldiers of the two thousand households were completely settled, and they also ignited a strong sense of battle.

Many people were lying on the battlements, shouting: "Boom, bomb harder, bomb to death these gangsters." ”

Another person shouted: "Come here, if you are not afraid of death, come here." ”

Li Long was completely relieved at this time, and his fighting spirit can also be contagious.

At this time, in the formation of the rogues under the city, a row of vehicles was launched, and a row of thick planks was erected, which was also wrapped in something I don't know what it was, in short, a thick pile, blocking the front of the entire team, and continuing to push the city wall forward.

In the third round of artillery fire, two shells were blocked by the wooden carts, and although one shell smashed a large hole in the wooden cart, it also lost its strength, and the convection could not be lethal.

Only seventeen shells rose again, killing seventeen bloody paths. Three hundred and fifty rogues were smashed into pulp.

At this time, more cars were introduced, all of which were gun trucks with a row of thick planks and quilts wrapped in quilts.

Li Long couldn't help but smile bitterly, the local method sometimes works really well, but the iron eggs used in firearms in this era will not explode, and the shells that will explode are called flowering shells, but the range is too short. The effective killing distance is only 300 meters. It was more than 100 years before yellow powder was made.

Twenty cannons were fired in two more rounds, but there were more rogue wagons, seventy or eighty, and the rogues were all hiding behind the wagons. Although he smashed a few more big holes in the wooden cart, it was already the end of the crossbow. Barely did much damage to the Rogues.

At this time, the team of rogues came much closer to the city wall, and was almost a hundred paces. The effective range of the Qingzhou soldiers' crossbow is about 100 paces, that is, 150 meters, but in the city wall, the firing point is high, so the range can be expanded by at least 20 to 30 meters.

As Li Long gave the order, Mr. Qian immediately shouted, "The golden crossbowman fires." ”。

"Put!"

With this last order, the three thousand crossbowmen pulled the trigger almost simultaneously, and the three thousand sharp arrows brought out a series of sharp and piercing sounds that pierced the air, and shot quickly above the heads of the rogues outside the city.

The wooden cart in the front row of the rogues could withstand the bombardment of the shells, but they could not stop the shooting of crossbow arrows, and the rogues did not expect that the bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers could shoot such a long distance, so they did not prepare shields. At the same time, the whole formation is also a lot of chaos.

Li Long used infrared GPS to check how many people he shot to death, only to see that the GPS showed that there were still 33,590 people alive. That is to say, counting the cannon and crossbow arrows, 2,410 people have already been killed.

On the city walls, the crossbowmen no longer needed orders, and entered the free fire, and for a moment the bowstrings rang and the arrows whistled, shooting at the rogues below the city. Although the rogue who came back to his senses raised his shield to cover it, not everyone had a shield in his hand, and even if he had a shield, he might not be able to block the arrows shot by the crossbow. As a result, the casualties of the rogues began to increase rapidly.

Although it was only at this time, the rogues had not yet come close to the moat, but the number of casualties exceeded 5,000. And the formation is also a lot messed up. But the rogues continued to brave the fire of bows and arrows and artillery to advance towards the city walls. Li Long had a very clear view from the top of the city, and in the ranks of the Liukou, some people turned their heads and retreated, but they were also greeted by the bows and arrows of the main formation of the rear superintendent, and they were shot in front of the formation one by one. Some of them ran a few steps back, and when they saw that the road was impassable, they were forced to turn around and push back on the side of the wall.

Only then did Li Long know that the original team of people sent out was used as cannon fodder, but although they were cannon fodder, they couldn't be let go, so it depended on how much cannon fodder the rogue could send to pad. Although there is a supervising formation in the back, after receiving such a blow, it can still stand up, this branch of the bandit is obviously much stronger than the bandits, if it was a bandit, this meeting would have been broken up a long time ago.

So Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong's team, isn't it stronger, not to mention the strongest Manchu Eight Banners soldiers in this era, it seems that he has not encountered a really powerful army before, and there is still a long way to go if he wants to train a strong army of this era.

At this time, the number of wounded cannon fodder of the Liukou team was close to 500, but they finally came to the edge of the moat and dumped the wooden carts one by one.

However, at such a close distance, the artillery also lost its effectiveness, and the side bottom was muted. However, the crossbowmen of the Qingzhou soldiers, as well as the archers of the two thousand households, all joined in, because the distance was too close, and the positions of the Liukou were dense, so there were almost no arrows. The rogues almost always fell in rows. Many of them fell headlong into the moat, and they also became part of the filling of the moat.

After the rogues had emptied all the dirt and gravel from the wooden carts, they retreated. And this time the speed is obviously much faster, and every person takes out the 100-meter sprint speed, and all of a sudden it flashes. The crossbowmen chased after a few but missed a few. Even Li Long sighed, who said that the sprinting ability of yellow people is worse than that of black people, but it is a pity that there is no Aoyuan Club now, otherwise at least ten of them can be selected from this, not as good as Bolt's excellent sprinting talents

After the rogues retreated, they left behind corpses and several dumped vehicles, as well as knives and guns still being thrown. On the walls of Yanzhou City, there was another round of enthusiastic cheers, and the defenders were all congratulating themselves on repelling the first attack of the Liukou.

But Li Long knew that the real attack of the Liukou had not yet begun, and what they were doing now was only filling in the moat in order to prepare for the final siege. But Lee did not stop the soldiers from cheering, because such cheers and celebrations were very helpful in boosting his morale and dispelling the fear of the rogues. At this time, Li Long walked to the side of the Franc machine gun, and the captain who had asked him just now saw him coming, hurriedly stood up and saluted, and said, "Your Excellency." ”

Li Long nodded, he had been observing this captain just now, he was about thirty-five years old, not tall, but stocky, just now not only gave orders, but also did the work of emptying and reloading bombs by himself. Li Long found that he was very proficient in the series of movements of the cannon, much faster than the other two guns, almost to the level of firing once a minute, so he also asked, "What's your name?" ”

The captain said, "Hui Yu, the villain is called a pillar." ”

Li Long said: "I just saw that you are very proficient in firing guns, how many years have you been a gunner?" ”

Zhu Zi said: "The villain has been a gunner for ten years. ”

Li Long was about to ask him, but at this time, Yang vigorously said: "General, the thieves have begun to attack again." ”

Li Long nodded again, patted the pillar on the shoulder, and said, "Do a good job, and after the thieves retreat, I will come to talk to you again." ”

In fact, at this time, the leaders of the thieves and others were also very entangled in their hearts, because the 10,000 soldiers who had just been sent out to fill the Fangcheng River were half damaged by the demolition, and most of the people who fled back were also injured. Before the siege began, they were surprised by such losses.

After the joint camp of several of them, the total number of people is close to 80,000, of course, more than half are family members, but there are also close to 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers in battle, but only 20,000 of them are the main force, with the best equipment and weapons, and the rest are auxiliary people, that is, as cannon fodder. Although the 10,000 horses and horses dispatched just now are all among the cannon fodder, the cannon fodder is also a person who can work and fight, and such a big loss still makes them feel a little unbearable. This understands why Li Zicheng is so strong, and he also attacked the Fengfu twice and did not defeat it.

Therefore, the thief soldier Lao Ba wanted to retreat in his heart, so he said: "Yanzhou City is well defended, and our losses are too great if we continue to attack like this, so I think it's better to retreat!" Let's not look anywhere else. ”

Lao Jiu looked at him and said, "Where else can we go, now there are eight kings in the Central Plains, there are eight kings in Huguang, and there are Tatar soldiers outside Hebei, in addition to Yanzhou, where can we go?" ”

Lao Badao: "But didn't you see it just now?" Before we could reach the outside of the city, more than 5,000 brothers died, and even if we captured Yanzhou, we would be greatly injured. If all the brothers are gone, will we still have a way to live? ”

Lao Jiu said disdainfully: "Now the officers and soldiers are just relying on a river to block the city, so they are holding on." Only by filling up the Fangcheng River, you can directly attack Yanzhou City, and then see what other ways the officers and soldiers have. Besides, the dead are not really capable brothers, such a person - "he pointed in the direction of Yanzhou City" There are in the city, as long as Yanzhou City is captured, as many people die can be replenished. ”

Lao Jiu said again: "Don't forget, there is still a King Lu living in Yanzhou Mansion,—— King Chuang captured Luoyang, copied the Fu Wangfu, and the gold and silver treasures he got were piled up into a mountain, which can't be counted, just grain, enough to eat for a year." This Lu Wangfu won't be sent there! Therefore, as long as the Yanzhou Mansion is laid, we can have people, money, and grain, and we can have a good life in a few days. ”

Hearing him say this, several other people were also a lot more moved, and Xu Chang gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's fight and continue to attack." ”

After several people reached an agreement, the rogues immediately launched a second round of river reclamation attacks.

Seeing the second group of rogues approaching the city wall, Li Long also knew the intention of the rogues, that is, the human life was filled, and the crossbowmen shot arrows at the rogues who filled the river. Zhu Zi and the others also stopped using solid bullets, and waited for the team to come within a distance of one hundred and fifty paces before attacking with flowering bullets.

The range and penetration of the Blossom Bullet are not as good as the Solid Bullet, but they are very effective against the Rogue who does not have much cover. The lethality at close range is much greater than that of solid bullets, and when a cannon is fired, the rogue almost falls in pieces. It only made the rogue scream.

Therefore, although the team defending the city has fewer crossbowmen, it also inflicts a lot of casualties on the rogues. By the time the rogues had retreated, the number of corpses parked outside the city had almost doubled.

Eleven thousand casualties

In the morning, the casualties of the officers and men were extremely small, only more than 100 of the Qingzhou soldiers were wounded by arrows, and none of them died, and the troops of the other two thousand households combined did not kill more than 10 people.

The moat of Yanzhou City is not wide, only two zhang, that is, more than six meters of the metric system. And you don't have to fill in the entire moat, you only need to fill in a few passages. After two landfills by the rogues, more than half of the places were filled, and many of them were filled with corpses. If the rogues do two or three more landfills, they can fill in five or six roads in the moat.

However, at this time, it was in the middle of the day, and at noon, the Liukou also stopped attacking and ate in front of the battle. And the officers and soldiers in Yanzhou City also cooked their own meals according to their own departments and sent them to the city wall.

The Qingzhou soldiers eat all white-flour steamed buns of one color, and at this time, they made a lot of steamed buns when they set off from Qingzhou Mansion, which is easy to carry all the way, because it is cold, and they are not afraid of being bad. However, today is the last batch of white flour steamed buns, and we will start eating white rice in the afternoon, but the steamed buns are also re-steamed, very fluffy and steaming. The soldiers of the Qingzhou Soldiers were each given two steamed buns, as well as a large bowl of broth and a large piece of horse meat—made from dead horses from the First World War in Yanggu County. Regardless of the soldiers, generals, it is the same when eating.

Although the taste of horse meat is not delicious, in this winter, it is also a very good treatment to be able to drink a bowl of hot broth and eat horse meat with steamed buns. The other is a wild vegetable dumpling. Compared with the food of Qingzhou soldiers, it is too far behind.

Therefore, those officers and soldiers all watched the Qingzhou soldiers drink soup and eat meat and eat steamed buns, and they were all so hungry that they swallowed their saliva, and they were also thinking in their hearts, everyone is also a soldier, why is the gap so big!

However, Li Long still asked people to give them a basket of steamed buns and a bowl of broth, after all, everyone was fighting side by side. And in the next few days, we will have to fight the rogues together, and the relationship between them will still have to be dealt with. Yang Mingyuan was naturally grateful, and after taking the steamed bun and broth, he went to enjoy it.

Yang Dali held the bowl in one hand, picked up the battlements, looked outside, and muttered: "***, so many heads can't be cut outside, otherwise what a great credit!" ”

And Li Long went to the group of gunners again, and the steamed bun broth was also given to them just now, because there are few gunners in this group, so everyone can get a bowl of steamed bread and meat, and they can also eat with relish.

Seeing that Li Long was coming, all the gunners stood up to greet each other with a very respectful attitude. Li Long asked them all to sit down, and then asked the pillar, "In addition to being able to fire cannons, can you shoot birds?" ”

The pillar hurriedly said: "Lord Hui, the bird gun, the Lumi gun, the three-eyed fire gun and other instruments, the villain and the villain's group of brothers will use it." ”

Li Long was a little surprised, and said, "So you can use a lot of firearms?" ”

Zhu Zi said: "I really don't hide it from my lord. The villains were all officers and soldiers in Dengzhou, and under the guidance of Western instructors under the command of Governor Sun, they learned how to use various firearms, and later the Shandong rebellion, the villain was assigned to Yanzhou Mansion to command a team of gunners, so they also taught them some. ”

When Li Long heard this, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice, this trip to Yanzhou Mansion was not in vain, of course he knew that the Governor Sun mentioned by Zhuzi was Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), he was a famous firearms scientist in China in the late Ming Dynasty, if it was not for his untimely death, his achievements would never be lower than Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing.

When Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Dengzhou, he once used a Portuguese named Teixeira Correa to lead some Portuguese soldiers to help the Ming army try to forge European-style cannons, and was responsible for training the Ming army's gunners and musketeers. Unfortunately, after Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others rebelled in Shandong, Sun Yuanhua was beheaded by the imperial court and abandoned the city, only three of Teixeira Correa and his Portuguese soldiers survived, and a scientific base for the application of advanced Western firearms technology was also destroyed.

More than 30 new artillery pieces cast by Sun Yuanhua in Dengzhou were also brought to Liaodong by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others to surrender to Huang Taiji, and played a considerable role in helping the Qing army in the Ningjin War in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1139).

Li Long never thought that he would meet the gunners of the Ming army who had been trained by the Portuguese in Yanzhou, and now he could pick up a treasure, although he has now obtained a batch of guns, but his subordinates are lacking such talents. It seems that the law of crossing really worked. When he leaves Yanzhou, he must think of taking this group of gunners away. After lunch, the Liukou launched two more attacks to fill the river, and after paying the price of more than 4,000 casualties, they finally filled in five roads on the moat before the Liukou collected their troops and returned to the camp.

After the Liukou withdrew his troops, Li Long sent 200 people out of the city, on the one hand, cut some heads, today's hard work can not be in vain, there must be a little harvest. On the other hand, it is to pick up some of the arrows that were fired.

When collecting the head, the result not only scared Li Long, but also Zeng Hualong, 15,600 levels...... Moreover, Li Long also based on the principle of good relations with friendly forces, and gave Yang Mingyuan 3,000 heads. The two of them naturally thanked Li Long for their kindness. I also feel in my heart now that it is not a bad thing to be under the command of Li Long.

When it was time for dinner, the people on both sides ate some broth given to them by the Qingzhou soldiers, and everyone was very grateful to Li Long.

Li Long came to Zeng Hualong and said, "My lord, my subordinates think of whether there is anything suitable in the treasury of Yanzhou Mansion, I don't know if my lord can be accommodating." ”

Zeng Hualong glanced at Li Long and said with a smile: "Say, what do you like in Yanzhou Mansion again?" I'll just go directly to the prefect's mansion to help you play. ”

Li Long also smiled embarrassedly, and said: "Yang Qianhu has a Western-trained gunner under him, I want to come over to enrich the Qingzhou soldiers, and there are a lot of firecrackers in the Yanzhou warehouse, and I also want to use them." ”

Zeng Hualong nodded, although he didn't understand Li Long's obsession with the fire gun, but he was quite satisfied with Li Long's performance, and before he arrived at Yanzhou Mansion, he made a meritorious service first, and today he beheaded more than 15,000 people in the first battle, not only the morale of the officers and soldiers in the Great Wall, but also Zeng Hualong's face was bright in front of King Lu, so he nodded and said: "These things are easy to do, I will help you ask for them tomorrow." ”

Li Long hesitated for a moment and said, "One more point." ”

Zeng Hualong said: "What's the matter, just say it." ”

Li Long said: "I don't know if the adults have thought about it, what if King Lu refuses to support the grain and grass?" ”

Zeng Hualong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly woke up, this kind of thing has actually happened many times, and these Fan kings' brains don't know what to do, and the rogues are all in the city, but they refuse to pay a penny to reward the defenders and boost morale. They were so difficult that they didn't think that once the city was breached, the first to be stabbed must be their own kings? The rogues are not polite. So he asked, "Li Long, if that's the case, what do you think can be done?" ”

Li Long said: "Use the money in the treasury, in fact, there is no need to buy more, just need to maintain it for ten days, the thieves are strong, and the food consumption will be more, and if you can't capture Yanzhou in ten days, you will definitely withdraw from the army." It's really not possible, and they can even ask Governor Wang or Governor Chen to personally pay for it and buy grain from the grain auxiliary, these small money, they should be able to take it out. ”

Zeng Hualong thought about it again and said, "Li Long, the official knows, you go to defend the city well, the official has his own opinions." ”

Sure enough, on the second day, Wu Hao led two thousand Yanzhou soldiers to Nancheng to garrison, just in time for the Liukou to attack the city wall. The soldiers in Yanzhou also rubbed their fists one by one, preparing to show their skills.

And in Wu Hao's view, Li Long won a big victory yesterday, not because of how strong the people of Qingzhou were, but because the strength of the Liukou was not very good. Therefore, Wu Hao believes that the people of Denglai can do it, and the people of Yanzhou can also do it. So he also held his breath and wanted to win a big battle.

It's a pity that the course of the war did not develop as expected by Wu Hao and other Yanzhou generals, firstly, because the strength of Yanzhou's men and horses was indeed too weak, because after Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou were separated from the governor of Shandong, the governor of Shandong became a thorough governor of the interior, and the military strength was indeed a big gap compared with the governor of Denglai, who guarded the coast of eastern Liaodong.

On the other hand, the rogues are in earnest today, and the men and horses dispatched are no longer yesterday's cannon fodder, but the elite men and horses under their own command, who have not only been dealing with the officers and soldiers for many years and have rich combat experience, but also have weapons and combat effectiveness that are a grade higher than yesterday's men and horses. As a result, the strength of the two sides immediately changed in one direction.

Because of the city wall to defend, the Yanzhou people finally held out for nearly an hour, but this was the end, although the rogues paid some casualties, but in the end they also followed the wooden ladder and climbed the city wall, and also broke through the defense of the Yanzhou people.

Wu Hao couldn't help but be surprised, he didn't expect that he had planned to win a big battle, but it backfired, and he hurriedly ordered the whole army to attack, and he must drive the Liukou out of the city. However, the Yanzhou soldiers who had been absent from the battle array for a long time were not the opponents of the battle-hardened rogues at all, so they were killed by the rogues after losing the advantage of the city wall. When the remaining soldiers saw that the Liukou was powerful, they suddenly lost their fighting spirit and retreated one after another, and the Liukou took the opportunity to expand their positions on the city wall.

At this time, Li Long was ordered to come to Nancheng with a dragon

When Li Long led his army to the southern city, at this time, the number of rogues and officials on the city wall was almost equal, and they continued to climb the city wall from the battlements. However, the officers and troops are obviously unable to support themselves with some strength and are constantly retreating. It seems that Yanzhou City is definitely in danger.

Li Long hurriedly ordered, all the knife players joined the battle, and Li Long also took the 95 automatic rifle to participate in the battle, and at this time he didn't care about the problem of ammunition replenishment.

This section of the city wall is the main attack of the Liukou, almost all of them are occupied by the Liukou, and they are being killed at both ends of the city wall, and some people are planning to occupy the Yongdao, kill the city wall to open and close the lock, and let the army outside the city enter the city. I happened to meet Qingzhou soldiers at Yongdaokou.

As soon as Li Long saw that most of the soldiers had climbed the city wall, he immediately took the lead, holding a submachine gun, the assault rifle was originally powerful, and the distance was so close that almost a single bullet pierced through three or four rogue gangsters, and soon ran out with shuttle bullets. Li Long touched it, damn, he didn't bring a spare magazine. I couldn't care so much, so I took out the Swiss Army Knife and slaughtered it into the rogue warband. I saw the sword light flying, the blood light was visible, and in a short time, Li Long cut down more than ten rogue soldiers in a row. When the rest of the rogue soldiers saw that he was extremely brave, they were also cowardly, and did not dare to approach for a while.

Taking advantage of this slowdown, Chen Jixiang, the garrison of Chen, set up super long spearmen on the city wall, and stabbed at the rogues with spears. And Li Long immediately retreated to his own formation and commanded the battle.

"Kill!"

With this roar, a row of spears stabbed towards the rogues together, and suddenly seven or eight rogues could not dodge, and their bodies were stabbed by the spears, killing them on the spot. As soon as the pikemen drew their spears from the dead bodies, they immediately lunged towards the next target.

Because the width of the walls was only six meters, there were only seven or eight pikemen per platoon. But even so, the collective spear of the Qingzhou soldiers is not easy to resist. Moreover, in order to facilitate the climbing of the city, the rogues did not wear heavy armor, most of them only wore leather armor, and the weapons they held were short weapons such as swords and shields, and it was indeed difficult to resist in the face of the spears stabbed by the group.

What's even more terrifying is that the spears of the Qingzhou soldiers only stab, and they do not parry the blockades, which also makes the rogue soldiers have rich experience in actual combat, but they have no chance to use it at all, so after each round of spears stabbed, the rogues will sound a miserable scream, and they will immediately fall in a row. And after the pikemen in the Qingzhou soldiers fell, there would be reinforcements from behind.

The extra-long spear array was like a road roller, pushing and killing the Liukou, and everywhere the spear array went, no one was spared. All of them were stabbed into a hornet's nest.

"It's too terrifying" Yanzhou soldiers couldn't believe that this was the Qingzhou soldiers when they saw the way the Qingzhou soldiers killed the enemy.

At the same time, as the other two Qingzhou soldiers also climbed the city wall, and also set up a formation on the city wall, and then advanced along the city wall to both ends, the space of the Liukou was also squeezed little by little. And after the Qingzhou soldiers advanced, the sword card immediately came up to occupy it.

It is also strange to say that as soon as the Qingzhou soldiers joined the battle group, not only did they stabilize the battle situation at once, but even the other officers and soldiers seemed to be reborn, not only stabilized their positions, but also added a lot of courage, one by one they also waved their weapons, or attacked the rogues around them, or firmly held the battlements, it was completely like changing an army.

Under the leadership of the Qingzhou soldiers, the official army is recovering the positions on the city wall step by step, and the rogue soldiers who remain on the city wall are getting fewer and fewer. Seeing that the situation was not good, some rogue soldiers fled down the wooden ladder and from the city wall.

The flat-pushed tanks retreated from the rogues who climbed the city wall, and they all fell off the city wall if they couldn't push it in time, preferring to fall to their deaths rather than stab themselves into a hornet's nest.

At this time, the rogues began to kill each other, and the rogues who climbed up the ladder did not know that there was an invincible tank on it, but the rogues who had already climbed up wanted to go down the ladder.

"Don't go back" The rogue who is climbing up is slashing the rogue who is climbing down while climbing up.

But the old eight and the others under the city wall didn't know what was happening above the city, they had obvious advantages, why did they suddenly start to climb down......

"Overseer team, go up" Whoever dares to retreat will be killed. Lao Ba ordered

The eighth elder let out a sigh of relief and said, "Who can tell me what happened, it looked like we were about to break through the Yanzhou Mansion, why were we suddenly beaten down?" ”

The result backfired, and the overseers were killed by the deserters who came back, and they were about to be killed in front of the eighth child......

Lao Jiu saw that the momentum was not right, and said: "Retreat"

Wang Ying calmed down a little at this time, and said: "It seems that this Li Long is indeed a fierce general, and this time it is really thanks to him." ”

When Zeng Hualong heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little proud, and said: "That's natural, but the arrangement of this city defense still needs to be rearranged." ”

As the two were talking, Li Long also came to the two of them, and Shi Li said: "The two adults are frightened, and now that the Liukou has retreated, they should not come to attack the city again today." Let's go back and rest. ”

Zeng Hualong said: "Li Long, this official wants to rearrange the arrangements for the city defense. Divide your Qingzhou soldiers into two groups, and take turns to lead the rest of the people to defend the city every day, do you think it's okay? "Just now he saw clearly that before and after the Qingzhou soldiers went to war, the other officers and soldiers were also judged to be two armies, and there were no Qingzhou soldiers, all of them became sick cats, and after the Qingzhou soldiers went to war, they all became tigers. It seems that the Qingzhou soldiers must be in the city at all times.

Li Long is more pure than Zeng Hualong, a lion leading a flock of sheep can beat a flock of lions led by a sheep, this is the truth. Now it seems that in the entire Yanzhou City, the other armies are basically sheep, and only their own Qingzhou soldiers are considered a lion, although they are only a lion cub, but they can also make do with it. Lion cubs are also stronger than sheep.

Therefore, Li Long said: "The subordinates respect the order." However, after this battle, it may be difficult for the Liukou to break through the Yanzhou Mansion for a while, but the soldiers' rations are not much left, and the two adults are asked to find a way to solve it as soon as possible. ”

Zeng Hualong nodded, in fact, in the morning, he said to Zeng Hualong that the two of them would go to see King Lu together today, not only to support King Lu with some food, but also to take out some money to reward the three armies to boost the morale of the soldiers. Although it is said that these King Fan are all misers and misers, Zeng Hualong believes that King Fu of Luoyang is the most timely lesson from the past, so he is also more confident in persuading King Lu.

It's just that since the siege of the city by Liukou in the morning, the situation has been critical, and the two of them still have the heart to ask for King Lu. Now that the crisis has finally been resolved, it is time to do it.

So Zeng Hualong said: "Li Long, you can defend the city with peace of mind, and we will go to see King Lu." ”

Li Long said goodbye to the two governors and returned to the city wall, where the corpses were basically clean, but there were still a lot of blood stains. And the results of the battle are also counted in the scriptures.

This army killed a total of 5,300 rogues and captured 300 alive, but this number also includes the corpses outside the city, and if you add up the corpses outside the city, it is estimated that it will be close to 8,000. Judging from the results, it is good.

However, there were also many casualties among officers and soldiers. A total of 1,389 were killed and 547 wounded. Among them, 874 Yanzhou soldiers were killed and 355 were wounded. The casualties of the Qingzhou soldiers were: 52 killed and 30 wounded.

There were thirty-two brothers in total, and Li Long organized them under Zhang Cheng's men, and learned to fire firearms and cannons with Zhuzi. Anyway, now there is gunpowder.

In the evening, Li Long came to Zeng Hualong's pavilion again, wanting to know the result of their going to King Lu to ask for money and food. But as soon as he saw Zeng Hualong's expression, Li Long knew that things must have been smashed. Sure enough, when Li Long asked, the result was really like this.

It turned out that in the afternoon, Zeng Hualong went to ask to see Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu. Before meeting King Lu, Zeng Hualong also knew very well, although King Lu did not have as much wealth as King Fu of Luoyang, but he was not far there, only the land that belonged to the palace, not to mention seventy or eighty thousand acres, and the grain of the palace was no less than 100,000 stones, and the treasury was full of 300,000 taels of silver. Therefore, it should not be difficult for King Lu to ask King Lu for support of thousands of stones of grain and tens of thousands of taels of silver. What's more, this is also something related to Zhu Yipai's own life.

But it turned out that Zeng Hualong's idea was still too naïve. Because after asking about the two governors' discussions, Zhu Yipai immediately changed his face, saying that in this world, there is a lack of harvest every year, and there is no surplus food in the palace. Therefore, there is no money or food.

Zeng Hualong naturally refused to give up easily, so he honestly stated the benefits and disadvantages to Zhu Yipai, understood it with reason, moved it with affection, and persuaded him repeatedly, only saying it dryly, only hoping that Zhu Yipai would change his mind. But Zhu Yipai was not moved at all, he just insisted that he had no food and no money.

Zeng Hualong was a little anxious, and he spoke a little politely, and said bluntly on the spot, once the city was broken by the Liukou, the living beings in a city would inevitably be burned, and not only the Lu Wangfu would not be spared, but even the King of Lu himself would be difficult to preserve. And the money and grain of the palace will also belong to the Liukou, so please think twice about King Lu.

When Zhu Yipai heard this, he became angry at that time, pointed to Zeng Hualong's nose, and asked Zeng Hualong not to forget, the local officials have the responsibility to protect the Fan Feng, once there is anything wrong in the Lu Palace, the heads of the two of you will not be able to be saved. After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and retreated into the inner room. The two of them touched a nose and had to come back from King Lu's mansion.

It is said that Zeng Hualong has no need to tell Li Long in detail about this whole thing, but now Zeng Hualong values Li Long very much, and regards him as his confidant in Yijing, and he is holding his breath in King Lu's mansion, and he is also looking for someone to talk to, so he doesn't hide it from Li Long, and says it.

After listening to King Lu's reasoning, Li Longxian now understood the thoughts of these vassal kings, because once the seal was lost, the local officials were responsible for dereliction of duty, so they had no fear, thinking that no matter what, the officials would try their best to defend the city. However, they didn't expect that even if the officials wanted to try their best to defend the city, but the people who fought were still ordinary soldiers, they didn't care so much, once there was a shortage of food and pay, who would fight hard. There are even many soldiers who surrendered to the rogues because of lack of food and salary, and sacrificed the pass to give the city, and many state cities were actually breached in this way.

But after finishing speaking, Zeng Hualong also felt that something was wrong, and instructed: "Li Long, King Lu's refusal to support money and grain matters, once it spreads, I am afraid that it will shake the morale of the army, so you must not leak it." ”

At this time, Li Long didn't know that Wang Guangfu had already received 17 million taels of silver, which had been transported to Qingzhou Mansion...... If he knew, he would definitely take out more than 100,000 taels of silver in time to pay the military salary

When Li Long heard this, he not only smiled bitterly, but said: "My lord, my subordinates naturally won't talk nonsense, but I'm afraid that in King Lu's mansion, they can't keep this secret!" Therefore, the problem of food and salary should be solved as soon as possible, so as to stabilize the morale of the army. ”

Zeng Hualong also smiled bitterly and shook his head, why didn't he know this truth, but now there was nothing he could do. I had no choice but to say, "Okay, tomorrow we will find a few more merchants in Yanzhou and see if we can let them support some money and food." ”

On the second day, I received reliable news that the rogues outside the city had withdrawn, probably because the losses were too great...... Then the Qingzhou soldiers, the Yanzhou soldiers, and the Dengzhou soldiers went out of the city together to harvest the heads. It took me most of the day to collect all the heads. Let the corpses be incinerated. Clean up the battlefield.

The heads were counted, twenty-three thousand, and another three thousand were taken prisoner. There were more than 1,000 cattle and horses, and 50 dogs. This dog is the first four-legged critter.

After the battle, Li Long wanted to return to Qingzhou on this trip, but the miser King Lu didn't even say a word of thanks, let alone see him off. After the army was ready, it set off for Qingzhou.

Since it was the return journey after the victory, so don't be in such a hurry, the army walked slowly, and only walked thirty or forty miles a day before stopping. As a result, the distance from Yanzhou to Qingzhou was less than 800 miles, and it took 20 days to return to Qingzhou.

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