The second wave of shells did not come in a volley like the first wave, but one after another, exerting psychological pressure on the enemy all the time.

They soon collapsed, and when they retreated into the pavilion, they found that the pavilion had been ignited by rockets, and the flames were crackling and beating, making it impossible to approach.

"Constant shelling." Zhao Yan ordered, apparently losing patience with the group of thieves inside.

"Don't fight, don't fight, official, down, down......" A thief was the first to run out of the smoky wall, kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down his face.

Then there was a steady stream of thieves who threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to resign themselves to their fate. Zhao Yan's soldiers skillfully took prisoners.

"Go and ask which one this is." Zhao Yan said to Zhang Buyun, Zhang Buyun answered and hurriedly went to ask, and came back after a while and said, "Tell the lord, this is the elite man of the Taiping King." ”

"What about their Taiping King?" Zhao Yan asked.

"I just let the shell blow it up."

"Dead?" Zhao Yan didn't expect to exterminate a bandit leader as soon as he came up, and he was also the main force in this attack on Fengyang, which was not comparable to ordinary thieves.

Soon the corpse of the Taiping King was carried up, only to see that the corpse had been blown in half, and an arm was missing, and the death was as miserable as possible.

Zhao Yan frowned, waved his hand to the soldiers below, and motioned for them to hurry away.

……

The chaos in Zhongdu came and went quickly, and two hours after the thieves entered Zhongdu, they were driven out by Zhao Yan's men.

The seven-year-old thieves are still weak in combat effectiveness, because there is not a single reason to make them desperate.

In the middle of the week, the thieves mainly win by numbers, and they are huge, but in this huge group, no one is willing to fight hard, they all want to hide behind and fight a good fight, take advantage, where can there be any combat effectiveness.

The reason why Li Zicheng was able to get out of the thieves was because he gave people a desperate reason to divide the acres of land equally and exempt them from grain and taxes.

On the surface, there are 200,000 thieves who invaded Fengyang this time, but their combat effectiveness is simply vulnerable, and most of them are hungry people who are brought from everywhere.

Most of them are the people of Henan who were coerced after entering Henan, and the rest were the hungry people who were coerced in Shaanxi, Shaanxi was affected by natural disasters, and the thieves and the official army were already very dilapidated, and many people who could not survive could only join the army of thieves, some active, some passive, or half-strong and half-strong.

As soon as Zhao Yan's men came, they were directly driven out.

Although the thieves have not been in the capital for a long time, the loss of the capital is very huge, and the hall and Longxing Temple were set on fire by the thieves, and the surrounding rich families also suffered.

The only thing that can make Zhu Youzhen happy is that although his ancestral grave was dug three feet deep, it was not dug up after all.

A man in his forties, dressed in the prefect's clothes, was found in the prefect's yamen, and this person was Yan Rongxuan, who had escaped his life from the hands of the thieves.

Zhao Yan hurriedly asked people to bring him over, Liu Heng looked at the Fengyang prefect who came over, and whispered: "This time the capital has fallen, and I am afraid that a group of officials in Fengyang will not be spared." ”

Yan Rongxuan was extremely lucky in his heart, he originally thought that he was going to be killed in the hall, but suddenly the reinforcements arrived, and the thieves arrogantly wanted to attack, but they didn't take care of him for a while, and they didn't come back when they went out.

It was noisy outside, and the sound of guns kept coming, which frightened Yan Rongxuan so much that he hid behind the door, and only found him when Zhao Yan sent someone to check the prefect's yamen.

What Yan Rongxuan saw was a group of strangely equipped officers and soldiers, wearing iron armor that was different from ordinary officers and soldiers, and their temperament was also different.

Where are the soldiers and horses?

It is certainly not the soldiers and horses of Nanjing, and the soldiers and horses of Nanjing are definitely not like this. I can't help but wonder that there are only soldiers and horses in Nanjing around.

When he saw that the leader of this group of officers and soldiers was actually a ten-year-old young man, Yan Rongxuan was even more secretly surprised, looked at Zhao Yan and asked, "Dare to ask the general, where are the soldiers and horses?" ”

"Lord Yan, our general is a guerrilla in Denglai, Shandong, and after receiving an urgent report, he rushed to the aid of Zhongdu, but it's a pity! Ay! Liu Heng introduced Yan Rongxuan and sighed: "It's still a step too late." ”

"Ahh Yan Rongxuan reacted suddenly, he didn't have time to think about Zhao Yan's identity, looked at Zhongdu, which was still filled with beacon smoke, and sat down directly on the ground.

It's over!

……

The rise and fall of those in Zhongdu had nothing to do with Zhao Yan, and there were probably more than 2,000 thieves killed in this battle, and more than 5,000 people were captured.

Then, after concentrating in Zhongdu for less than two hours, he went to command his men and horses to surround the thieves.

After nearly half a day of expellation, all the thieves who had entered Fengyang were finally driven to the north and west between Feishui.

These thieves are estimated to have 1780,000, which is definitely a big piece of fat in Zhao Yan's eyes, and Zhao Yan followed behind the thieves with the soldiers of the second battalion that night.

"Our army will launch an offensive tomorrow, Lin Yi, you will lead the cavalry battalion to bypass before the thieves and attack the elite troops of the thieves." Zhao Yan ordered.

"Yes." Lin Yi commanded.

"Wang Wenyue, you take four company-level combat units, as well as the soldiers of the baggage battalion, into pursuit. The other two company-level combat units also galloped in front of the thieves and blocked their way. ”

Zhao Yan quickly assigned the second combat task, and Liu Heng explained: "This time our front and back attacks are only the first step of encirclement and suppression, and it is unknown whether we can wipe out these thieves." However, everyone's main task is to capture those thieves, and if they can't be caught in front, they can also let go of an opening and let them go to the Defu Mansion. The cavalry battalion mainly attacked the leaders and backbones of the bandits, and as soon as these people died, the thieves would fall apart. ”

The corridor between North Feishui and West Feishui is not too big, nor too long, and the infantry can pass through it in three or four days, but it is enough to contain the bandits.

Zhao Yan's soldiers all have horses, the cavalry battalion plus two infantry companies march on horseback, most of the thieves do not have horses, and there is a limit to the speed of marching.

Just as Zhao Yan was about to sleep, the soldiers guarding the camp came to report, and Yang Ze, the eunuch guarding the tomb, and Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, came to visit him overnight......

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