There was a loud bang that shook the whole city from the east gate, and a cannonball flew high through the wall of the north gate and hit the south wall of the water city. Li Jiucheng sat on the top floor of the bell tower in the center of the city, feeling both remorse and fear in his heart.

After discovering the Wendeng camp, he immediately sent his family to look for those generals everywhere, and gathered a group of troops to attack Zhenhaimen from the east and west city walls, grass bridges and Dengzhou bridges at the same time.

The front of the city wall on both sides is narrow, and the generals of the east and west city walls set out to attack with only soldiers in a hurry, but they were continuously repulsed in front of several wall barriers, and when they finally saw that they were about to be captured, they were defeated by the Wendeng soldiers who arrived and collapsed, and the Wendeng battalion soldiers attacked all the way along the city wall, occupying the entire northern city wall.

When the generals of the east and west gates mobilized the artillery, the other side also set up the artillery of the north gate, aimed at the bend of the city wall, all the soldiers were absolutely unwilling to attack from the city wall again, and now only the east and west gunners launched some inaccurate artillery bombardment on the north city wall, but there was no hope of capturing Zhenhai Gate.

Li Jiucheng's ambition was not great when Wuqiao raised troops, he hoped to be appeased by a mutiny, and the matter of buying horse silver would be smoothed out, but later the siege of the city was unexpectedly smooth, and all the cities in Shandong were vulnerable, and he gradually established prestige among the rebels, and his own prestige also rose.

Since the beginning of the army, the Wendeng camp has always been a huge yīn shadow in his heart, although he is not afraid of the Wendeng camp in his mouth, but he knows the combat power of the Wendeng camp very well in his heart, he was very shocked by this army when he went to Wendeng at the end of the third year of Chongzhen, they are not different from the fierceness of the family, more similar to a puppet-like image, but these puppets still make Li Jiucheng feel afraid.

The moment he captured Dengzhou last night, Li Jiucheng thought that he had gotten rid of this yīn shadow, and now he had fallen from Xiaotang to hell in just a short time. After finding that the city wall was blocked, he put nearly a thousand of the collected into Zhenhaimen Street, hoping to take advantage of the fact that the other party had just entered the city and had not yet gained a firm foothold in the city to recapture the urn city, who knew that the team was beaten by a charge of the other party and lost its armor, and the temporarily convened team was chaotic, the rebels and soldiers were among them, even the front row was mixed, a small number of jīng Ruijiading and the artillery were swept away by the panicked rout, and the rebels themselves trampled to death and were injured by dozens of them, they escaped all the way across the grass bridge, and completely fled in panic, Even the soldiers who were about to gather behind were gone, and it was impossible to gather such a chaotic army at night.

Kong Youde of the south gate sent seven hundred reinforcements to Mishen Mountain, and encountered the attack of the Wendeng camp halfway through, seven hundred into the darkness and dispersed, Kong Youde did not dare to open the door, some of the rout soldiers shouted and cursed outside the city gate, and some hid in the dark and did not dare to make a sound, and more ran in the direction of the west gate in a panic.

These two heavy losses left Li Jiucheng with less than 500 people left in his hands, including hundreds of rebellious people, and there was no combat power to speak of in the confrontation with an opponent like Wendeng Ying, and the rout at Zhenhaimen also affected the morale of these entrants, and Li Jiucheng had to let the family Ding be strictly guarded.

The greater blow to Li Jiucheng was that he completely lost his confidence since the start of the army, and the Liao soldiers who entered the Shangshan Shandong Standard Battalion to chop melons and vegetables were powerless in front of the Wendeng camp, and they were defeated every time they just gathered into the horse.

Chen Xin was uneasy in Mishen Mountain, how did he know that this Li Jiucheng was so unbearable, and he didn't even have any intention of going out of the city to attack, Li Jiucheng was most worried about the Wendeng camp to continue the attack at night.

There was a knock on the staircase, and Li Yingyuan and Geng Zhongming appeared at the staircase. Li Jiucheng's lonely expression was immediately replaced with coldness.

"Li Dajin, we only collected more than 200 enters, and the last general sent Jiading to arrest them again. That is, outside the east gate and the south gate, there will be trumpets and guns, and I don't know what they want, whether these soldiers should be sent to defend those two gates. Geng Zhongming was sweating profusely, and his tone was anxious and panicked.

"What's the panic, we still have thousands of entering, and the total number of Wendeng camps is only four thousand, they have just arrived, and they have no equipment, how can they attack the city, they all settle down for Lao Tzu. Ying Yuan, you go to give an order, let the east and west gates aim the Hongyi cannon at the north wall, and set up a few generals and furlong machines at the bend of the north wall, he Wendeng camp can hold it so thousand, we can also hold it, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that his Wendeng camp can block the cannon. ”

Li Yingyuan agreed, but did not leave immediately, his face was full of worry and looked at Li Jiucheng, Li Jiucheng looked at him, a rare little emotion appeared in his eyes, but in a blink of an eye, he stood up, Dengzhou under the bell tower was still chaotic, and torches could be seen shaking everywhere in the streets and alleys on the east, west and south, and the sound of crying and killing came faintly.

He whispered to the two enters: "Don't use those battalions and rebels in the city, you each go and gather your old brothers, first stick to the place south of the painting river after dawn, pull more artillery to the street, block those roads, he Chen Xin wants to swallow Lao Tzu in one bite, Lao Tzu also has to let him drop a piece of meat, Geng Zhongming, you are responsible for guarding the grass bridge, Kong Youde guarding the south gate, Wang Zideng and Chen Guangfu guarding the west gate, and my entry will be answered on three sides of the bell tower." ”

It was Geng Zhongming who led the troops to attack Zhenhaimen Street, because Li Jiucheng kept urging, Geng Zhongming received the horse and immediately launched, many of the soldiers came from different rebel departments, and there was no original officer to lead, so his organization was very chaotic, and the fierceness of the rout caused by the heavy losses of the forward made him frightened, if it were not for a few family members desperately guarding, he was afraid that he would also be trampled to death by the rout.

He still had palpitations at this time, and after being silent for a while, he said to Li Jiucheng: "Da enter, the south gate and the north gate are all defeated, and now the soldiers in the city either continue to loot, or they want to run out of the city...... It's really fierce, it's not worse than Jiannu, our army is unstable, it's not a way to keep it like this after all, do you want to ask Chen Xin, what does he want, did he promise him a share of the profits, which made him angry. ”

Li Jiucheng smiled coldly and said: "You think Chen Xin wants that kind of benefit, then we will continue to fall for him, besides, who said that we can't do it." ”

"This, please advise."

Li Jiucheng glanced at the two sides, he didn't intend to say it, but Geng Zhongming's current appearance was very panicked, and he had to appease these loosely connected subordinates.

"Isn't Sun Dajin locked up in the county government, he is still the governor of Denglai, we were originally his subordinates, Dengzhou is in a big mess now, Chen Xin is the head of him, if he wants to save his life, he should know how to reduce the danger in the city, and he will go talk to him now...... Fund. ”

Geng Zhongming and Li Yingyuan stayed for a moment, and at the same time showed a happy sè, standing in Sun Yuanhua's point of view, appeasing the nearly 10,000 rebellious soldiers and people in this city can indeed reduce his guilt, because there is only a short time, he can say that the loss of the city is a rebellion in the city, and then he will be quelled, and even the rebels with the Wuqiao mutiny will also be recruited, so that even if Dengzhou suffers heavy losses, at least he does not have the great crime of losing the city and losing the land, with his entry in the court, it is possible to save his life. As long as Governor Sun admits to appeasement, then these rebels will all become Ming troops again, and Chen Xin will have no reason to attack them for white.

Therefore, the two members also believe that Li Jiucheng's plan to delay the army has a great chance of winning, at least it can delay the time, so that they have time to integrate the Liao people and rebellious soldiers in the city and reorganize themselves.

Li Jiucheng felt a lot of confidence under the admiring gaze of the two enters, and he said to the two entrances: "General Geng, Ying Yuan, you go to give the order according to what the general just said, I should go to see Sun Dajin." ”

After entering the downstairs and splitting up, Geng Zhongming took a few henchmen to the intersection and turned to the north, where hundreds of rebels were distributed on both sides of the street in fear, making the appearance of defending the grass bridge.

After Geng Zhongming left Li Jiucheng, his face changed from joy to dark, and the head of the family saw that he had not spoken, and asked in a low voice: "Da Jin, what did Li Jiucheng say, we really have to fight with Wendeng Camp for a thousand years?" ”

He thought that he could coerce Chen Xin by pulling out Sun Yuanhua, and he didn't look at what Chen Xin was in, how did he get into the horse, do you think that the Wendeng camp really happened to arrive today, he must use the division of troops in Ninghai Prefecture to attract Li Jiucheng's attention, and then enter the horse under Qixia Ambush. He can be an old man in the middle of the city so many horses, and in the face of change to buy Wang Bingzhong, wait for us to break the city before launching, how deep scheming, what he wants is not forty percent of the profit, if the official is not bad, the water city also has him to start, as a response after the loss of Zhenhai Gate, now there is Lu Zhi in the water city, Ninghai Prefecture has Wang Ting, Dengzhou is like this, who can't see Sun Yuanhua Tie Ding to step down, both can replace Sun Yuanhua to preside over the overall situation of Dengzhou, Sun Dajin The name of the governor is now even Lao Tzu can not be scared, Can you scare Chen Xin, this bastard? ”

Although the head of the family is fierce, but after a thousand battles, he has lost the slightest temper, he swallowed his saliva and said: "Then what can we do, we can't beat the Wendeng camp, but unfortunately I just grabbed a lot of silver, don't rush away to the Wendeng camp in a blink of an eye." ”

Geng Zhongming's face was grim, his eyes kept rolling, and he leaned over and instructed the head of the family: "You walk on the ice to bypass the grass bridge, go to the north to find Chen Xin, and tell them about Li Jiucheng's plan, and then say that the official was forced by the rebels, and now I hope that anyway, what terms does Chen Xin have, although he agrees first, he must come back and call me back before the dawn............

Two Tangma with flags on their backs stood helplessly outside the Zhenyang Gate of Dengzhou Water City, the city gate was still closed, and the guards of the water camp and some southern soldiers of the main barracks were looking at the wall, they did not dare to open the city gate, because they could not confirm that the Tangma here really belonged to the Wendeng camp.

The Dengzhou war that began last night made the defenders of Shuicheng frightened, most of the soldiers here came from the water camp, the same corruption was rampant, the combat power of the land war was almost none, and there were a lot of people who entered the city from the east and west of the two city walls to run down, Lu Zhi appeared twice at the head of the city, and kept looking at the battle situation at the north gate, he only thought that it was the Dengzhou soldiers and rebels who were guarding the city, and then there was another one into the city, so that he couldn't figure out what the situation was, and his mood was even more panicked, so he only ordered the officers and soldiers to close the city gate, no matter who called the city, don't open it.

When the two sides were at a stalemate, Zhang Dong's figure appeared from the night, he took two members of the action team, and after the afternoon, he continued to command the team members in the city to intercept layer by layer, and the god was highly nervous, and at the last moment he also personally participated in the battle to defend the city ladder, and after the soldiers entered the city, he kept explaining the shape of the city to the commanders of the various departments, helping to deploy defenses, and it was easy to take a break, and he was immediately transferred out of the city.

At this time, his face was covered with black ash, and his bloodstained right arm was tied with a cotton cloth and hung on his shoulder, and he came over and whispered to the two Tangma about the situation.

A Tang horse came down and replied softly: "The Lu Jian army has not come over, and the city soldiers said that they dare not open the door for us, Zhenhai Gate is like this, what do they have to doubt, can it be done like this." ”

Zhang Dong shook his hand tiredly, let his subordinates take the torches, and was about to reach the Zhenyang Gate, when he suddenly remembered something, went to the side of the road and grabbed some snow with one hand, wiped it on his face, and then asked his subordinates: "Can you see your face clearly?" ”

The subordinates of the action team nodded, this time Zhang Dong's appearance in Dengzhou was very eye-catching, and all the members of the intelligence bureau who participated in the operation were full of admiration for him.

Zhang Dong shook his hand twice, picked up the torch and walked to the city tower, and shouted to the city: "Below is Chen Dajin, who has seen Lu Dajin on Shenmi Island, please speak to Lu Dajin." ”

A voice on the city tower replied: "Lu Dajin is in the mansion, and he asked me to wait for no one to open the door." ”

Zhang Dong naturally didn't believe it, and said calmly: "You go and tell Lu Dajin, just say that Chen Dajin of Wendeng Camp will come over soon, and ask him to come out, there is something important to discuss." ”

When the officer of the water battalion above heard that Chen Xin was coming, his tone immediately changed: "That brother wait a minute, I will go to find Lu Dajin." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Zhi's voice sounded at the head of the city, "Chen Shen is coming, hurry up, let him come to the door." ”

Zhang Dong smiled slightly, he guessed that Lu Zhi was in the city tower, but he was just hiding to see the situation clearly, and at the moment, the torch was closer, and he raised his head and said: "Lu Dajin is fine, and Xiaojin is ordered by General Chen, so we must first make sure that Dajin is safe." ”

A little eunuch's head poked out of the wall, he looked at it, remembered that he had indeed seen this Zhang Dong on Mi Island, and retracted his head again, and then a shield stretched out between the two city plates to block the outside, Lu Zhi finally showed his face from between the shield and the gap between the city wall, he himself carried a small lantern, and asked with excitement on his face: "Shuicheng is well, General Chen is really here?" How long will it take to get there. ”

Zhang Dong immediately knelt down and saluted, after Lu Zhi asked him to get up, Zhang Dong took a closer look at the other entrances on the wall, there was nothing unusual, and after he confirmed that Shuicheng was safe, he held his hat with both hands.

Chen Xin's voice immediately sounded from the darkness outside the wall, "Lu Dajin, the subordinates are late for rescue, tired and frightened, guilty and guilty." Surrounded by more than a dozen Chinese army guards, Chen Xin walked to the city gate, panting, and several guards around him held shields, paying attention to the movement at the head of the city.

"General Chen......" The lantern in Lu Zhi's hand trembled, if it weren't for the little eunuch next to him to help him, I'm afraid he would have fallen to the ground softly, he has been frightened since last night, although he had commanded the nine gates of the inner city when he was in his own time, but the water city was only three miles in circumference, and the height and width were insufficient, and it could not be compared with the city defense of the Beijing Division, and now he finally relaxed, and hurriedly said to the left and right: "Quick, open the door quickly, let General Chen come in." ”