Rumble!

Early in the morning, Liu Guoneng, the king of Chuang, was served by the palace maid in the palace of the king of Jin, and was about to have breakfast, when the table suddenly trembled, and the exquisite porcelain clattered together, and there seemed to be a faint sound outside.

Liu Guoneng is a little vain under his feet, last night he even got up early, his body was a little unbearable, the women of the rich and noble families are different from those vulgar mothers-in-law in the countryside, and now I still recall the battle last night, the white and tender skin on the woman's body can pinch out the water, and it is slippery and greasy to touch, and the soft groan in the ears seems to make people fall into the fairy pool. No wonder everyone wants to fight for the lord of the world, I'm afraid that even the emperor of the Ninety-Five Supreme is nothing more than that.

Immediately, a palace maid stepped forward to support Liu Guoneng's thick arms, and he could feel the softness of his small hands through the thick brocade sleeves.

The door of the house was pushed open from the outside with a bang, and the cool breeze of early spring poured into the house, so frightened that the woman next to Liu Guoneng jumped away like a frightened bird. His subordinates have always been so reckless, but this time Liu Guoneng had an unprecedented disgust, didn't he know the communication before entering the door?

Liu Guoneng couldn't hold back his unhappiness, and ignored the trembling palace maid, came to the chair and sat down, and asked, "What's the matter with the panic, it's not like it!" ”

The person who came was Liu Guoneng's old brother One-headed Tiger, who was getting up and getting dressed when he got the news that the Ming army had arrived in the city, so he didn't even care about the robe, and came to see King Chuang in a hurry. After all, he was scared by the official army, and the king of Zuo Yan could be scared into a cold sweat when he dreamed of it until now, and he heard that a Ming army of unknown origin came to the city unknowingly, how could he not be afraid.

"Chuang, Chuangwang, the Ming army is coming, coming!"

Liu Guoneng was drinking water from a tea bowl, and when he heard that the army was coming, a mouthful of water squirted out, and he sprayed a company of one-headed tigers who were standing bent over.

"What? Ming army? ”

"It's the Ming army coming!"

Just as there was a faint sound of cannon outside, the one-headed tiger wiped a handful of tea from his face and pointed outside.

"Listen, it's the Ming army firing artillery!"

Liu Guoneng stood up from the chair, and the tea bowl was slammed on the table.

"Isn't General Kong already going north to meet the enemy? And General Wu, how can he not stop a Ming army? Then he slapped the table hard, "Go, go, go to town!" As soon as he took a step, he felt that the cascading robes on his body were in the way, and he would not untie the cumbersome buckles, so he simply grabbed the fabric with a pair of rough hands, and with a second thud, he tore the robe in half, took it off in a few strokes, and went out first in only his middle coat, and went straight to the city.

Li Xin deliberately spread out the auxiliary troops, and thousands of people trampled and stirred up the dust in the dry and snowless land, and under the background of the rumbling cannons, it was actually the appearance of thousands of troops and horses, which was terrifying.

In fact, the moment Li Xin saw the city wall of Taiyuan City, he gave up his plan to attack it, not to mention his 4,000 people on the city wall, even if 40,000 people wanted to take it down without paying a certain price, it was really lucky to think that the thieves were really lucky, and the plague completely corroded the resistance in the city for them, how could they not be torn apart by the plague after entering the city!

A gust of wind blew, Li Xin shrugged his nose, there was a foul smell in the air, the guide noticed the expression of the chief soldier, and hurriedly explained: "This is the smell of the dead, the plague killed thousands of people, and the thieves attacked the city and killed a lot of people, some were buried, and some were thrown away by the moat without buriing, seeing that the weather was getting warmer, the dead in the open air stinked."

Li Xin frowned when he heard this, and could faintly see countless dead bodies piled up in the dry moat in front of him, and couldn't help but take a look, in the troubled world, human life is not as good as grass mustard, plague and thieves are making a fuss, how many people can be left in Shanxi?

Heisenberg knew that the artillery battalion's cannons could not cause fundamental damage to the huge and magnificent city walls of Taiyuan City, so he aimed two twelve-pounder guns at the enemy tower on the city gate, which was a wooden structure and would collapse and blow up if he was shot.

Liu Guoneng looked at the female wall at the head of the city, and it seemed that he couldn't see the edge at a glance, and he couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart, could it be that General Kong was completely annihilated by this group of Ming troops? It stands to reason that General Kong is brave and brave, especially good at using artillery, and it is impossible to be killed by the Ming army so easily, but if it is not for this goods, where does the Ming army come from?

Just thinking wildly, suddenly a cannonball whistled past and hit the three-story enemy building behind him, and suddenly the tiles and wood were scattered and scattered, and the mighty and majestic enemy building collapsed most of the side, and Liu Guineng, who was just about to patrol the city, was frightened and retreated, and his body went straight to the female wall.

The Ming army was powerful, he had never seen the Ming army's artillery so powerful, and he was shocked for a while, "Who dares to go out of the city to face the battle?" ”

The one-headed tiger has always regarded himself as Liu Guoneng's confidant, how could he retreat at the critical moment, and he was the first to jump out.

"The one-headed tiger is willing to fight on behalf of the king!"

Liu Guoneng is still assured of the one-headed tiger's ability, and he was able to turn evil into good fortune when the Ming army encircled and suppressed him several times before, and finally escaped from the encirclement and turned with himself, so he was relieved to let him fight.

"It's okay, you go to investigate the reality of the official army, remember, don't fight hard, come back immediately if you find something wrong!"

The old brothers around him either died or disappeared one after another, and he rarely told the one-headed tiger. The one-headed tiger was greatly moved when he heard this, and clenched his fists heavily.

"Brother Chuangwang, just take a look!"

The one-headed tiger was so excited that he asked Liu Guoneng to break into the king's eldest brother, Liu Guoneng didn't care, but collapsed the shore cordially, and watched him stride down the city.

At that time, there were only more than 20,000 people in Taiyuan City, and the army of thieves was roughly divided into three groups, one led by the Black God to attack Daizhou. The other was led by Guo Tianxing to contain the Shanxi Ming army in Lu'an Province and the Zuo Liangyu army in Jiyuan County in Linfen, Pingyang Prefecture. The third is the army led by Kong Youde, who has just gone north to fight Xinzhou and intercept the Ming army.

Therefore, according to the scale of the thieves, Taiyuan City is now empty, Liu Guoneng has long been beaten out of phobia, and instinctively wants to run when facing the Ming army, but imagining that he has already claimed the king, and there is a big city in his hands, he is afraid of where he will come, so he first let the one-headed tiger go out to explore the reality of the Ming army, if the other party bluffs and destroys it in one fell swoop, and the power is strong, he will stick to it and wait for help.

The war drums of Taiyuan City were steep, the one-headed tiger with 5,000 people went out of the city to meet the battle, Heisenberg was bored in the face of the strong Taiyuan City, and he was overjoyed when he saw that there were thieves rushing out, and ordered the gunners to change the ammunition loading.

"Listen up, aim at the thieves and hit them hard!"

From the six-pounder cannon to the twelve-pounder cannon, more than a dozen cannons fired a salvo of thousands of shots, forming a barrage of bullets straight to the one-headed tiger's men and horses, the poor one-headed tiger was bombarded indiscriminately by Heisenberg's cannons before the battle line was opened, and the army could not be defeated, no matter how he restrained the heavy drinking, and even cut off the heads of the two routs, it was useless, and the army rushed back, but because of the large number of people and no order, they were all blocked at the gate of the city.

This gave the artillery battalion an opportunity to show its skills, and after adjusting the shooting parameters, it was shot at the city gate one after another, and the thieves cried and grabbed the ground. Even Li Xin didn't expect the thieves to be so vulnerable, according to the previous combat experience, the shelling was just a snack before the meal, and the main meal was the infantry and cavalry battle in the back, how could the other party be beaten down when he ordered it before the meal? With this kind of combat effectiveness, how did it sweep Shanxi?

Of course, Li Xin did not know that the terror of the thieves was the number of locusts, and the final victory of the war was achieved with a steady stream of human lives, and at the same time, various natural disasters and man-made disasters provided a large number of cheap soldiers for the thieves.

The chaotic scene under the city made Liu Guoneng anxious and angry, even if the Ming army was in good hands, it wouldn't be beaten without even holding the other party's clothes, right? shouted at the one-headed tiger in the city, let him take the people who can still control zhì back to the city from the other city gates, and don't block there and let the Ming army cannons harvest people's lives.

Liu Guoneng's voice was too small, so he had an idea to order the thieves in the city to shout with him, the one-headed tiger heard it, his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly ran to the east gate with his own soldiers.

Lu Jiu's cavalry battalion has been maintained at about 300 people, although there are not many, they are all experienced riders, but they are not infantry on horses. When he arrived at the east city gate, the city saw that the one-headed tiger was followed by a large force of cavalry and did not dare to open the city, the one-headed tiger had no choice but to go to the south gate again, how could Lu Jiu have been following him like a shadow, and the soldiers around him were killed and injured one by one, he really wanted to turn back and fight to the death with the Ming army, it was better than being chased like a lost dog.

Liu Guo was able to react quickly, and after getting the report, he immediately ordered the thieves to go out of the west gate to respond, and the one-headed tiger could be regarded as escaping with his life. After this temptation, Liu Guoneng made up his mind to hold on and wait for help, and at the same time sent messengers to the three main armies to ask for help, so that they must return to the division to eliminate the Ming army rampant in the hinterland of Taiyuan, otherwise the road behind will be endless.

Li Xin led the Three Guards to fire artillery under Taiyuan City intermittently for a day, and did not stop until dark.

Just when the big guy thought it was time to camp and rest, Li Xin ordered again to leave Taiyuan, and the next target was Yuci, a hub town in the southeast of Taiyuan.

Gao Shiming, the superintendent of the army, thought that he had won a battle during the day, and the great achievement of recovering Taiyuan was close at hand, but who knew that Li Xin actually ordered him to leave, and he was angry and forced everyone to besiege the city. But how could the Three Guards listen to a eunuch, pack up their things and go south as soon as possible, so they had no choice but to follow, hoping that Li Xin would discuss with him if he had any decisions in the future.

On the way, I wrote a few letters intermittently, and I tore them up several times after thinking about it, and finally wrote them and handed them over to the guards brought with me from the Beijing Division.

"This is the secret performance of the emperor, no matter what, it must be sent to the capital safely!"