The sun rises, the sky is blue without a trace of clouds, the Ming battle flag of Xinzhou city hunting with the wind is particularly dazzling, and the endless pressure under the city is full of thieves, and the water around Xinzhou city is impassable. Tian Fuzhen stood on top of the enemy tower, although he had never experienced a battle formation before, his face was calm as if he was used to seeing the life and death of war, as early as when Li Xin went out of the city, he ordered people to block the four gates with sand and stones, unless the thieves piled up the city wall with a sea of people, otherwise don't think about taking this city from him lightly.

The flag of the three guards was also firmly planted at the head of Xinzhou City, and Tian Fuzhen deliberately did this to confuse the thieves and make them believe that Li Xin, the chief soldier of the three guards, was still holding on to the city.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The earth trembled suddenly, and even the walls under his feet trembled. It's a cannon! Tian Fuzhen had seen the power of the cannon, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened, the thieves even had cannons, no wonder they could easily take Taiyuan City.

However, Tian Fuzhen was different from ordinary ministers of the Ming Dynasty, he participated in the manufacturing, test firing and performance evaluation of the cannons of the Three Guards Army in the iron factory, and it was clear from listening to the sound that in addition to killing and injuring soldiers and deterring the enemy, it was a fool's dream to collapse the rammed earth city wall of Xinzhou.

It was a strict order to go down, and all the soldiers in the city hid on the spot, and at the same time pushed the four runs left by Heisenberg to the south gate, and hit the solid bullet into a salvo.

The cannonball roared out of the muzzle and smashed straight into the dense rogue thieves, and suddenly it was like four drops of cold water falling into the boiling oil pot, stirring up chaos, although the solid bullet killed and injured a small area, but full of power, where the thieves were swept away, they were not killed and seriously injured.

The artillery bombardment of the city immediately provoked a larger-scale artillery bombardment by the thieves, and all the fire was concentrated on the city, which was actually intended to destroy the city's cannons. However, the artillery of this era could not be able to point wherever it was hit, and even if it had a complete set of aiming technology, it could only deliver the shells into a general range. Therefore, Tian Fuzhen was not worried, and continued to order fire, at least to not lose to the thieves in terms of momentum.

For a while, the earth and rocks on the city flew sideways, hitting the body and face was a cut, Master Guo was so frightened that he hid in the enemy tower and did not dare to come out, completely lost the righteous and awe-inspiring appearance when he first stayed, and only prayed that the damn shelling would end quickly. Tian Fuzhen was clinging to the female wall, and she didn't even notice the bloody wound on her face that was cut by the splashing rubble.

Coincidentally, a shell landed on a six-pounder gun, and the gun carriage was smashed to pieces, and the two gunners were hit by flying wooden spikes, and they died at that time. This can make Tian Fuzhen feel distressed, the battle to defend the city has just begun, and if a cannon is destroyed, how will he live in the future?

The defenders did not dare to fight any more artillery battles, so they had to order the cannons to be pulled down and prepare for the siege of the thieves. The thieves under the city saw that the cannon in the city was not moving, so they became more unscrupulous, and the landing point of the cannonballs gradually shifted to the vicinity of the city gate, Tian Fuzhen sneered at the corner of his mouth, the thieves wanted to use the cannon to bombard the Xinzhou city gate, but it was in vain, the city gate had already been filled with sand and stones, so let them waste the cannonballs.

In this way, the artillery battle finally subsided after more than half an hour, and the sound of war drums rumbled again, and the overwhelming thieves suddenly swept in like a tide pouring down the embankment. The siege battle has officially begun!

After all, the thieves are not regular troops, and the way to deal with the city wall is nothing more than the ant annex to attack the city, and countless thieves carry the ladder to the city and rush to the Xinzhou city wall more than two zhang high. Tian Fuzhen's pupils contracted suddenly, and the thieves attacked together on all sides with a large number of people, and if they couldn't take care of any of them, they might be attacked by someone.

"Hurry up, the remaining three cannons, one each in the east, west, and north, bombard the thieves with scattered bullets!"

Although only one cannon is placed on one city wall, as soon as the scattered shells are shot, the entire fan-shaped area in front will be eroded, which can not only kill and injure people, but also deter and demoralize the thieves.

As for the southern city, the main general surnamed Kong of the thieves will be here, and he will personally sit at the south gate, and with him, the morale of the soldiers will be higher than the other three gates. With the deterrence of the cannon scattering, the attack of the thieves was really sluggish, but the effect only stopped, especially the thieves at the south gate rushed to the city in one breath inspired by the sound of rumbling war drums, and set up the ladder to the city wall. Rolling logs and stones fell one after another, the thieves who had climbed half up the ladder were hit and fell, and the Ming soldiers took the opportunity to overturn their hooves with long wooden poles.

In the first wave of siege, the thieves did not succeed in the battle, but this is not a problem, they have time and people, even if they consume, they can consume the Ming army in the city to death. Therefore, the siege rhythm of the thieves is still unhurried, rushing up to death wave after wave.

In the blink of an eye, it was past noon, Tian Fuzhen's mood became heavier and heavier, after a morning of strong attack, the offensive of the thieves did not decrease at all, and several times they even attacked the city, and they were driven down under the combined attack of the superior forces in the city, but it was not a long-term plan after all. Until the sun sets in the west, the offensive of the thieves has gradually slowed down, and the corpses under the city have been piled up, according to this shape, I am afraid that the corpses of the thieves can be piled up on the city in a few days.

Knowing that at this time, Tian Fuzhen realized that the combat effectiveness of the thieves does not lie in bravery and superb tactics, but in human lives that can never be filled, such as this Xinzhou City, his available soldiers are only more than 3,000 people, but the thieves are endless, since they are bound to win this city, then sooner or later they have to fill it with a name, and the final result is that the city will be broken sooner or later.

Despair enveloped Tian Fuzhen all the time, but the fire of battle burning in his heart was burning all the time, not only burning but also intensifying. At this moment, he finally seemed to have made up his mind, and said to Master Guo, who was shrinking beside him: "Go and carry the fierce fire oil tank in the treasury to the city!" ”

This fierce fire tank is not an ordinary weapon, it is said that this thing is like a gang of water dragons, the fire oil spews out open flames and ignites, and all the places it passes are scorched, and there is no armor left. Shanxi is really the head of the nine sides, and there are all kinds of weapons in the dangerous passes, and this thing is still found by the defeated Ming army, but Tian Fuzhen feels that this thing is too cruel to kill, although they are facing thieves, after all, the vast majority of them are coerced people, and they do not approve of the use.

But after a whole day of defensive battles, he found that if he didn't defend the city with all his might, he might not be able to survive tomorrow.

Suddenly, a soldier came to report the news.

"Oh no, it's made up, north of the city, north of the city......"

"What's all the fuss? See what kind of structure your city has? ”

It was getting later and later, as the night fell, this kind of panicked shouting was most likely to affect the morale of the army, Tian Fuzhen severely reprimanded the soldier who reported the news, and then asked in detail what was going on in the north of the city.

"Back to my lord, there are a large number of thieves in the north of the city, and the sky is too dark to see the number of people, but it will not be less than the people during the day......."

Tian Fuzhen's heart was awe-inspiring, this must be the thief soldier who came back from the direction of Daizhou, it came so fast, the thief had no discipline at all, and he couldn't do the order and prohibit it at all, according to his and Li Xin's prediction, the reinforcements from the direction of Daizhou would always arrive early tomorrow morning, and he didn't want to go one night in advance, it seemed that he still underestimated the strength of the thief.

I can't help but look up to the sky and sigh, since the first year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty has been plagued by various natural disasters and man-made disasters, even because of the plague, the chaos in Shanxi has almost arisen overnight, but the government has lost even the most basic resistance ability, and also lost a vassal king, which has never been seen since the opening, is it really the end of the dynasty?

This kind of unfavorable situation is only a flash in Tian Fuzhen's heart, no matter whether the Ming Dynasty has reached the troubled times or not, there is only one fate for my generation of scholars, that is, to live and die with the Ming Dynasty, it is precisely because of this belief that he can be unswerving in the encirclement, and his original intention will not change!

Li Xin's battle flag fluttered at the head of Xinzhou City, and the reinforcements of the thieves and soldiers were really firmly attracted to the city. Li Xin and the main force of the Three Guards plunged into the mountains, crossed the Congmeng Mountain, avoided the main road and went straight to Taiyuan City.

Until the sun rose again, Li Xin, who had been on the road for a day and night, finally saw the city of Taiyuan under the sunshine in the distance, which was known as the first town on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and the city seemed extremely lonely.

At this moment, it has deviated far from its original trajectory, and Liu Guoneng, who should have been recruited, is now sitting in Taiyuan City, replacing Li Zicheng as the king of Chuang, and sweeping the entire Shanxi with lightning speed, it seems that the problem is more severe than the original history.

The land was quiet, it was obvious that the thieves were not guarded, they never imagined that the Three Guards would use Xinzhou City to drag the thieves' two reinforcements, but the main force had already made a detour to attack Taiyuan through Congmeng Mountain.

"Set up artillery, siege the city!"

With a wave of his right hand, Li Xin decisively ordered, and Heisenberg, who had already been gearing up, personally led his artillery to quickly retreat the sports car, aiming at the towering city wall in front of him. Heisenberg was fascinated by the first sight of such a majestic castle, a work of art that would soon be groaning under his cannon, and perhaps leaving some scars.

The rumbling sound of cannon shook the lazy rogue sentry from its slumber.

"Oh no, no! The officers and soldiers are coming, the officers and soldiers are coming! ”

On the one hand, the officers who were in charge of the night asked people to gather people to go to the city, and on the other hand, they sent people to the city to inform the king of Chuang, so that he could formulate a strategy as soon as possible.

After a period of chaos, the thieves in the city finally saw clearly that there was a slaughtering phalanx with the rumbling cannons, approaching Taiyuan City step by step, and a scarlet battle flag was embroidered with the word Dou Da!