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Under the gloomy sky, the four gates of the county seat of De'an County were closed, and the city walls were full of rebels armed with knives, guns, bows and arrows, looking nervously out of the city. , the latest chapter is available at shuhАhА.cc.

At this time, the open space outside the city was densely packed with camp tents, banners were displayed, and people were full of voices.

Under the leadership of Zhao Yong, the Marquis of Xingping, the 80,000 counterinsurgency army, surrounded the county town of De'an, completely isolated it from the outside world, and the security was extremely tight, not even a fly could fly out, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing and depressing

This time to attack Dezhou again, Zhang Hao is bound to win Dezhou City, only by capturing Dezhou City can he wash away the humiliation of his previous defeat, and if you want to capture Dezhou City, you must first take the gateway of Dezhou City - the county seat of De'an County.

In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Hao invested 80,000 troops in De'an County, and then personally led the remaining 40,000 elites to wait for the King of Han to send troops to save De'an County, and then fight to the death.

After besieging the county seat of De'an, Zhao Yong did not rush to attack, but while shouting to the city for Lu Ping to surrender, he mobilized engineering equipment such as catapults, rushing vehicles, ladders and moats, and prepared various siege projects in an orderly manner.

Lü Ping knew that there would be a fierce battle this time, so he had already prepared to defend the city, bows and arrows, rolling logs and stones and other items used to block the siege of the Ming army were piled up on the city wall, and all the men in the city who were over fifteen years old and under fifty years old were recruited to defend the city, ready to fight Zhao Yong to break the net.

Speaking of which, Xingping waited for Zhao Yong and Qingyi Bo Lu Ping did not want to face each other on the battlefield, when Lu Ping served as Zhao Yong's deputy general during the Jing disaster, the two were partners in life and death, and participated in the fierce battle of Baigou River and the battle of Dongchangfu, both made great contributions, and belonged to rare wise generals.

Although Zhao Yong was once a subordinate of the King of Han, he was closer to Emperor Hong Xi, and was one of the few supporters of Emperor Hong Xi in the army. [35015671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty] 350 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 353

Zhang Hao knew that Lü Ping was very difficult to deal with, so for the sake of safety, he asked Emperor Xuande to issue an order, transferred Zhao Yong to Jingzhou, and asked him to attack the county seat of Anxian County, which Lü Ping was defending.

Although Zhao Yong did not want to meet with Lu Ping's soldiers, the two armies fought with their own masters, and he could only let go of the old friendship between the two and methodically deploy troops to prepare for the siege of the city.

In fact, how much Zhao Yong hoped that Lu Ping could break through, he might be able to secretly let Lu Ping go, let Lu Ping lead the army to escape back to Dezhou City, and then the two sides would discuss the long term.

Otherwise, the people in De'an County will definitely be poisoned by the war, and the hundreds of thousands of red-eyed Ming troops and rebels will make the small De'an County a ruin.

Although the situation in De'an County was tense and exciting, the city of Dezhou was calm, the four city gates were still open, and people from nearby towns and villages slowly poured into the city for refuge.

After all, the king of Han successfully defeated the Ming army last time, so after learning that the imperial court had sent a counterinsurgency army again, the people around Dezhou City came to Dezhou City with their families in order to avoid the poison of war.

In the face of the impending battle, the Han king adopted the strategy of loosening the outside and tightening the inside, sending a large number of scouts to find out the movements of the army to ensure that there was enough time to take precautions.

Since two-thirds of the Ming army's troops were used in De'an County, the Han King was not worried at all that Zhang Hao would lead his army to attack Dezhou City.

Dezhou City not only has 60,000 rebels, but also has a tall and thick city wall as a backing, if Zhang Hao leads 40,000 Ming troops to come, it will give the Han King a chance to eat him.

Moreover, in view of the lessons of the last failure, Zhang Hao will definitely be cautious when he comes this time, step by step, steadily and steadily, first take De'an County, so that the rebels in Dezhou City have no support, and then concentrate their forces to conquer Dezhou City.

Therefore, before the Ming army took the county seat of De'an, Zhang Hao decided not to move Dezhou City, but to always be on guard against the surprise attack of the Han King in Dezhou City.

This is the subtlety of the Han King's use of troops, it is clear that Zhang Hao has an advantage, and he should attack with thunder, but he forced Zhang Hao to be on the defensive with a division of troops, and watched the Han King be at ease in the city of Texas.

On November 10, Zhao Yong completed the deployment of the siege of the county seat of De'an County.

After ordering the siege of the Ming army to wait outside the city, Zhao Yong warned the rebels inside the city for the last time, persuading them to surrender to avoid the bitterness of war.

Lu Ping naturally couldn't surrender, but let Zhao Yong join the king of Han and come together to sweep away the "traitors" in the Qing Dynasty. [35015671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty] 350 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 353

Zhao Yong saw that the persuasion was ineffective, sighed helplessly, and ordered the Ming army to storm the north gate of the county seat of Dexian County.

Because the strength of the Ming army was only one and a half times that of the rebels, in order to avoid casualties, although Zhao Yong surrounded the four gates of Dexian County, he did not attack at the four gates at the same time, but chose the north gate as the breakthrough point and concentrated all the siege equipment.

This also made the rebels in the city have to focus on the north gate of defense, and the reserve city defense equipment was transferred to the north gate, and they did not dare to move the other city defense equipment of the remaining three gates, so as not to attack the other city gates after the Ming army attacked the east, and then minimized the threat of the city defense of De'an County to the Ming army.

For the Ming army, the biggest obstacle in De'an County is the city wall, as long as the city wall is breached, then De'an County will lose the barrier to block the Ming army.

However, Zhao Yong's purpose was to attack the county seat of De'an, not to fight with Lu Ping in the county seat of De'an, so he adopted the strategy of encircling three and missing one, and deliberately deployed weak troops at the south gate of the county seat of De'an, so that the rebels had enough opportunity to break out of the encirclement of the Ming army and flee to the city of Dezhou.

Anyway, Zhang Hao's 40,000 elites were guarding the road, there were ambushes in front and pursuers in the back, and even if those rebels could escape from De'an County, they would be annihilated by the Ming army on the road.

With Zhao Yong's order, dozens of large and small corpse dumping trucks placed side by side roared and threw stones weighing about dozens to 200 catties towards the city wall of De'an County.

Seeing this, the rebels on the city wall dodged in panic, and the city wall that was hit by the stones suddenly dented, and the stones that fell on the walkway of the city wall smashed the items on the ground, making the rebels very bad.

At the same time, the Ming army, which was waiting outside the south gate, let out an earth-shattering cry, and under the cover of shield bearers and archers, they rushed to the moat outside the city with a moat bridge and a ladder.

Seeing this situation, the rebel generals on the city wall were hurriedly directing the rebels to defend, and for a while, arrows rained down on the city wall, and many Ming soldiers close to the moat fell down screaming.

A moat bridge is a kind of siege equipment with a wheel, which is pushed by the soldiers of the besieging side and used to lay on the moat outside the city to form a simple bridge.

Soon, dozens of moats were paved on the moat, and the Ming soldiers stepped on the moat bridge to cross the moat, carried the ladder to the city wall, erected the ladder on the wall, and climbed up with their hands holding shields.

Seeing this, the rebels in the city immediately took action, either pushing away the ladders leaning against the city walls, or throwing logs and stones in the direction, and using bows and arrows to "shoot" and "shoot" at the city, and the blood under the city was splashed, and the wails and screams were endless.

Outside the south gate of De'an County, Zhao Yong stood on a tower that was erected, looking at the city wall with a stern expression, he had been in the army for more than 30 years, and naturally knew the cruelty of the siege war, and the rebels in De'an County could not capture it in a short time, which also meant that both the Ming army and the rebels would have heavy casualties, which was definitely not a scene he wanted to see.

At this moment, the backyard of the county government of De'an County.

Lu Ping was drinking sullen wine in the room, his face was full of gloomy looks, and he clearly heard the sound of the Ming army shouting and killing from the direction of Beicheng.

Like Zhao Yong, Lu Ping is actually reluctant to fight against Zhao Yong, the two are like brothers, and this kind of fratricidal relationship is not good.

What is particularly important is that he knows that no matter how much price he pays, he must defend the county seat of De'an County, and only in this way can he create a Zào fighter for the King of Han.

"Lord Wang, I wish you success and success!" Lu Ping came to the courtyard with a wine glass, looked up at Dezhou City in the north, raised the wine glass for a long time, and drank the wine in the cup after reciting a sentence silently.

Then, Lu Ping slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground, and led the guards in the courtyard away with an expressionless face, preparing to go to Nancheng to take command in person.

Afternoon, Texas City.

King Han and an old man with white hair sat around the table to play, since Emperor Yongle sent to Le'an, King Han began to cultivate self-cultivation "sex", often find a famous hand to talk about a game.

"Lord Wang, you have profound chess skills and profound layout, and you have already lost in the game!" The old man picked up the white and looked around at the white and black children that were entangled on the chessboard, then put the white pieces back into the chess jar, and said to the king of Han.

"Haha......" King Han immediately laughed when he heard this, and also arched his hand at the old man, "Mr. agreed." ”

"Report!" At this time, a sergeant hurriedly walked from the door, knelt down on one knee at the door, and shouted at the king of Han, "Lord Wang, Xingping Hou launched an offensive against the county seat of De'an in the morning, and the battle was fierce. ”

"Let's go down." King Han's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said quietly, and then smiled at the old man, "Sir, how about we have another game?" ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." The old man agreed with a smile, and put away the chessboard with a respectful face, if the King of Han inherits the unification in the future, then the chess game between him and the King of Han today will become a good conversation.

In fact, the old man's chess strength is far better than that of King Han, but how can he win King Han, so he naturally wants to secretly want to make King Han happy.

"Spread the former military governor's mansion, the left army governor's mansion, the household department and the governor of Texas!" In the evening, the king of Han left the old man who was playing the game to eat, and after the old man left, he gave a deep command to the guards beside him.

The former military governor is Wang Bin, one of the three major guard commanders of the former Han king, the Dadu governor of the left army is Wei Da, one of the three major guard commanders of the former Han king, the household department is Liu Minkai, the former Le'an Prefecture Tongzhi, and the Texas governor is the former Texas guard commander Tongzhi Niu Yide.

The commander of the Dezhou guard and the governor of Dezhou were people of the imperial court, so when the king of Han rebelled, Niu Yide, who secretly defected to the king of Han, killed the two of them, controlled the situation in the city of Dezhou, and welcomed the rebels of the king of Han into the city, so he was named the governor of Dezhou by the king of Han and was also in charge of the defense of Dezhou