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Lin Sizu looked at the Shangguan army at the head of the city in front of him, and in front of him, there were dozens of corpses, not from the official army, but the corpses of his men who were shot and killed during the round of attack just now.

He crouched down and examined them one by one, and the wounds on the corpse were shocking. One man had half of his head gone, and one had been shot in the chest in the front, and that shot hit the goggle directly, and then the armor broke the man's heart. There was also a shot in the abdomen, half of his stomach was rotten, and his intestines were all over the ground. There was also a shot in the thigh, and half of the flesh on the leg was gone, leaving Sen Sen's white bones.

Looking at these, Xiao Bawang's face tried his best to maintain composure, but a chill rose in his heart, which made him fearful. He had never seen such a powerful firebolt, it was almost like being hit by a lead bullet from a tiger squat cannon.

In addition, although the attack just now ended before it was launched, it also made him discover a lot of things. For example, there were a lot of artillery pieces in the city, so many that he didn't expect, and he estimated that there were not only tiger squats and exterminators, but even small Franc machine guns, adding up to maybe no less than a hundred.

The sharp firecrackers and the huge number of artillery pieces began to make Lin Sizu have to reconsider the situation in front of him. What made him hesitate the most was that he had just received a news that it was said that a battalion of men and horses led by Ma Shoucheng had been broken and sunk in the sand under the Tiger Head Fort, and the whole army was wiped out.

This seems to explain why the nine-headed bird of Tiger Head Fort is here.

Lin Sizu now regrets it a little, and when he arrived at Huang'an City that day, he should have attacked the city immediately. He originally thought that this time the fifth battalion on the left would be dispatched in several ways, and the officers and troops would not be able to cope with it, and he had time to attack the city calmly. In order to avoid casualties in the siege, he attacked everywhere, swept the nearby towns and villages, captured many people to help build siege equipment, and prepared to use these people as siege cannon fodder, but today, the plan was miscalculated.

Gently knocking on the armrest of the wooden chair, the corpses that began to decompose and smell into the nose, as well as the smell of gunpowder smoke that permeated the air, the two smells were mixed together, and it was even more disgusting.

Now he's having a hard time riding a tiger.

The news that Ma Shoucheng's entire army has not been confirmed yet, but it is very likely to be true. This time, the fifth battalion of the left side sent troops to eastern Hubei by several routes, but the main forces were concentrated in the south of Luotian and Huangmei, and only the two battalions of soldiers and horses of him and Ma Shoucheng in the north attacked Macheng and Huang'an respectively. If Ma Shoucheng is really finished, then he will be alone.

He didn't know what the battle was going like in the south, whether he would get reinforcements, or when the official army would arrive to reinforce Huang An. He doesn't have to worry about grain and grass now, he has looted a lot in the past few days, whether it is food or money.

The biggest headache for him was the city wall of Huang'an City, the thief army had sharp guns and a large number of artillery, which made his attack quite difficult. This time, he didn't carry many cannons, only eighteen tiger squats, six to kill prisoners, I thought that so many cannons were enough, but now compared with the thief, the difference is too far.

The artillery fire is not enough to suppress the artillery at the head of the city, and the archers in his hands will definitely not be able to suppress the fire guns at the head of the city, so it will be quite difficult to force the siege.

Although Lin Sizu also commands a battalion of people, this battalion is actually a new battalion leader, there are not many old brothers in it, many of them are newly recruited this year, with the strength of the crowd or avoiding the real and empty, it is no problem to take a gap and do a vote. But if it is a hard hit on the Huang'an City in front of you, it will be troublesome.

Lin Sizu under the city is difficult to ride a tiger, but Liu Jun in the city is very leisurely and calm.

The purpose of his trip was only to protect Huang An, not to annihilate the thief army under the city, so since the thief retreated, he was happy.

"Do you open the gates of the city and let the people outside the city come in?" Mei Qing is a woman after all, looking at the people who are still lying outside the city, she can't help but say, many of those people were hit by the lead of the artillery just now, and many of them were injured, and they were lying there screaming at this time.

Wang Zhixian hurriedly said, "No, how do you know that there are no thieves and spies mixed in here, what if we open the city and let them in, and they take the opportunity to seize the city." ”

"But it can't be like that."

"The war is merciless, and the sword and gun have no eyes. If the city gate catches fire, it will inevitably affect the fish in the pond. Liu Jun sighed, and he didn't approve of letting people into the city. However, he still made a compromise suggestion, "It is better to prepare some medicines, hang them from the city, let them heal their wounds, and then throw some food for them." Let them stay under the walls first, in my opinion, the thieves will not stay for long, nine times out of ten, they will retreat. ”

"How so?" Wang Zhixian asked.

"I don't know, the thief's attack just started, and the result was retreated, which shows that the thief is hesitant. We just need to add fire to them now, and they will retreat. Liu Jun said confidently. After saying that, he sent someone to bring a prisoner who had been captured on the way, and wrote a letter to him and handed it to Lin Sizu.

The captive went down to the city in a hanging basket, and walked nervously through the crowd of people under the city with Liu Jun's letter, and came to the front of the thief army.

"I want to see Xiaobawang, I have a letter for him."

"Bring it on." Lin Sizu shouted.

The person was brought up, and Lin Sizu was sitting there with a grinding stone sharpening the knife, and after a long time, he raised his eyes, "Are you from the Yali of Huang'an County, or from the nine-headed bird?" ”

"Back to the king, the small one is Wu Gui, a personal soldier under the Diamond Sky Leopard."

"Hmm!" Lin Chengcheng was surprised, and walked up directly with a knife, and twisted Wu Gui's collar, "You dare to lie to me?" ”

"What the little ones say is true, and the small ones are the family members of the Diamond Leopard." Wu Guiru poured beans into a bamboo tube, and told all the situations such as following the Drill Leopard to attack the Tiger Head Fort, and then how and how the army was defeated.

Lin Sizu let go of Wu Gui, and the whole person was like a lightning strike, and the most feared thing really happened.

"This Liu Jun is so powerful?" Then he didn't say another word in his heart, "That Ma Shoucheng is so incompetent." ”

"What about the letter that Liu Jun asked you to bring?"

"Here!" Wu Gui hurriedly took out the letter and sent it.

Liu Jun's letter was full of threats and aggressiveness everywhere, calling Lin Sizu to lead his troops to surrender, and said that if not, he and Ma Shoucheng would end up in the same end.

Lin Sizu took the letter to several of his managers to circulate it, and after reading it, several people scolded loudly, and even shouted to attack the city again immediately.

"Shut up." Lin Sizu stopped the madness of several people.

Although he is known as the little overlord, he is not a short-tempered person, but a person who plans to move. These 3,000 soldiers and horses are the foundation of his life, even if his father is one of the five bigwigs in the fifth battalion of the revolutionary left, but in the past ten years since the uprising of the righteous army, how many leaders of the righteous army who had been dominant, but in the end they were silent, because they had made a bad move, took a wrong step, and then were defeated.

Lin Sizu knew that his battalion was not comparable to the original battalion of Ma Shoucheng, Ma Shoucheng's battalion was all elite, and his battalion was all newcomers, and both the combat experience and weapons and equipment were far inferior to Ma Shoucheng. And Ma Shoucheng was defeated in front of the nine-headed bird, and he had to be vigilant.

"But we can't just leave."

"Why don't you withdraw?" Lin Sizu asked rhetorically, this time he was ordered to march westward, originally if the plan went smoothly and could attack the western foot of Dabie Mountain and occupy Macheng, Huang'an, Huangmei and other cities, then the follow-up army would move westward from the Huanghuo Mountain area, preparing to join Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao and others in the Xiangyang area. But now, since Ma Shoucheng has been completely wiped out, Macheng can't be defeated, and even Hutou Pass and other passes have been recaptured, so they will continue to stay here, even if they defeat Huang'an, it will be a lone army, and they will not be able to withstand the counterattack of the official army at all.

The green mountains left are here, and I am not afraid of no firewood.

Lin Sizu gave the order to retreat very decisively.

Before leaving, he wrote a letter to Liu Jun and sent Wu Gui back.

"The green mountains do not change, the green water flows forever, see you in the future, there will be a period later!"

Seeing this reply, Liu Jun just sneered. This time, the strength of the nine-headed bird is not strong, and when we meet again in the next day, it will not give you another chance to escape.

"The thieves have withdrawn!" Liu Jun handed the letter to Mei Qing and a few others.

When Wang Zhixian heard the news, he sat on the ground excitedly, and finally saved Huang Ancheng.

The next day, the night did not collect returns, and the thieves had withdrawn from the territory of Huguang and retreated to the territory of Gwangju, Henan. After getting this news, Liu Jun also returned to Macheng with the nine-headed bird, and Mei Qing did not care about Wang Zhixian and others, and returned to Macheng with Liu Jun with the Mei family.

Following the annihilation of Ma Shoucheng's entire army and Lin Sizu's withdrawal from Huguang, several battalions of bandits in the south also withdrew to the Yinghuo Mountains one after another, and an attack by bandits that affected a wide range of bandits was declared a failure. Eastern Hubei was cheering and celebrating.

Officially, this is a great victory for Qi Huang.

In this great victory, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were beheaded, more than 2,000 prisoners were captured, and countless swords, guns, armor and artillery were captured. Of course, the most dazzling of them is the Macheng regiment Liu Jun led the six hundred nine-headed bird team members performed the most outstanding, only the nine-headed bird in this battle, has won the glorious tiger head fort victory, and then reinforced Huang'an City, kept Huang'an County, forced back a battalion of thousands of thieves.

The nine-headed bird killed more than 1,700 people before and after, and captured more than 2,000 people.

In fact, although a total of nearly 20,000 thieves from six battalions invaded Huguang, the real battle was only the battle of Macheng Hutou Fort, which was the most fierce and the most fruitful, directly annihilating an elite thief battalion.

The rest of the roads were mostly just blocking the thieves' attacks, and when the thieves retreated, they were just sending each other off from afar.

Not only did he repel a massive attack of 20,000 bandits at one time, but he also beheaded more than 2,000 people, captured more than 2,000 people, and beheaded or captured one-fifth of the thieves who came to commit the crime.

Soon, the Huangzhou Prefecture knew about this great victory, and the sub-patrol road, the sub-defense road, and the military preparation road also knew about this great victory, and the governor of Huguang also knew about this great victory, and even quickly reported it to the military department of the military department and the right deputy capital Yushi, and the prime minister of Nangi, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan in front of the case of Xiong Wencan.

At that time, he was a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, and Yang Sichang, who was still in charge of the military department, was ordered to supervise the teacher, gave Shang Fang Jian, and went out of Beijing to the Central Plains to supervise the division.