The army makes a sneak attack or breaks through in the early hours of the morning, which is a common sense of the army generals. Especially in ancient times, because the early hours of the morning were also the time when people were most tired, and at this time, the unsuspecting enemy troops had not yet had breakfast, and they had no physical strength under hunger, which had a particularly great impact on the soldiers of the cold weapon era who paid special attention to physical strength.

But knowing that the rebels would break through was simple, the Ming army had already run out of dry food, and in the weak places of their camps, they had ambushed the ambush army, and waited for the rebels to take the bait.

And Wu Shigong also sent Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Chengbu, who were eager to fight, to Liu Zeqing. He also divided his Runing army into two, a covering artillery team, once again set up curved artillery on the top of the mountain, and prepared to support once Liu Zeqing's troops entered Dengzhou City, through the open space between the hill and the southern city wall.

However, because this army had to walk on mountain trails, the number of people was not large, so it was only a thousand people. There was no cavalry either. However, the time for the transportation and erection of artillery is estimated to be unable to catch up with the siege time. If you know this today, why bother in the first place? This artillery is so troublesome to move around, and it has to make people sigh: "This jihua can't catch up with the changes!" ”

The rest of the soldiers of the Runing Army, led by Wu Shigong, also went to join Liu Zeqing's troops. After the battle began, they crossed the open space between the hill and the southern city wall, and crossed the area of the southern city wall where Huang Qiqi was stationed, and turned into Dengzhou City.

Last night, Huang Qiqi's younger brother also explained very well that the south gate of Dengzhou City had been half-blocked by the rebels, and Huang Qiqi's manpower was small, so the danger of opening the city gate was too great, so he could only let the Ming army enter Dengzhou City from the city wall where he was stationed.

But the timing of this siege is delicate. It's too early, the main force of the rebels hasn't set off yet, and Huang Qiqi and these people are likely to be wiped out soon. In the end by climbing the city walls. The speed at which the Ming army entered the city was also too slow.

But it can't be too late. If the rebels fled back to the city after being ambushed, they would also have enough strength to quell Huang Qi's rebellion. Therefore, the mastery of this time is the key to the success of this siege, or in other words, the key to whether Liu Zeqing first attacked Dengzhou City.

For this reason, Wu Shigong became single, since he already believes in Huang Qiqi, then believe it to the end. Wu Shigong also stopped taking Huang Qiqi's younger brother as a hostage, and he put Huang Qiqi's younger brother back in Dengzhou City. Discussed the code of contact with Huang Qiqi, and asked Huang Qiqi to determine the best time for the Ming army to attack the city.

Wu Shigong is not afraid of Huang Qiqi betraying himself. Anyway, Liu Zeqing's troops rushed to the front, and the Runing army did not suffer any losses. And Liu Zeqing certainly knows this, but in order to be promoted, he is also willing to fight like this.

Really. When the morning fog had just cleared, taking advantage of the darkness before dawn, they had already left the city to prepare more than 10,000 rebels. Immediately under the guidance of three thousand cavalry. A three-way attack was launched against the encirclement of the Ming army.

The Ming army also ambushed troops after the rebels entered the ambush circle. The rebels, who were blinded by a head-on blow, immediately inflicted a large number of casualties. But to the surprise of the Ming army, the rebels on the right did not seem to react, and the Ming army was bitten by the surrounded. However, the rebels on the middle and left sides immediately shrank their heads and retreated back to the city of Dengzhou.

Kong Youde, who fled back to Dengzhou City first, immediately went up to the city tower, and he said to Geng Jingzhong, who was following the city tower: "Damn! The officers and soldiers have been prepared for a long time, and we have a traitor here. ”

"So what are we going to do now?" Geng Jingzhong asked.

"Get all the artillery ready at the head of the city. The troops covering the outside of the city retreated. Hurry up and send a banner, let Li Yingyuan also rush to the city gate, as long as he enters the city, we will close the city gate immediately. ”

Li Yingyuan, who was under siege, was killing left and right. He already had several arrows stuck in his armor. Fortunately, he put on several layers of heavy armor, and these arrows did not hurt him.

"My lord, where are we going now?" Taking advantage of the gap between repelling an attack by the Ming army, Li Yingyuan's personal soldier captain asked.

"Grandma! Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong, who were killed by God, retreated so quickly, they wanted to throw us out and play monkeys. Gather your team and retreat to the city. ”

At this moment, another soldier shouted to Li Yingyuan: "My lord, the banner of letting us go back to the city has been raised in the city tower, let's go quickly." ”

Under the fire of firearms and bows and arrows, the personal soldiers who covered Li Yingyuan's escape fell one by one, fortunately, the Ming army's troops intercepting Li Yingyuan's retreat were still very weak, and after Li Yingyuan's desperate fight, he finally broke out of the encirclement. But at this time, there were only more than 600 rebels left by Li Yingyuan's side.

The commander's flight caused chaos in the entire rebel army, which had long since lost any organization and was scattered throughout the battlefield. And the road leading to the city gate was crowded with rebel soldiers who wanted to return to the city.

"Cut it!" Li Yingyuan ordered without hesitation.

His own soldiers immediately raised their horses' hooves and slashed the rebel soldiers who stood in their way with their sabers, trying to make a bloody way for themselves. Near the gate of Dengzhou City, the screams and shouts of killing were endless, and the whole scene suddenly turned into a Shura field.

Seeing that everything was going well in the battle ahead, one of Zhu Dadian's staff members congratulated him: "Congratulations to the governor and the supervisor, today is a great victory!" After this battle, it will be difficult for the Confucian thief to turn over! ”

Gao Qiqian immediately daxiao proudly. Zhu Dadian's qi cultivation kung fu is not bad, his expression is quite calm, but the corners of his eyes can't help but reveal a hint of a smile.

Zhu Dadian stroked his beard and said: "Tell General Qiu to pursue while he is victorious, and it is best to rush into Dengzhou City while he is in chaos, and he will wipe out all the thieves." ”

Although Li Yingyuan had already killed each other, there were too many defeated rebels in front of him, and for a long time, he was still more than 200 steps away from the gate of Dengzhou City.

At this time, the Ming army that was covering the situation and chasing suddenly separated a passage, and more than 2,000 cavalry of the Ming army gathered by Zhu Dadian charged up, wanting to completely eliminate the rebels at the gate of the city, and rush into Dengzhou City.

Li Yingyuan looked at the Ming cavalry charging behind him, and his eyes were a little desperate, he just wanted to turn around and struggle to the death, when he heard a roar on the city wall of Dengzhou, and the Western artillery purchased by Sun Yuanhua at that time finally became powerful.

The Western artillery erected on the city walls was basically six and twelve pounds, and the number reached twenty-four. This burst of artillery bombardment immediately plowed twenty-four flesh passages in the pursuing ranks of the Ming army.

Then, the small cannons and firearms on the city of Dengzhou also fired, and under the smoke, a large number of Ming troops fell within the range of the firearms.

The momentum of the entire Ming army was dissipated, and Li Yingyuan also got a chance to breathe. The rebels on the tower also hung a large number of ropes to help the troops outside the city speed up their entry into the city.

Seeing that it was indeed impossible to enter the city from the city gate, Li Yingyuan turned his horse's head and ran to a city wall with few people, and wanted to withdraw from the rope into the city. But Li Yingyuan's armor was too heavy, and he couldn't climb the city wall at all. So several pro-soldiers held weapons to guard a vacant rope, and other pro-soldiers helped Li Yingyuan take off his armor.

Under the supervision of the Chinese army of Zhu Dadian in the back row, the Ming army, which suffered huge casualties, pressed up again. They wanted to take advantage of the gap between the artillery firing to mix with the rebel rout, so that the rebel firearms on the city wall would be bogged down.

However, before the Ming army could charge again, the Western artillery on the city wall was fired again. It should be admitted that at that time, the Western artillery was indeed of higher quality than the self-made artillery of the Ming Dynasty and could withstand the high frequency of fire, coupled with those well-trained rebel gunners, so that the firing speed of the rebel artillery greatly exceeded the expectations of the Ming army.

Twenty-four more passages of flesh and blood, and another row of metal storms. This blow completely crushed the charge of the Ming army. And Li Yingyuan, who finally took off his armor, finally climbed the city wall.

As soon as he saw Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong, Li Yingyuan roared angrily: "Uncle Kong, Uncle Geng!" What did the little nephew do to offend the two uncles, and he was thrown out of the city by you just now? ”

"You're a pig's brain, huh?" At this time, Kong Youde finally tore through his usual calm mask, "I want to leave you out of the city, why are we working so hard to pick you up on the city tower?" We are not afraid that the officers and soldiers will rush into the city, and what are we doing if we refuse to close the city gates? At this point, you still don't understand, we have a mole here. Today's breakthrough happened to be ambushed by the official army! ”

Kong Youde's words immediately made Li Yingyuan speechless. Geng Jingzhong saw that the scene was a little embarrassing on the side, and immediately opened his mouth to ease the atmosphere: "Lao Kong, the officials and troops outside the city are forcing up again. It's always a hidden danger that the gates are open, what do you say? ”

"How many people are coming in?" Kong Youde turned his head and asked.

"More than three thousand. There are still more than 4,000 left outside the city, and they can't be withdrawn for a while! ”

"I can't help it. Close the city gate at once, put some ropes down, and you can save one by one. ”

The gate of Dengzhou was slowly closed, but the number of defeated troops at the gate was too large, and the gate could not be closed in any way. In a hurry, the rebel soldiers who closed the city gate had already begun to cut with knives, but in order to survive, the rebel soldiers who wanted to enter the city also drew their knives and slashed them, and there was a scuffle at the city gate.

It wasn't until Kong Youde transferred a team of firecrackers and fired several rows of firecrackers to break up the routs at the city gate that the Dengzhou city gate was finally closed. And seeing that they were cut off from the back road, the rebels outside the city were crying out in despair. And the Ming army was once again under the supervision of Zhu Dadian, and killed these routs.

And Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, and Li Yingyuan, who had just taken a breath on the city wall, heard a burst of artillery and fire in the direction of Beicheng.

After a while, a rebel soldier ran over and said, "A few commanders, there is an army attacking Beicheng. Look at their banner, it is Guanning Iron Cavalry. (To be continued......)

PS: It should be three hundred and fifty-two chapters, not three hundred and fifty-one.

After working hard for a long time, I still don't know how to change the title, and I can only post this small mistake.

I beg your pardon!

Sorry!