Shanxi, Taiyuan

When He Shouguang's troops arrived in Taiyuan City, it was already a month later.

At the same time, after Hong Chengchou also received Chongzhen's will, after handing over with the fake Zhang father and son, he led an army of 600,000 and set off for Shanhaiguan.

also left a bunch of old and weak women and children for He Shouguang.

That night, He Shouguang slapped the table and said angrily: "This Hong Chengchou is too hateful, inform Governor Zhang of the situation on our side."

Han Bing said: "Chief of Staff He, I took a look along the way, this Shanxi is far more serious than we imagined.

He Shouguang said: "Chidi is thousands of miles, and the form is quite strict and handsome.

Han Bing said: "I don't know, why the director of the hall wants us to occupy the entire territory of Shanxi."

He Shouguang said: "I don't understand this, what's so good about such a poor place!"

Su Xiaoguang said: "I'm wondering if the director wants coal!"

He Shouguang said: "This is possible, coal is needed to practice iron." I'm from Shanxi, and this stuff is abundant here.

Han Bing said: "Now is not the time to think about this, the question is what to do with those old and weak women and children."

He Shouguang said: "How many people are there?"

Tong Ming said: "According to the report, there are 23,631 people.

He Shouguang said: "First take out our armament tents and set them up to house them." Then he distributed part of the rations, set up a porridge shack, and sent field doctors to examine him to prevent the germination of diseases.

Tong Ming said: "It's the chief, I'll do it immediately."

He Shouguang said: "Su Xiaoguang, you go and settle the army and send scouts to observe the movements of the bandits."

Su Xiaoguang: "It's the chief, I'll do it right away."

He Shouguang watched the two of them get busy, and said to Han Bing: "Deputy staff officer, what do you think of the thieves."

Han Bing said: "Judging from past experience, the thieves looted everywhere they went, and then took all the young people away.

He Shouguang said: "This is indeed the style of a thief. In this way, you send an engineer regiment to dig up the warriors outside the city overnight, ready to fight at any time.

Han Bing gave a military salute, answered, and went out to do errands.

He Shouguang walked up to the city tower, looked around with his glasses, and had a final plan in his heart.

Five days later, Luliang Mansion.

Since Li Yan was driven to Luliang Mansion by Hong Chengchou, he has been like a wounded lion, adding wounds here.

And Hong Chengchou doesn't seem to be in a hurry, and has been standing still in Taiyuan Mansion.

On this day, he was with his concubine! In the black black black black lae.

Suddenly, I heard that there was a report from the Malays, and I reluctantly got up and dressed.

In the Luliang Mansion, Li Yan was discussing something with his deputy Tong Buwei.

Tong Buwei said: "According to the Malay report, the lord of Taiyuan Mansion will be changed.

Li Yan's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness when he heard this, and he said, "Who is in charge of Taiyuan Mansion now."

Tong Buwei said: "I heard that it is called Zhang Xun, the governor of Shandong."

Li Yan said: "What is the way to come?"

Tong Buwei said: "I heard that he used to be a lifter, but then he was slowly promoted to the prefect, and because of his meritorious report, he was promoted to governor."

Li Yan said: "It's strange, how could Chongzhen send a Wenchen to fight.

Tong Buwei said: "General, will this be a fraud?"

Li Yan said: "Is there anything else?"

Tong Buwei said: "I heard that he also has a son named Zhang Zhongmou, who is currently a guerrilla general.

Li Yan said: "Visually see how many soldiers and horses.

Tong Buwei said: "There should be about twenty or three hundred thousand, and the strange thing is that their weapons do not have swords, which seem to be similar to firearms."

The most puzzling thing is that they dug a lot of trenches outside the city and piled sandbags. A sharp iron fence was also added to the city walls.

Li Yan said: "They are preventing the cavalry from breaking through, and it seems that they can't underestimate this literati." First, send a town force to test it.

A day later, Taiyuan City.

"The reconnaissance department came to report that there was a small group of thieves approaching Taiyuan Mansion." Han Bing said

He Shouguang said: "It should just test the troops and beat them back, remember not to scare them."

On the city wall, Su Xiaoguang looked at it with his glasses, and the enemy was already approaching within a hundred meters. However, he was not in a hurry, the enemy was at most about 300 men, and there were no siege equipment.

More than fifty people in front of them held shields and lined up in a row.

Su Xiaoguang smiled and said, "Everyone prepare."

"Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, call me," Su Xiaoguang roared.

The first round of shots was blocked by the shield.

Su Xiaoguang said: The first company withdrew to the city, covered by machine gunners.

Then another round of shooting.

The thieves were beaten so that they could not raise their heads, and dozens of people died. When he was close to 50 meters, he was suddenly covered by a heat wave.

Of the three hundred, less than half of them remained, and the thieves, whose morale had been suppressed, fled in the wilderness, and dozens more were killed.

Tong Buwei returned to the city with the remnants of less than a hundred people.

Li Yan was furious and roared: "You fucking M waste, and you have the face to come back!"

Tong Buwei said: "Their firepower is too powerful, we don't have the power to backhand at all."

Li Yan said: "What kind of weapons are they?"

Tong Buwei said: "It's a musket."

Li Yan said: "I want to deceive Lao Tzu again."

Tong Buwei said: "It's true, it's a very powerful musket, and it can be fired continuously."

Li Yan said: "Do we also have Hongyi cannons on our side?"

Tong Buwei said: "Yes."

Li Yan said: "Okay, tomorrow you will bring 100,000 troops and bite Lao Tzu hard."

Tong Buwei said: "Yes! Checkmate.

In Taiyuan Mansion, several people in the government were laughing.

Su Xiaoguang said with a smile: "The leader thought that we had withdrawn, because he was afraid of them, and he dared to push within fifty meters to hit us."

"This is what makes the ignorant fearless."

Han Bing said: "Chief of Staff, why don't we directly capture Luliang City, but instead defend the city."

He Shouguang said: "Then do you know why Hong Chengchou didn't attack?"

Han Bing said: "Why!

He Shouguang said: "Look at this map, you are going to attack Luliang City." It is necessary to pass through this pass, which only one person can pass. If the enemy set up an ambush here, no amount of people would be enough to die.

Su Xiaoguang said: "This is indeed a problem.

Tong Ming said: "Then what should we do."

He Shouguang said: "If I guess correctly, this Li Yan is extremely conceited, and being beaten like this by a literati is an insult to him."

Tomorrow, there will definitely be a tough battle. Everybody go back to rest and beat them up tomorrow.

He Shouguang didn't guess wrong, Li Yan miscalculated the opponent, but he didn't know that the opponent was a military general who had experienced hundreds of battles. He thought that he had experienced a hundred battles, but he was suppressed by a literati, and he couldn't bear this breath, and he wanted revenge.

Early the next morning, he set out with an army of 100,000 troops, and at noon, he approached Taiyuan Mansion and set up camp one mile away.

Han Bing said with several times the number of glasses: "Do you want to use cannons to defraud their battalion."

He Shouguang said: "It's too far, it's easy for them to run away." When they get close to 600 meters, give me a hard bang.

All right, you guys are guarding the gates.

The crowd said: "Yes! Heads.

Su Xiaoguang looked at it with his eyes and said, "Isn't that the Hongyi Cannon?"

I saw that more than 700 meters away, the thieves clumsily pushed out the Hongyi cannon, which seemed to be being tested.

After a while, only a few sounds were heard, and it exploded more than 200 meters. There is no way to hit the convoys.

Li Yan ran over, kicked the artilleryman, and shouted: "Waste, all of him MA is waste, don't move forward yet."

Su Xiaoguang said: "Artillery team, bring those cannons to me."

Bang...... A cannonball was parabolic and landed in front of the Hongyi cannon, causing a heat wave and the artillery was blown away.

Li Yan was affected by the heat current and fell to the ground. Tong Buwei hurriedly pulled him up and retreated.

After a while, those cannons were blown up beyond recognition and could no longer be used.

Li Yan was frightened and shouted: "Give me the cavalry!"

The rogue cavalry, at least three thousand horsemen, all pressed into battle, was still a little imposing, causing a lot of pressure on the guards of the position.

Seeing the cavalry getting closer and closer, Han Bing shouted: "Machine gunner, give me a fight, the artillery will press the formation."

Click.......! Several of the riders were hit and fell off their horses.

With the roar of the cannon, the horses were frightened, and directly overturned people to the ground, some were trampled to death by the horses, some fell unconscious, and in the blink of an eye, more than 3,000 horses, exhausted, the scene was extremely chaotic.

Li Yan seemed to be red-eyed and shouted, "Give me all the rush."

But the suppressed bandits have already begun to retreat, Li Yan drew a knife, cut a few and shouted: "Whoever is the MA, and then retreat, it will be his end."

In this way, it still has an effect, and many people rush up in unison, but to no avail, they are shot as soon as they go up.

In less than an hour, the bandits began to retreat, and Li Yan even killed several of them, to no avail.

Tong Dawei said: "General, let's also retreat, stay in Qingshan, don't be afraid of no firewood."

Li Yan saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to order the troops to be withdrawn. Back in the city, there were less than 20,000 left.

Seeing that the bandits had retreated, He Shouguang ordered the remnants of the soldiers to be gathered, the corpses cleaned up and burned.

There were few casualties among the guards, only a few people were swept by arrows, no one died, and the health team also joined the rescue effort.

The captives were all gathered, and there were still more than 40,000 in the inventory, minus a quarter of the old and the weak. There are still 3,000 more to go.