And during the short rest after repelling the first siege of the camp, Qian Qi ordered the heads of several young defenders who retreated to be beheaded for public display, and ordered their families to be pulled out and beheaded.

This bloody act suddenly cleared up the brains of those young people. In the face of the second siege of the camp, the performance of those young and strong people was simply like two people.

At this time, the rudimentary siege equipment that broke into the camp also showed its weakness. Those long ladders could be knocked down with push rods, and they could be broken with sassal logs, so that after losing a dozen long ladders, the second siege of the camp ended in vain.

Seeing the two unsuccessful sieges, Gao Yingxiang was furious. He ordered the concentration of seventy or eighty long ladders, and increased the number of siege soldiers to six thousand. The archers were required to cover behind them, and the besieging troops were divided into three teams to take turns to attack the city, and they would not retreat if they did not capture the county seat of Ningling.

Gao Yingxiang still remembered his promise to sleep in the county government of Ningling County tonight, and he didn't want to be ruined by the hundreds of officers and soldiers in the small county town. And Tiangong also seemed to feel something at this time, and the snowflakes fluttered on the ground, and after a while, it actually snowed heavily.

But Gao Yingxiang's good mood was destroyed by the fortress of Qianhu, which he ignored. Finally, when Luo Rucai's large army passed, the fortress of Qianhusuo opened its gates, and the soldiers of the five hundred Guide Legion rushed out of the fortress.

The night and the snow effectively covered the movements of the five hundred soldiers. In addition, they were charging towards the bottom of the slope, so when these soldiers rushed into the town, the recruits who were rummaging through the boxes and cabinets in the town did not react at all.

Moreover, the soldiers of the German regiment were formed into tactical groups. With two sword and shield men in the front row, four pikemen in the back, and two axe gunners on either side to cover them, Zuihou is the two musketeers who attack from a distance.

One tactic after another, the tactical team pushed along the streets of the town. Soon the camp recruits in the town were cleaned up. Then they immediately formed a phalanx, and at this time, more than fifty cavalrymen came out of the fortress of Qianhusu again to protect behind the phalanx. As soon as the infantry formation was formed, they immediately rushed towards the siege camp.

The first to be greeted was a small peasant rebel army that went out to loot. This peasant rebel army, numbering more than 3,000 people, saw this phalanx of the Guide regiments, and they immediately turned to try to stop the advance of the phalanx.

The two armies quickly approached to engage the engagement. Not surprisingly, the infantry and cavalry formation of the Guide Corps, with its advanced formation and excellent weapons, shattered the formation of the peasant rebels with fire guns at a long distance. With the subsequent rush of more than 50 cavalry cavalry, the peasant rebel army was suddenly crushed.

At this time, there were not many cavalry in the siege troops, so there was no time to mobilize troops to block this Runing army. The rout of the peasant rebels in the town also fled desperately to the camp. Because they didn't understand the actual situation, and those routs were hyping up, the entire battalion suddenly fell into an inexplicable panic.

Gao Yingxiang didn't care about attacking the city at this time. He immediately withdrew all the besieging troops. and concentrated the army, and turned to meet the reinforcements, which were only more than five hundred men.

However, as soon as they saw the main force of the camp coming, the soldiers of the Guide Legion turned around and ran, and before the camp could react, they had already returned to the fortress of Qianhusuo. The sortie ended.

This sortie was completely unexpected by the camp, so only one person was seriously wounded by the German regiment. Seven people were slightly injured. However, more than 700 people were killed and wounded in the camp, and the casualty ratio is staggering.

But more importantly, this sortie completely interrupted a siege of the peasant rebel army, giving the soldiers defending in Ningling County a chance to breathe.

So afterwards, Gao Yingxiang was furious, and after sending down the leader of the camp who led the recruits, he sent nearly 10,000 troops. The fortress of the Thousand Households was half surrounded. This also made it impossible for the Runing army in the Qianhusuo fortress to go out of the fortress to rescue Ningling County.

And Gao Yingxiang also spent a lot of money this time. Although there are now nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses who broke into the camp, 30,000 or 40,000 of the old, weak, women and children were removed, and then the detachment and vigilant troops sent out were removed. Now there are only more than 50,000 people who can attack Ningling County. Now nearly 10,000 soldiers have been taken out to guard the fortress of Qianhusuo, which can be regarded as this attack, which really hurts the camp.

From here, it can be seen how great the impact of Yu Zilian taking away Yao Liang's militia is. If there is that militia to defend Ningling County, Qian Qi can take out a complete infantry regiment, cooperate with some cavalry and artillery, form a basic infantry and artillery formation, and move and support each other between Ningling County and Qianhusuo Fortress.

You must know that there is only a distance of seven or eight miles between the county seat of Ningling and the fortress of Qianhusuo, so this infantry artillery formation is easy to fight according to the city. And with the cover of the artillery and guns on the towers, the enemy could only attack frontally in this infantry and artillery formation, and the superiority of the peasant rebels could not be brought into play at all. Not to mention that you can go to the siege with one mind.

And now there is only this militia missing, and for the sake of prudence, they do not dare to drive the slow-moving artillery team out of the city, so the infantry and cavalry formation of only more than 500 people cannot get through the communication between the two cities.

A surprise attack out of the city is okay, but as long as the peasant rebel army is on guard and completely guards the fortress of Qianhusuo, then Ningling County will immediately be in a situation of being isolated and helpless.

And Gao Yingxiang, who had suffered an accident, was also ruthless, since he couldn't enter the city tonight, he simply ordered the displaced people to take advantage of the darkness to fill in the moat in the south and north of Ningling County. Prepare to form a siege posture tomorrow, relying on the absolute superiority in the number of camps, and conquer Ningling County in one fell swoop.

And this heavy snow also hindered the pace of reinforcements from the Runing army. At that time, it took Li Lu dozens of light horsemen more than two days to reach Ningling County from the junction of Runing Mansion and Ye County. In addition to the fact that he is a small group of men and horses marching very fast, the main reason is because Li Lu walks in a straight line.

The route of the Runing army's rapid march now is to detour through the hinterland of Runing Province and take an arc to rescue Guide Province, because it is necessary to ensure the safety of the rapid march, because it cannot be entangled by the troops of the peasant rebel army on the march.

But the current heavy snow has caused the carts of the infantry regiment led by Xue Yong to fall into snow pits from time to time. And Li Sanhe's cavalry corps was also afraid of hurting the horse's hooves, so they could only wade through the snow and walk in the heavy snow. Wu Shigong's main force of the Runing Army had heavy artillery, and it took four days to come to the Runing Army camp.

So now, if you want to keep Ningling County, Qian Qi will have to hold on for two days. (To be continued......)