Guarding the Qi River is one of the four protectors that Tao Tianxiong trusts very much, Huang Tianda Protector Xie Yan, hearing Tao Tianxiong's questioning, he cried and said with a sad face: "The sect leader is angry, I don't know how the Shu army took Yucheng, I only know that the Shu army is wearing the magic clothes of the Great Protector of the Extreme Heaven, and also holds the Xu Protector token originally stationed in Yucheng, saying that Yucheng was lost, Xu Protector died in battle, they fled to Qihe County, the people guarding the city interrogated and did not find a problem and opened the city to let them in, I didn't expect them to be all fake, originally we could still withstand it, But the enemy army kept coming into the city, and the rebel made Duan Fei personally kill in front of the battle, and his subordinates also fought with him, and his skills seemed to restrain his subordinates everywhere, and his subordinates were seriously injured and defeated in less than five moves, and Qi He fell. ”

The Great Protector of the Extreme Heaven on the side frowned and said: "It must be that the Shu army changed into the outfit of our army after taking Yucheng, and deceived the city gate to successfully take the Qi River, sect leader, Qi River is an important town for us to besiege Jinan and fight against Duan Fei, and now that the Qi River is lost, what should we do?" ”

Tao Tianxiong clenched his fists and said viciously: "What else can I do? Do you want to turn around and take Qi He back? I don't believe that Duan Feiken will sit back and watch us take Jinan, I will force him to come out and fight him to the death on the plains! ”

Before dawn, the White Lotus Sect launched the fiercest siege battle in history, and the defenders in the city seemed to have learned the news that reinforcements were coming, and they desperately defended the city, and the two sides fought fiercely at the head of the city and under the city, countless lives fell here, and the corpses were almost piled up under the walls of Jinan.

A big city like Jinan can not fall in a short-term onslaught, only a long-term siege and waiting for the defenders to make a mistake can be taken in one fell swoop, Tao Tianxiong desperately attacked the city regardless of the heavy casualties, the purpose is just to force Duan Fei to leave the Qi River and come to support Jinan, Duan Fei as a solicitor, can't sit back and watch Jinan be captured by the White Lotus Sect, right? Jinan City is not Yucheng, and its city walls are difficult to blast open with cannons, as for those who died in the siege of the city who are not the elites of the White Lotus Sect, let alone his descendants of Tao Tianxiong, he doesn't care, as long as he wins this battle, he will send people to recruit troops at will, and more than 100,000 people are not at his fingertips?

After half a day of onslaught, Tao Tianxiong finally heard the news, saying that the vanguard of the Shu army had opened the city and crossed the river, hearing the news, Tao Tianxiong finally put his mind at ease, the Shu army is now fighting in the south and the north, the center is empty, Duan Fei can take at most 30,000 or 40,000 people out of Beijing, 30,000 or 40,000 on the plain against more than 100,000, this huge gap can not be made up by just some sharp firearms, not to mention that he Tao Tianxiong also has firearms, it is not difficult to imitate grenades, muskets are partly homemade, and some are bought from the Franco, as long as you have money, are you afraid that you can't buy good things? As long as the army dares to go out of the city to fight him, even if Duan Fei is really blessed by the Bodhisattva, and he Tao Tianxiong is blessed by the White Lotus Holy Mother, he will still capture him Duan Fei!

Duan Fei, who was far away in Qihe City, knew that Tao Tianxiong had no intention of retreating when he heard that the White Lotus Sect was attacking Jinan City, and he made up his mind to fight with the officers and soldiers to the end.

However, this is also in line with Duan Fei's meaning, he didn't have the heart to play a game of hide and seek with the enemy, if he could hit with one blow and capture Tao Tianxiong and the upper echelons of the White Lotus Sect.

Duan Fei also knew very well that the enemy was strong and his troops were too small, but Duan Fei was still full of confidence in himself, he waited for the rear army to arrive at the Qi River, and after resting for an hour, Duan Fei began to send two thousand cavalry out of the city first, crossed the Daqing River, and slowly headed towards Jinan.

This is just a delaying tactic, and it is also a signal from Duan Fei to Tao Tianxiong: Do you want to fight a tough battle? The country's public service accompanies you to the end!

That night, except for the two thousand people swaying between the Qi River and Jinan, there was no big action on both sides, but there were a lot of secret actions, until the next morning, the two sides almost seemed to have already agreed on the general big move, in Jinan, the White Lotus Sect's offensive was more than twice as weak as yesterday, Tao Tianxiong rearranged the position under the city of Jinan, he had to wait for the army to arrive in front of him and then carry out a decisive battle.

On the other side of the Qi River, Duan Fei led his army to cross the Daqing River early in the morning and slowly headed towards Jinan, he didn't want his soldiers to be exhausted before they reached the city of Jinan.

No matter how slow it was, there was a moment of encounter, but the Shu army stopped when it was still a few miles away from the front of the White Lotus Sect array, and under the cover of the flag, Tao Tianxiong, who was standing on a high place and looking at the Shu army, couldn't see what the Shu army was doing, and he secretly felt bad in his heart: "Could it be ...... The army also brought artillery? ”

Tao Tianxiong once carefully figured out the situation of the war situation of the Shu army in Datong and the artillery bombardment, the power of the cannon and the flower bomb is really shocking, but the weakness of the cannon is difficult to drag is also very obvious, according to Tao Tianxiong, the Shu army did not bring the cannon when it came out of the pass, because the cannon was too heavy, and it was useless to barely drag it out of the pass.

Tao Tianxiong was suspicious in his heart, thinking that Duan Fei had repeatedly delayed, and the army was marching so slowly, could it be that they were all waiting for cannons? If the Shu army really brought cannons, and they came to the front of the battle without fighting, could it be that they were setting up cannons? If the artillery is successfully set up in front of the formation, it will be troublesome.

Thinking of the power of the legendary flowering bomb, Tao Tianxiong's heart trembled, and even the powerful Tatar army was blown up by the flowering bomb and fled in a hurry, although Tao Tianxiong had tens of thousands of elites and more than 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers in his hands, but Tao Tianxiong knew very well that no matter how elite his subordinates were, they were not as good as Tatar cavalry, and no matter how many people they were, they couldn't afford to bomb indiscriminately.

Thinking of this, Tao Tianxiong couldn't hold his breath anymore, and he ordered without hesitation: "Xie Yan, you personally lead the team, and the formation scatter points rush over to kill those cannons, if you succeed, the deity will remember your first merit!" ”

Huang Tianda Protector Xie Yan chuckled in his heart, he knew that it was not the sect leader's habit to suddenly change the predetermined strategy, it must be something wrong, knowing that there was a difference, but in order to make up for the mistake of losing Qi He, he had to bite the bullet, Xie Yan looked back and shouted, the big flag pointed to, and thousands of troops and horses rushed towards the banner under the leadership of Xie Yan.

Duan Fei was hiding behind the banner and staring at them with a telescope, seeing this, Duan Fei calmly ordered: "The front army retreats to both sides, and the gunners are ready, as long as the enemy enters the firing range, they will bombard the damn with artillery." ”

Su Rong frowned slightly, Duan Fei's foul words made her a little sideways, but in the world of men in the army, Duan Fei's words aroused everyone's fighting spirit, and the gunner Lao Li gave an order loudly and energetically: "Your Excellency has an order, when the enemy army enters the firing range, you will bomb the damn!" ”

The front team withdrew, and at once threw all the banners that stood in the way to the ground, drew their muskets from behind their saddles, lit the arquebus, and loaded them with medicine, with great skill.

Tao Tianxiong saw the two rows of cannons exposed in front of the Shu army, his mouth was a little bitter, the Shu army really brought the cannons, he was fooled.

He didn't know how Yucheng was captured, Qihe County was deceived by the Shu army to open the city gate and fell, which gave Tao Tianxiong a wrong message, he thought that the Shu army lacked the tools to attack the city, the Shu army came so fast, and it was impossible to have artillery, but he didn't expect the Shu army to delay for a day in Qi River, and really brought the cannon to the front of the battle.

Fortunately, the cannon of the Shu army looks relatively small, and the power should not be as good as the general cannon of the ambush Tatar, there is still something to be done, Tao Tianxiong thought about it, and the banner waved, and his elite divided into two teams, and attacked the Shu army from the left and right.

The two sides approached rapidly, the cannons of the Shu army let out a huge roar, and the cannonballs fell one after another in the charging formation of the White Lotus Sect, and the flowering shells exploded the enemy's horses, and the severed limbs were mixed with flesh and blood, although the direct lethality of the incendiary bombs was not so powerful, but the black oil on fire splashed in all directions, and it burned when it was touched, and the disciples of the White Lotus Sect cried and shouted in a chaotic formation.

Although the White Lotus Sect's charging formation was chaotic, Duan Fei frowned when he saw it, the White Lotus Sect's charging formation was too scattered, and the damage caused by flowering bombs and incendiary bombs was not strong enough, it seemed that the commander of the White Lotus Sect had studied the advantages and disadvantages of these two new weapons and launched targeted tactics.

However, Duan Fei didn't care, no matter how scattered the enemy was, sooner or later they would have to gather in piles, and at the same time, he also noticed that the enemy was outflanking his two wings, and he immediately issued a flag order, and the musketeers who were originally arranged on the two wings went up separately, and the ordinary cavalry behind quickly filled their gaps, and after the second round of artillery bombardment, these cavalry quickly rushed out and collided violently with the enemy in front of the artillery array.

The cavalry on the Shu army did not throw grenades first, which made Tao Tianxiong, who was staring at the battlefield, a little suspicious, the grenades were simple to make, and even he prepared a lot for his cronies' elite subordinates, so the Shu army should not be without grenades, right?

On the two wings of the battlefield, the cavalry of both sides also came into contact, the sound of 'boom' explosions was endless, both sides threw grenades at the enemy before contact, and the explosions continued to occur in the formation of both sides, but the results were completely different, under the explosion attack of the same number of grenades, the cavalry formation of the White Lotus Sect was chaotic, the horses were frightened and jumped, and the cavalry on horseback suffered heavy casualties.

On the contrary, although the Shu army was also affected by the grenade explosion, many horses were blown down, and many knights were blown away, but the horses of the Shu army did not seem to care much about the explosion that was close at hand, and the damage of the Shu army was far less than that of the White Lotus Sect cavalry, their formation was still neat, and they rushed into the White Lotus Sect cavalry team in a blink of an eye, muskets rang out one after another, and the cavalry of the White Lotus Sect fell one after another like cutting straw, and in a blink of an eye, they were already defeated.

Tao Tianxiong saw this scene, his face was a little gloomy, he didn't expect his elite to be so vulnerable in front of the enemy's elite, what made him even more puzzled was that even if their imitation grenade was not as powerful as the genuine goods of the Shu army, it would not be so bad? The two sides threw grenades at each other, and the losses of the White Lotus Sect's cavalry were simply several times that of the Shu army, what was going on?