Haocheng is not a military town, but it should not be underestimated, it can connect the north and the south, and it is a necessary place for Dayan to march south. Of course, the importance of Haocheng is not unknown to the Ming Dynasty, so Haocheng has tens of thousands of troops stationed all year round, and the city wall is high, which is difficult to overcome.

Zuo Houde led his soldiers to camp three miles away from Haocheng, and ordered his lieutenants to discuss in the camp.

"General, this Haocheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and we are not enough soldiers and horses, how can we overcome it?"

Zuo Houde smiled: "Do you know why I am stationed three miles away?" ”

The left and right lieutenants shook their heads and said that they didn't know.

Zuo Houde said with a smile: "This place is still three miles away from Haocheng, and there are high mountains to cover, at this time Haocheng must not know that we are coming, we march all the way, the soldiers must be tired, and tell his subordinates to rest now, and wait until the night, I wait for the army to march carefully, there is no cloud in the sky, today is fifteen, the moonlight must be bright tonight, take advantage of the moonlight tonight to attack the city, we are energetic, the defenders are tired, and they will be able to take it!" ”

At night, the moon was bright. Zuo Houde stayed in Zhuo County for four years, hunting all year round, and learned a lot from Orion, but he was also able to see some celestial phenomena.

Zuo Houde led his subordinates to march cautiously, not afraid of being discovered by the enemy, but the later they were discovered, the better it would be for Zuo Houde and others. The soldiers under his command were evenly spaced apart, holding shields and moving slowly, and Zuo Houde took the lead.

Three miles away, not far, there was night along the way, plus silent, directly to a mile away, the enemy army in the city found Zuo Houde's army, then the defenders in the city slowly woke up, but tired.

Zuo Houde saw that he ordered the soldiers to speed up a lot, but they still held the shield gradually, the shape was neatly spaced, and the arrow rain on the city struck, and he failed to organize Zuo Houde and others to march.

From time to time, sergeants with arrows in the legs and soles of their feet fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, all crouching and holding shields to cover their torsos and heads, and their left and right robes bypassed them and continued to advance.

Before the defenders in the city were completely put into the battlefield, Zuo Houde and others rushed to the city gate, fortunately, Zuo Houde had already inquired about the situation, Haocheng did not have a moat, and this broken city pillar was useful.

Of course, Zuo Houde and others did not leave all their hopes on the pillars of the broken city, and still borrowed the ladder to attack the city, Zuo Houde took the lead, took the lead in climbing the ladder, and then protected himself with heavy armor, and the shield in his hand was also a lot of vital points around the body.

shouted: "The first to board, Youzhou Zuo Houde is also!" ”

The soldiers under the city also shouted: "Cai! ”

On the city wall, Zuo Houde held a shield and charged forward, like a ploughing ox, and the defenders fell down the city wall one after another under the push, picked up another shield casually, leaned over, protected the whole body, and continued to charge.

However, after that, there were more soldiers on the city wall on this side climbed up, this is Zuo Houde has rushed to the front of the defender's banner, a shield will shoot the guard off the city wall, draw his sword and slash, the guard will try his best to protect the battle flag in the eyes of the soldiers on both sides of the battle flag fluttered down: "Don't fall at this time, wait for when!" ”

In a short time, the soldiers under the city broke through the city gate, a captain took the lead in rushing into the city, and the defenders of the city were scattered into a group.

Zuo Houde no longer had the strength to chase after him, he sat on the city, picked up a pot of water to drink, clasped a layer of blood scabs on his face with his left hand, and the military doctor who had rushed to bandage the wounded soldiers.

It didn't take long for the battle to end.

After the battle, the results of the battle were counted, and this siege was too smooth, and Zuo Houde didn't expect it, so Zuo Houde couldn't wait to see the results!

Beheaded 1,800, 6,000 prisoners, seeing this, Zuo Houde frowned, how can he be this person, and then continue to watch, trampling on three thousand four hundred, this is the reason for it at once, I didn't expect to trample so many people to death each other!

"You go find a few soldiers and ask, why did so many people die?" Zuo Houde instructed his guards to say.

After a while, after listening to what the soldier said, Zuo Houde understood what was happening, it turned out that this was the impact on the city when Zuo Houde and the others were first discovered a mile away.

At that time, most of the defenders in the city were asleep, and suddenly heard such a loud sound, almost had a "camp roar", the guards were also experienced, and finally let the defenders calm down, but I didn't expect Zuo Houde to attack the city wall again, and then broke the city gate.

As a result, the soldiers who had just been pacified were stimulated again, and all of a sudden, all the negative emotions of fear, nervousness, and death surfaced, and the city was in chaos, and there was a stampede, and countless deaths and injuries occurred.

Zuo Houde felt a little lucky when he heard it, after all, this siege was affected by this, and the casualties were greatly reduced. After instructing the left and right to watch the soldiers, he sent people to Dingcheng to inform him of the news.

By the time the messenger reached Dingcheng, it was already noon on the second day.

"Break Hao City overnight! Good! What a prestige general, it really greatly raised the prestige of our army! Zhennan General Li Anguo said.

"Pass the order, within ten days, I will break through Mobei City. Instructed General Yangwei to return to Dingcheng, and I immediately sent someone to hand over Haocheng. ”

When Zuo Houde waited for the military order of Dingcheng again, accompanied by the army that came to garrison, after the two sides handed over, Zuo Houde led the army back to Dingcheng.

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Daming, the camp of the Northern Army, at this time, Lu Xiaoxian received the news that Haocheng was broken. couldn't help muttering: "Night attack on Haocheng, what a great Yan general!" The order went down, and hurried to Haocheng, how did I lose it, how can I get it back. ”

After Zuo Houde's army returned to Dingcheng, Dingcheng's army had already begun to attack the city - Mobei City, which was the border town of the Ming Dynasty, had been looking at Dingcheng from afar, like Zuo Houde's previous reason to conquer Dingcheng was to prevent the support of the rear of Mobei City, so that the army could take Mobei City and go south smoothly.

After entering the city, Zuo Houde went directly to the Chinese army camp to report.

"The last general Zuo Houde has seen the general" Zuo Houde directly saluted General Zhennan with his fists.

"Breaking through Haocheng, General Zuo is working hard." Li Anguo helped Zuo Houde up and encouraged him again.

"General Yangwei, I have attacked Mobei City twice today, but I have not been able to capture it! I don't know what General Yangwei thinks? Zuo Houde was still thinking about how to intervene in the great credit of "Mobei City", but he didn't expect Li Anguo to ask Zuo Houde directly.

"The last general is willing to give it a try!" Zuo Houde arched his hand.

"Good! General Yang Wei is willing to give it a try! Li Anguo clapped his hands and agreed with Zuo Houde's words!