As the saying goes, fire and water are ruthless, and in the face of the raging fire burning under the eastern city of Gaoyang, even if the heavy infantry of the Han army is brave, they are powerless at this moment.

One by one, the ladders were ignited, the shield carts were burned in the flames, and the Han army that was besieging the city retreated like a tide, leaving only the isolated Wuzhen Chao Ha Shen Shi Tianzhu on the city wall.

Shi Tianzhu, who was on the verge of despair, burst out with the courage to die at the last moment, and pounced on Ma Sande, who was advancing the Overseer, with red eyes.

However, at this time, the mentality of the remnants of the Han Army Banner had collapsed, and they could not organize an effective formation at all, and they only relied on their personal martial arts to rush around.

However, they were constantly squeezed by the wolf warriors and pikemen of the Mandarin Duck Army formation, and the musketeers and archers of the Jingbei Army kept shooting on one side.

Slashing with knives and stabbing with spears, even if these fierce Han army banners cut down the sword and shield soldiers in front of the Mandarin Duck Army, they were constantly pierced through the gaps in the wolf squirts.

The thirty or so Han army flags didn't even last for half a pillar of incense, and they were slaughtered by the Jingbei army that kept coming.

Shi Tianzhu no longer had the strength to move anymore, and he tried his best, but at this moment, his body was covered with wounds, holding a knife, and he was trembling and staring at the Jingbei Army in front of him.

"Suppress him with a wolf, Lao Tzu will use a cannon to send this dog traitor to the end."

Li Xingzhi laughed, the protagonist of the novel in his previous life, the scene of shooting a living person came to his mind.

Several wolf wrestlers of mandarin duck soldiers came out of the crowd, and the wolf whirlpool in their hands about one and a half zhang long stabbed out from several directions at the same time, forcing Shi Tianzhu to the corner of the wall.

Yang Fei personally commanded several gunners and pushed a tiger squat cannon in front of Shi Tianzhu.

The dim muzzle of the cannon emitted a faint cold light in the slanting sun.

"No, don't...... I......! ”

As the gunner ignited the fuse on the cannon, Shi Tianzhu let out a desperate roar.

"Cannon blasting!"

Li Xingzhi teasingly looked at the trembling Wuzhen Chao Ha Shen Ling Shi Tianzhu, and waved it down with his big hand, although it was not as sour as it was to kill Zhu Guozhi, the prefect of Jiangning in the Qing court.

But when the two-pound iron bullet penetrated the chest of this executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of the Han people in Liaodong, the picture was also full of a considerable sense of immediacy.

As Shi Tianzhu's banner slowly fell from the head of Gaoyang City, the Qing Dynasty's Rao Yu Belle Abatai knew that he would definitely not be able to capture Gaoyang City today.

"Collect the troops and return to the camp, make dinner on the third watch tonight, attack again tomorrow, do not break Gaoyang, and the general will not stop the army!"

Abatai looked hatefully at Gaoyang Dongcheng in the firelight.

"Lord Belle, tomorrow will attack the city, please be the vanguard of the minions, if you don't break Gaoyang, you will never return."

Shi Tingzhu, who had died of his own brother, knelt in front of Abatai with red eyes.

Li Shutai said: "General, the so-called one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion, today our army attacked the city, the Han army flag was damaged nearly 500 people, and the stone staff leader was broken, morale has declined, and the thief has the city wall as a backing, our army is eager to go down, it is better to ask Prince Rui to transfer troops and horses, besiege on all sides, so that the thieves are defended everywhere, but they are not defended everywhere, then Gao Yang can go down also." ”

Abatai said angrily: "Today is just a small setback, our army still has more than 5,000 people, how can you not defeat the small Gaoyang City, tomorrow Japan will order the blue flag vest to cooperate with you, and you must break the city in one fell swoop." ”

Li Shutai, Gang Atai and other Han army generals are all overjoyed, with the help of the Manchurian uncle, is this Gaoyang still worried that it can't be broken?

"General, I am a cavalry in the blue flag vest, if I abandon the horse and fight on foot, I am afraid that the minions will be too short to attack the enemy!"

Yang Guli is secretly anxious, as Abatai's confidant, he knows better than anyone that the contradiction between Abatai and Hong Tai, if his own Niu Lu suffers another loss, wouldn't it weaken the strength of the party?

Abatai waved his hand and said: "Now that Dolgon is attacking Baoding, it is precisely to lure Lu Xiangsheng out of Changping, we must break through Gaoyang as soon as possible, collect grain, and then attack Lu Xiangsheng with Dolgon." ”

Yang Guli knew that Abatai had made up his mind, and what he said was just an excuse, what virtue the Ming army had, he didn't know it, Prince Rui still had nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, and it was still unknown whether Lu Xiangsheng could gather 30,000 soldiers.

Goyang City.

After the Qing army retreated, Li Xingzhi ordered Qian Anning, immediately counted the battle damage, and reorganized the equipment.

Because it was a defensive battle, the losses of the Jingbei Army were not large, only more than 100 long-range soldiers and more than 20 mandarin duck soldiers were killed or wounded, in addition to more than 200 young men and women who died in battle.

Most of these soldiers were shot in the face by Han archers and died.

Li Xingzhi looked at the corpses of Jingbei soldiers carried by the people, it was a whim, and Qian Anning, who came to report the battle damage, said: "If we put a mask on the faces of the soldiers, then we will not be afraid of Tartar arrows." ”

Qian Anning hurriedly complimented: "What the general said is extremely true, but the war is urgent, although the subordinates can mobilize the blacksmiths in the city to rush to work, but it must be too late recently, today's battle, our lime and fierce fire oil consume a lot, if the Tartars attack a few more times, how can it be good?" ”

Wang Zhong pouted and said: "The soldiers come to block, the water comes to cover the soil, today's battle, the young men who assisted in the defense are also a lot bolder, if you want me to say, it is better to integrate them into the army, even if they fill with human lives, they can also block the thousands of people in Abatai, as long as they fight a few more battles, they will be qualified soldiers." ”

After listening to Wang Zhong's words, Li Xingzhi's eyes lit up, there were more than 4,000 young people in the city, if they were incorporated into the Jingbei Army, as long as this battle was won, his army and horses could be expanded to 6,000 people.

It's just that these young and strong families are all in Gaoyang, and if they are incorporated into the Jingbei Army, they will definitely have concerns.

Gaoyang is located in the Gyeonggi Plain, there is no danger to defend, it is not suitable as a base for itself at all, if this battle is won, it will definitely have to find another way out, and when the time comes, it will be a big trouble to carry so many people on the road.

Thinking of this, Li Xingzhi couldn't help but feel a pain in his head, so he simply stopped thinking about it, after all, this is all an afterthought, if he can't keep Gao Yang, everything is in vain.

"Okay, Wang Zhong will select some young people to join the army first, and let Mr. Qian register them."

At this time, Huang Wenchang's master Li Youcai and Xu Zhijian's master Song Guangkun also led the people to carry the prepared meals to the Dongcheng city wall.

The Jingbei soldiers and young men who had been at the head of the city for a day were already hungry, and they would lean on the wall one by one and gnaw on the steamed buns that had just been handed out.

Li Youcai and Song Guangkun came to Li Xingzhi step by step, and stepped forward to salute with a flattering face.

Song Guangkun and Li Xingzhi are not familiar with it, but Li Youcai, Li Xingzhi is very familiar with it, and he knows that it is definitely not a good thing to be able to mix with Li Youcai.

As the saying goes, if you don't stretch out your hand and don't hit people with smiling faces, Li Xingzhi naturally won't embarrass them, so he asked: "Isn't the logistics in charge of Cheng Lu Zhong of Gaoyang County?" Why do you need Mr. Li to make a trip? ”

Li Youcai said with a smile: "General, now that the Eastern Capture Army is coming to the city, our army is trapped in the city, if we don't repel Abatai as soon as possible, the students are afraid that they will attract more Tartars, so I and Brother Song are thinking hard about countermeasures, and occasionally have a plan, and I am here to present it to the general!" ”