Ling Jingyang garrisoned Hengwangling on the border of Zezhou and Huaiqing Mansion, and let Mei Shaozuo and Zhou Yuan sneak into Qinyang City of Huaiqing Mansion to get in touch with Wang Tiedao and Lao Mantou.

Mei Shaozuo and Zhou Yuan dressed up as ordinary people, day and night, after entering Huaiqing Mansion, there were a small number of Qing army scouts here, Mei Shaozuo and Zhou Yuan said: "Do you dare to kill these Qing soldiers, grab a fast horse and run to Qinyang City?" ”

Zhou Yuan was not as reckless as Mei Shaozuo, he asked Mei Shaozuo if he wanted to rob his own soldiers and fast horses, why he didn't set off anymore, he took the fast horses and went directly to Qinyang City, so he had to go here to kill the Qing army scouts, so as to achieve the purpose of grabbing horses.

Mei Shaozuo was speechless, the two did not dare to act under the noses of the Qing army, and waited until the Qing army scouts were far away, and then took the mountain road and the path to Qinyang City.

The two walked for three days, and finally arrived at a village near Qinyang City, there was no one in the village, and the two decided to spend the night in the village tonight, sneak into the city tomorrow, and meet with Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao.

In the evening of the same day, the earth suddenly shook, thousands of horses galloped, Mei Shaozuo and Zhou Yuan were frightened, got up from the ground, lying on the roof and looked, there was an army attacking Qinyang City, at this time the army attacking Qinyang City, only the Qing army.

Mei Shaozuo and Zhou Yuan said: "We must separate, I will go to the city to meet with Lao Mantou, and you go back to report to Lingdu Governor that the enemy is besieging Qinyang City." ”

Zhou Yuan glared at Mei Shaozuo and scolded: "Your accent is too official, I'll go to the city, you hurry back and report to the governor." ”

The accent is too standard, which is Mei Shaozuo's shortcoming, Mei Shaozuo immediately ran to Zezhou in the night, leaving Zhou Yuan lying on the roof, looking at Qinyang City in the distance, and fell into confusion.

Can the Ming army of Qinyang City hold out until reinforcements arrive?

If Qinyang City surrenders or is broken before the reinforcements arrive, the reinforcements will be besieged by the Qing army, and if the reinforcements arrive in Qinyang City, Lingdu Governor only has 1,500 soldiers, how to defeat the Qing army besieging Qinyang City?

Zhou Yuan lay on the roof and thought for half the night, fortunately, the Ming army repelled the Qing army's attack on the city, and after dawn the next day, Qinyang City was attacked by the Qing army again.

This time, the Qing army brought a lot of siege equipment and launched a fierce attack on the city wall, not only that, but a small number of Qing cavalry walked in the direction of Zhouyuan.

Zhou Yuan hurriedly found a family's cellar, drilled inside, stood under the cellar, and looked out through the slightest crack, a group of Eight Banners with money rat tails were deployed in the village.

It seems that the Qing army wants to use this village as a temporary headquarters, Zhou Yuan clenched the short knife in his hand, if he was discovered by the Qing army, he could only fight to the death.

After dozens of Qing cavalry came to the village, they began to deploy defenses in the village, as Zhou Yuan thought, this will become the temporary headquarters of the Qing army's attack on Qinyang City.

There were a few homeless people in the village, still asleep, and before they woke up, they were poked to death by the Qing soldiers with spears.

These Jiannu burned and plundered in the pass, and he was a scholar, and he had the courage to die with the Qing army, but he did not have the ability to die together.

After the Qing army killed the homeless, they began to enter the house to ensure that no one else existed in the village, Zhou Yuan's cellar was relatively remote, and the Qing army did not find out, Zhou Yuan could continue to lie in the cellar and watch the Qing army's every move.

The Qing army besieging Qinyang City was led by Mei Riha, the leader of the Eight Banners, and he was ordered by Duoduo to attack Huaiqing Mansion, and the Ming army of Huaiqing Mansion was concentrated in Qinyang County, as long as Qinyang City was broken, it was basically declared that the entire territory of Huaiqing Mansion was occupied.

Mei Riha led 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers yesterday, 4,000 green battalion soldiers approached Qinyang City, and the Ming army in Qinyang County retreated into the city.

Last night was the first time the Qing army attacked the city, he wanted to see how the Ming army in Huaiqing Mansion was, the Qing army's first siege was repelled by the Ming army in the city, Mei Riha also saw that the Ming army was quite combative, and the defensive attitude was very resolute, but Mei Riha had a secret weapon, that is, the ten Hongyi cannons he brought.

After dawn, the Hongyi cannons were lined up and bombarded towards Qinyang City, the field combat ability of the Hongyi cannons was not outstanding, but the siege was of great use.

The Qing army concentrated artillery to bombard the west city wall of Qinyang City, and the Ming army on the city wall was blown into a blur of flesh and blood, and Wang Tiedao was forced to order some soldiers to withdraw from the city wall.

If the Qing army breaks through the city gate, it will fight with the Qing army in the streets, and if the Qing army climbs the city wall, he will lead the troops to the city wall and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

Mei Riha did not rush to order the siege of the city, he wanted the city wall to be knocked down, and then ordered to attack, but the city wall of Qinyang City was bombarded by Hongyi cannons, and it still stood in front of the Qing army.

After the Qing army's artillery bombardment ended, Mei Riha saw that the bombardment effect did not meet expectations, and ordered the bombardment to continue in the afternoon, and at the same time he ordered the generals of the green battalion to persuade the Ming army to surrender, as long as the door was opened and surrendered, the silver women would have it.

Wang Tiedao and the old steamed bun are quite backbone, and they are not reckless to go, in the face of the persuasion of the Qing army, the two of them surrendered, and pretended to express the idea of surrender with the Qing army envoy.

In order to play a trick, the old steamed bun muttered to Wang Tiedao for a while, Wang Tiedao's face was a little ugly, but he still agreed with the old steamed bun.

The old steamed bun immediately asked his soldiers to find a corpse in the city, cut off the head, and then put on a pair of fine helmets, threw it down, and shouted loudly.

"This thief is Wang Tiedao, the chief soldier of Huaiqing Mansion, who has been killed by us, and invited the heavenly soldiers to enter the city."

Mei Riha was not surprised at all by the surrender of the Ming army, the Qing army attacked the city along the way, and how many Ming generals who led the army to resist were killed by the generals and surrendered to the Qing army.

This Qinyang City was defended like a tiger and wolf last night, and today in front of the Hongyi cannon, it is like a lamb.

In order to show his sincerity, Lao Mantou specially ordered the west gate to be opened to welcome the Qing army into the city.

Mei Riha rode on his war horse and ordered the troops to enter the city, and the vanguard of the Qing army, led by a green battalion soldier, entered Qinyang City from the west gate with pride.

The number of the vanguard of the Qing army is not much, only more than 500 people, the old steamed bun has long been ambushed inside the city, and when these 500 people enter the city, an order is given, and the Ming soldiers who are ambushed at the gate of the city suddenly put down the gate.

The Qing army in the city heard that the gate behind the gate fell, and suddenly panicked, Wang Tiedao led the troops to the city wall to prevent the Qing army from attacking the city, and the old steamed bun commanded the troops in the city to storm the vanguard of the Qing army.

The vanguard of the Qing army was ambushed by thousands of Ming troops, and was fired by the Ming archers and musketeers together, killing and wounding nearly 100 people, and the number was inferior, and they were hacked to death in groups.

The old steamed bun also carried a big knife into the Qing army's formation, and thousands of Ming troops rushed up to slash and kill the green battalion soldiers, and the green battalion soldiers were either killed, or knelt on the ground and begged for life.

Seeing that the troops could not resist, the Green Battalion hurriedly ordered to surrender, and more than 500 Green Battalion soldiers were killed in a short time, leaving only more than 100 people to surrender to the Ming Army.

Outside the city, Mei Riha jumped like thunder, this group of Ming troops actually surrendered, he ordered a forced siege of the city, thousands of green battalion soldiers under the watchful eye of the Eight Banners, launched a strong attack on Qinyang City, Wang Tiedao and his subordinates fought on the city wall, as long as there was still a breath, they had to fight to the end with the Qing army.

This time the Qing army attacked the city and was repulsed, after retreating, Mei Riha ordered to continue the shelling, and the Hongyi cannon killed hundreds of Ming troops who had not had time to remove the city wall.

The Qing army lost nearly 1,000 people in the siege battle on this day, and the Ming army also lost more than 400 people, but the Qing army was numerous, and Mei Riha was angry, so he returned to the village with his own soldiers, where he summoned more than 1,000 generals of the whole army to decide how to capture Qinyang City.

"The Ancient God Emperor"

From today's siege, the generals of the Qing army can see that the defenders of Qinyang City will not be persuaded to surrender, but forcibly attacking the city will cause great losses.

Mei Riha will not waste his precious troops here, after all, Qinyang City is too close to Shanxi, and the Shanxi Ming army will set off tonight, and it will be able to support Qinyang City tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Mei Riha ordered a Niu Lu and led two hundred and eight banner soldiers to the border area between Huaiqing Mansion and Shanxi to set up defenses, and the Ming army came to support and immediately rushed back to report.

Niu Lu left Qinyang City with his subordinates and rushed to the border, Mei Riha asked his generals to rush to Ruzhou, asked Duoduo to give him more troops, and reported to Duoduo that there were many Ming troops in Qinyang City, and if Qinyang City was captured, the entire Ming army in Huaiqing Mansion would be basically wiped out.

When this was done, Mezhha ordered his troops to besiege but not attack, and he was to wait until reinforcements arrived before continuing the siege.

He didn't know that Ling Jingyang was leading the troops from Zezhou to Huaiqing Mansion, and Mei Shaozuo returned to Zezhou the next evening and came to the Iron Fist Legion barracks.

reported to Ling Jingyang that the Qing army was besieging Qinyang City, and after Ling Jingyang got the information, he immediately ordered to be pulled.

1,500 soldiers of the Iron Fist Regiment galloped to the aid of the starry night, and it took only half a day to arrive at the border line between Huaiqing Mansion and Zezhou, where an encounter broke out with the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, and the Qing Army Niu Lu looked down on the Ming Army, thinking that the Ming Army in Shanxi was all grass on the wall, as long as it exerted its strength, the Ming Army would be defeated like a mountain.

He asked one of his generals to rush back, and after reporting to Mei Riha that a small number of Ming troops had come to reinforce Huaiqing Mansion, he led two hundred and eight banner soldiers to attack the Ming army.

Ling Jingyang has 1,500 soldiers, in the face of the attack of 208 banner soldiers, Ling Jingyang commanded with ease, this time Li Rufeng, Zhang Shun did not come, but Shi Tiehui led a thousand soldiers to meet after the grain harvest.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the Iron Fist Legion are veterans, and they may not be the opponents of the Eight Banners one-on-one, but they are well-trained and have a strong will to fight.

The Eight Banners are really the first in East Asia, and the two hundred and eight banner soldiers are like two hundred tigers, plunging into the Ming army's formation, and the Ming soldiers at the forefront are either hacked to death or knocked away.

But the Ming soldiers in the back stepped forward with their shields and restrained the collision of the Eight Banners alive.