Ten Hongyi cannons fired at the same time, and after the fuse was ignited by the torches, the cannons soon began to wield.

The city tower on the city wall of Qingjiang became the fire point of the cannon at the first moment, but unfortunately the red-coated cannon of the official army did not adjust the angle, and only one of the ten cannonballs fell on the edge of the city tower, and the remaining nine either hit high or low, and did not hit the city tower.

But the power of a cannonball is not small, and after the tower was hit by a cannon, it immediately broke a pillar in the tower.

The simple thing is that the pillar is not a load-bearing large column, but only a partial pillar, so the tower has not collapsed.

But the power of one cannonball is so great, if ten cannons shoot at the city tower, then all the high-ranking generals in the city tower will not be able to go to see Hades?

Qian Dayou took advantage of the gap in the artillery to reload, pulled up Mo Qian and ran out, and said as he ran: "Dashuai, the target of the city tower is too big, you can't stay there!" ”

Mo Qian was naturally not a fool, he was already ready to run away when the first shell landed in the city tower.

Seeing the cannonballs falling in the city tower, Mo Qian remembered in his heart that the cannonballs at this time were still solid shells, not the kind of flowering shells of later generations, if it was the flowering shells of later generations, the cannon just now, all the officers in the city tower, including him, must have already burped.

Mo Qian didn't know where this flower horse Liu got the Hongyi cannon, and he wouldn't have time to dwell on this matter, ten cannons were used to attack the city, which would be extremely disadvantageous for the defenders of the city.

As soon as Mo Qian and the officers and soldiers in the city tower evacuated, the second round of cannon fire came over.

This time, the accuracy of the official artillery was much higher, and five cannons hit the tower, and the remaining five hit the city wall outside the tower, smashing the city wall into the depression, revealing a deep pit.

Fortunately, the city wall of Qingjiang County was repaired by Liang Shiji when the Kou Kou was in turmoil a few years ago, otherwise if it was the old city wall that had been in disrepair for a long time, I am afraid that the city wall would have collapsed with one shot.

Liu Liangzuo ordered the artillery to bombard the city tower for five rounds, and the city tower finally collapsed after no resistance, killing more than 30 soldiers defending the city.

Mo Qian stayed on the city wall, and he couldn't help but burst out with a national curse.

"Cao Niniang, the flower horse Liu of the dog day, don't let Lao Tzu catch you!"

Qian Dayou and Yi Jiu next to them couldn't help but look at each other when they heard the big handsome scolding the street, and they couldn't help laughing after a while.

Mo Qian saw that he was still smiling, and immediately said with a straight face: "Still laughing, the cannon is over, and the city is about to be attacked!" ”

The two looked up, and sure enough, they saw that the officers and soldiers were rushing towards the base of the city wall with a ladder.

Mo Qian also had a new understanding of Liu Liangzuo in his heart at this time, although this kid was born in a rogue, he still had some talent for fighting, otherwise he would not be able to mix with the position of a senior military general.

The way of infantry and artillery coordinated combat has been figured out by him, and it seems that this person cannot be underestimated.

The moat in Qingjiang County is very shallow, only less than half a zhang wide, and the depth is only five feet deep, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers braved the arrows flying from the city wall to frantically throw bags of earth into the moat, and the moat was filled in a short time.

As soon as the moat was filled, the morale of the officers and soldiers rose instantly, and Liu Liangzuo immediately ordered: "Immediately organize a ladder to attack the city, whoever is the first to climb the city wall, the official will be promoted to the third level, and the reward will be one hundred taels of silver!" Who can kill the king of thieves Mo asked, this official guaranteed him to be a guerrilla general! ”

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, Liu Liangzuo's subordinates were originally bandits, and at this time, they were stimulated by the high-ranking official Houlu, and they suddenly felt like they had been beaten with chicken blood, screaming with a knife in one hand and a shield in the other hand to rush up.

The real battle had just begun, and Mo Qian didn't care about his identity as a marshal at this time, so he lifted the fire oil prepared on the city wall and poured it down the city wall, and after pouring the fire oil, he threw the torch down again.

Suddenly, there were dozens of officers and soldiers under the city, and one by one the burning people were scurrying around, and the miserable screams were extremely harsh.

Liu Liangzuo's generals were behind the siege troops, and when they saw the soldiers on fire scurrying around, the generals directly stabbed these people to death with spears and helped them end their suffering.

The first wave of soldiers besieging the city was two thousand, and the defenders on the city walls were only a thousand, because no more people could stand on the walls.

When the soldiers of the rebel army saw that the marshal personally fought with the officers and soldiers with his sword, they couldn't help but take the marshal as an example for a while, and after a fierce battle for half an hour, they finally repelled the first wave of attacks of the officers and troops.

The officers and soldiers retreated after dropping down hundreds of corpses.

After the officers and troops withdrew, Mo Qian immediately ordered the rebels defending the city to change shifts, and transferred the second thousand-man team of the first brigade to fight on the city wall.

More than 100 of the 650 were wounded, and the rest were tired enough.

More than 300 rebel soldiers died, most of whom were killed by artillery fire.

Fortunately, the vitality of the 1,000-man team is still there, as long as the troops are replenished after this battle, they can recover later.

The 2,000-strong team also went up at this time, and Mo Qian also wanted to go to the city wall to continue to defend the city after resting, but Qian Dayou and Yi Jiu didn't do it.

Yi Jiu said: "Dashuai, the city wall is too dangerous, you can't go, if you have an accident, our 20,000 troops will have no backbone, anyone can die, Dashuai, you must not have anything to do, fighting is the business of our brothers, Dashuai only needs to sit in the central command, you don't have to go to the city wall." ”

Qian Dayou also hurriedly persuaded: "Lao Jiu is right, Dashuai, leave the matter of the war to us, Dashuai, you must not take risks, please go back immediately, and leave the matter of defending the city to us!" ”

Mo Qian looked at his two subordinates like this, and his heart suddenly woke up.

He thought for a while and agreed to the request of the two, he said: "Okay, but you don't have to be two people on it together, the two of you take turns to rest, I think he Hua Ma Liu is probably trying to attack the city with wheel warfare today, the two of you arrange to coordinate, let the soldiers of the first and second brigades take turns to defend the city, once there is a situation of physical exhaustion, immediately replace people!" ”

"Yes!"

Qian Dayou led his own personal army to go up to the north city wall, Qian Dayou had just left, and suddenly a voice came from the direction of the east city, and some soldiers came to report that the official army had also launched an attack on the east city gate.

When Yi Jiu heard this, he didn't dare to delay, and immediately led a thousand main troops under his command to defend the city.

Listening to the sound of artillery outside the city, Mo Qian couldn't help but suddenly fall into a predicament.

The officers and troops have artillery, and Liu Liangzuo has 3,000 mobile cavalry troops under his command, although there are many mountains and hills in the south, but outside the north city of the Qingjiang River is a smooth road, there are not even a few mountains, and there are some trees growing on the only few small dirt slopes, which cannot affect the cavalry combat at all.

The dense water network in the south did not work outside the northern city of Qingjiang, and Mo Qian suddenly had no move.

When going out of the city for a decisive battle, first of all, the troops are insufficient, and secondly, the officers and cavalry still have to fight, and if they really want to fight, I am afraid that the two brigades and horses that charge themselves will collapse.

Lu Zhao, who was stationed to defend Xinyu, led troops to attack, but he didn't have that certainty, Lu Zhao led 5,000 troops in Xinyu, Xinyu is the gateway to Yuanzhou, Mo Qian didn't dare to let Liu Liangzuo's officers and troops enter Yuanzhou, that was his hometown, once his hometown was copied, the foundation of the righteous army would be hit hard.

Moreover, Mo Qian also handed over the secret order to Lu Zhao, and the five thousand men and horses in Lu Zhao's hands were of great use and could not be dispatched at will.

Now Mo Qian has only 11,000 troops at hand, half of which are in Zhangshu Town.

Just this soldier and horse, this has already counted the disabled and sick, and there are more than twice as many officers and troops outside the city, it is still difficult to defend the city, how can Mo Qian have the ability to take the initiative.

The siege lasted until the afternoon, and Liu Liangzuo had already launched five attacks on the small Qingjiang county, each time it was a force of 2,000 people, and after five consecutive attacks, the 5,000 men and horses in Mo Qian's hands had all been rotated.

Five thousand men and horses fought for two hours from noon to Shen, and more than 1,500 people were killed and wounded, of which nearly 1,000 people were killed in battle, half of them were veterans of Yuanzhou, and the remaining more than 500 were seriously injured.

Moreover, there was a place in the north city wall that was partially collapsed by artillery, and the brigade of the officers and soldiers directly attacked this gap.

In order to defend the city, Qian Dayou personally led his own personal army to climb the city wall, and fought a bloody battle with the official army at the gap for an hour, and the official army finally couldn't resist and retreated after 800 casualties.

However, the situation on the side of the rebels was not optimistic, in order to hold the gap, Qian Dayou's personal army was almost dead, and he himself suffered a knife wound on the arm.

It was only one afternoon that the battle was so fierce, Mo Qian was also a little panicked at this time, he sent a clipper ship with his warrant to Zhangshu to transfer troops, and he wanted to send half of his troops to Qingjiang to defend the city.

Qingjiang is only twenty miles away from Zhangshu Town, and after an hour and a half, 3,000 soldiers and horses came to Qingjiang County and entered the city through the water gate outside the south city gate.

With 3,000 troops, Mo Qian was not so panicked in his heart, Liu Liangzuo sent another 2,000 people to attack the city after resting for half an hour, Mo Qian immediately sent a team of 1,000 people to the city wall, and soon resisted this wave of attacks.

At this time, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zongxiang of the official army camp were a little anxious, hundreds of shells from the Hongyi cannon were fired, and the city wall also collapsed, but they couldn't capture a small Qingjiang County.

The little Mo thief is so strong, which makes Liu Liangzuo, who has fought several times with rogues like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, also a little surprised.

He sat under the handsome flag and scolded: "Grandma's Mo asked what the hell is the source, how can his subordinates fight so well, Lao Tzu has died three or four thousand brothers, and he can't gnaw down a small Qingjiang County!" ”

Liu Zongxiang also saw some fame at this time, and he muttered: "It seems that this Mo Wen is not useless, this thief must have great talent, otherwise how can he train a group of mud legs to be so combative, if this thief is not removed, Jiangxi will never be peaceful, and Jiangnan will not be peaceful!" ”

Qingjiang couldn't be attacked for a long time, and Liu Liangzuo had no choice for a while.

"Order, the whole army rests, bury the pot to make rice, and attack again after eating!"

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