Murong Shaozong deserved to be a famous general of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and he used the strategy of attacking the east to focus all the attention of Wang Ze and others on the west of the city.

Then he disguised others as himself, but he took the opportunity to hide in the north city and led the town army of 15,000 people to attack the warrior monks inside and outside the city, and captured the city 'gate' in one fell swoop, and more than 10,000 Qi troops quickly attacked the city.

Most of the cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion, which was patrolling all over the city, were dragged by monks from all over the city at this time, and a small number were assisting in the battle at the 'gate' of the west city, and there were not many reinforcements at all.

Wang Ze heard Xu Zheng's report and immediately understood that he had been hit by the plan to attack the west, although Pu Yangxun and Yang Ku were also resourceful people, but after all, they had not experienced the training of war.

Although the offensive of the Qi army in Xicheng is still 'fierce', the town army as the main force is a minority after all, and it has suffered serious losses under the sweeping 'sweep' of the armored cavalry just now.

The town army lost a lot, and the offensive of the 20,000 county soldiers was much weaker, and Wang Ze immediately decided to lead the ironclad battalion and the blue wolf battalion plus a part of the infantry and cavalry, a total of 10,000 people, to rescue the North 'Gate'.

When Wang Ze was still far away from the north 'gate', he had already heard the fierce fighting sound of the north 'gate', and when he arrived, the 'gate' of the city had been opened by the monks, and a large number of Northern Qi soldiers drove in a steady stream.

Seeing that there were still a large number of his own soldiers surrounded near the city 'gate', Wang Ze sent a message to Qin Lang and others to let the soldiers in the city gradually withdraw from the city, and at the same time personally led the army to rush to the Northern Qi army that entered the city.

Fortunately, at this time, there was still a batch of gunpowder ammunition that had not been used up, and Wang Ze shouted viciously: "The days are over!" Throw me all the bullets with gunpowder! ”

Hundreds of gunpowder shells were thrown into the formation of the Northern Qi army from afar, killing hundreds of people in an instant, and the wounded were uncountable. The Northern Qi town army, which had just entered the city, was blown up by the gunpowder bombs thrown at them.

Taking advantage of the 'chaos' and 'chaos' that the Qi army had blown up, Wang Ze led the army to rush and save a group of soldiers near the city 'gate', and then quickly retreated under the cover of the crossbow battalion's 'shooting'.

Fortunately, at this time, the Qi army that attacked the city had just entered the city, and there were only two or three thousand people in number, and they could not spread their attack surface in the narrow streets.

The Qi army in Xicheng was unable to continue to attack because Ge Wei and Hu Bingchang led the cavalry outside the city to storm its rear formation, which reduced the pressure on the city.

Thousands of Northern Qi cavalry troops in the west of the city went to resist the cavalry under Ge Wei's command, but they were beaten by a fire 'medicine' bullet and crossbow arrows, and then most of them were annihilated and the rest fled.

Seeing that the offensive of the Qi army had been stopped by himself, Ge Wei led 5,000 cavalry to continue to contain the Qi army outside, while Hu Bingchang led more than 2,000 cavalry to go around the city and enter the south 'gate' to support Wang Ze in the city.

However, the entry of the Qi army into the city was already irresistible, Wang Ze led his troops to fight and fled, and even set some buildings in the city on fire, most of the people in the city had fled before, and the harm to the ordinary people was not great.

Because a considerable part of the battalion in the city was sent to quell the rebellion of the monks and monks in the city before, the troops in the city at this time were extremely scattered, and it was impossible to withdraw all of them, all Wang Ze could do was to send cavalry along the street to shout the soldiers in the city to quickly leave the city from the east 'gate' and the south 'gate'.

Because Wang Ze brought all the 'elite' under his command, the ironclad battalion, armored cavalry, and crossbow battalion took turns to block the attack, but to a large extent, it prevented the Qi army from entering the city's offensive.

There were only more than 10,000 soldiers of the Qi army entering the city from the northern city, and most of them were attracted by Wang Ze, except for the troops who went to quickly occupy the treasury at all levels to maintain order.

By the time Wang Ze fled to the south gate, more than 30,000 people in the city had already escaped from the south gate, and the soldiers who had not yet left the city were in danger.

There were nearly 70,000 soldiers under Wang Ze's command in Jinan, and about 10,000 were killed or wounded in the battle for several days, and at least nearly 20,000 people in the city did not escape. At this time, the Northern Qi Zhen Army, which was chasing after Wang Ze, was already about to chase to the southern 'gate'.

It seems that you must give the Qi army a hard blow, otherwise your morale will be even lower, and the arrogance of the Qi army will be more arrogant. Wang Ze thought to himself.

So Wang Ze changed the armor cavalry into a war horse, and the cavalry led by Hu Bingchang made a fierce charge, and immediately caught the Qi army in pursuit by surprise and retreated.

Hu Bingchang took advantage of the situation to chase and kill for more than two miles, and encountered a team of thousands of soldiers who were surrounded and killed by the large Qi army, so he took advantage of the situation to defeat the Qi army and save the team of soldiers.

This group of soldiers was Zhao Kun's group, when Zhao Kun led his troops to defend the 'junction' of Xicheng and Beicheng, at the beginning they covered the city's robes and retreated urgently, and when they withdrew, the Qi army had already attacked the city and lost contact with other teams.

They had no choice but to avoid the retreat from the alley, and during this time, they also rescued more than a dozen scattered small teams, and the number of people expanded from more than 300 to 1,000.

When it was only more than two miles away from the south 'gate', it was discovered by the Qi army of the brigade pursuing Wang Ze, but fortunately, Hu Bingchang pursued the Qi army and arrived in time to survive.

Hearing this, Hu Bingchang sent a horse to inspect left and right, and rescued a group of hundreds of soldiers nearby, and then covered the retreat of more than 1,000 infantry troops.

When Hu Bingchang came to the south 'gate', it was still in the hands of his own soldiers, and he heard that five or six thousand soldiers had escaped from the east 'gate' and had already joined the large army.

Wang Ze asked the soldiers at the 'gate' of the city to pass the word to Bingchang, and he had already led the soldiers in the city to the south mountain, where there were still two camps where Chu Honghang and Liu Zhong's troops and horses were stationed before.

At this time, there were more than 40,000 soldiers under Wang Ze's command, and in addition to the 37,800 infantry army, there were also thousands of cavalry outside the city, but a considerable part of the infantry army lost their weapons.

There were only about 20,000 people who were in good order because of the retreat, but the rest of the soldiers who fled in a panic were unbearable, like refugees fleeing.

These are still secondary, and the most important thing is that when the army escaped, it did not bring out enough food due to time constraints.

At this time, Chu Honghang gave good news, when Chu Honghang and Liu Zhong were stationed on the mountain, in order to prevent the siege of the Northern Qi army, they hoarded enough food for 10,000 troops in the camp to eat for nearly two months.

Although Liu Zhong led his troops to defect, although he left some of them, the remaining food was enough for the tens of thousands of troops to eat for seven or eight days, of course, to save some food.

Wang Ze's tens of thousands of troops occupied several hills on the mountains south of the city, plus there were still enough springs to be able to hold on until the reinforcements arrived, and he really couldn't enter the Taishan Mountain Range, but the tens of thousands of troops could not be taken away.

Standing on the distant mountain, I saw Ge Wei leading the cavalry to slowly retreat, although the Qi army under the city was a state and county soldier, but it could still slowly enter the city 'gate' under the cover of the city wall.

It's really offensive and defensive! Wang Ze couldn't help but sigh, who would have thought that he was still defending the city, but he was driven out of the city in the blink of an eye, if it weren't for the fact that the Qi army didn't have most of the cavalry, he would have fled a long time ago.

However, if there is no accident, it will not take long for other Northern Qi cavalry to come to support Murong Shaozong, but I don't know if I can support the arrival of my own reinforcements.

At this time, Ge Wei, Hu Bingchang, Yan Xiaowu and others all came to Wang Ze, all of them had a 'look' on their faces, Wang Ze looked at them and laughed: "Don't be sad, I will have a chance when everyone is still there, I think that there will still be reinforcements in a few days, I have already asked Sixth Brother Qu to ask for reinforcements." ”

When everyone heard Wang Ze's words, they felt that Qu Liulang had disappeared since a few days ago, and when they calculated the time, they and others received a military report saying that Murong Shaozong would not be able to do so on the day he arrived in Jeju.

Wang Ze smiled bitterly in his heart, Qu Liulang went to ask for reinforcements, but that day the scout found out that the Northern Yuzhou Navy went down the Yellow River, and it was very likely to enter Jishui by sea, so in order to defeat the Qi Army Naval Division separately, Wang Ze sent Qu Liulang downstream to attack the Northern Yuzhou Naval Division.

In the following days, Murong Shaozong consolidated his occupation of Jinan City, and asked His Majesty the Great Emperor Gao Yang for the Futu monks of Jinan City.

Wang Ze's troops outside the city are trying to blockade Wang Ze to prevent Wang Ze from leading the army to escape, and now there are nearly 40,000 people under the command of Murong Shaozong, plus the monks and soldiers in the monastery in the city still have a full strength of 45,000 people, if it were not for the seven or eight thousand cavalry under Wang Ze's command, the army would have attacked it a long time ago.

After four or five days, the soldiers in the camp on the mountain did not see the reinforcements coming, and there was some noise, but it was still early autumn, and it didn't matter if most of the soldiers were 'exposed' and sleepy, the key was that there was not much food in the cottage.

Wang Ze had no choice but to go to pacify him personally, thanks to the soldiers assigned by the soldiers according to the original battalion head, some unknown origins were arranged together to facilitate the guard.

Just when Wang Ze turned around and returned to the camp, he found that all the generals under his command were there, and there was one more person in the tent, who turned out to be a captain named Gu Kai under Qu Liulang.

As soon as he saw Wang Ze enter the big tent, Hu Bingchang 'excitedly' said: "Lang Jun is really talented, and he has already arranged for Commander Qu to invite reinforcements!" Wang Ze was confused.

Gu Kai saw Wang Ze coming, and immediately saluted respectfully and said: "Back to Xiaolangjun, on the day I went down the river with the commander of Qu to meet the Northern Yuzhou Naval Division at the mouth of the river, the two sides fought a big battle at the beginning because of its many ships and soldiers, and there was still an invincible, and later Commander Sun led his troops to arrive with our army before and after the annihilation of the Northern Yuzhou Naval Division. ”

It turned out that Wang Yong was not worried about Wang Ze here, after all, he was his beloved eldest son, and a few days after Zhou Tong and others set off, he sent Sun Xing to lead a group of sailors and infantry troops to Jinan City by water.

On the same day, Sun Xing's naval army came to the mouth of Jishui and met the Northern Yuzhou Naval Division that was fighting with Qu Liulang's department.

After the annihilation of the Northern Yuzhou Naval Division, the fleet continued to swim upstream, at this time it was the peak water period of Jishui, and the flow was very large, and it was not easy to rush to Jinan City a hundred miles away, and actually got the news that Jinan City was captured by Murong Shaozong.

Immediately, Sun Xing and Qu Liulang were anxious and sent scouts to investigate everywhere, and then they learned that although Wang Ze was defeated, he still led his army to hold on to the camp outside the city.

Immediately, Qu Liulang sent a captain under his command who was more familiar with Wang Ze to contact the camp on Wang Ze Mountain with the scouts.

Here, Gu Kai just brought a good news, and the messenger sent by Wang Yong over there has arrived again, and the person who came is Ji Xiang, who had accompanied Xunyun in the first batch of Eastern Expeditions, and it turned out that Wang Yong had arrived fifty miles east of Jinan City and was stationed.

After sending Sun Xing and others to set off that day, Wang Yong led his army to attack the city and pull out the village from the land route to the west, and connected dozens of cities in Gwangju and Qingzhou all the way.

At the same time, he sent Zheng Kui south to seize Gaomi County, blocking the back road for the Qi army to attack him from the south, so that as long as he held the two places of Gaomi County and Qi County, and then blocked the Yellow River with a naval army, this land of Sanqi was a good place to establish a country.

A few days ago, Wang Yong and Xun Yun, Zhang Hang, Cao An, Yuan Jia, and Meng Xian of the Eastern Expedition met in Qingzhou, and just about to rest and recuperate, and learned that the Qi army was very urgent to attack Jinan City, Wang Yong immediately couldn't sit still and led all the cavalry to go first, Cao An and Meng Xian led 20,000 infantry troops to follow, and the others held the city.

When he arrived at Changbai Mountain, he heard the news that Wang Ze's army was defeated and Jinan City was captured, Wang Yong led his army to quietly rush to a hidden place dozens of miles east of Jinan City, and then inquired and learned the news that Wang Ze was here.

"Haha, the time has come for our army to counterattack, and the herald orders the army to break the enemy after eating early tomorrow morning!" Wang Ze is really happy in his heart, hum, what if you Murong Shaozong is a famous general, you didn't take mine and give it back to me, and vomit it out for me if you ate me!