When they have their own territory, family, property and a stable life, who wants to live a precarious life again?

As a last resort, Zhang Xianzhong will not choose the strategy of returning to the old man.

The rogues used to be barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, but now they all wear good shoes. The generals have countless fields and properties, and the elites of the old camp have also become small landlords, and they also have beautiful wives and concubines in their families, and many have even had children in the past two years.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong is willing to re-flow, those soldiers under his command will not agree!

Today, the siege has reached its second stage.

In the first stage, cannon fodder is used to consume the materials, physical strength and morale of the city.

In the second stage, cannon fodder is still used to siege the city, and elite troops are quietly mixed in to achieve unexpected results.

The third stage is the elite onslaught.

"Lao Wang, there is an abnormality outside the city!" The person who spoke was Zhu Shijing, the chief missionary of the city, a descendant of the old Zhu family whose blood was so thin that he could not be called a clan.

Wang Hui raised the clairvoyant mirror, and sure enough, he saw that the enemy's flag order was different, and many elites with obviously more neat formations were being mobilized.

Wang Hui did not dare to take it lightly, and immediately adjusted the deployment of defending the city, and arranged reserves in various streets and alleys in the city to be ready to rescue the city wall at any time.

"Boom!"

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and Wang Hui felt the city wall under his feet vibrate.

He turned his head to look, but saw that seven or eight feet away, the city wall had been blown down and a big gap. Although the tunnel where the gunpowder was filled was narrow, the gap in the wall that was implicated in the explosion was as wide as 10 meters.

That section of the wall collapsed in a U-shape as a whole, with part of the wall falling inward and part of the wall facing outward. The gap was not flat, but became a mound of rammed earth, and the rammed earth of the city wall was lined up into large and small clods, the largest of which was the size of several dinner tables.

There were even people besieging the city here, and after the city wall collapsed, the defenders and besieging sides all suffered a large number of casualties.

The people defending the city fled in fear, and the besiegers fled in fear.

Some of the peasants fled out of fear, and a small number of peasants who were in reserve spontaneously rushed to fill the gap. More peasants subconsciously wanted to flee, but they froze in place, as if waiting for the officer's order.

"Kill!"

A group of charging elite enemy troops quickly rushed towards the gap, and the nearby siege troops were quickly demoralized.

"Phew! Sigh! Sigh! ”

Wang Hui blew the flags one after another, and the heralds waved the command flags in the city tower, directing the nearest reserve in the city to fill it.

Many people really couldn't bear this drastic change, and fled to the center of the city completely unconsciously.

Zhu Shijing stood on the tower and shouted: "The missionary does things, the missionary does things!" ”

"Toot"

Suona sounded a sound similar to an alarm, and more than 30 missionaries ran over, shouting slogans along the way, trying to stop this trend of rout: "Fellow villagers, if you run away, you will die, Zhang Xianzhong will kill and rob people when he enters the city." Kill me back, protect our fathers and mothers, and protect our wives, sons, and daughters......"

A village chief was running away, but when he saw the Datong military flag planted in front of him, he suddenly rushed over and pulled it up, waving the flag and saying, "The man of Tingqian Village, kill me back!" ”

There are also backbone members of the peasant association, holding high the banner of the peasant association, charging against the current in the crowd, repeatedly waving the indigo flag in their hands.

After only half a pillar of incense, the fleeing people were stopped, and they followed the banner with all kinds of weapons in their hands to kill back.

In the gap of the collapsed city wall, an uneven mound of earth was formed, and the peasants were seizing the high ground with Zhang Xianzhong's elite. Whoever can hold the clod can kill the enemy from a high position, and due to the rush of time, neither side can line up, but only fight on instinct.

Wang Hui shouted the order: "Ten thousand enemies, ten thousand enemies, don't throw for the time being, follow my orders!" ”

There are not many enemies left, and they are reserved for use at critical times.

On the walls on both sides of the gap, hundreds of thousands of enemies moved. Looking at the bloody battle below, he didn't throw it immediately, but waited for more enemies to come and pile up to die.

Wang Hui asked the herald to give the flag order: "Light the wolf smoke!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong sent 30,000 soldiers to attack, all soldiers, not people.

About three or four thousand rushed to the gap, and all the others climbed the city wall, and the only four remaining Lu buses also drove out.

In the open space at the entrance of the county ya, the county magistrate An Qigong asked people to light wolf smoke, and he led the people to assemble in the city. There are people everywhere who understand the flag order, and when the strength of the city wall is insufficient, An Qigong will send a part of the people to support.

"Cast 10,000 enemies!"

Seeing that the enemies on the periphery of the gap were gathering more and more, Wang Hui finally gave the order to drop the bomb.

More than 200,000 enemies smashed down from the walls on both sides of the gap and threw them into the pile of enemies gathered outside the city.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The successive explosions directly blew up more than 2,000 people, and whether they were injured or not, they all coughed and turned to flee.

Zhang Xianzhong's team rushed up, and Sun Kewang personally rode over to command, divided the soldiers into several groups, and simply lined up to charge.

And the series of explosions just now also helped the peasant soldiers guarding the gap to successfully occupy the collapsed mound of the city wall. Without Wang Hui's order, the grassroots officers began to line up the formation on the mound, and it was a neat mandarin duck formation.

Sun Kewang commanded the charge several times, but all of them ended in failure, and he couldn't even attack the wolf defense circle.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong's firecrackers came.

Wang Hui saw it clearly, but he didn't dare to let the peasants and soldiers withdraw, and only issued an order for the follow-up peasants and soldiers and the people to respond.

"Bang bang bang!"

A volley of muskets fell, and nearly a hundred peasant soldiers fell. Half of the peasant soldiers on the mound collapsed and fled in fright, and the arranged mandarin duck array also revealed a huge gap.

Sun Kewang immediately commanded the elite charge, and Wang Hui also asked the reserves to fill up, and the two sides were once again strangled together.

Four Lu buses, three of which arrived at the city wall, a steady stream of enemy troops jumped to the head of the city, and the people defending the city stabbed with simple bamboo spears and wooden spears without formation.

Another group of siege elites climbed the city wall from the ladder and started a bloody battle with the people defending the city.

Finally, the wolf smoke rose from the city.

Zhang Xianzhong's face changed drastically, and he ordered another 10,000 troops to be invested, regardless of casualties, to capture the county seat, otherwise he could only flee with cavalry, horse teams and mule teams.

Because, reinforcements are coming soon!

Lao Huihui took the initiative to say: "I'll go and intercept the enemy's reinforcements." ”

Not only did the cavalry go back to the old home, but the cavalry and horse teams of Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang also rushed to the southeast together.

In the mountains to the southeast, due west, and miles away, wolf smoke soon rose as well, and the wolf smoke conveyed military information.

Zhao Han's reinforcements are still fifty miles away!

The artillery team could not be taken away, Zhao Han led 2,000 personal guards, and Li Zheng led 7,000 foot soldiers, riding mules and horses from different directions to Guangji County.

Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry was the first to arrive at the assembly site.

Among them, there were 3,000 dragoons, 2,000 were newly trained, and 1,000 were transferred from Hu Dinggui.

There were also 500 horsemen, all of them Vari horses.

Indian Mawari horses, three batches were shipped before and after. Due to the high requirements, the last batch was very expensive, and the princes of the princely states of India also knew how to increase the price.

Of the 500 horses, about 300 were geldings, and 200 were unpregnant mares.

The equipment of the cavalry is similar to that of the Manchu cavalry, with a combination of inner armor and cotton armor, and cotton armor cloth pieces are draped at the key points of the war horse. The ability to mount archery is enough, but everyone can shoot arrows, and it is converted from eliminated archers. The riding skills are also choking, only more than two months of training, and many complex maneuvers are difficult to do perfectly.

Rushing to the foot of the mountain at the nearest beacon point, Lu Xiangsheng scattered five hundred dragoons to inquire about the situation in the direction of Guangji County, and the remaining cavalry all stopped to let the horses rest.

Due west, Chilong Lake.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chilong Lake was larger than a few hundred years later, with nearly 300 peninsulas in the lake.

Whether it was the fishermen under Zhao Han or the fishermen under Zhang Xianzhong, after seeing the beacon fire and wolf smoke, they all quickly drove towards Qizhou. Some small boats from Jiangxi have also entered Chilong Lake from the Yangtze River and have been docked at the peninsula in the middle of the lake to wait for orders.

Originally, the original plan was to send out only 10,000 peasant soldiers to surround Qizhou and go by ship to support Guangji County.

However, Huang Qi led the mountain division to come by boat, 500 artillery stayed in Jiangling to attack the city, and the remaining 7,000 people were all outside Qizhou City, and now they are also taking ships together to fight Zhang Xianzhong.

They were able to take a boat all the way to Guangji County, nine miles southwest of them.

A few miles southeast of the county seat, Lu Xiangsheng's sentry cavalry collided head-on with Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry and horse team. When you see it from afar, you turn around and run, because there are too many enemy riders.

Cavalry and horse corps, adding up to more than 10,000 people.

The 3,000 dragoons, encountering more than 10,000 horseback enemies, immediately dismounted and leaned against the foot of the mountain to form a fiery array.

Five hundred cavalry, all of whom withdrew to the rear of the infantry dragoons.

Zhang Xianzhong's team of thousands of horses charged in an extremely scattered formation, and the distance between the horses was more than four meters.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Three thousand dragoons fired three shots at the horse team, then quickly turned over and rode into the mountains with five hundred horsemen.

Due to the opponent's high-speed running and extremely loose formation, the 3,000 rounds of ammunition fired at a rate of about 70, and only shot down more than 40 enemy horses.

Lao Huihui led the Xiao cavalry to go around the side, and when he saw that all the Datong cavalry had entered the mountain, where did he dare to chase him into the mountain? The opponent has 3,000 guns, and after entering the mountain, you can find countless favorable terrain to shoot.

"Damn it, these cavalrymen are disgusting!" Lao Hui scolded and scolded, and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

Qin Liangyu's grandson, Ma Wannian, was boiling at the moment, and he knew that a decisive battle would soon be a decisive battle.

Wu Huapu from Liaodong, as well as the red-helmeted general Zhou Yingyuan, are also in the cavalry team at this moment.

It's just that Wu Huapu, who is one-armed, can command a hundred troops.

And the tall and sturdy Zhou Yingyuan is just an ordinary cavalryman, as Chongzhen's honor guard, he has never been on a serious battlefield at all, even if he has superb riding skills.

"General Lu, the enemy cavalry did not chase after you." Zhu Tianxi rode forward.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Just hold the narrow road in front and wait slowly for King Wu's reinforcements." ”

Zhu Tianxi, a native of Taizhou, a martial artist in Chongzhen's ninth year, was sent to Guangdong as a guerrilla general. As soon as he arrived, Zhang Tieniu led his troops to kill, and chose to surrender without any psychological burden.

He was born as a martial artist, naturally rode Zhan, and also served as a sergeant of Datong for four years, and was promoted to the commander of the cavalry a few months ago.

Zhu Tianxi touched the Kaiyuan bow in his hand, looking forward to it in his heart, he had long been tired of being a pawn for a few years, and now he was finally able to gallop on the battlefield.

Moreover, he also rides a majestic Indian Pegasus.