Zhao Han and Li Zheng set off with 9,000 reinforcements, no shields and wolf shackles, all of them unarmoured, and only spears and firecrackers.

There is no way, in order to lose weight on the mule, wearing armor will definitely press the mule down.

Even so, a mule can't run fast with an adult male on it.

This thing can really ride into battle!

From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there has always been a "mule army" in the history books, and there are two records in the "Old Tang Book" alone.

"There are few horses, but a wide range of animals and mules, and they are called mule armies." - "Old Tang Book"

"Cai will have Dong heavy hostage, guarding the song, and his subordinates will fight on mules, and the mule army will be the most powerful, and the officers and soldiers will always be guarded." - "Old Tang Book"

Of course, you can't fight on a mule, it's just a means of transportation for a fast march.

Guangji City was lit up for half a day, and Zhao Han's reinforcements finally arrived at the assembly point, which was still several miles away from the county seat.

Of the 9,000 reinforcements, there were 3,500 firecrackers.

Lao Huihui led the cavalry and horse team to intercept and kill, and Zhao Han immediately ordered to stop and let the firecrackers light the arquebus.

Melee classes have a mule in the middle, and firecrackers have a mule on the sides. After lighting the arquebus, advance at a very slow pace, and if the opponent dares to rush over, he immediately dismounts the mule and shoots. When the firecrackers are finished, the melee soldiers in the middle will come out in formation.

"Woooooooooooo

The horn sounded continuously, and Lu Xiangsheng in the mountains heard the order and immediately led 3,500 cavalry out to converge.

Zhao Han did not ride a mule, he rode a horse, and among the nearly 10,000 mules, he "stood in a group of mules".

With the cavalry converging and covering, the march was slightly faster, and the old Hui Hui was constantly harassing him.

After walking two more miles, Lao Huihui finally couldn't hold back, and let the horse team charge in a loose formation, so that he could lead the horsemen to take advantage of the chaos to kill.

Infantry and cavalry combined, Zhao Han had 6,500 guns in his hands.

Seeing the enemy's horse team coming, he immediately divided half of it and stood on the ground to shoot three shots. And those melee foot soldiers, smashed and helped the friendly troops to hold the mule, so that the mule would not be frightened and run away at the sound of gunfire.

"Bang bang bang!"

After three rounds of firing, more than fifty of the horses fell, and the pikemen quickly came out to protect the musketeers.

The loose team of horses rushed closer, and in the face of the long spears, they could only slow down their horses and turn to sneak away to take refuge. These horse teams, which also belong to the cavalry infantry, do not know how to ride and shoot at all, and their ability to charge into battle is enough, and Zhang Xianzhong has a similar mule team on his side.

Lao Hui led thousands of horsemen, and he planned to take advantage of the chaos to charge, at least he could also have a cavalry shot. Who knew that Zhao Han left half of the firecrackers, and quickly moved his position, and he could recover the formation after moving.

The old man didn't dare to rush.

The enemies in front of him have a frighteningly high degree of training, and the speed of moving and changing formations makes his skin numb when he looks back.

After half of the firecrackers who had opened fire and reloaded their ammunition, Zhao Han ordered the march again. As long as the old man doesn't get close, he doesn't bother to pay attention to it at all, because the other party is here to delay time.

In the direction of Chilong Lake, 7,000 regular soldiers and 10,000 peasant soldiers had already disembarked and landed on the shore, and were trotting towards Guangji County.

Now there are still six miles away, and Zhang Xianzhong's mule team can be seen.

……

Guangji County.

The breaches in the walls that had been blown down had not yet been breached.

However, under a Lu bus, Zhang Xianzhong's elite had occupied the city wall, and more than 1,000 people attacked and killed in front and behind.

Defeated all the enemy troops who climbed the ladder, Wu Yong left this section of the city wall to the people defending the city, and he brought peasant soldiers to support the side of Lu Gongche.

Wu Yong's current military position is battalion commander, he is Zhao Han's personal soldier, and the reason why he is promoted so slowly is purely because his brain is inflexible. I only know that I am dumbfounded, and my literacy is very slow, and I have learned more than 100 words in a few years.

"Kill!"

Wu Yong rushed with dozens of peasant soldiers, and the people defending the city in front of him fell, and he stabbed the enemy in the throat with a shot, avenging the people on the spot.

After fighting for several years, Wu Yong only learned three tricks: stabbing, blocking, and picking.

He has a stupid brain, and in a few years, he has only practiced three moves, but he is fast, accurate and hateful!

In the face of Zhang Xianzhong's elite armor, Wu Yong, with the cooperation of the peasants and soldiers, stabbed out several shots in a row, all of which hit the throat.

Stab out, put away the gun, stab out again, put away the gun again.

It's not ornamental at all, and it looks a bit clumsy. However, the recruitment is bloody, and the gun is fatal.

"Kill!"

Seeing Wu Yong's might, the morale of the peasants and soldiers and the people was boosted, and they carried spears and spears and stabbed wildly.

Finally, a few peasant soldiers, under the dispatch of Wang Hui, came over with the only five remaining 10,000 enemies. There were more than 1,000 enemies on this wall, five of them were smashed into it, one of them was knocked out of the city, and the rest of the divisions exploded in the enemy's army.

The enemy was terrified and their morale fell, but the defenders became more and more courageous.

The fight to this point is a rush of adrenaline, and both sides forget their fears for a while.

The 10,000 enemies who exploded not only killed and injured the enemy troops, but also blew up lime and chili noodles. This inlethal object caused the enemy soldiers in that circle to cough and cry, and their euphoria was disturbed, and it even recalled their sense of fear of disappearing.

The defenders continued to flank and stab on both sides, and 10,000 enemies exploded in the middle, and no one knew if there were any more 10,000 enemies.

Several elites began to run away, jumped back into the Lu bus, and drove down the wooden ladder. One affects the other, and more and more enemy troops flee, and finally collapse. Of the more than 1,000 people who attacked, only more than 300 were killed, and the rest fled in a rout.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he immediately organized manpower to carry the wounded away from the city wall, and the military medical officer came over for emergency treatment.

Sun Kewang looked at the gap, and his heart sank straight down.

That gap is almost filled by corpses!

There were corpses on both sides, and there were even people who were not breathing, crushed under the corpses and cried and screamed.

Every time Sun Kewang organized an attack, the soldiers broke and fled more and more frequently. The more elite they are, the more likely they are to divide their fields in Hubei, and even have wives and children at home, why do they come to Guangji City to die?

But the people in the city must work hard, once the city is broken, the end is extremely miserable.

One side is fighting for Zhang Xianzhong, and the other side is fighting for himself, and the enthusiasm for fighting cannot be compared.

Zhang Xianzhong watched the battle through the clairvoyant mirror and knew that he could not attack it.

His army's expedition this time has completely become a joke, and he can't even beat the small city of Guangji.

"The heralds are all withdrawn!" Zhang Xianzhong reluctantly ordered.

Because the horse team and the mule team came back to report that Zhao Han's reinforcements were several miles away. There are reinforcements in the southeast, reinforcements in the southwest, plus the defenders in the city, Zhang Xianzhong is about to be surrounded on three sides.

The siege troops withdrew to the west bank of the Meichuan River one after another, and withdrew to the large camp in the northwest with the people.

The camp of 300,000 people stretched for miles.

The camp was backed on both sides by mountains, and there were several evacuation routes in the mountains. You can choose to rely on the camp to defend, or you can go into the ravine overnight and withdraw the army.

However, if you want to withdraw to your territory, you have to cross two more rivers, one Xishui River and one Qishui River, and it is very likely that you will be hit by Bandu when crossing the river.

"Win, we win!" Zhu Shijing stood in the city tower and shouted.

"Win, win, hold!"

Hundreds of people shouted and cheered, and some wept because their loved ones had died in battle.

An Qigong, the magistrate of the county, looked at the corpses everywhere, and said proudly and sadly: "Today, I know what the people's hearts are!" ”

Although it has not yet been counted, the number of peasants, soldiers and civilians killed in the battle is at least more than 3,000, and may even exceed 4,000.

As for the wounded, there are countless of them.

This was the heaviest death and injury since Zhao Han raised his army.

However, the results were outstanding, not only effectively killing and wounding the enemy, but also leaving Zhang Xianzhong's army here.

Sun Kewang ran back to the camp: "Father, do you want to stay and guard the camp, or leave from the mountains?" ”

"I can't stay," Zhang Xianzhong muttered, "If you don't leave quickly, you will be blocked here, and if you drag it out for a few more days, I am afraid that the passage out of the mountain will also be blocked." Leave 100,000 people to Zhao Han, and leave all the disabled behind. Didn't he love his people like a son? A hundred thousand men are enough for him to consume food. ”

After more than half a month of siege, Zhang Xianzhong's food consumption was extremely large, and he no longer needed so many people to transport his baggage.

This goods directly threw down 100,000 people, consuming Zhao Han's grain, so that Zhao Han did not have enough military food to attack his territory.

Sun Kewang said: "Father, our army has withdrawn into the mountains, and the enemy army is likely to chase after us. It is better to set up an ambush in the mountains, or to fight a victorious battle, and then take the opportunity to fight back the way it came, so that the enemy army who went around the west to intercept it will be empty. The partial division was sent to re-besiege Guangji, and the main force quietly crossed the Henggang Mountain and went further north to cross the Qishui River. The enemy was dizzy, and our army could speed up its march and quickly cross the muddy water by abandoning its baggage. ”

In this way of fighting, I am afraid that I will throw all the people behind, and the soldiers with weak physical strength will also have to be thrown down, and in the end, I can only bring back 40,000 or 50,000 elites.

But it is already the best solution, Zhang Xianzhong thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "Just like that!" ”

The withdrawal of troops was not a simple matter, and the people were ordered to carry their baggage and move all of them to the side of the mountain pass.

I can't go during the day, because the reinforcements are coming soon, unless Zhang Xianzhong throws down the heavy grain and grass. If you want to bring grain and grass, you have to sneak away in the middle of the night, and during the day you are very likely to be pursued until the whole army is defeated.

Shi Yongen's left arm had ulcerated extensively, and he returned to the camp in a groggy state, and his brain had been foggy because of a fever.

He was ordered to transport grain and grass into the ravine, helped push the cart, and collapsed before he took two steps. A soldier came to check and felt that his forehead was hot, so he didn't bother to care anymore and left him to fend for himself.

Shi Yongen was actually not that weak, he just felt weak.

Since no one cared about him, he was also happy to pretend to be unconscious, thinking about how to go out of the camp to report the news - Zhang Xianzhong is going to slip away tonight, and a fool can see it!

Zhao Han's two reinforcements arrived one after another, but the sky was already dark.

In the face of the large camp that stretched for several miles, no one dared to attack rashly, and blocking Zhang Xianzhong here had already achieved the expected goal.

"Your Highness, do you want a night attack?" Lu Xiangsheng asked.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "You can try." ”

One wants to slip away at night, and the other wants to attack the camp at night.

Shi Yongen was lying on the ground, in a daze, when he saw Zhang Xianzhong dispatch the elite old battalion and enter the passage in the mountain in advance.

Is this to set up an ambush?

If Zhao Han found out that it was an empty camp when he attacked at night, and rashly led his troops to chase and kill, it was very likely that Zhang Xianzhong would be ambushed in the mountains and raided.

Shi Yongen pretended to be weak and weak, staggered up, and said to the passing soldiers, "Hungry ......"

The soldiers ignored him.

Shi Yongen continued to walk out, shouting hunger when he saw officers and soldiers, and he looked like he could be blown down.

After walking two miles, a soldier finally kicked him down and scolded: "Don't walk around in the camp, go back to the Minfu camp!" ”

Shi Yongen struggled to get up, then fell to the ground, pulled up his sleeves and said, "Master Jun, can you help find a doctor?" ”

The soldier approached the torch and saw that the festering wound had grown maggots, and he immediately avoided in disgust: "Get away quickly!" ”

(Ask for a commuter pass.) ）