In order to paralyze An Bangyan, Wang Hongyu decided not to show up for reinforcements.

After An Bangyan interviewed and probed in the fourth quarter, he must find the weakest side of the guard to mobilize a large army to attack, wanting to take Guiyang in one battle and take the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.

In fact, Wang Hongyu knew that with the strength of the Ming army, if the rebels were not concentrated on one side, it would definitely be difficult to fight, and it would be troublesome if he ran away. Only by bringing the rebels together can the final word be settled.

Li Zheng divided the defenders into five branches, and ordered Liu Xiyuan, the secretary of Tixue, Shao Yingzhen, the senator, Liu Jiayan, the capital secretary, and Liu Yue, the former deputy commander-in-chief, to divide the four gates and defend the north gate that bore the brunt of the attack.

Li Zheng sent his subordinates to closely monitor the movements of the enemy outside the city and observe the law and order situation in the streets and alleys of the city to prevent collusion between inside and outside.

At the same time, the people in the city also organized and mobilized, and guarded in parts, "the scholars and the students also supervised the militia to guard the wall".

Pan Runmin, the former Sichuan political officer, was living in his home in Guiyang, and in the face of An Bangyan's siege, he "lost a thousand taels of silver to help him, and the military officials of Zuo Wen patrolled the guard, and he led the people every day...... The pheasant moat in the north city is not repaired, and the people make up for it".

Yang Wencong, a talented man in Guizhou who wrote poems, calligraphy, and paintings at the end of the Ming Dynasty, "refused to recruit soldiers."

These two were the scribes who went down in history, and their feats were as bright as the sun and the moon.

The north gate of Guiyang is built on a high slope, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the moat flows along the foot of the city wall, and outside the city bank is a shantytown of immigrants, which has virtually become a buffer zone.

For An Bangyan, the eastern, southern, western, and second-south gates of Guiyang were either guarded by rivers or guarded by soldiers with rich combat experience.

An Bangyan decided that the north gate was a weak link, and if it was taken in one fell swoop, Li Zheng and the defenders would become turtles in the urn, so he stepped up the attack on the north gate.

Under the continuous siege, seeing that he was about to be unable to hold on, Li Zheng pretended to break through. The An family couldn't resist being beaten and hurriedly retreated, and the An family army wanted to take advantage of the situation to capture the city.

The hundreds of Anjia soldiers who entered the city during the pursuit were killed by the rocks thrown from the city walls, or were killed by random arrows.

The follow-up An Jiajun was killed and wounded by the scattered bullets fired by the trebuchet, and there were scattered bombardments fired by large catapults when they ran away, as well as the fire of the Furlong machine gun and the tiger squat cannon, and finally the An Jiajun retreated in disarray.

The four gates of Guiyang City have a semicircular urn city protruding from the city wall, and the other city gate has a protruding square urn city. Great for defense.

Even if you break through the city gate and enter the urn city, you will be thrown stones from the city wall and stoned, the most important thing in Guiyang City is stones, and the north city is on the hillside.

However, An Bangyan refused to admit defeat, and when he was out of breath, he ordered his subordinates to attack the east gate.

With the help of solid city walls and high morale, the defender Liu Xiyuan used trebuchets and trebuchets from the city to bombard them continuously, as well as scattered bullets fired by artillery, to smash An Bangyan's ferocious attacks again and again.

On the one hand, An Bangyan sent troops to attack day and night, trying to drag down the defenders with fatigue warfare; On the one hand, psychological warfare was adopted, using the crowing of chickens, dogs, and the crying of women to break the fighting spirit of the soldiers and civilians in the city.

However, the soldiers and people in the city were united and ready for battle.

Still can't find which city wall is the weak link of Guiyang City, An Bangyan used more than 10,000 bamboo cages to build a high platform to spy on the city's reality.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Shi Yongan immediately removed the bell tower of the temple and rebuilt the city wall, blocking the other party's view.

The speed of the high platform of Anbang Yanli was not as fast as the speed of moving the bell tower, so he had no choice but to give up the bamboo cage, and the defenders rushed out to burn it.

Subsequently, Li Zheng sent the defenders to attack the opponent's grain route many times, causing An Bangyan to panic and feel uneasy.

An Bangyan was angry, and wanted to force the defenders to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, but the defenders were indifferent.

After a period of temptation, An Bangyan has found the weak position of Guiyang City's guards, that is, Nancheng.

And only the southern city is flat and open, which is suitable for more than 70,000 troops.

The An family prepared to attack the southern city wall, preparing to attack the two southern gates from the widest and the "most limited" resistance.

An Bangyan and Wang Hongyu thought about the same, both sides wanted to solve the problem in a war, and the Ming army deliberately showed weakness in Nancheng, which was Wang Hongyu's preset battlefield.

An Bangyan was led by Wang Hongyu by the nose to pull down Nancheng, and Wang Hongyu, Zou Wenqi and the town soldiers did not show up.

The Hunhe Army, the Shennong Army, the Shizhu Soldiers, and the Youyang Soldiers did not enter the city, so there must be a big drama to be staged.

An Bangyan was in a good mood these days.

Although several tentative attacks were repulsed, they also figured out the defensive position of the Ming army.

Governor Li Zheng really appeared at the north gate, which shows that don't look at the Ming army is resisting fiercely now, and when the time comes, it is likely to break through and escape from the north gate.

Of course, Li Zheng personally took the more capable soldiers to stay at the north gate, and it is also possible that he was waiting for the upcoming support from Zunyi.

Those who came before must have come from the direction of Zunyi.

He had already been in ambush there with an elite 30,000.

Whether it is Li Zong's escape, or there are reinforcements coming, I will kill the head of the people~

The problem in the north is solved, and the east is not worried.

The people of Shuidong Tusi went to investigate, and a hundred miles east of the city, not to mention the army, even the people fled.

Some scouts reconnoitred 200 miles away, but did not find any reinforcements from the direction of Huguang.

There was neither support nor escape from the Ming army in the east.

Although the soldiers and horses of Song Wanhua handed over to Shuidong were.

There were less than 50,000 people left, but in the past few days, in order to take Guiyang with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, they have mobilized all the tribes that support them, and added another 30,000 people.

So in addition to the 30,000 ambushes in the north and the 20,000 weaker in the east, there are now close to 80,000 troops.

Among them, 20,000 are his elites, and the rest can be used as cannon fodder to attack the city.

The long ladders and crashing wood for the siege are ready.

"The target is the south of the city, and the city will be officially attacked tomorrow!"

He gave the order to siege the city, and sure enough, he chose the wider south of the city instead of the west of the city as most people thought.

This order was also issued suddenly, and he did not discuss it with his subordinates, lest someone have a bad mind and run to report to the Ming army.

When the army heard this, they also thought that the south of the city was good.

The southern part of the city has a wide wall and two gates, and the previous tentative attack is also the weakest counterattack in the southern part of the city.

It's good, I have to gather in the south of the city tomorrow afternoon.

The morale of the rebels is still high, thinking that they will finally enter Guiyang City and rob them from house to house.

At this time, An Bangyan received an urgent message.

"Are you in such a hurry? What can Shuixi do? ”

When he heard that the letter came from Shuixi, he always felt that the dozen or so concubines in the backyard had lost their temper, and they had been away for more than half a month.

However, those concubines are really difficult to deal with, and I don't know how much money and energy it will take to satisfy them......

It's scary to think about.

Unwrapping the secret letter, An Bangyan was dumbfounded.