"Fire!"

Rumble!

At this time, the artillery battalion of the new army was finally deployed, Qian Jian stood in the formation and roared, hundreds of artillery pieces of various types opened fire one after another, and all the firepower of the artillery battalion was concentrated on the east city wall of Xingtang County, covering the entire city in an instant.

Although the thieves piled up a large number of sandbags on the city walls, in the face of the bombardment of hundreds of artillery, the sandbags could not withstand such a saturated firepower.

Sandbags that had been blown off by cannonballs could be seen everywhere on the city, and a large number of sandbags were shattered by the cannonballs, and countless sandbags were splashed out, raising bursts of yellow sand on the top of the city.

At this time, Li Zicheng sat on the east city tower, Li Laiheng led more than 10,000 thieves and horses to garrison the east city wall, Gu Kecheng was stationed on the north city wall, Wu Sangui was on the west city wall, Xia Guoxiang and Wang Pingfan were on the south city wall, Hong Chengchou, Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, Gu Junen, Red Lady and others were deployed in the city to help with the thieves' families.

Under the bombardment of the artillery battalion of the new army, Li Laiheng's troops were beaten so that they could not raise their heads, and the rogue soldiers who were hit by the shells could be seen everywhere.

Those rogue soldiers who were killed directly by cannonballs are lucky, some of the rogue soldiers who were broken by cannonballs and fell in a pool of blood for a while without dying are the most miserable, ordinary people can't bear the painful crying, the constant sound of shell bombardment in their ears, and the exclamations and wails of their companions, as if they put people in Shura hell, making the already heart-wrenching wounds even more unbearable.

"Fire!"

Li Laiheng was also hiding in a clip on the city wall at this time

In the corner, more than a dozen guards around were holding iron shields to protect outside, and there were shells falling around continuously, mixed with many rockets falling on the city, and everyone did not dare to change places easily.

Li Laiheng also hoped that the musketeers deployed on the city wall would be able to fire back, but Li Laiheng forgot that at this time, the soldiers of the battalions of the new army had not yet rushed up, and the artillery battalion of the new army was two miles away from the city wall, and the firearms equipped by the thieves could not hit that far at all, and now the fire was just to comfort himself, without any practical effect.

At this time, in the north of Xingtang County, Chen Xun looked at the figures gathered at the head of the city, and said to the heralds beside him: "Order all departments to start attacking the city!" ”

"Yes!"

The officers and men of the front battalion of the new army had been waiting for a long time, and after receiving Chen Xun's order, the officers and men of all departments under the leadership of Zhang Xun, Guo Mingxu, and Shen Donglai advanced in formation, and the thieves and soldiers on the city head suddenly became agitated.

Gu Kecheng looked out of the city with a pale face, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the new army drove over, advancing dozens of steps outside the city.

However, at this time, the thieves and horses on the head of the city were all defeated soldiers of various departments, only hundreds of bows and arrows, dozens of firearms, and there were no other means of city defense.

For a while, a large number of rogue soldiers on the northern city wall were killed and wounded, and even Gu Kecheng hurriedly fell to the ground, and as soon as he looked up, he saw several blood spots on the bodies of several subordinates around him, and then fell straight on the city wall.

"Put!"

Chen Xun stood in the military formation under the city, raised

With the clairvoyant mirror, he could see very clearly, and he was very satisfied with the salvo effect of the soldiers under his command, so he was not in a hurry to break open the city gate with the earth-shattering thunder at this time, and first fired a volley outside the city to kill and injure the thieves in the city as much as possible.

Like Chen Xun's side, at this time, Zhang Yi led the left battalion of the new army in the west, and Wang Yue and Shen Tuo led the middle battalion of the new army in the south.

The battle situation of each battalion was successively sent by the heralds to the new army in the east of the city.

At this time, Liu Yan, Miao Shao, Tian Zhenbei, and Xu Ming stood together, and when they heard that the battalion commanders and generals all adopted the same tactics, Liu Yan showed joy on his face and said, "Okay! It seems that everyone has grown up in the flames of war, and can adopt corresponding tactics according to local conditions. ”

Xu Ming just led the cavalry battalion to retreat back, giving up the front of the attack to the new army artillery battalion, listened to Liu Yan's praise, and said: "This is not all the credit of the elder, I taught us on weekdays, we must mainly kill and injure the enemy's living forces, supplemented by occupying the city, don't be entangled in the gains and losses of a city and a pool, I think everyone is also learning and selling!" ”

Miao Shao also said seriously: "This time, the elder led everyone to eat hundreds of thousands of thieves in a sports war, isn't it a living force to annihilate the enemy army?" I think the elder is a master of tactics! ”

Liu Yan laughed out loud and said to Xu Ming and Miao Shao: "Oh, yes, I see that you have obtained the true inheritance of Wang Yue, and this sycophant kung fu is really rising!" ”

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

Subsequently, the battalions attacked Xingtang step by step

county, the battle lasted a full hour.

Liu Yan held up the clairvoyant mirror, and saw that there was no complete facility on the east city wall of Xingtang County, even the east city tower was already dilapidated at this time, and the thief soldiers on the city wall had disappeared, and they didn't know where they were hiding.

So Liu Yan said to the people on the left and right: "I see that the fire is almost over, and I order all battalions to start a battle to break the city!" ”

"Yes!"

Then the heralds of the brigade rode their horses and rushed to the battalions of the New Army.

The artillery battalion of the new army in front was the first to receive the order, and immediately ordered to concentrate dozens of Franc machine guns aimed at the east city gate, and then there was a fierce bombardment, and the originally strong city gate did not last long, and in the fierce artillery fire, it became a splash of debris and sawdust everywhere.

"Stop shelling! Stop shelling! ”

Seeing this, Qian Jian immediately ordered the artillery battalion of the new army to stop shelling, and Xu Ming, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately shouted: "Cavalry battalion, rush into the city with me!" ”

More than 10,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army immediately rode their horses to the east city gate, and then Tian Zhenbei led the sixth battalion of the garrison, and Wang Bo led the right battalion of the new army to kill the city gate that had been opened.

In the north, west, and south of Xingtang County, the front battalion, left battalion, rear battalion, and middle battalion of the new army also adopted the tactics of earth-shaking thunder to blow up the door, mobilizing a large number of bird-swatters to suppress the rogue soldiers on the city.

Rumble!

With the sound of explosions, the north, west, and south gates of Xingtang County were blown open one after another, and the new army

At the same time, Chen Xun, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, Shen Tuo and others did not forget to leave some soldiers in the rear, continued to suppress the thief soldiers at the head of the city, and covered the main army to rush into the city.

"Your Majesty!"

Li Laiheng rushed into the Dongcheng Tower in a panic and said loudly: "Liu Yan's troops and horses have entered the city, please Your Majesty immediately break through with me!" ”

At this time, Li Zicheng had already changed into a bright yellow dragon robe, with a somewhat strange style, and did not have the aesthetics of the Ming crown dress and regular clothes, but mixed with some northwest characteristics.

"Breakout? Are you still rushing out? ”

Li Zicheng said, then got up and picked up a war knife, walked towards the gate with a cold face, and said: "The matter has come to this, rush out with me, and die in battle!" ”

Li Laiheng's eyes were red, and he almost choked up and said, "Okay! The subordinates swear to follow Your Majesty to the death! ”

Then the two led dozens of horsemen to rush out of the city tower, only to see that the east city wall at this time has become a mess, full of panicked and fleeing thief soldiers, and then look at the city, a large number of soldiers of the new army are smoothly entering the city, or rushing into the city, or rushing up the city wall along the horse road, killing the thief soldiers and horses is like killing pigs and sheep.

"Kill it!"

Li Zicheng ordered people to raise their own banner, and then roared angrily and rushed to the road, rushing to the vicinity of the city gate, and there were thieves gathered around him, it seemed that as long as this banner was there, Dashun would not be defeated.

"That's Li Zicheng!"

Wang Bozheng rushed into the city with hundreds of soldiers, and at a glance he saw the banner not far away, and immediately roared: "Kill Li Zicheng!" ”

"Kill Li Zicheng!"

Hundreds of soldiers roared, thousands of soldiers roared, and it didn't take long for the voices of shouting to kill Li Zicheng almost everywhere inside and outside Xingtang County.

"If you want to kill a lonely, it's not that easy!"

Li Zicheng roared, and Li Laiheng rushed forward against Wang Bo, both of them were famous brave, and the thieves and horses that had gathered around them were also the most brave soldiers and horses in the army, and they all roared and rushed towards Wang Bo and other soldiers.

Wang Bo sneered and immediately ordered: "Fire!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers have all raised their bird guns, and after hearing the order, they opened fire together, hundreds of bird guns roared instantly, Li Zicheng and Li Laiheng and other soldiers were directly shot down a large piece, Li Laiheng even screamed in front of Li Zicheng, and then there was a little blood mist on his body, and he fell to the ground screaming.

"Put!"

The soldiers of Wang Bo's department were still firing volleys, and Li Zicheng and the others couldn't rush forward at all, and after a while, they were all shot more than a dozen steps away.

Wang Bo looked at the fallen banner and the corpses all over the ground, and said coldly: "When is it, still thinking about charging with a spear and a big knife?" King Chuang, times have changed! ”

At the same time, Gu Kecheng led the remnants of the north of the city to withdraw to the city, but he was met by the soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army who rushed into the city. ”

Gu Kecheng saw that there was no way to hide, so he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Kill it!" ”

Rumble!

Xu Ming led more than 1,000 cavalry battalion soldiers to collide directly, and the hundreds of thief soldiers around Gu Kecheng were like fallen leaves in autumn, and they were smashed by the iron cavalry army, and they were killed and wounded.

Gu Kecheng was even more hit by the war horse and flew up, and then fell heavily on the ground

On the ground, it was trampled by countless iron hooves.

Near the western city wall, Wu Sangui rushed into the city with hundreds of soldiers and horses with a panicked face, he had never had such a panic, and he couldn't pay any attention in his heart.

At this moment, there was the sound of a large group of men and horses charging behind, Wu Sangui turned back sharply when he heard the news, and saw Zhang Yizheng leading his troops to catch up.

At the beginning of the Liaodong battlefield, Wu Sangui had seen Zhang Yi several times, and knew that Zhang Yi was a general under Liu Yan, so he was immediately overjoyed, and immediately ordered to stop, and then rushed up and shouted loudly: "General Zhang Yi, I am Wu Sangui, I want to see the elder pavilion!" ”

Seeing this, Zhang Yi also led his subordinates to listen to it, and randomly ordered his subordinates to surround Wu Sangui and the others, and then said: "Wu Sangui? I heard that Wu Sangui surrendered to the thieves and killed the governors Sun Chuanting, General Cao Bianjiao and General Yang Guozhu, but is this so? ”

Wu Sangui immediately said loudly: "Their death has nothing to do with me, I am just forced by the situation, not a true thief!" ”

"As long as the elder is willing to surrender, when he goes north to recover Liaodong, I am willing to lead the army as the vanguard and fight the world for the elder pavilion!"

Zhang Yi said expressionlessly: "Then forget it, my new army doesn't need traitors!" ”

Then Zhang Yi waved his big hand fiercely, and hundreds of new army birds rushed up directly, disarming Wu Sangui and hundreds of others, and then escorted them all to the vicinity of the county government, preparing to be imprisoned in prison first, waiting for Liu Yan's whereabouts.