Attacking Xuzhou City in the North Against Jin (Middle)

The rain had stopped, the sun had risen, and there was peace all around, except for the frogs in the grass chirping at an untimely moment, and the blue sky without a trace of clouds, a mixture of irritability and heat. Ren Tianqi ordered the whole army to get off the horse and eat something, and rest a little; he also ordered the whole army to reorganize the ranks and provoke the banner of the Xuzhou soldiers, the soldiers were unsheathed with swords, the guns and halberds were lined up, the horse bells were jingling, and the armor was dazzling.

Ren Tianqi rode his horse to the front of the army, and all the righteous brothers and personal soldiers guarded the left and right.

Ren Tianqi raised his whip and pointed to the banner of the general set up in the army, and shouted: "Soldiers, brothers, my Xuzhou soldiers have always been law-abiding, and the sky can learn from them; Historically, our Xuzhou soldiers have never thought that they would be called kings and hegemons, but now the reason why they have been called ministers twice, fulfilled their duties and been loyal, and have passed the peace, is because the world is not peaceful enough, and we have no place to accommodate peace; the reason why we support the army and respect ourselves is only to protect the people of our Kyushu, to protect our own destiny, to protect our brothers and sisters, and to protect our parents; to ensure that our Xuzhou soldiers are not fish and meat in other people's mouths. But today, it is said that there are people who do not allow us to wait, that is, if they want to attack my Xuzhou soldiers, they want to cut down this banner. So what are we going to do?"

A little red immediately got up and said loudly: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone;

All the soldiers waved the instruments in their hands and shouted in unison: "If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend anyone;

Ren Tianqi pressed his hand and said: "Today, the life and death of thousands of brothers in our Sizhou City are in the hands of our 30,000 people, and it depends on whether we can defeat his lonely Xuzhou City today!"

Ren Tianqi said: "Yes, General Ben, like you, has been running all night and another morning, tired and sleepy. But we can't stop, we can't stop, we are all good men who stand up to the sky, and we have unshirkable responsibilities on our shoulders!"

Ren Tianqi took a halberd and said: "We can't live up to the expectations of the south, the fathers and villagers in Yangzhou are looking forward to us winning the battle, looking forward to us to protect their families and their land, and our wives and children are also waiting for us to go back to protect them; moreover, the brothers in Sizhou City, Laoyingkou, and the north bank of the Huai River are fighting bloody battles for the success of our sneak attack, and they are also waiting for us to turn back and rescue after taking Xuzhou City, they are our brothers who share life and death! What should we do? This great general will take you into Xuzhou City! We will fight with the golden soldiers! We will not only cede the land and claim to be the king, and we will be the great general and king of the world, and we will make the people of the world afraid!"

The soldiers shouted wildly.

Ren Tianqi pressed his hand and said: "Before the battle, it is the law and discipline, and the general now announces that those who advance Xuzhou City this time will be rewarded with 1,000 silver, and the official will be promoted to the third level;

The army swept north.

After passing the Tianyou Mountain Pass, it is less than 50 miles away from Xuzhou City, and the Xuzhou soldiers are about to come and rush over; the people along the way have already suffered countless casualties and fled in all directions. Ren Tianqi didn't bother to ask, and led 5,000 Mongolian soldiers to open the way.

About an hour later, the army came to the outside of Xuzhou.

I saw a line of men and horses outside the city blocking the way, and there were about 5,000 infantry and horses.

Ren Tianqi raised his hand to suppress the formation, and the Xuzhou soldiers stopped and scattered in formation.

Ren Tianqi sat on the horse, looked around, and saw that there was only one general in front of the opponent's formation, and the word "Yang" on the door flag was big, thinking that this person was Yang Penghui, the defender of Xuzhou.

Ren Tianqi looked up at the sky again, and said that it was already westward, and it would be dark in another hour or two, and this day would pass again, and I don't know how the war in the south was. Ren Tianqi hesitated, turned to one side and ordered: "Brother Lu, Second Brother Wen, you take 5,000 Hu Yong, take Tianbao, stay here and watch this person on the other side, if you can kill him, you must not let him separate or escape, you must retreat when you hear the drum, and entangle them when you hear the gong;

Wen Lu and the two led the Mongol army to force up and stood an arrow away.

The Xuzhou soldiers were divided into two. Ren Tianqi led an army of 20,000 and went west along the moat.

Yang Penghui, the general on the opposite side, saw Ren Tianqi and others waving his army west, and was about to follow the tail, but he saw that the Mongolian soldiers in front of him were eyeing each other, waiting for an opportunity to move, and he was not an opponent, and he did not dare to move, so he was deadlocked for a period of time, and the gong was about to withdraw into the city.

Just when the opponent's front team changed into the rear team, and the back team changed into the front team, a little red whistled, and five thousand Hu Yong raised their legs and raised their bows to draw their feathers and release arrows, and the arrow feathers came like locusts in an instant. The other side did not expect Hu Yong's arms to be so heavy and far away, and one of them did not pay attention, and shot and wounded one or two thousand people, and suddenly the battle was in chaos, the military horses trampled on each other, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded;

The Xuzhou soldiers did not step forward to kill on the ground, but just looked at each other coldly.

Ren Tianqi led the army around Xuzhou City, and chose a higher place to stop.

He then ordered all the Tiger Guards to dismount and stand outside the city with swords and shields to rest and wait;

ordered a thousand horsemen to cut down trees and make ladders;

Order 2,000 heavy attack gunners to mount large mechanical bows and crossbows on the high ground.

It was getting dark, everything was ready, and Ren Tianqi ordered the Tiger Guards to attack the city.

The 2,000 heavy machinery attack gunners first fired several batches of fire oil bombs, and the head of Xuzhou City was already in flames, and there was a remnant scream. Jin Bing hurriedly fetched water to put out the fire, but the water and oil met unexpectedly, and the fire became even more vigorous.

Most of the 5,000 Tiger Guards are people with unique skills, and they have already been light in siege training for many years. The arrows and feathers on the city are flying, and the defense is very dense. The first group of siege tiger guards suffered many casualties.

Ren Tianqi immediately ordered to launch a thunderbolt, and at the same time ordered 3,000 light archers to shoot nearby, and ordered Ma Benqing to lead his own soldiers to attack the city in person.

The explosion of the thunderbolt shook people's minds, and the defenders of the city fled back and forth in fear. The defense of the city weakened at first sight, and the morale of the Tiger Guards below was greatly boosted, and disputes went up.

In the firelight, I saw Ma Benqing rushing forward with a big sword and shield. Several times when he wanted to climb the city wall, he asked the other party to push out the long fork, and Ma Benqing flew down to the ground.

Ren Tianqi was furious and ordered the archers to aim at the head of the city wall and shoot, ignoring the accidental injury to his own people.

Ma Benqing will understand and know that the situation is pressing, if he can't capture Xuzhou City as soon as possible, and wait for the Jin soldiers to return to the army for reinforcements, the Xuzhou soldiers will be in a deep and hopeless situation. Ma Benqingsuo threw off his shield, rushed to fly on a cloud ladder, rose up with a knife, felt the nail of the mourning door from his bosom with one hand to hit it, and waved the knife with the other hand to knock down the arrow feathers, ignoring the thunderbolts around him, and climbed to the head of the city to fight. There were many heroes in the Tiger Guards, and when they saw that someone had broken through to the city, they flew up and flew up to the city to fight.

More and more Tiger Guards climbed up to the top of the city and slashed at it. Ma Benqing led people to rush to the city gate to kill the guards, open the city gate, and put down the drawbridge. The Ma army, who had already heard the news, rushed in. The Xuzhou soldiers burned and killed in the city, and by dawn, they had completely occupied and cleared the city of Xuzhou.

Tian Musa led a group of people to search for the county lord in the city, but to no avail.

Ren Tianqi knew that he would not be able to defend Xuzhou no matter what, and the only way to loot the relevant military camp materials and money was the right thing, so he passed on the order, first, to open the granary and let the people rob it;

One is to take away all the gold, silver, and money, and all the horses, especially the four thousand good horses of the steppe;

The first is to detain and guard the families of all the Jin soldiers and generals in the city, and leave a thousand tiger guards and a thousand archers and gunners, led by a little red to guard Xuzhou, and the rest of the troops after a full meal, they went out of Xuzhou and took the road straight to Suzhou City.