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As long as Zhao Han puts out a large army, Zhang Xianzhong can play countless tricks.Because Zhang Xianzhong and his generals have more than ten years of experience in wars, while the generals of the Datong Army are very immature, and they are very likely to make mistakes and be caught.

In that case, the Datong Army would be led by the nose.

Zhao Han knew very well what was going on with his generals, so he didn't accept the move at all.

Are you entering the army?

Then I will enter the army too!

You come to my territory, I will fortify the walls and clear the fields, waiting for you to attack the city.

You are slowly attacking the city here, and my farmers and soldiers are also slowly attacking the city at your home.

Moreover, my regular army is hiding, and I will settle the account when you are tired.

You want to retreat?

Sorry, the two cities behind you are all surrounded by me, and the river you must cross to withdraw your troops has also been blocked by my sailors.

If you want to fight back with the whole army, you can also hit my farmers and soldiers.My regular army can take ships to support at any time, and my farmers and soldiers in Guangji City can also come to support slowly.

If you are desperate, you can go to my hinterland where there are no solid walls and clear fields.The killing was so deep that there was not a single city of your own along the way, just wait for the entire army to be wiped out!

Zhang Xianzhong was extremely aggrieved at the moment, he had 19 troops and [-] civilians left, he was full of energy but didn't know where to throw his fists.

Lao Hui kept calm: "I have two options, I don't know if you will listen or not."

"Speak." Zhang Xianzhong said.

The old man said: "The first method is to get rid of the 7 infantry and the 19 peasants. The cavalry, cavalry, and mule teams should go north and cross the river against the mountains."

"Why don't you lead the army to Bailian Town and cross the river back along the edge of the mountain?" Sun Kewang asked.

Old Hui said: "Zhao Han's navy is in Xishui, so they must send a large number of small boats to guard the entire Xishui River back and forth. If they bring an army of 30, they will be spotted by Zhao Han even if they are not found by the sentinel boats." The cavalry trailing behind, hit halfway and everything will be over."

Zhang Xianzhong sneered: "What's the use of bringing back only cavalry, horse teams, and mule teams? If we throw the large army to Zhao Han, our troops will be empty, and the territory will be swallowed up sooner or later."

The old Huihui said again: "Then don't want your family, and don't even think about going back. Take 30 people and kill all the way north. Maybe you can join the North Route Army, and maybe help the Central Route Army break through the pass!"

"To fight like that is like a rootless duckweed. If there is a slight accident, the whole army may be wiped out at any time." Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and said.

Old Huihui said: "If there is an accident, we will take the elite and flee, and the land of Jianghuai will be turned upside down!"

Sun Kewang said depressedly: "Could it be that he has become a bandit again? I don't want the land, I don't want my family, I want to be robbed along the way, I don't care where I hit, and I don't care if I live."

"Until now, you still want to save the army and withdraw it intact?" Old Hui Hui said speechlessly.

Sun Kewang clenched his fists and said, "Father, my child thinks that the troops should be withdrawn ostentatiously, luring Zhao Han's main force to show up, and fight with real swords and guns. Whoever wins will win the world; whoever loses will see the king of Hades!"

Lao Huihui's two strategies, one strategy is to flee back with cavalry, horse teams, and mule teams, and the result is bound to be lingering.Another strategy is to gamble heavily. If you win the bet, you can withdraw from the north and plunder along the way. If you lose the bet, you will become a bandit again.

Sun Kewang's strategy was simple and crude, which was to put up a strong position and hand over the initiative to Zhao Han.The winner is king, the loser dies!

Zhang Xianzhong was hesitant.

"My lord, a tunnel has been dug through, but the defenders in the city haven't found it!"

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly stood up: "Immediately set the explosives to detonate, don't wait until night to be flooded again!"

No matter how you fight, first capture Guangji County, this city disgusts Zhang Xianzhong.

Chapter 372 [Rescue]

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

Unless it is absolutely necessary, Zhang Xianzhong will not choose the old-fashioned strategy.

The rogues used to be barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, but now they all wear good shoes.The generals owned countless lands, and the elite of the old battalion had become small landlords. They also had beautiful wives and concubines in their families, and many of them even had children in the past two years.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong is willing to flee again, the soldiers under his command will not agree!

Today, the siege has entered the second stage.

In the first stage, use cannon fodder to consume materials, physical strength and morale in the city.

In the second stage, cannon fodder was still used to attack the city, and elite troops were quietly mixed in to achieve unexpected results.

The third stage is the elite onslaught.

"Old Wang, there is a change outside the city!" The person who spoke was Zhu Shijing, the Chief Propaganda Officer of the city guard, a descendant of the old Zhu family whose blood was so thin that he could not be called a clan.

Wang Hui raised his binoculars, and sure enough, he saw that the enemy's flag order was different, and many elites who were obviously in a more orderly formation were being mobilized.

Wang Hui did not dare to take it lightly, and immediately adjusted the deployment of the city defense, and arranged reserve teams at 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 noise, and Wang Hui felt the city wall shaking under his feet.

He turned his head to look, but saw seven or eight feet away, a big gap in the city wall was blown down.Although the tunnel for filling the gunpowder was narrow, the gap in the city wall that was implicated and blown down was a full ten meters wide.

That section of the city wall collapsed in a "U" shape as a whole, part of the wall fell inward, and part of the wall fell outward.The gap was not a flat ground, but a pile of rammed earth. The rammed earth of the city wall was arranged into large and small clods, and the largest one was as big as several dining tables.

There were even civilians attacking the city here. After the city wall collapsed, both the defenders and the attackers suffered a large number of casualties.

The people defending the city were scared and fled, and the people who attacked the city were also scared to flee.

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

"kill!"

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

"Woo! Whoa! Whoa!"

Wang Hui blew the flag one after another, and the messenger waved the flag on the tower, commanding the nearest reserve team in the city to make up.

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

Zhu Shijing stood on the tower and shouted: "The missionary officers do things, and the missionary officers do things!"

"beep"

Suona issued a sound similar to an alarm, and more than 30 missionary officers ran over, shouting slogans along the way, trying to stop this trend of fleeing: "Folks, if you run away, you will die. Zhang Xianzhong will kill and rob when he enters the city. Come back with me, protect Let us parents, protect our wives and children..."

A village chief was running away, but when he saw the Datong army flag planted in front of him, he rushed to pull it up, waved the flag and said, "Tingqian village man, come back with me!"

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

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

At the gap where the city wall collapsed, uneven piles of soil were formed, and the peasants and soldiers were fighting for the high ground with Zhang Xianzhong's elite.Whoever can stop the pile of dirt will be able to condescend to kill the enemy. Due to the rush of time, neither side can line up and just fight by instinct.

Wang Hui shouted an order: "ten thousand enemies, ten thousand enemies, don't throw for now, listen to my orders!"

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

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

Wang Hui asked the messenger to issue a flag order: "Light the smoke!"

Zhang Xianzhong sent a full [-] soldiers to attack, all of them were soldiers, not civilian husbands.

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

In the open space at the gate of the county government, An Qigong, the county magistrate, ordered people to light up the smoke, while he himself led the people to gather in the city.There are people who understand the flag order everywhere, and An Qigong sent some people to support which section of the city wall was insufficient.

"Vote to the enemy!"

Seeing that more and more enemies gathered around the gap, Wang Hui finally ordered the bombing.

More than 20 thousand enemy bombs were smashed from the walls on both sides of the gap and thrown into the pile of enemies gathered outside the city.

"Boom boom boom!"

More than 2000 people were blown to pieces by successive explosions. No matter whether they were injured or not, they all coughed and turned around to run away.

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

And the series of explosions just now also helped the peasants and soldiers guarding the gap to successfully occupy the mound that had collapsed from the city wall.Without Wang Hui's order, the grassroots officers began to form formations on the mound, and it was a neat formation of mandarin ducks.

Sun Kewang commanded the charge several times, all of which ended in failure, and he couldn't even penetrate the defensive circle of the Wolf Whip.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong's gunfire soldiers arrived.

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

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A volley of muskets fired, and nearly a hundred peasants and soldiers fell.Half of the peasants and soldiers on the mound collapsed and fled in fright, and the arranged mandarin duck formation also showed a huge gap.

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

Three of the four Lügong chariots arrived at the city wall. A steady stream of enemy soldiers jumped to the top of the city, and the people defending the city stabbed them in disorder with simple bamboo and wooden spears.

Another group of attacking elites climbed up the city wall from the ladder, and started a bloody fight with the people defending the city.

Finally, the smoke in the city rose.

Zhang Xianzhong's face changed drastically, and he ordered another [-] troops to be deployed to capture the county town regardless of casualties, otherwise he would have to flee with cavalry, horse teams and mule teams.

Because reinforcements are coming soon!

Lao Hui took the initiative and said, "I'll intercept and kill the enemy's reinforcements."

Not only the returning cavalry went, but Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang's cavalry and cavalry also rushed to the southeast together.

In the southeast, due west, and in the mountains several miles away, the smoke of wars soon rose, and the smoke of wars conveyed the military situation.

Zhao Han's reinforcements are still fifty miles away!

The artillery team couldn't take them away. Zhao Han led [-] personal guards, and Li Zheng led [-] infantry. They rode mules and horses to Guangji County from different directions.

Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry arrived at the assembly point first.

Among them, there were 3000 dragoons, [-] were newly trained, and [-] were transferred from Hu Dinggui.

There are another five hundred Xiaoqi, all horses and horses.

Three batches of Mawari horses from India were shipped here.Due to the high requirements, the last batch was very expensive, and the maharajas of Indian states also knew how to raise prices.

Of these five hundred horses, about three hundred were gelding stallions, and another two hundred were non-pregnant mares.

The equipment of the Xiaoqi is similar to that of the Qing cavalry. The inner armor is combined with the cotton armor, and the cotton armor cloth is worn on the key points of the horse.Riding and archery skills are good enough, but everyone can shoot arrows, and they are transformed from eliminated archers.Riding skills are also bad enough. After only training for more than two months, it is difficult to perform many complicated operations perfectly.

Running to the foot of the mountain at the nearest beacon point, Lu Xiangsheng sent out [-] dragoons to investigate the situation in the direction of Guangji County. The rest of the cavalry stopped to let the horses rest.

Due west, Chilong Lake.

Chilong Lake at the end of Ming Dynasty was larger than it was hundreds of years later, with nearly [-] peninsulas in the lake.

Regardless of whether it was the fishermen under Zhao Han's rule or Zhang Xianzhong's rule, after seeing the beacon fire, they all quickly headed towards Qizhou.Some small ships from Jiangxi also entered Chilong Lake from the Yangtze River long ago, and have been docked on the peninsula in the middle of the lake to wait for orders.

The original plan was to send only [-] peasants and soldiers who surrounded Qizhou to support Guangji County by boat.

However, Huang Yao led the mountain division to come by boat, and 7000 artillerymen stayed in Jiangling to attack the city, and the remaining [-] people were all outside Qizhou City. Now they are also going to fight Zhang Xianzhong by boat together.

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

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

Cavalry and cavalry add up to more than 1 people.

Three thousand dragon cavalry, when encountering more than 1 horse-riding enemies, immediately dismounted and leaned against the foot of the mountain to form a firecracker formation.

The five hundred cavalrymen all withdrew to the rear of the infantry dragoons.

Zhang Xianzhong's team of thousands of horses charged in an extremely disorganized formation, with the distance between horses being more than four meters.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Three thousand dragon cavalry shot three shots at the cavalry, then quickly got on their horses, and followed five hundred Xiao cavalry into the mountain.

Due to the high-speed running of the opponent and the extremely loose formation, the firing rate of the ammunition fired by the three thousand firecrackers was about 70%, and only more than 40 enemy cavalry were shot down.

Lao Hui led the Xiaoqi to circle around, seeing all the Datong cavalry enter the mountain, how dare they chase into the mountain?The opponent has [-] guns, and after entering the mountain, they can find countless favorable terrains to shoot.

"Damn it, these cavalry are disgusting!" Old Hui Hui cursed, spitting out thick phlegm.

Ma Wannian, Qin Liangyu's grandson, is full of enthusiasm at this moment, and he knows that a decisive battle will soon take place.

Wu Huapu, who came from Liaodong, and the red-helmed general Zhou Yingyuan are also in the Xiaoqi team at this moment.