Chapter 34 The Battle of Longzhou 1

(A chapter of 4,000 words, will you continue to collect it?)

When he saw that Xing Tianjun had gone out of the camp, Li Zicheng couldn't help squinting at Xing Tianjun. There were both contempt and envy in his eyes. The contemptuous people felt that the Xing Tianjun's troops were too few, but the envious people were enthusiastic about the quality of Xing Tianjun's equipment, but anyway, these Li Zicheng The morale of the club was quite good, waiting for Li Zicheng to order the siege of the city.

After reviewing the situation of the two armies, Xiao Tianjian took the initiative to run to Li Zicheng to discuss the siege with Li Zicheng.

"General Xiao came just in time. Today, we will join hands to break through this Longzhou City. As long as we take Longzhou City, even if He Renlong returns to Longzhou again, it will be too late!

General Xiao's new troops have arrived here, and they may not have built siege equipment yet, so this siege will be handed over to Li's headquarters to do it! I also hope that General Xiao can support our troops on the side. In addition, once the officers and soldiers in the city come out of the city to disturb our siege, I hope that General Xiao can lead the troops to respond and repel them. I don't know what General Xiao is going on?" As soon as Li Zicheng saw Xiao Tianjian leading the camp and took the initiative to meet him, he took the initiative to discuss with Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian was afraid that Li Zicheng used his Xing Tianjun as a gunman and let them take the lead in attacking the city. When he heard Li Zicheng take the initiative to let his Xing Tianjun take the role of strategy and support Li Zicheng's attack of the city, it was also in the middle of his arms. So even if he nodded and promised, "Since Li Chuang has been arranged like this, then It's better to obey than to be respectful! Please rest assured that Xiao will not disappoint Li Chuang!"

Li Zicheng is also a relatively cheerful person. After arching his hand to Xiao Tianjian, he said, "Then there is General Lao Xiao!" Our cannons are limited. I have a lot of firearms in your department. I also asked you to press the firearms of the officers and soldiers in the city first. Li immediately led his troops to attack the city! In order to break this Longzhou city with a drum!"

Xiao Tianjian did not talk nonsense. After nodding and agreeing, he returned to his team's generals and assigned the task. Huang Shengqiang's artillery team, as the starting lineup, was quite excited and secretly made up his mind to show his face first in this battle, so that those mutant civilian troops under Li Zicheng could see the fierceness of their Xing Tianjun. Harm.

So after he was ordered, he immediately shouted, strode back to his artillery team, and shouted, "Brothers, it's all for me! Our general has an order! Let our artillery go first and show the officers and soldiers in the city how powerful we are! It's full of energy. Don't humiliate our Xing Tianjun!

Push the cannon to me and set it up!"

The soldiers of the artillery came to the spirit as soon as they heard it. Now they are attacking Longzhou City with the legendary Li Chuang. No one wants to blacken Xing Tianjun's face. From the beginning of the new barracks of the Xing Tianjun, the instructors have been instilling them with ideas about the honor of Xing Tianjun every day. No one wants to let people lose the chain at this time. They looked down at Xing Tianjun. As soon as they heard Huang Shengqiang's order, the artillerymen immediately took off the mules and horses of the towed guns and pushed or lifted their guns down the city with their hands and feet.

Yang Yulin on the city held his hand and looked at the new group of civil troops towards the appearance of the city. When he saw that they had pushed or removed so many cannons from the team, his heart suddenly began to sink.

Yang Yulin is a general of He Renlong. Two days ago, news came from Baoji County that Gao Yingxiang led tens of thousands of soldiers to Baoji County. Baoji County's troops were thin. He was worried that he could not withstand the fierce attack of Gao Yingxiang's mutant civilian army. Lianlian sent people to Longzhou to ask for help from He Renlong.

The last time Fengxiang Duan Youzhi sent someone to invite He Renlong to send troops to Yanyang to suppress bandits. This time, Baoji County was attacked by Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the mutiny army, and He Renlong could no longer refuse. Otherwise, once someone impeached him for sitting and watching, the crime was true. Not small, He Renlong can't afford such a crime, so after getting the news of Baoji Zhixian's request for help, He Renlong did not dare to neglect it. On the same day, he ordered 3,000 soldiers and rushed out of Longzhou to Baoji County to support.

However, He Renlong also kept an eye on his mind, fearing that once he left Longzhou, other civilian troops would come to attack Longzhou again. Therefore, when he left, his 1,000 soldiers under his command would be left in the city of Longzhou to garrison, and it was Yang Yulin, the president of his command, who led the thousand officers and soldiers.

Yang Yulin is now thirty-seven years old. He was born in Wu Juren in the Wanli period. After joining the army, he followed He Renlong as a general. For so many years, he has been promoted from the general flag official to the current general position. Although it has gone through more than ten years, he has gone through dozens of battles, and it has won more and lost less. It can be regarded as He Renlong's hand. The next one is fierce.

The reason why Yang Yulin was left in Longzhou City by He Renlong is mainly because Yang Yulin is famous for his skillful and daring to fight. At the same time, because he is steady and good at using firearms to defend the city, he has always been valued by He Renlong. This time, although He Renlong led his troops to Baoji County to support, he still took Yang Yulin stayed in Longzhou City.

Yesterday, when Li Zicheng led his troops to Longzhou City, Yang Yulin had figured out the plan of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng. They wanted to use the plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, and Gao Yingxiang led his troops to besiege Baoji County and transfer the main soldiers and horses under the command of He Renlong to Baoji County, and then let Li Zicheng lead his troops to take Longzhou City. If not If He Renlong expected it in advance, then Longzhou City is really in big trouble this time.

Yesterday, Li Zicheng led his troops to take advantage of the empty military strength in Longzhou City to conquer Longzhou City in one fell swoop, but Yang Yulin immediately asked Longzhou Zhizhou to order to summon nearly 2,000 villagers in and outside Longzhou City, cooperate with nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers under his command to defend the city, and repelled Li Zicheng's several attacks in a row, causing Li Zicheng to lose his first battle. Li failed to take down Longzhou City.

Before dark last night, Yang Yulin received the news from the scout, saying that the civil army was coming to Longzhou City all the way, and could reach outside Longzhou City before dark.

Yang Yulin did not pay attention to this news at first, because in his opinion, the city of Longzhou is strong, and the troops in the city are not a space gap. The officers and soldiers and the villagers are close to 3,000, and the soldiers in Longzhou are well-armed, which is enough to stop the attacks of these civilian troops.

Yang Yulin has fought with the civilian army for the first two years. Of course, he knows the strength of the civilian army. In addition, this time, Gao Yingxiang and his subordinates have been defeated in the carriage gorge, resulting in great losses. It is impossible to restore his strength in a short time, and it has become a civilian army. He has a reputation for poor combat effectiveness and is not good at attacking tough battles. With the thousands of soldiers and horses of Li Zicheng and the new arrivals, Yang Yulin thinks that even if He Renlong does not lead his troops back to Longzhou City in time, he can lead his troops to withstand the attack of Li Zicheng's civil army here.

But today, when he saw the situation of the newly transformed civilian army outside the city, he began to be nervous, because he saw at a glance that the transformed civilian army was different from other civilized forces. Early in the morning, he went to the city to pay attention to the situation outside the city. From the beginning of the new civil army's battalion, he found that this The civil army has shown a strong discipline, and the quality that only elite soldiers and horses can have. Basically, they can be banned. Although their troops are not many, only more than 1,000 people, the quality of their equipment is far higher than that of the many mutanti people he has seen before, even compared with his command. The quality of the officer's equipment is no less than that he has never heard of such a civilian army before.

So he immediately pointed to the new civilian army and asked Yebu, who came back to report this time, "What is the reason for this civil army? Why haven't you heard of it before?

The night under his men immediately replied, "Mr. Qian, this civilian army is a very famous criminal army in Fengxiang recently! This time, I don't know why I got involved with this thief (Gao Yingxiang). I guessed that they should have turned to the thief!"

"Cencied Heavenly Army? Is it the pole that defeated Feng Xiangwei twice in a row on the road around Liyang? I heard that they also broke through Lijiazhuang and slaughtered the Li family? Yang Yulin frowned, remembered the name of Xing Tianjun, and asked not to ask that night.

"Yes, it should be them! Speaking of which, Feng Xiangwei is really a coward. He was defeated twice in a row, and every time he let Xing Tianjun win more with less. What a bunch of idiots! Speaking of which, the Li family is really miserable. The Zhuangzi was broken by the Xing Tianjun, and the whole house was slaughtered. If it hadn't been for the Li family who was an official in Beijing, I'm afraid the Li family would have been defeated this time!" He shook his head that night and said.

"The Li family deserves it! Last time our general passed through Yanyang and wanted to ask the Li family to pay some money and food for the labor army, the Li family actually did not pull out a dime and scolded us as bandits! He said that he would let his son participate in our general book in Beijing! Our general later sent a sum of money to the man surnamed Li, which was a matter! Now they deserve to be slaughtered!" A general of Yang Yulin immediately said.

Yang Yulin sneered and said, "No wonder after the Li family was slaughtered this time, Duan Zhifu wrote to us go to Yanyang to suppress bandits. General He refused to agree. The Li family took the blame! Humph!"

As soon as Yang Yulin's words fell, the general's face changed color, and he pointed to Xing Tianjun under the city with a frightened look and shouted to Yang Yulin, "Mr. Yang Qian! Not good! Look, there are so many cannons on this pole! This is troublesome!"

Yang Yulin followed the boss's hand and was immediately shocked: "How can they have so many cannons?"

That night, a smart man immediately said, "by the way, this Xing Tianjun defeated Feng Xiangwei twice in a row. I guess these cannons should have been left by Feng Xiangwei's officers and soldiers!" This is troublesome!"

Yang Yulin squeezed his lips and stared at Xing Tianjun, who was carrying the cannon. At the same time, he glanced at the noisy array of Li Zicheng's army. He gritted his teeth and punched heavily on the city plate and scolded, "Jiao Tong, go quickly and turn the general's cannon around. I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle today! You must suppress the cannon of the Xing Tianjun first, otherwise, Li Thief will definitely lead his troops to attack the city head! In addition, gather the cannons in our city and be sure to suppress them!"

Even if the officers and soldiers on the wall were busy, a team of officers and soldiers shouted and transferred an artillery to the wall on this side, and began to be busy pretending and loading.

Huang Shengqiang commanded the generals of the artillery team to stop at a distance of a hundred steps outside the city, and the small flag waved and began to command his artillery to load.

And the gunners of each gun followed his instructions and began to load the ammunition into a cannon, which was placed behind the side of the franc cannon. Someone lifted a cannon and put it hard into the tail of the franc cannon. They carefully aimed at the gunbore and installed the gun in place.

In fact, the launch of the Fran machine gun is not simple. Because of casting, there will be some gaps between the son-gun and the mother gun. If you are not careful and the son-gun in place, once the gunfire is fired, the gas of gunpowder will leak out from the joint part of the son-gun and the mother-gun, and often burn the gunner who manipulates the gun. It is heavy and even killed, and what's more terrible is that sometimes it can even cause a bomb. In that case, the gunner will suffer, so it is not a simple thing to operate the Fran cannon. The gunners loaded with guns are the most skilled gunners, that is, to try to avoid such accidents.

And those tiger squat guns are not available for the time being. After all, the range of the tiger squat guns is very limited. It is not a threat to the enemy on the wall a hundred steps away. If it is too close, the birds and strong bows in the hands of the defenders in the city will cause great casualties to the gunners, so Huang Shengqiang is naturally not stupid enough to let the tiger squat. The cannon's men carried the cannon to the city to die.

After the five-door Fran machine was loaded, Huang Shengqiang immediately waved his arm and roared: "Fire!"

The gunner then picked up the red iron braces in the charcoal basin next to the cannon and pestle it in the fire door.

Only a few loud noises were heard, and several thick smoke immediately rose in front of the artillery array, and several projectiles immediately roared and hit the wall.

Five iron pills hit the wall heavily, causing the bricks and stones flying on the city wall and the city strack, causing the defenders on the top of the city to exclaim. For them, suddenly the civilian army outside the city would have so many cannons, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to their morale.

When the defenders in the city exclaimed, the generals of Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian outside the city collectively cheered loudly.

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction. The first round of the launch of his artillery team really gave him a long face. Not to mention the five cannons were fired, and they were also very accurate. At once, he collapsed two piles on the top of the city, and the remaining two were also hit on the wall not far from the pile, leaving two deep craters on the green brick wall. Under the collapsed city bricks, the core of the rammed city wall was exposed. Only one shell flew into the city and fell on the roof of the unlucky man's house.

Li Zicheng saw that Xing Tianjun had begun to fire cannons, so he pulled out a sword from his waist and shouted, "Brothers! Go!"

Countless rebels immediately picked up the ladders that had been prepared, pushed several newly made trenches and rushed towards the city wall. The first wave of rebels launched the attack were more than 800 people led by Liu Zongmin, a general under the command of Li Zicheng. These more than 800 people shouted one by one and rushed out of Li Zicheng like a tide. Array.

Yang Yulin turned his head and roared at his panicked men in the city: "What are you afraid of? It's just a few broken cannons, which scares you like this! Jiao Tong! Is the general's cannon ready?

The general named Jiao Tong shouted not far away, "Mr. Qian is ready!"

"Fire! Bombard these thieves!" Yang Yulin yelled at Jiao Tong.