Chapter 36 The Battle of Longzhou 3

Throughout the day, Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian did not go out to attack the city again. Instead, they sent a lot of soldiers, dispersed, and rushed to some villages outside the city.

Although they can't beat Longzhou City for the time being with their combat strength, for the Zhuangbao outside Longzhou, their troops will deal with those Zhuangbao. If they can't fight again, it's really not Li Zicheng, so for dealing with Xiaozhuangbao, their soldiers are still easy to capture.

As a result, it took less than half a day to capture the three Zhuangbao outside the city. In addition to pulling back the money and food, they also pulled back a large number of door panels, bed boards and other things. At the same time, they also collected a lot of bedding, and some captured Zhuangding villagers transported these materials back. In their camp.

In the afternoon of the same day, the camp of the two armies became busy. Many people in the two armies used to be craftsmen. Li Zicheng, as a veteran of the battlefield, naturally accompanied some craftsmen with the army, and this group of craftsmen became busy on the spot.

At the same time, the two armies also sent a group of auxiliary soldiers, cut down a lot of trees nearby, and also transported them back to their respective camps and handed them over to the craftsmen in the camps.

For two days, Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian did not launch a new offensive against Longzhou City. Instead, they sent their cavalry and constantly patrolled outside the city. There were several small-scale conflicts with a small number of scouts sent by the defenders in the city. There were casualties on both sides, but it also limited the defense forces in the city to investigate outside the city, gradually It surrounded Longzhou.

It was not until the morning of the third day that Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian once again ordered all the soldiers and horses out of the battalion and formed a battle outside Longzhou City.

Yang Yulin has been a little restless in the past three days. It is reasonable that the thieves outside the city should not act like this. He has sent a fast horse to the direction of Baoji County and transmitted the news of Li Zicheng's sneak attack on Longzhou to He Renlong. If He Renlong returns to Longzhou, he should be able to return to Longzhou soon. The city, while the Li thief outside the city gave up continuing to attack Longzhou, and instead put on a posture of besieging Longzhou for a long time. This reaction was obviously abnormal.

So he sent scouts out of the city for two consecutive days and went near the thief camp outside the city to inquire about their news. However, as soon as the scouts sent out of the city, they would encounter the scouts of the thief soldiers. Although the scouts he sent also won, it was only a small victory, but he could not detect the movement of the thief army outside the city. In this way, Yang Yu Lin was a little uneasy, afraid that Li Zicheng would play tricks again.

On the third day, when it was reported that the thieves outside the city had gone out of the camp again. It seemed that they were going to attack the city, Yang Yulin was a little relieved, so he immediately dressed up neatly, led a few soldiers to the head of the city, and looked out of the city.

As a result, this time when he saw the situation outside the city, he was immediately shocked.

The two civilian troops outside the city were obviously fully prepared this time. In front of their ranks, a large number of strange things appeared in line.

Yang Yulin is not a rookie. After looking at it, he immediately saw that this strange thing was actually made of a unicycle and a wooden board on the roof of a big car, and a layer of bedding to create a shield car. Although it is extremely ugly, Yang Yulin knows that this thing is absolutely difficult to deal with. The bullets on the city are basically ineffective to deal with these things. Unless they are directly hit by solid iron bullets or stone bullets with cannons, they can only watch these things push to the city.

In addition to these shield cars, he was stunned to find that there were several familiar things in the enemy array outside the city. After looking at it from afar, it made him jump. These things were actually made of rough logs.

Although since the large number of artillery in the early Ming Dynasty were used, the artillery and carts in this cold weapon have gradually withdrawn from the battlefield, as a civilian army, they often lack firearms. When attacking the city, the only firearms are often unable to fight against the officers and soldiers defending the city. In addition to filling in human lives, they will occasionally create some of this. Things are used as siege equipment, but this thing often needs a lot of craftsmen to be built. Today, among the thieves outside the city, at least seven or eight such return guns have been made, which shows that there must be many craftsmen in the thieves. Otherwise, it is impossible to do so in two days. So many shield cars have been built, and so many return cannons have been built.

Although the range of the return gun is limited, Yang Yulin has no doubt about the power of the return gun. Once dozens of pounds of big stones fall on the wall, it can often be much worse than the damage to the wall by ordinary artillery. At present, only the Hongyi cannon or the fierce artillery attacking the city is better. In addition to these heavy In addition to the type of artillery, ordinary artillery is really not much more powerful than this kind of return gun.

"Quickly charge the artillery and prepare more rolling stones! Slap the wolf's teeth! Hurry up! Don't delay!" Yang Yulin saw the situation outside the city and immediately began to arrange people to get busy.

After hearing the order, the defenders in the city also realized that the situation was wrong today, which was related to the lives of each of them, and the families of some strong men in the city were still in the city. Once the city was broken, it would be a disaster for them, so they really spared no effort to work.

A large number of officers, soldiers and villagers copied the guys one after another. In the roar of the officers, they rushed up to the wall from the horse road in the city and guarded between each mouths, and they were ready to defend them one after another.

Yang Yulin has a reputation in the army. He Renlong really chose the right person to stay in Longzhou City this time. The officers and soldiers in the city are very impressed by Yang Yulin, so that he can be said to command these officers and soldiers. Although they are obviously not as good as the thieves outside the city, there are not many people in chaos.

The performance of the officers and soldiers also drove the morale of the brave soldiers who helped defend the city, so these villagers also showed more obedience. According to the orders of the officers, they carried a batch of rolling wood and stones onto the wall, and bundles of arrows and barrels of gunpowder bullets were also transported from under the city to the top of the city and placed on them. Behind a cannon.

Longzhou City is responsible for the transfer of materials to Xiliang and other border towns in the west. The material reserves in the city are quite rich, and all kinds of weapons are not lacking, so this has become Yang Yulin's current capital. With these materials, Yang Yulin is not soft at all, and batches of bees, flying knives and arrows have been transported to the city wall. Go up.

Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian stood in front of the army and looked at the busy wall of Longzhou City from afar. Li Zicheng took a deep breath and said to Xiao Tianjian, "It depends on how the battle is today! If you can't capture Longzhou City today, then I guess He Renlong should come back! At that time, if you want to capture Longzhou City, I'm afraid it won't be so easy!"

Xiao Tianjian didn't have much pressure. Originally, it was not his idea to attack Longzhou City. At the same time, he was not optimistic that the rebels could defeat such a strong city as Longzhou. He came here this time and said that the main purpose was to lead the club to learn the skills of large-scale siege, but It doesn't matter whether he can beat Longzhou City or not. It doesn't matter much whether he can beat Longzhou City or not. After all, his material reserves are more sufficient than that of Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang and other volunteers, and he does not coerce the people to join the gang. The material consumption is much less than that of Li Zicheng and others.

These days, watching Li Zicheng constantly collect the surrounding exiles to join his team. Xiao Tianjian has never competed with Li Zicheng for these exiles. Li Zicheng has integrated these exiles into his army. This performance also reassured Li Zicheng and thinks that Xiao Tianjian is not ambitious. Such people come to them. He said that there would be no threat, and he was much more intimate with Xiao Tianjian.

"General Li said that I'm afraid there is only one day left now! However, in this view, if we have enough troops this time, we can besiege the city to help, send some troops to surround Longzhou City, and set an ambush on the way to He Renlong's return to help! If you eat He Renlong's soldiers and horses, the defenders in Longzhou City will naturally be in chaos immediately. In this way, Longzhou is at your fingertips! Unfortunately, our military strength is still limited at present, which is not enough to fight on both sides at the same time, otherwise Longzhou can take it lightly!" Xiao Tianjian said to Li Zicheng easily.

Li Zicheng turned his head and looked at Xiao Tianjian in surprise. He couldn't help but be surprised by Xiao Tianjian's opinion. It was really reasonable to think about Xiao Tianjian's words, so he laughed and said, "It turns out that Brother Xiao is still so knowledgeable! This is very smart!

You're right. If the Eight Kings or Cao Cao and Lao Hui are also here this time, it should really be a good way to do it according to Brother Xiao's method! It's a pity that our strength is still limited at present!

Let's not mention it for the time being. Let's attack the city first! With so many shield cars, the defenders in Langcheng should have no choice but to take us!

Come on, beat the drum and start attacking the city!"

Xiao Tianjian didn't think he was smart. After all, in the later Liberation War, the G Army often used this method. It can be said that he had been familiar with the siege and aid.

With a rumble of drums, the generals under Li Zicheng's command got off their horses one after another and returned to their own songs. After seeing the flag of Li Zicheng's army swayed, Li Guo and Gao Jie each led a thousand generals, shouted, and led dozens of ugly shield cars to the extreme, towards Longzhou City. The attack went down.

There was the defense of the shield car in front, and the soldiers in the back followed with dozens of ladders, rushing to both sides of the south gate of Longzhou City.

This time, they launched an attack from both sides of the gate in two ways. Li Zicheng was determined to attack Longzhou City in one fell swoop, so he spent a lot of effort. He not only sent 2,000 troops, but also adjusted some of the only firearms in his army and acted with them.

And Xiao Tianjian, as an auxiliary army of Li Zicheng, although he does not have many troops, he can't sit and watch Li Zicheng's siege of the city, so they still do their old job and are responsible for supporting Li Zicheng's siege.

Several return guns that have just been built are operated by the subordinates of Xing Tianjun. Each gun truck is equipped with 80 people, pushing these gun trucks towards the city wall.

(Please collect it again!)