Chapter 33 Soldiers in the City

(You can't say anything wrong today! Brothers, let's accept it! There are still dozens of collections and four thousand left. Help me collect them!)

When the sun cast her light on the earth again, the two camps became lively. The groom and the gang got up early, and smoke rose in the two camps. The grooms fed enough forage to the animals, and each animal fed some beans. The food of these big animals could be as high as five. It is impossible to feed people only the amount of grass, especially now that they have to work hard to pull the car, so they have to take more care of it more carefully, otherwise they will soon lose weight, especially the war horses. If they don't feed the concentrate for a few days, they will lose their strength and can't be able to ride, so the horses responsible for taking care of these animals. Husbands, they are very careful to serve them.

As soon as dawn, the camp of Xing Tianjun sounded a trumpet. After hearing the trumpet, a team of soldiers would immediately get out of the tent, tidy up their clothes, and began to do morning exercises according to the previous habits. Under the leadership of their respective officers, they shouted loud slogans and lined up to exercise, attracting Li Zicheng's old camp not far away. The young man also got out of the tent and stopped and looked at the camp of Xing Tianjun.

Xing Tianjun's faction is indeed a little unique. Although Li Zicheng and other volunteers often organize drills, it is impossible to carry out such drills on the way to march like this, while Xing Tianjun is very abnormal. Even under such circumstances, morning exercises have not been cancelled, one by one. The troops of the heavenly army ran fiercely around the battalion, and then there was a short-term queue outside the camp. It was not until the camp sounded the trumpet again that the team returned to the battalion and began to withdraw the tents and install the tents on the cart.

Last night, Gao Jie and Xing Shi tossed around very late, but Gao Jie still did not dare to stay in Xing's tent. Instead, he quietly returned to his military tent in the middle of the night. At dawn, he was awakened by the call in the Xing Tianjun camp not far away. He got up and came to the outside of the camp and looked at the Xing Tianjun's camp.

Every move of Xing Tianjun surprised Gao Jie. He felt more and more that he could not see through the team from which this pole was born. As a person who has been in the army for many years, Gao Jie, of course, can see the Tao in it. Xing Tianjun has revealed that kind of unusual style everywhere, but all the actions show that they are by no means It's a group of ordinary poles, let alone a group of rabble. The soldiers and horses who can make such a ban can be called elite soldiers anyway. Not to mention that they are not in their rebels, even when they have fought with the officers and soldiers countless times in the past, they have never seen an army with such an appearance among the officers and soldiers.

Even if Gao Jie is arrogant, at this time, he has to admit that Xiao Tianjian is indeed not a general person. After a wry smile, he shakes his head and walks back to his camp, and begins to open up the camp.

Although it was dragged down by Li Zicheng's old camp, they still rushed outside Longzhou City in the evening of the next day. At this time, there was already a shout of killing outside Longzhou City. Li Zicheng led his main force and arrived here in advance in the morning, and then began to attack Longzhou City.

After most days, Longzhou City still could not be defeated by Li Zicheng. Instead, Li Zicheng left the bodies of hundreds of troops under the south wall of the city. It can be seen that on this day of fierce battle, the defenders of Longzhou City also resisted very fiercely.

When he saw Xing Tianjun escorting the old camp outside Longzhou City, Li Zicheng then stopped the attack on Longzhou City.

When Xiao Tianjian and Li Zicheng met, Li Zicheng did not wait for Xiao Tianjian to ask him about the situation here, so he took the initiative to say to Xiao Tianjian, "General Xiao came just in time. He Renlong, who was stationed in Longzhou City the day before yesterday, had led his troops to leave Longzhou and rushed to Baoji County! There are only less than the former officers and soldiers left in the city, as well as more than a thousand villagers who have just recruited in the vicinity of Longzhou Zhizhou. However, Brother Yu lacks siege equipment and failed to quickly capture Longzhou City today! On the contrary, I also lost a lot of brothers!

General Xiao came just in time. It's not too late. I hope General Xiao can help Brother Yu attack the city together tomorrow. It's better to beat Longzhou City before He Renlong returns to defense!"

Xiao Tianjian looked at the wall of Longzhou City under the sunset and nodded and agreed, "This is natural! Tomorrow, I will lead the department to assist Li Chuang to attack the city! I will never refuse!"

Li Zicheng saw Xiao Tianjian's promise, so he laughed and said, "General Xiao is really cool. That's all for tonight. Brothers have been fighting all day today. Have a good rest, and General Xiao and your brothers have also walked all day. Have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow morning, let's get together. Soldiers, attack the city together!"

A pile of bonfires ignited in the open space in the southwest of Longzhou City. Xiao Tianjian ordered his men to start camping on the spot, and he followed Li Zicheng and took several of his men to ride around Longzhou City and looked at the situation in Longzhou City.

But after walking down this circle, Xiao Tianjian was a little less optimistic, because compared with the other cities he had seen, the wall of Longzhou City was obviously much newer, and the wall was very strong. He didn't even see a crack. Outside the city wall was covered with cyan bricks, like iron casting, which was very strong. Moreover, the height of the city wall is more than three feet high. There are arrow towers every other section. There are three gates left. Each gate is built with a tall tower. There is a perfect trench outside the city. There is also a sheep and horse wall in the trench. All kinds of royal defense facilities are very complete. For the siege, Xiao Tianjian and his followers can definitely It is said to be a rookie who belongs to the rookie. Although they have also attacked several villages, even if Li Jiazhuang is rich, it is impossible to build a wall like the city wall. Therefore, attacking the city and attacking the village are basically two different things. The experience they have accumulated in attacking the city before is like a child's play.

Li Zicheng seemed to see Xiao Tianjian's hesitation, so he said to Xiao Tianjian, "Speaking of which, Longzhou City is a new city that has only been built for decades. It is said that in the 35th year of Jiajing, there was a land movement in Longzhou. That movement was very fierce. Overnight, the whole Longzhou City was all Destroyed by the ground movement, countless people died and injured inside and outside the city, and even the city wall was collapsed by the earth movement!

Later, the court allocated funds to repair this Longzhou City, so here in Shaanxi, Longzhou City can be said to be the latest city, so it is so solid!

But General Xiao, don't worry. There are few officers and soldiers in the city, and the rest are just some newly recruited braves! As long as I launch a fierce attack tomorrow, I can take Longzhou City with one breath. Brother Yu has inquired that there are tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass in Longzhou City. These money and grain were originally to be transferred to Xiningwei, but because we came fast enough, we didn't have time to transport them away! As long as Longzhou City is built, then we will no longer worry about food and fodder! With this money and food, we can recruit more exiles to join the army. At that time, the government will have nothing to do with me!"

Xiao Tianjian appreciates Li Zicheng's optimism, but he lacks the confidence to win Longzhou City this time. Li Zicheng looks down on the villagers, but he can't look down on these local villagers. Don't look at the villagers who don't take the salary of the court, but this Shaanxi is the hometown of the Qin people, and the local customs are very strong. Tough, for them, defending the city is guarding their home. As long as they are not allowed to leave home to fight outside and let them defend the city, these villagers dare to work harder than officers and soldiers.

What's more, Longzhou City has been built so strong that there are not many defenders inside, and the combat effectiveness of these rebels outside is also very limited, and the siege equipment is not prepared at all. If it really fights, it is really possible to be as optimistic as Li Zicheng said.

However, Xiao Tianjian couldn't say this. Otherwise, it seemed that he was too incompetible, so he nodded repeatedly and promised to help attack the city tomorrow.

There was nothing to say all night. At dawn the next day, Xiao Tianjian ordered all the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army to leave the camp and came to the outside of Longzhou City. Anyway, now while the strength of the defenders of Longzhou City is limited, it is possible to fight a dozen. If not, it is not too late to say.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already ordered all the generals, left his camp, and began to line up in the south of Longzhou. Compared with Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tianjun, their troops were obviously much more, but the quality of the equipment was not flattering. Only more than half of them were equipped with weapons, and some people were obviously just joining the team. Shang They didn't get any decent weapons, but this did not affect the morale of Li Zicheng's army. Although they were damaged in the First World War yesterday, after all, it was just a tentative attack. More than a hundred people were killed in action. For them, it has long been a common thing. Unlike the Xing Tian Army's elite military route, if more than a hundred people were killed and injured. In other words, it is already hurtful for Xing Tianjun.

Moreover, Li Zicheng's department has temporarily built a batch of siege equipment yesterday, mainly dozens of long ladders. In addition, they used the cars of several large cars to temporarily transform two hole cars, which is obviously better than the Xing Tianjun, who has not had time to build siege equipment.

However, Xing Tianjun also has an advantage. The number of their artillery is far more than the number of artillery pieces of Li Zicheng's headquarters. The five French machine guns are lined up, plus more than a hundred birds, and more than a dozen tiger squatting cannons and bowl mouth guns, which also makes Li Zicheng's soldiers a little jealous.

It's just that the forces of the two sides are really incomparable. Li Zicheng's troops came to Longzhou this time. Except for the three thousand people in the old camp who belong to the old, weak, women and children, there are more than 4,000 soldiers available. Moreover, Li Zicheng rushed to Longzhou first, and on the way, he was surrounded by nearly 1,000 people of people. These people were immediately assigned to his army. The total strength of combat troops exceeds 5,000.

In Xiao Tianjian's Xingtian Army, there are only 800 soldiers. After subtracting the generals of the scouts, there are only more than 700 people left. In addition, the number of new recruits who have not yet been integrated into the army is only more than 1,200. If some miscellaneous soldiers are removed, the number of soldiers is only about 1,000. It is less than one-fifth of Li Zicheng's troops, so after the array, although Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tian's army is neat, it is still not as strong as Li Zicheng's.