Chapter 86 Breakthrough

After a few days of delay, Gao Yingxiang came late and led more than 20,000 people from Baoji County to the outside of Longzhou City.

It's different from when I saw Gao Yingxiang in Liyang. Gao Yingxiang's part expanded a little again after making a detour to Baoji County. It can be seen that when they came down this time, they took a lot of exiles along the way and plundered almost all the villages along the way. It seemed that the momentum was much bigger. When they appeared in black pressure. When it was outside Longzhou, there was no doubt that both the enemies and us here had a sense of shock.

Fortunately, Xing Tianjun has already learned this kind of scene in Liyang. This time, when they saw Gao Yingxiang and other soldiers and horses, everyone just looked slightly, and they were not as shocked as last time. Moreover, this time, in the face of the elite officers and soldiers under the command of He Renlong, they can defeat it, which also makes the punishment The Tianjun is much more confident. They really sneer at such a so-called army composed mainly of exiles.

However, as Gao Yingxiang's current position in the Rebel Army, Xiao Tianjian was also in the face. After learning that he had led his troops to Longzhou, he went out to meet Gao Yingxiang's arrival with Li Zicheng.

Twenty-to-30,000 people are not a small number. In addition, most of them are drifters who have not undergone strict training. Although it looks spectacular, camping alone is a huge project. However, for people like Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng who have led the army for many years, they will not be in a hurry. There are people in their own camp. The staff is specially responsible for this kind of work.

Gao Yingxiang led the elites to walk in front of the team. From afar, you can see the huge banner in front of his army, which is also quite majestic.

Seeing Li Zicheng standing on the edge of the road, waiting for Gao Yingxiang's arrival, Xiao Tianjian also turned over and got off the horse and stood beside Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng took a look at Xiao Tianjian, but did not show any dissatisfaction. At present, after all, they are cooperative relations. Xiao Tianjian is neither his subordinate or Gao Yingxiang's subordinate, so In terms of identity, there is naturally nothing wrong with Xiao Tianjian standing side by side with him, and Xiao Tianjian will naturally not surrender his identity and stand behind Li Zicheng, causing any misunderstanding.

Gao Yingxiang was still dressed in bright clothes and distinctive armor. From a distance, riding on a horse can be said to be majestic. Under the guard of the generals, he slowly walked along the road. When he saw that Li Zicheng and his party were already waiting for him here, Gao Yingxiang slightly urged the horse and accelerated his speed, making him sit down and trot on the horse. When he came to Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian, he turned over and jumped off the war horse. He laughed and patted Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian on the shoulders of bowing to him and said, "I finally see you again. That's good! Not bad!"

"My subordinates failed to take down the Longzhou City as agreed. Instead, they let the He madman lead his troops to withdraw from the city. Please break into the king and punish it!" Li Zicheng said to Gao Yingxiang with shame.

Gao Yingxiang's eyes flashed and he smiled and said, "As the saying goes, planning is in the sky!" This matter is nothing, but we didn't expect that Longzhou was so difficult to fight before, and this crazy man was also so treacherous that he left heavy soldiers in Longzhou City in advance. You are not to blame for this matter!

On my way here, I heard about General Xiao's defeat to the lunatic in the Great Stone Bridge. If we are not mistaken, General Xiao's subordinates are indeed a fierce army! Awesome!"

Xiao Tianjian also bowed his hand and said politely, "Where! The king broke up and praised it. The brothers under his command are not as powerful as the king said. It's just a fluke! Unfortunately, we couldn't stop the madman from returning to Longzhou City, but we still need to go here to preside over the overall situation! Shame!"

After a team of soldiers under Gao Yingxiang's command came over, Gao Yingxiang talked kindly about Longzhou City with Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian paid attention to Gao Yingxiang's team and saw Gao Yingxiang's trip to Baoji County. Although he did not conquer Baoji County, he still grew a lot. A few days later, he heard that after Gao Yingxiang's soldiers besieged Baoji County, he sent troops to sweep Baoji County. They captured more than a dozen large and small fortresses, looted countless materials, and slaughtered several villages with fierce resistance, so that some large families were in danger and did not wait for Gao Yingxiang. When the soldiers and horses arrived at their village, they wrapped some soft things in advance and fled from Baoji County.

Therefore, although this trip to Baoji County did not achieve Gao Yingxiang's original purpose, after being supplemented with the materials of these dozens of villages, Gao Yingxiang's strength has been considerably restored.

Now Xiao Tianjian looks over and can see that after this period of rest, the soldiers under Gao Yingxiang's command will be much better equipped and look than when they first arrived at their Tianlongzhai. There are now a lot more scarce war horses, at least more than a thousand cavalry teams, and The soldiers on the horse are wearing armor, and it is obvious that their strength has recovered quickly.

Moreover, Gao Yingxiang's team was larger than when he first saw it. Obviously, he collected a lot of exiles from Baoji County and joined his team.

Xiao Tianjian looked at so many people and rolled past him. After rolling in front of him, he couldn't help smiling bitterly. Gao Yingxiang was really not afraid of many people. He led so many people to come here. I'm afraid that Longzhou could be completely empty just by solving the problem of their meals.

Looking at the scene of more and more Gao Yingxiang's teams rushing outside Longzhou and starting to besiege and camp in chaos, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but start to move again.

After the nightfall, Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and horses gradually drove over, and Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were still experienced after all. They knew that it was easy to be taken by the enemy at this time, so when Li Zicheng led people to welcome Gao Yingxiang, he sent soldiers and horses to guard the gates of Longzhou City to prevent He Renlong from sending troops out of the city to steal. Attack, in this way, Gao Yingxiang's soldiers stood firmly outside the city.

And He Renlong obviously saw that the civilian army outside the city had been on guard for a long time, so he stayed in the city honestly, closed the door and did not have any fighting on both sides.

Li Zicheng held a banquet for Gao Yingxiang in the camp. Xiao Tianjian naturally went to the banquet to accompany him. Several parties discussed the siege of the city overnight. Gao Yingxiang also showed the idea of attacking Longzhou with the help of Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tianjun.

However, Xiao Tianjian refused Gao Yingxiang's proposal on the grounds that they lost a lot after their war. Gao Yingxiang had so many soldiers here and wanted him to attack Longzhou City. Even if he was a pig brain, he would not do such a loss-making business, so Xiao Tianjian naturally He would not agree to Gao Yingxiang's request, but only promised to provide military artillery to cooperate with them in attacking the city, but he also took the opportunity to propose that the consumption of gunpowder in the army was huge, which was not enough to use. He asked Gao Yingxiang to find a way to solve a batch of gunpowder for him.

Gao Yingxiang saw that Xiao Tianjian refused to fall into the trap and did not force it. After all, as we all know, killing the enemy is a thousand and losing 800 yuan. The Xing Tianjun fought alone in the Great Stone Bridge to deal with the officers and soldiers with more than three or four times their strength. Although they occupied the terrain advantage and won a great victory, it is also impossible if they want to pay a little loss. If he forces Xiao Tianjian to lead his troops to attack the city, this kind of thing will make people laugh at him for relying on the strong and bullying the weak. Therefore, Gao Yingxiang also nodded to express his understanding, let Xiao Tianjian rest as soon as possible and restore his strength, and promised to allocate a batch of gunpowder for Xiao Tianjian to meet Xiao Tianjian's requirements.

As for the siege of the city, Xiao Tianjian doesn't care much about it. With the troops of Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang, even if they take down Longzhou City and get a large number of materials in the city, the materials that can be given to him must be pitiful. So sitting in the banquet, Xiao Tianjian came to silence and only listened to them discuss the siege of the city. Take the opportunity to learn some experience in the siege.

A large number of people is actually an advantage, that is, Gao Yingxiang and others have never worried about the lack of strength to attack the city. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Longzhou City, and suddenly surrounded Longzhou City. The strength of the two sides became much different, so that He Renlong no longer dared to easily go out of the city to attack the camp of the civilian army. .

On the morning of the third day in Longzhou, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng rose up their own troops and began to attack the city on the east and west sides of Longzhou City. The siege battle, which had been silent for a few days, began again. Although Xiao Tianjian led his troops out of the camp, he watched the battle from afar behind him. He ordered his generals to take the opportunity to observe more Gao Yingxiang and Li Zi. It becomes a means to command and attack the city, and learn more experience from it.

Together with the siege of the city, it was fought very fiercely. The rebels were sent out by batches. Like ants, they carried cloud ladders to besiege ants in the city. However, the officers in the city were also quite resolute. All kinds of stones and wood fell down the city like rain, and all kinds of artillery fired continuously outside the city. The whole Longzhou city was hit. Like a pot of porridge, the gunfire was filled with smoke.

After being strengthened by thousands of people in He Renlong's headquarters, the strength of the defenders has greatly increased, and the defense is much tighter. The wall is so long. Although Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng have a lot of troops, there are only two or three thousand people who can throw themselves into the battlefield each time. Although Gao Yingxiang sent a wave of his men out at the end of the day, but But it was still repelled by the garrison again and again.

And Xing Tianjun did receive hundreds of catties of gunpowder given to them by Gao Yingxiang, enriching some of their gunpowder reserves, so he did not hesitate to take out part of it. Some of the general's artillery was transferred out to assist Gao Yingxiang to attack the city. The quality of these gunpowder can be said to be uneven, and the proportion is not uniform, so When used, it has a great impact on the accuracy of the artillery. In addition, Huang Shengqiang is ordered to preserve his strength, so the cannons of Xing Tianjun are basically arranged at the limit of range. It seems to be very happy, but in fact, the threat to the defenders in the city is not very big, but only to contain the artillery fire of some defenders in the city.

In this way, for three consecutive days, Gao Yingxiang personally supervised the battle and attacked Longzhou City continuously, but the result was very unsatisfactory and the loss was great. He only attacked the city wall twice. In the end, he was repulsed by He Renlong's army. Gao Yingxiang ordered to stop the siege. He led the troops to besiege outside the city and no longer attack like this.

In three days, the casualties of the rebels were at least 2,000, which was a great blow to the morale of the rebels. Gao Yingxiang also knew that if he continued to fight like this, it would not be good for him, so he wanted to change his way to take Longzhou City.

After more than ten days, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng used various means to dig tunnels, fire attack, recruit surrender... But because He Renlong led his troops to defend the city resolutely, the materials in the city were not very poor, and He Renlong also ordered the large households in the city to take out part of the money, grain and labor army, and rewarded the meritorious people, so that Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng used it. I couldn't take down Longzhou City in my best, and I couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.