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Chapter 351 Attacking Lujiang

Niu Jinxing held his hand, like a prime minister, and a hint of pride flashed in his eyes. Gao Yingxiang had the power of an emperor, and Niu also rose and realized his dream.

However, everyone understands that this feeling is false, so Niu Jinxing bowed and said, "According to news from various departments, most of the wealth and food in Yuhang, Jiaxing, Deqing and other places have fallen into the hands of our army."

"Very good. Notify all the ministries and you can withdraw them. If you are late, you will change. Now Anqing City is still in the hands of our army, and we can still pass Anqing smoothly and return to the Central Plains." Gao Yingxiang patted the handrail, a little reluctant. It would be great if he stayed in this prosperous place. Nanzhili is better, Zhejiang is better. Look at Zhejiang, and then look at northern Shaanxi. He used to live like a livestock.

But rationally tells myself that I can't stay here for a long time. If I stay here for a long time, people's hearts will become corrupt, and the court will even bite like a mad dog.

The atrocities in Haining and other places were raging. Gao Yingxiang and others knew this well and wanted to take it step by step. However, the officers and soldiers suddenly seized Qianshan County, and Gao Yingxiang had to order the robbery as soon as possible. Since it was robbery, burning, killing, looting was inevitable. After fighting for such a long time, the brothers under their command also needed to vent.

It was precisely because he understood that Li Zicheng pressed down Li Yan's letter and did not respond. To be precise, Li Zicheng didn't know how to answer Li Yan.

Haining's atrocities were acquiesced, and Gao Yingxiang and others would not admit them, but they could not stop them.

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At the Lengshui Pass of Luzhou Prefecture, a cold wind was blowing from the pass. Iron Mo wrapped in a thick cloak and looked into the distance. The bandits were moving too fast, or the soldiers and horses in Zhejiang were too incompetent. In just one month, they had been losing cities and land continuously, and now most of the rich land in Zhejiang were snatched away by the bandits. Wang Zuo was next to him, holding his hands in his sleeves. Even so, he still felt a little cold.

"Ah Ye..., General Cao sent someone to send a message that he, General Zhao and others had worked together to take Qianshan County. The army arrived at the predetermined position. He wanted to ask, what should we do next!" Wang Zuoguai still admired those of Zhao Shuzhi, and rushed to Nanzhili. It was quite difficult to win Qianshan County within the predetermined time.

Tie Mo thought for a while and asked in a deep voice: "How are you preparing in Dingshan?"

"Returning to the commander, General Zhou sent back a few hours ago that each unit had reached its predetermined location and could launch a surprise attack on Lujiang City at any time. Also, the materials urging before have been delivered and can be transported to Lujiang City within a few days."

"Well, are the supplies here? This is the best way. I will ask Chen Yaofeng to take good care of the supplies for this supervisor. If this batch of supplies is going to be a little bit wrong, he doesn't need to keep his head. Dingshan tells him that the attack will be launched on time tomorrow, and I will ask Li Jiucheng and others to cooperate with him! In addition, I will send someone to notify He Jingyuan and hide it for me. Without my order, if they dare to show up, they will throw them all to the back and take the blame!"

Wang Zuogu did not dare to be negligent, so he quickly bowed and said, "Don't worry, the supervisor, my subordinates will instruct General He. I think General He has been in charge of the army for many years. He knows the importance of this matter and will never do anything randomly!" Although he said this, Wang Zuogu was a little afraid that He Jingyuan would not be able to stand it and ran out to get involved in the Lujiang war.

He Jingyuan's Fire Camp was secretly sent to the Jinqiao River area a month ago, and it would be of great use to keep them hiding there. Once something went wrong with He Jingyuan, all the plans that had been booked before would be disrupted. Now the artillery in the Yunfu army is no longer a secret. After suffering so many losses, the bandits had already paid attention to the Fire Camp. If the bandits discovered the traces of He Jingyuan and his group, they would not be wary in advance. Maybe the bandits would surround him like a mad dog and swallow He Jingyuan's army.

Jinqiao River is not far from Lujiang City, but from the beginning to the end, he did not intend to let He Jingyuan get involved in this war. But everything was unexpected. If He Jingyuan couldn't stand it in Jinqiao River and led his troops to get involved and reveal his traces, then all his efforts would be wasted.

A cold wind blew at the pass. Tiemo and Wang Zuogu returned to the command post behind in a heavy mood. Charcoal fire was burning in the iron basin. The two of them were cooking fires while drinking warm tea. At this time, Tiemo was holding a letter in his hand and frowned. Wang Zuogu just glanced at it and did not dare to disturb him. It was not that Wang Zuogu did not express his opinions, but that he did not interfere with things like water. After all, this was the supervisor's housework.

The letter was sent by Chang Minyue. Chang Minyue roughly explained the matter about Nanjing City and focused on Xiao Ruxue. Of course, she did not forget to focus on Hai Lanzhu's behavior. In short, the letter was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, and Chang Minyue hoped that Tiemo could treat it fairly and scold Hai Lanzhu's behavior.

The Tie Governor was in a dilemma. The two women began to compete secretly so quickly. Xiao Ruxue was a trivial matter, and Tie Mo didn't take it seriously because he didn't think there was any possibility of this matter. No matter what Xiao Ruxue said, she was the Miss Xiao family. How could the Xiao family agree to this marriage? The key is that because of this, the battle between Chang Minyue and Hai Lanzhu.

After fighting, wasn't it for the position of the Lord of the Houkara? It was really a headache. Tie Mo kicked Xin into his sleeve and glared at Wang Zuo angrily, "Mr. Wang, what are you good ways?"

Wang Zuogao was originally smirking in secret, but never thought that Tie Mo would turn to ask questions. For a moment, his expression was stiff and he smiled embarrassedly: "This... the supervisor is a little uninformed and I really don't know how to deal with it. It's better for the supervisor to make the decision. I'll go and fight Lujiang City first. I'll be preparing too many things!"

Wang Zuoguai found a reason and quickly ran away. The fun of the Supervisor was not so easy to see. He dared to look back when he ran away. He felt relieved when he saw Tiemo not following him. Who dared to get involved in the fight between Miss Chang and Hai Lanzhu? Neither of these two women could afford to offend Miss Chang. It seems that Miss Chang is powerful, but Hai Lanzhu is not much worse. Not only is she favored by the Supervisor, but the Korqin tribe also stood behind her.

If we talk about who the two of us are optimistic about, Wang Zuogao is more optimistic about Hai Lanzhu. The supervisor favors Hai Lanzhu not only because of her beauty. This woman is elegant and luxurious, and she is very generous in dealing with others, but she is also tolerant. On the other hand, Miss Chang has no need to mention her ability, but her mind is a little smaller.

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On the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month of the third year of Chongzhen, it was sunny and windy. In the cold weather, more than 10,000 Xuanfu soldiers who had been hiding in Lengshui Pass and remained motionless, finally took action. The generals of Lengshui Pass, led by Zhou Dingshan, suddenly appeared in the west of Lujiang City before the fog had dissipated, and launched a fierce attack on Lujiang City. However, for a long time, Zhou Dingshan not only prepared a large number of ladders, but also made people supervise the construction of many city-striking cars.

The musketeers slowly moved towards Lujiang City in groups. They lined up in neat rows, and the muskets in their hands kept firing, and the smoke dissipated, and wailing sounds sounded at the top of the city. Under the cover of the musketeers, the heavy city-killing car moved forward little by little, and finally came to the city.

"Boom...bang" The heavy city-slamming car looked extremely slow, but when the first impact occurred, the peasant army on the top of the city felt trembling under its feet, like an earthquake. For a moment, many people looked pale like a piece of paper. If they kept hitting it, the city gate would sooner or later collapse.

The sound of emergency gongs rang throughout the city, and there were people calling everywhere. Faced with the sudden attack, the peasant army in Lujiang City was a little panicked. This seemed very abnormal. In theory, Lujiang City and Lengshuiguan confronted each other, so they should have been prepared for the attack of officers and soldiers and responded easily. However, the reaction of the peasant army in the city was not that true. In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not so difficult to understand.

Lujiang City and Lengshuiguan confront each other, which is true. The key is that the confrontation lasted too long, and the most terrible thing is that for such a long time, the officers and soldiers kept holding their troops and hibernating. This calmness lasted too long, which made the peasant army in Lujiang City relaxed their guards. Since Li Zicheng captured Lin'an, Gao Yingxiang, who had been in charge of the defense of Lengshuiguan, also went to Lin'an. After he left, he naturally took away a lot of troops. Gao Yingxiang had all dispatched troops from the near Lengshuiguan, and others felt that there was no danger here. Zeng Qian, who was guarding Lujiang City, was not a careful person. Gao Yingxiang and Niu Jinxing, and others ran to Lin'an to enjoy the blessings, and Zeng Qian naturally had to enjoy it.

Since Gao Yingxiang left, Zeng Qian has been hiding in Lujiang City for drinking and picking up girls at other times, and the king of Chuang went to Zhejiang to enjoy his life. He had to enjoy the money he stayed in Lujiang City. The king of Chuang could not favor one or the other, right?

Zeng Qian was not very concerned about defense. You said that the upper beam was not straight, the lower beam was crooked, Zeng Qian was like this, and others would not be able to do their best when doing things. They said they were going out to investigate the situation, but in this cold weather, who would want to run out? Many people ran out to find a town to drink, chat and chat and then came back. Once or twice, no one cared about it, and gradually the spies were like this.

After all, from top to bottom, the peasant army in Lujiang City felt that the officers and soldiers of Lengshui Pass would not send troops to attack Lujiang City at this time. If they had a sense of crisis, this would not happen. Common sense speculated that if they did not attack Lujiang City when it was warm and attack Lujiang City when it was cold, wouldn’t this be a disease?

However, the Xuanfu army really didn't play according to common sense and came to fight Lujiang City again at an unexpected time. Even the car hit the city gate, Zeng Qian had just gotten up from the two women.

When he arrived at the city and looked at the rapid offensive outside the city, Zeng Qian was so anxious that he burst into cold sweat on his forehead, "Hurry, let Xie Mazi's people come up and hold me back the city gate. Where is the rolling wood? Where is the tung oil, hurry up..."

As he was shouting, Zeng Qian's pupils shrank and he squatted down suddenly. Then he heard a muffled groan, as if something had been rubbed against his scalp and flew over. Zeng Qian looked behind him in a daze and found that his personal captain was lying straight on the ground, with a blood hole on his forehead, and blood was flowing out. The personal captain who was still alive just now turned into a corpse in a blink of an eye.

Musket, why are the range of the officers and soldiers' muskets so long? After luckily escaping, touching the blood on their foreheads, Zeng Qian simply hid behind the battlements, "What are the archers and archers doing? Shoot those turtles to death at me..."

Under Zeng Qian's shout, the terrified archers finally launched a counterattack, but most of the arrows shot out were blocked by the shields in the front row. It was strange that the main force of the officers and soldiers carried the ladder and did not rush forward, but only asked a small number of people to use the city car to hit the city gate under the cover of musketeers. Others did not climb the ladder, and the rolling wood and tung oil that had been prepared for a long time were useless.

Zeng Qian made a ruthless move and ordered people to pour all the tung oil and boiling water into the city gate. For a moment, the soldiers around the city car screamed in tears. With Zeng Qian's helpless call, the first wave of offensive was finally repelled.

The officers and soldiers retreated, but Zeng Qian was not happy at all. It was obvious that they were just testing it just now. The real attack had not come yet? In a depressed mood, he pulled the guards above the city and cursed: "Look, look, this is what you are talking about invading? They have not yet put up the ladder..."

"This..., the leader once, but the attack of the officers and soldiers was indeed very fierce. The brothers were hit by the musket before and couldn't even lift their heads. Many brothers just wanted to fight back, but they were killed in a daze!"

"Hmph, you still dare to argue. You are greedy for life and fear of death, you are not a hero!" Zeng Qian stared at the bull's eyes, looking unhappy. However, the others were twitching and kept cursing in their hearts. It was not normal to be afraid of death? What are you scolding? Who was hiding behind the battlements just now and shouting?

Half an hour passed by, and the second wave of offensive finally came, but this time was completely different from the first time. The officers and soldiers attacked Lujiang City from both north and south, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed out from Yefu Mountain in the north, with fierce and fast attacks. Countless ladders stood on the city wall in an instant, and the officers and soldiers rushed over with a scattered sea of ​​people.

In just a moment, the North City was in a hurry. It was not until this time that Zeng Qian realized that the real main attack direction of the officers and soldiers was in the north, and the army in the south was just a cover.

But at this time, it was too late to adjust the deployment. The offensives in both north and south directions were actually very fierce. Ladders continued to appear, and tung oil rolling wood continued to pour out, but it only slowed down temporarily. With the same offensive intensity, the North City's weak defense could not be stopped.

Li Jiucheng personally led his troops to attack the city, with a steel knife hanging around his waist and climbing up with a ladder. Li Jiucheng looked elegant, but in fact, when fighting, he was not as weak as Shang Kexi.

Jumping onto the top of the city and chopping down a guard, Li Jiucheng yelled: "Brothers, follow me to kill!"

Two hours after siege, Li Jiucheng broke out of a gap in the north city wall. This gap was magnified little by little, and finally the North City Gate was declared fallen.

In this battle, the Xuanfu soldiers and horses were useless. They relied on the fierce combat power of the soldiers to seize food. The north city gate fell, and the peasant army in the city immediately showed signs of collapse.
Chapter completed!