Leping County has been captured twice in a row by bandits.

The first time was that the old Hui Ma Shouying, who was broken into pieces, went north, and the Zuo Jin King He Jin and Huntian Xing Huiden attacked each other.

All the officials and most of the yamen runners in the county were beheaded by the bandits, and none of the wealthy families in the city were spared. The men were killed, the women were slightly younger, and most of the civilians were robbed. There were countless dead, and countless women were kidnapped by the bandits, and countless young and strong women were taken to fight.

Later, Xu Dingchen sent Po Ximu to recover Leping. Lao Huihui and Zuo Jinwang escaped from Leping County, crossed Taihang Mountain and entered the Zhending Prefecture area. They were beaten up by Lu Xiangsheng. Po Ximu also chased him, and the bandits hurriedly fled to Mount Wutai.

Leping County was recovered, but there were no defenders, no yamen runners, and no wealthy families to protect the courtyard. The population dropped sharply by half. The entire city was empty, with only crying day and night because of the murder or robbery of relatives, and the screams of the gangsters when they took advantage of the chaos to rob.

Pingdingzhou sent a judge and brought a hundred soldiers to take over the city defense and rectify public order. Only then did Leping City barely restore some order.

But not long after, a group of bandits suddenly came outside the city, mainly from scorpion blocks to Yangkun, Wang Zhang Fatty, Huaguansuo Wang Guangen and other families, with a total of more than 8,000 people.

Because the bandits had been swept up along the way by the bandits in front of them, after they got out of the encirclement from the south, they didn't grab anything along the way. After eating the bark for a few days, they arrived at Leping City. They didn't know that this small county town had been snatched away. They heard that there were not many defenders in the city and the gates were also broken and easy to fight.

So, Tuo Yangkun, Zhang Fatty and others discussed it for a moment and rushed over, thinking that they could build a county town and would never have to worry about food and drink.

The county town was defeated, but there was not much food inside, and there were only a thousand people, and it was empty.

Tuo Yangkun, Zhang Fatty and others were disappointed. Seeing that there were no officers and soldiers nearby, they simply used Leping as a base and robbed the hungry people everywhere, causing lifelessness to rob within a radius of hundreds of miles.

After they really had no place to rob, Tuo Yangkun, Zhang Fatty and others rushed all the hungry people who were brought in nearby, as well as the thousands of people in Leping City, to Pingding City, and forced these people to be the pioneers and attack Pingding City day and night.

There were originally many gentry and gentry in the city. When the bandits arrived in this area, large households within a radius of dozens of miles also hid in the city. Now, there is much more food in the city in Pingding.

After two days of siege, the people who were brought in were basically dead, but the pacification of Dingzhou also consumed a lot of arrows and rock rolling wood. Two cannons were blown up, and there was not much gunpowder and shells left. The city gate was burned to pieces by bandits. Fortunately, the door hole was blocked with bricks and stones, so the bandits were not attacked by bandits.

There were officers and soldiers guarding the Thousand Houses of Pingding Prefecture in Pingding City. Due to the serious desertion, only more than 400 troops were left, but half of the private soldiers of each general accounted for half, which was quite powerful. There were more than 200 runners in the prefecture and county yamen in the city, and nearly 1,000 rural gentry guards of many rural gentry guards, and all the defensive forces combined were more than 1,500.

There is also a Guguan guarding thousands of households seventy miles to the east, with about 600 officers and soldiers, but there were tens of thousands of bandits besieged in the city, so the officers and soldiers of Guguan did not dare to come to rescue them at all.

The person responsible for pacifying Dingzhou was Yan Zhang, the deputy general manager of the Jining Army and the Dao Army. Seeing that the bandits had been surrounded for two days but did not retreat, Yan Zhang was restless and panicked.

Before the bandits siege the city, he had sent several waves of fast horses out for help, but now he has not seen a single reinforcement.

The South Gate and the West Gate have been burned down. At most two days, if the reinforcements are not yet available, the bandits will break through the city.

Tuo Yangkun and Zhang Fatty also know this well.

On the third day of the siege, just dawn, Tuo Yangkun and Zhang Fatty, commanded the bandits to push two shield cars built overnight out of the camp and slowly headed towards the south gate and the east gate.

They wanted to take down Pingdingzhou today and take advantage of the support of the officers and soldiers to plunder the city's food, gold, silver and treasures before they arrived.

At the west gate, seeing the bandits pushing the heavy shield car slowly into the range of hundreds of steps, the defenders at the city hurriedly lit the only few tiger squat cannons and a small Francis aircraft. Most of the whistling shells fell near the shield car. The only iron bullet two fingers hit the front of the shield car, making a loud "bang".

The shield trembled, but the baffle made of logs on the front was not broken at all, and the iron bullet was only inlaid on it.

Seeing this, the bandits behind cheered, and the shield car continued to move forward slowly.

"Start the cannon, keep firing the cannon!"

On the top of the city, Shi Chengliang, who was pacified by the Thousand Houses of Dingzhou, kept shouting.

Several artillery fired continuously, and shells hit the heavy shield car from time to time, but the front and top of the shield car were logs, which were extremely strong. The power of the tiger squat cannon and the Franc was not bad at all.

Not long after, the shield car arrived in front of the broken city gate of the West Gate. The bandits in the car removed the baffle on the front and took out the bricks and stones blocked in the door opening piece by piece.

The defenders on the city wall smashed the heavy bricks and stones down, and the burning gold juice, poured on the burning firewood piles, etc., and poured them down.

Not only was the shield cart not only couldn't be smashed by stones, but it was covered with thick mud on the top and around it, and the gold juice could not be poured in and the fire could not be burned.

Dozens of bandits behind them rushed up in flames with big shields and used long bamboo poles with hooks to remove the burning firewood hooks, so as not to be roasted to death in the shield cart.

Yan Zhang, the deputy chief of the Ji Ning army, happened to reach the top of the city. When he saw the situation under the city, he was so scared that his face turned pale and his hands were at a loss.

"what to do?"

"what to do……"

Outside the city, Tuo Yangkun and Fatty Zhang looked happy and their eyes were glowing. The bandits around were eager to try and cheered.

At this moment, a few fast horses suddenly rushed in the distance. One of them turned over and got off the horse, ran to Tuo Yangkun, and whispered: "Master Scorpion, the officers and soldiers are here."

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Tuo Yangkun frowned.

"As the young man saw with his own eyes, about 1,500 officers and soldiers, all riding horses, hundreds of pack horses, and dozens of grain trucks. They came from the west and had already passed Liushugou. If it was almost time, it would arrive in a quarter of an hour."

"Which army is it?"

"I can't see any troops, I only saw the character Qin written on the flag of the coach."

"The surname is Qin?" Tuo Yangkun couldn't help but frown, "Fatty Zhang, are there any generals named Qin in this area?"

Fatty Zhang next to him also frowned in confusion. After thinking for a while, his face suddenly changed: "Is it the Qin Chuan who captured Liu Guoneng alive a few days ago and defeated the eight kings with 1,500 troops and 30,000 troops?"

"Um?"

Tuo Yangkun's face also changed.

"It must be him, with a force of 1,500 troops, everyone has a horse, and his surname is Qin, who else is besides him?"

Fatty Zhang's face became more and more serious as he spoke, and suddenly shook his head, and then said, "This city of Pingding can't be fought. Let's retreat. Even Liu Guoneng and the Eight Kings were defeated by Qin's men. We are not his opponent."

Wang Guangen, who was standing beside Huaguansuo, also came over and said, "I heard that guy was a slaughter of a man. He never blinked his eyes. He also hung the heads of three hundred officers and soldiers outside Taiyuan City to intimidate the officials who snatched the fields with him. We should not slaughter with this man..."

"Which one of us kills without blinking? Isn't it just three hundred heads? I will hang three thousand heads on Pingding City tomorrow."

The reincarnation king Xubian, who was on the other side, interrupted him and said with a disdainful look on his face.

Wang Guangen opened his mouth and was about to speak, Tuo Yangkun waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, don't argue at this moment. Let's discuss quickly whether to fight or run away."

"beat!"

Xu Bian responded without hesitation, and then said, "I have heard that the reason why the Qin surnamed can catch Liu Guoneng was because the guy hid the firearm on the grain truck. Liu Guoneng and Li Yangchun underestimated the enemy. Their subordinates were not prepared. The other party was frightened as soon as they fired. It would be strange if they were not defeated."

"The reason why that guy was able to defeat the Eight Great Kings was purely luck. The Eight Great Kings were knocked down by the rioters and separated from the army. They had to escape alone. His troops lost their backbone and fled in panic overnight. As a result, they were ambushed by the Qin and the Big and Big Cao. If the Big Cao had not arrived in time, the Eight Great Kings would not have lost so badly."

"In my opinion, the Qin surnamed is just a trick and has a very good luck. He won two battles and pacified a large open land west of Dingzhou. Tens of thousands of people formed a formation. His Qin surnamed has neither a dangerous place to defend nor a trick to use. Is he afraid that his little force will not be able to succeed?"

Hearing his words, Wang Guangen was about to speak, but Fatty Zhang, who was beside him, nodded and said, "Well, Mr. Xu said something. We may not be afraid of him by doing this open-minded and clear swords and guns."

Wang Guangen opened his mouth and as soon as he spoke, Xu Bian said first: "Master Scorpion, the surname Qin not only has dozens of grain trucks, but also more than a thousand military horses. Moreover, I heard that his firearm was particularly sharp. The small tiger squatting cannon was shot far and fiercely, and the bird gun didn't even need a fire rope, and it was also accurate to hit it. If we could get these things over...hehe, we can all fight against Cao Wenzhao."

"Um……"

Tuo Yangkun was a little moved.

"Master Scorpion, you must not miss the opportunity, hurry up and give an order."

"good!"

Tuo Yangkun slapped his thigh and said, "Call the brothers who attacked the city back, and call them from the South Gate too. Everyone gathered at the West Gate and lined up to face the Qin surname."

"We first take the things sent by the Qin surnamed, and after we get the firearms, we will clean up the soldiers on the city. After entering the city of Pingding, we will kill and rob, and we will not leave any chickens and dogs!"

"No chicken or dog left!"

Xu Bian took the lead in raising his knife and shouting loudly. The bandits around him suddenly became excited and followed him to dance and shout.

The bandits who were sieging the city were quickly called back, and thousands of people from the South Gate also arrived quickly, and tens of thousands of bandits lined up outside the West Gate in chaos.

Before the formation was arranged, there were sporadic cavalry on the west side, some of whom were watching from afar, while others wandered unscrupulously on their left and right sides.

"Damn it, these officers and soldiers are too arrogant to find horses. When I go out and kill him and sacrifice the flag to Scorpion Master."

Xun Bin kicked the war horse under his crotch, carried a big red tassel gun, and rushed towards the two officers and soldiers on the left.

"good!"

Tuo Yangkun was revived.

"Please cheer for Mr. Xu."

"Mr. Xu is mighty!"

"Mr. Xu is mighty!"
Chapter completed!