When the horse thief saw the horse thief, his eyes were filled with tears!

Once this relationship was extended, the two sides immediately became much closer. The scouts of the 36th Battalion were no longer wary. They even took the courage to follow Xue Hongqi's horse thief straight into the central army of Zhu Yuanzhang's army to pay their respects to the leaders.

"The villain is Wei Laoqi from the Anse Horse Gang. I have met Sister Xue Hongqi of the Yulin Horse Gang!" The scout turned over and bowed, first bowed to Xue Hongqi, and then came to Zhu Yuanzhang. It seems that in the minds of the horse thief, Xue Hongqi is much more famous than Zhu Ba's name.

The Anse Horse Gang, which is Gao Sai and Gao Yingxiang's troops, Zhu Yuanzhang was in his heart and asked casually: "I intercepted the messenger of the officers and soldiers in Phoenix City, saying that there are a few heroes here siege the city. Come and see what the fun is going on. What is going on?"

Wei Laoqi quickly said: "In front is Brother Chuang Wang, leading the general of the Chuang, the Eight Kings of Xiying, and several old Huihui troops are attacking Zezhou City (Jincheng). It has been two days since the attack. Brother Zhu is coming just right, and it is just a helping hand."

These four are all monsters! Zhu Yuanzhang sighed slightly. He was the most powerful figure in the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty. Among these four, Gao Yingxiang, the King of Chuang, was born as a horse thief, Li Zicheng, the general of Chuang, was born as a Gansui border army and postman, the eight kings of Xiying were also born as Yansui border army and court constable, and the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying was born as a Hui Muslim who was born as a Suide border army...

Well, the officials who have a clear eye must have seen that except for Gao Yingxiang, the other three have been border troops. They have a little knowledge of marching and fighting, so when they trained the army, they were many times stronger than those of Zhao Sheng, a light-lighting lamp, and the left-hanging guys of King Yichuan. No wonder they siege the city and spread the scout net for ten miles. It is obvious to prevent officers and soldiers from coming to rescue and storm during the siege.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself: Jincheng is really over this time.

He smiled at Wei Laoqi and said, "Since these four leaders have attacked the city, the small Xiaozezhou city will be destroyed in an instant. I will not come out to show my shame, so as not to share more money and I will just watch the fun next to me."

His statement was to hint: "I won't come to steal your interests." When Wei Laoqi heard this, he was naturally overjoyed and smiled: "Brother Zhu Ba, you are so polite."

Under the leadership of Wei Laoqi, Zhu Yuanzhang's army stepped up and soon arrived two miles outside the western suburbs of Jincheng. He climbed a small hill to see the situation ahead. At this time, it was already bright. He saw a huge city of state standing on the horizon in front of him. This was Zezhou City, also known as Jincheng. This city is equivalent to Puzhou. It has a city wall of two feet high. A small moat about five meters wide flows around the city. It seems that several Flang machine cannons are installed at the top of the city. However, it is too far away and it is not clear to see clearly.

On a plain outside the city gate, the troops of the King of Breaking King Gao Yingxiang were setting up a military formation, as if they wanted to attack the city. Zhu Yuanzhang just took a simple look and roughly estimated the number of people, more than 18,000 people... This is really not a small number, and more than 18,000 people were soldiers who were trying to fight to attack the city, and the old, weak and poor people had not been included at all.

"I am worthy of being one of the top leaders in the 36th Battalion!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed softly. If no one was taken into his own army, Zhu Yuanzhang could still pull up such a large army, but the army of varying quality was not what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted. He was based on the principle of careful selection of soldiers. So so far, the Huanglong Mountain Village can use only 10,000 troops, and the number of people alone is indeed far inferior to the 36th Battalion.

Wei Laoqi introduced next to him: "These are all subordinates of Brother Chuangwang, responsible for attacking the West Gate, and there are also Brother Chuangwang attacking the North Gate. Brother Chuanghui is responsible for the East Gate, and the Eight Kings of Xiying are responsible for the South Gate... If you want to watch the fun, the four gates are enough for the leaders to see."

After hearing what he said, Zhu Yuanzhang was nothing. Wang Er, Miao Mei, Xu Renjie, Xue Hongqi and others next to him were all shocked: "This... so many people are only part of them? There is one such army in the other four sects?"

"Yes!" Wei Laoqi smiled and said, "But the other three units have fewer troops, and there is not as many under the command of Brother Wang."

Zhu Yuanzhang's army suddenly appeared behind the King of Chuang. It immediately attracted the attention of the King of Chuang. However, the scouts from both sides had already visited each other and Zhu Yuanzhang also stated that they would not get a share of the pie, so King of Chuang Gao Yingxiang did not care about the "friendly army" behind him. His army "woofed" and sounded the trumpet, and it seemed that the siege was about to begin.

Xu Renjie was so excited that he danced with excitement: "Wow, we are going to start siege, watch the fun! Hahaha, watch the fun!"

Since the rebel army attacked the four-sided city gates at the same time, Wang Pu, the general of northern Henan in the city, was also miserable. Three thousand soldiers were divided into five parts, four of which guarded one wall, and the other was in the middle to support them. If one side could not resist, they would hurry to support them. In other words, there were only 600 soldiers stationed at each gate. Such a force was too weak. Wang Pu had to recruit thousands of town warriors in the city to disperse them to assist in defense. Because the 36th Battalion was too famous, many residents in the city also spontaneously organized to help the officers and soldiers. In this way, there were about 1,500 guards on each wall.

"Woooo!" The horn sounded.

"Roar!" the bandits roared.

Although the army formation of more than 10,000 people was scared, it was impossible to move forward at the same time to attack the city, and could only rush forward part by part.

The officers and soldiers quickly fired fire on the top of the city. The cannons roared, and solid iron bombs flew out and fell into Gao Yingxiang's military formation, exploding a piece of blood mud. Gao Yingxiang's troops were not afraid. It seemed that these people were also lacking the battle formation and their courage was trained. They rushed forward with shells. Anyway, there were only four Flang machine cannons on the top of the city. As long as they were lucky, it would not be easy for more than 10,000 people to hit themselves in the military formation. Just rush up... It's right to rush up...

More than a thousand guards on the top of the city quickly shot arrows down, and the bandits also returned to the top of the city with rain of arrows.

In fact, shooting arrows from a high place should be very advantageous. Unfortunately, the officers and soldiers have too few troops, and the sparse arrows cannot do the purpose of deterring the bandits. Because the bandits lack weapons and equipment, the arrows that responded to the city are not dense.

After the silly rain of arrows, the bandits rushed to the moat.

This is the third day of siege. The bandits obviously have experience in how to cross the moat. They first put a long ladder on the river to form a ladder bridge. After crossing the bridge, they pulled up the ladder and then put it on the city wall... This is the wisdom of the farmers, which is a good plan, but there are problems with this plan... When the ladder is tilted on the city wall, the load-bearing ability is okay. When it is mounted horizontally on the moat, the load-bearing ability is not very good. People often run two steps on it, and the ladder breaks from it with a click, causing the soldiers above to fall into the river.

But even so, the bandits still easily crossed the moat... Because the number of people was too great, arrow rain and other things could not stop them from flocking to the crowd.

The last thing the officers and soldiers could rely on was the city wall that was more than two meters high!

As soon as the bandits arrived at the city, they immediately put a long ladder on the wall. This kind of siege scene has been playing for thousands of years, but it is still the main method for siege. The soldiers on the top of the city rushed over immediately and wanted to push the ladder down, but the bandits under the city are not idiots. A large group of people quickly held the ladder with their hands to prevent it from being pushed down.

Then the archers shot archers crazily at the bandits who held the ladder. The bandits set up a lid to block the pot, and at the same time they also responded with arrows. The battle surrounding the ladder suddenly filled the edge of the entire city wall.

Occasionally, a ladder was overturned. The bandits above were screaming and falling down, and then brought down a bunch of companions. Those who fell far and even rolled down into the moat. Those who fell closer were pressed under the ladder, screaming.

Some ladders could not be pushed because the bandits below were too steadily held, so the officers and soldiers on the city quickly carried the oil to boil, poured the oil on the ladder, let the oil flow down the wooden pillars of the ladder, and then a torch lit the ladder, and the fire ignited along the ladder, burning the bandits climbing up the ladder, making the ghost scream Liantian.

The bricks and stones wrapped in oil cloth and ignited flames were thrown down from the city walls and hit the heads of the bandits. Mars splattered everywhere, and brains and blood splattered...

Wang Er and Miao Mei were both shocked by the tragic situation of the siege: "So... the real siege is like this? We used to rely on Brother Zhu's strategy to easily win the city. We have never experienced such a scene. If we had siege like this earlier, we would have been killed or injured by the brothers."

Xue Hongqi smiled bitterly and said, "I have experienced it once under Dali City, but the scene at that time was not as tragic as it is now. My soldiers were more afraid of death and were easily defeated. However, Brother Wang's soldiers are indeed powerful, and they dare to attack bravely."

"God comes from the number of people!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly next to him: "You had only three or four thousand people at that time. If only one of the 50 people was brave and brave, then there would be only six or seventy brave people in your army. The number of suicide squads was too small and could not drive the entire army. However, there were more than 10,000 soldiers from the King of Breaking. There would be three or four hundred people in his army who dared to fight and die. These people took the lead and could bring out the momentum of the entire army. Just like we used 500 veterans to lead thousands of new recruits."

"I see!"

"So many people attacked the city together, and there were only more than one thousand defenders. It seems that this city cannot be defended, right? When the bricks and stones are smashed, the officers and soldiers on the top of the city will be finished." Xu Renjie said.
Chapter completed!