Zhangyang's current territory, Gaoyou Prefecture and Taizhou, is not connected to the Yangtze River. If you want to cross the Yangtze River, you must first obtain a ferry along the coast. Zhangyang chose this ferry in Taixing.

Taixing is located directly south of Taizhou, and is closest to it. If you cross the river from Tongzhou, you have to walk a hundred miles towards it. Therefore, Zhang Yang set his sights on Taixing.

The task of attacking Taixing was handed over to the newly formed Seventh Battalion, and the commander was Xu Yi.

Although it was newly formed, some soldiers were drawn from the fourth battalion to serve as the tenth captain and the centurion. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the fourth battalion. What is more impressive is that their sense of seeking war is particularly strong.

Seeing the Fourth Battalion beat the Tartars to the point of being abandoned, they could only guard other cities in the distance, watching in irrelevantly, the desire for battle in their hearts was so strong.

Xu Yi escaped from Furong Village, and since then he has been following Zhang Yang loyally and made great contributions. Now, he has been promoted to the command of a battalion. He has been holding back his energy and wants to compare the people from the fourth battalion. Our 7th battalion is also a team that can fight tough battles!

Although he is competitive, Xu Yi is not a brave but unscheming person. Before Xu Yi set out, he had already found out that Taixing was just a small town like Xinghua, with less than 5,000 troops stationed. In recent days, due to the defeat of the Tartars, the defenders were extremely depressed.

It is natural to take no effort to win such a small city. The only thing is how to take Taixing down the most beautifully and minimize his losses. In recent years, Xu Yi knew that the elder brother attaches great importance to the lives of his subordinates and often emphasizes eliminating the vitality of the other party and preserving his own strength. In this chaotic era when life is as low as grass, the elder brother's strategy of leading troops has won the gratitude of the soldiers.

As the main force in attacking Taixing, Xu Yi set out in advance before the army took action.

Thanks to the victory of the Gaoyou Prefecture Defense War, the rebel army seized many of the Tartars' war horses, so almost all the battalions were replaced with cavalry units, which made Tang He feel that he was suffering a loss. Originally, the eldest brother promised to equip all his battalions with cavalry, but unexpectedly, each battalion had to agree to Tang He and equip his battalion with fifty more scattered fireworks. Then Tang He felt a little more comforted and began to think about how to trick the new recruits.

At that time, there were no large-scale cavalry equipment. In addition to the lack of horses, on the other hand, the fodder needed for horses was also a problem. The small Gaoyou Mansion could not support so many war horses. Now, the army is about to go south. The south has abundant water and grass and abundant resources. Raising war horses will not become too much logistics burden.

Xu Yi led his team to set out from Gaoyou Mansion and ran to Taixing at night.

The guards of Taixing were a garrison sent by Yangzhou. Most of them were newly affiliated troops and genuine Mongolians. There were only the military supervisors in each army, about one hundred people, and the guards were called Agmu.

Since learning that the official army failed to encircle Gaoyou Mansion, Agmu has been vigilant and sent people to patrol the city day and night. It is too close to Taizhou. Who knows whether the thieves will go south and attack him first. Thinking of this, Agmu cannot sleep or eat. He applied to Yangzhou several times and then dispatched some people. There are too few pure-bred Mongolians, so Semin people are fine. The new army under his command have very poor combat power, so it is very pleasant to escape.

However, no one of the officials in Yangzhou was willing to contribute to this little Taixing and refused for various reasons. This is no wonder that Yangzhou is mixed between Chuzhou and Taizhou. There is Zhang Shicheng in the east and Zhu Yuanzhang in the west. None of them is good at masters, and Yangzhou is also very nervous.

But, is it effective if there are too many people? Agmu knew that it might be effective against Zhu Yuanzhang, but it is really indefinitely to deal with Zhang Shicheng. Zhang Shicheng's subordinates seemed to be divine weapons and generals, and each of them could make a hundred. Even the Grand Tutuo failed. Who else could stop Zhang Shicheng's pace?

Agmu felt powerless. If the opponent really came to attack, he would just be a mantis arm and would not have much effect at all. However, as the glory of the Golden Clan, he could not let go of his own value, and even if he died in battle, he could not surrender!

These days, Agmu has been carefully deploying various defense facilities on the city wall, insisting on the training of the soldiers, and having more one more day of training, the battlefield will be more confident.

It is already November, and the weather is getting cold. The cold wind blowing from the north has a chill that penetrates the heart.

The big flag on the top of the city is clamoring in the cold wind.

Agmu stood at the top of the city, looking at the horizon in the distance. At this moment, the sun had just risen and a golden glow shone on the earth.

On the gray horizon, some small black dots appeared. The small black dots gradually became clear, and they were cavalry moving at high speed!

"Enemy attack! Warning! Close the city gate, everyone will go to the top of the city!" Agmu shouted loudly.

Under the city gate, panicked soldiers pushed Zhen’s huge city gate and slowly closed.

Taixing is a small town, so small that there is not even a moat. Agmu has no confidence in resisting the powerful Zhang Shicheng.

The only thing that made Agmu happy was that now all the people coming were cavalry, and cavalry could not carry out siege operations.

If you want to attack the city, you must have siege equipment, ladders, crashes, and arrow towers. This is what ordinary people think. Soon, Agmu's idea of ​​avoidance was subverted.

The one who came here was Xu Yi's seventh battalion. The one in front was the first team of cavalry. When they arrived at Taixing City, they immediately surrounded Taixing City with scattered lines.

They carefully did not enter the range of the bow and arrow at the top of the city, and completed the encirclement work two hundred steps away from the top of the city.

One thousand people surrounded such a large city, and the number of people seemed insufficient. However, they were very confident that the Tianque gun in their hands was not a vegetarian. Now, they just needed to use the Tianque gun to dispel the morale of the soldiers guarding the city.

Siege the city as the best, attack the heart as the best, what Xu Yi thought was this strategy.

"Bang!" A Tianque gun muzzle smoked, and a lead bullet with heat waves flew out quickly and penetrated into the chest of a sentry on the top of the city.

Before he could snort, he fell to the ground with blood spurted out from his chest and sprinkled onto the city.

"Little Liuzi!" The soldier next to him was in love with him. When he saw him falling to the ground, he immediately shouted loudly.

The other soldiers on the front of the city also began to panic. They were so far away that even bows and arrows could not hit the other party. How could the other party avoid and accurately kill the people on the front of the city?

"Bang!" Another bullet flew over, and a sentry fell to the top of the city again. This time, the lead bullet hit the head directly, and the head was opened, and the white brain mass flowed all over the ground.

The soldiers on the city wall finally discovered that the other party was aiming at the sentry on the city wall, and they could not be a tragic devil for no reason. They all shrank their bodies into the wall, and no one dared to stick their heads out.

"Get up quickly, get up quickly," a Mongolian military inspector was dissatisfied and immediately shouted loudly, kicking the lying soldier with his feet.

The soldiers were full of complaints. Isn’t this a death sentence? They had long hated the military supervisor, but no one dared to resist and were unwilling to get up. They cursed in their hearts. Why didn’t the rebels beat you to death?

It seemed as if people outside heard it, the next moment, the military inspector lay on the ground with blood all over his body, with four or five holes on his body, bleeding.

This time, no one dared to look up again.

It is said that Zhang Shicheng's army's firearms are powerful. He doesn't believe in fighting before he saw it with his own eyes, but after he sees it, he will be frightened from the bottom of his heart.

As a small city, there is not even a crossbow at the head of Taizhou city. Agmu only has hundreds of archers. It is impossible to drive away the opponent's cavalry. Besides, the bows and arrows cannot shoot that far.

Agmu also hid under the stacking wall and looked out from the shooting hole, and his mood calmed down.

I had long been afraid that the other party would come to attack Taixing, so I had no insomnia day and night. Now that the other party has come, I feel relieved and at most I will die in battle.

"General, why don't we take people out of the city to kill those damn musketeers." A deputy general leaned against Agmuer and said.

It's not enough to defend the city, and I'm still thinking about leaving the city? Agmu looked at the deputy general in front of him, and really didn't know how to scold him for being stupid. Look at the soldiers around him, they were all so scared that they hid under the city. Who dared to leave the city?

"Let the archers and shoot arrows."

"But our arrows cannot reach."

"Although the arrow cannot reach it, if we only get beaten and don't fight back, our morale will soon collapse." Agmu said.

Sparse arrows shot out, landing more than a hundred steps away from the cavalry, and they could not even hurt their hair.

The cavalry burst into laughter.

This first step is considered successful, called "fixed removal." Kill all the soldiers who were exposed and severely hit the morale of the soldiers guarding the city.

The second step is to show off your real guy.

An hour later, the cavalry of the 7th Battalion finally arrived. In addition to the three teams of firearms, they also had a team of five hundred people.

In order to allow the artillery to keep up with the speed of the cavalry, the scattered fireworks were dismantled and two horses could be carried away. The War God Cannon was placed on a wheeled sports car and dragged by the horse, which was also considered to be a motorcycle.

The spear team with 500 people became a logistics team, and they were responsible for ammunition and food. This army could walk a hundred miles a day. After walking for a few days, they finally arrived in Taixing.

Xu Yi looked at the city wall with no one but the big flag, and knew that the task of targeted removal was completed well, which put a lot of pressure on the defenders.

Then, it depends on the performance of the artillery.

"Immediately transfer the scattered fireworks and the God of War cannon to the shooting state, and set up the artillery position. After half an hour, complete the shooting preparations." Xu Yi ordered.
Chapter completed!