Chang Yu, Huang Degong, and Gao Jie were right as they expected. There was indeed a miscellaneous army in Jizhou City, and it was a temporary patchwork of troops with only 5,000 troops.
After Li Zicheng received the news that there were three troops heading north along the border between Hebei and Shandong, he immediately mobilized troops from Zhending Prefecture and Guangping Prefecture to attack nearby and establish a defense line to prevent officers and soldiers from moving westward or northward.
There were only about 500 regular rebel troops in Guangping Prefecture, and they were all cannon fodder for the puppet army. After receiving Li Zicheng's military order, the puppet defense envoy Zhai Fengqi immediately gathered about 2,000 people from east to west with the leader of the rebel army, Chang Zhang Brigade, and rushed northward.
Jizhou established a defensive line.
Zhending Mansion was originally garrisoned by an army of thieves. Ren Jirong and Ma Shiyao, the bandit generals, were injured in Taiyuan but survived, and led their troops to break through Zhending Mansion. It happened that Zhou Yuji led his troops eastward and northward, and the two thieves were about to take revenge.
He was eager to lead his troops north to pursue the attack, leaving about three thousand troops in Zhendingfu. Most of them were officers and soldiers who had surrendered, refugees, puppet troops and other miscellaneous people who hurriedly gathered in Jizhou after receiving the order.
However, it is said that after this rabble entered Jizhou City, they were still cautious at first. They first built an outpost in Zaoqiang to keep an eye on the movements of the officers and soldiers. After seeing the officers and soldiers motionless for more than ten days, they knew that they were afraid and dared not move forward. Their vigilance gradually relaxed, and
Jizhou's city walls were thick and fearless, and they became more and more arrogant. They even ignored Li Zicheng's prohibition and began to harass the people in the city. What's more, the two groups of people were not from the same hilltop, and they were not convinced, or they were fighting because of the uneven distribution of the spoils.
Continuously.
But at this moment, the officers and soldiers suddenly crossed the river and marched westward without any warning, quickly captured the outpost Zaoqiang County, and then overnight the army marched under the Jizhou City.
First, the vanguard marched around the city to persuade them to surrender, and then more and more officers and soldiers arrived, numbering in the tens of thousands. The bandits in the city were frightened for a while, but they were lucky. How could the high walls of the city be broken?
Jizhou City did not have any other defensive fortifications except the city wall. Only one of the four cannons was available, and there were only a dozen cannonballs. Other military supplies were also very few. Therefore, when the army besieged the city and surrendered, there were not without disagreements within the rebel army.
Some people think that those who understand the current affairs are heroes, and a hero will surrender if he doesn't suffer the immediate losses. The worst he can do is turn around and see things are not going well and then rebel. Others think that the whole of Hebei is the territory of the rebels. King Chuang has hundreds of thousands of troops, heading south from Baoding City.
There are rebels for three hundred miles. How much trouble can these officers and soldiers cause? Moreover, people were sent north to deliver a message last night. The walls of Jizhou City are high and thick, and the officers and soldiers will not be able to defeat them for a while. When reinforcements arrive, these officers and soldiers will not be able to flee.
It means surrendering, so we’ll talk about it later.
In the end, the latter slightly gained the upper hand and waited to see what the wind was like before moving on.
However, Gao Jie and Huang Degong, who were under the city, saw that persuading them to surrender was ineffective, so they thought of bragging to the young eunuch and entered the city before sunset. It seemed that words alone were no longer enough, and they had to show their fists.
For the first time, the two of them joined forces to divide the work and cooperate. Each led a department to attack one gate. Huang Degong attacked the west gate and Gao Jie attacked the south gate. Whoever broke through the city first would get the first victory.
By noon, all the troops were in position, but the bandits on the city were still wavering. Huang Degong and Gao Jie were no longer patient and ordered the attack on the city almost simultaneously.
Both armies have varying numbers of artillery. Although it is not easy to break the city with heavy artillery, it is a crushing fire suppression for the Jizhou City bandits who have almost no artillery.
The rebels on the city had no long-range attack weapons to suppress them. The officers and soldiers launched an attack directly 100 meters below the city. Bows, arrows, trebuchets and artillery fired at the city to suppress them. The officers and soldiers charged bravely against the siege ladder against the wall. After the field artillery bombarded the city gate, the siege began.
The car crashed directly into it...
Chang Yu immediately stood two miles away and looked at the raging battle. He heard the deafening beating of drums and frowned. There was always a huge disparity between offensive and defensive casualties, but these thieves defending the city in front of him were... damn ridiculous.
Looking at Li Zicheng's more than ten years of battlefield experience, he almost spent his time escaping and attacking the city, but he almost never defended the city. He was the ancestor when escaping, he was the grand master when attacking the city, and he was the apprentice when defending the city. To put it simply,
Those who are good at attacking will not be able to defend.
A thief is a thief, and the guilty conscience of a thief is hard to change. After conquering a city, he usually plunders everything and runs away. He has neither the inclination nor the courage to live there for a long time to support his troops and make a living. They use the tactic of cutting leeks, and sometimes even dig up the leeks roots.
This is also one of the reasons why Li Zicheng has been wandering around for so many years and never lived in his own territory. It was only in recent years that he discovered the true meaning and encircled Xi'an and became king.
Lack of experience in defending the city, the city's defense fortifications are in short supply, and the rabble gathered in a hurry has not been prepared at all in the past few days. Not to mention the necessary gold juice of the wood to defend the city, they don't even have a few stones.
Can hundreds of bows suppress the officers and soldiers attacking the city?
Under Huang Degong and Gao Jie's repeated fierce attacks, the rebels in the city became frightened and began to disorganize themselves. Then there was internal strife. One said surrender quickly, another said wait and see, and another said that you must surrender in the morning.
Now I know I'm afraid...
But the two barbarians outside the city don't care whether you are in chaos or not. If they want you to surrender or not, then they will fight hard and crazy. It is rare to encounter such an opportunity to bully the weak, and the little eunuch is there again.
Of course, they had to perform well. The troop strength was several times that of the city, and the firepower was even higher day by day. Huang Degong and Gao Jie went crazy and competed to be the first to enter the city.
The rebels in the city obviously didn't expect that the officers and soldiers were so powerful and angry. They said before that if they didn't surrender, they would all be killed if they entered the city. It didn't seem to be a lie. Seeing that their offensive was becoming more fierce and even officers and soldiers were about to board the city, they suddenly panicked.
After a few hasty discussions, we decided to surrender.
"The bandits have surrendered!" Tu Yuan cheered as he watched the white cloth fluttering on the city, and Chang Yu hummed expressionlessly.
Surrendered? Huang Degong and Gao Jie also discovered it, but immediately ordered to continue the fierce attack. Why did they go there? They couldn't see or hear!
"These two idiots," Chang Yu couldn't help but cursed. He knew that Huang Degong and Gao Jie had committed an axis kill and his eyes were red and he couldn't stop it. But since the thief army had already surrendered, why increase the damage? Besides, if the rabbits inside were pushed into a hurry,
Fearing that it would be detrimental to the people in the city, he immediately asked Kuang Ren to go and send a message: Order the attack on the city and accept the enemy's surrender!
The bandit army surrendered before they had even fought hard, which made Huang Degong and Gao Jie a little unwilling. The most important thing was that there was no winner. If the little eunuch hadn't been by his side, there would have been another fight.
The bandits opened the city gate and surrendered. Their leader was Zhai Fengqi, who was appointed as the defense envoy of Guangping Prefecture by Liu Fangliang. He led more than a dozen bandit leaders and thousands of bandit soldiers to leave the city from the south gate, abandoning their weapons and surrendering.
Chang Yu ordered Gao Jie to send troops to guard the rebels and ordered Huang Degong's troops to enter the city to calm the people. When he was about to question Zhai Fengqi in person, he suddenly saw Gao Jie coming in a hurry: "There are rebel reinforcements twenty miles away to the north, more than two thousand!
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Everyone was startled, and then couldn't help laughing. The timing of the arrival of reinforcements is really embarrassing. You came just after the rebels in the city surrendered. How embarrassing it would be if you let them know that the situation is embarrassing!
While laughing, I was also a little surprised at how quickly the bandit reinforcements arrived. It was rumored that Li Zi's men and horses came in a continuous stream of three hundred miles, from the south of Baoding City to the territory of Zhending Mansion. Obviously, this reinforcements came from the bandit army in Jizhou City last night. Now,
After hearing the news, Xin came at an alarming speed, but it was still a little slower.
Once they come, they stay. Huang Degong and Gao Jie just couldn't satisfy their hunger, and they were simmering with anger. At this time, an old sow came to relieve the anger, and the two of them rushed to fight first.
Chang Yu immediately ordered the two of them to send one of their troops to attack, and then led his second battalion into the city.
When they arrived at the city gate, they saw more than 2,000 rebel soldiers squatting on the ground with their heads folded. The first ten or so people were tied up with big five-flowered flowers, which must be the leader of the robbers. Seeing him passing by on horseback, he couldn't help but raise his head and stare. Chang Yu sneered and rode forward: "
Tell me your name."
The thieves signed up one by one, and Chang Yu only heard the names of two people. One was Zhai Fengqi, and the other was Chang Zhang Brig. This man was one of Liu Fangliang's men who stayed in Guangping Mansion.
"Are there any of them who have served as officials for the imperial court?" Chang Yu glanced coldly, and immediately three or five people came out. They only promised to identify themselves, but they were officials from Jizhou and nearby counties who surrendered when the thieves came.
"The thieves' army is too powerful to do anything. The court will not impose heavy penalties, but even if they are exempted from death, they will not be able to escape." Chang Yu gave Hu Ling a look, and then these people were escorted into the city by the men of Gongzi camp.
"Sir, we have surrendered. I beg for your life to serve you." Zhai Fengqi is the one with the highest official position here. Seeing that Chang Yu only asked his name and stopped talking to him, he felt a little panicked and saw that he was about to ride away.
Then he bowed his head and shouted.
Chang Yu raised his eyebrows and looked back at him: "I will come back to talk to you after I have calmed the people."
Zhai Fengqi was overjoyed and kowtowed in thanks, and Chang Yu immediately entered the city. (To be continued)