In the city of Jinzhou, Zu Dashou has also received the news that Jin Guofeng was killed in battle and the Qing army besieged Xiping Fort on a large scale.

Jinzhou City is extremely important, Zu Dashou did not dare to send troops to rescue easily, after all, this war is not a joke, let alone human relations, once something goes wrong, he must be responsible, and he will lose his head.

Zu Dashou was born in the Liaoxi Wang clan, and he was related to the rise and fall of the family, so he would rather not make meritorious contributions than take risks easily.

However, Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, didn't think so, he inspected Jinzhou, and suddenly heard that Yizhou was lost, Jin Guofeng was killed in battle, and Hong Chengchou was trapped in the small city of Xipingbao Pill, and he was very anxious.

Since Hong Chengchou took over as the head of Jiliao, he has been very polite and court-friendly to everyone, and he also personally visited Qiu Minyang and asked him to fully cooperate with the battle of Pingliao and guard the rear.

With these factors, Qiu Minyang is also Hong Chengchou's subordinate, and he has a very good impression of this old boss, and even thinks that he will definitely be able to visit the cabinet in the future.

How could Qiu Minyang put such a good boss in danger, he immediately asked Zu Dashou to lead the troops to the rescue.

Zu Dashou rejected Qiu Minyang's request, and said: "Although there are 30,000 horses in Jinzhou City, there are less than 20,000 people who are controlled by Zu, and the Qing army is all Manchurian elites. ”

Qiu Minyang was very unhappy, but reason told him that the best response at the moment was to stick to Jinzhou, and he couldn't act rashly, in case the Qing army in Yizhou took the opportunity to attack Jinzhou, it would not be good, and holding Jinzhou City was the top priority.

For several days, the Qing army continued to storm Xiping Fort.

Dozens of ladder trucks slowly pushed towards the city wall of Xiping Fort, and a large number of armored soldiers and followers followed, approaching the city step by step.

In the roaring cannon, the artillery on the city continued to fire, and the iron bullets wrapped in scorching temperature roared into the siege team of the Qing army, like an iron plough swept out of the open space, which was covered with stumps and broken arms.

In a piece of gunsmoke, Hong Chengchou squinted his eyes slightly, bitter in his heart, after several days of defending the city, the gunpowder and cannonballs in the city have almost bottomed out, and if they hold on for two more days, these will become useless iron lumps.

However, the artillery of the Qing army continued to fire in turns, and it had blasted through many city walls, but fortunately, the army of Xuanda was tenacious enough, and the people used people to block the collapsed wall and did not let the Qing army step into the city.

Although he didn't know if he could hold Xiping Fort, Hong Chengchou already had the heart to die, and of course, he hoped for a miracle.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the city, followed by a panicked shout: "The West Stone Gate can't be stopped!" The Tartars have come in, go to Xishimen for help! ”

The cavalry roared loudly as he rode wildly, causing panic among the defenders of the city.

Hong Chengchou was so angry that he almost vomited blood, didn't this dog know that such a loud shout would shake the hearts of the army? With these few voices alone, I don't know how many Ming soldiers have lost their lives.

Hong Chengchou shouted angrily: "Someone! Take that guy down and cut it down! ”

He said again: "Chief Yang Bing, you go to support Xishimen quickly!" ”

"The last general commands!"

Yang Guozhu hurried to the West Stone Gate with the men and horses of Xuanfu Town, when he arrived at the West Gate, he saw the Qing army coming like locusts, and the Datong soldiers guarding the West Stone Gate were defeated and retreated.

Yang Guozhu commanded a firecracker to meet him, and fired a salvo according to the three-row continuous firing method of the Tianwu Army, and after a few rounds, the effect was remarkable, and the Qing army fell in pieces.

However, the Xuanfu firecrackers used bird guns, and the way of filling the gunpowder was still the old-fashioned, using a spoon to scoop the gunpowder to fill, the speed was very slow, and it could not form a continuous firepower attack at all.

After a few rounds, Yang Guozhu had to give up the firearms and let everyone copy the guys, and he himself took the lead in the charge.

After a bloody battle, Yang Guozhu's face was covered with blood, the color was red and black, and he didn't know whether it was his blood or the enemy's blood, and finally drove the Qing army out of Xishimen.

Seeing a large number of Qing troops advancing step by step around the shield cart again, Yang Guozhu had just picked up his weapon when he was tightly grabbed by the person behind him.

He turned his head to look, but saw the deputy general of Xuanfu Town said in a deep voice: "Junmen, let's break through, if we continue to fight, we are only afraid of ......"

Yang Guozhu shook off his big hand violently and said, "Fart!" I, Yang Guozhu, as the general of Daming Zhenshuo, how can I abandon my friendly army to break through alone, you are still the deputy general of my Xuanfu Town, if you want to leave, I will not stop you, and I don't blame you, I only blame me Yang for knowing you as a coward! ”

The impassioned words made the eyes of the deputy general of Xuanfu red, and his spirit was lifted, Yang Junmen regarded death as home, what else did he have to spare his life!

Not only the adjutant general, but even the nearby Ming soldiers were affected by Yang Guozhu, waving the weapons in their hands and shouting in unison: "The city is here, the city is dead!" ”

More than a dozen ladders smashed on the rammed earth city wall, and Yang Guozhu faintly felt a tremor of the city wall under his feet,

He shouted, "Pour oil on the fire!" Serve with gold juice! ”

The gold juice and oil clay pots prepared on the city wall finally came in handy, and the Ming troops defending the city held the clay pots and smashed them into the cloud ladder buckled on the wall, and with the crackling sound, the cloud ladder was drenched with fire oil.

The Ming army, who was boiling the gold juice, wore a face towel on his head and held a long dung spoon, scooped a spoonful of yellowed gold juice into the boiling pot, and poured it down the city, and a scream sounded under the city.

The Qing army commander outside the city, Hao Ge, had a gloomy face, he didn't expect the resistance of the Ming army to be so fierce, and the duck that almost reached his beak flew away.

When he saw the big banner fluttering at the head of the west city, he shouted loudly at the head of the city: "Yang Guozhu, this king knows you, as long as you surrender to my Qing Dynasty, this king will definitely raise you to the emperor Ama and crown you as the king, how about it?" ”

Yang Guozhu shouted: "Lao Tzu is not rare, come and eat!" ”

Yang Guozhu's words made the originally nervous Xuanfu soldiers in the city suddenly feel more relaxed, and everyone poured the fire oil and gold juice down, and the entire city wall outside the west gate instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the Qing army who was waiting to attack the city was instantly engulfed by the fire, screaming and wailing all over the ground.

Some people screamed and jumped like crazy, rolling back and forth on the ground to try to extinguish the fire on their bodies, but the fire oil all over the ground added fuel to the fire, and the flames that had become smaller rose again......

The raging fire burned all the ladders and the tartars under the city, and even the Ming troops standing on the city walls were scorched by the flames under the city.

Haoge looked at Yang Guozhu on the city wall hatefully, and ordered: "Let the bannermen who are good at shooting in the flag disperse, touch it and shoot this liao, and the one who shoots will be given the title of Baturu!" ”

Xiping Fort is only five miles in radius, and seeing the flames on the west city wall from a distance, Hong Chengchou finally put his mind at ease.

Hearing the sound of killing on the city wall in other directions, Hong Chengchou's spirit was tight, and he hurriedly inspected several other city walls.

As the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou's behavior of personally visiting the battlefield stimulated the will to fight of the soldiers defending the city, and the morale of the Ming army was high, and the Qing army that had the upper hand was gradually driven off the city wall.