Officers and soldiers outside the city to test artillery, a series of actions to cut wood and build a car Cheng Niandong saw the truth in the city, tens of thousands of troops besieged and artillery, once the attack is bound to be stormy, which makes him feel pressure, but also an inexplicable self-confidence in supporting himself, after all, this is the first battle after going out of the mountain, he must do his best.

In fact, Cheng Niandong's worries are not about the officers and soldiers attacking the city, relying on the thick walls of the city and the fact that all the people are soldiers, he is sure that he can block the opponent's three or five attacks, he is worried that the officers and soldiers will be besieged for a long time after the siege is unfavorable, and it will not take too long for more than half a month to be in the heart of the people in the city.

However, as long as the East Road Righteous Army can return in time to help or go all the way north to approach Nanjing, the officers and soldiers here will have no chance of besieging the city!

Is he thinking too far, and can't pin all his hopes on others, whether the East Road Righteous Army returns in time or is invincible all the way to the north, it is a matter of the future, what he has to do now is to focus on the city defense, because he and the officers and soldiers will inevitably have to fight a few bloody battles before they have a future. Cheng Niandong shook his head with a wry smile, raised his hand and patted his head, and then ordered to convene the thieves under his command to discuss the military affairs of the city defense.

Bai Wang, who was pinned on by Cheng Niandong's hope, was crying and laughing at this time, and last night he sent troops to besiege the city and attack the city overnight, and the chickens and dogs that disturbed Tongling City jumped into a miasma, venting the anger in his heart, and then he was satisfied with the withdrawal of troops back to the camp at dawn.

How do you know that as soon as the front foot arrives at the camp, the officers and soldiers behind will go out of the city and press over, compared to yesterday, the cavalry of the various units took turns to fight, this time the whole city of soldiers and horses and cavalry joined forces to force the front of the thief army, which made the thief army gasp, could it be that last night did too much to force the officers and soldiers to launch a general attack?

The overwhelming momentum of the army of officers and soldiers made Bai Wang and the thieves vigilant, and ordered the whole army to fight, knowing that it was difficult to be good today, and nine times out of ten it was another bloody battle, and he regretted that he had angered the officers and soldiers too much last night.

Wu Sangui was in command today, with Wang Tizhong's infantry as the center, and Ma Ke and Dongchang Sanwei with cavalry on the east and west flanks, advancing forward from the riverside to the foot of the mountain, blocking the position of the thief army tightly.

However, he did not immediately order the soldiers to attack, until in the middle of the afternoon, he suddenly pulled more than ten stone throwing machines from behind the formation, and began to throw stones and bombard the position of the thief army under the order.

That's it?

Bai Wang sneered and ordered to fight back, and the thief's stone thrower also moved, but the stones it used were larger, and the range was only two or three hundred meters away, and it could not reach the array of officers and soldiers, which made Bai Wang very annoyed, and scolded his subordinates for having pig-like heads, and didn't know how to change some small stones.

When he was scolding, he suddenly heard the sound of explosions, and followed the prestige to see the mountain road positions blooming everywhere and the thieves fled in all directions, and the original officers and soldiers threw not all stones and stone bullets, that is, the stones were hollowed out and filled with gunpowder stones, and the explosion of the rocks was scattered and the killing range was very wide, which was made by the firearms craftsmen recruited by Chang Yu's heavy gold reward, and was used to practice at this time.

Are you really the officers and soldiers engaged in such a big battle in search of last night's revenge?

Of course not, or not entirely.

It's to cover the Shenji battalion to cross the river! That's right, Wu Weiying led his troops to rush all the way, and arrived on the other side of Tongling much earlier than Chang Yu expected, so Chang Yu took the opportunity to launch a wave of feints to cover his crossing of the river.

But Bai Wang did not know the intention behind the supply of the officers and soldiers, and saw that the officers and soldiers bombarded the position with a catapult and caused casualties among the soldiers, so he was angry and ordered an all-out counterattack, and the thief army mobilized all the archers on the mountain at the same time, and the stone thrower fired condescendingly, and finally suppressed the fire of the officers and soldiers, and the army even had to retreat and avoid, which caused the thief army to cheer!

However, regardless of the fact that the officers and soldiers continued to smash the large and small stone bullets into the position of the thief army, and even aimed at the headquarters of the thief army on the mountain ridge, that is, the place where Bai Wang was, the stone shells whistled and fell, and the sound of flowering was extremely terrifying, which made Bai Wang also jealous, and did not dare to show his head again, hiding under a protruding rock and continuing to watch, but found that the officers and soldiers actually mobilized the infantry to rush to the position from the river beach.

"Damn, I finally can't bear to attack" Seeing this, Wang Yien, who was guarding the west wing, shouted hard: "Brothers, kill these dogs!" ”

Unbeknownst to him, when Wang Yien mobilized his troops to meet the battle, those officers and soldiers withdrew from the position, which almost flashed him to the waist, and he couldn't guess what tricks the officers and soldiers were playing.

Bai Wang on the mountain range was also a little puzzled, the officers and soldiers came with great momentum, thinking that there was going to be a fight, but they tried again and again that they didn't rush in, so why put on such a big formation, what did they want to do, they were puzzled in their hearts, raised their eyes and looked towards Tongling City, the weather was clear, the vision was better, although there were ten miles away, but the outline of Tongling City could be seen, of course, what scene inside was not clear...... Hey? Suddenly, his eyes swept to the northwest of the city, why are there so many boats in the Yangtze River, because the distance is too far and he can't see it clearly if he doesn't look carefully, Bai Wang hurriedly took out a clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, and he could vaguely see nearly a hundred fishing boats coming and going back and forth from both sides of the strait...... They're ferrying reinforcements!

, it turns out that singing such a play is just to secretly Chen Cang, Bai Wang hated it so much that his teeth itched suddenly, the day before yesterday, the officers and soldiers sent more than 100 ships up the river, it was difficult to meet this support army, the officers and soldiers have a lot of troops here, why do they have to work hard to pick up a support soldier on the other side, is it possible......

He suddenly thought of the information sent from the other side of the river, saying that Cheng Niandong intercepted the flow of more than 10,000 officers and soldiers on the river embankment, causing him heavy losses......

Cannon? Bai Wang suddenly grabbed something, raised the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it again, but the distance was really far away, and he could only vaguely see that there were people with horses and boats, and others were really not careful.

Isn't it that the divine machine battalion of the imperial court has also been transferred? After fighting with officers and soldiers for so many years, it is natural to know that there is a firearms unit in the imperial court camp, and if it is not good to fight or something, it will be played with artillery, but this unit guards the capital on weekdays and rarely goes out of Beijing to fight.

Bai Wang's face instantly became solemn, if the Shenji Battalion came, with the benefit of firearms, he would definitely suffer a big loss, how could this be good, suddenly he was a little flustered, and a little annoyed, why didn't he increase the scope of surface inspection after capturing the officers and soldiers the day before yesterday, he didn't expect that there were so many ships hidden.

However, it is useless to be annoyed, how to deal with the current urgent matters, if you do not take advantage of its crossing the river to kill the past to eliminate this threat at this time, it will be severely damaged in the future, but tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are blocking the front of the formation, and there are strong cavalry, his men and horses can't rush over at all, look at the array of officers and soldiers outside the position in front of him, and then look at the river in the distance and hesitate for a while.

It seems that the only way to do it is to ...... Sailors!

Previously, Bai Wang had requisitioned more than 100 boats to block the Yangtze River to form a temporary naval army, and then captured the fleet of officers and soldiers, but at this time there were two or three hundred boats, which could form a naval army of nearly 1,000 people.

These fleets stopped at the bend of the Yangtze River behind the position and diverted the riverbank, and on weekdays, a group of dozens of searches and patrols the river, and if the situation is found, the whole army will be dispatched to intercept it, but today the officers and soldiers suddenly overwhelmed the border, and Bai Wang ordered the whole army not to act rashly in the position, and even the sailors were hiding far away from the position on the riverside waiting for orders.

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Let's count the tickets