What Xu Miaojin, who was instructing the palace in the city, did not expect was that at this moment, the first turning point came.

"What's going on! Of your two thousand, you can't beat them less than a thousand! And it was defeated so quickly! Ma Buxiang glared at the beads of his eyes and shouted to a leader in front of him.

Although it was not long before dawn, they had already conquered the city. Today, Ma Buxiang used a very shameless method. He gathered all the people outside Ganzhou who had not had time to withdraw to the city, and asked them to report to each other and expose those who were related to the soldiers of the city's guards, and if no one reported them, he would put them all to death. Under the threat of death, countless people denounced their neighbors who were related to the soldiers of the castle guard.

Ma Buxiang immediately gathered these people together, drove them to siege the city, and kept calling the names of his relatives as he walked towards the city.

The guards at the head of the city were stunned for a moment, and they didn't know how to deal with it for a while. Although they attacked their relatives outside with tears under the command of Qu Feng, they had already rushed into the city without any damage at this time. In addition, the soldiers of the guard have suffered a lot of losses in these days, and the young men who assisted in defending the city broke and fled, and the city was quickly captured.

Ma Buxiang immediately began to command the soldiers to attack the city. But at this moment, he felt the sound of the earth shaking in the south, and when he looked back, he saw a Ming army of about 1,000 people rushing over.

He immediately decided that they were the Ming army that he could not find yesterday, and immediately ordered the two thousand men he had prepared to meet them. In his opinion, even if these two thousand people can't beat the one thousand, everyone is a cavalry and can always drag on for a while. But I didn't expect that 2,000 people would be defeated now.

"Brother Ma, they're amazing." "They have a very powerful firearm," said the chief, "which can fire three projectiles in a row, and many of the brothers were shot dead without being prepared for it. ”

The rest of the brothers, knowing that this was a critical moment, and seeing that they were near, gritted their teeth and tried to fight them in close quarters. But I didn't expect those people to be very strong in hand-to-hand combat, and the brothers couldn't bear it, so they broke up. ”

"How so?" Ma Buxiang said. If this chief's words are true, then they are no wonder. He had also fought with enemies with firearms, and it was not easy for the bandits to withstand three rounds of projectile fire without collapsing. In the fierce hand-to-hand combat, he can still insist on hand-to-hand combat, even the soldiers under the Great Khan may not be able to.

"There's no time to think about why," Sauraha said immediately, "and it's time to arrange a response." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw another person running in and said loudly: "Brother Ma, the people of Tiger Village have also been defeated, immediately arrange for someone to stop them again!" ”

"The people of Tiger Village were also defeated so quickly?" Hearing this news, Ma Buxiang's eyes narrowed, and then said: "Solaha, you stay, lead the two of us to the headquarters of five hundred people, and then lead the Huoyun Village 、......, the brothers of these villages, a total of five thousand people to stop the Ming army!" ”

"Ma Buxiang, the Ming army only has 1,000 people, is it too much to leave 5,000 people to deal with?" Soraha asked immediately. But what he really meant was that there should be no 500 people left behind.

When they came to Hexi, they brought more than 200 people successively, and also incorporated some people who were extremely dissatisfied with the Ming Kingdom, and after these years of consumption, there were still more than 800 people left, and their combat effectiveness was very strong, and they were the strongest among all bandits. The two of them also became commanders by virtue of their own headquarters. Now you want to leave five hundred people to deal with this terrifying Ming cavalry?

"We must not let them interfere with our attack on the Suwang Mansion and the official treasury, and it must be solved immediately. Even if you can't wipe them all out, you have to crush them. Such a heavy task can only be undertaken by our people. Ma Buxiang said. But what he really meant was: if he didn't leave a part of his headquarters, I'm afraid that the other bandits would not seriously engage the Ming army, and it would probably affect the follow-up plan, so they could only bear some casualties.

Soraha understood what he really meant, agreed, and went out to command; Ma Buxiang himself turned his head and said to the people in front of him: "Let's all hurry into the city and break through the Su Wangfu!" ”

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"Your Excellency, the bandits have sent about 5,000 people to meet them." At this time, in the Ming army formation, which had just defeated two bandits in a row, the soldiers said to a general who was not very old and looked quite elegant, but his muscles were noduled and very strong.

The general was loading ammunition at this time, and when he heard the words of the soldiers, he hurriedly put it down, raised the clairvoyance hanging around his neck and looked at it, and said to himself: "So many people are here? ”

"Lord Chen, the bandits are just a rabble, even if there are many people, it is useless. Especially if we are soldiers of the guard, we can be afraid of a few bandits! A military general beside him laughed.

This soldier was the advance team sent by Yunxi and led by Chen Lijie to return to Ganzhou City. Yun Xi also knew that the area around the Hexi Corridor was not peaceful, and he was afraid that Chen Lijie would not be safe with only a few dozen people, so he allocated a thousand households from the front guard of the government army to him to command.

Chen Lijie also felt at ease after accepting this thousand households. In his opinion, they didn't transport anything, not even carriages, and even if there were a large group of bandits who couldn't see how powerful they were, they should have no interest in beating them.

But when he arrived fifty miles northwest of Ganzhou City, he found that Ganzhou City was being besieged, and he immediately panicked and wanted to lead troops to rescue, but was stopped by the original Qianhu. They had come all the way, and the horses were tired, and it would not be good to start attacking the bandits now. They numbered less than a thousand, while the enemy numbered tens of thousands.

"It's better to wait until the horses have regained their strength before going into battle." Thousand households persuaded.

Although Chen Lijie was in a hurry, he also knew that from the perspective of war, what Qianhu said was right, so he found a place to hide, and after letting the horses rest, he attacked the bandits today and got off to a good start.

"The hundreds of bandits in the lead are not ordinary." Chen Lijie said at this time: "Qianhu, come and take a look, they don't look like ordinary bandits. ”

Qianhu hurriedly came over and took the clairvoyance to see. He glanced at it a few times and said: "It's really not ordinary, the formation is very neat, and it can catch up with the general guard." But it's definitely not our opponent! ”

"Niu Qianhu, our purpose is to hold Ganzhou City, and if Ganzhou City can't hold it, we will hold Suwangfu!" Chen Lijie said: "Now the bandits are constantly fighting into the city, although the signal is that they have begun to hold on, but how long can they hold on? After defeating this bandit, the Su Wangfu is estimated to have fallen! Mother, I guess I've been captured or committed suicide! ”

"So what to do?" When Qianhu heard this, he also panicked.

"Let's take a detour right away!" Chen Lijie said: "The west captives focus on attacking the city wall in the south, and there will not be many people on the other three sides, let's go around and kill into the city to guard the Su Wangfu!" ”

"That's it." This Qianhu had never commanded a war independently before, and when he heard Chen Lijie's suggestion, he immediately accepted it and shouted loudly for the soldiers.

"I hope that by the time the minister arrives, the Su Wangfu has not yet been lost." Chen Lijie prayed secretly.