The battlefield by the Gulang River is miserable, but compared with here, it can only be said that each has its own merits. The Western Xia army in Liangzhou has armor anyway, these Suzhou soldiers don't even wear much leather armor when they sneak attack at night, and after being shot by rockets and siege crossbows, they are really running all over the intestines and internal organs, and they can see that Hong Tao, a master who has burned hundreds of people with his own hands, has a numb scalp.

But this is not the end, the defeated Suzhou soldiers just ran out less than two miles away, and before they could breathe, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly rose in front, and the Qingtang cavalry swept over again, and they couldn't help but say that the wheel knife would be cut.

The galloping horse team instantly dispersed the remnants of Suzhou, and there were people running everywhere with a black eye, and the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not summon the soldiers, and they could not even organize basic resistance.

At this time, a group of Huangzhou new troops carrying gas lamps also rushed over, they didn't ride horses, but they were more fucked up than the Qingtang cavalry on horseback.

Each team of twenty or thirty people, separated by dozens of meters, is very widely dispersed, and the net is generally pulled from the east to the west. Seeing that the Suzhou soldiers were just a few crossbow arrows, they shot it over, and they didn't care about it, and they loved it to death.

The Qingtang soldiers rode their horses in front to drive the chase, and the two sides moved and moved, fast and slow, which could make the thousands of soldiers of the Suzhou night attack bitter. If you don't dare to run, you will die if you are found by the cavalry. Hiding and not being able to hide, he was found dead by the Huangzhou New Army who carried the lamp.

This battle was fought from the ugly time to the Yin time, and the Qingtang soldiers had already seen Suzhou City from a distance before they stopped the pace of pursuit, and they were unwilling to collect the troops and protect the new army of Huangzhou, which had become all foot soldiers, to retreat.

But it didn't take too long, the box convoy had already pulled out the camp to follow, and the car formation was surrounded, and several box cars were steaming with cooking smoke, and it was time for breakfast.

The work of cleaning up the battlefield is still done by the Qingtang soldiers, and they are willing to do it. Each corpse was stripped of its clothes, and nothing soft or valuable could escape their eyes. The neater clothes have to be taken away, they don't wear them, but there are still many elderly people and children at home who can't wear serious clothes.

Don't look at the blood stains on the clothes, almost the pulp washing can be sold as a commodity in the Qingtang area, and the amount is also a lot of income.

"The Qingtang soldiers have killed and injured more than 300 people this time, you have to keep an eye on them when you enter the city, don't slaughter the city again, who will work for us after everyone is killed."

Hong Tao stuffed eggs into his mouth while looking at the Qingtang soldiers who had a bumper harvest in the distance, a little worried. These Qingtang soldiers are very excited, and they don't take killing seriously, and they like to retaliate if they lose a little bit, so they have to remind Wang Da to pay attention.

"Then don't let them enter the city, the new army can completely take down the whole city, or let them guard the city gate and capture the prisoners." Wang Da was even more picky, now that Suzhou is already her city, let alone slaughtering the city, even the Qingtang soldiers are not happy to go in and loot, so they are simply not allowed to enter the city.

But what Hong Tao, Wang Da, and Tsering Gongduo didn't expect was that not to mention that the Qingtang soldiers couldn't enter the city, and the new army in Huangzhou couldn't enter either.

After breakfast, there was a burst of bells in Suzhou City, more and more, louder and louder. Hong Tao didn't care, thinking that the defenders of Suzhou had discovered the enemy situation and were calling the police, so he still slowly approached Suzhou with the convoy step by step.

Suzhou City is smaller than Ganzhou and Liangzhou, and it is not broken, but the architectural style is completely different, and you can feel the strong *** atmosphere at a casual glance.

The domes, pagodas, peach-shaped perforated doors and windows, and exotic carved ornaments are still beautiful, although the materials used are not very expensive and there are no bright colors.

"Attack the city from here, use less gunpowder, and don't destroy the city walls too much." For such a small city, it was not difficult for the new army in Huangzhou to attack.

So Hong Tao thought about it again, and he planned to preserve the city as completely as possible, especially these buildings, even if they need to be built in the future, there is a model to refer to.

The new army in Huangzhou is not interesting to fight, and the siege is even more boring, so it is just such a trick to use. Pushing a special steel-topped box cart against the attack of arrows, rolling wood and stones, and various tools to defend the city, it slowly rubbed under the city wall, and jingled holes in the city wall to plug gunpowder cylinders.

This group of new soldiers is also a special talent, they have one more training subject than other soldiers, and they go into the mines to practice how to open mines with black powder cartridges when they have nothing to do. Other people open mines to bomb as much as possible, but they don't, sometimes they blow up more and sometimes they blow less, and there is no score at all.

In fact, they did not plan to open a mine at all, but only took this opportunity to exercise their mastery of gunpowder and the destructive power of buildings of various hardness and texture.

This thing is not easy to practice elsewhere, it is too wasteful of gunpowder to go to the deep mountain ravine to blow up the mountain to play, and a fart with Hong Tao's chicken thief character is eager to produce some benefits, and mine training is his idea.

Now this group of new army soldiers, called sappers, cannot be said to be able to carve with gunpowder cartridges, and can blow up as many as they want, and collapse the walls as much as they want.

With a muffled sound that was not too loud, the city wall collapsed, but this time the sappers did not calculate accurately, and the explosion was a bit too much. But it's not all their fault, God knows why the walls are empty. These Uighurs were even more thieves, and they were reluctant to waste space in building the walls, and many houses were built inside.

The city is broken, and then it's time for street fighting. Nearly fifty meters on both sides of the collapsed walls were emptied by siege crossbows and thunderbolts, and the Uighurs did not seem to have any intention of fighting the invaders on the walls.

This made Hong Tao a little surprised, when did the enemy become so smart, he actually knew the weakness of the new army, and did not let the long-range weapons exert their maximum power, but planned to use street fighting to maximize the damage.

In fact, the new army is not weak in dealing with street fighting, but it is relatively weaker than the strength of field warfare. They have Scorpion Crossbows and Steel Plate Crossbows available, as well as Thunderbolt Bullet to clear the way.

The explosive orb was popular with the New Army soldiers, as it could be used as a long-range weapon not only to throw a siege crossbow from afar, but also to be bowling.

After igniting it, it will be blown up wherever it goes, and this is the street fighting weapon invented by the soldiers of the New Army. Hand-to-hand combat, no, no, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, under the influence of Hong Tao, the soldiers of the new army have also learned badly, and they never intend to be heroes if they can solve things with weapons.

"Gondo, keep an eye on your men, no one is allowed to enter the city until they are given orders. In addition to the gold and prisoners of war, the other soft ones still belong to you, you don't have to rob the new army, and catching more prisoners of war is also income, hehehe......"

When a group of soldiers of the new army approached the collapsed city wall under the cover of siege crossbows, Hong Tao was still a little uneasy, mainly worried that the Qingtang soldiers would come and destroy this exquisite city.

Of course, Tsering Gongdo knew what Lord Shuaisi wanted to do, and he had already sent his subordinates outside the north and south gates, leaving the west gate to let the people in the city escape.

This is also the experience summed up in previous battles, and it is a good thing to let go of some of the defeated troops, and they can spread the prestige of Lord Shuai Si for free, which may be helpful in future operations.

"My lord, it, it's ......" But this time he didn't seem to plan to listen to the order directly, he pointed behind Hong Tao and stared wide, and even stammered when he spoke, as if he had seen a living ghost.

“…… Damn, no, I'd rather ruin it than leave it to this official! Hong Tao looked back at Tsering Gongduo's eyes and was dumbfounded.

At this time, there were several puffs of black smoke floating in Suzhou City, as if someone had ignited something. What was ignited? The answer lies in the city. The defenders of Suzhou had already laid down their weapons, took off their headscarves, knelt on the ground and prayed to the sound of bells, and then set themselves on fire......

"Wang Da, blow the trumpet to let the siege troops withdraw." At this time, the new army was almost close to the collapsed city wall, and Hong Tao suddenly gave the order to stop the attack.

"Official, why do you want to stop the siege?" Wang Da did not hesitate to carry out this order, but still wanted to ask the reason.

"You can't compare with a madman, this city is finished. Remember, the further west you go, the more crazy people you may have, so be sure to distinguish them before approaching them. "Why, I don't need to ask. Since these people choose to self-immolate, they will not keep the city to themselves.

Now Hong Tao suddenly understood what those bells were for, it was a signal, more than an hour had passed, and now the streets and houses in the city were definitely ready to become a purgatory of flames, and whoever went in was unlucky.