The sky is slowly bright, the situation outside the city can be seen more clearly, Liu Fangliang looked out from the city, and the Jin army first put a few horse rejection stakes at the city gate, and then a row of shield carts, forming a simple fortification.

Behind the shield carts, there were musketeers, pikemen and artillery, forming a front to resist the onslaught of the Ming army.

The number of Jin troops in the array was only three or four thousand, which was not much, but they were only blocked outside the city gate, but it was enough.

Behind them, there were nearly 10,000 Jin army infantry troops, sitting on the ground in the distance, ready to replace the Jin army blocking the door in front, or fill the gap in case of emergency.

In addition, there were four or five thousand Jin cavalry, stationed in the wilderness in the distance, ready to meet the Ming army that broke through the barrier of the infantry army at any time.

Outside each city gate, there were probably nearly 20,000 Jin army soldiers, and in addition to them, there were tens of thousands of Jin Guotun troops, who were digging trenches and building low walls and fortresses behind the Jin army blocking the gates.

Hauge led the main force to advance here from the Baqiao, and outside the entire city, the Jin army flew with flags and phalanxes.

The Jin army came too suddenly, and they came prepared, and by the time the Ming army reacted, they were already forming a formation outside the city gate.

If it was in the wilderness, it was impossible for the Ming cavalry to be blocked by the Jin army, but the city limited the mobility of the Ming cavalry, and the cavalry could only rush out from the four gates.

The Lintong city gate is so wide, at most four horsemen rushed out side by side, and outside the city gate, the Jin army formed a formation, nearly a thousand firecrackers and a dozen cannons aimed at the city gate, and rushed out to become a target.

The Jin army came suddenly, the Ming army was arrogant and underestimated the enemy, but I didn't expect the Jin army to kill the horse pistol, wake up from a deep sleep, and the preparation was not sufficient, except for many people who rushed out of the east gate, the rest were trapped in the city.

At this time, the four city gates had been closed by the Ming army, and there were many war horses and soldiers' corpses outside the city gates, and no one cleaned them up.

The soldiers of Zhongyong Town on the city wall pulled the bronze cannon up the city wall and kept bombarding the Jin army hiding behind the shield car, but the Jin army did not retreat despite the casualties.

Liu Fangliang smashed his fist on the city in annoyance, but he really didn't expect to be beaten up. This time, not to mention the credit, the old face has to be disgraced, he is humiliated with Zhongyong Town.

The arrogant soldiers will be defeated, the Ming army has been too smooth recently, many soldiers are a little floating, plus after breaking through the Tongguan, all the way to the bamboo, the Jin army fled from the wind, making them even more contemptuous of the Jin army, but forgot that when the Ming Dynasty fought, the Jin State also fought again, when the Ming Dynasty did not fight, the Jin State also fought with the Rakshasa people, and was not a weak opponent.

"The Governor is here!" Behind Liu Fangliang, the general Zhang Guangcui suddenly reminded.

Wang Shixiu was the first to get the report, he had the opportunity to go out of the city, but because he was worried that there would be chaos after the army in the city was trapped, and he didn't know how many Jin troops were coming in the night, and whether there was an ambush outside the city, he stayed in the city to stabilize people's hearts.

Although the Ming army was trapped, tens of thousands of people were in the city, as long as they were not chaotic and the Jin army wanted to kill them, it was unlikely.

Liu Fangliang turned around and saw Wang Shixiu going up the steps to the city surrounded by Qin Shangxing, Zhao Shenkuan and others, he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed on his face, and he didn't know how to face Wang Shixiu for a while.

Wang Shixiu walked over with a calm face, and several generals behind him were like frosted eggplants, Liu Fangliang let out a long breath, went up and lowered his head and hugged his fists, and said ashamedly: "Metropolitan Governor, I hurt everyone this time." ”

The generals behind Wang Shixiu were also red-faced, and they urged Wang Shixiu to march into Chang'an and win the first success.

"You can't blame Liu Dudu for this, it's the gold thief who is too cunning!" Now is not the time to be held responsible, Wang Shixiu dragged Liu Fangliang's arm and threw the pot to Jin Jun.

"Yes! The straight thief, the gold thief deliberately moved the people in the city, gave us the city to spend the night, and then killed us back to trap us, the gold thief is scheming, and Haoge is afraid that he will become a sperm. Qin Shangxing echoed, they also lost face this time.

Wang Shixiu didn't talk about Liu Fangliang well, but he turned around and glared at Qin Shangxing, "Jin Jun is cunning, but you also have to introspect, the arrogant soldiers are talking about you!" ”

Qin Shangxing was immediately dumbfounded, and their performance this time was not as good as Tan Tai, who they looked down on. With such a big face today, when I saw Tan Tai in the future, I felt that I was a head shorter, and I couldn't help but feel deflated.

"How's it going outside the city?" Wang Shixiu turned around and asked about business.

Liu Fangliang saw that Wang Shixiu was not entangled in the matter of attacking the enemy, he glanced at him gratefully, turned sideways so that Wang Shixiu could see outside the city, and then said: "The Jin army has come a lot, I have also seen the southern city and the northern city, the strength is about the same, it is estimated that the troops that Haoge can mobilize are here." ”

Wang Shixiu looked out, just in time to see the Jin army tunjun, digging a trench outside the city, and only the loess with a spade and shovel could be seen above his head was lifted out, the yellow dust was flying, and his face couldn't help but become melancholy.

Liu Fangliang pursed his lips when he saw his expression, "Governor Dadu, although there are a lot of Jin troops outside the city, I think the elite of the Jin army outside the four gates will not add up to more than 70,000, and the rest of the horses and armor are not complete, it is estimated that they are the tunhu of the Jin country, and it is impossible for Haoge to eat us." ”

Wang Shixiu waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "We are in the city, even if there are 200,000 gold thieves and want to eat us, they have to break his teeth." I'm not worried that the gold thief will attack Lintong, but I'm worried that Hauge has other plans. ”

"Something else?" Liu Fangliang was stunned.

Wang Shixiu explained, "I came from the east gate, and now when I get to the west gate, the Jin army outside the city is only blocking the gate, not attacking the city, and the Jin army is only concerned about digging trenches, obviously their goal is not us, they just want to trap us in the city with a small number of people, trap Lintong with the city lock method, and don't let us go out." ”

Liu Fangliang reacted and said in amazement: "Our two towns are not able to enter the eyes of the gold thief, could it be that he still wants to besiege the city and send reinforcements, which is not good for the prison country?" ”

"If the gold thief's target is us, it makes no sense to trap us in the city. First, he can't eat us. Second, the prison kingdom will inevitably send troops to rescue them, and then they will be defeated by the enemy inside and out. Wang Shixiu said worriedly: "So I suspect that the plan of the gold thief is to lock us up first, then ambush the army that comes to the rescue, and after defeating the reinforcements, finally turn around and deal with us." ”

Liu Fangliang, Qin Shangxing and others couldn't help but panic when they heard that the goal of the gold thief was to prison the country. If the prison state is ambushed by the Jin army and finally defeated, then they are all sinners.

Liu Fangliang's face turned pale, "Haoge is just such a few people, there are nearly 200,000 horses in the prison country, and there are thousands of cavalry that Tan Tai and Qin Feng rushed out in the city, how can Haoge ambush?" ”

Wang Shixiu shook his head, "I haven't thought about this clearly, it's just that the current situation is weird, if you don't think so, you can't explain Jin Jun's current behavior......"

Huayin County, which has become a sea of troops, has surrounded the entire city around the Ming army's company camps.

As far as the eye can see, there is a white envelope-like military tent outside the county, which is difficult to count.

The soldiers of the Ming army and the accompanying people walked through the camp densely, and the voices of the people were boiling.

At this time, in the county seat, Wang Yan was in the festival hall, and he was gathering a group of senior generals to discuss the military situation.

His thoughts are the same as Wang Shixiu's, thinking that Jin Guo will have to struggle for a while, and there will be at least one duel between the main forces between Ming and Jin.

This is like the battle of Muye and the battle of the giant deer, the two major forces clash, and they have to fight head-on, and they will always feel that something is wrong, and Wang Yan will not be happy if he wins.

In the festival hall, Wang Yan did not wear a golden helmet and gold armor, but wore a regular dress and a winged crown, but his face was confident and unchanged.

He and everyone surrounded the sand table, pointed to the location of Huayin County with a pole, and said with a somewhat pampered smile: "As soon as Tongguan is broken, the Lone King will set up a large army here, and the troops and materials in the eastern part of the country can enter the pass in a steady stream, no matter what tricks Haoge plays, Lone is invincible." ”

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