The flames lit in the granary rose into the sky, illuminating the sparkling lake, and the air was filled with the smell of people burning wheat, which was a large amount of grain being ignited.

Looking at the flames that were gradually moving away in the distance, Du Wei Duan Liang's heart was extremely complicated, he knew that there were millions of quintals of grain here, which was the rations of 500,000 Great Western Army, but now they were all burned.

Duan Liang could imagine how huge the shock would be if the news reached the Jiujiang front, and the heavy consequences caused by the lack of food for the 500,000 army were even more unimaginable.

And all this was done by the man in front of him who was always smiling and smiling, and he who claimed to be smart had unknowingly become his accomplice.

After fighting in the middle of the night, I walked in the lake by boat for a few hours, and the sky gradually became brighter. Looking at Liu Neng's department, which was obviously much less in blood-stained military uniforms than when he came, and then thinking back to the sky-high fire that ignited in Lutan, Duan Liang's subordinates seemed to understand something. A wordless solemnity hung over the fleet.

Of course, Liu Neng could order the killing of Duan Liang's two hundred men, but now that the two sides are in the same fleet, there are Duan Liang's soldiers on the same boat, and there are also his own subordinates on the same boat, and if they start a fight, they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

"Brother Duan's heroic appearance last night made my brother admire, don't worry, you helped my brother with this, I will definitely speak well for you in front of the old man of Qi Guogong, and he will be prosperous day by day."

Liu Neng's grinning words surprised Duan Liang's subordinates, recalling that it was his own lieutenant who personally led Liu Neng and his party back to the lake, which showed that yesterday's fire was also a part of his own lieutenant......

"Lord Liu, you ......" was framed face-to-face, Duan Liang could only smile bitterly, although the number of his subordinates was not much less than Liu Neng's, but he himself was under Liu Neng's control, and most of the soldiers on this boat were Liu Neng's soldiers.

"Brother Duan, the so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, aren't you going to say something?" Liu Neng said with a grin.

Duan Liang is naturally aware of current affairs, he knows that even if the Western army and the Ming army were evenly matched, now the grain and grass of the army have been burned, and the only way waiting for hundreds of thousands of troops is to rout.

The form is already very clear, and the choice is not difficult to do.

"Brothers, Captain Bendu has decided to revolt on the spot and surrender to Lord Liu, the commander of the Ming Jinyi Guard. Last night's fire was planted by Captain Bendu and Lord Liu's men.

Now we are no longer a thief army, but have become officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Duan Liang stood up and shouted at the nearby boats, the sound of a clear voice waving over the flat lake. Listening to his words, his soldiers looked at each other, both relieved by the confirmed suspicion in their hearts and confused about the future of ignorance.

"Brothers, a fire burned millions of loads of grain and grass, although this fire was not set by you, but in the eyes of the Western Thieves, since you are my subordinates, then you can't get out of it, and I don't need to say what the consequences will be if you return to the Western Army.

And the 500,000 army is out of food, how can this battle be fought? Does the Great Western Army still have a future at all, how to choose, I believe that the brothers know it in their hearts. ”

Duan Liang's words were that Liu Neng also nodded slightly, first pulled all his subordinates on the thief ship, let them know that there was no good end to the Western Army, and then bluntly said that the serious consequences of the Western Army losing food and grass, as long as they are not fools, they should know at this time that following the commander to surrender to the Ming Dynasty is the best way out. These hundreds of thieves are stable.

As a result, as Liu Neng thought, everyone knew how to choose in a clear form. Liu Neng made a big promise and quickly stabilized the morale of the army.

The grain and grass of the thieves were burned, and it would not take a few days to panic about running out of food, and they would soon be defeated. Liu Neng sent a ship back to Yan Yingyuan's army outside Nanchang City to report the news to him.

As for most of the remaining people, Liu Neng decided to take them through Poyang Lake, hundreds of miles, into the Yangtze River, and back into Jiujiang City. The task of conveying the order to Yan Yingyuan has been completed, and now it is not just to contain the thief army, but to bury the factor of the rout of hundreds of thousands of thief army, and now Liu Neng feels that he should return to Jiujiang to reply to Chen Yue.

If you go fast, you should be able to rush back to Jiujiang City before the thief army runs out of food. Although the thieves have hundreds of thousands, they cannot completely block Poyang Lake, which is tens of miles or hundreds of miles wide, and there should be no problem in marching in the lake.

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Liu Neng and Yan Yingyuan did a great thing, but at this time, Jiujiang City was shaken by the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops of Western Thieves.

The siege army of the western thieves rushed to the city wall in waves, and the cannons rumbled all day long above and below the city, arrows rained down, and corpses were everywhere.

Jiujiang, where the city is high and the pond is deep, is better, most of the Ming army's troops are deployed in Jiujiang, and Zhang Xianzhong just wants to open the road to the Yangtze River first, but the direction of the key attack is Hukou County.

The defenders of Hukou City had less than 20,000 men, but they had to withstand ten times the attack of the thief army.

Zhang Nengqi commanded an army of 150,000 to attack day by day, and various siege methods were frequently used.

In the east of Hukou City, a tall earthen platform stands outside the city, the height of the earthen platform is three feet higher than the city wall, the thieves on the platform are constantly firing artillery and arrows in the city day and night, and the Ming army on the city wall cannot raise its head at all.

There are also countless thieves carrying earth and stones, filling between the earthen platform and the city wall, trying to connect the earth platform with the city wall, once the earth platform and the city wall are connected, the thieves can kill the city from the earthen platform.

Under the siege of the thieves, the Ming army in the city also broke out with great combat power, even if the lazy Beijing camp soldiers, they did not dare to hang their children at this time. Everyone knows that once the thief army invades the city, none of the soldiers and civilians in the city will want to live.

The musketeers hid on the side of the battlement and nervously loaded gunpowder, then stretched out the musket from the battlement, and pulled the trigger with a slight aim, and the thieves under the city were densely packed, and they could shoot without aiming.

The other soldiers were in charge of a battlement in two quarters, one with a spear and one with a sword and shield. If a thief climbs up, first the sword and shield soldiers are forced to oppress the thief with their shields, and the pikemen take the opportunity to stab them to death.

Many soldiers were originally ruffians in the Beijing camp who had never seen a battle, but at this time they were also skillful in cooperation, and they faintly had the appearance of elite soldiers.

Dozens of soldiers pushed the gun cart from the west city wall, stopped the gun cart more than two miles away from the earth platform, adjusted the gun muzzle to the earth platform, installed the gunpowder shells, and then with a loud bang, the shells smashed on the side of the earth platform with sparks, the whole earth platform shook, and the earth and stones fell down in a hurry. The thieves above didn't care to shoot any more arrows at the city wall, and they were already in a panic.

"Long" and "Long" were several huge cannon shots, and in the sound of "bang", the earth platform collapsed violently in the smoke and dust in the sky...... ()

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