405 Please enter the urn

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The 20,000 rebellious army led by Li Guo, after leaving Song County, went north through Luhun Mountain, hidden in Luhoi Mountain, and then wanted to take the opportunity to seek Yiyang.

It's a pity that Liu Zeqing has never relaxed his vigilance in Yiyang, so Li Guo's surprise attack has not succeeded.

Yiyang is stationed with Liu Zeqing's 10,000 Shandong soldiers, the soldiers are strong and strong, once Li Guo's surprise attack fails, if he wants to change the strong attack, whether he can take it or not is two words.

So, Li Guo decisively gave up Yiyang and went south to Ruzhou City.

Li Guo firmly believes that Li Zixiao will not have many people in Ruzhou City, since the surprise attack on Yiyang failed, it may be wiser to sneak attack Ruzhou City instead.

It is indeed as Li Guo guessed, there are really not many soldiers and horses in Ruzhou City at this time.

In addition to the eight hundred white dragon soldiers left by Li Zixiao to Qi Wei, Qi Wei also got Li Zixiao's permission to temporarily recruit two thousand recruits in Ruzhou City.

These two thousand recruits, after two weeks of high-intensity training by Qi Wei, have been initially usable.

In addition to these, there were originally 5,000 officers and soldiers in Ruzhou City, otherwise how could Xu Taixin have held Ruzhou City before.

These 5,000 officers and soldiers, after Qi Wei's selection, picked out some officers who were close to the Xu family, and some of the old, weak, sick and disabled, there were almost 3,500 people left.

As a result, these 3,500 officers and soldiers are barely usable.

More importantly, Qi Wei announced that these officers and soldiers enjoyed the same treatment as the White Dragon sergeants, and directly obtained the allegiance of these officers and soldiers.

You must know that at this time, the salary of ordinary soldiers of the White Dragon Army for a month is three taels of silver, and they are never in arrears, and there are subsidies and rewards in wartime.

In the face of such a generous treatment, these officers and soldiers of Ruzhou City, even if they are not very satisfied with foreign generals like Qi Wei.

But in the face of the white flowers, their dissatisfaction immediately disappeared.

It was precisely because Qi Wei was fully authorized by Li Zixiao that the silver was smashed, co-opted, suppressed, divided, and a series of means went down, and in just two weeks, Ruzhou City was completely controlled by Qi Wei.

Otherwise, after the spy sent by Li Guo this time mixed into Ruzhou City, Qi Wei would not have discovered it so quickly.

That is to say, at this time, Qi Wei has almost 6,000 men and horses in his hands to use, but these 6,000 men and horses are also stretched thin in the huge Ruzhou City.

In the end, there was no way, Qi Wei had to mobilize 3,000 young men from the city again, they didn't need to fight, they were only responsible for transporting ammunition, transporting the wounded and other tasks.

This can also liberate a lot of officers and soldiers, and at the same time, in the name of the government, Qi Wei requisitioned more than a dozen large families such as the Zhou family in Ruzhou City, with a total of 1,000 people.

In the face of the powerful Qi Wei, these big families didn't dare to say no.

Besides, they have just received a lot of benefits from the division of the Xu family and other industries, even if they are on the chariot of the White Dragon Army, they can't refuse.

It's a pity that Li Guo never expected that the spy he sent to Ruzhou City early to inquire about the news exposed his actions.

In fact, Li Guo never expected that Qi Wei would be able to completely control the situation in Ruzhou City in such a short period of time.

In Li Guo's impression, at this time, the White Dragon Army killed Xu Taixin and entered Ruzhou City strongly, which inevitably caused many people in the city to resist.

At this time, it should be a period when the undercurrent of Ruzhou City is surging, and the spies he sent out should have a lot of room to play.

It's a pity, this can only say that although Li Guo is very strategic, he still has too little knowledge in managing places and other aspects, after all, the rebels are rogue after all, and vision is a very important factor restricting them.

Maybe if it weren't for Li Zixiao leaving Qi Wei in Ruzhou City, Li Guo's surprise attack on Ruzhou City would not be easy to be discovered in advance.

It can only be said that Li Guo met a powerful opponent this time, Qi Wei!

Li Guo rode on his horse, looking at the dark city, with a hideous smile on his face.

Ruzhou City seemed to be quiet, making him believe that the people in the city at this time did not know that he had arrived under the city.

Li Guo smiled evilly, raised his right hand, made a movement to wipe his neck, and said to the dozens of old battalion bandits he selected next to him: "Kill in, clear the obstacles on the city wall, and open the city gate." ”

Ruzhou City, as the state capital of Ruzhou, is not comparable to a small county like Yiyang, at least in terms of the perfection of the city wall, as well as the tallness, etc., it completely exploded Yiyang County.

If you look down from a high place, you will find that the entire city of Ruzhou is actually in the shape of a Lu character.

To the north is the state city, that is, the old city, in which the state yamen is located, and to the south is the newly expanded outer city decades ago.

The inner state city is about fifteen miles in circumference, while the newly built outer city is much larger, with a circumference of about twenty-five li.

As night fell, the city of Ruzhou was quiet, and it seemed that it had fallen into a deep sleep.

It's just that under the cover of the dark night, Qi Wei led thousands of soldiers in full armor, waiting quietly early, ready to wait for the enemy to enter the urn.

"General, the rebels have appeared."

A vigorous captain of the White Dragon Army walked gently to Qi Wei's side and reported.

Qi Wei nodded, his heart became excited, did the rebels finally come, he had been staying for a long time.

"Don't be in a hurry first, press the soldiers, wait for the rebels to do it first, and follow the original plan."

Qi Wei suppressed the excitement in his heart, tried his best to calm down, and said to his subordinates.

The night breeze was blowing, and the dew was wet and heavy, but it couldn't extinguish the excited flame in Qi Wei's heart.

In front of the north gate of Ruzhou City, a white-robed and silver-armored rebel general sat on a horse in the night not far away, looking at the silent Ruzhou City in front of him, with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth.

Then, he turned over and dismounted, and shouted in a low voice to the more than fifty old battalion bandits who followed behind: "Up! ”

This bandit is named Ma Tiancheng, who is only thirty years old, brave and fierce, and is very important under Li Guo.

This time, he was ordered by Li Guo to lead 3,000 men and horses in his headquarters, responsible for feints to attack the northern city, and launched an attack first, while Li Guo led the main force of the chaotic army to detour through the southern city, preparing to launch a general attack.

And the fifty bandits selected by Li Guo were all a group of old brothers from Li Zicheng's old camp, elite bandits, and with an order, these people quietly touched the north city of Ruzhou City.

"These dog officers and soldiers, as expected, have no defense at all, they are really tired of being alive."

Ma Tiancheng looked at the dark city and said with disdain.

Ma Tiancheng jumped off the horse, and the two soldiers immediately stepped forward, took off the silver iron armor on Ma Tiancheng's body, and replaced him with a rhinoceros leather armor.

This silver iron armor was the first time he followed Li Guo to kill from Shangluo Mountain and conquer the county seat of the Lu family, he was the first to lead troops into the county seat, and Li Zicheng personally rewarded him after the war.

Now, he wants to lead people to personally kill the city wall and carry out a sneak attack, so that this heavy iron armor is not suitable.

Then his own soldiers hung a bow on him, and a good bow was stuck in it. And with two bags of arrows, one bag of light arrows, and one generation of heavy arrows.

Finally, the soldiers handed him a long knife.

Ma Tiancheng's task, although it was to take the lead in launching a feint attack in the north of Ruzhou City, in order to attract the attention of Ruzhou City, and cover Li Guo to lead the main force of the rebels into the city in the south.

But Ma Tiancheng saw that the officers and soldiers were unaware at this time, and thought that the officers and soldiers in Ruzhou City at this time were no different from those officers and soldiers he had met in the past, and he despised them very much.

He was even very relaxed, without the slightest bit of pre-war nervousness.

He followed Li Guo to fight for many years, and in his memory, ordinary Ming officers and soldiers did not have much combat power at all.

The only terrible thing is that the official army led by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting before, the elite of the official army and bandits.

Li Zicheng is in the hands of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, I don't know how many times he has been disabled, and he has almost never been victorious, it can be said that these two people are the most feared by these bandits.

It's a pity that now Hong Chengchou was transferred to Jinzhou by Chongzhen to deal with the Qing soldiers, and Sun Chuanting was directly imprisoned.

Since before he became an adult, Li Zicheng came out of Shangluo Mountain again, and the Ming officers and soldiers they encountered were basically a group of rabble.

Because, originally, Henan Mansion had been 'patronized' by them before, and many of the counties here had been captured by them.

As a result, the officers and soldiers there have long been replaced one after another, and all of them are new recruits, so there is not much challenge at all.

It wasn't until they met the elite of Shandong soldiers brought by Liu Zeqing that they were defeated in Yiyang and had no choice but to retreat.

At this time, in Ruzhou City, Ma Tianwei thought that the officers and soldiers inside were also the same as the officers and soldiers who defended the city they met before, one by one were timid and afraid of death.

Because, in his impression, all the officers and soldiers in such a big city are basically greedy for life and afraid of death, because they have not touched a knife or gun for a long time.

This made Ma Tiancheng feel that there was no need to spend so much effort to engage in some roundabouts, feints and the like.

He took these 3,000 men and horses to raid at night, as long as they opened the city gate and successfully entered Ruzhou City, Ruzhou City was basically theirs.

Even if there may be more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the city, there may be more than 1,000 villagers, but in Ma Tiancheng's eyes, the 3,000 brothers under his command can completely sweep the Ming army in Ruzhou City.

In particular, in order to cooperate with his actions, Li Guo even transferred two hundred old battalion bandits to him, and these bandits were definitely comparable to the elite of the border army of the Ming army.

There are not many of them, and they are directly under the command of Li Zicheng, but they have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they all crawled out of the pile of dead people, ruthless and ruthless.

Ma Tiancheng is now leading the bandits of the fifty old battalions, and began to take off the iron armor, iron rope armor, and put on light cowhide armor to prepare to climb the city wall and launch a surprise attack.

Ma Tiancheng's team is very good at raiding, they have raided many county towns at night before, although the city wall of Ruzhou City is more than three zhang high, but for them, it is not difficult to climb.

Ma Tiancheng pulled out his bright long knife, looked at the sharp blade, smiled, and said: "Brothers, this Ruzhou City is a state city, and there are a lot of good things in it.

King Chuang said beforehand, as long as we can take Ruzhou City, everyone will have enough wine and meat at that time, and there will be women to play, as long as we win the first credit for entering Ruzhou, then the silver will be indispensable to us. ”

"Listen to the general, it's right to fight such a big state capital, and you can still drink spicy food without eating fragrant, and there are women from those big families, whose skin is so white."

One of the pro-soldiers grinned.

Ma Tiancheng waved the long knife in his hand, put it into the sheath, then took off the bow, pulled the string again, and said with a smile: "You kid, you know women."

What's more, let's build Ruzhou City and kill the officers and soldiers in the city, and we can take the best cotton armor and many firearms from them.

It is said that the dog officer surnamed Li was equipped with a large number of firearms, and after we beat them down, we took the captured cotton armor and firearms, and also built a fire team.

What's more, there must be war horses in the city of Ruzhou, and we can expand the scale of cavalry at that time. ”

In the past, these bandits were not very interested in the firearms of the Ming army.

They fought in the past, and they also captured a lot of firearms of the Ming army, but that thing exploded as soon as it was used, or it didn't make a sound, and it was too dangerous to use that thing.

As a result, there were not many bandits at all, and they were willing to use the firearms they had taken from the Ming army.

But this time, they heard that Li Zixiao had a musket in his hand that did not need to be ignited and would not explode, which was very powerful, which made Ma Tiancheng a little concerned.

It's a pity that Ma Tiancheng at this time did not participate in the Yiyang War at this time.

Otherwise, if he saw the power of the flintlock pistol, and saw the hard fight in Yiyang, those of his companions would definitely like this flintlock pistol.

Compared with the flintlock pistol, Ma Tiancheng preferred war horses at this time.

You must know that there is no shortage of horses in the rebel army, but most of their horses are horses, so it's okay to let them pull things.

However, if these horses were to be ridden by the cavalry, they would be overwhelmed, and the horses all needed to be carefully selected and raised.

After changing into light clothes, Ma Tiancheng took fifty chaotic soldiers, touched the city, and quietly put the long ladder.

Erected to the long trench, the rebels behind the cat waist, carrying the ladder and stepping on the ladder on the trench, crossed the long trench, and successfully reached the city wall more than three zhang high.

These rebels are experienced and cooperate tacitly when they act, and they do not make the slightest noise.

In tonight's battle, Ma Tiancheng, as always, chose to take the lead in person, instead of staying behind and watching the battle.

His conspicuous silver-white robe and silver armor were replaced by a leather armor covered with a black burqa.

Ma Tiancheng carried a long knife on his back, and two short knives, one long and one short, were inserted in his waist.

He was the first to climb the ladder, and climbed up the wall with light hands and swiftness, and the fifty old bandits he had selected followed him a few steps apart, and the ladder made only a slight noise.

The higher and higher he climbed, soon Ma Tiancheng's hand had been pressed on the battlements, and he jumped up with force, and the whole person had jumped onto the city.

At the top of the city, he glanced left and right, and saw that the city was quiet, and there were a few dim lights in the distance, and it seemed that some guards had fallen asleep against the battlements.

"Damn it."

Ma Tiancheng cursed in a low voice, because he suddenly discovered that Ruzhou City actually had an urn city.

Behind the city gate in the north of Ruzhou City, there is actually an urn city, Ma Tiancheng saw that it was still a triple urn city, each of which was very small, but it was built behind the north gate three times in a row.

Ma Tiancheng and the others used to attack the county seats, and there were very few urn cities that could be built, unless it was some particularly important cities.

But he forgot that now they are attacking Ruzhou City, which is a state city, which can not be compared with those small county towns in the past.