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Zhang Xianzhong grinned: "King Chuang is too humble." How are we going to attack it now? Or is it a concentrated attack on one door like yesterday? ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head: "You can't do it brutely, the city gate is the place where the defense forces are most concentrated, we can't entangle with them here, we have to break through from the city wall and attack the city before the fog clears." There is a heavy fog cover, the defenders can not judge the direction of our main attack, the troops will definitely be scattered evenly in the four directions like beans, the defense line is thin, we will choose a section of the city wall in the two opposite directions of the north gate and the south gate, and concentrate our forces to attack two points, so that the defenders will not have time to reinforce. ”

As soon as the hour passed, the east revealed the belly of the white fish, and in the vast thick fog, the wandering army poured out, and once again surrounded Hezhou City from three directions, and a new round of siege was about to break out. At the same time, fires broke out all over the city, and the screams of adults and the cries of children became louder, and the chaos gradually spread to the whole city.

Zhu Dadian and Su Thick Legs woke up one after another. After learning that there was a fire in the city, Zhu Dadian put on his clothes, called his personal entourage, and ordered him to go to the prefect's yamen to give an order, so that the yamen could organize the fire in the city.

Su Thick Leg immediately guessed that the fire was not ignited for no reason, and it must have been set on fire. He immediately ordered men to be sent to the four gates to ensure the safety of the gates - since there were rogues in the city, it was necessary to prevent them from attacking the defenders of the gates, and open the gates to let the army of the bandits in.

His judgment proved to be timely and accurate. The north gate was attacked by a small group of thieves, but fortunately the number was too small to seize control of the city gate, and when the people sent by Su Rough Leg arrived to support, the group was all wiped out.

Although the city gate is still under the control of the defenders, the situation of the city defense is not optimistic. With the help of the cover of the dense fog, the Liukou launched a full-scale attack in the early morning, and the north gate, the south gate, and the west gate were in an emergency at the same time, because of the heavy fog, it was impossible to see the deployment of the Liukou's troops, and Su Thick Legs could not judge the direction of the Liukou's main attack, so he could only evenly distribute the troops everywhere. The strength of the defenders is far less than that of the besieging side, so the lack of focus and targeted deployment of troops is very dangerous, and it is possible to be concentrated by the other side at any time to break through, but Su's thick legs and clever women are difficult to cook without rice, and there is no better way to deal with it.

Originally, there were not enough people to defend the city, and the fire in the city needed the officials and the people to extinguish the fire, otherwise before the rogues invaded the city, Hezhou would be burned into ruins. Without the help of the people to defend the city, the troops on the city walls were overstretched. An hour later, some rogues climbed the wall near the north gate, and as a breakthrough point, a large number of rogues gathered under this section of the city wall, climbing up desperately, and the defense line was in danger.

Su Rough Leg heard the urgency at the north gate and immediately led people to support. Just when he led the standard battalion to fight to the death with the displaced people who climbed the wall, the bad news came again, and the wall near the south gate was also broken, and more displaced people poured onto the city wall, and all the defenders there were killed.

Su Thick felt a chill in his heart, which meant that the south gate was lost. With the current situation, he can no longer muster his troops to block the south gate, and the liukou will definitely enter the city through the south gate, and the general trend has gone.

He looked at the homeless people who were still climbing up in front of him, sighed, and ordered: "Brothers, this place can't be defended, let's retreat." ”

Zhu Dadian was anxiously awaiting news in the courtyard of a local gentry, which had been voluntarily offered by his master as a temporary governor, when the whole city was shrouded in fog and the earth-shattering shouts of murder made him very uneasy. Because the situation was uncertain, Su Thick Legs suggested that he not rush to the city tower to sit in town, but wait for news on the spot.

Unlike yesterday's calm and leisurely, the sudden fire and dense fog made Zhu Dadian's heart faintly uneasy, and his career as a horse leader in the past few years told him that it was doubtful whether the siege could be held this time.

Afraid of something, the gate of the front yard was knocked open by someone, and Su rushed in with a sweaty face, shouting: "Hurry up and follow me, this city can't be defended......"

Zhu Dadian was shocked and asked rhetorically, "Why can't you keep it?" Walking, where are you going? ”

Su said anxiously: "It's too late to explain in detail, the north gate and the south gate were lost at the same time, and the west gate was also surrounded, so we can only retreat from the east gate......"

Zhu Dadian said unwillingly: "As the governor of Fengyang, I have lost Zhongdu and Luzhou, if I lose Hezhou in my hands, what face will I have to see the saint?" I don't believe that I can't stop this rabble, so I'll go with you to the north gate and the south gate to repel the rogues......"

Su said helplessly: "Make Taiwan, the general trend has gone, don't lie to yourself." You listen to the shouts and killings outside, the rogues have already entered the city, and it will be too late if you don't leave. ”

Zhu Dadian wanted to say something more, but Su Thick Leg glanced left and right, and then said, "Offended, make the table!" ”

Several soldiers rushed up, put Zhu Dadian up, lifted his feet off the ground, carried him out of the gate of the house, and went straight to the east gate.

Although Zhu Dadian still said that he wanted to live and die with Hezhou, he let the soldiers carry him, and his hands and feet were honestly motionless, without any intention of struggling. The group walked through the streets and alleys and soon reached the east gate.

At this moment, the east gate is still under the control of the defenders, and although the soldiers in charge of the defense of the city gate have not yet run, they have been frightened by the shouts of killing in the city. Su took the lead, ran at the front of the line, and ordered loudly: "Open the city gate!" ”

When the defenders heard this, they hurriedly opened the gates and let them out. When passing through the city gate, Su Thick Leg hesitated for a moment and whispered to the defenders: "The city can't be defended, if you want to run, run too!" ”

As if they had been pardoned, the soldiers threw away their spears and swords and scattered their beasts.

A few miles out of the east gate, Su Thick Legs and the others could still see the smoke from the fire in the city rising into the sky, and the shouts of killing could be heard from miles away, but there were no pursuers chasing them out from the east gate.

On March 19, the eighth year of Chongzhen, the combined forces of Gao and Zhang took advantage of the heavy fog, coupled with the fact that the inner should set fire to the city, and the inside and the outside should be combined, and broke through the city of Hezhou in one fell swoop, plundering countless property. Zhu Dadian fled all the way east under the protection of the standard camp, unable to resist the tens of thousands of rogue troops. The coalition forces took advantage of the victory to pursue and then defeated Chuzhou in one go, so far, most of the four prefectures and three prefectures under the jurisdiction of Zhu Dadian fell under the clutches of the Gao and Liu coalition forces. Stimulated by the victory, the coalition forces followed the route of Zhu Dadian's escape, all the way from Anhui to Yizheng in Jiangsu, and the soldiers had arrived in the Jiangnan area, and the gentry of the Jiangnan government were panicked, and the government and the opposition were shocked.