Zhang Shixian was full of hesitation in Jizhen at this time, the news of the capital could not be obtained, the carrier pigeons in the city were captured and killed, and the manors outside the city were cleared by the walls, and now no one knows what the situation in the capital is.

After learning that Liu Zongmin died at his own hands, he naturally did not have the intention of surrendering, some people can surrender, but some people cannot, like him, who killed Liu Zongmin, fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, it is definitely a dead end!

Why didn't Liu Zongmin persuade him to surrender? Zhang Shixian stood in the northwest corner of Jizhen at this time and sighed.

At the same time, he looked at the tens of thousands of Li Chuangjun cavalry swept outside the city like a torrent with melancholy eyes, these people could not retreat at this time, because the number of surrendered troops accounted for too much, and everyone could not afford the responsibility of Liu Zongmin's fall!

But surrender, it is naturally impossible to think about this kind of thing at this time, after all, if the capital is defeated, they will really become a great Shunguo.

"General, the thieves are ready to attack the city!"

Several lieutenant generals were nervous at this time, but now that everyone was in the same boat, the families who surrendered in the city had been slaughtered, and Liu Zongmin and hundreds of his own soldiers were beheaded and hung at the head of the city.

Seeing that Li Chuangjun outside the city has been preparing for the siege, but they can't do more actions in the city, and now it seems that they can only be trapped in the lonely city, and they don't know where to go for help.

"You take a team to the West Gate!"

Zhang Shixian instructed at this time:

"Send someone to Jinmen and Shanhaiguan for help!"

Then he added:

"Then send a flexible heart, look carefully in the direction of the capital!"

"The last will obey."

"The last will obey."

Several lieutenant generals did not hesitate, and directly took the order to go to work, and now they are all grasshoppers on a rope, and they are also very hard-working.

At this time, the situation is delicate, Li Chuang thieves have about 30,000 people, at this time there are about 10,000 people attacking the city, at this time it is divided into several parts around the city, it is obvious that it is to contain the infantry in the city, although these cavalry are unlikely to attack the city, but they must also be vigilant against their surprise attack, Ximen is loosely guarded, if it is not ready, it is also a big problem to be raided.

Fortunately, the cavalry does not have a ladder or anything like that, at most they can only rush to the city wall and throw hooks to climb, so they can divide a team of people to keep on guard, before Zhang Shixian has reorganized the defenders in the city, directly divided into twelve teams, each team of more than 1,000 people led by a captain, the south gate and the north gate each have two teams, and now the west gate is divided into a team, and the remaining seven teams are personally led by him to meet the thieves outside the west gate.

Compared with the thieves outside the city, this bit of manpower in the city is obviously stretched, and now it can be said that there is no power to fight back, but Zhang Shixian also knows that at this time, even if he holds on, he has to hold on, otherwise, no matter whether the capital is captured by Li Chuangjun or not, he will be abolished!

If the capital is captured by Li Chuang, and Jizhen cannot be broken, then Li Chuang is likely to have to negotiate conditions, so that he can save his life; And if Li Chuang didn't capture the capital, if Jizhen was lost, according to Chongzhen's temper, he might have to end up with the same treatment as Yuan Chonghuan back then.

After waiting patiently for a day, Zhang Shixian breathed a sigh of relief, if Li Chuangjun was at this level, he would not be able to win the world at all!

It can be seen from the level of this siege that tens of thousands of people attacked for a day, and none of them "ascended first"!

Even in the afternoon, the tens of thousands of troops only took their shields to protect themselves, and then lined up towards the city wall, motionless as a mountain, seeing that the remaining distance was less than 100 meters away from the moat at most, and they did not dare to go any further.

There has been no commander of the army, since the death of the previous generation of British dukes, this generation of British dukes has not had time to take over their own positions, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is also very vague, and the combat power of the enemy is unknown.

So Zhang Shixian has always done a very steady job, first to be invincible, and then to seek fighters, of course, he didn't expect that there would be so many bandits in the city, if it weren't for that urgent carrier pigeon message, he would probably be captured in his sleep, then, what happened is unknown!

As soon as he stretched out his hand, the soldier next to him respectfully handed him the clairing mirror.

At this time, the mobile artillery in the city had been concentrated, and seeing Li Chuangjun outside the city cowering, he ordered his subordinates to prepare for an artillery bombardment.

After watching the skilled gunner after manual fine-tuning, he immediately put the arquebus into the ignition hole after finally locking on to the target, and suddenly with a deafening loud noise, more than a dozen pounds of shells whistled out, slightly with a little parabola, like divine help in the center of the center of the thieves under the city, while directly smashing a Li Chuang army thief, just a bullet, within a radius of ten meters, either wounded or killed.

There is not just one cannon on the head of the city, there are a total of four cannons, which makes Li Chuang's army under the city immediately chaotic, and those who have not experienced the baptism of artillery fire are the most timid about the cannon!

At this time, whether it is a musket or a bow and arrow, it may not be able to kill people, but cannons are different, and if a cannon is blown up, it will definitely kill people!

The Ming soldiers at the head of the city cleaned the cannon as fast as possible and reloaded the ammunition, just after they finished this work, the cannon on the city wall let out a second round of roar, and there were countless casualties, and most of the casualties at this time were even just friendly troops trampled to death!

Pity!

Looking at the chaos under the city, there is no doubt about Li Chuangjun's combat strength, but for the sake of safety and the future, Zhang Shixian did not have to point out the men and horses at this time and kill them out of the city.

Although Li Chuang's army attacked the city with few casualties, its morale was greatly reduced, and at the head of the city, it was clear through the clairvoyant mirror that there were people who were constantly fleeing at this time.

And if an elite army of soldiers and horses is killed, these more than 10,000 Li Chuang's army and thieves are afraid that they will be defeated in a battle, but Zhang Shixian doesn't want to do things desperately, if Li Zicheng occupies the Beijing Division, then he will fight the troops under Li Chuang's command so hard, then he will have the opportunity to negotiate the conditions to surrender in the future, and it will definitely be difficult to get under Li Chuang's command!

At this time, safety comes first, but Zhang Shixian doesn't know that his safety is likely to save his life, at this time, most of the infantry troops attacking the city are actually the former Ming army, which was originally converted from cavalry to infantry, and was forced to attack the city, the morale of these people is not high, but Li Chuang's old battalion has not suffered much loss in combat power.

If Zhang Shixian went out of the city at this time, then it was likely that he would not be the opponent of Li Chuangjun's old camp, after all, these people had the spirit of mourning at this time, and Liu Zongmin's head was still hanging on the head of Jizhen!

They are not comparable to the surrender of the Ming army, although some of them were also surrendered by the Ming army, but after following Liu Zongmin for a long time, this is at least on the surface of the whole intention of surrendering to Dashun.

Zhang Shixian in the city could not hold out, and Li Chuang's army outside the city did not win, especially after today's siege battle, it seemed that there was no result, and the morale was severely damaged.

In fact, unlike the general impression, the real siege method at this time was largely dependent on artillery, and at this point, Li Zicheng lagged behind the times, and at this time, the firearms of the Ming army were still the first in this land.

Especially the craftsmen under the Daming Jingshi Ministry of Industry, this is actually the most valuable wealth, because they can make guns and cast cannons, which is the core technology of this era.

Although the power of the cannon on the head of Jizhen City is not great now, whether it is gunpowder or cannon body, it has not been improved, but it is also a war artifact, at this time Li Chuangjun is basically in the era of cold weapons, facing such a war artifact, being attacked at a distance that cannot be counterattacked, which is very embarrassing.

The gunners of the Ming army now don't know what ballistics is, and they don't have a full-time ballistic computer plus data support from a variety of sensors such as rangefinders and crosswinds, but that's it, it's also the crushing of cold weapons by firearms!

This is called the gap in science and technology, Li Zicheng doesn't understand, and I'm afraid few of his subordinates can understand, in fact, now, there are not many people in this land who understand.

Hao Shaoqi is now in charge of the army outside the city, he is the old man of Li Chuangjun, and no one knows what his real name is, but because he was originally Li Chuang's big standard-bearer, he was named "Hao Shaoqi".

Now that Liu Zongmin is dead, the Ming army general tacitly pushed him to the position of commander, trying to make him take this responsibility, but because of Hao Shaoqi's reckless nature, he had to take revenge first.

As for whether he can take revenge, he doesn't feel that it is a problem, isn't there still cannon fodder!

At this time, they didn't carry any siege weapons at all, but just prepared some ladders, and these Ming generals were forced to die, but Hao Shaoqi didn't care, he felt the malice of these people, although he didn't understand why, but it was still easy to let these people die.

On the first day, the siege of the city was fruitless, and on the second day, he led people to personally press the formation, and saw that the Ming army in the city did not dare to show his head at all, and he looked down on it more and more, which was a deep-rooted impression in the past, and it was really not easy to change.

As for Liu Zongmin, he must have been tricked, and those who took refuge in the city must be fake, and then Liu Zongmin was ambushed and died, it's okay, just wait for the city to be defeated, and kill all those people to take revenge.

waved his hand expressionlessly, and then the war drums sounded and the flag waved, and the forced cannon fodder carried the flying ladder at this time, and under the surveillance of the masters behind them, they shouted and began to attack Jizhen, and the masters behind them were also immediately ready to shoot arrows to provide cover for them, of course, it was also persecution, dare to retreat, then shoot immediately!

"Bring a bow and arrows!"

On the city wall, Zhang Shixian stretched out his hand at this time and said, the six arts of gentlemen, now those Confucian gentlemen have basically forgotten, but the military generals have not forgotten, that is, no matter how pampered they are, they will basically get started, and Zhang Shixian, the book of war and weapons, are all proficient!

In this era, as long as the noble family is willing to practice martial arts, it is still very easy, and the family is also willing to support and have resources to support; For ordinary families in this era, most of them have no resources to learn the six arts of etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics.

For example, a "royal", in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was a royal car, and later it basically referred to horseback riding, how could ordinary people have the opportunity to learn to ride horses, let alone bows and arrows, musical instruments.

Zhang Shixian naturally doesn't like musical instruments, but he has a confidence in bows and arrows.

The city defense and artillery were used by the soldiers, and the condescending bombardment of the enemy's infantry groups did not require precise aiming, but what he needed was to carry the archers to fire rapidly to play some of his role, which was also a way to boost morale.

Zhang Shixian pulled his bow steadily, he used not a standard bow, but a sophisticated weapon that cost a lot of money to make, and then aimed at an officer who was directing the cannon fodder to advance together, and suddenly he let go of his hand, and the arrow flew out with the sound of the bowstring, and at the moment when the officer looked up in amazement, the arrow cluster shot into his head.

In fact, if he didn't look up, it would be fine, the armor on his head might be able to block this arrow, but when he looked up, he was directly shot into the eye by this arrow, and at this time there was no armor at all.

The surrounding cannon fodder was stunned, and the city was cheering, and at the same time, countless arrows were shot out after Zhang Shixian, although most of them were not high, but at this time, the pursuit was quantity.

Zhang Shixian's second arrow flew out, and then the second officer he liked was nailed, and when the first arrow was used, he still felt that he was not very sure, but with the first arrow to give him the feel, the next arrow was not sure to hit.

Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth......

In just one stick of incense, he shot seven or eight arrows, almost every arrow killed an enemy officer, and at this time he stopped his bow, there was an element of tiredness, and there was also a reason why the enemy was retreating.

Because of the cannons, the enemy's archers could not suppress the Ming army on the city at all, and the archers under the city could not fight against the city anyway, their only way was to keep running and galloping on the horse, but in the face of the artillery, this gallop could not run, and the cannonball was a pit when it was smashed, and this pit was at least three or five horses were involved if they were not careful.

As for the cannon fodder in front of the siege, because the siege equipment is poor, and they are all forced to make their morale sluggish, but the morale of the Ming army on the city wall is strong, especially when they climb closer, the Ming army still has a large number of arquebuses to suppress, and it is difficult for them to climb the towering city wall simply by ladders.

easily withstood the attack of tens of thousands of people, not only that, but also caused serious casualties to these cannon fodder sent by Hao Shaoqi, and the dead bodies were soon covered under the city wall.

But this is likely to be only temporary, the numerical disadvantage can not be made up, the defenders of the city will be tired, but his enemies can take turns to attack, or the siege on all sides can also make the soldiers on the city exhausted, once these thieves of Li Chuang's army make a more reasonable attack plan, or make better siege equipment, then it will be the turn of the Ming army in Jizhen to be unlucky.

However, Zhang Shixian didn't know that he didn't have to worry about this, if Liu Zongmin or other generals under Li Chuang, such as Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, or Li Guo, Li Shuangxi, etc., anyone was there, they would basically not be like Hao Shaoqi, but these people were not there.

Liu Zongmin didn't want others to restrain him, so he only brought a Hao Shaoqi who was very loyal to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was also relieved, and he was also comfortable, but at this time, it was the tens of thousands of cavalry troops who were vital to Li Zicheng who were trapped under the city of Jizhen.

Hao Shaoqi didn't know how to advance or retreat, this was originally his character, but Li Zicheng didn't expect that Liu Zongmin would leave like that, which no one expected!