There were more and more people in black, and soon there were thousands of people. There is no doubt that these men in black are all members of the Demon Sect's Five Elements Banner.

After thousands of five-element flags stood at the head of the city, they quickly killed the brothers of the three or four hundred rivers gang Baihutang who rushed to the city wall in advance to only about a hundred. Although these White Tiger Hall disciples were all elites of the Jianghe Gang, they were still far from being opponents in front of the Five Elements Banner.

Although they knew that Chen Jing and Lai San'er had been kidnapped, and the people of the Five Elements Banner on the other side were far stronger than their own, they did not dare to take a step back before receiving the order to retreat, so they had to stubbornly hold on.

And the Five Elements Banner of the Demon Sect wants them to hold on to the death. In fact, with the ability of the Five Elements Banner, they could completely annihilate all the remaining more than 100 Jianghe Gang people, but they deliberately did not do this, in order to let more Ming troops rush up, so that they could continue to slaughter.

As a result, the Ming army and the martial arts coalition army are still rushing to the city, but they are always in a state of being outnumbered, almost going up to die one by one, and one by one to die and one to die.

The Liukou defenders at the head of the city, under the leadership of the Five Elements Banner, launched an orderly counterattack, and they always kept the number of more than a hundred people at the head of the city, which seemed to be able to break through, but they couldn't break through.

More and more Ming troops and martial arts coalition troops poured into the city.

A puff of smoke suddenly rose from the city wall, and just as everyone wondered what was going on, they saw hundreds of thunderbolts thrown down at once!

The thunderbolt exploded, and the Ming soldiers below fell one after another.

In the siege battle in the west of the city, the situation of the Ming army took a sharp turn for the worse, and the losses were extremely heavy!

In the north of the city, Zuo Guangxian's tactics of bombarding the city gate were not very smooth. First of all, the outside of the gate of Weinan City is wrapped in thick iron sheets, and after the surface of the iron sheet is on fire, the wood behind it may not be able to catch fire. Secondly, the caliber of the 300-pound Franc cannon is too small, even if the iron sheet on the surface of the city gate is burned red, but a cannon can only make a notch the size of a bowl, which is not enough to blast through the city gate.

The cannon couldn't be opened, and Zuo Guangxian had to press his chips on the ladder in order to cooperate with the onslaught in the west of the city. He also formed ten echelons, one echelon of 1,500 people, and attacked the city wall in turns. However, about 500 black-clothed men soon appeared on the wall of the north gate, and the Ming army that finally rushed to the city wall was defeated.

He Renlong became more and more anxious, he never thought that when there were more than 1,000 black-clothed people in the city, he would become so south-attacking.

When he heard from the Martial Arts Alliance that these people were Demon Sect Soldiers, he immediately gasped.

No wonder they were able to wipe out nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers in Lanzhou in just a few days, and even the Marquis of Qin had to abandon Lanzhou when he encountered them. With their combat power, Hou Ye was able to use more than 60,000 martial arts coalition troops in Baoji who were not very skilled in battle formations to repel the 40,000 army of the Demon Sect, which was simply a miracle!

At this time, the siege had been going on for more than an hour, and the corpses of officers and soldiers were strewn all over the field under the city walls, and the charging soldiers would trip over if they were not careful.

Seeing that the situation was reversed, the Liukou in Weinan City suddenly doubled their morale, and they lost their previous panic, making their counterattack more efficient and fierce.

The fire oil, boiling oil, asphalt, and the thunderbolts brought by the Demon Sect turned into big killing weapons, causing the Ming army to fall continuously.

He Renlong's eyes were full of anger and endless unwillingness, but he knew that he couldn't fight anymore!

If the fight continues, the officers and soldiers will have to die here.

If you want to capture Weinan, it seems that you have to wait for Hou Ye to personally bring the troops!

He raised his hand unwillingly, and said with a grim face, "Mingjin!

The officers and troops who were able to withdraw were withdrawn. As for those who can't be withdrawn, they can only sacrifice their lives for the country.

In this siege battle, the official army paid the price of more than 5,000 people, and in addition to the losses of several previous small-scale attacks, the official army had lost more than 9,000 people in Weinan.

And the rogue soldiers in the city, with the help of the Demon Sect, only lost more than 8,000 people.

What made He Renlong even more depressed was that Qin Shuhuai's two subordinate generals were also captured in the city, and it is said that one of them was still Qin Shuhuai's brother-in-law. As soon as he thought of this, He Renlong slapped his thigh, thinking that he knew that he would not let those two people go, this is miserable, and when I turn around, Hou Ye and I want someone, what will I pay him back?

Shame on you! I originally said that I was going to capture Weinan City and wait for Hou Ye, but now that it's like this, I don't know how to tell Hou Ye!

And now the situation has become awkward. The Ming army only has about 30,000 left, if it continues to attack the city, eighty percent will not be able to attack, and continue to besiege the city, and I am afraid that Shangluo's rogues will come to relieve the siege, and it will be difficult to deal with it at that time.

He Renlong didn't know that Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses had come out of Ankang, but he thought that Gao Yingxiang from Shangluo might rush over to save Weinan.

Zuo Guangxian also had this concern, saying that he suggested that he should retreat for the time being, and wait for Qin Shuhuai's army to arrive.

If He Renlong followed Zuo Guangxian's advice at this time, the Ming army could stop the loss.

But He Renlong did not follow Zuo Guangxian's advice.

He thought that Shang Luo would definitely send troops to relieve the siege of Weinan, so he decided to continue to pretend to besiege the city, and at the same time make an ambush somewhere south of Weinan to ambush Shang Luolai's reinforcements.

It is the so-called "encirclement and reinforcement".

If they can win a big victory in the field, even if they don't capture Weinan City, it will be enough to save face and give an explanation to Qin Shuhuai.

Zuo Guangxian originally disagreed, but after seeing the ambush location chosen by He Renlong, he was moved.

The location he chose was Lijiapo, 50 miles south of Weinan City. If Shang Luo's troops arrived to reinforce them, then it was very likely to pass through here. There are mountains on both sides here, and there is only a trail in between, which is indeed suitable for ambushes.

Zuo Guangxian thought about it carefully, and felt that Gao Yingxiang would definitely send troops to relieve the siege of Weinan in a short time, otherwise he would have no chance as soon as the official army arrived.

So it's a lot of fun.

So the two decided to surround the point and send reinforcements.

What they didn't expect was that this decision would make them regret it for the rest of their lives.

A day later, on June 13, Qin Shuhuai first received a Tang newspaper from Weinan, which was closer to him. In the Tang newspaper, He Renlong said that thousands of demon sect soldiers suddenly appeared in Weinan City, so they could not attack for a long time and suffered heavy losses.

Qin Shuhuai frowned, thinking to himself how much "thousands" is? But considering the habit of generals in the late Ming Dynasty to write Tang newspapers, they would generally praise the enemy by two or three times first, and then automatically guess the number—that is, about two thousand?

He continued to look down, and at the end of the Tang newspaper, he saw this sentence again.

"Yes, the two generals Chen Jing and Lai San'er took the lead and took the lead in jumping to the city to fight the enemy. The two of them bravely crowned the three armies and annihilated hundreds of enemies ......"

When Qin Shuhuai saw this, his heart suddenly chuckled. This crazy man doesn't praise people casually, if he praises like this, unless this battle is a big victory. If it weren't for the big win, then these two ......

took a look down, and sure enough, I found that Chen Jing and Lai San'er had been captured.

His heart tightened, and he slapped the Tang Bao on the table with a "snap".

Meng Hu behind him didn't see it right, he secretly glanced at the battle report, and immediately changed his face.

shouted in a lost voice, "Helper, Lord Chen Xiang and Lord Lai Xiang have been arrested?"

Qin Shuhuai slapped the table and said angrily, "These two bastards, have they learned the rules of the military formation? The two incense masters commanded a hall, but the two of them ran to the city by themselves? Is this how the battle was fought? Meng Hu, Zhang Xiao is how he taught these incense masters to lead the troops?"

Zhang Xiao is now the head of the Jianghe Gang, and all the incense masters are learning to lead soldiers from him.

Meng Hu said helplessly, "Of course Lao Zhang didn't teach. However, this is the trend in our gang, and as soon as the war starts, the incense master is afraid that the brothers will not know how to fight, and he always wants to go up and take the lead himself......"

Qin Shuhuai was even more angry, "Atmosphere? What kind of atmosphere is this? What kind of unhealthy atmosphere is this? As a general, you are asked to fight bravely? This kind of courage is not uncommon! Who came up with this first?"

Meng Hu paused, but still couldn't help but say, "Helper, to be honest, isn't this what you started?"

When Qin Shuhuai heard this, he was stunned for a moment.

Then he smiled bitterly in his heart, isn't it? Isn't it himself who gets started at every turn, who has never been in command behind him, and who can only "be brave"?

At this moment, the Tang newspaper from Ankang City also arrived.

Qin Shuhuai opened it and saw that when the Tang newspaper said that Li Zicheng's army suddenly disappeared and was likely to flee north, he was suddenly hit by another critical attack!

The officers and troops in Weinan are going to be bad!

He immediately put down the Tang newspaper and said to Meng Hu, "Old Meng, immediately gather all the cavalry in the city!"