The soldiers went out of Nanjing City, crossed the Yangtze River, marched to the northwest, opened the road all the way to the mountains, built bridges when encountering water, and the people transported the baggage with the army, fed the war horses, but it was smooth sailing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chang Wei is cautious, and the scouts spread out a radius of more than ten miles, and they can know when there is a stir. During the day march, they set up camp in open areas at night, set up light and dark sentry posts, and dug pits all around the barracks to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp.

In the evening of five days later, they marched to thirty miles outside the city of Dingyuan, and the scouts in front reported that the thief army had broken through the four counties of Huaiyuan, Dingyuan, Fengtai and Lingbi. Huaiyuan ordered Li Yi to cut himself, Dingyuan ordered Shen Zhi to die in battle, Fengtai ordered Lin Qian, Lingbi ordered Song He to be captured and beheaded, his wife and daughter were all military prostitutes, and Yingzhou City was slaughtered, with two or three hundred survivors.

The hearts of the people in Bo, Su and Shou are turbulent, and there is a possibility of thieves at any time.

Chang Wei suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "The situation is urgent, we must march immediately, first break the Yuan Thief Army, and then enter Fengyang, and the inside and outside should join forces to break the main force of the thieves in one fell swoop, otherwise the situation will be out of control!"

Fu Zhouzi shook his head and said: "It's not in a hurry, the Shenji battalion cannon is heavy, and the decisive battle of the Zhengjun is not conducive to the night raid, and the soldiers are tired from galloping for days." First set up camp to recuperate, tomorrow will definitely play a majestic style, not only to attack and break Dingyuan City in one fell swoop, but also to let the thief army see the power of the elite of the imperial court, shock the whole territory of Fengyang, and let the people who wait and see settle down!"

In just a few words, Fu Zhouzi clearly explained the pros and cons of the two sides as well as their combat intentions.

"Brother Xijue is right, I take it for granted. ”

Chang Wei said sincerely: "Sure enough, the veteran generals in the army are not comparable to rookies like me who are in battle for the first time. ”

Early the next morning, the Shenji Battalion marched into Dingyuan City with the rising sun.

Chang Wei held a thousand miles in his hand and watched, the thieves in the dark path were indeed a rabble, and they were not good at defending the city at all.

Houses within 500 paces of the city have been destroyed, trees have been burned with fire, wells have not been filled with poison, and rivers have not been stopped.

Chang Wei had already learned the art of war, and knew that these were not in line with the methods of defending the city mentioned in the war book, so although it was the first time to fight, the sloppy practices of the thief army made him worry a lot less about the war.

Within a mile of the city wall, the artillery began to arrange artillery positions, the birds and gunners lined up in a neat phalanx to protect the artillery, and the cavalry to protect the flanks and flanks to prevent the thieves in the city from raiding and sabotaging.

Standing on the lookout car with a thousand miles in hand, Chang Wei clearly saw that the thieves drove the people to carry the materials to defend the city and climbed up to the top of the city.

Chang Wei checked the situation in the city and loudly told the soldiers around him about the distribution of troops, buildings, and materials in various parts of the city, and the soldiers were carefully recording it.

A quarter of an hour later, Chang Wei stopped watching, picked up the record book, looked at it carefully, and made a little modification and addition, and the soldiers sealed the record with a bamboo tube and put it into the basket, and the basket was lowered on the lookout with a rope.

The soldiers guarding the lookout immediately galloped through the passage between the various divisions and sent the record to Fu Zhouzi, the commander of the left admiral in the battle.

Chang Wei looked at Fu Zhouzi's majestic figure on the stage, and his heart was full of confidence in victory. Recording the enemy's situation, giving orders and commands, changing flags, distinguishing drums and horns, and other practical knowledge were all given to him by Fu Zhouzi.

Soon the flag of the Chinese army changed, Chang Wei knew that the attack was about to begin, and immediately handed over the work of observing the enemy situation to the herald, and quickly got off the lookout and entered the left flank cavalry position.

Three thousand six hundred gunners and four hundred gunners were the main force of the siege, and the cavalry was responsible for chasing, protecting, and chasing down the defeated troops.

The red flag of the Chinese army waved, and the artillery positions that were the main attack immediately became operational.

"Three hundred paces away, the target gate!"

"Calibrate the cannon, the cannonball is loaded!"

"Ignition, one test shot!"

Following the officer's command, the gun emplacements in the middle of the first column of the artillery position began to fire, and with a loud bang, the tiger squat cannon was shaken by the strong recoil and jumped up half a foot high, and smashed heavily on the solid position.

The fiery red solid iron cannonball, with a sharp and sharp whistling sound, bombarded away, and a muffled thud came, and the cannonball hit the root of the city wall on the left side of the city gate, and the one-foot-sized blue bricks flew into the air, cracking into fine powders and splashing in the air, raising a cloud of cyan smoke and dust.

Wang Zhuang, the first gunner of the test firing, fixed the tiger squat cannon back to its original position with the help of four companions, and raised the bracket to test fire another shot, this time the shell directly hit the battlement of the city head.

"Wow, hit, good!"

"Worthy of the king cannon!"

The Ming army cheered in the array, although there were no dead people, but the thief army at the head of the city immediately fell silent, and the timid ones were even running to the city, and the leader drew his knife and cut a few people to stop the chaos.

The heralds on horseback immediately spread the firing parameters throughout the artillery positions.

"The target is directly ahead, all of them are tested in one shot!"

With the roaring cannon, a large area of cyan smoke rose from the position, and the choking smell of gunpowder spread in the array, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were even used to all this, and no one panicked, but with excitement on their faces.

The thieves on the city wall were diametrically opposed, they were in a panic, and many people did not wait for orders, and randomly smashed the wooden rolling stones under the city.

The red banner of the Chinese army in the Shenji Battalion waved again and again, "All shoot, barrage covered!"

The deterrent effect brought by the successive bombardment of one hundred and sixty tiger squatting cannons was extremely amazing, and the deafening sound continued to sound on the head of the city, and the fiery red shells were shot out by the huge force of gunpowder, constantly destroying the city walls with infinite might, and harvesting the fragile lives of the thieves.

The thief army, who had never seen shelling, collapsed in an instant, and the steel knife in the leader's hand could not stop the thieves' fear of shells, they were originally just ordinary peasants, many of them did not travel within a radius of ten miles, and the farthest place they had ever been to was only the county seat, and they were pitiful with little knowledge. Because of the difficulty of life, he rebelled under the instigation of the Church of the Virgin, and took advantage of the brute force and blood bravery, and dared to kill a person along the way, but in the face of the cannon, a big killing weapon far beyond imagination, he couldn't give birth to the courage to confront at all.

The rout at the head of the city made Fu Zhouzi adjust the battle plan, and the ten tiger squatting cannons approached the city gate under the protection of a hundred bird gunners and a hundred cavalry, and the muzzles of the guns were flattened, and with a salvo, the heavy city gate dissipated into flying debris in the air in the roaring cannonballs.

"Kill!" As soon as the shelling stopped, Chang Wei, who led the left outpost, gave an order to kill the open city gate first.

"Kill!"

Five hundred horsemen roared behind him, and the thunderous sound of iron hooves sounded in an instant, and the earth trembled as the flying hooves of the horses fluttered.

Dingyuan is just a small county town without a moat, and the thief army has no experience in defending the city, and there are no things outside the city that can cause trouble for the Shenji battalion, such as horse guns, traps, thistles, and trenches.

The war horse galloped in a medium step, and soon crossed a distance of one mile and rushed into the city, when suddenly there was a shout from the head of the city, and suddenly arrows rained down.

"There are even thieves who are not afraid of death?" Chang Wei suddenly found himself underestimating the enemy. (The third watch is after 9 p.m.) ）