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It took a day and a night to load nearly 200,000 stones of grain and grass onto the ship.

By the morning of February 11, He Lianyue and others escorted the fleet to leave Xiangyang City.

In addition to Helian Yue, the Xiaoqi Battalion was also transferred.

By absorbing a few outstanding people from the Xiangyang Civilian Battalion into the Fifth Regiment of the Standing Army, and then selecting people from the Fifth Regiment to join the Guards, the Second Battalion of Xiaoqi led by Li Dingguo increased from 120 to 200, that is, two post.

In addition to the first battalion of Xiaoqi led by Shen Wandeng, there are 800 cavalry!

With eight hundred cavalry escorting and conducting reconnaissance missions, the safety of the fleet in the plain terrain of the Nanxiang Basin has been improved by more than one level.

On the day.

Zhang Xianzhong took Zhang Wenxiu, Zhang Nengqi and military advisor Pan Duao to the small island in the river where he met Liu Sheng.

Looking at the graceful and continuous shadows of boats and sails four or five miles away, several people couldn't help but feel jealous.

Zhang Nengqi said: "I am afraid that the Wei tribe confiscated hundreds of thousands of shi of grain in Xiangyang!"

Pan Duao said: "Not to mention that Yang Sichang previously set up the governor's headquarters in Xiangyang City, the wealth accumulated by Prince Xiang's Mansion for more than two hundred years is not a small amount.

Not to mention too much, it is estimated that there are several million taels of silver. There must have been a lot of food stored up. It's a pity that Liu Sheng is now cheaper. "

Pan Duao had somewhat complicated feelings about Liu Sheng.

On the one hand, he was rescued from Xiangyang prison by the Yibu rebel army and handed over to Zhang Xianzhong.

On the other hand, the Wei tribe did snatch Zhang Xianzhong's opportunity to capture Xiangyang City.

Now they already know that Xiangyang's defense was empty and the officers and soldiers were at odds.

According to the situation where Zhang Xianzhong sent Li Dingguo and others into the city as internal response, it is very likely that they can be captured.

In addition, Pan Du'ao heard that the Wei tribe's rebels had strict discipline and had no offense against Minqiu, which was more in line with his image of the rebels than Zhang Xianzhong's tribe.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Jiang with a gloomy face and said nothing.

Zhang Nengqi couldn't help but said: "Commander father, since the third brother has trained as a navy, why not attack the city while the Kuei army is transferring money and food today?

Let the third brother lead the navy to attack the Weibu grain transport fleet and share Liu Sheng's power. The father will lead us to attack Xiangyang City. Maybe we can capture it in one go! "

Snapped!

Zhang Xianzhong slapped Zhang Nengqi on the back of the head unceremoniously.

"Gua Wazi is not very young, but he knows how to use strategies in war. But you don't think carefully about it, can your strategy be used?

Navy Master Wenxiu has only been practicing for a few days, so I don't know whether he can use it or not. Now that we are attacking the city, how do you know that Liu Sheng will not take the risk and let the escorting army set off last? "

Zhang Nengqi couldn't help but rub the back of his head and muttered: "Then when will we attack Xiangyang City?"

"Let's talk about it one day later!"

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One day later.

February thirteenth.

Zhang Xianzhong really sent troops to attack Xiangyang City.

He appointed Zhang Kewang as the chief general and two old subordinates, Ma Yuanli and Zhang Hualong, as his left and right lieutenants. He led 1,500 elite soldiers and 10,000 new soldiers to go around Xian Mountain and attack the south gate of Xiangyang City.

He also asked Zhang Wenxiu to lead three thousand naval forces (hundreds of boats) to cruise on the river north of Xiangyang City, looking for opportunities to attack the water gate on the north or east side of Xiangyang City.

He led 3,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 new soldiers as the main force to attack the west gate of Xiangyang City.

Liu Sheng stood on the west city gate tower and used his telescope to see General Zhang Xianzhong's army lining up two miles away from the city wall, and couldn't help laughing.

One is to laugh at Zhang Xianzhong and ask for a beating.

The second is that he is happy that Li Dingguo did not leak the range of the Yibu rebels' artillery.

A few days ago, Li Dingguo was sent to the outskirts of the city to recruit civilian husbands who could work as boatmen, but he had many opportunities to pass news to Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Dingguo probably didn't expect that even at this point, Zhang Xianzhong would actually be able to fight with Yibu.

In order to let Zhang Xianzhong retreat before the difficulties, Liu Sheng was not prepared to be polite.

After coming back to his senses, he said to the guard on the side who was responsible for delivering the order: "Let the artillery post fire."

"Yes!"

Following Liu Sheng's order, ten army cannons placed on the west city wall were fired simultaneously.

Boom boom boom...

With a series of gunfire, ten explosive bombs fell into Zhang Xianzhong's recruit formation one after another and exploded one after another!

Suddenly there was a scream.

The explosive bullets made from black powder are actually not very powerful.

Even if it hits the right spot, it can kill at most six or seven people and injure dozens of people.

Zhang Xianzhong's men stood there as targets, because most of them were new soldiers and the formation was relatively dense.

Even so, if ten shells were fired, only about 200 people would be killed or injured.

However, the sudden shelling caused the 10,000 recruits who had never experienced shelling to collapse in an instant, crying for their fathers and running away in all directions.

Zhang Xianzhong was dumbfounded in the back line!

"Damn it, why the hell can these cannons hit so far? Could they be all Hongyi cannons?!"

After coming back to his senses, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but trembled, and hurriedly ordered the thousand elites around him: "Withdraw! Everyone withdraw! Withdraw three miles away!"

Previously, he divided the 3,000 elite troops into three thousand-man teams and placed them on the left, right and back of the formation of 10,000 new recruits. They were used as a supervising team, and he prepared to use the new recruits to consume the defenders' arrows, ammunition, and energy.

This is the usual practice of rogue bandits attacking cities.

The more cruel ones even directly drove unarmed refugees to attack the city.

Zhang Xianzhong had done this before, but because he was provoked by Liu Sheng's words and there were no large groups of refugees near Xiangyang City, he simply used the new recruits as cannon fodder.

This cruel method can also quickly train a group of combat-ready soldiers - if 10,000 people die, five or six thousand will be killed, and the rest are basically combat-ready soldiers.

Who would have thought that our artillery could hit so far and still explode.

He defeated tens of thousands of new recruits in one go!

At the beginning, the elite supervising the battle killed some deserters in order to prevent the new recruits from escaping.

As a result, it had no effect at all, and the formation was broken up instead.

Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong issued the order in time, and these elites also fled.

Unlike the new recruits, Zhang Xianzhong's elite maintained a certain structure even when they fled, and seemed to be able to assemble on the spot to fight back the pursuing troops at any time.

Liu Sheng was condescending and used a telescope to see the scene clearly.

I couldn't help but sigh: "As expected of the elite soldiers who broke out many times during the Ming army's encirclement and suppression campaigns. They escaped without being defeated and could counterattack at any time. It's not easy."

Now the standing army of the Kuaibu tribe cannot escape without being defeated.

Because the Kueibu rebels had never experienced setbacks or hard battles at all, they almost always fought with advantages and smooth winds.

If they really encounter a big defeat, their performance will probably not be much better than the new recruits in front of them.

On the other hand, the Guards are all elite and should be able to survive defeat without collapse, and even regroup to attack the pursuers.

If he had not thought of using Zhang Xianzhong's troops to attract the Ming army and share the pressure on his troops, and had a thousand cavalry at hand, Liu Sheng might have let out of the city to pursue Zhang Xianzhong's defeated troops.

But in this situation, he could only watch Zhang Xianzhong's troops flee.

I saw three thousand elite troops under Zhang Xianzhong fleeing to a place four or five miles away from the city wall, and they began to regroup the scattered recruits.