Chapter 1326

Taking turns to fight, a thousand northern Ming troops first made a tentative attack. Even the two generals were ready to be seriously damaged, but when they attacked the city, they found that the five-star army was just a hasty resistance, not too fierce. It gave people the feeling that if the city was not high enough, it might break the city.

"Hahaha." after fighting all morning, Li Keguang thought he had seen the strength of the five-star army. He laughed loudly and said to Hou Xiangjie: "brother Hou, see, the five-star army is just like this. We can increase the offensive in the afternoon."

"Exactly." Hou Xiangjie held the same view, and then changed the siege strategy. The number of soldiers in a siege increased from 1000 to 2000.

On the city tower outside the city, Yang Sizheng looked at the North Ming army under the city leisurely. There was no tension on his face. It seemed that the war had nothing to do with him.

"Report to commander Yang that the northern Ming army sent 2000 people to attack the city this time." Li Yun trotted to Yang Si and saluted him with a standard military salute.

The study and training of the reconnaissance division ended with the collection of 10000 northern Ming and Eastern Liaoning cavalry. Li Yun returned to the logistics headquarters and was promoted from the original company commander to the current battalion commander.

"Well, you can send 1000 recruits and 200 veterans to help defend the city and tell the soldiers not to be afraid of death. Only those who are afraid of death will die faster on the battlefield, and those who are not afraid of death will not die." Yang Si looked at Li Yun with satisfaction and appreciation.

"Yes." Li Yun, who stood at attention and saluted, turned and arranged. Yang Si, who was left behind, smiled. He believed that the northern Ming army would not guess that this time, the army guarding the city would be dominated by recruits sent by different nationalities from the future service headquarters. This is the result of his discussion with Hu Mang and Yu Mian and reported to Yang Chendong for agreement.

In the eyes of the five-star army, it is not too much to say that the northern Ming army is as weak and docile as a lamb. This is a little people who talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality every day and do despicable and shameless activities behind them. Every day they open their mouth is Confucius, and closing their mouth is the words of saints, but in fact, they just recognize more words and become sour people with useless poetry. If it were not for the kindness of Daming, these scholars would have no one to serve them, or they would not be able to cook rice, plough fields and pure parasites.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was said to govern the world with benevolence and subdue people with benevolence. Many sages thought that they could travel around the world with their three inch good tongue, stand in an invincible position and play and get the enemy in the palm of their hands. In fact, such arrogant people have long fallen behind the world. If it were not for the protection of the five-star army, I'm afraid someone would have slapped them.

Yes, the northern Ming court is now under the protection of the five-star army. Looking at its geographical location, Zhou Lian was occupied by the five-star army except that it still borders Nanming in the south. It is not too much to say that Beiming is a lonely place.

In other words, as long as the five-star army doesn't fight them, Beiming will be all right, safe and auspicious. Fortunately, such an army still thinks it is the first in the world, despises the five-star army, and has to pull its wrist. I have to say, it is really ridiculous.

To deal with such an army, the five-star army doesn't need any elite at all, not even the regular army. As long as the new soldiers in the logistics command who are waiting to be assigned and have not been on the battlefield are sent, it will be enough to solve everything.

That is, you can pretend to be defeated, achieve the purpose of mobilizing the enemy's army, and train troops on the battlefield. Of course, Yang Si has to do such a thing as having the best of both worlds. This is why Li Keguang and Hou Xiangjie don't feel that the five-star army is powerful.

This is also the five-star army's strategy to lead the snake out of the cave.

That is, the northern Ming army took the initiative to provoke, of course, to beat them hard, so as not to make trouble in the process of the five-star army.

That is to play hard, of course, the more the northern Ming army defeated, the better. However, if you fight too hard when you come up, it will inevitably make the other party retreat to Dalu city in fear of the enemy. You can't annihilate a large number of the opponent's effective forces in the battle. Yang Chendong's wish is not to make concessions step by step, showing weakness step by step, so as to lead more northern Ming troops out of Dalu city and surround it in one fell swoop.

Even in order to achieve this goal, after Yang Si and others discussed and reported to Yang Chendong for consent, even the outer city was ready to give up. Now it seems that the plan went well, and the ignorant Beiming army was fooled.

The siege continued and hurt each other. There were more than one crisis at the South Gate of the outer city, but they all retreated because the troops of the northern Ming army were too few. This made Li Keguang and Hou Xiangjie regret it for a time. They could only look forward to the emergence of the main force, and then shout out, occupy the city with superior forces and obtain great achievements.

Three days later, the main force of the northern Ming army finally arrived. Gao Yu appeared above the gate of Shicheng with a full 150000 troops, accompanied by 20000 firearm camps. As for the 100000 Liaodong cavalry led by Fang Dingshan, they were not with them, but wandering nearby in the way of Grass Valley.

This shows the wisdom of Fang Dingshan. He is not so optimistic about Gao Yu, the supervisor of the army, so he did not walk with him. The advantage is that once things change, they can evacuate at the first time without damaging their strength.

Without butcher Zhang, we won't eat pigs with hair. Although Gao Yu has some emotions about Fang Dingshan's lack of cooperation, why isn't this an opportunity? If I had captured the beginning of the city without the help of this man, wouldn't all the great achievements fall on me.

Because his uncle is Gao rang and the Duke of East Hall, Gao Yu doesn't think anyone has the courage to take credit for himself. So as soon as he came to the beginning of the city, he called Li Keguang and Hou Xiangjie and gave them great performance for their good performance. Then he inquired about the war situation and saw with his own eyes that the northern Ming army attacked the city and fought with the five-star army.

"Haha, OK, OK, you two did a good job and made great achievements. Our supervisor will speak well for you in front of the emperor. Next, I will give you 20000 infantry. I hope you can make further efforts and make new achievements." Gao Yu laughed happily.

The two who were praised were also very excited. They immediately said that as long as they had enough troops, they could win the outer city of Shicheng. Please Gao Yu wait for the news.

Li Keguang, who was praised and entrusted with an important task, launched a more violent attack early the next morning. For a time, there was a roar of killing under the city, and there would be blood splashing on the South City upstairs all the time, which was very tragic.

I don't know whether it's because I'm too excited or too excited. Neither Li Keguang nor Hou Xiangjie noticed that there were not many people who really died, but the number of injured people was very considerable. Of course, they wouldn't think that this was originally the five-star army. Once surrounded this army, these northern Ming armies may become prisoners. They are Han people who have corrected the eight classics. It's better not to kill if they can.

It was another two days of iron blood siege. The northern Ming army had to retreat because of 3000 dead and 15000 wounded. This also makes Li Keguang and Hou Xiangjie depressed. In their view, the siege army was about to succeed several times, but with the repeated counterattacks of the five-star army, they had to retreat. The feeling that they would soon fall short in order to win made them very uncomfortable.

Nearly 20000 troops were lost in the two-day siege. Gao Yu was dissatisfied with the result. He called Li Keguang and Hou Xiangjie again and asked them how confident they were that they could capture the city. Not as confident as they were two days ago, this time they both hesitated.

Knowing that this is the performance of their lack of self-confidence, Gao Yu doesn't mean to blame. After all, it's not easy to lead the army for the first time. "According to our supervisor, we can't lose our troops like this. We'll start the firearm battalion tomorrow. After the artillery attack, you two lead the army to make a fierce attack, and you can achieve great results. How about it?"

Li Keguang and Hou Xiangjie were excited when they heard that they were going to use the firearm camp. They immediately patted their chest and promised that they would fight down tomorrow.

They were so confident that Gao Yu was naturally satisfied. At present, he gave them 20000 pawns each and gave them some encouragement. Then he called Wei Ke, the general of the firearm battalion, and ordered him to arrange the position immediately and cooperate with the infantry to attack the city tomorrow.

Only Yang Guang's subordinates.

Yang Guang is also the highest officer arranged by Yang Chendong in Beiming firearms camp. Of course, he didn't know this. He just remembered that General Yang Guang told him not to weaken the prestige of the firearm camp and to show his military prestige.

After listening to Yang Guang's words, Wei Ke held up a torch and arranged the artillery camp at that night, which made a great momentum. On the upper floor of Shicheng, the scouts who were responsible for staring at the every move of the northern Ming army naturally saw it clearly and soon reported it to Yang Si, commander of the logistics command.

"Oh, are you going to use artillery? Inform me. In addition to a small number of troops hiding in the safety of the city tower, the main forces of all armies withdrew from the outer city to the inner city tower all night." Yang Sidang, who had been on guard for a long time, gave the order. Compared with the blatant Beiming arms and weapons camp, the five-star army did not have a lighter and quietly retreated from the outer city building by moonlight.

Unaware of all this, the northern Ming army was ready to bombard the outer city gate early the next morning. Tens of thousands of soldiers of the northern Ming army were also ready to go under the command of General Li Keguang and general Hou Xiangjie.

Looking at the morale of the army, Gao Yuzuo was full of confidence in a carriage. With his loud cry, he began to attack. The firearm battalion led by Wei Ke took the lead in launching an attack. Hundreds of guns were fired in unison and bombarded the target Nancheng gate.