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After the Datong gunfire soldiers shot, they did not mount their bayonets, but ran back immediately to join the running melee soldiers.

Lu Xiangguan and Chen Tangong had already abandoned the enemy's cavalry and went around to the flank of the enemy's infantry.They didn't shoot all the time, and now they finally seized the opportunity to dismount collectively when they reached twenty paces, and fired a volley at the still-collapsed enemy army.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

These more than 1000 firecrackers were fired, and the enemy infantry was completely dispersed.

"Get on the horse and chase!"

Lu Xiangguan and Chen Tangong each led [-] dragon cavalry, got on their horses, drew their waist sabers, and slashed at the enemy's rout.

However, Ma Siliang's cavalry circled to the side of the Datong pawns.Just as he was about to continue to attack and harass, the main force of his infantry collapsed as soon as he re-arranged, and his speed was too fast to react.

At this moment, the enemy has crossed the river with more than 4000 people and is gathering on the bank.

Seeing that the friendly army broke up and fled back, the more than 4000 people who went ashore also turned around and ran away in fright.

The 8000 dragoons finally turned into real cavalry. They kept chasing and slashing with their waist knives, and they chased and killed more than [-] enemy troops.

After Zhang Tieniu's main force regrouped, he immediately stood in formation on the river bank.

The firecrackers stood by the river and aimed at the pontoon bridge to shoot from a long distance.Melee soldiers protect the perimeter to prevent enemy cavalry from charging.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Because the shooting distance was too far, the enemy troops on the pontoon bridge were not hit much.

But their friendly infantry who had already crossed the river broke up, and they were still half-crossing. After being shot, they ran back along the pontoon bridge in fright.

The pontoon bridge was narrow and swaying, and a large number of enemy troops fell into the river amidst chaotic pushing.

There are several pontoon bridges in the distance. Although they were not shot, they ran back in fright, and a large number of soldiers were also squeezed into the river.

There were a lot of landlubbers in the north, and the number of drowned enemy troops far exceeded those killed by the Datong army.

At this time Li Dingguo finally came with [-] elites, while Fei Ruhe's reinforcements were still a mile away - there was no such thing as reinforcements anymore, Li Dingguo and Fei Ruhe were both here to watch the show.

However, what Fei Ruhe saw was a good show, while Li Dingguo witnessed a tragedy.

In fact, as long as Ainengqi's river-crossing troops can hold out on the bank for another half an hour, they will be able to protect the entire army and Li Dingguo's elite reinforcements can also cross the river.

But he only lasted 10 minutes!

Ai Nengqi was shot in the arm and was caught by Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry.After he became a prisoner, he still felt confused. Why did his tens of thousands of troops charge and collapse?

In this battle of crossing the river, Li Dingguo lost more than 8000 infantry.

Li Dingguo calculated everything, divided his troops to fill the river, build bridges, let the cavalry march back and forth to sneak across, successfully mobilized the troops of Fei Ruhe, Zhang Tieniu, and Huang Shun, and made the three of them dizzy.In the end, he succeeded in finding an opportunity to cross the river, but he was still hit by half-crossing.

It's not that there is a problem with the command. Li Dingguo's command ability can beat Fei Ruhe and other generals of the Datong Army.

Tactical crushing, military quality crushing!

Chapter 379 [Fraud City and Surrender]

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A broken soldier who came back from the opposite bank was being questioned by Li Dingguo: "How did General Ai lose?"

"I don't know." The rout soldier replied.

"Don't know?" Li Dingguo didn't understand.

Rout Bing explained: "At that time, I could see clearly that the enemy army was divided into three parts, and only the firecrackers were left in the front. General Ai told us to charge forward, and I rushed forward. I didn't know what was going on, so I charged Let’s fire the guns from the opposite side, and then the ones rushing to the front will be defeated. The enemy’s cavalry can also fire the guns, and if they pass very close, after a while of firing the guns, we will all be defeated.”

Li Dingguo knew how elite his soldiers were, and it was impossible for him to collapse after being shot.He thought carefully and asked, "How close is the opposite side to fire the gun? Is it thirty paces?"

The last time Sun Kewang suffered a disadvantage, the Datong Army fired their guns at thirty paces.

Qu Bing shook his head and said, "It's definitely not as far as thirty paces, maybe it's only twenty paces."

"Twenty steps..." Li Dingguo couldn't believe it.

The last time the two sides clashed, the Datong Army's [-]-step firearm had already made it difficult for Sun Kewang to parry.

In just one year, the Datong Army has evolved again, can it be pulled closer to twenty steps before firing the gun?

Li Dingguo couldn't understand this, his soldiers were already the best in the world.Let these soldiers hold firecrackers and fire them at a distance of twenty steps without the protection of melee soldiers. I am afraid that if the enemy rushes within thirty steps, all the firecrackers will be scared and flee.

Forty steps, thirty steps, and twenty steps are nothing more than the difference between 60 meters, 45 meters, and 30 meters.

It seems that the gap is not big, but Li Dingguo knows very well how high the hit rate of the firecracker after shortening the distance is.

After this battle, Li Dingguo still had more than [-] infantry, thousands of cavalry, and thousands of cavalry across the river, and the rest were all peasants.

Moreover, Lieutenant General Ainengqi was captured, and the morale of the whole army plummeted.

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Continue to confront, continue to fill in the river, continue to build floating bridges.

During the confrontation between the two sides, many small boats suddenly rowed across the river.

On every boat, there were captured soldiers who shouted with iron horns: "Brothers, surrender quickly, we have already surrendered. The Datong Army does not kill prisoners, and treats them very well. They can eat three dry meals a day." Yes, see the meat once every two days. Don’t fight for Zhang Xianzhong anymore, vote for His Highness the King of Wu, everyone can share the fields, and the King of Wu will return the seeds and cattle. If you vote for the King of Wu, women and children will be hot every day!”

The continuous voices of persuasion made the people who filled the river and built the bridge stop and look around, showing longing for the content of the shouting.

Those soldiers who were closer to the river were also quite moved, but they suspected that it was a lie.

"Fire blunderbuss, shoot at the people on board!" Li Dingguo was afraid of shaking the morale of the army, so he quickly called in the only remaining blunderbuss soldiers.

The sentinel of the Datong Army on the shore, seeing clearly through the binoculars, hurriedly blew the horn to let the persuading surrender return by boat.

Anyway, in the next few days, Fei Ruhe sent someone to row a boat to persuade him to surrender as soon as he saw the gap.

It's a pity that Li Dingguo's Ma Siliang successfully crossed the river with thousands of cavalry, and has been running behind the Datong army.These guys had no food, and they all relied on plundering in the countryside, which caused great harm to the farmers in Huoqiu County.

Lu Xiangguan and Chen Tangong led the dragoons and kept pestering the enemy cavalry, but they couldn't catch them at all.

As time went by, the river channel was filled to only about ten meters, and it was difficult to continue to advance the soil work.

The artillery set up and blasted fiercely, and after smashing the shield car, let the firecrackers shoot a salvo.

Even before the gunfire soldiers fired a volley, the civilian husband was defeated by the artillery.

Li Dingguo also has artillery, which shoots at each other every day.

The Datong Army has three regular divisions and 75 artillery pieces, while Li Dingguo has only 30 artillery pieces.The quality was also different, with the Datong Army's artillery hitting farther and with greater accuracy.

After a few days of shooting, Li Dingguo's artillery was destroyed 6 times. He was so frightened that he quickly withdrew the artillery, and immediately changed the artillery position after a round of fire.

"Great victory, great victory for our army!"

The messenger came galloping on horseback: "King Wu personally led the army to wipe out Zhang Xianzhong's infantry, and Zhang thief led the remnant soldiers to flee into the mountains!"

"Wow!"

"Long live King Wu!"

"Long live Mr. Zhao!"

"we won!"

The Datong Army began to shout excitedly, more and more people got the news, and tens of thousands of civilians were even more jubilant.

The change on the other side quickly attracted Li Dingguo's attention. He was about to send someone to investigate the situation, but Fei Ruhe had already sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender.

The mission officer Yang Jizong went by boat, and Li Dingguo told the soldiers not to attack.

After Yang Jizong came ashore, he was immediately tied up, escorted to Li Dingguo, and forced to kneel down in front of Li Dingguo.

Yang Jizong refused to kneel, and said sharply: "General Li, I am the emissary, if you want to insult me ​​like this, just kill me!"

Li Dingguo waved his hand to let the guards back down, and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Yang Jizong smiled and said: "Zhang Xianzhong's infantry has been destroyed. He only led a few thousand cavalry into the mountain, and the mountain pass was blocked and he couldn't get out. Do you want to continue to resist?"

Li Dingguo's face changed drastically: "Disturb our army's morale, kill this person!"

"The two armies are at war, and they actually cut them off? How narrow is General Li?" Yang Jizong sneered.

Li Dingguo frowned, and changed his words: "Let him go back, and shut his mouth!"

After Yang Jizong returned to the other side, Fei Ruhe sent his soldiers to continue shouting to persuade them to surrender by boat.It's just that the news of Zhang Xianzhong's defeat was added to the persuasion content this time, and Li Dingguo's soldiers were in shock.

……

Xi County.

Bai Wenxuan was still excited at the moment.

Ten days ago, he was flanked at Pingjingguan, and led tens of thousands of soldiers to surrender.

At that time, Bai Wenxuan only wanted to survive, but he didn't expect that Huang Yao asked him to choose five thousand elites to go out together and continue to lead troops to fight.

Moreover, Huang Yao only brought 5000 soldiers, the same number as Bai Wenxuan's soldiers.

This is trust in yourself!

Zhao Tianwang... now he should be called Wu Wang, Wu Wang will definitely win the world.I am about to lead troops to defraud the city and completely block Li Dingguo's retreat. What a great contribution this is, maybe I can be the founding earl.

Bai Wenxuan led 5000 people, and Huang Yao led [-] people to change clothes and follow.

The two jumped out of the Dabie Mountains from Pingjing Pass, crossed the Huai River, and headed for Zhecheng, Xi County from the rear.

Li Zheng, who is cautious, would never be able to do this kind of exciting gameplay, so Huang Yao dared to risk his life and go crazy.In case Bai Wenxuan suddenly turned his face, the whole army might be wiped out when he cheated the city.

The greater the risk, the greater the reward.

If it succeeds, Li Dingguo will not be able to go back.Not only blocked Li Dingguo's retreat channel, but also completed the siege ahead of time, putting Li Dingguo's army to death!

"Hurry up and open the city!"

Li Dingguo stood under the city and shouted.

The guard of Xixian County is called Jin Tongwu, and he is the number one general under Li Dingguo's command.He stayed here specially to guard the key city where Li Dingguo withdrew his troops. If Li Dingguo's food and grass were not enough, Jin Tongwu would also be responsible for arranging the delivery of food and grass.

Jin Tongwu stood on the tower with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "Why is General Bai here?"

Bai Wenxuan spoke half-truths and half-falsely: "Pingjingguan can't be moved, Wenxiu (Liu Wenxiu) stays there, and I will lead troops to reinforce Brother Dingguo. Quickly open the city, I haven't eaten anything hot all the way."

Jin Tongwu remained vigilant: "Why didn't General Bai come with food and grass?"

Bai Wenxuan said unhappily: "If I march with food and grass, I'm afraid the battle will be over by the time I get here."

Jin Tongwu always felt something was wrong, because Bai Wenxuan came too strangely.

But Bai Wenxuan is Zhang Xianzhong's favorite general, his status is second only to Si Yizi, and his military rank and prestige are higher than Jin Tongwu's.

After thinking about it, Jin Tongwu said: "General Bai, please set up camp outside the city, and we will arrange to provide food and grass at the end."

"Damn it, he came all the way, and the city won't let him in. I won't serve you anymore, so I'll go back and sleep with my mother in my arms!" Bai Wenxuan cursed and turned to leave.

Jin Tongwu really didn't dare to offend him to the death, so he hurriedly shouted: "General Bai stays, and General Bai can bring twenty soldiers into the city."

Bai Wenxuan was afraid that Huang Yao would be angry, and also afraid that Huang Yao would suspect that he was going to release the water, so he subconsciously turned his head to look at Huang Yao.

Huang Yao whispered: "Don't look at me, promise him!"

Bai Wenxuan is also good at acting, and directly agreeing is not in line with his personality. He pointed to Jin Tongwu and said, "You fucking, you said twenty is twenty? I just want to bring 100 people into the city!"

Jin Tongwu agreed: "Okay, General Bai will bring a hundred soldiers into the city. If you offend me today, please forgive me."

Bai Wenxuan sneered and said, "Speaking nicely, I must be scolding my cripple in my stomach!"

"Don't dare."

Jin Tongwu watched the [-] soldiers retreat beyond the moat, and finally ordered the gates to be opened.

Huang Yao followed Bai Wenxuan, pretending to be his personal guard, and came all the way, his face was so dirty that it was hard to recognize.

Bai Wenxuan walked in the city gate and shouted, "Get someone to boil hot water, I want to take a bath!"

The more arrogant Bai Wenxuan was, the more Jin Tongwu let his guard down.

Jin Tongwu went down to greet him personally, smiled and cupped his hands and said, "General Bai..."

"Go!"

Huang Yao rushed over, knocked down the unsuspecting Jin Tongwu, and pressed the knife on the opponent's throat.

Bai Wenxuan led his troops to cut down Jin Tongwu's entourage, and shouted loudly: "Zhang Xianzhong is dead, follow me and surrender to King Wu!"

……

Behind Li Dingguo, soldiers rushed towards him in a boat.