East Factory Governor

Chapter 563 Liu Guoneng, don't lie to me

At three o'clock on June 29th in the third year of Chongzhen, under the cover of night, the government army launched a fierce attack on the east, south, and west of Weinan City, leaving the north of the city alone.

Li Zicheng sat in the general's mansion and commanded calmly, while his generals, such as Mantianxing, Liu Jiusi, Guafeng and others, kissed the top of the wall one after another and directed the counterattack.Only Liu Guoneng, with his [-] descendants, guarded a few unimportant places in the city.

It has to be said that Li Zicheng's direct line troops are far superior to ordinary rogues in terms of fighting will, tactical literacy, and individual quality. It can be said that they are the strongest among rogues. Not lost to the official army!Especially in the battle of defending the city, they can exert greater power by relying on the fortification of the city.

Qin Shuhuai took command of the army this time, and did not personally participate in the attack.However, Zhiren, Wang Datong, Chang Wuji, Sun Bai, Li Daliang and other experts still gathered into an assault team, rushed to the south wall, stood on the top of the city and fought with the bandits.

Qin Shuhuai's idea was to break through the south city first, and then let Liu Guoneng open the north gate, so that the officers and soldiers could enter the city from the north and the south, and attack Li Zicheng.

However, what Qin Shuhuai and all the masters did not expect was that the desperate Li Zicheng used an unexpected method to limit the performance of the masters of the Ming army.

On each section of the city wall, he arranged for fifty dead soldiers.These dead men were carefully selected by Li Zicheng from 10,000+ people half a month ago.In order for them to volunteer, Li Zicheng promised that anyone who was willing to go to the deceased would receive 1000 taels of silver from his family and send someone to send it on the spot.In this age when there is not enough to eat, 1000 taels of silver is simply an astronomical figure, which means that a family of five can live in peace and security for more than ten years. Among the 10,000+ rogues, there are always some passionate men who are willing to die by themselves in order to keep their families alive.

Let's say that after these dead soldiers are recruited, they usually eat and drink for offerings, and wait for the critical moment to "fight to the death" with the officers and soldiers.Their method of decisive death is very simple, that is, before going up to the city wall, they take a poison. This poison can lie dormant for about three hours, that is to say, if they don't die within these three hours, they will also be poisoned to death.And if they were poisoned to death, the family's 1000 taels would be taken back.

Therefore, the goal of every dead soldier behind the city wall is to drag the officers and soldiers to die together.Seven or eight thunderbolts were tied to their bodies. When they saw that there were many officers and soldiers, they lit the thunderbolts and rushed in. After a few loud bangs, they died with the officers and soldiers.

If they see a master of the Ming army, they will rush forward in groups of three or four to face the master's blade.After special training, they can master the explosion time of thunderbolts proficiently, and they often explode as soon as they rush to the master.And their thunderbolts are also well hidden, they are all behind their backs, even masters, when they concentrate on killing the enemy, it is difficult to find the thunderbolts behind them, so it is impossible to distinguish whether it is an ordinary soldier or a dead soldier who blew himself up , so caught off guard.

Zhiren and others who attacked the southern city wall soon tasted the power.With the sound of huge explosions, they were injured one after another.Among them, Sun Bai was injured in the arm, Chang Wuji was injured in the thigh, and Zhiren's head was bleeding, and the three had to withdraw first to treat the wound.

To put it bluntly, they are human beings after all. Although their reaction speed and physical strength are much higher than ordinary people, they are still difficult to resist when encountering a big killer like Thunderbolt.

Seeing this, the remaining masters such as Li Daliang, Meng Wei, and Meng Hu immediately changed their style of play.They started to move and fight, staying in a certain place for only a few seconds, and immediately switched places after killing one or two rogues, so as not to let the opponent's dead soldiers have the chance to rush over and die together.In addition, during the movement, if you see someone with Thunderbolt on his back, give priority to destroying him before he ignites.

In this way, the threat of these dead men is greatly reduced, but the real energy consumption of the masters is even greater.They can no longer exert the power they had in Shangluo City.

Experts can't completely disrupt the city, so the two sides can only fight head-to-head.The sound of gunshots, cannons, weapons clashing, fighting, and shouting mixed together, and the fierce fierce battle fell into a stalemate.Under the blazing lighting fireworks, countless soldiers on both sides fell down every minute, and countless soldiers rushed up one after another.

In the city, the General's Mansion.

Li Zicheng's cronies came to report that more than 50 masters of the Devil's Cult were missing and did not help his family defend the city.

Suspicion flashed in Li Zicheng's eyes, but he didn't say anything, he just waved him back.

Just as the confidant was about to leave the house, Li Zicheng asked again, "What happened to General Liu's troops?"

The confidant returned to him and whispered, "King Chuang, there has been no change so far."

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, then took out a token and handed it to him, saying, "Go, take this king's warrant and ask General Liu to dispatch three thousand soldiers to help the south gate."

"Yes, King Chuang."

Li Zicheng usually does not let Liu Guoneng divide his troops, otherwise his intentions will be too obvious.But now is the time of the war, he used this as a reason to let Liu Guoneng divide his troops to defend the south city, as long as Liu Guoneng has no dissent, he will definitely agree, and he will not think too much about it.

Seeing his cronies go out with his warrant, Li Zicheng thought to himself: General Liu, you can't surrender!You have to believe that I, Li Zicheng, can hold Weinan!If you don't surrender, you will have three points in the world in the future!

Outside the city, Qin Shuhuai camp.

The urgent reports of the official army attacking the city continued to reach Qin Shuhuai's desk.On the emergency report, the number of casualties is shocking.

Nancheng has suffered nearly 2000 casualties, and now only more than 200 people have attacked the city wall, and half of the ladder has been destroyed!
The casualties in the west city were even greater, more than 800 people. They had already loosened the city gate with battering rams, but the bandits suddenly dumped a large amount of asphalt and kerosene, which ignited the entire city gate area. The rams were also burned.Zhang Xiao, who was in charge of attacking the west of the city, said that the fire was still burning, and they could only try to attack the gate after the fire was extinguished - which meant that it might be impossible for them to attack the city wall.

The same is true for Dongcheng, with more than 2000 casualties, and there is no sign of breaking the city until now.

Although the report stated that the casualties of Li Zicheng's troops were also very large, comparable to those of the army.But how many soldiers did Li Zicheng have, and how many soldiers did the official army have?Such an attrition officer army simply cannot afford it.

If it was an hour ago, Qin Shuhuai would never have imagined that Li Zicheng's army would be so powerful!At this moment, he had to admit that he made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.

At least, Li Zicheng is the king of bandits, and he didn't realize it.

A stalemate in the war is extremely detrimental to the officers and soldiers.So he can only hope that Beicheng can break through as soon as possible.

He immediately ordered to send out three red fireworks for Liu Guoneng to do it.

Seeing the messenger go out, Qin Shuhuai murmured in his heart: Liu Guoneng, don't lie to me!
(End of this chapter)