Please ask me to be the emperor

It is said that the Jiexiu Wang family deployed manpower for defense and sent envoys to ask for help everywhere.

The Wang family's envoy left the Wang family compound in Dayin Village, Jiexiu, and traveled in three directions.

One of them goes north, one of them goes west, and one goes all the way south.

The one to the north is naturally to notify the Ji family and the Hou family, the one to the west is to notify Zhang's 311 people, and the one to the south is to inform the rebels in the direction of Lingshi.

Not to mention the other way around, let's say that the Wang family's envoy went all the way south, just thirty miles away from Dayin Village, and arrived at the Lingshi Realm.

But I saw bright lights in front, a lot of people, and the sound of fighting and shouting everywhere, and I was suddenly shocked.

It turned out that Wang Sheng lost Jiexiu City and had to flee south to Lingshi.

When he passed by Lingshikou, the junction of Jiexiu and Lingshi, he saw two mountains sandwiched together, which was quite steep.

He couldn't help but thought: "I lost Jiexiu City. If I go back like this, I'm afraid I will be punished by King Shun."

"I think this place is dangerous. It is the place that Jiexiu must pass on the way to Pingyang. If we can defend this place, we can make up for our mistakes."

Thinking of this, Wang Sheng gathered his defeated troops and occupied the inspection department to defend it based on the terrain.

Sure enough, after Azig occupied Jiexiu City, his first reaction was to send troops south to capture Lingshi City.

It is said that the prince-in-law Yang Guli led two thousand elites, and after saying goodbye to Mandarhan and Fan Yongdou, he rushed all the way to Lingshi, and happened to bump into Wang Shengbu who was defending here.

Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet.

To be honest, Wang Sheng was originally a hero in Yuzhou, and his reputation was not inferior to that of Ren Chen, but his troops were not strong.

Later, Ren Chen was defeated and died, and Wang Sheng took refuge with Li Jiyu.

As a result, Li Jiyu was not a talented person, so Wang Sheng worked under him for two years, but in the end he failed to achieve anything famous.

It was not until later that he followed Zhang Shun and sent staff officers and generals to reorganize a battalion of troops for him.

It's just that his battalion was newly built and has never experienced a bloody battle.

Therefore, when they form a formation to face the enemy, they can still behave well. If they are mixed together to capture and kill each other, they are not as far away as other strong armies.

This is also the main reason why Wang Sheng's troops dispersed and fled the city after Fan opened the gates of Jiexiu City.

However, if they rely on the city to defend it, Wang Sheng's troops are not afraid of Hou Jin's soldiers.

Therefore, when Wang Sheng and his staff saw the terrain of Lingshikou, they couldn't help but smile happily.

The so-called Lingshikou is the north entrance of Shuque Valley, so Lengquan Pass is located.

"Outside the pass, there are plains and wilderness to the north, and when you enter the pass, you have mountains on the left and rivers on the right, which is actually the throat of the north and the south." It is the junction of the Luliang Mountains and the Taiyue Mountains, which is the most dangerous.

If the Houjin soldiers coming from the north want to enter the Lingshi territory, they must first capture this place before going south.

Wang Sheng then deployed his troops in the Inspection Department and placed the remaining seven or eight artillery pieces on the mountain east of the Inspection Department to wait for the Jin soldiers.

After the Jin soldiers led by Na Yangguli arrived, who knew they were the remnants of Wang Sheng's troops?

It was also said that the people guarding this place were the archers of the inspection department, so they only ordered Niulu Erzhen to lead more than a hundred people to attack the city.

After Niu Luerzhen received the military order, he dressed neatly and secretly went to inspect the city.

Who would have thought that just as they were approaching the patrol city, a fire suddenly lit up, and they saw two to three hundred gunmen shooting "bang bang bang" on the city, killing and wounding 20 or 30 Hou Jin soldiers on the spot.

"Straight bitch, damn barbarian!" Yang Guli was so angry that he couldn't help but cursed.

What kind of archer can withstand Houjin's attack? It's obvious that these "damn barbarians" have set up a defense line here.

"Dog Tatar, I played with you before, but I couldn't beat you; this time I'm ready, just come and attack!" When Wang Sheng saw that he had gained an advantage, he couldn't help laughing.

"This is..." Yang Guli frowned when he heard this. Although he didn't know that the person in front of him was called Wang Sheng, he could guess the identity of the other party. He couldn't help but sneered, "How dare you bark when you are defeated?"

"Put on a quilt and attack this city!"

After that, Yang Guli sent another Niu Lu to approve the watered quilts and then went to inspect Sicheng to touch them.

Since the last time they suffered a loss from the rebel firearms outside Taiyuan City, the "quilt tactics" has become the basic tactics of the Houjin Azig tribe.

Then Wang Sheng stayed on the second line and never participated in the Taiyuan War. How did he know that his opponent had such a method?

Sure enough, he hit him with another fire cannon, but saw that the opponent was almost unscathed, and could not penetrate the soaked quilt and armor at all.

"What's going on?" Wang Sheng couldn't help being stunned when he saw this, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"Quick, fire!" The staff officer beside him was anxious when he saw this, and couldn't help but remind him quickly.

"No matter what tricks he uses, can they still withstand artillery?"

When Wang Sheng heard this, he suddenly realized what he said, and quickly gave an order, ordering the artillery on the hill to the east to fire.

The gunner on the hilltop was too far away, and he couldn't actually see the enemy's position clearly.

He just saw the fire outside the inspection department and let the gunners fire randomly.

It didn't matter that the rebel artillery shot, Houjin's siege soldiers suffered a big loss immediately.

It turned out that after many battles with the Ming army and the rebel army, the Hou Jin soldiers, who were deeply harmed by artillery, were not without countermeasures.

Among them, elongating the formation horizontally and compressing the formation vertically, so that the formation develops in the direction of the horizontal formation, is one of the changes in the formation of the Jin soldiers over the years.

This type of horizontal formation, because the formation is thin, will not cause much damage even if it is penetrated by enemy artillery.

It's just that Yangu Li had all the predictions, but he never expected that due to Zhang Shun's "cross-fire" theory, the gunners trained by the rebels liked to bombard the enemy from both sides.

There are rivers on the left and mountains on the right outside the mouth of Lingshi, so it is impossible to perfectly realize the "cross-fire" theory, but it is still possible to achieve half of it.

And "this half" is built on the mountain east of the Inspection Department, and the ballistic trajectory is parallel to the city wall in front of the Inspection Department.

But when the artillery was fired, it immediately strung together the Houjin soldiers attacking the city from east to west like a gourd.

Often a cannonball that hits can kill seven or eight soldiers in a row.

Some of them were even unlucky enough to have more than twenty people killed by the rebels.

What kind of quilt and iron armor are no different from paper when faced with a ten-pound iron bullet.

"Go up the mountain, go up the mountain!" Seeing such heavy losses, Yangu Li became anxious and couldn't help but dress up and lead his soldiers to attack the rebel artillery positions.

After hearing this, they couldn't help but feel anxious, and hurriedly pulled him and said: "My brother-in-law, calm down my anger, my brother-in-law, calm down my anger. Now it's dark, and the mountain is steep and the roads are impassable. How can we do it?"

“In our opinion, it’s not too late to go up the mountain before it’s daylight and we can see the road clearly!”

After hearing this, Nayanguli knew that this was the only way to go, so he ordered his soldiers to surround the north side of the inspection department for the time being, but wait until daybreak to make further arguments.