Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 664 Linyi Attack and Defense
Linyi is a prefectural city, with a towering city head and a top of a wide wall, the green battalion soldiers are waiting in formation. The archers have already lined up, holding the bow in one hand and holding the arrow tail in the other. The torch stood aside, waiting only for the order.

The equipment of the rebel army outside the city was relatively simple. Broadswords, spears, rakes, and dung forks stood like a forest. The black crowd stood outside the range of the artillery. In front of them, behind them are more than a dozen gun carriages, standing tall, and at the end are thousands of elite soldiers in cotton armor.

On all sides of Linyi City, there are rebels wearing bloated war jackets and red turbans like this.

In the fierce cold wind, several broken and dilapidated banners fluttered in the wind. The rebels drank a bowl of hot porridge, barely warmed their bodies, and clenched their weapons tightly.

The snow seems to be a little smaller. In Baixue's world, there is a piece of tranquility, and behind the tranquility lies endless murderous intent.

The formation of the rebels outside the city became quiet, which meant that they were already in position, but in fact they did not form any formation, but simply formed a few large formations.

After the battle, Xie Qian rode on a yellow horse, surrounded by a group of generals wearing various styles of armor, who kept breathing white.

"According to the strategy of the military division, as long as Linyi is broken, I will be able to enter Lianghuai. There is a lot of money and food here, and the troops of Jianyi are relatively weak. I and my brothers should make a difference." Xie Qian was in his early forties. With a square face and thick eyebrows, he is very vigorous. He is riding on a horse, pointing at Linyi with a whip, full of vigor.

In the land of Qilu, facing the sea in the east, the north and north are the places where Jianyi's heavy soldiers gathered, and Henan in the west is the residence of Liangshun King, and he can't go there. Xie Qian can only go south to Lianghuai, and there is one road to go.

Zhao Shuxiang was beside him, looking at the city covered in silver makeup, "General, after breaking the city, gold and silver are second, but mules and horses must be gathered."

Unlike Ming Dynasty, Jianyi had a large number of cavalry. If they wanted to move and fight in the land of Shandong, Henan and Huaihe Rivers, they had to maintain a certain degree of mobility.

Xie Qian nodded, "This handsome guy knows."

"We were delayed by the heavy snow for a few days. Counting the distance, Ma Guanghui and He Luohui should leave Yunzhou soon. The commander must hurry up and break the city in three days. If he can't break it, Wansheng suggests walking around the city." Zhao Shuxiang has a reminder.

Xie Qian listened, and said to himself: "Yi Yonggui is just the defeated general under my commander, and my commander has 30 people, can't I take him down?"

At this time, he waved his hand, and many generals around him rode out and galloped to the front of the team.

Except for the four thousand old battalion around him, these rebels can understand the flags and the meanings represented by the sound of different drums. They all need to be conveyed directly, and the command is very inconvenient.

At this time, in the battle formation, a group of soldiers with white flags carried a woman in white clothes, with flags and banners on both sides of "Fight Qing Fuming", "Sun and Moon Come Back", "Help the Han and Exterminate Barbarians", "White Lotus Descends to Earth" and so on. Come to the front first.

Seeing this, the rebels in the formation immediately erupted, and many people knelt down and bowed down.

Shandong is one of the main areas where the White Lotus Sect is active, with numerous disasters and poor people. Since the Ming Dynasty, there have been many uprisings in Shandong, and the forces are intertwined.

After Jianyi entered the customs, the White Lotus Sect also changed from anti-Ming to anti-Qing. Xie Qian's rebel army not only secretly communicated with the gentry, but also received the support of the White Lotus Sect.

Xie Qian was also born at the bottom. He needs to use the influence of the White Lotus Sect among the poor to unite people's hearts, but at the same time, he also pays great attention to the development of the White Lotus Sect in his army.

At this time, I only heard the woman in white who was being carried by more than a dozen big men sing softly: "Change the universe, change the world. The white lotus descends to the earth, and the people turn over."

Countless rebels immediately erupted and shouted loudly. The woman in white chanted a sentence, and countless people who only listened to it chanted along.

"Mountains and rivers are on the brink of China, and the sun and the moon will reopen to make a big tomorrow."

"The silt comes from the chaos, and the white lotus appears in the world."

Shocking voices came and went, reverberating in the suburbs of Linyi for a long time, endless!It didn't look like a group of people in rags at all, the chanting sound went straight into the sky with a shattering force!
At the top of the city, Yi Yonggui squinted his eyes slightly, he couldn't help but be surprised by the momentum of the rebel army, he couldn't help but took a deep breath, as soon as the cold air mixed with snow and frost entered his lungs, he became very energetic few.

The green battalion soldiers at the top of the city have already changed their colors after seeing the momentum below the city, not to mention the young and strong who went to the city to help in the battle.

The woman in white was carried back to the formation, and Xie Qian ordered three animals to be sacrificed.

If his 30 people are regular people, he naturally doesn't need to deal with these vain things, but this 30 mud legs, that's all he has to do.

The drums of war suddenly sounded, and the Qing soldiers on the city felt their hearts sinking, their hands involuntarily clenched their weapons, and some Qingzhuang also took up their weapons. If he wanted to eat his house, sleep in his house, and burn his house down, he had no choice but to go to the city, and the Qing army had regulations that if the Gaoyuan bandits were allowed to enter the city, after the Qing soldiers returned, they would slaughter the city.

The cries of the rebels reached their peak in an instant with the sound of war drums!

Ding Keze, who was in charge of commanding the siege, raised the saber high above his head, swung it down suddenly, and the climbing troops in front swarmed out like a flood.

On the white snow, the crowd surged, and the chief executive of the Green Battalion on the city wall immediately brandished a knife and yelled loudly, "Fire!" The roar spread throughout the city!
The rebel army came from all around, and the green battalion soldiers on the city opened their bows and arrows, and the bowstring creaked as they pulled it hard.

The shells smashed into the crowd, blood was mutilated, hot blood flowed out on the snow-white ground, and a white mist rose, and patches of bright red slowly condensed on the ground, intertwined with red and white, which was particularly eye-catching.

The equipment of the rebel army was very simple, even very few bows and arrows, and they had no armor protection, but they knew that the city was full of strong bows and many firearms, but they still rushed towards the city with loud shouts.

In the eyes of the rebel army, there is actually no city, he only knows how to get in, so that he can have food and drink, and he doesn't have to suffer from the cold in the wild.

Suddenly, the rebel army rushing to the front fell down in pieces, like a rice field blown by a strong wind, and arrow feathers hit in pieces.

Although the poor people are not as good as the regular army, they do not use their brains when fighting, and there are many ways to resist arrows. The simplest is to hold the door, lift the wet quilt, or hide under the generous table.

Arrows could not stop them from galloping, and more than a dozen artillery carts behind the formation were also pushed to the city gate. The front was blocked by a large wooden plank, and the stones were put into leather pockets. The stone bullets flew into the air, roaring Slam to the top of the city.

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