Seeing Zhang Xianzhong so furious, Feng Shuangli's stubborn nature also came up. He thrust his neck and said loudly: "King, even if you kill me, I will say it directly! The Ming army has already prepared a lot in this Iron Dragon City, and there are more artillery and thunder. If our army attacks the city like this, no army will be enough for them to explode! Unless we seek other plans, it will be difficult for our army to capture this Iron Dragon City."

When Feng Shuangli said this, Zhang Xianzhong's face was still very angry, but the raised horse whip was hanging in the air.

Wang Shangli hurriedly interrupted: "King, the words of double rites make sense. I think this Ming army immediately returned to the Iron City, Shandong after attacking our army in Fucha Mountain, Luzhou. It should be because this place was fully prepared that it could confront our army in this way. If we want to fight again, we should not fall into Li Xiao's trap again."

Wang Shangli was vague. At this time, Sun Kewang, who had not spoken next to him, hesitated and interrupted: "This Iron Dragon City is so strong and difficult to defeat. Even if our army tried its best to capture it, it would probably damage its vitality. If this happens, it would be better to return to the southeast to plunder prefectures and counties, or simply return to Henan, join the troops of the Chuang General Li Zicheng and others, and then make a decision."

"Bang!"

A fierce slap hit Sun Kewang hard in the face. Five thick finger marks immediately appeared on his fair face.

"What do you mean? You? Your second brother was caught in the city by Ming Gouzi, so I don't care about it, right? You, the elder brother, are you so happy!" Zhang Xianzhong turned his head and shouted at Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang was very angry, but he did not dare to have an attack. He wiped away a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth and lowered his head, "When the adoptive father saw that the child was also worried about the casualties of our army, he forgot that his second brother was still in the hands of the enemy. He asked his adoptive father to punish the child."

"It's useless to punish you! Think about how to capture Tielong City and rescue your second brother is serious." Zhang Xianzhong sighed, threw the whip in his hand, and then called everyone to discuss.

"In the current plan, if we want to capture Tielong City, how to destroy the large number of thunders of Li Xiao, this guy, is serious." After everyone entered the tent, Wang Shangli took the lead in speaking: "In my opinion, it is better to plunder a large number of people and force them to attack the formation to consume Li Xiao's fire weapons. If the fire weapons such as the thunders in Li Xiao's army consume a lot of fire weapons, our army will attack the city as soon as possible before we can break through Tielong City with its superior strength."

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, quite agreeing with Wang Shangli's point of view.

At this time, Sun Kewang interrupted from the side: "Now, the remaining villages and towns in Shan County have been plundered by our army. If we want to gain more people, where can we get them?"

A trace of sinister flashed in Wang Shangli's eyes: "Hmph, what's the difficulty of capturing the people? This Iron Dragon City is difficult to capture. Can our army not capture the Danxian County, which has a small force and a weak city defense? As long as we capture Danxian County, tens of thousands of people will be easily captured."

After he finished his words, Zhang Xianzhong looked happy and immediately made a decision: "Shang Li's plan is very good. In the past two days, Shuang Li's army will take a break. Shang Li will take more than 10,000 troops to quickly seize the county town of Shan County."

Wang Shangli and Feng Shuangli stood up together, bowed and shouted: "I will only follow the orders of the king!"

At this time, Sun Kewang urgently stated from the side: "The adoptive father, the child is willing to help General Wang seize the county town of Shanxian, capture the people, attack Tielong City again as soon as possible, and rescue the second brother of Dingguo."

Zhang Xianzhong was very satisfied with your words: "Okay, you will be the deputy, and Shangli, command 15,000 troops and attack the county town of Shanxian!"

"Get orders!"

Two days later, Li Xiao saw at the top of the city that a large number of bandits retreated to the north of the Iron City.

Li Xiao's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

When the enemy goes there, he will definitely attack Shanxian County.

Li Xiao could imagine that the bandits must have learned their lessons and wanted to conquer Shan County and capture the people to come and rush to the battlefield to consume their own firearms.

The bandits who come in and who are so vicious!

How can a single county town with only a few thousand people resist the rampant attack of more than ten thousand elite bandits?

I think that the Shan County Magistrate Zhao Yanqing was stupid and narrow-minded. In order to prevent his so-called seizure of power, he ignored the lives of the people in a county and refused himself and moved the residents of Shan County into Tielong City.

For a moment, Li Xiao felt his heart was as if he had been cut by a knife.

It’s a pity that my subordinates lacked enough troops and had enough to defend the city. If I wanted to leave the city and fight with more than 30,000 siege troops, I would be at a disadvantage. If the troops sent to Shan County to attack the city and attacked the bandits who besieged the city, I would only end up with a rapid destruction.

"Heaven and earth are not kind, and treat all things as straw dogs."

This was the sigh that Li Xiao said when he looked at the bandits rolling north.

What happened next really verified Li Xiao’s worries.

More than 15,000 bandits, with a large number of siege tools, attacked the Danxian county town with only one thousand troops and was depressed. It can almost be called a one-shot drop.

After only less than an hour of fighting, the soldiers guarding the city in Shan County saw the bandits rushing up the city like a tide. They were so scared that their legs were weak and they knelt down and begged for their lives. The bandits quickly conquered the town of Shan County.

The county magistrate Zhao Yanqing was still a little bit arrogant. After being captured by Wang Shangli and others, he would never surrender. He still scolded the thief and ended up being killed.

But it was a pity that more than 10,000 people in the county were raped and robbed, and all became prisoners, and were taken out of the city by bandits and went to Tielong City to use as cannon fodder.

Afterwards, the bandits took out a large amount of food, grass, gold and silver captured out of the city, and set off a fire, burning the entire Danxian County to a white land.

Li Xiaojun was at the top of the city, looking at the sky-storming fire and rolling black smoke coming out from the county town of Shanxian to the north, all filled their chests with anger, but they were helpless.

In the war-torn era, any law, morality, or conscience are all things that are not worth mentioning. If you want to survive in this cruel and bloody chaotic era, your own strong strength is the foundation for your survival.

"Be prepared everywhere. It is estimated that in two or three days, the bandits will start to attack the city again." Li Xiao put down the Qianli Miles Mile in his hand and sighed coldly.

Sure enough, only three days later, in the early morning, the bandits who remade a large number of siege equipment started attacking from three sides, just like last time.

On this day, under the gray sky, the endless spring rain was like silk and curtains, pulling the sky and the ground endlessly.

The day chosen by the bandits was extremely beneficial to their attack, because Li Xiaojun's firearms would definitely be greatly reduced on such rainy days.

Fortunately, Li Xiao was prepared for it, and he asked someone to put a simple awning made of wooden boards on the cannons on the city to prevent water from entering the artillery door and causing the cannon to be useless.

In addition, large open spaces on the three walls were also equipped with cannons to place gunpowder, ammunition, sky-shaking thunder and other supplies.

However, because the pole of the stone trench was too long to make a rain canopy, Li Xiao had to instruct the stone thunder to throw the stone thunder, then he would need to be careful to avoid being extinguished by the rain.

So far, Li Xiaojun has built six more trenchers. Li Xiao put three of these six newly made trenchers on the city walls on the west and north sides.

There are now 5 catapults on the west and north walls, and the original 7 cannons on each wall, so the defense of this city wall is still quite considerable.

With a long and loud sound of swan roar, the attack of the bandits officially began.

The main general who attacked the east city wall was Feng Shuangli, the last general. After several days of recovery and the extraction of strong talents from the people of Shan County, this bandit had more than 10,000 people.

The main general who attacked the north city wall was Wang Shangli, who led more than 15,000 bandit soldiers to shout.

The main general who attacked the city wall in the west was personally commanded by Zhang Xianzhong, with a total force of more than 25,000, which was the main force of the enemy's attack.

Although he had won the last successful battle to defend the city, and when he saw the three walls, there were overwhelming bandits coming towards the people, every Li Xiao army guarding the city was still quite shocked.

Seeing that the enemy used the city walls they were guarding as the main attack point for the attack, Wang Yishou, the general leader of the Iron Dragons who guarded the city walls to the west, felt that the pressure increased.

Fortunately, Li Xiao had sent all the Lumi Gunners and the rampant team to the west city wall to support him to relieve the huge pressure on him.

"Mr. Li, this time the bandits know that our army is in reality. On rainy days, the power of our arms has weakened. These bandits are afraid that they will attack with all their might." Standing beside Li Xiao, holding the shovel in his hand, and asked with a worried look on his face.

Li Xiao nodded and recognized Chen Zilong's opinion.

"The battle that determines the fate of our army is about to begin." Li Xiao said softly.

"I passed this general's order. The enemy's attack will definitely be in full swing and attack the city with all their strength. The defenders on our three-sided city walls must be prepared and resolutely repel the enemy's attack!" Li Xiao ordered loudly.

"Get orders!"

When the enemy marched one mile away, the enemy troops on three sides stopped moving at the same time, and were escorted by small troops, allowing the captured people to start filling the holes dug out.

More than 10,000 people cried loudly, but no one dared to refuse to obey. They picked up shovels, hoes and other items and started to fill them in.

In fact, a few days ago, the bandits had ordered the people to fill almost all the pits 500 steps away. What they need to do now is to continue to fill the pits within 500 steps away.

Li Xiao noticed that the bandits obviously learned the lessons from the last time. In order to ensure the width of the attack, and to prevent the troops from being too dense during the attack, it was easy to attack Li Xiao's arms. They ordered these people to fill all the pits outside the city.

Due to the large number of people, the progress of landfill is very fast.

After one hour, all the pits of five hundred steps were filled by the people.

Li Xiaojun still did not order artillery attacks as last time, allowing all the people to fill the holes.

After all, using precious thunder to attack people who are purely cannon fodder is meaningless except for consuming their own firearms in vain.

Li Xiao was still thinking that he would not have to do the digging and filling holes in the future. After all, the enemy would not have any sympathy for the people of the Ming Dynasty, but he would just drive them to die in vain.

Seeing the people burying the pit, Zhang Xianzhong smiled grimly. He waved the flag in his hand, and three enemy troops led the retreating people and continued to attack the city wall.

The next attack method is actually similar to the last time.

When the enemy marched to 1,200 steps, the farthest red cannon fired.

As the people rushed forward, the number of bandits killed and injured a lot. From 1,200 steps to more than 500 steps, six red barbarian cannons killed and injured a total of more than 300 bandits.

Next, the attacking bandits entered the attack range of the catapult and the Franc aircraft.

The 8-door Franco and the 18-door trencher opened fire almost at the same time.

From more than 500 steps to 100 steps, the Franz aircraft fired 5 times in total, killing more than 300 bandits. The 18-door catapults were fired twice, and half of the thunder were wet by the rain and did not explode. Because the shooting speed was slow, the enemy was prepared, and only more than 500 bandits were killed in total.

Compared with the death to bandits, the number of casualties in the people who rushed forward was at least three times that of bandits.

When they reached a hundred steps, all 50 Lumi guns finally started. Amid the continuous sound of guns, the people and the bandits fell down screaming.

Finally, when the enemy reached fifty steps, the six tiger squat cannons placed on the north city finally broke the silence and opened fire together.

Six tiger squat cannons collectively spewed out large waves of sharp smoke and fire, and countless shotguns flew out from the north city wall. Some of these lead balls of iron sand, as thick as thumbs or little fingers, were still shotguns made of sharp small stones, with a terrifying roar, flying all over the sky, densely swept towards the people and bandits who rushed towards the formation like heavy rain of iron stones. And as long as they were swept by this terrible iron stone rain, the bodies of those who were caught in the cannon were immediately filled with dense thick blood holes!

A continuous tragic sound rang out violently, and blood and minced meat splattered everywhere. Outside this moat of the north wall hundreds of meters wide, dark red blood and colorful human tissues were sprayed. The entire site was like a slaughterhouse in hell, extremely bloody and terrifying.

Li Xiaojun's fierce attack caused at least 500 bandits and thousands of people to die in pain.

When they walked to the moat on three sides of the enemy, Li Xiao's army wiped out more than 2,000 bandits. This number is simply not worth mentioning for nearly 50,000 bandits.

Li Xiao was very helpless when he saw such a few people killed and injured the bandits, he rushed to the moat smoothly.

This is mainly because the power of the ejected thunders was greatly reduced during this heavy rain. A considerable number of the erupting thunders were still in the air, and the leads were wet by the rain, making it impossible to detonate, which greatly reduced the number of casualties among the bandits.

"Let the people rush through the trenches and build a siege ladder!" Zhang Xianzhong, who was personally escorting the formation, saw that his army had successfully arrived at the moat and issued an order excitedly.

As the rain was heavy, the bandits roared excitedly, and then put some of the siege ladders on the trenches, and asked the people to cover the wooden boards they brought on it, forming a simple trench bridge.

Afterwards, these soldiers forced the people to carry the siege ladder and rush across the trenches.

Some people were afraid of the artillery fired by Li Xiaojun from time to time, and refused to step forward, and were immediately killed by the bandits on the spot.

A large number of people were afraid of swords and had to cry and carry the siege ladder and rushed towards the three walls.
To be continued...