At dawn, the sky was lightly bright, and a hawk was swimming in the cold wind. It slid its wings comfortably with the airflow and patrolled its territory. From afar, it saw three black torrents, passing by it with thunder. Not far away, several fast-moving small black blocks flashed in Ningxia Acropolis, but were flooded by the black currents leaking from the torrent. In the farther north, large areas of black lava flowed out, quickly burying the yellow land.

This was a reinforcement unit led by Gu Xin, the chief of staff of the Po Slave Army. Their destination was directed to the Ningxia Guard, the old nest of the army. As the vanguard of the entire army, Xu Zhen's scout team released a hundred miles away and used the night to drop the beacon tower of the return army, so that the wolf smoke rising from the Ningxia Pinglu could not continue to be transmitted to the Ningxia Gu Xin. Gu Xin was full of passion, with his head covered with gauze and riding a horse in the army. For the first time, he commanded so many troops. Without Zhang's teachings for several years, Gu Xin would have felt a little overwhelmed.

Even with the help of the General Staff, Gu Xin was so busy that he was dizzy. From the order of starting the troops, to the arrangement of camps and camps, the allocation of military supplies, and to the scout investigation and investigation of the battlefield, Gu Xin lost weight in just a few days. At this time, Gu Xin couldn't help but sigh at the ability of Zhang Boss Zhang to lead troops. The entire army could settle in a very short time while laughing and scolding. Even so, Zhang often sighed that he was not as good as Jurchen Nurhaci in leading troops, saying that the Jurchen slaves could command a million troops without chaos, and he was not as good as him in this regard.

Gu Xin also knew in his heart that in addition to General Zhang, the only commander Chen Pang in the Po Slave Army was the first-class commander Chen Pang. General Zhang once said that Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to defend the city, and if he went out to fight in the field, Lu Jiandou was far inferior to Chen Pang. Even Lu Deyin, who had been with General Zhang for the longest time, could only lead three troops at most in the eyes of General Zhang. Hu Ming, who was the most troublemaker and was the best in the Po Slave Army, was not as good as Zhang Li, who had a general view of the situation. As for other commanders, General Zhang often sighed that he needed more guidance.

Retrieve the imagination of Guxin, and look at the city of Ningxia to the southeast while traveling far away. Under the morning sunlight, a faint mist is shrouded in the golden silhouette, which is particularly enchanting. The flat and ravines crisscrossing canals telling its richness. On this land where Li Yuanhao (author’s note: the founding emperor of Xixia) once dominated, another disaster has come. Guxin adopted a very clear tactic, besieging Pinglu Station, Ningxia Foreward, Ningxia Left, Middle, and Right Tun Station Station. After completely surrounding Ningxia Acropolis, he defeated each station one by one.

On the same day, Gu Xin reached Ningxia Acropolis (Author's note: The approximate location of Ningxia Acropolis in the southeast of Yinchuan Old City today.) He brought his staff and personal soldiers to circle around Ningxia twice in order to find the weaknesses of Ningxia city walls. According to the new and old degree of Ningxia city walls, Gu Xin saw the weaknesses of Ningxia city walls. The two walls on the west and north sides, five walls with different new and old signs that this place had been destroyed, and this place became a key area for the attack of the Po Slave Army. After Gu Xin selected the breakthrough point, the focus of the attack was placed on the outer guards.

What Gu Xin did not expect was that the left, middle and right guards in Ningxia chose to surrender just after being surrounded by the Ponu Army. After Gu Xin learned that the garrisons here were basically Han people under the banner of the Rebellion Army. The Ming Ponu Bo's reputation for treating the people of the Ming Dynasty well made the Han people in the garrisons who were stationed here choose the strategy of non-resistance. Gu Xin was overjoyed, and he warmly received the garrison officers of the Returned Army here and took out the gold coins of Ponu City to reward them.

While rewarding them, they pointed out their way out. One could go to the local master of Guihua City or to the farther Ping'an City, and the other was to go to the local master of Nanzhili with the pass certificate given by the Ponu Army. As a result, all three garrisons chose to go to Nanzhili. Gu Xin seemed very generous. Not only did they take out 10,000 gold coins from Ponu City to appease them, but they also asked them to take their confidants, including their families. Gu Xin knew Zhang Dashen's thoughts very well. The people of the Ming Dynasty were tamed like sheep on the grassland, eliminating the restraints of these garrisons. The people of these garrisons only needed to disrupt and resettle the resettlement and would become the best farmers in Ponu City.

When dealing with the garrison that had not yet surrendered, Gu Xin also adopted the tactic of attacking the heart. He asked the people to shout to the city, saying that the Pou Nu Army treats the people well and only needs to kill the officers of the Return Army, they can get the golden reward of the Pou Nu Army. They forced the generals to defend the city to drive away the Han people, thus reducing the burden on the Pou Nu Army to attack the city. For the Hui army who did not surrender to death, Gu Xin was also prepared to take ruthless measures to completely eliminate them.

After two days of careful preparation, Gu Xin decided to take down Ningxia's vanguards and Ningxia Pinglu Station first. As for the most important Ningxia Gu Xin set up camps in the west and north of the two places to dig tunnels. In his hand, the Ponu Army did not bring a "decisive death" chariot, so he could only use engineers to dig tunnels to bury the city walls. Fortunately, Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Ponu Army, was prepared for it. When Gu Xin went to join Wu Tianxing and others, he took away a thousand engineers, which happened to be used in Ningxia Acropolis.

In Gu Xin's view, the Hui army was too soft-hearted and actually let the Han people leave the city. This gave the information source of the Po Nu Army. According to the Licheng Han People Report, the three city gates of Ningxia vanguard were blocked by soil and huge rocks. There were only three young generals running away from the Hui army. It is said that these three artillery guns could not explode in the long run. In the battle against the Ningxia vanguard, the Po Nu Army did not rush to cover the ants to attack the city, but used the Po Nu Army's musket soldiers as cover to send dead soldiers to load in the east gate. In order to achieve the suddenness of the attack, Gu Xin sent the personal barracks to carry out the attack, which was personally commanded by Du Liang, the deputy commander of the personal barracks.

As soon as Du Liang arrived at the front line, he sent three thousand musket soldiers to divide them into three attacking phalanxes. The Ningxia Forewarriors arranged an array of sixty feet outside the east gate. In front of the array, three hundred-foot-long defensive positions were built using earth bags to prevent the attack of the Returning Army artillery. As a result, the Returning Army ignited the artillery, but accidentally exploded the borehole, killing and injuring countless gunmen at the east gate, causing the Posou Army who were preparing to attack under the city gate to burst into laughter and laughing. Du Liang, who was commanding the battle, gave the three thousand generals three whips to strictly enforce military discipline while laughing and scolding.

Although the officers of the Thousand General of the Pokémon Army in iron composite armor were beaten by Du Liang, they also realized the seriousness of military discipline. So they picked up the whip and beat the general officer again. The beaten officer beat the general officer again the soldiers who laughed the most. This beat made the officers and soldiers of the personal barracks remember the terribleness of Marshal Zhang. Fortunately, it was Chief of Staff Gu Xin supervising the battle. If Marshal Zhang saw the act of disobeying military discipline, their deputy commander Du Liang would be beaten by Marshal Zhang, and the soldiers who laughed the most would be beheaded.

The officers and soldiers of the Pou Nu Army who had learned the lesson immediately became serious and listened carefully to the officers' orders. As more than a hundred people carried the dead soldiers into the position, the Pou Nu Army's attack officially unfolded. The crackling and continuous sound of muskets made dust smoke rise above the city gate. Many of the returning soldiers standing on the city towers were either broken their heads or even their necks were broken. The splattered gray and white splashed all over the back army. The warm blood made the returning soldiers feel the warmth in the cold winter and the limbs were chilling.

The Hui army soldier who had never experienced the war was so scared by the cruel blood that he kept vomiting. The Hui army officers who reacted had to endure their inner fear and reminded their subordinates to guard against the attack of the Pou Nu Army. At this moment, the Pou Nu Army's crossbow cannons began to fire, and the explosions disrupted the defense line of the Hui army. The flying shrapnel chased and bit the Hui army soldiers, and the huge shock wave brought the Hui army from the city wall to the city. The Hui army soldiers who were beaten to pieces helped cover their wounds and shouted in pain. The blood mist scattered everywhere disturbed the Hui army's sight.

Taking advantage of the chaos of returning to the army, the Dead Slave Army soldiers wore double composite iron armor, and four people carried a hundred-pound bucket to the east gate in groups of four. In order to avoid casualties from the Dead Slave Army's crossbows, the Dead Slave Army's crossbows stopped firing, and the lead bullets fired by the musket soldiers became even more fierce. Unexpectedly, the first five groups of Dead Slave Army's buckets were successfully installed, and Du Liang also stopped the subsequent dispatch of the Dead Slave Army. But at this time, the shooting of the Musket soldiers became even more fierce, providing cover for the retreating Dead Slave Army.

These retreating dead soldiers did not retreat randomly. They lined up in a column to open a small bucket behind them. The * in the bucket pulled out a long black line with his footsteps. The soldiers relayed each other to connect the black lines one after another, forming a perfect fuse. What no one expected was that the return troops in the city actually dropped a can of tinder oil and quickly ignited the fuse. The last three dead soldiers of the slave army failed to escape from the instant burning sea of ​​fire. The barrel behind them was detonated, and a louder sound was taken to explode.

The explosion of 500 kilograms not only caused the dead soldiers of the Pou Nu Army to remain alive, but also caused the entire Ningxia Forewar East Gate to fly into the sky. The defenders on the city wall also rushed into the sky with the city wall. The Pou Nu Army still underestimated the power of the explosion. Fortunately, Du Liang ordered the subsequent dead soldiers to leave with the bucket at the first time, otherwise it would trigger a greater danger of dying. Even so, the unprepared front-line musket soldiers of the Pou Nu Army were injured by the sudden explosion.

According to the usual training of the Pound Slave Army, when encountering a ignition blast, the Pound Slave Army soldiers will hide behind the barriers of the wall according to the regulations, and then cover their ears and shout desperately that they have reduced the damage to their ears. But the explosion came too suddenly, which caught the front-line Pound Slave Army officers and soldiers off guard. The huge explosion not only caused their ear holes to bleed, but also was knocked down by the shock wave generated after the explosion. Even Du Liang, who was commanding seventy meters away from the front line, was not spared, and he was pushed back three meters away by the shock wave.

There were a thousand Pozi Army outside the East Gate of the Ningxia Forewar, about 700 people could not stand again. Gu Xin, who was a hundred feet away, also felt the huge impact of the explosion. Seeing such a large casualties of the Pozi Army, Gu Xin, as the commander-in-chief of the battle, was also very guilty. (To be continued)
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