Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province is located in a canyon plain. The city wall is tall and solid. There are eight city gates in the southeast, southwest and northwest. Although the moat water source in the moat outside the city wall is dry, the trenches that are as deep as four meters are still a barrier that is not easy to break through. The army of hundreds of thousands of refugees is like a sea tide mixed with mottled colors, washing the huge rocks of Taiyuan City like a sky and earth. Tens of thousands of chaotic battle flags make people dizzy when they look at it. Hundreds of thousands of refugees with tattered clothes are excited. It seems that they are gathering outside Taiyuan City as if they are participating in a large temple fair. In just one day, there are already crowds of people outside Taiyuan City surrounded this city of dozens of miles. These refugees did not take the official army in Taiyuan City at all. They swaggered in front of the defenders to make rice.

The war continued the way Gao Yingxiang cooked rice before the war, and they cooked porridge within the range of the artillery artillery of the defenders. This time, the besieged army was still the main force of General Liu Zongmin, and obtained information about the empty troops of Taiyuan based on the arrested official army. Seventy percent of the Taiyuan defenders went to the Liaodong battlefield, and there were less than 2,000 soldiers returning to Shanxi this year. If Shanxi General Yang Guozhu was still alive, at least the rebels would not dare to be so arrogant. The Taiyuan defenders wanted to use artillery to bombard the treacherous army, but the gunners had no confidence in the firearms facing the old cannons made by Chenghuanian. Under the strict supervision of Shanxi Governor Wang Yifan, the defenders set off a round of cannons, and one hundred cannons either coughed and smoked out, spit out three feet of shells or exploded directly.

Such joking artillery not only did not cause any harm to the rebel army, but seriously damaged the morale of the defenders. Tian Jianxiu, the general who commanded the rebel army to fight outside the south, couldn't help laughing at the sky when the Taiyuan defenders were so unbearable. Although the rebel army lacked artillery, it was defeated by the large number of people and the defeated Taiyuan City rebel army could seize food for at least half a year. A few days ago, the rebel army attacked the small city Jiexiu, but unexpectedly suffered a great loss there. More than 6,000 people died in the siege battle. During the thirteen-day attack of Jiexiu, Jiexiu's defenders had sufficient food and salary, and the eight Shanxi merchants and young and strong people in the city were united, and the rebel army returned in a desperate situation in the face of the strong city defense. If it weren't for the empty defense of Taiyuan, the rebel army would not know how much loss they would have in Jiexiu.

Although the Chuangjun broke through Luoyang City, it played a decisive role. Now the Chuangjun still lacks experience and means of siege. The Chuangjun still uses long ladders to attack with ants, and they are fighting against the sea of ​​people. Human life is the least valuable in the Chuangjun. As long as you capture a city, you can carry more people who have lost their homes to follow the Chuangjun to capture a city. While eating, the Chuangjun was preparing to siege the long ladders. The cowardly performance of the defenders fired artillery gave the soldiers of the Chuangjun soldiers no experience in fighting. Everyone picked up firewood and fired high flames. The Chuangjun took advantage of the number of people to start landing the first obstacle moat outside Taiyuan City. The people who shuttled back and forth quickly carried the soil and filled the moat one after another.

The defenders began to counterattack with bows and arrows. The flying arrows of the black clouds killed the trench without armor protection on the ground. The sticky blood made it difficult for the landfill refugees to walk. The dead or about to die together with the soil sent from the rear were buried deep in the lower layer of soil and could still hear the noise in the noisy battlefield. The rebels did not pay attention to the siege of the city. They used multiple attacks as long as one could attack the city, and Taiyuan City could almost be taken down. The old and weak refugees here took wooden boards from the rear to form an arrow guard wall to reduce the damage caused by the defenders' arrows. The young and strong soldiers in the camp tied up long ladders to sort out weapons. The defenders were eager to try to cook gold juice and melt lead blocks on the city wall at this time, and the young and strong people in the city also carried bundles of arrows to the city wall.

Shanxi people are relatively grouped, and Shanxi merchants are not all black-hearted and unscrupulous merchants. At the moment of the enemy, officials and wealthy families donated money and grain. These wealthy families even sent their children to the city wall to assist the defenders in defending Taiyuan City. Most of the Taiyuan defenders are locals, and they do not want their families to be massacred by thieves. The broken officials and wealthy families in Luoyang City were first bloodbathed. The tragic lessons of the past made the officials in Taiyuan City realize that some money should not be too ruthless. Although the new general of Taiyuan Jiang Xiang was depressed, he had to face this crisis. He was originally a general of Datong. General Wang Pu led the army to Liaodong and presided over Datong military affairs, but offended Duke Hua because his family had a conflict with the "Five Blessings" warehouse.

General Wang Pu was defeated in Liaodong and was later revealed to have fled the battlefield first during the decisive battle. After the war, the court held him guilty and decided to be executed. However, General Wang Pu belonged to Duke Hua and the left censor Mao Yujian argued that Wang Pu was framed by the generals of Liaodong because although Wang Pu's troops were defeated, they killed 250 Jiannu and had the heads of Jiannu as evidence. Who in the court knew that the Po Nu Army defeated Jiannu in Jinzhou. Their Jiannu's heads were all real. Duke Hua gave Wang Pu some face to complain to Wang Pu. In addition, the Duke Hua sent people to deal with the court. In addition, the Duke Hua in the capital sent people to deal with him, and General Wang Pu of Datong changed from a death sentence to an official position. Since it was natural that he offended the Duke of China and was kicked out of Datong, it was natural that he was promoted to Taiyuan, but his money was much less.

Jiang Xiang had just taken office for two months and encountered the unlucky thing of siege in the siege. His family had moved to Taiyuan. If the siege broke into Taiyuan, their family would be the first to be unlucky. Fortunately, Jiang Xiang raised 600 clans in Datong, which was close to the Posou Army and could make a lot of safe silver. These 600 clans from Datong became the magic weapon for the general Jiang Xiang to protect his life. In order to protect Taiyuan City, Jiang Xiang distributed more than half of the 600,000 taels of silver donated in the city. Jiang Xiang knew very well that if his new general wanted to make his subordinates work hard, he had to use a lot of money to stabilize the morale of the army. From the moment, the effect was quite good, at least no one in the eight thousand official troops retreated. Taiyuan City was too big, and eight thousand combat soldiers were scattered on the city walls, and it would be impossible to fight without more than 50,000 young and strong Taiyuan.

The Chuangjun used 5,000 casualties to finally fill the moat outside Taiyuan City with twenty passable roads. The attacking soldiers of the Chuangjun who had not made too much preparations and waited for a long time divided into several people and rushed towards the Taiyuan city wall. The Chuangjun would not attack the more solid city gates, and the construction of the urns there was clever construction of the urns there was no chance of survival. Hundreds of large and large war drums on the camp of the Chuangjun camp sounded thunder and tens of thousands of soldiers held war swords and shields in the shouts of killing, and thousands of long ladders rushed towards the Taiyuan city wall with the crowd. With wooden shields, the casualties of the offensive soldiers were reduced. In only half an hour, hundreds of long ladders were placed on the city wall. The Chuangjun siege was extremely picky, unlike the special long ladders with fixed iron buckles. They used five or six people to face the fixed ladders on the city wall. The Chuangjun siege soldiers used their teeth to bite their swords and held their shields in their left hand and climbed the long ladder with their right hand.

On the city wall, the Ming army soldiers commanded four or five young men holding four feet long hitting pole. They shouted "Go!" on the long ladder, shouting "Go!" on the long ladder. The huge force suddenly came from above overturned the long ladder. The soldiers of the rebel army climbed in the middle of the long ladder were the worst. They were frightened by the hanging ladder and shouted and shouted, "Stop it." The soldiers of the rebel army fell to the ground on the long ladder and crushed several people. Some of the rebel army members who responded quickly worked hard to return the long ladder that was about to be overturned. However, the rebel army was not strong enough. The long ladder that vigorously returned to the city wall was broken due to its huge impact force. The unlucky attacking soldiers still could not escape the fate of falling down.

The archers who were covering the siege of the city rushed over from the rear. When these archers in messy red war jackets saw their dress, they knew that these people were formerly the Ming army. These people rushed to the front of the city wall and shot arrows at the top of the city. The defenders on the city wall began to suffer casualties due to the arrival of the archers of the archers. After all, the young and strong people had no armor on their bodies and had no ability to resist the arrows biting. The young and strong people hid behind the battlements with thick gloves endured the smell of stenched gold juice and poured a pot of boiling hot water from the battlements. The crusaders who set up a long ladder under the city wall were scalded by the golden juice falling from the sky. The crusaders who also lacked armor screamed and fled around.

These injured soldiers of the rebel army ignored them, and more people rushed over and set up long ladders and ants to attack the city again. This time, when the rebel army was used, many people and long wooden sticks with bowls were used to fix the long ladder, which made the bumper rods on the city wall not very effective. At this time, the defenders holding boiling lead juice shouted "Doway!" and they sprinkled pots of red lead juice. They heard a piece of lead juice into the flesh first. Swish! Swish!" under the city wall, and then they cried and wailed. The boiling lead juice was not something human power could resist. Soon, the long ladders that had just been placed on the city wall fell one after another, and even smashed the lucky ones of the rebel army who could avoid the lead juice. At this time, the defenders raised the sharp weapon of the defending city, the tiger guns, and did not need to aim at ignite the lead wire and set it down.

The rumbling cannons caused white smoke to rise up in Taiyuan city walls, covering the entire city wall in the white smoke. The archers who were still shooting arrows under the city wall were beaten to blood by this shotgun. How could they resist the invasion of the shotgun in addition to psychological comfort? Without the harassment of the archers of the archers on the city walls increase, and the young and strong defenders and soldiers began to use wolf teeth to hit the crusades under the city walls. Thunderstones like heavy rain were thrown into the crusades from the city walls, and even the crusades held a shield in their hands and feet were broken by the big stones. After two hours of attack, the crusades had to escape from this bloody battlefield after losing six or seven thousand casualties. The victory of the first battle made the Taiyuan defenders excited, and the cheers of victory resounded over Taiyuan.
Chapter completed!