Mao Wenlong sighed, stood up, looked at the general who had attacked, and said sternly: "Jilharang attacked me secretly, how can I bear this breath? Now I am determined to lead my troops to capture Zhenjiang Fort and advance to Liaodong. Let's do a good job

The arrogance of killing Donglu."

All the generals were stunned. They didn't expect that just now they were crying about poverty, and now the commander-in-chief was about to send troops.

No one had the guts to challenge Mao Wenlong's authority, so they all followed orders.

Mao Wenlong asked Mao Chenglu to lead 3,000 personal troops to protect the central army, Kong Youde led 2,000 battalions as the vanguard, and the rear army was composed of 4,000 field soldiers.

Pidao grain ships began to leave the port and supply the Dongjiang Army along the coastline.

A revenge war is about to break out.

When they heard the news that Mao Wenlong was going to lead his troops to attack Donglu, Li Yi and Liu Xingzuo were both stunned.

None of them expected that Mao Wenlong would launch a counterattack so quickly.

Although Mao Wenlong did not request it, Li Yi and Liu Xingzuo still accompanied him into the battle.

Mao Wenlong hesitated slightly and placed Li Yi and Liu Xingzuo in the central army. Of course, Li Yi was not in the army of Dongjiang Town, and no one was qualified to command him on the battlefield.

The army marched straight ahead and arrived at Zhenjiang Fort in the evening.

As the handover point between Hou Jin and North Korea, Zhenjiang Fort has always been the battlefield where Dongjiang Town and Hou Jin fought most.

Tong Yangxing, who is as timid as a mouse, has led his army to leave Zhenjiang Fort. Now there are only a thousand Hou Jin soldiers and two thousand civilians guarding the city.

Nine thousand Dongjiang troops are stationed around Zhenjiang Fort, building siege equipment, and will attack the city early tomorrow morning.

Li Yi represents the emperor, so he has enough status to stand on the high ground and witness the siege.

The first to go into battle were not the camp soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, but the field soldiers with the weakest combat effectiveness.

Although they were said to be soldiers, in Li Yi's eyes, they were just a group of Liao people dressed in rags and covered with frostbite.

These Liao people held some farm tools such as hoes and wooden sticks in their hands, looked at Zhenjiang Fort with blank eyes, and began to form a team at the urging of the camp soldiers.

This group of 4,000 Liao civilians was divided into twenty square formations and began to attack the city from two defense lines: the south and east of the city.

They set up heavy ladders, carried sandbags, pushed carts, and ran towards Zhenjiang Fort in silence.

The archers on the city wall continued to shoot arrows downwards. The powerful bows and arrows effortlessly penetrated the Liao people wearing tattered clothes. The bloody arrows kept dripping with blood, which shocked the Liao people. They all jumped with their hands.

The man holding his head squatted on the ground, trying to avoid the rain of arrows, but how could his flesh and blood body block it? People kept screaming and being hit by arrows, lying on the ground asking for help from the people next to them.

Some experienced Liao civilians put a wooden board on their heads, and the arrows they shot were blocked by the wooden board. They were fine. They glanced at their companions lying in a pool of blood, and carried sandbags towards the guards of Zhenjiang Fort.

As soon as the pit was filled, he ran back quickly.

When a group of Liao people carrying ladders saw this tragic scene, they dropped the ladder with a loud scream and ran away. A senior Liao citizen shouted for them to come back, but this group of four or five Liao people did not want to do anything.

Understand, when they escaped from the range of the arrows, Kong Youde commanded a group of battalion soldiers to rush up, slashed them to the ground with waist knives, chopped off their heads and shouted at the shrinking Liao people next to them.

The Liao people were so frightened by the four steaming heads that their faces turned pale. No one dared to run away now. They picked up the ladders one by one and ran forward almost with their eyes closed.

Li Yi stood on the high ground and looked at the Liao people who were constantly being shot to the ground by bows and arrows. On the city wall, it was not only Hou Jin soldiers who drew bows and arrows, but also some banner men, Zhushen strong women, and even Han people Nikan.

Finally, after paying more than 400 lives, the ladder was raised to the city wall, and the soldiers from the rear camp went to fight at the urging of the military attache.

Compared to the beggar-like field soldiers, the camp soldiers were better. They all wore thick cotton-padded clothes and simple scale armor on their chests.

Holding weapons and shouting, they climbed up the ladder and climbed up the city wall with stones and bows and arrows. Soldiers were stabbed in the head by stones and fell from the city wall with blood on their heads.

Looking at the battalions clinging to the city wall like ants to attack the city, Li Yi suddenly said: "Brother Liu, why are there no artillery in the army?"

Liu Xingzuo smiled and said: "Yes. But it is inconvenient to transport artillery. Mao Wenlong wanted to have a surprise attack this time, so he did not bring artillery."

"Since it's a surprise attack, why do we bring so many field soldiers to fight? Wouldn't it be better if we let the pro-army troops participate in the exhibition and scale the city wall in one go?"

"There are too many Liao people who have fled to Pi Island. Compared with the precious pro-army troops, it is most suitable to use field soldiers to fill trenches and erect ladders. Because only food is needed, the field soldiers will be filled up quickly."

Li Yi said no more.

Zhenjiang Fort's defense equipment was obviously insufficient. After repelling two rounds of siege by the battalion, the battalion finally climbed onto the city wall.

At this time, the drums of the Chinese army finally sounded, and the heavily armed and murderous pro-army soldiers finally joined the battle, climbed up the city wall along the ladder, and began to fight closely with the Hou Jin army.

In the afternoon, Zhenjiang Fort was finally captured.

Mao Wenlong did not hesitate to issue the massacre order. Groups of pro-army soldiers and battalion soldiers walked through the streets and alleys, broke into various houses, robbed valuable property, raped the married women and children, and then drove Zhu Shen from his home to the open space.

Cut off their heads with a belt knife.

The Dongjiang Army was now a group of bandits, killing, oppressing, and looting. Seventy percent of the population of Zhenjiang Fort was massacred, and the streets were filled with the pungent smell of blood and headless corpses.

Li Yi did not enter the city. He stood at the city gate and watched the heads with distorted faces being thrown into the carriage by the soldiers. As the heads of the carriage were pulled away, another empty carriage stopped at the city gate.

It will fill up quickly.

Liu Xingzuo looked at this scene and sighed: "The prosperity of the people is suffering, and the destruction of the people is suffering. The Eastern captives massacred the Liao people, and the Liao people massacred the Eastern captives. I don't know when the endless killing will end?"

Li Yi said nothing because he didn't know when all this would end.

In the next two days, Mao Wenlong's troops were divided into three groups, conquering Yizhou, Xianshan Fort, and Tangzhan Fort respectively, and then surrounded Fenghuang City.

Mao Wenlong looted and burned all the farms and villages along the way, and then forced the farmers to follow the army northward and besiege Phoenix City.

There are two thousand Houjin troops in Phoenix City, and five thousand Zhushen men and women guarding the city.

This time, Mao Wenlong forced the peasants to fill in the trenches. Half of the 3,000 peasants who followed the army were killed or wounded before setting up the siege equipment. Then the garrison soldiers, battalion soldiers, and pro-army troops took turns attacking the city. They fought from morning to night before they captured Fenghuang.

city.

Mao Wenlong ordered the massacre of the city as usual, and drove all Zhu Shen out of the city, then killed them all and cut off their heads. The soldiers all entered the city to plunder valuables. After burning, killing and looting Phoenix City, they returned to the camp outside the city.

rest.

The next day, when Mao Wenlong learned that Amin had led 28,000 bannermen south to encircle and suppress him, he chose to retreat without hesitation.

The carriage carrying the trophies and heads had already left. When the army marched to Zhenjiang Fort, they were attacked by Amin. Mao Wenlong did not hesitate to let the farmers who had been coerced before enter the city to defend the city, telling them that Amin was here to kill them all.

, only by holding back the city belt can one survive.

Two thousand Liao people guarded Zhenjiang Fort, but they were breached even an hour after Mao Wenlong led his troops to leave Zhenjiang Fort. All the Liao people defending the city were killed, and Zhenjiang Fort once again flowed with blood.

By the time Amin chased him to the beach, the last sea ship had already left the shore and headed towards Phi Island.

Amin cursed angrily at the fleet and led his troops to attack Tieshan again.

The five thousand Liao people who were stationed in Tieshan had no time to escape to the mountains and forests, and were directly killed by the army led by Amin. After burning down the village, they returned to the court.

Although Tieshan was destroyed, General Yiying of Dongjiang Town did not take it seriously.

There are Liao people who are starving to death everywhere on Pi Island. As long as they take out food, they can quickly recruit enough farmers to farm in Tieshan.

This time Mao Wenlong rushed hundreds of miles into Houjin, massacred the Zhushen and Bannermen in the four fortresses, killed all the Zhushen in Phoenix City, and burned most of the city. It can be considered a great victory.

He wrote a memorandum of merit to the court overnight, claiming that he had conquered more than ten cities in Houjin in a row, and beheaded more than 8,000 Tartar soldiers. He then transported the entire shipload of Zhushen's heads to Juehua Island, and then transferred them to Juehua Island.

Go to Tianjin.

This time Li Yi understood the fighting style of Dongjiang Town.

Compared to officers and soldiers, they were more like bandits. Every time they went to a city, they would kill, burn, and rob them all. They also coerced the people to serve as their shields, and used them to block the offensive of the Later Jin Army when they were chasing after them.

It can be said that he is cunning, cruel and unscrupulous.

Li Yi also understood that in the previous battle at Tieshan, Mao Wenlong's pro-army forces were indeed powerful and almost equal to the Hou Jin soldiers. However, the number of pro-army troops was not large. They were mainly led by Mao Chenglu, and their number was about seven thousand.

The remaining tens of thousands of battalions were stationed in various places, and then there were the field soldiers who were responsible for fielding. They were used to fill trenches during war, and were responsible for collecting grain in the field on weekdays.

The entire Dongjiang Army is like a huge bandit camp, falsely reporting military exploits and committing all kinds of evil. But because of this, the soldiers here have no way out, and the Liao people have no way out. When they really fight, they are not afraid of death and fight ferociously.

, even Hou Jinjun didn't dare to despise him when he saw it.

Li Yi wrote everything down to increase his understanding of Dongjiang Town.

But on the other hand, he wanted to understand why Mao Wenlong suddenly attacked Houjin Mainland.

Was he really angry because of the sneak attack, or was he trying to express his loyalty to the court, show that he had nothing to do with Hou Jin, or... or force Huang Taiji to cooperate with him?

The fog in Dongjiang is getting deeper and deeper, making it impossible for Li Yi to clearly see Mao Wenlong's intentions. His only progress is to successfully unite Liu Xingzuo, a talent who is familiar with Dongjiang Town and Houjin. With his well-informed information network, he can

We can learn more about the connection between Dongjiang Town and Houjin, and evaluate whether Mao Wenlong has any objections? What is Mao Wenlong's real intention?

Of course, at this time, the rapid news of Dongjiang Town's success had reached Ningyuan City and the capital.

This time Li Yi rushed into battle and killed Li Yongfang, a rebel general of the Ming army, and made meritorious service in two battles. It can be said that this is another great achievement.
Chapter completed!