In fact, Nanyang City is not impossible to bypass, but to walk on the official road, you must go to Nanyang. Although the surrounding hills and terrain are not high, the road is difficult to walk on. If you choose to bypass Nanyang, it means that war horses, vehicles and various supplies must be discarded, and even a large number of family members must be discarded. Most of the auxiliary soldiers and old, weak and disabled soldiers must be discarded, otherwise you will not be able to pass through the small road at all.

Therefore, bypassing Nanyang City is not the result that Zuo Menggeng wants. He must take Nanyang to take his men to Luoyang to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, even if it goes by, there will be very few soldiers left under his command.

The next morning, Li Guoying ordered a siege to Nanyang City.

Gao Jinku was really a good general who was good at defending. Li Guoying launched three consecutive siege battles, but was defeated by Gao Jinku. Li Guoying's auxiliary soldiers carried the simple trench bridge and laid it on the moat, and then rushed across the moat with simple cloud ladders and ladders on the top of the city. The defenders at the top of the city were repelled back with arrows, bird guns, rolling wood stones, lime bottles, turbulent oil tanks, and gold juice.

Ten thousand enemies were left behind at the top of the city, breaking the ladder and breaking the simple trench bridge laying on the moat.

Li Guoying had no choice but to order the auxiliary soldiers to build a shield car. If he builds a shield car, he had to ask the auxiliary soldiers to push the shield car full of macao to fill the moat.

After a day of fierce fighting, Li Guoying's army finally filled three passages on the moat. Then, large siege weapons such as rushing cars and large ladder vehicles slowly advanced towards the direction of the city wall.

Gao Jinku ordered rockets, tiger squat cannons and Franc aircraft to block Li Guoying's large-scale siege weapons.

Under the fierce firepower of the defenders, the large ladder truck that finally rushed across the moat collapsed in the raging fire. The dozens of elite dead soldiers who climbed the city were all killed by the defenders at the city. The rushing trucks that rushed across the moat were hit by the turbulent tanks in succession. Finally, they were ignited by the defenders rockets. No matter how Li Guoying's auxiliary troops put out the fire, the rushing trucks were burned in the end.

The Zuo family army Li Guoying's troops attacked for two days and one night. Apart from leaving more than 4,000 corpses under the city, they did not get any benefits, and the defenders suffered only more than 1,000 casualties.

On the evening of the 27th day of the 12th lunar month, just when Li Guoying, who had been ineffective in attacking the whole day, was about to order the Jin to withdraw his troops, suddenly a Zuo family army refused to accept the troops at night: "General Li, it's not good. A group of imperial officers and soldiers appeared behind my house, with about 10,000 people."

Li Guoying was shocked and ordered the entire army to evacuate the city wall and arrange troops on the open ground outside Nanyang City to prepare to fight against the new Nanjing army coming to attack.

The two sides were getting closer. Li Guoying, who was standing in the car on the Wanglou, looked at the Ming army formation opposite, and saw that the armor on the opposite side was shining. The thousands of Ming troops in the front line each had their own division of labor. They cooperated skillfully, not only ensured efficiency, but did not reveal any flaws. As soon as an expert reached out, he would know whether there was any. Li Guoying looked at the armor equipment and formation on the opposite side, and knew that his opponent was definitely an elite army.

As for the military information that Li Guoying received before, the information from all sides showed that there were about 30,000 new troops in Nanjing. Now there are only more than 10,000 opponents. As for where the others have gone? Li Guoying's judgment was that there were 30,000 new troops in Nanjing, 20,000 of which were auxiliary soldiers? Since they were auxiliary soldiers, there was no need to move the auxiliary soldiers when the two sides were fighting in a formation.

However, Li Guoying never expected that Zhao Peng's 30,000 new troops in Nanjing were all war soldiers. As for the auxiliary troops from Nanjing, they were all military households, not included in the organization of the new troops in Nanjing.

Zhao Peng only needed to mobilize 10,000 people to attack Li Guoying, and the remaining 20,000 people continued to ambush in the mountains, preparing to cut off the main force behind Zuo Menggeng to ensure that the 10,000 people from the brother troops could successfully annihilate Li Guoying.

Before the new army began to attack, Zhao Peng asked someone to hold the iron trumpet and shout to Li Guoying and others: "Li Guoying on the opposite side will listen. If you put down your weapons and surrender to the court, you will follow Zuo Menggeng and become a slave in the past!"

"Let's array and prepare to face the enemy!" Unexpectedly, Li Guoying not only did not give up on resistance, but instead stubbornly ordered the resistance to the king's army.

Someone hesitated to question: "General, the opposite side is the royal army of the court. We are inappropriate in fighting against the royal army of the court. Isn't this a rebellion?"

Li Guoying glared at his eyes: "The King's Army? The Qing Dynasty in the north is the King's Army! The court? Does the court give you a bite of food? The one who supports you is not the court in the south, but our lord! Now that the lord is gone, let's do our best to assist the young master! What the young master says is what! The court in the south has nothing to do with us!"

Seeing that his officers were hesitant, Li Guoying shouted again: "We have 30,000 people, and the enemies are only 10,000, so what are we afraid of!"

Seeing that Zhao Peng shouted for a long time, but the opponent did not respond at all, he ordered: "Attack!"

The 10,000 new troops who came to attack Li Guoying's troops were Zhao Peng's mobile forces. All 100 four-pound cavalry cannons were equipped for this mobile unit, as well as sixty-two-pound howitzers with extremely light weight and one hundred twenty-four-pound mortars, as well as three hundred one-pound light Franchise aircraft that followed the infantry.

With Zhao Peng's order, the 10,000 new troops slowly advanced, and five thousand infantry phalanxes advanced in front. On both wings were one thousand light cavalry and six hundred light Franco gunners covering the two wings, followed by cavalry cannons, howitzers and mortars.

When the two sides were only three hundred steps away, Zhao Peng ordered: "Suspend forward and prepare for artillery!"

The first to fire was a hundred four-pound cavalry cannons. The gunners who were pushing the cannon stopped and the four-pound cavalry cannons that had been loaded with shells in advance were mounted. The gunners nailed the hoe at the tail of the cannon underground, raised the muzzle and aimed at the formation of Li Guoying in front. After some adjustments, the elevation angle and azimuth angle were set, and they could be fired as long as they were ignited.

"Fire the cannon!" The garrison officer of the cavalry artillery battalion shouted.

The gunners pointed the torches in their hands at the fire gate at the tail of the cavalry cannon and stabbed them. Only the sound of roaring cannons was heard "boom boom boom" and one cavalry cannon spit out flames, and the overwhelming shells roared towards Li Guoying's formation.

"How many cannons are the enemy!" The soldiers of the Zuo family were frightened. This was the first time they saw that a formation of ten thousand people could actually have so many cannons.

The opponent fired a salvo, and one hundred artillery shells roared. The dense artillery shells fell into the dense crowd of Zuo's soldiers. The artillery shells hit the front row of Zuo's soldiers, causing the front row of Zuo's soldiers to fly across the flesh and blood, and their broken legs flew into the sky. After the artillery shells landed on the ground, they jumped up from the ground, changed their running trajectory, and continued to hit deep into the crowd.

The shells were like lawn mowers pushed by naughty boys, advancing in the crowd in a crooked manner. Wherever they passed, they pulled out trajectories of flesh and blood. The people they hit either turned into fragments on the spot or fell from their bodies. Only a scream could be heard, and the soldiers of the Zuo family army lost a large area from front to back.

One hundred shells, except for eleven that were missed, the remaining eighty-nine shells pulled out eighty-nine crooked flesh-and-blood alleys from the Zuo family's army, leaving behind incomplete corpses and wounded soldiers all over the ground.

The first round of artillery bombing of the new army caused nearly a thousand casualties to the Zuo family army.

"Storm up! Guan Gouzi's cannons are not loaded so quickly! Their cannons will be useless when they rush up!" Li Guoying shouted anxiously.

"Kill the Eagle Claws!" Zuo family army shouted and rushed towards the formation of the new army.

The Zuo family army's every move was seen in Zhao Peng's eyes. Seeing the Zuo family army launching a charge, Zhao Peng sneered: "Good come!"

The cavalry gun gunners who had fired a round of solid shells were originally going to load the solid shells again, but when they saw their opponents charge, they loaded the pack of medicine and threw a wooden board into the barrel and stuffed the shotgun into the muzzle.
Chapter completed!