"Report!" A rushing into Li Guodong's central army tent at night, "Huang Degong's general Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, surrendered, and raised 50,000 troops from Chuzhou to attack Huai'an."

"I didn't expect that Huang Degong was loyal and had two rebels under his command!" Wang Chengen said angrily.

Of course, Li Guodong knew what these two guys were. In the original history, after Huang Degong died in his country, these two guys turned around and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. After Tian Xiong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he became a loyal lackey of the Qing Dynasty. Lieutenant Man Qing made great contributions in the Battle of Zhoushan. Later, Zheng Chenggong expeditioned the Northern Expedition, Tian Xiong repelled Zheng Chenggong many times. After Ma Degong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he also became a loyal lackey of the Qing Dynasty. He suppressed the rebels who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty many times in Fujian, and finally died at the hands of the Zheng family army.

"Report!" Another Ye Bushang hurriedly ran in, "Liu Liangzuo's general Zhang Huanggai led an army of 30,000 to march towards Huai'an!"

Wang Chengen was shocked: "Wu Weibo, Liu Ni, Tian Ni and Ma Ni were attacking Huai'an. Will the emperor be in danger?"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty has moved to Toutu Castle, which is solid. Not to mention only 80,000 people, even 800,000 people, you can't conquer Toutu Castle!"

At this time, another Ye Bugu reported: "Report! Gao Jie raised 40,000 troops from Yangzhou and marched towards Huai'an!"

"Hahaha!" Li Guodong suddenly laughed, "I'll surround some attacks. Liu Liangzuo was not fooled and did not come to save Liu Zeqing. Instead, he played with Ben to surround Wei and save Zhao! Humph! Liu Liangzuo wanted to force our army to give up attacking Gaoyou, return to the army to rescue the ranks, and then ambush halfway. This wishful thinking was really good!"

Wang Chengen said with some concern: "Wuweibo, although our army is elite, there are too few people. The rebels sent troops everywhere. Our army may be short of troops and overwhelmed."

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Eunuch Wang, you will have more people to break through Liu Ni's camp outside Gaoyou City."

Previously, Liu Zeqing's 10,000 troops were annihilated in Xinghua, including 4,000 enemies and 6,000 prisoners. In addition, the prisoners helped the civilians defend the city, Bai Yao and the township soldiers were more than 8,000. These 4,000 prisoners were directly incorporated into the auxiliary soldiers by Li Guodong, preparing to act as cannon fodder in the battle to attack Gaoyou.

Liu Zeqing stationed six barracks in 50,000 troops outside Gaoyou City. Li Guodong captured three of them in one breath and annihilated more than 23,000 people, of which more than 4,000 were killed and injured. The slightly injured bandaged them, and the auxiliary soldiers were incorporated as cannon fodder. The seriously injured ones were repaired, which solved their pain. In this way, nearly 20,000 auxiliary soldiers were incorporated, and together with the previous 14,000 prisoners, Li Guodong already had 33,000 cannon fodder.

"Continue to attack and break through all the remaining three Liu Ni camps!" Li Guodong ordered.

The attack was launched again. The Huai Army launched a fierce shelling with three pounds of field artillery, twelve pounds of howitzers, twenty-four pounds of mortars and thirty-two pounds of mortars, which broke the Liu family army's camp and the village gate was also smashed to pieces.

Then the Huai Army infantry lined up and attacked into the Liu family army camp. In front were iron armored soldiers, in the middle were spear soldiers, followed by musketeers and archers, and rushed into the Liu Zeqing camp.

The soldiers of the Liu family army blocked in front were chopped and killed by the Huai army like chopping melons and vegetables. After killing more than 500 people, all the people in the Liu Zeqing camp, which had more than 8,000 people, knelt down and surrendered. Then Li Guodong launched a fierce attack on the next barracks.

The elite troops of the Huai Army emerged, and with the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, it soon swept across the three camps of the Liu family army.

Liu Zeqing stood at the head of Gaoyou City, looking at his six camps being taken down by the Huai Army with heartache. He didn't dare to order the city gate to open and let the Liu family army in the city go out of the city to fight a counterattack. He could only watch his six camps being wiped out by the Huai Army.

Another 20,000 prisoners were captured, so Li Guodong had more than 50,000 cannon fodder in his hands.

More than 50,000 cannon fodder were taken to cut down wood first to create more siege weapons. After a night of work, the Huai Army built more than 300 shield cars, and also built one hundred tower-looking cars, more than 1,000 simple ladder cars, and ten large ladder cars.

After sweeping the six camps outside Gaoyou City, the Huai Army's attack on Gaoyou City Wall began.

The sound of cannons rumbling, and the cannons attacking the city of Gaoyou were fired. Cannons of various calibers poured out black projectiles of all sizes into the city wall. The shells pulled out arcs, crossed the sandbags outside the city, and smashed on the female wall battlement of the city wall. The bricks cracked, and the gravel bricks flew everywhere like shrapnel. The shells of the mortar cannon fell from the sky and landed on the top of the city, exploding a ball of fire. The Gaoyou city wall was riddled with holes under the fierce artillery fire of the Huai Army.

"Beat the drum and go to fight!" Li Guodong gave the order.

The personal soldiers shook the flag hard and sent Li Guodong's orders out. In the rear army, soldiers beat drums and sent out attack signals.

More than 500 shield chariots made a "squeak" sound, and they approached the city wall step by step. The soldiers who had just captured Liu's army were followed by veterans of Huai Army holding steel knives, and followed by long-range troops such as musketeers, archers, Folang machine gunners, turtledove-footed gunners.

Behind the shield car array, groups of ragged prisoners pushed the well railings, looking at the tower car and the large ladder car, followed closely behind the shield car and slowly advanced towards the city wall.

Gaoyou City is not a small city like Xinghua. The city is much taller and stronger than the county town. Outside the city is full of obstacles such as deer forts, wooden stakes, etc., to prevent the opponent's siege weapons from approaching the city wall. After the auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield cart to approach the obstacle, they could only leave the shield cart, waved the axe, and iron rod to clear the obstacles. Only after the obstacles were cleared, the shield cart filled with maroons could approach the moat and fill the moat at the attack location.

When the Huai Army's auxiliary soldiers were only two hundred steps away from the city wall, the tiger squat cannons, Folang machine cannons and other cannons of the defenders at the city wall finally opened fire. Although the Huai Army had launched violent artillery bombardments on the city wall before, many artillery survived. Especially light artillery like the light squat cannons, tiger squat cannons and turtledove-legged guns. When the Huai Army was bombarding the city wall before, Liu Zeqing's army moved all these light artillery to the city. When the Huai Army launched an attack, they pulled the light artillery to the city.

The light artillery on the city wall fired violently. After more than a dozen shells fell out in succession, a shield car was finally hit by a tiger squat cannon shell. The shield in front of the shield car broke into several pieces like walnuts smashed by a hammer, and flew several feet away. The two auxiliary soldiers who pushed the shield car were hit by the fragments and fell down screaming.

The shield car that lost the guard plate turned into an ordinary car, but the crossbow arrows and shotguns on the city wall flew over and knocked down several auxiliary soldiers.

The auxiliary soldier who saw the guard plate being broken and the cart was yelled, threw the shield cart away, and turned around in panic, ran back. At this moment, the supervisory team behind came up, waved the machete without saying a word, and chopped all the auxiliary soldiers into a pool of blood.

"War to the death and never retreat! Those who retreat without authorization will be killed!" Hao Yaoqi held a head in his hand and shouted to the auxiliary soldiers.

Not long after the artillery of Liu Zeqing's defenders opened fire, more than a hundred artillery pieces of the Huai Army fired suppression and fired at the city head, and countless shells were smashed. In order to make up for the insufficient accuracy of the front-mounted smoothbore gun, the Huai Army bombarded one of the cannon positions of Liu Zeqing's army with ten large cannons.

Whether it was a three-pound field cannon or two types of mortar cannons, the firing rate was very fast. After one round of shells was shot, another round of shells roared on the city wall. Liu Zeqing's army's tiger squat cannons, the range of the turtle dove-foot guns was not as far away as that of the Huai Army cannons, and they could only be beaten in vain. One after another, Liu Zeqing's cannons were destroyed.

Suppressing the artillery fire on the top of the city, the auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield cart to the obstacles. They left the shield cart protection, swung their axes and iron drills, and began to clear the obstacles outside the city.
Chapter completed!