Ming Dynasty: I, Emperor Chongzhen, swear not to go to Meishan

After Lan Fang led his army to capture Yi County, he ordered his soldiers to strengthen the city defenses, assuming a posture of not moving forward even half a step and sticking to Yiyang County.

Although Tang County is small, it is connected in all directions. Although the Guangxi Wolf Barracks and Sichuan Army Camp under his command have a total of 12,300 people, they can still guard all the roads, large and small, and the troops are severely dispersed. Once Li Zicheng breaks through from a certain road, , not only cannot it be blocked, but it also causes unnecessary losses.

Instead of having a headache, it is better to stick to Yixian and completely block Li Zicheng's escape route south. The last battle to annihilate Li Zicheng is left to Sun Chuanting and his eldest brother Xu Yu.

Lan Fang sent a reconnaissance team to venture through the rebel defenses and reported his thoughts and plans to Sun Chuanting.

Although Li Zicheng still occupied the territory around Tang County, after Sun Chuanting led an elite army of more than 300,000 to besiege Tang County, the space for activities of the rebels was very small. The villages and towns between Yi County and Tang County seemed to have become unclaimed land. .

Scouts from both sides were active here, and some small-scale battles inevitably occurred. The New Army's reconnaissance teams were equipped with revolvers that could fire continuously, and they had an overwhelming advantage in close combat. The rebel scouts suffered heavy losses.

After receiving Lan Fang's handwritten letter, Sun Chuanting secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time he couldn't help but sigh.

Lan Fang is very aware of current affairs, considers the overall situation, and does not compete with him for credit. Are all young people today so good? No matter what, he owed this favor.

"Give me a hard beating. I won't let Li Zicheng escape this time."

Early the next morning, Sun Chuanting personally took command in front of the formation and issued the order to attack Tangxian County.

It was said to be an siege, but the soldiers did not launch a charge and forcibly attack the city. Instead, they set up artillery of all sizes and bombarded the county town indiscriminately.

It wasn't that Sun Chuanting was wealthy and was throwing solid iron bullets and blooming artillery shells at the county town for free, but he thought this was the last battle to annihilate Li Zicheng and wanted to fight beautifully.

Li Zicheng was already a turtle in the urn, and he was too anxious to cause unnecessary casualties at this moment.

The walls of the Tang County town were short and in disrepair. No matter how hard the rebels reinforced it, they could not withstand repeated bombardments from hundreds of cannons. After more than ten rounds of shelling, not only the rebels defending the city suffered heavy casualties, but many sections of the walls collapsed one after another, exposing the There are huge gaps one after another, and the rebels have no chance of defending.

Whether it was the Shaanxi Army under his control, the Huguang Army under Zuo Liangyu, or the Baoding Army under Hu Dawei's command, they all had high fighting spirit and were eager to try. However, Sun Chuanting still did not order the army to attack. He ordered the artillery bombardment to continue, as if to The city walls in Tang County were demolished.

After more than ten rounds of shelling, the few remaining sections of the city wall collapsed. The large number of rebels guarding the city were either blown away by the shells or buried alive under the rubble.

The remaining rebels retreated hastily. Sun Chuanting ordered the artillery to move forward thirty steps. After another ten rounds of artillery fire on the completely open Tangxian City, he ordered the army to attack.

The soldiers of the Shaanxi, Huguang, and Baoding armies had long been impatient. In order to compete for credit, they roared across the ruins like tigers coming out of the gate, and charged into the city, killing everyone they saw.

Although there are still nearly 100,000 rebels in the city, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and women and children account for nearly half. They have long been frightened by the fierce artillery fire from the government troops. In addition, Li Zicheng and other senior generals Unaccounted for, with no one to command them, they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

In fact, even though Li Zicheng and other senior generals of the rebel army disappeared, there were still a small number of rebel soldiers who did not give up. They stood on the top of the city and vowed to fight the officers and soldiers to the end.

These people were either blown away by fierce artillery fire or buried alive in the collapsed city walls.

The prisoners captured a large and densely packed area, numbering 70,000 to 80,000, but no one knew where Li Zicheng was hiding. Even Li Zicheng's number one military advisor Niu Jinxing, number one general Liu Zongmin and other senior generals of the rebel army disappeared. Generally, it disappears.

"Search for me, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I will search for Li Zicheng!"