The commander of the Western Army's rear army, Wang Ziqi, and the commander of the Left Army, Ma Yuanli, were all elite troops of the Daxi Imperial Camp, among which Bagua Camp, Zhenwu Camp, Longxing Camp, and Sanqi Camp are the most famous. In addition to the elite troops of the Imperial Camp, they also commanded the eight camps and miscellaneous soldiers adapted from Green Camps and bandits in various parts of the northwest.

The Bagua Camp General was Wang Ming from Ruzhou, Henan, the Zhenwu Camp General was Hong Feilong from Macheng, Hubei, the Longxing Camp General was Guo Jiawu from Jingyang, and the Sanqi Camp General was Songguan from Fengyang.

These four people were called four young generals in the Imperial Camp. They are not young. The oldest, Hong Feilong, is only 24 years old this year, and the youngest, Wang Ming, is only 21 years old.

All four of them were from the Western Army. The Haier Camp was a major feature of the Western Army and the Shun Army in the early years. The young and children in the camp were orphans, and they were extremely desperate to fight on the battlefield. When they grew up, they were often backbones of the army.

For example, Sun Kewang, who is now qualified to open a government office, Li Dingguo is also from a child camp.

Unlike other battalions, most of the imperial battalions of the Western Army were equipped with firearms, each battalion had about 3,000 soldiers, and only a thousand guns were equipped with a number of cannons, and the elite battalion heads were equipped with several artillery.

Wang Ming’s Bagua Camp has 36 artillery pieces, and Song Guan’s Sanqi Camp also has 40 artillery pieces.

Hong Feilong's Zhenwu Camp and Guo Jiawu's Longxing Camp were all cavalry, and about half of the soldiers were equipped with the three-eyed iron guns, a former Ming standard weapon.

After entering Sichuan with Free Huguang, Zhang Xianzhong attached great importance to firearms. With the help of the imperial court of the imperial examination, Li Lisi and An Wensi, the Western Army had mastered the methods for making firearms. However, due to the short operation in Sichuan and repeated rebellions in various places, the mining of iron ore and copper mines was stagnant, the Western Army had been unable to manufacture firearms on a large scale. Therefore, most of the firearms in the army were still derived from the previous capture of the Ming army.

After leaving Sichuan and entering the northwest, the Western Army seized a lot of prisoners and many craftsmen and green camp soldiers, which allowed the Western Army to start mass-producing firearms. The main manufacturing bases of Western arms are Dingxi and Jingyuan.

When Wang Ziqi and Ma Yuanliyi's troops arrived directly to Fengxiang City without any obstacles, Meng An, the Xi'an general party of the Shun Army, just led his 4,000 troops into the city the day before yesterday. The other two reinforcements, Gongchang general Niu Wancai and Guo Dengxian from Hanzhong, had not arrived yet. Therefore, the total strength of the Shun Army in the city was less than 8,000, and there were also thousands of young and strong soldiers recruited by Bai Minghe.

After carefully observing Fengxiang City Defense with Qianli Jing seized from the Qing army, Ma Yuanli believed that Bai Minghe in the city would not surrender easily.

"Old Bai is the master who doesn't cry until he sees the coffin. If we don't give him some strength, his wings will be flapped fiercely."

Wang Ziqi met Bai Minghe, the commander of the Shun Army. More than ten years ago, when the old rebel king Gao Yingxiang held a meeting in Xingyang, Henan, he and Bai Minghe were just small team leaders in the rebel army. Later, one of them followed the Eight Kings and the other followed Li Zicheng. Later, Wang Ziqi became the governor of the rear army in Daxi, and Bai Minghe became the right mighty general of Dashun.

"Then let's attack the city. It's best to capture Bai Minghe and avenge Bai Lame."

The "white lame man" mentioned by Ma Yuanli is referring to the former army commander Bai Wenxuan. Not long ago, Bai Minghe was defeated in Longzhou and broke his arm.

Wang Ziqi nodded in agreement and said, "I asked Wang Ming's Bagua Camp to test first. It's best to win it. It doesn't matter if I can't. I can always see the truth."

At that moment, personal soldiers went to Bagua Camp to send orders. Wang Ming, the guard general of Bagua Camp, was not vague. He clicked his troops and horses together with the two battalions of soldiers transferred to his command and took the lead in launching an attack on Fengxiang Ximen.

The Three Qi Camp of Song officials also transported artillery to the front and bombarded Fengxiang City with the cannons of Bagua Camp.

At this time, the Western Army did not know that there were not only Bai Minghe's unit in Fengxiang City, but also the Meng'an unit that had just arrived yesterday. Therefore, Wang Ming ordered the troops to attack the city for a moment, but was immediately attacked by the Shun Army on the city.

The Bagua Camp is an elite imperial camp, so it is impossible to collapse at once, but the miscellaneous camps that were expanded from the Green Camp soldiers were a little unable to hold on.

Wang Ming personally led his troops to supervise the formation behind him, and ordered that he should not retreat. Those who dared to turn around would be rectified.

The soldiers of the miscellaneous camp had no choice but to carry the ladder to continue attacking the city under the rain of the arrows of the Shun Army. However, the Shun Army on the city did not give in at all, and a large number of stones were smashed down the city. Bags of quicklime long swords were cut and thrown down, choking the Western Army that was sieging the city torment.

After another death, the soldiers of the battalion could not hold on and began to retreat. Wang Ming waved his hand, and the soldiers in armor stepped forward and cut down dozens of retreating heads, forcing the soldiers of the battalion to cry and curse in their hearts and rushed to the city again, climbing up with the stones, wood, hands and feet that fell from time to time on the city.

The corpses under the city were already very tired. The soldiers who had previously climbed the city and put the ladder on the ground, which was directly on people. Some ladders had more people climbed on them, and the weight of the ladder actually pierced the corpses below. At first glance, it seemed that the ladder was growing on people, which was so scary!

Wang Ming naturally would not put the hope of breaking the city on those soldiers of the miscellaneous camp. When the miscellaneous camp consumed the equipment in the city and attracted attention, he personally directed the Bagua Camp to gather a place to raise its head with dense muskets to suppress the Shun army on the city. Later, he transferred hundreds of dead soldiers to climb the ladders with shields on their heads, intending to reach the top in one fell swoop.

The Shun Army on the city was suppressed by the Western Army, and the counterattack power was suddenly lightened. Some young and strong men who helped Shun Army lift their equipment on the city were frightened by the death of their companions around them, their legs trembled, and a coward was even so scared that his crotch was wet.

The dead soldiers from the Bagua Camp of the Western Army were wearing two layers of armor and took the opportunity to climb up desperately. Several people actually climbed over the mercedes.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Bai Minghe drew his sword and ran towards the city wall with his personal soldiers. After a desperate battle, he finally cut down the Western army dead soldiers who had climbed up the city, and then pushed down the seven or eight ladders that were mounted on the wall with a long hook, which resolved the crisis.

Wang Ming was unwilling to accept that he was about to organize the dead soldiers to climb the city, but the sound of gongs coming from behind came from behind, so he had to order to retreat.

In this battle, the Shun army on the city was not seriously injured or killed, but the Western army at the city dropped six or seven hundred corpses.

Wang Ziqi ordered the withdrawal of troops because Ma Yuanli observed that the general flag of Shun Army on the city was not only Bai Minghe, but also the flag of the Dang surname, and speculated that it was from another general of Shun Army, Dang Meng'an.

If it was not just Bai Minghe in the city, then Wang Ziqi and Ma Yuanli would re-evaluate the guardian power of Fengxiang City.

After discussing, the two prepared to wait for the troops of General Liu Wenxiu, Funan, to arrive and use blasting to blow up Fengxiang City Wall.

As a result, before he could wait for General Funan's troops, he waited for good news. General Niu Wancai of the Shun Army, the General of Gongchang, was defeated by the Western Army in Xiangquan County on the way to assist Fengxiang, and Niu Wancai was captured by the Western Army. The one who defeated Niu Wancai was Zhou Shangxian of the decisive camp of Liu Wenxiu and Zhang Cheng of Dingyuan Camp.

After Niu Wancai was captured, he was quickly taken to the Funan General Liu Wenxiu. Liu Wenxiu said a little harshly and learned from Niu Wancai that he was ordered by Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Shaanxi, who surrendered to Shun, to help Fengxiang. He also said that Xi'an City is extremely empty now, and the main force of the Shun Army did go east to attack Beijing with the new king Lu Wenzong. Therefore, as long as the Western Army quickly captured Fengxiang City, it would be as if he had entered a deserted land and went straight to the city of Xi'an.
Chapter completed!