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Zhu Youjian looked at the four people kneeling on the ground viciously, without any expression of pity, and even showed that he deliberately wanted to find fault.

The four lowered their heads, not daring to answer.They are just generals, not the people around Zhu Youjian, so there is no room for bargaining.However, it is an impossible task to set up tents for tens of thousands of people on this small island with few trees.

"You are allowed to dismantle the bamboo raft dragged on the shore. Get out!" Zhu Youjian cursed impatiently.Xu Yong waited for this sentence, immediately kowtowed heavily, got up and ran.The next three movements were always half a beat slow, and when they got up, Xu Yong had already run tens of meters away.

"This Xu Yong is interesting." Zuo Maodi smiled, and it was easy for people to have a good impression of a quick and clever person.

"How many days do we have enough food and grass?" It's not enough just to keep out the wind and rain, but also to provide food for these people, otherwise something will happen.

"Take them all out, it's not enough for everyone to eat. But then we won't have any, Shi Lang can't live without food and grass." Zuo Maodi made the calculations, the food brought from Jiujiang alone is not enough at all, If the war in Anqing is over, food for these people is a big problem.

"Leave one day's rations for Shi Lang, and take out the rest. Make it thinner, let's have a porridge together tonight. In addition, remember that when the rations are distributed, you must make enough food and drink it at night." Porridge, eat it among the crowd."

For ordinary people, when there are not enough people to take care of them, they must be invited to buy people's hearts. Zhu Youjian still understands this method.

Xu Yong tried his best, and with the help of more than 2 subordinates, the shacks all over the ground were built very quickly.When the folk husbands lived in, they dared not live there, and worked until it was dark before barely finishing their work.

"My lord, do you think this is okay?" Xu Yong asked Zheng Chenggong who came to inspect him tremblingly.

"Hurry up and let your subordinates live in it." Zheng Chenggong was young, and he couldn't bear to see all the soldiers who were exhausted and naked.

Xu Yong had just moved into the shack at last, but Zhu Youjian was busy with dinner.

More than 2000 deliberately selected old and weak women and children were all gathered in the shacks built first.The roofs of the shacks here are covered with thick weeds, and even inside the house there is a warm fire.

Zhu Youjian walked along the shack, patrolling all the way, constantly booing and asking for warmth.Especially the group of old men and women following him, the scene is very touching.

"I know that you are forced, so please rest assured that the imperial court will never hold you accountable. I will guarantee this."

Standing in the rain, Zhu Youjian said loudly to everyone that there was a small yellow door holding up an oil-paper umbrella, which stretched over Zhu Youjian's head, and was pushed away by the emperor.

"I also heard that you haven't eaten any decent food for many days. You all eat fish, shrimp and weeds. Today, the officers and soldiers of the navy don't bring enough food, but I have ordered them to give up all the food they have. Food, we must let everyone have a meal. And I want to eat with you, I will eat whatever you eat. We will tide over the difficulties together!"

Zhu Youjian was talking, touched the rainwater on his face, and then waved his hand: "Send food!"

"Your Majesty is so benevolent! The old man has lived a long life, and he has never seen such an emperor. Long live, long live, long live!" An old man knelt down first, and then the entire shack knelt down in darkness.

It is actually easy to win people's hearts, and there is no harm without comparison.

Chapter 168: The Battle of Anqing

Huang Degong was standing on the gate tower of the west city gate of Anqing, staring into the distance.

The city wall is already dilapidated, and the mottled outer wall bricks are scattered everywhere. The exposed rammed earth proves that this is a city.The obstacles outside the city have been cleared, but the large and small gaps in the city wall cannot be repaired in a short time.

From noon until dark, the rebels on the left outside the city still showed no signs of attacking.That's the largest bunch of rebels and needs to be heavily defended.Huang Degong didn't pay much attention to the group of rebels in the suburbs east of the city, mainly because the number of them was too small.

The rain was still falling, the sky was already dark, and the sound of the rain in the dark night covered all the sounds. The vast wilderness seemed to be the mouth of a huge monster, which made people frightened.

Huang Degong is from Kaiyuanwei (Tieling) and belongs to the Northeast Army who lost his hometown. When he was 12 years old, his mother made wine once, and he drank it secretly.His mother blamed him, and he smiled and said, "It's easy to pay you back." At that time, Liao's military was in a hurry, so he took a knife and mingled with the army, ran to the battlefield and captured two heads of the enemy, winning a reward. Afterwards, I got about 50 taels of silver, and went home to present it to my mother, saying: "I will use this money to make up for the wine I drank secretly."

His hometown has long since become a foreign country. As a senior general of Ming Dynasty, Huang Degong never extinguished his dream of leading troops home.Is all this still far away?

When a sense of danger emerged from the bottom of his heart, Huang Degong turned around, and his thoughts were withdrawn from the memory.The general knew that danger represented war, which was the result of the inertia of countless battles.

On the city wall, every two soldiers held a placard and squatted together like this, guarding every possible dangerous place.Tuen Pai is not only their protection against wind and rain, but also a guarantee against danger.

"Pass the order, the enemy army is about to attack." Huang Degong looked at the invisible place outside the city, and gave the order lightly. He couldn't remember how many times he gave such orders.

Heavy rain is very detrimental to defense. The defenders cannot use bows and crossbows normally, especially large city defense crossbows. The bow strings have already been soaked by the rain and have no elasticity.

Gunpowder can't be used normally, and all firearms are decorations.Even the commonly used golden juice and boiling oil cannot be boiled.

Outside the city, Lu Guangzu, the most trusted general of the Zuo family, was approaching silently with [-] elite vanguards.

After approaching the bottom of the city wall, the soldiers on the left took out their bows and arrows, quickly opened the bowstring wrapped in oil paper, and installed it in twos and threes.

The sound of bows and arrows piercing through the rain was heard overwhelmingly, and the defenders clearly felt that a large nail had been hammered into the plaque above their heads several times.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" There was a loud shout on the city wall, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

The bugle sounded instantly, piercing through the rain curtain and heading straight into the sky.

There was no need for a ladder to attack Anqing. There were five or six gaps in the dilapidated city wall alone. The focus of the attack on the left was these gaps.

In the first wave of attacks, Zuo Menggeng used the most vicious and loyal soldiers.In such a dark night, it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. Lu Guangzu's order to his opponents is: rush forward regardless of everything, and kill anyone who faces him.

The black crowd rushed towards the gap together, the sound of swords clashing instantly resounded, and the fortifications of Chenghuan were full of shouts and killings.

Huang Degong turned around and picked up a big knife, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Commander, you can't go. The commander-in-chief has ordered you not to go to the front line." The guards hugged him tightly and refused to let him go.

"Oh! It's so boring, bring me some wine." Huang Degong knew that Zhu Youjian was doing it for his own good, but he felt too aggrieved to watch the battlefield without being able to kill the enemy himself.

"The commander-in-chief said that we can only drink after the battle." The guard spoke again, this time Huang De was so angry that he gave the guard a hard look.

Soon, the sound of killing broke through the city wall, and gradually shifted to the inside. More soldiers on the left kept running towards the gap, and the small gaps were already crowded with soldiers.

Then Zuo Menggeng looked at the faint fire with a binoculars proudly: "Everyone says that Huang Chuangzi is so powerful, but that's all! With his little soldiers, he can't even defend a gap, and his combat power is not good."

In one of the biggest gaps, a battalion commander of the Hezhou Army looked at the enemy troops rushing over and shouted calmly: "Turn up the cards!"

"Wow!" A black shield wall was erected immediately, and the gap was filled with gleaming spear heads.

The soldier on the left who had already rushed through the gap was stunned. Although there were only some dark shadows in front of him, the cold light from the gun head was still very scary.

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up!" A sentry officer kicked the stunned man, and rushed over with a wave of his knife.

"Plop! Ah~" The sentry officer was only concerned about running, his feet were empty, and his body fell down firmly.

"It's a trench." The soldier who spoke came to his senses, but his body passed from the ground.

"Pour the oil!" The battalion commander looked at the rebels who fell into the ditch, and shouted with a sneer, and several large tanks of oil with a faint light were dumped into the ditch.

"It's been tricked, retreat quickly!" The commander on the left hurriedly called his men to retreat, but unfortunately, there were still people rushing towards the gap, and some people fell into the ditch from the crowded crowd, and the people in the ditch wriggled like insects Standing, trying to get up.

"Light it up!" With the shout of the defenders, a small torch was reflected in the eyes of the sentry officer who fell into the ditch before he got up, and flew over from the top of his head, and then it became bigger and bigger until it reached the Cover entire face.

He grabbed the torch as soon as he stretched out his hand, but it was a pity that there was oil in his hand. When he slipped his hand and bang, the fire instantly surrounded everyone in sight.He was very happy the moment he grabbed the torch, but screamed again and again the next moment.

"Damn! This card is scorched, take five steps back." The battalion commander watched the scorching flames soaring into the sky. Fortunately, his subordinates were hiding behind the card, otherwise they would lose all their hair and eyebrows.

"It's not good, young commander, the city has been prepared for a long time, and we fell into the trap. There is a trench behind the gap, and our army has suffered countless casualties." Seeing the fire soaring into the sky, Zuo Menggeng had a premonition that something was wrong, but he never thought that the retribution would come like this quick.

"Huang Chuangzi, I can't finish with you." Zuo Menggeng got angry, and the young commander has a very bad temper.

"If you attack the city gate, I won't believe it. He also dug a trench inside the city gate." The land inside the city gate is the hardest, and it is not easy to dig a trench wherever you want.Zuo Menggeng is going to fight the city gate.