Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu threw the reins to Zhao Ping, walked into a tent, and saw that the Langzhong and the young man accompanying the army were busy.The armor of one of the soldiers was untied, and the doctor was cutting his clothes with scissors.

"My lord!" Lang Zhong clasped his fists hastily.

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand and said, "It's important to save people."

The doctor tore off the jacket of the yelling soldier, and immediately cursed: "It's poisonous again! Annan's heart is vicious, and he put poison on the clusters of firecrackers and arrows. The flesh on this brother's chest is completely black."

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "Is there an antidote?"

The doctor shook his head and said: "There are all kinds of poisons on the arrow cluster, taking the medicine is useless, the wound will fester! The gunshot wound on the hands and feet can only be cut off, this brother has a chest injury, and he can only wait for the skin to fester and slowly hurt|die .”

The soldiers who were lying on the bed and screaming seemed to have heard Lang Zhong's words, and at this moment they began to howl and cry, and their voices became more and more desperate and miserable.

Zhu Gaoxu had no choice but to bend over and step out of the tent door after walking around.

In war, people will die, and all kinds of cruel | vicious situations will appear, both the enemy and the enemy are the same.Zhu Gaoxu has seen a lot, and he has long understood... The only way to avoid this kind of thing is peace.

The siege of Kimaru continued until Youshi.As the sun was about to set, the artillery fire gradually died down, and the troops began to retreat.On and off the city wall, many corpses and wounded soldiers were left behind, and there was no real progress other than that.

However, this situation is expected. If the siege does not have internal spies, it will be difficult to make it effective in a short time; at least it will take a while to be effective, and it depends on who can't hold it first.Some siege battles can even be fought for several years, and finally won by surrounding and starving the opponent to death.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu did not plan to besiege Muwan Prefecture for too long. He launched the siege based on the judgment that the landlord general was incapable and easy to attack.He was going to endure it for a few days before looking at the situation.

... Early the next morning, the Ming army continued to attack the city.

The three sides of Muwan Prefecture were surrounded, and the Hongwu cannon in the distance was the first to sound, welcoming the blood-red sunrise.After two consecutive days of artillery bombardment, the crenels on the city wall were dilapidated.

The Ming army from all walks of life advanced to the city wall, and the bowl-mouthed guns, bowl-mouthed guns, and rockets were also fired one after another. The smoke of gunpowder, burning black smoke, and flames quickly shrouded this fresh morning in flames of war.

Zhu Gaoxu rode out of the camp and observed the battle situation everywhere in order to judge whether the city could be captured in a short time!The generals of each ministry are responsible for the attack tactics of a place. Zhu Gaoxu is now the chief general. There is no need for him to interfere in every place, as long as he understands that everyone is doing their best to fight.

The gunpowder, artillery shells and arrows of the Ming army consumed a lot, and the fighting intensity in the past two days was very high.The siege battle did not stop even at noon, and each department took turns to attack!

At dusk, when Zhu Gaoxu inspected the west city, he suddenly saw a soldier climbing up the city wall on a ladder.Annan's army did not come with reinforcements in order to try to recapture the city here!

Zhu Gaoxu immediately stopped at the same spot, pointed to the top of the city and said: "Go and pass the order, this team will reward each person with ten pennies! The soldiers who go to the city first will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and they will be rewarded heavily for promotion. I will not hesitate!"

"Order!"

At this moment, a voice said: "The last general asks for orders, go for reinforcements!"

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and saw that it was Wang Yu, the military general of the garrison station and an officer of a hundred households.Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said, "Yes."

...Wang Yu immediately shouted: "Brothers, the prince is here to watch us make meritorious deeds, follow me!"

Dozens of riders rode their horses and rushed under the city wall. There were shouts everywhere, and several generals were driving the soldiers to climb up the ladder.Swords and guns are brandishing on the city, and the soldiers of the Ming army are fighting to the death.

Wang Yu looked up and saw a Ming soldier with disheveled hair on the edge of the city wall, shouting and brandishing a sword and shield, with arrows on his back.Generally, the first person to attack the city wall is close to death, because there are few people going up, and they will face the siege of the superior defenders.What's more, usually when someone attacks the top of the city, the defenders will desperately mobilize reinforcements to gather | annihilate them!

But the greater the danger, the greater the credit!

Wang Yu turned his head and shouted to a general: "His Royal Highness ordered this general to come for reinforcements, please go up the ladder!"

The general nodded and said: "You can go up now!"

Wang Yu waited for the soldiers in front to climb up, picked up a pair of round shields on the ground first, and led the soldiers up the ladder.All the soldiers under his command then climbed up.

"Ah!" A soldier on the ladder above was hit by an arrow, and his body fell sideways.Wang Yu hurriedly grabbed the wood, and lifted it with one hand, and the injured soldier rolled down from the side of the ladder.

Using both hands and feet, Wang Yu took advantage of the fact that there was no one guarding the wall, and quickly climbed to the top of the wall. He saw a few soldiers of the Ming army still yelling and fighting with injuries all over their bodies.The messy Annan army soldiers besieged them.Wang Yu climbed into the wall, immediately pulled out the Yanling Saber, held the shield in his left hand and charged forward, and the guardsmen behind him also rushed up with shouts.

"Ding Ding Bang Bang!" Wang Yu blocked the knife and gun with his shield, and pressed his whole body on an enemy soldier. With a loud roar, he stabbed the man in the chest with a knife, and the enemy soldier turned pale with fright.The knife had penetrated into flesh and blood, their faces were almost touching, and the chattering of the enemy soldiers' teeth could be clearly heard.Wang Yu stared fiercely at the eyes, and thrust forward with his hand violently|into it.

"Ah!" The guard brothers beside him rushed up desperately with knives and guns.Although they didn't have horses, they still fought like cavalry, relying on the speed of running and the weight of their bodies, they rushed towards them with weapons, unstoppable.

A soldier of the Ming army next to him was stabbed in the iron hat and stabbed in the side, but he pushed an enemy soldier to the ground with his body, and continued to slash like stomping flesh with a knife. , the enemy soldier was chopped to a bloody mess, still screaming.

The enemy soldiers retreated to both sides while fighting, but still no reinforcements from the defenders came.Wang Yu led dozens of elite soldiers with incomparable ferocity, and the scope of the scuffle on the city wall became wider and wider.

Then on the other two ladders, soldiers of the Ming army climbed in.The gap in the defense of the city wall was like a hole broken by a flood, and it was quickly torn open, and more and more soldiers of the Ming army climbed to the top of the city.

Wang Yu shouted: "The prince personally ordered that brothers in the upper city, everyone will be rewarded! Kill!"

The Annan army's rebellious soldiers broke up on both sides, and the soldiers of the Ming army rushed straight up the stone steps in the city.Some have already entered a nearby tower, and there are stairs in the tower, so they can rush down directly into the city.

Countless iron helmets of Ming soldiers surged, and the crowd swept up the stone steps like a torrent of steel. "Bang bang bang..." Suddenly there was a sound of firecrackers in the city, and some soldiers of the Ming army screamed and fell to the ground, but more soldiers rushed forward and rushed down the stairs, chopping anyone they saw.Rows of Annan Army firearms were swallowed instantly, and flesh and blood flew all over the place amidst howling screams of pain and cries of fear.

Wang Yu saw that there was no large group of enemy soldiers coming from the city gate, so he immediately waved the Yanling sword and led everyone to rush to the city gate.

After the city gate was opened, the sound of horseshoes outside was like thunder.Wang Yu wiped the blood on his face with his hand, and saw a group of cavalry rushing towards the gate of the city with clusters of arrows.

Wang Yu raised his head and laughed wildly.

Under the command of a prince who is good at fighting is Shu Tan. The king of Han knows when and where his soldiers should be mobilized.As soon as the city gate is opened, reinforcements can appear outside in time!

Chapter 3 The whole country resists the enemy (4)

It was as if the great river had burst its embankment, and the muddy river water mixed with all kinds of sundries rolled into the city; on the streets in Kimaru Prefecture, crazy crowds and war horses were running like a flood.

Annan's defeated soldiers were also running. From time to time, some people were squeezed or tripped, or were injured by arrows. They would soon be drowned in the crowd by the mad soldiers of the Ming army, and they would die without complete bodies.A young Annan man held a gun in his hand, raised his head and ran desperately with the crowd panting.

After a while, he realized that a firecracker without ammunition in his hand was as useless as a stick. At this time, the generals and soldiers had long been unable to recognize each other, and there was no time to stop and reload to fight back. The younger generation felt that the firecracker was redundant, so he threw it away. keep running.

"Ahhh..." The people in front suddenly shouted, and they slowed down, and the young man also hurriedly slowed down, but the crowded crowd immediately pushed him to the ground.The young man fell to the ground, barking like a dog whose tail had been trampled on, thumping to get up, because he knew what would happen if he stopped and was caught up by "mad soldiers".There is a language barrier, and even surrender is impossible.

He just stood up and found that there was also a large group of enemy soldiers rushing in front of him. No wonder the people in front stopped suddenly. With a sound of "kuang", a person bumped into him for a moment, he staggered, fell to the ground again, and hurriedly rolled and scrambled to find a place to hide.There was a house on the side of the street. Many soldiers broke open the door and rushed inside.The younger generation was afraid and anxious, and wanted to hide inside, but was immediately crushed by another person who had fallen, and struggled a few times but couldn't get up.

"Ding, clang, clang..." The soldiers of the Ming army rushed into the crowd with their knives and guns, stabbing with their knives and spears, with such a terrible look that they wanted to kill An Nanbing with their teeth.

Housheng was trembling all over, he didn't even have the strength to struggle, he huddled under a corpse in the corner, staring at a few enemy soldiers with bloody faces facing an Annan soldier on the ground chaotic|stabbing, that Annan soldier He had stopped moving for a long time, and was still hacked at least a dozen times.

The shoulder armor of a Ming soldier was slashed by a rebel, and the knife left a bloody gash on his cheek, leaving blood all over his face and neck, but he was still twisting the hair of an Annan soldier, holding He chopped and sawed the man's neck like chopping ribs with the knife.

The blood flowed on the ground and the blood mist flew in the air, it was even more terrifying than a chaotic slaughterhouse.The nearby houses had been set on fire, and many soldiers who hid in the houses ran out of the thick smoke and were hacked beyond recognition.

... Many fires ignited in the city, screams everywhere, corpses can be seen everywhere, it is a total mess, as if there was a tragedy after a sudden earthquake.

The Ming army rushed to the pier inside the water gate, and even the boats were full of Ming army soldiers.

Many warships on the wharf and in the port caught fire, and some were robbed by the Ming army, and the ships were driven into the river.The Annan Army navy on the great river seemed to be unmanned, and some sailed straight to the east, and countless warships were directly abandoned in the port and the river.

This wealthy and important town on the riverside plain seemed to turn into a dead city the next morning.The artillery fire has stopped, the fighting has stopped, people should be far from dead, but at this time all Annan soldiers and civilians are trembling under the iron hooves of the Ming army, hiding in their homes or corners, and no one comes to the streets.

Occasionally, there is a sound of gunfire or strings, as if hunting in the wilderness.The water mist was mixed with a burning smell and a disgusting fishy smell, and there was a strong sense of death in the dead air.

A blood-red army flag with the word "Ming" appeared from under the tower, and then a line of infantry marched neatly through the blood and corpses. The footsteps of the orderly infantry and the intensive sound of iron hoofs rang out.

The call to action was posted on the walls everywhere, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was riding on a brown horse, looked sideways slightly, and a row of Chinese characters "Don't take goods recklessly, don't plunder people's wives and daughters, don't kill those who surrender" flashed in front of his eyes.But under the corner next to it, the corpse of a woman with disheveled clothes and pale and bluish skin was thrown there in all directions.