Bright Spring

The city of Jinan was filled with smog, and the sound of cannons continued day and night...

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In the city of Jinan, amidst the roar of cannons, the screams of slaughtering pigs were mixed.Freshly killed pigs, cows, sheep and other livestock were placed on the open space inside the city gate. Incense and candles were burned in front of them. The burly Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan, a descendant of the Semu people, cut their fingers with knives and dripped their blood onto a bowl of livestock. in the blood.

Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan held up the blood bowls and said: "The world can learn from it. Today, Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan are allied with blood, united in one heart and one heart, defending Jinan City to the death, and people are in the city! If you break your oath, both men and gods will be punished!"

The two swore in public, then raised their heads and drank the blood "gulu gulu" into their stomachs.

"Kang Dang!" Sheng Yong threw the bowl, stepped forward and reached out to grab Tie Xuan: "Tie Gong!" Tie Xuan also looked at him, "Brother Sheng!"

Sheng Yong's eyes were shining, looking at Tie Xuan, as if he was looking at a thick branch of a big tree!

The two walked up the city wall hand in hand, raised their heads and stood upright to face the fierce artillery fire of the Yan army, both showing fearless expressions.Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately boosted their morale.

Sheng Yong said: "I have long admired Tie Gong so much! Cao Guogong has hundreds of thousands of troops before and after, supervising food is the most important thing, Tie Gong deserves the greatest credit! It's a pity that Cao Guogong failed Tie Gong's hard work, alas..."

"Where is there!" Although Tie Xuan said so, his face was already dying of laughter.He immediately sighed from the bottom of his heart, "Finally someone understands. We are all loyal to the court, and we want someone to see that we are doing our best. If I were Yu Boya, brother Sheng would be Zhong Ziqi!"

Sheng Yong hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "To be able to defend against the enemy with Tie Gong in Jinan today is really a great fortune."

Tie Xuan nodded and said: "To each other." He suppressed his smile and said, "If we had known each other early, why would the battle of Pingyan end here?"

Sheng Yong didn't say a word, and looked like he was listening attentively.Tie Xuan pondered for a long time, sighed and shook his head again.

After a while, Tie Xuan said in a deep voice: "Brother Sheng had a good relationship with Wei Guogong (Xu Huizu) at the beginning, so how can it be useful for Wei Guogong to recommend you?"

Sheng Yong hurriedly whispered: "Wei Guogong is indeed knowledgeable, high-status, and loyal. When I made friends with him, he hadn't cut down the feudal clan yet. It's just that we liked each other before, and that's how we became friends. I didn't ask for it. Wei Guogong recommended me, and after knowing that he recommended me, it was already too late!"

"I see." Tie Xuan nodded thoughtfully.

After a while, Tie Xuan said again: "However, in the beginning, it was not Brother Sheng's turn to be in charge. There must be a process of washing out the sand."

"What a big wave washes the sand!" Sheng Yong praised.

Tie Xuan smiled and said: "Brother Sheng is talented, you must do your best this time, as long as you guard Jinan City, I will definitely help Brother Sheng when I enter the court!"

So many good things have been said, this sentence is the most important!

"It's a deal!" Sheng Yong secretly delighted.The two clapped their hands together to make an appointment.

Sheng Yong immediately felt relieved... Sheng Yong had heard about the relationship between Tie Xuan and Huang Zicheng, the emperor. This time, he and Tie Xuan fought side by side with their heads raised. They hugged a thick branch, but the big tree couldn't hold it what?

Sheng Yong has experienced many storms on the battlefield and in the temple. Along the way, he has long understood: If he only knows the art of war, he will end up like him. He can only follow people like Li Jinglong again and again. What can I do?

Those who know current affairs are heroes!

If he continues to follow Xu Huizu, Sheng Yong feels that he will never make it.He still respects Xu Huizu very much in his heart, but it's useless to act emotionally. Who told Yan Ni to be Xu Huizu's brother-in-law?

At this time, Sheng Yong clasped his fists and said, "Tie Gong sits in the Chief Secretary, don't worry. Jinan City has a high wall and so many soldiers and horses. If I can't defend it, I will meet you."

Tie Xuan happily said: "Okay, I knew Brother Sheng could fight!"

Sheng Yong was going to inspect the city defense elsewhere, so he said goodbye to Tie Xuan first.

Coming down to the city, Sheng Yong had just rode for a while when he saw Li Jinglong coming towards him on horseback.Li Jinglong stared at Sheng Yong with displeasure, and walked swaggeringly in the middle.

Sheng Yong smiled and stepped aside.

"Sheng Yong, wait for me!" Li Jinglong whispered through gritted teeth as he walked by.

Sheng Yong sneered, not afraid at all.

He thought to himself: Li, you have caused us misery, I really can't stand it, so I just scolded you.What the hell do you think I'm sorry for you? !

But Sheng Yong was too lazy to reason with Li Jinglong.

In the past, Li Jinglong was valued by Huang Zicheng, not only because Li Jinglong wanted to get closer; Huang Zicheng was the emperor's teacher, the person most trusted by the Holy One, there were many people who wanted to curry favor with him... but not many people curry favor with Huang Zicheng as the Duke of the State.And Li Jinglong is the Duke of the state, with a high status, and seems to be able to command the army, Huang Zicheng thinks it is useful.

Now Li Jinglong has lost two battles in a row, losing hundreds of thousands of troops.Discredited, sinful!Will Huang Zicheng still protect him?Hahaha, unless he is Huang Zicheng's real father, or Huang Zicheng himself is stupid!

Is Huang Zicheng stupid?Sheng Yong didn't think that this person didn't know soldiers, but he was very skilled in the temple.

Sheng Yong didn't like Huang Zicheng at all, but when he thought about Li Jinglong's defeat last year and being saved by Huang Zicheng, the situation in the court was changing, and Huang Zicheng won in the end.Sheng Yong felt: Li Jinglong is finished, but Huang Zicheng is not finished yet!

From time to time, Sheng Yong looked at Li Jinglong with a sneer, and wanted to see: What the hell can you do to me?

...Sheng Yong rode into the commander's yamen of the capital, and immediately ordered to summon his confidant generals, and immediately issued an order: "Go out of the city tonight to fight against Yan Ni!"

Some generals persuaded: "Yan Ni is violent, I'm afraid he will be angered."

Sheng Yong said: "That Gao Xianning doesn't understand anything, what is he writing! I am afraid that Yan Ni will not be angry, what if he runs away?"

Chapter 76 Embankment

First, Sheng Yong led the army to attack the camp outside the city at night, and then Tie Xuan falsely surrendered, and King Yan repeatedly sent people to persuade him to surrender...all to no avail. In the end, they could only fight each other in Jinan City across a thick and tall city wall.

In order to prevent the officers and soldiers from going out of the city to fight back, a fortification was built outside the city of Jinan, with fences and ditches, built out of the range of the artillery shells.Zhu Gaoxu rode a horse and patrolled the battlefield behind the fence, determined not to go beyond the trench.

"Kill! Kill..." The flames shot up under the city wall, and many soldiers were rushing towards the city wall shouting, holding shields and pushing ladders.Thick smoke filled the air, including white gunpowder smoke and black smoke from burning oil.

The rockets are dotted in the smoke, like fireflies in the twilight, more gorgeous than the fireworks on New Year's Eve.There are also large ceramic caltrops thrown by the return cannon, which are stuffed with large firecrackers, exploding everywhere, and fragments of porcelain are flying in all directions.

"Boom boom boom..." The artillery roared up and down the city wall, and the firecrackers flickered intensively.

Zhu Gaoxu felt his ears "buzzing".Guns blared between heaven and earth, he had the illusion that he was in an anti-war TV series, as if he had already entered the era of hot|weapons.

It has been more than two months since the siege of Jinan City, except for the creation of countless corpses, basically no results can be seen.Even though King Yan was good at fighting, he couldn't escape the limitations of the times.

Zhu Gaoxu thought of the explosives that are often used in movies to blow up bunkers. Now that there is gunpowder, it is still powerful to bury it underground and seal it... However, the amount of gunpowder needed will be a lot; the city wall of Jinan is much stronger than the bunker, although There is no cement, but the rammed earth more than ten meters thick cannot be exploded by ordinary bombs.

So far King Yan really controls only a few prefectures around Beiping, and he has never heard of any large saltpeter mines. It may not be easy to get so much gunpowder.

At this moment, in the depths of the thick smoke outside the fence, many soldiers turned back in a mess, apparently the attack was fruitless again.

People pushed wheelbarrows and carried stretchers to bring the wounded back.During the retreat, the howling and groaning of wounded soldiers came from everywhere.Many people poured into the gate of the gate, and sat in disorder behind the fence, some were lamenting, some were shouting: "Go call someone, and bring all the wounded into the camp."

"Ah..." A scream came from not far away.I saw two soldiers taking off the armor and clothes of a wounded soldier. The left arm and leg of the wounded soldier were black and black, and a smell of burnt meat mixed with the smell of asphalt came to his face.

A soldier said: "Brother, you have too many burns, it won't heal, why don't you have a good time?"

The wounded soldier just howled.

The soldier persuaded again: "I have seen this kind of injury last month, that brother is rotten and full of maggots! He can't die, he can't even eat, and he starves to death. Waiting for death every day, Too bad!"

The wounded soldier shook his head and cried, "I don't want to die, save me..."

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't say a word, so he hurriedly left the place on horseback.It was too miserable, and there was nothing he could do.