At this time, under the city of Zhenjiang, the cannonballs roared and smashed into the city, exploding above the heads of the officers and soldiers defending the city, and smashed the city-guarding equipment that they had finally put together!

"Don't retreat!" Ma Yun's sharp voice sounded, "Those who retreat die!"

Ma Yun, a eunuch who had not been a supervisor for a day, showed his bravery, he took the lead and blew a sharp whistle, urging the officers and soldiers defending the city to fight to the death. His task was to hold a place in the fort, and the more difficult gate was Gao Xu's personal supervision, and the overwhelming eagle guards, carrying siege equipment to rush to the gate.

From bringing the army into the city to establishing the city defense, and then to meeting the general attack, Gao Xu and Zhang Zhaohua hardly even had time to take a breath, and when they stood in the city, they saw that the enemy army densely packed underground was like a black tide rolling towards the city wall! In particular, they were well armed, equipped with siege equipment, artillery, muskets, trebuchets, and so on, and they almost blew up half of the city wall of Zhenjiang as soon as they came up!

"Aim-" Gao Xu watched the enemy carry the ladder up, like ants climbing a tree, before saying, "Shoot!"

The archer immediately drew his bow and fired the first arrow as fast as he could. They didn't aim at all, because the enemy army under the city was so dense that the rain of bows and arrows hit countless enemies, but there were many more enemies screaming and rushing up, and even they had strong crossbowmen, at the head of the reflection wall!

With the terrible screams, even though the Xiaolingwei were brave and not afraid of death, in the face of dense and extremely lethal muskets, they could not resist at all, they could only use shields to protect themselves, but they were slashed to death by the enemy who jumped on the wall.

"Throw the oil can!" Gao Xu smashed the canister in his hand down the city, and the boiling oil burst with the burning oil can, and suddenly the fire burst into the sky, blocking the fierce attack of the enemy army at once, and seeing that his peers turned into burning people rolling on the ground, these people finally hesitated.

"Archery!" Zhang Zhaohua saw the opportunity, and immediately organized the crossbowmen to start the second round of archery, and a heavy crossbow was shot at the carriage of the storming car of the siege without hindrance, and the carriage swayed left and right and disintegrated, and the archers on the carriage were also bombarded by the flames, and they all howled and turned their heads and ran.

Gao Xu immediately dispatched more than 100 cavalry who had been waiting behind the city gate, and these people opened the gate and rushed out screaming, killing the enemy army who was caught off guard and bleeding like a river-

Zhenjiang has become a bloody Shura field!

By sunset, the battle was finally over, and there were only 1,200 Xiaolingwei left, plus the officers and soldiers of the Zhenjiang Guard, a total of about 1,450 people, who were almost exhausted, but they still had to face a second battle that would start at any time!

"At night," Gao Chi almost collapsed: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm going to have a second batch! They have muskets and artillery, and we have nothing!"

Ying Yangwei opened the E-word library and snatched firearms to equip himself, Xiaolingwei had nothing, almost with his bare hands, and could only rely on Zhenjiang's city defense.

Gao Xu was hit by two arrows, which seemed to be on his shoulder, and it didn't seem to be too heavy, but when the military doctor tore off his clothes, he found that Chang Sen had stabbed a big hole in his back, and half of his body was almost dyed red.

"Hurry up!" Zhang Zhaohua's heart was shocked, this wound was too shocking: "Hurry up and carry it in!"

Gao Xu said: "Chang Sen's spearhead is broken inside." ”

The hideous wound was bubbling with blood, and there was a finger-long piece of spearhead iron deep into the bone that could not be pulled out. And the iron piece was stuck too deeply, and the wound was already swollen like a steamed bun, and the two military doctors couldn't determine the specific location by observation alone, so they could only rely on squeezing with both hands, and even put their fingers into the wound and began to grope for the location of the iron piece!

Zhang Zhaohua watched from the sidelines, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, not to mention that Gao Xu, who didn't have any numbness, was already sweating like rain, his face was transparent, but he gritted his teeth and didn't move!

"I touched it—" The military doctor finally trembled, "It's too deep, I can't pull it out on the side, I want to cut it here!"

"Hurry up!" Gao Xu shouted angrily.

The military doctor stiffened and pulled two knives on the upper side of his wound, blood splattered out, Gao Xu's eyes widened, and he spasmed in pain, Zhang Zhaohua tore off a piece of cloth from the corner of his skirt and stuffed it into his mouth, and after a while, blood stains came out of the cloth.

The military doctor of the Zhenjiang Guard is also experienced in a hundred battles, and he has never seen such a strong character as Gao Xu, he knows that the pain of the Han King will be one point more intense, so he shot out like electricity, and pinched the iron piece at once, "Your Highness endure!" After saying that, he suddenly pulled out the iron piece, Gao Xu's eyes were red, and he let out a beast-like roar, and finally collapsed.

Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly supported him and ordered to carry people in, Gao Xu is like this, he can't come out to fight anymore, he is too seriously injured, and there are no effective anti-inflammatory drugs now, just now the military doctor took out the iron piece, although he poured rice wine to clean the wound, and applied plasters and honey, but who knows if it will be infected, everything can only obey the destiny of heaven.

This battle is too difficult and dangerous, and there is no certainty of victory, in fact, Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi can completely abandon the city and flee, as long as they go north, it will be safe as long as they cross Taizhou, and there is no need to die in this place. But if they do this, they will all look down on themselves, and the emperor will not have a great enemy who only cares about his own life.

"If the people support us, we will never leave them," Zhang Zhaohua said: "If they remember Zhou Xin and Jianwen, it is the mandate of heaven and there is no resentment." Isn't this battle even more difficult than when Li Jinglong's troops came to the city? It was an army of 100,000, but now it is only a few thousand!"

The sky has just been dark, sure enough, the second group of troops has arrived, when the enemy on the ladder climbs the city, the battle will start in every inch of the city wall, this time the enemy army is like crazy, it seems that Zhenjiang must be taken, which reminds Zhang Zhaohua of the word the end of the road, she firmly believes that the imperial army is coming in the starry night, as long as this group is repulsed, the dawn of victory will come!

There are Wugang vehicles transporting grain in Zhenjiang City, this kind of Wugang car is not a chariot covered with cowhide rhino armor, tied with spears, and set up a strong shield in the Han Dynasty, but an ordinary grain truck, but these hundreds of vehicles are enough, Zhang Zhaohua ordered someone to fill the car with oil cans, ignite and pull out, all exploded in an instant, and killed I don't know how many people.

A battle was fought from dark to dawn, and everyone was almost exhausted. And the Ying Yangwei under the city seemed to be in a commotion, they took the lead in ceasefire, and sent people to shout: "Hand over Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu, you can avoid slaughtering the city!"

No one listened to him, but after a while, a few people suddenly came out of the city, and Lian Zhen pressed them to kneel on the ground, and smiled fiercely: "The relatives of the crown princess Zhang's family are all here, and the time limit is three moments, if you can't recognize them, you will kill one person after one moment, and if you don't come out at noon, they will all be killed!"

Zhang Zhaohua looked at the city, and sure enough, he saw Zhang Qi, Wang, Zhang Chang, Zhang Sheng, and Zheng holding two screaming children, all of whom were tied up with five flowers, and Lian Zhen's long knife was dangling above their heads.