The piles of corpses at Fuzhou Gate made the soldiers on both sides feel uneasy, Chen Youliang rested for a few days, deliberately avoided Fuzhou Gate and went to attack Xinchengmen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 To his surprise this time, there were not a few soldiers on the city wall to defend it, and he thought that the soldiers guarding the new city gate were afraid to flee, so he hurriedly ordered someone to hit the city gate directly with the siege chariot.

Who knew that the chariot had just been pushed to the bottom of the city, and the city gate did not open by itself.

"They have surrendered!" shouted the Han army excitedly. As soon as the words fell, a group of cavalry rushed out of the city.

"Kill!" The leader was like a wolf and a tiger, unstoppable, and under his leadership, the cavalry roared and rushed to kill, and saw the Han soldiers pushing the chariot is a burst of swords and axes.

It turned out that the Hongdu guards were crazy, and under the command of Zhu Wenzheng, they won the first defensive battle, and this victory announced that Chen Youliang's army was not invincible, and they were confident that they could hold out until reinforcements arrived. Many soldiers looked at their dead comrades with joy and sorrow, anger and excitement filled their chests. Zhu Wenzheng's ignorance and fearlessness were also infected to Xue Xian, he was unwilling to fight in the city, and wanted to avenge the sacrifice of his robes, so he took the initiative to lead the troops to attack.

The Han army could not imagine that the guards of the new city gate dared to lead their troops out of the city to fight, and they were suddenly caught off guard, and the bulky siege chariots had not had time to turn around, and the surrounding siege vanguards had been killed.

Chen Youliang's subordinate Liu Zhen stepped forward to stop him, and was stabbed by Xue Xian in the waist and split into two sections, and the rest of the soldiers were all frightened and fled.

Xue Xian chased and killed for a while, vented the anger in his heart, and led his troops back to the city leisurely.

By the time Chen Youliang gathered the scattered people together, the city gate had already been closed, and Xue Xian and the others were laughing and laughing on the city wall.

Chen Youliang was disgraced, his morale plummeted, and he had to temporarily lead his troops to retreat.

After suffering losses in front of several city gates in a row, Chen Youliang simply gave up attacking the eight city gates and attacked the Hongdu Water Pass instead.

Zhu Wenzheng received the news, and hurriedly dispatched troops to defend the water pass, and summoned the strong men to rush to make the fence overnight.

Due to the blockade of the fence, Chen Youliang's fleet could not enter the port, and the Han army could only rush up to cut down the fence.

Zhu Wenzheng gave an order, and the soldiers who had been prepared stretched out their lances from the cracks in the fence and struck head-on, stabbing to death and wounding countless Han soldiers.

Chen Youliang was furious and ordered the Han army to use the corpse as a meat shield to continue to destroy the fence, and those who dared to retreat would be killed.

The Han army, which had no way out, had to risk death to grab the stabbed lance with their bare hands and let the soldiers behind continue to cut down the fence.

Zhu Wenzheng saw that the situation was unfavorable to him, so he stopped stabbing with a long lance and replaced it with an iron halberd that had been prepared for a long time.

The Han army still grabbed it with their bare hands like grabbing a long lance, but who knew that the skin and flesh were opened just after being hit, accompanied by screams and wails. Chen Youliang observed carefully, only to find that these iron halberds had been quenched by fire, the roots were red, and the flesh was scorched, and some of the Han soldiers who had used too much force were all burned on their hands, leaving only bloody flesh and bones left.

In this way, no one dared to step forward to seize the iron halberd, the fence was not broken, and the water gate was naturally safe and sound, and Chen Youliang returned again in vain.

Chen Youliang couldn't capture Hongdu for a long time, but he refused to leave, he was angry and angry, he divided his troops to capture Ji'an and Linjiang, recruited Li Mingdao, killed Zeng Wanzhong, captured Liu Qi, Zhu Shuhua, and Xiao Tianlin, and sent them to Hongdu City to open a knife, and shouted to the defenders in the city: "If you don't surrender, this is your fate!"

Zhu Wenzheng licked his chapped lips, pointed to several corpses hanging on the city wall, and said the same thing lightly, "Whoever dares to surrender, this is your fate!"

The soldiers looked at the corpse that was about to be dried, it was the corpse of a captain and his family.

Speaking of which, the death of this captain is also a bit unjust. After not closing his eyes for a few days and nights, he couldn't help but complain twice, complaining that Zhu Wenzheng should have abandoned the city and fled a long time ago, and should not have been fighting to the death, tens of thousands of people fought hundreds of thousands of people, where could he fight.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Wenzheng, who was patrolling the city defense, heard it, and he didn't even have a chance to defend the other party, so he drew his sword and stabbed the captain to death, and killed all the captain's family members and hung them on the city wall to make an example.

I have to say that this method of killing chickens and showing monkeys has played a certain role, and some undecided soldiers have dispelled the idea of surrendering every time they see the corpse of the captain, and they don't even dare to reveal a trace of wavering emotions.

Seeing that the Hongdu guards were unmoved, Chen Youliang had no choice but to continue to order the Han army to attack the two gates of Guanbu and Shibu.

Zhao Desheng, the general who defended the city, was accidentally hit by an arrow and unfortunately died.

Zhu Wenzheng immediately rearranged the generals to guard the city gate, and personally led his elite troops to climb the city wall, fighting side by side with the soldiers to resist the enemy's onslaught one after another.

The ratio of 40,000 guards to 600,000 Han troops was too different after all. Even if Zhu Wenzheng racked his brains and tried all methods, he only lasted for more than a month, and then he was powerless.

In this month, in the fierce attack of the enemy, Hongdu's defensive equipment was almost exhausted, and the enemy army was still attacking continuously, watching the soldiers around him gradually decrease, watching them weak and vain but never daring to take off their armor and weapons, Zhu Wenzheng couldn't help but despair and shame: Is the sky going to kill me? Am I really wrong?

At this time, Zhang Ziming, the marquis of Qianhu, came to see him again, and he said straight to the point: "Governor, don't ask for help at this moment, I'm afraid that Hong won't be safe." ”

Zhu Wenzheng smiled miserably, "Asking for help? How to ask for help, the entire Hong was surrounded by the Han army, and it was difficult to fly, who would go out?" He was not afraid of being embarrassed in front of his henchmen, and he even regretted that if he was willing to listen to Zhang Ziming's advice, maybe Zhu Yuanzhang's reinforcements would have arrived a long time ago.

"My subordinates are willing to give it a try. Zhang Ziming was so anxious, the letter for help had already been sent, why was there no movement at all in Tianfu, he decided to send the letter in person.

"You?" Zhu Wenzheng did not doubt Zhang Ziming's loyalty, but he doubted that Zhang Ziming would be up to the task. If there was a way to send the letter, he would have sent someone to deliver it a long time ago, why is it like now, there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth.

Zhang Ziming patted his chest, "My subordinates were born in Wudi, and they have been familiar with water since childhood, and they can lurk in the water for a cup of tea. ”

Of course, he dared to recommend himself, of course, with a certain degree of certainty, although the Haohao Han army surrounded the Hongdu to the ground, there were always negligences, such as this underwater unguarded. In fact, it can't be said that the Han army was negligent, who would have thought that someone could lurk in the water for so long, if the Han army has such a ability, there is no need to attack the city, directly let people enter the city from the bottom of the water, and draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle, you can easily take Hongdu.

Zhu Wenzheng was overjoyed, and no longer said big words that were stubborn and self-serving, and immediately quietly arranged for Zhang Ziming to sneak out of the water gate and ask Zhu Yuanzhang for help.