If this continues, before Zhu Yuanzhang breaks through Pingjiang, the desperate people will be able to destroy the entire city by themselves. Zhang Shicheng was very anxious, and personally sneaked out of the West Gate with Yongsheng's pro-army, went around to Taohuawu, and attacked Chang Yuchun's camp.

Who knew that Xu Wuzao leaked the news to the Western Wu Army.

The Yongsheng pro-army approached the Changyuchun camp, and countless soldiers rushed out of it, rampage, artillery and arrows, killing the Eastern Wu soldiers in a hurry, and fled in a hurry.

Zhang Shicheng saw that the sneak attack failed, but was outflanked, so he had to retreat to Shapotan while fighting, but fortunately, Yongsheng's pro-army desperately covered him, so he fled back to the city in embarrassment.

The frightened Zhang Shicheng returned to the city to count the number of people, immediately beat his chest and feet, and cried bitterly. In addition to the countless casualties of the soldiers of Eastern Wu, most of his brave victorious pro-army has lost most of them, which are all warriors who are worth a hundred. In desperation, he had no choice but to shrink into the Pingjiang River, relying on the city to defend to the death, and sending people to sneak out of the city to ask for help.

Soon, Mo Tianyou, the defender of Wuxi, sent Yang Mao to infiltrate Pingjiang to understand the situation and prepare to support Zhang Shicheng.

The patrolling Western Wu soldiers caught Yang Mao at the Yanmen Water Gate, and when they saw that he was acting suspiciously, they bound him to the barracks without any documents to prove his identity.

Xu Da interrogated him about his origin and purpose, but he refused to say anything, even if the jailer tortured him, he gritted his teeth and did not make a move.

Xu Da was furious and had to be punished heavily.

Chang Yuchun said: "Let's try my methods." He whispered a few words into the jailer's ear.

The jailer nodded, went out and led a sheep, carrying a jar of honey.

Xu Da was puzzled, what could a sheep do, he suppressed his curiosity and looked down.

I saw several jailers carry Yang Mao to the torture bed with his back facing the sky, his limbs were fixed by wooden shackles, and after confirming that he could not move, they took off his shoes and socks, smeared honey on the soles and toes, and let the sheep lick them with his tongue.

The sheep obviously liked this "deliciousness" and licked it very cooperatively. As soon as the honey was almost licked, the jailer would immediately apply some more.

Yang Mao was able to endure it at first, but in less than a cup of tea, he laughed uncontrollably, the itchy feeling was like thousands of ants burrowing into his body at the same time, and he couldn't alleviate this feeling even if he writhed his body desperately. In the end, he cried and laughed, foamed at the mouth and begged for mercy loudly, willing to confess everything.

"Why did you come up with such insidious methods?" Xu Da was terrified, a man who was not even afraid of torture was tortured to death by this kind of licking torture.

Chang Yuchun smiled, "What Yuan Xing told me before I set out on the expedition, this guy still knows a lot, and I'll ask for a few tricks another day." ”

Xu Da remembered that Yuan Xing often talked about Ma Xiuying, and couldn't help but say: "I'm afraid that his sister-in-law Princess Ma knows a lot." ”

When Chang Yuchun heard this, he immediately closed his mouth, he dared to joke about Yuan Xing, but he didn't dare to say half a word about Ma Xiuying's rights and wrongs. He has already experienced the power of this woman in various hearstories and experiences, and it will be sad if Ma Xiuying uses those unbelievable methods on him.

Tu Da and Chang Yuchun tacitly changed the topic. The two of them decided to rebel against Yang Mao and let him use it for their own use.

Xu Da ordered someone to write down Yang Mao's confession, and asked him to put a handprint on the confession, and then said: "Zhang Shicheng is gone, why should you still serve him, if you are willing to surrender to our army, the future will be immeasurable, and the glory and wealth will be endless." If you refuse to surrender, this confession will be sent to Pingjiang City in the next moment and placed in front of Zhang Shicheng. ”

Fools know how to choose, not to mention that Yang Mao is not a fool, he also sees the precarious situation in Pingjiang, and at this time there is an opportunity to borrow a donkey to go downhill, so he hurriedly agreed.

So Xu Da released Yang Mao and asked him to continue to deliver news for Mo Tianyou and Zhang Shicheng, and secretly sent the news to the Western Wu Army. With this internal response, Xu Da therefore knew the reality of Wuxi and Pingjiang defending the enemy. When he learned that there had been a riot in Pingjiang City, he hurriedly told Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the city locking law had taken effect, and Zhang Shicheng was about to be unable to hold on, so he was very happy, so he wrote a letter to persuade Zhang Shicheng to surrender, promising to follow the example of the Eastern Han Dynasty accepting the surrender of Dou Rong and the Northern Song Dynasty accepting the surrender of Dou Yu, so that he could protect his whole body.

However, Zhang Shicheng stubbornly refused to surrender and continued to resist behind closed doors. He also accepted Xiong Tianrui's suggestion, desperately made flying cannons, fired arrows and stones, and bombarded the Western Wu troops attacking outside the city, in a vain attempt to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. He even led his troops to break through the siege several times, but they were all repulsed.

By September, due to the long siege of the city, the city was finally exhausted of ammunition and food, and all kinds of materials were scarce, the ancestral temple and the houses of the people were demolished and used as artillery tools, wood and stone were exhausted, leather boots and saddles were cooked, and even rats and dry grass were used to satisfy hunger. At that time, a mouse in the city could be sold for 100 yuan, so you can imagine what kind of situation the people's lives have fallen into.

Knowing that Zhang Shicheng had fallen into a desperate situation, Xu Da ordered Yang Mao to pretend to be reinforcements to arrive to coax the Eastern Wu army to open the city gate, and at the same time ordered a strong attack.

Gongs and drums rang out in unison, 10,000 cannons were fired in unison, and the soldiers shouted "Kill!" and rushed to the city gates like a tide.

When the Eastern Wu army found out that the enemy was coming, they knew that Yang Mao had fallen for it, and it was too late to close the city gate, so they could only resist hard, but they were the opponents of the Western Wu army in the case of material scarcity.

After a fierce battle, Xu Da led his soldiers to break through Fengmen first, and Chang Yuchun then also attacked Changmen and advanced to Pingjiang City.

Zhang Shicheng made the last resistance, so that Tang Jie boarded the inner city to resist the battle, and he supervised the inner city, and ordered Xie Jie and Zhou Ren to set up a fence to make up for the outer city.

Xu Da commanded the soldiers to rush and kill, Tang Jie couldn't support it, and led the crowd to surrender, Zhou Ren and others saw that the general trend had gone, and they also surrendered one after another.

Xu Da ordered the soldiers to attach themselves to the city and rush into the city.

Zhang Shicheng collected 20,000 or 30,000 defeated soldiers and put up stubborn resistance in the streets and alleys.

Chang Yuchun knew that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to catch Zhang Shicheng alive, and he didn't want Zhang Shicheng to die too happily. Afraid that there would be too many people to fight and kill Zhang Shicheng, he hurriedly opened his voice and shouted: "Zhang Shicheng, now that you have no power to return to heaven, you don't want to arrest you without restraint, do you have to involve these soldiers to die with you?

Zhang Shicheng's face was ashen when he heard this, he looked at the smoke of Pingjiang City, and said to everyone: "The matter has come to this, I really have no good plan but to surrender by myself, so as not to be slaughtered when your city is broken." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they cried on the ground and expressed their willingness to die with him.

However, Zhang Shicheng couldn't bear to suffer any more crimes, and personally led 200,000 soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender to Xu Da.

When his wife Liu heard that her husband was defeated, she immediately took her children and burned herself to Qiyun Tower in the palace.

When the Western Wu soldiers arrived, a tall building was burned to ashes, and no one survived.

When the bad news came, Zhang Shicheng was completely disheartened and bent on death.

Xu Da didn't dare to make his own decisions, and hurriedly sent Zhang Shicheng and a group of prisoners to Yingtianfu.

Chang Yuchun originally planned to humiliate Zhang Shicheng, but when he saw that he had his eyes closed all the time on the boat, he didn't say a word, and he didn't eat, and he was dying before he could torture himself. Although Chang Yuchun hated him for seducing Zhu Wenzheng, he had to admit that he was a man, so he had to sigh helplessly and turn his head to his cronies to vent his anger.