Collision (6)

Speaking of witchcraft, Wang Xiushi's heart suddenly swelled with a little timidity. Regarding the true strength of the Broken Army, he basically understood it through the bloody battle outside the city the day before yesterday and the contact outside the West Gate today. If this army really relied on sorcery to win, then it is not difficult to explain their record of successfully killing so many generals. In the same way, abandoning the city and fleeing in the face of such an army of witchcraft is not disloyal to duty. Can the big husband bend and stretch, the enemy army is the power of ghosts and gods, how can mortals resist it?

Thinking along this line of thought, many contradictions between ideals and reality in the past few days have suddenly been reconciled. Wang Xiushi's heart to follow the city is no longer so certain, and the idea of escaping is irrepressibly welling up in his heart. Where are you fleeing? The roads on the north, east, and west sides are all broken, and the only place where there is a road is in the south. And going south to defect to Lu Shikui, how can he guarantee that he is not the next target of the Broken Army?

While he was pondering, he heard the staff member say: "Chen Thief is overwhelmed, and he is trying to take my big city by the side door. But I have always been upright in Jiankang City, and his little skill is afraid that he will not hurt others, but harm himself! ”

"Sir, please tell me more!" Like a drowning man grasping a straw, Wang Xiushi asked loudly.

"My lord, please think about it, Chen Thief is holding an iron rod, but he can emit green smoke, hurting people invisibly, and it is clearly the legendary plan to leave the fire. Therefore, the adults think that it is the original intention of the five elements to pretend to take the west gate and attack the east! The staff member combined theory with practice, first described the situation when the musket was fired, and then patted Wang Xiushi's ass and said.

Although the son has a testament, he is silent. However, many Confucian disciples are convinced of the theory of the five elements of yin and yang and the theory of moral reincarnation. In the history of several famous dynasties, there are great Confucians who have spared no effort to find the root from the heavens. Therefore, after the establishment of the new dynasty, it often takes the lead in finding an excuse for itself to stand on the reincarnation of the way of heaven. From the Han to the Song Dynasty, this is the case. Even if it is a chaotic Wuhu, you can find many Confucians to speak for the Mandate of Heaven. Therefore, people like Wang Xiushi, a group of "clever" people who descended from the sky, are particularly superstitious about the five elements of yin and yang, and they all raised their heads to look at him when they heard what the staff said.

The staff member's surname is Zhu, and it is said that he can still have something to do with Zhu Xi, a master of science. Although he always disgraced his ancestors for being a person and doing things, his mouth was far ahead of his ancestors. Seeing that a few words won everyone's attention, he proudly gathered his clothes and continued to say in the vernacular: "The northern cathode produces cold, and cold produces water; The southern anode generates heat, and heat produces fire; The oriental sun scatters the wind with discharge, and the wind produces wood; The Western Yin is dry and dry, dry and gold; The central yin and yang intersect and produce wetness, and wetness gives birth to earth. It is also mutually beneficial, so it is mutually dimensional, and its mutual restraint is also contradictory, so it is contradictory. I Jiankang is the north for water, and the thief Chen does not dare to attack the north city with demon fire, so far the invincible army in the north city is approaching. The West is golden, dry, and conducive to fire but has no sustaining things, so Chen Thief is a suspicious soldier here, trying to lure our army into being fooled, but fortunately he was seen through by adults. And the east belongs to wood, and wood and fire are mutually reinforcing, so Chen Thief built an altar in the east, preparing to attack the city with witchcraft......"

The staff member surnamed Zhu said eloquently, as if he was the roundworm in Chen Hangyan's stomach, and he had already understood all the thoughts in the other party's heart.

Everyone was skeptical when they heard it, but in front of a general like Wang Xiushi, they didn't dare to criticize the difficult things in the words of the staff surnamed Zhu, so they had to listen in a daze, and see how this old man surnamed Zhu could say some wonderful ways to break the enemy through the theory of the five elements of mutual restraint.

Living up to everyone's expectations, the staff surnamed Zhu theoretically confirmed the charge of Chen Hangyan's use of witchcraft, and then turned to the practical operation. Pointing to the altar outside the city, which was getting higher and higher, he suggested loudly: "Therefore, the first plan of the subordinates to offer the lord is to send the general out of the city as soon as possible and destroy the enemy altar before it is completed." As soon as the altar is destroyed, the demonic spirit is poured out, and the enemy army disperses! ”

When the Northern Yuan soldiers gathered around heard this, their noses were almost crooked, and the impatient Tanma Chi generals opened their mouths and scolded, "Straight lady thief, you have the ability to go out of the city and try it yourself." Don't make a fool of yourself there, and send Lao Tzu to death! ”

Several generals of the newly attached army also clamoured, for fear that Wang Xiushi would really listen to this person's statement and send everyone out of the city to tear down the altar. From a tactical point of view, Zhu Dacaizi's statement is not entirely unreasonable, although the theory of the five elements is very far-fetched, but it is certainly correct to sabotage the enemy's work when the enemy's purpose is not clear.

The staff surnamed Zhu saw that he had accidentally committed public anger, and hurriedly remedied it, "Don't panic, colleagues, don't be ridiculous, listen to Zhu Mo's words!" ”

"If you have a fart, let it go, if you put some stinky farts that are not boundary, beware of eating Lao Tzu and beating it well!" The generals scolded in response, and the voices of protest gradually faded down.

"The plan to break the enemy is the best strategy before it is launched!" The surname Zhu is a boiled duck, although his heart is empty, his mouth is unconvinced. Seeing that the crowd was about to make noise again, he coughed twice and spit out two clear turning words, "However! ”

"But what, there's a fart!" The generals felt angry and funny, and scolded. Wang Xiushi couldn't suppress it, so he had to make trouble with everyone's temperament.

"However, since the thieves have built an altar under the city, they must have a strategy to protect them, and our army will inevitably fall into its tricks if they rashly go out of the city to fight them. According to Zhu's opinion, if you work hard from the five elements, you can protect the city without blood! ”

"Sir, please speak!" Wang Xiushi finally heard what he wanted to hear, and couldn't wait to ask.

"Chen thieves tend to help with fire, and we will overcome them with water. In Jiankang City, there are many ponds, if a deep ditch is dug between the inner and outer walls of the East City, and water is diverted to irrigate it, then the water and fire are contradictory, and the plan of the thief will fail. When their plan is defeated and their morale collapses, I will send another general to attack the front and the other to attack the back, and I will build an immortal deed! ”

Hearing this, Wang Xiushi was overjoyed. Whether or not the water could stop the fire, digging a trench in the city was not a big deal. Chen Hangyan couldn't see the new moves inside the city outside the city, and even if he broke through the outer city, he would be blocked in front of the moat, and maybe he would be caught off guard by the defenders. Thinking of this, he repeatedly praised Mr. Zhu's clever plan and ordered someone to open a ditch immediately.

"Also, since ancient times, witchcraft has been afraid of filthy things. The thieves use demon fire, and our army can't overcome them constantly. You can place the blood of black dogs and black cats at the head of the city, as well as black donkey hooves, human yellow, child urine, etc., and splash them together when their magic is performed! The master surnamed Zhu pointed out by comparison.

Immediately, under Wang Xiushi's arrangement, some people went separately to prepare, and for a while, the soldiers and people under the root of the east city wall started together, demolishing houses, moving shops, moving stones, and carrying soil, and they were very busy. Wang Xiushi had breakfast, pointed out a few times beside him, and returned to the government and dispatched troops with confidence. As for the evil things that sent henchmen to find an escape route in case the city was lost, and arranged for their families to prepare dry food and horses, except for a few clever people, a few ordinary people could see it!

In this way, the outside of the city was busy piling mountains, and the city was busy digging rivers, and the two sides were busy working day and night across a high wall. Early the next morning, Wang Xiushi heard a report that the altar outside the city had been completed, and Chen Hangyan had ascended the altar and was about to pretend to be a ghost. As the main general in the city, Wang naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly prepared his horses, crossed the temporary wooden bridge, jumped over the ditch dug yesterday, and ran up the city wall.

I saw Chen Hangyan, the governor of the Song and Zhejiang provinces, wearing a military uniform, standing on the flat-topped altar with more than 40 biao-shaped men, standing in a phalanx and changing formations, and having fun. The soldiers defending the city had never seen such a strange thing, and they all fell behind the battlements and cheered. Seeing that Wang Xiushi was coming, several clever low-level generals hurriedly separated in the crowd, took Lord Wang and his cronies to the enemy building, and then pointed at Chen Hangyan and said: "My lord, that is Chen Thief, he has been tossing since early in the morning, and I don't know what tricks he is playing!" ”

Wang Xiushi snorted in his nose, and was a little more convinced of the staff's demon law yesterday. Holding on to the fence, he shouted outside: "Bold thief Chen, such a little soldier and horse dare to attack Jiankang, I advise you to retreat quickly." Otherwise, when the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court come, you won't even be able to find a place to bury the corpse! ”

Before the words fell, someone who could pat on the back had already shouted these words repeatedly. On the altar outside the city, Chen Hangyan was not angry when he heard it, shouted a few orders, sorted out the ranks of the accompanying soldiers, turned around, and first gave a standard military salute to the city wall, and then shouted loudly: "Listen to the soldiers and people in the city, today, I, Chen Hangyan, swear to the sky here..."

"Listen to the soldiers and people in the city, today, I swear to the heavens with my eyes hanging my eyes......" More than forty loud soldiers shouted in unison as if they had been rehearsed beforehand, and the noise of the city wall was suppressed.

"He's going to do it!" The new annex soldier said fearfully after a busy day yesterday. Someone hurriedly carried the dog blood and feces prepared in advance, and as soon as the prepared spell was launched, he immediately broke the spell with filth.

"He's talking to us, be quiet, listen to what he has to say!" The Organic Spirit reminds in the crowd. Everyone's attention was instantly focused, and no matter what purpose they had, they were completely devoted to Chen Hangyan and the altar he was on.

"The Breaker Army attacked Jiankang just to expel the Tartars. After entering the city, Autumn did not commit any crimes! Chen shouted loudly.

"The Breaker Army attacked Jiankang just to expel the Tartars. After entering the city, Autumn did not commit any crimes! More than forty soldiers repeated in unison.

The soldiers and people of Jiankang City were stunned, someone had already peeked at the proclamation of the Broken Army yesterday, but everyone was skeptical. Today, I saw with my own eyes that Chen Hangyan, as the commander of the First Army, tried his best to build an altar, just to say a few words to himself, and he didn't know how to respond for a while.

There was a dead silence above and below the city.

"Expelling the Tartars, expelling the Tartars. Autumn has not committed any crimes, autumn has not committed any crimes......." The mountains responded to each other, and the shouts of more than forty soldiers were transmitted from afar, echoing in everyone's ears.

"Bed crossbow, shoot me, shoot me!" Wang Xiushi was the first to react and ordered angrily.

A few henchmen separated the crowd and pushed a bed crossbow, which was aimed at the mound where Chen Hangyan was standing. The thick arrow shaft tore through the sky and went straight to Chen Hangyan. A good Chen hanging eye, pulled out the knife in his hand, gently twisted his body, and slashed at the tip of the arrow, the crossbow arrow flew more than a thousand steps away, the strength had already been exhausted, and after receiving the force, he immediately turned and plunged into the loess.

"Let him finish his sentence!" Someone shouted at the top of the city.

"Shameless, cold arrows hurt people!" At the base of the city wall, there were coolies who were forcibly recruited by the new annexed army and scolded angrily.

Chen Hangyan raised the steel knife high, and the sunlight shone from behind, dressing his figure extremely sacred. In the golden light, he shouted loudly: "I swear to this today that after the city is broken, I will kill an innocent man as if I were my father." insulting an innocent woman is like insulting my mother. If you violate this oath, the sky will thunder! ”

"Killing a man is like killing my father, and insulting a woman is like insulting my mother!" Around the altar, thousands of soldiers shouted in unison. In an instant, all the voices of heaven and earth were obscured by the oath.

"Shoot all the cannons!" Wang Xiushi shouted with a crying voice. He knew that his plan to gather the people to defend the city had completely failed, and from this moment on, the people in the city would never help the defenders again.

The cronies fired their cannons and shot at the altar without a head. Chen Hangyan took his subordinates, pressed his fists to his chest, and saluted the city with a dignified salute, and then walked off the altar in a hurry. Immediately after, several small cannons were pushed up, roaring in unison.

"Hide!" Wang Xiushi shouted and lowered his head and plunged into the crowd.

The cannonball, trailing with a long tail of smoke, flew into the air, and before it reached the city wall, it exhausted the gunpowder and fell, exploding in mid-air.

"Boom!" There was a loud thunderous sound, and it spread around the point where the cannonball landed.

"Can't hit it!" Wang Xiushi, who was already so frightened that he hid behind others, shouted happily. The morale of his henchmen was greatly boosted, and they jumped in the eyes of the crowd with disdain, and let out bursts of cheers.

Chen Hangyan was not in a hurry, waved the command flag, and removed the small cannon. Thousands of Broken Army soldiers stood in formation outside the range of the cannons, as if waiting for something good to happen.

"What are they doing? Come on, come to Shuiximen and have a look" After about half a pillar of incense, Wang Xiushi finally couldn't wait and ordered loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a cannon sound from a distance, followed by another one.

Explosion after explosion was like thunder, billowing from the northern sky. In the east of the city, Chen laughed and raised the order flag high.

"Where to shoot, where to shoot!" Wang Xiushi asked anxiously. At the head of the city, the defenders were in disarray. Everyone knew that it was the artillery of the Broken Army, but no one could figure out where the artillery was fired.

Under the city walls, the forcibly recruited people blew up the pot, pushed away the soldiers in charge of guarding them, and fled to their homes with their heads in their hands. Some sons and daughters who had not been in the army for a few days had lost their minds by Chen Hangyan's words, and when they saw that the people had fled, they also put down their knives one after another and joined the fleeing crowd.

"There are those who run around and bump into each other, and those who move the hearts of our army will be killed!" Wang Xiushi ordered loudly. The voice gets out, but it's hard to get it carried out. Even though his generals and cronies want to take military law seriously, more than half of the soldiers around him are in chaos at this time, and who dares to stab the hornet's nest if they don't want to die.

Just as everyone was in a panic, a war horse came through the city, ran to the deep ditch that had just been filled with water, kicked its front hooves into the air several times, and stood before falling into the water. A man covered in blood shouted and fell off his horse, lying on his stomach in the mud and crying: "My lord, my lord, it's not good, the thief army, the thief army has come in from the north!" ”

"Ahh Wang Xiushi replied in surprise, he really couldn't understand how the Xuanwu Lake waterway in the north was chiseled overnight. Under the protection of the guards, he separated the crowd, ran down the city wall, and asked through the ditch: "You tell me slowly, what the hell is going on!" ”

"My lord, the boats, the countless small boats, each with a cannon, suddenly came out of the lake and suddenly opened fire. Most of the brethren were killed at once, and the enemy, the enemy, burst open the water gate with fireboats, and rushed into the city! The messenger cried out, his neck crooked, and he died by the ditch.

"It's over!" Wang Xiushi finally knew how far he was from Chen Hangyan in terms of using troops. From beginning to end, this reckless general was leading his nose. Both the west and east sides were suspicious soldiers, and the altar was designed to attract the attention of the defenders, with the focus of the enemy attack being in the north. The entrance to the Xuanwu Lake waterway is shallow and narrow, and the battleship cannot enter. But small fishing boats can easily paddle in.

turned around to look for the person surnamed Zhu, but found that the place where Zhu Gaoren was standing was empty, and none of the civilian staff members were nowhere to be found.

"Come on, let me plug the Golden Pavilion and prevent the enemy from entering!" Wang Xiushi ordered loudly. There is also a fortress between the Xuanwu Gate and the inner city, and if you hold that fortress, it will be difficult for the enemy army to expand the results of the battle.

Several confidant generals agreed, and summoned people to rescue. But yesterday there were only a few planks on the ditch that was temporarily dug to make a bridge, and in a short time, it was impossible for too many soldiers to run past. The generals were busy, shouting and gathering their soldiers. finally gathered two thousand-person teams, and looked for them again, but Lord Wang Xiushi didn't know where to transfer troops.

"Where's my lord, what about my lord!" Wang Xiushi's confidant Tan Guowei asked anxiously.

No one could answer him, only the sound of killing became clearer and clearer.

"Brothers, let's eat food and become soldiers, and the time has come to sell our lives!" Tan Guowei pulled his throat and finished the final mobilization. Then, he led the men and horses to kill the Golden Pavilion, and only half of the way was gone, and most of the two thousand soldiers went. The rest are all veterans who have changed their livery many times in their lives.

"Fuck, kill!" Tan Guowei roared angrily, full of depression in his throat. After exhaling, he threw away the knife in his hand and turned around and drilled into a nearby alley.

The veterans who followed him saw that the master was like this, and they abandoned their weapons and left the team. Swords and uniforms were thrown all over the street, lest they be thrown slowly, so that people would recognize their identities.

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