"Ahh

In the cold wind, Zhu Wu sneezed.

Since some snowflakes fell that day, the winter wind and snow have become heavier and heavier.

On the walls, on the ground, on the tents, on the ladders, on twisted corpses, on pools of dried blood.

A thin layer that seems to disperse as soon as the wind blows. But after the wind passed, the shallow snowflakes did not drift away, but melted.

It often snows in Zhu Wu's hometown, but in his hometown, the snow never melts.

And the wind, and the cold, this damn wind seems to blow into the cracks of people's bones, and you can't hide from it anywhere.

Even with a strong brazier in the tent, the cold still followed.

This is winter, winter in the south.

Lan Yu opened Zhu Wu's tent and carried a copper kettle, "Fifth brother, hot water!" ”

Zhu Wu looked at the towering Jinling City and nodded silently.

The hot water was poured into the footbath, and the heat rose, and the room was instantly filled with moist steam.

Seven days, Zhu Wu led the army to besiege Jinling for three days, and the Dingyuan army was 50,000 people, plus the quarry rock, and the Tu army had more than 70,000 people. In seven days, there is no way to take Jinling, a thousand-year-old city.

Jinling, the ancient capital of China.

This city is history, looking north to the Central Plains, and the history of crossing to the south. For thousands of years, whenever the Chinese nation suffered a catastrophe. This city will become a shelter for Chinese clothes.

Let the sons and daughters of China recuperate in this land, inherit etiquette, cultivate obscurity, and aspire to the Northern Expedition.

Jiankang, Jianye, Yingtian, Jinling to Nanjing in later generations. Every name is a piece of history and a sad song.

"Fifth brother, soak your feet!"

Lan Yu moved the footbath to Zhu Wu's feet, interrupting his contemplation.

"Hiss~Ah~~!"

The hot hot water made the cold skin scorch, and Zhu Wu grinned and took a breath of cold air.

Immediately after the pores and blood vessels in the hot water expanded, the heat spread from his feet to his limbs, daring to walk cold and tired, and Zhu Wu couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

"How are the brethren?" Zhu Wu looked at the tall city again and asked casually.

Lan Yu was busy in the camp tent, and replied, "It's okay, I'm looking forward to taking Jinling City as soon as possible." As he spoke, his hand stopped, "Someone on the other side of the army said that the fifth brother used them as cannon fodder!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Wu smiled.

Jinling City is really too big, the huge city walls are towering into the sky, not inferior to the high-rise buildings of modern society, and even more spectacular than those.

This city is a famous city in the world and an important town in the south, with a population of nearly one million. The city defense equipment is complete, and the bed crossbow, which is rare in other cities, is used as a bow and arrow here.

On the first day of tentative siege, the Dingyuan army lay down more than 300 people.

As soon as the giant siege vehicles of the Dingyuan army approached the city wall, they would immediately suffer from beds in all directions.

Zhu Wu thought of a way and carried the small cannon to the attic of the siege vehicle, but after a few hits, the siege vehicle made of wood shattered under the blows of countless beds.

Unless there is a high technology ahead of this era, such a city, as long as the guards do not make mistakes, and the city has enough food to eat, it can only be filled with human lives.

Of course, you can't use the life of the veteran of the Dingyuan army, the siege of the city in the past few days is all using the surrender army, and the dead are also surrendering the army.

They said that it was Zhu Wu's cannon fodder, and it was not wrong to say so. Zhu Wu didn't care much, he had seen too many dead people, and he had long been numb.

It is better for others to die than for their own people to die, this is war, not the time to be kind.

If you want to blame, you can only blame this world.

The water in the basin gradually cooled, Zhu Wu took out his feet, dried them, and put on his shoes and socks. tightened the cloak on his body, and continued to look at the city, silent.

Suddenly, the tent was opened, a gust of wind rushed in, and then the two tigers appeared at the door.

"Fifth brother, Xi Laodao is here!"

Zhu Wu smiled, the reason why he didn't use all his strength to attack the city these days was that he was waiting for this old way.

On the first day after the siege, the two hit it off, and such a wall could not be climbed, only by skill.

Then, Xi Laodao came in with a smile, still wearing oil-stained and twisted clothes and a messy beard.

Guo Xing and Guo Ying were behind him, and the injuries on their bodies were so good that they had been raised for half a year, and they were all fat.

"You're here!"

Zhu Wu smiled at the old way, and asked the Guo brothers again, "Are you two neat?" ”

"It's almost." Guo Xing said with a smile.

Guo Ying still has a temperament that jumps out, "Anyway, I can pick up a knife and cut people." Fifth brother, let me go into battle, I'm almost idle. ”

"Okay, go back to the army, now is the time to employ people." Zhu Wu smiled and asked, "Have you eaten?" ”

Xi Laodao said with a smile, "If you are in a hurry on the road, how can you have time to eat." Little Blue Jade, go and give it some hot time! ”

Lan Yu knew that this was something to say to Zhu Wu, and agreed with a smile. The Guo brothers also went out to see the old brothers in the army.

"What's wrong?" Everyone left, Zhu Wu asked in a low voice.

Xi Yingzhen took out the wine jug from his arms, took a sip, and tasted the wine, "It's almost, the gunpowder degree of Hezhou has been brought, and there are two thousand miners." ”

To use skill, it is to blow up the city wall and dig tunnels to blow up.

A few days ago, Xi Laodao went out to wander, there are coal mines in Huaibei, and there are iron mines in Dangtu. Although there was no large-scale mining in this era, there were already generations of miners.

These people are good at earthwork, plus gunpowder~~

Zhu Wu gritted his teeth and smiled, "Old Dao, how sure are you that way?" ”

"I'm not sure." Xi Yingzhen still looked cynical, but there was three points of ruthlessness in his words, "Just blow it up, if it doesn't work once, it will be twice, if it doesn't work in a month, it will be two months, anyway, you have to blow him up!" ”

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It's snowing again.

At the head of Jinling City, the head of the Yuan army, the defending general, looked at the city with a cold face, and once again prepared to attack the city.

"Not afraid of death? Look at how many of you are dead enough! ”

In the past few days, Hezhou thieves have thrown thousands of corpses under the city, and they have not approached an inch.

The defenders of the city were originally a little flustered, but these days they have become more and more comfortable and familiar.

"Push the cannon up!"

The officers of the Dingyuan army were shouting loudly, and the gunners gathered all the artillery of the Dingyuan army and pushed them to the front of the formation, facing the city gate and city wall of Jinling.

"Don't be afraid, it's a scare thing, you can't kill people!"

The officers of the official army cheered up the defenders in the city, and they were accustomed to these scary iron guys these days, and at first they panicked until they finally found that they could not hit the city or break the city walls, so they were not afraid.

However, a few days ago, the Dingyuan army used small artillery with strong mobility, which was carried to the siege vehicle and fired at the bed guard.

Today, all the large and small artillery of the Dingyuan Army is concentrated, and there is only one target, the city gate.

Rumble!

Bang!

Dozens of artillery pieces opened fire at the same moment, and the ground shook, as if the walls were shaking.

The projectile hit the city gate, and deep pits suddenly appeared on the iron-clad city gate, and the wall bricks on the city wall were shattered.

Only then did the officers and soldiers discover that today's artillery was different from every day, their faces just showed panic, and the overwhelming shouts of killing struck, and the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army pushed siege vehicles and ladders and rushed to the city wall.

"Bed Guard Aiming and State Iron Cannon!"

At the head of the city, the bed guards that were waiting to be fired adjusted their angles under the control of the soldiers' bells.

"Archers, infantry aimed at thieves!"

Under the shouts of the officers, the officers and soldiers in the city took their places, and the battle was about to break out.

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In a vacant lot in Zhu's fifth camp, in a huge tent, Xi Yingzhen led a group of dark-skinned miners to make a mark on the ground.

Stepping on the soil under his feet, Xi Yingzhen smiled, "That's it, digging!" ”

Immediately, tools made of steel flew up and down, and a deep pit immediately appeared in the ground.

The excavated soil was knocked up, and miners continued to reinforce the pits with wood and stones.

These miners, like ants, have a clear division of labor and are methodical.

Under the city, Zhu Wu stood in front of the formation, and in his sight, a soldier fell from the cloud ladder screaming, and he smiled.

"Don't really fight to the death, if you are dead, you will collect the troops and consume them with the officials and soldiers!"