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After Morunoda ordered the killing of people at the head of the city, he was very proud to demonstrate to the Chuzhou army under the city.

Dozens of civilian heads fell on the city, blood splattered all over the city walls, but when he wanted to shout at the city with a human head in his hand, he saw a neat siege team appear under the city, and when he saw the hundreds of soldiers at the forefront with more than a hundred simple siege ladders appearing, he couldn't help but sink his heart.

"Archers, get into the defensive positions of the walls! Shoot me the dogs with the ladders. The red turban thief didn't give up, and he dared to attack at this time, he really didn't know whether he was alive or dead! Morunoda sneered, it was impossible for those ladders alone to break into the city.

You must know that the city wall is four zhang high, and the city wall is made of huge stones, and it is useless to rush to the city car and the like, and the moat is also more than two meters wide, the water is deep and fast, and the speed is bound to slow down when the Chuzhou army crosses the river, and the archers in the city can shoot most of the soldiers to death.

Even if it reaches the city, the boiling oil in the cauldron at the head of the city will also bring great damage to the Chuzhou soldiers who are besieging the city, and the next step is that the Yuan army in the city will drop the torches and burn the ladder, the siege battle and the confrontation between the two armies in the plain area are completely two concepts, if there is no superior force or extremely strong siege equipment, Lai'an County is almost the most difficult to attack the Jiangnan city.

"Knife and axeman, quickly enter the city wall with a shield and enter the second-line defensive position, I want to see how these red turban dog thieves can attack my fortified city." Morunoda was not afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang's order to attack the city, and even hoped that he would do so.

On the south city wall, 500 archers, 1,000 Yuan saber axemen, that are the most effective defenders of Morunoda, ten years ago, it was with these soldiers that from Nandang Town and Xu Da fought bloodily for two days, and finally safely withdrew into Lai'an County, but the number was reduced from 2,000 to half of the current number, and Lai'an Road Wanhu Siluotai also died in the siege of Chuzhou soldiers.

Because if Zhu Yuanzhang has been besieged, there is a shortage of water in the city, and there have been commotions among tens of thousands of Han people in the city recently, if it is not for the heads of some people, I am afraid that someone has already taken the lead in making trouble, so I took today's opportunity to deliberately provoke Zhu Yuanzhang and make him attack, as long as he fights a beautiful battle to defend the city, the situation in the city can be safer.

"Although there is a shortage of water in the city, there are still several rich families with several deep wells in their homes, and they line up every day to fetch water to supply water to the soldiers and untouchables in the city. At that time, these red scarf thieves will definitely become ghosts under the sword of my Great Yuan soldiers. Morunoda couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.

At this time, the hundreds of soldiers of the Chuzhou Rebels holding siege ladders were already close to the moat, and about half of the ladders were already ready to cross the moat under their bearings.

But at this time, he first heard a shout from the opposite side of the city: "Divine Bow Battalion, release the arrows!" ”

"Ridiculous! Their archers are a hundred steps away from the city, and they have to shoot on their backs and run so far, they all say that the Chuzhou Red Turban thieves are brave and warlike, which I agree, but when they attack the city, they are so far away, and they want to occupy the city with bows and arrows outside the range, are they crazy? ”

When Morunoda heard the other party's order, he couldn't help but feel amused, and immediately raised his eyes to look at the other party, and at the same time he also raised his right hand, as long as his hand fell, five hundred archers would attack the cloud ladder soldiers who came to attack the city.

But when he looked down at the city, he was suddenly frightened, and saw countless dense arrows flashing in the air, and they were neatly laid down towards the city, and he suddenly felt a chill down his spine and froze there, and shouted: "How is it possible? How could their bows and arrows be so powerful? ”

As he had said this, a flood of arrows came at him and the soldiers guarding the wall, one of which was smashing into Morunoda's left shoulder, and there was a constant scream around him, the cry of pain from the many soldiers who had been shot by the arrows.

Then the second wave of arrows was thrown down on the city again, and Morunoda reacted and shouted, "Raise your shield to protect yourself!" The enemy has a strong bow! ”

As soon as he shouted these words, he hid behind a battlement, turned around and looked at his soldiers with some concern, and could not help but be shocked that under these two rounds of arrows, the 1,500 soldiers standing at the head of the city had lost 30%.

"I didn't expect the Red Turban Thieves to have such a strong bow, and they can actually pose a threat to my city from a hundred paces away, how can they have such a strong bow?" Morunoda was a good wielder in the Yuan army, and he knew very well that the farthest damage distance of the bow and arrow was about 100 paces, and that was because the materials and maintenance of the strong bow were not easy.

However, the Chuzhou Red Turban Army gave him an unexpected blow, which caught him off guard and was injured, and he also lost many soldiers.

These Yuan troops were also strong, and after hearing the words of Morunoda, after falling more than a hundred people in the second round of arrow rain, they finally obeyed the order to raise their shields to protect themselves, and first hid behind the battlements, and waited until the opponent's arrow rain was over before standing up to protect the city.

But Morunoda miscalculated again, and the third rain of arrows began to bring all the arrows with oil, and when they landed among the soldiers with leather shields, they began to catch fire, and the most terrible thing was that the dozen or so cauldrons with boiling oil also shot rockets.

For a while, the head of the city turned into a sea of fire, many Yuan soldiers had never passed through this kind of formation, and the enemy had already caused them such great psychological and physical damage before they even reached the top of the wall, which made the soldiers of the Yuan army, who had not had much hope for this siege battle, full of despair.

A cry of horror came from the top of the city, and another group of 500 soldiers under the head of the city immediately tried to rush to the head of the city, led by a hundred households, but saw that the fire on the head of the city was getting bigger and bigger, and there were many stones and timber piled up on it to defend the city, and the wood was already burning at this time.

"Senhu-sama, are you still there?" This hundred households shouted loudly, but he didn't expect the other party to actually attack the city head outside the city, which was really terrifying and unexpected.

"I'm still here." A frightened voice rang out in the light of the fire and black smoke.

At this time, Morunoda was protected from the battlements and retreated from the city head under the escort of more than a dozen personal soldiers, his face was covered with black ash, and he still had an arrow shaft on his shoulder, he did not dare to pull the arrow off at all, but cut it off with a knife, otherwise he would have to leave the battlefield at this time.

Nearly 1,000 Yuan troops retreated from the top of the city wall to the bottom, but the fire on the city was still burning.

"These red turban thieves are really terrible, they actually attacked my city wall with fire, and quickly ordered people to fetch water for fire!" Morunoda gritted his teeth in anger and immediately gave an order to this hundred households, and it was a great shame that the besieging side was forced to fall down the city wall in this way during the defense of the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the enemy's city was on fire, and immediately shouted: "Okay! Siege soldiers, open the water bag in your hand and get wet, and quickly attack the city, and today our army will reward all the soldiers in the city. ”

The soldiers, armed with thick iron swords, immediately responded in a hurry, opened one of the two bags on their backs, and poured water from head to toe.

"Brother Xu Da, after occupying the city wall this time, you must act according to the plan, and you must take this city." Zhu Yuanzhang turned his face and looked solemnly at the same water general standing in front of the army, and Xu Da said.

"Please rest assured that Deputy Marshal Zuo will welcome the soldiers of our army into the city after two pillars of incense." After Xu Da answered, he immediately shouted: "Sons, raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while, and at this moment, they will rush into the city with me to kill all the Yuan dogs!" Kill! ”

After saying this, he raised his shield and held a steel sword, and led thousands of soldiers forward.

The city was burning with fire, and the archers were still shooting rockets at the city, and the soldiers of the cloud echelon that had passed through the moat had drawn their steel swords from their waists and climbed upward, they were preparing for the death team, and there were some soldiers on the city wall who had escaped the rain of arrows or fire, and they wanted to occupy the head of the wall before the besieging army came up.

"It's a pity that the little brother Shang Yu is not in front of the army, this kind of attack method is enough to spend dozens of good refining oil on our army, but it also has a wonderful effect! Everything is done by this five-stringed bow. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the battle at the head of the city and sighed, but he was amazed in his heart.

When Shang Yu of Shiguan Town suggested this method to him, Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't believe it, but after losing more than 2,000 people and not even one person could attack Lai'an County, Zhu Yuanzhang seriously considered Shang Yudi's suggestion, and sent 1,000 five-string archers to the camp.

When the rear camp saw that the range of the bow and arrow salvo was half more than that of ordinary arrows, the siege plan was determined.

Thousands of soldiers quickly followed behind and climbed up as soon as the cloud echelon soldiers climbed up the city, while the archers followed with their bows.

After ascending to the top of the city, Xu Da gave an order, and all the soldiers who climbed to the top of the city in the light of fire and black smoke opened another bag behind them and scattered it under their feet, which was collected from the fine sand of the river not far outside the city, and the fire used to extinguish the fire oil was very effective.

The next action was to occupy the head, and at first Morunoda had to take back control of the city wall, but when he saw more and more Chuzhou soldiers emerging on the city wall, and the fire at the head of the city was getting smaller and smaller, he couldn't help but sigh, knowing that Lai'an County must have been unable to hold it, so he ordered the hundred households to escort him to the north city gate, where there were more than 2,000 soldiers, and now they can only escape from there, hoping to escape by the way, the Chuzhou camp in the north seems to be small in number, and there is a great hope for the escape place.

When Shang Yu woke up, he found himself in a slightly dilapidated house.

"Brother Mu, you're awake! It's just wonderful. Wei Bi sat on the sidelines and looked at him.

Shang Yu nodded before slowly sitting up, remembering that he should have been in the water prison before, and asked, "Brother Wei, how did you get me out of the ground?" ”

Wei Bi turned his head and said with a somewhat frightened face: "At that time, after you fainted, I told my cousin about you, and he knew that you actually have a relationship with our family, and you seem to be very famous in the army. ”

Shang Yu nodded after hearing this, and there were still palpitations in his heart, if it wasn't for Wei Bi arriving, I'm afraid he would have become a corpse in the water prison at this time.

"Brother Mu, oh! I should call you Brother Shang, but I didn't expect you to be a hundred households now, my cousin fed you a kind of walking corpse pill at that time, and after eating, his face was blue, and his body was stiff and cold, and then he reported to the above, he told me to wait at the mass grave outside the city, and then brought you here, this is what happened. When Wei Bi said this, his expression was a little low.

"I see, Brother Wei! You took such a risk to save me, if you were told by that Guo Tian, you would definitely not be able to tolerate you, where will you, Granny Ning and Uncle Cousin go in the future? Shang Yu asked with some concern at this time.

"Brother Mu, it's okay! What my cousin did this time was very clean, no one knew about your departure from Chuzhou, this is already Luning Village outside the city, you just need to go north into the mountain later, our family has a relative in Gejia Village in the north of that mountain, he can take you in, you have so much strength and farming, so you can hide for a few years. Wei Bi also heard a little rumor that Shang Yu was in the army, and reunited with him, although he didn't know why he was imprisoned, he still thought of a place for Shang Yu to go.

"Brother Wei! No, this time I was almost killed by that Guo Tianxu, I'm going to Lai'an County to see Deputy Marshal Zuo! I hope that you, Granny Ning, and your cousin will all take refuge for the time being, and when I finish dealing with this matter with Deputy Marshal Zuo, I will not forget you. Shang Yu said with fire in his heart at this time.

If he hid aside at this time, wouldn't he just let that Guo Tianxu come? In Chuzhou for many days, Zhu Yuanzhang and his wife and his advisers and generals made him see hope, and Guo Zixing died on the day he arrived in Chuzhou.

Shang Yu remembered that Li Shanchang and Tang He had once said to him: "If Brother Guorui is the commander of the army, the people of the world will be very lucky!" "That meaning is obvious, if Zhu Yuanzhang is the marshal, he will really become a hero of the people of the world, and he can even be the king in the future, if he can say that Zhu Yuanzhang can replace Guo Tianxu, then the Chuzhou Righteous Army can unite as one, and also avenge him.

"Brother Mu, how can that be? Not to mention that my cousin will lose his job in prison because of this, and it is very likely that he will be arrested for it, can you bear to be implicated in the people who saved you? Wei Bi immediately grabbed Shang Yu's arm nervously and said, he didn't expect that after rescuing Shang Yu, Shang Yu wanted to return to the army, and now he could only try his best to stop him.