On the Qingbo Gate, gunshots, explosions, and shouts of killing rang out, and a celebrity Kou was blown up by the 10,000 enemies who fell from the sky.

People are constantly dying, and people are constantly climbing up the ladder under the rain of bullets and explosions, and at this moment, life has become the most worthless thing.

On the city wall, a three-grade official wearing a scarlet robe and embroidered with a peacock on the patch looked at the dense thieves under the city wall who still climbed up the ladder frantically despite the casualties, his face showed panic, and he kept shaking his head: "Crazy...... All of them are crazy, don't these thieves know to retreat? ”

This official is Yan Xiaochen, the envoy of Zhejiang, it stands to reason that as a provincial envoy, Yan Xiaochen's status in Zhejiang is second only to the governor and the political envoy, and there is no need to go to the city wall in person, but there is no way, Pan Ruzhen gave a death order, except for the officials who stayed behind in the yamen, all officials above the fifth grade must go to the city to watch the battle, and if there are those who do not obey, they will be punished for the crime of escaping.

However, it is precisely through the observation of the war in the past few days that these officials, who are accustomed to talking about the wind and snow on weekdays, have seen the cruelty of the war for the first time, but after a few days of watching the battle, the officials thought that the cruelty of the battlefield in the world is nothing more than this, but it was not until the arrival of the Jiangning army and the use of firearms that they realized that this thing is not the most cruel, only more cruel.

The violent explosions, the shattered corpses, the mutilated limbs and the wounded soldiers howling bitterly after being wounded all told them what a terrible thing war is.

Since the conflict with Yang Feng just now, Pan Ruzhen's face has been very ugly, after hearing this, he turned his head to Yan Xiaochen and sighed: "Lord Yan, although the thieves are not all outlaws, but Li Zicheng is a scheming and vicious person, you can just look at the thieves behind those hungry soldiers who supervise the battle, who dares to retreat in this case?" ”

Yan Xiaochen was silent, just now he saw with his own eyes that the thieves who were the first to retreat were cut down by the overseer team, although he didn't count, but there were no less than a few people hacked to death just by visual inspection.

Retreating will definitely die, and rushing forward may still have a way to live, in this case, the choice of those hungry soldiers is naturally needless to say.

He suddenly turned his head and asked Ma Sidi next to him: "Ma Garrison, in your opinion, can the Jiangning Army hold Hangzhou Mansion?" ”

Ma Sidi was silent for a while and shook his head: "It's hard to say, after all, there are too many thieves, and the Jiangning army is brave, but the number is too small." And according to the eyes of the lower officials, although the firearms of the Jiangning army are fierce, the consumption is too great, if you wait until the ten thousand enemies and the sub-medicine are finished, I am afraid that it will ......"

Although Ma Sidi didn't finish his words, everyone understood the meaning of the words, although Jiang Ningjun was powerful, the number of people was still too small, and it would turn the tables if it didn't work.

As soon as they thought of this, the hearts of many officials began to despair, and they had worked hard to get reinforcements, but in the end, they could not escape death?

Yan Xiaochen turned his heart sideways and whispered to Pan Ruzhen: "My lord, if Hangzhou City is still unable to escape the thieves in the end, it is better for us to prepare as soon as possible." ”

Pan Ruzhen glanced at him with slanted eyes, "Lord Yan, Ben Fu knows what you want to say, you still don't have to think about this kind of thing, you don't know the rules of our Ming Dynasty." During the war, ordinary people can escape, those merchants and gentry can escape, but we people must not escape, otherwise you know the consequences. ”

Yan Xiaochen, whose little abacus in his heart was broken, smiled wryly and retreated to the back, but he sighed in his heart, do you really want to be loyal to Daming here today?

Under their gaze, the attack of the rogues became more and more ferocious, and the old camp thieves who supervised the war were like crazy, constantly driving the hungry soldiers forward, but whenever someone slowed down, what awaited them was a sharp long knife.

Driven by the Warlords, who could almost be called crazy, the hungry soldiers rushed forward as if they were crazy.

Tens of thousands of enemies kept exploding under the city wall, blowing up batch after batch of hungry soldiers, but one group of hungry soldiers fell, and another group rushed up, and the corpses under the city wall were also stacked layer after layer.

Yang Feng stood on the city wall, even if he was experienced in a hundred battles, he couldn't help but feel shocked by the scene in front of him, he still underestimated Li Zicheng, it seems that this guy is really determined to win Hangzhou City.

At this time, Li Yan came to report: "Grandpa, the situation is a little bad, the thieves are attacking too fiercely, and some of our 10,000 enemies can't be supplied." ”

Yang Feng pointed to the thieves under the city wall and asked, "Li Yan, you are more familiar with the rogues, my father asks you, is Li Zicheng so crazy in attacking the city on weekdays?" He didn't care about the life or death of his subordinates? ”

Li Yan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Xiaguan is also very puzzled, if he had encountered such a large casualty in the past, the Liukou would have retreated a long time ago." You must know that although hungry soldiers are everywhere, those old battalions and dead soldiers are relatively difficult to find, so basically this situation will not be the case today. ”

"Then why do you say Li Zicheng is desperately attacking the city like crazy?"

"This ...... Xia Guan is not very clear, but Xia Guan thinks that Li Zicheng's siege of the city without regard for casualties is estimated to have nothing to do with you. Either the news of you in the city has leaked, or he wants to fight for heavy casualties to take Hangzhou City, as long as he can capture the baggage of the Jiang Ning army and those firearms, even if he fights most of the team, it is worth it. ”

"That's right."

Yang Feng touched his chin, touched his chin, and touched the beard on his chin that had not been shaved for several days, and said softly: "Since Li Zicheng thinks that he can take Hangzhou Mansion with the tactics of crowds, then fulfill him." Li Yan, have you shipped all the things that my father ordered you? ”

Li Yan hurriedly said: "Grandpa Qiqi, it has all been transported." ”

"Alright, let's get started."

"Yes!"

Listening to Yang Feng's words, Li Yan was in his heart, these days when he came to the Jiangning Army, he also had a certain understanding of the equipment of the Jiangning Army, he knew very well how cruel the weapon he had just brought up was to be transported, and when he thought that those things were about to fall on the team that had taken refuge in the past, his heart was tight.

However, when he saw Yang Feng's smiling eyes, he immediately shuddered, and quickly turned around and gave an order.

Soon, nearly a hundred small trebuchets lined up on the wide city walls.

Although these small catapults are simple in structure, they can eject objects weighing tens of pounds hundreds of meters away.

At this moment, these trebuchets were not loaded with stones, but heavy ceramic jars, each of which was covered with cloth, and a pungent smell permeated the city walls.

With an order, the sergeants in charge of the catapults set the tarpaulins on fire with torches in their hands. The sergeant with the hammer swung it and slammed it the bracket. The catapult, which had already calculated the distance and direction, suddenly flung up and threw the already lit jar into the air......