Chapter Ninety-Nine: Attack and Defense of Jiujiang (II)
Jiujiang City Tower, Huang Degong's face was a little gloomy.
It's been three days, Zuo Liangyu's army has attacked the city for three days and three nights without the slightest stop, millions of troops have taken turns to fight, giving him great pressure, both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and now the defenders of Jiujiang City have been killed and wounded nearly 20,000, and many people have not slept for a day and a night, very tired.
Although Zuo Liangyu suffered more casualties, nearly 100,000 casualties, but most of them were those who were temporarily captured as cannon fodder, which was far from the point of breaking the bones compared to Zuo Liangyu's million-strong army.
"Boom"
"Be careful, sir!" One of Huang Degong's own soldiers threw Huang Degong to the ground, and the place where Huang Degong was standing was hit by a cannonball, shattering several pieces of masonry, and Zuo Liangyu's cannon cooled down and began a new round of attacks.
At this time, the cannons defending the city of Jiujiang City have long been lost, although most of Zuo Liangyu's cannons have been destroyed, but Zuo Liangyu has many cannons after all, even if most of them are damaged, there are still more than 30 left, the cannonballs are powerful, once a soldier is hit, by the way, he will be crushed, extremely miserable, which is extremely demoralizing to the soldiers defending the city.
"Quick, climb up!" Under a ladder to climb the city, a general manager of Zuo Liangyu's Zhuang Ding army forced several strong men to climb the ladder.
"No, no" These strong men turned pale and trembled, they knew too well that climbing up was almost equivalent to death.
"Damn, look for death!" This Bai Zong hacked one of them to death with a knife, stared at the other people with fierce eyes and shouted: "Climb up for Lao Tzu, break through Jiujiang, Lao Tzu will reward you with a few beauties!" Otherwise, this person will be your fate."
This Bai Zong coerced and enticed, as for whether he would keep his promise if he really broke through Jiujiang, it is unknown.
With a tragic example, the remaining few strong men were afraid, holding bamboo tips tremblingly and climbing up the ladder, but before they could climb halfway, a rolling log fell down, and the top one was suddenly smashed to the point that his skull was shattered, and his body fell.
"Poof!" The Bai boss hacked one of them to death, kicked one of them and roared: "Climb up for Lao Tzu!" Whoever dares to retreat, Lao Tzu immediately cut him! ”
"Ahh Lao Tzu can't stand it, since it's all death, Lao Tzu, your mother, will pull you to be the back of the back. One of the strong men roared, his eyes were red, and he angrily slammed the bamboo tip in his hand on the stomach of the Bai Zong.
Due to the lack of defense for a while, the Bai general manager was stabbed to death before he could react.
"Brothers, since they are all dead, let's kill this group of bitches and kill Zuo Liangyu's demon!" The strong man snatched the steel knife of the hundred general who was stabbed to death by him, and raised his arms and shouted.
There is always a limit to human patience, once they are cornered, the power that erupts is overwhelming, and the thousands of strong men under the city are awakened by this roar of hatred in their hearts.
"Yes, since they are all dead, kill him bitch, kill one is enough, kill two to earn one!" Countless strong men shouted along, stabbing the Zuo Liangyu soldiers beside them with the bamboo tips in their hands, and snatched the steel knives in their hands and killed them back.
These originally kind people were forced into crazy beasts by Zuo Liangyu, and they had only one thought in their hearts, which was to take revenge and kill Zuo Liangyu, the demon who destroyed their family overnight and drove them to a dead end.
After "killing" thousands of strong men and killing all the Zuo Liangyu soldiers around him, he killed them all over the world, and for a while, no one climbed the city wall through the ladder to attack the city.
On the city tower, Huang Degong was stunned, and all the soldiers defending the city in Jiujiang City were also stunned, looking at this scene in a daze.
"Hahahaha! Zuo Liangyu lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot! After this battle, see if he Zuo Liangyu dares to attack the city with those hundreds of thousands of strong men! Huang Degong laughed heartily.
In the past three days, under the pressure of Zuo Liangyu, most of the casualties are those strong men, the real Zuo Liangyu soldiers only suffered more than 10,000 casualties, Zuo Liangyu's purpose is very simple, is to use these cannon fodder to consume the energy of the Jiujiang defenders, there is no doubt that in fact, Zuo Liangyu's purpose has been achieved, hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the city are tossed to exhaustion, if at this moment Zuo Liangyu all began to use his regular soldiers with armor and knives to participate in the battle, the soldiers of Jiujiang defenders have no doubt that the pressure has increased greatly, and there is even a danger of breaking the city.
"The order goes down, and everyone rests in place! Zuo Liangyu won't attack the city in an hour! Huang Degong ordered.
In the distance, Zuo Liangyu was watching the battle from a well-built high-rise building, and was happy that he had used those strong cannon fodder to ruthlessly consume the energy of Huang Degong's army defending the city, but suddenly saw that the original cannon fodder under Jiujiang City suddenly turned into a wolf roaring and rebelled, and he was immediately angry by this scene.
"Dare to rebel and seek death! Pass the order down, supervise the battle to meet it, and kill all those who dare to rebel! Zuo Liangyu ordered angrily.
Thousands of overseers armed with bows and arrows, as well as 10,000 real Zuo Liangyu soldiers, greeted them.
Thousands of strong men seemed to be crazy, lost their minds, and were not afraid of death for a while, and after breaking through the death path of dozens of meters of the archers, they entered Zuo Liangyu's army.
Although there is no armor and no steel knife, the thousands of strong men who are used as cannon fodder are supported by hatred in their chests, and they are not afraid of death, and the bamboo tips in their hands only stab into the bodies of Zuo Liangyu soldiers one by one, and they don't care about their own lives or deaths.
"Kill"
Although more than 10,000 Zuo Liangyu soldiers had superior equipment and several times the number of strong men, because the strong men were not afraid of death after being forced into a desperate situation, the two sides were inseparable for a while.
Laugh at!
A strong man was cut off in the left arm, but he still fiercely stabbed the bamboo tip in his hand into the body of Zuo Liangyu's soldier, and roared angrily to force forward, roaring, his mouth was full of bright red blood, but his expression was extremely hateful, which made people feel terrified, this is the end of forcing an ordinary strong man into a desperate situation.
Some of Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were paralyzed to the ground in fright, and they will never forget the scene that made people's hearts tremble.
If it weren't for the absolute superiority of weapons and armor, more than 10,000 trained Zuo Liangyu soldiers would not necessarily be the opponent of these thousands of strong men who were driven crazy, but even if they killed thousands of strong men who were driven crazy, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers also suffered more than 3,000 casualties.
Zuo Liangyu has been watching this scene angrily, the strong man was originally a cannon fodder who was temporarily caught to fill the number, and he didn't care how many people died, but watching the last strong man being killed, his eyes full of hatred stared at Zuo Liangyu on the high platform.
Zuo Liangyu heard that the soldiers on his side had been killed by thousands of strong men, almost a one-to-one price, Zuo Liangyu's throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the old wound on his right chest was in severe pain, making him almost suffocate.
If it weren't for Liu Xian Brown and Zuo Mengeng's quick eyes and quick hands to hold Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu would have to fall.
"Father"
"Dashuai" More than a dozen people shouted around Zuo Liangyu.
"Continue to attack the city, within three days, this commander must break through Jiujiang!" Zuo Liangyu endured the severe pain and roared loudly, these days, he felt that his body seemed to be getting worse and worse, old injuries flared up from time to time, he Zuo Liangyu worked hard for nearly ten years, built an army of millions, he was bound to sweep the world, and he would die on the dragon chair in Nanjing City.
Zuo Liangyu is also crazy, since he rebelled, he must capture Jiangnan and leave an immortal foundation!
Together with the unexpected rebellion of thousands of strong men, losing nearly 4,000 cannon fodder strong men and 3,000 soldiers, Zuo Liangyu's army suffered a total of 100,000 casualties by this time, including 80,000 strong men and 20,000 elite soldiers, and Zuo Liangyu still had 610,000 regular soldiers and 290,000 strong men.
The 610,000 regular soldiers are Zuo Liangyu's main force, after a scene of thousands of strong men rebelling, Zuo Liangyu really did not dare to let the strong men continue to consume the energy of the Jiujiang defenders, and ordered the regular soldiers to attack the city, and they were determined to take Jiujiang in one fell swoop.
"Killing" tens of thousands of regular Zuo Liangyu soldiers to Jiujiang City, the black pressure is suppressed, and the momentum is not known to be many times stronger than the strong man, and sure enough, the trained soldiers and the strong man are different.
"Hehe, Huang Degong, you old dog who doesn't know what to do, this marshal's million-strong army is attacking the city without sleep, I see if you can hold it for how long, once the city is broken, this marshal will personally cut off the head of your old dog, and it will not be in vain that we served together under the Yang Gong's account." After Zuo Liangyu relieved his breath, Sen Ran smiled.
Although at this moment his million-strong army did not hit the city of Nanjing as expected, but he was not worried at all, he had been the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, he knew too well that the Ming court was rotten, and only Huang Degong could fight in the entire Jiangnan.
"My lord, Zuo Liangyu's army has begun to attack the city again, this time all of them are elites with bright armor, unlike those cannon fodder, it must be a vicious battle! And our garrison is already exhausted and in trouble. Feng Yichun said beside Huang Degong.
"Don't worry, our army can rest for a day without a problem!" Huang Degong glanced at the countless dead bodies under the city wall and said.
"What can you do?" Feng Yichun's eyes lit up and said.
"Someone, bring someone to bring up all the fire oil collected!" Huang Degong said to a staff general beside him.
"Yes, sir!" The general was ordered to leave.
Huang Degong only began to explain to Feng Yichun at this time: "Look at the dead bodies under this city, there are at least seventy or eighty thousand, the most within more than ten meters from the city wall, plus the countless rolling logs thrown down in the past few days, piled up nearly half of the city wall, you said that if we use fire oil to ignite these corpses and rolling logs, it will not be enough to burn for a whole day." Zuo Liangyu is attacking the city day and night, wanting to consume the energy of my army defending the city, don't you know that I am not a fool! ”
Countless corpses, most of them are innocent people who were arrested as cannon fodder, although Huang Degong is depressed and uncomfortable, but this is a troubled time, this is war, at such a time, human life is the most worthless thing.
"My lord, the oil has been raised!"
"Pour fire oil on the dead bodies under the city, and it's time for them to rest in peace." Huang Degong sighed.
The fire oil was poured on the dead soldiers who stretched more than 200 meters under the city and piled up several meters high, and the torches were thrown down, and the fire instantly engulfed countless dead bodies under the city, ignited a fire several meters high, and set the original city gate on fire, but in order to prevent Zuo Liangyu's army from crashing into the city gate, Huang Degong had already ordered someone to block the entrance to the city gate with a boulder, and it was not a matter of concern that the city gate was burned.
"Fire!" The first batch of tens of thousands of Zuo Liangyu's army, which had just rushed to the city, had just begun to plan to attack the city when they were forced back by the sudden fire.
On the high platform in the distance, Zuo Liangyu saw this scene and there was a colicy pain in the old wound on his right chest, his face was pale, and he stared at Jiujiang City, he couldn't imagine that Huang Degong still had this hand, his plan to consume the energy of the Jiujiang defenders for three days and three nights completely failed, this fire would burn for at least one day, and it would take several hours for the city wall to cool down, with these hours to rest, Huang Degong's defending army had already recovered its physical strength and energy, and it seemed that it was not so easy for him to quickly break through Jiujiang City.
Zuo Liangyu's army was blocked at Jiujiang and fell into a fierce offensive and defensive battle.
In Nanjing City, Zhu Cihong ordered to mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized from all over the country, as well as countless materials to gather in Nanjing City, and the Ying Long Army is also constantly stepping up the skilled formation and the new weapons in their hands, once the Ying Long Army is proficient in using the formation and weapons, Zhu Cihong plans to drive the expedition in person, and Zuo Liangyu will fight a decisive battle, and eliminate the hidden danger of Zuo Liangyu in one fell swoop.
The offensive and defensive battle of Jiujiang City is going on tragically.
On September 28, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was frightened by Zuo Liangyu's 100,000 troops suddenly appeared on the side of the Yellow River, and the result was that he was in a hurry, revealing a fatal flaw, and was defeated by hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers and Guanning troops, and 500,000 Dashun elite troops collapsed on all fronts, Li Zicheng was almost captured, Shanxi was all occupied by Qing soldiers, and Henan was about to be lost, Li Zicheng led the remnants of the army to retreat into Shaanxi, and the pattern of the world changed greatly!
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