Chapter Ninety-Seven: Attack and Defense of Jiujiang (I)
"The holy decree has arrived, and Huang Degong has received the decree!"
Several Jinyi guards, under the leadership of a hundred households, hurried to Jiujiang for 800 miles, holding the holy decree in their hands to announce the decree to Huang Degong.
"Chen Huang has to take the order!" Huang Degong knelt on the ground and prepared to receive the order.
"Mr. Huang, the emperor only has one sentence: 'Defending Jiujiang for a month is a great achievement'!" There is indeed only one sentence in the holy decree, and after Jinyi Wei Baihu read it, he directly handed over the holy decree to Huang Degong.
Huang Degong was stunned, opened the holy decree and saw that there was a large seal of the jade seal of the country and the cabinet issued by the cabinet, it was indeed a real holy decree, but this holy decree seemed to be a little too casual, there was no preface and conclusion, there were only a few words in total, Huang Degong had to sigh, the emperor is really a man of temperament.
"Chen Huang has merit, and he will live up to the expectations of the saints." Huang Degong thanked him and got up.
After several brocade guards finished reading their lives, they rushed back to Nanjing to make a business, and Huang Degong sent these brocade guards out.
Feng Yichun, the deputy commander-in-chief, also watched the Jinyi guard who came to announce the decree go out, walked next to Huang Degong and said: "My lord, the emperor seems to have expected Zuo Liangyu's rebellion, from the secret order to let the adults expand the army, to the time when the adults moved to Jiujiang to complete the deployment, the time is so accurate, which shows that the emperor has even calculated the time for Zuo Liangyu's specific rebellion, and the sacred heart is unpredictable."
It is certain that it is shocking, Huang De's power army moved to Jiujiang, and only completed the deployment yesterday, and the news of Zuo Liangyu's rebellion in Wuchang came in less than a day, how can this not make people suspicious.
"This is the emperor's wisdom, he has long seen through Zuo Liangyu's tricks, the emperor believes that I Huang Degong let me guard Jiujiang, and now the extermination of the rebel is our first priority, and I don't want to speculate on the rest of the things." Huang Degong said solemnly.
He is the general army of the Ming Dynasty, only in charge of the big battle, he doesn't care about the rest of the things, since the emperor trusts him so much, and hands over the fifteenth army and Jiujiang City to him, he will not let the emperor down, let alone a month, even a year, he dares to defend it.
"Yes, sir." Feng Yichun just sighed, not that he was not careful, seeing that Huang Degong was so serious, it was not easy to say any more.
"Report ----"
"Zuo Liangyu's forward army has arrived in the city!" A soldier came to report it.
"Good time!" Huang Degong snorted coldly, turned around and walked out, ready to climb the city tower.
Zuo Liangyu's forward 100,000 army, led by Liu Xian Brown, has arrived at Jiujiang City, began to attack Jiujiang City, Liu Xian Brown watched the army attack Jiujiang City from a distance, and strive to take Jiujiang before Zuo Liangyu's main force arrived, sweeping the road to continue eastward.
In order to distinguish the two armies, Zuo Liangyu ordered the army on his side to tie the earthy yellow coarse cloth on his right arm in order to distinguish them.
"Kill ---"
The 100,000 Zuo Liangyu army was pressed by black, carrying a cloud ladder on their shoulders, and attacked Jiujiang densely.
Because of the obstruction of the moat, after the soldiers of Zuo Liangyu rushed to the side of the moat, they put the ladder on the moat, and the soldiers stepped on the ladder to cross the moat, and continued to put another ladder towards the city wall, and the soldiers began to climb the ladder to the city.
"My lord, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers have begun to land in the city, do you start to fight back?" A staff officer said.
Because Huang Degong gave an order in advance, no one was allowed to fight back without an order, so no one dared to move without asking Huang Degong for advice.
"Don't worry, Jiujiang City is high and deep, Zuo Liangyu's forward army of 100,000 dares to attack the city, and when they cross the moat, more people are doing it, and it will definitely make Zuo Liangyu's army suffer heavy losses." Huang Degong was in an inconspicuous place, looking coldly at the Zuo Liangyu soldiers who began to ascend the city.
At this time, Zuo Liangyu's army that crossed the moat under the city and began to climb the city wall was only a few hundred, and his army guarding Jiujiang, together with Jiujiang's original troops, was as much as 160,000, Huang Degong was not in a hurry at all, Jiujiang City was on the edge of the Yangtze River, so the moat dug when the city was built was almost ten meters wide, and the depth was more than ten meters, Zuo Liangyu's army relied on the ladder to cross the moat, at most only a few thousand people attacked the city, and the siege was extremely inconvenient, and it was delusional to want to break through Jiujiang, He had to wait for more Zuo Liangyu soldiers to cross the moat before he started, and then it was necessary that all Zuo Liangyu's troops who crossed the moat would not return.
There were more and more Zuo Liangyu soldiers crossing the moat under the city wall, and some people began to climb the city wall more than ten meters high through the ladder to the city.
"Attacked, attacked." Beside Liu Xianzhang, a staff general watched as someone began to climb the city wall, and said happily.
"I'm afraid it's not that easy." Liu Xian had a calm face, watching the army cross the moat all the way and climb the city wall, and he didn't see a single Ming soldier fighting back, this is unreasonable, could it be that the governor of Jiujiang abandoned the city and fled?
Because he was too confident in his million-strong army, Zuo Liangyu did not send scouts to inquire about Jiujiang City in advance since the rebellion, and he didn't know that Huang Degong had moved to Jiujiang City, and thought that Jiujiang was still garrisoned by the governor of Jiujiang with 10,000 horses.
"Whew! Snort!! ”
"Ah----h
Just when Zuo Liangyu's army began to climb the city wall, suddenly a cold light stabbed out, the first to climb the city wall Zuo Liangyu soldiers did not have time to be happy, they were frightened, in front of their eyes, dense Ming soldiers with spears and bows and arrows were facing them, before they could react, thousands of cold light shining spear heads stabbed at them, there was no way to avoid it, and suddenly these first to climb the city wall of a dozen people were stabbed into stoppers, and the corpses fell off the city wall.
"Kill!" Huang Degong ordered coldly.
The tens of thousands of Ming soldiers who were ready to go, except for the archers, all put down their spears, picked up the stones and logs piled aside and threw them down the city wall.
The Zuo Liangyu soldiers who were still climbing the cloud ladder to climb the city were all smashed down by this sudden stone rolling log, countless stones and rolling logs were like rain, accompanied by arrows falling, at this time Zuo Liangyu soldiers who crossed the moat were thousands, and they were all stupid when they saw this scene in the sky.
Burst!
A Zuo Liangyu soldier was hit in the head by a stone, and before his body could sleep on the ground, he was hit by a rolling log, and his bones were shattered, and his body was like mud, and this scene was playing out everywhere at the same time.
Tens of thousands of Ming soldiers smashed down stones and rolling wood at the same time, you can imagine how dense it is, the thousands of Zuo Liangyu soldiers who crossed the moat instantly suffered most of the casualties, and the Zuo Liangyu soldiers who were lucky enough to escape turned around in horror and fled, wanting to escape backwards through the ladder erected on the moat, but the ladder is not a road after all, there is no support point in the middle of the moat, it is shaking, and dozens of people stepped on a ladder at once, where can the ladder withstand it, and it broke from the middle, and everyone fell into the moat.
"Archery!" The archers on the city wall shot thousands of arrows, and luckily escaped the blow of the stone rolling wood, so that the Zuo Liangyu soldiers were suddenly slaughtered, and the Zuo Liangyu soldiers who were smashing in the moat were pierced by the arrows, and the blood stained the water of the moat red.
"Damn, why are there so many defenders stationed in Jiujiang." Liu Xian Brown, who was watching the battle from a distance, widened his eyes, didn't Jiujiang City only have 10,000 defenders, why did it change so many at once, there must be tens of thousands, to say the least.
In this round of attacks, Zuo Liangyu's army lost nearly 4,000 people, which can be described as heavy casualties, and the Ming soldiers did not hurt a single person.
Liu Xian Brown wanted to vomit blood, regretting that he didn't find out the situation of Jiujiang in advance and attacked, thinking that with his 100,000 forward army, he would definitely be able to take Jiujiang in one fell swoop.
"I can't help myself!" Huang Degong finally showed his honor on the city tower, and looked at Liu Xian Brown in the distance under the city with a sneer.
"It's Huang Degong!" Liu Xianzhang was shocked.
Liu Xian Brown recognized Huang Degong, Huang Degong had 80,000 troops under his command, and they were all elite generals, he knew that it was impossible to take Jiujiang with his 100,000 forwards alone, so he wisely ordered to stop the siege, and waited for the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Zuo Liangyu himself behind him to arrive, and took Jiujiang one by one.
"Gather the troops and set up camp!" Liu Xian Brown gritted his teeth.
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