After Liu Xianzhang's 100,000 forward army set up camp, in less than two hours, Zuo Liangyu's 900,000 main force arrived.

Zuo Liangyu's big tent in the army.

"Isn't Huang Degong in Luzhou? When did you come to Jiujiang. After hearing Liu Xianzhang's report and learning that it was Huang Degong who was now guarding Jiujiang, Zuo Liangyu was very surprised, and then his eyes flashed with coldness.

Zuo Liangyu once encircled and suppressed Li Zicheng under Yang Sichang's account with Huang Degong, and the two sides were old acquaintances.

"Back to Dashuai, I heard that Huang Degong's department just came to Jiujiang ten days ago, and there are 150,000 troops under his command." Liu Xianzhang replied.

In order to find out when Huang Degong came to Jiujiang, Liu Xianzhang ordered people to arrest some people to inquire, only then did he learn the situation, and he was even more shocked to find that Huang Degong's account was not 80,000 but 150,000.

One hundred and fifty thousand? Zuo Liangyu was stunned, Huang Degong expanded the army? Jiujiang only came ten days ago?

Zuo Liangyu's heart was a little gloomy, he knew Huang Degong, without the order of the imperial court, Huang Degong would never dare to expand the army privately, and it was impossible for him to come to Jiujiang quietly, which showed that the imperial court had expected that he might rebel.

"Damn, it turns out that the little emperor planned to play this big handsome from the beginning." Zuo Liangyu gritted his teeth and said, feeling humiliated in his heart, from the very beginning, the little emperor did not intend to compromise, everything was to deceive him, he used Zuo Liangyu as a monkey, and he was tricked for two months.

"Order, order the army, this commander will immediately attack the city!" Zuo Liangyu angrily ordered, eager to hit Nanjing City immediately.

In Jiujiang City, Huang Degong was looking at the black pressure under the city from the tower of the city, and he couldn't see the Zuo Liangyu army on the edge at a glance.

"My lord, I didn't expect Zuo Liangyu to have so many soldiers and horses, looking at it like this, I'm afraid that if there are not millions, there are seven or eight hundred thousand." Feng Yichun, the deputy chief soldier, stood beside Huang Degong and said in surprise, with a faint fear in his heart.

"Hmph, it's just a rabble, don't worry!" Huang Degong said disapprerovingly.

Looking at Zuo Liangyu's army under the city, although there are many people, but the army is loose, Huang Degong even observed that some of the strong men wearing ordinary people's clothes and holding bamboo tips in their hands, these people are even more loose, and they know at a glance that they have no battlefield experience at all, no matter how many such people are, they are just here to die, they are no different from cannon fodder, and Huang Degong is not in his eyes.

"It seems that the news from Wuchang is true, Zuo Liangyu plundered the army before the rebellion, and captured hundreds of thousands of strong men to forcibly fill the army, almost turning a hundred miles of Wuchang into a place of death, it can really be said that there are many crimes, and the world is intolerable!" Zuo Liangyu's behavior in Wuchang was too appalling, and it had already spread all over the world, and Huang Degong was extremely ashamed of Zuo Liangyu's behavior.

At this time, a Zuo Liangyu soldier rode a fast horse to the city wall and shouted at Huang Degong in the city.

"The city is Huang Degong, Huang General Soldier! Our marshal said, and Huang Zongbing is the old knowledge, now the Ming court is mediocre, the people are miserable, has lost half of the country, luck has declined, the new dynasty should stand, as long as Huang Zongbing can abandon the dark and turn to the light, and my marshal together with the army to the east, into Nanjing, after the matter is completed, Huang Zongbing will be crowned as the king, split the two provinces! ”

Zuo Liangyu's conditions are not unattractive, not only to seal the king, but also to tear the two provinces.

Huang Degong was unmoved, and said with a cold smile: "Zuo Liangyu's chaotic ministers and thieves will be punished by heaven, and I, Huang Degong, am ashamed to be in the company of such people." ”

The Zuo Liangyu soldier under the city was shocked when he heard this, he didn't dare to say more, his task was completed, and for the sake of his own life, he quickly turned his horse's head and ran away.

"Humph! Want to go? Don't ask me if Huang Degong agrees! As soon as Huang Degong stretched out his hand, a soldier handed his special strong bow up, and together with the arrow, Huang Degong raised his hand to be an arrow.

"Ah" The Zuo Liangyu soldier turned the horse's head, and before he could escape ten meters, he was pierced by Huang Degong's arrow through the back of the heart and fell to his death!

In the distance, Zuo Liangyu saw this scene, and he didn't know what Huang Degong meant, and his face immediately turned blue with anger.

"Huang Degong old dog, I don't know what to do! This handsome is thinking about the old acquaintance, give you a chance, you don't even cherish it, and when this handsome scores, you will cut off your head with your own hands! Zuo Liangyu said angrily.

Zuo Liangyu has a million troops under his account, even if Huang Degong doesn't know what to do, he is confident that Jiujiang City will not be able to stop the attack of his million-strong army, and he will definitely capture Jiujiang within three days.

"The army is besieging the city!" Zuo Liangyu pulled out the matching sword at his waist and pointed at Jiujiang City.

Suddenly, 100,000 strong men cannon fodder, under the leadership of their respective chiefs, rushed towards Jiujiang City with stones or sacks full of dirt on their shoulders, and behind them, a team of thousands of overseers armed with bows and arrows were waiting for them, and if any strong men dared to disobey the order, they would be executed immediately. For these cannon fodder, no matter how much Zuo Liangyu dies, he won't care, it's a big deal to catch some along the way.

"Kill"

Under the personal supervision of Zuo Liangyu, 100,000 strong men, under the leadership of their respective chiefs, had to rush to Jiujiang City.

On the city tower, although Huang Degong couldn't bear to watch this scene, it was impossible to watch them fill the moat, and immediately ordered to fight back.

"Archer, shoot!"

Tens of thousands of archers under the city wall draw bows and shoot arrows, because they are in a high place, the lethality of the bow and arrow is enough to exceed 100 meters away, tens of thousands of arrows form a rain of arrows and shoot towards the city, forming a 100-meter road of death, countless strong men have not approached the moat and were shot to the ground, extremely miserable.

This scene is horrifying, these strong men were just ordinary people, they were afraid of death, where did they dare to rush forward, they threw away the stones and dirt sacks that were ready to fill the moat, and fled back.

"Who dares to run away! Lawfully kill on sight! "Those Zuo Liangyu soldiers who were arranged to serve as the chief in the Zhuang Ding, saw that the Zhuang Ding dared to retreat and escape, and suddenly one by one they waved the steel knife in their hands and slashed fiercely, behind them, the thousands of people of the supervision team also shot out thousands of arrows of death, and shot the Zhuang Ding who dared to retreat without permission to the ground, even if a few lucky escapes from the rain of arrows, they will immediately be cut into meat sauce, extremely miserable, this scene immediately frightened everyone, rushing forward may not necessarily die, but retreating is certain death!

All the strong men rushed forward again, although they were afraid, but finally someone began to rush to the edge of the moat and threw the stone sacks they were carrying into the moat, and at this time, most of them themselves were shot to death, and the corpses fell into the moat, and the strong men who were lucky enough to not die fled backwards, at this time they could safely retreat to the back, but what was waiting for them was another round of death sprint, not filling the moat, how could Zuo Liangyu stop.

As sacks of dirt and stones were filled into the moat, and the bodies of the men who had been shot to death on the edge of the moat fell into the river, gradually, after about 20,000 men died, the moat was filled, most of them the corpses of the strong men.

"Zuo Liangyu is vicious enough!" Huang Degong angrily punched a brick and stone, and even the pain was unconscious because of anger, at this moment, Huang Degong really hated Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu was so cruel, he couldn't imagine that if Zuo Liangyu really captured Nanjing City and took Jiangnan, what kind of slaughter would the people of Jiangnan suffer.

Feng Yichun's eyes also widened, he couldn't believe this scene, 20,000 dead and injured just to fill the moat under the city, this group of strong men had no shield to block it, no armor, so they were forced to fill the moat of Jiujiang City with corpses, Zuo Liangyu was too vicious.

In order to attack Nanjing City, Zuo Liangyu seemed to have gone crazy, his face was expressionless, and when he saw that the moat was finally filled, he showed a trace of cruel joy.

"Push the cannon up!" Zuo Liangyu ordered.

More than 120 old-fashioned earthen cannons and general's cannons were pushed up, Zuo Liangyu didn't have the ability to get the red-coated cannons, these old-fashioned earthen cannons and general's cannons were collected by Zuo Liangyu for several years, and most of them were removed from the walls of Wuchang and various big cities in Hubei.

"Boom Boom"

More than 120 iron balls of various sizes were shot out, piercing the air and flying towards a place in the Jiujiang city wall, intending to break down a section of the city wall.

How could Huang Degong let Zuo Liangyu succeed, and immediately ordered the artillery defending the city of Jiujiang to start firing back.

Because Jiujiang City faces the Yangtze River on one side and Poyang Lake on the other, guarding the main road of the Yangtze River, there are only two city gates, one east gate and one west gate, Zuo Liangyu comes from the west so he can only attack the west gate, Huang Degong has already transferred the cannons of the east gate to the west gate, so there are more than 30 cannons guarding the city on the west gate.

After nearly an hour of shooting, the cannons defending the city of Jiujiang City occupied a high place, the firing range was longer, and the power was greater, Zuo Liangyu's more than 120 cannons were knocked out nearly half, and most of the cannons of Jiujiang City were also knocked out, leaving less than ten left, the barrel was hot, and the cannons could no longer continue to fire, Zuo Liangyu immediately ordered the army to start charging and killing!

"Kill"

The shouting and killing shook the sky, and there were more than 100,000 people under the city, half of them were strong men, holding sharpened bamboos in their hands, and half of them were real Zuo Liangyu soldiers wearing armor and holding steel knives, and hundreds of ladders were carried to the Jiujiang city wall.

Zuo Liangyu's million-strong army took turns to attack the city, and Huang Degong's more than 100,000 troops defended the city, and a tragic offensive and defensive battle was being staged.

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