Chapter 39: Offensive and Defensive Chaos

As far as Master Chu is concerned, he is still a little wary of Zhang Xuan.

But after all, the master is just a master, not a seal official, and he has spoken. He was helpless. had no choice but to comply, but he also had an extra heart and installed a servant beside Zhang Xuan. This official is none other than Cao Wu.

Cao Wuyi was serious as if he didn't know the two, and said, "Two, please." ”

Cao Wu led the two of them down the city, but saw that the city was in chaos, and countless strong men were driven out of the city by the officials. ”

Zhang Xuan asked curiously, "What is he doing?" ”

Cao Wu said: "Gather people and ask every household in the city to come out." ”

Zhang Xuan found out that on weekdays, there are not too many people stationed at the head of the city in Nanyang City, and looking at the dense crowd at the head of the city in the TV series, all of them are deceitful. Take this south gate alone, on weekdays, it is the official of the Nanyang County Ya, plus the white servants who have been recruited, but there are only a few hundred people, which still increases a lot of manpower, and the other doors are just government offices, and there are other yamen officials plus some Ding Zhuang.

Zhang Xuan suddenly felt that it was really easy to capture Nanyang City. No matter how well the city wall is built, it is also necessary for people to guard it, and the officials or something, let him bully the common people, let them defend the city, it is not possible at all, as long as there is a place to go to the city, he estimates that the people on the head of the city will collapse.

Now the people who have been temporarily recruited are all thin and weak, as if they can be blown away by a gust of wind, what can these people do to help when they go to the city?

"As long as the city is guarded today, the county government will send three meals a day and be full." With all the promises made before, the people below were as quiet as if they were dead, but as soon as they heard that they were full, the eyes of all the people instantly lit up, and they all rushed forward and said, "I, I." ”

For a while, everyone burst out with a shocking force, and suddenly rushed the official who maintained order to a person on his back.

That's the power of survival.

After a long time, the officials came out again to maintain order, took out the raw and cold steamed buns, and sent them down one by one, everyone devoured them, and at this time the officials also began to distribute manpower.

With Cao Wu's help, Cao Tie and his party successfully became Zhang Xuan's subordinates.

Zhang Xuan looked at these people, and saw that although these people were much thinner, as if they were hemp rods, they were strong and strong, and the green tendons were clearly visible, and they were obviously good hands on weekdays.

Before Zhang Xuan could say anything, he heard the sound of the bell ringing "Dangdang" above the city, and someone pulled a long voice and said, "Go to the city-----。 ”

Zhang Xuan went to the city under the push of countless officials.

Zhang Xuan and the people around Zhang Xuan didn't have any weapons at all, and they were all placed on a section of the city wall with their bare hands, which was a little away from the city gate. It seems that the government has no intention of issuing weapons to him, their weapons are piles of rolling stones and wood in front of them, but in fact, they are just a large piece of stone, the smallest one is the size of a fist, and the largest is the size of a head. The ground was densely paved, and there were many in the city, and there were people who sent them to the city.

Each team of people is led by several officials, which can be regarded as filling the south wall of Nanyang.

Zhang Xuan looked down at the city and saw the siege methods of the righteous army, and immediately felt that Yan Riyu's response was not bad. At least if there were no other factors, the offensive of the righteous army alone would never be able to capture Nanyang City.

I saw that the horse teams of the righteous army were lined up, burying pots to make rice, wisps of cooking smoke were spreading, hundreds of people came from all directions, helping the old and the young, both men and women, some of them were indeed driven here, but most of them came here on their own initiative, without him, no matter what the future is, they can have a full meal in the army.

It's better to be a hungry ghost than a hungry ghost.

The rebels didn't have any siege weapons at all, no artillery trebuchets, none of them, Xian Camp, Cao Ying, sometimes in one breath, running wildly for more than 300 miles, how could they carry these things, as for the long ladder or something, it was also collected from the towns and villages on all sides when they arrived here, except for these, the rest were nothing.

The Rebels had no other weapons, and the Hungry were the most powerful weapons of the Rebels.

These people, who had just eaten enough, under the orders of the rebels, carried all kinds of weapons, most of them were agricultural tools, a few were divided weapons, and almost all of the weapons were spears, and only occasionally some people carried long knives.

There were even some people with wooden sticks that they didn't know where to go, and these people rushed towards Nanyang City with several long ladders tied together. And behind these people, there is a team of superintendents, standing in a row, the sword is snow-white, and anyone who dares to retreat is a neat knife.

The mountains are all over the field, Zhang Xuan is on the top of the city, looking down is magnificent, but Zhang Xuan's heart seems to be pinched by something, as if he can't breathe.

Zhang Xuan has also experienced several battles, but he has never interpreted a sentence like this battle: "Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer." ”

The people who fought desperately under the city were all innocent people, and the price of their desperate fighting was to eat a full meal. Zhang Xuan suddenly felt a hot current rushing to his brain, and the entire brain suddenly spread, and there was a feeling of numbness.

"What am I going to do?" Zhang Xuan had a strong impulse.

"Childe, what are you going to do?" Cao Zongyu pushed Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan was suddenly knocked down from this feeling, Zhang Xuan's mind instantly returned to reality, he gritted his teeth and said, "Wait, wait a while, they fight, and we will act again." ”

"Okay." Cao Zongyu actually had a fixed opinion a long time ago, but among the group, Zhang Xuan was still nominally the leader, and Zhang Xuan could not be skipped.

Cao Zongyu immediately went down to make arrangements.

Cao Zongyu is ready to use martial arts to fight offensive and defensive battles, although he has no experience, he knows what to do. In a few moments, everyone was properly arranged, and by this time, these hungry people were also under the city.

Sure enough, that kind of armor is like a cloud, one after another, regardless of life and death, trebuchet artillery, non-stop firing, bows and arrows covering the sky and the sun, as soon as they fall, it is like a black grass growing on the ground, this kind of scene is mostly fake.

I saw that the head of the city was scattered, as if it was a chicken peeing, and only dozens of arrows were shot down, and the hit rate was only half.

In a inland prefecture like Nanyang, where are there so many people who practice bows and arrows, these people are still made up by Yan Riyu, and even if there are archers, they don't dare to shoot out all their brains, without him, archery is also a physical work, generally speaking, if you can shoot thirty arrows in one go, you are a good hand.

Therefore, Yan Riyu ordered these people to shoot such sparse arrows in order to support them for a longer period of time.

There were so many people, these dozens of long arrows, as if they were a basin of water poured into the sea, there was no movement at all, only the occasional few people who were shot dead fell to the ground, and the rest of the people turned a blind eye.

No, these hungry people are elite soldiers, but these people are used to life and death.

From more than 6 million people in Henan during the Wanli period to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were no people for thousands of miles, and there was no place for the county government to settle. It's a barren land. Almost all of them were caused by several great famines during the Chongzhen period, note that the data of the Ming government has never been too accurate, and the hidden households are estimated to be more than Zhengding. Regardless of whether it was at the head of the city or under the city, who did not send away a few relatives, they were either starved to death, or killed by bandits, or killed by officers and soldiers, or killed by rogues, or killed by the plague.

Dead people are commonplace.

Human life is worthless.

"Boom." The only few cannons on the head of Nanyang City were fired. These so-called artillery pieces are actually just small cannons, such as artillery cannons, or tiger squat cannons, and they are not bigger. These cannons are still Yan Riyu After coming to Nanyang, they were either turned out from the depths of the treasury, I don't know what age the old cannons, or Yan Riyu personally presided over the construction of the artillery, the big cannons can't be built, so you can only get some small ones.

It's just that the treasury is empty, and even if Yan Riyu tries his best to build it, he can't build much.