First, Sheng Yong led the army to attack the camp outside the city at night, and then Tie Xuan surrendered, and King Yan repeatedly sent people to persuade him to surrender...... Everything was to no avail, and in the end, they could only fight hard with each other in Jinan City through a thick and tall city wall.

In order to prevent the official army from going out of the city to counterattack, a fortification was built outside the city of Jinan, with a fence and a ditch, which was built outside the range of artillery shells. Zhu Gaoxu rode a horse to inspect the battlefield behind the fence, resolutely not exceeding the trench.

"Kill! Killing ......" was in flames under the city wall, and many soldiers were rushing towards the city wall with shields and ladders. The air was filled with thick smoke, with white gunpowder smoke and black smoke from the burning of fierce fire oil.

Rockets dotted in the smoke, like fireflies in the twilight, more brilliant than fireworks on Chinese New Year's Eve. There is also a ceramic tribulus thrown by the cannon, which is stuffed with large firecrackers, which explode everywhere, and porcelain fragments are splashed in all directions.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The artillery roared above and below the city wall, and the fire bolts flickered intensively.

Zhu Gaoxu felt his ears "buzzing". The guns and cannons rang out in the sky, and he had the illusion of being in the TV series of the Anti-Japanese War, as if he had already entered the era of hot weapons.

It has been more than two months since the siege of Jinan City, and apart from making countless corpses, there is basically no effect to be seen. Although King Yan is good at fighting, he can't get rid of the limitations of the times.

Zhu Gaoxu thought of the common explosives in the film and television to blow up the bunker, now there is gunpowder, and it is still powerful to bury it underground and seal it...... However, the amount of gunpowder required will be many, much; The city wall of Jinan is much stronger than the pillbox, although there is no cement, but the rammed earth more than ten meters thick is not something that ordinary bombs can blow up.

So far, King Yan has only really controlled a few provinces around Beiping, and he has not heard of a large number of saltpeter mines, so it may not be easy to get so much gunpowder.

At this moment, deep in the smoke outside the fence, many soldiers turned back in a chaotic manner, apparently again to no avail.

People pushed wheelbarrows and carried stretchers to bring the wounded soldiers back. In the midst of the retreat, the howls and groans of the wounded soldiers were heard everywhere. Many people poured into the gate and sat down behind the fence in a disorderly manner, some lamenting, others shouting, "Go and call the people, and bring all the wounded into the camp." ”

"Ah......h I saw two soldiers taking off the armor and clothes of a wounded soldier, and the wounded soldier's left arm and left leg were black and mushy, and a smell of burnt meat mixed with the stench of asphalt came to his face.

A soldier said: "Brother, you have too many burns, you can't get better, why don't you have a good time?" ”

The wounded soldier howled.

The soldier persuaded again: "I have seen this kind of injury last month, and that brother is rotten with maggots!" I couldn't die again, and in the end I couldn't even eat, and I starved to death. Waiting for death day by day, it's too miserable! ”

The wounded soldier shook his head and cried: "I don't want to die, save my ......"

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't say a word, and hurriedly left here on horseback. It's really miserable, and there's nothing he can do.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly saw a familiar person behind the fence and thought about it for a while. The sitting soldier raised his head and shouted first, "King Gaoyang......"

"Stone...... What stone? Zhu Gaoxu pointed at him.

The young soldier struggled to stand up: "The little one is called Jin Shishi." ”

"Yes, Jin Shishi." Zhu Gaoxu showed a reluctant smile, "You're not dead yet!" ”

Jin Shishi raised his black face full of dirt, "Lord Wang, when are we going to fight?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment, pondering in his heart, King Yan had not decided whether to continue to attack or not, and now that he was on the battlefield, he couldn't open his mouth and talk nonsense in front of the soldiers. So he said: "Jinan City should be about to be conquered, there is a new strategy, but it can't be said for the time being." ”

Zhu Gaoxu went around the city, and there was a similar scene everywhere, so he stayed in place for a while, and casually asked Jin Shishi, "Have you been promoted?" ”

Jin Shishi kept shaking his head, crying with a sad face, "It doesn't matter if you are promoted or not, many brothers I know are dead and disabled, I just want to go back alive." ”

"The most important thing is to be alive." Zhu Gaoxu said very agreeably, and then left here with a light shake of the horse's reins, leaving a sentence, "If you are alive and make meritorious contributions, you can still be promoted." ”

Jin Shishi's eyes widened, looking at the battlefield where there was no grass and smoke.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu heard the sound of Jin Shi behind him again, so he turned his head to look on the horse that was walking slowly, and heard Jin Shi muttering to his companion next to him, "My family has a few acres of land, and the wheat has just been harvested, and there is a bun made of new noodles at this time, which is roasted to golden brown, fragrant and crispy." The ewes laid a few lambs with slippery wool and goat's milk. When I got up in the morning, my little daughter-in-law warmed the goat's milk, brought it over and looked at me sweetly and smiled, thinking about giving me all the good things......

It seems that there is a gradual shortage of food in the army!

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu inadvertently remembered that when King Yan first raised his army, this soldier was happy to make meritorious contributions, but a year later, he became like this.

He listened to the sound of cannons near and far, and suddenly sighed to himself: People are like this, after a long time of dull days, they want to do something big; But one day I will understand that the original stable days, although little by little, are very beautiful.

Zhu Gaoxu took a breath, kicked his horse to speed up, and rode straight to the Chinese army camp with his own soldiers.

But King Yan was not in the Chinese army, and Zhu Gaoxu asked a general in the Chinese army, "Where is my father?" ”

The military general said: "Back to King Gaoyang, King Yan has gone to the Daji River." ”

Zhu Gaoxu heard that this person spoke clearly, and the etiquette was clear, so he couldn't help but take a closer look. The military general was also very clever, and immediately said: "When the last general first entered the command of King Yan, he heard the brothers say that King Gaoyang's heroic achievements were revered!" ”

"Huh!" Zhu Gaoxu laughed.

The military general said again: "The last general is called Ji Gang, if the king of Gaoyang is sent, he will be able to give a command." ”

"Oh......" Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt a little familiar, remembering that he seemed to have heard this name somewhere in his previous life, and it seemed to be a negative character? But in any case, those who can leave a name in their previous lives are definitely not idle people!

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: "I see that you are not ordinary, and you will definitely do something in the future, do it well." ”

The military general was overjoyed and said: "Thank you King Gaoyang for lifting up!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu then rode his horse to the Daji River not far away, saw the position of the banner soldiers and horses, and rushed up. Sure enough, I saw King Yan and a group of civil officials on the riverside, pointing with his fingers.

When he came to King Yan, Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward to meet him first. King Yan nodded and asked Zhu Gaoxu to follow.

A civil official was saying: "With the height of the water surface of the Daji River, Jinan City cannot be flooded, and it can only be soaked in the corner of the wall. ”

King Yan's face was very solemn and a little tired. Zhu Gaoxu observed King Yan for a while, and remembered that Jin Shishi had been talking about eating, and felt that the military rations could not be held for a long time, and King Yan probably had the idea of retiring from the army.

Zhu Gaoxu also turned his head to look at the Daji River, and the waves on the water rushed towards the river in the wind, but they soon hit the embankment, only splashing white waves.

There is a thick embankment in the way, and no matter how much the river surges, it cannot break through the barrier.