Chapter 35: Kecheng
(Today, Monday, it's still the old habit, let's ask for a few red tickets to decorate the façade first!) Hey! Don't be stingy! )
Wu Dalie sat down on the city wall exhausted, at this time his official hat no longer knew where to lose, in just two or three days, he seemed to be more than ten years old, and the whole person seemed to be exhausted! And one of his arms was also shot by the Xingtianjun in the morning, fortunately, the projectile only grazed his arm and did not hit directly, otherwise, it is estimated that his arm would be useless at this time, but even so, his arm is swollen high, and he can't swing the sword at this time.
After more than two days of fierce fighting, Wu Dalie had already used all his strength, which aroused the morale of the defenders and blocked the onslaught of the Xingtian Army for two days.
But on the third day, the defenders have reached the end of the crossbow, although they have killed and injured a lot of the Xingtian army in the past two days, but they do not have the slightest advantage in weapons, the opponent's rows of guns fire, so that the defenders of the city suffered heavy casualties, they were originally very limited, after two days of fierce fighting, the defenders of the city have basically lost everything.
Some of the defenders were dissatisfied with the long-term lack of salary, and they resisted desperately in the city, but they kept the stingy Wan'an King Zhu Cai in the city, obviously they were desperate here, but the Wan'an King Zhu Cai guarded Wanguan's family wealth, but he refused to take out more to reward the officers and soldiers who defended the city.
There are also those palace guards who were sent by Zhu Cai to assist in defending the city, usually showing off their might one by one on the boundary of Yongning County, but when they were sent to the city wall, many palace guards were so frightened that they peed their pants, and there were not many who really cooperated with the defenders to resist, but there were many people nesting under the city wall, so scared that they didn't dare to go to the city to defend the city, and even some people simply took off their military uniforms at night, sneaked into the city, and found a safe place to hide. I don't want to work hard.
At this time, all of Wu Dalie's energy has been exhausted, he knows that no matter what, Yongning County will not be able to hold on to Luoyang's official army to help, although there are still some defenders at this time, making the final resistance at the mouth of the city wall, but with each row of guns, the defenders on the city head will fall a few people, and more and more long ladders have been put on the city wall, and there are some palace guards, by this time, they have begun to escape from the city wall, fleeing in the direction of the palace.
The southeast city wall of the entire Yongning county town was full of the sound of thieves shouting and killing, and in a few places, there were already soldiers of the thief army who climbed the city wall, and the officers and soldiers defending the city started a hand-to-hand fight in one place.
Wu Dalie sighed, pushed away one of the servants who wanted to support him, picked up his Qingfeng sword from the ground, and staggered towards the nearest place of fierce fighting.
When he held the battlements in his hand and looked down, he saw a cloud ladder on the city wall, the attack launched by the thief army outside the city today can be said to be the most ferocious attack in the past three days, and the leaders of the thief army who rushed in front of the team were basically the leaders of the thief army, they led their subordinates without fear of death, and erected the long ladder on the city wall, not caring about the rolling wood and stones thrown above their heads, holding shields like mad tigers to attack the city wall, and more thieves and gunners stood at a distance of fifty steps under the city wall. kept taking turns to fire a row of guns on the city wall, hitting the bricks on the city wall, and pressing the defenders on the city wall unable to get up and raise their heads, so as to cover many thieves to climb towards the city wall.
Wu Dalie staggered to the front of a long ladder set up at the battlement, continued to roar in a hoarse voice, and instructed the officers and soldiers who were lying under the battlements of the city wall and did not dare to raise their heads to get up and resist, but before his words fell, a projectile hit him in the chest.
The huge impact force made Wu Dalie fall to the ground on his back facing the sky, he opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood, struggled to reach out and touched the wound on his chest, a large stream of blood was gushing out of his wound, quickly soaking his body, he coughed a few times, vomited blood one after another, slowly stretched his body, lay on the ground, looked at the blue sky with his eyes open, and muttered: "Your Majesty!" Your Majesty is also loyal to the country today......"
As soon as Wu Dalie died, the defenders of the city completely collapsed, seeing a large number of Xingtian army troops pouring onto the city, one by one the officers and soldiers threw away their weapons, either kneeling on the city wall and surrendering, or fled off the city wall, only a very small number of officers and soldiers are still making the last effort, desperately trying to drive the Xingtian army members off the city wall, as more and more Xingtian army members climb the city wall, even these last resistance was crushed, and it was not long before a banner of the Xingtian army fluttered on the city wall.
At this time, there was a tsunami of cheers from the mountains and the city.
As the gate of the city was opened from the inside, the soldiers and horses outside the city poured into the city like a tide.
Luo Li's second battalion and Li Xuanzhu's third battalion attacked the city almost at the same time, and after these Xingtian Army's troops seized the city gate, they immediately followed their own pre-arrangement, and the officers led their subordinates to quickly cover up the city in various important places.
Some of the officers and soldiers who fled into the city only resisted slightly, and then they collapsed under the front of the Xingtian Army, and a group of troops of the Xingtian Army took some important places in Yongning County into their hands at a rapid speed, and a group of surrendered officers and soldiers knelt down on the side of the street in despair and waited for the Xingtian Army to deal with them, and Xiao Tianjian also stepped into Yongning County with the guards at this time.
As the situation in the city was gradually controlled by the Xingtian Army, a small number of officers and soldiers and officials opened the north gate when the city was broken and escaped from the city.
At this time, the guards under the jurisdiction of Tietou were also given a new mission, and after they entered the city, they were quickly stationed in various streets in the county to patrol and be responsible for picketing the violations of discipline by the generals and soldiers.
Although the Xingtian Army has always emphasized military discipline since the day of its establishment, and the Xingtian Army has also been deeply supported by the people for its strict military discipline in Shanxi over the years, but this time to attack Yongning County, the second and third battalions have paid a lot of price, and after the generals invade the city, it is inevitable that some soldiers will be angry in their hearts, and they will inevitably sprinkle this anger on the civilians.
Before Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Yongning County this time, he made it clear to the generals that the purpose of their coming here was to occupy, not destroy, and the people's hearts were the most important thing, so after entering the city, they must not harm the people of Pingtou.
In this way, the guards became the gendarmes of the Xingtian Army, and immediately dispersed after entering the city, and began to picket and perform duties in the city.
By less than the afternoon, the Xingtian army had basically wiped out the remnants of resistance in all parts of the city, and only the Wan'an Wang's palace in the north of the city had not been finally taken.
Xiao Tianjian climbed to the top of the city, stood next to the corpse of an official lying in a pool of blood, silently lowered his head and examined the official who was still angry and his eyes were still open to death, and a prisoner knelt on the ground and whispered to Xiao Tianjian: "Enlightenment...... General Qiyu, this person is ...... It is the county magistrate Wu Daren...... No, no, it's Wu Dalie! He ......"
Xiao Tianjian waved his hand solemnly to let the captive be driven off the city wall, and under the attention of everyone, he took off his helmet, bowed deeply to Wu Dalie's corpse with it in his hand, and then squatted down and reached out to close his eyes.
When he stood up again, the expression on his face once again reverted to coldness, and he shouted: "Cut off his head, hang it above the city gate, and behead all his family!" Let everyone know that those who oppose our Heavenly Army will never end well! ……”