Chapter 13: The Battle of the Siege

Ruan Wu's brigade overnight surrounded the huge city of Suzhou like an iron bucket.

Before the expedition, Ruan Wu passed through soft grinding and hard foaming, and Liu Qian and the military advisor finally agreed to allocate him ten official-made siege cannons, and at this time, these treasures came in handy. After a burst of bombardment, the battlements of Suzhou City collapsed a few pieces, but the whole stood still.

After the artillery fire, with the rumbling war drums, the soldiers of the Red Turban Army shouted to build a ladder to attack the city. The defenders on the city walls, relying on their superiority, fired a salvo of crossbow arrows. The soldiers of the Red Turban Army held a big shield to cover, desperately attacking, seeing that there were about to be soldiers climbing the city wall, suddenly the fog on the city wall was clear, dozens of buckets of boiling water were poured on the head, and the city was suddenly full of screams like killing pigs.

The shield can block the rain of the bow and crossbow, but it cannot withstand the hot current. Many soldiers threw away their shields hotly, hugged their heads and ran away, and were mercilessly shot from behind by crossbow arrows falling from the sky.

When the fog cleared, the Red Turbans regrouped to attack the city, and rows of lit fireballs rolled down the city walls, making it impossible to get close at all.

After several rounds of attacks, the Red Turbans suffered heavy casualties, and many people were either burned or burned to death. There was no better way, so Ruan Wu had no choice but to order a halt to the attack, and ordered someone to repair a book, tie it to a feather arrow and shoot it into the city. The general meaning of the letter is: You are surrounded, don't resist stubbornly, hurry up and surrender, otherwise you will die!

Soon an arrow was also shot in the city, and the end of the arrow was also tied to a letter, which roughly meant: Nonsense, we know that we are surrounded. The soldiers in the city are brave and good at fighting, and there is enough food and grass to last a year, and your cannons will not be able to knock down the city walls. Boiling hot water and a fireball on the spotWe have it, if you want to take a hot bath and steam in a sauna, you are welcome to come at any time, no charge is guaranteed. And our reinforcements are on the way, retreat as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a dead end!

General Nguyen Vu's nose was crooked, and he again ordered an artillery attack. After a violent bombardment, the city wall was riddled with holes, but it still stood still. The next two rounds of attacks were repulsed, and seeing that the morale of his generals was gradually declining, and he lost the courage to continue the siege, Nguyen Vu had no choice but to order a siege without attacking. Both sides made up their minds at the same time as if they were angry: let's consume it, see who consumes who first!

Hearing the news that Zhai Longbiao was wounded, Guan Yu ordered Zhang Baiqian and Du Zhongnian to be responsible for commanding the troops to camp on the spot and pay attention to preventing the enemy's sneak attack. He took a soldier with a medicine box and galloped to Zhai Longbiao's station to visit.

Walking into the big tent, I saw General Zhai lying there bare-chested, with the long mouth on his back covered with dark green herbs, and the open wound was like a baby's open mouth, which was very scary.

Guan Yu ordered Lang Zhong, who he had brought, to check to see if there was a better treatment, while sitting opposite General Zhai, bowed his head and asked, "What's going on?" Who have you been hurt? ”。

Zhai Longbiao's old face turned red and muttered: "Don't mention it, I was accidentally slashed by a little girl, and I was killed!" But I can't die, the sixth brother can rest assured. ”

Guan Yu tried his best to hold back a laugh and said, "Fourth brother has a fever, right?" Where are the little ladies on the battlefield? If it really doesn't work, I'll send someone to send you back to Pingzhou to recuperate, depending on the situation, you won't be able to carry an axe for a while! ”

Zhai Longbiao hurriedly said: "What is the line?" Lao Tzu still wants to be the first to enter Qingzhou Mansion! The credit can't be snatched by you and the third child! ”。

Guan Yu got up and said, "Whoever says it doesn't count, listen to Langzhong." If you can trust my brother, your subordinates will be led by me for the time being, and the battle achievements will be counted on your head! ”。

Zhai Longbiao turned his head and said: "If you meet that little girl on the battlefield again, the sixth brother must be careful!" That little girl's knife skills are really sharp, you must avenge this knife for me! ”。

Looking at his serious appearance, Guan Yu's mind suddenly appeared in front of the snow wolf with a slender figure and plump breasts, could it really be her?

Liu Ganting bowed his head and knelt at Yang Mingyi's feet, kowtowing.

Yang Mingyi raised his left hand lightly and asked, "How is it?" On the battlefield, what abnormal actions can be found in Nie Yunniang? ”

Liu Ganting got up and replied: "If you return to your grandfather, the deputy leader's tactics are appropriate, and our army has never suffered a loss. Just ----"

Yang Mingyi leaned over and said, "Just what?" If you have something to say, don't be a mother-in-law! ”。

"It's just that our army had a chance to defeat the red turban bandits in one fell swoop, but the deputy leader suddenly withdrew his troops, which made his subordinates puzzled." Liu Ganting let out a sigh of relief, and finally said what he wanted to say.

Yang Mingyi frowned and said, "Is this the case?" ”

"It's true, if you don't believe it, you can ask the other people you have planted in the team." Liu Ganting's eyes were firm and he nodded frequently.

Yang Mingyi fell into deep thought, pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back.

"Also, the deputy leader could have cut off the commander of the thief army with a knife, but he only let him suffer a little injury and let him live, which is really suspicious!" Liu Ganting walked a few steps to catch up with Yang Mingyi and added.

Yang Mingyi's eyes suddenly burst out with a cold murderous aura, and he roared in a low voice: "It's a shame that my father still trusts her so much, this thing that eats inside and out!" ”。

It has been four days since the siege of the city, and although there are no enemy reinforcements, it is just like this, and Ruan Wu is a little breathless. To his annoyance, the general who defended the city found a group of craftsmen out of nowhere and began to repair the damaged battlements in front of him.

Yao Taihe, the general of Suzhou, asked people to move the Taishi chair and put it in the sun, yawning while holding his small wine jug, moving his slightly fat body, lazily basking in the sun. From afar, he watched as the craftsmen were busy repairing the walls. There were only more than 10,000 defenders in Suzhou City, and he was not worried at all about the iron wall of 40,000 troops outside the city. As early as a few months ago, he ordered someone to strengthen the city wall and raise it a circle, and it should not be a problem for him to be bombarded by the cannons made by the court officials for half a month. Half a month is enough time for Grandpa Guo to dispatch troops, and he just waits for reinforcements to arrive.

An adjutant general hurriedly came, clasped his fists and said: "Report to General Yao, the red turban bandits outside the city have sent hundreds of people to the front of the city to fight the enemy and scold the formation, scolding us as shrunken turtles!" There was something even worse that the brothers were angry and begged to go out of the city to fight. ”

Yao Taihe twisted his fat neck, slowly picked up the small wine jug and took a sip, then rolled his eyes and said, "Tell the brothers, whoever dares to go out of the city without authorization will be beheaded on the spot!" If you scold two sentences and you can't die, let them scold. The turtle is very good, prolonging life, Lao Tzu is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, what's wrong? They have the ability to attack it! ”。

He turned to another quartermaster and asked, "There's still cotton in the curry, right?" ”。

The quartermaster didn't know what General Yao meant, and nodded stunnedly.

General Yao waved his fat hand and said: "Carry a bag of cotton to the barracks, if you don't want to listen, plug your ears and eyes for me to sleep, and those who are full and want to eat will be scolded by them, whoever scolds the most ugly will be rewarded!" ”。

The quartermaster and lieutenant general took the order, and General Yao raised his fat head very comfortably, squinted his eyes and sunbathed, and hummed an out-of-tune tune in his mouth.

The members of Nguyen Vu's "scolding team" had a dry mouth and came back dejected. The defenders at the head of the city scolded tricks and scolded to a new height, which had broken through the limitations of the eighteenth generation of the ancestors and had a tendency to spread to the thirty-sixth generation. The members of the "scolding team" were forced to become the final audience from the initial provocateurs.

General Nguyen Vu, who could not bear it anymore and lost patience, launched the siege campaign again. After a burst of heavy artillery fire, the soldiers with ladders on their shoulders and large shields shouted again, this time the defenders were clearly not prepared for boiling water, and resisted only with bows and arrows and lighted fireballs. General Yao, who had sunbathed enough, suddenly became alive, twisting his fat buttocks and running on the city wall, shouting after running to direct his soldiers to fight back, knocking down one after another erected ladders.

Nguyen Vu drew his sword and ran to the city to direct the battle, the blazing flames scorching his beard. His lieutenant and the guards dragged him out of the danger zone. Finally, a few brave soldiers climbed the city wall on the ladder, and before they could stand firmly, they were pierced into their bodies at the same time by more than a dozen sharp spears around them, and the bright red tips of the spears suddenly emerged from behind, and then the corpses were thrown from the high city towers, and fell into the smoke and fire of the city, smashing out the flying sparks.

A group of soldiers wrapped in red scarves and pushing siege engines shouted trumpets and stepped over the moats that had been filled. Taking advantage of the chaos on the city walls, there was no threat of lethal crossbow arrows, and slammed into the city gates. The violent impact caused a cloud of dust to fall on the heavy city gates, and only three times the impact occurred, and the two heavy gates suddenly opened, and the soldiers pushing the siege engines were overjoyed. However, the surprise lasted only three seconds before they saw ghostly cavalrymen with machetes in their hands.

The cavalry slaughtered the unsuspecting cart soldiers, and in a bloody light, all the Red Turban soldiers fell. After the slaughter was completed, several strong men jumped off their horses and flipped the blood-spattered siege vehicles to the ground, smashing them all indiscriminately. It was a group of dead soldiers, and from the moment they rushed out of the gates, they had no intention of returning alive. The gates behind them slammed shut again the moment they rushed out.

The cavalrymen who had completed the mission brandished machetes and screamed and rushed towards the Red Turban camp. Within a dozen paces, most of them were knocked to the ground by the crossbow arrows that were as dense as flying locusts. Those who were lucky not to be shot were surrounded by the cavalry of the Red Turban Army, and they were chopped into meat sauce in the blink of an eye.

The fierce fighting between the two sides lasted for an hour, and the Red Turban Army still failed to plant their banners on the city. After the smoke cleared, General Ruan Wu, who had no beard, also lost his temper completely, and could only look at the high city wall in front of him in a silent daze.

Above the city, General Yao, who was sweating profusely and had a bloody face, showed a greasy smile on his fat face, looking at the dense corpses under the city and the slowly receding crowd, he turned his head and ordered a soldier beside him: "Hurry up, go and bring Lao Tzu's small wine jug!" ”。