Chapter 43 Ten Days in Yangzhou

"Master Shi, the Qing soldiers are attacking." Shi Kefa took his 5,000 soldiers to climb the city wall, he knew that with the current strength in Yangzhou City, if he didn't go to the city in person, the soldiers' psychological defense line would soon be broken. Raising his eyes and looking down at the city, the dense Qing soldiers felt like neatly arranged ants, and they couldn't see the edge at a glance.

Shi Kefa glanced back at his soldiers, drew his sword from his waist, and pointed it at the sky.

"The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, there are foreigners who want to take away my great rivers and mountains. I, Scofa, will never back down. I was born as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and I will be the soul of the Ming Dynasty when I die. Even if I, Shi Kefa, die here today, I am worthy of my ancestors and ancestors, and worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth. ”

"Okay, we are born as Da Ming Chen, and we are Da Ming Soul when we die." The soldiers defending the city were encouraged by Shi Dushi's presence, and their morale was greatly boosted, and loud shouts resounded in the sky.

"Ready... Arrows," Shi Kefa waved his long sword, and the arrows on the city wall rained down, and the Qing soldiers under the city raised their heads and saw this, and immediately raised their shields, formed a formation, and continued to move forward.

"Ignition," several cannons on the city wall, the fuse burned out, and the cannonballs fired directly at the formation of the Qing soldiers. As the shells landed, the formation of the Qing soldiers was blown apart, and the stumps and broken arms flew wildly, and they could no longer resist the rain of arrows.

Dorze, who could see clearly from the top of the tower, did not feel heartache at all when he saw his army's first attack being repulsed. Because the people he sent now are all 'Green Forest Soldiers' who have surrendered, and he doesn't care about their lives or deaths, and his elite troops have not yet appeared.

At this time, Miss Shi organized the people in Yangzhou City and began to transport ammunition to the soldiers fighting on the city wall. It's just that more and more of the corpses of wounded and dead soldiers were lifted down the city walls—the blood dripping along the way, the faint wail. It makes people all look sideways and weep.

On the first day, the Green Forest soldiers suffered heavy losses, and the corpses were piled up on the hills outside the city, and the truce was held at night, and under the light of the fire, it was like a huge mass grave.

On the second day, with the help of artillery fire, Duo Ze still ordered the Ming Dynasty to continue the siege, he was not in a hurry, he liked to watch the Han people kill each other, and he wanted to let those Han people who surrendered know who was the real master. What's more, he already knew from the mouth of the general that the current Yangzhou City is isolated and helpless, and there are only tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight, and in the face of its 200,000 siege troops, it is simply hitting stones with eggs, and he is not able to measure himself.

On the third day, there was a shortage of ammunition in Yangzhou City, and the Green Forest soldiers took the opportunity to attack the city, set up a ladder, and dispatched siege vehicles to attack the gates of Yangzhou City. Shi Kefa's army suffered more than half of the casualties, and could only be doused with oil, burned with fire, and smashed with stones to repel the attack of the Green Forest Army again, and more Yangzhou citizens joined the war, which can be said to be all soldiers.

On the fourth day, the ninth day of Li Shuangxi's move to rescue the soldiers, even Miss Shi had almost forgotten that someone had made an oath to move in to rescue the soldiers on the tenth day. However, there was exciting news outside the city of Yangzhou, according to the lookout post, the dust was billowing a few miles away, and it seemed that an army was gathering towards the city.

Duo Ze naturally got a reward, he urgently ordered the sergeant to probe again, and then ordered the front team to become the rear team, the green forest army retreated to the rear to block the enemy reinforcements that came to the back, the main force of the Qing army all attacked, concentrated all the artillery fire, and focused on attacking the Xicheng city wall defended by Shi Kefa, he wanted to take advantage of the arrival of Shi Kefa's reinforcements, break through the city wall and enter Yangzhou City.

When Shi Kefa heard the sergeant's report, he really couldn't believe that at such a time, there would be someone who came to the rescue regardless of life and death, and he suddenly remembered what Shi Feixue said, "In ten days, he will definitely bring the soldiers back." Could it be that this nominal son-in-law of mine really came with troops? The loyal ministers of his own generation of the Ming Dynasty have really fallen to the point of relying on thieves to save him? Is this something to be thankful or sad about!

Now Shi Feixue no longer has the appearance of everyone's ladies, her clothes have been dyed red by the blood of the soldiers, her hair is scattered, and the black ash on her face is mixed with dazzling blood, in the face of war, in the days of dealing with corpses every day, she can't care so much. However, when Xia Chun came to tell her that reinforcements were arriving outside the city, Shi Feixue showed a rare smile, and then seemed to say to herself:

"Really? I knew he was going to come back. ”

Li Shuangxi borrowed 10,000 light cavalry from Li Guo, took off all their armor, put away their weapons, changed into the clothes of merchants, and then spread the news that the Dashun army was going to collect 'taxes', and then broke into pieces, mixed with a large number of merchants who escaped from Jingzhou City, avoided the checkpoints on the way, and went straight to the outside of Yangzhou City to assemble. Anyway, in this year, there are people fleeing with their families everywhere, who cares about these extra 10,000 people.

The Qing army's offensive suddenly became ferocious, so the artillery fire was concentrated on the city wall, and Shi Kefa knew that Duo Ze was going to fight before the reinforcements arrived. All the soldiers in the city who could go up were on the top, and the soldiers were falling down in batches, and the walls were already crumbling, and the breaches that had been blown open were full of corpses, and they were about to be as high as the walls. The night finally darkened, and Shi Kefa finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the day finally passed again.

The Green Forest Army, which had been withdrawn to the rear, had just experienced a siege battle with huge casualties, and had been transferred to the rear for fortification, which made them very frustrated, because it showed that their new masters were very dissatisfied with their results and had lost patience.

I was nervous for a day, saying that some unknown reinforcements had come to kill me, but I didn't see a trace. In fact, they are deeply unaware, with the current situation, who else will come to this troubled water, it is impossible for the army of the Ming Dynasty, they know their own team very well; The Great Western Army is impossible, Zhang Xianzhong is still waiting in Sichuan to be the emperor; Dashun Army, it is even more impossible, no one will ask for them, not to mention that one tiger Li Guo, but it is in Jingzhou that he is marching towards Wuchang.

This is obviously because Duoze saw that Yangzhou City was about to be captured, and wanted to come out to grab the credit! There's no way, who makes himself a general, 'I have to bow my head under the roof of people'.

Night, deathly silence. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the sound of the bamboo flute came, and the sound was low and mournful, bringing people into contemplation in an instant.

"Who has Yaxing so much, and blows it?"

"Can you handle it? I can still blow it if I am alive today, but I don't know if I will have a life to blow it tomorrow. ”

Two soldiers on the night vigil were playing tricks when suddenly the camp was surrounded by fires, illuminating the night brightly. With the sound of horses' hooves, countless masked men in full armor, holding torches in their left hands and large knives in their right hands, rode on war horses and rushed straight over, and before the two soldiers could react, they had already been cut to the ground.