The four thousand captives soon rushed to the city of Zaoyang, and He Jin and Zhao Shiliang hurriedly ordered the artillery to prepare and open artillery bombardment. (Eighty-one?) 〈< small[〈Say[(

The shells exploded in front of the captives, and the captives were startled, and hurriedly retreated a few feet, hiding out of the range of the cannons, and knelt on the ground in a scattered manner, and began to shout hoarsely, all tearfully persuading their relatives and brothers who were rebels in the city to lay down their arms and stop resisting stubbornly.

"Three boys, surrender quickly, you can't beat the officers and soldiers."

"Second brother, don't hold on, hurry up and surrender the official army!"

"That's right, uncle, General Mo is like a god, you are not the opponent of the official army, it is better to surrender as soon as possible! After surrendering, we can all be reunited. ”

...... The scene in Dengzhou seems to be repeating itself again.

In fact, a considerable number of the rebels in the city and the captives who attacked the city were relatives or relatives, either neighbors, friends, etc., many of them were either fathers and sons, brothers, uncles and nephews, or they were related to each other, and to be honest, they wanted to shoot arrows at their relatives and relatives under the city, they couldn't bear it at all, and the defenders of the city began to waver a little.

However, He Jin, Xu Bian, Wang Guoning, Zhao Shiliang and other leaders stood at the head of the city to personally press the formation and command, and later Wang Jiayin also rushed to hear the news, and shouted loudly when he saw this: "You are not allowed to answer!" They lied to you! ”

He Jin and the others stepped forward to greet him and said, "Big leader! ”

Wang Jiayin nodded and said loudly: "Cheer me up!" If they dare to approach, no matter who they are, they will kill him! ”

"Yes!" The rebel generals all nodded yes, and each gave orders to go down, dispatch men, and prepare for battle.

The captives persuaded hard for a long time, letting their saliva and tears spill all over the ground, because Wang Jiayin and other leaders were on the city wall to press the command, although the rebels had some intentions, but they did not dare to respond to the demands of the captives under the city, open the city gate and surrender.

Half an hour soon came, and Mo Li saw that the persuasion of the captives was ineffective, so he asked them to start attacking the city by force.

Li Guo ordered the men to distribute swords, guns, swords, axes and other weapons to the 4,000 captives, and equipped them with ladders to crash into the city and board the siege equipment, preparing to attack the city.

Mo Li waved his long knife and said loudly: "Kill!" ”

The four thousand rebel prisoners rushed to the Zaoyang city wall in such a swarm, but in order in the chaos. In addition to the 600 rebel prisoners carrying ladders and 400 pushing crashing carts, 1,000 archers among the other 3,000 men were responsible for reaching under the city walls and shooting arrows at the city head to cover their own landing and ramming the city gates.

The other 2,000 were carefully selected strong soldiers who were also the backbone of the siege.

Cao Bianjiao, He Zhendong, Ma Jinzhong, Li Guo, Zhou Yuji, Bai Zhicheng and other generals led their troops to follow closely behind the captives dozens of zhang away, stretching their bows and arrows, raising their guns against each other, and waiting for the battle.

Seeing this, Wang Jiayin, He Yilong, He Jin, Zhao Shiliang and other rebel generals hurriedly ordered artillery to meet the attack.

The captives were coerced by the officers and soldiers and had to rush up. In addition, most of the people's relatives were still in the city, and they didn't want their relatives to be killed by the rebels in the city, so they rushed towards Zaoyang City very hard.

One by one, the shells exploded among the captives, and many people were blown to the ground, and the ghosts cried wolf.

A cannonball smashed impartially on a crashing car, and with a bang, the crashing car was torn apart, and sawdust flew everywhere, and more than a dozen rebel prisoners hiding behind were injured by the flying shells and wooden blocks, and the flesh and blood were blurred and messed.

One of the captives was particularly unlucky, a solid iron pellet bullet actually bounced and pierced through his chest and abdomen, bringing out a huge blood hole and then continued to bounce away, the captive looked in horror at his chest and abdomen broke a big hole, and his intestines leaked out, but he couldn't die for a while, and suddenly let out a terrible scream.

Many people next to him changed color in shock, and their faces turned white. I don't know who shouted first, and then they all retreated.

Mo Li saw the captives retreating from a distance, without a trace of expression on his cold face, and waved his hand at Zhou Yuji.

Zhou Yuji nodded, raised his hand, and said, "Fire!" ”

Hundreds of his soldiers raised their flint guns and opened fire on the retreating captives.

Bang bang bang......

I saw countless captives fall down in an instant, letting out a terrible scream. This round of fire killed at least a hundred of the fleeing captives.

Zhou Yuji's young face was expressionless, and he said loudly: "Those who retreat die!" ”

Hundreds of subordinates also shouted: "Death to those who retreat!" Death to those who retreat! Death to those who retreat! ”

The captives were terrified, and it could be seen from the bloody suppression of the New Liao Army just now that they were not intimidating, and the momentum alone was enough to make people chill.

The captives had no choice but to retreat, so they could only continue to rush towards the city wall. Now they can only pray to the heavens to forbid them not to be targeted by cannons and arrows.

The offensive and defensive battles were fierce, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but no one could stop.

Ma Ke was the deputy leader of a squad of the Snow Eagle Special Scout Brigade, and at this time, he and his fourteen members, as well as fifty-five other soldiers of the New Liao Army and Han Sitie's more than 800 prisoners, were forcibly controlled in a barracks not far from the city gate, and they were not allowed to be free.

He Jin was supposed to personally interrogate and interrogate them about their origins, but the New Liao army quickly rushed to the city, so he didn't have time to deal with them, so he had them temporarily detained in the barracks.

Ma Ke couldn't help but be secretly anxious, the general sent them in for a mission, if they were trapped in this broken barracks and couldn't get out, it would be over. The Snow Eagle Brigade was formed with a lot of effort from the general, and this task was also won by himself with great difficulty, and if he couldn't complete the task, he wouldn't be able to pass his own level.

At this time, it was already the middle of the night, and Ma Keyuan and they first heard the bitter persuasion of the captives outside the city, and after the persuasion failed, they heard the sound of killing, and Ma Keyuan knew that the captives must be carrying out the order to attack the city.

Ma Keyuan frowned, his mind turned, and he suddenly began to cry.

The captives were surprised when they saw this, and hurriedly asked why.

Ma Keyuan wiped his tears and said: "Brothers, don't you know, just now someone was outside the city to persuade me to surrender, if I guessed correctly, it must have been the official army who sent our captured brothers to persuade them to surrender." ”

"So what?" The captives were still puzzled.

"The leader refuses to surrender, and now the officers and soldiers are sending our brothers to attack the city! I heard that my second uncle was also captured by the official army, but I have pity on my second uncle! He has not married a daughter-in-law in his fifties, and he has not even given birth to a son, and now he is forced by the official army to attack the city, I am afraid that he will die at the hands of his own brothers! ”

All the captives were shocked, and they all came to their senses, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, my mountain baby was also captured by the official army, how good would it be if he was forced by the official army to attack the city!" ”

"That's right, my eldest brother is too!"

"My fourth uncle is also in there......"

"My brother-in-law was also arrested by the official army, and what is even worse is his son, my father-in-law is now guarding the city gate! What if...... Isn't that fratricidal flesh and blood! ”

......

Ma Keyuan raised his hand and said, "Brothers, don't mess up!" Don't mess around! We have to find a way to come out now. ”

"What can we do?"

"That's right! We're stuck here and can't get out. ”

Ma Keyuan cleared his thoughts a little and said loudly: "That's right! We're trapped in this barracks right now, but our relatives are now killing each other outside! Can we remain indifferent here?

Brothers, since the Great Leader is so ruthless that he insists on letting our brothers kill each other regardless of our life and death, and the officers and soldiers are so powerful, why don't we rush out now and open the gates to receive the officers and soldiers into the city! By then, the general trend has gone, and it will not work if the big collar does not fall! ”

"That's right! At least our loved ones don't have to kill each other anymore! Han Sitie also responded.

"Rush out! Rush out! ”

The captives were ignited and rushed towards the barracks gates.

The rebel soldiers in charge of guarding hurriedly raised their weapons to stop them.

Because of the fierce fighting at the head of the city, many soldiers were awakened from their sleep and sent to fight, and there were not many soldiers left in the barracks, only about two hundred.

The leading petty officer was a little nervous, after all, there were nearly a thousand prisoners, and although they were now unarmed, the momentum of so many people storming the gate together was also very spectacular.

The officer's name was Chen Jun, and when he saw the captives rushing over with emotion, he hurriedly drew his sword and shouted, "Stop! What do you want! ”

Ma Keyuan said loudly: "This brother, you also have parents and brothers, and now our relatives are killing each other outside, can you still bear to watch them continue to kill each other?!" ”

"This ......" Chen Jun hesitated a little, to be honest, he also had relatives and family members who were fighting each other in the city, and he couldn't help but feel a little distracted after listening to Ma Keyuan's words.

At this time, another Snow Eagle team member, Zeng Tieniu, said loudly: "Don't hesitate any longer! The big guys rush out together! ”

"Rush, ......"

All the captives rushed towards the gate together, Chen Jun and his more than 100 soldiers could not hold back the bullets at all, and did not dare to cut them all, and after a while, the captives broke through the fence of the gate and the human wall composed of rebel soldiers, and rushed towards the city gate like a flood that burst the embankment.

Chen Jun was also pushed back again and again by the crowd, almost unsteady on his feet, and when he came back to his senses, most of the captives had already run out, and they couldn't stop him at all.

Several of his soldiers were bruised and swollen by the impact of the surging crowd, and then they looked at Chen Jun with a painful face and said, "Boss, what should we do now?" ”