Chapter Eighty-Five: The Siege Begins
Seeing that there were no civil officials in Zhao Rui's team, they asked in surprise, and Zhao Rui disdainfully said that Yan Shu had escaped from the battle, which made this group of officials stomp their feet with hatred.
"Commander Zhao, don't worry, when the Yuan army retreats, we will definitely write a joint letter, and let the court severely punish Yan Shu, a cowardly scum!"
Zhao Rui didn't take it seriously, but when he was marching for a long time, he didn't dare to make a fire to make food, and the soldiers were already hungry, so they hurriedly asked for food.
Governor Mu didn't dare to slack off, so he called the cooks of the government and the state soldiers to hurry up and cook for them.
After all, Chuzhou City has only been besieged for a few days, and the food and non-staple food are very sufficient, plus the prefect has seen the power of the musket, and all hope is on the musket army, so the delicacies of the mountains and seas, the big fish and meat are not stingy, and the whole meal is like eating a flowing water feast, and all kinds of dishes are endless.
The soldiers had not eaten for nearly a whole day, and they all had their chests attached to their bellies, and when they saw these delicacies, they naturally threw off their cheeks and ate them.
The battle was about to begin, and Zhao Rui also intended to let them eat more, without restricting anything, but only instructed anyone not to drink.
Fang Hongbin sat beside Zhao Rui, eating without any image, and rested on the back of the chair until he had a round belly.
"Zhao Tongzhi, I'm used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas at home, and I usually can't eat a few bites of these at all, who knew that I could eat it so much today!"
Zhao Rui just smiled slightly, looking at his lack of heart, Zhao Rui's expression woke up Fang Hongbin, his face was stunned, and he really remembered something important.
"Zhao Tong, what should we do if we don't have ammunition, just watching you thirty people beat us can't help, I'm too anxious!"
"Haha, Hongbin, I thought you wouldn't ask me all along! It's a pleasure to see you eat......"
Fang Hongbin was thick-skinned, and after listening to Zhao Rui's words, he just scratched his head and smiled.
"So, after eating, gather together, and I'll shoot you! And ammunition! Zhao Rui said with a smile.
"What? Zhao Tong, you still have ammunition, haha, I know, Yan Shu must have been fooled by you! ”
"What a fool, it's just that he's timid, I'm just kidding, I didn't expect him to be cowardly before he fought, and he was thrown to his grandmother's house in a shameful way, wait and see, he won't have any good fruit to eat when he goes back!"
Fang Hongbin announced the order to fire the gun on behalf of Zhao Rui, and the soldiers were all cheering.
Zhao Rui then took back their water bomb guns and distributed SCA to them
-L, this gun is a little more friendly to novices than the M16, at least in terms of accuracy.
In the end, Zhao Rui deliberately left twenty strong men and gave each of them a M249, although Zhao Rui still had twenty, but for the sake of saving ammunition, these twenty were enough.
According to Mu Zhifu, there are 200,000 Yuan troops besieging the city, and new forces are constantly joining, so it can be seen that the siege battle is about to begin.
In the past few days, the generals of the Yuan army have also lined up envoys to persuade them to surrender, but Chuzhou has no intention of surrendering at all, and the Tatar leaders are becoming more and more impatient, and they have already begun to prepare for the siege.
And Zhao Rui's massacre at the South Gate today is likely to be the *** of the siege war.
The officials of the Mu Governor's Mansion accompanied Zhao Rui and the others diligently, and the Mu Governor's eyelids jumped from this morning, and they were restless all day......
Sure enough, not long after eating, his subordinates hurriedly ran over to report that the Tartars outside the city had assembled the return cannon and had given an ultimatum.
All the officials of Chuzhou City looked at Zhao Rui together, their eyes were full of expectation, Zhao Rui was embarrassed to delay more, sent the soldiers to the North City Tower, and then found Zhao Gong and Fang Hongbin to study tactics.
The Tartar army on the opposite side had already begun to move, checking the arrows and weapons, preparing siege equipment, and a large number of men and horses in Wuyang, just waiting for the order of the leader of the army, they were going to rush into the city in one go.
The city of the Southern Song Dynasty was very tempting to the Yuan army, and there were countless gold and silver treasures, and there were too many little ladies, especially the kind of ladies in the families of high-ranking officials and nobles, who had never done rough work, all of them had fine skin and tender meat, and they really wanted to play once and twice, and they couldn't wait to play every day.
The top general who led the troops this time was the Yuan Army's very famous young general Dalantai, who started the legendary road of promotion from a small soldier, not because of anything else, just because of a military parade of the Yuan Emperor, I stumbled upon the brave and warlike Dalantai, and casually said that the young man is very similar to when I was young.
This sentence has been heard by many people, so everyone thinks that Emperor Yuan values him, so he has always given him the opportunity to lead troops to fight, and this Dalantai is also favored by the god of luck.
Now Dalantai is no longer a nobody in the past, he also has his own personal soldiers, his own forces, just like a new star faintly rising in the Yuan court.
In the past, he had no qualifications, so he could only silently have a crush on Princess Arjuna, and when he heard that the emperor intended to marry Bamutu, he really had a dead heart, which also became the driving force for his rapid growth.
Finally, Bamutu died, and Dalantai sensed that the opportunity had come and summoned up the courage to make a request to Emperor Yuan.
His heart was extremely worried, but the emperor actually agreed!
It is said that the city of Chuzhou can be broken so that he can marry Arjuna!
It couldn't be simpler.
Dalantai stood at the door of the snow-white tent, looking at the Chuzhou City in front of him, his heart was full of fire!
Chuzhou, it will be broken!
However, after hearing about the battle at the South Gate, Dharandai had a new goal.
After Princess Arjuna returned, she also said in public that her sweetheart in the Southern Song Dynasty was invincible, and she was an invincible person in the Yuan army, and only he had a powerful musket in the Southern Song Dynasty.
I didn't expect to meet so soon, Dalantai couldn't wait to behead Zhao Rui, so that Arjuna could see who was the invincible man!
"Commander! The captives of the Song people are ready! ”
"Very good, pass the order, the siege begins!"
The Yuan army troops were advancing in an orderly manner, and the return artillery was also slowly advancing, Zhao Rui originally wanted to use the M249 to strafe it, but after seeing hundreds of return guns, Zhao Rui changed his mind and returned to the carriage to take out the ******.
"Lord Zhao, look!"
As soon as Zhao Rui went up to the city tower, he was stopped by Mu Zhifu, and seeing his angry expression, Zhao Rui was still a little puzzled.
"The Tartars are mad, they actually used the Song captives as hostages and let them go ahead, they must have known the power of your musket before they made such a shameless move!"
Mu Zhifu was so angry that his body was trembling, he had never seen a Tartar be so shameless to this point, it was simply mad!
"It's okay, Lord Prefect, it's on me!"
Zhao Rui saw that the Yuan army was getting closer and closer, and he didn't delay, and hurriedly went to the side of the soldiers.
The Yuan army couldn't help but think too easily, after all, their own side was condescending, where would they be afraid that they would have prisoners in front? It can only be said that the Yuan army had a wrong guess about the accuracy of Zhao Rui's musket.
But don't blame them, there was no one left at the south gate before, and it was normal for them not to understand.
Zhao Rui instructed Zhao Gong and their thirty kunnu with accurate marksmanship, and when the Yuan army approached with the captives, they would shoot at the nearest point and kill them by surprise!
The Yuan army at the front kept approaching the city gate with the captives, 120 zhang, 100 zhang, 80 zhang......
The Song army still did not attack, Dalantai watched the battle situation, and showed an unsurprising smile, it can be seen that the person named Zhao Rui is not very good, isn't he afraid of hurting the people, and he doesn't dare to shoot a shot?
"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"
The rhythmic sound of gunfire rang out, and Darlan's face changed, and when he looked at the position of the front line, he found that no of his own soldiers were injured.
What's going on? Could it be that the marksmanship is too bad?
It's a laughing death!
Before Dharandai could be proud, the galloping war horse in the distance stepped forward to report.
"Commander, no! The Song people have a marksman on the city wall, and they don't know what to use with their accurate muskets, but they can destroy our return cannon from a hundred and fifty zhang away! ”
What the!
Dhalan Terrace turned color.
"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......"
The gunfire was still ringing out, and Dalantai was struck by lightning, and quickly asked, "What is the extent of the damage, and can it still be used?" ”
"I can't do it, it's all broken gears, and I can't use it anymore!"
At this moment, not far in front of Dharan Terrace, there was a return cannon, and the soldiers had just pulled down the accumulator and were about to place the stones, but a sudden shot directly pierced the thick cable.
"Ahhh
The huge shaking force directly threw the three Yuan Army soldiers into the high sky, grabbed them indiscriminately in the air, and then fell directly to the ground and died......
"This kind of gunfire ......"
Dalantai couldn't help but feel a burst of shock in his heart, could it be that what Her Royal Highness the Princess said was true?
The gunfire continued, destroying a return gun with each shot.
Dalandet's instinct told him that he couldn't wait any longer, and he looked at the distance between the prisoners in the front row and the city gate from a distance, and then with a wave of his hand, the whole army attacked!
A large number of dense Tartar soldiers, riding horses and carrying siege equipment such as ladders, ran frantically in the direction of the city gate.
The prefect was full of the earthy yellow figure of the Yuan army, and the prefect was excited, and he didn't know if he could pass this catastrophe today.
Zhao Rui was calm and calm, looking at the prisoners in the front row who were about to reach the most accurate shooting distance of more than 100 meters.
"Zhao Gong's thirty people are aiming."
Hearing this, the Kunnus put their guns on the city wall and aimed quietly, and their breathing became extremely soft at this moment.
"Shoot!"
"Tutu, Tutu, Tutu, Tu Tu ......"
Thirty M16s were scattered throughout the city walls, spraying precise bullets.
A large number of Yuan troops fell behind the captives, they didn't know what kind of muskets the Song people used, they could be so accurate, almost all the bullets penetrated, and those Yuan troops were often lifted off the back of their heads, fell to the ground, and died no longer able to die.
Yes, it's accurate!
Zhao Rui nodded with satisfaction, looked at the distance of the cavalry behind, and shouted: "Twenty machine guns ready!" ”