19. Counter the city of the lake

However, when he arrived at the public office in Huazhou, Thorn Shi saw the so-called Wu Shaocheng's head full of feces and maggots, and couldn't help but cover his nose with his sleeves, and scolded the official of Xuanwu Town for talking nonsense, you are clearly a mountain shed bandit pretending to be an envoy.

The officials were also anxious, not only presented Li Wanrong's recital, but also insisted that this was the head of Wu Shaocheng and Dong Chongzhi's family.

Huazhou Thorn Shi spread out his hands, how do I know?

So he asked the bad people in the public office to wash their heads.

It was already February and spring was warm, and nearly 20 heads of men and women stained with dung or mud were placed under the porch, and even though they tried to wash them, maggots still came out of the bones, and their faces were blurred, and the smell of rancid was permeated.

In the end, the Huazhou Assassin was not polite, and directly determined that the identity of this group of officials was "suspicious", and they all went down to the dungeon, and urgently reported to the Beijing Division.

The matter went to Jing Zhaoyin first, and Jing Zhaoyin, who knew it, reported it to the top again, waiting for arbitration under the Zhongshu Gate.

So Lu Zhen, the servant of the door, said that the truth of this matter was unknown, so it was better to send people to ask Li Wanrong, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu, and Gao Yue, the commander of the front line of Runan City, respectively, and ask about the matter in place.

When the messenger's horse clicked and galloped on two different post roads, on the mound under the corridor of the Huazhou Gongdang, Wu Shaocheng's head was still crooked there, let the wind and sun blew it, and a few maggots proudly hovered on it, as if declaring sovereignty......

At the same time, in Runan City, the general attack of the official army on the Duanji River in the west of the city had begun.

The five flyships lined up, and in the sound of drums, the boatmen in the bilge, sitting in rows on high benches, holding logs, shouting, sweating profusely, stepped rhythmically on the shaft under the command of the military academy, and the wheels of the ships beat the water, stirring up bursts of white waves, driving the high bow of the ship, and unbeatably rushing towards Cai Bing's camp on the embankment of the Duanji River.

"Shoot the fire arrow!" In the camp, the Huaixi army general Rao Kuo raised his sword.

Behind the wooden fence, Cai Bing looked at the flyship that pressed over with great momentum, and they all drew the bows in their hands, swishing, and hundreds of arrows dragging the fire shot out of the camp, with an arc, and rushed towards the flywheel.

But it didn't help at all.

Because on the top floor of the flyer, something called "bamboo fence" was erected, like an impregnable wall, and after the fire arrows came over, they were either taken by it or dropped by the Jingnan soldiers behind them with regimental cards or spears.

Several loud noises, the front of the flywheel pulled the lever, the lever bounced up violently, shook the stone ball, directly smashed the wooden fence of Huaixi, and the stone ball carrying Yu Wei continued to roll in the fence, in the screams, some of Cai Bing were knocked into the water, and some were crushed to the point of blood and flesh splashing, Rao Kuo himself was immediately caught in front and back by two flying stone balls, hit into a meat pie, and died instantly.

"Hit hit!" When the flyer approached within 20 steps of the Huaixi camp, the Dingwu, Yining and Jingnan guns with the Shenlei guns in their hands, or Jingnan's guns, stood up, and the sparks splashed on the twisted ropes they were dragging, and the rows of guns were aimed at the wooden grating that was destroyed by the slapsticks, and then pinched the trigger.

A dull sound of guns exploded, and the flyship sank into the smoke, and the soldiers in the ship shouted and threw their rope hooks, pulling the boat closer to the edge of the camp, and shooting Cai soldiers with bows, darts, or fire guns as they tried to cut the rope hooks.

Gao Yue, who supervised the battle in Tianzhong Mountain, soon saw that a melee was unfolding in the camp of the Duanji River embankment: the flying ship was turned into a siege tower, and the officers and soldiers carried regimental cards and long knives, climbed from the deck to the top floor in formation, and then jumped into Cai Bing's camp from here.

In the water gate in the west of the city, several small boats that received Wu Shaoyang's urgent order sailed out, carrying more than 100 reinforcements, trying to rescue the camp on the river embankment, but they were violently shot by the fire guns and tiger light artillery on the top floor of the flyer: under the cannon mouth that constantly emitted green smoke and fire, those small boats in Huaixi were beaten to pieces and flew around, full of holes, and the Cai soldiers on them were either dead or wounded, and they turned over and fell into the water one after another.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the official army completely seized the camp on the embankment of the Duanji River, most of the 300 Cai soldiers stationed inside, most of them were killed, and the rest tried to swim back to the city, but they were all shot by firearms and bows, and the corpses floated to the water gate of Runan, where they were stuffed together, and the smell of blood was terrible.

To the west of the embankment, Tang Deng raised his horsewhip and ordered 3,000 soldiers to take a boat to carry firewood and straw bales with iron shovels in their hands, and then climbed up the river embankment like an ant colony and began to dig with iron shovels.

The Duanji River first poured into the Lianshui from a few small gaps, and then the gaps became bigger and bigger, and the water roared and roared, like a dragon with teeth and claws, and plunged into the Lianshui.

Tang Dengsui's soldiers dug out five bucket gates one after another, and the other officers and soldiers standing on the river embankment all shouted like thunder - the Runan city wall, which was originally hidden behind the Duanji River, the water level dropped rapidly, and after the Duanji River was all discharged into the Lianshui, from the river embankment to the city wall, a large area of dry riverbed appeared, just like flat ground.

Then the officers and soldiers threw countless bundles of firewood and straw under it, forming a temporary land.

Cai Fengyuan, Guo Zaizhen, and Yu Di then lined up the boats, laid wooden planks on them, and set up four pontoon bridges at the water and Rushui to lead directly to the embankment, and used iron shovels to dig out ladders on the embankment, so that more officers and soldiers could climb the embankment of the Duanji River, and began to rely on the camp left in Huaixi, and frantically expanded it to form a blockade line that could directly face the attack on the western city of Runan.

Wu Shaoyang, who saw this scene in the city, was shocked, "Gao Yue rebelled against the lake cofferdam under the city, draining the water, and using this to thin the city wall." Then he hugged his head and cried, "I'm Caizhou, and I'm dying......

Three days later, the officers and troops of the Southern Front used the same tactic:

The flyship relied on its strong firepower to reach the Cai barracks near Nanhu and Chaitan, and then the officers and soldiers it carried used a springboard to jump directly into the barracks from the boat, annihilating the Cai soldiers and occupying the lake weir, and then Yan Zhen's Wuchang army and Li Xian's Huainan town soldiers also boarded up and broke the lake weir to drain all the water of Nanhu and Chaitan into Rushui, and then laid firewood and grass on it to build a new barracks, and approached the south wall of the west city of Runan.

Three days later, the two prime ministers, Gao Yue and Du Huangshang, came to Tianzhong Mountain again to command the general attack on the western city of Runan.

In the northeast sub-city, Wu Shaoyang, who was already at the end of his rope, wept and kowtowed to the Huaixi generals who came here, begging everyone to fight to the end.

The generals of Huaixi all said that the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the people in the city do not want to follow us anymore, and the imperial court has not accepted our surrender so far, let alone conferring the festival of Huaixi to Chu Shuai, "Caizhou is already a building that will fall, why don't Chu Shuai cut himself off and sacrifice his head to Gao Yue, maybe he will be lenient?" ”

When Wu Shaoyang heard this, his heart was cold, he looked at this group of Huaixi generals who were holding blades and surrounding him, they were all like jackals, it was not enough to eat Wu Shaocheng, and now he finally had to eat himself!

"Idiot, don't you understand? Gao Yue wants me Cai people to die! At this moment, Wu Shaoyang roared hoarsely.

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