Shi Bao, Si Xingfang and Deng Yuanjue in the northeast of Hangzhou recaptured some of the fortifications, and the Jiaxing defense line was somewhat restored.

It was not only the Shibao Department on the north bank of the Qiantang River that seized the gap between the Great Zhou Army to suspend the offensive and make every effort to ensure the transportation of baggage to counterattack. On the south bank of the Qiantang River, the Fangla army on the Xiaoshan-Shaoxing-Yuyao-Mingzhou line also turned from defense to attack.

Tens of thousands of Fangla troops took turns to attack Yu Yunwen's camp on the Qiantang River, and once broke through the wall. At the most critical time, Zhang Tianlei almost set up Yu Yunwen and ran away!

However, the Qiantang River and Hangzhou Bay were firmly controlled by the Great Zhou army after all. The fleets of the Xiangzhou Navy, the Wuwei Army, and the Gaoyou Army attacked along the coast, and also landed and fought from time to time, which made the Fangla army fall short.

By the first day of June, as the Great Zhou government temporarily armed more mercenary soldiers, young and hungry people, and took over more tasks of defending the rear, the Great Zhou army was able to squeeze out tens of thousands of soldiers from the Taihu Lake area and move south to replace the wounded and sick soldiers in the 100,000 army.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yu only left 20,000 horses to hold the camp, and deployed 80,000 soldiers under the city of Hangzhou, and launched thousands of siege equipment.

With tens of thousands of people involved, the Great Zhou army was able to double the number of crashes, iron shield chariots, and ladders in a very short period of time, and also built hundreds of nest and chariot cars, as well as thousands of wooden curtains.

The crash car mainly used the large wooden with iron sheets to attack the city gate, the iron shield rushed the car to destroy the city gate and the city wall, and the complex ladder and the simple wooden ladder were used to climb the city.

A nest car is a vehicle with a small watchtower that can be used to climb up to observe the enemy. The car hangs high on the watchtower like a bird's nest, so it is called the nest car, also known as the building car.

The chariot is a kind of four-wheeled bottomless wooden cart, covered with cowhide to resist the arrows on the city, and the people in the cart push the cart forward, which can cover the guards and soldiers to attack near the city wall, but cannot directly destroy the city wall. A car can hide about ten people, the outstanding advantage is that the structure and materials are simple, and the cowhide and wheels can be reused after being destroyed.

The wooden curtain is a siege vehicle equipped with wooden planks as a cover, and its main role is to resist projectiles similar to arrows and stones during the siege of the city, and it was prototyped during the Warring States period. To put it simply, it is to make a large piece of things out of grass, cloth, wood, leather and other materials, and to pick up and hang it outside the city wall, which can buffer the projectiles of the defending side, commonly known as "cloth curtain", "wooden curtain", "fence", and "leather curtain".

The Great Zhou army pressed the formation with loose spearmen and sword players, pushed the siege equipment forward with the young men and strong, and arranged the crossbowmen behind the large equipment, intending to submerge the city of Hangzhou.

Wang Yu was responsible for deploying ordnance and firearms to suppress the defenders of Fangla, and Han Shizhong was responsible for besieging the city.

There were nest carts to observe the enemy's situation, there were chariots and ladders to cover the soldiers to reach the city wall, and there were wooden curtains for the soldiers to resist the arrows and stones of the Fang La army, and the Great Zhou army reduced most of the unnecessary casualties.

Fang Lajun's self-made hard crossbows, divine arm bows, bed crossbows, five-sentry cannons, improvised trebuchets and other ordnance were limited, and various problems arose in the battle, and the speed of maintenance could not keep up with the consumption.

Finally, on June 5, the Great Zhou army used firearms to inflict great casualties on the defenders of Fangla at the head of the city, used rushing cars and shield carts to attract the attention of Fangla's army, and then concentrated more than a dozen ladders to climb a certain section of the city wall.

For the first time, the Great Zhou army landed in large numbers, and the soldiers and people who besieged the city cheered loudly.

Han Shizhong rode a fast horse to the vicinity of the breach, deployed his army, and expanded the results of the battle.

More than 2,000 crossbowmen and godarm archers rushed to the bottom of the breached city wall, and fired a burst of fire at the rapidly surging Fangla soldiers on both sides of the breach. Within 100 meters, the Divine Arm Bow can pierce through paper armor, leather armor and chain mail!

The long-range double-bow bed crossbows, three-bow bed crossbows, as well as the five-sentry guns and seven-sentry guns, also hurriedly turned around, throwing a large number of polished stone bullets and even firearms onto the city walls on both sides of the breach, shrouding the Fang La army who rushed to support in a pool of blood.

Fang La personally ordered 5,000 of the 8,000 elites in armor to enter the city to participate in the battle, and finally drove the more than 3,000 elites of the Zhou army who landed in the city off the city wall. If a few sticks of incense are burned at night, the Great Zhou army will dig down a certain city wall!

The fierce fighting on 5 June ended.

Fang La no longer had any hole cards in defending the city, and the ditches, horse rejection arrays, antler wood, bamboo thistles, horse traps and sheep and horse walls outside Hangzhou were all destroyed or filled, and the moat was completely filled.

The next all-out attack of the Great Zhou army will definitely be even more ferocious......

In the city of Hangzhou, in the treasury of the Yongle Dynasty, Fang La is taking Fang Weiliang to visit the family of the Yongle Dynasty.

The treasury of the Yongle Dynasty, that is, the treasury of the former Hangzhou Prefecture, was not far from the blocked tide gate. The treasury is well preserved and can be kept dry in hot and humid weather, making it ideal for storing valuables.

The door opened, and dozens of candles the size of an adult's arm lit up.

Fang Weiliang squinted and looked carefully, almost tearing off his beard.

The gold and silver nuggets are piles of hills, which are almost blinding. Jewelry, jade, strange stones and precious trees did not get the preferential treatment they deserved, and were placed at random in a miscellaneous manner. Bronze, official kiln porcelain, superb lacquerware, calligraphy, calligraphy and paintings, regardless of their value, are thrown away like garbage in the corner.

"It's ...... Wang Xizhi's true handiwork! It should have been written when he was happy with his first son, didn't he say that it was lost?! ”

"This painting is no worse than some people, how come I have never heard of his name. Could it be painted by a rural sage who escaped the world? ”

"This bronze tripod is very old, and the inscription on it ...... Hiss, one of Zhou Tianzi's nine tripods?! ”

Fang Weiliang was like a child who had just gotten a toy, cautiously scurrying around in the treasure pile, and when he found something unusual, he was startled, and he didn't stop until he flashed his waist.

Fang La stood in the center of the treasury, quietly scanning the treasures in front of him, with smugness in his eyes, but more puzzled. As if speaking to himself, he said:

"It seems that he is a literati, and he is reluctant to give up on what is in front of him."

"I didn't understand why the gentry and wealthy businessmen valued these things more than human life. I still don't understand, I don't understand......"

"In order to build his Kenyue, when the emperor Lao'er engaged in the Huashi Gang, he belonged to the two Zhejiang Bureaus and the Ying Feng Bureau, which worked the hardest."

Fang Weiliang stood up and listened intently to Fang La's rebellion.

Fang La picked up an inkstone that resembled an immortal holding the moon, slammed it to the ground, and said in Fang Weiliang's angry and distressed eyes:

"With Cai Jing's treacherous minister supporting them, the local officials and wealthy gentry south of the Huai River are so happy, and they think that the stones, wood, flowers and plants of which family are good-looking, so they go up to paste yellow paper to collect them, and let the people take care of them."

"Most of the good things were taken away by the local gentry, and the emperor didn't get much. The people of Jiangnan Road, Lingnan Road and Fujian Road were miserable, their things were robbed, they had to take care of them, and they were extorted. ”

"Most of the targeted merchants and wealthy families have fled and sold their children and daughters."

"Rare treasures, flowers, stones, plants and trees have to be sent to Bianjing, and there are millions of people along the way to provide Qiangu civilian service. Officials demolished walls, demolished houses, dug up bridges, destroyed fields, and demolished graves...... I am afraid that there will be no more than 1,000 merchant ships and cao ships that have been forcibly requisitioned. The small people contributed money and efforts, but when they missed the agricultural time, they had to pay money and efforts to fill the holes when they turned around, and soon hundreds of thousands of people fled. ”

"The surname is Fang, and it was a family five hundred years ago. I'll call you Mr. Fang, and you should know by now why hundreds of thousands of people are following me with all their hearts. ”

The Huashigang that lasted for several years forced many people to flee their homes, and the people of Liangzhejiang suffered the most, but Fang Weiliang heard about it. But he didn't expect that the "Huashi Gang" would be so deeply troubled, and the officials and gentry would be so terrible to make money under the guise of the emperor.

Fang Weiliang bent down and arched his hand and said: "I have been the shopkeeper for a long time, and I don't dare to call myself a scholar, and I don't dare to call myself a gentleman." Just call me by my name. ”

"Oh, you call me king? Aren't you afraid of being regarded as a rebel by the big officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty? ”

"There are hundreds of thousands of followers, and it is also appropriate to call the king below. Rebel? There are already enough medicines to heal more than 5,000 soldiers into the city of Hangzhou, all of which are in the hands of the subordinates, and they are already iron rebels! ”

"You're not afraid that Li Xiang will punish you?"

"The king knows too little about our village master. The owner of the village is lenient, as long as he does not violate the rules written in black and white, the owner of the village scolds his subordinates in front of him at most. ”

"I'm weird. As far as I know now, Li Xiang is already a big rebel, why can he hide it well? Are the officials of Jingnan Road blind? ! ”

Fang Weiliang smiled and said, "The owner of the village is born with his clumsy skills. ”

"There are big people in the court to maintain it, and there are thousands of families in the local area who rely on me to eat in Mingyuezhuang. The owner of the village has thousands of village soldiers in his hands, and the old owner of the village is also leading troops in the Xiang army, and Mingyuezhuang is also backed by the 800-mile Qinling Mountains...... With these, it is enough to give outsiders the impression of being strong in the mountains, and then hide themselves. ”

Fang La's heart was actually sour, and he shook his head and said:

"It's as cunning as a fox. I still find it hard to believe that Li Xiang is a young man who only won the crown last year. Li Xiang sent you over, are you really afraid that I will not keep my word and reveal his true face? When the time comes, he will have to rebel if he doesn't rebel! ”

Li Xiang was forced to rebel, and Yongle Dynasty relieved some of the pressure, which is a very simple fact. But since Li Xiang sent Fang Weiliang to Hangzhou City, how could he not have made arrangements.

Fang Weiliang thought carefully for a while, and said seriously: "The owner of the village has confessed, if the king asks this question, he will tell the truth. ”

"First of all, the court carefully found out that it would take three or five months to find out Yuezhuang, and it would not take anything to Mingyuezhuang before finding out the evidence. Before our village owner is forced to move, the dust of the war in Jiangnan must be settled. ”

"Secondly, we are the only one who has the ability and willingness to provide a large amount of medicine and coarse salt to the Yongle Dynasty, and if we trade with the Yongle Dynasty in another family, at least half of the things in the treasury of the Great King's Mansion have been consumed."

"Again, doesn't the king want to be friendly with our village master, just in case? The gentry on the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River hate the king to the bone, and there are few who can help and are willing to help the king. ”

Fang La stopped a few angry close guards and laughed:

"If there is really a day when Xiang Yu's army is defeated, I will die and die, so what is there to fear! I don't care about running away from the wilderness! ”

Fang Weiliang made a serious gesture and said loudly: "Lu Bu has a red rabbit horse and a Fang Tian painting halberd, but Lu Bu's soldiers don't. Lu Bu is a fierce general, he lives vigorously, and his name will go down in history after his death, but the soldiers under Lu Bu are not! ”

"There are hundreds of thousands of people following the king, hundreds of thousands! If there is such a day, please think more about the soldiers who are willing to fight for you, more about the people who will not surrender, and more about the parents, wives and children of those people. The king can die, and what will happen to the remaining hundreds of thousands of people?! ”

"The king endured the hundreds of thousands of subjects of the Yongle Dynasty, but none of them came to an end, and they were allowed to be mermaids? If you can't bear it, then think about it, and you'll figure it out when the time comes......"

Fang La's body trembled a few times, and he stood silent.

The bright yellow candlelight flickered, and the reflections of Fang La and Fang Weiliang swayed slightly.

"Thank you, Mr. Fang. I'll think about it. ”

Before Fang La strode away, he said uneasily.

After Fang Weiliang finished saying what Li Xiang explained in the letter, he wiped the sweat on his face, and was taken back to the backyard of a large mansion with his head covered. Fang Weiliang was confronted by an unmasked businessman on the road and almost collided.

Back in the room where the wings could not escape, Fang Weiliang took out the latest secret letter from the owner of the village, and asked the guards of the owner of the village, who had not recovered from his injuries, to translate a string of numbers into words. If you understand a line, you tear it off and burn it.

Several guards who went to Hangzhou City together looked at Fang Weiliang suspiciously. I've eaten and drunk well these days, I'm afraid it's not Fang Weiliang who betrayed the owner of the village, right?

Fang Weiliang changed the medicine for a few people, rolled his eyes and said, "Who am I, how can I betray the owner?" Have you heard of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, I am the current Su Qin, the Zhang Yi with a three-inch tongue that is not rotten......"

When he was free, Fang Weiliang told several village owners and guards about the latest battle situation.

"The horse team that returned from Fanke slashed and killed Fang La's army on the south bank of the Qiantang River? How can this be, after all, they are the beards of Baotou, more Hu than the Xixia people and the Liao people, how can they let them use knives on the territory passed down by their ancestors?! ”

I heard that the Fanshang who came from the Crescent Moon World actually had a horse team armed to the teeth to help Yu Yunwen fight on the south bank of the Qiantang River, and also defeated 6,300 square soldiers in one fell swoop.

Inviting outsiders to cut off their own people is nothing in the eyes of some scholars, but most people can't accept it.

Fang Weiliang closed his eyes, listened to a few guards lying on the mat shouting and scolding for a while, and said helplessly: "Xu is the Fujian Road pacification envoy is useless, so he is seconded to Lord Yu for use." ”

"It is said that the Arabian war horses are two heads taller than the horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and one head taller than the horses of the Liao Kingdom, and they run like the wind. The fanren knights are tall, holding a hundred steel knives, and the blades are covered with patterns......"

After washing his hands and face, Fang Weiliang felt a rare coolness, and began to write a reply, mainly about the progress of the transaction and Fang La's thoughts. He hesitated, but still wrote the name "Pu Shou".

On June 7, the Great Zhou army once again stormed the city of Hangzhou.

There was no obstacle outside the city, and the Great Zhou army advanced the bed crossbow, trebuchet, catapult and other ordnance to within 250 meters.

Most of the bed crossbows, double-bow bed crossbows, three-bow bed crossbows, five-sentry guns, and seven-sentry guns that were already small in the Fang La army were faulty, and all the vehicle-mounted bed crossbows were scrapped. Most of the large arrows of the bed crossbow were lost, and the accumulated firearms were almost at the bottom.

The Great Zhou army landed in the city from two places at the same time, and was soon driven back by more than 4,000 Fangla pro-army.

Fang La's pro-army was attacked by firearms, stone bullets and big arrows that cut off his head and covered his face, and more than 1,000 people were killed on the spot.

Wooden stands are large shield-like objects made of wooden planks that can be folded in half to block arrows and small stones, and are very common shelters for defending cities.

The appearance of the bamboo stand is very similar to the wooden stand, the difference is that the main material is replaced with bamboo.

The two kinds of shields can not only prevent the attack of large stones, stone bullets, and big arrows, but also are easy to be ignited by the fireballs, poisonous smoke fireballs, and gunpowder arrows of the Great Zhou Army, and then ignite other things. When the ranged ordnance loses the power to counterattack, the wooden and bamboo stands are removed.

The pump is a small tube-shaped instrument that absorbs water first and then sprays water, similar to an injection device.

Hemp is a tool that ties a few catties of loose linen to an eight-foot wooden pole and dips it in muddy water to extinguish the fire.

Water bladders are used to fill pig urine bubbles and cow urine bubbles with water and throw them into the fire to extinguish the fire.

The equipment on the city wall is almost entirely made of bamboo and wood, which can easily ignite. The young men in Hangzhou were divided into small teams and used pumps, hemp and water bladders to fight fires everywhere.

In the tragic attack and defense, the young and strong people in Hangzhou suffered heavy casualties, and the number of casualties had already exceeded 10,000.

On June 10, the north and east of Hangzhou were all captured.

The walls were covered with blood, and mosquitoes and flies were flying. Fang Lajun endured a large number of casualties brought by bed crossbows, trebuchets, bows, crossbows, and firearms, and gritted their teeth to fight under great psychological pressure.

Most of the long-range weapons were destroyed, but the Fang La army still had a large number of reusable defense equipment.

Flying hooks.

As the name suggests, it is a sharp large iron hook suspended with a thick hemp rope, which is thrown back and forth against the city wall, hooking whoever dies.

Wolf tooth slap and yaksha slap.

The wolf's tooth slap is made of wooden planks filled with iron nails, which can be lowered to slap the besieging soldiers. The Yaksha is made of wet elm nailed with barbed iron hooks, and is cast with a winch to kill enemies.

The golden juice of the medicine stone contains the anger of hundreds of thousands of people in Hangzhou, and the fierce fire from the crescent moon world cannot be extinguished......

Fang Lajun suddenly attacked, and burned hundreds of iron shield rushing cars, crashes, and ladders with fierce fire oil, killing and injuring more than 3,000 soldiers of the Great Zhou Army, bringing a psychological shadow to the entire Great Zhou Army.

The Yongle Dynasty worked very hard, but it could not resist the will of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

On June 14, Han Shizhong and Wang Yu rarely appeared under the city at the same time, staring at the northeast corner of Hangzhou.

After a long day of fierce fighting, the wall, which had been repeatedly fought and destroyed, finally could not withstand the daily fire, slashing, ironwood crashing and explosion, and fell in a violent shake.

The city tower collapsed, the smoke and dust covered the sun, and the northeast corner of Hangzhou collapsed.