Before attacking Gong City, Fang Yuan decided to inspect the besieging troops one last time.

Under the leadership of Qin Zhan, Fang Yuan met the leader of the homeless riot this time, who was the old man who had a relationship outside Gong City that day.

At that time, Fan Fu was about to buy and sell by force, and wanted to buy his family's two beautiful daughters, but was saved by Fang Yuan and Qin Zhan.

The old man reported his family, his name was Wu Bu, and he was sixty-three this year.

Fang Yuan took his arm and asked, "Elder Wu, this time you are doing a job with your head, you have to figure it out." ”

Wu Bu scolded hatefully, "Those dogs, since the grain transport team was robbed, they have taken their anger out on us, they can beat us if they want, they can rob if they want, they have injured dozens of people these days, and they have robbed more than a dozen women." He even made a statement that he would drive out us outcasts, leaving only young women for them to be fornicated. Now we hate these bastards to the core, and we can't wait for an opportunity to kill a few dog haggies. ”

Only then did Fang Yuan know that the recklessness of the lives of the Eight Great Jin Merchants had completely aroused the hatred of the homeless, no wonder Qin Zhan was able to assemble a huge siege force in a short period of time.

It's just that this Wu Bu couldn't even protect his own daughter that day, why did he suddenly have such a big appeal and become the head of the homeless? What's more, the homeless people don't know each other in the first place, and they don't move from village to village, how can a group of young and strong homeless people recognize an old man in his sixties as the leader?

Fang Yuan was secretly suspicious, the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, he glanced sideways at Qin Zhan and took him to a remote place, "Fourth, this Wu Bu is the leader of the exiles, you arranged it?" ”

Qin Zhan saw that Fang Yuan saw through it at a glance, and said with an embarrassed smile, "Yes, yes, I have a relationship with this Wu ...... Wu Lao has a little friendship, and he is still highly respected. ”

Fang Yuan immediately heard his insincerity, looked him up and down and said, "Are you still old Wu?" Go ahead! What's so greasy about it? ”

Qin Zhan didn't dare to hide him, and said in a low voice, "Actually, it's ...... I'm going to marry his two daughters. ”

"That's right, this is Qin Zhan's nature, what kind of morality and respect, coaxing ghosts?!"

Fang Yuan already knew in his heart that Qin Zhan handed over the position of the leader of the exiles to Wu Bu because of Wu Bu's two daughters. The capture of Gong City, that is the lice on the monk's head, it is a matter of clear sight. When you become this leader, you can operate from it in the distribution of war profits afterwards and enrich your own pockets.

Qin Zhan's small actions, how could he hide from Fang Yuan's eyes, just because he was his own brother and had accompanied Fang Yuan several times in life and death, and he didn't want to worry about him.

Fang Yuan said with an unmoved face, "You bought a woman in Suzhou last time, and now it's a sister flower, how many are you going to marry?" ”

Qin Zhan hurriedly explained, "That doesn't know how to run the house, she doesn't get along with my mother, my mother doesn't allow her to enter the house, I didn't find two virtuous people to go back to serve the old lady, hehe!" ”

Fang Yuan knocked him angrily, and said in a deep voice, "Fourth, I don't care what kind of tricks you play, I only care about you based on the result." The distribution of the war proceeds this time must be fair, just and open, if it goes too far and causes riots among the homeless, I am the only one who asks. ”

He first gave Qin Zhan a preventive shot, and Qin Zhan said repeatedly, "Yes, yes, boss, I will keep an eye on it all the time." ”

Fang Yuan and Qin Zhan returned to the camp of the exiles, and the 3,000 young and strong refugees formed a team of ten hundred people to accept Fang Yuan's review.

Wu Bu stood at the front of the team, walking side by side with Qin Zhan, accompanying Fang Yuan to review.

Fang Yuan didn't want to care about Qin Zhan's play, he still had a selfish intention, that is, from the exiles who attacked Gong City this time, he selected three hundred young men who could ride horses out of ten and enriched them into his cavalry battalion, most of the entire cavalry battalion were Mongols, and he was still a little unsure.

The quality of his new-style army must be guaranteed.

Fang Yuan walked past the homeless people one by one, almost all of them were strong people, although Qin Zhan had some small actions that were messing around, he was still able to grasp the sense of proportion in the general direction, and he didn't find some old, weak, sick and disabled people to fill up.

Wu Bu stood on the steps and said loudly, "The profiteers in Gong City beat people indiscriminately, committed adultery, and don't treat us as human beings at all. ”

Some people in the group of displaced people began to talk about it, and some of the displaced people whose family members had been beaten to death and who had been raped were indignantly denounced the unscrupulousness of the officials and soldiers, and the silence of the scene was broken by the cries and shouts and scolding.

Wu Bu continued to incite and said, "There is also news, in a few days we will be exterminated, the men will be sold to work as coolies outside the border, leaving only the young women to be sold to the border towns as military prostitutes, can we be tied back?" ”

Someone among the homeless people suddenly shouted and scolded, "Fuck it, kill it!" ”

"Profiteers on dog days, Lao Tzu goes to kill one to make money, and kills two to make money!"

"Old Wu, you have some knowledge, you say, what to do, we will all follow you!"

Wu Bu said loudly, "Let's take Gong City and kill these bullshit!" ”

One of them hesitated a little and asked, "How can we attack with our bare hands?!" ”

Wu Bu said loudly, "We have our own nobles to provide us with weapons, tonight, everything that participated in the siege of the city, will be given weapons, after the matter is completed, there will be silver." ”

With weapons in hand, and being able to beat profiteers and divide the silver, the homeless people who had been holding back their bird breath for many days raised their hands in unison and shouted: "Capture the tribute city!" Divide the silver! ”

The momentum is huge, and it is surging.

Fang Yuan suddenly found that this Wu Bu was a little old, but his eloquence to incite people was still quite powerful, so he had to let them go.

At night, the armaments and leather armor transported by Sun Chuanting's troops arrived.

Fang Yuan ordered Chigutai to lead the musketeers to guard the surroundings, while Qin Zhan was responsible for the distribution of weapons.

The weapons sent by Sun Chuanting this time included 3,000 spears, knives, and axes, 200 bows and arrows, and 1,000 pairs of armor.

Equipment of this scale, except for the lack of firecrackers and three-eyed guns, is already comparable to the equipment configuration of the Ming army, and Sun Chuanting can be said to have firmly supported Fang Yuan's war against Gongshi this time.

The outcasts were overjoyed when they saw it, and received the battle blades according to the allocation, and only 1,000 pairs of leather armor were left for the first round of impact of the outcasts.

Qin Zhan strictly carried out Fang Yuan's instructions, ordered the Jinyi Guard to monitor the distribution on one side, and every time a set of weapons and armor was issued, he instructed a sentence of the rules of this siege, not to kill or injure without authorization, robbery, after the siege, the exile army went out of the city to wait.

Armed with weapons and armor, these 3,000 people are no longer a group of displaced people waiting to be killed, but an army armed to the teeth.

At noon two days later, perhaps he was stopped by the guards of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, and no one in Gong City came out to surrender.

Fang Yuan and Jing Jie stood on the high ground, watching the siege of the army.

At the forefront was a platoon of twenty medium guns already loaded with lead bullet and gunpowder, and a hundred artillery battalion sergeants who were waiting for them.

Li Zongze, the commander of the artillery battalion, stood on the far right, commanding the artillery battalion sergeants with the command flag.

Behind the artillery battalion, there were 3,000 armed exile troops, commanded by Qin Zhan.

On the left and right flanks of the artillery battalion were the musketeer battalions of Chigutai, each with two hundred cavalry, already loaded with muskets, fully armed, ready to protect the safety of the artillery battalion at any time, and if an attacking army appeared in Gong City, they could immediately attack and strangle them.

Fang Yuan used a telescope to look at the movement at the head of Gong City, and the guards of the Eight Great Jin Merchants were holding bows and arrows and spears, standing densely on the wall, and they were also ready to fight, it seemed that they were ready to resist to the end.

Fang Yuan turned his head sideways and asked Jing Jie, "Has the letter of persuasion been handed over to the city?" Did anyone surrender? ”

Jing Jie said, "I handed it over, but it was handed over to Fan Fu, the head of the Fan family, and it is estimated that it was seized and not shown to the public." ”

Fang Yuan nodded, it seems that the Eight Great Jin Merchants are really brutes who care about people's lives, and in order to survive for their own lives, they decided to pull the people of Quangong City to be cannon fodder.

After an hour of formation, Fang Yuan looked at his watch, it was already 12 o'clock, and the time for the siege had arrived, so he said to Jingjie, "The shelling begins!" ”

Jing Jie waved the order flag of the artillery battalion, and Li Zongze of the artillery battalion received the military order, and immediately signaled with the red order flag, twenty artillery pieces, fire together!

"Boom, boom!"

The deafening sound of artillery fire rang out, and twenty guns fired together, and the momentum was really amazing.

After a round of shelling, the city wall was already overturned on their backs, with heavy casualties and thick smoke billowing out.

Through the binoculars, Fang Yuan could also see the Jin merchants hiding in Tibet on the city wall, holding their heads and stringing rats.

"Boom, boom!"

Ten minutes later, a second round of shelling sounded.

The walls of Gongshi have been battered with large lead bullets, leaving large and small potholes, and a gap has been blasted open in the corner of the city gate, which is not strong in the first place.

Fang originally thought that the walls of Gong City could withstand the shelling of half an hour to an hour, but now it seems that he overestimated the defensive strength of this Gong City, and at most three to four rounds of artillery bombardment could open the gates of Gong City.

"Boom, boom!"

A quarter of an hour later, the third round of shelling sounded again.

After three rounds of shelling, the gates of the city were opened by artillery and were no longer defended.

Fang Yuan used a telescope to observe the movement on the city wall, and found that the figures of the large-scale guards were no longer visible on the city wall, only a few scattered people shrank behind the city wall and watched secretly, and even the horror on the faces of these family members was impressive.

It was not a war at all, but a one-sided slaughter.

Fang Yuan put on such a strong formation, but unexpectedly, the eight great Jin merchants were vulnerable, which was quite meaningful. Since there was no resistance on the city wall, and it would be a waste of gunpowder and lead bullet to shell again, he said to Jing Jie, "Siege the city!" ”

Jing Jie waved the order flag again, and Qin Zhan, who had received the order, commanded the homeless people behind the army formation and began to attack!

Like an unstoppable torrent, the three thousand homeless people roared and rushed, rushing to the gate of Gongshi.