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Chapter 134 Huai'an

"Handsome ——!" The relatives didn't know what was going on, so they turned their heads and looked at Chu Buha, who had been punched out of his chest, and let out a sad cry.

"Phew! Bang! Bang! More than two dozen arquebusiers with the sharpest legs and feet followed Liu Ziyun's footsteps, put the barrel of the gun on their brother's shoulder, and pulled the trigger on the Meng Yuan soldiers who were close at hand.

The Meng Yuan soldiers, who were afraid that the formation was not dense enough, were suddenly put down in a whole row, and they screamed miserably, left Chu Buha's body, and fled.

"Catch up and kill them all!!" Hu Dahai raised his gun and shouted, leading Wu Liangmou and others to start chasing the dead and chasing the north.

"Don't be busy chasing, chop the flag, cut Chu Buha's handsome flag!" Liu Ziyun threw the arquebus into Ivanov's arms, untied the iron horn from his waist, and reminded loudly.

"Kill two Tartars, kill two Tartars!"

"Cut the flag, cut the flag!"

In ecstasy, the auxiliaries could no longer care about maintaining formation, or following Hu Dahai and Wu Liangmou to chase down the defeated soldiers on the battlefield. Or carry a spear and a big sword, and run to the handsome banner of Chu Buha. He first knocked down the flagpole with a single sword, and then picked up the blade and slashed at the heads of the already paralyzed Korean drummers and staff of various ethnic groups.

"Don't kill the captives, don't kill the captives, stay for money, stay for money! Seeing this, Liu Ziyun hurriedly raised the horn again to restrain military discipline.

Where is there still time, as soon as the threat from the outside world is gone, the auxiliary soldiers are completely burst out by the passion that has been suppressed. A group in the east and a cluster in the west, when they saw people wearing the uniform of the Yuan army, they rushed up and slashed and killed. It doesn't matter how many people the opponent is, how high or low the combat effectiveness is.

"Grandma's, it's still underpracticed!" Liu Ziyun was so angry that he scolded, and in desperation, he had to do his best to gather his familiar subordinates, "Musketeers, musketeers are moving closer to me!" Archer, archer, Zhu Chenze, you bastard, you have been refining for months, hurry up and gather your people and follow me to help the governor! Plum fish, plum fish, call me all the grenadiers, let's kill the two Tartars from behind! ”

Fortunately, the soldiers and grenadiers were trained for a little longer and were slightly more disciplined. Hearing that his family elder was angry, they all dragged their weapons and ran over, regrouping behind Liu Ziyun.

The next battle can be described with the words "devastating". Now Chu Buha's handsome banner was cut down, and the thousand-man teams of the Yuan army, which had been desperately supporting before, suddenly became a pot of porridge. Officers and soldiers scrambled for their lives and could not organize any effective resistance.

Even if there are one or two stubborn people once in a while, the end is miserable. The more experienced the Red Turban spearmen stepped forward and forced them back with their spears. Then the musketeers ran behind the spear formation, put the arquebus on the shoulder of the robe, and pulled the trigger against the enemy's chest.

"Phew! Bang! Bang! "Phew! Bang! Bang! "Before the end of the round of shooting, those Meng Yuan soldiers who tried to resist to the end completely lost their fighting spirit. shouted loudly, "Demon law, demon law!" Throwing away his weapons and running around with his head in his hands.

The brothers of the Red Turban Army, who had already gone mad, drove the enemy like sheep, chasing the dead to the north. It wasn't until he saw the walls of Huai'an City from a distance that he reluctantly stopped under the stern greeting of his own scouts. Then he was led by Zhu Bayi, Xu Da and others, and reorganized two miles away from the gate of the east city, so as not to be counterattacked by the defenders in the city.

The Mongolian Daru Huachi in Huai'an City was tickled, and he had already learned the news of Chubuha's defeat from the mouth of the Mongolian soldiers who ran back on horseback first. However, he did not have the courage to lead his troops out of the city to avenge Chu Buha, but only drove the remaining more than 3,000 recruits and veterans in the city to the city wall. Then close the four gates, pull up the suspension bridge, and strictly guard it.

The poor Mengyuan routs ran seven and a half miles in one go, and they were so tired that they vomited blood and hundreds of people died. I finally saw the hope of getting out, but I couldn't cross the moat. One was so angry that he lay on the ground and cried loudly. Crying enough, the Red Turban Army did not take the opportunity to come and kill them, and quickly wiped the snot and tears on his face, slipped along the riverside, and never gave his life to the court again.

"Just let the last general bring people to catch them all, fill the river with soil, and then use it as a precursor, and the ants will follow!" Wu Liangmou still hadn't been addicted, ran to Zhu Bayi, and took the initiative to ask for help.

"Nonsense! With such a high wall, you have to be tired to death if you climb it! Zhu Bayi shook his head, and said with a smile while pulling arrows from his armor for him. Bandage the wounds first, count the losses, and then think of a way to break the city!"

"Oops——!" Only then did Wu Liangmou realize that he still had injuries on his body, and he grinned in pain.

Ivanov, Liu Ziyun and the others laughed, helped each other, took off their armor, cleaned their wounds with salt water, and applied the Wu family's special golden medicine. After the wound was treated, the two auxiliary 100 teams left in Han Xincheng, and Li Qi and others, who had defected after being captured before, rushed over with Deputy Wanhu Baoyin and a cadre of Mongolian soldiers under his command.

Between Hanxin City and Huai'an, there was originally a river canal connection. Zhu Qiang and others, who stayed in the big boat, determined that there were no enemy troops between the two cities, and also used the big boat to transport the grain, grass, baggage and other things carried by the left army when they went out to the east gate of Huai'an City.

Seeing this, Zhu Bayi simply ordered the brothers to set up camp three miles away from the north gate of Huai'an City, and then divided it to Xu Da with 200 soldiers and 500 auxiliaries, and ordered the latter to return to Hanxin City, clear the remnants of the enemy in the city, clean up the battlefield, and defend the retreat for the army. After lunch, he used General Li Qi as his guide to survey the terrain around Huai'an City.

I don't know if I don't investigate, but after I investigate, I realized how unreliable the battle plan that Mr. Lu Lu Zeng had made for himself before. The scale of this Huai'an City is more than three times larger than that of Xuzhou City. The city wall is also twice as tall as the city wall in Xuzhou, and the surface is paved with blue-gray city bricks, mottled vines, and I don't know how many years it has been standing.

Half a foot below the city walls, there are four waterways. On the west side is the Grand Canal, and on the east side is another natural river connected to Hanshin City. The locals call it the East River, and after passing Hanxin City, it goes east and flows into the sea parallel to the Yellow River.

Between the canal and the East River, there are two artificial canals. One south and one north, and the two Tianhe rivers form a square, which firmly protects Huai'an City in the center.

In addition to the canal, there is a suspension bridge in the east, south, and north of the city. At this moment, the iron locks were pulled high, cutting off the road to the city gates. And the four city gates are all concave type, both sides are equipped with horse faces, the city is equipped with enemy towers, according to Li Qi, in each gate, there are city gates, urn cities, nail beats, iron fences, etc., a dry defense facilities, everything is complete.

With such a strong city with complete defense facilities, Lu Lao Jinshi actually thought that as long as Han Xin City was taken, he could take this city down, it was really an old man who talked about it on paper! Fortunately, this morning's battle was won simply, and most of the defenders were directly wiped out, and the backbone of the defenders, Chu Buha, was beheaded. Otherwise, everyone simply don't think about anything, and take advantage of the gold and silver in Han Xincheng's official treasury to get on the boat and go home!

"That one is a hereditary family who only knows how to make money, and without Chu Buha's help, he will definitely not dare to go out of the city to fight!" Seeing that Zhu Eighty-one's face was getting more and more solemn, General Li Qi hurriedly took the initiative to offer a plan. "The governor only had to seal off the east and west waterways of the city, and forbade passing ships to carry grain to the city. It won't be long before the city is gone! ”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Zhu Bayi glanced back at him and asked in surprise.

General Li Qi was worried that he didn't have a chance to show his face, so he hurriedly pulled his mount forward again, then lowered his voice and explained mysteriously with a mysterious face, "The governor doesn't know that this Huai'an City is the salt tax of the imperial court. More than half of the more than 400,000 dingkou in the city are inseparable from Huaiyan. As a result, there is simply not enough food to eat. Almost every month, grain had to be brought in from the canal. ”

"400,000 Dingkou, then the total number of people is not 670,000? The surname is Li, don't you brag to our governor?! Before he could finish speaking, Lu Deshan had already questioned loudly.

The strategy of going east to capture Huai'an was offered to Zhu Eighty-one by his grandfather Lu Lu. He knew the whole thing clearly. So after seeing the scale of Huai'an City at this moment, he was more anxious than anyone else. I am afraid that the left army will return in the end, so that I will never be able to raise my head in front of Zhu Butcher!

General Li Qizheng was talking happily, but was suddenly interrupted, glanced at him dissatisfiedly, and responded with anger, "This adult doesn't know, the small one used to be a hundred households in the Han army." Stationed in Huai'an City, in addition to responding to the Mao, the main task every day is to take the brothers to the streets to inspect and suppress the place! I dare not say that I am familiar with every household in the city, at least with my eyes closed, I won't make any mistakes! ”

"Don't be a bicker!" Zhu Bayi glared at him and shouted loudly, "You pick up the important thing, how many people are in Huai'an City?" Men and women alike! ”

"Seventy, seven hundred thousand may be hanging a little, six hundred and fifty thousand must be there. In some large salt merchants, there are two or three hundred servants alone. People can't be counted by household at all! Li Qi was frightened, quickly stopped talking nonsense, and responded honestly.

"Six hundred and fifty thousand?!" When Zhu Eightyyi heard this, he couldn't help but raise his head and gasp lightly. The total population of Xuzhou City is more than 170,000, of which about 100,000 are Red Turban soldiers, and there are only more than 70,000 real people. In the original Zhu Laofu's heart, it was already a great big city. There were 650,000 people in this Huai'an city, and there were many large salt merchants with slaves in their homes. In case someone gives someone an idea to mobilize the salt merchants and assist the officers and soldiers to defend the city together, how can he fight this battle?! More than 3,000 brothers rushed in, and they had to be drowned alive by the people who had organized the defenders to spit at the mouth, and there was no chance of winning at all!

Just when he was at a loss, he heard Lu Deshan shouting loudly, "What's so great about having a lot of people? There is much help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust. The Mengyuan court acted perversely, and the common people had long wished that someone would come to save them. The more populous the city, the more unstable it became. As long as we deal with it properly, maybe we don't have to attack the city ourselves, and the squires and people inside will be caught and teased, and the city gate will be directly dedicated to the governor! ”

Note: Huai'an in the Yuan Dynasty was a dual hub for Cao Yun and salt Yun, which was extremely prosperous. History accurately records that there are more than 90,000 households and more than 440,000 people. The city is home to a large number of traders and craftsmen.