Huainan in December, the north wind howled, the temperature reached minus eight or nine degrees, the Qingfeng army backed the city of Liuhe, and the troops were stationed under the city of Yangzhou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Hao Ren's operational purpose of this Eastern Crusade has basically been achieved, to rescue the righteous armies of Zhao Junyong and Guo Zixing from the encirclement of suffering, and to oppress them to the north, becoming a barrier to block the Yuan army in the north of the Qingfeng army. What Hao Ren has to do now is only to wait for Tokhtar to fall and the Yuan army to be in chaos, and take the opportunity to collect the prestige of relieving Gaoyou and defeating Tokhto's million-strong army.

Yangzhou is a famous city in Jiangbei, known as Guangling and Jiangdu in ancient times, locking and controlling the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it has always been a prosperous metropolis, there is a famous ancient song "Guangling San" is famous for this place, it is said that Emperor Yang of Sui in order to rush to Jiangdu to see Qionghua, and dug the Grand Canal from Luoyang to Jiangdu, which eventually led to the demise of the Sui Dynasty. And because of the late Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu, a sentence "Twenty-four bridges and bright moon nights, where do jade people teach blowing/flute", Yangzhou has become a paradise that countless men yearn for. There is also the patriotic poet Xin Qiji of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Forty-three years, I still remember in hope, and the beacon Yangzhou Road", which has been branded with the mark of suffering for this historical city. Two hundred years later, Shi Kefa resisted the Manchu Qing Dynasty's harsh government of 'keeping his head but not hair', and the brutal Manchu Qing Dynasty created the outrageous 'Ten Days of Yangzhou'.

In a word, Yangzhou City, with its rich culture, important transportation and geographical location, has always been a battleground for soldiers.

Hao Ren came to Yangzhou, not to find the 'jade blow / flute', Yangzhou lies between Liuhe and Gaoyou, not to break Yangzhou City, Hao Ren's horses, infantry can not bypass Yangzhou directly to Gaoyou City, now tens of thousands of troops, not the original Hao Ren District of 3,000 cavalry, if forcibly interspersed, will inevitably fall into Gaoyou, Yangzhou two sides of the attack, that is self-defeating.

Yangzhou Guard, known as 'a piece of tile' volunteer marshal Zhang Mingjian, is famous for killing people for food, also known as 'cannibal Zhang'.

Zhang Mingjian is a volunteer soldier, his soldiers and horses wrapped in a cyan turban, known as the green army, once captivated and plundered the Hanshan area, and later went east, returned to the king of Zhennan of Mengyuan, instigated the king of Zhennan to rebel, the matter was not completed, the king of Zhennan died, Zhang Mingjian cut Yangzhou, according to the city to protect itself.

It is said that this guy prefers to eat human flesh raw, killing people as military food, it is simply the regeneration of the Yellow Nest, it is said that he killed no less than 800,000 Yangzhou people, when Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate Miao Tycoon broke through Yangzhou, Mengyuan household registration recorded 240,000 households in Yangzhou, only 18 were eaten, which was worse than Yangzhou 10 days.

For the tragic situation of Yangzhou City, which caused only eighteen families left, whether Zhang Mingjian ate people as sheep, or Miao Tycoon slaughtered the city after the war, there is no way to verify the specifics, from the late Ming Dynasty Manchu slaughter of Sichuan and Shu, the blame is attributed to Zhang Xianzhong's historical reference, and after Zhang Mingjian surrendered, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Zhang Mingjian to pacify Yangzhou and Zhenjiang, causing the Yangzhou tragedy, and the latter is more likely.

In the winter of the fourteenth year of Zheng, there was no snow in Huainan, Hao Ren's Qingfeng army came earlier than in history, Zhang Mingjian was not besieged by Zhu Chongba to the point of eating human flesh, and Yangzhou was as prosperous as recorded in history.

Hao Ren was not in a hurry to attack Yangzhou, but stationed the horses and infantry troops west of the canal, with the canal and Gaoyou Lake, the army could not bypass and attack his flank, but sent Yu Tonghai's navy to enter the canal from the Yangtze River into Gaoyou Lake, Hao Ren took the elite guards, boarded the boat on the west bank of the canal, and carried it along the back of the canal, such as Gaoyou Lake.

Zhang Shicheng was trapped in Gaoyou City for more than two months, and was besieged by the dense besieged city of the freed army, which was called every day, and the earth should not be, Gaoyou City couldn't even fly out of a bird, Zhang Shicheng had nothing to do in the palace, and he had the heart to hang himself, but he still had an agreement with Hao Ren to support.

Seeing that the city is about to be breached, Zhang Shicheng's only hope is that he hopes that Hao Ren can really get rid of the sky with his hands and eyes, and he can really get rid of the relationship between the monarch and the minister, so that Toto, the generalissimo of Mengyuan's soldiers and horses, the murderer and the demon king, will be transferred from the position of the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, or Gaoyoucheng will not be able to support it for a few days.

Suddenly, Zhang Shicheng heard the sound of artillery outside the west city, Zhang Shicheng was shocked, thinking that the army of Toksha was coming to attack the city again, so he quickly threw it away, and rushed out of the palace with a two-handed long seedling knife, and went to the city to watch.

I saw a majestic navy on the river, with more than 1,000 large and small ships, led by two building ships, two feet high, as if they were moving castles. That big boat, visually, is more magnificent than the dragon boat when Emperor Yang of Sui went down to the river capital.

On the huge warship headed by the leader, the north wind blew the flag of the Qingfeng army that fluttered high, and a tall general under the banner of the commander wore a white fur cloak, a white fish scale armor, and a treasure knife at the waist, isn't it Hao Renhao, the governor of the Qingfeng army of the Red Turban Army!

Be kind! Righteousness!

Hao Ren said counting, two months ago, he took the cavalry to divide his troops, responsible for attracting the main force of Tokto, and led the more than 100,000 troops of Toktoku to Liuhe and Chuzhou City, dispersing the military strength of the enemy soldiers in Gaoyou, and Gaoyou City can hold on to today, and now, Hao Ren with the army finally came to rescue him.

The wind knows the grass, and the board knows the loyal ministers.

O benefactor!

Daddy again!

Zhang Shichengrao is a steel-like man, he finally saw hope in despair, and his tears couldn't help but flutter, like a pearl with a broken thread, he whimpered: "Reinforcements!" Reinforcements have arrived! Woo-"

Boom -

Boom -

The artillery exploded one after another, hitting the besieging water camp on Gaoyou Lake, the wall flew, the ship sank, and the Mengyuan naval army outside the city was in chaos!

The Gaoyou army in the city, seeing the reinforcements, and there are flags waving at the warship, the whole army of the Gaoyou Volunteer Army is very excited, as if in the long dark night, seeing the dawn of dawn, the morale of the soldiers is greatly boosted, and the flag is waved and shouted in the city, beating drums and cheering, echoing with the Qingfeng army and the navy.

"The Qingfeng army is mighty!" Zhang Shicheng completely forgot his identity as King Cheng, climbed the battlement of the city wall, and waved his arms vigorously, hoping that Hao Ren could see him and let Hao Ren know that she was still alive, he shouted excitedly: "Beat hard, kill these turtle sons!" ”

Zhang Shicheng has been besieged for more than two months, and he is about to go crazy! The sound of drums and shouts on the head of the city, as well as the sound of artillery on the lake, drowned out Zhang Shicheng's hoarse shouts!

"Come, everyone shout together!"

Zhang Shicheng organized his soldiers, stopped the golden drum, and shouted in unison, this time the voice was quite spectacular, and Hao Ren also heard it clearly on the bow of the ship: "The Qingfeng army is mighty!" Ruthlessly big, kill these turtle sons! ”

Hao Ren was quite satisfied with his role as the savior, with a satisfied smile on his face, and used a telescope to see the various beings on the city.

A light boat, like an arrow offline, sailed away from the battle formation, flew to the city of Gaoyou, 'whoosh', and threw the crossbow arrow to the city with a bed crossbow.

Zhang Shicheng was excited, silently encountered a cold crossbow, frightened him to fall on the city, a large crossbow arrow, deeply embedded in the pillar behind Zhang Shicheng, the crossbow arrow was still unsubsidy, and it made a loud sound.

Brother Hao? What do you mean? Is it here to the rescue, or is it here to die? (To be continued.) )