Just as Yang Sichang was thinking about his thoughts, suddenly there was a loud noise outside, followed by the exclamations of tens of millions of people, as if the sky was falling apart. Yang Sichang hurriedly walked out of the curtain www.biquge.info saw that half of the West Gate Tower of Lingle City in the distance was gone, and even the half of the city wall below had collapsed, and the smoke and dust splashed were half a day high, and it was vague that he couldn't see what was happening. There were screams inside and outside the city, but inside the city there were screams, and outside the city there were cheers.

"W-what's going on?" Yang Sichang's first reaction was to turn around and ask Liu Cheng, Liu Cheng smiled: "The mortar cannon has begun to bombard the city wall with solid bullets, and the next thing is to fill the moat, please watch with peace of mind." ”

Inside the city.

Looking at the half-collapsed West Gate Tower in front of him, Yue Tuo was dumbfounded, like a statue. Just a few seconds ago, a solid bullet fell from the sky, and the solid iron ball weighing sixty kilograms first rose to the highest point, then turned its head downward, gravity accelerated its speed, and chose the tower of the West Gate as its landing point! There was a dull loud bang, and there was already a big hole in half of the tower at the west gate, and the gravel and wooden blocks were splashed everywhere, and there were also a few pieces of flesh that happened to stay in the castle tower, and the cannonballs smashed into the stone floor at the top of the city wall after piercing the entire tower, and smashed it to pieces, and then bounced high, and then fell diagonally, turning a stable close to the city wall into a pile of ruins, and at the same time it was crushed into pieces by more than twenty horses and six or seven soldiers and grooms, and then rolled through two streets with the sound of the wind, Lisuo destroyed two carts full of grain, and finally smashed them on the foundation of a house, kicking up a cloud of smoke and dust that was not very high but had a large range! It was only when the rain of gravel and dirt fell, Yue Tuo saw that the round cannonball was lying quietly in the pit he had knocked out.

Before Yue Tuo could recover from the shock, there was another roar in the air similar to that of a train speeding at a low altitude, and another solid bullet fired from a large-caliber mortar gun hit the target. Probably because of the more shots, the trajectory of the cannonball was lower, and it hit the upper end of the West Gate Cave, and the cannonball carved a large hole in the upper end of the city wall, and then swept through the city gate, releasing all its kinetic energy in the impact, bouncing and crushing, and finally calmed down. Then, a large piece of the outer wall facing outward from the city gate hole peeled off from the main part of the city wall and collapsed under the action of a huge impact force! The whole section of the city seemed to groan and tremble under the terrifying power, and began to make all kinds of cracking and falling sounds, and the horses in the stables began to stir.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good!" A voice woke Yue Tuo from the huge shock, he looked back and saw that his Goshha was looking at him with a frightened face, he rarely couldn't control his anger, and scolded: "I'm not blind, do I need you to tell me that the city is about to be broken?" ”

"No, it's not!" Nagoshha startled Yue Tuo, and hurriedly pointed to the dust behind him and said, "General Kong is injured, his injuries are very serious, it seems that he can't do it!" ”

"What?" After Rao is Yue Tuo saw such a terrifying shelling, he had already been frightened, and when he heard that Kong Youde was seriously injured, he was still greatly impacted. At that time, among the Han generals in the Later Jin, Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi had the highest official positions, not only that, but they all had a considerable army under them, as if they were courtesy. They were able to get such "over-specification" treatment, in addition to Huang Taiji's deliberate preferential treatment by adopting the strategy of "buying horse bones with a thousand dollars", another reason is that these three people are indeed unique and have the strength at hand; Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong are good at attacking and defending cities, and they are not weak in field warfare, and Shang Kexi is good at water warfare, which just fills the weakness of Houjin. And this western expedition, Geng Jingzhong died in the tunnel, Kong Youde died in the siege, all under his own hands, even if he can break through and go back, Huang Taiji will make a big deal about this, if the other party dies, how can he control those Han troops?

"Quick, take me to see it!" Yue Tuo hurriedly followed Nagoshha through two streets, and came to a broken wall, only to see seven or eight generals Zuo Zheng in a circle, with a sad expression, and saw Yue Tuo coming and hurriedly got out of the way. Yue Tuo hurriedly stepped forward, only to see Kong Youde lying on the ground, his face was as white as rotten milk, his body was covered with a blanket, his hands and feet were outside the blanket, which was covered with mud, and a white coat was thrown aside, with traces of sword cuts, as well as maroon dirt, the air was filled with the smell of blood and stench, Yue Tuo's fingers twitched subconsciously, it was the breath of death.

"You look fine, that damn Goshha, and tell me you're not good anymore, I'm going to whip him twice!" Yue Tuo smiled reluctantly, holding on to a glimmer of hope.

Kong Youde's lips twitched twice, as if he was laughing, his voice was muddy and weak, and his eyes carried the kind of calm that was peculiar to people who knew they were going to die: "Yes, I'm not bad!" It's just that in a moment I'm going to die! ”

"Don't say that, the doctor will be here soon, he will bandage your wounds, you will be fine, we will break through together tonight!"

"Come and take a look, even Hua Tuo can't save me in the next life!" Kong Youde's face flashed with a wry smile: "I'm afraid I won't be able to break through with you tonight!" ”

Yue Tuo leaned down and uncovered the blanket, a sharp object tore a large hole in Kong Youde from his lower body to his chest, the strip of cloth used to bandage it was already soaked with blood, and the smell was even more disgusting, Yue Tuo's stomach churned, he released the blanket and took two steps back.

"It stinks, doesn't it?" Kong Youde smiled bitterly: "This is the smell of the dead, I have been smelling it for almost thirty years, and now I can finally smell myself." His head tilted slightly to the others, and he whispered, "You all stand down, let me be alone with Lord Yue Tuo for a while, I have something to talk to him about!" ”

Kong Youde's subordinates retreated, leaving only two of them. At this time, the sound of cannons, shouts of killing, and other noises seemed to be thousands of miles away from the two of them, and Yue Tuo asked in a low voice, "How come, how can this be?" ”

"That damn shell just fell and broke a beam, and splintered wood flew everywhere, and I wasn't lucky!" Speaking of this, Kong Youde shook his hair: "Forget it, don't mention this, it's not important." I'm going to talk to you about my men and you. “

"We'll break through after dark!" Yue Tuo mistakenly thought that Kong Youde was afraid that he would leave the Han army to break through alone, so he hurriedly explained, but Kong Youde shook his head slowly but firmly: "I didn't mean that, Yue Tuo, you look at the situation, do you think that you are in that Liu Cheng's position, will you still give us a chance to break through at night?" ”

Yue Tuo was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood. An old soldier like them, naturally knows the truth of "taking advantage of your illness to kill you", that Liu Cheng first dug a trench to approach, and then used a flowering bullet to clear the defender artillery on the city wall, and then opened the gap, without the red-clothed cannon on the city wall, the gap was opened again, which is similar to Lingle City is similar to a virgin who is stripped naked and lying on the bed, and the fool knows that he can't hold it, how can he not guess that he is going to break through next.

Yue Tuo had just come back to his senses when a Goshha ran over quickly and whispered in his ear: "My lord, it's not good, the Ming army has begun to fill in the moats!" Although Kong Youde, who was lying in a low voice, couldn't hear clearly, he had already understood six or seven points when he saw Yue Tuo's face, and said with a smile: "Is it that the Ming army has begun to fill in the trenches?" ”

"Not bad!" Yue Tuo nodded, and whispered to Goshha on the side: "Pass the order, let my white-armored soldiers go out of the city to counterattack!" He knew in his heart that with the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army besieging the city, it was just a waste of life to go to the city and release arrows, and it was better to rush out and mix with the Ming army who filled the trenches, forcing them to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and there was hope in case.

"Hey!" Kong Youde sighed, he just wanted to say something, but a sharp pain hit him, and the words stopped in his throat and turned into a muffled snort, Yue Tuo hurriedly leaned down, only to hear the other party's muttering: "Yue Tuo, this city can't be defended, if I were that Liu Cheng, I would attack from all sides at the same time, fill in the moat first, force us to nail all our troops to the city wall, and bombard it with artillery at the same time, before it gets dark, everything will be over." Kong Youde raised his right hand in a state of extreme weakness: "People are about to die, and their words are good, Lord Yuetuo, you surrender, continue to fight, you will only die in vain, you are the son of Da Baylor, the Son of Heaven of the Ming Kingdom will not kill you, even if you can break through and escape back to Liaodong, what is the use?" The Great Khan won't let you go, Amin is your end? ”

Yue Tuo subconsciously held Kong Youde's hand, and was a little overwhelmed for a while. In fact, he didn't have any friendship with Kong Youde in the past when he was in Liaodong, if you want to talk about it seriously, you still have some despise for this Han general, Kong Youde's defeat and death this time is also inseparable from him, but Yue Tuo understood at this moment that Kong Youde's words were sincerely for his own sake, maybe he had also considered this path subconsciously, but he subconsciously vetoed it because of his identity, and Kong Youde said it for himself. In Yue Tuo's heart, the sense of honor of Nurhachi's descendants, the sense of superiority accumulated over many years of victory, and the instinct of human beings to survive launched a fierce struggle, and finally the sense of honor won the victory.

"I'm sorry, General Kong! I know what you said is right, but I am Nurhachi's grandson, the son of Daishan, and I will never surrender to you Ming, but your Han army can surrender, they are all Han, and presumably the Ming army outside the city will not be difficult for them! When he said this, he realized that Kong Youde, who was lying on the ground, was a little wrong, and hurriedly reached out to probe the other party's snort, and felt his pulse again, only to find that the other party had lost his breath.

"A few of you come over and prepare some firewood to burn General Kong's bones!" Yue Tuo stood up and ordered several Han generals on the side. At this time, a thought suddenly flashed in his heart, Kong Youde's corpse was cremated by himself, so who would bury his own corpse? This thought was like a demon that haunted his heart, and it always lingered.

As Kong Youde expected, the offensive of the Ming army outside the city became more and more fierce, and the defenders' first counterattack retreated from the Ming army that filled the trench, slashing and killing forty or fifty people, but also suffered a volley of enemy firearms, killing and wounding twenty or thirty people, and when retreating, there were more than twenty people who were squeezed into the moat due to the hurry, and it was still a loss. But then the Ming army learned the lesson of the last time, and four or five light artillery and gunners went out to a distance of only more than 200 steps from the city wall, and the slightest outcrop on the city wall was beaten like a honeycomb, not to mention a counterattack out of the city. The powerful mortars did not stop, constantly firing solid shells into the gap, and from time to time they also fired flowering shells into the inside of the gap, killing and injuring the defenders who might be trying to re-block the gap. At supper time, the Ming army finally appeared, and groups of iron-clad infantry swarmed up the slope of earth and rock that had collapsed from the breach, and the long-awaited defenders also went up. The two men fought at the gap where the widest part of the section was no more than thirty or forty paces. At this time, Yue Tuo calmed down, battle and death were all too familiar to him, he held a seven-leaf hammer in his right hand, and the long shield was tied to his left hand, standing in the first row of the ranks, and on either side of him were the Goshkhamen. He skillfully used his shield to block the slashing of the enemy in front of him, and then stabbed the spike of the weapon in his hand into the opponent's chest, the old soldier with a scar on his face gushed blood from his mouth, and fell down in pain, he flicked his wrist, pulled out the seven-leaf hammer from the corpse, and then smashed it on the head of the next enemy, smashing the iron helmet and skull together, and the momentary impact of the collision paralyzed his shoulder.

Under the desperate resistance of Yue Tuo and those experienced white-armored soldiers around him, the first wave of Xiandeng was repulsed, but before they could cheer, the second wave of attack began again, at this time even a blind man could see that victory was in front of him, and the overseer who supervised the battle on behalf of the Son of Heaven was supervising the battle behind.

I don't know how long it took, Yue Tuo only felt that the seven-leaf hammer in his hand was getting heavier and heavier, and there were fewer and fewer people around him, and the battlefield had changed from a gap to an open space under the wall. There were only a few people left around him, the rest were either dead or fled, and with more and more enemies around him, he had to turn his back to the city walls to reduce the area that needed to be defended. But strangely, Yue Tuo did not feel fear, in his senses, time became vague, slow, and finally stopped, the past and the future disappeared together, and only this situation, this moment, and the fear, the thought, and even his own body ceased to exist. He couldn't feel the pain of the wound, he couldn't feel the weight of the armor, he couldn't feel the sweat running down his eyes. The only thing Yue Tuo felt at this time was the enemy in front of him, only fighting, knocking down one, and then knocking down the next, in Yue Tuo's eyes, they were slow and afraid, but he was infinitely powerful, even though he might be killed in the next second, but at this moment he was invincible. (To be continued.) )