When the horse thief saw the horse thief, his eyes were full of tears!

As soon as this relationship was pulled, the two sides immediately became much closer, and the scouts of the 36th battalion were no longer on guard, and they actually had the courage to follow Xue Hongqi's horse thieves directly into the Chinese army of Zhu Yuanzhang's army to meet the leaders.

"The villain is Wei Laoqi in the Ansai Horse Gang, and I have seen Xue Hongqi's eldest sister in the Yulin Horse Gang!" The scout turned over and worshipped, first worshiped Xue Hongqi, and then came to worship Zhu Yuanzhang, it seems that in the mind of the horse thief, Xue Hongqi is much more famous than Zhu Ba.

The Ansaima Gang, that is, Gao Sai Gao Yingxiang's subordinates, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was bright, and he asked casually: "I intercepted the messenger of the officers and soldiers asking for help in Phoenix City, saying that there are a few heroes here attacking the city, let's take a look at the excitement, what is the situation ahead?" ”

Wei Laoqi hurriedly said: "In front is Brother Chuangwang, leading the generals, the eight kings of Xiying, and Lao Hui to return a few people, and they are storming Zezhou City (Jincheng), and they have been attacking for two days. ”

All four of them are monsters! Zhu Yuanzhang sighed slightly, he was simply the most powerful person in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty...... Among these four people, Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, was born as a horse thief, Li Zicheng, a general of Chuang, was born in the Gan*Su border army and a post soldier, the eight kings of Xiying were also born in the Yansui border army and the imperial court, and Lao Hui Ma Shouying was a Hui from the Suide border army...... Well, the clear-eyed officer must have seen it, except for Gao Yingxiang, the other three had all been border soldiers, and they knew a little bit about marching and fighting, so when they were training the army, they were stronger than guys like Zhao Sheng who lit the lamp and Yichuan Wang Zuohang, I don't know how many times. It is no wonder that while besieging the city, they also scattered the scout net for ten miles, obviously to prevent officers and soldiers from running to the rescue during the siege and storming their chrysanthemums.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought to himself: This time Jincheng is really finished.

He smiled at Wei Laoqi and said: "Since these four leaders are attacking the city, the little Zezhou City will definitely be destroyed immediately, so I won't come out to offer ugliness, so as not to share more property, I can just watch the excitement on the side." ”

When he said this, he implied: "I will not come to rob you of your interests." When Wei Laoqi heard this, he was naturally overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Eighth Brother Zhu, you are really polite." ”

Under the leadership of Wei Laoqi, Zhu Yuanzhang's army stepped up its advance, and it didn't take long for it to arrive at the western suburbs of Jincheng two miles away, climb a small hill to watch the situation ahead, at this time the sky was already bright, only to see a huge state city on the horizon in front of him, which is also known as the Zezhou City of Jincheng, this city is equivalent to Puzhou, there are two zhang high city walls, a small moat about five meters wide flows around the city, the head of the city seems to be set up with several Franc machine guns, but it is too far away to see clearly.

On a plain outside the city gate, the troops of King Gao Yingxiang were setting up a military formation, as if they wanted to attack the city. Zhu Yuanzhang only glanced at it and roughly estimated the number of people, more than 18,000 people...... This is really not a small number, and more than 18,000 people are soldiers who are trying to attack the city, and the old and weak women have not been counted at all.

"He deserves to be one of the best leaders in the thirty-sixth battalion!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed lightly, if no matter who was collected in his own army, Zhu Yuanzhang would be able to pull up such a large army, but the army of good and bad is not what Zhu Yuanzhang wants, he is based on the principle of careful selection of soldiers, so up to now, the number of troops that can be used in Huanglong Cottage is only 10,000, and the number of people alone is indeed far inferior to the 36th battalion.

Wei Laoqi introduced beside him: "These are the subordinates of the eldest brother of King Chuang, who is responsible for attacking the west gate, and there is also the eldest brother of the general attacking the north gate, the eldest brother of Lao Hui is responsible for the east gate, and the eight kings of the west camp are responsible for the south gate...... If you want to see the excitement, the four doors are enough for the leaders to see. ”

Hearing his words, Zhu Yuanzhang was nothing, and Wang Er, Miao Mei, Xu Renjie, Xue Hongqi and others next to him were all taken aback: "This ...... So many people are still just a part? One of these armies in each of the other four gates? ”

"yes!" Wei Laoqi said with a smile: "However, the troops of the other three departments are less, and they are not as many as under the command of Brother Chuang Wang." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's army suddenly appeared behind the Chuang Wang Army, which immediately attracted the attention of the Chuang Army, but the scouts on both sides had already bowed to each other at the opposite pier, and Zhu Yuanzhang also indicated that he would not get a piece of the pie, so Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang didn't care about the "friendly army" behind him, and his army "wooed" and blew the horn, it seems that the siege battle is about to begin.

Xu Renjie was in high spirits and danced excitedly: "Wow, it's time to start attacking the city, watch the excitement!" Hahaha, look at the excitement! ”

Because the rebel army attacked the four city gates at the same time, Wang Pu, the general soldier of northern Henan in the city, was also miserable, and the three thousand soldiers were divided into five parts, four of which each guarded a wall, and the other was in the center to respond. That is to say, there are only 600 soldiers stationed at each city gate, which is too thin, so Wang Pu had to recruit thousands of villagers in the city and let them disperse and supplement the four city gates to assist in the defense. Because the reputation of the 36th Battalion was so bad, many of the residents of the city spontaneously organized themselves to help the officers and soldiers, so that there were about 1,500 defenders on each wall.

"Woo!" The trumpet sounded.

"Rush!" The thieves roared.

Although the army formation of more than 10,000 people was put forward to frighten people to death, it was impossible to move forward at the same time to attack the city, and it could only rush forward part by part.

The officers and soldiers soon opened fire on the head of the city, the cannon roared, the solid iron bullet flew out, smashed into Gao Yingxiang's military formation, exploded a piece of blood and mud, Gao Yingxiang's department was not too afraid, it seems that these people are also underexperienced in the battle array, and the courage has also been trained, they rushed forward with the cannonballs, anyway, there are only four Fran cannons on the head of the city, as long as the luck is not bad luck to get home, it is not easy to hit yourself in the military formation of more than 10,000 people, rush it...... Just rush up...... More than 1,000 defenders at the head of the city hurriedly lowered their arrows, and the thief army also rained arrows back to the city.

In fact, it should be very advantageous to bow arrows from a high position, but the strength of the officers and soldiers is too small, and the sparse arrows cannot do the purpose of deterring the thieves at all, and the thieves because of the lack of weapons and equipment, so the arrows that return to the head of the city are not dense.

After a child's rain of arrows, the thieves rushed to the moat.

This was the third day of the siege, and the thieves had clearly learned how to cross the moat, first set up a long ladder on the river to form a ladder bridge, and after crossing the bridge, they pulled up the ladder and then built it on the city wall...... This is the wisdom of the peasants, and it is a good solution, but there are problems with such a plan...... When the ladder is placed diagonally on the city wall, the weight-bearing capacity is OK, but when it is horizontally erected on the moat, the weight-bearing capacity is not very good, and often people run two steps on it, and the ladder snaps from it, causing the soldiers above to fall into the river.

However, the thieves still crossed the moat with ease...... Because the numerical advantage was so great, the rain of arrows and anything else couldn't stop them from swarming at all.

The last thing that the officers and soldiers could rely on was the city wall that was more than two feet high!

As soon as the thieves arrived at the city, they immediately put the long ladder on the wall, this siege bridge section played for thousands of years, and it is still the main means of siege today, the soldiers on the city immediately rushed over, wanting to push the ladder down, but the thieves under the city are not stupid, a large group of people quickly hold the ladder with their hands to prevent it from being pushed down.

Then the archers shot frantically at the thieves holding the ladder, and the thieves raised their lids to block them, and at the same time responded with arrows, and the battle around the ladder suddenly spread all over the edge of the wall.

Occasionally, a ladder was overturned, and the thieves on it screamed and fell down, and then brought down a bunch of companions, and those who fell far even rolled down into the moat, and those who fell close were crushed under the ladder, and they screamed.

There are also some ladders that cannot be pushed, because the thieves below are too steady, and the officers and soldiers at the head of the city hurriedly bring boiling oil, pour the oil on the ladder, let the oil flow down the wooden pillars of the ladder, and then a torch lights up the ladder, and the fire burns down the ladder, burning the thieves who climb up the ladder to the sky.

The bricks and stones, wrapped in tarpaulins and lit with flames, were thrown from the walls and struck the heads of the thieves, sending sparks in all directions, brains and blood...... Wang Er and Miao Mei were shocked by the tragic situation of the siege: "It turns out that ...... What does a real siege look like? We used to attack the city by relying on Zhu Bugs's strategy to win easily, we have never experienced such a scene, if we attacked the city like this earlier, I am afraid that the brothers have already suffered heavy casualties. ”

Xue Hongqi smiled bitterly and said: "I have experienced it once under Dali City, but the scene at that time was not as tragic as it is now, my soldiers were more afraid of death, and they were easily repulsed, but the soldiers of Brother Chuang Wang are really powerful, so they dare to attack bravely." ”

"Guts come from numbers!" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly beside him: "You only had three or four thousand people at that time, if there was only one bold and daring person among the fifty people, then there were only sixty or seventy bold people in your army, and the number of death squads was too small to bring the entire army to the ground, but there were more than 10,000 soldiers in King Chuang, and there were three or four hundred people in his army who dared to fight and dare to die. It's the same thing that we use 500 veterans to lead thousands of recruits. ”

"I see!"

"With so many people attacking the city together, and the defenders are only more than a thousand, it seems that this city can't hold it, right? When the bricks and stones are finished, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city will be finished. Xu Renjie said.

"No, you can hold it!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "King Chuang has to deal with not only these more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, the 36th battalion is perverse, the reputation is too bad, once the city is broken, all the people in the city will suffer, so they will definitely rise up to help the officers and soldiers defend the city, and the King Chuang army will face not only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, but also the people of the whole city...... Wait and see. ”

(To be continued)