Chapter 53: Never Give Up
In the past two days, the Tartars outside the city have been putting on a careless defensive position, and even one day they even pulled out the camp for five miles, but the artillery on the Golden Mountain kept ringing, Yang Bo endured the artillery infestation, and refused to go out of the city to defend Lushun.
Today, as usual, the artillery kept roaring, and the red and blue flags were divided into two sides, and they swooped down towards the city wall, and when they looked down from the top of the city, they were all black and crushed by howling tartars......
The last time the Tartars attacked the city was very much the loss of the firecrackers, this time the arrangements were all loose formations, as long as the firecrackers showed their heads, the lightly armored archers who had been prepared were a burst of arrow feathers, this time it was Yang Bo's turn to suffer, and he lost several firecrackers in just a short time, he didn't dare to let the firecrackers show their heads, the Tartars attacked very fiercely, and soon the remnants of Li Weiluan on the right side of the city wall couldn't stand it, Yang Bo waved his big hand, and sent the five hundred soldiers brought by Zong Yuanfang to him, and at noon, the five hundred soldiers were almost lost, Now Yang Bo is really unsent......
In one morning, the Tartars attacked the wall thirteen times, and thanks to the fierce fire of the arquebus battalion, they repelled the attacking Tartars again and again, but at this attrition, the arquebus battalion would run out of lead and gunpowder before the evening.
Yang Bo was worried, while mobilizing the people to melt the lead, while finding some reliable elders to configure gunpowder, but during the war, there was a shortage of manpower everywhere, and the little gunpowder made could not catch up with the amount consumed, but the Tartars still poured up like a death......
After fighting for nearly an hour, the corpses of the Tartars under the city wall were nearly half a meter high, but on the left and right sides, there were constantly ladders erected to hook the wall, but at this tense moment, the ten mortar cannons were all dumb, and the iron shell shells were also used up.
In the afternoon, all the stones and rolling logs on the city wall were exhausted, and Yang Bo ordered all the auxiliaries to stop the work at hand and urgently carry the stones, and even all the women and children joined in.
Yang Bo sadly found that he seemed to have fallen into the predicament of Huanglong's previous predicament, which called the heavens and the earth not to work!
Reinforcements?
No, even if there is, they can't come today, even if they want to come today, there is no boat!
And the iron bull that they have been waiting for has not been heard from, Yang Bo regrets in his heart, he really underestimated the difficulty of transportation in this era, and his heart is dripping blood when he sees the carefully trained soldiers fall to the city......
Just when Yang Bo was busy, Zhang Shixiong took a few military discipline officers and took the pale Zhou Guangbi to the city!
"What is this for?" Yang Bo was shocked, and hurriedly rushed forward to untie Zhou Guangbi, and several Zhou Guangbi family members who were fighting fiercely in the city looked at Zhang Shixiong with angry faces, and their eyes almost burst into flames.
"My lord, Lord Zhou was cowardly and afraid of the enemy, secretly opened the south gate with a few henchmen, grabbed a boat and wanted to run, was discovered by the lower officials, Lord Zhou, as the chief officer of the Jimo Battalion, ran first when he encountered the enemy, shaking the hearts of the army, and the lower officials did not listen to the persuasion, so he tied him up and waited for the adults to fall, my lord, run away from the battle, and behead the ...... according to the rate."
Syllable!
With a crisp sound, Yang Bo gave Zhang Shixiong a slap in public, and the people around him were stunned by this accident!
"Get out! Shut yourself up, think about why I lock you up" Yang Bo burst out a few words from between his teeth.
Zhang Shixiong covered his face and looked at Yang Bo, full of disappointment, several military discipline officers around him were confused by this accident, but Yang Bo spoke, they didn't dare to hesitate, pushed Zhang Shixiong and walked out......
"Boss, Yang Bo's subordinates are arrogant and rude, and the adults are frightened" Yang Bo Lisuo untied the rope on Zhou Guangbi's body and apologized again and again.
"Idleness!" Zhou Guangbi cried in tears: "I'm really scared, Zhixian, the old man knows that he shouldn't slip away alone at this time, but the old man is still afraid, Zhixian, you just let me go, what Lushun deputy general, the old man doesn't want to think about it, I really don't want to......"
Yang Bo leaned into Zhou Guangbi's ear and whispered, "Boss, where did the courage of the two of us kill pirates side by side go?" Tartars are also people, and a stab will hurt and kill people, my lord, you just don't think about it today, and if you leave like this, won't the military spirit be scattered? ”
Zhou Guangbi's face was pale, his face was covered with snot and tears, and he only cared about mourning and crying.
"Boss, I remember someone said that the more afraid of death, the faster they die, and today the boss is on the city wall to supervise the battle with me!"
Yang Bo saw Zhou Guangbi's trembling white lips, he couldn't bear it, and beckoned to a few family members who had originally followed Xiao Liu, motioned for them to come over, and then turned his head and whispered to Zhou Guangbi: "Don't worry, these family members raise their shields to protect the boss here to supervise the battle, if so, if Yang Bo dies in battle, they will naturally escort the boss to get on the boat and go first, the boss is relieved."
Zhou Guangbi's old eyes were cloudy and looked at Yang Bo, and Yang Bo looked at him sincerely
"Zhixian, you are here, why are you so trouble...... Zhou Guangbi stopped sobbing, he saw trust in Yang Bo's eyes, although Yang Bo often lied to him, but this time, Zhou Guangbi believed that Yang Bo's words were sincere.
"I swore a poisonous oath to the fathers and elders in the city, as long as there is one person left in the Jimo camp, I will never give up on them! Boss, this Lushun sky and earth, I, Yang Bo, am still a little in awe" Yang Bo grinned at Zhou Guangbi, and easily pulled out a sharp knife from the waist of the guard!
"Brothers, will you be taken captive by the Tartars and turn your wives, children, and mothers into clothed slaves?" Yang Bo held his knife and walked from the left side of the city wall to the right, shouting all the way
"I don't want to!" Hearing the adult's impassioned words, these people did not look back but a shout sounded, and several guards wanted to hold a shield to protect Yang Bo, but Yang Bo pushed them away.
"Would you like to shave a pig's tail and call yourself a slave when you see a Tartar?" Yang Bo asked loudly, his voice hoarse.
"I don't want to!" When the people who came from Liaodong heard this, they shouted angrily in unison
"A few days ago here, Huang Long, the commander of the Dongjiang River, died in battle with four thousand brothers! Today, are you willing to put down your sword and gun and become a slave of the Tartars? ”
"I don't want to!" Li Weiluan burst into tears, and shouted with his subordinates holding swords and guns high.
"Today, we also have knives and guns in our hands, and the Tartars want to kill all the Han people we have blood surnames and turn the Han people without blood surnames into slaves, what should we do?"
"Kill slaves! Kill slaves! ”
"Kill slaves! Kill them all! ”
"Today, I, Yang Bo, stand by your side, and it is really a happy life to be able to kill slaves side by side with all my brothers, all the villagers and elders of Lushun, and all the heroes of Liaodong!"
Yang Bo raised his blade violently and slashed at the sky, roaring and roaring: "Kill slaves!" ”
Li Dali's eyes were red, he threw the long knife in his hand, ran to the corner of the wall and beat the drum himself
"Knock knock!"
Hu Mazi pointed at the spear in his hand and shouted: "All the pikemen battalions have it!" Sing up! ”
Suddenly, bursts of majestic and passionate songs sounded at the head of the city
"Yanhuangdi, how heroic, with one enemy and a hundred people are not cowardly......" The old cannon shouted with red eyes, the ghost head knife swung fiercely, and a small distribution just burst out of half of the head, and blood and brains flew everywhere.
"People are not cowardly, Qiu Bixue, look at the blood ...... my Chinese man" A Lushun common man knocked down a tartar who had just jumped down, picked up an arrow and stabbed it at the door in front of him, once, twice, countless times......
"The blood of a man, self-heroic, and heroic like an iron ......" Two spears stabbed into the stomach of a tartar, and the two pikemen roared angrily, and lifted the tartar in the air and threw it off the city.
"Carrying a golden knife in his hand, wearing a white jade jue, hungry for a beautiful chieftain, thirsty for Rakshasa blood......"
"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”
Wave after wave of shouts on the city wall, all the soldiers defending the city were in high spirits, killing all the Tartars who climbed up, and a few Tartars were frightened and jumped off the city wall in a panic.
Suddenly there was a rapid and terrible sound in the Tartar camp, obviously the slave chiefs who supervised the battle behind found that the morale of the siege was frustrated, and began to intensify the attack, countless white swinging teeth or bows, or waving knives, killing the hesitant armor soldiers one by one under the city, the head of the city of Lushun was filled with gunsmoke, the sound of fire and shouting to kill sounded together, one by one the Tartars jumped on the city under the threat of the sword and gun of the overseer team, and started a bloody battle with the defenders on the city wall.
"Little Five?" Yang Bo shouted behind him
"Your Excellency?" Xiao Wu followed Yang Bo closely, holding a heavy shield in his hand, and refused to leave
"If only ......"
Yang Bo's tone was a little low: "If there is something discordant, you must not let me fall into the hands of the Tartars, you have to help me break it first, just kill yourself, well, I am afraid of pain when I get an injection." ”
Xiao Wu didn't speak, only some muffled sobs came from behind him.
Yang Bo walked up to Zhou Guangbi and patted him lightly on the shoulder......
The fierce battle until the evening, the city wall lit a torch, the whole city head illuminated brightly, the city under the Tartars are still shouting, a ** towards the ladder rushed, it seems that the Tartars are going to attack the city overnight, at this time, the bloodstained Li Dali came to report, the arquebus battalion ammunition has run out!
Yang Bo's heart tightened, the fire was dumb, the other pikemen and the sin army camp had no cover, and the casualties would be greater, without the fire guns, Lushun, who was originally expected to be able to hold until tomorrow morning, was likely to fall tonight!
Yang Bo sat on the Taishi's chair, took a snow-white cotton cloth and carefully wiped the blade, and said to Xiao Wu for a while: "Xiao Wu, give me armor!" ”
At this tense moment, a sentry suddenly crawled to Yang Bo's side: "My lord, my lord, the little lady's fleet has arrived!" ”
"What? Are you sure? Yang Bo stood up overjoyed
"The bow of the ship is a skull flag, and the smaller one is infallible," replied the sentry in a loud voice.
Yang Bo was happy in his heart, looking up to the sky and smiling.
Half an hour later, countless mortar cannons on the city wall suddenly opened fire again, and countless fizzing iron shells were thrown from the city, and under the northern city, violent explosions, fierce fires, large clouds of gunsmoke, and pieces of screams.
Disheveled!
The ten furlong machines on the city wall also opened fire at the same time, and the cannonballs pierced into the several oxen that were lined up behind, plowing out the bloody path.
"Brother, the Iron Bull is late!" Seeing the tragic battle situation in the city, Tie Niu said with a heavy heart
"It's not too late!" Yang Bo smiled slightly, stepped forward and hugged Tie Niu, Tie Niu and they had been marching forcibly for a few days, and they had been bumpy on the sea for another day, and they hurried up to the city wall to defend without even taking a breath, and both cheeks were thin.
"Young Master!" Zhang Dabao saw Yang Bo's fireworks, and his eyes were a little moist.
"All here? Good! Yang Bo touched this, patted that, and rejoiced in his heart.
Suddenly all kinds of firearms on the city wall opened fire violently, turning the city wall into a sea of fire, and also stunned the Tartars, the slave chief judged that reinforcements came to the city according to the information fed back, and finally had no choice but to withdraw the troops after a while.
Seeing the Tartars under the city receding like a tide, the city walls were jubilant again, and everyone held up their weapons and shouted.
The people of Lushun collapsed on the bloody ground and covered their faces and cried loudly, and there were many Han people in Liaodong under Yang Bo like them, the massacre of the old slaves in Liaodong did not frighten them, they endured many years of suffering supported by the belief of not being slaves and revenge, they lost their land, lost their hometown, lost their relatives, and all their grievances were compensated at this moment.
The pikemen, arquebus, and sin camps lined up at the head of the city, and they held their chests open to accept Yang Bo's review, and changed guards with the newly arrived Jimo battalion, but there were many empty seats in their ranks, but those soldiers would never return......
However, in the respectful eyes of the Jimo battalion, the officers and soldiers of the third battalion all raised their heads and chests, they were not only proud, they were also proud, and now in the first battle, they also learned a thing called responsibility from Yang Bo, and they will never give up their compatriots, even if there is only one soldier left...... (To be continued.) )