Chapter 437: Embattled
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The roar of the cannon rang out for five days, and all the southern bread bricks of Lushun South City were shattered, revealing the gray-yellow rammed earth inside, and some cracks began to appear in the rammed earth wall.
Bang, bang, Yue Tuo under the city saw with his own eyes that large puffs of dust rose from the two places on the city wall of Lushun that had been hit by projectiles, and dust and sand fell in a flutter.
"Baylor, the walls of Lushun are very strong." Shuoto frowned.
As Yue Tuo's second brother, he can only call Yue Tuo's title in front of everyone.
"Well, there are some evil sects in this Lushun City. You see, after the bricks were shot, the artillery bombarded them for another four days, but the cracks in the city wall were very small, which was completely different from the time of the Daling River. "Yue Tuo is also inexplicable, it is said that there should be a big crack in the city wall.
"Lord Belle, yesterday was a continuous bombardment, blowing up two cannons, and wounding more than a dozen gunners, if it goes on like this, there are fewer cannons left, but it is not very useful." Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhen and Shuotu frowned.
"yes, the minions are a little scared when they see those gunners." Zhenghongqi Niu Lu Ye Chen echoed.
"Well, try for two more days, the Khan still has a backhand, as for these Nikans, although they are not of great use, but the Khan values them, so you order to go down and lengthen the interval between the shelling, so that people and the cannon can rest." Yue Tuo made a decision.
Heshuotu hurriedly responded.
"Amma, Amma." Yue Tuo's eldest son, Luo Luohun, who is now the first heir to the title, walked over with several Goshkha.
"It's called Lord Belle." Yue Tuo had a straight face, and Luo Luohun still jumped out in front of everyone, but this eldest son was brave and resolute. Won his heart.
"I've seen Lord Baylor." Luo Luohun blushed. I know that I have lost my honor. Bow down in a hurry.
"Well, get up, what's going on in such a hurry." Youyue asked Tuo.
"Bingbeile Ye, Meile Ezhen Tuhai sent someone to report, the fireboat fleet led by him estimates that the Ming warships in Arthur Bay can be attacked tomorrow night, and Derge Beile ordered his subordinates to report to Beile Ye." This time, Luo Luohun is a return to the rules.
"Oh, this is a good thing, it has cut off the back road of the Lushun Ming army. Let's see if they will mess up without a fight. Shuoto was overjoyed.
"If it's another general, I think chaos is certain, but Zhang Pan, maybe it's different." It is said that many of his subordinates have blood feuds with Dajin, so they are very desperate to resist and it is not easy to deal with.
The sound of the cannons stopped, and the dust at the head of Arthur began to disperse, and the sight became clear. Zhang Pan took a few of his entourage and climbed to the top of the city.
He leaned out and looked at the walls outside, but saw many large craters on the walls. Cracks began to appear in the rammed earth walls, but they did not widen.
Zhang Pan nodded with satisfaction, a year earlier, he used some money and grain to mobilize soldiers and people to reinforce the one-zhang wide city wall with rammed earth, and widened the original one-zhang wide city wall to two zhang, so that the ability of the city wall to resist artillery bombardment was greatly enhanced.
This time, taking advantage of the coming of winter, he watered it with water every night, and it was very sturdy and withstood the bombardment of dozens of cannons.
Boom, boom, the thirty cannons that had rested for a while began to roar again.
"Your Excellency, please go down to the city immediately." One of the guards shouted.
The guerrilla Wang Cheng, who was in charge of guarding and monitoring the enemy's situation, also hurriedly urged him to go down to the city to avoid the artillery, after all, this projectile has no eyes, maybe it will fall somewhere, dozens of people have been killed and injured in the past few days, and this is still the result of only more than 100 people left in the city.
The cannon roared for another day, and the city of Arthur was still standing there, although the rammed earth wall was somewhat broken, but there were no major cracks, and it was not crumbling.
This made Derge and Yue Tuo a little helpless, it seemed that it was impossible to destroy Arthur City with artillery, so they had to find another way.
On the evening of that day, small snowflakes drifted in the sky, the north wind blew fiercely, and the swells in Arthur Bay began to increase, constantly lapping against the coastal pier.
As soon as the guerrilla Chi Sheng of Lushun returned to his boat from the city, Wang Cheng, a guerrilla in the southern city, summoned him and secretly said that they would send a few boats to escort the adult's family to Denglai tomorrow.
Of course, Chi Sheng agreed, although Lord Zhang Pan strictly ordered that the families of the generals should not be allowed to flee, for fear of shaking the morale of ordinary soldiers, but there are still several family members of the generals who have been sent away, such as the wife of the general Zhu Guochang and a few sons, but this is all secret.
Now that Lord Zhang Pan is also evacuating his family, it seems that this Lushun is in danger, and even Lord Zhang has rarely left a way back, can this Lushun still be able to hold on.
Most of Chi Sheng's family died at the hands of Jiannu, which is also the reason why Zhang Pan left him to carry him.
Chi Sheng looked helplessly at the dark black and only a little light in the southern city of Lushun, and was unwilling in his heart, if Lushun was also lost, where else could he follow which adult to fight and revenge Jiannu.
Tu Hai sat on the Haicang boat, holding a knife in his right hand and holding the side of the boat tightly with his left hand, so that he could do it steadily, since he vomited for the last time half an hour ago, he was much better now, but he still couldn't stand firmly on the boat on this stormy night, it was a torment.
In the end, he could only sit on the deck and try his best to support it, and he couldn't do anything if he was afraid of the sea.
He Tuhai is even more so, but as a descendant of the current banner owner Zierharang with the blue flag, he remembers the advice of Lord Belle when he left, he must eliminate the Lushun Naval Division in Nancheng, completely cut off the back road of the Ming army, and make Lushun a dead city.
And this is the order of the king of Khan, which is extremely solemn, he has a few heads in the sea and dares to disobey his fate, let alone standing on the boat, even if he is allowed to jump into the sea, he has to do it.
"Liu Hui, how far is it to get to Lushun." Tu Hai looked at the dark sea in front of him, only the faint lights illuminated, and he couldn't see anything.
"My lord, there are still four or five miles to reach the tiger's tail." Although he was very disdainful of the Jiannu who was like a dead fish on the floor, on the surface, Liu Hui nodded his head and bowed his head to this deference, who made this a Jurchen master.
"Oh," Tu Hai's tone was full of surprise, he was really fed up with this little broken boat rocking indiscriminately, these few days on the ship, catching up with the hardships of several lifetimes, and being able to get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible, he was so glad in his heart.
Although Tu Hai said that he didn't look down on Liu Hui who didn't straighten his waist, he also admired Liu Hui and the ability of the only sailor of Dajin under his command to sail at night.
Chi Sheng slept very vigilantly at night, after all, it was now the place of the four wars, in the middle of the night he was suddenly awakened by the sound of shouting killing, he hurriedly got up, and the guards outside rushed in and reported to him that the mouth of the bay of the tiger's tail was attacked.
Chi Sheng hurriedly came to the deck, only to see the tiger's mouth blazing, it was really a fireboat attack, the problem was how they approached, why didn't the sailor notice.
At this time, under the reflection of the firelight, many small ship shadows passed through the tiger's mouth one by one, Chi Sheng was shocked, this is all a fireship undoubtedly, thinking that Jiannu also knew that there was no chance of victory in the head-to-head confrontation of the naval battle, so he used the fireboat to sneak attack at night, and it was really ruthless.
There must be a rebellious foil of the Han people here, otherwise it would be impossible for Jiannu alone to invade this place at night, they are all landlubbers.
Chi Sheng hurriedly ordered dozens of warships to set sail, and they must not sit still here.
Obviously, the truth was too cruel, the hard sail would have to be raised in half an hour, and most of the sailors on board had to work together, and it seemed that it was more difficult to accomplish it in this night of panic when people were attacked.
In the end, only less than ten sea ships completed this task with difficulty, and the others were nailed to the spot by the fire boats, and the Han sailors of the Jiannu sailors immediately lit the fire oil and firewood on the ship and then jumped into the icy water, which was also a fight for their lives, and they had no way to watch the masters and sons on the ships behind, who dared not obey.
Immediately, the entire Lushun Bay was dyed red by the firelight, and many Ming sailors were forced to abandon their ships and go ashore and run towards Lushun, but Lushun City did not dare to open the city gate at night.
They were all shivering in the early winter night waiting for the dawn, but fortunately, the sailors of Jiannu had no intention of landing on the shore at all, and they were also waiting for the dawn after salvaging the overboard of their fireboat.
Chi Sheng's Fu boat luckily set sail and left the dead place of the dock, he took a few warships to break through the barrier of several Jiannu sailor warships, and rushed out of the tiger's mouth, he couldn't stay in that dead place, only rushed out and said.
The Jiannu sailors did not stop it with all their might, their goal had been achieved, they had no intention of fighting for the sake of small boats, what they wanted was not the Ming warship, but the destruction of the Ming warship or the drive away from the dock.
By the way, they just want Lushun to become the death place of the four wars, even if it is only ten days and a half months.
When Zhang Pan got the report and came to Nanchengtou, what he saw was a big torch still burning two miles away, not one, but dozens, and there was a popping sound of cannon medicine packs from time to time.
These voices were really harsh to Zhang Pan and the defenders.
Zhang Pan's first thought was of his two children, and when he thought that they might follow in the footsteps of their half-brothers and sisters, his heart was like a knife.
It seems that there is no need to think about foreign aid for the time being, now Jiannu can besiege the southern city from all sides, more than 3,000 soldiers plus the young and strong people in the city, that is, 5,000 people, defend the four city walls, and have to hold on day and night, the difficulty can be imagined.
Zhang Pan estimated that Jiannu would immediately attack the city, if he was to capture Lushun before the Ming army reinforcements arrived in Denglai or other places, and then there was a series of hard battles, the problem is that I don't know how long Lushun can hold out, and the reinforcements are even more slim.
He was clear about the Ming Court's assignment, reported it, and the court issued an order, Denglai sent reinforcements again, and it would take more than a month to arrive in Lushun at the earliest, hehe, more than a month, I'm afraid that his head was made into a wine cup by Jiannu. (To be continued.) )
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