Chapter 465: Change of Commander?
Maybe God no longer favors Beiping, because the next day, the heavy snow has stopped, which makes Qu Neng very happy, and he can finally complete the important task assigned to him by Li Jinglong, and he can take Dongzhimen today.
When he and Wang Tong led an army of 80,000 to the outside of Dongzhi Gate, they found that the group of soldiers who were frozen in ice had all died during the attack yesterday and were now lying quietly by the moat.
"General Qu, I think we'd better bury them first."
Wang Tong glanced at the pile of corpses, he knew that this must have been done by the defenders, to be honest, he didn't like this battle very much in his heart, because they were all from the Ming Dynasty, why did they fight a civil war? There is Annan in the south, why don't you fight? There are still Wa countries on the eastern sea, why don't you fight them? And the Mongols in the north, why don't they fight? But to send 500,000 troops to besiege a Beiping city?
But he is only a soldier, and obeying orders is a soldier's vocation.
"No, the order we received is to capture Dongzhimen within today, burying them will waste a lot of time, and now that the heavy snow has stopped, it is a good time to attack, and it can't be delayed!"
Qu Neng fought for the sake of fighting, and was more like a qualified soldier.
Wang Tong sighed, stopped speaking, looked at Beiping City in front of him, and still led the army across the moat.
"Commander, they're coming."
On the wall of Dongzhimen, the deputy general woke up Gao Ren and pointed to the mighty army.
Gao Ren rubbed his eyes, he spent the night on the wall last night, and he didn't sleep well at all, and he looked at the city wall covered by ice, so he was relieved.
"Cheer me up, yesterday we could hold it, and we will definitely be able to hold it today!" Gao Ren froze and yelled at a group of shivering soldiers.
As he spoke, the opposing army began to charge. With yesterday's lesson, the shield is now bigger and thicker, only the eight-ox crossbow on the city wall can play a role, and those bows and arrows are basically no longer much lethal to the vanguard troops.
"What about the rest of the doors?"
Gao Ren grabbed the lieutenant general and asked loudly.
"Commander, today Li Jinglong's army is like crazy, not only launched an attack on my Dongzhi Gate, but also the other eight gates."
"Have they all been attacked? Looks like they've given the order to die. Gao Ren's brows furrowed, in this case, it was impossible to ask for help. If you want to defend Dongzhi Gate, you can only rely on these hundreds of remnants and those people.
The situation in Dongzhimen is very bad, and the situation in the rest of the gates is not optimistic, especially Zhengyangmen, Li Jinglong personally led the army to attack, and mobilized 100,000 people to directly block Zhengyangmen.
"Shizi, the city gate is about to be overwhelmed!"
A general came to Zhu Gaochi. Anxiously yelled.
"If you can't stand it, you have to give it to me! If you put in an enemy! Just come and see you! Zhu Gaochi was also red-eyed, from dawn to now, he had witnessed too many deaths, and the piles of corpses outside Zhengyang Gate. It was piled up under his gaze.
Knock knock!
There was a loud noise at the gates, the sound of the army banging on the gates, and the stakes in the gates had begun to loosen, no matter how strong the defenses were. There will be times when we relax.
"Pour me the oil for the fire! Can't let them go down like this! ā
Zhu Gaochi roared angrily, and his fat body also burst out with amazing strength, personally holding a bucket of fierce fire oil. Fall down from the city walls.
Sou!
At this time, an arrow flew over, and it was hate to stick on Zhu Gaochi's shoulder, and the oil tank that had not been poured fell down and smashed on the heads of the soldiers below.
Yes!
Zhu Gaochi screamed and fell on the city wall, and immediately a military doctor came to treat him.
"Shizi, you better go back to the house and rest, leave it to me here!"
Monk Daoyan came over, and there were already a lot of blood stains on his originally smooth head, and he didn't know if it was his or the soldiers around him.
As the only adviser left by Zhu Di, he must also go to the front line to help Zhu Gaochi guard the city gate.
"Master Daoyan, I can't go! This is the Beiping left behind by my father, I can't watch it fall into the hands of the enemy, even my mother can wear battle armor to the front line, how can I retreat, a hundred catties of meat, and I can block them for a moment! Zhu Gaochi's words were very straightforward, and he obviously had no speech skills.
But it is such a straightforward word, so that the soldiers defending the city are excited, and even the prince can block the city gate with his body, what reason can they not defend the city well?
So the wounded soldiers, not caring about their own injuries, continued to shoot arrows, began to throw stones under the city walls, and began to beat the enemy who climbed up the ladder.
"Shizi, it's not a way to go on like this, I think it's better to block the Zhengyang Gate......" Daoyan monk Jian yƬ to.
"Blocked? What do you mean? ā
"It's just filled with sandbags! Wait for King Yan to come back again, otherwise it is very likely that if you can't wait for His Royal Highness to come back, the city gate will already be broken. ā
"But if the gates are blocked......"
Zhu Gaochi also wanted to say how to get out after being blocked, but found that they didn't need to go out of the city gate at all, and it seemed that blocking the city gate now was the only way, otherwise once the wooden stakes below were loosened, Zhengyang Gate would not be able to be guarded.
"Then according to the master's words!"
Zhu Gao was ruthless, and then said loudly, "Pass the order and seal all the city gates for me!" ā
There was a lot of war outside, and in the Yanwang Mansion, Xu Miaoyin didn't feel good, the last time she trekked in the ice and snow, her condition worsened, and the pain in her chest became more and more severe, even if she took the drugs that Hu Ye confessed, it didn't have much effect.
"Princess, you better go and rest, you haven't slept for a day and a night."
The green screen persuaded Xu Miaoyin.
"Green screen, release the hot air balloon left by the prince to report the news, just say that we are about to be unable to support it." Xu Miaoyin's face became very bad, she has been thinking about how to defend the city these days, but these days, more than half of the soldiers have been killed and wounded, and thousands of people have been killed and wounded.
And now Beiping is surrounded by water, and the only way to send the news out is through hot air balloons.
As soon as the green screen walked away, someone came to report that Dongzhimen was in danger, and that there were already enemies climbing the wall, which made Xu Miaoyin's already ugly face a little paler.
"Looks like it's time to use the last hole cards." Xu Miaoyin muttered to herself, then stood up and came to the depths of the Yan Wang's Mansion, where there was a large courtyard where fifty-six people lived, and it was equipped with a general flag.
However, their equipment is different from that of ordinary soldiers, because they each have a long spear and a black muzzle, and the perpetrator is a sharp weapon for killing.
"Come with me!"
Xu Miaoyin said to the fifty-six people, and then regardless of the weakness of her body, she led them towards Dongzhimen.
At this moment, Dongzhimen is indeed in crisis, because Qu Neng and Wang Tong's 80,000 people have lost thousands, and the corpses have already made the ground outside the city wall much too high, and the ladder has climbed higher.
"Kill me! Can't let them rush up! ā
Gao Ren roared angrily as he bandaged his right arm with gauze, and he was about to despair as he watched the steady stream of enemies pouring up the wall.
"Young Master, Young Master, if you have foreseen this situation, why don't you leave a countermeasure? Is Beiping really going to be taken today? ā
While feeling hopeless, Gao Ren prayed in his heart that since Hu Ye foresaw this kind of scene, there would definitely be a follow-up.
Sure enough, just when Gao Ren felt desperate, there was a sudden burst of gunshots, this voice he had heard, it was the sound that sounded countless times on the night when Zhu Di raised his army.
It was that voice that Zhu Di was able to take the entire Beiping City into his own hands overnight.
That is, when those voices sounded, the enemies standing at the head of the city fell one by one.
"Wang ...... The princess ......"
Gao Ren glanced at the people walking over from the city wall, muttered a word, and then fell unconscious.
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No matter how the war in Beiping was in full swing, Nanjing still thought that Beiping had been taken, because the day after the news that Dongzhimen had been taken back, Li Jinglong's military report came back, saying that Xizhimen had also been taken, and now it was engaged in street battles with Zhu Di's army, fighting for every brick of Beiping.
For this exciting news, the city of Nanjing was full of joy, only Zhu Yunwen's face became ugly, because he asked Yun Zichen to send someone to Beiping to inquire about the news had returned.
"Bastard! Darn! Actually lied about the military situation! ā
Zhu Yunwen slapped on the table, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstones on the table fell to the ground one after another, because he had learned that Beiping had not been taken now, and Li Jinglong's army had lost tens of thousands of people, but it had not taken a city gate, even a wall.
"The emperor is angry." Yun Zichen hurriedly said.
"Someone! Escort Li Jinglong back to Beijing for me! Dare to deceive the king! I will not be spared! Zhu Yunwen was extremely annoyed.
"Your Majesty, it's really unwise to change the commander on the spot." Yun Zichen persuaded, "According to the recovered information, there are more than 10,000 defenders in Beiping at all, and the special troops of King Yan are used, even if the commander is changed now, I am afraid there will be no substantive effect." ā
"Then you mean, let Li Jinglong, the straw bag, continue to be the coach? Continue to let the army of the imperial court bury the bones of Beiping? Zhu Yunwen asked coldly.
"Your Majesty, Beiping has now blocked all the city gates, which means that we can't attack it, and they can't get out, so why bother attacking? Why bother with leisure? Yun Zichen finally put forward his idea, this idea was made a long time ago, but he never told Zhu Yunwen, he felt that now was the time.
"Are you asking Li Jinglong to stop the siege? Continue the siege of Beiping? Zhu Yunwen understood Yun Zichen's words, but let him give up attacking Beiping like this, he always felt unwilling. (To be continued......)