Cangbo Gate.

Xiao Lingwei commanded Mei Shunchang to silently look at the red that was constantly looming in the night in the distance.

It was Moling Pass, which was still at war......

In fact, it's not just Moling Pass.

There was 20,000 imperial camps commanded by Hu Zizhao himself, plus the commanders of the generals who welcomed the king's division in various places, a total of 50,000 troops stormed Moling Pass.

But Moling Pass is only the core of the battlefield.

The reason why it has become the main target is only because of the water transportation of the Qinhuai River.

Of course, Hu Zizhao could not push the 10,000-jin cannon to the outer wall, this level of artillery can only be transported by water, either by landing on the bank by the Yangtze River, and then pushed to the nearest outer wall gate to bombard, or it can only be from Dangtu to the Guxi River into Shijiu Lake, then take the Rouge River into the Qinhuai River, and finally take the Moling Pass to the outer wall, and even after the outer wall is blasted, you can continue to transport water to the inner city to prepare to bombard the inner city wall.

Therefore, Hu Zizhao's soldiers who went north from Dangtu were divided into two routes, all the way to attack Moling Pass, all the way to Lishui, and even had to solve the spontaneous attacks of the people along the way.

There are too many people.

At least according to the standards of those great Confucians in the Jianwen Dynasty, the current Yingtianfu is regarded as a place full of people.

Even Lishui, a place that can be said to be Jianwen, is also a place of Longxing, after all, as a peripheral county of the capital, most of the young and middle-aged farmers in Lishui go to the capital to work in their spare time, and the new education that has also been promoted from the capital has also been popularized.

When Tu successfully occupied it only because of the huge difference in strength, when Tu local people knew the consequences of resistance, and when Tu was not a fortress, the downstream Sanshan Fort was.

There is no need to resist.

Let them hit the Three Hills Fort.

But when Governor Hu began to attack the capital now, when the people of Tu, Lishui, and even Gaochun, Wuhu and other places began to act, they who were familiar with the situation around Shijiu Lake could directly drive small boats to continuously attack Governor Hu's logistics and transportation. The logistics of the latter was solved by the local gentry who welcomed the king upstream, and the latter pieced together loyalty in various places, which was nothing more than some clan youth, plus the scoundrels and then followed with civilian boats carrying supplies, and entered Shijiu Lake eastward in Dangtu. In this case, Governor Hu also divided part of the line to protect it, especially at several key points, such as the recent attack on the Tiansheng Bridge by his convoy by the Diao people and the burning of several transport ships.

In fact, although his army was less than 70,000, with the so-called loyalty, there were 150,000 who really participated in the attack on the capital......

The gentry in Jiangxi, and even Huguang, including Anqing, especially those who cultivated and read heirlooms, are now joining the ranks of loyalty and righteousness like carnivals.

There is no way back for them.

If Hu Zizhao loses this time, then they will wait for Yang Feng to come back, and then take them out one by one and bleed.

He can't lose.

It can be said that he is the last hope of the landlords.

In this case, the landlords must give it their all.

It can be said that what Yang Feng wants is being realized, and the hidden anti-Yang forces in various places are being agitated because of Hu Zizhao's ability to say that he is like a bamboo, and he who originally didn't have the guts to have the guts, and he also felt that it was time to bet on both ends of the first rat, after all, at least from the perspective of Hu Zizhao's marching process, this is completely devastating, even if the historical example is applied, this is also Wang Junlou's ship under Yizhou, and the king of Jinling is gloomy.

Just waiting for Yang Feng's Qianxun iron lock to sink to the bottom of the river.

Or the iron rope across the river?

Since ancient times, no one has won the iron rope across the river.

Even not only the landlords, but also some of the hereditary officers of the guard began to join, after all, Yang Feng was stricter than Zhu Yuanzhang in restricting the power of the guards officers.

It's still a short time, and many of them haven't had time to react, after all, Hu Zizhao is marching too fast.

Next, if the capital is still under siege, even if it can't be opened all the time, it will still allow more hidden anti-Yang forces to jump out and join, it's normal to not be able to open the capital in a short time, everyone knows that the defense level of the capital is not open in a short time, but that's only because the invested strength is not enough, since this is the case, they will all go to help, 100,000 people can't open the capital, 200,000, 300,000, 500,000?

Not enough cannons?

Those old families who cultivate and read heirlooms, who can't make a few cannons with copper coins buried in the ground?

Not enough soldiers?

Who doesn't have hundreds of clans young and strong?

If you want soldiers and soldiers, you want artillery and artillery, and if you lose anyway, you will be divided by him.

Of course, he didn't dare to fight hard when there was no hope, but now that the capital was surrounded, Jianwen's army had reached the capital.

Don't dare?

Even not only the gentry, including those generals who hold military power, will also show their true colors in the process, and those who dare to oppose Yang will of course join the Jianwen Dynasty, even if they dare not vote for the Jianwen Dynasty, they can delay the rescue to the capital, and then sit back and watch Jianwen's army break through the capital. Including those who are ambitious, they can also delay like this and wait for the Jianwen army to break through the capital, a capital is indeed not a good thing for the country, but it is very beautiful for the feudal town.

Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was captured again and again, and all the feudal towns were happy.

Similarly, if the capital of the Ming Dynasty is captured, how many vassal kings are there in various places, and the general soldiers are happy?

Of course, these have nothing to do with Commander Mei and his soldiers, they are just placed here to guard because the Beijing camp is not strong enough, and the current guards in the capital are more like reserves in a sense, because the Beijing camp is composed of elites drawn from the guards in the capital. Because of the limited resources, the remaining military households gradually began to become militias, and they were no longer even required to maintain daily training, and a guard kept about 1,000 people in the camp every day, and did whatever else should be done.

So now Cangbomen is the commander of Mei with a thousand soldiers.

As for the fact that he is the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, his mother is the eldest daughter of Lao Zhu, Princess Ningguo, and his father Mei Yin, although he is a nobleman, he is not good at military affairs.

At present, Fengyang is left behind.

But his mother's identity is respected after all, although she is actually the second daughter, but her sister Princess Lin'an is a concubine, so she is actually the head of the princess, even if the little princess sees it, she has to be honest and polite, so that the commander of Xiaolingwei is the only one.

"Commander, Cao Guogong is here!"

Commander Mei said to Qianhu beside him.

Mei Shunchang hurriedly looked along the city wall, and saw that under the kerosene light, Cao Guocheng came on horseback with dozens of family members, and the soldiers on the city wall saluted one after another.

He hurried forward.

"Is there anything unusual about this Cangbo Gate?"

Li Jinglong said.

"This place faces the mountains, and the river outside the gate, I wonder if the thief army should come here."

Mei Shunchang said with a smile.

Strictly speaking, the two of them are also relatives, and his mother and Li Jinglong's father are cousins.

"You still have to be careful, don't disturb Xiaoling."

Li Jinglong said.

Saying that, he also turned to Xiaoling and arched his hand, but at this time, at the kerosene lights representing Chaoyangmen, the fire red suddenly exploded, and in the fire red, you can even see what was blown away, and then the fire red went out, and the original kerosene lights also disappeared, and in the original rows of kerosene lights on the city wall, an incongruous gap immediately appeared......

Li Jinglong and Mei Shunchang looked at each other.

Almost at the same time, in the darkness outside the city, flames erupted.

Many of the soldiers who were caught off guard immediately fell......

"Enemy attack!"

Li Jinglong's family next to him shouted.

At this time, the explosion from Chaoyangmen began to shake their eardrums.

Of course, they didn't care about it anymore, because countless enemies outside the city had already rushed into the light of the kerosene lamps, and because the Cangbo Gate was facing the mountains, there were not many inhabitants to the east, only a few stone-mining stonemasons, and these had already withdrawn to the city, and it was clear that these enemies had long been hidden in advance. However, this does not mean that they can quickly raid, because there is water outside the Cangbo Gate, otherwise how to call Cangbo, this is the point where the grain river enters the city, plus the river water from the mountains flows in, it is basically a small lake.

The enemies who suddenly poured out of the black, all with long knives shirtless, rushed like a swarm of moths to the light of the kerosene lamps and the waters of the river of grain.

The Xiaoling guards who reacted on the city wall immediately opened fire.

There were no heavy artillery, but there were plenty of old rapid-fire guns, and the soldiers, protected by the women's wall, protruded the muzzles of the rapid-fire guns from one hole to the other and bombarded the enemy who rushed into the river.

The latter immediately fell in pieces.

But that didn't stop them, these seemingly countless fellows, suicidally facing the rapid-fire cannon's shotguns, even though there were corpses all over the field, but they stepped on the dead bodies of their companions, still fearlessly rushed to the guns that spewed flames, and in the stormy shotgun bombardment, one by one turned into the same dead corpses.

But this is not a Maxim machine gun after all, it can't stop this death charge, especially since these guys are shirtless and can run at full speed without any weight.

Soon there were people rushing across the grain river and throwing ropes upwards, but grenades were thrown down from the city walls, and the men kept falling in the flames of the explosion.

And in the darkness behind them, the covering Divine Machine Gun was still firing.

However, it is only to interfere with the defenders, after all, the latter is behind the female wall, and the outer wall is indeed rammed earth, but the female wall is made of green bricks, and bullets cannot penetrate it.

"These madmen!"

Li Jinglong, who was on the city wall, listened to the shout outside that was obviously not in the language of the Ming Dynasty, and couldn't help but say with emotion.

"Ma's, it's Satar, the former high-ranking official of the Jinyi Guard, who escaped because of the assassination of Yang Feng, and now these dogs and things have all run south."

Mei Shunchang, who was lying on the perforation of the women's wall, looked at an enemy general who was charging bravely and said.

The latter, also shirtless, with both hands chopping swords, had already rushed into the river of grain transport.

"Commander, reinforcements have arrived!"

An officer shouted.

At this time, relying on the fear of death, the enemy army outside has begun to climb the city wall.

But then the defenders began to throw Molotov cocktails downward, which is now a standard preparation, and in order to facilitate breaking, even concrete is specially laid under the city wall, but mainly to protect the roots of the rammed earth city wall from being blistered, but by the way, the defenders also drop Molotov cocktails. Glass bottles and even porcelain bottles with incendiary cloth strips smashed on the concrete below, and then turned into explosive flames, and the enemy troops below were instantly ignited by the raging flames.

Even those who were already climbing the city walls, after all, the flames were so high that some of the brave soldiers even leaned out and fell on the walls.

There are even worse ones who are holding bottles and pouring oil down.

There is fire everywhere below, and as long as you get a little oil on your body, you will be ignited by the tongue of fire.

The bare-chested enemies threw themselves in terror in the flames, and then screamed in the burn.

"So fast?"

Mei Shunchang was stunned for a moment.

Then he looked back at a group of well-dressed people behind him, all with cold weapons in their hands, especially crossbows, which looked more like armed civilians nearby.

But......

"Which guard?"

Li Jinglong's family member shouted.

"General, the small one is from Lishui to transport grain, and the boat is on the river behind, just come over to help."

The leader pointed to some of the ships behind him.

Although the levy was cancelled, because of the close distance, especially the smooth waterway, the grain chief organized the young and strong to be transported to the capital within the scope of Tianfu, but after the transportation was subsidized according to the amount of transportation, and then basically took the money and brought it back from shopping in the city, so the people were still very willing. As for the transportation outside of Yingtianfu, it has been completely commercialized, the transporter bills in the warehouse, transports it to the capital to receive the freight, and pays for the less on the road, but the freight is still very reasonable, especially this kind of transportation does not have to pay taxes in all tax cards, and there is the right of priority.

Therefore, the merchants liked it very much, after all, they could more or less carry some private goods.

Similarly, the merchants were responsible for the military rations to the north and other mountainous areas, but there were also time limits, and if they were not transported within the specified period, they would be beheaded.

It is true that they can earn money at will, and they also acquiesce in carrying private goods, but they also have to bear the responsibility.

Missed the deadline to kill the head and raid the house.

Therefore, if there is a possibility of delay, the merchant will ensure that the military rations are delivered even if they purchase locally at a high price.

"You are faithful."

Jia Ding said.

Li Jinglong was stunned for a moment, and the family Ding quietly made a gesture.

At this moment the men reached the road and hurried along the road, but about halfway through them, the family suddenly shot at the kerosene lamp post on the city platform......

On top of these lampposts is a fifty-pound oil drum, and above the oil drum is the wick and glass cover, and the lamppost is fixed on the outside of the city platform, including the outer side of the city wall.

Drain the oil directly downwards if necessary.

Of course, the effect of being hit by him was the same, in the oil drum that was pierced by the bullet, kerosene poured directly downward, and then fell on the horse road in the stunned eyes of those people, and then flowed down the blue brick horse road, and the leader looked at the family in shock. The latter smiled coldly, then took the torch from his companion and threw it at his feet, and the next moment it turned into a sea of fire, and the leader looked at him with resentment in the flames.

Then he rushed up like crazy with a full body of fire.

But he didn't run a few steps, because of the burning fire, he finally couldn't help it, and fell on the road with a scream.

And the ones behind jumped out of the road with a full body of fire.

But the kerosene above his head was still falling, and it was even blown away by the wind and poured into raindrops, and then before it fell, it was ignited by the rising flames and turned into a rain of fire......

"Those boats are actually ours."

Jia Ding turned his head and said to Li Jinglong.

(End of chapter)