The siege of the city was fierce first, and I am afraid that it will not be much better here.

The only difference is that the two come in reverse.

The attacker became a soldier of the Western Regions, and the defender was a soldier of the Ming Dynasty.

There were corpses everywhere outside the city walls, and the strong smell of corpses made people go up, and the people in the city, whether they were going out or at home, were dead with their mouths and noses, for fear of smelling these disgusting smells and preventing the spread of epidemics.

Zhu Zhangui was wearing a thick mask on his face, looking at the pile of corpses outside the city wall that had been exposed because of the decay, and there was no sadness between his eyebrows.

The city has been defended for more than three months, and the enemy has been attacking for more than three months.

Although it was a failure every time, the enemy never gave up.

Even as the Ming army pressed forward step by step, the rhythm of the offensive was getting stronger and stronger.

Of the 2,000 old brothers he brought, only more than 1,300 can still fight.

More than 600 people withdrew from the front line due to wounded or killed.

Fortunately, the brothers' fighting spirit is still there, as long as he, Zhu Zhangui, stands on the city wall for a day, the brothers will continue to fight side by side with him.

The people in the city, with his secret support, can still hold on to food and medicine, and the only thing the people in the Western Regions are worried about is that this rancid smell will cause epidemics to infect the whole city.

In ancient times, the plague was more ruthless than the slaughter of a city, and it was not the people of one city or two cities who died.

For example, the outbreak of the Black Death in the West took more than 75 million lives in the West over the course of a hundred years.

For this, Zhu Zhangui had to sigh that Zheng He was lucky.

You must know that the first round of the Black Death broke out, but in the empire on which the sun never sets, the time is only around these decades, and it has been intermittent for nearly 300 years.

If Zheng He had bad luck at that time and encountered the Black Death, and then brought back to the East, the Ming Dynasty would probably also suffer a catastrophe.

It was precisely because he did not know when the Black Death would break out on a large scale in the West, and the Ming Dynasty did not have the means to curb this, that Zhu Zhangui decided to give up the West for the time being.

"Your Highness, negotiations have been made with the other side, and they will send someone to collect the body tomorrow morning."

When Zhu Zhangui looked at the corpses everywhere outside the city, Hu Yu, who also covered his mouth and nose tightly, led a few people to climb up the rope ladder from under the city wall.

In the past two days, there have been people in the city who have been unwell, and Zhu Zhangui is worried that there will be an outbreak of epidemics, so he temporarily isolates those who are not well.

Then he sent Hu Yu to the opposite side, hoping to negotiate a temporary truce with the other side and collect the corpses of the personnel on both sides.

In Zhu Zhangui's mind, it is not easy on his side, and it is estimated that it is not much better on the other side.

The result was as expected.

Crooked Si didn't even think about it, so he directly agreed.

Crookedly, these people do not have the awareness of epidemic prevention, coupled with the large number of people who have trouble washing, many people have not washed for a long time.

This is a squalid environment, a favorite place for the plague, and in the last month, someone in the camp has fallen ill.

In order to prevent panic caused by this, Crooked Si concealed the news and secretly sent someone to dispose of those who were sick.

But as more and more people fell ill, it seemed that this matter could not be hidden, and the crooked thoughts became a little worried.

Once the epidemic broke out in the camp, the Western Regions Legion, which was originally unfavorable for several months of siege and some of its morale was unstable, would definitely collapse in an instant.

He is not reconciled to withdraw his troops, and if he does not withdraw, he is at risk of perishing at any time.

Just when he was in a dilemma, Zhu Zhangui took the lead in sending someone to find him.

Crooked thinking may be a little anxious, or it may be for the sake of his own life, so he didn't put on a show, and directly agreed to Zhu Zhangui's proposal.

"Be careful tomorrow, these people from the Western Regions are unreliable, and you must be prepared for their sudden attack at any time!"

For this guy who thinks crookedly, Zhu Zhangui doesn't believe it from his heart.

In the past three months, in order to take down the city of Fear, this guy has tried his best.

Let the soldiers scold their mother, provoking Zhu Zhangui to go out of the city to fight.

Secretly digging tunnels, or multiple night raids, and capturing people from outside the city to threaten them, it can be said that all the shady tricks have been used.

Although the guy on the other side promised to come over tomorrow to collect the body, Zhu Zhangui always felt that this guy was going to play some tricks tomorrow.

Zhu Zhangui guessed correctly.

Crookedly, this guy is planning to play tricks.

"After the corpses are collected tomorrow, take firewood and burn it at the downwind outlet, remember that the smoke and dust must drift to the other side of the city!"

Crooked Si covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and his eyes were cruel to explain that he would go to collect the corpse tomorrow.

He couldn't wait any longer.

News came from Kuxian this morning that the reinforcements of the Ming army had arrived, and the other party directly left most of the defenders who were watching Kuxian, and the Shenji Battalion, which was attacking very strongly, had already detoured and rushed towards him.

Depending on the speed of the opponent's march, it is expected to arrive in a few days.

I didn't have much time to think about it, and I decided to make a last stand.

won the battle to defend the city, and then cooperated with the defenders of Kuxian to flank the Ming army left and right.

If he loses, then he can only retreat to the high mountain region in the south, and the northern region will have no place for him to live in the future.

Waiting for his generals to leave, he looked at a man wearing a cloak with dry hands and feet: "Your medicine really works!" ”

"Truly..."

A villain's laugh rang out, and the cloaked man said in a hoarse voice.

"Whether it's useful or not, you'll know tomorrow, once it's done, don't forget what you promised me!"

Crooked thought looked at the man for a while, and then nodded vigorously.

"Don't worry, as long as I take the position of Khan, I will do my best to help you refine medicine!"

At night, the two sides besieging and defending the city entered a peaceful rest for the first time.

In the rest room on the upper floor of the city, Zhu Zhangui reclined on the brocade couch, breathing smoothly and falling asleep.

Next to him, Tag Elis stretched out his slender green jade fingers and gently pressed his forehead to relieve the fatigue of the day.

The house was filled with all kinds of flowers, as well as sachets filled with spices.

These things are to dispel the disgusting rancid smell so that Zhu Zhangui can have a stable resting environment.

There were not just two people in this room, but a large group of people sitting or half-lying in the corners of the walls on the floor.

They needed to be on duty in the second half of the night, so in order to let these soldiers have enough mental vigilance, Zhu Zhangui let these soldiers enter this only room without a foul smell to rest.

"Squeak..."

The closed door was slowly pushed open, and Zhu Zhangui and the soldiers, who were sleeping soundly, opened their eyes gently.

After seeing that it was Hu Yu, the soldiers closed their eyes again and continued to rest.

Zhu Zhangui waved his hand at Hu Yu, who was about to open his mouth, put on a thick mask, and walked out of the fragrant room.

"What's so urgent!"

Zhu Zhangui understood that if it wasn't for something urgent, Hu Yu would definitely not disturb his rest.

Hu Yu's eyes were excited, he took out a walkie-talkie that was dialed up, and said to Zhu Zhangui: "Your Highness, Commander Jiang has brought people here!" ”

Hearing the news, there was still some tired Zhu Zhangui between his eyebrows, and he suddenly came to his senses, took the walkie-talkie and shouted:

"Jianghuai, where have you been?"

Soon came from the other side, and Jiang Huai's voice was also a little tired.

"Your Highness, the specific location is not very clear, we are now resting in a nameless small village, and it is expected that there will be about fifty miles to you."

"Good!"

Zhu Zhangui couldn't help but shout, it's really good.

After persevering for two or three months, the hard days finally came to an end.

"How much combat power do the brothers still have?"

Although he was happy in his heart, the Shenji Battalion had been fighting for so long and was in a hurry, and Zhu Zhangui was worried that the soldiers were too tired and could not exert their combat strength.

"Your Highness, don't worry about this, although the brothers are a little tired, they can still endure this bit of suffering. I have already made the decision for you and told the brothers, after this battle is over, you invite the brothers to have a good meal, the brothers are very excited, and they all say that they will kill you! ”

"Hahaha... Good! ”

Zhu Zhangui smiled indifferently, and said boldly: "Tell the brothers, Lao Tzu is not afraid of slaughter, let alone a meal, Lao Tzu will cover them for three days." ”

"Haha, the subordinate brothers, thank you, Your Highness."

made a promise to the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and Zhu Zhangui quickly explained the battle plan in his heart to Jianghuai.

Jiang Huai and the generals around him also listened carefully and added their thoughts from time to time.

Soon a simple battle plan was completed, and the two sides agreed on the time of the attack, and Zhu Zhangui asked Jiang Huai and the others to rest first.

After all, Jiang Huai and the others will have to run for dozens of miles tomorrow, and it will be a while to rest for a while.

That is, now the outside of the city has been surrounded by this guy Crooked Si, otherwise Zhu Zhangui would definitely rush over overnight and buy some Arab donkeys for his brothers to use as foot force.

In the early morning of the second day, the Ming army, under the leadership of Zhu Zhangui, lined up on the city wall, watching the soldiers of the Western Regions who were pulling carriages in the distance and wearing plain clothes slowly approaching.

Crooked Si also led the army to line up on both sides of the camp, the atmosphere of the whole army was solemn, and his face was also wrapped with soldiers from the Eastern and Western Regions like the Ming army, and his expression was blank and numb looking into the distance.

They don't know, what is the point of their fighting?

Rescue the Khan, but why are the people in the city still helping the Ming army, some time ago the Khan personally stood on the city wall to persuade him to surrender.

At that time, the commander Crooked Si told them that their khan had been coerced into standing up by the Ming army.

But they looked at the Khan's relaxed expression from a distance, and the way he talked and laughed with the Ming generals next to him, forgiving them for their clumsiness, they really didn't see where there was coercion.

After three months of fighting, their troops of more than 90,000 people are now only more than 60,000 remaining.

More than 10,000 people were killed in the city in that night's attack alone.

In the months that followed, many of their attacks were repulsed by the Ming army, and without any success, more familiar faces fell under the walls.

In the hot summer, the corpses that were too late to be collected slowly rotted and maggots stinked.

The foul smell spread for dozens of miles, making people who smelled it sick again and again.

Even in the barracks, there is a faint rumor during this time, because the putrid smell of corpses has caused a plague, and many infected people have been secretly executed.

Whether this rumor is true or not, they don't know, but they know that some of the sick people around them have not been heard from since they were taken away by the military medical officer.

Maybe he was really executed.

Thinking of those poor people, buried alive and slaughtered without the power to resist, the hearts of the living soldiers of the Western Regions were even more desolate.

As more and more people got sick during this time, the mood of the soldiers became more and more unstable.

Some tried to escape in the night, but were discovered by the Warlords and then caught and brutally executed.

The above uneasy appeasement, but the method of torture and persecution, made the soldiers who were already emotionally unstable even more depressed.

The ambition of the first arrival, and the lure of money from beautiful women, no longer worked for them.

All they want is to live and come home alive.

Thankfully, last night the generals gave the final battle order.

It said that they had discovered the loopholes of the Ming army, and they could take this royal capital with one attack today.

The above people promised to take the royal capital without sealing the sword for three days, and after the war was over, they would give them a reward and beautiful women to let them go home.

The beautiful soldiers who don't seal the knife and reward money don't care anymore, but the temptation to go home is very great for them.

Although they don't know what the loopholes of the Ming army are, since the people above said it, there must be a way to break through the defenses of the Ming army.

One by one, the corpses were picked up with forks and hooks and thrown into the carriage.

Due to the decay, many corpses were picked up, and the carrion and foul-smelling internal organs on their bodies flowed out in a hurry.

In the disgusting pile of carrion, dense white maggots kept burrowing in and out, and the scalps of those who watched were numb and goosebumps all over their bodies.

"Gross!"

Vomiting and retching continued to sound below. This caused the Ming soldiers on the city wall to surge in their throats.

As the corpses were transported away, a huge pyre in the distance also rose thick black smoke.

Corpses were left behind, and in addition to the foul smell, the smell of roasted meat slowly wafted into the air.

Zhu Zhangui held his breath, forcibly suppressed the discomfort in his body, held the binoculars, and looked at the smoke slowly drifting over with his eyes slightly narrowed, as well as the fires burning one after another around him.

"Your Highness!"

Hu Yu, who was standing beside him, sniffed and frowned.

"There's something mixed in here!"

Zhu Zhangui was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed.

"Damn, even biological weapons have been used."

After Hu Yu's reminder, Zhu Zhangui finally noticed that something was wrong.

On the opposite side, it is planned to use the upwind vent to add a little something to the middle while burning the corpse.

This place in the Western Regions is very mysterious, and there are a lot of inexplicable poisons.

Knowing the crooked thoughts, Zhu Zhangui hurriedly said to Hu Yu.

"Let the brothers first plug their mouths and noses with wet handkerchiefs, and also notify the people in the city to do a good job of anti-poison."

After speaking, without waiting for Hu Yu to answer, Zhu Zhangui rushed into the city tower where he was resting.

Quickly closing the door, Zhu Zhangui's figure flashed and disappeared into the room.

When it reappeared, it was already in the supermarket.

The reason why he came to the supermarket was not to hide from the poison gas, but to buy a civilian gas mask that he had extracted last year and exploded.

He didn't pay much attention to this thing when he pulled it out.

After all, in ancient times when there were no biological weapons, gas masks didn't seem to be very useful, and when he went to the plague area, he just had the masks he had drawn before, and the gas masks were really of little use to him, so he didn't buy them at the time.

But he didn't expect that what he might not need in his life would be used so quickly.

Rushing to the daily necessities area, Zhu Zhangui grabbed the gas mask and quickly entered the amount purchased.

A few minutes later, the closed attic door was opened, and Zhu Zhangui, wearing a gas mask, shouted at Hu Yu, who was anxiously waiting at the door.

"Send the mask down, that's how you put it..."

Zhu Zhangui quickly demonstrated the wearing method, Hu Yu nodded, took a leader, and then notified the brothers in the escort battalion to quickly hold boxes of masks and distribute them.

The first to be provided were the soldiers who guarded the city walls, and then the civilians who helped transport the wounded under the city.

By the time it was sent to the people, many people were already lying on the ground, their bodies convulsing and foaming at the mouth.

Zhu Zhangui really didn't know anything about poison, so he could only distribute gas masks and notify the imperial doctor in the palace to diagnose them.

At the time of arrangement, Zhu Zhangui also ordered the soldiers not to shoot before the enemy attacked, and everyone was to hide under the wall battlements and not show their heads.

Time passed slowly, and in the afternoon, as the wind direction changed, the city of Fear, which was shrouded in black smoke, slowly revealed its face.

The city was silent, and no movement could be heard.

I'm afraid that Racheng is unlucky.

People can wear gas masks, but the poultry and animals can't hide from them, and after a morning of fumigation, almost everyone in the city is dead except for people.

Looking at the deathly quiet city, Crooked Thoughts laughed wildly.

"Attack!"

"Woooooo

As the horn of the attack sounded, the Western Regions Legion did not come to surround the three missing one, and directly launched an attack from all sides.

Zhu Zhangui, who was hiding behind the women's wall and wearing a gas mask, looked coldly at the Western Regions Legion that was screaming and rushing up through the lens, and slowly raised the walkie-talkie.

"I order, attack!"

A few miles away from the Western Regions Legion, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are hidden here.

Jiang Huai, who was standing at the front of the army, looked at the situation in the distance with a telescope.

When they arrived at noon, he was afraid that the city had been shrouded in poisonous smoke, and he was worried at first, but he was relieved after confirming that Zhu Zhangui and the others were safe.

Originally, he wanted to attack immediately according to the plan, but was stopped by Zhu Zhangui.

The enemy hasn't moved yet, and the entire defensive formation is still very tight, and the Shenji Battalion is attacking at this time, although it can achieve victory, it will definitely have some damage.

The God of War Aircraft Battalion in the Western Regions has already suffered a lot of losses, so let's kill fewer people if we can kill fewer people.

In this way, the Shenji Battalion waited silently in the distance, recovering its strength, quietly waiting for the order to attack.

In the afternoon, the enemy launched an attack, and Jiang Huai and the generals around him silently pulled out their pistols.

"Brothers, the whole battalion, including me, many brothers have made meritorious contributions with their crimes."

"I wanted to take everyone to break a few cities and be ashamed, but unfortunately we didn't succeed, but we had to ask the King of Han to come over to help us, so that we could have a chance to come over."

"Today is our last chance, take down the enemy army, capture the enemy alive, and be ashamed!"

"I order, the offensive begins!"

As soon as Jiang Huai's voice fell, the walkie-talkie on his shoulder sounded Zhu Zhangui's order.

Hu Yu took a deep breath, raised the gun in his hand and snorted.

"Follow me!"

In an instant, tens of thousands of legions moved quickly, hiding their bodies while approaching the enemy legions.

What they want is a surprise attack, and when the enemy discovers them a little later, the enemy will be less prepared.

Afraid that under the four city walls, tens of thousands of soldiers in the Western Regions did not even prepare siege weapons, and rushed up with ladders.

At first, they were still a little vigilant, but after they set up the ladder, they saw that there was still no movement on the city wall, and their morale boiled instantly.

The enemy was really all dead, as the commander said.

Although I was excited, I had a trace of regret in my heart.

The enemies are all dead, and it is estimated that the beautiful women and people in the city are still alive or not.

Now that so much time has passed, and by the time they enter the city, it is estimated that it will be cold, and it is impossible to relax while it is hot.

Although I regret it in my heart, I think of those ownerless treasures in the city, and my eyes are gradually replaced by greed.

As long as there is money and treasure, what kind of woman can't get it.

That's what people are.

When there is no hope, no temptation can arouse greed in the heart.

But at the slightest possibility, greed will immediately take over their sanity and become their driving force.

Even some soldiers from the Western Regions rushed under the ladder in order to enter the city in advance, regardless of the commander's vigilant shouting, scrambling and scolding to climb up.

Zhu Zhangui, who was squatting on the city wall and observing this below, looked at the soldiers of the Western Regions who were densely packed below, like canned sardines, and gave the order to counterattack with a sneer.

"Tick-tock..."

The battle horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Ming army, who had long been hidden behind the women's wall, stood up with murderous faces.

Then, under the bewildered expression of the soldiers in the Western Regions, he raised the rifle, stones, rolling wood, and explosives bag in his hand, and threw them down.

"What!"

He was sitting in the rear commanding the army, thinking about how to make his subordinates embrace the crooked thoughts of being a khan after entering the city later.

Seeing that on the empty city wall, a dense crowd of people suddenly appeared, and they stood up from their seats in shock.

But before he could recover from his astonishment, he remembered the shouts of horror behind him.

"The enemy... There are a lot of enemy troops behind! ”

Suspiciously, he looked at his subordinates who were being slaughtered under the city wall, and then looked back at the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were charging quickly in the distance, and the cannonballs that made a whistling sound in the air, and suddenly slumped on the chair.

"It's over... It's all over..."

The battle ended sooner than expected.

The soldiers of the Western Regions, who had no morale at all, fell to the bottom in an instant after being blocked.

When he learned that the enemy's reinforcements were coming from behind, the heartstrings that had been tense for a long time broke all at once, and the entire army collapsed in an instant.

Those nobles had long lost hope in this war, and when they found that the city walls were blocked and the enemy reinforcements had arrived, they didn't even bother thinking about it, and ran away with their people.

The tree fell and the sun scattered.

The legion, which had barely been able to unite together, collapsed in an instant.

Jiang Huai wanted to stop the nobles of the Western Regions who fled, but there were too few people under him, so he could only stop one side, and the remaining three sides could only watch them run away.

But as the saying goes, a monk can't run the temple if he runs away.

These guys, unless they give up their territory directly, will still fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Crooked thought also wanted to run, but Jianghuai's main target was him.

Other nobles have run away, and they can slowly settle accounts in the future, and this leading guy must not run.

"Crunch..."

The gates of the city, which had been closed for more than three months, were opened, and Zhu Zhangui walked out of it with the soldiers behind him.

More than 1,000 old brothers who survived the catastrophe on the battlefield, looking at the brothers of the Shenji Battalion who came up, rushed forward excitedly to hug them, and cheered loudly to celebrate.

It's over, it's all over.

"Your Highness!"

Jiang Huai threw aside the crooked thoughts in his hand for the soldiers to watch, and greeted him with a quick smile.

Zhu Zhangui also haha, hugged him, and reached out to pat Jiang Huai's shoulder, "Good boy, well done, our accounts have been written off." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pulled out the knife on Hu Yu's waist, the tip of the knife scratched the ground, and slowly walked towards crooked thoughts.

The surrounding generals all smiled easily when they heard Zhu Zhangui's words that the accounts were written off.

Then followed Zhu Zhangui and slowly walked towards the crooked thoughts that were pressed by the soldiers.

"His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun spares his life, His Royal Highness spares his life!"

"Please don't kill me, I worship Da Ming very much, I... I have invited your messengers to dinner. ”

Crooked Si, who was pressed to the ground by the soldiers, watched Zhu Zhangui come over with a steel knife with a cold face, his body trembling like chaff, and he begged for mercy loudly in the non-standard Daming official language.

Zhu Zhangui ignored him, strode up, kicked him to the ground, and slashed indiscriminately with a knife.

A scream, accompanied by the blood rushing, the soldiers who hugged each other and cheered, under the stimulation of blood, shouted with excitement.

Those old brothers who defended the city roared even more angrily, hacking this bastard to death to avenge so-and-so.

I don't know how many knives I chopped, until the other party couldn't see the human appearance, Zhu Zhangui threw away the knife in his hand and said loudly to Jiang Huai and other generals.

"Inform the whole army to clean up the battlefield, rest for three days before going to other battles, send someone to take the head and handsome flag of this bastard, and tell the defenders of Kuxian that they will die if they think crookedly, and those who surrender will be exempted, otherwise there will be no mercy!"