Zhu Gaoxu looked at it for a while, feeling that it was still too far, and moving forward, He Ruhu and Zhou Hu had no choice but to follow.

This time, he came directly to about one hundred and twenty steps, and Zhu Zhi on the opposite side could already determine that among the three people, there was Zhu Gaoxu.

"There's Zhu Gaoxu, there's Zhu Gaoxu, hahaha." Zhu Zhi danced at the head of the city: "Beat him, beat him." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was observing the defense of the city, and from now on, there were one or two people between the battlements of Jingzhou.

On average, there is about one person every two meters, and of course, he can't see how many people are inside.

The outer city wall of Jingzhou City is more than 10,000 meters, and it takes 10,000 people to stand two meters to stand alone.

Considering the strength of Jingzhou and the terrain, there may be fewer people on the south side and more people on this side.

What I saw now was almost coming and going, and Zhu Zhi didn't have much reserves.

Zhu Gaoxu assessed that Zhu Zhi had more than 10,000 people, and Zhu Zhi actually had 20,000, but standing around the city wall basically ran out.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu did not have many soldiers and horses, only 60,000 people, and it was impossible to attack along the siege of Jingzhou City, which would be useless.

It will definitely focus on a few places to attack.

There are a lot of guns on the wall, mainly concentrated in the city gate, only now look at the past, in addition to the two cannons on the west gate, there are more than a dozen guns.

In addition to looking at firearms, Zhu Gaoxu mainly looked at the city gate and moat.

In ancient times, not every city had a moat, but Jingzhou City is on the edge of the Yangtze River, there is a moat to connect the Yangtze River, this is a more difficult city to fight, the west gate of Jingzhou is about four meters wide, the moat is more than eight meters, the water depth is unknown, about four or five meters.

In ancient times, many cities with moats were directly filled in with soil, and there were also ditches to release water, but Jingzhou could not do this, it was too difficult to fill, he connected canals, long lakes and other major rivers, too little to fill in will be washed away, as for draining the water is even more impossible.

Moreover, the filling of the river hurt the people, and the artillery and bows and arrows at the head of the city came down, and a large number of people were killed and wounded.

Zhu Gaoxu watched the Northern Army fight Zhending and Jinan in Jingjing, and the siege was quite tragic, with countless casualties, and he wanted to escape at that time, not wanting to attack the city.

"Almost, I know how to siege a city." After Zhu Gaoxu finished reading, he was ready to turn around and leave.

"Boom" Suddenly, there was a cannon shot from a landslide.

The Hongwu cannon was not of good quality, and the sound was quite loud, louder than their artillery.

"Whoosh" a cannonball whizzed.

"The king beware." He Ruhu and Zhou Hu hurriedly squeezed in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

"Grass" Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect Zhu Zhi to dare to shoot, it seems that he is determined to kill himself.

He said sharply: "What are you panicking, didn't you see where the trajectory of the shell is?" ”

Zhou Hu and He Ruhu understand the trajectory.

The two turned around blankly, and Zhu Gaoxu stood still with a calm expression.

The two hurriedly turned their heads to look again.

Whoosh, I saw that the cannonball was far above their heads, flew directly behind them more than a hundred paces, plopped, and fell to the ground.

"Ni Niang, what are you fighting?" Zhu Zhi at the head of the city scolded, this cannon is 108,000 miles away, no wonder Zhu Gaoxu looks as steady as Mount Tai.

"Tiger." Suddenly, in the distance, someone from the rebel army screamed loudly.

Then it was like a tsunami in the mountains.

"Tiger."

"Tiger"

"Tiger"

Tens of thousands of troops shouted in unison, praising Zhu Gaoxu.

King Han took the lead, under the artillery, regrettably did not move, and many of the front row sergeants were moved and admired.

This has taken a big toll on the morale of the city.

The Hongwu cannon was originally slow, but fortunately there were two cannons at the head of the city.

Zhu Gaoxu was about to leave, but when he found that there was smoke on the second cannon, he knew that Zhu Zhi, the bastard, had fought again.

"I've hit again, I'll wait." Zhu Gaoxu smiled, still standing in place.

Don't look at him on the surface calm and relaxed, in fact, he is also panicked.

If you're unlucky, you'll be unlucky if you get hit.

But think about it the other way, the hit rate of this Hongwu cannon is so poor, Lao Tzu is going to be hit, that is Lao Tzu deserves to be unlucky.

Not for a while.

"Boom" The second door rang again.

Whoosh, this time it seems to be a little close, and the distance error is not big, but it's still remote.

Zhu Gaoxu's heads looked to the left almost at the same time.

Plopped, the shell fell about twenty steps to their left, and the landing point was still dozens of steps away.

"Haha." Zhou Hu and He Ruhu laughed in unison, what the king said was right, this cannon is really useless.

It is only in an army of more than 100,000 that it can play a role.

Of course, this is the opponent's first shot, and if the second shot is adjusted, it will still be more dangerous.

Of course Zhu Gaoxu would not do such a stupid thing, he pretended to be forced enough, and turned around at the moment: "Go, go back." ”

"Tiger." At the same time as Zhu Gaoxu and the three of them went back, the soldiers of the rebel army behind them were thunderous and excited.

When Zhu Gaoxu returned to the front of the formation, he didn't know who shouted first, and then the scene roared like thunder.

"Long live the King."

"Long live the King."

The sound of long live is endless, stretching for miles.

"The rebel is lawless." Zhu Zhi gritted his teeth at the head of the city, and was furious: "Look at this king to teach the rebel son a good lesson." ”

Zhu Gaoxu returned to the front of the formation and immediately ordered to be attached, except for the south gate, the 60,000 army could not go, and the other three directions were arranged, mainly involving Zhu Zhi's limited troops.

"According to the original plan, Zhao Gui, you will take 10,000 people and attack the city wall in the direction of the north gate."

"He Ruhu, you take 10,000 people to attack the city wall in the direction of the east gate."

"Zhou Hu, you take 10,000 cavalry to cruise to the east and north to prevent the defenders in the city from coming out."

Several generals led their troops one after another, each leaving with 10,000 soldiers and horses.

On the side of the West Gate, Zhu Gaoxu asked Yang Lei to take 5,000 elite cavalry to sweep the formation to prevent the defenders from coming out.

"Where's the ladder?" Zhu Gaoxu ran to the back of the formation and looked at the ladder.

The ladder for the siege was brought by Zhao Gui from the direction of Guizhou through the waterway, and it was built in Guizhou.

The ladder is about 10 meters long, just enough to climb the wall.

There are not many of them, only a hundred, it seems that Zhu Gaoxu is very sure.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered to tie the five ladders side by side, and then nail the wooden planks in the gaps above.

A simple bridge is built directly.

He had just seen the terrain, as long as he broke the city gate and erected the bridge, it was difficult for the cavalry to say, and the infantry would definitely be able to pass.

"The planks are thicker, and you have to bear the people."

"Tie the ladder tightly."

Then Zhu Gaoxu called a team of people and pointed to the simple wooden bridge.

"It's going to be difficult for you to use this bridge in a while, you can hear it clearly."

"When you go to the shore, first slowly lift it up from behind, the person in front of you should fix the position, and then push it from back to front, and after falling down, you can just stand on the river, if the distance is not enough, it will fall into the river, and then it will be over."

With an eight-meter-wide moat, it was difficult to put together the huge bridge plate of these five ladders.

Zhu Gaoxu specially gave them an experiment.

Draw a false river eight meters wide on the ground, then ask them to carry the plank forward, stop when they reach the first line, and lift the back one up, and fix the position in front of them.

The sergeants also used spears to make forks in front of the spears.

When the person lifts the back, it is not high enough, and the fork gun is used to continue the fork height.

"Hey, hey, hey." The people behind began to try again and again to stabilize the bridge on the river.

Zhu Gaoxu was afraid that he would lose, so he asked people to build ten such bridge plates.

Hundreds of people were prepared to train in the back, how to push the bridge steadily.

At this time, the artillery in the back had already come up as required.

"Hit the city wall first, and then destroy all the cannons and guns at the head of the city." Zhu Gaoxu gave an order.

Ten guns slowly moved forward.

Zhu Zhi watched ten cannons appear in Zhu Gaoxu's array, and his face changed slightly.

Because I heard that in the Guangxi battlefield, the rebel artillery was extremely powerful and played a role, but it was also in the midst of thousands of troops, and there was no need to aim.

"King, the rebels have artillery, go down." Yan Neng saw it and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade.

Zhu Zhi still wants to pretend to be forced, just now he shot himself and let Zhu Gaoxu pretend, now it's my turn to pretend, right?

"What's the panic, the artillery is not accurate." Zhu Zhi pretended to force.

Yan Neng wanted to go down, but Zhu Zhi couldn't go down, and he couldn't go, so he could only wait helplessly.

"Fire, fire, knock out the rebels." Zhu Zhi called for fire again at this time.

But the subordinate immediately said: "The rebel artillery is too far away." ”

The rebels' artillery stopped at about 600 paces.

Five hundred steps is already the limit of the Hongwu cannon, and the farther it goes, the more uncertain it is.

So this distance is already relatively safe.

But the rebels did not open fire either, and the gunners pushed the guns to the front and then retreated.

Zhu Zhi looked very strange.

Then I saw the rebels start digging and bagging around.

Zhu Zhi sneered, is this going to fill the moat?

Jingzhou's moat is notoriously difficult to fill, Lao Tzu gave you three days and three nights, I'm afraid it can't be filled.

"The rebels want to fill the moat, and they are really not afraid of death." Zhu Zhi immediately said, "Gather the archers here." ”

At this time, he had already guessed that the rebels' main attack was here, and he should have immediately summoned all the archers from the east, west, south, north and south directions to gather here.

But the rebels also had soldiers and horses in other directions, and at this time they were also digging and bagging, and it looked as if they were going to attack from all sides at the same time, so Zhu Zhi did not dare to gather all the archers, and only gathered the archers of Ximen.

After concentrating, he found that there were only more than a hundred people, but when he looked at it, it was almost enough.

"Shoot this king hard, shoot one to death, and this king will reward you with a penny."

The archers applauded, their expressions excited.

Time passed little by little, and the rebel army was still digging and bagging under the city, and did not attack.

After about half an hour, Zhu Zhi saw that the city had been piled up, and there were almost thousands of bags full of soil and placed on the ground.

He was a little panicked in his heart, turned around and asked, "How deep is our river, so many bags of soil are thrown down?" ”

Some people responded that it was more than one zhang, and Zhu Zhi definitely couldn't do it, but Mao estimated that it was impossible to fill a moat that was more than one zhang deep and nearly ten meters wide, without tens of thousands of bags.

"Don't worry, the king, come up and shoot them." Yan Neng hurriedly comforted him.

He also said: "If you want to fill the moat, you can't do it without killing tens of thousands of people." "Yan Neng is still relatively experienced, and he must have participated in the entire Jingyan War, as well as the siege battles of Jinan and Zhending.

A wide moat like Jingzhou, in addition to dirt bags, has to be filled with human lives to be fast enough.

Zhu Zhi was finally a little relieved when he heard this.

(End of chapter)