"The rebels broke the gates with artillery on the edge of the moat, and there were people in the inner city who set fire to it."

"It's just that the gates are broken?" At first, Zhu Zhi thought that the rebels had attacked, but it turned out that the city gate was broken, and if you talk well, you will die, which scared the king.

He gritted his teeth, took Yan Neng, and rushed out with a shield on his shoulder.

Among the kings of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhi is also a ruthless person, and he dares to go into battle with a shield in person.

At this time, there may be very few officers and troops at the head of the city, and the rain of arrows outside is much smaller.

Or that the archers are tired and resting, and the arrow rain is not as dense as just now.

The two hurriedly leaned to the battlement, and when they looked at it, they gasped again.

I saw two rows of rebels carrying a huge ladder, and a wooden board was nailed to the middle of the ladder to form a huge rectangular plank.

They ran all the way to the edge of the moat, and in the stunned eyes of the officers and soldiers, they first pushed their front behind a sandbag.

Then the people behind began to lift up.

"Hey, hey, hey." The rebels kept yelling, and there were people around them cheering them on.

In the frightened eyes of Zhu Zhi and Yan Neng, the huge wooden board was slowly erected.

The sandbags on the side also worked, and some people jumped on the sandbags, and the higher they stood, the harder they could push up the ladder.

When it was completely erected, someone in front of it pushed hard and pushed several layers of sandbags into the river.

Then everyone pushed the ladder harder.

"Boom" The long wooden plank of the ladder fell down with a bang, and it was erected right at the gate of the city.

"Wow roar" all the rebels at the scene cheered.

"No, let's go, go to the brick city—no, the earth city." Zhu Zhi was shocked, and quickly turned around and ran.

"The king is amazing." In the distance, beside Zhu Gaoxu, there was a sound of praise.

When I came to Jingzhou before, everyone was still a little scared, after all, it was a historically famous fortified city, when Wu broke Jingzhou or was sent by Mifang's surrender, I didn't expect that it was less than an hour, and the rebel army had already built a bridge.

At this time, the first soldiers and horses had already rushed forward like a tide, and the artillery was still bombarding the empty city gates.

The attack into the water city is already unstoppable.

"There are also brick cities and earth cities in it, and Zhu Zhi estimates that he will defend the earth city."

Zhu Gaoxu was right, Zhu Zhi saw the rebels building a bridge, and his first thought was to run to Tucheng.

Because to deal with the rebel artillery, it is necessary to block the city gates.

Brick City is definitely too late. So he retreated directly to Tucheng.

The soldiers and horses in the city retreated inward, and Zhu Gaoxu ordered all the other roads to surround and not move to prevent the officers and soldiers from coming out, and the soldiers and horses on his side entered the water city one after another.

In less than an hour, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the rebel army entered the city and occupied Jingzhou Water City.

Then the gates of the city were opened, and soldiers and horses from all sides could enter the city.

Just as Zhu Gaoxu thought, the official army had fully retreated to Tucheng.

There are bridges between the brick city and the earthen city, but there are only four in the whole city.

After the rebels entered, they first lowered the drawbridge and then transported the re-artillery in.

Then he blasted open the gates of the brick city.

After Zhu Gaoxu went to the brick city, he found that the bridge between the brick city and the earth city was made of wood, and Zhu Zhi sprinkled fire oil on the four bridges, and set the four bridges on fire.

The two cities are more than 20 meters apart, and each other can shoot each other with bows and arrows, but it is impossible for Zhu Gaoxu to add a bridge of more than 20 meters.

After a while, someone from below came up to report that their artillery was advancing and saw that the gate of the earthen city was full of green bricks and stones, and the officers and soldiers were still piling up.

They fired a few cannons, but it didn't have any effect, they wanted to push forward, push to the top and bombard at the door, but Zhu Zhi had already learned the lesson just now, they had just advanced the cannon within ten steps, and the officers and soldiers at the head of the city withstood the rain of arrows, and a wave of fierce fire oil suddenly fell, and Zhu Gaoxu's cannon also ignited two.

Seeing this, the rebel army had no choice but to retreat first and bombard it from a distance.

The subordinates asked King Han if he would continue to bombard?

Zhu Gaoxu assessed that almost half an hour had passed from the time the water city entered the city to the time when the cannon was pushed to the front of the earth city, and Zhu Zhi had a lot of time to organize people to pile up bricks and stones behind the city gate.

A large number of soldiers and horses had just rushed into the city, affecting the movement of the artillery, and the officers and troops were still resisting, which bought Zhu Zhi time.

If stacked and can be several meters thick, then the artillery of later generations will be useless.

Their cannon can be bombarded in front of the door, maybe there is still an effect, now the other party is pouring fierce fire oil, it is no longer possible to get close, Zhu Gaoxu's cannon was finally built, it must not be consumed here, and it will be of great use in the future Huguang battlefield.

"Don't fight yet." Zhu Gaoxu looked left and right: "Bring all the Hongwu cannons to the West City Gate and prepare for the ants." ”

After Zhu Zhi's soldiers and horses retreated into the earth city and sealed the city gate, Zhu Gaoxu knew that now the artillery was useless, and it was necessary to rely on the most conventional way since history to attack the city.

At this time, their advantage is to occupy the brick city, and the distance from the earth city is less than thirty steps, and the disadvantage is that when Jingzhou City was built, this was also taken into account, so the base of the earth city is higher than the brick city, so that the overall earth city is about two meters higher than the brick city, and the officials and soldiers can condescendingly shoot at them.

But just when Zhu Gaoxu was about to rely on more archers to suppress the other party, just like just now, the opposite side had already begun to act.

Zhu Gaoxu can be regarded as having seen the power of the Nine Sides Sai King.

I saw a battlement of arrows quickly erected on the opposite wall.

This kind of arrow stack seems to be in the canopy of later generations, with wood as a pillar, covered with things, the more complex layer is wrapped with cowhide and pig iron on the outer layer, the inner layer is made of wet felt, and the middle is filled with asbestos, which can be used to prevent arrows, small artillery stone shells, and fire prevention.

Jingzhou City should have not fought for a long time, so the opposite side is relatively simple, the outer layer is wet felt and wood, and the officers and soldiers keep pouring water on the wood, obviously to prevent rebellion against military rockets.

At this time, some of the archers of the rebel army had already reached the brick wall, and the order was given by the officer.

Crackling, a rain of arrows shot at the earthen city.

The officers and soldiers on the opposite side hid in the arrow stacks one after another.

Dangdang, the arrows rained down on the arrow stacks.

But Zhu Zhi was not prepared before, and now he has just installed an arrow stack, many officers and soldiers on the opposite side can't hide in, and there are still a large number of people who have been hit by arrows, and the distance between the two sides is so close, and the screams are also heard here.

The morale of the rebel army was greatly boosted, and soon, the officers and soldiers also shot arrows in this direction.

Some of the rebels raised their shields and some squatted, and many people were also hit by arrows.

The two sides kept shooting at each other at the head of the city, and there were many arrows for the rebel army, but the officers and soldiers were assembling the arrow stacks one by one.

The more stacks of arrows there are, the stronger the defense, and by the time they have set up a row, the rebels' throws are useless, unless the rain of arrows is very clever and shoots straight through.

Boom, at this time, the Hongwu cannon that turned the muzzle also began to bombard Tucheng, but the city wall of Tucheng was extremely firm, and it was not easy to hit the battlements and arrow battlements at the head of the city.

Moreover, the Hongwu cannon is notoriously slow, what is the effect, Zhu Gaoxu knows it when he thinks about it.

Seeing that Zhu Zhi commanded in an orderly manner and responded to the situation on the spot, Zhu Gaoxu knew that this earthen city was not easy to attack.

His own set, first absolute firepower, overwhelming attacks, will soon lose its effectiveness.

The kind of wet felt and wood arrow stacks are too simple, as long as there are a few craftsmen and manpower, they can be made a lot in a day, and Zhu Gaoxu even saw that the other party directly removed the door panel in the house and put it on top.

The one without the door panel is directly fixed with wet felt between the four pillars, which can also be used to protect against arrows.

"My fifteenth uncle really still has some ability, no wonder he dares to defend Jingzhou." Zhu Gaoxu said: "Let's take it slowly, we can't carry out ant attachment tomorrow." ”

Zhu Gaoxu really didn't want to be attached to the ants, and in the Jingjing, he witnessed the Zhending ants and Jinan ants, and the infantry suffered heavy casualties, which hurt morale.

But until now, if Jingzhou is not taken, it will hurt morale even more.

If only he had a stone thrower here, he could throw it from outside the water city to the inside, and the other party would not be able to stand on the top of the city.

But he didn't build many stone throwers, and they were all arranged in the Sheng Yong army in Guizhou.

And Sheng Yong is now joining forces with Sichuan Qu Neng, and he has another important task.

On the same day, Zhu Gaoxu suspended the attack after entering the brick city, and some of the rebel army entered the city to rest, most of them were outside the city, and Zhu Zhi in the city also hurriedly increased the city defense and consolidated the city gate.

Both sides knew that soon the tragic ant possession might begin.

While convening the generals to discuss the matter of the ant annex, Zhu Gaoxu sent sentry cavalry out in all directions, especially patrolling along the river, and beware of the incoming reinforcements of the official army.

Of course, this will not say that Zhu Di's soldiers and horses have not yet been assembled, and Zhu Neng is also afraid of being besieged and sent for reinforcements, and Yuezhou (Baling is also being besieged).

Inside the city of Jingzhou.

Shuicheng and Brick City were lost successively, and the morale of the officials and soldiers was a little low, but Zhu Zhi probably knew that he would not have a good life after the city was broken, and his wealth would be taken away by Zhu Gaochu like King Min, so he immediately took out 200,000 silver and distributed it to the officials and soldiers in the city.

He originally had nearly 20,000 people, but after the battle between Ximen and the rebel army, there were still 18,000 who retreated into Tucheng, and the loss was not large.

So he's still very confident.

This time, 200,000 taels of silver were taken out at once, and an average of 10 taels per person was issued, and the morale of the officers and soldiers in the city skyrocketed instantly.

Zhu Zhi said again, as long as Jingzhou is held, when the time comes, the king will give each person another ten acres of land in his imperial village, and if you can't take it away, you can also sell the field again, and the generals and soldiers are cheering again.

Zhu Gaoxu grabbed grain and money in Wugang and Shu Wangtian in Chengdu, Zhu Zhi knew it.

So he hurriedly agreed to divide the field, and Lao Tzu Chengpo will not leave it to you, but will share it with others.

Then he brought out wine and meat and distributed them to the camps.

Zhu Zhi is really a ruthless man, after he made several moves in a row, the morale of the defenders of Jingzhou City was high, and they vowed to defend Jingzhou to the death.

Even Zhu Zhi himself is very confident in holding Jingzhou, if the next thing does not happen, Zhu Gaoxu does not know how long it will take to take Jingzhou.

In the afternoon, after Zhu Gaoxu stopped attacking, the whole city of Jingzhou was busy, some were consolidating the city gate, blocking large pieces of masonry to the city gate, and some were building arrow stacks to prevent the rebels from raining arrows.

The soldiers and horses of the whole city are doing their own things in an orderly manner.

Zhu Zhiwang's palace governor Shi organized more than 100 people, pushing and carrying a large amount of silver, copper coins, treasure money, etc. everywhere to distribute money, for a time, many green skins in the city also took the initiative to sign up, and the atmosphere in the city was unprecedentedly high.

Because the Jingzhou Wei Command Yamen was close to the west gate of Tucheng, the rebels seemed to be attacking the West Gate, and Zhu Zhi moved his office to the Jingzhou Wei Command Yamen on the same day, and Yan Neng and Jingzhou Wei commanded Fan Zhi to discuss matters here and became their command center.

Zhu Zhi was not in the palace, but he didn't know that something was happening in the palace at this time.

(End of chapter)