A large number of officers and troops gathered in the north, and they would definitely attack the north, and if they went around in other directions, it would be a waste of time, and the defenders would have more time to defend.

Zhu Neng definitely couldn't have imagined that someone would run around the city wall on such a hot day.

Usually the defense of the city will be divided into southeast, south, northwest, and northwest, and each will have generals in charge of his own side, but Li Yuan will not only have generals in charge in each direction, but he will also run around and see for himself.

It is not visible on one side alone, usually the guards in the north are used to the assembly of the officers and troops, but Li Yuan ran all over the four directions, and after a comparison, he immediately saw that the officers and troops gathered in the north and might have to fight the north.

"Xu An, you prepare cavalry, gather five thousand cavalry, once the official army is hit hard, let's see the opportunity, open the north gate, you and Li Shou (Li Yuan's nephew) lead the troops to rush out, the soldiers are divided into two roads, and hit the two flanks in the north."

The official army attacked from the north, and a large number of soldiers and horses would definitely be crowded, and every time they retreated before, Zhu Neng also guarded against a counterattack in the city, but in their siege battle in the last half month, the gate of Fuzhou was closed and there was no response, and Zhu Neng estimated that he would also be confused.

This time, Li Yuan decided to take advantage of their retreat to counterattack.

Because there may be too many officers and soldiers in the middle, and the lineup is too thick, Li Yuan wants to play on the flanks, and the cavalry goes out, so he can shoot all the way.

"Will there be preparations on the other side?" Xu An was a little worried.

Usually, the besieging side will prepare soldiers and horses to be carefully prepared, and if the soldiers and horses in the city suddenly kill, they can deal with it in time.

"Don't worry, let's shrink for more than half a month, Zhu Neng is a fool, I think we don't dare to go out." Li Yuan said with a smile: "If Zhu Di leads the troops, or Li Bin, Xu Zhong, Song Sheng and other leaders, I really don't dare to go out, but what about Zhu Neng?" Hey, you can give it a try. ”

Li Yuan guessed correctly, Zhu Neng was preparing to attack, and Zhu Neng was also paralyzing Li Yuan.

This guy listened to Liu Rong's idea, the offensive in the first half of the month looked fierce, but in fact, he didn't do his best, and he didn't invest many troops and horses, all in order to paralyze Li Yuan.

The emperor has made a decree to capture Fuzhou at all costs.

Zhu Neng had paralyzed Li Yuan for so long, and finally decided to attack Fuzhou at all costs.

Yesterday, Zhu Neng discussed with Chen Zhi, Liu Rong and other generals and decided to attack the north.

The northern side has the longest wall and the longest defensive line.

As long as one place is breached, there is a chance to bring about a chain reaction.

Today, Zhu Neng summoned some of the generals who participated in the siege (north) early in the morning.

"Today, we will go all out to attack the city, go up in turn according to the order of each department, and before receiving the order, no matter how many people die in front, we can only advance, not retreat."

"Those who retreat without authorization in each battalion, the soldiers retreat and behead the flag officer (small flag general flag), the flag officer retreats, the household general (hundreds of households and thousands of households), the household general retreats, and the commander is beheaded."

The faces of all the generals changed, revealing a look of horror, Zhu Neng is coming for real.

"The first one to kill the head of the city, a reward of 1,000 taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to the third level."

"The first battalion to go to the city, the large and small armies will be promoted by one level, and the command of the main attacking troops will be promoted by two levels."

"After the city is broken, the knife will not be sealed for three days, and the women will take their own money."

"Wow roar" Zhu Neng's last sentence completely surprised the generals of all departments.

The officers and soldiers are really desperate this time, and they really don't hesitate to do whatever it takes, and Liu Rong even sent his son Liu Tuan to the front line.

Liu Rong had three sons, and the eldest son, Liu Tuan, was only nineteen years old at this time, but he led an example and led more than 5,000 people in the Beijing battalion and one guard, in the second-order team.

There is also Wang Cong's son Wang Yan, Fang is seventeen years old, leading Ningbo Wei, in the second-order team.

The sons of the two main generals appeared one after another, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted.

Liu Tuan was only fourteen or fifteen years old in Jingjing, and he had already followed his father with the army.

Because there was a shortage of people in Beiping at that time, as long as they could hold knives, guns or wood, they were sent to the city gate, and many women participated in the defense.

Liu Tuan was the first time to go into battle.

After that, he followed his father to fight in the east and west, and appeared many times in Jingjing.

After a few years, Liu Tuan seems to be also sharp and aggressive, with a strong military atmosphere.

At this time, Liu Tuan was standing in the middle of the formation, looking up at the distance on the west side from time to time.

On the west side of them is Wang Yan's Zhejiang army, and both sides lead the team at the same time, ranking the second rank, which also has a faint meaning of comparing high and low.

After Wang Cong was martyred, he first guarded Baoding, and then went to Zhejiang to stay for a period of time, and the Zhejiang army led by Wang Yan was Wang Cong's old department.

Their direction was facing the gates, one to the left and one to the right.

Liu Tuan attacked the right side of the city gate, and according to Zhu Neng's distribution, about 400 steps away belonged to their guards.

When attacking the city, a ladder was placed every five steps, and they put about eighty guards in this guard.

Eighty people go up each time, and more than 5,000 people in the whole guard, and you can play about 60 rounds.

Because it is a second-order team, they have a guard before, so Liu Tuan estimates that he hopes to break through Fuzhou in a hundred rounds.

If it exceeds a hundred rounds, he himself is in danger.

Liu Tuan actually didn't want to go to the city, but Liu Rong was a madman and a fierce general, and he actually wanted to go to the city in person, but Liu Tuan had no choice, so he took the initiative to apply and fight for his father.

That Wang Cong also had two sons, and when he saw this, he asked his eldest son Wang Yan to come out.

The sons of the two generals personally led the team, which really boosted morale.

Zhu Neng was also more careful, and arranged for them to be in the second-order team.

"It must be broken, it must be broken, it must be broken, Fuzhou must be broken." Liu Tuan was silent in his heart.

Suddenly.

Boom, a cannon shot.

"Kill"

"Rush."

The officers and soldiers rushed forward as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

The first-order team on the north side lined up with 500 ladders, more than twice as many as before.

Before attacking the city, Zhu Neng only put a cloud ladder every ten steps.

This time it was directly doubled, with a ladder every five steps, and it took several days to build these ladders alone.

Boom, bang, bang, the cannons and guns of the defenders at the head of the city also fired, followed by a rain of arrows.

Many officers and soldiers had fallen before they could reach the corner.

Liu Tuan took his own guard and walked forward cautiously, looking at himself as he walked.

He wore three layers of armor, chain mail, leather armor, and cotton armor.

Originally, he wanted to wear another layer of armor, but he really couldn't wear it, and he thought about it and replaced it with cotton armor.

Before putting it on, he soaked it all in cold water and put it between the chain mail and the leather armor.

He is like Liu Rong, and history calls Liu Rong: "tall and strategic".

Therefore, Liu Tuan is also very good, and his strength is relatively large, and the weapon in his right hand is a short axe, which weighs more than ten catties.

In his left hand was a shield of his own making.

He learned from the rebel army, and made a rectangular shield out of wood and iron sheets, which made the defense area wider.

"When you go up in a while, don't hesitate, don't be afraid, don't look up, bow your head and rush up."

"Rush to the top and look up."

Liu Tuan shouted to the people around him as he walked.

Every time he yelled, someone around him quickly repeated it loudly.

"Don't look up, keep your head down."

"Don't look up, keep your head down."

"Don't look up for a while, keep your head down and rush up."

The cries came and went in his guard.

After entering the city five hundred paces, boom, there was artillery at the head of the city.

That's when it comes down to luck.

Liu Tuan's soldiers and horses had just entered five hundred paces, and with a whoosh, a cannonball flew down, fluttering, and slamming into his camp.

Ah, there were screams at the scene, at least five or six people fell to the ground, and half of some people's calves were cut off.

The scene was extremely brutal, and if there were more artillery in Fuzhou, the scene would be even better.

It is a pity that there are not many artillery in Fuzhou, and in order to support Zhu Gaoxu, gunpowder and artillery are given priority to the front line.

Liu Tuan's more than 5,000 people entered the 500 steps, but they were only hit by two cannons, and the third cannon was borne by the people of the third order team behind him.

But when they had reached eighty paces, they swished, and the arrows began to shoot downward.

The rebels occupy a high place and shoot down flat, the range is long, and the arrows sink when they fall.

There was a crackling sound, and "Ah" Liu Tuan screamed again in the formation, and many people were shot.

At this time, Liu Tuan was a little anxious, because the first wave in front was still going to the city, and their guards were between eighty and one hundred steps away from the city gate.

Many of the opponent's arrows are shot at them, and from time to time someone is hit by the arrow, and if they hit the vital point, they will inevitably fall to the ground.

Of course, most of the arrows were fired at the besiegers.

Liu Tuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly saw the clue.

"Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows."

There were archers in his array who couldn't wait, and took a few steps forward to support the first order of the siege team, and shot arrows at the city, but because the distance was a bit far, not arrows could be shot.

Whenever an arrow was shot, an arrow came at the head of the city.

After Liu Tuan shouted, his subordinate archers retreated one after another, and sure enough, the head of the city did not shoot them, but concentrated on shooting the siege of the city.

Liu Tuan stared at the front, and the people on the cloud ladder were like dumplings, falling from the sky one by one, going up and falling one by one, and going up and dropping one by one.

After some people landed, they found that they were fine, and they would be called to go up again.

There was also a person who fell and was only slightly injured, but before he could get up, another one fell from above and smashed him hard, directly smashing him into serious injuries.

"It's really cruel." Liu Tuan participated in the defense of the city in Beiping last time, and he couldn't see the situation below clearly at the head of the city, but this time he was the attacker, and he saw it clearly, and instantly felt the cruelty and horror of the siege battle.

In less than half an hour, a large number of corpses had piled up under the ladder.

Liu Tuan also saw the experienced sergeants pile up the corpses that fell and fell far away around the ladder, which can be used as a meat pad to fix the ladder and use it as a meat pad.

Suddenly.

Plopped, and one of the sergeants climbed near the battlement, but was still stabbed down.

I saw him scream, fall from the sky, plop, and fall on top of a corpse.

The corpse's mouth spewed out a large mass of unknown things.

Liu Tuan saw it from a distance and almost threw up.

By this time they were within fifty paces.

The first-order team of more than 5,000 people consumed nearly one-fifth.

But they did not receive the order to retreat, everyone did not dare to retreat, and the remaining officers and soldiers continued to climb up.

Liu Tuan soon discovered a very interesting officer.

Every time the officer climbed halfway, he would look for an opportunity to jump down from it.

There were meat pads all around, and he was probably fine, and then he would be called back up.

But he was again behind several people.

When he crawled to the middle, he fell down again with a thud.

Then he was called up again, and he was again in line with several people.

After three or four rounds, this guy is not dead yet, he is still circulating.

is really smart, Liu Tuan is angry and funny.

But this guy's luck ended here, and after falling from it again, this guy got up scolding, and was about to say something.

Whoosh, an officer and soldier above his head fell quickly.

Katsa, body smashed right on his neck.

This guy never got up after he fell, and was stoned to death by his own people.

Half an hour later, Liu Tuan had already entered within thirty steps.

(End of chapter)