On the night of September 15 of the thirtieth year of Hongwu.

Liang Daoming, who was nearly forty years old, had his bright silver armor covered with scratches and blood, and he held a straight knife with a notched blade in his hand, leaning weakly on the pillar of the city tower, and his eyes were unfocused at the camp of the Javanese people outside the city.

Although Liang Daoming and Zheng Boke recruited 30,000 new troops, plus 10,000 original garrisons, only these 40,000 people, even if they added geographical advantages, they were unable to stop the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Javanese who were like wolves.

Although they were held back for nearly half a month near Riau Province and North Sumatra Province, they were finally broken through the defensive line. Now it took only three days for the Javanese army to reach the city of Pekanbaru. An army of 40,000 also lost 20,000.

Liang Daoming's eyes moved away from the dotted enemy camp, and he looked up at the full moon hanging in the sky, feeling bitter in his heart. The army of the Javanese was too large, and after half a month of fierce fighting, their own side defeated the opponent with 20,000 men and nearly 40,000 people. But they still have more than 100,000 people, and they only have 20,000 wounded soldiers left!

"Heavens! Do you have to push innocent people into the pit of fire? Liang Daoming sighed in his heart, silently begging for mercy from the sky!

"Husband...... eat something!" Liang Daoming's wife, Liang Liu, walked up to the city tower with the food box with the maid, and when she saw that her husband was covered in blood, his face was also scratched. The usually gentle eyes are also full of murderous aura, like a demon god who has just come out of hell.

Although Liang Liu was a little afraid of her husband's eyes, she still gently stepped forward to remove her husband's armor. The little maid obediently took the food out of the food box and placed them on the table in the castle tower one by one.

"Alas!" Liang Daoming let out a long sigh, obediently asked his wife to help remove the bright silver armor, and then took the wet towel from the little maid's hand, wiped it, and wiped it until the snow-white cotton cloth turned black, and then handed the towel to the maid's hand. Sitting on a chair at the table, he glanced at his wife, who had followed him for twenty years.

"Xiaozhi, you shouldn't stay, if the city is broken...... he couldn't continue anyway.

"Husband! Since the concubine body is still chosen, Hugh has to mention it again! Do you remember the promise you made? Liang Liu's face is serious, and the charm of his face is still there. It's just that at this time, there is a blush again, but she still looks at her husband persistently.

"Hold the hand of the son, grow old with the son!" The two of them whispered the blushing oath at the same time, but they were not shy.

"Since the husband remembers, why bother to say separation! This life is only the king! ”

"Madam......" Liang Daoming was already choked up, holding his beloved wife's hands tightly. He is not an iron-blooded general, he is a literati who leads many arrogant soldiers, and he has fought with more than 100,000 enemies for so long, I am afraid that it is difficult for anyone to compare!

"Husband, although you can kill the enemy with confidence, such as ...... If there is a city...... On the day of the fall, the concubine's body will be broken, and we will continue to be husband and wife in the underworld! Liang Liu was already in tears after saying this, and then pulled out his hands that were clenched by his husband and put the chopsticks into his hands. Just looked at the great man in front of him with affection, this is his husband, his own everything!

Liang Daoming casually wiped the tears on his face, revealing the most reluctant smile in his life, "Madame, don't worry, my husband will definitely protect this city and the people in the city!" Then he stopped talking, just picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and devoured all the food into his mouth.

Only when you have enough to eat can you have the strength to resist the waves of Javanese attacks!

The night passed quickly, and when the sky was slightly bright, Liang Daoming, who was sleeping in the city tower, got up from the bunk on the ground. Because he heard the noise in the enemy's camp, Liang Daoming knew that this was the enemy's meal. When the enemy eats, they will attack immediately!

"Let's eat!" At this time, the head of your own city also began to liven up. Liang Daoming breathed a long sigh of relief, fortunately, his meal was not much later, otherwise he would only be half-full.

Waiting for the soldiers to finish their breakfast, the rumbling drums of the enemy army have already been heard. More than 100,000 soldiers of the enemy army began to line up in a disorderly manner, and after only two drums, the enemy army had already lined up in a neat line. I saw countless neat phalanxes arranged, battle flags lined up, and a solemn aura rushed to my face.

Fortunately, my own soldiers got used to it earlier, and when they were replaced by the new army, they had to be weak when they saw it. As the saying goes: there are thousands of people without boundaries. What's more, the other party is a hundred thousand people! Among them, the heralds galloped quickly in front of a phalanx, constantly shouting something.

As stated in the Book of War, the siege of the city is to encircle three and lack one, but the Javanese army only gathers one gate and attacks. It is not surprising that the other general, Tu Ulima, does not know the art of war, on the contrary, he is from a family of military generals, and he has a deep study of the art of war that has been circulated in the world.

He only attacked one door, and he had two purposes, one was to use the momentum of 100,000 horses to wear down the opponent's will to resist. The second is to conquer the city with minimal casualties. To put it bluntly, what he wants is territory, as long as he can break the opponent's will to resist, since he can defeat the opponent once, he can defeat it many times. Until the other party retreats to the beach and has no way to retreat. I have to say that Tuulima is a powerful character, not only familiar with military affairs, but also offensive and scheming!

A row of man-tall drums was placed on the side of the Javanese People's Formation, and more than a dozen strong men wheeled their drumsticks with bare arms.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ……”

The rapid sound of drums sounded, and in front of them were two rows of giant shieldmen, and then there were soldiers carrying this ladder of no length, which had just been cut down last night, and the previous ones had been destroyed in the siege. In the middle of the phalanx were soldiers with standard swords, and at the end of the phalanx were three rows of archers, closely following the phalanx

Today is different from the past, the charge is twenty phalanx, as the drum gradually rushes, the phalanx begins to move towards the city wall, the pace is getting faster and faster with the drum beat! There were more than 1,000 people in each phalanx, and 20,000 people rushed in at this moment.

"Fire! Fire! ”

The new army in the city began to get busy, first of all, the platoon of artillery with torches, one by one lighting the gunpowder fuse. As small puffs of smoke rose, the muzzle of the cannon flashed out, followed by puffs of smoke, and thousands of loose pieces flew out of the thick smoke and smashed into the rushing crowd without hesitation.

The crowd of the Javanese army was in a panic, and hundreds of people fell on the way to the charge, wailing. The giant shield man who was close to the front raised the huge shield in his hand, and took the feathered arrows from the city wall, while the archers behind him fired back at the city wall. Although the robes around him fell from time to time, the phalanx still quickly approached the city wall.

First at the moat, some short ladders were leveled over the river, then the soldiers and shieldmen who carried the ladders rushed from the ladders to the bottom of the walls, and then the short swordsmen, the archers who stayed where they were and returned to cover the robes.

When they rushed to the bottom of the city, the shield man stood along the wall and raised the huge shield in his hand, just as the stones were falling from above! Crackling, like being in a mudslide from above. The sergeants stained with boiling oil howled miserably beside them, and some of the smashed brains exploded, and for a time the city was like a hell on earth.

When the boiling oil ran out, some of the soldiers erected the siege ladder and firmly hooked the wall with the hook on their heads. Without waiting for the rain of stones from above to stop, the short knife hands climbed up the ladder with the short knife in their mouths!

"Oil! Boiling oil! ”

Liang Daoming shouted, slashing hard at a human head that emerged from the stomping mouth.

"My lord! The oil is gone! Nope! One of them struggled to pick up the stone from his feet and threw it down the city, screaming loudly.

"Then use the golden juice!" Liang Daoming struggled to cut down another one, and turned around and yelled at that person!

"Golden juice! Golden Juice! Jin ...... "The general turned back and yelled at the soldier who was burning the fire, and before he could finish yelling, a sharp arrow hit his forehead, and he didn't even snort, and fell on his back."

Gradually, Javanese people jumped out of the stamping and tightly protected the stamping, and more and more enemies climbed the city wall, and for a time the sound of killing on the city wall shook the sky.

Liang Daoming was very anxious in his heart, seeing that the enemy had rushed up, but they were powerless to drive people down, if it went on like this, within half an hour, the city would be broken! But all the soldiers he can use are pressed here, and there is no more soldier available! Another quarter of an hour later, the defeat of the new army was even more obvious, and the city was broken in sight.

"Kill! Kill the Javanese dog! ”

With a burst of shouts, a group of people in different clothes rushed towards the enemy army at the head of the city with various weapons. Although they were also frightened, and although some of them had weak legs, they still gritted their teeth and swung weapons such as wooden sticks, kitchen knives, and dung forks at the enemy.

When the new army in the city saw reinforcements, their morale was high again, and they desperately pounced on the enemy. When some knives are broken, they hold the enemy and bite them with their teeth! Others rolled down the city wall with the enemy in their arms, and smashed several enemy troops under the city with them.

In just a few moments, the new army completely drove the Javanese off the city walls, and the enemy troops under the city were demoralized and retreated. Then

Tuulima not only did not withdraw his troops, but instead sent ten more army formations to rush to the city wall.

The retreating soldiers were slaughtered by the Overseers in the rear, and it took them to stop their decline, and once again they mixed ten formations and rushed under the walls.

The enemy army is like the waves of the sea, attacking the city wall in waves, and when they reach the city wall, they hit the blood-colored waves like the waves hitting the reef on the shore.

Until the afternoon, Liang Daoming and the New Army soldiers could not drink a sip of water, and there were fewer and fewer New Army soldiers standing on the city wall, while the Javanese army under the city was still tirelessly surging in waves.

Again repelled the enemy army, there were not many civilians on the city walls, and the rest were either killed or frightened away. Liang Daoming didn't blame them, the people had done their best, now that the defeat was decided, let them go!

Just when he was determined to die in battle, something miraculous happened, and the Javanese army actually withdrew its troops. And without even negotiating to collect the corpses, he began to uproot the camp and prepare to withdraw from the army.

"Your Excellency! The enemy is ... This is... Retirement? A Qian always rubbed his eyes in disbelief, for fear that this was his hallucination.

"I'm afraid I'll retreat, I don't know what happened behind them?" At this time, Master Zheng Boke walked over covered in blood, and was slashed on the leg, and the blood rolled on both sides. As if unconscious, he looked out of the city as he walked!

Half an hour later, the Javanese army retreated in order. Even if Liang Daoming has capable soldiers, he can't please catch up. This shows the ability of Tuurima to lead the troops.

"O'——! Let's win! Let's win! The enemy is retreating! ”

On the city wall, both the new army and the common people wept with joy and hugged each other. The victory came so suddenly, so unexpectedly! But it doesn't matter, as long as they win!

This inexplicable victory brought Liang Daoming's prestige to a climax, and for a time the people of North and West Sumatra saw him as a new hope. Coupled with careful planning, everyone unanimously elected him as the new king.

After Liang Daoming excused himself, he looked at the people who were struggling to advise, and he could only accept it helplessly. Afterwards, he once said to his former master, the current prime minister Chen Boke: "I just don't want the people to be enslaved, and I don't want the throne!" But everyone is full of enthusiasm, and they are really powerless to refuse, and if there is a more suitable candidate or a member of the royal family in the future, I will definitely give way to him! ”