Chapter 189: A Critical Moment
Chang Yuan understood, and the battle consumed a lot of grain and grass.
All the supplies must be given priority to the soldiers who are fighting, if those soldiers are not well fed, how can they defend the city?
And most of the wounded soldiers who were carried down could not survive, and it would be good if those who came to the wounded barracks could have a survival rate.
So what this guy means is that instead of giving them food, it is better to give priority to those who are alive.
It's very cruel, but it's also the right way to survive at the moment.
"If you don't have meat, you have to feed your brothers." Chang Yuan left after leaving a sentence.
There was no meat, but after so many soldiers and civilians died, there was still a lot of wheat.
Until noon, the sound of war drums came from outside the door.
"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock!"
Chang Yuan came to the city wall, and Chen Wenlong shouted below.
"Chang Yuan! If you open the door and surrender now, I will definitely protect your whole body in front of Your Majesty! ”
Chang Yuan looked at Chen Wenlong from afar, and replied loudly, "General Chen, if my father is still alive, I should call you Uncle Chen!" Now that the emperor has collapsed, the court is erosive, the people are poor, and when there is a great drought in the north, how many people are easy to eat?! There are corpses all over the field, can you really turn a blind eye? Why do you still have to work for such a court?! ”
Of course, Chen Wenlong knew what the imperial court was in turmoil, and there were only fifty of them left before he left Kyoto.
Officials in various places are up and down, and it is really zero in the hands of the people.
That's right, the people don't have any food in their hands!
The court officials were greedy for all the relief food!
If His Majesty didn't investigate, it would be fine, but if he wanted to investigate, those officials would collude with each other, hide each other, and directly blame the grain to the thieves, saying that all the relief grain was stolen by the thieves.
Or maybe those people have already surrendered to the thieves before waiting for food, and the food is used to suppress the bandits for the local officers and soldiers.
Anyway, there are countless reasons that can be used, and the emperor doesn't really care, it's just that he saw that someone else was rebelling and he was upset, so he asked.
But Chen Wenlong had no choice, three generations of his family were loyal to the imperial court, and he was instilled with the idea that he should be loyal to the monarch and patriotism.
He replied to Chang Yuan like this, "Three generations of my Chen family are loyal to Nan Chen, you don't want to sow discord here!" Chang Yuan, don't say anything else! Surrender the city! You can't hold it! ”
Chang Yuan looked up to the sky at the city gate and laughed, "General Chen! You don't dare to answer my question head-on, because you have the answer in your heart! Hahaha! Surrender? Do you surrender to the emperor who wrongfully killed my Chang family?! ”
"I'd rather die!"
Chen Wenlong did not go back, whether the Chang family was unjustly killed, they know best, since then, the military power of the imperial court has always been suppressed by civilian officials, obviously officials at the same level, and military generals are always short to civilian officials.
The military generals of the DPRK and China were all cautious, for fear that they would be taken and their homes would be raided.
Because His Majesty is on the side of the civil officials.
"Obsessed." After Chen Wenlong whispered, he began to send people to attack the city.
It's just that this is obsessive, and I don't know if it's for Chang Yuan or for myself.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
More than a dozen people worked together to carry a huge piece of wood, constantly pounding the city gate!
The soldiers on the walls shoot the soldiers who carry the rolling logs, but if one dies, another will make up for it, and they must not only prevent the rolling logs from breaking through the walls.
It was also necessary to prevent the court soldiers from climbing up from under the city walls.
In the past few days of siege, Chen Wenlong's soldiers have also been damaged, but there are still more than 10,000 people.
More than 10,000 people attacked the city, and more than 2,000 defended, five times more than the other side.
Watching the soldiers on the city wall keep falling, it was finally possible for the people to start filling the gaps before they barely held on.
Chang Yuan personally put on armor and fought bloodily.
Finally, they shot all the court soldiers carrying the wood to death, and Chang Yuan took an arrow with fire oil and shot at the rolling log, which was directly ignited.
The court soldiers who tried to pick up the rolling log had to put it down and hide in a corner of the city gate.
Without the threat of rolling logs, the crumbling city gate finally held up.
The military and civilians of the DPRK and China breathed a sigh of relief.
Until the afternoon, Ming Jin withdrew his troops.
Chang Yuan had just finished eating when he saw Wang Hanting escorting a person up.
"What's going on?"
Wang Hanting looked angry, "I saw him sneakily circling around our military camp, and after I caught him, I searched his body, and there was a fire fold on his body, probably because he wanted to burn our grain and grass, he must be a fine work of the imperial court." ”
Chang Yuan squinted his eyes and said coldly, "Take it down for interrogation." ”
After this incident, Chang Yuan became more strict with the management of the military camp.
In the evening, Chen Wenlong began to launch another round of charge.
"Block! Be sure to block it! If you let these dog officers and soldiers of the court rush in, he will kill your wives and children! Wang Hanting shouted hoarsely as he slashed and killed on the city wall.
Under the cover of night, more than a dozen soldiers of the imperial court soon ran to the dead corner of the city wall.
Together with the noon ones, they began to dig continuously on the city wall.
"What are they trying to do? Did you want to dig in from outside the walls? ”
"Our man is waiting behind here, isn't he going to die when he digs in from there? Or if we just pour water into it, they won't be able to get over at all? ”
"Not good!"
Chang Yuan watched as the mound of dirt they dug out got higher and higher, and some soldiers even began to climb up by the mound.
"They want to climb the mountain through the mound!"
Although he was in a hurry, those soldiers were all hiding in the dead corner at the city gate, and the arrows on the city wall couldn't hit them at all, Chang Yuan and his party could only look at the mound, piled higher and higher!
Seeing that if it is not stopped, I am afraid that those soldiers can climb directly to the city wall along the dirt slope without opening the city gate!
Chang Yuan hung a lot of soldiers from the city wall, because he wanted to let these people go down and solve the dead ends of the city wall.
But before they could put the man down, he was killed by the arrows from the opposite side! Or be hacked to death by the enemy who charges ahead!
They can't put people down!
Wang Hanting kept it more and more difficult, his hands kept swinging and slashing, he was so tired and weak that he couldn't even hold the handle of the knife, so he could only tear off his clothes and wrap his palm tightly with the handle of the knife to prevent the knife from falling off his hand.
It's time for life and death!
Chang Yuan's eyes closed, and the moment he opened them was full of firmness, "Pour oil!" ”
The city began to collect oil, whatever it was, and all of it was collected on the walls.
Chang Yuan gave an order, and the oil on the city wall continued to pour down.
Then Chang Yuan threw a fire at the city gate where the oil was poured on it.
In an instant, a raging fire broke out at the gates of the city!
The soldiers of the court hidden in the dead corner of the city gate were burned, and ran out of the gate screaming, but they had some oil on them, and they could not be extinguished no matter what, they could only be burned to death!
(End of chapter)