"Drive! Drive! ”

April 15, early morning......

While 30,000 guards were guarding the city gate as usual, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the distance.

Before the soldiers at the city gate could react, more than a dozen cavalrymen on war horses rushed south on the horizon.

If it weren't for the fact that they were holding the banner of the Ming army, the soldiers on duty would still think that they were Hu soldiers from the north and plundering from the south.

But...... Hu Bing?

Thinking of these two words, the soldiers guarding the city gate all showed sneer on their faces.

Since the king of Bohai County was stationed in Jilin City, the 30,000 guards have never been harassed by the Hu soldiers and wild girls in the north, not to mention that this year, the Sandu Division gathered heavy troops to patrol the border, and the Hu soldiers in the north are afraid that they have fled in the wilderness.

The soldiers on duty at the city gate smiled, and the hundred household officials were also ready to come forward to ask about the visitor.

Just before he could get closer, the more than ten horsemen rushed over, and the leader of the hundred household officials knew that it was the son of Zhou Xing, the current chief military officer, and Zhou Ding, the thousand household officials of Shenyang Zhongwei.

"Zhou Qian......"

"The edict orders the guards to assemble their soldiers!"

Before the hundred household officials could ask for peace, Zhou Xinglema was in front of the city gate and shouted loudly to order.

His military order made everyone's expressions froze, and only then did they notice the embarrassment on them.

The dozen or so riders were all two horses, and all of them had bloodshot eyes, and their clothes were covered with mud and water, and they were extremely embarrassed.

"Hurry!" Zhou Ding saw that everyone was not moving, and immediately became angry:

"Send an expedited issue to Long Live and Chief Officer Zhou, Wu Liangha enters Koujilin City, and the army is assembled to prepare to rush to the aid of Jilin City!"

He angrily threw out the token in his hand, which was the token of Zhu Gaoxu's Bohai Palace, obviously Jilin City had really suffered a crime.

"Huh?" The officials of the hundred households and all the officers and soldiers were taken aback by the news, and everyone's heads went blank.

When they reacted, they immediately ran to the city on two legs, ready to tell the news to the commander of the guard.

There were also two military households in charge of the Tang newspaper who hurriedly picked up the token of the Bohai Palace, and then ran all the way to the two military horses at the gate of the city, turned over the horses and galloped to the south.

Looking at his request for help, Zhou Ding also relaxed, and almost fell off the horse, but fortunately, the hundred officials quickly supported him.

"Arrange a place for Zhou Qianhu and his brothers to rest!"

The hundred household officials shouted backwards, and then took the officers and soldiers to take Zhou Ding to the inverted seat in the city to rest.

Zhou Ding could relax, but the entire 30,000 Wei became nervous.

After confirming the authenticity of the news, the commander of the 30,000 guards also sent Tang cavalry to do double protection, and at the same time ordered the soldiers and horses of the 30,000 guards to wait for the military order of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

Tang rode away, but in half an hour, the whole city learned the news that Jilin City was besieged, and the soldiers of the whole city were assembled and waited to leave the customs at any time.

"Go away, go away!"

"Give way to the front!"

"Hu soldiers entered Kou Jilin, merchants and merchants all gave way back to the post house, and the military households went home!"

The military is the fastest place to deliver information, but the civilian population needs the military to react and announce the news before it can be informed.

When Tang rode to Shenyang, Sanwanwei began to enter martial law mode.

With the order of the yamen of the guard, the whole city of 30,000 guards entered the military management mode, and the officers and soldiers began to patrol and spread the news at the same time.

In a post house in the city, Yang Bin, who was drinking tea, heard that Jilin had encountered Hu Bing's invasion, and his hands shook in fright, and the tea knocked over a table.

"Entered Koujilin City?" The fat on Yang Bin's face was trembling, and several people next to him were also frightened.

Today, they were going to follow the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division to transport grain to Jilin City, but they didn't want to learn the news of Jilin City's emergency before they set off.

For a while, several directors put their eyes on Yang Bin's face, Yang Bin felt the gaze, and also pretended to be calm:

"Panic what! His Royal Highness is the grandson of His Majesty, and even if the Liaodong Metropolitan Division uses the strength of the entire Metropolitan Division, he will send troops to aid Jilin City. ”

"What's more, judging from the situation in Jilin City before the winter last year, even if some Hu soldiers can, it is impossible to break through Jilin City."

"It's all for me to live in peace, maybe Jilin City will be released in a few days."

Yang Bin viciously taught a few uneasy masters, and said Jilin City as solid.

But only he knows that Jilin City is indeed impregnable, but Jilin City is now short of food and clothing......

Yang Bin was very bitter in his heart, but he had to pretend to be fierce on his face, and he couldn't help but scold in his heart: "Thief God, don't you look down on me Yang Fat Man to make money?" ”

Yang Bin knew better than anyone that if Jilin City or Zhu Gaoxu were really gone, then his wealth and glory for more than a year would soon become a thing of the past.

Without Zhu Gaochu to protect him, the group of people in Jiangnan who were jealous of him would immediately be able to divide the fur industry in his hands, and the things he bought and sold for Zhu Gaoxu in the past might all have to become evidence of the crime.

Thinking of this, Yang Bin couldn't help praying in his heart: "Your Highness, Your Highness, you must be safe, my net worth and life are in your hands......"

Yang Bin was praying, but he wasn't the only one praying for Zhu.

30,000 guards, Tieling guards, and Shenyang and other guards who had just learned of Hu's entry into the army prayed for Zhu Gaoxu.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty has not yet experienced such a thing as the fall of the vassal king, if this thing really happens, the Liaodong Dusi will have to be masturbated by Lao Zhu from top to bottom, but if a few pieces of criminal evidence are found in the process of masturbation, then their past things are enough to be killed more than a dozen times.

In such an atmosphere, the closer the guards got to the border fortress, the more worried they were about Jilin City.

At dusk, when the news of the Tang Cavalry arrived in Shenyang, Shenyang immediately sent someone to inform Liaoyang, and at the same time sent the Tang Cavalry to Nanjing and Daning respectively.

It's just that when their Tang cavalry rushed out of Shenyang City to deliver the message, more than a dozen cavalry also rushed on the horizon in front of Jixi Fort in Jilin City.

"Drive!"

"Drive!"

On horseback, several Ming cavalrymen shook the reins of their horses and looked behind them, as if there was some great horror behind them.

They rushed to the gate of Jixi Fort and waved in advance: "Prepare to close the city gate!" ”

"Prepare to close the gates!"

"Beep-"

Shouts, shouts, and wooden whistles sounded one after another, and more than a dozen Ming soldiers who were waiting at the city gate immediately prepared.

With the dozen or so horsemen rushing into the fort, more than a dozen foot soldiers immediately closed the city gate and bolted it.

"Put the jack gate!"

The little flag officer who walked out of the Yongdao with his brothers shouted at the gate tower of Jixi Fort, and at the first time he shouted this, a soldier holding a large wooden mallet of dozens of catties in the city gate tower immediately swung his mallet and smashed it down.

With a "bang", the iron gate weighing hundreds of catties fell, completely cutting off the opportunity for the enemy to break through the city gate head-on.

"Woo-"

The horn sounded, and at this moment, everyone behind the wall of Jixi Fort stopped what they were doing, and Zhu Gaoxu, Lin Su and others, who were eating, also ate and wiped them clean, rushed up the road in three steps, and then climbed the arrow tower.

As the sun sets, the afterglow of the dusk sun shines on the entire Songhua River and Hadaling.

The sun is setting little by little, and the direction in which it sets is directly in front of Jixi Fort, and it is also the only post road leading to Jixi Fort from the outside world.

Little by little, the sunlight went up to Jixi Fort, and after a quarter of an hour, the sunlight shining on Jixi Fort disappeared.

At the same time, a human head began to emerge on the horizon ahead, and the sound of horses' hooves and the characteristic Mongol cry was coming from ahead.

"Preparing for !!"

Lin Su turned his head and shouted under the arrow tower, and more than 1,500 soldiers of the Bohai Navy immediately put on armor with the help of Hu Servants, and went up to the horse road of the city wall with armor.

Thousands of servants gathered in six stone forts, waiting to be ready to defend the city.

"Woo Rumble......

The sound of horses' hooves became more and more intense.

Looking into the distance, Zhu Gaoxu on the arrow tower could clearly see a variegated wave slapping towards Jixi Fort.

He put one hand on the handle of the shovel, and as if he had known that he would meet with the Uliangha today, he had put on his armor early.

The wind blew, and the Bohai Sea flag above the arrow tower was hunting, and it echoed the bear fur on Zhu Gaoxu's shoulder.

The variegated tide was still sweeping, and the river beach in front of Jixi Fort could no longer accommodate them, and some cavalry even waded into the shallows of the Songhua River.

"This is more than 10,000 people......" Lin Su swallowed hard.

Such an action appeared on all the Bohai Navy at this moment.

Too much......

The crowd of soldiers and horses is boundless, and in front of today's Jixi Fort, even if the river beach has been opened up in a wide area, it still can't accommodate the constantly surging Wuliangha cavalry.

The horse's hooves were like muffled thunder, dull and rumbling, pressing on the hearts of every Bohai Navy, like a dragon turning over.

At a glance, not only the river beach is occupied, but also some of the woods adjacent to the river beach are also springing up with the Uliangha people.

They are short and thin, but now this short emaciation is not only not despised by people on the scale of tens of thousands, but makes people feel their ferocity.

Even if they were hundreds of paces apart, the soldiers of the Bohai Navy above the city could feel the greed of the other party to capture Jixi Fort and Jilin City.

"Too many people......"

"It's... This... That's tens of thousands......

"Didn't you say there were only 10,000......

For a time, the morale of the Bohai Navy was low, and the morale of the Wuliangha people who spread all over the mountains was suppressed.

In front of them, the Uliangha began to stop a mile from Jixi Fort, and the two armies faced each other in the dim sky.

A quarter of an hour later, a man dressed in armor and black fur stepped out of the Uliangha on a tall horse.

He took a few steps forward and assumed his identity.

With just a glance, Zhu Gaoxu determined his identity.

"Hara-gu ......" he grabbed his shovel and squeezed the name out between his teeth.

"It is said to be a stone castle, but it was built by the southerners as ...... pass"

At about the same time, Haragu gave his assessment of Jixibao in his eyes.

His eyes were as fierce as a wolf, and his gaze kept wandering around the three places of Songhua River, Jixi Fort and Hadaling.

In just a moment, he understood Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement.

When many Taiji and the head of the rear arrived, Haragu raised the horsewhip in his hand and moved along the Songhua River towards Hadaling, while spitting out his evaluation:

"Relying on the Songhua River to establish a mountain pass and stretch to the Hada Ridge, if nothing else, the Nanren arranged wooden forts and stone forts on the mountain."

"Great Khan, are we going to camp here?"

"Stand back, if the Southerners have artillery, we'll be hit."

The two Taiji stepped forward to express their opinions, but Harawu raised his wrist and signaled them not to speak.

Seeing this, the two closed their mouths, while Harawu enjoyed the quietness and quietly observed the defense line arranged by the Ming army.

"It's well arranged, but it doesn't work if you don't have enough people."

"This line is too long, and they don't have enough manpower to keep it."

After commenting, Haragu also turned his horse's head and left a sentence: "Set up camp here." ”

"Yes......" The two Taiyoshi responded, and then began to order the army to camp here.

Soon tens of thousands of Uliangha began to dismount and set up camp, and their camps were more tents for grazing than camps.

Tens of thousands of fur tents were erected, and the periphery was crossed between Jixi Fort and the camp with carts seized from nowhere.

"They don't take us seriously!" Lin Su gritted his teeth, after all, he had been in the north for more than a year, and he also knew the way the Mongols and Jurchens camped.

Due to their abundance of horsepower, the Mongols usually reached the front line only in battle, and retreated twenty miles to camp in the face of evenly matched opponents.

Because the Ming army had many foot soldiers, the distance of forty miles back and forth required at least four or five hours, or even six or seven hours, for the Ming army to walk.

For such a long time, the Mongols have long since rested.

Therefore, Harawu's move of not playing cards according to the routine is undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face of the Bohai Navy.

In this regard, Lin Su was indignant, but Zhu Gaoxu held his hands in front of his chest and did not think that there was a problem with Harawu's approach.

There are too few soldiers and horses in Jilin City, and the large army stationed in Haragu is in front of the battle, which can suppress the Bohai Navy in momentum at any time and hit the morale of the Bohai Navy.

Once the morale of the Bohai Navy collapsed, Jixi Fort would not last long.

Attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the heart is the top, can understand this meaning, and it is not surprising that Haragu can be canonized as a general by the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

"Don't worry about them, tomorrow they should test the strength of the city wall and Hadaling, so that the brothers can prepare."

In the face of Harawu's heart attack plan, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care, after all, if the heart attack plan wants to work, it must be that everyone still has a way to live.

But in Jilin City at the moment, except for the 1,000 soldiers and horses of Liaodong Dusi, who have no determination to fight to the death, the rest of the people are living behind their wives and children.

They have no way to retreat, even if they attack the heart, it can't work, not to mention that the treatment in Jilin City is much better than that of them outside.

It would be no good for them to follow Haragu.

After a final glance at the Uliangha army outside the city, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and went down the arrow tower to rest.

For him, this day is probably the only day he can rest well in the next few days.

Similarly, Lin Su also explained to the soldiers and servants in the army.

The 1,000 Jurchen Hu of the academy received armor and weapons under Lin Su's arrangement, so that there were still nearly 3,000 armor soldiers in Jilin City, and there seemed to be not many Wuliangha people outside the city.

The people who live outside the customs know how much difference there is between having armor and not having it, so when the armor is in hand, they feel a lot more at ease.

It's a pity that Rao is like this, but there are still people who can't sleep because of nervousness and pressure.

On this night, the fire inside and outside Jixi Fort was bright, and there were many people who couldn't sleep.

It's just that with the passage of time, no matter how much pressure they have, they have to succumb to their body's instincts and slowly fall asleep.

In the roar of the rolling horses, the night passed quickly.

As the sky gradually brightened, everyone got up to prepare for the possible outbreak of the First World War today.

The Bohai Navy in the city lit a fire for cooking, prepared water and firewood.

Outside the city, the army of Wuliangha cut down trees and supervised the construction of siege equipment such as cloud chariots, cloud ladders, Lu bus chariots, and Hui Hui cannons.

However, before the two sides fought, Harawu still wanted to capture Jixi Fort and Jilin City at the lowest cost, so he released a Jurchen captive to give Zhu Gaoxu a message.

"General Haragu said that if you are willing to surrender, he can canonize you as the king of Wu to the Great Khan, and continue to use Jilin City as your fief, on the condition that you only need to provide grain and grass for the Great Khan every year......"

In the gate tower of Jixi Fort, Zhu Gaoxu was cutting peaches with a knife, and a Jurchen servant who had studied in the academy translated the words of the Jurchen captive in front of him.

He knelt on the ground, confessed the words that Harawu had asked him to explain, and looked at the dull generals and colonels around him with panicked eyes.

In response to Harawu's words, Zhu Gaoxu took a bite of peach flesh and asked the captive nonchalantly: "Do you still have family?" ”

"No, they're all dead......," the captive was stunned at the mention of his family, and then bitterly uttered the answer.

"Since I have no family, I will stay in this city." Zhu Gaoxu said, turned his head and explained to Lin Su: "Give him a knife, he can kill a few Hu soldiers to see himself." ”

"Yes!" Lin Su responded, and he was not too hostile to this captive.

After all, these people were also the Jurchen tribe under the protection of the Bohai Navy, but because their leaders were stupid, they lost the lives of their wives and children.

Now that the Bohai Navy is short of people, killing a prisoner will not improve their morale, not to mention that this prisoner is still a Jurchen, if it is seen by the other twenty-four Jurchens, I am afraid it will affect their morale.

"Woo woo woo ......"

Not long after the Jurchen people were taken in, a horn sounded outside the city.

After observing the movements of the Wuliangha people, a hundred household officials at the entrance of the city gate tower turned around and walked into the building to greet Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, the Hu soldiers have begun to attack, they have divided into two parts, one of which has gone to Hadaling."

"Where's the quantity?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't raise his head and continued to eat the peach.

"There are more than 1,000 people each, and it should be a test of our army's arrangement." The hundred household officials bowed their heads and replied, and Zhu Gaoxu also responded after hearing this, and then instructed Lin Su:

"I've almost eaten, and now it's time to work."

"Pass on my military order, if the Jurchen Hu kills one person, he can enter Jilin City and receive Juntian."

"If the Bohai Navy kills one person, he will be rewarded with five acres of land, and he will be promoted to an official position as appropriate."

"Thousands of officers and soldiers of Shenyang Zhongwei will be rewarded three times if they kill one person!"

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's reward, everyone was excited to return the gift.

At present, it is the Hongwu period, because the Ming army has been out of the fortress many times, and tens of thousands of people have been beheaded at every turn, so there is not much reward for beheading.

The reward of three times may not seem like much, but in this period when ordinary people only have about ten times a year, three times a year is enough to do many things.

For the officers and soldiers of Liaodong, they were not interested in the fields of Jilin City, they were more interested in money.

As long as you kill a few Tartars, you will have the family's expenses for a whole year.

For the officers and soldiers of Jilin City, appreciating five acres of land is undoubtedly the greatest incentive, especially for the Jurchen servants, as long as they kill three or five people, they can have the whole family in Jilin City without worry.

Jilin City's Juntian policy is no less than turning over serfs to sing for them who have been oppressed by the headmen.

As long as one person is killed, the whole family can get several acres of uniform land at the end of the year, not to mention that this uniform field is not a one-time time, but every year.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Not long after, with the delivery of the military order, the entire Jixi Fort defense line began to resound with shouts of killing, and everyone only felt full of energy.

This situation was also noticed by the Kharagu in the camp of Uliangha, but he did not care.

In the information he had, there were only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in Jilin City, and there were only 2,000 or 3,000 men if they were men.

Even if the Jurchens fled south to join their ranks, the number would not exceed four or five thousand at most.

Moreover, among this group of people, only the more than 1,000 armor soldiers have combat effectiveness, and as long as the armor soldiers are exhausted, the entire defense line will collapse immediately.

With this in mind, Haragu calmly waited for the two thousand men sent out to make a contribution.

He only needed to know how many defenders of Hadaling and Jixi Fort were before he could decide which side to attack.

Thinking of this, he rode quietly on horseback and watched his more than 1,000 soldiers and horses march towards Hadaling and Jixi Fort.

The Hu soldiers who attacked Jixi Fort pushed the return cannon to the front line, and then began to put the stones that had just arrived last night on the return cannon and smashed it down with a wooden mallet.

"Bang!"

Fifteen return guns were fired, and more than ten pounds of stones were thrown out of a distance of more than half a mile, and finally smashed heavily on the cement wall.

The concrete walls, mixed with cement and gravel, were smashed with white marks and dust splattered.

Feeling the slight vibration under his feet, Zhu Gaoxu's brows furrowed slightly.

The cement he had made was very coarse, and although it had been covered with a thick layer of rubble and enough rubble, if the fifteen returning guns were allowed to bombard indiscriminately, they might have been smashed open.

"This group of Hu soldiers still has the technology to return the artillery......

Observing the return cannon outside the city, Zhu Gaoxu understood why Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di failed to eliminate the Northern Yuan in one fell swoop.

Being able to run is secondary, mainly because the foundation left by the Yuan Dynasty is too thick, and all the departments of the grassland have mastered a certain amount of Yuan Dynasty technology, whether it is siege or war, armor production, it is much stronger than the previous Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Hui and other tribes.

The foundation of the Northern Yuan Dynasty supported them through the most difficult Hongwu and Yongle periods, and then attracted the development period of Renxuan's shrinkage and weakness.

Although three northern expeditions were launched in the following orthodox years, striking at the Tatars and Warat, they were not painful in the end, not only failed to inflict heavy losses on them, but also contributed a large number of ordnance and craftsmen in the Tumubao Rebellion, which made the Mongols strong again, and then left the capital for the rise of Dayan Khan later.

But after all, that is the history that happened in the previous life, and the grassland tribes in this life will not have a chance to breathe.

As for the present......

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to figure out the armor on his body, and the cold armor provided him with enough security.

"Bring me my armor ......"

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and ordered the two guards beside him, and the two looked at each other when they heard this, and finally asked cautiously: "Your Highness, are you...... Want to wear double armor? ”

They asked very carefully, but their eyes were incredulous.

The armor of the Ming army was heavy, and ordinary people would be exhausted in a quarter of an hour of fighting in single armor, let alone double armor.

It's just that in the face of their disbelief, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the Wuliangha army outside the city: "Naturally! ”

(End of chapter)