At noon, the cry was restless.

Outside Jixi Fort, fifteen return guns continuously threw stones, but in one morning, hundreds of stones flew in.

In Jixi Fort, all the soldiers snuggled behind the city wall, watching the stones fly into the city and smash out large pits.

Behind the female wall, Zhu Gaoxu and Lin Su sat together, and Lin Su said anxiously: "Your Highness, use artillery, you have been beaten, and the morale of the brothers is about to be lost!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness, don't we have eight cannons?!"

"Your Highness, use artillery!"

Behind the women's wall, the generals next to Zhu Gaoxu begged him to use artillery, but only Zhu Gaoxu knew how powerful his eight artillery pieces were.

These cannons were disassembled and placed by Lin Su from the ship to the six arrow towers of Jixi Fort, and if they insisted on fighting, they could be killed, but the damage caused was not large.

Rather than being used to fight back the artillery, it is better to keep it for the Uliangha who are trying to storm the city.

"It's not the time to use them, and you can't use artillery without my military order."

After expressing his attitude, Zhu Gaoxu continued: "This time the return artillery can't break through the city wall for the time being, and it can't hurt the brothers, if they want to fight, let them fight, and when they find that it is useless, they will naturally change the attack method." ”

"Let the brothers wait, give me a little good greeting to this group of Hu soldiers!"

"Yes......" Despite Zhu Gaoxu's explanation, everyone still felt a sigh of relief in their chests.

However, compared to the breath they were holding, Zhang Chun, who was stationed on Hadaling Mountain at this moment, ushered in the first battle under his own command.

"Smash! Stone these guys to death! ”

On the western slope of Hadaling, thousands of Uliangha people were knocked down one by one by Zhang Chun and others with sassagros.

Dozens of corpses lay on the white ground on the deforested western slope, and the remaining 900 or so Uliangha people hid in the forest under the white ground, relying on trees to survive.

The western slope of Hadaling is not difficult to climb, but compared to climbing the mountain, the Bohai Navy that keeps throwing sassal wood down the slope is terrifying.

Dozens of catties of sassal wood were thrown out of the wooden platform, rolled down the gentle slope, injured next to each other, and died when hit, but they were not given a way to live.

The most important thing is that the Bohai Navy's sandalwood is inexhaustible, but if you cut down one or two trees, it is enough to make dozens of sandalwoods.

Thousands of people were thus suppressed by the six hundred men on the slope, and the soldiers and the sassalwoods thrown by the servants were the same, and one person could be several people.

Even if the thousand households of Uliangha kept people attacking, as soon as someone came out and tried to climb, four or five sassal trees immediately rolled down the slope, and the power was terrifying, and everyone was so frightened that they leaned against the trees and did not dare to move at will.

Qianhu had no choice but to send someone down the mountain to deliver the message.

"Excuses!"

When the news of Xipo reached the ears of Haragu, he immediately cursed, and the hundred households who came to deliver the message could only bow their heads.

Looking at his appearance, Harawu knew that the news from Xipo was true, so he could only calm down and continue to ask, "How many people are there on the mountain?" ”

"They were hiding behind wooden rafts, we couldn't see clearly, but judging by the speed at which they threw the logs, it shouldn't be less than five hundred."

Baihu stubbornly prayed, and Harawu didn't think it was strange after hearing it.

Relying on the geographical advantage, it is not strange to block a thousand people with 500 people.

"Five hundred people...... Halagu looked at the city wall of Jixi Fort, which was being suppressed by the return artillery, and he made a simple calculation: "In other words, there should be only three or four thousand people on this city wall." ”

"Stop!" With a plan in mind, Haragu raised his hand to signal the return cannon to stop firing.

After he gave the order, the fifteen return guns began to stop firing, and the Mongols who were responsible for operating the return guns also began to replace the belts of the return guns.

Because they are animal belts, they are not durable and have to be replaced once they are used frequently.

Looking at the actions of his soldiers and horses changing their belts, Harawu looked at a fat man beside him: "Aza Shiri Taiji, please take your five thousand households to attack the city, pay attention to the city walls of the southerners, and look for their loopholes." ”

"Don't worry, I'll find it!" Azashri didn't complain, but just hugged his chest and agreed.

He turned his horse's head and left, and after about half an hour, more than a thousand Jurchen prisoners who had been beaten came out of the camp.

They stepped forward to push the siege equipment such as the Lu Gong and the Cloud Chariot for the Uliangha people, while the 5,000 men of Azashri followed them and walked carefully.

"The siege has begun, and each hundred households are ready!"

At the head of the city, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the more than 5,000 Uliangha people who walked out of the camp with excitement, while Lin Su stood up and shouted to the soldiers around him.

Butang began to pass Lin Su's military orders, and more than 1,500 soldiers and 1,000 armored Jurchens on the city wall began to prepare for battle.

The stove, which had been sparkling, was filled with coal and dry firewood, and the iron pot was placed and buckets of river water were poured into it.

These iron pots are not large, a bucket of water corresponds to an iron pot, and each iron pot corresponds to each stack.

Once the Uryanha began to besiege the city, the boiling water in these iron pots could warm up any Uryanha who tried to siege the city.

"Drums to help!"

"Boom... Boom... Boom... Knock ......"

At the head of the city, the drums on the six arrow towers began to sound, and because of the large intervals, the drums were not loud, but they were enough for everyone on the road to hear.

It's not noisy, it's uplifting.

"Hu Dog! Come and kill your grandfather and me! ”

"I'm in your mother!"

"Ah!!h

Behind the women's wall, some new soldiers from Liaodong who had never been on the battlefield shouted to vent their nervousness.

I have to say that this is very useful, so a lot of people began to insult it.

The siege equipment was gradually advanced, and ten cloud chariots and four Lu public chariots attacked the city wall respectively.

Due to lack of time, Jixi Fort only strengthened and extended the city wall last year, and did not dig a moat.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the siege equipment has come to the city.

The Ming army raised bows and arrows, and many Jurchens who were captured and helped the Uliangha people to attack the city were shot.

Without armor, they are just a flock of lambs.

During this period, no one tried to surrender to the Ming army at the head of the city, trying to pull themselves up to the city, but the noise of the battlefield drowned out their voices, and a thousand Jurchens were killed by arrows.

At the same time, the cloud car and the Lu bus also crashed into the city wall of Jixi Fort.

The Uliangha people began to board the cloud chariot and the Lü bus, and with the lowering of the cloud ladder and siege board, the Uliangha people began to climb the cloud ladder, climbed the Lü bus and rushed to the city wall.

"Shoot!"

Lin Su led the soldiers around him to shoot arrows at the narrow space in the Lu bus, but those who could attack the city were often elites, and the elite of Wuliangha, who was wearing armor, held a round shield and rushed out of the Lu bus with arrows and rushed onto the city wall.

The two sides began to fight on the horse road, most of the Uliangha were short and thin, but most of the Uliangha who could wear armor were stout, and even if they were short, they could burst out with the strength to kill.

Scimitar, Iron Bone, Waist Knife, Melon Hammer......

The weapons of the two armies collided on the horse road, and the Ming army cooperated tacitly, taking advantage of their height and strength, raising a shield in front to attack, and stabbing spears in the face of the Uliangha soldiers from the rear.

On the ladder, there were constantly climbing Uliangha soldiers, and their flesh was scalded by the boiling water poured out by the Jurchens, and the flesh and blood were glued together with the leather armor on their bodies.

The wailing and screaming resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant, and a tall Uliangha soldier with a figure about the same size as the Ming army jumped off the siege board, and smashed two iron bones in his hand.

Before the Uliangha soldiers who fell from the two-zhang high horse road got up, they were smashed by the Jurchen Hu who was waiting at the base of the city wall with hammers and wooden mallets, and they convulsed and died in a short time.

The role that an individual's bravery can play on the battlefield is very limited, unless it can be done to the extent that one man can be the most powerful......

The number of Uliangha people on the city wall who entered the road through the Lu bus gradually increased, and they began to spread out, widening their own position.

Because both sides were wearing armor, only a handful of people died in the battle for a long time.

However, there were not a few leather-armored Uliangha soldiers who climbed the ladder who were burned and shot.

"All the 500 armor soldiers in my own formation have been sent, as long as you gain a firm foothold, you will soon be able to capture this place."

In this formation, Azashri and Haragu talked about their arrangements, and Haragu looked at the battlefield solemnly.

The Ming army was well prepared, and few of the Wuliangha people who climbed the cloud car could climb up, but the Lu bus continuously transported soldiers onto the road.

"Let the craftsman build another ten Lu buses!"

Harawu turned his head to give an order to Qianhu beside him, and Qianhu took the order and left, and after a while, the sound of axes and chisels began to appear in the rear.

However, compared with this sound, what can envelop the entire river beach more is the shouting and killing sound on Jixi Fort.

The Ming army in the city was prepared, and whenever there was an opportunity, they would push the Uliangha people into the city, and let the Jurchen servants who were ambushed under the city play a role.

During this period, some Ming soldiers fell, but they were quickly carried off the battlefield and sent to the temporary military medical center behind Jixi Fort to check their injuries.

If there are no injuries such as internal injuries and broken bones, they will be woken up and continue to go to war.

In the event of internal injuries or broken bones, their armor will be removed and they will be taken up the city walls.

As time passed, the 500 armoured soldiers of Azashri were sharply reduced to more than 400, but they also managed to gain a foothold, and many leather armoured soldiers began to keep up with them, climbing the road through the Lu bus.

The Uliang Hajia soldiers who stood on their feet had a clear goal, and they went to the city gate tower to kill, trying to pull up the jack gate through the mechanism.

The Ming army tried to stop it, but eventually retreated because of the narrow walls and the large defensive surface.

Not long after, Lin Su and more than 100 Ming troops retreated to the horse road next to the city gate tower, and although the Wuliang Hajia soldiers in front of them had been hammered to death by hundreds of Ming troops in the rear, they were not afraid of death to put the main attack direction on Lin Su's 100 people.

"Hold on! Don't let these hugs disturb the peace of His Highness! ”

Lin Su shouted with a hammer, reminding everyone.

He was about to lead his troops to continue to charge, but the Hu soldiers in front of him stopped and looked behind him in horror.

Lin Su turned around, and the tall figure enveloped him.

"Temple... Temple... His Royal Highness ...... "Looking at Zhu Gaoxu, who is much taller than himself, because he is wearing double armor, Zhu Gaoxu at this moment looks much burlier than usual.

"Get out of the way!" Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his hand to pick him away, the force was too great, and Lin Su was almost knocked to the ground.

When he got up in a hurry, Zhu Gaoxu rushed towards Hu Bing with an iron shovel in both hands.

No one seems to have a deep understanding of Zhu Gaoxu's martial arts, and he usually keeps his hands when he practices martial arts with Lin Su on weekdays.

The only time I made a serious shot, I'm afraid was the last time I hit Xiyangha with an arrow, and I rushed into the enemy formation and rushed out smoothly.

Many people in the army knew about these things, but except for those who had seen them with their own eyes, the rest regarded them as exaggerated claims.

But today, their outlook has changed......

"Get out!"

"Uhh

In Zhu Gaoxu's hands, the two ten-pound iron hammers were lighter than the two or three pounds of blunt soldiers in the hands of ordinary soldiers, and he charged alone with more than 100 armored soldiers.

The two sides collided, and some Hu soldiers wanted to use knives to insert their knives into the gaps in their armor, some swung their hammers, and some threw throwing axes.

It's just that no matter what, the armor on Zhu Gaoxu's body has never been smashed through a bit, and he himself hasn't even taken half a step back.

With the swing of the iron shovel, the Hu soldiers who were hit were smashed into the air with their teeth full, and the whole person took off and fell into the city like a dry onion.

Hu Bing jumped up and tried to insert a sharp knife into the gap between Zhu Gaoxu's neck armor, but was beaten back into the crowd by Zhu Gaoxu.

"Rush! Follow Your Highness! ”

"Rush to !!"

The blood rushed straight to his head, Lin Su shouted, his whole face was red from congestion, and the soldiers behind him were also boiling.

"Hold him! He's only one man! ”

The hundred household officials among the Hu soldiers shouted, and the three or five Hu soldiers immediately gave up their weapons and hugged Zhu Gaoxu's feet and hands.

Zhu Gaoxu dropped the iron shovel in one hand and grabbed one of them.

Hu Bing, who was less than five feet long and weighed no more than one hundred and twenty-three pounds, was grabbed by him with one hand and smashed into the Hu soldier in front of him.

"Again!!"

Zhu Gaoxu trembled excitedly, and several sharp knives stabbed into his chest, along the gap between the armor.

Hu Bing, who succeeded, had a smile on his face, but before the smile could be revealed, it became stiff.

"Za... I can't get in......"

A Hu soldier said tremblingly, his face frightened.

No one thought that Zhu Gaochu was wearing double armor, they just thought that Zhu Gaochu was invulnerable.

The iron shovel was swung and smashed, and the frightened Hu soldier was hit by the force of Huashan and hit the Tianling Gai, and fell headlong.

"This guy is not human!"

Looking at the impenetrable Zhu Gaoxu, some Hu soldiers wanted to run back, and Zhu Gaoxu also wanted to go forward to chase and kill, but his hands and feet were hugged by Hu soldiers, so he had to smash to death the few Hu soldiers who were holding him.

Some Hu soldiers did not believe that Zhu Gaochu was invulnerable, and tried to get close to Zhu Gaoxu, swinging a knife and stabbing through his neck armor, but Zhu Gaoxu grabbed him in his hand.

Seeing this, several other Hu soldiers targeted their necks and some of their legs.

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his other hand and grabbed the man, sandwiched it under the armpit of his arms with the other person, and his elbow suddenly exerted force.

"Uh-uh-uh-uh......" A feeling of suffocation came, and the two Hu soldiers were kicked by their legs.

"Your Highness!"

Lin Su led his troops to rush up, smashed Hu Bing who tried to slash Zhu Gaoxu's leg, and kicked him off the city wall.

When he looked back at Zhu Gaoxu, he saw that Zhu Gaoxu was holding the two Hu soldiers, with more than a dozen corpses under his feet.

Before he could react, the two Hu soldiers resisted a little weakly, and in the end, they didn't react anymore, and they were caught alive by Zhu Gaoxu, showing their strength......

At this moment, Lin Sufang knew how much strength Zhu Gaoxu had collected when he practiced martial arts with his others on weekdays.

"Kill them all!"

Before Lin Su could react, Zhu Gaoxu knelt on one knee, gasping for breath, staring at the Wuliang Hajia soldiers in front of him who were constantly retreating from the compressed space of the Bohai Navy.

"Yes!" reacted, Lin Su immediately joined the Bohai Navy, but Zhu Gaoxu sat on the corpse of a Hu soldier, leaning against the women's wall and panting.

He's powerful, but he's not superhuman.

More than a dozen people were killed in a row by more than a dozen breaths, which had reached the limit of his physical strength at his current age.

At this moment, he only felt tired, if he hadn't made sure that there were no big wounds on his body, I am afraid that this sense of detachment would have made him think that he was seriously injured.

"Kill!!"

The sound of killing sounded in his ears, and in front of him were corpses all over the ground, blood stained down the road and into the castle.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhu Gaoxu looked up at the sky.

Compared with the blood on the ground, the sky was always blue, and the sun that shone on the heavens and the earth was so bright that he couldn't open his eyes.

"Bell! Clang! Clang! ”

Outside the city, the sound of gold sounded, and many armored soldiers who had not yet died in battle began to jump back to the Lu bus to retreat when they heard the sound, and those light soldiers in leather armor ran back to their main formation.

"Can't be returned! Take it down! ”

In the middle of this formation, Azashiri shouted at Harawu with red eyes, and Harawu was annoyed by him and scolded back: "Look at how many of your armor soldiers have died, they have already begun to be rushed back to the Lu bus by the Ming army, I let Mingjin protect your strength, you idiot!" ”

Halawu's scolding made Azashri lose face, but he also reacted that Haragu was indeed doing his own good.

However, being scolded in public, Azashiri still couldn't save face, so he viciously shouted to the thousand households behind him: "The whole army retreats!" ”

"Yes......" Although Chiho was also murdered, he also knew that it was indeed a good time to retreat.

Although the battle only started half an hour, their casualties had already reached hundreds, and the wavering of the army's morale was one thing, and the damage to strength was the most deadly.

Uliangha began to collect troops on all fronts, and the Ming army at the head of the city also cheered and raised their bows and arrows, and fired arrows at the fleeing Hu soldiers.

The attack may have been slow, but in the retreat, the Hu soldiers of Uliangha ran two legs faster than four legs.

However, at the end of the day, the army retreated, leaving only hundreds of corpses inside and outside the city.

"Hu Dog! Come on! Come and kill your grandpa! ”

"Dog Tartar, fight again!"

"A group of wild donkeys, if you want to kill your father, wait for another ten lifetimes!"

"Rebel, fight again......"

In the face of the retreating Hu soldiers, everyone vented their abuse.

Compared to them still having time to vent, Zhu Gaoxu and Lin Su had already begun to count the casualties, and at the same time ordered people to hang the corpses outside the city into the city to prepare for unified disposal.

"Hiss......"

Inside the city gate tower, Zhu Gaoxu gasped and took off the two layers of armor one by one.

He didn't feel it during the war, but after the battle, he felt a sting in his body.

The two layers of armor were taken off, and a guard wiped the blood stains off Zhu Gaoxu's body with a clean coarse cloth dipped in hot water.

"Your Highness, you have been hit by six knife wounds, but fortunately, you were only scratched by the tip of the knife, and did not hurt your flesh and bones."

"Your Highness's injuries are all frontal, it's really brave......"

Two guards, one wiped the blood, the other served boiling water, and at the same time sighed Zhu Gaoxu's bravery.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't care about their praise, but said to the two: "Get two buckets of hot water and find clothes." ”

"Yes!" The two of them stood up straight, turned around and went out to find two buckets of hot water and one bucket of cold water.

Zhu Gaoxu got up and washed his body, during which he also looked at his wounds.

The four wounds on the chest, all of which are one inch and half an inch in size, should be wounds caused by the tip of the knife, and there are two two-inch and one inch-wide cut on the calf, which only cut some flesh and skin, and there is no need for stitches.

After washing, Zhu Gaoxu himself applied medicine to the three wounds on his legs, and then beckoned the two guards guarding the gatehouse to give him medicine on his chest.

The coarse cloth that boiled and dried in boiling water was wrapped, and normally, it would take six or seven days at most.

"Your Highness!"

As soon as the medicine was over, before Zhu Gaoxu could get dressed, the voices of Lin Su and Yishiha sounded from outside the building.

The two of them were wearing armor and some blood stains on their bodies, but they were very happy with the smiles on their faces.

"Your Highness......" The two entered the building to make a move, and Lin Su reported the good news: "The brothers have calculated and killed 1,396 Tartars, including 125 armor soldiers, 825 Jurchens, and the rest are ordinary Hu soldiers, and another 125 sets of armor have been captured. ”

"What about the dead and wounded?" Zhu Gaoxu got dressed, tidied up his own and asked him at the same time.

At this time, Yishaha, who was in charge of commanding the subordinates, stepped forward and said: "Seventeen brothers were killed in the battle, twenty-six were from Liaodong, and twenty-five were from Hu, thirty-five were seriously wounded and recuperated, seventy-two from Liaodong, and fifty-nine from Hu. ”

"Counting it, sixty-eight were killed in battle, one hundred and sixty-six were seriously wounded and recuperated, and two hundred and thirty-four were killed and wounded."

"That is, one hundred and fifty armor soldiers cannot participate in the battle......"

The words of Yisha were very heavy, but compared to the nearly 1,400 Tartars who were killed, nearly 1 to 10 casualties were already a great victory.

"Not counting the Jurchens, we only killed less than six hundred of them."

Compared with their happiness, Zhu Gaoxu was not happy.

One hundred and fifty soldiers were killed and wounded for more than 570 Tartars, and it seemed that the results were brilliant, but now there were only 3,000 soldiers in Jixi Fort, and more than 1,200 of them were not even new soldiers.

The casualties of one hundred and fifty armor soldiers were already unacceptable to Zhu Gaoxu.

"Your Highness!"

Outside the building, Wang Yi, who was promoted to a thousand-household official by Zhu Gaoxu yesterday, walked in, with the same appearance as Lin Su and them, covered in blood.

As soon as he walked in, he was shocked, and then reported: "The walls have been inspected, and there are no cracks. ”

"Good ......" Hearing the news, Zhu Gaoxu's slightly heavy mood was finally relieved.

But even so, he looked out the door.

Through here, he could clearly see the Uliang Hahu soldiers who had withdrawn to their own position.

Although more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle, this was not too many casualties for them at all, after all, there were less than 600 Hu soldiers among them, and Jixi Fort had already lost 150 people killed and seriously wounded.

Six hundred for one hundred and fifty, Haragu and Uliangha can be exchanged, but he Zhu Gaoxu can't afford to change it......

(End of chapter)