It was late at night, and although the two armies were in a state of fighting, there was silence inside and outside Haozhou City at the moment.

Within five miles outside the city, the grass and trees were almost trampled to the ground, and there were no birds when I looked up, and no mice were seen when I looked down, but the wind was gusting, and the corpse gas was scattered. Occasionally, a figure swayed slightly, and several heart-piercing arrows shot with the sound of the whimpering wind, and before he could snort, he fell to the ground. Then four or five horsemen flew in, all dressed in iron armor and carrying quivers, with bows in their hands and swords in their right hands, and they made a round about, and then they pulled the reins,* and the horses, all of them in leather armor, raised their hooves wrapped in thick cotton cloth, and galloped away.

Zhu Yuanzhang led the river into the sea and Jiang into the spring and stood in the city tower for a while, and then ordered to disperse and rest. These days, Zhu Yuanzhang guards the city tower almost day and night, and even sleeps in a command guard post in the city tower. Zhu Yuanzhang entered the guard, took off his robe outside, ordered the sergeant to pour a cup of hot tea, picked up a book under the oil lamp and read it for a while, met with several groups of subordinates, and dealt with some chores in the city.

In the city, due to the siege of the Yuan army, a curfew has already been implemented. As soon as the sky is dark, every house closes the door and locks it, blows the fire and turns out the lights. On the street, a pair of red-turban sergeants, armed with torches and broadswords, walked back and forth. Occasionally, in the depths of the courtyard, the sound of singing, dancing and laughing rises, and before it floats to the high wall of the courtyard, it has already disappeared into the night sky.

At dawn tomorrow, Zhu Yuanzhang got up early again, and after inspecting it, he took Jiang into Hai and Jiang into Spring and others, went down to the city tower, and came to the street. After using the breakfast, he went straight to Guo Zixing's mansion, first took the time to meet with his beloved wife Ma, and when Guo Zi got up to bed and washed, he came to Generalissimo Peng's mansion with him, and reported the recent military situation to several generalissimos, and after some discussion, when he came out, it was almost noon. Just as he was about to lead the people to the place where the munitions were hoarding and inspect them carefully, there was a sudden urgent report, "Send out the outposts outside the city, and all of them will be destroyed overnight, and no one has escaped!"

At that moment, Zhu Yuanzhang went up to the city tower and summoned the middle-level generals from all sides to defend the city to gather in the stone-built guard of the north tower and discuss it with all their mouths. In the end, it boils down to two things: one is whether the Yuan army has elite reinforcements? Second, whether the Yuan army has made a big move, which is to cut off the eyes and ears of our army in advance? However, whether or not to send out another outpost has caused disagreement among the generals. Because the outposts sent are all skilled in each department, if they are sent out and can't come back, then no one will feel distressed. In the end, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who overrode public opinion, did his best to spy on the military situation. It was decided that six people from the headquarters would be led by Jiang Chengchun, and three people from each of the rest of the departments would secretly go out of the city tonight, and they must find out the movements of the Yuan army. At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that all the sergeants in the city who could stand should go to the city tower to fight, and ordered the elderly and children to be organized into an array and gather in the city to stand by. That night, more than a dozen sentinels were scattered into the vast night outside the city. Zhu Yuanzhang and the generals continued to inspect the north gate and everywhere. Who knows, at night, there is no movement outside the city, and the Yuan army camp seems to be like a sleeping beast, and not a single soldier comes to attack. The crowd exhaled a little, chatted a few more words, and then dispersed.

When they arrived, the soldiers defending the city suddenly heard a few arrows swishing from under the city, and those arrows were obviously shot by the sentinel sent out tonight, and the tail brought a stream of fire and made a sharp sound, rising from the foot of the city, like a holiday flower. Then came the shouts of Jiang Chengchun and the others below, "The enemy is attacking! The Yuan army is attacking the city in a big way!" The soldiers hurriedly lit the fire, picked up the torches, and looked outside the city!

Suddenly, there were several cannon shots, countless torches lit up one after another, and the dense Yuan army was silently approaching two or three hundred meters outside the city! Then, in the rear of the handsome tent, the flag danced, and a horse general, with a wave of his long knife, shouted loudly, "Kill all the White Lotus bandits, and you can't help attacking the city for three days!" Suddenly, countless killing shouts rose to the sky.

I saw that among the woods on the east side, a number of catapults were set up in unison, slowly pushed to the northeast corner of the city wall, lined up with the Yuan army, and then countless boulders and firearms fell from the sky, directly rushing to the city tower in the north direction. The night sky of Haozhou City Tower was suddenly bright.

Immediately after that, a bolt of arrows, shining with dazzling light and flames like poisonous tongues, streaked across the night sky and poured down on the castle tower like a torrential rain. Then, there was another earth-shattering shout of killing, and the Yuan army infantry was in a team of 100 people, each team was fifty meters apart, holding a round shield, wielding a big knife, protecting the sergeant who was carrying the ladder, and rushed to the root of the city wall. What's more, a cavalry of hundreds of people, horses wearing leather armor, people wearing iron armor, using cow belts, tied to dozens of big trees hugged by three people, slowly walking towards the north gate, every step of the way, the earth seems to tremble, raising dust half a man high, making a dull sound.

There were even thousands of township troops, waiting for dozens of ladders, from the west tower in the northwest corner, launched an attack!

Zhu Yuanzhang and other generals of the rebel army had already woken up. While informing the major marshals in the city, he dispatched manpower, relying on the battlements of the city tower and two or three high guards, to guard the north tower of the main gate of Haozhou.

Ladies and gentlemen, woke up from the gentle township, and learned that the enemy army was pouring out, uniting with the township army, and attacking the city at night.

Zhu Yuanzhang, seeing that the northeast corner of the city tower was suppressed and blocked by the Yuan army's catapults, not only could the east sergeants not come to the north to respond, but even the road to the city tower in the northeast corner was difficult to pass. Immediately, the order was sent that the troops defending the city in the east went out of the city to attack the northeast woods outside the city, and ordered the old people and children who had been organized in the city to set up ladders with the inside of the north building, and the sergeants in the northeast of the city quickly climbed to the north tower along the ladder to reinforce them.

He also ordered several teams of archers to shoot rockets at the enemy soldiers who had climbed the highest ladder in the middle of the north tower and in the east and west guard posts. He led a team of personal soldiers to guard the battlements above the main gate, urging the sergeants to lift boulders, rolling logs and firearms, and throw them downwards to stop the Yuan cavalry, break through the city gate, and most of them entered the city.

Since Jia Lu angrily reprimanded Jia Lu that day, the generals of the Yuan army did not dare to order a retreat. Sticky bones, Timur and others even personally led the overseers to the front line, and when they encountered those who screamed in panic and dodged backwards, they stabbed them hard. Therefore, the Yuan army also rushed forward, climbed up, shouted wah, and in the rain of swords and arrows, one after another, step by step, advanced towards the city tower. Several times, dozens of Yuan soldiers rushed up to the city tower and made a gap, thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's response in the center, with his own soldiers, fighting back and forth, before he pressed back.

In the west of the city tower, Zhao Junyong's troops gradually struggled in the face of the brave and fierce township army. Although the department of Sun Deya, who was guarding the south gate behind, rushed to support, the person in charge of the township army, Pan Ruhu, although he was a literati jinshi, but he had hills and valleys in his chest, and by the night, he concealed Zhao Junyong's department, concentrated seven or eight cloud ladders, and captured the northwest corner early, constantly cutting off the northwest strategy.

At this time, above the city tower, the east, north and west sides could not look at each other, and the north gate was crumbling under the impact of the Yuan cavalry giant tree. There are also huge boulders and rockets, which fall on the inner side of the city tower and the city wall. First, the old people and children in the group, wounded and bleeding, cried out, and then, gradually, even the soldiers defending the city gradually became panicked.

Zhu Yuanzhang, seeing this scene, shouted, and with the sword in his hand, he cut a Yuan army who had just climbed the city tower into two, and then shouted, "All archers, shoot Lao Tzu fiercely to kill the people who ascended the city on both sides." Lao Tzu here, you don't have to worry about it!" immediately went down to the city tower and urged Jiang Chengchun, who had just entered the city, to lead two hundred soldiers to lead a group of old people and children on the inside of the city gate. One hundred sergeants quickly strengthened the city gate, and the old man and children dug a three-meter-deep and fifteen-meter-long pit at the city gate, followed by another hundred sergeants to build a temporary fortification. All the soldiers in the city quickly assembled at the north gate of the city.

After a while, the north gate collapsed under the continuous and violent impact, and the cavalry of the Yuan army and the surrounding infantry swarmed in. The Yuan army was already greedy for life and afraid of death, and when they saw the opening of the north gate, they all gave up climbing the ladder and directly swarmed from here. Zhu Yuanzhang led Jiang Jinchun and hundreds of other soldiers to shoot the Zhongyuan army crowded in the already dug tunnel into a hedgehog and burned into a burning man.

So it became a meat grinder!

Not only did the Yuan army suffer heavy casualties, but the rebels who were guarding here also fell and died one by one. In the sound of military drums, in the darkness, in the life and death, and in the hearts of the iron-hearted generals, there is nothing but a faint scream, one or two numbers.

Life and death are not important, victory and defeat may be more important!

Suddenly, huge boulders and fire balls rose from the northeast corner of the city, and with a whistling sound, they fell towards the Yuan army camp, as if Mars outside the sky hit the earth. It turned out that it was the eastern garrison troops, who went out of the city and entered the woods in the northeast corner, captured the catapult of the Yuan army, and were turning around at this moment to attack the Yuan army. The Yuan army camp was in turmoil, and the siege was stagnant. A few boulders landed around the tent, bringing up a lot of dust and making people turn over on their backs. Timur immediately raised the sword in his hand and shouted loudly, "Protect the commander!" and then led the sergeants around him, hugged the handsome tent and hurriedly retreated. The Yuan army, with it, also retreated. On the side of the township army, seeing that the catapult in the northeast corner was taken away by the Red Turban Army, the Yuan army retreated and retreated.

Seeing this situation, Jia Lu was in the tent, and said with great hatred, "Timur, misunderstand me!" After several sounds, he fell to the sky and fell unconscious. A few days later, he died of illness in the Yuan army's tent outside Haozhou.

As soon as Jia Lu died, Pan Ruhu left with thousands of township troops. Immediately, the Yuan army also withdrew.

The siege of Haozhou was lifted.

As the saying goes, inside and outside the city, they work hard, piercing the clouds and arrows to break through the sky.

The iron armor of the banner is cold and cold, and the rain of arrows and sparks shines blood red.