Chapter 612: Endless Beacon Fire (7)
"It's been almost ten months, do you want to surround it for a year?" A man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, with some wounds all over his body, but the most important thing was that the right eye on his face was wrapped in a bandage, and there were faint dried blood stains, and he was standing outside a battlefield full of scorched earth and potholes, looking at the dilapidated city wall in the distance, and turned his head to ask Chu Xunyu.
Chu Xunyu also wrapped one arm, and also looked into the distance with him, looking at the city that had been battled and was in danger, smiled bitterly, and said to himself: "Why bother." β
Now it is 1637 AD, Chu Xunyu followed Zhu Yuanzhang to raise troops to crusade against Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shicheng is no longer the "94 hero" when he started to fight against the Yuan, after dominating the Jiangnan side in these years, he acted perversely, and the anti-Yuan fighting spirit is not only becoming more and more depressed, but what is more shameful is that the days are becoming more and more debaucherous day by day, building palaces, levying taxes and levying beauties, and every day is arrogant and lascivious, wine ponds and meat forests, the army is loose, and the people's hearts are loose. So this year, Zhu Yuanzhang officially released "Ping Zhou Xuan", listing Zhang Shicheng's eight major crimes, exposing his absurd nature, perverse behavior, people and gods are angry, and the pro-handsome and benevolent teacher is Fengtian Valve, as a result, this castration is like a bamboo, less than a year after the war, Zhang Shicheng's army was beaten and lost, and the surrender was simply collapsed, and the cultivators who were worshiped on weekdays gradually left, and now the army is besieging the city, and the entire Pingjiang City is besieged, Zhang Shicheng led his troops to defend it, and led the nickname "Ten Dragons" during the period The 100,000 elite soldiers broke through several times, all of which ended in failure, of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's side also paid a lot of price, once to kill the benefits, a hundred battles of good generals often met the spring and almost couldn't live, which shows how determined Zhang Shicheng is to die.
Standing beside Chu Xunyu at this moment is his deputy, a disciple from the "Yumo Cliff", surnamed "Niu", nicknamed "Tuotian Iron Tower", known as "Niu Iron Tower", a demon beast soul descending technique can make himself as hideous and terrifying as the King of Tuota, his cultivation is higher than Chu Xunyu, he is in the Yuan Infant Stage, he joined last year, but he does not have Chu Xunyu's ability to lead troops to fight, so he was sent to assist him. The original Zhao Niuza has fallen, last year was sent from the territory of the Yuanmeng Dynasty in the north to carry out a mission, on the way back in a county town at the border showed traces, was chased by the six Yuanmeng mages captured alive, escorted to the Yuan Dadu to accept the crime of treason, stripped off the Yuan baby, cut two hundred knives alive, and finally disemboweled, exposed the internal organs in the market for three days before choking, Chu Xunyu was furious, personally with four hundred horsemen and more than 20 cultivators raided the county, the county officials who reported the news were full of people and the two Yuanmeng mages stationed in the house all captured alive, and then the street was all beheaded, and the body was hung on the east gate in two sections to show the publicγ Chu Xunyu has changed a total of seven deputies in his decades-long military career, and five of them have died in battle, but it is a pity that the man's heroic dream is that the butcher's knife cuts off the mirage.
At present, the siege of the city besieged the enemy, the grain and grass in Pingjiang City were exhausted, and I heard that the people in the city were already impoverished, grabbing food and food, so Zhu Yuanzhang issued a general attack order, and in the early morning of three days later, Xu Da personally led the Chinese army to attack.
In October, Xu Da began a tragic attack, the army was divided into hundreds of ways to take turns to attack the city, Pingjiang City still has Zhang Shicheng's elite 80,000 people to defend it, although there are few cultivators left, but Zhu Yuanzhang's monks on this side can not take advantage of the slightest advantage, on the day of the siege, many monks flew over the city wall to cast spells to attack, but did not want to be shot by the crossbow, when the monks who climbed the city wall were not stable, a large number of soldiers rushed up with fire oil to hug the cultivators and rolled down the city wall together, igniting the fire** , usually a dozen or so mortal soldiers clinging to the hands and feet of a cultivator to prevent them from sealing and casting spells, and the cultivator is pressed by a dozen or so people under the body and set on fire, accompanied by screams, this is one of the most typical columns and techniques for mortals to defeat cultivators, that is, the tactics of crowds.
In this battle, Chu Xunyu led his brothers to climb the cloud ladder to attack the city, and he had failed six times, more than four hundred brothers and more than twenty cultivators died nearly half, and they were injured even more, half of Niu Tieta's body was burned by the boiling oil defending the city, exuding a disgusting smell of burning, Chu Xunyu himself was hit by two arrows and three knife wounds, and now he is resting in the rear for a short time, waiting for the herald to come over, and continue to follow the next wave of attacks.
Now Chu Xunyu is the captain, and there is no need to fight in person in general, but the military law of the King of Western Wu is very strict, stipulating that the two armies will fight: the soldier dies, the captain is on the captain, the captain is dead, the general is on the general, the general is on the general, the general is on the general, the general is on the hand, and those who retreat are all beheaded. This time it was divided into four attacks, Xu Da mainly attacked the West Gate, Sun Mengxuan, Chang Yuchun, and Liao Yongzhong attacked the remaining three gates, Xu Da was a little better here, I heard that Chang Yuchun was the most miserable, and even Chang Yuchun himself was the main general, but he still returned in vain, and he was hit by an arrow.
Looking at Niu Tieta lying on the ground beside him and snorting in pain, Chu Xunyu sighed and wiped the blood flail on his eyelids, this station completely exposed the weakness of the cultivators, in the past, the cultivators were high-ranking existences, shocking to the heavens, every move was accompanied by great power, and mortals could only look up, but this time, it made the cultivators plant a big fight. Because most of the power of cultivators is in the air, but Zhang Shicheng asked people to hide a large number of crossbows in the houses, plastered with prisoners and smeared with saltpeter and medicines, including the "Yuanrong crossbow" The existence of this kind of great lethality, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang's monk flew over Pingjiang City, a wave of crossbows would shoot over, in front of this huge killing weapon that specializes in killing cultivators, the monk was directly beaten into a hedgehog and fell, for a while, the cultivators did not dare to come forward, so they had to mix in the mortal soldiers and storm the city gate, but just imagine, hundreds of thousands of people in the battle, there are many people and ants, which cultivator dares to rashly cast a spell? That would hurt one's own people, and the damage was definitely not small, and the result became a situation where cultivators were afraid of their hands and feet, and suffered heavy casualties, completely exposing the limitations of cultivators in head-to-head battles.
Chu Xunyu came to Xu Da's side, Xu Da frowned and looked at the scene of shouting and killing in the distance, and saw Chu Xunyu coming over with an injury, so he asked, "How is the injury?"
"The casualties are not small. Chu Xunyu shook his head, "We are cavalry, and we play too little of a role in the battle, but we have suffered a lot of damage." β
"I didn't expect them to be so tenacious after being trapped for more than ten months. Xu Da didn't expect that a lonely city, besieged by bullets and food for a long month, could resist so strongly, which was too surprising.
"Did the other three sides get in?" Chu Xunyu asked.
"Nope. Xu Da shook his head, "Except for Sun Meng's subordinates, the others are even worse than our casualties." β
"I didn't expect Sun Mengxuan to go in. Chu Xunyu gritted his teeth, and secretly said in his heart that this bloodthirsty female madman had not been killed, could the soldiers in Pingjiang City be heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals?
At the moment when the two of them spoke, a firelight suddenly rose into the sky in the battlefield ahead, with a piercing scream, which was particularly eye-catching, and the soldiers in front broke out with earth-shattering cheers, Xu Da was stunned, and then a soldier ran over and shouted excitedly: "Dashuai!
"Okay!" Xu Da raised his eyebrows, waved his hand and shouted, "The three armies are ready!" It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang's army had a "cave mountain digging battalion", which was scattered by Beihai to cultivate the "Yu brothers" Led by the two, the Yu brothers are the best at digging the ground, Pingjiang City relies on Chi Gao Cheng to hold on to this day, after the Yu brothers paid a heavy price, even the elder brother was killed, the younger brother led more than 200 people to destroy the foundation of the city wall from the ground, the city wall collapsed, and now a big gap is exposed, this is a golden opportunity, Xu Da was overjoyed, and immediately let the three armies prepare to attack Pingjiang City.
Xu Da's commander waved the Xiaoling flag, Chu Xunyu stepped on the war horse, and the army entered collectively under the cover of the release of a large number of Taoist cultivators, and the fall of the east gate was the last straw that crushed the camel, and finally, Zhang Shicheng's troops were not supported, the city fell, and Pingjiang was conquered.
"Capture Zhang Jiusi alive! Reward 100 taels of gold!" The army entered the city of Pingjiang, the soldiers shouted one after another, the people were inspired, the morale was high, and it was rumored that the army ordered to search for Zhang Shicheng in the city, Zhang Shicheng's nickname was "Zhang Jiusi", and the folk nicknamed him "General Jiusi".
The soldiers who entered the city collected the remnants of the enemy, opened the other three gates to welcome the army into the city, and searched for Zhang Shicheng's traces, Chu Xunyu took Niu Tieta to gallop on the street, looking at the panicked people in front of him, although Niu Tieta snorted in pain, but he still laughed, and slashed one with a knife in his hand, Chu Xunyu was furious, grabbed his hand and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Lao Tzu is killing people!" Niu Tieta was furious, pointing to the bandaged and bleeding left half of his body and asked, "Brother, don't you see that half of your brother and I have maimed them? And those more than 200 brothers have confessed?
"They are not soldiers, they are people!" Chu Xunyu was also angry, "How can you kill the people?"
"The people are soldiers when they put on their clothes!" Niu Tieta was furious, "Pingjiang City has been besieged for so long, if it weren't for the help of these stupid people, he Zhang Jiusi would be as useless as a pig and a dog, and he would be able to fight like he is today?
"No!" Chu Xunyu said coldly, "I am the captain, you are the deputy, you have to listen to what I say, the military orders are like a mountain, and they have all sworn by the demons and blood, and those who disobey the orders will be engaged in military law." β
"...... you" Niu Tieta's teeth itched with hatred, he didn't expect Chu Xunyu to use his official rank to oppress people, otherwise he would have killed this Jindan stage monk first according to his temper.
As he was talking, a tall building caught fire in the distance......