Chapter 347: Siege
Because it was the palace that was to be attacked, the Northwest Army could no longer use strong siege weapons.
They can only use their weapons to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, and kill all those who rebel.
Use your own weapons to regain all the lost dignity, and use your own life to take back the palace that symbolizes the Mingwu Empire and the hearts of the people of the Mingwu Empire.
Looking at the palace in front of him and listening to the shouts around him, Yan Tianrui was infected and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the traitorous thief is right in front of you, are you afraid." ”
"Don't be afraid, not afraid. ”
The chanting of the earthquake and the shouts in unison raised the morale of the Northwest Army to a peak.
Recently, the Northwest Army's Lian Zhan Lian Jie has cultivated the self-confidence of the Ye Army to a new height.
They firmly believed that as long as they followed Chu Hou, they would definitely be able to win the battle.
When the people who were hiding at home heard the shouts and poked their heads out to look, what they saw was not the coalition army wearing colorful and green armor, but the Ye army in black armor.
They hadn't seen an army other than the rebels for too long, too long.
At this moment, there were even many people who shed tears.
They finally got through it.
They finally waited until they could free their army.
The news of the surrender of the northern city and the entry of the Northwest Army caught the defenders of the other three walls by surprise.
The defenders of the east and west city walls were panicked at this moment, not knowing whether they should lead their troops into the city to resist, or whether they should follow the example of Tian Chong, the defender of the northern city, and surrender to the northwest army.
But their choice was no longer important, because Chu Yujia had no intention of letting go of any of the coalition forces.
If one can be spared, it is Tian Chong, who was the first to throw.
Because he kept the northern city of the daimyo's mansion intact, and also made the soldiers of the Northwest Army sacrifice a lot.
As for those who surrendered later, Chu Yujia would not let them go.
In the face of the sudden entry of the Northwest Army into the city, the unprepared coalition forces did not make much resistance and became chaotic, and in a hurry, the coalition soldiers hurriedly responded to the battle.
You must know that these people are all improvised armies, and there are even many of them, all of which are servant troops recruited on the spot after the coalition army arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion.
The vast majority of these servants are ruffians who want to fish in troubled waters.
Some people didn't want to resist at all, and in their panic, they saw the sword and sword shadow flashing blood, and the first thought in their hearts was not to fight the enemy, but how to escape.
Chu Yujia personally led 20,000 elites to engage in street battles with the coalition forces in the city.
But it's not so much a street fight as a pursuit battle.
This is a cat-and-mouse war, the various armies of the Northwest Army roaming around the city, chasing down the coalition forces fleeing in all directions, and once caught, they are beheaded in the street without saying a word.
This is Chu Yujia's iron blood, and this is also his style.
Since he betrayed the Mingwu Empire, he is the enemy, and the enemy must be cut down to the roots.
When Chu Yujia led the Northwest Army to sweep away the enemies in the city, Yan Tianrui also led the First Army of the Northwest Army to start a life-and-death contest with the enemy troops on the southern city wall.
This is the elite of the coalition and the only team made up of pure Dongmin people.
After the combined forces of the two countries broke through the Daimyo's Mansion, Nancheng has always been garrisoned by Dongmin.
It is also because of this that everyone else wants to surrender, but the defenders of the southern city wall do not.
Because he knows that no matter whether he fights or surrenders, the final result cannot escape a dead word.
So he chose to take a chance, maybe he would get a way out for himself.
But he was obviously overthinking.
Under the impact of Chu Haojie's generals leading his soldiers to sacrifice their lives and deaths, the defenders of the southern city wall were wiped out without even an hour, and most of the coalition troops were captured.
The early stage of the war went very smoothly, and the 100,000 soldiers of the coalition army were wiped out under the onslaught of the Northwest Army.
At the same time, the Northwest Army also firmly controlled most of the Daimyo's Mansion.
However, the only thing that gave Chu Yujia a headache was the palace.
In order to protect the safety of the Son of Heaven and his family, the city defense of the imperial palace is very perfect, almost a city within a city, and there is even a moat.
But these could not stop Chu Yujia from wanting to recover the palace, when even if he ordered his soldiers to carry ladders and rush carts to attack the palace, the arrows on the city's head were like raindrops in the camp of the Northwest Army.
Because the Northwest Army was too numerous and too dense, after this round of arrows, the Northwest Army paid a very heavy price.
Someone once commented on the Northwest Army and said that this army was good at defending cities and long-distance warfare, but it was not good at attacking cities.
Especially like now, without the help of any siege equipment, the soldiers of the Northwest Army are completely relying on a momentum of not fearing death to attack the enemy's city defense.
The soldiers of the Northwest Army fell one after another under the fierce rain of arrows from the other side......
They didn't show fear, they didn't even show half a point to slow down.
It was as if they hadn't seen their comrades fall, like emotionless war machines.
Even after their companions fell, they immediately put up their companions' shields, carried the banners that their companions could no longer carry, and carried the ladders that their companions were still halfway through and continued to rush towards the city wall.
In fact, trampling on the corpses of their brothers, their hearts were dripping blood.
But they turned this emotion into anger, believing that if they attacked the city, they would make the enemy pay the price, and they would help their brother avenge his hatred.
One hundred, fifty, and ten steps, the Northwest Sergeant finally crossed the moat and rushed to the city wall, and everyone set up the ladder one after another, and began to climb frantically along the ladder towards it.
Defending weapons such as rolling wood, stones, and oil continued to tilt down from the top of the city, and some of the soldiers who were hit did not even have time to scream before they fell off the city.
For a while, the screams on the battlefield came and went, and Chu Yujia who listened to it trembled a little.
Every soldier of the Northwest Army was brought out by him, and it was all the hard work he injected.
He doesn't want sacrifices, but this is war, and there are no immortals in war.
In such a life-for-death attack, a soldier of the Northwest Army finally rushed to the city.
He trampled on the stack of arrows, looking at the spear in front of him that was already stabbing at him, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and then pounced on the men.
The spear pierced his body, but his knife also plunged into the neck of a man.
His sacrifice also bought time for his brother, and as time went on, more and more soldiers of the Northwest Army rushed to the head of the imperial city.
They are not the elite of the Northwest Army, but at this moment, they are all heroes of the Northwest Army.
The Northwest Army is not good at siege warfare, but it is good at close combat, and in such hand-to-hand combat, the Northwest Army almost exerts its advantages to the limit.
The bravery of the Northwest Army comes from the bones, from the soul, some people were cut to the stomach, but they still fought with the last bit of strength to hold the enemy and fell off the city wall together.
Someone is willing to be pierced in the chest by the enemy's spear, and he wants to disrupt the enemy's formation.