Fires broke out in many houses near the city wall in Guizhou.Fires soared into the sky and smoke rolled in the sky.
The pig iron thunder thrown in from outside the city was filled with gunpowder.Some of them were not accurate in throwing, and they passed through the city wall and fell into the city, and gunpowder ignited and houses were ignited; the government troops failed to put out the fire, which led to the increasing fire.
Bang, bang bang... A large stone fell on the city wall like a huge hail, smashing bricks and stones and splashing.
The wide city walls were bumpy, all of which were smashed by stone bullets.
Then there was a loud bang, and another pig iron thunder exploded in the wall!
Screams sounded from everywhere, and an official soldier knelt on the ground, his screams were very strange.
Half of his face was shaved with explosive pig iron pieces, and his teeth, which were covered by mouth on his left, were very ferocious, as if they were bloody skulls of a corpse.
But he was only injured and could not die for a while. His hands and feet could move. He stood there with his hands next to his face and stretched them hard, but he did not dare to cover his wounds due to severe pain.
His mouth couldn't open, and he made a strange scream.
Shoot the arrow!The angry general roared.
A row of officers and soldiers stood by the wall and shot arrows at the rebel soldiers who were transporting soil below, but AhAh immediately screamed again, and several officers and soldiers were shot on their faces and fell down on their backs.
Every time the official army emerges, the enemy will aim at arrows and fire crossbows in the trenches that are nearly fifty steps below.
Come... Come Ah!A young man shouted, covering the neck of a sergeant on the ground.
The arrow penetrated the sergeant's throat. The sergeant could no longer speak. While making a gurgling sound, he kept spitting out blood from his mouth.
A general came over and took a look and said: There is no help, give him some fun!The general turned around and said: Go to the city tower to ask for your order, and quickly dispatch troops to reinforce this place.
Get order!
At this time, inside the city tower, the dispute between several generals became louder and louder.Even the officers and soldiers on the city walls outside could vaguely hear the sound.
One of the generals said: If you continue to waste like this, it won’t be long before the Quanguo team in the four cities will be exhausted!
Another person said: If you don’t attack the enemy soldiers who built up soil and leave it alone, they can pile the soil onto the city wall in a few days, do you believe it?!
The general in the middle looked majestic and raised his left hand to stop the general and said: Let’s talk about it when you go back to the Dusi Yamen.
When he raised his hand, his index finger on his left hand was very scary, his fingernails were cracked and had a weird shape.
It is said that the head coach was naughty when he was a child. He accidentally smashed his fingers with a stone. He found a quack doctor who was seeking fame. The wound was not well stitched, and he turned into this after he recovered.
Gu Yong, the head coach of the defending army, stopped the generals from arguing here, and his concerns were not unreasonable.
Guizhou City has been besieged for nearly a month, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. Guizhou City is like the Shura Field.Rumors are everywhere in the army!
Because the promised reinforcements of Wu Gao's troops in the court have not arrived for a long time, they have not even seen a personal figure.
Some people say that Wu Gao's army has been defeated by the rebels!
Some people even said that reinforcements are simply a lie, and there were no reinforcements at all!
The Dusi Yamen has issued a list many times, trying to stop the rumors, but it has almost no effect.
Because in order to boost morale, the generals deceived the brothers in the army more than once, no one believed it now... Just as at the beginning of this year, when the rebels first siege the city, Gu Yong said in person that more than 100,000 troops of Wu Gao, the Marquis of Jiangyin, would come to rescue the siege within ten days!
As a result, a month passed and I still haven't seen the legendary Jiangyin Marquis army.
Gu Yong looked back and said: You must wait for reinforcements!Guizhou City is an important place in the southwest, with Wu Gao's army to the east and my father's Guizhou army to the west. All the officials will never sit idly by.There are many officials and soldiers, and both sides can come to reinforce.As long as the brothers stick to this city, they will definitely be able to wait for reinforcements.
Reinforcements!Reinforcements!In Guizhou City, from the Ministry of State to the army, people are chanting this word every day.
...The scene was not much better in the Han Wang Jun camp outside the city.
Most of the wounded soldiers sent back in front were arrow wounds, and they were shouting in the injured camp all day long.
The smell of nitrate blowing in the wind and the unpleasant fishy smell unique to flesh and blood have always echoed in the air and seemed to have never dissipated.
Zhu Gaoxu sat in the lobby of the Central Army in the earthen castle, silent.The generals in the room whispered and were talking.
At this time, Liu Ying's report came from the outside of the city.
Liu Ying described the military situation on the Eastern Front.
Wu Gao's army was very cautious and focused. Not only did they build fortifications in Maoyunba, but they also set up military camps in many places around them. Small-scale wars continued to occur with Liu Ying's army, but there was no action of a large army to advance at all.
The enemy was trying to use the camp to advance steadily, to carry out deployment encirclement of Liu Ying's troops, and to establish an advantage in the final battle.
Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: The current situation is also bad, but fortunately, I didn’t try to destroy Wu Gaojun first, otherwise the time would take longer and the situation would be worse!
Wu Gao is really too stable. Although his troops are progressing slowly, it is extremely difficult to reveal flaws and will hardly give his opponent a chance to destroy him.
Report!After a while, another shout came from outside the door.
Soon a sergeant was put into the lobby.
The sergeant knelt on one knee, took out the letter from his pocket, and presented it with both hands.
After Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates took it, they took it to the seat.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately tore it apart and looked at it.
General Ping An’s personal report.
There are roughly three things written in the two papers.
First, Zhang Fu's army is more than 100 miles away from Kunming City, and it is estimated that there is still four to five days left. Ping An is no longer able to stop Zhang Fu's army from advancing.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the date of the signature. This was the letter I wrote yesterday.
Second, Ping An was preparing to withdraw his troops and rush to Dali Prefecture and start escorting the families of soldiers of the Han Palace and other soldiers to Lingguan Road.This matter was already arranged in advance when the decision was made at the beginning of the rebellion.
The third is to inform the King of Han that the military order should not be sent to the stronghold in Weibeishan, Pingyi County.The place had been noticed by the enemy and was destroyed by troops.
After Zhu Gaoxu finished reading it, his heart immediately skipped a beat: How could the Pingyi County Guard Stronghold is in the Yi tribe’s mountain village suddenly be noticed by the government army?
This kind of thing must have happened when sending military orders... He remembered that he sent military orders to Ping'an a few days ago, but the news delivered by Ping'an today did not mention the military order at all.
Zhu Gaoxu quickly thought of a question: the military order a few days ago was not delivered to Ping'an, and the official army intercepted it?Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's insistence on Kunming City may not be delivered!
Zhu Gaoxu immediately lifted the brush and said: Arrange a messenger team immediately, I want to pass another military order to Ping'an!He paused a little, turned to look at Hou Hai, and went to find two people who knew the stronghold in Dongshan, Yuezhou, which was the territory of Ma Peng (Yao Fengji).
Hou Haidao: The official will go and handle it immediately.
Zhu Gaoxu re-wrote the military order and ordered the messenger to travel day and night to Dongshan, Yuezhou.
Others had already stood up from their seats and walked back and forth among the generals.After a long time, he finally stood still, turned around, and suddenly said in an unquestionable tone: Siege the city tomorrow!General Attack!
The room suddenly became quiet for a moment.The generals clasped their fists and said: The last generals are willing to drive the prince forward!
Zhu Gaoxu said: After the troops were withdrawn this evening, he ordered the guards to command all the above generals to go to the headquarters of the Central Army to deploy the siege tomorrow.We will start siege tomorrow, and we must take over Guizhou at any cost!
All the generals answered one after another.
The main force of the Han Wang Army has been besieging Guizhou for a month and is trying hard to consume the defenders every day; but until the last few days, Zhu Gaoxu discovered that the defenders are still combat-capable and able to attack the soldiers under the city.
The fighter jets still seem to be not very mature.
But the general attack time can no longer be postponed!The various military situations that came made Zhu Gaoxu feel strongly that if he could not capture Guizhou, the entire battle would probably be completely over!
Even if we can conquer Guizhou City, the result will probably not be too optimistic...
The generals dispersed one after another, and Zhu Gaoxu also came to the battlefield again while today was not over.He could no longer pretend to be a heavy mood, and rode heavily on his horse, predicting the end of the battle.
Perhaps thinking about those things is useless now, Zhu Gaoxu just wants to make himself a little mentally prepared.
Before a battle, the main general is always looking forward to the victory, just as gamblers are thinking about how to spend it after winning money.
But there are wins and losses on the battlefield. When the result is unsatisfactory or even a big defeat, it is always difficult to accept, disappointed and lost... But such an experience is often inevitable as long as a war is launched.
Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and saw tens of thousands of people coming and going under the huge noise.From a distance, it looks like an ant colony.
It is said that there are some ants and insects, and the leader's strength is far greater than that of the servants.
This is not the case. Even the greatest emperor may be killed by a team of 100 people!
In the battle of power in war, collective strength is very important.
Now the actual strength of the official army participating in the war is twice that of Zhu Gaoxu.This is the key factor that he feels very difficult.
...In the evening, the Han King's Central Army issued a military order.
In various places where the attacks Guizhou, all those who took the lead in climbing the city walls of Guizhou were promoted to hundreds of households, and military generals were promoted to three levels, and rewarded with 100 cents of silver and money. They were also named King Zhongwei of Han.
In the future, the generals who were successful in the attack and were granted a title of marquis will be compared with the Han Wang Zhongwei.
Zhu Gaoxu stood in the distance and stared at the Guizhou city wall for a long time.After the sun sets, the last afterglow seems to have lost its color, and the entire city turns into a black shadow, and the scene of everything is dark.
Even if this battle cannot get much benefit, Zhu Gaoxu is looking forward to at least conquering Guizhou!
Otherwise, he felt that this battle was a humiliation.
The morale and confidence of the soldiers of the entire army will definitely fall to the bottom.
The pig iron thunder thrown in from outside the city was filled with gunpowder.Some of them were not accurate in throwing, and they passed through the city wall and fell into the city, and gunpowder ignited and houses were ignited; the government troops failed to put out the fire, which led to the increasing fire.
Bang, bang bang... A large stone fell on the city wall like a huge hail, smashing bricks and stones and splashing.
The wide city walls were bumpy, all of which were smashed by stone bullets.
Then there was a loud bang, and another pig iron thunder exploded in the wall!
Screams sounded from everywhere, and an official soldier knelt on the ground, his screams were very strange.
Half of his face was shaved with explosive pig iron pieces, and his teeth, which were covered by mouth on his left, were very ferocious, as if they were bloody skulls of a corpse.
But he was only injured and could not die for a while. His hands and feet could move. He stood there with his hands next to his face and stretched them hard, but he did not dare to cover his wounds due to severe pain.
His mouth couldn't open, and he made a strange scream.
Shoot the arrow!The angry general roared.
A row of officers and soldiers stood by the wall and shot arrows at the rebel soldiers who were transporting soil below, but AhAh immediately screamed again, and several officers and soldiers were shot on their faces and fell down on their backs.
Every time the official army emerges, the enemy will aim at arrows and fire crossbows in the trenches that are nearly fifty steps below.
Come... Come Ah!A young man shouted, covering the neck of a sergeant on the ground.
The arrow penetrated the sergeant's throat. The sergeant could no longer speak. While making a gurgling sound, he kept spitting out blood from his mouth.
A general came over and took a look and said: There is no help, give him some fun!The general turned around and said: Go to the city tower to ask for your order, and quickly dispatch troops to reinforce this place.
Get order!
At this time, inside the city tower, the dispute between several generals became louder and louder.Even the officers and soldiers on the city walls outside could vaguely hear the sound.
One of the generals said: If you continue to waste like this, it won’t be long before the Quanguo team in the four cities will be exhausted!
Another person said: If you don’t attack the enemy soldiers who built up soil and leave it alone, they can pile the soil onto the city wall in a few days, do you believe it?!
The general in the middle looked majestic and raised his left hand to stop the general and said: Let’s talk about it when you go back to the Dusi Yamen.
When he raised his hand, his index finger on his left hand was very scary, his fingernails were cracked and had a weird shape.
It is said that the head coach was naughty when he was a child. He accidentally smashed his fingers with a stone. He found a quack doctor who was seeking fame. The wound was not well stitched, and he turned into this after he recovered.
Gu Yong, the head coach of the defending army, stopped the generals from arguing here, and his concerns were not unreasonable.
Guizhou City has been besieged for nearly a month, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. Guizhou City is like the Shura Field.Rumors are everywhere in the army!
Because the promised reinforcements of Wu Gao's troops in the court have not arrived for a long time, they have not even seen a personal figure.
Some people say that Wu Gao's army has been defeated by the rebels!
Some people even said that reinforcements are simply a lie, and there were no reinforcements at all!
The Dusi Yamen has issued a list many times, trying to stop the rumors, but it has almost no effect.
Because in order to boost morale, the generals deceived the brothers in the army more than once, no one believed it now... Just as at the beginning of this year, when the rebels first siege the city, Gu Yong said in person that more than 100,000 troops of Wu Gao, the Marquis of Jiangyin, would come to rescue the siege within ten days!
As a result, a month passed and I still haven't seen the legendary Jiangyin Marquis army.
Gu Yong looked back and said: You must wait for reinforcements!Guizhou City is an important place in the southwest, with Wu Gao's army to the east and my father's Guizhou army to the west. All the officials will never sit idly by.There are many officials and soldiers, and both sides can come to reinforce.As long as the brothers stick to this city, they will definitely be able to wait for reinforcements.
Reinforcements!Reinforcements!In Guizhou City, from the Ministry of State to the army, people are chanting this word every day.
...The scene was not much better in the Han Wang Jun camp outside the city.
Most of the wounded soldiers sent back in front were arrow wounds, and they were shouting in the injured camp all day long.
The smell of nitrate blowing in the wind and the unpleasant fishy smell unique to flesh and blood have always echoed in the air and seemed to have never dissipated.
Zhu Gaoxu sat in the lobby of the Central Army in the earthen castle, silent.The generals in the room whispered and were talking.
At this time, Liu Ying's report came from the outside of the city.
Liu Ying described the military situation on the Eastern Front.
Wu Gao's army was very cautious and focused. Not only did they build fortifications in Maoyunba, but they also set up military camps in many places around them. Small-scale wars continued to occur with Liu Ying's army, but there was no action of a large army to advance at all.
The enemy was trying to use the camp to advance steadily, to carry out deployment encirclement of Liu Ying's troops, and to establish an advantage in the final battle.
Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: The current situation is also bad, but fortunately, I didn’t try to destroy Wu Gaojun first, otherwise the time would take longer and the situation would be worse!
Wu Gao is really too stable. Although his troops are progressing slowly, it is extremely difficult to reveal flaws and will hardly give his opponent a chance to destroy him.
Report!After a while, another shout came from outside the door.
Soon a sergeant was put into the lobby.
The sergeant knelt on one knee, took out the letter from his pocket, and presented it with both hands.
After Zhu Gaoxu's subordinates took it, they took it to the seat.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately tore it apart and looked at it.
General Ping An’s personal report.
There are roughly three things written in the two papers.
First, Zhang Fu's army is more than 100 miles away from Kunming City, and it is estimated that there is still four to five days left. Ping An is no longer able to stop Zhang Fu's army from advancing.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the date of the signature. This was the letter I wrote yesterday.
Second, Ping An was preparing to withdraw his troops and rush to Dali Prefecture and start escorting the families of soldiers of the Han Palace and other soldiers to Lingguan Road.This matter was already arranged in advance when the decision was made at the beginning of the rebellion.
The third is to inform the King of Han that the military order should not be sent to the stronghold in Weibeishan, Pingyi County.The place had been noticed by the enemy and was destroyed by troops.
After Zhu Gaoxu finished reading it, his heart immediately skipped a beat: How could the Pingyi County Guard Stronghold is in the Yi tribe’s mountain village suddenly be noticed by the government army?
This kind of thing must have happened when sending military orders... He remembered that he sent military orders to Ping'an a few days ago, but the news delivered by Ping'an today did not mention the military order at all.
Zhu Gaoxu quickly thought of a question: the military order a few days ago was not delivered to Ping'an, and the official army intercepted it?Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's insistence on Kunming City may not be delivered!
Zhu Gaoxu immediately lifted the brush and said: Arrange a messenger team immediately, I want to pass another military order to Ping'an!He paused a little, turned to look at Hou Hai, and went to find two people who knew the stronghold in Dongshan, Yuezhou, which was the territory of Ma Peng (Yao Fengji).
Hou Haidao: The official will go and handle it immediately.
Zhu Gaoxu re-wrote the military order and ordered the messenger to travel day and night to Dongshan, Yuezhou.
Others had already stood up from their seats and walked back and forth among the generals.After a long time, he finally stood still, turned around, and suddenly said in an unquestionable tone: Siege the city tomorrow!General Attack!
The room suddenly became quiet for a moment.The generals clasped their fists and said: The last generals are willing to drive the prince forward!
Zhu Gaoxu said: After the troops were withdrawn this evening, he ordered the guards to command all the above generals to go to the headquarters of the Central Army to deploy the siege tomorrow.We will start siege tomorrow, and we must take over Guizhou at any cost!
All the generals answered one after another.
The main force of the Han Wang Army has been besieging Guizhou for a month and is trying hard to consume the defenders every day; but until the last few days, Zhu Gaoxu discovered that the defenders are still combat-capable and able to attack the soldiers under the city.
The fighter jets still seem to be not very mature.
But the general attack time can no longer be postponed!The various military situations that came made Zhu Gaoxu feel strongly that if he could not capture Guizhou, the entire battle would probably be completely over!
Even if we can conquer Guizhou City, the result will probably not be too optimistic...
The generals dispersed one after another, and Zhu Gaoxu also came to the battlefield again while today was not over.He could no longer pretend to be a heavy mood, and rode heavily on his horse, predicting the end of the battle.
Perhaps thinking about those things is useless now, Zhu Gaoxu just wants to make himself a little mentally prepared.
Before a battle, the main general is always looking forward to the victory, just as gamblers are thinking about how to spend it after winning money.
But there are wins and losses on the battlefield. When the result is unsatisfactory or even a big defeat, it is always difficult to accept, disappointed and lost... But such an experience is often inevitable as long as a war is launched.
Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and saw tens of thousands of people coming and going under the huge noise.From a distance, it looks like an ant colony.
It is said that there are some ants and insects, and the leader's strength is far greater than that of the servants.
This is not the case. Even the greatest emperor may be killed by a team of 100 people!
In the battle of power in war, collective strength is very important.
Now the actual strength of the official army participating in the war is twice that of Zhu Gaoxu.This is the key factor that he feels very difficult.
...In the evening, the Han King's Central Army issued a military order.
In various places where the attacks Guizhou, all those who took the lead in climbing the city walls of Guizhou were promoted to hundreds of households, and military generals were promoted to three levels, and rewarded with 100 cents of silver and money. They were also named King Zhongwei of Han.
In the future, the generals who were successful in the attack and were granted a title of marquis will be compared with the Han Wang Zhongwei.
Zhu Gaoxu stood in the distance and stared at the Guizhou city wall for a long time.After the sun sets, the last afterglow seems to have lost its color, and the entire city turns into a black shadow, and the scene of everything is dark.
Even if this battle cannot get much benefit, Zhu Gaoxu is looking forward to at least conquering Guizhou!
Otherwise, he felt that this battle was a humiliation.
The morale and confidence of the soldiers of the entire army will definitely fall to the bottom.