Chapter 60 Always surrounded

The next morning, King Yàn led his troops to leave Yongping City.

The army successively crossed the Great Wall from Liujiakou, followed a mountain road between the mountains, and headed straight to the direction of Daning City.At this time, the plants and trees in the mountains were withered and yellow, and the wind was filled with a bleak and killing aura.

After walking five or six hundred miles, King Yàn led his troops to the foot of Daning City.

The city gate of Daning is closed.King Yàn sat on the horse and looked up. He saw the city walls full of swords and weapons, with flags everywhere, looking like he was waiting for the battle.A man wearing a red robe on it was very conspicuous.

King Yàn stopped his left and right, rode alone near the city tower. After a closer look, the young man wearing a red dragon robe, who wasn't King Ning Zhu Quan?

Zhu Quan also saw the King Yàn who was coming alone. His face was facing here and shouting: The Fourth Brother is leading his army to come. Are you going to hit me?

King Yàn shouted: Seventeenth brother, I am the fourth brother!I have been forced to the death by the emperor, so how could I beat you?!As King Yàn spoke, his voice choked, and he was crying. I didn't expect that he would fall into such a field. The emperor insisted on saying that I rebel...

Zhu Quan's voice said: What does the fourth brother have not rebelled?

King Yàn cried: How dare I Ah? That was forced!There must be slanderous words from treacherous ministers in the court.I really have no choice... Seventeenth brother, Fourth brother, I would like to ask you something, please write a letter to the emperor and talk about your relationship for Fourth brother...

Zhu Quan shouted: Fourth brother, don’t worry, go back, I will definitely ask for the emperor for help.

Yàn King’s Way: Where are I going back?Now the vassal states are almost gone, and there is really nowhere to go.Seventeenth brother, how about taking in the fourth brother for a while?When the Lord exempts me from my sins, I will go back to Peking.

He shouted again: Seventeenth brother, please ask someone to open the door!

Zhu Quan said: I can’t open the door, so my fourth brother would rather go back to Peking!After saying that, he turned around and left the city.

King Yàn choked and shouted: Seventeenth brother, stay, Seventeenth brother, you can’t save Ah when you see death!

However, Zhu Quan's red robe was no longer visible.King Yàn stood there in confusion and waited for a long time.

At this moment, the city gate suddenly gazes... and a crack opens slowly.

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On the day when King Yàn left, Zhu Gaoxu also set out from Yongping City, leaving only a few hundred people to the government office, and other infantry and cavalry were taken to Peking.

Zhu Gaoxu returned to the county prince's mansion and settled the army first.

After taking off his armor, he went straight to the Yàn Palace and went to see Princess Xu first. It was estimated that the prince might also be in the Yàn Palace... At this moment, Li Jinglong's army of hundreds of thousands is about to arrive in Peiping!

As expected, when Zhu Gaoxu was taken to a hall by eunuchs, Princess Xu and the prince were there.

Princess Xu stood up and said happily: Gao Xu, it’s the best you can come back!

Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: Mother, eldest brother.

The prince seemed a little unhappy when he heard Princess Xu's words just now... In the mother's mind, when something happened, she might still think that Zhu Gaoxu was the most useful among her three sons.

The three of them didn't care about their well-being and soon talked about defending Peking.

When King Yàn left, he had already ordered the prince and the generals to be solemnly defended and not to leave the city. He arranged the defenders of each city, and asked Yao Guangxiao and the prince to take charge of military power and dispatch troops.

Zhu Gaoxu said: October is coming soon, and the weather is getting colder.My son-in-law heard from experienced generals in the army that as long as the colder the air is colder, it will be even more difficult for the official army to attack the city at night and it will be blown into the city overnight.

After hearing this, Princess Xu nodded slightly, her eyebrows raised showed a bit of heroic spirit: As long as you stick to it for ten months, when your father returns from the army, we will go out to meet the prince!

...In just two days, Li Jinglong's army had come to the city one after another.Princess Xu brought the prince and Zhu Gaoxu to the city tower to boost morale at the fortress!

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu climbed up the city tower, he was stunned when he saw the scene outside the city!

Compared with the magnificent scene of people outside the city of Peking at this time, the siege that Zhu Gaoxu had seen in Yongping City before was simply a scattered witch!

The right way is to just leave the wolf's den and enter the tiger's nest again. It seems that Zhu Gaoxu was surrounded to death again!

In an instant, he was a little suspicious: Is it really so easy to defend Peking?

Peiping is a major city and the city walls are indeed high and thick, but no city is guarded by the walls alone. It must have sufficient military strength, especially for such a big city, where the military strength is more scattered and more people are needed!

The Yàn army had a total of less than 100,000 people. King Yàn also took away the main force. At this time, the Beiping defenders were probably a little short of their strength.

Although Li Jinglong was looked down upon by King Yàn, what if he was like Wu Gao, the Marquis of Jiangyin, and then he built fortifications without saying a word, and then forced himself to do so, what would he do?

Surrounded by all sides, using various heavy equipment ants to attack the city, plus long-range weapons to beat, the method is a bit stupid, but almost no talent is required. Li Jinglong probably can do it, he has completely enough troops!

What's more, not all the military generals in the official army were Li Jinglong, such as Sheng Yong and Ping'an, and Zhu Gaoxu was almost defeated in Zhending...

At present, it is indeed possible to defend the city of Peking, but the risks are also not small.

princess!Meeting the princess, princesses, and Gaoyang King... The voices of the generals came everywhere.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her mother. Although she was nearly forty years old, she was already pretty. Today she looked even more heroic and cool in a group collar robe.

This is the first time Zhu Gaoxu has seen his mother like this.

She stood in the wind and said loudly: King Yàn usually treats the soldiers well, but now the enemy is facing the enemy. I hope you can work hard to fight the enemy bravely!

The generals clasped their fists and said: The last generals will serve to the death!The last generals and others are responsible for heavy responsibilities, and the princess, princesses, Gaoyang and others are safe...

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, just followed Princess Xu, listening to her constant boosting morale whenever she went there... Many generals said they wanted to defend Prince Yàn's wife and children.

Suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu felt cold on his body!

I remember that when Yongping welcomed King Yàn, my third brother Gao Sui was also in King Yàn's army.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't think much at that time, and now he suddenly had a bold guess: if Peiping is captured and President Yàn has one son left, it would be Gao Sui who follows him!?

King Yàn also thinks that Peking may be compromised, right?

The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that he was not wrong. Otherwise, the third brother Gao Sui would not know anything on the battlefield. What's the use of King Yàn to take him?

He looked at Princess Xu and the fat prince not far away in front of him, and his heart was filled with emotions... Maybe he was really thinking too much.

boom!A sudden cannon sound came, which scared Zhu Gaoxu, who was distracted, as if he was enlightened!

The generals advised one after another: Princess, be careful, everyone, go down the city, the Southern Army has set off firecrackers!

Princess Xu was not afraid and insisted on patrolling the city wall.

Zhu Gaoxu also secretly admired her a little. Her mother was in the inner courtyard of the royal palace for many years, but after all, she was the eldest daughter of general Xu Da. She was soft on the outside and hard on the inside, and her ordinary situation could not scare her at all!

When Zhu Gaoxu looked at the army camp outside the city, he saw a ball of white smoke in the sea of ​​people. The shot just now should have been set there.This official army was also strange, and he stopped firing one shot.

...The routines of Duke Cao Li Jinglong and Marquis of Jiangyin Wu Gao are completely different.Li Jinglong did not repair the fortifications at all. He set off fire early the next morning and fired on all sides.

The bowl guns and Hongwu cannons on the walls of Peking also opened fire to fight back.

For a moment, the entire city was firing, and gunpowder was filled with smoke.

On the foggy ground, countless lights flashed from time to time, just like lightning in the clouds.

Some of the Yunlaid wooden parts transported from somewhere have been assembled.

As the smoke of gunpowder blew away, countless infantrymen were seen floating under the city walls with shields and various weapons, pushing the tall ladder slowly approaching like a tide.

Boom boom boom... The artillery seemed to have never stopped for a moment.

Zhu Gaoxu was attracted by the raging fire in the distance again. A ladder near the city wall caught fire. Black smoke rolled, and many soldiers jumped down from the smoke.

The black smoke was too thick and could not be burned by wood or ordinary vegetable oil. Zhu Gaoxu guessed it was the hot turmeric oil stored in the city... in fact it was the oil dug out of the ground.

Dong!Suddenly, a loud bang came, and a round stone hit the nearby walls. Suddenly, bricks and stones flew around, and a soldier fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

Zhu Gaoxu turned around and saw that half of the soldier's face was covered with flesh and blood. He stretched out his hand and trembled on his face, but he didn't dare to press it down, just caring about Ah!Ah… screamed.

As the smoke filled the gunpowder, the slender black shadows swayed, and the arrows were flying in the air.

The soldiers around him pulled out the feathers from the quiver, put the bow on the arrow, and did not aim at it at all, probably shot the arrow with a bang.

Soon, arrows flew up from the city wall.A soldier was caught in an arrow in his chest, and had already thrown his bow away. He sat behind the wall and reached out to grab the arrow and shouted.

Zhu Gaoxu pressed the hilt of the knife, dragged the heavy armor with a clanging sound, and walked into the city tower.Such a war is almost useless, and whether or not it depends entirely on luck. Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to stand there.

Soon, Wang Bin, Wei Da, Liu Ying and others followed in, and everyone had nothing to say.

The official army's attack on the first day was not fierce, and there were too few ladders, which mainly relied on artillery and bows to shoot firepower onto the city. The infantry attacked intermittently and had no rules.

But Zhu Gaoxu guessed that after Li Jinglong transported more heavy equipment, the battle would be even more cruel.