"Ah" is another cannonball, bringing a bloody path of death in the siege army.

"No, no hell, hell! I want to go home, I want to go home" A soldier in Beijing watched a person in front of him being cut in two by a solid shell, which was extremely miserable, his spirit collapsed instantly, he collapsed on the ground, and a stench spread in the wind in his crotch, but it was this Beijing soldier who was so frightened that he was incontinent.

"Run!" Since the first soldier threw down the ladder he was carrying, all the siege soldiers at the east gate collapsed and kept fleeing backwards, and the first siege was declared a failure.

In the distance, Zhu Cihong looked at this scene with a gloomy expression.

"Shi Ge Lao, this is the Jingying soldiers you brought from Nanjing City, the Son of Heaven's pro-army after the crown prince ascended the throne? Prince Ben doesn't look like it. What kind of future army of the Son of Heaven is this, it is simply a group of useless rabble, and they fled without even touching the city wall, according to the prince of Ben, it should really be disbanded, anyway, it is a waste of food from the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Cihong smiled sarcastically.

Because I wanted to see the combat power of the Jingying army with my own eyes, the soldiers who attacked the city in the first wave were all from the Jingying. In fact, the reason why Zhu Cihong gathered troops from all walks of life to attack Liu Liangzuo was that in addition to having to kill Liu Liangzuo, he also had the intention of trying the combat effectiveness of all kinds of soldiers and horses. What is the situation of the other soldiers and horses Zhu Cihong did not know, but for the Beijing camp, Zhu Cihong was very disappointed.

Pharaoh Shi Ke, the secretary of the military department, had a flushed face, although he was the secretary of the military department, he didn't expect that the combat power of the Beijing camp would be so bad, his face was lost, and there was no way to refute Zhu Cihong's words.

Shi Kefa is known for his uprightness, yes is yes, no is no, and it never twists and turns to cover up.

"Your Highness, the last general begs to give Jingying a chance, the last general will personally lead Jingying to attack the city, and Jingying will never let His Highness down again!" A general in his twenties suddenly stepped forward and knelt on one knee to plead with Zhu Cihong.

"Who are you?" Zhu Cihong glanced at this person and said.

"Back to Your Highness, the last general, Xu Wenjue, the deputy general of the left army of the Beijing camp." Xu Wenjue was dressed in silver armor and looked full of energy.

"Who are you Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei?" When Zhu Cihong heard that his surname was Xu, his heart moved, and he asked.

"It's my father!" Xu Wenjue replied.

Zhu Cihong nodded, the title of Duke of Wei was famous in the entire Ming Dynasty, because its first generation of Duke Wei was Xu Da, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, and was posthumously named the King of Zhongshan after his death.

"Since you have the courage, then this prince will give Jingying a chance, if you are afraid, don't blame this prince for your crimes!" For the Duke of Wei, Zhu Cihong has no prejudice, after all, these nobles are the most loyal to the Ming Dynasty, after all, their titles are given by the Ming Dynasty, relying on the Ming Dynasty for generations to have a good life, if the Ming Dynasty perishes, they will not have any good fruit to eat.

"The last general commands!" In order not to let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really disband the Beijing camp in a fit of rage, Xu Wenjue had to work hard.

The second siege was launched again, or the Beijing camp took the lead, this time with Xu Wenjue personally supervising the battle in the back, the morale of the Beijing camp rose a lot, after Xu Wenjue personally slashed and killed several soldiers who fled, all the soldiers of the Beijing camp did not dare to retreat, and rushed forward desperately, almost rushing to the city wall several times.

As the war continued, the number of casualties continued to increase, and Zhu Cihong didn't see a solution.

"Command all the armies, and the first person to climb the city wall will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver."

There will be brave men under the heavy reward, and all the morale of the armies from all walks of life was greatly boosted, and finally the first person to climb the city wall came from Huang Degong's army, but unfortunately it was defeated in the end.

Zhu Cihong inspected the city gates one by one and watched the battle situation of the armies from all walks of life.

In terms of morale and combat strength, the strongest is the 60,000 Luzhou army led by Huang Dequan, who rushed to the city wall more than a dozen times a day to fight with Liu Liangzuo's Huai'an army, and even almost captured the West Gate. The second is Gao Jie's army of 20,000, although Gao Jie fled south after being defeated by Li Zicheng in Shanxi, but his army has also fought in Shaanxi and Shanxi for several years. The Jingying and Yangzhou armies and the Zhenjiang army performed the worst, fearful, like a group of rabble, and it was so difficult to fight the Huai'an army, which was also a rabble, and it was not possible to defeat the Shangqing army at the touch of a touch in the future.

Zhu Cihong was so disappointed that he secretly became ruthless, and ordered all the generals to personally come forward to supervise the battle, and the worst performing army not only did not have any reward after the war, but also had to be punished.

"! This is the life of Lao Tzu, fight! ”

Coldly ridiculed by His Majesty the future emperor, all the armies will be ruthless in the future, and they will not command their soldiers to attack, and for a while, the four gates of Huai'an will be fiercely attacked at the same time, and countless Ming soldiers are like ants attached to the city wall, climbing all the way up from the ladder, and there are teams of soldiers behind them ready to supplement.

Arrows rained down on the city wall, and the Ming archers under the city braved the rain of arrows to shoot upwards, although they were at a disadvantage from the bottom to the top, but the Ming army was several times that of Liu Liangzuo's Huai'an army.

In the face of the simultaneous attack of the four city gates, the pressure on the Huai'an army in the city was unprecedented. The Huai'an army originally had only 40,000 people, and although 30,000 strong men were forcibly recruited, these strong men were okay to move wood and stones, and the others could not be counted on at all.

"Big brother, there are too many troops outside the city, the west gate and the east gate have been in an emergency many times, and the distress letter to Li Zicheng can't be sent, Huai'an is about to be unable to hold it, what should I do." Liu Liangbing's face came to Liu Liangzuo with blood on his face, and he said with a sad face.

Zhu Cihong fully mobilized 260,000 troops, each city gate had 60,000 to attack with all his might, Liu Liangzuo on each city gate on the city guard soldiers only 10,000, two days down heavy casualties, the army's mind changed, if it were not for Liu Liangzuo's extremely confidant with a group of personal soldiers to guard the battalions to supervise the battle, I am afraid that someone would have mutinied.

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it! Once Huai'an is broken, my Liu clan's nine clans will be finished! Liu Liangzuo's face was hideous, and after two days, he was almost suffocated by a huge sense of fear, and regretted why he made up lies to keep Zhu Cihong out of the city.

In the two-day battle, nearly 30,000 soldiers were killed and wounded on both sides, of which the Ming army on Zhu Cihong's side lost more than 20,000 and Liu Liangzuo lost nearly 7,000. Nearly three times the proportion.

"Your Highness, our army suffered heavy casualties in the two-day battle, more than 20,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, all because there was no red-clothed artillery to help, the last general proposed to postpone the attack, and sent people back to Nanjing City to mobilize dozens of red-clothed cannons to come over, only that kind of sharp weapon will inevitably allow the army to conquer Huai'an in one fell swoop and capture Liu Liangzuo's traitors." Zhenjiang General Hu En said with a bitter face.

The three armies of Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and Jingying had never participated in a major battle, and this was the first time, so the casualties were the heaviest.

"Liu Liangzuo is a traitor, I can't take it with an army of 260,000, don't you feel blushing? Go back to Nanjing to mobilize the red-coated cannons? Hey, although Huai'an is only less than 200 miles away from Nanjing City, the red-coated cannon weighs thousands of catties, how can it be transported here in less than ten days? Do you want to let this prince wait for more than ten days, if Liu Liangzuo and other rebellious thieves are not exterminated as soon as possible, won't this prince be ridiculed by the world, how can he have the face to ascend the throne and inherit the unification, and what will he use to take back the capital from Li Zicheng in the future. Zhu Cihong smiled coldly.

"Your Highness is right, just a traitor, a rabble, I don't take Huang Degong in my eyes, even if there are only my Luzhou army all the way to the army, at most two more days will definitely be able to take Huai'an, and the last general is willing to make a military order in front of His Highness!" Huang Degong domineering.

"Okay, Mr. Huang deserves to be my great tiger general, mighty and unyielding." Zhu Cihong praised Huang Degong's move, and then glanced at other futures: "If you can have half the courage of Huang Zongbing, let alone Liu Liangzuo, even Li Zicheng is not afraid!" ”

In the face of Zhu Cihong's ridicule, all armies will be ashamed in the future.

The next day, Zhu Cihong ordered the army to launch an attack: "Order, whichever general soldier breaks through the city gate first, the whole army will be rewarded with ten taels of silver per person, and if Liu Liangzuo can be captured, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be ten thousand taels!" ”

Such a heavy reward, coupled with the influence of the momentum of hundreds of thousands of troops, the morale of all the generals was like a rainbow, like a tide to Huai'an, Huai'an is like a flat boat on the sea, which may capsize at any time.

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