Looking at the wandering army all over the mountains, everyone on the city wall was shocked, the number of opponents was too many. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ruolu, the prefect of Hezhou, said in shock: "The thieves are powerful, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist ......"

Zhu Dadian looked at him with disgust: "Before the war, you actually increased the enemy's morale and destroyed your own prestige, you are so bold, don't be an official, go home and farm!" "Command," come and put the prefect's mansion down, and from today on, the affairs of the prefect's yamen will be managed by the same governor until the end of the battle to defend the city. After the war, I will report to the court and remove him from the prefect. ”

Seeing that the battle had not yet begun, the newly arrived governor took off a black gauze hat, and the civil and military officials who participated in the defense of the city cheered up, for fear of being caught. Although the prefect of Sipin has the right to appoint and dismiss in the imperial court, the governor who holds the military and political power wants to go to the top to join you, and if you don't die, you have to take off your skin, and then buckle the hat of not being effective in defending the city, and it is a sure thing to lose your official position and go to work.

After Zhu Dadian dealt with the prefect Wang Ruolu, who was timid before the battle, he turned his head and asked Su Bush: "Has the city defense been arranged?" ”

Su nodded and said, "Please rest assured, everything has been arranged." ”

After taking over the city defense a few days ago, Zhu Dadian summoned officials of all sizes in the city and ordered that during the defense of the city, everything should make way for the defense of the bandits, whether it was the people's bravery, equipment, money and food, they should be gathered together for the needs of the city defense. And the specific command power was handed over to the standard battalion Qianzong Su thick legs.

Although Su Thick Leg has not commanded the defense of the city properly, the first time he participated in the battle after becoming a soldier was the defense of Bofu, and he has a lot of combat experience. Although it is a very technical task to integrate the defenders and the people in the city, and to incorporate it into the defense system with the standard battalion as the core, Su Rough Leg is confident that he can resist the attack of these tens of thousands of rogue soldiers - after experiencing a defensive battle with 1,000 people to resist nearly 20,000 elite battalions of Guangdong, the rogue in front of him all over the mountains and fields does not seem to be so terrifying.

The number of the outcasts was terrifying, but it didn't seem to be any military discipline, and there was a commotion everywhere, as if a swarm of mosquitoes were buzzing outside the city. Su Thick Legs took the opportunity to cheer up the recruits of the standard battalion and the people of Hezhou City: "The Liukou are just a group of rabble, there is no military discipline constraints, it is okay to fight a tailwind battle, once it suffers a setback, it will definitely be defeated, as long as you insist on withstanding their three-plate axe, it will be absolutely no problem to defend the city!" ”

After a simple mobilization, Su Thick Legs inspected the preparations for the defense of each section of the city wall again, and inspected whether the equipment was in place, including wolf tooth slaps, sassal wood, stones, boiling water, etc. If it is the Qiong Navy defending the city, it is to directly set up a cannon and bomb the city, keep not a single grass within a few miles, and then greet with a rifle when it is close, and not kill tens of thousands of people who want to get close to the edge of the city. However, with the current conditions, these ancient city defense equipment can only be used because of the ugliness.

At midnight, a cannon rang out in the camp of the Liukou, and tens of thousands of Liumin troops let out a deafening shout and began to charge - the siege began.

Despite repeated psychological hints to himself, no matter how many of them are, they are just a rabble. But when he saw tens of thousands of people surging over at the same time, Su Thick was still a little dizzy and lost his mind for a few seconds.

When he came to his senses, he quickly shouted: "Hold your position, don't move, remember what you should do." ”

At the forefront were a group of homeless people named Hanako, who had no weapons except ladders and sacks of loess. These people are cannon fodder for consumption, after setting up the ladder, they have to climb up the first batch, either hacked to death by the defenders, or fall to their deaths, if they are lucky enough to save their lives, they can get enough food to feed their stomachs after the war, if they are lucky, get the head of an officer and soldier, they will have the opportunity to join the old camp, eat and drink spicy food, and live a fairy-like life.

Behind the cannon fodder are the homeless people who have participated in one or two battles and survived, this is the backbone of the army, has a certain amount of battlefield experience, has killed people and seen blood, and is not easy to panic when encountering changes. After the cannon fodder in front entangled the defenders, they rushed up to capture the city walls, giving the main force time and opportunity.

At the back of the line, there was the old battalion. Here are the elites of the Wandering Army, all veterans honed on the battlefield, with outstanding combat skills and rich experience. They are mainly responsible for supervising the war, responsible for killing the displaced people who do not obey the order and retreat, and when the situation deteriorates, they can be directly pulled into the battlefield. Of course, the old battalion is the core force of the rogue army from all walks of life, and it will not be used easily.

The "cannon fodder" called Hanako ran to the moat with a roar, threw the sack they were carrying on their shoulders into the moat, and then ran back to carry a sack. The sacks were filled with loess, and as soon as they were thrown into the water, they sank to the bottom, and hundreds or thousands of sacks were thrown into the same section of the canal, and the effect was immediate, and the sacks piled up like hills would soon be exposed to the water, and then the wandering army would be able to pass through the moat unimpeded.

At this time, the bows and arrows on the city wall flew over, and many "cannon fodder" were caught off guard and were nailed to death on the spot by bows and arrows. Immediately after that, the sound of "crackling" musket shooting also rang out, and the whistling lead bullets pierced the chest, abdomen, and skulls of one after another homeless people.

Even though the displaced people are accustomed to seeing death, this tragic situation still greatly shocked them. Some of them got frightened, threw down the sacks in their hands, turned around and ran back. After barely running a few steps, his head was cut off by the Overseer, and the soldiers of the old battalion opened their eyes wide and shouted: "Death to those who retreat without permission!" ”

The twin threats of death and starvation emboldened the displaced people who tried to flee back to their camp, and they returned to the charging position, braving the hail of bullets to continue filling the river.

After paying nearly 1,000 casualties of "cannon fodder", a short section of the moat outside the West Gate, which was the main direction of attack, had been filled, and the siege troops who had been waiting for a long time were charging forward with a variety of weapons in their hands, including waist knives, iron rulers, wooden sticks, and so on. They stepped over the sacks that were exposed to the water, splashed in all directions, and after passing the moat, they began the ant-clad siege.

The cannon fodder rushed up with ladders and erected them on the city wall. The exiles in charge of the siege held their swords in their mouths and climbed up with their hands and feet. According to their experience, as long as they climbed the city wall, the battle was basically over - the closer the prefecture and county to the south of the Yangtze River, the weaker the will to resist, as soon as they saw the opponent attacking the city wall, the soldiers and people defending the city immediately scattered as birds and beasts, and did not want to stay at the head of the city to die.

Seeing that dozens of ladders had been erected one after another, Su shouted: "Smash it with a sassaga and a stone!" ”

The people struggled to lift the sassagers one by one, shouted and lifted over the city wall, and rolled down the ladder, and the homeless people on the ladder had nowhere to hide, and were smashed by the sassalwood to the head and bleeding, and then fell to the ground, and many people were injured and fell by the sassalwood and fell to their deaths on the spot.