Chapter 136: The Head of the City on the Ship
"Lord Yu has been cold for ten years, full of poetry and books, you need to know that 'the big husband should benefit the common people', now that the soldiers have come to the city, I advise Lord Yu to open the city and surrender quickly, so as not to be ruined!" Hao Ren knew that it was impossible to persuade Yu Que to surrender, but his army had not finished the formation, so he had to share Yu Que's heart and let his subordinates calmly line up.
"Haha!" Yu Que laughed loudly, there is no sentence in the hundreds of sons 'the big husband should be the left of the people', it is from the lintel of the protagonist's house in the movie "Heavenly Dynasty", and it is written in English, Yu Que naturally has not heard it: "Yu Mou is not talented, he has read the words of the sage, ten years of cold windows, he has entered the department in one fell swoop, and he is on the high school list, Yu only knows how to serve the king, dedicate himself to the country, do his best, and die." The matter of stooping to be a thief, Yu is lonely and unheard, and he has never heard of it! If you raise an army for no reason, invade our city, and make the lives miserable, how can you come to 'benefit the common people'? ”
"Lord Yu's words are wrong!" Hao Ren said loudly: "The Great Song Dynasty Taizu swore an inscription: 'Govern the world with scholars', now traitors are rampant, and the people are not happy, 'the life of the Han people is as cheap as a donkey, and the literati are as cheap as dogs', the country is not talented, it is for the livelihood of the world, the army is for the people, the king does not see the rule of the country, regardless of caste, everyone is equal, science and technology develop, and the people live in peace. Besides, Lord Yu is a Tang Wu person, not a Mongolian person, so why did he serve the courtless court? It is better to obey the will of heaven and submit to the governor of Pontus, so that the people and soldiers will not suffer from war. Even Yu Yanyu and other Mengyuan royal families have already complied with the will of heaven and returned to the governor of Pontus, why should Lord Yu still use his mantis arm as a car and be cannon fodder for others. ”
Yu Que knew that there was no way in the imperial court, and such a capable official as him had been repeatedly impeached by the officials, and his heart was quite cold, but he was too deeply influenced by the Confucianism of 'loyalty to the monarch and patriotism', and would rather die with a heavy name, and hugged his fist to the north and said: "His Majesty Mengyuan and the Semu people rule the world together, and Yu Moushi receives the emperor's grace, and when the title is tied to the grass, he will repay him with death, how can he be compared with the Yu family's traitor?" ”
"Detachment from the south of Huainan, military discipline is sloppy, the people are not happy, the lives are miserable, Yu Que is abusive, and they all transport grain and grass, which is also a crime; Meng Yuan was unreasonable, oppressed the Han people, and Yu Que did not conform to the will of heaven and became a reactionary class defender, which is also a crime...... Guozuo hangs the people and fights the crime, disturbs the people of a city, and later breaks the city, when the people of the government treasury are compensated with money and grain, I hope that the people of the city will capture this thief for me, and Guozuo should be rewarded! Hao Ren saw that the surrender was ineffective, and began to instigate the people in the city.
Yu Que laughed and said: "The people in my city, all of them are united, how can a thief's words be able to separate!" ”
"Big words can defeat the enemy, what do people carry knives for?" Hao Ren heard the horn behind him, knowing that his side had finished arranging, he had no intention of fighting with Yu Que, and said: "Your son and his ministers are all fine in my place, Lord Yu don't read it, the cannon has no eyes, Lord Yu should be more careful, don't wipe your neck and hang yourself in a hurry, looking for death and life!" ”
Hao Ren waved his hand and hid in the shield array, and the sailor took the oars and rowed towards the big boat.
Yu Que knew that Hao Ren's artillery was powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful, and in an instant, several guards around him had been beaten to a blur of flesh and blood, and Yu Que himself was also scratched several places by the masonry that jumped up from the city, covered in blood.
The siege of Anqing, which Hao Ren had planned for a long time, was just started.
The five big ships of the Red Turban Army, after firing one cannon, turned around on the spot and finished firing the other side of the artillery.
Hao Ren's artillery had a long range, only firing at a distance, and he was anxious to stomp his feet, and the ballistas and catapults in the city could not help the ships on the river at all, but one by one, gradually being damaged.
Yu Que didn't fight back, and it was useless to fight back, his weapons couldn't reach Jiangxin's ships, so he had to let the soldiers hide behind the battlements to reduce casualties, and when Hao Ren climbed the city wall, he would counterattack.
"Catapult, press on!"
Hao Ren gave an order, and twenty medium-sized warships carrying catapults, led by Jiao Lu, moved forward together, in front of the military formation, neatly arranged.
"Catapult launch!"
For a time, the catapult fired a salvo, throwing the big earth-shattering thunder to the head of the city, and for a while, the flesh and blood of the city head flew sideways, and the two city walls broke out of a large gap of more than a width.
"Governor, the walls are too high, we don't have the tools to climb them!" Yu Tonghai, a naval army, saw that the war was going well, and was anxious to break the city, so he said anxiously.
"It's okay, let the two big ships move forward in the bows, align the two gaps, and load the stones in the stern!"
Hao Ren ordered, the two big ships Luzhou and Shouzhou turned their bows, aimed the bows at the two gaps in the city wall, large and small ships, and filled stones back and forth to the stern, and in a moment, the hull of the ship was tilted upwards thirty degrees because of the unbalanced load, and the bow was raised a lot, and the visual inspection should be almost the same as the height of the two gaps in the city wall.
"Crossbowmen forward, hold down the city!"
Hao Ren gave an order, and large and small ships, loaded with two thousand crossbowmen, lined up in front of both sides of the big ship.
"Artillery, catapults, reloading preparations, guarding both sides of the gap!"
The artillery and catapults of the Red Turbans, momentarily calmed down, reloaded, ready for the next salvo.
"The big ship forward, rushing to the gap!"
Hao Ren gave an order, and the two big ships slowly moved forward, knocking on the bow of the ship high, and went straight to the gap in the city.
Yu Que saw that the Red Turban Army had entered the firing range, and for a while, the flag at the head of the city waved, and the head of the city was full of soldiers, who only shot bows and arrows at the approaching ships.
The ships of the following size, seeing the soldiers at the head of the city coming again, opened the cannon one after another, beating the head of the city into a blur of flesh and blood, and the two thousand crossbowmen who pressed the foot of the formation also shot crossbow arrows at the head of the city, and for a time, there were countless dead and wounded on the head of the city, and I don't know how many Mengyuan soldiers turned over and fell into the river.
In a moment, the big ship was already close to the city wall, the sword and shield soldiers first threw a round of earth-shaking thunder to the city, and the pear flower spear 'spurted' scorching tongue of fire, together with the sword and shield soldiers, boarded the city, and the Anqing army, which was about to pounce on and fight, was blown up and blurred with flesh and blood.
Yu Que was discouraged, knowing that it was over, Anqing couldn't hold on. Hao Ren's guy, actually used a big ship to make a ladder, this kind of tactics, Yu Que has never seen it, it seems that this kind of tactics, such as Taizu Genghis Khan to fill the city with soil, the same, and Hao Ren's soldiers have strong firepower, brave soldiers, thousands of remnants of Anqing City, can not resist at all.
Yu Que held the determination to die, did not avoid the flames of the pear flower spear, and used the iron halberd to kill, and in an instant, more than a dozen red turban soldiers who rushed to the city head were all picked down from the city head, and the end was fierce and abnormal, which was like a fifty-two-year-old civil official?
Wu Liujiu, the left guard Qianhu who was clustered behind Hao Ren, saw that the soldiers were dead and wounded, Yu Que was really fierce, he used the angle bow, aimed at Yu Que, and was about to shoot an arrow, but was stopped by Hao Ren's group: "Leave him alive, it's still useful!" Yu Que was spared from this arrow piercing his heart.
"What's the use of keeping such stubborn people?" Wu Liujiu put down his bow and asked puzzled.
"Anqing Road is vast and there are many soldiers, do you have to rely on the brothers to fight with knives and guns? If Yu Que surrenders, the vast land east of Anqing Road and west of Hezhou will be owned by the Qingfeng Army! "Hao Ren said coldly, and said in his heart, 'I don't know how to make Yu Que, an old stubborn, use it for me!'
(To be continued.) )