The snow in Yanshan is as big as a seat.
The Ming army braved the snow to attack the city, and the red blood and white snow rendered the earth, which was bleak and blurry.
The two sons of the governor Qu Neng led two thousand soldiers to attack Zhangye Gate, most of the building materials in the city will be used up, the materials for the high wall are also insufficient, the stones and rolling wood are chimeled, and the arrows are also scattered, and it has been impossible to carry out an effective blow to the Ming army that hit the door under the city, the ravaged city gate was finally burst into flames under the repeated impact of the soldiers holding the city wood countless times, and finally burst into flames, and the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and cheers were everywhere.
Qu Neng was overjoyed, and immediately personally waved his sword to join the battle group, and threw all the 300 generals and colonels around him into battle, and at the same time ordered someone to immediately notify Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, who was commanding the battle remotely at Zhengcunba, and asked General Li to increase his troops immediately.
The Yan army also knew that once the city was broken, there was no luck, and they flocked to the city gate hole, and the Ming army fought to the death, and there were countless dead bodies on the ground for a while, and the soldiers on both sides stepped on those bloody corpses, desperately wielding knives and raising guns, not daring to stop for a moment, let alone the slightest fancy, killing and killing them with their lives to expand or delay the time of breaking the city.
Bright red blood, smeared all over the earth.
The sudden snow was covered in an instant.
Suddenly, the vast white was dyed bright red again, and Li Jinglong couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that the Zhangye door had been broken.
The weather is getting colder and colder, Zhu Gaoxu's little rabbit cub led the rangers to constantly attack the supply lines of the Ming army, so that the army lacks food and clothing, and now the army does not even have winter clothes to protect against the cold, and at night, the soldiers can only hug each other to keep warm, and now many of the 500,000 troops have been born with chilblains, and the morale of the army and even the combat effectiveness have been greatly reduced, and if the city of Beiping is not captured, Li Jinglong really does not know how to let these 500,000 people spend the winter in peace under the city of Beiping.
Although the enemy in Beiping City is brave, it is obviously more feared than the natural enemy of the harsh winter.
Li Jinglong really didn't expect that in the case of a large number of abnormal attrition of soldiers, Qu Neng could actually break through the city gate with such a small number of troops, which shows that the defenders in the city are getting fewer and fewer, and they are no longer able to protect the whole city.
Li Jinglong was overjoyed to get on the horse, and immediately ordered to gather the seven guards and horses, and follow him to reinforce them, and as soon as the order was issued, Li Jinglong's heart moved: "It's not proper, I'm in Zhengcunba, and there are still twenty miles away from Zhangye Gate, in case I arrive, Qu Neng has already attacked the city, and this is the first contribution to breaking the city."
Li Jinglong's eyes moved, and he immediately ordered his own soldiers: "Quickly inform Qu Dudu, he has few soldiers, don't go deep, only stay outside the city gate, don't go further, wait for the army of his country to arrive, and then attack the city, this is the order of his own army, don't disobey, go quickly" Li Jinglong hurriedly gathered his soldiers and horses, and it took him more than half an hour to drive those soldiers out of the tents, and they were wearing autumn clothes one by one, standing in the heavy snow and shivering, because there was too little activity, his hands and feet were frozen and stiff, and he couldn't even hold his gun steadily, so he could only hold it under his ribs.
Li Jinglong didn't care about paying attention to the appearance of the army at this time, so he just ordered them all to run forward to reinforce Zhangyemen, and the brigade rushed towards Zhangyemen.
After Qu Neng got Li Jinglong's general order, he was so angry that he almost crashed to death under the Zhangye Gate, but the military order was like a mountain, and Li Jinglong's personal soldiers were holding golden arrows and watching it fiercely, so they had to gather their men and horses, shrink their forces to the city gate, and fight hard with the Yan army here.
What is comforting is that the city gate has been smashed to pieces, and even if the Yan army recaptures the city gate, it is impossible to close it like the last time they recaptured the main gate of Li.
Hearing that Zhangye Gate was lost, Concubine Xu and the prince Gao Chi panicked, and hurried to Zhangye Gate, the princess and the prince, there were less than 100 people with complete clothes and armor, and there were some people with variegated clothes, and they followed indiscriminately, and the troops in the city have been almost consumed, and now the main force defending the city has become the people of Beiping, the old and weak, women and children, and it is no wonder that Qu can break the city with thousands of soldiers, if it were not for the Ming army to even freeze and starve, it is also a great reduction in combat power, and the battered Beiping City has long been unable to hold.
"Zhangye's door is broken, this Beiping finally can't hold it, I finally didn't wait for my husband to come back."
Concubine Xu's armor was also full of blood, and she couldn't see the original color of the armor, she was carrying a knife, and while running, she looked at the old and weak soldiers on the left and right, and couldn't help but have a sour nose, her eyes were moistened with tears, and the snow was boundless, but at this time, it was even more hazy.
"Ouch" The prince Zhu Gaochi screamed, and the whole person slipped out, and the two people who supported him were taken by the big fat man and fell out with him.
It turned out that there was a pool of stagnant water on the ground, which had frozen into ice, and it was snowing on the ice again.
"Blazing" Concubine Xu turned her head and shouted, Zhu Gaochi got up dizzily and shouted: "Mother don't care about me, it's important to recapture Zhangye Gate" Princess Xu gritted her teeth, waved her hand and ran forward with the men and horses, Zhu Gaochi asked the two personal soldiers to pull him up, and looked around, but he didn't know where his knife had gone, and the snow on the ground was very thick, so it was difficult to find.
Zhu Gaochi patted his big hand that was red from the cold and looked like a carrot, and shouted: "Don't look for it, go to the city gate" "Slow" As soon as he ran two steps, Zhu Gaochi suddenly stopped, slowly turned his head, and stared straight at the place where he had just slipped to, and a strange light gradually appeared in his eyes.
At this time, a team of gray-clothed monks in the distance ran with sticks, and the leader was Dao Yan, who made plans in Beiping, commanded in the center, and boosted morale, Beiping can hold on to the present, this monk who stood behind Princess Xu and the prince Gao Chi made a great contribution, he was commanding the defense on another city wall, and suddenly heard that Zhangye Gate was lost, and he was also shocked, and immediately led a team of monks and soldiers who were trained by themselves.
"The Son" "Master Daoyan" Zhu Gaochi hurriedly shouted: "My mother has led people to Zhangye Gate, the master will go to the aid quickly" "The old man knows" Dao Yan shrugged his eyebrows, his triangular eyes were full of awe-inspiring murderous aura, and he was already without the kind eyebrows of a monk: "Shizi, quickly avoid entering the inner city, once the outer city is not protected, the only way to stick to the inner city is to stick to the inner city." ” "No, the inner city can't be held for a long time, the master must drive the Ming army out of Zhangye Gate with my mother, there is a plan to solve the danger" Dao Yan glanced at him in surprise, this is not the time to ask, but he knows that Zhu Gaochi's surname is calm, if he is not sure, he will never do such a lie, he can be regarded as a great trust in this prince, so he only shook his head and said: "Okay, the old man will die and drive the Ming army out of Zhangyemen, and the prince will only act according to the plan."
After that, the big sleeves flew, and a gust of wind swept away.
Concubine Xu led the dead soldiers to kill under the Zhangye Gate, this "female students" at the moment became a tigress, dancing with two knives, rushing to kill in front, its momentum was unstoppable, the morale of the Yan army that had been struggling to support under the city gate hole was greatly boosted, and the Ming army defense line was pushed back several zhang under desperate resistance, Qu Neng just ordered the two sons to launch a counter-charge, Dao Yan led a team of monks and soldiers also arrived, this monk usually does not use a blade, at this time also picked up a long knife, like a wolf and a tiger into the enemy group.
Led by a woman and a monk, this half-army and half-civilian defender actually drove Qu Neng's two brave and warlike sons out of the city gates.
"Back Down" Zhu Gaochi, who has rushed to the city wall, ordered people to shout, Dao Yan under the city, Xu Fei and others heard the alarm and just avoided under the city gate hole, the city poured some unknown things like heavy rain, the Ming army was afraid of gold juice and dung soup, and hurriedly retreated to watch its movements, but it turned out to be boiling water, the water splashed on the body, the burning pain was unbearable, once it landed, the heat boiled, the snow was all over the sky, and the ground was filled with water vapor, it was like a fog for a while, and the city gate was blocked, and the inside and outside could not see.
Immediately afterwards, the city threw down a bundle of firewood, and then poured hot water again, and at the same time, Zhu Gaochi ordered his subordinates not to save arrows, and the limited arrows of the defenders at the head of the city all used this time to shoot down, shooting and injuring many Ming troops.
Zhu Gaochi used hot water, originally to block the enemy, he was also worried that the hot water should not freeze, but there was no way to do both, and he was quite worried, but this is the number nine cold winter, the water poured on the firewood and not a pot of hot water, the heat loss is very fast, the freezing is also very fast, the firewood stacks are stacked higher and higher, and the hot water is poured up layer by layer, and when the arrows at the head of the city are gone, and there is no way to take the enemy army under the city, an ice wall has stood in front of the Zhangye Gate, and the city gate is firmly blocked.
It turned out that Zhu Gaochi listened to his father talk about things on the grassland when he was a child, and once mentioned that there were grassland tribes in order to resist the cold wind, they had frozen into a wall with straw bales and water, and in winter, the tribe hid in the leeward place of the wall, and when the spring flowers bloomed and the tribes migrated, the ice wall also automatically disintegrated this method of rapid city building, but he never thought of using it on Beiping City, so he slipped and saw the thin layer of ice under his feet, and suddenly thought of it, but he didn't expect it to work.
Concubine Xu saw that her son had come up with such a clever plan, she couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, went up to the city wall and hurriedly asked her son a few words, and learned what happened, Concubine Xu praised her son a few words, and immediately ordered to go, and the nine cities were all handled accordingly, and for a time the defenders of the nine cities poured water on the city, turning a Beiping city into a hard, smooth, and crystal clear crystal palace.
Li Jinglong led the soldiers to come, and ran for more than 20 miles in a row, and the blood of these soldiers ran away, full of energy, and "high morale", but it was useless for them to come.
In the heavy snow and confusion, those soldiers of the Southern Army saw such a miracle, and they only felt that the Yan Army seemed to have heavenly help, and they could not defeat it at all, and they couldn't help but be greatly depressed.
What's worse is that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, has already crossed the Gushan Beihe with his fifteenth army, and at this time he can meet the peripheral troops stationed outside the Zhengcun Dam to Gongyu Li Jinglong's army: the Governor Chen Hui.
Li Jinglong attacked the city, and the cavalry was the most useless, so the cavalry was placed on the outermost part by him, and this was Chen Hui's department.
Li Jinglong's 500,000-strong army, mostly from the south, so there were a lot of foot soldiers, and the special cavalry unit was just like that, about 20,000 people, thrown into the wilderness to "herd sheep" like free-range.
Today is the first snow of this winter, and it is a blizzard, many southern troops are still seeing snow for the first time in their lives, they are trembling with their hands in their hands to see the "Western scenery", because the heavy snow obscures the vision, so until the Yan army is about to rush to the front of them, they find that the Yan army is like ants, all over the mountains and fields To be continued: