Zhu Di rode on a horse and slowly walked towards the east city of Jinan, his eyes slowly moved up from the battered city wall, and he saw countless cheering crowds and waving arms.
Many soldiers and civilians leaned out of the city wall and were looking at him, and some even climbed the wall, and Zhu Di's back quietly straightened up.
Jinan has finally arrived After nearly three months of hard fighting, he is also a wounded army and a tired division, with great attrition, at such a big cost, is it worth capturing a city Compared with the large number of main forces of the Ming army annihilated in the two battles of Zhengcunba and Baigou River, in a direct sense, the attack on Jinan is obviously worth the loss, but he is too eager to be recognized by the people of the world, at least, to be taken seriously.
He's not a rogue Attacking Jinan is not obvious in a military sense, but if it can successfully occupy Jinan, even if it is only held for half a year, and then shrink its forces and return to its own territory, the political significance will be self-evident.
Now, this fortified city has finally surrendered to his feet.
The four pro-army guards in front had already entered the city gate hole, and inside the city gate hole, the stones that had been used to resist the city gate had been removed and piled up on both sides, and there were several wooden pillars, firmly pressed against the dome, as if to prevent collapse.
Eight bare-handed doormen knelt on their sides, touching the ground with their foreheads, and did not dare to lift their heads.
The city gate hole is a little dark, the city gate hole is out, there is an incense case in the sun, Sheng Yong, Tie Xuan and others are in addition to the official hat, only wearing official clothes, standing there respectfully.
The four guards in front did not hesitate, immediately sped up their speed through the city gate hole, and patrolled left and right, but did not find the ambush sword and axe men and archers, so they stood still in the circle of horses, and made a safe gesture to the back, and King Yan accelerated his march.
"Closer, closer" Tie Xuan's heart was pounding, his face showed a deferential and surrendering expression, his hands were slightly arched, but his eyes were staring at Zhu Di for a moment, calculating the speed of the war horse under his crotch.
This jack gate can't be sooner or later, and it has to be stoned to death.
Because the jack gate is just a huge gate knife that was hastily set up.
The city gate tower is the strongest place, and it is impossible to leave a huge groove that can hide a huge iron plate large enough to seal the entire city gate hole, so the timing of killing the Yan King must be accurate, and one blow will be fatal.
If you start early, you will block Zhu Di out, and if you start late, Zhu Di will rush in before the knife falls, and once he finds that there is a change, he can circle the horse at any time and jump back from the knife to escape.
Seeing that the four personal soldiers patrolled around and stood on the inside of the city gate, Zhu Di showed a faint smile on his face, he knocked the stirrups with his legs, and the war horse ran briskly, the horse's hooves trampled, stepping on the suspension bridge of the moat, and the sound of hooves was crisp and pleasant.
The whip was raised and gently whipped on the horse's thighs.
Closer, closer Tie Xuan's throat was dry, his heart was almost jumping out, calculating the speed of the horse, he suddenly took a step forward, clenched his hands into fists, and shouted angrily: "Kill Yan" There was a "click", and I don't know who among the doormen kneeling on the ground pulled the mechanism, and in the dark above the wooden frame, a big gate knife chopped off with a "whoosh".
The Chinese have always used knives when using beheading, while in the West they also used knives at first, and later with guillotines.
In the West, beheading was a privilege reserved for the aristocracy, and the inferior did not deserve the punishment of beheading.
Bandits are to be punished in public places; The murderer of the monarch shall be sentenced to four horses and the corpse shall be divided; Counterfeiters were boiled to death in boiling water, heretics were burned at the stake, and civilian thieves were hanged until the 18th century, the French were the first to invent the guillotine, but the original guillotine could not cut a few people, and the blade was rolled, or King Louis XVI, who was quite talented in craftsmen, personally instructed and improved, this killing weapon was truly perfected, the half-moon blade was replaced with a right-angled triangle, weighing forty kilograms, and it only took two percent of a head to cut off a head, and it took thirty seconds to lose consciousness when the severed human head was cut off, This miraculous efficiency is nothing compared to the hanging or electrocution of at least four minutes per person.
Unfortunately, the guillotine, which Louis XVI himself had instructed to improve, cut off his own head nine months later.
Tie Xuan summoned skilled craftsmen to design this jack gate, which is basically the prototype of this guillotine, saying that it is a jack gate, but in fact it weighs only hundreds of pounds, and the blade is flat, compared to the kind of triangular guillotine with an angle of 45 degrees improved by Louis XVI, although it is thicker and heavier, it is probably necessary to roll the blade after cutting a few times, but its mission is only to cut one person.
Tie Xuan's calculation of the time is very accurate, according to Zhu Di's speed, he should have just walked under the guillotine, not to mention that he only wore three layers of leather armor, even if he wore thirty layers of leather armor, he would be cut into two pieces by the gate knife that fell on his head.
However, at the moment when the horse's head had penetrated into the city gate hole, Zhu Di, who was riding on the horse, unexpectedly pulled the horse's reins in a ghostly manner, and seemed to be only subconsciously moving, so his movements were not resolute, so the horse only paused slightly, and still ran forward.
But after a moment's pause, the sword fell with a bang, and it was faster than his speed for a moment.
"Poof", the sharp knife is sharpened on the horse's neck, weight, speed, and sharp knife edge, it is like holding a red-hot knife to cut butter, almost not a moment of stagnation, the guillotine pierced through, the horse connected the horse's head and legs, was cut in half.
The horse's blood splashed Zhu Di's body, he rolled the saddle and fell off the horse, looking at the guillotine knife that almost killed him, a chill rushed from the center of his feet to the top of his head, and his hair exploded.
"There is an ambush" The guards of King Yan were shocked, immediately jumped off the horse and pounced on it, set up the startled Zhu Di and ran, they pushed Zhu Di on a war horse, patted the horse's buttocks, and the war horse ran outside, and the guards got on the horse one after another, tightly guarded Zhu Di, and fled out together.
"Shoot Zhu Di" Tie Xuan sighed with regret, and hurriedly sent a signal to the city head, and the cronies and soldiers who had been watching the sound at the city head immediately took out the bows and crossbows that had been hidden long ago and rushed to the city wall, while the guards pretending to be beggar officials rushed to the incense case, drew their blades from under the table, and pounced on the four Yan Wang guards who were angrily drawing their swords.
It was scorching, but Zhu Di was cold.
He had come to receive the surrender, and he did not have a sword on his body, so he held the saddle with both hands, leaned down to protect his head and fled for his life, and the Ming army with bows and crossbows pushed away the dazed crowd, pounced on the wall, and shot at the man who was lying on his horse, obviously wearing a vassal python robe.
Thanks to Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng's repeated persuasions, Zhu Di was covered with three layers of leather armor when he came.
Even the wolf's tooth arrows used by the border army can only penetrate two layers of leather armor, not to mention the arrows used by the officers and soldiers of the Jinan Guard.
The arrow stuck in the leather armor did not fall, but it did not hurt his body, at most which arrow was more powerful, and pierced a little flesh.
Zhu Di fled back to his rear formation, and the officers and soldiers who were cheering and shouting on the city wall were stunned by this scene.
Standing on the city wall waving their arms, riding on the wall waving and laughing, crowded on the city wall to watch the excitement, all the people stood there as if petrified, watching Yan Wang Zhu Di lie on horseback, stinging back to his own formation, a terrified chill suddenly enveloped their bodies and minds.
Swindling They don't know what kind of punishment Zhu Di will receive as long as he invades Jinan.
"His Royal Highness is unharmed" Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu, Qiu Fu and others ran to Zhu Di's side in a row, and after some inspection, they saw that the porcupine was still fierce and fierce, so they put their hearts at ease, and they were all happy and then surprised, shocked and then happy, and under the great sorrow and joy, they almost cried.
Zhu Gaoxu's little face turned pale, he was younger, although he saw that his father was fine, he still couldn't slow down the color for a while.
Zhang Yu said in a trembling voice: "The Ming army actually surrendered by fraud, but thanks to the divine help of His Royal Highness, he escaped with a catastrophe."
Zhu Di took off the leather armor with arrows, threw it directly to the ground, and sneered calmly: "How can there be any divine help, it is someone in the city who warns me." ” He rode his horse lightly, and at the moment when he was about to enter the city gate, a strong flash of light swept past his eyes, Zhu Di subconsciously pulled the reins of the horse, just such a delay, and almost escaped a catastrophe, remembering that the sharp gate knife was cut down against his face door, cutting a horse in half, until this moment, he still had palpitations.
"Someone in the city is alerting" When the generals heard this, they looked at each other, and when they looked at the city, they saw that the crowd in the city was overwhelming, and where could they find someone to show the police.
At this time, the gate of the city had been re-closed by the eight gatekeepers, and the stones were pressed against it, and there was no need to ask again, the four guards who had entered the city first had been cut into pulp.
In the angry shouting and scolding of the Yan army outside the city, Tie Xuan strode forward, walked to the head of the city, and generously said to the stunned and overwhelmed soldiers and civilians defending the city: "What are you still doing in a daze, quickly pick up the sword, gun, bow and arrow to defend the city Yan survived, and I will definitely refuse to spare the soldiers and civilians in my city."
Once it fell into the hands of Yan Yi, peeling the skin and cramping, filing the bones and raising ashes, and the death was miserable, everyone had no way to retreat, only to defend the city, and still have a glimmer of life, even if he died in battle, it was also to sacrifice his life for the country, serve the king, and die a heroic death immediately walked to the edge of the city, and scolded Zhu Di on the plate wall.
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Only then did Zhu Di know that it was this person who deceived and surrendered, and almost killed his surname, and couldn't help but be bloody, and in anger, he pointed at the head of the city with his halberd, and shouted: "Tie Xuan dog thief, you dare to deceive this king, and teach you to fall into the hands of this king, otherwise you will be better off than dead."
At the moment when the two bigwigs were talking harshly, Xia Xun was riding on the wall, like all the stunned soldiers and civilians, motionless, but a snowy knife was quietly sliding into his sleeve inch by inch.
Ximen Qing, Xie Yufei, and Nan Feifei stood beside him, separating him from the rest of the spectators, blocking the view of others.
After a while, the knife appeared in his left sleeve again, Ximen Qing carried the medicine box next to him, and with a movement of his fingers, the medicine box opened a crack, and the sharp knife used to clean the rotten flesh and cut the wound was stuffed back unconsciously.
"Click" The medicine box closed again, and no one saw the small movements, and it seemed that they were still as stunned as everyone else To be continued: