At dusk, on the surface of the river near Pengze, there were countless bloated and swollen corpses floating.
In the first battle last night, the city wall on the east side of Pengze City changed hands fifteen times, which shows the fierceness of the battle at that time.
The 30,000 county soldiers brought by Zhu Hao, the Taishou of Yuzhang, were killed in several days and nights of defensive battles, and now there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left in the city.
Seeing that the dilapidated city walls were about to die, on this day, he ordered the generals and colonels in the army to be summoned.
"Lord Taishou, there is no news of reinforcements yet?"
"Reinforcements" Zhu Hao raised his head with a bitter face, "Where are the reinforcements, but we and other Chaisang in the northwest and Poyang in the southeast, all of which have Yuan army." ” The generals and colonels around them fell silent, their faces were somewhat tired, and after fighting day and night, each of them climbed the city wall first and personally commanded the battle.
When the county soldiers from all over the country gathered here, at the beginning, there were dozens of generals, partial generals, generals, and captains who stepped into this place.
Now there are only eight generals left here, and all of them are injured.
"Lord Taishou, let's break through."
After being silent for a long time, listening to the shouts outside, a military general raised his head and said.
"Where to break through" "The thieves besieging Pengze here are all Pengze water thieves and Poyang water thieves, as well as most of the Shanyue, the mountain roads are impassable, and the waterways are also occupied by the enemy, so we can only break through to the nearby county seats."
The general who spoke earlier replied.
"Nearby county seats" Zhu Hao shook his head slightly, stretched out his finger and pointed to the dilapidated map placed in front of the case.
"There are wars in Chaisang and Poyang, and Wuyang has been broken by the thief Peng Ye three days ago, and now Wuyang is the place where the thief's army's grain, grass and ordnance are stored, and we can't throw ourselves into the net."
"Then wouldn't we be cornered?"
Zhu Hao stood up and looked at the sky outside the hall, "Perhaps, we can only hold on." ” "Pass the order, fight tonight, gather all the elites in the city, post notices in the city, and send people to inform every household in the city that if the thief Peng Ye breaks through this city, the whole city will be ruined."
"They don't want their homes to be ruined, so let's go up to the city wall to meet the enemy."
"Whoa."
Zhu Hao walked to the head of the city with a group of generals behind him, and when he looked at the ground outside the city that became potholed after the smoke and fire, there were only four generals left behind him, and the remaining four people went to the north and south city walls to guard them, and as for the water gate in the west, it was already blocked by them with falling rocks.
Zhu Hao adhered to his father's style and ordered 500 people to guard the Water Gate, and at the time of the first battle, he killed many people with fire.
This is also his only victory in the past few days.
He looked to the north, thinking about his father's teachings, and looked remorseful.
"If my father is here, there is nothing to be afraid of."
He admires his father, he is a very popular minister, an official to a captain, and now, he should still be in Chang'an.
"It's a pity, maybe I won't be able to see my father for the rest of my life."
He glanced at the army formation that was gathering outside the city, he didn't know how many water thieves were hidden in the big rivers near Pengze Poyang, and the offensive that lasted for several days was able to fight on a par with these county soldiers behind him, could it be that these soldiers behind him were not brave enough and not desperate enough can only say that just after the New Year, these guys are afraid that there is no surplus food at home.
He sighed heavily, and the sound of war drums on the opposite side sounded again, and the sound of footsteps shaking the earth and mountains was continuous, accompanied by the shouts that covered the sky and the dust raised by the charge, he stood near the battlements of the city wall, his face full of determination.
"Lord Taishou, be careful."
It was at this time that a lieutenant escorted him behind him.
The two arrows of "Bell Bell" were blocked by the sword and shield soldiers who came up, and they dragged Zhu Hao to retreat, and on the side of the city wall, a ladder had been erected, and the bandits who had captured a county town also had siege equipment.
They climbed very fast, and in the blink of an eye, the first group of more than 100 bandits rushed to the city wall.
"Pounce on them."
"Quick, burn the ladder."
"The archers stand back, and the pikemen and shield men will block them for me."
The city wall was chaotic into a pot of porridge, and the panicked Zhu Hao looked at the area where the two armies were fighting, his legs were sore and weak, and he didn't eat a few mouthfuls of rice at all during the days and nights of continuous fighting.
"Let's go, leave here immediately with Taishou-sama."
With a loud shout, Zhu Hao took a deep look at the captain before leaving the city wall.
"Quick, let's drag the thieves and take Lord Taishou to break through from the West Gate."
More and more water thieves poured into the city, and the narrow area of the city was occupied by thousands of people in an instant, and blood splashed everywhere on the crowded ground, and in this kind of melee without the support of the army, there was no doubt that the water thieves immediately had the upper hand.
Zhu Hao was carried by others, and hundreds of soldiers escaped from the water gate of the west gate on more than a dozen sampans.
However, just as they came to the middle of the river, dozens of boats suddenly sailed out of the nearby reeds.
"Haha, the big boss is really like a god."
"Zhu Hao, where to escape" "The big boss has an order, capture Yuzhang and guard Zhu Hao, and reward 100 gold."
There will be brave men under the reward, and the ships around them gradually approached.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows quickly."
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Among the soldiers guarding the ship, only a dozen people had bows and crossbows in their hands, and when they opened their bows and arrows to shoot down a dozen water thieves, Mizusawa on the opposite side also reacted quickly.
However, this is on the boat, even if they still surround Zhu Hao with their bodies and block him behind them, but in the middle of the fight, under the shaking of the ship, there will always be gaps in Zhu Hao's body exposed in front of the water thief's strong bow and crossbow.
An arrow hit Zhu Hao's chest directly, he looked at the dense rain of arrows on the opposite side in disbelief, and the moment the whole person fell towards the water, more than a dozen arrows fell on his body one after another, and his whole person fell directly into the water on his back.
The soldiers who were fighting around the "Lord Taishou" saw this scene and were stunned.
"Haha, Zhu Hao is dead."
"Hurry up and grab Zhu Hao's corpse, this person is dead, and the corpse is worth fifty gold."
"Poof" "Bang" One after another, water thieves jumped into the turbulent river and swam towards the area where Zhu Hao's body was, but at this moment, the soldiers who were already red-eyed were desperate, many of them stabbed the bottom of the boat directly from the spear, and many of them jumped directly into the river and fought with the water thieves in the river, in the chaos, I don't know who snatched Zhu Hao's body.
"It's just that the news that Zhu Hao was hit by more than a dozen arrows didn't spread."
At night, when the lantern was lit again on the city gate, Pengze City had changed hands.
The city was full of noise and screams, and these wild thieves entered the city, burned and looted everywhere, and when they met a beautiful woman, they forcibly took them directly to the bedroom, or they cleaned them on the stone table in the courtyard, and did whatever they wanted.
It is a few years old children, seventy or eighty old women, who are also slaughtered by them at will, and they attack the city day and night, and the suppressed emotions in their hearts need to be released, and these weak people have become their vents
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