Chapter 134 Huaian "Commander" The soldiers didn't know what happened at all.
They turned their heads and looked at Chu Buha who had a hole in his chest, and screamed loudly.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Twenty dozen matchlock gunners with the sharpest legs and feet followed Liu Ziyun's footsteps and circled around.
They put the barrel of the gun on their brothers' shoulders, aimed at the Mongolian soldiers who were close at hand, and pulled the trigger.
The Meng Yuan soldiers who were worried that their formation was not dense enough were immediately knocked down in a row.
The remaining soldiers screamed, dropped Chu Buha's body, and ran away.
"Catch them all, kill them all," Hu Dahai raised his gun and shouted, leading Wu Liangmou and others to chase them north.
"Don't be too busy chasing.
Cut down the flag.
Cut down Chu Buha's handsome flag."
Liu Ziyun threw the matchlock into Ivanov's arms, took off the iron horn from his waist, and reminded loudly.
"Kill two Tartars, kill two Tartars" "Cut down the flag, chop down the flag" In the ecstasy, the auxiliary soldiers no longer cared about maintaining their formation, or following Hu Dahai and Wu Liangmou to chase down the defeated troops on the battlefield.
Or carrying a spear and a sword, running towards Chu Buha's handsome flag.
First, he knocked down the flagpole with a knife, and then swung the blade to chop the heads of the Goryeo drummer and a group of aides from all ethnic groups who were paralyzed with fear.
"Don't kill the prisoners, don't kill the prisoners, keep them in exchange for money, stay in exchange for money and fire."
Seeing this, Liu Ziyun quickly raised the trumpet again to restrain military discipline.
Before it was too late, as soon as the external threat was gone, the auxiliary soldiers' suppressed passion burst out.
There were a group in the east and a group in the west.
When they saw people wearing Yuan army uniforms, they rushed forward and killed them.
It doesn’t matter how many people the opponent has or how powerful they are.
"Grandma, you still lack training."
Liu Ziyun yelled angrily.
In desperation, he had to try his best to gather his familiar subordinates, "Musketeers, musketeers are coming closer to me.
Archers, archers, Zhu Chenze, you bastard, several times All the months of training have been in vain.
Hurry up and gather your people and follow me to help the governor.
Li Ziyu, Li Ziyu, call all the grenadiers to me.
Let's kill the two Tatars from behind."
Fortunately, combat soldiers and grenadiers received slightly longer training and had slightly better discipline.
Hearing the anger of their captain, they all ran over dragging their weapons and reorganized their team behind Liu Ziyun.
The ensuing battle can be described as "destroying".
Upon discovering that Chu Buha's commanding flag had been chopped down, the thousand-man troops of the Yuan army that had been struggling to hold on suddenly became a mess.
Officers and soldiers scrambled for their lives, unable to organize any effective resistance.
Even if there are one or two stubborn people occasionally, the consequences will be disastrous.
The more experienced the spearmen of the Red Turban Army were, they stepped forward and forced them back with their spear points.
Then the musketeers ran behind the spear formation, placed their matchlocks on Paoze's shoulders, pressed them against the enemy's chest and pulled the trigger.
"Boom, boom, boom" before the round of shooting ended, those Mongolian soldiers who tried to resist to the end completely lost their fighting spirit.
He shouted something like "demon method, demon method" in his mouth, dropped his weapon and ran away with his head in his hands.
The brothers of the Red Turban Army who had gone crazy were driving the enemy like sheep, chasing them to the north.
It wasn't until he saw the city wall of Huai'an City in the distance that he reluctantly stopped under the stern greeting from his scout.
Then they were led by Zhu Bayi, Xu Da and others, and reorganized two miles away from the east city gate to avoid counterattack by the defenders in the city.
The Mongolian Daru Hua Chi in Huai'an City had already learned the news of Chu Buha's defeat from the Mongolian soldiers who rushed back on horseback.
However, he did not have the courage to lead his troops out of the city to avenge Chu Buha.
He just rushed the more than 3,000 new and veteran soldiers remaining in the city to the city wall.
Then he closed the four doors tightly, pulled up the suspension bridge, and guarded it tightly.
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The poor Meng Yuan defeated soldiers ran for seven and a half miles in one breath.
They were so tired that they vomited blood and died in hundreds.
I finally saw hope of escaping, but I couldn't cross the moat.
One was so angry that he fell on the ground and cried loudly.
After crying enough, he realized that the Red Turban Army did not take the opportunity to come and kill them, so he quickly wiped the snot and tears from his face, slipped away along the river, and never worked for the court again.
"Let's just let the last general lead his men to capture them all, fill the river with soil, and then use them as a vanguard, and the ants will follow them."
Wu Liangmou still wasn't satisfied, so he ran to Zhu Ba11 and volunteered.
"Nonsense about such a high city wall.
It will be exhausting to climb up."
Zhu Bayi shook his head and said with a smile while pulling the arrow from his armor for him.
"First bandage the wounds, count the losses, and then think of ways to break the city."
"Oops."
Wu Liangmou then realized that he was still injured and grinned in pain.
Ivanov, Liu Ziyun and others laughed, helped each other, took off their armor, cleaned the wounds with salt water, and applied the Wu family's special gold medicine.
After another busy time, after the wounds were treated, the two auxiliary centurions who stayed in Hanxin City, together with Li Qi and others who had defected after being captured, escorted Deputy Wanhu Baoyin and him.
A group of Mongolian soldiers under his command rushed over.
There were originally rivers connecting Hanxin City and Huai'an.
Zhu Qiang and others who stayed behind in the big ship confirmed that there were no enemy troops between the two cities, and also used the big ship to transport the grain, grass, baggage and other items carried by the Zuo Army when they went out to the east gate of Huai'an City.
Seeing this, Zhu Bayi simply ordered his brothers to set up camp three miles away from the north gate of Huai'an City.
He then gave Xu Da 200 soldiers and 500 auxiliary soldiers, and ordered the latter to return to Hanxin City and clear out the city.
Destroy the enemy, clean up the battlefield, and secure the retreat for the army.
After having lunch, he surveyed the terrain around Huai'an City with General Li Qi as his guide.
You don’t know if you don’t investigate, but once you investigate, you realize how unreliable the battle plan that Mr.
Lu Luzeng had previously formulated for himself was.
Huai'an City is more than three times larger than Xuzhou City.
The city wall is also twice as high as the city wall in Xuzhou.
The surface is completely covered with blue-gray city bricks and mottled with vines.
It is unknown how many years it has stood.
Half a foot away under the city wall, there are four waterways surrounding it.
On the west side is the Grand Canal, and on the east side is another natural river connected to Hanxin City.
The locals call it Donghe.
After passing Hanxin City, it goes eastward and flows into the sea parallel to the Yellow River.
There are two artificial water channels connecting the canal and the East River.
One south and one north formed a square with the two Tianhe rivers, firmly protecting Huai'an City in the center.
In addition to the canal, there are suspension bridges in the east, south and north of the city.
At this moment, it was pulled up high by the iron locks, cutting off the road to the city gate.
The four city gates are all concave in shape, with horse faces on both sides, and watchtowers on the city.
According to Li Qi, each gate also has a gate, a urn, a spike, an iron fence, and other defensive facilities. , everything is complete.
For such a majestic city with complete defense facilities, Lu Laojinshi actually thought that as long as he captured Hanxin City, he could take the city down.
He was really an armchair strategist.
Fortunately, he won the battle this morning and directly wiped out the defenders.
Most of it fell, and Chu Buha, the backbone of the defenders, was beheaded.
Otherwise, everyone should just forget about anything and grab the gold and silver in the official treasury of Hanxin City as soon as possible and get on the boat to go home.
"That person, Dounao, is a hereditary man who only knows how to make money.
Without Chu Buha's help, he would not dare to go out of the city to fight."
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Li Qi, the general, saw Zhu Bayi's face becoming more and more solemn, and quickly offered his advice.
"The governor only needs to seal off the east and west waterways of the city and prohibit passing ships from transporting food to the city.
It won't take long for the city to be conquered without attacking."
"Oh, how do you say this?"
Zhu Bayi looked back at him and asked in surprise.
The surrendered general Li Qizheng was worried that he had no chance to show off, so he quickly pulled his mount forward, then lowered his voice and explained mysteriously, "The governor doesn't know something.
This city of Huai'an is the salt tax center of the imperial court.
There are more than 400,000 people in the city.
More than half of our livelihoods are inseparable from Huaiyan.
Therefore, the food produced locally is not enough to eat, so we have to bring it in from the canal almost every month.”
"Four hundred thousand Dingkou, the total number of people with the surname Li cannot be six to seven hundred thousand.
Don't brag to our governor."
Before he could finish his words, Lu Deshan had already questioned loudly.
The strategy of going east to capture Huai'an was proposed to Zhu Bayi by his grandfather Lu Lu.
He knew the whole thing clearly.
So now that he saw the scale of Huai'an City, he was more anxious than anyone else.
I'm afraid that Zuo Jun will be defeated in the end and he will never be able to hold his head high in front of Zhu Butcher.
The surrendered general Li Qizheng was talking happily when he was suddenly interrupted.
He gave him a dissatisfied look and responded with suppressed anger, "This sir doesn't know something.
I used to be a member of the Han army.
He was stationed in Huai'an city." , in addition to responding to the situation, the main task every day is to take the brothers to patrol the streets.
I can't say that I am familiar with every house in the city.
At least with my eyes closed, I won't miss any alleys."
"Don't just keep bickering."
Zhu Bayi glared at him and shouted to stop, "What's more important is the total population of Huai'an City, including both men and women."
"Seventy, seven hundred thousand may be a little bit high, but six hundred and fifty thousand is definitely there.
Some big salt merchants have two to three hundred servants and servants in their homes.
The population cannot be calculated by household at all."
Li Qi was frightened.
After trembling, he quickly stopped talking nonsense and responded honestly.
"Six hundred and fifty thousand."
Hearing this, Zhu Bayi couldn't help but raise his head and gasped slightly.
The total population of Xuzhou City is just over 170,000, of which about 100,000 are Red Turban Army officers and soldiers, and there are only more than 70,000 real civilians.
In the heart of the original Zhu Laowen, it was already a great city.
There are 650,000 people in Huai'an City, and there are many big salt merchants with many servants at home.
If someone gave Zhe DouTou an idea and asked him to mobilize the salt merchants to assist the officers and soldiers in defending the city, how could he not say that he had set up a ladder and attacked by force?
It was Zhe DouTou who opened the city gate.
Let yourself rush in.
If more than 3,000 brothers rush in, they will be drowned alive by Minzhuang organized by the defenders.
There is no chance of winning.
Just when they were at a loss for what to do, they heard Lu Deshan shouting loudly, "What's so great about having so many people, so many people can get so much help, but so many people can't help you if they don't.
The Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties were acting in a perverse way, and the people were longing for someone to save them from the fire." .
The more people there are in the city, the less stable Zhe Dou Touo feels.
As long as we deal with it properly, maybe the squires and people inside will capture Zhe Dou Touo and surrender the city gate directly to the governor without having to attack the city ourselves. " Note: Huaian in the Yuan Dynasty was a dual hub for water transportation and salt transportation and was extremely prosperous.
According to historical records, there are more than 90,000 households and 540,000 people.
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