The siege battle continued, and it didn't take long for the soldiers on the city to smash the stones available at hand. This was the third day after the bandits siege. Due to too many bandits, officers and soldiers dared not hold back when defending the city. There were always many materials to be smashed down desperately. The two consecutive days of battle to defend the city had already made them insufficient.

The bandits under the city were still shouting and crawling the city, but there was no stone at hand. What should we do?

Just when the situation was in danger, the leaders suddenly saw a surprising scene. The people in the city began to surge up to the city wall in large numbers, and everyone was holding stones. They risked being injured by a hawkish arrow and handed the stones in their hands to the soldiers and the townsmen beside the wall.

The soldiers and the village warriors were stunned and quickly approached the stones in the hands of the villagers and smashed them into the city...

"Where did the villagers get the stones? Logically speaking, the officers and soldiers should have moved all the stones available in the city to the city wall long ago?" Xu Renjie was quite surprised.

"Demolition of houses!" Zhu Yuanzhang only said three words, and the leaders suddenly realized.

Most houses in the past are mixed with mud and stone, and wooden beams are built. As long as a house is demolished, a large amount of stones and wood can be obtained. Higher houses are even made of bricks. After dismantling them, it is very useful to smash the enemy troops who climb the city. However, the method of breaking houses to obtain rolling wood and rocks has always been the last method of retention for the defenders. In most cases, when enemies outside the city attack the city, officers and soldiers dare not forcibly expropriate the houses in the city, because doing so can easily cause riots in the city, and cooperate with the enemies outside the city, which will eventually lead to the breaking of the city.

But... it is the people themselves who start demolishing the houses, so there is no problem! Such actions will not only not cause turmoil in the city, but will instead make the soldiers and civilians in the city unite and fight desperately against the enemy. In this way, it will be very difficult to break through the city!

I saw people swaying from the city walls in Zezhou. I don’t know how many people went up to the city walls. Some helped hand over stones, some helped roll logs, some helped carry away the wounded, and even some brave people treated themselves as village warriors, and took hoes to fight the bandits who climbed up the city. Some people also carried their own soup pots and poured boiling boiling water down the city, making the bandits who climbed the city so hot that they screamed.

A huge positive energy suddenly burst out from the precarious city! Even the leaders of Zhu Yuanzhang's army who were standing on a far hillside watching the battle could feel that the spirit was spreading wildly... infecting everyone guarding the city.

The bandits who attacked the city were stunned. The consequences of burning, killing, looting and looting in the past were undoubtedly revealed at this moment. The desperate momentum of every citizen seemed to be telling these bandits: Come on! Let you know what it means to break the dead!

"This scene..." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head. When the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he seemed to have seen such a scene. When the Han people united with the uprising troops at that time to deal with the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, they had such momentum. The momentum was like a wild wave, and it swept the world in an easy way, sweeping out the Mongols who dominated the Eurasian continent, rushed back to the grassland, and then buried them in the dust of history.

"Those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, not just empty words!" Xu Renjie sighed and shook his head.

"Look, look... the rebellion king's army has begun to retreat." Xue Hongqi shouted.

Sure enough, the King of Breaking Army was caught in a tough battle and soon declared no support. The bandits who attacked the city were besieged by officers, soldiers, township warriors, and the people. They were unable to stand firm at all. They either died or fell down the city. The follow-up troops climbing up the ladder were defeated by countless people with bricks and rocks from demolishing their houses and boiling boiling water...

The bandits looked up at the city wall and saw densely packed with heads guarding the city. They could no longer tell which officers and soldiers were, which were the townsmen, and which were the people. They only knew that there were surprisingly many people, so many that they had lost the courage to continue to rush up.

Once the courage is lost, the army will collapse! The people in front of them start to stop and dare not move forward, and the people behind them quietly retreat... Then the army retreated like a landslide, and they all retreated in a flash.

"Within today, the King of Chuang can no longer reorganize the military force, and the battle at the city gate has come to an end." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly.

As Zhu Yuanzhang said, the King of Invasion Gao Yingxiang was also sweating profusely at this time. Seeing the retreating bandits helpless, once the morale of the army collapsed, it could not be solved by saying a few exciting words. It could only be left to leave time to soothe the soldiers' emotions. Usually, more than one day should be given to the soldiers to have a good sleep and rest, and then it is possible to organize the next attack.

He had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw back to the camp, and then he remembered that Baishui Zhu Ba and Yulin Xue Hongqi had arrived and were watching the battle in the rear. He might as well use this free time to meet them. So Gao Yingxiang took a few confidant brothers and rode a tall horse and walked up the hillside behind.

Zhu Yuanzhang and others did not leave the small hill where they were watching the battle at this time. Several leaders sat around Zhu Yuanzhang and were discussing some details of the battle just now. Zhu Yuanzhang casually said his own opinions and added some common sense of siege to his leaders, such as how the army from ancient times to the present, how to deal with the moat, how to climb the city wall, etc., and talked about some siege weapons before the appearance of cannons and the changes in the way of siege after the appearance of cannons, etc. Xu Renjie heard it and turned his head to remember it desperately. Wang Er, Miao Mei, and Xue Hongqi were listening to it for a brief understanding.

As we were chatting, some subordinates came over to report: "Brother Chuangwang is here!"

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly stood up. Xue Hongqi was also a boss, so he quickly got up and went out to greet him. It was fun. Although he stood up at the same time and walked out at the same time, Xue Hongqi was half a step behind intentionally or unintentionally. It seemed that she subconsciously understood that she and Baishui and Zhu Ba were not on the same level and dared not walk side by side.

The two of them took a few steps and Gao Yingxiang had already arrived in front of him.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked carefully and found that this man was pretty and imposing. He was about forty years old, tall and thick arms, and he was very powerful. Although he was a little smaller than Wang Er, no one would suspect that his martial arts skills were worse than Wang Er. What was particularly special was that Gao Yingxiang was wearing white all over his body, white robe and white headscarf, and the whole piece was white, with only a big bow on his back and a saber hanging around his waist that was not white.

"Hahaha, Brother Zhu Ba of Baishui, the last time we passed Huanglong Mountain in the 36th Camp, we didn't speak well. Now it's the first time we have really met." Gao Yingxiang had not arrived, but his words had arrived, so he was quite generous and direct.

Zhu Yuanzhang also hugged his fists and said, "Brother Wang Chuang is polite. Last time I didn't even see you clearly. Now if you look closely, you really are a hero."

Gao Yingxiang and Zhu Yuanzhang saw Li first, then turned to Xue Hongqi. The etiquette was not very comprehensive, and he said casually: "Old Xue's daughter, I saw you once when I was a child. At that time, you were still a runny little girl. She hugged the horse's neck and cried hard. Now she is so old, hahaha, I heard that you also brought up the team to rebel..."

It turned out that Gao Yingxiang was one generation older than Xue Hongqi. He was Xue Hongqi's father's brother, the elders, and of course they didn't have to hold their fists when they spoke to the younger generation. They were just joking with condescending things. No wonder the horse thief under them completely let go of their guard after they met the slander of Shaanxi.

Xue Hongqi held the ritual of his younger generation: "Uncle Gao... Chou... Uncle Chuang, my father often mentions you, saying that you are the number one horse gang in northern Shaanxi, and ask me to learn more from you... After you rebelled, you opened your eyes to our little horse gangs. Eight out of ten horse gangs in northern Shaanxi have learned from you, so naturally my niece can't fall behind, so as not to lose my father's reputation."

Gao Yingxiang has not announced his real name yet, and Xue Hongqi mistakenly reported the surname "Uncle Gao", which scared the two of them. Fortunately, they were all confidants or leaders of the rebel army around them, so they would not have been leaked. Even so, Gao Yingxiang still gave Xue Hongqi a dissatisfied look.

The next time was garbage time. Both sides said a lot of polite words, raised some home-based conversations, asked "Why are you here?", "What are your plans in the future?", "Have you eaten today?", etc., nonsense. In short, no one thought it out, so there was nothing to mention.

After being polite, he came to the point. Gao Yingxiang sighed and said, "This Zezhou City is really hard to fight! It made Brother Zhu Ba and the girl from the Xue family laugh at me."

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "It is hard to fight the city of the state, and it is known to all, and there is no joke to watch. I don't know how many other city gates are fighting?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, Gao Yingxiang was also a little interested: "It's still early today, and I can't attack the west gate. Why not go and see how the other city gates are attacking."

He left thousands of people outside the city to shout and demonstrate, forcing the defenders on the west wall to dare not withdraw to help the other gates. He then ran south with Zhu Yuanzhang, Xue Hongqi and others, and walked around the southwest corner of the city to see the movements at the south gate.

"The eight kings of Xiying are responsible for attacking the South Gate." Gao Yingxiang said: "His troops are the weakest among our four gates. I think he should have been in a tough battle."
Chapter completed!