Chapter 134 Huai'an

"Master--!" The soldiers had no idea what had happened. They turned their heads and looked at Chu Buha who had a hole in his chest, and burst into tears.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" More than twenty of the most neatly grapple gunmen followed Liu Ziyun's footsteps, put the barrel on the shoulders of their brothers, and pointed the trigger at the Meng Yuan soldiers who were close to each other.

The Meng Yuan soldiers who had previously feared that they were not dense enough were immediately put down in a whole row, and the rest screamed, left Chu Buha's body, and ran away.

"Catch up and kill them all!!" Hu Dahai raised his gun and shouted, leading Wu Liangmou and others to start chasing the north.

"Don't be busy chasing, chopping the flag, and chopping Chu Buha's handsome flag!" Liu Ziyun threw the rifle gun into Ivanov's arms, untied the iron horn from his waist, and loudly reminded him.

"Kill the two Tartars, kill the two Tartars!"

"Cut the flag, cut the flag!"

In ecstasy, the auxiliary soldiers no longer had to worry about maintaining their formation, or followed Hu Dahai and Wu Liangmou to chase the defeated soldiers on the battlefield. Or carried a spear and a sword and rushed towards Chu Buha's commander's flag. He first put down the flagpole with one knife, and then swung the blade to chop off the scared Goryeo drummer and a group of staff members of various races.

"Don't kill prisoners, don't kill prisoners, leave for money, leave for money!" Seeing this, Liu Ziyun quickly raised the trumpet again to restrain military discipline.

There was no time left. As soon as the threat from the outside world disappeared, the auxiliary soldiers were completely burst out by the passion that had been suppressed. There were groups in the east and the west, and when they saw people wearing Yuan army uniforms, they rushed up to kill them. Regardless of the number of people and the level of combat effectiveness of the other party.

"Grandma, I still have to train!" Liu Ziyun was so angry that he cursed. In desperation, he had to try his best to gather his familiar subordinates. "Mustrators, musket soldiers approach me! Archer, archer, Zhu Chenze, you bastard, you have been in vain for several months. Hurry up and gather your people and go with me to help the governor! Li Ziyu, Li Ziyu, and all the grenadiers are here to come over to me. Let's kill the second Tartars from behind!"

Fortunately, the soldiers and grenadiers received a little longer training time and had a little better discipline. When they heard that their own men were angry, they ran over with their weapons and reorganized the team behind Liu Ziyun.

The next battle can be described as "destroying and destroying". It was found that Chu Buha's commanding flag was cut down, and the thousand-man teams of Yuan troops who had been struggling to survive were suddenly in chaos. The officers and soldiers rushed to escape, and they could not organize any effective resistance at all.

Even if there are occasionally one or two stubborn people, the fate will be terrible. The more you fight, the more experienced the Red Turban Army spearmen, heading forward, and using the spear tip to force them backwards. Then the musketeers ran to the spear formation, put the convex gun on the shoulders of the robe, and pulled the trigger against the enemy's chest.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Before the end of the shooting, the Mongolian Yuan soldiers who tried to resist to the end completely lost their fighting spirit. They shouted loudly about "Demonic magic, demonic magic!", and threw down their weapons and ran away with their heads in their arms.

The brothers of the Red Turban Army, who had already been crazy, drove the enemy like sheep, chased the dead and chased the north. Until they saw the walls of Huaian City from afar, they barely stopped at the harsh greeting of their own scouts. Then they were led by Zhu Bashiyi, Xu Da and others to reorganize the team two miles away from the gate of the East City to avoid being counterattacked by the defenders in the city.

The Mongolian Daruhua Chizhe in Huai'an City had already learned about Chu Buha's defeat from the Mongolian soldiers who had been riding back on horseback. However, he did not have the courage to lead his troops out of the city to avenge Chu Buha, but he just caught the remaining 3,000 new and veteran soldiers in the city onto the city wall. Then he closed the four gates, pulled up the suspension bridge, and guarded them strictly.

The poor Mongol Yuan defeated soldiers ran for seven and a half miles in one breath, and hundreds of dead were so tired that they vomited blood on the way. They finally saw the hope of getting out, but they could not pass the moat. They were so angry that they lay on the ground and burst into tears. They cried enough and found that the Red Turban Army did not take the opportunity to come and kill them. They quickly wiped the snot on their faces and walked along the riverside, and never sacrificed their lives for the court again.

"Just let the generals lead the people to capture them all, carry the earth to fill the river, and then use it as the front drive, and the ants will come along!" Wu Liangmou was still not satisfied with the fight, so he ran to Zhu Bashiyi and volunteered.

"Nonsense! Such a high city wall, you will be exhausted to climb up!" Zhu Bashiyi shook his head, and while pulling arrows from his armor for him, he said with a smile. "First bandage the wound, count the losses, and then think of ways to break the city!"

"Oh--!" Wu Liangmou realized that he was still carrying injuries on his body, and he grinned in pain.

Ivanov, Liu Ziyun and others laughed, helped each other, took off their armor, washed the wound with salt water, and applied the special Jinchuang medicine made by the Wu family. They were busy again. After the wound was treated, the two auxiliary soldiers and 100-man teams left in Hanxin City also rushed over with Li Qi and others who had been captured and turned against him before, and led Deputy Wanhu Baoyin and a group of Mongolian soldiers under his command.

There were originally rivers and canals connected between Hanxin City and Huai'an. Zhu Qiang and others who were left behind on the large ship confirmed that there were no enemy troops between the two cities, and also used the large ship to transport the food, grass, supplies and other items carried by the left army when they went out to the east gate of Huai'an City.

Seeing this, Zhu Bashiyi simply ordered his brothers to set up camp three miles from the north gate of Huai'an City, and then divided them to Xu Da's 200 battle soldiers and 500 auxiliary soldiers, and ordered the latter to return to Hanxin City, clear the remaining enemies in the city, clean up the battlefield, and defend the retreat for the army. After lunch, he used the surrendered general Li Qi as the guide to survey the terrain around Huai'an City.

I didn't know if I didn't investigate. After I checked, I realized how unreliable the combat plan that Mr. Lu Lu Zeng had previously formulated for himself was. The scale of this Huai'an City was more than three times larger than that of Xuzhou City. The city wall was twice as tall as that of Xuzhou City. The surface was paved with blue-gray bricks and mottled vines. I don't know how many years it has stood.

A half meter below the city wall is surrounded by four waterways. The Grand Canal is on the west side and another natural river connecting to Hanxin City on the east side. The locals call it the East River. After passing Hanxin City, they go east and walk alongside the Yellow River into the sea.

There are two artificial canals connected between the canal and the East River. One south and one north, it forms a square with the two Tianhe rivers, firmly protecting Huai'an City in the center.

In addition to the canal, there is a suspension bridge in the east, south and north of the city. At this moment, it was pulled high by an iron lock, cutting off the road leading to the city gate. The four city gates are all inwardly concave, with horse faces on both sides, and enemy towers on the city. According to Li Qi, in each gate, there are city gates, urns, nail pats, iron fences, etc., and a series of defensive facilities are complete.

In such a heroic city with complete defense facilities, Mr. Lu actually believed that as long as he took Han Xin City, he could take the city down. He was really a veteran Ma Su who was talking about war on paper! Fortunately, he won the battle this morning, and directly wiped out most of the defenders, Chu Buha, the backbone of the defenders. Otherwise, everyone would just think of nothing and just rolled the gold, silver and fine soft materials of the Han Xin City official warehouse as soon as possible.

"That 同同同 is a hereditary ten thousand households who only know how to get money. Without Chu Buha's help, he would definitely not dare to go out of the city to fight!" Seeing that Zhu Bashiyi's face became more and more serious, the surrendered general Li Qi quickly offered his advice. "As long as the governor sealed the east and west waterways of this city, he would not allow passing ships to transport food to the city. It won't take long to prevent this city from attacking!"

"Oh, what do you mean?" Zhu Bashiyi looked back at him and asked in surprise.

The surrendered general Li Qi was worried that he had no chance to show his performance, so he quickly pulled his mount forward, then lowered his voice and explained mysteriously, "The governor doesn't know that this Huai'an city is the important salt tax area of ​​the court. More than 400,000 litres in the city, and more than half of the livelihoods are inseparable from Huai'an salt. Therefore, the local food is not enough to eat. Almost every month, I have to transfer grain from the canal."

"Forty-hundred thousand minus the mouth, the total number is no more than six or seven hundred thousand? The surname of Li, don't brag with our governor?!" Before he finished speaking, Lu Deshan had already questioned loudly.

The plan to attack Huai'an from the east was given to Zhu Bashiyi by his grandfather Lu Lu. He knew the whole story clearly. So when he saw the scale of Huai'an City, he was more anxious than anyone else. He was afraid that the left army would return in the end, making him unable to raise his head in front of Zhu Butcher!

The surrendered general Li Qizheng was very happy and was suddenly interrupted. He looked at him dissatisfiedly and responded with anger, "This adult doesn't know that the young man used to be a hundred households of the Han army. He is stationed in Huai'an City. Every day, except Ying Mao, his main task is to take his brothers to the streets to inspect and suppress the place! I dare not say that he is familiar with every household in the city, at least with his eyes closed, he will not touch any alleys wrong!"

"Don't just quarrel!" Zhu Bashiyi glared at him and shouted loudly, "What do you think is, how many people are there in Huai'an City? All men and women are included!"

"Seventy or seven hundred thousand may be a little hung, and there must be sixty-five thousand. In some big salt merchants, there are two or three hundred servants alone. The population cannot be calculated based on households!" Li Qi was frightened and stopped talking nonsense and responded honestly.

"Sixty-five thousand?!" Zhu Bashiyi couldn't help but raise his head and sucked the air. Xuzhou City had a total population of over 170,000, of which about 100,000 were Red Turban Army soldiers, and the real people were only more than 70,000. In Zhu Laonian's heart, it was already an amazing city. There were 650,000 people in this Huai'an City, and many large salt merchants with large slaves in their families. If someone teased the person and asked him to mobilize the salt merchants to help the officers and soldiers defend the city together, how could he fight this battle? Not to mention setting up a ladder and ants to attack, even if the person teased the city gate and opened it to rush in, more than 3,000 brothers rushed in, they would have to be drowned by the Min Zhuang organized by the defensive party with spit and had no chance of winning at all!

Just when he was at a loss, he heard Lu Deshan shouting loudly, "What's so great about having too many people? He has many helpers, but he has few helpers. The Yuan Dynasty court has taken rebellious actions, and the common people have long wanted someone to come to save them from water and fire. The more people in the city are, the more uneasy they feel. As long as we deal with it properly, we may not have to attack the city ourselves. The gentry and people inside will catch the people and give the city gate directly to the governor!"

Note: Huai'an in the Yuan Dynasty was a dual hub of canal and salt transportation, and was extremely prosperous. Historical records show that there were more than 90,000 households and more than 540,000 people. A large number of vendors and handicraftsmen gathered in the city.
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