Qiming 1158

Chapter 1031 Dehua City Destroyed
So when the peasant army surrounded and attacked Dehua County, the Ezhou Army did dispatch 1 horses as reinforcements to Dehua County.

But after they arrived in Wuchang County on March [-], they stopped their advance because of the drizzle.

The reason is that the rain is too heavy and the road is too slippery to walk, so I can only rest temporarily.

During this period, Wang Shun concentrated his troops to garrison around the city of Ezhou.

He set up [-] troops in Qingshanji and Bailuji to arrange river defenses to prevent the peasant army from advancing westward along the Yangtze River waterway.

Another 2000-man army was stationed in Fankou as a support for the [-]-man army in Wuchang.

The remaining [-] predecessors' troops were stationed in the barracks inside the city of Ezhou and outside the city of Ezhou, to form a situation of chasing corners.

After finishing this part of the work, Wang Shun felt that he was almost safe, and then he could wait for the Xiangyang army to come to help.

Zhou Yun struggled to support, looking forward to Wang Shun's support, but Wang Shun's reinforcements had not arrived.

And on March 21, his camp outside the city was captured by the peasant army.

An army of 6000 troops in the camp outside the city was devastated and wiped out, and none of them escaped.

The peasant army showed an impressive combat effectiveness in the face of the recalcitrant Song army. Perhaps more than a year of military training had an effect, or perhaps ideological and political education had an effect. Anyway, they should not fight too bravely.

Instructors at all levels did not need to do much war mobilization before the war. They could mobilize their morale by shouting [the final decisive battle against the enemy who exploited us].

And the stronger the fighting will of the peasant army, the lower the fighting will of the Song army.

After the battle, the Song army in the camp could no longer resist. The peasant army smashed the camp gate with the crossbows bought from them. The army swarmed in, and the army camp outside the city fell immediately.

The fall of the barracks outside the city was a very fatal thing for the Song army. The morale of the Song army in the city plummeted, and the peasant army attacked the city for many times that day. Zhou Yun dispatched his own bodyguards to fight, and finally saved the situation.

But even so, Song Jun could not boost his morale.

And what made Zhou Yun even more terrified was that there were not enough ordnance reserves in the city.

The peasant army's offensive was so powerful that it attacked with great intensity and high frequency, so that the Song army's armament consumption was very large, and the battle only took a few days. Zhou Yun received a report from the quartermaster, saying that the number of ordnance was not enough, especially arrows. It has reached the point of shortage.

Zhou Yun was still shocked at first, suspecting that he had heard it wrong, how could he not have enough weapons?
After he calmed down a little and thought about it carefully, he realized that this was a matter of course.

Because he took all the good-quality ordnance to do business with the peasant army.

Because the peasant army is willing to buy the ordnance in his hands no matter how high the price is, it is unclear if he resells the ordnance and makes money.

At this moment, he realized that the peasant army was not buying ordnance for defense, but for attacking.

And he sold all the ordnance that could have been used for defense to the peasant army, so that there is no ordnance to use now.

How is this fighting?

Zhou Yun was about to collapse.

However, the peasant army's offensive did not slow down at all, and it was still very violent, attacking all kinds of ants attached to the city, so that he had to consume a lot of arrows, logs and rocks to fight against the peasant army, and these materials were very scarce.

When the inventory had bottomed out, he had to dismantle the houses and houses in the city as defense equipment to resist the attack of the peasant army.

And all this was noticed by Zhao Yucheng.

He began to determine that the Song Army had fallen into a state of lack of ordnance, and if they continued, they would definitely not be able to support it.

What the peasant army had to do was to launch a feint that seemed to be violent, but in fact it was only a huge but no actual feint, in order to speed up the consumption of the Song army's ordnance reserves in the city.

When their ordnance reserves are exhausted, the peasant army will break through the city.

So the peasant army adjusted its strategy and began to fully enter the state of feint attack, launching a massive attack, but every time it no longer forcibly broke through, no longer ants attached to the city, but counterattacked after being attacked by the Song army from a distance, and then slowly retreated.

This repeated several times, and by March 22, the arrows of the Song Army finally could not continue to support the battle.

During the whole day, less than [-] arrows were collected in the whole city. I wanted to make them on the spot, but because of the lack of craftsmen, the speed of making them on the spot could not be as fast as the consumption.

As a result, the Song army's long-range strikes were completely stagnant, and they could no longer threaten the peasant army. They could only defend with rolling wood, stone and gold juice.

But this did not stop the rapid offensive of the peasant army.

On March 23, an elite part of the Fourth Division of the Peasant Army killed the city wall, broke through the defense of the Song Army on the wall all the way, occupied the city gate, lowered the drawbridge to open the city gate, and the main force of the Peasant Army swarmed into the city. The army started street fighting.

However, very few Song troops in the city were still willing to fight in the streets. Most of them collapsed at the moment when the peasant army broke into the city. They dropped their weapons, put their hands on their heads, knelt on the ground and surrendered. They only asked the peasant army not to kill themselves.

However, Zhou Yun, who was stubbornly resisting, and his last personal guards stuck to the official mansion in the city. They were knocked open by the peasant army with a ramming wood, and they rushed into the official mansion and killed all those who resisted.

Zhou Yun hid in the house and cried bitterly. He tried to commit suicide several times, but he couldn't do it at all.

When the cold knife was on his neck, he could always think of golden gold and heavy copper coins, so he lost the courage to commit suicide.

He still has a lot of gold, silver and copper coins, a lot of houses, a lot of fertile land, and a dozen sweet wives and concubines. He still has a good life, and he is really reluctant to commit suicide like this.

Who knows if I can still be a master in my next life?
So until the peasant army killed him, he did not dare to commit suicide, but only dared to cry bitterly.

After all the guards were killed, Zhou Yun was pulled out in the back room.

When he was caught out, he cried like a grandson. He lost his former general's prestige. He knelt on the ground and begged the peasant army not to kill him. Can.

Because of his identity, of course he was not killed immediately, but was brought before Zhao Yucheng to surrender.

He knelt in front of Zhao Yucheng and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, begging Zhao Yucheng not to kill him, Zhao Yucheng quickly lost interest in seeing him like this.

But some things must be made clear, otherwise this guy will think that Zhao Yucheng is taking advantage of him.

"When I was doing business before, I was very happy with the price increase, right?"

Zhou Yun was stunned for a moment, then turned pale in shock, and quickly kowtowed.

"I'll give it back to you, all! How much I earn, I... I don't even want the cost, pay back all, pay back all to you and your army, you can do whatever you want, whatever! How much money I will All out! Just...just ask you to spare me a dog's life..."

He trembled and begged Zhao Yucheng for his life.

(End of this chapter)