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Chapter 398 Scarlet Daizhou

"Cannonball!" The artilleryman trained by Zhang Yuan skillfully filled the cannonballs into the barrel and aimed at the ancient city of Daizhou City.

The 20 peasant army surrounded Daizhou City, and its dense numbers made the scalp tingle, and I couldn't help but get goose bumps all over my body.

boom!As a wisp of white smoke emerged, the howling shells hit the wooden building on the city wall of Daizhou City, smashing a corner of the eaves to pieces!Wood chips fell on the city wall, and the Ming soldiers at the top of the city hurriedly avoided.

After the tentative shelling, more than 20 bronze cannons secretly sold to Li Zicheng by the Liao Army at a high price adjusted their angles and began to roar!
"Surrender, don't kill! Surrender, don't kill!!!" Relying on the power of the cannon, the 20 peasant army shouted in unison, and the momentum was earth-shattering! ! !
The people inside the city wall heard the earth-shattering shouts outside the city, even if the government blocked the news, they could imagine how terrifying the crowd was outside the city.

"My God, is this the rumored intruder? Why are there so many people..." The general at the top of the city looked down at the endless bandit troops outside the city, and his legs felt a little weak.

"General, do we really want to resist? What if the resistance angers them and they massacre the city?" A soldier tremblingly said.

"Stupid guy, do you think our fate will be different if we let them in?" Daizhou guard frowned and shouted.

Although he was [-]% discouraged under the siege of so many peasant troops, he still had some reason to tell him that if he surrendered, the people in the city might not be able to escape the purge of this locust-like army.It's better to trade your life for your life, and if you work hard, maybe you can get a little life!The broken soldiers who escaped from the Taiyuan Mansion further confirmed his opinion. It is said that after being trampled by the rebel army, they were already empty.

"But general... although you will be humiliated and looted if you surrender, it's better than massacring the city..." the soldier said tremblingly.

"Being a man must be a bit of integrity! If no one dares to resist these villains, it will only make them more indulgent. In the future, it will not only be the people in our Daizhou City and you and me, but also hundreds of millions of subjects in the world. I will not surrender to this group of villains even if I die!" The general gritted his teeth, but said very firmly.

The artillery of Li Zicheng's army kept falling on the head of Daizhou City. The walls of Daizhou City were destroyed to varying degrees, but the ancient city was still standing strong.

"The troops in the city seem to have no intention of surrendering. Brother Zhang Yuan, your strategy seems to have no effect on the officers and soldiers." Li Zicheng stood on the high ground outside the city, looking at the overall situation.

"The reason why our strategy didn't work is because we have only just started to perform. Once we resist, we will immediately massacre the city. This is Genghis Khan's means of conquering the world. No one dares to continue to defend the city at the risk of being destroyed and massacred. We completely We can emulate them. If Daizhou City resists to the end, we will kill all the resisters in Daizhou City!" Zhang Yuan's face twitched, obviously this decision caused him a little pain.

To massacre the city seems to be a very simple word, but it means to bear the eternal infamy and become a stain on life.

"Is it really necessary to slaughter the city?" Li Zicheng asked.

"It depends on whether they are going to fight to the end!" Zhang Yuan waved his hand, "The first batch of dead soldiers are ready!"

There were 4 rogues who were classified as the first batch of dead men, and they flocked to Daizhou City from all directions.The ancient city of Daizhou is like a flat boat in the sea, floating erratically.

The Ming soldiers guarding Daizhou City felt unprecedented fear. They were not facing regular opponents at all, but swarms of locusts!

The cannon was still roaring, ignoring the fact that it might hit one of its own.What Zhang Yuan wanted was a conquered city.As for the loss of even a few people in the 20 locust army, it is nothing, in Zhang Yuan's eyes, it is no different from a bunch of numbers.

The first batch of refugees with 4 people carried the simplest ladders to climb the city wall. There was no place to focus on attacking, but it all depended on the preferences of these refugees, which made it even more difficult to guard against!The generals defending the city had no way of predicting which section of the city wall would collapse first.

A refugee held a cowhide shield seized from Ming soldiers and quickly climbed up the ladder.Behind him, refugees followed one by one, ants attached to the city wall.The archers below kept shooting arrows at the city wall to suppress the Ming defenders at the top of the city.

"One, two, three!" Several Ming soldiers pushed down the stone guarding the city together.

The huge stone rolled down the ladder and hit the heads of the refugees on the ladder!Before the refugees who were hit could utter a scream, the white and red bodies rolled down from the ladder.The refugees in the back were knocked down by the corpses of their partners above and the rocks, falling down like grasshoppers.

Not only stones, but also all kinds of defensive equipment such as kerosene, gunpowder, bows and arrows fell like flowing water, killing and injuring the refugees who attacked the city as much as possible!The city became a world of fire and blood, and countless refugees fell in a pool of blood.

There are still refugees pushing forward incessantly behind. These refugees have no way out, just like driven cattle and sheep going forward blindly.

"Save me some defensive supplies, we must effectively kill and injure the enemy!" The Daizhou guard saw that the supplies such as stones were rapidly decreasing, and he was anxious.Seeing that the power of the refugees below has not yet moved, if the supplies are exhausted, the soldiers guarding the city can only exchange their lives with the refugees.With the thousands of defenders in Daizhou City, if you trade your life for your life, it won't last long at all.

"The first batch of troops retreated, and the second batch of troops went up!" Zhang Yuan was always paying attention to the offensive of Daizhou City, and he had a rough prediction of the peasant army's ability to withstand it.

After the first batch of 4 refugees had more than a thousand casualties, he immediately ordered the first batch of refugees to retreat, and the second batch of another [-] troops began to take over the first batch of siege troops and continued to attack Daizhou City!

Waves of offensives came and went like ferocious tides, 24 hours without a break!Even Li Zicheng, the commander-in-chief of 20 refugees, was horrified by Zhang Yuan's tactics.In Zhang Yuan's eyes, the life of a soldier is not life at all, everything is just to achieve the goal!

"If Daizhou City can't hold on, it is very likely that they will retreat to Ningwu Pass. Compared with Daizhou City, Ningwu Pass is easier to defend and harder to attack. If they let their troops reach Ningwu Pass, they may have to pay more than the attack. Several times the casualties in Zhoucheng. Please also send an army to ambush on the way to Ningwuguan, and we will deliberately open a gap, and we will be successful." Zhang Yuan looked at the surrounding topographic map, coldly said coldly.

(End of this chapter)