I have a cornucopia

Chapter 13

An hour later.

"Damn it, where did they capture so many people?"

Yang Feng looked at the tens of thousands of people who were driven away from the city wall.

They cried and moved forward as the Qing cavalry drove them in formation. Some people kept falling, and the Qing soldiers behind them shot them without hesitation. Those who were alive could only continue to move forward towards the moat that stretched under the Juzhou city wall.

Although the moat has been frozen this season, as a state city's moat, it is still wide and deep enough. Therefore, an attack on the city wall must first pass through the ice that sinks more than two meters, and then continue to slip without any cover, and then go Climbing up the frozen river bank and being easily shot by the defenders on the wall in the process. Therefore, these driven people were the ones who filled the trenches. The soil in the loads they pushed on the carts, and even the loads on their carts, including their bodies, were used to fill the trenches as attack passages.

Even many of the women and children were driven to fill the trenches with firewood on their backs.

This was an inevitable method of siege in ancient times. Except for a few troops with high enough moral standards, the others used the people driven nearby to fill the trenches.

And the Qing army is certainly not high enough.

In fact, not to mention this time, even after the Qing Dynasty took over the world, they were still the moral floor of the classical army.

Maybe a basement.

but……

After all, those with a moral bottom line cannot win against those without a moral bottom line, so it was Li Dingguo who lost the war, not the Qing troops in Xinhui City who used civilians as shields and even ate their women and children.

The tragedy of barbarism triumphing over civilization.

What’s even sadder is that this seems to be a historical norm.

As for Yang Feng, of course he will not be like Li Dingguo. In fact, after getting used to seeing killings, he has quickly adapted to this era and begun to ignore life. After all, he just used human heads as golf balls, so from this point of view, He is also destined not to reach Li Dingguo's moral height.

In this troubled world, this should be said to be a good thing.

"There are hundreds of thousands of people in Juzhou. Even if the people have been ordered to go into the mountains to take shelter, even if there is 10% omission, the number of tens of thousands of people will be tens of thousands. What's more, even if they hide in the mountains, they will eventually flee to various villages. If Jianlu intends to do this, he only needs to divide Even if we send out some soldiers and horses to search villages in the mountains, we can still capture tens of thousands of people. This kind of thing is inevitable. These people are destined to not be spared. They will die either from our arrows or from the belly of the captives. The Jianlu captives have no food to grab, and if they can't attack for a long time, they will have to eat people for food, so why not just give them a good time!"

Du Li said.

He is actually the number one powerful man in Juzhou.

Because his father Du Qichu was the former prefect of Shaoxing.

Starting from the late Wanli period in Juzhou, the biggest officials were his father and Zhuang Qian of the banker. The latter was not high-ranking, but had a formidable position. He patrolled the Shaanxi Supervisory Censor. In addition, Su Dunsheng said with envy, Du Li's wife She is a famous talented girl in Shaoxing, whom his father married when he was the prefect of Shaoxing.

A true winner in life!

But this winner in life behaved like a man this time. He sent his mother and wife to his uncle's house in the countryside, and then spent all his wealth to recruit two hundred young men to defend Juzhou with Jing Shufan, the prefect of the state. And it wasn't just them, Juzhou Tongzhi and Xuezheng did not escape, but stayed in the city to live and die together. In addition, there were two martial arts tests. From this point of view, at least so far, local officials in the Ming Dynasty, both gentry and gentry, have been loyal to the Ming Dynasty. In other words, their confidence in the Zhu family has not been shaken. Even though they knew that they were likely to die, they still chose to fulfill their duties. They believed that the Zhu family would not perish and that their dedication would eventually be rewarded. Even if they all died, they would be remembered as loyal ministers forever.

Until Chongzhen committed suicide.

Their faith collapsed instantly.

Then the King of the Qing Dynasty went south, and basically all the officials and gentry in various places were left to welcome the King.

If it weren't for shaving their hair and changing their clothes, they wouldn't have resisted.

It can be said that Chongzhen did not do anything right until his death. Even if he died, he chose the most wrong step for the Zhu family.

"Take my immeasurable karma fire!"

Yang Feng said.

He gave the copycat version of Tokyo Happy a very fantasy name.

It's been like this these days. The name "Fantasy Point" itself is a morale booster. Coupled with his equally fantasy-like combat power and various mysteries, now all the young men in Juzhou are confident and believe that they are following a person who has descended into the world. of gods. Wen Quxing came down to earth. Who said Wen Quxing couldn't fight? Of course he is invincible since he is a god. Of course he knows everything since he is a god. Even if the gods who followed him to earth died in battle, they would definitely be able to find a good family for them by the Lord of Hell. Reincarnation, a person’s identity is just a matter of words.

Of course, it's possible that someone made this up on purpose.

After all, no matter how you look at it, two thousand young men without even armor can be said to be destined to die when facing tens of thousands of captives.

In order to boost morale, it is also reasonable to make up some mythical stories.

At this time, the people filling the trenches at the front had already begun to enter the moat. The Qing cavalry behind them were still driving them away with arrows, but they were hiding outside the armor-piercing range of bows and arrows on the city wall. Cotton-padded clothes, and even some leather robes covering the outside. With these layers of protection, bows and arrows cannot penetrate within thirty meters. But those people who refused to move forward could only be shot and killed by them continuously. Even if the living people knew that they would die, they still had to move forward, and then cried and begged to the city wall. Some people who had relatives in the city even shouted their relatives' names to let the defenders on the wall know that they were actually from this land, and the defenders did get into chaos, and some even found their acquaintances in the crowd. Relatives, both sides shouted to each other.

"Let's fire. If this continues, there will be chaos."

Li Tongzhi said anxiously.

Jing Shufan sighed and raised her right hand...

"Wait, open the city gate."

Yang Feng said.

"Fengsheng, don't ask for the kindness of women."

Xuezheng Li Maohua said the same.

"Everyone, please don't worry. I know what I'm doing. Open the city gate and let them into the urn."

Yang Feng said.

Everyone looked at Jing Shufan together.     "Open the city gate."

Jing Zhizhou, a native of Puzhou, Shanxi, said in his Shanxi accent.

Du Li immediately went down with the young men he had recruited. Then the main city gate opened, and then Du Li and others rushed out. Then the main city gate quickly closed, and they then opened the gate of Wengcheng...

"Get into town!"

Du Li shouted in front of the city gate.

"It's Master Du."

"Master Du, the younger one is your tenant."

……

There were chaotic shouts outside.

Immediately afterwards, the people on the ice swarmed towards the city gate, but just as they started to enter the city, the Qing army behind them suddenly began to accelerate, quickly turning into a forward torrent, trampling on the people who could not dodge, and charging madly towards the open city gate. .

This is the moment they've been waiting for.

The dense crowd of people pouring into the city gate made it impossible for the city gate to be closed in a short time. As long as they were quick enough, they could occupy the city gate.

"Feng Sheng!"

Jing Shufan looked at Yang Feng.

Zhuang Nai, Yang Daxun and others have already begun to attack with arrows.

"If you are not crazy, you will waste your youth!"

Yang Feng suddenly sighed.

Then he took a piece of Infinite Karma Fire from Su Dunsheng's hand.

This ceramic grenade brought from Anton Wei is almost as big as a children's football because it is coated with a layer of saltpeter. It is actually glued to a wooden handle, so it still looks like a giant lollipop. Because he was worried that the grenade powder would not be enough to ignite the sugar nitrate outside, a fireworks craftsman in the city designed a delay device for Yang Feng. To put it simply, a layer of gunpowder is glued with sugar on the upper part of the wooden handle, and a fuse is installed on the side. The fuse leads to this layer of gunpowder. After it is lit, it burns to the gunpowder to ignite the gunpowder, and then uses the gunpowder to ignite the nitrate sugar.

Burn the nitrate sugar to detonate the ceramic grenade inside.

This ensures that the nitrate sugar burns first and then explodes, which is safer than simply using a hand grenade to explode, and it also takes effect faster.

Of course, there is some danger.

But after playing with nitrate sugar, no one cares about the dangers. The most dangerous thing is that the time to boil nitrate sugar is not the time to use it.

Yang Feng looked at the Qing army trampling over the people, then lit the fuse and watched the fuse burn for a second before suddenly throwing it outside the city.

As soon as the huge lollipop flew thirty meters, it turned into a blazing flame in an instant, and then continued to fly for another twenty meters before landing.

Below it are densely packed Qing cavalry.

"boom!"

A ball of fire exploded in mid-air.

The shattered sugar nitrate shell turned into a rain of fire like thermite.

It fell on the Qing cavalry below as they looked up, and then fell on their bodies, faces, horses, and even their weapons.

The blazing flames continued to burn.

A Qing soldier was dropped on the face. He screamed in horror and pain. He instinctively reached out to grab it, but he slapped the burned sugar away. What was originally just a point of burning turned into burning of the entire face, and he Because the hand was also glued, it turned into a ball of flame without any suspense. Another Qing soldier was dropped on his armor. He slapped it with his hand without hesitation, so it set his own hand on fire without any suspense. The man next to him cleverly slapped his leg with a knife, and the knife was also set on fire. By the way, the war horses were also set on fire. It can be said that everyone caught in the rain of fire was set on fire.

The scariest thing about this thing is that it is sticky and sticks wherever it lands.

It even flows, it drips down.

A Qing soldier whose helmet had fallen off was already dripping down and then landed on his face while he was still trying to untie his helmet.

The Qing army was in chaos.

The ignited cloth armor quickly burned into flames.

The burning horses carried the burning cavalry, neighing and crashing among the cavalry group, spreading the burning to the surroundings.

The Qing army behind them was so frightened that they stopped quickly, and then looked at the cavalry in front that quickly turned into a sea of ​​fire, while the common people in front took the opportunity to rush into the barbican as quickly as possible.

The Qing general behind him looked at Yang Feng fiercely.

Yang Feng stood on the city wall and smiled at him, then took the second lollipop from Su Dunsheng...

"Do you like it? One more!"

He said like a coquettish female star.

(End of this chapter)