Chapter 459: Restoring Lin'an
The dense fleet was filled with Qiantang River, and countless ships rushed up to Lin'an Prefecture. The Yuan army, who received the news, quickly gathered its troops to prepare to face the enemy. However, Lin'an had been occupied by the Mongols for a long time and had swept the nearby resistance forces. He would never have thought that someone would dare to attack the city, and he could be prepared in a hurry.
While the Yuan army was not ready, Zheng He and Zhang Shijie commanded their soldiers to land on the beach and occupy the dock to establish a defensive front. The remaining soldiers were disembarking one after another. Before the Yuan army in Lin'an Prefecture left the city to meet the enemy, tens of thousands of soldiers easily got ashore and began to prepare for the attack.
"The Yuan army is not ready yet, and now it's time to break the city." Seeing that there are many loopholes in the city, Li You couldn't wait to remove the cannons and immediately commanded the army to rush towards the city gate; the Song army and the Ming army used crossbows and muskets to suppress the city head, and the other soldiers carried the ladder and rushed towards the city wall quickly, and immediately launched ant attachment to attack the city.
The Yuan Ting generals in the city did not expect that they would encounter an attack. For a moment, even the soldiers could not get together, let alone prepare the wooden rocks and gold juice bottles used to defend the city. They could only use bows, arrows and swords and guns to stop the soldiers who were rushing towards the city. However, the Song army under the city had even more firepower, and countless arrows and projectiles flew towards the city like raindrops, which soon made them unable to raise their heads and gradually were at a disadvantage. Fortunately, the Yuan army generals in the city tried their best to maintain it, and the Song army did not allow the Song army to attack the city.
This person is a trouble. Li You knows that the longer the stalemate here, the more unfavorable it will be for them. Now Lin'an City must have gathered troops everywhere. As long as these people persist for a while, the Yuan army in the city will come. At that time, it will not be so easy to break the city. Maybe they have to use artillery to suppress it, dig tunnels and blow down the city walls.
But now there is not much gunpowder carried in the fleet. If gunpowder is used every time the siege is attacked, then at most they have to go back to Liuqiu to replenish it. This is something that Li You cannot accept; if he can kill this person now, the Yuan army will probably lose command immediately.
The idea was settled, and Li You didn't care about the surprise of Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie and others, turned around and left, "I'll go to General Zheng's camp to see you, and you will continue to command the army to attack the city."
When he arrived in Zheng He's camp, with the cover of Ming soldiers, Li You took out the long-lost sky-shaking bow, bent his bow and arrow to aim at the Yuan generals on the top of the city. Although the Mongolian Yuan was good at cavalry shooting, the general did not expect that there was such a sharp shooter in the Song army. Unpredictable, Li You penetrated his neck with an arrow and fell directly from the top of the city. The morale of the Yuan army was discharged.
However, since the Mongol Yuan was able to establish the most vast empire in human history, his army was not vegetarian, and immediately a commander of a thousand men stood up and took over the command. Li You did not stop and used the continuous arrows he learned from Qi Jiguang, shooting five arrows at the commander of the thousand men. He avoided two arrows and used the scimitar in his hand to slash the arrow that came towards him. Unfortunately, the last two arrows did not avoid it. Less than a minute after receiving the command, another Yuan general died under Li You's deafening bow.
Since then, the remaining commanders and centuries began to feel a stir. No one stood up to command the army for a long time. The Yuan army fell into a brief chaos. Zheng He took the opportunity to focus the muskets at the weak area on the city, opening a passage for the Song army, which was attacked by the Yijiao. Zhang Shijie personally stepped forward to supervise the battle. Inspired by this, the Song army finally attacked the Lin'an city and occupied a section of the city wall, opening a path for the subsequent Song army. The Song army continued to surge up to the city from here, and the situation finally reversed.
After attacking the city wall, the Song army took out their secret weapons again. Li You used a special hand-made thunderbolt bullet with a pellet gunpowder to play a huge role at this time. He ignited the lead with a torch and pointed it at the Yuan army that was rushing over. There was only a loud bang, and several Yuan army were blown to pieces.
This weapon that they could not understand suddenly appeared and caught the opponent off guard. The Han army in the Mongolian Yuan army regarded the thunder bomb as heavenly thunder, and thought they had encountered a gods, and shouted words like "the thunder came to the world" in the air and turned around and ran away. The Yuan army was still hesitating, and the Song army threw several thunder bombs over, taking away the lives of more than a dozen Yuan soldiers.
So, in front of such mysterious weapons, these cruel and ferocious Yuan troops also lost their courage and followed the Han army to escape from the city. Seeing that this move was indeed useful, the Song army simply used the thunderbolt to open the way, erected the slanting ladder on the city wall to attack the city gate, and when they arrived at the city gate, they threw more than ten thunderbolts at one breath, and the city gate was immediately empty.
The gate of Lin'an City was opened by the Song army. Since the gate had been broken, the situation was easy to deal with. Zheng He's musket team opened the way forward, and the Song army followed closely behind. When they met a scattered Yuan army, they first shot them in a random manner. Then the Song army rushed forward and stabbed the gun. The Yuan army, which could not organize an effective counterattack, could only defeat them all the way.
The war lasted until noon. The Yuan army finally found that they could not defend the city no matter what. They had to retreat from the city gate on the other side. Zhang Shijie led the cavalry to chase after more than ten miles and reaped the lives of thousands of Yuan troops. Hangzhou is no more Yuan troops stationed nearby than Quanzhou. If they keep chasing, they might encounter other Yuan troops being counter-killed, so they feel that it is almost done and he withdraws his troops and returns to the city.
At this time, Li You had commanded the rest of the troops to search for Yuanting officials and the remaining troops in the city. The focus of the capture was Yang Lianzhenjia, the president of the Jiangnan Buddhist Capital.
Yang Lianzhenjia was in the palace of the Song Dynasty in Lin'an City at this time. After hearing the news that the Song army suddenly attacked the city, he thought he had heard it wrong. It was too late to wait until the news was confirmed that he wanted to escape again, and was blocked in the imperial city by Li You's troops.
When the soldiers brought the demon monk to Li You, Zhang Shijie, Yang Liangjie and others had their hair and beards and beards. Even civil officials like Wen Tianxiang pulled out the sword on their waists. Since ancient times, China has emphasized that the dead are the most important, but Yang Lianzhenjia dug out all the tombs of emperors, queens and nearby gentry in the Southern Song Dynasty. Such deep hatred made them want to swallow them alive.
"You are Yang Lianzhenjia?" Li You looked at the big monk Pan.
"When you treat me like this, aren't you afraid of angering the Buddha?" At this time, Yang Lianzhenjia tried to intimidate everyone in the name of the Buddha.
Chapter completed!