0869 Po Dengzhou
The scenes of the fleet when it sailed were unconcealed. In order to prevent ships from colliding with each other, each ship was brightly lit and could be seen from a distance. Therefore, the Dengzhou Navy was seen by soldiers looking out on the Tushan as soon as it left the camp.
When Zhu Dadian and the generals climbed to the earthen mountain, a large number of ships from the Zhengzhou Navy Camp were leaving the port. For a moment, the sea was brightly lit and bright as daytime!
Zhu Dadian said with emotion: "These rebels are about to escape! The city will be broken for two or three days! From tomorrow, all the generals will take turns to attack Dengzhou City, and there must be no mistakes!"
Everyone naturally bowed and agreed. Shortly after Liu Pei returned to the camp, six pigeons flew out of the camp and ran in two directions. These pigeons were specially sent by Liu Pei to the liaison fleet. At this time, Liu Pei's fleet had been waiting in the outer sea for a long time!
Before and after the Later Jin army did not cast artillery, so they could not conquer slightly larger cities. After Kong Youde surrendered to the Later Jin army, the biggest change brought to the Later Jin army was that they could cast artillery and use artillery! Since then, the Later Jin army has the real strength to capture cities and land.
Since Liu Pei knew that after Kong Youde surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty, he would cause unparalleled damage to the Ming Dynasty, how could he let him escape for nothing?
In normal history, Kong Youde fled Dengzhou on February 13. Liu Pei had already transferred the fleet back in mid-January, for fear that Kong Youde would escape early because of his appearance. However, things did change. Today is February 9, and Kong Youde had already organized the fleet to go to sea. Compared with history, it was four days ahead of schedule!
As soon as the sky was dawn, the troops from all the camps went out to attack Dengzhou City together and began to take turns to attack Dengzhou City. Liu Pei didn't want to lose too many people, just like Zhu Dadian advised him that there were many people under his command, and he could perform firepower suppression throughout the day, which was better than archers. So he did not participate in the siege, but he could provide long-range firepower suppression for everyone!
After Liu Pei said this, the generals of each battalion were willing to suppress the city behind their backs. Therefore, everyone who promised Liu Pei did not have to participate in the siege, but only used muskets to cover it.
At this time, the sound of war drums were already heard under the city of Dengzhou! Teams of Ming soldiers pushed the cart and the ladder, shouting and rushing towards Dengzhou City! Behind them
It was Liu Pei's musket soldiers. Liu Pei divided all the musket soldiers into two teams to attack in turn, and the firepower provided to the Ming army was very effective!
Amid the roar of artillery fire, Dengzhou City was climbed to the top of the city several times by the Ming army! Although they were finally beaten back by Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu, everyone was confident that they would break the city within two days! Because through a day of siege, it can be seen that most of the rebel soldiers did not work hard, but because of the suppression of Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu, and fearing that the massacre of the Ming army after entering the city would not be a very hard battle. If Dengzhou City had not been tall and had sufficient equipment, they would have broken the city today!
When everyone was discussing the situation in the Zhudaedian that night, Liu Pei said: "Today, I observe that most of the rebels have no intention of fighting, but someone is supervising the war behind them, so they have to work hard! Why don't you send someone to the side of the city tonight to shout, saying that it is to pardon ordinary soldiers for their death penalty, and it may be easier to attack the city tomorrow!"
After hearing this, Zhu Dadian thought it made sense, so he sent a loud soldier to the city and shouted: "Ordinary rebel soldiers can be exempted from death! It is a meritorious to kill rebel officers!"
The loud shouts spread from afar in the quiet night and easily spread into Dengzhou City. Even Geng Zhongming and the others heard it!
The two men's faces changed at that time! Geng Zhongming said to Mao Chenglu: "Brother Mao, I'm afraid this Dengzhou City cannot be defended! I guess the Ming army will still attack the city tomorrow morning, and you and I won't separate at that time. If you can block the Ming army, if you can't stop it, we will just get on the boat and escape!"
Mao Chenglu naturally had no idea of agreeing! After dawn, the two of them went up to the city wall to resist the Ming army's attack. However, the two were looked at by the rebel soldiers and felt in their hearts! As the saying goes, suspicion is a dark ghost! Now these two people seem to be trying to kill them!
Geng Zhongming whispered to Mao Chenglu: "I'm panicked now! If it really doesn't work, let's board the ship and go out to sea until night?"
Mao Chenglu, who was also frightened, immediately agreed. By the time the two of them could not hold on any longer. They hurried to the Navy camp, took their close confidants and left on a boat.
As soon as their ship started, the Ming soldiers who were looking at them understood it. They immediately informed them to the higher-level officer. Then they went one level after another.
The level-level reporter came to Zhu Dadian. Zhu Dadian said in confusion: "Why are there anyone else running away?"
Speaking of this, Zhu Dadian suddenly said excitedly: "Can it be that the group of people who had cut off the rear began to escape?"
Everyone guessed the reason, and they all thought that even the person responsible for the rear was responsible for the escape. Zhu Dadian was overjoyed and immediately said, "God of generals, hurry up and attack Dengzhou City overnight! You will definitely be able to break the city tonight!"
The generals of the army also felt that tonight was a good time to break the city, so they immediately ordered the troops to rush towards Dengzhou Cheng. At this time, the city of Dengzhou was already in chaos! The rebel leaders with rumors and rumors ran away everywhere, leaving behind the words of those of us to bear the blame! So there were not many people guarding the city at all.
Liu Guozhu felt that the time was rare, so he personally put on his helmet and armor, held his shield and knife, and was the first to step onto the ladder! After avoiding more than a dozen arrows, Liu Guozhu took the lead in stepping onto the city!
As soon as he got up to the city, he killed one person, and the remaining rebel soldiers scattered! Then a large number of Ming troops rushed to the city and rushed straight to the city gate under the leadership of Liu Guozhu. Other generals also climbed into the city one after another! The defense on the city was indeed very empty. It was basically like a breakdown at a touch.
Liu Guozhu led his men to kill the rebel soldiers at the city gate and opened the city gate directly! The Ming army outside cheered and swarmed in. At this point, Dengzhou City was considered to be broken!
The Ming soldiers from all the camps rushed into the city, but Liu Pei did not let the soldiers follow the Ming army into the city. Because he knew that there was no benefit in Dengzhou City at this time. Because Kong Youde basically took away all the valuable things when he left.
The facts were as Liu Pei guessed, not only did there be no gold, silver, money and silk in the city, but even the small amount of food was almost plundered by Kong Youde and others. The soldiers under the army generals of various routes themselves were not strict and were still hoping to enter Dengzhou City to make a fortune. However, they found that there was nothing good, just torture it for the only thing they had.
Overnight, dozens of fights were fought between the various parties, and more than a dozen lives were killed! This was a blessing for the generals of various military lines to suppress them. Otherwise, these Ming soldiers might have to fight in Dengzhou City!
Chapter completed!