Chapter 240 Entering Suizhou
The sudden change in the banquet hall frightened Zhang Jinyan, Yue Qijie, Chen Qianfu and other civil servants. The scene of flesh and blood flying made Zhang Jinyan stunned for a long time. When he came to his senses, he quickly stood up and wanted to run away.
At this moment, a rebel soldier waved his sword and chopped down at Zhang Jinyan.
"Who dares to kill me? I am a civil servant!" Zhang Jinyan shouted anxiously.
Xu Dingguo waved his hand to stop the soldier: "Don't be rash, after all, he is a civil servant and a governor, so we won't kill scholars."
After all, the concept of civil and noble martial arts has been around for hundreds of years since the cowardly dynasty. Although there is a Mongolian Yuan fault in the middle, the Mongolian Yuan has only been a few decades. From the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there are only a few decades. The Mongolian Yuan, which does not pay attention to scholars, has only been a few decades. Both ends are dynasties that value literature over military affairs, so civil and noble martial arts have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so Xu Dingguo drank the soldiers.
Yue Qijie and Chen Qianfu also escaped their lives by chance because they were civil servants. However, the 100 personal soldiers brought by Gao Jie were not so lucky. Xu Dingguo's swordsman killed them in the hall, killing the corpses in the hall, and blood flowed into a river. All 100 personal soldiers of Gao Jie were killed. Six people were killed on Xu Dingguo, two dancers were killed, and more than ten maids were killed.
The master Yuan Shu didn't know about the Hongmen Banquet in Xu Dingguo before. When the incident happened, he was shocked. Fortunately, the rebels gave the master face, so Yuan Shu escaped.
The shouts of killing in Yuan’s mansion alarmed the three hundred personal soldiers who were left outside the mansion by Gao Jie.
Three hundred personal soldiers were arranged by Xu Dingguo to drink in the restaurant in the city, and Xu soldiers were monitored by the surroundings. The drunken personal soldiers heard the shouts of killing from the direction of the Yuan Mansion and immediately drew their swords and rushed out of the restaurant. However, they were shot over by the archers ambushing outside, shooting more than ten people. The remaining personal soldiers fought hard to break out of the siege and rushed to the Yuan Mansion. A group of civil servants in a mess escaped from the Yuan Mansion.
"Don't go and die. Xingping Bo has been killed. Please escort us out of the city." Zhang Jinyan shouted.
The entire Suizhou was already in chaos, and countless rebels from Xu Dingguo rushed towards the Yuan Mansion. If these more than 200 personal soldiers did not leave the city as soon as possible, they would definitely be killed in the city.
More than 200 Gao Jie's personal soldiers escorted Zhang Jinyan, Yuan Shu, Yue Qijie, Chen Qianfu and others, and fled from Suizhou City in a panic.
In the middle of the night, more than 200 personal soldiers escorted Zhang Jinyan, Yuan Shu, Yue Qijie, Chen Qianfu and others to flee back to the camp. After hearing the news of Gao Jie's death, Shi Kefa burst into tears: "Your Majesty does not want to eliminate the thieves. Xingping Bo and Xingping Bo have an irreconcilable grudge. Only Xingping Bo can defeat Li Chuang. Now Xingping Bo is dead, and it is difficult to restore Shaanxi!"
When Gao Jie's general Li Chengdong heard about Gao Jie's death, his soldiers were filled with indignation and were ready to swear to avenge Gao Jie.
The next morning, the crying sounded from Gao Jie's camp was shaking. The gate of the camp opened wide. The whole army was covered with white formations, and teams of Gao Jie's army emerged from the camp in neat formations. They rode the "Gao" flag with white background and black characters, and drove towards Suizhou. The whole army shouted loudly: "Tread Suizhou flat, kill Xu thieves, and avenge the general!"
Just as Gao Jie's army was attacking Suizhou, Wang Quan, with twenty Falcon Operations team members and one hundred Jinyiwei, was rushing to Suizhou at night.
The Falcons and Ye Bu Shuo were fast at the speed. At 10 am, Wang Quan and others caught up with Gao Jie's army.
"What? Xingping Bo has been killed?" Seeing the entire Gao Jie army in front of him, Wang Quan was stunned. After all, when Gao Jie's army was training in the Nanjing New Army camp, Wang Quan also participated in the training with them, and they also established a deep friendship with each other. Now seeing the entire Gao Jie army, Su Cai, even the banner turned white, he knew that Gao Jie had died.
When he saw Li Chengdong, Wang Quan said heartbrokenly: "Brother Hu Chen, I didn't expect that the last general, Xingpingbo, would be separated from Yangzhou forever! Xu thief killed Xingpingbo and surrendered to Jiannu, and his crimes were unforgivable! Our army will definitely capture Xu's old thief alive and avenge Xingpingbo!"
"Thank you guys for your kindness. I'll avenge your revenge for the general. It's the matter of our Gao family's army, so I won't be held responsible for you." Li Chengdong replied coldly.
Wang Quan said: "The old thief Xu actually dared to harm Xingpingbo, and he must have secretly contacted Jiannu! Otherwise, he would not have the courage to kill Xingpingbo! We are only worried that when you attack Suizhou, Jiannu will attack from behind!"
Li Chengdong said: "Then I will help our army to stop Jiannu! When the great revenge is avenged, we will definitely thank our uncle Zhongyong!"
Wang Quan sent one person back to Yingzhou to report to Zhao Peng, and the rest of the Falcon players and the Jinyiwei cavalry continued to attack Suizhou without stopping their whistle.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Gao Jie's army and Wang Quan's Jinyiwei arrived at the city of Suizhou.
After arriving at the city, Li Chengdong immediately ordered the cutting of wood, the simple ladder and simple trench bridge, and prepared to launch an attack on Suizhou City with the cooperation of artillery fire.
After an afternoon of preparation, Li Chengdong launched a fierce siege against Suizhou City.
The war drums rumbled, and the entire army was covered with plain silk Gao Jie's army carrying simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges, shouting the slogan "Avenge the Lord" and launched a fierce charge towards Suizhou City.
"Tiger minister, you are not prepared to attack the city, so you should not attack rashly." Wang Quan advised.
"Our army has many soldiers and generals, and there are also cannons. Xu thief does not have too many soldiers, so he can take it down in one go!" Li Chengdong said.
Wang Quan kindly reminded: "Huchen, be careful that the old thief slipped out of the north gate and crossed the river and defected to Jiannu!"
"The old thief cannot escape! Our army has sent cavalry to stare at the north of the city. Once the old thief leaves the city, he will definitely fall into our army's net!" Li Chengdong said confidently.
At the top of the Suizhou city, arrows were like rain. Gao Jie's auxiliary soldiers who rushed into the range of the defenders were caught in the arrows from time to time and fell down with screams. From time to time, there were roars of bird guns on the top of the city, and white smoke rose from the top of the city, and projectiles mixed in the arrows, and they drilled into the crowd like rain. From time to time, Gao Jie's soldiers fell down with screams.
Gao Jie's auxiliary soldiers rushed to the side of the moat with simple trench bridges. Simple trench bridges were laid on the moat. Gao Jie's auxiliary soldiers shouted and rushed across the moat and put the ladder on the top of the city. Then the sword player holding a knife card began to climb towards the top of the city.
The resistance at the top of the city became more and more fierce. Feather arrows, projectiles, lime bottles, and turbulent oil tanks fell like hail. The lime bottles fell into the Gao family's army crowd, and white smoke rose up. People who were sprayed with hot quicklime screamed and covered their eyes and fell down. The turbulent oil tanks hit the city, and rockets shot from the city, and suddenly a sea of fire under the city was burned into a sea of fire.
Xu Dingguo's resistance was much more tenacious than the battle of Suizhou in history. This was because the time of the Suizhou change was delayed by more than half a year, and the troops recruited by Xu Dingguo were also more than in the original time and space. The second reason was that the retreat of the Xu family army was cut off. In the original time and space, Xu Dingguo killed Gao Jie and fled overnight. However, in this time and space, Xu Dingguo had just escaped from the city and was blocked by a group of Jinyiwei.
Therefore, Xu Dingguo, who was desperate, could only order to resist to the death. As a result, the tenacious resistance of the defenders brought considerable losses to Gao Jie's army.
No matter how Gao Jie's army cannons hit the city, there were bird guns and bows and arrows firing fiercely at the city, the Xu family army would fight to the death without retreating.
Xu Dingguo, who was desperate, was still rumoring to the people in the city: "Gao Yaozi was born into a thief, and this person's military discipline was corrupt. If Suizhou was captured, Li Chengdong would definitely massacre the city!"
Under the propaganda of Xu Dingguo, the people in Suizhou City also climbed to the top of the city to assist the Xu family army in defending the city together.
The first day's siege war started at Shen hour in the afternoon, and it was until the third hour of You hour. It was completely dark and Li Chengdong ordered the attack to stop. During the siege war in the half day, Li Chengdong lost more than 700 auxiliary soldiers and more than 300 combat soldiers, while the defenders of Xu Dingguo lost more than 200 auxiliary soldiers and 80 combat soldiers. More than 200 people who assisted the defenders in the city were killed and injured.
The next morning, Li Chengdong attacked Suizhou City again, but from the morning of Chen to the afternoon of You, he still had no results in the attack, and more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers and more than 500 combat soldiers were lost. Xu Dingguo only lost more than 100 auxiliary soldiers and fifty-six combat soldiers, and the people in the city lost more than 300 young and strong people.
"There are insufficient weapons to siege the city. Isn't it a tough nail?" Wang Quan said.
But Li Chengdong, who was eager to take revenge, still decided to continue to attack the city tomorrow morning.
At this moment, Zhao Peng had already received an urgent report from Wang Quan: Xingpingbo was killed and the Gao family army was siege. Xu thief had secretly contacted Jiannu from the north, and was afraid that the captive chief Haoge and Duoduo would cross the river to attack!
After receiving the urgent report, Zhao Peng ordered: "The entire army set up camp and set up camp, march quickly to Suizhou, and must arrive within five days!"
Chapter completed!