Xia Xun was pushed out of the fleeing team. Only then did he know that after the defenders had plundered the food of the people in the city for military use, they did not intend to drive all the refugees out of the city, but also wanted to expel the remaining refugees.
Those who can move are left behind to make up for the lack of troops in the garrison.【】
At this time, the common people who still had energy or were extremely healthy and could continue to work after a few mouthfuls of hot porridge were driven aside. It was easier for those who were alone like Xia Xun, but there were several families who had to escape from the city together.
However, they left their husband, father, or son alone, and the whole family cried and begged.
After two months of hard fighting, everyone seemed to have become hard-hearted. No soldier paid attention to their begging. The people who were eager to leave the city soon pushed the crying family members forward. Many of them,
Maybe after this goodbye, it will be difficult to see each other again in this lifetime.
Xia Xun stood helplessly and walked toward the people who were as unlucky as him. Suddenly, his eyes fell on a person.
He was a somewhat thin boy, a very beautiful thin boy. He was thin because his frame was very slender and his figure was too slender for a young man. But even compared with the many talented people around him
His complexion is much better than that, fair and pure, and his eyes are particularly smart and shrewd. This kind of look is not found in those who have suffered from hunger and death.
As soon as Xia Xun arrived at him, he stayed there.
The skinny young man was not Xia Xun. He was hiding behind two tall men, with a small face slightly peeking out from between their shoulders. A pair of clever eyes were staring in the direction of the city gate, and he was turning around as if in front of the city gate.
What a bad idea.
Under the scorching sun, Xia Xun stared at the young man hidden in the shadow of the city wall. An inexplicable warmth suddenly filled his chest. The sunshine in the sky seemed to be brighter, so bright that it made people feel like the world was spinning. Unknowingly, he
His eyes were warm and a little moist.
The thin, melon-faced young man poked his head around like a groundhog, and then he glanced at the watching officers and soldiers, and began to move backwards. He didn't know what he was paying attention to. His eyes changed from standing still.
He flew past Xia Xun quickly, and then quickly moved back, focusing on Xia Xun's body. Those beautiful eyes were first surprised, then pleasantly surprised, and slowly widened, widened...
Xia Xun walked up quickly, and the man couldn't help but separated the two big men who were standing there in despair, and stood in front of Xia Xun. His mouth was slightly opened in an O shape, and two lines of excited tears crawled down his cheeks unknowingly.
"Thanks……"
Xia Xun's voice was choked and his vocal cords were a little hoarse.
Xie Yufei said in a trembling voice: "Brother Xu, you...why are you here?"
"I was about to ask you, why are you here? Zi Qi is not with you? It's been more than two months, God! How did you...you, a girl, survive!"
Xie Yufei didn't ask again, and Xia Xun didn't ask again. They hugged each other excitedly, hugging tightly, as if they were afraid that if they let go, he (she) would disappear into thin air.
For more than two months, they watched countless people die. The old, weak, women and children died of hunger, and the rotting corpses were abandoned everywhere, turning the entire city of Jinan into a hell on earth.
In two months, the number of civilians who starved to death was several times more than the combined casualties of the Yan army attacking the city and the Ming army defending the city.
After experiencing so many life and death, and human tragedies, I suddenly saw the person I had longed for, and he was standing right in front of me. All words were boring and powerless, and all curiosity was irrelevant. All I had to do was hug him tightly.
Just knowing that he is still alive is the greatest satisfaction...
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"Golden soup! Golden soup! Pour the golden soup quickly!"
The supervising team brandished their swords and shouted fiercely. Xia Xun and Xie Yufei worked together to carry a large pot with an ear handle. They held their breath and ran to the top of the city. They poured it down the city wall. The so-called golden soup is dung soup, and dung soup is different from ordinary boiling water.
, it is equivalent to a biochemical weapon. If you are scalded by boiling water, you can still be saved. If you are scalded by fecal soup and the skin is torn apart, you will most likely be infected. In this era, if you are infected, the hope of survival is slim.
Once the dung soup is heated, the stench can almost reach ten miles in the wind. However, compared with the smell of rotting and stinky corpses starving to death on the streets, it is almost as good as the fragrance of orchid. Those who walked out of purgatory alive
The two of them could bear it. However, they survived the famine, but they may not be able to survive the battlefield.
Arrows flew across the sky, and a huge boulder was thrown up to the top of the city by a trebuchet. It landed about four feet away from them. The stone fragments splashed down and hurt their faces. The boulder could kill a person.
The man who was carrying a medicine box to treat the wounded soldiers was smashed under the stone, and the whole thing was smashed into minced meat. Only two feet were exposed. It was shocking, but other people in the city were busy, and they were used to this.
The situation has long been ignored.
"careful!"
Xia Xun jumped on Xie Xie, and with a loud bang, an artillery roared on the earth wall built outside the city, which was almost as high as the city. The power of the artillery at this time was limited, and its destructive power on the city was not as good as that of a trebuchet.
The huge boulder just hit the city head, creating a big crater. More than a dozen huge bluestones paving the city head were smashed and raised, but the artillery only shot the blue brick wall of the city head into a hornet's nest.
Usually there are just many pores.
Because most of the artillery was filled with iron sand, there were no explosive shells at this time, and the solid bullet was just an iron ball, which was not as powerful as the trebuchet. However, the iron sand was sputtered out over a large area, and the killing effect on personnel was particularly obvious.
Xia Xun rushed to thank him in time, and a large piece of iron sand passed over their heads. A soldier who was standing behind with a knife to supervise the battle screamed wildly, and his whole face was beaten into a bloody mass by the iron sand.
He threw away the knife, screamed and scratched his face, only to grab a handful of rotten flesh, and then he fell on his back.
"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!"
Xie Xie put her arms around Xia Xun's neck, kissed him lovingly on the mouth, and then got up.
"Thank you, sir!"
Although his face was covered with mud marks, his smile was as bright as a flower.
This is what she likes to say most when she and Xia Xun are together in private. Probably because they have seen each other through life and death too many times, she now especially likes to declare to him that they have and belong to each other. The last moment, she was still a living life.
The next moment she might become an inhuman corpse, which made her no longer so shy and coy. If their lives were destined to end at the top of Jinan City, at least she would be with her man!
Xia Xun grinned, stood up, cleared the barrel of the cannon, and filled it with gunpowder. The time was relatively slow. The Yan army's artillery was a weapon shipped from Texas, not many. There was only one copper cannon arranged outside the city wall, which was not used for the time being. I'm worried about this murderous weapon that can kill everyone.
But as soon as he stood up, another arrow was shot unexpectedly. Fortunately, the arrow was almost strong when it was thrown, but he had no armor on his body, so the arrow still penetrated deeply into his shoulder. Xia Xun grunted, almost He fell. Xie Yufei's beauty turned pale, she quickly supported him and ran down the city.
"Stop! Go back, those who are timid will die!"
A soldier supervising the team suddenly appeared from behind the bunker, drew his sword and shouted.
"He...he shot!"
"Can't you still leave? Go down and find someone to treat you. You, go back and defend the city!"
"puff!"
Another arrow flew towards him, right between his eyebrows. The sharp arrow cluster penetrated the skull and went more than half a foot deep. The supervising soldier fell back without saying a word. Xie Yufei took the opportunity to help Xia Xun along the troop transport road. She ran to the city. There were many wounded soldiers lying against the city wall. A man who had been found from elsewhere hurried over with a medicine boy. Xie Yufei shouted happily: "Mang, he has an arrow, please help him quickly..." …”
Before Xie Yufei finished shouting, her voice stopped suddenly. She stared at Nalang and the little medicine boy beside him, her whole body stayed there...
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Fang Kuan escorted grain and grass from Dezhou and hurried to the gates of Jinan City. Fang Kuan was originally commanding the Yan army's rear army. He was on the bank of Baigou River and was safe. Qu Neng attacked Zhu Di's camp before he could launch an attack. Zhu Di did not want to be attacked by the enemy. Fang Kuan led the way, abandoned the rear army, and attacked Li Jinglong's army with all his strength. Fang Kuan had to support it alone and fought against the two most powerful generals in the world. As a result, he suffered heavy casualties and the Queen of Yan's rear army was almost out of stock.
After the great victory in this battle, more troops were sent in, and the number of soldiers was enough. Now that the King of Yan was trapped in Jinan, he took on the responsibility of transporting grain and grass. But this time he transported grain and grass, and Pingbaoer sent many tourists. Riding, he destroyed the bridge on the grain road. He encountered water all the way and built a bridge. After much trouble, he arrived at the gate of Jinan City, three days later than the prescribed time.
Fang Kuan knew that His Highness was very strict in running the army, so he was uneasy and uneasy. He entered the army covered in mud, just thinking about how to plead guilty.
At this time, Zhu Di was discussing matters with the generals. He said irritably: "The hungry people in the city have been wiped out, and now only a few young people are left. With these people and their food and grass, if we continue to fight like this, we can last for three months." No problem, but Ping Baoer, Chen Hui, Wu Jie and others have gathered the remaining troops and stationed them in Shanjiaqiao and other places. They attack our barracks from time to time and rob our food routes. Our troops will only increase their losses here. If this continues, What is the best way to survive?"
Fang Kuan was about to plead guilty, but when he heard this, he suddenly had an idea. He escorted the grain and grass back all the way, but he suffered a lot from water. When he heard what Yan Yan said, Fang Kuan couldn't help but said with joy: "Your Highness, there will be someone in the end. With this plan, we may be able to break the city."
"oh!"
Zhu Di stood up suddenly and said urgently: "Tell me quickly, what can you do to help me break the city?"
Fang Kuan said with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, do you remember that Taizu of the Song Dynasty flooded Jinyang City? Any big city must be built along a river. Outside Jinan City is the Yellow River. Why don't we use such heavenly soldiers? If we divert water to attack the city, why worry about Jinan? Immortal?"
Zhu Di was overjoyed at first, then shook his head and said: "No, Jinyang is flooded. Where is Jinyang now? If Jinan becomes a land of marshes, the city is gone, and the people are gone, what is the use of Jinan for me?"
Zhang Yu happily said: "Your Highness, although the water attack strategy cannot be used, it can be used to scare the enemy. The city defender relies on the fact that the city wall is high and the wall is thick. Our army will not be able to capture it for a while. If we persist, we will eventually win."
There is a day when we will be exhausted. It is better to inform the city defenders about this and force them to surrender and dedicate the city."
Zhu Di slapped the table and said: "Wonderful, this plan can be used!"
: According to historical records, the people of the city panicked when they learned that Zhu Di was going to divert water to attack the city. Tie Xuan had no choice but to surrender and wanted to kill Zhu Di. Friends who have read this history book, will you go on to the plot below? Is anyone there?
Here, put a question mark in your mind?
Here, there are two questions: 1: How did the city defenders know that the Yan army was going to flood the city? I said it was propaganda from the Yan army, is it reasonable?
Second, after Tie Xuan feigned surrender and almost killed Zhu Di, what happened after that? Why didn’t Zhu Di flood the city? It was because he wanted to flood the city that the city feigned surrender. It can be seen that the city defenders were also afraid of flooding the city, so he
Why didn't he flood the city after he escaped? So, I think flooding the city is a psychological tactic of his, and he didn't really want to implement a plan to exterminate Jinan City. Is it reasonable? Tsk! I find that I am very bookish.
Be careful. I like to consider the rationality of the plot rather than just follow what others say. I beg for praise for this reading attitude_