Chapter 119: Rush into Zhongdu City and behead Li Shanchang alive!
In Zhongdu City, fires broke out everywhere. Cries of killing and screams could not be heard.
"Listen up, everyone, follow their own hundred households closely, three hundred households follow one deputy thousand households, maintain the formation, don't scatter! When you get to the place, you are not allowed to enter rashly, lock everyone in the construction site, and wait until dawn
Deal with it!" Ding Bin wore full body armor and rode on a tall horse, calmly deploying the scarce troops.
He was not a second-generation ancestor like those of later generations, but a veteran general who had been on the battlefield with King Kaiping at the age of sixteen.
"Don't panic, what kind of scene have you never seen before? When he followed King Kaiping to attack Suzhou, Zhang Shicheng led tens of thousands of pro-troops called 'Ten Dragons' to break through and fight in front of our camp! The situation at that time was nothing like this.
Ten thousand times more dangerous? Why don’t we grit our teeth and fight with our lives to wipe them all out in one fell swoop?!"
"Yes!" The officers and soldiers who were a little flustered because of the sudden incident all calmed down after hearing this.
That's right, even the Soochow soldiers in hundreds of battles are no match for them, let alone these weak rabble.
"Go!" Ding Bin waved his hand violently.
"Here!" the soldiers responded loudly, and followed each other to the various riot scenes.
There is a saying that these arrogant warriors are really powerful in combat. As soon as they joined the battle group, they chopped down melons and vegetables, suppressed the momentum of the rioting civilians, and drove them back to the construction site.
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But there were too many places where riots occurred, and Ding Bin's small number of troops could not cover everything. Moreover, he did not intend to cover everything, so there were still Wuyang Wuyang craftsmen and civilians, wielding hoes and shovels, breaking the simple
Fences rushed out from various construction sites.
They roared like wild beasts and smashed everything in front of them to vent their anger.
They want to destroy everything, destroy the man-eating Zhongdu City, destroy the Korean princes who enslave them like animals, and destroy the Ming Dynasty that does not give them a way to survive!
They were like an out-of-control tide, sweeping through every street in Zhongdu City.
But the mansions of those wealthy families stood firm in the tide like rocks.
First, the high-walled compound is inherently easy to defend and difficult to attack. Second, the servants guarding the compound are mostly battle-hardened veterans. They climbed onto the parapet and attacked with bows and arrows, fire blunderbuss, and boiling oil.
Defeated one wave of attacks after another.
Occasionally, those who took advantage of the chaos to climb up the wall were hacked to death with long spears and short knives, but remained unmoved.
There is no other way. They have survived in troubled times and have so much experience in looking after homes and homes.
Just when the rebels were losing ground, a team of thousands of people, each with their heads wrapped in red scarves and wielding long and short swords, came out of the southwest corner of the central capital!
Because Li Shanchang temporarily changed the plan to include Fengzui Mountain in Zhongdu City, the foundation of the city wall there had just been laid, and a large gap was exposed.
The Mingjiao's elite forces gathered from various counties broke into Zhongdu City from here.
"Li Shanchang is hiding in the palace! Enter the palace and chop Li Shanchang alive!" The red scarf army shouted slogans as they marched towards the palace.
Upon hearing the slogan, the White Lotus believers scattered everywhere immediately shouted to the peasants and craftsmen who were like headless flies.
"Go into the palace and behead Li Shanchang alive!"
Under increasingly uniform slogans, they gathered again and formed a torrent, pouring into the Imperial City of Zhongdu from all directions.
Li Shanchang indeed immediately moved all the important people in Zhongdu City to the Forbidden City separated by a wall.
The Forbidden City is the most complete building in the entire country, and has the best defensive effect. It has a circumference of seven miles, and the city wall is more than three feet high. It has only four gates, and there are towers on all four gates. There are gates on the southeast, southeast, and west sides, which are one to twenty feet wide.
It is one to two feet deep. Although it has not yet been filled with water, it is already enough to create a huge obstacle for attackers.
Therefore, Li Shanchang, who was on the Chengtian Gate Tower, even though he only had more than a thousand troops in his hand, was not panic at all. He even wanted to imitate Zhuge Liang by burning incense and playing the piano in an arty way.
Unfortunately, it was too shameful and I could only think about it and give it up.
Sure enough, the Red Scarf Army, which had been so powerful all the way, breaking through all kinds of obstacles, seemed to have hit the wall of sighs as soon as they reached the Forbidden City.
The trench alone, one or two feet deep and eleven or twelve feet wide, was enough for them to drink a pot.
Several people who got carried away jumped down rashly and ended up dead or injured.
"Find the ladder, quickly find the ladder!" the Mingjiao leader quickly ordered loudly.
In King Ming's plan, the most indispensable thing in the large construction site of Zhongdu City was ladders. Materials could be obtained locally, so there was no preparation in advance.
But the strange thing is that everyone searched around but couldn't find a few of them, so they had to make them on the spot using bamboo poles and wooden sticks.
By the time they gathered enough ladders to send thousands of people over, an hour had passed...
But no matter what happens in the past, no ladder can reach the city wall which is three meters long and as high as possible.
The craftsmen had no choice but to connect two ladders to make a cloud ladder. Then a dozen of them supported it and sent it tremblingly up the city wall, which made people worried that it might break at any time.
It's really worse than a grassroots team, fully explaining what it means to be a mob.
But they are not afraid of death...
As soon as the ladder was set up, the Red Scarf Army, which had been impatient for a long time, swarmed up shouting slogans.
"We are willing to be shattered into pieces, just for the light to shine on the world and wipe out all the darkness in the world!"
This slogan gave them infinite strength, making them forget their fear of heights and climb to the top of the ladder in one breath!
But when they finally reached the top of the wall, the defenders above stretched out their long hooks, hooked one end of the ladder, and then worked together to send it outward.
Some ladders were overturned, and people on top screamed and got off the dumplings.
Those poor-quality ladders were broken directly in the middle, and the people on the upper half got off the dumplings...
But more and more believers and civilians were gathering from all directions, making Li Shanchang and others in Wufeng Tower feel numb.
The area illuminated by torches under the light city is probably crowded with twenty or thirty thousand people, right? And in the places where the light cannot reach, there are still an unknown number of people in the moving darkness.
This is not surprising. There are a total of 300,000 craftsmen and civilians in the entire Zhongdu City. Everyone hates this palace and Li Shanchang!
Although their attack was haphazard, and most of them had never even touched a sword or a gun, they were like moths rushing to a flame, setting up inferior ladders one after another, and climbing to the top of the city with ants from all directions.
One ladder after another was pushed down, and countless figures fell down the city. However, more ladders were erected, and more figures climbed up!
What supports them is one sentence, Li Shanchang is so stupid!
The defenders on the top of the city were finally in a hurry. There were too few of them, and they had to defend the seven-mile-long city wall, so they couldn't cover every aspect of it.
It was the middle of the night, how could we illuminate the entire city with only torches? Still, those rioters rushed to the top of the city!
The two sides finally met in close combat, and the city suddenly became a mess.
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