Chapter 1346 Nanyang Wind and Rain - Defending the City of Semarang
"Go, go!" a Javanese shout came from outside Semarang City.
"Hold! Hold!" shouts in Chinese came from Semarang City.
Accompanied by the different shouts in these two different languages, there were countless soldiers who were shouting fiercely to fight with the enemy. Under the leadership of the general, the people under the city attacked the city head in huddles, and the supervisory team armed with bows and arrows came
Follow the charging people, and kill anyone who is a little slower with an arrow; all artillery, slings and other siege equipment are also fired all the time, not caring about the explosion that may occur at any time; the warriors who were originally used to carry
Everyone has been organized and ready to charge the city head. Half of the people who escaped from Semarang City, whether soldiers or civilians, were ordered to charge in the first batch, while the other half carried heavy projectiles and stones. If they were slow enough, they would be killed.
Knife slashed him to the ground.
Wigrama Vardhana and his guards stood under the flag representing Majapahit, shouting at the top of his lungs to the passing warriors: "Whoever rushes to the city first will be rewarded with gold equal to his body weight, and a hundred households will be rewarded."
Slaves and bitter orange fields outside the city!”
"As long as the city of Semarang can be captured, all the things and people in the city are the spoils of the warriors! Regardless of the Han people or the locals, regardless of the things belonging to the Han people or the locals, except for the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, everyone else and everything are warriors.
Our spoils of war!"
It was impossible for Wigrama Varda to fight like this. When he got the news that Semarang City had been lost, it was August 25th. He was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered 60% of the soldiers to break out of camp and march towards the city as quickly as possible.
Go east; the rest of the army is responsible for blocking the Ming army in Bamalan.
He knew clearly that the Ming army would never have many soldiers to attack Semarang City. At most, there would only be two or three thousand soldiers squeezed out from Su Fan and several hundred elites drawn from the military camp in Bamalan. Semarang City
Although it is not big, it is definitely not something that two or three thousand people can defend. As long as I rush to the city before the Ming army recruits reinforcements from the Bamalan military camp and launch an siege, I can take back the city in one fell swoop and save the defeat.
But when he arrived at Semarang City, he found that there were at least 5,000 Ming troops in the city through an siege. The Majapahit soldiers had just arrived at the city and were not well prepared and failed to capture the city. It turned out that Zhu Gaoxu had already sent troops before
They made an agreement with Xu Zengshou: after it was completely dark and all the soldiers had rested, they would immediately send a second group of soldiers to board the ship and rush to Semarang City. If Zhu Gaoxu failed to attack the city, these thousands of people would just take the ship once in vain.
But if he succeeds in taking the city, these thousands of people will become an important factor in whether he can hold the city. Although it started to rain heavily shortly after dark and the sailors refused to sail, these thousands of people arrived after the rain stopped in the middle of the night.
After arriving, they boarded a ship and rushed to Semarang City, but fortunately they reached the coast before Majapahit's soldiers arrived and garrisoned the city.
In addition, Vigramavardhana learned through interrogation of a captured prisoner that at least five to six hundred of the original guards in the city had rebelled, or were captured without resistance, and the rest of the guards had surrendered without much resistance.
Some locals took off their clothes and ran home, while others escaped from the city. There were also two Javanese who did not know when they defected to the Ming army, and persuaded the prisoners to serve the Ming army. It is still unknown how many prisoners have rebelled.
surrendered to the enemy; and there were less than a thousand people who attacked the city at the beginning, and the rest of the Ming army soldiers came later, as well as some Javanese who rebelled and surrendered to the enemy.
After hearing this, Wigramavardhana immediately executed the escaped Semarang City garrison Palapa. Palapa told him that there were more than 2,000 Ming troops attacking the city, and that the soldiers and Ming soldiers in the city were
The army lost the city after a bloody battle, and not many people were captured.
Vigramavardhana was very dissatisfied with this blatant deception, and he was very angry at this time, so he decided to practice a torture that had never been used before: five horses cut the body into pieces and executed Palapa.
After the execution of Palapa, Vigramavardhana calmed down a little and decided to send people into the city to negotiate peace with Zhu Gaoxu. But Zhu Gaoxu was probably sure of victory, so he didn't pay much attention to his words, and his guards didn't talk about it, letting the intimidation
Gramavardhana quickly learned his bottom line: Zhu Gaoxu wanted to eliminate at least half of his main army, leaving Vigramavardhana with only slightly more soldiers than Veerabhmi and no longer overwhelming.
His strength caused endless civil war in Java Island; at the same time, he also wanted to take away 60% of the gold and silver from the treasury in Bitter Orange City.
How could Wigrama Vardhana agree to such a condition? If he negotiated peace with the Ming army, it would mean that he had to admit defeat to the Ming army in this war. This would have aroused dissatisfaction among some nobles and monks. After losing many troops, Veerabhmi
It is entirely possible to seize power from him and become the king with the support of some nobles and monks; especially the Tianfang religion has spread rapidly in Java in recent years. Many nobles have converted to the Tianfang religion and even forced their servants to breed.
The serfs of the land, the free people who ran businesses for themselves, and the generals and soldiers of their armies believed in the Tianfang religion. After seizing a new territory, they also forced the local people to believe in the religion. Moreover, Veerabumi was very tolerant of the Tianfang religion, while Wigramavar
Danaius was a little hostile, so he pushed these nobles who believed in the Tianfang Sect to the opposite side. He was even more vulnerable in winning over the nobles, and the possibility of losing the throne was not small.
Wigrama Vardhana sent his cronies into the city to talk to Zhu Gaoxu again, asking him to give in on the current conditions, but Zhu Gaoxu refused to back down and said arrogantly: "But there are only two words: yes and no."
The cronies repeatedly requested and hoped that he would consider the amount of gold and silver as compensation, saying: "As long as you agree to the condition of losing half of the warriors, our country is just what you say, and all the gold and silver will sooner or later belong to your highness. Why do you need to ask for it like this?"
." Zhu Gaoxu replied again: "I haven't swallowed it yet, I'm very hungry!" After another two hours of negotiation and his close friends pleading, Zhu Gaoxu expressed his willingness to give in, but he would give it some thought and give new conditions tomorrow morning.
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The cronies breathed a sigh of relief and went back to report to Vigrama Vardhana: But when Vigrama Vardhana heard this, he immediately ordered preparations to attack the city and said to his cronies: "You were deceived by him. There are only two people in Zhu Gaoxu's city.
Five thousand people, if our army attacks fiercely, we may not be able to defend the city; there are only these ships that can transport troops, and he cannot transport 10,000 or 20,000 people from Bamalan to Semarang City in a short time."
"So Zhu Gaoxu adopted this strategy: He deceived you and me with lies, and made me wait like a fool for him to offer new conditions, then send people to the city to negotiate with him, and then offer new conditions, and I would
Send people into the city to negotiate, and drag them back and forth until enough Ming troops enter the city. Our army will no longer be able to capture Semarang City. If we fall out at that time, I will have to accept whatever conditions he offers; I may even refuse.
Negotiate peace with our army and ask me to surrender completely. If I don't agree, I will have to wait until the food is exhausted and the whole army will starve to death here."
"Mingren is so cunning! Fortunately, Your Majesty saw through Zhu Gaoxu's trick." The confidant shouted.
While they were talking, the army was ready to attack the city. Vigramavardhana asked his guards to put on his armor and helmet, picked up his sword, and walked out of the camp to personally command this unprecedentedly brutal siege.
Zhu Gaoxu was probably too complacent. He was unprepared for Wigrama Vardhana's determination to attack the city immediately. The Majapahits almost reached the top of the city in their first attack, but Cheng'an saw that the situation was not going well and urgently mobilized his troops.
Only support can stop them.
But after that, the Majapahit attacks on the city became more and more fierce. Even if the Ming army was fully mobilized, it seemed that they might not be able to defend the city.
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"Quick, hurry up, anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!" Liu Du shouted at the top of his lungs. At the same time, dozens of executioners holding ghost-headed swords stared in front of him. If anyone retreated, they would immediately behead him, no matter what.
The army is still surrendering.
On the top of the city, boiling oil is being boiled. The people who are boiling water keep stirring the iron tongs in their hands. Once they feel it is almost done, they lift the big pot and pour it down. Every time, there are countless people who are climbing the city walls and ladders.
The Zheboyi people screamed and let go of their hands and fell to the ground. Although the wall of Semarang City was not very high and the ground was soft due to heavy rain, most of the people who fell were badly injured, and even more so.
The boiling water and oil were all over his body, and he probably wouldn't survive.
But there were too many Majapahits, and Wigrama Vardhana didn't care about casualties at all. Even though batch after batch of warriors died in battle, there were still seemingly countless people attacking the city, giving Ming a clear picture.
The army caused damage.
In addition to the cannons and trebuchets that were bombarding, the Majapahit archers also approached the city wall and shot arrows at the city head; while the Ming army rushed in without cannons and trebuchets, and bows and arrows were rarely used because there were not many arrows.
The Ming army could only use their flesh and blood to resist the Majapahit arrows, and their losses were increasing.
"Oh God, that's not right. Tathagata Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva..." After telling everything he knew, Liu Du prayed to the sky: "Please protect me."
Your Highness, bless all the soldiers in Semarang City! Don’t let the Majapahits attack the city.”
"Please let Thunder God and Lightning Mother make a heavy rain! As long as it rains, Majapahit's artillery cannot be used, and the usefulness of trebuchets and bows and arrows is greatly reduced. Majapahit soldiers brave the rain to rush forward
The top of the city is also more difficult, so it will be much easier to defend the city. As long as we can hold on until tomorrow morning, the second batch of 4,000 reinforcements will arrive, and the city will be able to defend. Anyway, it has rained a lot these days.
It's not like this one; as long as you, Thunder God and Lightning Mother, take refuge with Buddha, you won't have to fear the laws of heaven, and you won't have to worry about being beheaded like the Dragon King of Jinghe River." Liu Du talked a lot.
"What are you doing! Why don't you command the defense of the city properly!" Cheng An, who happened to be leading the elite patrol of various city walls, saw this scene and approached him very dissatisfied and said to him.
"General Cheng, I am praying to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, asking them to protect His Highness and the soldiers and let the Thunder God and Lightning Mother make a heavy rain," Liu Du said.
"You!" Cheng'an was about to say, 'What's the use of praying for this?' Then he remembered that Zhu Gaoxu had vigorously promoted Buddhism in recent years (of course it was Buddhism that had been improved and had combat effectiveness). There were many people in the army who believed in Buddhism or pretended to believe in Buddhism. Many people.
People said that he wanted to be an Arhat who could subjugate demons. Zhu Gaoxu was also very happy and swallowed his words.
"As long as we are sincere to the Buddha and the Bodhisattva, the Buddha and the Bodhisattva will naturally bless us, and we don't have to worry about the Buddha's feet temporarily." Cheng An said this, and then immediately said: "So carefully watch the battle situation in front of us, and we must not let anyone be satisfied.
The Boyi captured the city!"
"General Cheng, please send me some more reinforcements." Liu Du pointed to the city and said, "The Majapahit people under the city are endless. We will definitely not be able to defend them with just such a small number of troops!"
"If you can't defend it, you must defend it!" Cheng An said decisively: "Even if we kill all the people, we must defend the city!"
"Besides, do you think I won't give you reinforcements if I have them?" Cheng An added: "These people I have are already the last ones. If they all fill in, if there is another accident, the whole city will be completely unable to defend.
Living!"
"General Cheng, I know that, but you can at least send another hundred people." Liu Du said again, with a tone of pleading in his voice.
Cheng'an was about to refuse again when he suddenly saw a soldier running over with a happy face and said to him: "General Cheng, Jiacha has asked the three hundred elites in the city to agree to participate in the defense of the city."
"Great!" Cheng An also said with joy on his face: "Finally we have some soldiers again."
"Who is Gacha? How can he persuade the young men in the city to defend the city?" Liu Du asked.
