"Jiacha was one of the two Majapahits who took the initiative to join us when we attacked the city and captured the east city. His Highness ordered him to persuade the captured Majapahit soldiers to serve Su Fan. All those who agreed to serve were assigned to him. After the commander-in-chief Wigrama Varda gave the order to attack the city, His Highness asked him to recruit the young men in the city to help defend the city. This time he recruited another three hundred people."
Cheng An explained, and then said: "That's right, don't you want someone? I'll give you one hundred and fifty young men."
"General Cheng, I want people brought from Su Fan, not local people." Liu Du said immediately.
"Only the young and strong locals!" Cheng An no longer cared about dignity and said sternly: "Liu Du, what time has it been? You are still picky! His Highness has issued a strict order. If the city is lost, whose city head will be the first to fall? , even if he escapes back to Qian'an City, he will be executed! The three tribes will be demoted to slaves!"
"I obey." After hearing Zhu Gaoxu's order, Liu Du did not dare to say anything more and bowed according to the usual etiquette of listening to Zhu Gaoxu's instructions.
"Don't worry, even the young men in the city who have never fought in a war will be able to resist Su Fan as soon as Wigramawardana gives the order that allows the soldiers to plunder everyone and everything in the city as trophies. The people can only try their best to keep the city intact, and they will definitely try their best, so there is no need to worry about them surrendering to the enemy." In order to reassure him, Cheng An said again.
"Yes!" Liu Du suddenly realized. Just now Vigrama Vardana said, 'Everything and people in the city are the spoils of the warriors.' This means that the people in the city have also become the objects that the soldiers can plunder at will. The elderly and children in the family were killed, everyone else was robbed, and the house was burned down. Even if it was for themselves, they could only fight hard, even harder than Su Fan's soldiers. After all, Su Fan's soldiers still had no choice but to fight. There is hope of being redeemed, and being alone here will not harm the family; for the locals, the whole family has fallen into the abyss, and there is no hope at all. Therefore, the young men in the city are sent to him to defend the city rather than the soldiers. Not bad either.
"Thank you, General Cheng." He immediately changed his words.
"Remember, even if all the people at the top of the city are wiped out and you are the only one left, the Majapahit people cannot take down the city!" Cheng'an gave another order and led the troops behind him to another place.
Not long after, a tall man with dark skin and more than a hundred people with the same dark skin as him came to the city from the corridor with spears. The formation of this group of people was twisted, and they were wearing all kinds of clothes. The hand holding the spear looked very unaccustomed to the thing in his hand. It was impossible for him to be a soldier. They should all be ordinary people. But these people all had very determined expressions, like honest people. It's the same as after being pushed into a hurry.
After they rushed to the top of the city, they lined up in three rows according to the leader's order. Then the man turned around and walked up to Liu Du, saluted and said: "I'm here to join the investigation, and I'll obey your orders."
"Besides you, is there anyone who can speak Chinese?" After hearing Jiacha's words, Liu Du came back to his senses and asked.
"Sir, there are twenty-one people who can speak Chinese, five of them can speak Chinese fluently, and the other sixteen are worse." Gacha replied. Semarang City is a big city on Java Island, and Han people usually come here. There are many people doing business here, and there are also many people in the city who can speak Chinese.
"Five people can speak fluent Chinese," Liu Du said softly, and discussed a few words with the deputy Qianhu next to him. The deputy Qianhu's expression suddenly became very excited, and he shouted a few words to Liu Du, but
Gacha could only speak Cantonese and Mandarin and could not understand what he was saying. The two of them argued fiercely for a while, and Liu Du turned to Gacha and ordered: "This Qianhu will separate a section of the city.
I leave it to you to guard. Remember, you must stop the people below the city from rushing up. Even if the whole army is annihilated, they must not be allowed to set foot on the city!"
"I will definitely defend the city!" Gacha promised loudly, turned around and said something to the young adults in Javanese, and saw the young adults shouting fiercely. Liu Du asked those around him who knew Javanese.
The guard, the guard said: "They are shouting, for the family!"
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"What a traitor!" Ketalayasa said through gritted teeth, putting down the smuggled clairvoyance in his hand.
He then pointed at a tall, dark-skinned man on the top of the city who looked like a Javanese and asked the others: "Who is this man?" The man he pointed at was clearly Gacha.
Everyone shook their heads, including the general who previously commanded the army transferred from Semarang City to support Bamalan. Gacha was originally a recruit who had joined the army for less than a year, and no general knew him except his immediate superiors.
Seeing that no one recognized him, Ketalayasa cursed, turned around, looked at Gacha who was commanding the soldiers at the top of the city, and said: "When the city is captured, I will chop him into pieces with my own hands!"
"When the city is captured, all the people on this section of the city, whether alive or dead, will find their families. I will inflict the most severe punishment on their families!"
No wonder he was so angry. After the more than 150 young men and a few captured soldiers led by Gacha took over a section of the city, the generals and soldiers who attacked the city were overjoyed. The skin of the Han people was whiter than them.
Even after being exposed to the sun, the color is different from that of the Nanyang natives. This kind of skin looks like a Nanyang people. The combat effectiveness of the Nanyang people has always been considered to be weaker than that of the Han people, which means that it is easier for them to attack the city. Moreover, the clothes of these people are still poor.
There are various types, either the second-line troops in the Su Fan army responsible for logistics and transportation, or the young men and prisoners in the city. Their combat effectiveness should be weaker and the battles should be easier to fight.
But reality gives people who think like this a blow. Although these dark-skinned people are very unfamiliar with fighting, they are very desperate. They would rather be stabbed to death than take a step back. There are not many people who can rush up at one time, and they are often alone.
There are four or five people to deal with, but four or five people are risking their lives, so they can't attack at all.
These people burned boiling oil and boiling water faster than the Ming army on the side. Once it was hot, they poured it down. Even if arrows kept flying around, some people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, but they did not avoid the arrows at all.
Ya didn't even mean it, so he just poured the boiling oil and boiling water in the pot downwards, causing the people who were climbing to attack the city to scream and fall down. After attacking the city for a while, this section of the city head turned out to be
The best defense.
Later, the soldiers who had been stationed in Semarang City recognized several people on the top of the city. Only then did everyone confirm that they were the young men and captured soldiers in the city, and they started to curse.
Ketalayasa cursed a few more times, stopped breathing slightly, and sneered again: "I can probably guess the reason why these people did this. But even if they resisted like this, there were too few people defending the city. In the end,
I definitely can’t keep it!”
Ketalayasa is right to say this. Although all the soldiers on the city, regardless of their clan, fought hard against the Majapahits who attacked the city and caused them huge casualties, after all, there were ten fewer people than those outside the city.
times. Gradually, more and more Majapahits attacked the city and started fighting with the Ming army.
Moreover, those who had attacked the city at this time were also fighting with all their lives against the Ming army. Wigrama Vardhana had given a death order. The warriors who had climbed up would either die on the top of the city or conquer the city. All those who retreated
If everyone was beheaded, they would have no choice but to fight the Ming army desperately. Under such an offensive, the Ming army at the top of the city became less and less.
The reserve team under Cheng'an's command has been fully filled in. Zhu Gaoxu even personally led his bodyguards. When he heard the cry for help, he took his troops to the rescue. After defeating the Majapahit people, he asked them to retreat to the corridor at any time.
Prepare to support other places. Due to the fierce fighting, his guards are getting fewer and fewer, and even Zhu Gaoxu himself was injured.
I don’t know how much time passed, or how long it was until dark, but someone finally couldn’t hold on any longer. The defenders at a place in the west of the city were more than half defeated after the Majapahit people attacked again, giving up half of the city.
To the Majapahit people. Although Zhu Gaoxu rushed over with his guards immediately, more and more Majapayi people came up, and it seemed that there was no hope of driving them down.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt despair and wanted to kill himself with a knife. He could never accept being captured. It was also very difficult and almost impossible to hide in the city and avoid the Majapahit search.
It is better to commit suicide now than to come out. Because his bodyguards all stepped forward and were fighting fiercely with the Majapahit people, no one could stop him.
But at this moment, he suddenly heard an order in Javanese. He had learned Javanese for several months before attacking the Majapahit Kingdom, and he heard this sentence clearly: "Retreat!"
"Why, why did they suddenly retreat? The second batch of reinforcements has arrived?" Zhu Gaoxu put down his sword and said to himself. (To be continued)
