Chapter 1505 The Sudden Change in Suzhou - A Turning Point
But a regular army is a regular army. Even though the Suzhou Guard has not been on the battlefield for many years and has neglected to practice on weekdays. Li Zhiliang's fighting skills are also very sparse. The soldiers of the Suzhou Guard still quickly regrouped after the failure of the first siege. At this time
Some soldiers who were celebrating the New Year at home got the news and hurried to Suzhou City. Li Zhiliang temporarily divided the more than 800 people in his hands into three teams and attacked the city again.
The rebels suddenly couldn't stand it anymore. Even though they collected two more cannons from the warehouse and kept bombarding them, they couldn't stop the Ming army from attacking the city. They were soon attacked by the Ming army and fought again in hand-to-hand combat.
Defeated, he had to flee hastily.
Li Zhiliang sent more than 300 people to recapture the other three city walls, and left more than 100 people to garrison the captured east wall. Then he led the remaining 400 people to where Zhu Ying was.
Dan Mo heard that the east wall had been lost and that hundreds of Ming troops were coming. He sent people to block the streets and alleys to stop the Ming troops, and stepped up his attack on the inner courtyard. But his son and the martial arts masters of the White Lotus Sect had already entered within two quarters of an hour.
However, the palace guards were still not eliminated and Zhu Ying was captured alive.
Dan Mo suddenly fell into a dilemma. If he continued to fight, he might be able to capture Zhu Ying alive. The plan was still half completed. After using Zhu Ying as a hostage to escape from Suzhou Fucheng, Dan Mo could secretly order someone to take his youngest son with him.
Escape from another way; but if they cannot capture Zhu Ying alive, even if they escape from Suzhou City, the Ming army will not care about the Suzhou prefect and others they captured alive, and will launch an attack immediately. There will be no time to send the younger son away, but just
It's really a dead end.
Dan Mo kept urging him to kill all the guards as soon as possible and capture Zhu Ying alive, but he just kept saying that he was still fighting, still fighting, and finally got a reliable idea. He said that the guards were protecting Zhu Ying and retreated into a stone room.
Pavilion, they were so anxious that it was difficult to get in.
Hearing this, Dan Mo looked at the three artillery pieces, wanting to bombard Shiting with artillery shells and kill all the palace guards; but Dan Qing immediately said: "Brother, the artillery is not very accurate. What if Zhu Ying is hit?"
If he is beaten to death, we might as well retreat now."
Danbo, the manager of the second house, said: "Second brother, can our family survive if we retreat now? The Suzhou Guards have already attacked us. If we retreat to the house, we will wait to die. Even if we escape outside the city, the Ming army will definitely pursue us."
She, if we can’t escape to the river, we won’t survive.”
While they were arguing fiercely, the gunner set up three more cannons, loaded them with gunpowder and shells, and looked at Danmo; Danqing and Danba stopped arguing, and both looked at Danmo, waiting for his decision.
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"Hit!" Dan Mo shouted.
"Brother!" Danqing shouted.
"Fight!" Dan Mo said again. Since there is no way to survive if Zhu Ying cannot be captured alive, it is better to let Zhu Ying die too! It is worth it to have a prince buried with him!
The gunner heard Dan Mo's order, checked the direction again, and lit the match rope with slightly trembling hands. With three "pound pound" sounds, three shells were fired into the house, hitting near Shiting.
"The rebels actually used artillery bombardment?" Cao Ziyu shouted in panic. He probably guessed Dan Mo's plan and knew that they wanted to capture Zhu Ying alive and survive, so he did not make preparations for the artillery shells and chose
Shi Ting was also worried that the rebels would accidentally set off the fire, but he never expected that they would now open fire regardless of His Highness being killed!
"Your Majesty," Cao Ziyu ran to Zhu Ying and whispered: "Your Majesty, the rebels have fired artillery. In order to prevent Your Majesty from being hit by the shells, please hide under the table and chair."
"How can I hide under the tables and chairs like a bereaved dog?" Zhu Ying said, holding a knife in both hands.
"Your Majesty!" Cao Ziyu shouted: "Back then, Cao Mengde led his troops to attack Xiliang and was defeated by Ma Chao. He cut off his robe and beard before escaping. Liu Xuande was defeated by Cao Mengde in Xuzhou and escaped with his life by abandoning his wife and daughter. Later they
Both of them have achieved dominance. Since they can do this, why can't you, Your Highness, hide under the table and chair?"
"This is not official history. It is an article in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Wei Wu and Zhaolie did not do this. Even if this is official history, I will never follow their example!" Zhu Ying said.
Cao Ziyu tried to persuade Zhu Ying but refused to listen. He had no choice but to follow Zhu Ying closely, thinking: "If the rebels' artillery shells hit the prince, I will attack him immediately."
Fall to the ground and use your body to block the cannonball for the prince. Before I die, I must not let the prince suffer any harm.'
The fighting became more and more intense. The rebels tried to break into the stone pavilion several times but were driven out. The rebels' artillery shells also continued to fall near the stone pavilion. Some of them hit the stone pavilion and damaged the roof.
It was teetering on the edge of collapse, but it didn't fall down after all and was still holding on.
Dan Mo also kept urging the gunner to fire. But he didn't know whether it was because the gunner's physical strength was getting worse or for some other reason. The cannonballs were becoming more and more inaccurate. More of his own people were killed than the palace guards, and it even affected the enemy.
The Siege of Shiting.
"Did you fucking kill our son-in-law on purpose?" Dan Qing suddenly grabbed a gunner's arm, pulled out his sword and pointed it at him and shouted. These gunners were not from their Dan family, nor from others.
The White Lotus cultists were actually captured Suzhou Guardsmen who had escaped to the city to celebrate the New Year. Danqing saw that the accuracy of the artillery shells they fired was getting worse and worse, and he immediately suspected that they were doing it on purpose.
"Sir, have mercy! My lord, have mercy! We are really exhausted, and the cannon is becoming increasingly inaccurate due to the continuous firing of shells. How dare we deliberately kill a hero!" The gunner hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
"Sir, have mercy! My lord, have mercy! We really didn't mean it!" Several other gunners also knelt down and shouted.
"You trash!" Danqing waved his saber twice, kicked the gunner in front of him on the shoulder and knocked him to the ground. He then ordered the other gunners to load the gunpowder and shells, and shouted loudly: "
You losers! I'll fire it myself!"
"Brother, this," seeing this situation, Danbo said to Danmo.
"Let him go." Dan Mo said. He also suspected that these gunners did it on purpose, but he didn't understand this and couldn't be sure. But since the gunners were so uncertain now, it didn't matter if Dan Qing fired a few shots.
He raised his head and glanced at the moon again, and saw that it was already late at night. He heard the shouts of killing coming from the east getting closer and closer, and said to Danbo: "In five more minutes, if we still can't capture Zhu Ying alive, no matter what
Whether he is alive or dead, he immediately retreats and escapes from Xicheng to Suzhou City!"
After a pause, he then ordered: "Bury the remaining gunpowder under the streets and alleys to the east to give the chasing Ming army a surprise!"
"Yes, brother." Danbo agreed and ordered people to put the remaining gunpowder into a big bag and bury it under the road to the east.
Danqing ignored what Danbo was doing. He waited for the gunpowder and cannonballs to be loaded, stood up and looked in the direction, and asked his two nephews to move the cannon body and aim it at Shiting, before lighting the match and firing. But at this moment, suddenly,
From the north of the mansion, there was a whistling sound to the northwest of them, which sounded like the sound of artillery shells passing through the air. Dan Mo and others couldn't help but look up. They immediately saw that a cannon shell was falling downwards from the air.
Falling next to Danqing at an extremely fast speed!