"The Bengalis are really desperate!" A general guarding the city's head shouted loudly while commanding the soldiers to throw down the rolling stones: "Hundreds of people were killed by our rolling stones, and many were injured.
, they actually kept charging towards the city wall!"
"What do you know!" Baihu said: "General Lan's tens of thousands of troops will arrive in Bangladesh in ten days at most. The Bengalis must capture our city as soon as possible, but they don't have time to wait slowly; but they have been attacking the city for five consecutive days.
Damn it, we haven't been able to capture the city yet. The generals in command must be anxious. In order to capture the city before our reinforcements arrive, of course they have no choice but to attack the city regardless of the lives of the soldiers. Anyway, they have many Bengalis and are cheap, so they are not afraid.
Much more dead.”
"They are attacking the city so fiercely, can we defend the city?" the commander-in-chief asked again.
Baihu was silent for a moment. The people outside the city outnumbered them several times, and now they attacked fiercely regardless of casualties. It was hard to say whether they could hold on. But Baihu immediately realized that they could not lose their morale. If they thought that they could not hold the city with resistance,
, the city really cannot be defended. He said loudly: "Of course it can be defended! Our general is General Zhang. General Zhang led troops in Annan and made many military exploits. How can the generals of Bangladesh compare? Zhang
The general is here and we can definitely hold it!"
"As long as you can hold it," the general flag muttered, and continued to direct his soldiers and recruited local men to throw rolling rocks downwards.
"Hou Liang, what's the situation now?" Zhu Daizhen, who was inspecting this city wall at this time, came here and asked this Baihudao.
"Biao Tong, the situation is not bad now." Hou Liang took Zhu Daizhen a little away from the city wall and said: "Although the Bengalis have been attacking fiercely since yesterday, the soldiers defended the city bravely and did not retreat even if they were injured by the enemy's bows and arrows.
The Bengalis won’t be able to attack the city yet.”
"But the rolling stones were used too fast. The Bengalis rushed towards the city wall as if they were not afraid of death, and could only keep throwing down the rolling stones. More than half of them have been used now. If they continue to be used like this, they will all be used up tomorrow night at the latest!
"
"Don't worry about rolling wood and stone. General Zhang has ordered to demolish the houses in the city again. I will give you another batch last night and tomorrow at noon." Zhu Daizhen said.
"Great!" Hou Liang said with a smile: "As long as there are enough rolling logs and stones, the Bengalis will not be able to knock down the city wall if they fight for another year. What's more, they can only defend it for less than ten days."
"If the Bengalis insist on fighting for a year, they will definitely be able to capture Zhu Daizhen, because after another year of fighting, all the food in the city will be eaten up, and we will already starve to death." Zhu Daizhen also laughed.
Zhu Daizhen chatted and joked with Hou Liang for a while, then went to inspect other places. But as soon as he turned around, the smile just now had disappeared.
He did not deceive Hou Liang just now. Zhang Fu had indeed ordered the demolition of more houses in the city. But what he did not say was that after this batch of houses were demolished, Zhang Fu would not dare to order the demolition of other houses.
After so many years of preaching in Bengal, the number of Tianfang believers has exceeded that of Brahmans, but in Zhu Daizhen, there are still many more Brahmans than Tianfang believers. After Wen led his troops to capture Zhu Daizhen, he immediately ordered the arrest of the leading Tianfang believers in the city.
At the same time, they forced the remaining Tianfang believers to live together and sent troops to guard them. Fortunately, their gathering areas were originally in the same area, so this was easy.
After Zhang Fu guessed that the Shah was going to gather a large army to besiege Zhu Daizhen, he immediately ordered the demolition of the houses belonging to the Tianfang believers in the north of the city and used them as raw materials for rolling logs and stones. Of course, the Brahmin believers in the city would not stop it. Not only did they not stop it, they clapped their hands and applauded.
But when the war really started and Zhang Fu saw that there were not enough rolling stones and the houses had to be demolished, the situation was different. The houses of the Tianfang believers had been demolished, and the only remaining ones were the Brahmin believers. This led to
The Brahmans were very dissatisfied with the Ming army.
Under normal circumstances, it was okay if they were dissatisfied. The Sudra class, which had been oppressed by the caste system for a long time, not only lacked the will to resist, but also could not organize themselves to cause any trouble to the Ming army. But after the attitude of the Kshatriyas in the city changed,
Things have changed.
The only Kshatriya in the city knew that the Ming army was at a disadvantage at this time and was likely to fail. Although Zhang Fu had to agree to support the Ming army when he met him again and organized manpower to help the Ming army defend the city, he also obeyed Zhang Fu's orders.
, always executed at a discount.
Especially after Zhang Fu ordered the houses to be demolished again because the rolling wood and stones were consumed too quickly, the Kshatriya organized the Shudras in the city to oppose them, put pressure on the Ming army, and went to Zhang Fu himself to tell him about the Brahmans in the city.
Because the houses were demolished, he became very resentful towards the Ming army, and even after repeated persuasion, he could not get them to stop. In order to prevent trouble in the city, he stopped demolishing the houses.
At that time, Zhang Fu could not wait to order the reserve team to dispatch to suppress those who dared to oppose, and also wanted to kill the Kshatriya in front of him. Although he did not know that all this was organized by the person in front of him, he must have used this opportunity to put pressure on himself.
The reason is very simple to think of: to prevent the Bengalis from being killed for assisting the Ming army in defending the city after they broke into the city.
But Zhang Fu did not dare. There were tens of thousands of Brahmans in the city. Once the suppression started, the whole city would be in chaos and it would be impossible to defend the city. Zhang Fu forced his anger back and started talking to the Kshatriyas. After negotiations, Zhang Fu had to
He promised not to demolish the houses in Xicheng after they were demolished.
'If I had known this, I should have killed him when he first entered the city! Then he would not be able to cause trouble.' Zhu Daizhen thought to himself: 'It's a pity that the war has begun. Even if he is the leader of both sides, he still has to be relied on to appease the houses in the city that are being demolished.
The Brahmans organized civilians to help the army fight. Alas!'
While thinking about it, Zhu Daizhen had already inspected the wall he was responsible for defending and found no problems, so he rushed to Zhang Fu's residence in the city to report.
When he arrived, Sun Bingwen and three other officials had also arrived. They greeted each other a few times and walked into the house to report to Zhang Fu.
