A faint smell of blood blew throughout Yangzhou City with the autumn wind.

"Sir, be careful." Guard Zhang Yong supported Lord Li, the general manager of Yangzhou Road, and slowly stepped onto the top of the city.

Every time he stepped up to Yangzhou City and looked at Shugang in the distance and the various scenes on the canal, Lord Li always felt a sense of accomplishment. The place under his jurisdiction has always been one of the most prosperous cities in the entire Yuan Dynasty.

After being a parent here for many years, Lord Li's family business has become extremely wealthy.

However, now I feel completely different when I step on it.

The soldiers sat dejectedly behind the walls with weapons, without even the courage to stand up.

If possible, Lord Li would definitely not want to get on this wall, and he would not even want to get close to this block.

Under the city wall, before the moat, countless corpses were already there. Those were left by the siege thieves.

At the beginning, they could use arrows to shoot the thieves from afar. The thief rushed fiercely, but as long as a group of people were killed, the rest of them would retreat.

However, this method can no longer be repeated.

Because the arrows in the city have been used up, even the other things such as wood needed to defend the city are very short of them.

Although the thieves below did not have any special weapons to siege, catapults, and arrow towers, they only had simple ladders.

But even these make them feel overwhelmed.

Just last night, the traitor's ladder was on the top of the city. If the Chen family guarding there had not been a timely discovery, knocked down the ladder, and killed several people who climbed up, the Yangzhou city would have been broken.

Yes, it was the credit of those people in the Chen family.

Faced with the thieves who were swarming in, Daluhachi of Yangzhou City, Hudu Guanmu immediately ordered to pull out all the servants of the wealthy families and go up to the city wall to help defend the city.

This measure has achieved good results. Some of the servants fought more bravely than the New Army.

After all, if the thief came in, all these wealthy families would have been robbed. The fact that Zhang Jiusi once robbed the Chen family's salt warehouse had long been spread. At that time, the Chen family was so popular that Zhang Jiusi dared to rob it, but now, let alone.

Therefore, if they saved Yangzhou City, that is, they would protect themselves. They knew very well that their servants would have the courage to fight to the death.

Why not escape?

If there were no other hope, then these wealthy families would have fled long ago, including the defenders of Yangzhou and those officials.

However, it is different now. The imperial army, a million troops, are being led by Lord Tuotuo, coming day and night.

It can be expected that when Lord Tuotuo's army arrived, Zhang Jiusi, a slut, would definitely be killed like Sesame Li.

All they need to do is to defend Yangzhou City. As long as they can last for a few days and Lord Tuotuo arrives, they will become heroes of the court. Then, it is no difficulty to continue to be promoted.

Therefore, although they are struggling to keep up now, they must persevere. Otherwise, when Lord Tuotuo comes and they have abandoned the city and fled, they may end up tragic.

In order to boost morale, Lord Li finally stepped onto the city at the urging of Hudu Guanmu to cheer up the defenders.

When the Yangzhou Road supervisor appeared, he would naturally give great encouragement to the defenders. Seeing Lord Li stepping onto the top of the city, the soldiers who were originally lazy now straightened their bodies and saluted Lord Li.

"Brothers, thank you for your hard work." Lord Li shouted in a loud voice: "Mr. Tutuo's million-strong army is about to arrive on Huaian Road. When they arrive, it will be the end of Zhang Zhe. We only need to hold on for a few more days to usher in the greatest victory!"

Lord Li said these words with great momentum, but unfortunately, these people didn't react in their ears.

Hudu Guanmu organized the thousand detectives into the military commander troops to supervise these new affiliated troops to fight on the city wall. If this were not the case, these new affiliated troops would have decisively fled when Zhang Jiusi's army arrived at the city wall.

They fought not to be loyal to the court at all.

"The emperor cared about the hardships of our battle here. We restrained Zhang Zhe's main force. Therefore, after the battle ended, the 100,000 taels of silver allocated to us by the 100,000 taels of silver will be here. At that time, each person will get at least five taels of silver, and we are also preparing to pay another 50,000 taels of silver on Yangzhou Road. Therefore, after this battle, each person will receive ten taels of silver." said Lord Li.

Ten taels of silver, this sentence made these people excited. After all, the salary this time was enough to match their military salary for a year.

Looking at the expressions of these people, Lord Li was very satisfied. Sure enough, only with money could he subdue these soldiers.

Just as I was about to say a few more words, I saw a boiling field in the distance.

Zhang's untouchables and bandits are coming up again.

"Dear brothers, I will go back to the government office immediately to raise money for everyone. By the end of tonight, each person will give at least two taels of silver first." Lord Li said, and under Zhang Yong's protection, he walked down the city.

When the bandits rushed up, the city would be very dangerous. Lord Li naturally had to avoid it quickly. As for raising money, they had already prepared and reported it to the upper hand. Each person paid 10 taels, and when it came to the hands of the soldiers, each person would have two taels. In this way, the officials could still eat a large sum of money.

When I heard that there were two taels of silver to get it at night, the defenders on the city gritted their teeth and finished the battle again!

Unfortunately, they didn't know how tragic this battle would be.

Outside the city.

"Tutuo's forward has arrived on Huaian Road. In a few days, he will be able to reach Gaoyou Mansion." Zhang Shide said.

"So, today is our last battle. We must take down Yangzhou City today." Lu Zhen said confidently.

"Yes, if we can't take down Yangzhou City before sunset today, we have to retreat and rush back to Gaoyou Mansion to defend, and wait for the siege of Tuotuo's army." Zhang Shide was very worried.

The eldest brother attached great importance to Yangzhou Road and sent himself to siege the place with 40,000 troops. Who knew that it had been attacking for seven days but still had not taken down Yangzhou.

In Xinghua City, they directly started a riot inside and took it down. Taizhou, which was in the middle and outside, and also took it down. Gaoyou Mansion, just appeared outside the city, frightened the defenders inside and fled away from the city. With another charge, they defeated the city.

Only this Yangzhou City has become a hard bone and cannot be gnawed no matter how hard it is.

"After our consumption over the past few days, there are no bows and arrows on the top of the city. Our people can climb up the city wall effortlessly. As long as we muster up the courage and are not afraid of sacrifice, the Yangzhou city will definitely be taken down today." said Shi Wenbing.

Yesterday they rushed under the city, and no bow and arrow were shot out by the other party. Obviously, the other party had no bow and arrow anymore.

Therefore, as long as you are not afraid of sacrifice and stepping onto the city wall, it should not be difficult.

"Yes, no reserve team is left, the entire army will attack, and attack Yangzhou City from three directions." The commander Zhang Shide issued an order.

The east wind blows, the war drums beat, and the test of blood and fire comes again.

Originally, the east side of Yangzhou City was the Water Gate, and Zhang Shicheng had already had tens of thousands of naval troops, and attacking from the waterway could achieve even more results.

However, this time they attacked Yangzhou City, they did not dispatch naval troops.

Although the navy was their advantage, the disadvantages of the navy were also very obvious. The march was slow and even the infantry could not match.

This time it was a surprise attack. If Yangzhou City cannot be captured within a few days, it will have to return to help quickly. Therefore, it is not a good choice for the navy to join the war.

Since this is the case, they attacked the three directions of north and southwest, and after several days of consumption, their chances of winning are already very high.

It was still because of the surprise attack that they did not have any heavy siege equipment. Although the Tartars' catapults made them envious, the heavy equipment was inconvenient for transportation, so they just used materials locally and made some ladders.

Although there is a moat outside these three sections of the city walls of Yangzhou City, it cannot stop Zhang Shide's attack. It is just the season for grain harvest. They collected all the weeds and rice straw on the fields outside and filled them with landslides.

It was inevitably mixed with the bodies of the dead. Until now, they could barely wet their feet and waded across the moat.

Raise the ladder and rush up bravely!

With Zhang Shide's order, the soldiers who had been training for several months began to rush up with long spears, knives, and ladders.

"Kill." There were swarms of shouts everywhere.

"Bang!" A cloud ladder had already been set under the city wall. Then, a rebel army with a knife in his mouth began to climb up in the rhythmic trembling of the cloud ladder.

The second and third ones following him were all crawling upwards.

As soon as he climbed halfway, the Yijun opened his eyes wide. A big stone had already rolled down the ladder.

He quickly turned over and hid on the back of the ladder.

The few people following behind were screaming and were smashed into meat paste by the rolled stones.

Turning over and ignoring the screams behind him, he continued to climb up and quickly.

Finally, he climbed to the top and quickly avoided the spears that had been pierced from the city. He jumped up and jumped onto the city.

Unfortunately, as soon as his feet touched the ground on the city wall, he had been stabbed several holes by a spear that extended out again.

In the air, he couldn't turn over.

He was stabbed to death, and several soldiers poked their heads out and pried the ladder away from the city wall.

The thieves who were still climbing on the ladder screamed and fell off the ladder as they flipped and fell down.

Their bodies were trampled mercilessly by those who followed them.

It’s that simple to rush forward, rush forward regardless of everything, kill all the officials.
Chapter completed!