Chapter 134: Tragic

Li Rusong, who was in the central position of the Wuzhai Fort army, could also see clearly the benefits of the muskets of the Wuzhai Fort army. He couldn't help but look surprised on his face. There were also the three-sided governor Wei Xuezeng, the three-sided governor Zhu Zhengse, the Gansu governor Ye Mengxiong and others who were watching the battle in the back army were also surprised.

In particular, Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Gansu, was even more shocked. He was famous for his artillery battles and research on firearms, but in his impression, there was no fire gun used by the Ming army as strong as the Wuzhaibao army.

At this time, Li Rusong sent a general order, asking his personal general Li Ning to lead 1,500 servants to prepare to fight in the city. The rest of the soldiers from all teams followed him at any time, striving to go down in one go.

Seeing this situation, the three-sided governor Wei Xuezeng also sent an order to make tens of thousands of soldiers from his rear army prepare for battle and today they will capture Ningxia City. The generals and officials of the northwest towns were all obedient, but everyone was not worried. The troops in the northwest corners had no choice but to fight for several months. Unexpectedly, Li Rusong came and took only one day to capture Ningxia City. This was reported, so that the generals of the northwest towns would not have any face.

The sound of the trumpet sounded, and Li Rusong personally led more than a thousand Xuanfu Town servants to carry a ladder and headed down the city like a tide. The generals of the troops of the rest of the army were following them with earth bags in their hands, ready to fight at any time.

Soon, these people rushed to the city, either still put the earth bags under the city, or rushed onto the piles of earth bags, erected the ladder, and began to climb.

The sound of war drums, as the piles of earth bags under the city grew higher and higher, the ladders were also mounted one by one, and the servants and soldiers on the ladders were all up like ants. Seeing the city breaking down, the sound of "winning" under the city could not help but resounded throughout the world.

Huang Laifu led the Wuzhai Fort army. Li Rubai and Li Ruzhang brothers also led the Xuanfu army to continue shooting on the big pile of soil to cover the siege brigade. With the sound of guns and arrows, the rebels on the city wall were beaten so hard that they could not raise their heads, as if the general situation had gone.

Huang Laifu's face was covered in black and white by the smoke of gunpowder, and he directed his soldiers to open fire from time to time. Although it was in good form, he was always nervous because he had read relevant historical materials and knew that Li Rusong's siege ended in failure. He didn't know if it was with him...

Suddenly, Huang Laifu heard a whistling sound, and then he saw a large area of ​​huge rocks coming from the top of the city.

"Let's go down!" Huang Laifu shouted and hurriedly lay on the big pile of soil. The soldiers of the Wuzhai Fort beside him could see clearly, some of them hurriedly fell down, while others had no time to react. Especially Li Rubai and the Xuanfu army on Li Ruzhang, many of them were so scared that they were out of their minds. Some soldiers howled and ran away.

The screams were heard, and those huge rocks larger than millstones hit the large pile of soil one after another. Many of the earth bags were smashed away, the cloth bags were sparse, and the sand and soil were flying all over the sky.

Huang Laifu could see clearly that one of the huge round stones hit a soldier in Wuzhai Fort, directly smashing him into meat paste. Before the remaining strength of the round stone could be eliminated, it jumped up and rolled down the mound. The mound was filled with dense soldiers of Wuzhai Fort and soldiers in Xuanfu Town, so the effect was excellent. Wherever the huge stone passed, people were dead and broken bones, and they directly wade out a bloody road.

Huang Laifu's eyes were red and his teeth were about to break. He could see clearly that at some point, there were dense trenchers on the city, directly bombarding the soldiers on the cloth bag pile, and focusing on the army of Wuzhai Fort.

The huge rocks were flying, and the big rocks were rushing to the face. Shocking screams sounded from time to time, especially those slightly round rocks, which were bouncing and rolling down, and the damage was even more amazing. As long as they rolled down from the pile of cloth bags, it would be a bloody road. Since most of the huge rocks were heading towards the Wuzhai Fort army, most of the dead and injured were soldiers from Wuzhai Fort.

There were soldiers in Xuanfu Town running around, crying and calling for their parents. Huang Laifu was frightened and angry. He lay on the pile of soil, holding his waist knife, and shouting wildly at the top of the city: "Kill them all, muskets... muskets shooting..."

"Baopaopaopaopao..." The sound of the musket.

But in the smoke of gunpowder, huge rocks continued to come. The catapults of the chaotic army were behind the city walls, and the muskets had no effect on them.

Screams continued, and the remaining limbs were flying... The strong smell of blood, the scent of gunpowder smoke, the smell of corpses caused by the scorching sun by the fallen soldiers not far away, and various strange smells, making people feel like hell.

For a moment, Huang Laifu was a little dazed. At this time, he heard Jiang Dazhong shouting at him. Huang Laifu couldn't hear anything, and then he saw Jiang Dazhong rushing over and pounced him aside.

Then, a huge round stone hit Huang Laifu's original position, smashing a cloth bag to pieces and sand and soil. The round stone jumped up and smashed the head of a soldier in Wuzhai Fort. Then the round stone bounced a few more times, taking away a few lives. When he finally stopped, the surface of the stone was covered with flesh and blood.

"I can't stand it anymore, Master, go quickly!"

Jiang Dazhong cried at Huang Laifu. At this time, Huang Laifu also heard Li Rubai shouting heart-wrenchingly: "If you lose, you will run away, everyone, run away!"

Then the Xuanfu Army was rushing back like a tide. Thousands of people were crying and calling for their parents, and many of them didn't even care about taking weapons.

Huang Laifu suddenly woke up, and he waved his long sword and shouted wildly: "No one is allowed to escape, no one is allowed to escape. If anyone escapes, I will chop his head..."

Jiang Dazhong and several Wuzhai Fort ministers rushed over, without saying a word, he set up Huang Laifu and ran under the mound.

Huang Laifu struggled desperately and shouted: "Let me go, let me go..."

However, he was still desperately pulled away by the servants, and the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort who were following them were the soldiers who ran away.

Out of the corner of his eyes, Huang Laifu saw that at some point, the rebels from Ningxia Town appeared on the top of the city. It seemed that most of them were worshipped servants. They threw wooden rocks under the city like rain, pushed the ladders on the city with hooks and sickles, or fought with the Ming soldiers who climbed the city. Ming soldiers kept falling from the city...

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The final siege failed.

The losses were heavy during this siege. After the war, there were hundreds of casualties in the Ming army, more than 200 of which were Li Rusong's servants.

Huang Laifu also suffered heavy losses, with more than 70 casualties, and the soldiers' bodies were hit by huge rocks, most of them were seriously injured and died, with a very high mortality rate. Even if they did not die in the end, they would be seriously disabled and would never be able to go to the battlefield again in this life.

The losses were so heavy, which was not something that Wuzhai Fort had since its establishment. Each soldier had his own efforts. Huang Laifu was in pain and kept hitting his chest with his fists.

Seeing this result, Wei Xuezeng, the governor of the three sides, and the generals and officials from the northwest military towns, breathed a sigh of relief. It would be better if Li Rusong led his army to capture the city on the first day, where would they face those who had fought under Ningxia City for several months?

Originally, Li Rusong was so domineering and failed to attack the city. Wei Xuezeng and Zhu Zhengse would definitely laugh at him. However, at this time, Wei Xuezeng and others carefully comforted Li Rusong. Siege is not a matter of one or two days, don’t be anxious, take your time. Then everyone went to comfort Huang Laifu, and the officers, as well as Gansu governor Ye Mengxiong, all showed great interest in the excellent muskets in Huang Laifu’s army.

With all the actions of everyone, Li Rusong looked calm and just sent an order to continue to attack the city the next day.

July 4th, late at night.

The rebels were tenacious and had difficulty sieging the city head-on, and Li Rusong also learned his lesson. Late the next night, he asked his younger brother Li Ruzhang to lead hundreds of servants Cangtou's army to secretly lean on the south city with a ladder, trying to seize it at night.

Li Ruzhang showed his strong character, and he took the lead in climbing the ladder. Unexpectedly, before the servants reached the top of the city, they were discovered by the rebels on the city. Immediately, the gongs on the city were knocked shocking. The rebels on the city were alarmed and came to help.

The city was constantly wrapped with firewood and yellow, and threw it down from above to burn the cloud ladder. In the flames and smoke that soared into the sky, many of Li Rusong's family members Cangtou army were killed and injured. The cloud ladder that Li Ruzhang climbed was also overturned. He rolled down from the city and fell heavily to the ground. Fortunately, Li Ruzhang's skin was thick and solid, and there was no big problem.

July 5th, morning.

Amid the deafening cannons, the cannon battalion of Gansu governor Ye Mengxiong continued to bombard the city. Hundreds of Flanger cannons in the four hundred chariots kept spewing out scorching flames, and the gunners were sweating profusely and quickly loading their guns.

There were loud noises, and the hot iron balls with blue smoke traces kept hitting the city, smashing the iron stones on the city, causing the chaotic troops on the city to run around in horror. In addition, the "Flying Arrows" in the chariots and the "Hundred Tigers Running Together" rockets were fired at the same time, burning the city tower and covering the city.

The shouts of killing soared into the sky. Under the cover of artillery fire, the Ming soldiers like tides under the city carried the battle ladder and ants attacked the city.

Among them, Ye Mengxiong's general and guerrilla Gong Zijing led Miao soldiers to set up ladders to attack Nanguan, Dong Yikui attacked the city gate, and Li Rusong also led his servants to set up ladders to attack.

The rebels on the city knew that they had reached a critical moment of life and death. When Liu Dongyang saw that Nancheng was in an emergency, he led all the elite soldiers to support Nancheng. He also concentrated all his servants to defend here and fight against the Ming soldiers who climbed to the city.

For a moment, bows, arrows, muskets flew everywhere, and rocks and rolled wood, and kept running around. There was a sound of killing sounds on the city and under the city.

Here, Li Rusong performed very surprisingly. As the admiral, he commanded tens of thousands of troops and was in the lead. He held a heavy machete and took the lead in climbing the cloud ladder. The brothers Li Rubai and Li Ruzhang followed closely behind, and their servants also rushed forward.

Seeing Li Rusong's courageous appearance, Huang Laifu behind him was also very encouraged. He shouted: "Brothers, follow me!" He held a heavy iron-handled Guan Gong knife and snatched one of the ladders. Jiang Dazhong and others hurriedly followed Huang Laifu.

Then the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort also rolled up. In order to better protect themselves, the hundreds of children behind Huang Laifu were not only covered with iron armor, but also put the circular cavalry shields used by the cavalry on their left arms to resist the iron arrows flying from the city.

Finally, Li Rusong, Huang Laifu and others rushed to the top of the city, and there was a cheer under the city, and more Ming soldiers rushed to the top of the city.

The three brothers Li Rusong, under the escort of their servants, charged forward and were unstoppable. Huang Laifu was full of heavy armor and blood was flying everywhere on his body and face. He waved his heavy iron-handled Guan Gong sword, straight up and down, invincible. Jiang Dazhong and others tightly protected Huang Laifu in front and behind.

Unfortunately, the rioters in the city were too strong, and there were still too few Ming soldiers who followed him. Li Rusong, Huang Laifu and others finally had to retreat and get off the ladder.

It was almost noon, and the Ming army was having lunch. While the government troops under the city were having dinner, Wei Chengen led the dead soldiers to come down to the city and burned all the ladders.

July 6th.

Zhao Chengguang, the former commander in the city, united more than 50 people including Ge Chen, Yao Qin, martial artist Zhang Xialing, and hundreds of household Yao Qin. He wanted to cooperate inside and outside, and used fire as a sign to give out the city gate.

However, the three-sided governor Wei Xuezeng was afraid of fraud, so he agreed to dispatch troops and sent troops and did not really prepare for the attack. Although Huang Laifu learned from later information that the insider this time was true and tried his best to persuade Wei Xuezeng, Wei Xuezeng was still hesitant. Huang Laifu lobbled Li Rusong, and Li Rusong also suspected that he was fraud.

In the middle of the night, the quilt tower in the city was lit, and the fire in the south gate and the north gate was also ignited. Finally, the city gate was wide open, but the officials outside the city did not dare to enter the city. Huang Laifu was afraid that he was weak and did not dare to enter the city. At this time, the rebels in the city were alarmed, and Zhao Chengguang and others were captured. In the end, 50 people including Zhao Chengguang and Yao Qin were beheaded and their heads were hung on the South Gate Tower.

Only Ge Chen saw that the situation was hopeless, so he led the remaining troops to light the grain warehouse in the city and burned it to ashes. Although Ge Chen died, the food and grass in the city were cut off. This made the rebels in the city lose all their energy.

July 7th.

Liu Chengsi, deputy general of Gansu, attacked Beiguan and was defeated by Liu Dongyang. Li Rusong led his troops to attack the city, attacking and shooting with Mingdi and rebels on the city, each with casualties.

On this day, after several days of tragic siege, the Wuzhai Fort army had already suffered 150 casualties, which made Huang Laifu feel heartbroken. He thought that he could not continue like this. The elite soldiers he had trained hard were not meaninglessly consumed in this cruel siege.

Thinking of this, Huang Laifu had an idea in his mind.
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