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Chapter 348
There was more than an hour before dark, outside the city of Baode Prefecture in Shanxi, countless thieves were preparing to attack the city. The number of them was so large that almost all the Ming soldiers on the city were pale.

Seeing that his subordinates were frightened by the exiles and their morale was low, the state guard shouted loudly: "Don't look at the number of these exiles, but they are all mobs. It's just the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi. They are starved to death. They still want to attack." Come to the city, this is a dream!"

"Look, how many siege tools do they have? Just relying on them, no amount of people can attack!"

"..."

Under the analysis of the defense, the Ming army on the top of the city gradually regained its confidence.With confidence, morale will go up.

Outside the city, Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong and Ma Huihui and others reported to Wang Jiayin: "Brother Leader, the preparations are almost done."

Wang Jiayin's expression looked relaxed, as if he wasn't too worried about capturing the city.He smiled and nodded, "Then let's get started!"

After the order was passed, the elite among the thieves waved their knives and guns and began to drive away the crowd in front of them: "Let me go, hurry up and attack the city..."

There are about a thousand of these people, most of them are old and weak, their faces are full of fear, even many women have been scared to cry.Many people glanced at the city wall in the distance, seeing the Ming army lined up on the top of the city, and everyone was very scared.

"Let's go, I won't stab you anymore!" Those strong men raised their swords and guns in front of these people, shouted loudly, and finally drove these people to start moving towards the city.

"Hehe, look, those thieves attacked the city without even decent weapons. Could it be that they want to dig the city wall with a hoe or cut it with a sickle?" A tall Ming soldier saw it clearly and said with a smile.

But a weak companion next to him didn't respond, but just stared outside in a daze.When the tall Mingjun saw it, he patted his thin companion on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, your family will be fine. These thieves want property from the state capital, don't they?"

"I hope so!" The thin companion said worriedly, still staring outside.

The Ming army on the top of the city are basically locals.There are a considerable number of people whose homes are not in the city, but in various villages and forts outside the city.Because it is very close to the frontier, in order to prevent the Mongols from attacking the autumn valley, most of them built their own villages to defend themselves, but they had a certain degree of defense.

A large number of rogues are getting closer and closer to the city, and the Ming army on the top of the city is ready to teach these rogues a lesson, so that they will not dare to attack Zhoucheng again.

"See, what's the difference between these thieves and farmers? They're timid and procrastinating, they're just ladders, they don't have armor, and they even have women. If they can attack the city like this, there will be ghosts. Keep guard for me!" The guard shouted again, boosting the morale of the city.

At this time, he can basically conclude that the thieves outside the city are really a rabble, and they want to attack the state capital, what a fool's dream!
But at this moment, many sharp-eyed guards saw clearly that the rogues attacking the city outside turned out to be fellow villagers they knew, and even their relatives.At this moment, they panicked and shouted: "Mother, mother, what's going on?"

"Father, you are confused, what are you doing with these thieves?"

"..."

There were even some soldiers of the Ming army who had a more violent personality and shouted angrily: "Father, what's so good about being a thief, following the rebellion, this is courting death!"

"Brother, with your thin body, you are tired of doing all the farm work, and you still want to rob the state capital?"

"..."

Hearing these cries from the top of the city, most of the old and the weak cried.They shouted the names of their relatives on the top of the city, crying about their experiences.

"The stockade was breached by them, and everything was robbed by them. If you don't follow them, you will starve to death!"

"Son, it's not that my father is confused, they forced me to come here! The old man next door refused to come, and they hung him from a tree and beat him to death!"

"..."

Listening to the conversation at the top and bottom of the city, the thieves mixed in the crowd showed a hint of complacency. Those with bows and arrows had already started to draw their bows and arrows, while those without bows and arrows urged those carrying simple ladders to attack the city quickly.

On the top of the city, soldiers of the Ming army saw it and wanted to fight back.But those soldiers of the Ming army who had relatives underneath hurriedly stopped them, angrily preventing them from fighting back.On the top of the city, it's a bit chaotic.

When the guard saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately gave orders loudly, and whoever dared not fight back would be punished as an accomplice of thieves.He even stepped forward in person and killed a soldier who blocked him the most.

"If they attack, everyone in the city will suffer! Kill me!" The guard shouted with all his strength, letting his servants take the lead in fighting back.

Finally, the mutual attack on the city and the city began. From the beginning, both sides had no choice but to intensify their efforts. Suddenly, a large number of casualties appeared.

Without exception, most of the old and weak outside the city were used as cannon fodder. They were either crushed to death by bows, arrows, firecrackers, and rolling logs and stones on the top of the city, or they were executed on the spot by the strong bandits hiding behind them.

And on the top of the city, because of some scruples, they were also killed a lot by the bows and arrows of those strong thieves.The simple ladder is put up, pushed away, smashed to death, put up again, and so on, and human life is consumed in the process.

The first batch of cannon fodder was almost dead, and another batch of cannon fodder was brought in later.More and more corpses were piled up under the city, and they almost reached the top of the city.

The fierceness of the siege battle attracted almost everyone's attention.The garrison was worried that some Ming soldiers on the top of the city would not dare to attack, so they mobilized more back soldiers to replace those who had problems.

Slowly, as the sun set, the light dimmed a bit.But the thieves outside the city are still attacking, even if the old and weak have almost consumed their land, they are still attacking.

The Ming army on the top of the city has been fighting for more than an hour, and is already a little tired.But the thieves were in a hurry to attack, and they couldn't rest, so they defended with all their strength.

But at some point, there was a sudden shout of killing in the city, and about a hundred thieves appeared from nowhere, raided the city gate, and opened the city gate together from inside and outside.

Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong saw all the rebels rushing into the city like a tide from a distance, so he smiled and said to Wang Jiayin: "Brother Leader, it's done!"

Wang Jiayin nodded when he heard this, and replied with a stroke of his beard: "We just arrived in Jindi, and the Baode Prefecture was not prepared, so we sneaked into the internal response beforehand. After the news spread, other cities might not be so easy to sneak into the internal response." Already!"

After he finished speaking, he saw that Wang Ziyong's happy expression just disappeared, so he smiled and said: "But there is no need to worry, since the state capital is down, we can take a good rest."

After finishing speaking, Wang Jiayin urged the horse: "Go, the old rules!"

(End of this chapter)