Great Song Pirate

Chapter 420

The city wall of Aizhou, which was not very strong in the first place, was constantly hit by bullets and trembled. Every bullet that landed on the wall would leave a basin-sized deep pit, peeling off the bricks and stones on it. There were not many Annan officers and soldiers standing on the top of the city at this time, only those injured Annan people were left unaided, lying on the city wall and making their wailing sounds, everyone fled down the city wall, terrified Looking at the bullets falling from time to time in the city, destroying houses one by one, listening to the helpless wailing of those injured colleagues on the top of the city, feeling the vibrations from the bullets falling on the city wall from time to time, the chief executive even more so. His face was pale, and the hand holding the saber trembled from time to time.

He thought he was not a coward, but he really didn't know how to deal with the situation in front of him. This kind of blow made me feel chilled and powerless. So far, they have been beaten before they can see the opponent's face clearly. In such a state of embarrassment, at this time, he no longer has any hope of defending the city. The horror of this skeleton army is beyond his imagination. Now he knows why the skeleton army can easily capture Huazhou City and kill them. The elite navy division was wiped out in one fell swoop, this is not a force he can resist, all he can do now is trembling under the city wall, he is a man, not a god, he will be afraid, so he does not blame those who are running away The subordinates just closed their eyes in pain, waiting for the fate to judge him.

After seeing Yang Zaixing leading the infantry to the outside of Aizhou City, in order to prevent accidental injury, Xu Yi waved an order to stop the shelling. The noisy sea finally calmed down, and many people rubbed their ears that were hurt by the sound of the artillery , Trying to wait and see in the direction of Aizhou City, this is all they can do now, the rest depends on Yang Zaixing and Lin Xiong.

Standing outside the city of Aizhou, Yang Zaixing looked at the empty top of the city and the pitted city wall that had been bombarded by shells. No matter how weird this scene was, even Li Bo and the others around him were a little amused, feeling powerless and useless.

Only some broken flags and banners were left on the entire city wall of Aizhou City, fluttering and trembling in the wind, and there was no one on the entire city wall, so Yang Zaixing decided to use the old method of capturing Huazhou instead of using it after a little consideration. The way to climb the city wall is to directly blast open the city gate and lead troops to rush in.

Twenty bronze cannons were lined up, and the gunners immediately set up their positions, aimed the muzzles at the city gate, and then started loading. At this time, the heads of some Annan officers and soldiers began to appear scattered on the city wall. , looking out of the city from the battlements, when they saw the black skeleton army phalanx outside, these Annan soldiers immediately panicked again, and there was a sound of running and screaming on the city wall, although they couldn't understand They were yelling about something, but it could be guessed that they were now calling for people to go to the city to resist.

Looking at the Annan officers and soldiers scattered on the city wall, Yang Zaixing felt that he was not interested in talking to them, so he invited Lin Xiong over and whispered to him. Although Lin Xiong was a little reluctant, he knew that Yang Zaixing was taking care of them. Brother Shuijun nodded his head and agreed. With an order, he led Brother Shuijun out to the bottom of the city wall. The jumping helper immediately raised his rattan shield to protect the archers behind. When Annan's officers and soldiers saw the skeleton army approaching below, they hurriedly began to shoot down their bows and arrows. However, such sparse arrows basically did not pose any threat to the Fubo army who had already prepared. .

After entering the shooting range, Lin Xiong raised the plain knife and gave an order, so the navy archers immediately started to counterattack, and the arrows flew to the top of the city wall like raindrops, and began to shoot at these sparse Annan officers and soldiers. , the Fubo army machine crossbow is excellent, although the firing speed is not fast, but it is very accurate, a round of counter-shooting passed, and some Annan officers and soldiers gathered near the city gate became even rarer, and a small number of Annan officers and soldiers who had just been summoned were shot again A lot of people were killed. In this way, a blank area was basically formed above the city gate.

The commander of the soldiers and horses of Aizhou City covered his shoulders and fell to the ground. Blood gushed out between his fingers. He closed his eyes in pain. The skeleton army outside was more difficult to deal with than he thought. The soldiers he had just summoned This manpower, the mobilized morale, were scattered by them again in an instant. By this time, he had already been completely desperate, and he stretched out his hand to recruit a subordinate who was lying nearby and did not dare to look up, and told him: "Go quickly!" Report to the magistrate, asking him to open the west gate immediately, withdraw from the city first, and let the people in the city go! We can't stand it any longer!"

With tears in his eyes, the soldier looked at the commander-in-chief with an arrow on his shoulder and asked, "Then what are you going to do, my lord? Why don't we leave together too!"

The chief made a wry smile and said: "Even if I run away now, I will die as a fleeing general. I'd better stay here and be loyal to our Li Dynasty. You should hurry and report to the magistrate, hurry up..."

Before his words fell to the ground, there was another roar outside the city. The Annan officers and soldiers who were still alive immediately felt a violent tremor under their feet. Some of them were even shocked and fell to the ground on the spot. His face was full of fear, he didn't know what happened, and then the daring man stretched his head to look outside, and suddenly shouted: "The Skeleton Army bombarded our city gate with thunder again!"

Then some officers and soldiers in the city exclaimed: "The city gate is broken! The city gate was smashed by the skeleton army!..." The city, which was already in chaos, became even more chaotic amidst the roar.

The chief grabbed a saber, struggled to get up, stumbled down the tower, and shouted as he ran, "It's the Annan man, follow me to block the city gate! We can't be looked down upon by these thieves." Ya! Come on with me..."

Yang Zaixing looked at the collapsed city gate of Aizhou, raised the big gun in his hand again and pointed it in the direction of the city gate and roared, "Brothers, follow me!" The city gate charged towards the city gate, while Qian Gui brandished his saber with a ferocious face, followed closely behind Yang Zaixing, and charged towards the city gate. Under the leadership of their respective leaders, they followed Yang Zaixing, Qian Gui and others to run wildly towards the open city gate.

The Aizhou Bingma Commander suddenly pulled out the arrow on his shoulder, straightened his waist, and slowly raised the saber in his hand. A hundred officers and soldiers gathered behind him, each one showing despair They raised their weapons one after another, looking at the skeleton army soldiers and horses pouring into the city gate like a torrent from outside the city, and then rushed towards the city gate together with a desperate roar from the commander in chief. The two streams of people collided heavily inside the city gate, and there was a sound of shouting and killing, and a blood mist immediately rose in the city gate, and within a few breaths, Yang Zaixing rushed into the city with a blood-dripping spear. into the city.

At this time, the other three city gates of Aizhou City were also opened, and the already panicked Aizhou soldiers and civilians poured out of Aizhou City like a flood, and many people were immediately squeezed to the ground by the flood-like flow of people. Before they could scream a few times, they were trampled into a puddle of flesh. No one could control such a chaotic scene. Even the magistrate of Aizhou would have been almost hit by these fleeing people if he hadn't been under the protection of his Wu Bian. Pour and become a dollop in these pureed meats.

As soon as Yang Zaixing led the army into the city, he immediately ordered his soldiers to rush towards the other city gates separately, and he brought his own soldiers and Xu Yi's personal guards such as Li Bo and Daniu, and rushed towards the gates in the city roaring. The Annan government, when they arrived here, the place was already empty, and there was a mess everywhere. After Yang Zaixing ordered his men to seal off the place, he arrested a few Annan people, and after asking about the situation here, he immediately They rushed to the granary in the south of the city non-stop. Basically, they did not encounter any effective resistance, so they rushed into the granary. The Annan officers and soldiers defending here had already gone to nowhere, leaving only A large amount of food and grass made Fubo army cheaper in vain.

Xu Yi watched Yang Zaixing lead his army into the city of Aizhou, so he smiled and said, "Today's battle went really smoothly. I didn't expect the Annan people to be so vulnerable. We ordered to put down the sampan, and we also went into the city to have a look here." Something good!"

His ease immediately drew laughter from many of his subordinates. A sampan carrying Xu Yi, Cui Yan and other personal guards was slowly lowered into the sea by ropes, and then quickly leaned against the shore under the shaking of the guards. , Xu Yi took people ashore and headed for Aizhou City.

When Xu Yi entered Aizhou City, the fighting here had already ended, and the four gates were firmly controlled by Yang Zaixing's infantry. Lin Xiong was leading the navy brothers to search for the remaining Annan officers and soldiers in the city, They broke into people's homes door by door to search for property, and then transported it to the government office for unified transfer.

After Li Bo, Qian Gui, Daniu and the others were addicted to killing the enemy, they also came to the city gate early to wait for Xu Yi. When they saw Xu Yi, they went forward to salute with joy on their faces.

Xu Yi saw the corpses of many Annan people displayed on both sides of the road inside the city gate, and saw that Qian Gui was covered with blood. He knew that there must be a fierce battle here, so he hurriedly asked about Qian Gui's situation, worried that this guy would die Injured again.

And Qian Gui smiled, wiped the dirty blood on his face, looked even more ferocious, and said with a smile: "My lord, don't worry, we suffered the loss of the Annan people once, and we can't eat them again if we say anything." It's a shame, the blood is the blood of little devil Annan, I'm fine! Thank you, my lord, for your concern!"

Xu Yi was relieved a lot now, and asked about the situation again. After knowing that there were not many casualties among his own people here, he was relieved a lot. Then, under their guard, he walked towards the government office.

Aizhou has always been an important place for Cochin to connect the north and the south. Compared with some other Annan cities, it is richer, so after a search by the Fubo army, a large number of valuable things were transported to the government compound. It piled up. When Xu Yi arrived, a large amount of belongings had been piled up here, which made people dazzled. Xu Yi took a casual look, then entered the hall, thinking that this Annan is really a place of treasure, a small one There are so many properties in Aizhou City, it seems that it is really the right place to hit here, and this is really enough to make the king of the Annan Li Dynasty feel bad!

Before Xu Yi could sit still, Yang Zaixing rushed in excitedly. As soon as he saw Xu Yi, he cupped his fists and reported: "My lord! This time we can be considered rich..."

Xu Yi looked at Yang Zaixing, who was majestic and majestic in armor and armor, and he really loved this fierce general in his heart. He felt sincerely gratified that he was able to abduct such a powerful general back then, so he said with a smile: "Zaixing is so excited, how about that?" You must have found something good, this trip to capture Aizhou City, Zaixing is the first achievement, you have worked so hard!"

Yang Zaixing hurriedly waved his hand and said: "My lord's kindness to Zaixing, Zaixing will never forget it. My lord, don't be polite to Zaixing. After we captured this place this time, Zaixing unexpectedly discovered that Aizhou is actually the village of Annan people." In terms of grain, we took down their granary in the south of the city just now, only to find that there is so much grain and grass hoarded here, and the captives we captured told the general that the grain and grass were for their warring army with the Champa I didn’t expect that we would take away their rations today! What a surprise!”

Xu Yi was overjoyed when he heard that, and immediately got up and said, "Then take me to see it!"

So Yang Zaixing took Xu Yi out of the government office and walked all the way to the south of the city. On land, he saw a lot of confiscated property being confiscated by the Fubo army, and they were still continuously transferring it to the government office. When he saw Xu Yi and his party Afterwards, these soldiers and generals bowed to Xu Yi one after another, and their joy was beyond words.

When they arrived at this huge granary, Xu Yi was also stunned by the sight in front of him. As Yang Zaixing said, a large amount of grain and fodder had been hoarded here. Weapons, dare to say that this Aizhou is really the place where Annan's grain is stored. These Annan people are really out of their minds. There are only so many soldiers and horses guarding such an important first place, and this is still when they wantonly harass Annan. It's incredible to think about what happened in the coastal situation.

"My lord! Shall we ship all the grain?" Yang Zaixing asked from the side.

Xu Yi looked at the mountains of grain in front of him, and his first thought was to transport them back to Liuqiu Island. The grain was enough to feed 10,000+ people for two years, but he immediately dismissed this idea. His current fleet may be going back and forth. It is not worthwhile to transport the grain back so far, so I shook my head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work. With our current capacity, I'm afraid we won't be able to transport the food in a month, and the Annan people will never give us enough time to transfer the food!"

Qian Gui looked at these granaries and said viciously, "Since we can't transport them away, then we might as well burn them up with a fire. We won't leave even a grain of rice for the Annan people, and these bastards will starve to death." them!"

Xu Yi nodded and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the king of the Annan Li Dynasty is really going to cry! They are now confronting the Champa people in the south, and they need to mobilize a large amount of food and grass for their army. If we do this, it will be tantamount to It’s a bottom line for the Annan people, and now they’re the ones who will look good! Haha!”

The people around him immediately laughed together with him, and Qian Gui shouted angrily: "Then I will prepare fire oil and other things now. If so much food is burned, I am afraid it will take a while to burn it! Hehe !"

Looking at the back of Qian Gui running away, Xu Yi suddenly felt his heart jump a few times for some reason, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately shouted: "Qian Gui is slow, you go and give Lin Xiong, Zheng Guang and others I immediately came here and said that I have something important to discuss with them!"

Qian Gui was taken aback for a moment, but he agreed immediately, took a horse, mounted it and galloped out.

Yang Zaixing immediately ordered someone to find a big room near the grain depot, cleaned it up, and asked Xu Yi to wait in the room. Seeing Xu Yi bowing his head in thought, he didn't know what good idea he thought of. They had known Xu Yi's habit for a long time, so they all stepped aside, not disturbing his thinking, and cast a cordon around the big house, guarding it closely. After all, it is in the city of the Annan people, so it may not be safe. Somewhere there will be an Annan officer and soldier hiding. If something goes wrong, they can't afford it.

Xu Yi closed his eyes and meditated for a while, and a bold plan gradually formed in his mind. After waiting for a while, Lin Xiong and his key generals rushed over one after another.

At this time, the main hall of Shenglong City, the capital of the Li Dynasty, was also very busy. The petty official kneeling on the main hall trembled and did not dare to look up, while the king of the Li Dynasty held the emergency letter written by the magistrate of Aizhou. The clerk's hands were shaking like chaff, and now he was so angry that he didn't know how to express his anger.

The urgent documents that flew in twice in three days had already made him a little numb. Every day, the discussion in the main hall could not be separated from the skeleton army. Everyone would feel tired after such tossing around every day, but today he had to face this problem again. , because he suddenly found out what a big mistake he had made. He foolishly transferred the soldiers and horses guarding the important area of ​​Aizhou to the Red River Estuary according to the Skeleton Army's dispatch. He was fooled by the Skeleton Army. At the time of the memorial, he already knew that Aizhou City might have fallen, and he dropped the emergency document on the ground.

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