The alienation plan was broken, and Zhu Gaoxu ordered the killing of the prisoners in a fit of anger. It really meant killing a hundred prisoners in a quarter of an hour. These thousands of prisoners were enough to kill for several hours. During these hours, there was a loud cry outside Peiping City.
Blood flowed like a river, whether it was a court official or a common man, it was his turn to be stabbed in the head.
There was a mass killing outside the city, and the Peiping Army saw it, and they were naturally very sad and angry. However, after Wan Lei's inspection tour speech, they turned their grief and anger into strength, and their fighting spirit was raging, but they still stayed in the city and did not show up, because they
Everyone knows that the longer the time drags on, the more passive the enemy forces outside the city will become. When the surrounding troops of King Qin arrive, the Yan army will have no choice but to retreat.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't know that time was more precious to him than gold, but what he hated the most was the Peking Army in the city. Under the bewitchment of Wan Lei, they turned into a monolith, fighting small defenders and big defenders, no matter what
Outside the city, they tried all their provocations to provoke the generals, but they refused to leave the city to accept the challenge. They only had one move from beginning to end - to defend the fortified city!
Of course, the alienation plan was not ineffective at all. At the very least, it successfully alienated the relationship between the emperor and the Peking Army. Emperor Jianwen was seriously threatened by the Peking Army. Afterwards, the more Emperor Jianwen thought about it, the angrier he became.
Qi and Huang were invited to discuss how to deal with the Peiping army.
Qi and Huang are worthy of being masters of political struggle. Even though they were in a mess during their marches and battles, they were unambiguous in attacking people. No, they just rolled their eyes and came up with a strategy: differentiation and disintegration. The so-called differentiation and disintegration, to put it bluntly, is poaching.
The Peking Army's base of walls allowed the Peiping Army to fight on the ground.
Soon, the eight ten thousand captains and four commanders of the Peiping Army were summoned to the front of the hall one after another. Jianwen first gave a "commendation" and said that following the imperial court would guarantee promotion and wealth. Then Qi and Huang made a fool of themselves, saying that following ten thousand
Leihun will die sooner or later.
In short, the purpose of coercion and inducement is of course not to win over these people, but to use them. In their eyes, these so-called generals are bumpkins, and they can be thrown away after using them. In this way, the twelve Peking Army soldiers
The generals all expressed their willingness to cooperate with the imperial court.
Naturally, Qi and Huang were overjoyed, and immediately ordered them to lead their troops to kill Wan Lei. The generals were also very sensible and said they would do it immediately. The generals left, but Qi and Huang waited, but Wan Lei was nowhere to be seen.
The heads were brought and people were sent to inquire, only to find that the hall had been surrounded by hundreds of soldiers and no one was allowed to enter or leave.
Of course Qi and Huang didn't know that the Peiping Army was already a piece of iron from top to bottom. Although those Jiang Lin fantasized about cooperating with the imperial court in exchange for wealth, this idea only flashed in their minds, because they all knew that if anyone
Anyone who dares to lead someone to kill Wan Lei will be killed by all the officials and people in Beiping City.
The tactics of disintegration did not work. Although Qi and Huang were very unwilling to do so, they had to stop because there were hundreds of sergeants surrounding the hall, and everyone in the hall was banned. They could not cause trouble again, so
We can only wait until King Qin's army gathers in Beiping City before making any plans.
Emperor Jianwen's side calmed down, and the Yan army outside the city began to make a fuss again. After several hours of killing prisoners and forcing them to surrender, Zhu Gaoxu had expected it, so he had already sent people to prepare a lot of siege weapons.
As soon as the head sets, the all-out attack begins!
This time, the Yan army did not use ladders, nor Lv Gong's chariots, nor even the chariots. Tens of thousands of cavalry were converted into engineers, and they only did one thing, filling bags with soil and then piling it under the city wall. This method is not mysterious.
, since the city of Beiping is tall and difficult to attack, then use earth bags as a base, just like finding two bricks as a stepping stone when climbing a wall. If they are close enough, you can climb over the wall.
It's simple, but it's really a good way. Just pile them up all the way and level the city. The cavalry will ride on the piles of bags and rush to the top of the city to seize the city directly.
No, as soon as it got dark, the Yan army below began to take action. Thousands of soldiers pushed wheelbarrows and transported bags of earth to the top of the city to pile them up. These soldiers were all covered in iron armor, and they took off their bags and left.
The defenders above fired arrows and guns, but the damage was not great.
Seeing the mounds of dirt under the city getting higher and higher, and tens of meters long, Zhou Tianshou, who was supervising the battle on top of the city, became a little panicked. He knew that once this super mound was built, the enemy could charge with their horses, no matter how high it was.
The city wall is useless, and fighting the enemy hand-to-hand will probably result in many casualties.
The enemy had made a new move, so Wan Lei naturally received the news immediately. When he rushed to the city tower, he saw that the mound of more than 30 meters long was already piled up to more than five meters high. A few more meters would be the same as the city wall.
The height is high, and the mound city is gently sloping, so driving up and down is not a problem, let alone horse charging.
"Put up the cannon, aim it at the mound, and wait for the enemy to charge. Then keep firing!" Wan Lei also had a headache, and added another order: "Send the order, and the entire army will assemble and defend this place to the death."
A section of city wall!”
In addition to gathering troops on the city wall to prepare for a deadly fight, Wan Lei also found the elders and asked them to organize women and children. Instead of letting them go into battle to kill the enemy, Wan Lei asked them to hide in the houses near the city wall in case the defenders were attacked.
When the army could not hold it back, they poured oil and set fire to delay the enemy's entry into the city and buy time for the army to counterattack.
Everything was arranged, and Wan Lei put on his armor and sword for the first time, and came to the city to prepare for the battle, because this was probably the most brutal battle in the defense battle of Peking. As the "city lord" of Peiping, naturally he could no longer retreat from the battle.
, even if you die in battle, your life will not be in vain.
"The best destination for a general is to be killed by the last bullet in the last battle." This famous saying appeared in Wan Lei's mind. At this time, the north wind was bleak and the armor was frosty. He looked up.
Look, in the bright starry sky, a shooting star cuts through the sky.
Just a moment, becomes eternity!
"Brothers, why do we serve as soldiers?"
"Protect our home and country!"
"The enemy is about to attack, can we retreat?"
"No! The city is there and the people are there, but the city is dead and the people are dead. Let's fight!"
On the city tower, tens of thousands of soldiers were already excited. Not far from the city, Zhu Gaoxu also put on golden armor and patrolled his army back and forth on a tall horse. This army had followed him for so long, and after countless bloody battles,
I have never left you. To say that I have no feelings would be a lie.
And this army has been through fire and blood countless times since its inception, and its combat effectiveness has been impeccable. The soldiers are all brave and good at fighting. If a wicked man hadn't jumped out of the sky and kept disrupting the situation, they would have conquered Peiping long ago.
Maybe they have raised their troops and gone south.
Zhu Gaoxu's eyes became bloodshot when he thought of Wan Lei. Seeing the piles of dirt, he shouted with his saber and said, "Charge! Whoever captures Wan Lei will be made a duke in the future and receive a reward of ten thousand liang!"