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The fierce north wind has failed to succeed. Chapter 23: Climbing the City

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    Huangshi please get up.  Mao Wenlong jumped off the horse and helped Huang Shi up. He held Huang Shi's shoulders with both hands and tilted his head to look at Huang Shi carefully. After a while, he suddenly slapped Huang Shi several times with both hands at the same time: "What a good Huang Shi. He is indeed a good son and a real man in Liaodong."  "Thank you, Marshal." Huang Shi had already looked at Mao Wenlong carefully at this time.  The last time he went to Dongjiang Island to receive the Silver Order Arrow, he saw Mao Wenlong. Compared with a few years ago, Mao Wenlong looked much older. Now the corners of his eyes are densely covered with crow's feet, and there are deep or shallow wrinkles on his cheeks. This makes  Huang Shi couldn't help but sighed softly: "Commander, you have worked so hard and you really look old." These words made Mao Wenlong burst into laughter. As he walked towards the camp gate, he asked loudly: "Huang Shi, do you think you are still young?  When we first met in Dongjiang five years ago, you still looked like a stupid young man. After working hard in Liaodong for a few years, you now look ten years older. " "The commander-in-chief said.  "Yes." Mao Wenlong strode into Huang Shi's tent without being polite to Huang Shi, and sat down in the middle, beating his waist with his hands and sighing comfortably.  While beating his waist, he still said bravely to Huang Shi: "Huang Shi, don't look down on your handsome man in your heart. Haha, I am nearly sixty years old and can still ride a strong horse and lead an army across thousands of miles. When you reach this age, I will probably be better than you."  You¡¯re not half as good as me!¡± As he spoke, Mao Wenlong took off his helmet and placed it on the table in front of him.  The last time Huang Shi saw Mao Wenlong, he only had a slight frost on his temples, but now his hair is covered with silver hair.  There are not a few black ones left.  "Deputy Commander Huang." "I've met Deputy Commander Huang." A group of Dongjiang officers who came with Mao Wenlong also poured into the military tent in Huangshi. They rushed to salute Huangshi and say hello.  "General Mao." "Deputy Commander Huang." Among them were Kong Youde, Huang Shi's former sworn brother, and Geng Zhongming, who had been to Jinzhou last time.  Kong Youde, the current guerrilla battalion of the first battalion, and Huang Shi, the right commander, clasped their fists and smiled, then stepped aside and sat down.  Geng Zhongming chatted with Huang Shi quite enthusiastically for several times before happily sitting next to Kong Youde.  Mao Wenlong rested for a while and then asked about Haizhou's offensive and defensive situation.  There are not many defenders in Haizhou City. According to Huang Shi's estimate, there are about 400 armored soldiers, thousands of Han troops and some civilians who help defend.  As for the cannon, there are about forty.  Four of them looked like eighteen-pounders.  Mao Wenlong¡¯s face suddenly became solemn after hearing Huang Shi say that it would take seven days to prepare for the siege.  He raised his eyes and looked at the ceiling of the big camp, murmuring something in his mouth, and finally shook his head and said: "It's too dangerous. There are many young and old in our army. We have to go back within seven days, otherwise it will be unsafe. Prepare to attack the city. We will definitely do it within three days."  We want to capture Haizhou!" Huang Shi was silent for a moment after hearing this.  There are few horses in Dongjiang Left Association.  It can only provide less than one day's warning time, and it is a thousand miles away from North Korea. There is absolutely no guarantee that the Jin Army's light cavalry will pursue them after hundreds of thousands of refugees escape.  Of course, it was safe for Mao Wenlong to go back early for safety reasons. However, although Mao Wenlong wanted to attack in advance, it would take many days to build siege equipment, not to mention the cannons at the top of Haizhou City.  Huang Shi thought repeatedly but could not come up with a plan to capture Haizhou within three days.  The strange thing is that the generals of Dongjiang Headquarters seemed to be fully aware of Mao Wenlong's plan. They all stood up and said: "I have the order." Then everyone dispersed to look at it, and it seemed that they were making preparations for the war.  Huang Shi, who was confused in his heart, did not leave.  He waited until everyone had dispersed and then raised his fist towards Mao Wenlong: "Commander." "Well, Huang Shi, you have always been on your own, and you probably don't know my commander's tactics." Mao Wenlong stretched out his right hand and pressed it down to indicate that he understood what Huang Shi was thinking.  Ground confused.  Mao Wenlong's eyes narrowed slightly.  There seemed to be some sadness in it, and his voice became deeper: "Tomorrow we will attack Haizhou, and tomorrow there will be many good men from Liaodong bleeding on the battlefield." Huang Shi's tone rose slightly: "Commander!" "I know.  What do you want to say?" Mao Wenlong waved his hand to interrupt Huang Shi's statement, and his tone returned to calm: "So many people from Liaodong came to me not only to survive, but also to repay their blood debts to Jiannu.  It must be obtained. Not only for the supplies in the city, but also to silence Xiao Xiao in the court, lest they say that our Dongjiang Army is wasting military pay and depriving us of life-saving food." There was a brief silence between the two governors.  It was Mao Wenlong who broke the silence again: "You will be brave. Huang Shi, since you have doubts about attacking Haizhou, you will be responsible for blocking the four gates tomorrow to prevent the Tatars from coming out to cause trouble." "I will follow your orders, commander-in-chief."  Early the next morning  Huang Shi, Jin Qiude and others saw people from Dongjiang Headquarters setting up aThese high platforms look like opera booths. Not only do they look like it, but there are also chairs placed opposite these theatrical booths. The most exaggerated thing is that there are actually many people who look like actors, dressed in colorful clothes.  There they smear each other.  This scene made the Dongjiang Zuo Xie generals look at each other in shock and they didn¡¯t know what kind of medicine Mao Wenlong was selling in his gourd.  Last night, Mao Wenlong asked Huang Shi about the details of Haizhou's city defense and finally decided on a surprise location based on Haizhou's city wall structure map.  This assault location also confused Huangshi because it was at the corner between the East Gate and the South Gate. Although the possibility of being attacked by artillery was relatively small, the breakthrough was too narrow and was not conducive to the Dongjiang Army's superior strength.  From Huangshi¡¯s point of view, when attacking a city, it is best to choose a city gate to break through. Once successful, the army can file in through the city gate. After dark, the city tower is also a stable support point.  Although Mao Wenlong chose the corner of the city wall to avoid most of the firepower, it could easily be blocked by enemy soldiers. If he could not make a roundabout way back to a certain city gate in time to capture the city tower that night, all his previous efforts would be wasted accidentally after dark.  Although Changsheng Island has not experienced siege warfare before.  But Jin Qiude also disagreed with Mao Wenlong's plan: "We have to attack the city gate anyway, why go around in such a big circle? If we are blocked on the city wall, won't we waste time and lose manpower?" "This battle is  We can just watch it under the command of Marshal Mao himself." Huang Shi looked at the Dongjiang Headquarters' army, which was lining up to prepare for battle, and filled the vast area in darkness with more than 40,000 Dongjiang officers and soldiers.  Their clothes were shabby and the weapons in their hands were of varying quality. Huang Shi could hardly tell the difference between combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.  The troops of the Dongjiang Left Association were scattered outside several city gates in Haizhou.  Prepare to prevent the Houjin soldiers in the city from rushing out to injure people, and also to prevent the enemy from breaking through and escaping.  The Dongjiang Army of the Zuo Xie was arranged in a neat formation, with thousands of soldiers wearing shining armor standing in the front row, while a large number of auxiliary soldiers of the Zuo Xie were busy behind them.  "Conquer Haizhou and open it up to eat meat." Faced with the rising sun, passionate shouts rang out from the Dongjiang headquarters position. Following the sound of a cannon, countless people shouldered their burdens.  They rushed towards the moat of Haizhou.  The Houjin defenders in the city had already paid attention to them, but when they saw the Dongjiang Army rolling in, they were instantly angry. It wasn't until the Ming army rushed to the edge of the moat that the sound of gongs and drums sounded on the Haizhou City Wall.  This time the counterattack against the Bai family in Liaodong only came with a young old man. He was too tired from the long march last time and has not fully recovered yet.  Listening to the earth-shattering drums of the Dongjiang Army behind him, Bai Youcai took the earth bag and threw it onto his back.  He just ran forward with his head down.  Running and running, the city wall in front of him became taller and taller, and the sound of cannons on the opposite side became clearer and clearer, but none of this could stop Bai Youcai.  Bai Youcai followed the footsteps of the brothers in front of him blankly.  Well, they dropped their things and ducked away. Bai Youcai's eyes suddenly opened up, and a wide moat suddenly appeared in front of him.  Without hesitation, Bai Youcai bent down and shook the dirt bag on his back, then flew into the moat with a loud bang.  The soil bag stirred up a splash of water all over Bai Youcai.  Bai Youcai turned around and glanced at the moat. His soil bag was thrown down and disappeared in a flash. When he turned around and ran back, he saw a stray arrow passing in front of his eyes. Bai Youcai had seen such a scene many times: "The buildings on the city are  That's all I have. They can keep shooting, but they can't stop us. We must make them pay with blood." Bai Youcai trotted back all the way with the sound of pain in his ears.  A large group of shirtless Dongjiang soldiers emerged from the ground and were shoveling earth and packing quickly.  A row of Dongjiang officers holding a large number of white labels stood in front of them. One of them thrust a white label into Bai Youcai's hand: "Get it, brother." Then he patted him on the shoulder again: "  Good job, brother." Bai Youcai didn't say much. He ran to the hill where the piles of earth were piled up before he stopped and spread his legs like the others, bending down to follow. Then a shout came from his ear: "Get it.  Brother." Another heavy cloth bag fell on Bai Youcai's back. He groaned, raised his feet, and ran towards Haizhou again. In a blink of an eye, the towering high wall appeared in front of him again.  The boss is still shooting down bows and arrows.  A cold, whooshing arrow shot out and stuck in the ground in front of Bai Youcai's feet, but he turned a blind eye and threw the bag of dirt towards the moat while shouting.  This time, what was splashed out was a piece of muddy water. The white soil bag also stirred up waves. The soil bag he threw also disappeared and appeared with the waves.  Bai Youcai coughed hard and turned around and ran back. Just like last time, he received a white label, then carried the third bag of soil on his back and set off on the journey again.  By the time he ran over this time, Hou Jinjun had already dragged a squatting tiger cannon to the corner of the city wall. As a cloud of white smoke rose from the top of the city, two or three brothers on Bai Youcai's leftThen there were screams and they threw down their bags of earth and rolled on the ground covered in blood.  "It's so dangerous." Bai Youcai just turned this thought around in his mind and realized that he had already rushed straight to the foot of Haizhou City on the wet mounds of earth. A brother was hit by a big log thrown down right in front of his eyes.  .  Bai Youcai threw the soil bag towards the corner and ran home happily.  Halfway through the run, Bai Youcai took out his two white labels from his trouser pocket. By the time he returned to the Dongjiang Army's position, he was already out of breath from exhaustion.  He was breathing heavily while waving the two white tags in his hands vigorously.  "Well done brother." General Dong who greeted Bai Youcai put the third white label into his hand and pushed hard on his back: "Go and have a rest, brother." Bai Youcai staggered.  Staggering towards the back, the man was so exhausted that he slapped the three white labels together on a table, then lowered his head and took a deep breath. ¡°Good job.  brother.  "The person behind the table shouted like this and then pushed over a bowl of fragrant and steaming broth. There was a large piece of meat with bones in it. Then two large pancakes were placed on Bai Youcai's floor.  Bai Youcai took his piece of food and walked straight to the theater where a opera was being played with gongs and drums. He found a seat and sat down comfortably with the Dongjiang Army brothers around him.  Listening to the drama happily, he tore the pancake in his hand into pieces and ate it deliciously with the broth. Tired Dongjiang soldiers continued to withdraw from the team, but there were also people joining them in the endless flow of soil bags towards Haizhou.  Although Huangshi stood far away, the boiling shouts still reached his ears from afar. Huangshi estimated that hundreds of people had fallen in the battle, but a large section of the moat had been filled in. The earth mountain at the corner of Haizhou was also  The theater troupe set up in the Dongjiang headquarters at the rear of this fierce battlefield was singing in full swing. There were already two or three thousand soldiers gathered in front of the theater shed, and the number of people in the theater shed was still increasing.  Facing the dark audience, the actors also worked hard and used all their abilities. Huang Shi, Hong Antong behind him, and the guards of Changsheng Island all watched the siege in the distance. "It's very"  "Huang Shi's hand danced in the air, as if he was looking for the right words in his heart. After a moment, Huang Shi shook his head. He whispered two words with a slight dissatisfaction on his face: "Magnificent.  " Hong Antong and the inner guards remained motionless. At this time, their breathing became very rapid. After hearing Huang Shi's evaluation, Hong Antong and the others nodded heavily. At this time, Mao Wenlong's flag changed again. Dongjiang Army's drums  The sound also changed. When Mao Wenlong's flag changed, Sun Ergou and his brothers were standing aside. An hour passed, but they still hadn't taken their turn. This really made them anxious.  "The boss of the Sun family pointed hard to the flank. His urgent shout attracted the attention of the people around him. They followed the boss's gaze. The phalanx of sword and shield soldiers who had been staying quietly at the rear was about to open.  They came up. Each of the Dongjiang officers and soldiers took out their swords and slapped them rhythmically on the shield held by the other hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Kill."  "    "kill.  "    "kill.  " Geng Zhongming led his sword and shield soldiers towards Haizhou. More and more Houjin soldiers gathered at the corner of the city wall to resist them. They had already formed a huge threat and obstacle to the lack of cover for the soil baggage team. "Kill  .  "    "kill.  " Geng Zhongming, who was walking in the queue, waved his sword in the air and led his men to stride forward. The sword and shield soldiers were undoubtedly a bigger and more obvious target. Since Geng Zhongming's brightly armored troops appeared in Houjin,  The enemy troops never stopped shooting at them within the range of the army. Thanks to the frequent mistakes of the enemy's artillery, thanks to the very favorable location chosen by Mao Wenlong to attack, and thanks to the considerable attention shared by other friendly forces with Geng Zhongming's three hundred sword shield.  When the soldiers reached the foot of Haizhou City, they were only hit by one shot and two people were killed. The enemy archers on the city seemed to be very tired, but Geng Zhongming did not dare to be careless and followed his orders.  Hunched down and holding their shields in front of them, they pushed towards the mountain. The Ming army soldiers reached the top of the mountain and began to stab them with spears. The Ming soldiers gathered tightly together to resist the enemy's attack.  After they surged up, the pressure on the Ming army soldiers who were resisting the soil bags was greatly reduced. They ran forward and threw bags of soil at the feet of the sword and shield men. The soil mountain continued to widen and rise.  The people above began to throw down and roll towards the Ming army's shield array.Mu and Dashi Dongjiang soldiers knelt down on one knee and pressed their shields tightly together to resist the heavy objects thrown down by the Hou Jin army and turned them into stepping stones to climb further.  The archers of the Ming army also rushed to the corner. They stood in a row, bows and arrows drawn "Ready - release!" A volley of arrows shot onto the top of the city.  More soil bags were thrown onto the mountain. Geng Zhongming kept calculating the distance to the city head. His right arm was raised: "Javelin - ready." The next few rows of sword and shield soldiers each carried three javelins and they followed.  After receiving the order, they all took off their javelins and held them in their hands.  "Vote!" "Vote!" "Vote!" After three consecutive covering shots, Geng Zhongming roared and jumped onto the battlements first. His servants and soldiers followed closely behind. The other sword and shield players also shouted loudly and cheered.  As the people in front rushed to the top of Tushan, they jumped towards the head of Haizhou City
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