Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 257

The entire team was eerily quiet. All the soldiers were quietly eating fried noodles, and their eyes were fixed on Puzhou City in front of them.

A quarter of an hour later, when all the soldiers put away the fried noodles again, Zhao Wen turned around, looked at the messenger behind him, and said in a low voice: "Send the order, and launch the attack after a stick of incense. Now everyone checks the weapons and ammunition .”

When Zhao Wen's order was passed on, the sound of loading bullets sounded from the entire team, and Zhao Wen also took out his big black star, and pressed bullets into it one by one.

At this time in Puzhou City, Zhang Xianzhong was sitting on the main seat in the lobby of Puzhou Zhizhou Yamen.

He looked at Zhizhou who was tied up by five flowers, and asked in a cold voice: "Where is your family's silver? I don't believe that your Zhizhou family can only have less than 300 taels of silver. Tell me quickly, or I will not spare you."

Zhang Xianzhong slammed the gavel in his hand on the table, his eyes were full of fierceness.

Zhizhou knelt on the ground with scars all over his body, "Hehe, you are just a rogue, why are you so arrogant, when the imperial army arrives, your head will definitely be lost."

Zhizhou looked at Zhang Xianzhong and smiled sarcastically, which seemed to be a bit of generosity and elegy.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at this Zhizhou who was not allowed to enter, and shouted loudly: "You are a hard-headed person, but unfortunately you have fallen into Lao Tzu's hands. I will ask you again now. Are you going to say it or not? If you say it, then I will I can spare your life, otherwise I will definitely kill you."

"I am an official of the imperial court. How can I submit to you to shepherd the people of this state for His Majesty? I am originally from the south, and my family members are all in the south. Even if you kill me, what's the use?" Zhizhou said coldly. Looking at Zhang Xianzhong, his face was full of playful smiles.

Hearing these words, Zhang Xianzhong only felt that he was being played with, and immediately became angry, "Come on, pull this ignorant person out for me and transfer him to the city wall, I want to see his bones How hard is it?"

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, several big men pulled Zhizhou up and headed outside.

When Zhizhou was escorted out, he kept yelling, "You are just a bunch of bandits and thieves. When the imperial army arrives, you will die without a place to die."

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Zhizhou's back coldly, his face twitching in anger.

Time passed slowly, and after the time for a stick of incense passed, Zhao Wen looked at the sun in the sky, and then got on his horse directly.

"The whole army is attacking, targeting Puzhou City, kill." Zhao Wen sat on the horse, pointed the knife in his hand at Puzhou City, and roared loudly.

Following Zhao Wen's shout, the entire team erupted into a huge shout of killing.

"kill!!!"

Xuanzhen soldiers and horses rode on their horses, roaring and killing towards Puzhou City.

For a time, ten thousand horses were galloping, and ten thousand horses were equally famous.

"Be honest with me, otherwise you will be beaten severely." A big man who was holding Zhizhou looked at Zhizhou who was struggling non-stop, and sternly cursed.

How can the thin Zhizhou be the opponent of these big men? In the hands of these big guys, Zhizhou is like a chicken, and he can only let them pull him up to the city wall.

After a while, Zhizhou was taken to the city wall by these big men and hung on the city wall with ropes.

After finishing all this, these big men were about to go back, but suddenly there was the sound of horseshoes like thunder in their ears.

The big man looked out suspiciously, only to see a cloud of smoke rising into the sky, coming towards this side rapidly.

"What do you think is that?" A big man pointed at the cloud of smoke, his face was full of horror.

As Xuanzhen's soldiers and horses approached continuously, they finally saw the clothes of these soldiers and horses clearly.

"No, the shape of the armor on them seems to be an official army. This is an official army. Close the city gate first, and then report to the leader."

For a while, these people on the city wall began to panic.

"It's not good, there are officers and soldiers coming."

A big man rushed into the yamen with a panicked face, shouting loudly to Zhang Xianzhong who was sitting in the chief seat.

Zhang Xianzhong was taken aback for a moment, and stood up directly from his chair, with a look of disbelief on his face, "What did you say? Officer? Where did the officer come from?"

When Zhang Xianzhong attacked Puzhou, although he encountered a few support troops, the reinforcements he encountered were basically guards sent by nearby counties and counties.

Under Zhang Xianzhong's attack, he was defeated without even holding on for a moment.

After the city was captured, no reinforcements were seen again, and now a support army suddenly appeared, which made Zhang Xianzhong a little puzzled.

"I don't know where the officers and soldiers came from. These officers and soldiers are well-equipped, and everyone has horses and armor. The number is about one thousand three or four." The big man said urgently.

"What? There are [-] officers and everyone has a horse? And everyone wears armor? Have you seen it clearly?" Zhang Xianzhong asked with a look of surprise.

When Zhang Xianzhong was in Shaanxi, he was most afraid of cavalry.

When he was in Shaanxi, he fled eastward to Shanxi after being hunted down by cavalry sent by Hong Chengchou from Yulin Town.

Because of Hong Chengchou's pursuit, Zhang Xianzhong lost a lot of old camp troops.

Moreover, the cavalry in Hong Chengchou's hands at that time was only more than two thousand, and it did not reach the level where everyone had armor.

Even if his old battalion was defeated against the cavalry, what's more, his old battalion now only has less than a thousand.

Although there are still tens of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers and refugees in his hands, but these people, even if they are going to die against the cavalry, might drag him down.

Now when Zhang Xianzhong heard that they were all cavalry, and everyone was wearing armor, he panicked instantly.Even serious soldiers are very afraid of cavalry, let alone these mobs?
"We have closed the city gate, what should we do now?" The big man looked at Zhang Xianzhong, his face was full of anxiety.

As soon as he saw the cavalry outside the city, the big man remembered when he was chased and beaten by Hong Chengchou's cavalry in Shaanxi.

Zhang Xianzhong walked back and forth in the hall, his face full of gloomyness, the scene of being chased and beaten by Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi appeared before Zhang Xianzhong again.

If you can't hold the city, let these cavalry come in. Although there are only more than 1000 cavalry, you can still easily disperse your own men.

Zhang Xianzhong knew exactly what kind of stuff he had under his command.It's okay to fight with the wind, but if they are asked to deal with cavalry, this is simply a joke.Although the city is not conducive to the deployment of cavalry, his men are still no match.

Zhang Xianzhong stopped, looked at the big man, and hurriedly said: "Let everyone in the city go up to the city wall, as long as we can hold the city wall, then these cavalry are nothing to worry about, after all, it is not so easy for cavalry to attack the city.

At the same time, we asked for help from other brothers in the 36th Battalion. These more than 1000 cavalry are definitely not something we can compete with. "

After Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, he led the big man towards the outside.

"Father, we are going too." Zhang Dingguo looked at Zhang Xianzhong who was going out, and shouted hastily.

Zhang Xianzhong turned his head and said to Zhang Dingguo, "Just stay here well. The reinforcements from outside the city are cavalry, so they are not so easy to deal with. You all stay here and stay well for me."

Zhang Xianzhong reprimanded him a few words, then turned around and left.

When Zhao Wen appeared outside Puzhou City, a group of thieves had already climbed the city wall, but most of the thieves hadn't been seen yet.

When Puzhou City was broken, these thieves fell into a carnival. Although several days had passed, there were still a large number of thieves who hadn't slowed down, holding the wine jar all day, drinking a lot drunk.

Following Zhang Xianzhong's order and the continuous dispatch of manpower to gather his subordinates, the men and horses were gradually gathered by Zhang Xianzhong.

After gathering the men and horses, Zhang Xianzhong led them directly up to the city wall.

Zhao Wen led the soldiers to stop less than a mile away from the city wall.

Zhao Wen looked through the binoculars at the rogues who were constantly gathering on the top of the city, and said in a deep voice: "Wait a while to attack the city, when the number of rogues on the top of the city no longer increases, then attack the city, then the siege battle will continue." It's time to directly destroy the living power of the bandits."

Zhao Da bowed his hands at Zhao Wengong, and then passed on Zhao Wen's order.

When Zhang Xianzhong came to the city wall with his troops, he looked at the Xuanzhen soldiers outside the city wall and frowned tightly.

"The armor of this group is excellent, and the armor on their bodies is still made of refined iron. I am afraid that it will cost a lot of money to pull out such a team. This army is not ordinary. If we really can't If this army is standing outside the city, then our attack on Puzhou City will be considered a waste of all our previous efforts.

It is impossible for the Chief Secretary of Shanxi to have such excellent cavalry. If there were, we would be defeated by these people just after we crossed the Yellow River.

But I also know a thing or two about the soldiers and horses in Datong Town, and their equipment can't be so sophisticated.Where is this soldier? "

"Could it be the Guan Ning Army? I heard that the Guan Ning Army is the most powerful army in the world." A personal guard following Zhang Xianzhong looked at the soldiers and horses in Xuanzhen outside the city and said in a deep voice.

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head, "I saw the Guan Ning Army a few times when I was in the frontier army, and only some of the Guan Ning Army wore armor, and the armor on their bodies was far less sophisticated than today's army.

Now the armor on the army outside the city looks like new, and it looks like it has been maintained frequently.

In the Guan Ning army, apart from those elite servants, very few wore armor, even if they wore armor, it was cotton armor, but the soldiers and horses outside the city were obviously wearing iron armor.

Where is this soldier and horse, I really don't understand. "

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the soldiers and horses in Xuanzhen outside the city, frowning tightly, and explained with a gloomy face.

"Pass down the order. From now on, give me all the energy to come out, and I must resist these people outside the city."

"Yes."

The big man standing behind Zhang Xianzhong cupped his hands at Zhang Xianzhong, then turned towards the city wall and passed on Zhang Xianzhong's order.

Seeing that the number of thieves on the top of the city was no longer increasing, Zhao Wen turned around and shouted at the soldiers behind him: "Siege the city, 40 fires will serve you."

As Zhao Wen's voice fell, nearly a hundred soldiers jumped off their horses carrying 40 fire.

They lined up neatly and stood at the forefront of Xuanzhen's soldiers and horses.

Zhao Wen looked at the loaded 40 fires, pointed the long knife in his hand directly at Puzhou City in front, and shouted angrily: "Let it go!"

Following Zhao Wen's order, nearly a hundred rockets with orange flames and shrieking screams headed towards the bandits on the Puzhou city wall.

Looking at the flying rockets, Zhang Xianzhong's pupils shrank suddenly.

"Hurry up and dodge." Although Zhang Xianzhong didn't know what these rockets were, he felt a terrifying power from above.

He yelled, and then hid under the parapet.

The moment he hid, the rocket flew directly over.

Some rockets hit the city wall directly, sending out violent explosions.

In an instant, explosions sounded one after another on the city wall, and the fragments produced by the explosion of the rockets flew directly towards the thieves on the city wall.

Those thieves who were still in a state of confusion were directly attacked by the rocket fragments like a storm. The irregular fragments directly passed through their bodies, twisted their internal organs into pieces, and then passed through the other side of the body .

When the rocket exploded, it directly blasted the bricks on the city wall into pieces, and the fast-moving brick fragments flew directly towards the thief.

These thieves are almost wearing thin layers of coats, which can't stop the high-speed flying bricks at all.

Blood sprays kept appearing on Liu Zei's body, and the Liu Bandit standing on the top of the wall kept falling to the ground.

"What is this thing? Why is it so powerful and it hits so far? I haven't seen any cannons in the army. What's going on here?"

Zhang Xianzhong watched his men and horses keep falling to the ground, blood dripping from his heart.This is the family fortune he had accumulated with great difficulty, and to die without meaning today, for Zhang Xianzhong, it was more uncomfortable than killing him.

Zhang Xianzhong hid under the female wall, and shouted to the guards beside him: "Retreat, tell the whole army to withdraw quickly. We are no match for these people at all, so withdraw quickly."

The thieves are not in a bad mood now. When they meet the incompetent, old, weak, sick and disabled guards, they are extremely ferocious. But when they meet Zhao Wen's Xuanzhen soldiers, they retreat without thinking. No thought of fighting back.

It's not that they don't want to, but the weapons in the hands of Xuanzhen's soldiers and horses are too powerful. The attack of Xuanzhen's soldiers and horses is like an adult beating a child, there is no other level at all.

"Retreat quickly, retreat quickly." Zhang Xianzhong shouted, and then fled directly to the city with a few personal guards.

It wasn't just Zhang Xianzhong, when the rockets started to explode, the thieves became confused.Without Zhang Xianzhong's order, these thieves would have escaped.

Zhao Wen looked at the gangsters making a mess on the top of the city, and shouted at the soldiers carrying 40 fire in front: "Don't stop, keep bombing me."

Under Zhao Wen's order, 40 fires continued to bombard for three rounds.

When the three rounds of rockets fell on the city wall again, the casualties of the bandits on the city wall became more serious.

The thieves on the city wall, crying for their father and mother, crowded together and rushed down the city wall.

Some thieves couldn't squeeze through and jumped directly from the top of the city.In this way, many thieves were killed.

"Blast open the city gate."

After several rounds of bombing, Zhao Wen pointed at the gate of Puzhou City and shouted loudly.

(End of this chapter)