Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 384 What are you waiting for if you don't run?
"Run, what are you waiting for if you don't run? Are you waiting to die?"

Liu Yu howled at the guard behind him, stood up directly from the ground, rushed out of the gate tower at the fastest speed in his life, and rushed down the stairs behind the gate tower.

The personal guards behind him were not to be outdone, and hurriedly followed behind Liu Yu, speeding up constantly.

Just as they rushed down from the gate tower, a 152mm caliber high-explosive bomb landed on the gate tower.

"Oh!"

With a loud noise, the city gate building was instantly collapsed by the 152mm caliber high-explosive bomb.

The bricks and tiles on the city gate tower and the wooden beams supporting the city gate were torn apart by the violent explosion.

Liu Yu stood at the bottom of the city wall, looking at the bombed-out city gate building, with cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

"Run, run!" Liu Yu wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, yelled, and led the guards behind him into the city without hesitation.

Under this level of attack, any resistance is pale.

The defenders on the east wall began to collapse. They looked at their companions who were constantly being bombed to death, screamed and threw away the weapons in their hands, and fled down the city wall.

From the beginning to the end, these defenders were bombarded by artillery fire without even seeing the shadow of the enemy, and the defense lines on the city wall were also crumbled layer by layer.

Especially those young and strong, under the first round of artillery fire, they were already so frightened that they squatted under the crenels of the city wall, trying to escape with their lives, but their bodies were too weak to move.

"Run, we are not opponents, run."

A defender dropped the weapon in his hand and fled down the city in panic.

He had just taken a few steps when he was hit by a 120mm mortar that fell from the sky.

His body was exploded in an instant, and he disappeared in place.

"Run, run quickly, or you will die if you don't run."

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall began to flee under the city wall regardless.

Now they don't want to stop the enemy at all, they just want to survive.

Chen Dehai, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, stood at a line of defense inside the eastern city wall.

Hearing the constant explosions in his ears and the constant flames on the east wall, his expression changed.

From gloominess at the beginning to surprise, it turned into fear in the end.

"This, this, is this the strength of Zhao thief? Zhao thief has such powerful firepower, so why didn't he attack the capital? Instead, he came to attack my Shanxi town? Why is that?"

Chen Dehai led nearly 1000 soldiers to form the second line of defense.

This line of defense was originally used by Chen Dehai to stop the enemy in order to prevent the east wall from being breached.

He looked at the sandbags piled up on this line of defense to stop the cavalry, and his whole face was distorted out of shape as if he had eaten bitter melon.

"This line of defense is useless!" Chen Dehai kicked a sandbag in front of him, yelling angrily.

"My lord, we can't stop it at all, we can't stop it at all, run away."

At this moment, Liu Yu led his personal guards and ran towards Chen Dehai with the soldiers who escaped from the city wall.

Liu Yuchong was at the front, shouting while running.

"My lord, hurry up, this city can't be defended anymore, let's run away quickly, keep the green hills here, don't worry about running out of firewood. If we don't run away, we might all be lost here." Liu Yu turned over the second The sandbags on the first line of defense rushed in front of Chen Dehai, yelling loudly at Chen Dehai with a look of horror on his face.

Chen Dehai's expression was extremely ugly, "If we run away at this time, His Majesty will not spare us. From the time we defended the city until now, we haven't lasted even an hour. If we run away like this, how can we be worthy of the court and Your Majesty?"

"My lord, when is it now, don't worry about whether you are worthy of the court or your majesty, your life is at stake.

With our current strength, there is no way to stop Zhao thief. If we stick to this place, we will only be blown to death by these terrifying weapons, which is useless at all. "Liu Yu became anxious, pointing at the city wall behind, shouting loudly.

As soon as the words fell, a 120 mortar shell fell from the sky and fell towards the second line of defense.

The shell landed thirty steps away from the two of them.

"Oh!"

The violent explosion blasted the sandbags around the defense line into the sky, and the sand inside was scattered from the sky one after another.

At the moment of the explosion, Liu Yu hurriedly pushed Chen Dehai to the ground.

"My lord, run quickly, it will be too late if you don't run again." Liu Yu said again.

At this time, the soldiers in Chen Dehai's second line of defense were already showing a tendency to collapse.

Chen Dehai looked at these trembling soldiers with frightened faces, and he believed that if he didn't give the order again, these soldiers would definitely abandon him and run for their lives.

Chen Dehai let out a long sigh, "Retreat, retreat, withdraw from the west gate, withdraw quickly!"

After Chen Dehai finished speaking, he hurriedly ran towards the west city gate.

Originally, Chen Dehai wanted to ride his horse, but when the first round of artillery fire rang out, his horse was already frightened, broke free from the rein, and ran somewhere.

Because Zhao Wen used the tactic of encircling three and missing one, Zhao Wen did not send soldiers at the west gate, but only left some soldiers for surveillance.

The West City Gate at this time is relatively the quietest city gate, and the West City Wall has not been attacked in any way.

When Chen Dehai started to flee towards the west city gate, the north and south city walls were also quickly lost under the attacks of Song Hu and Liu Wu.

All the defenders on the city wall fled in one go, and subconsciously fled to the west gate, which was not attacked.

The people in the city were so frightened by the continuous and powerful artillery fire that they all hid in their homes.

"What is this? Thunder? Is this God's anger? What is this?"

An old man hid in his home, looking outside through the crack of the door.

Every time an explosion sounded, the old man's heart beat violently.

"Father, father, go in quickly. I heard that the rebel army is attacking the city. Hearing this movement, it may not be long before they rush in. Dad, hurry up and hide." A man in his thirties ran up to the old man. , hurriedly pulled the old man's arm and rushed into the room.

"My God, I've never encountered such a thing in my life. What's going on here, what's going on here."

In the courtyard of a deep house, an old woman knelt in her Buddhist hall, bowing and bowing to the Bodhisattva statue on the table with a face of fear.

The people in the entire Shanxi town hid in their homes, panicked and anxious.

Zhao Wen looked at the east city wall with a binoculars, only to see that the east city wall had been bombed to pieces.

All the bricks on the city wall had been blasted away, exposing the rammed earth inside.

Under the continuous bombardment of the artillery fire, these extremely strong rammed earth were like sand, and were continuously destroyed by the artillery fire.

The Weng City outside the east wall was also bombarded with leaks everywhere, and it didn't look like Weng City at all.

When the eastern city wall was bombed to a height of only two meters, Zhao Wen put down the binoculars in his hand and said to the messenger beside him: "Send the order, stop the bombardment, and prepare to enter the city."

When Zhao Wen's order was conveyed, the artillery positions stopped shelling.

At this time, the south and north walls were almost destroyed.

The shelling from the east ceased for a short time, as did the shelling from the south and north.

After constant artillery bombardment, the south and north walls, like the east wall, were reduced to ruins.

Zhao Wen looked at the moat in front of the city wall, and shouted to the soldiers who had already prepared to backfill the moat: "Now fill the moat for me, and prepare to enter the city!"

Following Zhao Wen's order, the soldiers who had been preparing for a long time rushed towards the moat with sandbags filled with mud, and kept throwing the sandbags on their shoulders into the moat.

"Plop, plop!"

Sandbags were thrown in the moat, causing several waves of spray.

The moat was also filled in at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"No more? The shelling stopped?" The people in the city suddenly heard the sound of the artillery disappear, and looked in the direction of the city wall in the room curiously.

At this time, it didn't take long for Chen Dehai to lead the rout to the west gate. He suddenly stopped, turned his head and glanced behind him, "The sound of the cannons stopped? Could it be that Bandit Zhao gave up? Something is wrong, Bandit Zhao is impossible." I gave up. That is to say, the city wall is probably blown down, and the Zhao thief is about to enter the city."

Thinking of this, Chen Dehai's heart began to beat violently.

"No, thief Zhao is going into the city, let's run quickly." Liu Yu also reacted, he threw away all the things on his body that could slow down the speed, let go of the girl, and fled to a distance.

"My lord, the guards in the city escaped from the west gate." Ye Bushou, who was guarding the west gate, stopped in front of Zhao Wen, panting heavily.

Zhao Wen nodded, not surprised by the result.

"Little San!" Zhao Wen shouted.

Li Xiaosan hurriedly came to Zhao Wen, "My lord!"

"You lead my guard battalion of 1000 people to chase down the defeated soldiers. Remember, release the general soldier of Shanxi Town. Except for the general soldier of Shanxi Town, I will capture everyone else alive." Zhao Wen Looking at Li Xiaosan, he pointed to the guard battalion that was ready to go.

A flash of excitement flashed in Li Xiaosan's eyes, he hurriedly clasped his fists at Zhao Wen and said, "Of order, this subordinate will definitely live up to your lord's instructions."

"Zhou Tiansui, you lead your troops and follow Li Xiaosan to chase down the defeated soldiers. Everything is subject to Li Xiaosan's order." Zhao Wen looked at Qianhu, a personal guard battalion standing not far behind him.

"Obey!" Qianhu called Zhou Tiansui gave a military salute to Zhao Wen, then stepped on his horse and headed for where his Qianhu was.

A moment later, Li Xiaosan led a thousand guardsmen around the city wall and rushed towards the west gate.

Not long after Li Xiaosan rushed out, the moat in front of the east wall was already filled.

Zhao Wen stepped on a war horse, drew out the long knife at his waist and pointed forward, "Everyone, enter the city!"

At this moment, all the soldiers who had already prepared followed Zhao Wen and headed for Shanxi Town.

Behind Zhao Wen is Zhao Wen's personal guard battalion. The personal guard battalion is wearing a new military uniform, sitting on a horse with a straight back, and closely following behind Zhao Wen.

In front of the Guards Battalion, behind Zhao Wen were about 500 soldiers of the Guards Guards holding banners.

These more than 500 soldiers from the Guards Battalion rode on horses and held a large banner, and followed closely behind Zhao Wen.

Among the 500 were three carts drawn by six horses.

There are three huge flags erected on these three carts, and the flag in the center is the largest.

These big flags are red, and in the upper left corner of the flag there is a seal character Zhao written with blue and yellow borders. This big flag is Zhao Wen's banner.

Song Hu was wearing the new military uniform that Zhao Wen gave him, and followed behind Zhao Wen with a look of excitement.

The army walked across the filled moat and headed towards the town.

When Zhao Wen walked through the broken city gate and entered the town of Shanxi Town, Li Xiaosan also came to the west gate with more than 1000 years of soldiers from the guard battalion.

As soon as Li Xiaosan appeared, he attracted the attention of the rout soldiers.

Chen Dehai was running away sullenly, when he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes behind him.

Startled, he hurriedly looked back.

I saw a large number of cavalry in strange clothes rushing towards me.

"This must be the soldier of Zhao thief, this must be the soldier of Zhao thief, Zhao thief is going to kill them all."

Chen Dehai screamed and hastily accelerated his speed.

The rout soldiers behind him also sped up in panic, rushing forward with all their strength.

How can the speed of a person be compared with the speed of a war horse?
It didn't take long for Chen Dehai and other defeated troops to be divided and surrounded by the cavalry of the personal guard battalion led by Li Xiaosan.

Li Xiaosan pulled the reins of the horse in his hand, and stopped in front of the rout.

He glanced coldly at the defeated soldiers for a week, took out a big black star from his waist, and fired several shots into the sky.

"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of gunfire spread far away, Chen Dehai looked at the big black star in Li Xiaosan's hand with a flustered expression.

The defeated soldiers who were stopped by Li Xiaosan hurriedly stopped in place, looking at Li Xiaosan in panic, with cold sweat dripping from their foreheads.

"Which of you is the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town?" Li Xiaosan rode on the horse, walking back and forth slowly in front of the most defeated soldiers.

Chen Dehai was at the forefront. When he heard Li Xiaosan's voice, his heart beat violently.

"I can't admit it, absolutely can't admit it. If I admit it at this time, I will definitely not fall behind."

Sweat continued to protrude from Chen Dehai's forehead. He looked at Li Xiaosan on the horse in panic, then lowered his head, not daring to take another look.

At this time, in order to facilitate his escape, Chen Dehai had already stripped off all his armor, leaving only an ordinary military uniform, which looked no different from an ordinary soldier.

"None of you admit it?" Li Xiaosan looked at the silent retreat, his face turned cold.

"Hasn't any of you admitted yet? I've counted dozens. If no one has admitted yet, then don't blame me for being rude." Li Xiaosan looked at them with a gloomy face, and said in a stern tone.

"One, two, three... seven!"

Li Xiaosan kept counting to seven but no one stood up, Li Xiaosan sneered.

"Since none of you stand up, don't blame me. Everyone, load the bullets, and when I count to ten, if no one stands up, kill me directly!" Li Xiaosan's tone was full of Murderous, these rout soldiers were terrified when they heard it.

"Nine!"

Li Xiaosan counted to nine o'clock, but still no one stood up.

Li Xiaosan aimed the big black star at these rout soldiers.

"No, no, I know who the chief soldier is, I know who the chief soldier is!"

Just when Li Xiaosan was about to count to ten, Liu Yu jumped out with a flustered expression.

(End of this chapter)