Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 615
Ma Tingyu looked at the butler standing outside the door, who came to wake him up.

The housekeeper said solemnly: "Master, Wu Er, the yamen servant, came just now. He said that when he was patrolling, he suddenly heard a horn sound. He thought that the horn sound came from outside the city, so he rushed to inform grown ups."

"The sound of the horn? The warning on the top of the city is the bronze bell on the gate tower, and I remember that there is no horn on the city gate. Therefore, the sound of the horn can only come from outside the city.

It's not yet dawn. If the horn sounds outside the city at this time, it means that thief Zhao is about to get up.

It is estimated that Zhao thief will attack the city at dawn. "Ma Tingyu's face was gloomy. He really didn't expect Zhao Wen to attack the city in such a hurry, without giving him any time.

The speed under Ma Tingyu's feet couldn't help being a little faster. When he came to the front yard, the yamen servant named Wu Er hurried up to meet him.

"My lord, I heard the sound of a horn when I was patrolling the city just now. It probably came from outside the city, so I hurried to report to my lord." Wu Er looked at Ma Tingyu and said hastily.

Ma Tingyu's brows were tightly locked together, forming a Sichuan character.

He looked at the housekeeper who was following him, "Now notify all the officials in the city to come to see me. Maybe Bandit Zhao will attack the city at dawn."

The butler hurried out of the gate and ran outside.

"Tell me what happened just now in detail, don't miss anything." Ma Tingyu looked at Wu Er.

Wu Er explained in detail what happened just now.

Not long after speaking, there were hurried footsteps outside the door.

Ma Tingyu hurried to the door, only to see a few soldiers coming towards him in the dark.

The leading soldier was the previous Baihu. When Ma Tingyu walked out of the gate, he recognized Ma Tingyu instantly by the lantern next to the door frame.

He hurriedly shouted: "My lord, urgent military situation, urgent military situation, the bandit soldiers outside the city have woken up, the bandit soldiers outside the city have woken up."

"It seems that thief Zhao is really planning to attack Luoyang City!" Ma Tingyu looked at the hundreds of households who came over, "Go back now and transfer all the soldiers and horses to the city wall, as well as the young and strong recruited by the official before. Adjust the city wall together.

Bandit Zhao is not an ordinary person, he must stick to the city wall. "

"As ordered!"

Baihu shouted, turned around and left with his guards.

Not long after, all the officials in Luoyang City gathered in the magistrate's yamen.

At this time, Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses outside the city had all gotten up and were cooking.

Over the barracks, wisps of fragrance wafted.

The water vapor in the pot rose from the gap in the lid and rose into the sky, forming a thin layer of mist over the barracks for a while.

Zhao Wen sat in the big tent, drinking a bowl of millet porridge.

There were several dishes of side dishes in front of him, Zhao Wen took the side dishes and drank up the millet porridge in the bowl.

After finishing the millet porridge, Zhao Wen rolled the heated beef cubes with flatbreads and ate them.

After eating, Zhao Wen drank a cup of strong tea.

Zhao Wen put down his teacup and walked out of the big tent.

He looked at the dark sky and said: "It is less than half an hour before dawn, and the whole army is ordered to assemble immediately after eating, and to attack the city after dawn.

At the same time, let the artillery push out all the artillery for me, build an artillery position, and wait for the military order. "

Standing beside Zhao Wen, Li Xiaosan hurried to the barracks with Zhao Wen's order.

After a while, the artillerymen began to transport the artillery outside.

Because it was only bombing the city gates, the artillery did not choose to use 152mm cannon howitzers, but mortars.

After all, it is very easy to bomb the city gate with a 120mm mortar.

As time passed, Zhao Wen stepped onto the horse and moved outside the barracks under the protection of his personal guards.

The soldiers and horses in the barracks had also assembled and moved towards the city wall under the leadership of the general.

When the sun began to brew below the horizon and light began to appear on the eastern horizon, the army was assembled.

Outside the four walls of Luoyang City, Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses were assembled.

These soldiers and horses stayed in place quietly, like terracotta warriors and horses, motionless.

The horses in the army snorted from time to time, adding some noise to the silent army.

The artillery position has been built, the gunner opened the ammunition box, stood beside the artillery, quietly waiting for the military order.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Luoyang City in front of them.

The first ray of sunlight emerges from below the horizon, and the light appears on the earth.

The defenders on the top of the city finally saw the situation outside the city clearly.

"No, Zhao thief really wants to attack the city!" A guarding soldier looked at the orderly army outside the city and shouted loudly.

The defenders on Chengtou began to stir up trouble, the most serious of which were those young and strong who had been recruited for a few days.

As for the other defenders, there was also restlessness, but it was not as serious as Qingzhuang.

The soldiers and horses left behind in Luoyang City were nothing more than miscellaneous soldiers that Sun Chuanting didn't like, and there was no way to compare with the soldiers and horses in Sun Chuanting's hands.

The soldiers and horses in Sun Chuanting's hands trembled in fear when facing Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses, let alone these miscellaneous soldiers.

A gust of morning wind blew, and the military flags in Zhao Wen's army rolled up.

The red tassels on their helmets, except for the soldiers who had passed through the Guards Battalion, kept churning like waves.

Zhao Wen rode a war horse to the front of the northern city wall, and looked at the city wall in front of him quietly.

The sun rose slowly from the horizon, and the sunlight on the earth gradually increased.

When the sun jumps completely above the horizon, the sky and the earth are much brighter.

Zhao Wen pulled out the waist knife from his waist and pointed at Luoyang City, "Pass my military order to let the artillery start bombing the city gate in a quarter of an hour. The first echelon of infantry is ready to enter the city once the city is broken."

Zhao Wen's voice echoed on the ground, and Li Xiaosan led the messengers to convey Zhao Wen's order to all the barracks.

Time passed by every minute and every second, Ma Tingyu and other officials gathered in the hall of the magistrate's yamen, like ants on a hot pot, circling around non-stop.

"My lord, the thieves are about to attack the city, and their soldiers and horses have already assembled, and the soldiers and horses are so densely packed that they are too numerous to count!"

At this moment, a soldier rushed directly into the hall without caring about his superiority.

Ma Tingyu looked at the soldier who rushed in.His face was horrified, his eyeballs were bulging, and his mouth was wide open, "What? Bandit Zhao attacked the city?"

"My lord, Bandit Zhao's soldiers and horses have already assembled. Bandit Zhao's soldiers and horses are densely packed, all outside the four city gates. Bandit Zhao wants to take our Luoyang City in one fell swoop and defeat it directly."

"What should I do now? What should I do now? What should I do now?"

Ma Tingyu fell silent, and the other officials in the hall were walking back and forth in the hall in a panic.

Ma Tingyu sat on the chair blankly, took off the official hat from his head, and put it on the table next to him.

"Everyone, Bandit Zhao didn't choose to encircle the city, but to attack the city from all sides, which means that he has absolute strength to take Luoyang City.

Ladies and gentlemen, is thief Zhao's real strength something we can resist? I'm afraid Luoyang City is about to fall. "

Ma Tingyu looked at the officials in the hall in dismay. At the beginning, Ma Tingyu's voice was relatively fluent, but she trembled as she spoke.

"My lord, what should we do?" Liu Zeli approached Ma Tingyu and asked hastily.

"I've been here for so many days, but I've only collected a thousand young men. These people, together with the defenders in the city, can't defend the city wall at all. The fall of Luoyang City is already a certainty. Everyone, let's work together. I don't want to embarrass you either.

You, you, ... alone ... escape ... your lives! "

Ma Tingyu seemed to have exhausted all his strength. When he finished speaking, it was as if all his strength had been exhausted, and his whole body instantly became sluggish.

"My lord, what should we do if we leave?" Liu Zeli looked at Ma Tingyu.

"Hey, don't worry about me, don't worry about me, you run for your life alone. Take off your official uniforms, take off your official hats, put on ordinary people's clothes, and run for your lives." Ma Tingyu leaned on the back of the chair Going up, staring blankly at the roof, waved at them feebly.

Liu Zeli sighed and said: "My lord, if you don't leave, you won't leave. I will stay with you today. If any of you want to escape, you can leave."

After Liu Zeli finished speaking, he sat beside Ma Tingyu.

For the remaining officials, you look at me, and I look at you.

"Are the two adults really not going to leave?" An official looked at the two of them.

Ma Tingyu didn't speak, just waved his hand.

Liu Zeli shouted: "You people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, if you want to leave, get out!"

"Take care, my lords. Some of the lower officials are old and some are younger. It's not that the lower officials don't want to guard the city, it's really..."

An official stepped back, arching his hands at the two of them, and when he exited the hall, he flicked up his robe and ran away.

Seeing this, the rest of the officials in the hall also dispersed instantly.

……

Zhao Wen looked at the city wall ahead and shouted loudly: "Fire!"

As soon as Zhao Wen gave an order, the messengers around hurriedly conveyed Zhao Wen's order to the artillery positions.

After a few breaths, the shell flew out of the barrel with a whistling sound, pointing directly at the city gate.

"Boom boom boom!"

Cannons rang out one after another, and the violent explosion instantly enveloped the city gate.

The scorching flames engulfed the city gate, and some shells missed the city gate and flew onto the city wall.

A huge explosion sounded on the city wall, and a few unlucky people were hit by shells, and they died without even screaming.

"Run for your life, run for your life."

When did the young man on the top of the city see this?When they watched several living people being instantly swallowed by the explosion, they panicked instantly.

They had only one thought at this moment, that is to run for their lives, they dropped the weapons in their hands and ran away.

When one starts to run away, the defenders on the walls begin to crumble.

These defenders on the city wall are either miscellaneous soldiers, village braves, or recruited young men.

It's okay to let these people clean up the battlefield, but it's hard for them to defend the city, let alone facing Zhao Wen?

The defenders on the city wall fled to the bottom of the city.

At this time, Zhu Changxun, the King of Fu, had just walked out of the bedroom. He looked at the rising sun in the east and smiled, "Isn't there nothing wrong with it? Ma Tingyu, a bastard, lied to the widow that Zhao thief had an army of [-]. It's nonsense."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the rumble of the explosion reached his ears.

He was frightened by the sudden sound of gunfire and fell directly to the ground.

"What's that sound? What's that sound?" Fu Wang exclaimed.

The eunuch on duty outside the palace hurriedly helped him up from the ground.

"What's that sound? Is it thunder?" King Fu yelled in panic.

At the beginning, the sound of artillery came from the north, but it didn't take long for the sound of artillery to come from all directions.

The sound of the guns mixed together, and the momentum was overwhelming.

Fu Wang was flustered and walked forward with the help of the eunuch.

"Send someone to ask Ma Tingyu, what's going on? What's going on now?" King Fu looked at an eunuch who was supporting him, and shouted.

The eunuch hurried outside.

Not long after the eunuch walked out, Zhu Yousong rushed over from the front.

"Father, what's going on? What's going on? Is this thunder from the sky? But today is a sunny day, how can there be thunder?" Zhu Yousong's fat face was full of fear.

Fu Wang said in a panic: "I don't know, I don't know!"

At the same time, a group of hundreds of households rushed into the magistrate's Yamen in a panic. He came to the hall, looked at Ma Tingyu who was sitting in the hall, and shouted: "My lord, the Zhao thieves have attacked the city, and the north gate has been captured by Zhao. The thief was blown up, my lord, what shall we do?"

Ma Tingyu looked at the hundred households with a frustrated face, "What should I do? How do I know what to do?"

After Ma Tingyu finished speaking, he leaned his head on the chair again and stared blankly at the roof.

When Baihu saw Ma Tingyu's appearance, he thought Ma Tingyu was stupid, so he ran outside yelling.

While running, he shouted, "Master Zhifu is stupid, Lord Zhifu is crazy, run for your life, run for your life!"

No matter how strong the city gate of this era is, it cannot withstand the artillery bombardment from later generations, even if the rear of the city gate is sealed with earth and rocks by the defenders.

Under the continuous bombardment of 120mm mortars, the city gate was blown to pieces.

The earth and rocks behind the city gate were also blown away, and even the city gate building above the city gate was blown down.

Zhao Wen held up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the city gate. When he estimated that the time was almost up, he asked the artillery to stop the bombing.

When the gunpowder smoke cleared, Zhao Wen finally saw the situation ahead clearly.

The city gates on the city wall were blown up long ago and disappeared. The city wall seemed to have been hammered by a giant with a huge hammer, and a gap was opened.

The place where the original city gate was located, together with the city gate building above the city gate and the city walls around the city gate, were blasted open.

Seeing this, Zhao Wen put down the binoculars in his hand, and looked at the orderly beside him, "Pass my military order, the first echelon is on, and the second echelon is ready. After the first echelon has completely entered, let the second echelon enter."

"Obey!" The messenger clasped his fists at Zhao Wen, and then walked back with Zhao Wen's order.

(End of this chapter)