Ming Zuo

Chapter 387 Fissure
March twenty-six.

Just a few days after Sun Yuanhua, Wang Zheng and Zhang Tao were released, seeing that Laizhou was still solid and unmoved, the Dongjiang Town rebels finally showed their fangs.

In the early hours of this day, the rebels launched a general attack on Laizhou.

The rebels occupied the Wanghai Tower in the north of the city, and set up huge cannons upstairs. The shells weighed twelve kilograms and fired endlessly, like a rainstorm like a waterfall.

In fact, Laizhou City had already had a hunch and made adequate preparations.

Illuminated candles and torches were placed on each battlement to prevent rebel raids.

The heavy artillery fire of the rebels was too ferocious, the Ming army guarding the city wall suffered heavy casualties, and the temporarily reinforced battlements were completely destroyed.

The rebels concentrated their forces and stormed the northeast corner and Simen of Laizhou City, and ignited the gunpowder in the tunnel in the northeast corner.With the loud noise of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking, the city wall collapsed.

Kong Youde, who was personally supervising the battle, was overjoyed and immediately waved his sword and ordered.

"Rush up, all of them. Take down Laizhou City and let go for three days."

The morale of the rebels soared and they flocked to the gap.

The soldiers guarding this section of the city wall are the soldiers from Sichuan and Guangxi.They obviously knew what would happen after the city was broken, so they fought hard to the death, not giving an inch.

The two sides fought each other on the collapsed ruins, and the corpses gradually piled up almost as high as the city wall.

Several times in a row the rebels attacked the city, and the rebel flag was planted on the wall.

Peng Youmo, the commander of the Sichuan soldiers and the Huguang soldiers, was ruthless and personally led the reinforcements to counterattack.After attracting the enemy to one place, set fire to it immediately.

The rebel soldiers were all burned into fireballs and fell from the city wall.

In this way, the Ming army repelled the rebels three times.

Finally, it was dawn.

The battered rebels were powerless to fight, and the call to withdraw was a relief for both sides.

Xu Congzhi and Xie Lian climbed to the top of the city, looking at the tragic state of the city, their hearts were filled with haze.

"Where are the imperial reinforcements?"

"Hurry up and urge again."

Also on March [-], Zuo Menggeng returned to Yimeng Mountain.

The new army headquarters went out of Feixian County and approached the foot of Nishan Mountain.

The three divisions of the new army, consisting of [-] regiments, had already surrounded Nishan.

With the return of Zuo Menggeng, the final offensive against the remnants of the White Lotus Sect was also in full swing.

This time, there is no difference between the main attack and the auxiliary attack. The twelve regiments and twelve directions are all main attacks.

It can be said that the battle of Nishan this time was a major review of all the troops.

This is to observe and summarize for the follow-up operations.

Although each regiment did not know the whole story, under the tense atmosphere, all the generals showed all their abilities and [-] spirits, compressed from all directions.

With the full-scale attack of the new army, the situation of the White Lotus Sect in Nishan became more and more difficult.

Under the siege of several months, the mountain has long run out of food.The thieves of the White Lotus Sect have already eaten everything they can eat. If it weren't for the recovery of everything in the spring, it is impossible to say that people would eat people.

Although they were in a dead place, the White Lotus Sect was still divided.Zhao Si was in the area of ​​Chaishan Mountain, and Dong Dacheng was in the area of ​​Heishan Mountain to the east.

The reason for this is that Zhao Si was originally Guo Yunbiao's subordinate, while Dong Dacheng was Li Mengming's subordinate.

The left and right guardians of the White Lotus Sect seem to be better at fighting each other.

Therefore, Zhao Si and Dong Dacheng couldn't trust each other. After driving away Murong Cai, the two immediately distanced themselves and were on guard against each other.

However, the situation was extremely critical at the moment. The tops of the mountains were lost one by one. Seeing that there was no place to stand in the huge Nishan Mountains, Dong Dacheng decided to do something.

He felt in a stockade overnight and met the leader.

"King of Nine Mountains, we are brothers, I wonder if we can provide some food and grass? Don't worry, after we get out of the mountains, I will give you back a hundredfold."

Dong Da's prejudice is not a White Lotus believer, but a local tycoon Wang Jun.

This Wang Jun is very famous on Shandong Lulin Road, nicknamed "King of Nine Mountains", and the nine peaks of Nishan were originally his site.

After the arrival of the White Lotus Sect, Wang Jun had no choice but to shrink to the area of ​​Caojiazhai Mountain.

Even so, this Wang Jun usually robbed his family and killed officials, and was also the target of the imperial court's encirclement and suppression.Therefore, he had to make peace with Bai Lian, which was regarded as a temporary ally.

However, when they heard Dong Dacheng begging for food, Wang Jun's men were not happy.

Chao Yuguang jumped out and roared, "If it wasn't for the wicked people of yours who came to Nishan, the men would not know how comfortable they would be to live. It's good now, the officials have surrounded this place so tightly that everyone will starve to death sooner or later."

This Chao Yuguang is known as a descendant of Chao Gai, and he is also a well-known figure among the thieves in Nishan.

To say that he hated the White Lotus Sect the most, he bears the brunt, followed by Wang Jun.

When he shouted like this, the rest of the group of thieves were filled with righteous indignation.If it weren't for the current enemy, he wouldn't have done anything to Dong Dacheng first.

Dong Dacheng's face was full of bitterness, but he still had to obey.

"King of Nine Mountains, no matter what, we are all brothers in the rivers and lakes. The official army is here, and my brothers have been slashed by thousands of swords, and my brothers will not end well. We are all grasshoppers on the same rope, and now we are not united. , all of them will become the devil under the sword of the official army."

Wang Jun was smoking a dry tobacco pouch, and said in a sullen voice: "My brother is telling the truth, and it's not that I don't understand it as a big brother. But let me be blunt, there is a discord within your sect, and I am an outsider. What's the point?"

Dong Dacheng understood that Wang Jun was talking about the filth between him and Zhao Si.

Speaking of this, Dong Dacheng was even more angry.

"Then Zhao Si turned out to be a rogue, and no one in my religion ever looked down on him. This time, after the uprising of my holy religion, after all the leaders fought and died, he made him a king without tigers and monkeys."

Wang Jun squinted his eyes, and said in a meaningful way, "We are outsiders, and we dare not get involved in the matter of your sect. However, Lei Chao, brother Lei Chao saw with his own eyes a few days ago that in your fourth master Zhao's stockade, he has risen to the top. Smoke."

Wang Jun's general Xiang Leichao nodded in agreement.

"I can smell the fragrance of rice from far away. It seems that Fourth Master Zhao is carrying something behind us and hiding something."

Dong Dacheng couldn't help being shocked, "Really?"

Xiang Leichao was not happy anymore, his loud voice was like thunder.

"There were a lot of people watching that day. If you don't believe me, ask, who is my old lady?"

Dong Dacheng did not ask any further questions, but believed it immediately.

Because of the three forces in Nishan today, Zhao Si and the two of them are the most estranged.Especially since the beginning of last month, it is even more old and dead.

Dong Dacheng originally thought that it was not the way to spend so much, so he sent someone to inform Zhao Si, and thought about discussing it to see if he could break through together.

The person who wanted to send it didn't see Zhao Si at all, and was driven back.

At that time, Dong Dacheng thought it was Zhao Si who was afraid of his cheating, but now it seems that Zhao Si is obviously tricky.

The thought of Zhao Si hiding in the stockade to eat and drink spicy food, but these people have eaten up the bark and grass roots, Dong Dacheng's heart couldn't help but raise murderous intentions.

"King of Nine Mountains, Ming people don't speak secretly. Now you can see the momentum. You can't hold it in this mountain. This surnamed Zuo has an evil spirit and fights fiercely. Brother, I have lost seven mountains. If we go down, we all have to die in this mountain. The only solution is to find a way to rush out. But if you want to rush out, the brothers don't have the strength. Since Zhao Si has food but hides it, then we can still Do you recognize him as a brother?"

Wang Jun and others who said this were heartbroken.

"Dong Da's family means..."

Dong Dacheng was very satisfied with the performance of Wang Jun and others.

"Since he is unkind, don't blame us for being unjust."

Wang Jun calmed down and looked at him scrutiny.

"Hehe, the boss of Dong Da is joking. You are all immortals, and you are different from those of us who are running around in the rivers and lakes. We don't dare to mix in the battle of immortals."

His words were clear.

Dong Dacheng and Zhao Si were taught by the White Lotus anyway, but Wang Jun and his brothers were just rambunctious.

It sounds good to join forces to deal with Zhao Si, but if he turns around, Dong Dacheng will not join forces with Zhao Si to destroy them.

Seeing Wang Jun being so suspicious, Dong Dacheng couldn't help stamping his feet and swearing.

"The King of Nine Mountains is so confused, then Zhao Si, who cares about a little bit of friendship with the sect, will still be so miserable, brother? Now that the army is overwhelmed, the heads of our big guys can move at any time. How many leaders have died from top to bottom in the Holy Church? How can I take care of so much? Besides, the King of Nine Mountains has seen it these days, that Zhao Sifang is better than all of you. Without your help, with the ability of brothers, it would be difficult to count him as Zhao Si. Maitreya Buddha is above, today I, Dong Dacheng, hereby swear that I will make blood alliances with the King of Nine Mountains and other brothers to seek wealth and honor together. If I violate this oath, I will be punished with three swords and six stabs in my life, die in the Nine Hells, and never be reincarnated."

Wang Jun and others made eye contact, seeing that he actually took Maitreya Buddha to swear, which shows the sincerity of his heart.

"Dong Da's head has a heart. That being the case, I can't tell. Our brothers believed you once."

Dong Dacheng was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "If you want to make things happen, you have to trouble the brothers to come out..."

(End of this chapter)