The Red Mansions

Chapter 142: Siege and Defend the City
It was dark before dawn.

Even the bright moon is hidden in the dark clouds.

Cixi City is quiet, like a giant beast crawling.

On the wall of the east gate, Jia Yun was dressed in an official uniform with a sword at his waist, facing the night without moving.

Most of the surrounding lights were also extinguished, leaving only a few lights in the corner to illuminate the road.

"Here we come!" Jia Wenlin said in a low voice, pointing to the official road beside Jia Yun.

Jia Yun nodded. Jia Wenlin could see the pirates coming, so he could see them too.

"There are more people than we thought! There are more than 2000 people. It seems that they want to concentrate their forces and storm the East Gate for a quick victory!" Jia Yun said.

Jia Wenlin smiled and said, "It's better this way, lest we have to be distracted to prevent them from attacking other city gates."

"Even so, don't be careless, let someone notify the other sects immediately, so that they can cheer up!" Jia Yun ordered.

Jia Wenlin bowed her hands and arranged for someone to go.

The pirates were very courageous. They all shaved their hair and changed their clothes to look like Japanese pirates. They swaggered down the official road and headed straight for the east gate.

Of course, these people were fully prepared, and they also carried gunpowder, wooden ladders, battering rams, and shields for the siege.

Jia Yun was a little puzzled, where did the pirates get these things.

After thinking about it, these pirates colluded with some wealthy country gentlemen, but it was no surprise.

"After the pirates are dealt with, I will deal with you!" Jia Yun thought bitterly.

He was here to fight to the death, to protect the safety of the people in Cixi County, but someone was behind him.

Those people probably not only provided siege equipment for the pirates, but even provided intelligence support, otherwise so many pirates would have come to Cixi without any news.

"It's no wonder these pirates can live for so long. If they don't get rid of them, even if they are encircled by an army of [-], they will easily escape!" Jia Yun gritted her teeth and thought to herself.

Just as he was thinking about something, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and when he looked carefully, he found a very familiar person behind the pirate team.

"That was the one who took the lead in Cixi Guild Hall last time, the third leader?" Jia Yun smiled.

If it were someone else, it would be really difficult to find him in this dark night.

But Jia Yun's eyesight is surprisingly good, maybe it's the bad luck of the third-ranked family, there are thousands of people on the official road, but Jia Yun just saw him.

"I let you run away last time, but this time you rushed to die, so I can't let you down." Jia Yun thought to herself.

So he turned back and asked someone to bring a porcelain pot bomb, after lighting the fuse, he threw it vigorously, and the porcelain pot landed firmly on the top of the head of the third family, and it exploded!

"Boom!"

The sound of the explosion was deafening, flashing a blinding light in the dark night, and the sound echoed in the night sky.

"Puff puff!"

Countless pieces of porcelain and iron filings exploded, and the three masters and the pirates next to him were bloody and bloody. Before they could even make a sound, they were all dead!
The pirates immediately yelled that they were licking blood from the knife edge. After smelling the gunpowder smoke, instead of being afraid, Dan aroused the blood in his body.

So, the battle officially started!

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" the pirates yelled and rushed towards the city gate, their eyes bloodshot.

Jia Yun, who was standing upstairs, was a little puzzled: "Hey, I killed the third leader of your family, why is your morale still so high?"

But he didn't know that the pirates didn't know that their third master was killed by the bombing.

As for how many people were killed by the porcelain pot bomb, it had no effect on these pirates at all, and they were not afraid. After all, they still had red cannons on board their ships!

If this small battle is scary, how can they make a living at sea?

Jia Yun couldn't figure it out, so she didn't think about it anymore. After the pirates got closer, she waved her hand and ordered to the people on the tower: "Bowmen and musketeers alternately step forward to destroy the enemy!"

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

The musket fired immediately, and poured out with bullets, heading straight for the pirates below.

"Duo! Duo! Duo!" Immediately afterwards, countless bows and crossbows sent out arrows and threw them away.

Dozens of pirates fell down in an instant, but they rushed forward regardless of their lives. At the same time, some musketeers stopped to fight back.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!" There was continuous musket fire above and below the city, and both sides suffered casualties.

"Rush! Kill!" the pirate shouted!
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The pirates rushed forward one after another.

The people upstairs were silent, only the musketeers and crossbowmen fired guns and arrows alternately in silence.

Seeing the pirates approaching, Jia Yun ordered loudly, "Grambling hand, get ready!"

A hundred strong people immediately lit the porcelain pot, and Jia Yun shouted again: "One, two, three, throw it!"

A hundred bombs roared out, and all fell on the crowd of pirates and exploded.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The bomb exploded, and groups of pirates howled and died or were injured.

"Ah! . . . my arm . . . "

"My leg...uh...my leg is gone!"

"Help, save me!"

"..."

Thousands of pirates stagnated at the same time, but the next moment, they all rushed forward with red eyes.

"Get ready!" Jia Yun continued to order: "Throw!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

"Get ready!" Jia Yun was expressionless, looking downstairs, not giving the pirates a chance to breathe.

"Throw!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

After throwing four rounds back and forth, there were less than 1000 pirates left below.

Jia Yun didn't waste any more explosives, because the pirates were all dispersed, and although throwing them could kill some, it wasn't worthwhile.

Under a big tree not far from the city, under the protection of dozens of people, Xia Baichuan and Liu Yongan stared at the city gate.

The two were chatting and laughing at first, but now they were frowning tightly.

"It's over! It's over!" Liu Yong'an trembled, "Where did Jia Yun get so many explosives?"

"Can he really be 100% sure that we will come to attack Cixi? And he is still waiting, as if he is waiting for us to come!"

Xia Baichuan's face was ashen, and he murmured: "I told you a long time ago, don't let me take office on the day of the county examination. You just don't believe me. From that day on, he guessed that I had colluded with you! This also made him vigilant. Prepare yourself!"

Liu Yong'an's lips trembled, his hands and feet felt cold, his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth and said, "We can't just let it go, how many people are there in Cixi?"

"We still have to fight. As long as someone sends explosives to the city gate and blows the city gate open, even if we have less than [-] people left, we can take Cixi smoothly!"

Xia Baichuan nodded and said: "Of course we have to fight, we can't give up all our efforts right now!"

Liu Yong'an nodded, and ordered his subordinates: "Go ahead and pass on an order, even if it is a pile of people, you must blow open the city gate and kill into Cixi!"

The subordinates took orders and ran to the gate of the city quickly.

On the city wall, Jia Yun was very satisfied with the results of the bombs thrown out just now. Each of the four hundred bombs could kill or injure two or three people, which is already very good.

"If it was on the mountain, if these pirates hadn't come to attack the city, I probably wouldn't have achieved such a great result." Jia Yun thought to herself.

The sky is bright.

After the night, there will finally be light.

After receiving Liu Yongan's order, the pirates no longer rushed forward, but stopped and retreated out of the range of muskets and crossbows. They only selected dozens of fast runners and carried the explosives to Charge at the city gate.

"Pay attention, don't let them approach the city gate, shoot freely!" Jia Yun ordered loudly after discovering their situation.

The musketeers of the patrol battalion and the crossbowmen of the inspection department immediately stepped forward and fired freely.

Although their accuracy was terrible, but there were too many people, and they would always encounter dead mice. The pirates who charged with explosives fell down from time to time.

"Pikemen are ready, go down to the city, as soon as the pirates approach the city gate, stab them to death!" Jia Yun continued to order.

Soon, the city gate opened wide, and all the spearmen were waiting at the gate, looking at the pirates who ran forward with a smile.

Those pirates were all dumbfounded. Damn, let's blow up the city gate. How can I blow it up when you open the gate?
Just when they were neither retreating nor advancing, countless javelins roared in and killed all the pirates who ran below the city wall.

The pirates watching from a distance vomited blood angrily, and immediately someone yelled loudly: "It's nothing if there are fewer people, we can only attack by force, and we can do it all at once! If there were musketeers covering us just now, we could have directly charged into the city." !"

"It sounds good, the explosives they threw just now are not vegetarian!" Someone retorted, "If we all rush to the gate of the city, they will definitely throw explosives again, and we will die faster!"

Someone answered: "We can't delay, can we? Don't forget that group of Japanese are pinning down Guanhaiwei. They will retreat after dawn. When Guanhaiwei's people come over, we will be attacked from front to back. We will be attacked from the front and back, and no one will survive!"

"There is no other way now, either attack by force or retreat, always choose one!"

"Hey, if we bring the cannon in red and shoot him a few times, it won't be such a trouble!"

"..."

While they were discussing, Jia Yun didn't want to wait any longer, in case something changed.

He ordered: "The officers of the patrolling battalion get on their horses and separate the pirates. The patrolling department will make up for it on the outside. The young and strong will also go over to prevent anyone from escaping!"

Back then, he dared to fight the pirates with less than ten people.

Today, even young and strong, there are nearly 3000 people on my own side. No matter what, I have to keep these pirates with less than a thousand people, or I will work so hard for so long.

"Master, why don't you transfer some people from other city gates?" Jia Wenlin hesitated.

Jia Yun shook her head and said, "We can't wait any longer. It's just right for us to kill the pirates while they are still in fear. If we wait a little longer, their morale may recover soon."

Pirates are not a mob. Even if the ones who came this time were not elites, they had all fought at sea. To put it bluntly, they were all outlaws. Once they calmed down, it would be much harder to kill them.

Of course, Jia Yun's main purpose was to let the people in the patrol camp see blood.

If you just guard the city tower, even if you win the battle, the soldiers in the patrol battalion may never grow up if they haven't killed anyone in battle.

Soon, everyone came to the street, and Jia Yun got on the horse with the people from the patrol camp.

The city gate opened again.

Just when the pirates were puzzled, hundreds of war horses galloped out of the city, rushing towards the crowd of pirates like overwhelming mountains...

(End of this chapter)