I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 272 The originator of biochemical weapons, the ancestor of the small days.

The siege of the city was brutal first, and I am afraid that it will not be much better if it is stabbed here.

The only difference is that the two are reversed.

The attackers became soldiers from the Western Regions, and the defenders were soldiers from Ming Dynasty.

There are corpses everywhere outside the city wall, and the strong stench of corpses makes people feel sick. Whether people in the city are going out or at home, their mouths and noses are tightly covered. They are afraid of smelling these disgusting smells and preventing the spread of the disease.

Wearing a thick mask on his face, Zhu Zhangui looked at the pile of corpses outside the city wall that were rotting and exposed many bones, without any worry between his brows.

The city has been defending for more than three months, and the enemy has also attacked for more than three months.

Although they failed every time, the enemy never gave up.

Even with the Ming army's pressing step by step, the rhythm of the attack has become stronger and stronger.

Of the 2000 old brothers he brought, only more than 1300 are still fighting.

More than 600 people withdrew from the front due to injuries or deaths.

Fortunately, the fighting spirit of the brothers is still there. As long as Zhu Zhangui stands on the city wall for a day, the brothers will continue to fight side by side with him.

With his secret support, the people in the city were able to survive in terms of food and medicines. The only thing the people in the Western Regions worried about was the rancid smell, which would cause epidemics to infect the whole city.

In ancient times, epidemics were more ruthless than massacres, and the people who died were not from one city or two cities.

For example, the Black Death that broke out in the West took more than 7500 million lives of Westerners in a hundred years.

Regarding this point, Zhu Zhangui had to lament that Zheng He was lucky.

You must know that the first round of the Black Death broke out, but in the empire on which the sun never sets, the time was only around the past few decades, and it has continued to break out intermittently for the past 1 years.

If Zheng He was unlucky at that time and encountered the Black Death, and then brought it back to the East, Daming might also suffer a catastrophe.

It is precisely because it is unclear when the Black Death will break out on a large scale in the West, and Ming Dynasty has no means to contain it, that Zhu Zhangui decided to temporarily abandon the West.

"Your Highness, we have already negotiated with the other party. They will send someone over tomorrow morning to take away the corpse."

While Zhu Zhangui was in a daze looking at the corpses everywhere outside the city, Hu Yu, who also covered his mouth and nose tightly, led a few people up from the city wall along the rope ladder.

Some people in the city have been unwell in the past two days. Zhu Zhangui was worried that an epidemic would break out, so he temporarily isolated those who were unwell.

Then Hu Yu was sent to the opposite side, hoping to negotiate a temporary truce with the other side and collect the bodies of both sides.

When Zhu Zhangui wanted to come, he felt uncomfortable on his side, and probably not much better on the other side.

The result is as expected.

Waisi didn't even think about it, so he agreed directly.

Wrong thinking that these people have no awareness of epidemic prevention, coupled with the fact that there are too many people washing up, many people haven't washed for a long time.

Well, this kind of dirty environment is the plague's favorite place. Last month, some people fell ill in the camp.

In order to prevent panic, Wai Si concealed the news and secretly sent people to deal with those who were sick.

But as more and more people fell ill, it seemed that this matter could not be concealed, and Wai Si became a little worried.

Once the epidemic broke out in the camp, the Western Regions Legion, whose morale was unstable due to the unfavorable siege for several months, would definitely collapse in an instant.

He is not reconciled to withdrawing troops, but if he does not withdraw, there is a risk of perishing at any time.

Just when he was in a dilemma, Zhu Zhangui took the lead in sending someone to find him.

Wai Si may be a little impatient, or it may be for the sake of his own life, and he did not put on airs, and directly agreed to Zhu Zhangui's proposal.

"Be careful tomorrow, these people from the Western Regions are unreliable, you must be on guard against their sudden attack at any time!"

Zhu Zhangui didn't believe this guy from the bottom of his heart.

In the past three months, in order to take down the city of Fear, Wrong Thinking has done everything he can.

Let the soldiers scold their mothers and provoke Zhu Zhangui to go out of the city to fight.

Secretly digging tunnels, or multiple night raids, and arresting people from outside the city to threaten them, it can be said that all kinds of insidious tricks have been used.

Although the guy on the opposite side promised to come to collect the corpse tomorrow, Zhu Zhangui always felt that this guy was going to play some tricks tomorrow.

Zhu Zhangui's guess was right.

Wrong thinking this guy is planning to play tricks.

"After collecting the corpses tomorrow, get firewood and burn them down the wind. Remember that the smoke and dust must float towards the city!"

Wai Si covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and confessed with stern eyes that he was the general who would collect the corpse tomorrow.

He couldn't wait any longer.

This morning, news came from Ku Xian that the reinforcements from the Ming army had arrived, and most of the defenders who were watching Ku Xian were left behind.

According to the speed of the opponent's march, it is expected to arrive in a few days.

With little time left, he decided to make a last-ditch effort.

After winning the battle of defending the city, cooperate with Kuxian's defenders to flank the Ming army from left to right.

If he loses, he can only retreat to the high mountains in the south, and there will be no place for him to survive in the north.

Waiting for his generals to leave, Waisi looked at a man in a cloak with withered hands and feet and said, "Your medicine is really useful!"

"Jie Jie Jie..."

A burst of villainous laughter sounded, and the cloaked man said in a hoarse voice.

"Whether it is useful or not, you will know tomorrow, once it is done, don't forget what you promised me!"

Waisi looked at the man for a while, then nodded lightly.

"Don't worry, as long as I win the position of Khan, I will do my best to help you refine medicine!"

At nightfall, the two sides attacking and defending the city entered into a peaceful rest for the first time.

In the rest room on the city tower, Zhu Zhangui reclined on the brocade couch, breathing steadily and fell asleep.

Next to him, Tagiris stretched out his slender green fingers, and gently pressed his forehead to relieve the fatigue of the day.

All kinds of flowers are hung all over the house, as well as sachets containing spices.

These things are to dispel the disgusting rancid smell, so that Zhu Zhangui can have a stable rest environment.

There are not only two people in this room, there are a large group of people sitting or half lying on the ground by the corner.

They need to be on duty in the middle of the night. In order to let these soldiers have sufficient mental vigilance, Zhu Zhangui let these soldiers enter this only room without a foul smell to rest.

"Squeak..."

The closed door was slowly pushed open, and Zhu Zhangui and the soldiers who were sleeping soundly opened their eyes gently.

After seeing that it was Hu Yu, the soldiers closed their eyes again and continued to rest.

Zhu Zhangui waved to Hu Yu who was about to open his mouth, put on a thick mask, and walked out of the fragrant room.

"What's so urgent!"

Zhu Zhangui understood that if it wasn't something urgent, Hu Yu would never disturb his rest.

With excitement in his eyes, Hu Yu took out a dialed walkie-talkie and said to Zhu Zhangui, "Your Highness, Commander Jiang has brought people here!"

Hearing this news, Zhu Zhangui, who was still a little tired between his brows, suddenly regained his energy, grabbed the walkie-talkie and called:

"Jiang Huai, where have you been?"

Soon came from the opposite side, Jiang Huai's tired voice.

"Your Highness, the exact location is not clear. We are currently resting in an unnamed small village. It is estimated that there are still about fifty miles to your place."

"it is good!"

Zhu Zhangui couldn't help but exclaimed, that's great.

After persisting for two or three months, the hard days finally came to an end.

"How much combat power do you guys have?"

Although he was happy in his heart, Zhu Zhangui was worried that the soldiers were too tired and could not exert their combat power after considering the Shenji Battalion for so long and hurriedly marching.

"Your Highness, don't worry about this. Although the brothers are a little tired, you can still bear the hardship. I have already made the decision for you and told the brothers. After this battle, return to the capital. Please take good care of yourself." After eating a meal, the brothers were very excited, and they all said that they would kill you!"

"Hahaha... good!"

Zhu Zhangui laughed indifferently, and said boldly: "Tell the brothers, I am not afraid of being slaughtered, let alone a meal, I will treat them for three days."

"Haha, the subordinate brothers, thank you, Your Highness."

After making a promise to the soldiers of Shenji Battalion, Zhu Zhangui quickly explained to Jianghuai the battle plan in his heart.

Jianghuai and the generals around him also listened carefully, adding their thoughts from time to time.

Soon a simple battle plan was completed, and the two sides agreed on the time to attack, Zhu Zhangui let Jiang Huai and others rest first.

After all, Jianghuai and the others will have to raid for dozens of miles tomorrow, so a little more rest is just a little bit longer.

That is to say, the outside of the city has been besieged by Waisi, otherwise Zhu Zhangui would have rushed over overnight to buy some Arabian donkeys for his brothers to use as footpower.

In the early morning of the second day, under the leadership of Zhu Zhangui, the Ming army lined up on the city wall, watching the soldiers from the Western Regions pulling a carriage in the distance and only wearing plain clothes slowly approaching.

Waisi also lined up the troops on both sides of the camp. The atmosphere of the whole army was dignified, and the faces of the soldiers from the Western Regions were covered with things like the Ming army, and they looked into the distance with a blank expression.

They don't know, what is the meaning of their fighting?
Rescue Khan, but why are the people in the city still helping the Ming army? Some time ago, Khan personally stood on the city wall to persuade him to surrender.

At that time, the commander-in-chief Waisi told them that their Khan was coerced by the Ming army to stand up.

But they looked at Khan's relaxed expression from a distance, as well as the appearance of talking and laughing with the Ming army general next to him. Forgive their stupid eyes, they really didn't see any threat.

After three months of fighting, their troops of more than 9 people now have only more than 6 people left.

More than 1 people died in the city in that night's sneak attack alone.

In the following months, many of their attacks were repulsed by the Ming army. Not to mention that they did not achieve any results, but more familiar faces fell under the city wall.

In the hot summer, those corpses that were too late to collect slowly rot and stink with maggots.

The stench spread for dozens of miles, making those who smelled it sick again and again.

Even in the barracks during this time, rumors were faintly spread, because the rotten corpses caused the plague, and many infected people had been secretly executed.

Whether this rumor is true or not, they don't know, but they know that some sick people around them, after being taken away by the military medical officer, never heard from them again.

Might have been executed.

Thinking of those poor people who were buried alive and slaughtered without any resistance, the hearts of the living Western Region soldiers were even more desolate.

As more and more people fell ill during this period, the soldiers became more and more unstable emotionally.

Some people wanted to escape in the dark, but they were discovered by the supervising team, and then they were caught and executed in cruel ways.

The above method of not comforting, but torture and persecution made the soldiers who were already emotionally unstable even more depressed.

The ambition when they first came, and the temptation of beautiful women and money, have no effect on them.

Everyone just wants to live and go home alive.

Fortunately, last night the generals issued the final combat order.

It said that they had discovered a loophole in the Ming army, and today they could take the capital with one blow.

The people above promised that they would not seal the sword for three days after taking the capital, and that after the war, they would be rewarded with money and beauties to let them go home.

The soldiers who don't seal the knife and reward the beautiful women no longer care, but the temptation to go home is very great for them.

Although they don't know what the Ming army's loopholes are, since the people above said it, there must be a way to break through the enlightened army's defense.

Corpses were picked up by forks and hooks and thrown into wagons.

Due to the reason of decay, as soon as many corpses were picked up, the carrion and foul-smelling internal organs flowed out.

In that disgusting pile of carrion, dense white maggots kept crawling in and out, making the scalp numb and goosebumps all over the body.

"vomit!"

A sound of vomiting and retching continued to sound from below.This caused the soldiers of the Ming army on the city wall to shudder in their voices.

As the corpses were transported away, thick black smoke rose from a huge firewood pile in the distance.

One after another corpses were thrown into it, and in addition to the stench, the smell of roasted meat slowly wafted in the air.

Zhu Zhangui held his breath, forcibly suppressed the discomfort in his body, held up the binoculars, and squinted at the thick smoke slowly drifting over and the successive fires around him.

"Your Highness!"

Hu Yu, who was standing beside him, sniffed and frowned.

"There seems to be something mixed in here!"

Zhu Zhangui was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed.

"Damn, even biochemical weapons have been used."

After Hu Yu's reminder, Zhu Zhangui finally realized what was wrong.

The opposite is to use the upwind vent to add something to the body while burning the corpse.

The Western Regions is a very mysterious place, and there are a lot of inexplicable poisons.

Knowing what he was thinking, Zhu Zhangui hurriedly said to Hu Yu.

"Let the brothers block their mouths and noses with wet handkerchiefs first, and inform the people in the city to do a good job of anti-virus."

Before Hu Yu could answer, Zhu Zhangui rushed into the tower where he was resting.

Quickly closing the door, Zhu Zhangui disappeared into the room in a flash.

When it reappeared, it had already arrived at the supermarket.

The reason why he came to the supermarket was not to avoid the poisonous gas, but to buy a civilian gas mask that he extracted last year and exploded.

When he pulled out this thing, he didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, in ancient times when there were no biochemical weapons, gas masks didn't seem to be very useful. If you go to the plague area, you can just have the masks he took out before. Gas masks are really not very useful to him, so he didn't buy them at that time.

But he didn't expect that something that he thought he might never use in this life would be used so soon.

Rushing to the daily necessities area at top speed, Zhu Zhangui grabbed the gas mask and quickly entered the quantity to buy.

A few minutes later, the closed attic door was opened, and Zhu Zhangui, wearing a gas mask, yelled at Hu Yu who was waiting anxiously at the door.

"Put down the mask, wear it like this..."

Zhu Zhangui quickly demonstrated the wearing method, and Hu Yu nodded, took a lead and put it on, and then notified the brothers in the guard battalion to quickly distribute boxes of masks.

The first ones provided were naturally the soldiers guarding the city wall, and then the civilians who helped transport the wounded under the city.

By the time it was distributed to the people, many people were already lying on the ground, their bodies twitching and foaming at the mouth.

Zhu Zhangui really didn't know about poisons, so he could only distribute gas masks while notifying the imperial doctor in the palace for diagnosis.

When making arrangements, Zhu Zhangui also ordered the soldiers not to shoot before the enemy attacked, and everyone hid under the wall and was not allowed to show their heads.

Time passed slowly, and in the afternoon, as the wind changed direction, the city of Fear, which was shrouded in black smoke, slowly revealed its face.

The city was quiet, and no movement could be heard.

I'm afraid it's bad luck to assassinate the city.

People can wear gas masks, but those poultry and animals can't avoid it. After a morning of infection, almost everyone in the city is dead except for people.

Looking at the deathly peaceful city, he laughed wildly with his crooked thoughts.

"attack!"

"Woooooooo..."

As the horn of the attack sounded, the Western Regions Legion did not come to encircle the three and one, and directly launched an attack from all sides.

Zhu Zhangui, who was hiding behind the parapet and wearing a gas mask, looked coldly through the lens at the Western Regions Corps rushing up, and slowly raised the walkie-talkie.

"I order, launch an attack!"

A few miles away from the Western Region Army, tens of thousands of soldiers from the Shenji Battalion are hiding here.

Standing at the forefront of the army, Jiang Huai watched the situation in the distance with a telescope.

When they arrived at noon, Afraid City was already shrouded in poisonous smoke. He was worried at first, but he was relieved after confirming that Zhu Zhangui and others were safe.

Originally, he wanted to attack immediately according to the plan, but was stopped by Zhu Zhangui.

The enemy has not moved yet, and the entire defensive formation is still very strict. Although the Shenji Battalion launches an attack at this time, although it can win, it will definitely suffer some damage.

The God of War Machine Battalion in the Western Regions has already suffered a lot of losses, if it can reduce the number of deaths, let it reduce the number of deaths.

Just like that, the Shenji Battalion waited silently in the distance, recovering their strength, quietly waiting for the order to attack.

In the afternoon, the enemy launched an attack, and Jiang Huai and the generals around him silently drew their pistols.

"Brothers, many brothers in the camp, including me, have committed crimes and meritorious deeds."

"I wanted to take everyone to smash a few cities, and to get rid of the shame. Unfortunately, we didn't succeed. Instead, we had to ask King of Han to come and help us, so that we had a chance to come here."

"Today is our last chance to take down the enemy army, capture the enemy's head alive, and be ashamed with one blood!"

"I order, the attack begins!"

As soon as Jianghuai's voice fell, the walkie-talkie on his shoulder rang Zhu Zhangui's order.

Hu Yu took a deep breath, raised the gun in his hand and let out a low shout.

"Follow me!"

In an instant, tens of thousands of legions moved quickly, moving closer to the enemy legion while hiding their figures.

What they want is a sudden attack. If the enemy finds them a little later, the enemy's defense will be reduced.

Afraid of stabbing under the four walls of the city, tens of thousands of soldiers from the Western Regions rushed up with ladders without even preparing siege weapons.

At the beginning, they were still a little wary, but after they set up the ladder, they saw that there was still no movement on the city wall, and their morale boiled instantly.

The enemies are really all dead as the officer said.

Although I was excited, there was a trace of regret in my heart.

The enemies are all dead, and it is unknown whether any of the beauties and common people in the city are still alive.

It's been so long now, it's probably too cold when they enter the city, and it's impossible to take advantage of the heat to relax.

Although he felt regretful, but thinking of those unowned treasures in the city, his eyes were gradually replaced by greed.

As long as there is money and treasure, what kind of woman can't get it.

People are like that.

When there is no hope, no temptation can arouse the greed in the heart.

But once there is a chance, greed will immediately occupy their reason and become the driving force for them to move forward.

In order to enter the city ahead of time, some soldiers from the Western Regions even swarmed under the ladder, scrambling and cursing to climb up, regardless of the officer's vigilant yelling.

Zhu Zhangui, who was squatting on the city wall and secretly observing below, looked at the densely packed soldiers from the Western Regions who were crowded together like sardine cans, and gave the order to counterattack with a sneer.

"L…"

The battle horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Ming army who had long been hiding behind the parapet stood up with a murderous look on their faces.

Then, under the bewildered expression of the soldiers from the Western Regions, they raised their rifles, stones, logs, and explosives, and threw them down.

"what!"

Sitting in the back commanding the army, thinking about how to get his subordinates to flock to him as a khan after entering the city later.

Seeing the empty city wall, dense crowds of people suddenly appeared, and he stood up from his seat in shock.

But before he could recover from his astonishment, he remembered yelling in terror behind him.

"Enemy army... There are a lot of enemy troops behind!"

Confused, he looked at the subordinates who were being slaughtered under the city wall, and then looked back at the distance. The densely packed soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were charging rapidly, and the shells whistling in the air, suddenly slumped on the chair superior.

"It's over...it's over..."

The battle ended sooner than expected.

The morale of the soldiers from the Western Regions, who had no morale at all, fell to the bottom in an instant after being blocked.

When he learned that the enemy's reinforcements were coming from behind, the heartstrings that had been tensed for a long time broke suddenly, and the entire army collapsed in an instant.

Those nobles had given up hope for this war for a long time. When they found that the city wall was blocked and the enemy reinforcements arrived, they ran away without saying a word, even caring about their wrong thoughts.

The tree fell and Hu Sun scattered.

The legion, which was barely able to unite, fell apart in an instant.

Jiang Huai wanted to stop those fleeing nobles from the Western Regions, but his men were too few, so he could only stop one side, and the other three could only watch them run away.

But as the saying goes, if you run away from the monk, you can't run away from the temple.

Unless these guys give up the territory directly, they will still fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Waisi also wanted to run away, but Jiang Huai's main target was him.

The other nobles ran away, and they can settle their accounts slowly in the future. This leader must not run away.

"Crunch..."

The gate of the feared city, which had been closed for more than three months, was opened, and Zhu Zhangui walked out with the soldiers behind him.

More than 1000 old brothers who survived the catastrophe on the battlefield, looked at the brothers from Shenji Camp who came up, rushed forward excitedly to embrace them, and cheered loudly to celebrate.

It's over, it's over.

"Your Highness!"

Jiang Huai threw aside the crooked thoughts in his hands for the soldiers to watch, and walked up to him with a big laugh.

Zhu Zhangui also laughed, hugged him, reached out and thumped Jiang Huai's shoulder, "Good boy, you did a good job, our debts have been cancelled." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pulled out the knife from Hu Yu's waist. Scratching the ground with the tip, he slowly moved towards the crooked thinking.

The generals around all showed relaxed smiles when they heard Zhu Zhangui's words that the account had been written off.

Then he followed Zhu Zhangui and walked slowly towards the crooked thoughts suppressed by the soldiers.

"His Royal Highness, please forgive me, Your Highness, please forgive me!"

"Please don't kill me. I admire Daming very much. I...I even invited your envoy to dinner."

Waisi, who was pinned to the ground by the soldiers, watched Zhu Zhangui walk over with a steel knife on his cold face, his body trembling like sifting chaff, and he begged for mercy loudly in substandard Ming official dialect.

Zhu Zhangui ignored him, strode up, kicked him to the ground, and slashed wildly with his knife.

There were screams, accompanied by the rush of blood, and the soldiers hugging and cheering, stimulated by the blood, screamed even more excitedly.

Those old brothers guarding the city roared even more, hacking this bastard to death to avenge XX.

I don't know how many knives were cut, until the other party could no longer see the human appearance, Zhu Zhangui dropped the knife in his hand, and shouted at Jianghuai and other generals.

"Notify the whole army to clean up the battlefield, rest for three days before fighting another battle, send someone to hold the bastard's head and the commander's flag, and tell the defenders of Kuxian that they will die if they think wrongly, and those who surrender will be forgiven, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!"

(End of this chapter)