high official

Chapter 179
"Old Mi, you have made our men miserable." After reciting the mantra, Qin Zhongyuan turned around and squinted at Mizhi County Road.

"Hey," Mi Zhixian could still laugh, although it was a wry smile: "Tiger King, is there anyone who cheats people like me? Even myself?"

"You're quite old, why are you so out of tune?" Qin Zhongyuan grabbed Mi Zhixian's mouse beard and said angrily, "The children fought hard to shave all over, but the right master didn't cook. In the end, we boiled for nothing!"

"What are you talking about?" Mi Zhixian frowned and said, "Now that the army is besieging the city, I don't know what's going on outside. Maybe the emperor and the others are just a step late, and they didn't have time to enter the city."

"You're still talking!" Qin Zhongyuan got angry and tore off Lao Mi's beard, causing him to cry out in pain.Qin Zhongyuan scolded: "With the power of the Zheng family in Pujiang, if the emperor wants to enter the city, he will rush ahead of the official army!"

Mi Zhixian shook his head, he didn't have many beards, now half of them were pulled out, shaking his head looked ridiculous.But he actually agrees with Qin Zhongyuan in his heart... He, Zheng Qia and others are the 'insurgents' among Jianwen's courtiers.But their comrades, who are also loyal and follow the "conservative" courtiers of Lord Jianwen, insist that there is no chance of winning the current uprising, and they must wait for the time to come.

This is ten years, what a long and tormented ten years!Lao Mi and the others finally ran out of patience, and did not hesitate to join forces with the Mingjiao to create momentum and force the conservatives to revolt!

From Lao Mi's point of view, when the Mingjiao captured the county seat and the army of officials and troops overwhelmed the border, the Zheng family had no choice but to join forces with the Mingjiao, raise the banner of Emperor Jianwen, defend Pujiang City, and wait for the rebels from Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Hunan. Come to the rescue!Although this plan is risky, but the emperor puts it to death and survives. It can maximize the morale of the armies from all walks of life and lay a solid foundation for the arduous battle in the future.

However, after all their calculations, they still overestimated Jianwen Jun's bloodiness and underestimated Mr. Zheng's stubbornness. As a result, they were self-defeating and ended up in this self-defeating situation... Those vassal kings and local officials who agreed to respond to the incident, All of them are masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles. Emperor Jianwen doesn't show up to preside over them. Don't expect them to stand out.So now Pujiang City has basically changed from a chess eye to an abandoned piece.

Mizhi County can only cook ducks with a hard mouth, and there is a way to insist on holding on.Although Qin Zhongyuan didn't believe his words, he didn't burn Laomi to death. After all, he had to command the people in the county to help treat the wounded and carry the luggage... Although the situation looked good, both Qin Zhongyuan and Mizhi County were in despair. Now, our own reinforcements will not come, but the imperial court's reinforcements will continue to flow, there is no way out if we stick to it, but we have no ability to break through, the ending is already doomed...

It's just that no one expected that the turning point would come so quickly.Two days later in the morning, the Red Turban Army was having breakfast when they suddenly heard a loud, thunderous, deafening noise. Get down...

There were loud noises one after another, the city wall shook violently, and the broken stones were splashed with stumps and broken bodies. The defenders were all stunned, lying on the ground dizzy, thinking that the gods were angry and sent down lightning strikes!
"Hongwu cannon..." Qin Zhongyuan and Mi Zhixian in the city gate tower knew that it was not a lightning strike at all, but the cannons dispatched by the officers and soldiers!With pale faces, they looked at dozens of thick and short iron cannons lined up a mile away.

Artillery appeared in the Song Dynasty, and by the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it had become a sharp weapon in siege and water warfare.Zhu Yuanzhang's pacification of the world is inseparable from cannons to destroy cities and villages.In the Yongle Dynasty, a special firearms unit, the Shenji Battalion, was established.Zhejiang Dusi was responsible for the anti-Japanese war, and the warships were equipped with cannons. This time, Tang Yun was so ashamed that he was so ruthless that he ordered the navy to remove all the cannons from the ship and transport them to the city of Pujiang!

I saw the so-called Hongwu cannon, which had a huge caliber, but the cannon body was thick and short, looking like an iron barrel from a distance.The gunner filled the gun bore with ammunition, then stuffed a watermelon-sized shell, and then lit the fuze, and the spherical shell roared and shot towards the city.Some shells are solid, specially used to destroy city walls, and there is another kind of "shocking thunder", which is a "bowl-shaped" iron mine made of two half shells and filled with gunpowder. A cannonball will explode when it falls on the top of the city, and it will not hurt people.

From morning to night, the officers and soldiers bombarded the city wall with these two types of shells in turn, killing and injuring the soldiers defending the city. The mountains shook and the ground shook on the top of the city, and ghosts and wolves howled, which could be heard more than ten miles away... Finally at dusk, the The flimsy city wall collapsed more than a dozen feet, burying more than a hundred soldiers above it.

Tang Yun was overjoyed when he saw this, so he stopped firing, and personally led the officers and soldiers who had been recharging their energy for a day to rush forward.In that room, Qin Zhongyuan also brought reinforcements from his subordinates, and the two sides started a bloody battle at this gap.When it got dark, the officers and soldiers still had no intention of giving up, and continued to rush and fight!The Red Scarf Army, who had always been fearless and never showed weakness, couldn't hold on any longer...

Tang Yun was highly regarded by Emperor Yongle, so he was naturally not Yi Yi's generation. He knew that the Red Scarf Army was born as a refugee, and because of long-term malnutrition, most of them suffered from 'blindfolded eyes', also known as night blindness... the officers and soldiers did not have this problem.So when the sky is about to fall, the officers and soldiers can still see clearly, but the red scarf army can't. This is a good opportunity to win!
As expected, as soon as it got dark, the Red Scarf Army couldn't see.Although Mizhi County figured out a way to ignite the kerosene used to defend the city and illuminate the city walls like daylight, the Red Turban Army was still greatly affected by night blindness, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and their morale was also low.

This ebbs and flows, but the morale of the officers and soldiers over there is greatly boosted. Not only did they capture the collapsed city wall, they also took advantage of the situation to attack the top of the city and started a fierce battle with the defenders.When it was dawn, the official army completely controlled the city wall, while the Red Turban Army retreated into the city, trying to fight along the streets of the houses...

Tang Yun, who was red-eyed by killing, knew that the loss in the street fighting would be great, so he ordered to set fire to the city.He wants to burn the city of Pujiang into nothingness, burn all the people in it to death, and fight in the streets.As for the life and death of the people, he doesn't care at all...

Seeing the officers and soldiers launching rockets into the city from the top of the city, Mi Zhixian's face turned pale immediately, and he looked at Qin Zhongyuan and said, "Tiger King, you can't let your sons be burned to death for nothing..."

Qin Zhongyuan's face was also ashen, his eyes spit fire and said: "What should I do?"

"Surrender." Lao Mi said: "After all, there is no chaos in the world. No matter how vicious Tang Yun is, he can't kill all the sons..."

"Surrender?" Qin Zhongyuan became furious: "You've dug us into such a field before you thought of surrendering? I'll kill you first!" He said and drew out his sword.

"Wait a minute, Tiger King." Mi Zhixian glanced at the sharp sword on his neck, and said lightly: "I am a court official who is not only a remnant of the Jianwen Party, but also colluding with Mingjiao to capture the county and fight against the official army... any one of them is enough to kill me." Ling Chi, to me, surrender is more painful than dying in battle?"

"Then why are you?" Qin Zhongyuan asked in a low voice.

"Let me make up for the Tiger King." Mi Zhixian said softly: "We made a big mistake this time, which caused the Tiger King to fall into such a field." He said in a low voice: "I brought my sons out Surrender, tell the officers and soldiers that the Tiger King has been burned to death...I think the Tiger King must have a way to avoid the officers and soldiers and claim the whole city."

"..." Qin Zhongyuan was silent for a while, Fang nodded and said, "Yes." After a pause, he shook his head and said, "But I can't leave my brothers behind!"

"As long as the green hills remain, I'm not afraid of running out of firewood." Mi Zhixian said in a low voice, "Tiger King must learn from this lesson in the future, and can no longer pin his hopes on others."

"Alas..." Qin Zhongyuan put away his sword, sighed and said, "You can come with me."

"Who will bear the blame if I leave?" Mi Zhixian slowly shook his head and said, "Uncle Tang can't catch the first criminal, so he wants to kill people indiscriminately."

"Unexpectedly, you still have such kindness." Qin Zhongyuan put his hand into his mouth, pulled out gently, and pulled out the back molar, handed it to Lao Mi and said: "Put it in your mouth, and bite it if you can't stand it." , die immediately."

Mizhi County didn't think he was dirty, so he took it, nodded and said, "It's a pity that there will be no wine in the future..."

"You drunkard." Qin Zhongyuan scolded: "When you kill your head, I will give you wine."

"That's what you said." Mi Zhixian said with a smile: "There will be no future."

"It will be...indefinitely." Qin Zhongyuan's throat was a little choked, he took a deep look at Lao Mi, turned around, and disappeared into the alley with a few cronies...

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"White flag!" On the top of the city, the officers and soldiers became excited when they saw the red scarf army raising the white flag.

"Damn it," said Uncle Tang, who had injured his arm in the melee last night. He had already put it on a splint and hung it in front of his chest, but he still didn't change his aggressiveness.

"They're all fleshy, aren't they afraid of fire?" Tang Yun's staff smiled wryly, "Uncle, it's best if they surrender. They hurt too many civilians, and those civil servants will definitely make trouble." At that time, the emperor Although Tang Yun would not be blamed, in order to appease public anger, he must be demoted.

"Ball!" Tang Yun scolded, "I've offended you, one person with one axe, and they're all hacked into blood holes!" Helping people remember their grudges will make life difficult in the future.

"Surrender is acceptable." After getting angry, Tang Yun faced the reality and said: "But we must obey the arrangement, and a hundred people come out and surrender at a time." He said to the few guards in Jinyi who were wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives on their waists Said: "Can you guarantee to recognize that person?"

Six days had passed since the Pujiang Incident, the court's order had been issued long ago, and Jin Yiwei had also arrived.

　The next chapter is tomorrow morning...

　　
　
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