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Chapter 57 A person who isn't ruthless can't stand firm.

Bayan led his cavalry without stopping and went straight to the walls of Chengdu.

The arrival of 50,000 Yuan cavalrymen shocked the Wu Kingdom's defenders and also filled them with a sense of powerlessness.

After taking away the main force, the garrison in Chengdu at this time numbered less than a thousand.

Since Bayan had long planned to attack the city, he naturally wouldn't have been unprepared.

Mongolian horses are native to Mongolia, and Mongolian light cavalry usually consist of one rider with two horses, although this time they were not all equipped according to this standard.

However, there are more than enough horses to carry tools for building siege equipment.

While allowing some of his soldiers to rest, Bayan dispatched a large number of soldiers to cut down trees and begin building siege equipment.

To prevent the Wu Kingdom's cavalry from coming to their aid, he also sent some troops to guard the rear.

Several hours passed quickly.

When the Yuan army had finished building siege equipment and was preparing to attack the city.

The soldiers defending the city were also prepared to fight to the death to defend it.

They had considered fleeing, after all, given the disparity in military strength, they had no chance of winning.

But when they thought of their families, wives, and children behind Chengdu, they no longer had any thoughts of living a life of ignominy.

"Brothers! So what if we die? His Majesty will naturally take care of our wives and children."

"Yes! Chengdu is right behind our Central Plains. Are we to let our millions of Han people fall into the hands of the Tartars once again?"

“I, Erniu, have been following Your Majesty into battle since you raised your army. I have already sold my life to Your Majesty. Killing one of them would be enough.”

However, even though the soldiers of the Wu Kingdom fought to the death, until the last man fell, the battle had only lasted two hours.

But their deaths were not in vain.

Their desperate resistance led Bayan to believe that his plan had succeeded.

He happily moved all his soldiers into the city and ordered the burning of all the camps outside the city, both north and south.

During this period, Bayan also had doubts about the whereabouts of the people of Chengdu.

But his elation at victory and his narrow-mindedness prevented him from noticing the impending danger.

At this moment, Boyan was already thinking about how to annihilate the 90,000-strong army of the Wu Kingdom outside Chengdu.

As night falls, a thick darkness envelops the entire city of Chengdu.

Apart from the soldiers guarding the city walls, the entire city of Chengdu had fallen into a deep sleep.

Apart from the neighing of the Yuan army's warhorses, the city was completely silent.

……

However, at this time, about two miles outside the city walls of Chengdu, Mo Fei and Liu Zheng's 20,000 elite cavalry had already quietly arrived.

"Send the signal!"

Did he issue the order to Liu Zheng in a calm and indifferent tone?

Watching Liu Zheng leave quickly, Mo Fei turned to look at Chengdu, which was shrouded in darkness, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

Liu Zheng walked to the ballista that had been set up beforehand, grabbed the giant hammer placed next to him, raised it high with great force, and then brought it down with a bang. As the giant hammer in his hand slammed down, the giant gunpowder arrow that had been set up beforehand shot out like lightning.

"Whoosh!"

The giant arrow instantly traversed the distance between the two and exploded with a bang on the city wall.

"boom……!"

A tremendous roar resounded throughout the city of Chengdu, the echoes lingering for a long time.

As the explosion rang out, Chengdu seemed to instantly enter a demolition mode.

One loud bang after another echoed from within the city of Chengdu.

Huge fireballs rolled in mid-air before suddenly exploding, plunging the world into darkness. Dust and flames flew everywhere, the sky collapsed, houses sank, and giant trees were uprooted.

Timber, stones, human bodies, and body parts rained down from the sky.

Tens of thousands of houses, tens of thousands of soldiers, and their warhorses within Chengdu were instantly pulverized by the gunpowder buried beneath the city.

Even in Mofei, several miles outside the city, one could see rubble falling from the sky.

Yes! This is the great gift that Mo Fei presented to Boyan.

If we had to pinpoint the exact source, it was Boyan who inspired Mofei.

If it weren't for his act of dumping so much kerosene into the Southern Camp at once, which thoroughly enraged Mo Fei...

Perhaps they really wouldn't resort to such a suicidal approach.

This time, Chengdu was basically completely destroyed, and there was no way to save it except to rebuild it.

It seems that after Liu Zheng put forward his idea, he began to put the plan into action.

In order for the plan to succeed, he not only relocated the city's residents, but also...

He didn't even tell the hundreds of soldiers guarding the city the truth.

After ordering the city to be sealed off, he buried all of the army's gunpowder stockpile within Chengdu.

At each gunpowder detonation point, except for one suicide soldier left to detonate it, all the soldiers who participated in burying the gunpowder were strictly guarded by Lü Wenhuan under his orders.

Under his orders, gunpowder was primarily deployed to two locations: the military training grounds and the city garrison.

Therefore, Bayan, this valiant general of the Yuan Dynasty, had just been awakened by the huge commotion at the city wall.

Before he could even inquire about the situation, the castle where he lived was subjected to a violent explosion.

Back then, this place was a key location that Mo Fei paid special attention to, and the amount of gunpowder used here was several times that of other places.

So Bayan, a famous and valiant general in the history of the Yuan Dynasty, was thinking about how to destroy the main force of the Wu Kingdom one moment, and the next moment he and his personal guards were blown into the sky by gunpowder.

He never imagined that his death would be so meaningless.

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