Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 219: The Day the City Was Broken

Gao Zhi quickly stopped Bazin.

He just wanted to stir up trouble, but he didn't expect Bazin to be so fierce.

If Bazin really sends someone to assassinate him, it would be fine if it succeeds, but if it fails, wouldn't he be exposed?

After investigating the matter, it was discovered that he was the one who instigated the whole thing, and he will definitely not end up well.

Gao Zhi dissuaded him:
"We can't act hastily now. We are not sure of victory. If the assassination is exposed and the eldest master investigates, we will both die!"

Bazin frowned upon hearing this and said:
"Hey, we can't kill him, are we waiting for him to harm us?"

Gao Zhi shook his head and said:
"Don't panic, we can go to the Second Young Master and ask for his protection!"

Bazin was puzzled and said:

"Second Young Master? Before the Great Khan died, he passed the throne to the First Young Master. The Second Young Master has nothing. What's the point of looking for the Second Young Master?"

Gao Zhi sneered and said:

"Humph, what do you mean by passing the Khanship to the eldest son? I heard it clearly. Before the Khan died, he said that he would pass the Khanship to the second son, Duo Lei!"

Bazin's eyes widened and he said in shock:

"You must have heard it wrong. The Khan was clearly talking about Tuolei!"

Gao Zhi said: "What is Tuolei? It's Duolei!"

"Is it Duo Lei? But I clearly heard it was Tuo Lei..."

Bazin wanted to say more, but Gao Zhi said directly:

"Okay, there is a word 'lei', but you heard 'Tuo Lei' and I heard 'Duo Lei'. It's hard to tell who is the one here!"

When Gao Zhi said this, even Bazin, no matter how stupid he was, understood it.

"In this case……"

At this time, Li Hao did not know how serious the consequences would be caused by Kah Khan's momentary thought before his death.

He was now busy preparing for tomorrow's withdrawal.

Originally, the person he planned to cover his retreat was Gao Zhi, but now it was replaced by Deng Ren.

There are some details that need to be changed. The hundreds of thousands of troops on the grassland want to evacuate safely, and the various things involved cannot be explained in a few words.

The old man in his seventies was busy until late at night and was exhausted.

At this time, the housekeeper suddenly came in, looked at Li Hao's figure, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Li Hao raised his eyelids and asked:

"what happened?"

The butler lowered his head and said uncomfortably:

"That family... has agreed to sell us grain. Now the grain carts have passed Shanxi and entered the Taihang Mountains. They have sent a message asking us to bring gold and silver to trade..."

Li Hao: …

After a long silence, Li Hao waved his hand.

"Go down."

The housekeeper looked at the old master's grief and wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to go down.

After the housekeeper left, Li Hao's expression suddenly became tense.

He knelt before the tablet of Kah Khan.

Tears fell from a pair of somewhat cloudy eyes.

God!
Just three days left!

If this news had arrived three days earlier, Kah Khan wouldn't have had to climb the city wall in person to boost morale, and he wouldn't have...

No if.

Time comes the next day.

In the early morning, Deng Ren was still defending the city.

At this time, he had no idea that Kah Khan was dead.

I just don’t know why the grassland soldiers from the city didn’t arrive today.

Suddenly, Li Hao found Deng Ren alone.

He told Deng Ren that Kah Khan's injuries had healed, and he was now ready to lead the grassland soldiers to secretly leave the city and attack the Huaiyin bandit camp. He asked Deng Ren to lead the rest of the soldiers to defend the city and tie up the main force of the Huaiyin bandits!

After hearing this, Deng Ren had many doubts in his mind.

This plan was too crude. He hadn't heard any rumors before...

But Li Hao did not give Deng Ren a chance to ask questions and left quickly on the grounds of urgent military situation.

Deng Ren was in charge of guarding the city, so he could not easily leave the city wall, so he had to hide these doubts in his heart and wait for a chance to ask again in the future. He had no idea that the grassland people had decided to flee, and he and tens of thousands of Han troops had been abandoned.

After Li Hao left Deng Ren, he immediately ordered a retreat.

A large number of grassland soldiers left the capital in batches and retreated to the grassland along the same route they came.

While retreating, some grassland soldiers inevitably planned to take something away.

For example, gold, silver, women, etc. in the capital.

Without the restraint of Kah Khan, the grassland soldiers began to resemble the ancestors of the Five Barbarians more than a thousand years ago.

Li Hao urgently stopped this behavior and killed hundreds of soldiers who violated the rules to shock the morale of the army.

After hearing about this, the generals of the grassland soldiers came to Li Hao angrily to question him.

"Why kill?"

Li Hao explained that if his soldiers were allowed to violate discipline and loot, it would expose the fact that Kah Khan was dead and the grassland people would be out of control. At that time, Deng Ren would most likely not cover the grassland people's retreat.

After hearing what Li Hao said, the generals on the grassland knew that he made sense, but they were still very dissatisfied with Li Hao for killing so many soldiers at will.

These soldiers are all warriors of the grassland.

He did not die at the hands of the enemy, but now he died at the hands of his own people.

Wasn’t it just robbing some money and a few Han women?
As for direct execution?

This Li Hao really doesn't give them face!

At the same time, in the early morning, the Huaiyin army responsible for the night attack was replaced.

The new Huaiyin army took over the attack.

At this time, the explosives underground have been buried.

In order to blow down the city wall, Fang Yong prepared a lot of explosives, which delayed the process somewhat.

Light the fuse.

Not long after, there was a muffled bang from underground, the ground shook, bricks and stones flew everywhere, and a lot of smoke and dust rose from the cracks in the ground.

Deng Ren was directing on the city wall, and the loud noise made his feet numb.

When the smoke and dust cleared, a huge gap more than two people wide appeared under the southern wall of the capital!

The Huaiyin troops became excited instantly.

Fang Yong appeared in front of the three armies, drew his sword, and pointed at the city wall in the distance.

"All troops attack, and whoever captures the enemy general's head will be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households!"

As soon as the words fell, thousands of Huaiyin troops excitedly launched an attack.

Everyone was dazzled by the impending great victory, even Fang Yong forgot that he was only a duke and had no right to be conferred a title of nobility.

But it doesn't matter, it will be there soon.

"Boom boom boom!"

Several rounds of artillery fire widened the gap in the city wall a little more.

Deng Ren stood on the city wall, looking at the endless Huaiyin army below the city, feeling tremendous pressure and fear.

"Hurry, hurry, fill the gap!"

Deng Ren hurriedly gave the order.

However, the soldiers were so frightened when they saw the countless Huaiyin troops rushing towards the city that they dared not move forward.

Deng Ren quickly killed several soldiers and said in a strong voice:
"Those who disobey military orders will be executed!"

Under the threat of swords from the supervising team, the soldiers carried sandbags, pushed boulders and wood, and blocked the gaps in the city wall.

At this time, the Huaiyin army had already charged forward.

The crashing car hit the gap that had just been filled hard, instantly knocking the gap open.

"Quick, send more troops, and block them!"

"fire!"

"fire!"

Deng Ren gave orders continuously.

The soldiers loaded gunpowder and attacked with cannons.

The Huaiyin army also fired artillery, with more artillery pieces than the defenders on the city wall.

After several rounds of artillery fire, the old gunpowder was used up, and the defending soldiers carried out the new gunpowder that had just been produced by the gunpowder bureau.

Load it in, ignite, boom!
(End of this chapter)