Chapter 639 0634 [Massacre]

"General, Husha is not moving his troops, he probably doesn't dare to come to rescue."

"Attack the city tomorrow!"

Zhao Li had just made a decision when a large number of rebels came to surrender from the south.

After asking about their origins, Hou Gai was overjoyed and said to Zhao Li: "Those are the slaves and tenants of the Gao family. After breaking Jian'an City, you can attack Gao's Wubao."

Yelü Yudu asked: "Is that bastard Gao Biao at home?"

Hou Gai said: "No, but his father is."

Yelü Yudu knelt down suddenly: "General, if you break through Gao's Wubao, please kill all the Gao family!"

"What did the Gao family do?" Zhao Li asked.

Yelü Yudu said: "The Liao emperor was captured by him."

Zhao Li was speechless, thinking that you were very active in hunting down Emperor Tianzuo back then, but now you are clamoring to avenge Emperor Tianzuo.

Yelu Yudu certainly did not seek revenge for anyone. He urgently needed to establish his own personality and enhance his prestige among the Khitans, and exterminating the Gao family would just achieve his goal.

Gao Biao was a fierce general of the Jin Dynasty. He had fought hundreds of battles and had almost no defeats. He was good at defeating the enemy with fewer troops.

When he was young, he joined the army for his father and fought against the Jin soldiers. He also followed his father and his family to join the Jin Dynasty.

In history, he not only captured Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Dynasty, but the royal family of the Song Dynasty was also initially confined to his territory.

The most outrageous battle of this man was to lead 3,000 troops to attack Guzhou. He personally brought two family slaves and climbed up the city wall at night. After being discovered by the garrison, the three masters and servants killed the garrison and successfully captured the city.

When Jin Wushu fled to Huangtian Dang in a panic, more than 30 warships under Han Shizhong's command chased him. One of the ships, carrying more than 200 soldiers, had already rushed to Jin Wushu. It was Gao Biao who led dozens of people to board and kill, helping the defeated Jin Wushu to gain a foothold. Otherwise, there would be nothing to come, and Jin Wushu would probably be captured alive there.

This guy is currently under Wanyan Zongwang, and half of his clansmen were relocated to Yanshan Prefecture last year. In Gaizhou, his father, Gao Liuge, stayed behind to guard the manor, and too many clansmen were relocated and it was no longer a force to be reckoned with.

After all, he is a Bohai clansman, so what if he has made many military achievements?

He was still ordered to relocate by the Jin Kingdom, and the entire family was divided into two, and could no longer be a local snake and challenge the court.

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Jian'an City was surrounded on three sides, and artillery had been bombarding the city wall for many days.

There were several large holes on the city wall facing the sea, and it was about to collapse.

We can't wait any longer, because the scouts in front reported that the vanguard of the Liaoyang Jin soldiers was already thirty miles away.

The bombardment continued, and the Ming army was building a floating bridge across the moat.

Wanyan Gou Shi had only experienced two major battles. With his limited experience and ability, he judged that the Ming army should focus on the west. Because there were warships and artillery to cover, the city wall was about to be blown down, and most of the attacks today were feints.

The people in the city guarded the city wall tremblingly, and nearly a thousand Jurchen soldiers were divided into two teams.

One team was led by Wanyan Gou Shi himself as a reserve team for support. The other team was arranged inside the western city wall, ready to fight with the main attack elite of the Ming army at any time.

As for the remaining hundreds of Jurchen soldiers, they were thrown into the countryside to recruit soldiers and collect food. Now they dare not return to the city at all, and have run to join the Liaoyang reinforcements.

Song Jiang led the elite troops and lined up on the shore, seemingly to attack.

The other two sides were all local righteous armies of various ethnic groups, led by Yelu Yudu and Hou Gai.

As the main general, Zhao Li was actually mixed in the Han righteous army. This guy planned to lead his troops to climb first!

Seeing that the enemy troops on three sides were approaching, the people who were temporarily pulled to defend the city were already thinking about escaping. Most of them were forcibly relocated Han and Khitan craftsmen, and some were local Han and Bohai people in Gaizhou. They were often oppressed by the Jurchens, so how could they fight to the death now?

The siege troops in the east and south rushed to the city wall with ladders.

Song Jiang in the west also led his troops to start a feint attack.

The defenders in the city hurriedly threw wooden sticks and poured gold juice, and soon a wall was attacked by the Han righteous army. Wanyan Gou Shi hurriedly brought the reserve troops to reinforce and killed the Han righteous army who climbed the city.

"Beat the drum!"

Zhao Li saw it clearly through the telescope, and immediately shouted, and rushed forward with more than 30 elite soldiers.

As the drum sounded, Yelu Yudu and Hou Gai each led their warriors to attack fiercely.

Zhao Li led his troops to rush to the nearby area, and his group of people were well-armored and soon found abnormal.

Wanyan Gou Shi actually left dozens of archers nearby, and they came over and shot arrows at Zhao Li.

The two rebel armies were defeated, but Zhao Li continued to charge forward and soon became the target of the archers' concentrated fire. When he rushed to the bottom of the city, he had six arrows stuck in his body, and one arrow even hit his cheek.

The golden juice here had been poured out, and the remaining ones had not yet burned hot.

The soldiers guarding the city hurriedly shot arrows, and the temporary militia also threw down wooden poles in fear.

The flying ladder to avoid the beating had been set up, and Zhao Li broke the arrow that shot into his cheek and climbed up wearing armor weighing dozens of kilograms.

The soldiers guarding the city wanted to push the flying ladder down with a fork pole, but found that there were iron hooks on the battlement wall, so they tried to pry the iron hooks of the flying ladder. The rest were still throwing wooden poles, but they were blocked by the flying ladder's anti-beating pole, and the wooden poles rolled to the side and injured a Ming soldier.

Zhao Li climbed higher and higher, and a long spear stabbed down, and the tip of the spear pierced the helmet and slid to the side.

He didn't care and continued to climb up.

The guard leaned out his upper body and stabbed down with his spear.

Zhao Li grabbed the ladder with one hand and grabbed the enemy's spear with the other hand, and climbed two more steps with the help of the force. The enemy who was holding the spear was almost pulled off the wall by him.

Finally climbed up, Zhao Li pulled out the iron bone flower from his waist, suddenly climbed up the wall, and smashed a guard's arm and broke it.

He waved the iron bone flower in his hand continuously, and defeated the militia around him by himself.

The Jurchen archers drew their swords to attack him, and they chopped on his armor with clanging sounds. Zhao Li hit them to death and injured two of them.

In this period of time, more than 30 elite soldiers brought by Zhao Li, except for one who was injured by a wooden beam, climbed up the city wall one after another.

The main force of the Jurchens led by Wanyan Gou Shi was rescuing another city wall, and Yelu Yudu almost led his troops to attack it. The other main force of the Jurchens was guarding against the elite Ming army led by Song Jiang.

Zhao Li's side completed the first climb, but there were no strong soldiers to defend, and more than 30 people quickly killed the defenders. They split into two groups, and took the miscellaneous rebels who climbed the city later, chasing and killing them in the east and west respectively.

The temporary militias who guarded the city were so scared that they fled back to the city. They were afraid that the Ming army would massacre the city, but they wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape with their families.

Zhao Li had led his troops to the section of the wall where Wanyan Gou Shi was. Yelu Yudu took the opportunity to attack fiercely. With Zhao Li's cooperation and containment, he also successfully led his troops to attack the top of the city. Hou Gai led the Haner Yijun and climbed the city with the help of another group of Ming troops who had climbed the city first.

Li Kui took advantage of the chaos to go around to the north wall and attacked unexpectedly, where there was a gap in the three-way siege.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

The drums outside the city were getting louder and louder. A group of Ming troops who climbed the city killed the defenders at the city gate and opened the city gate to let more friendly troops in.

Shouts spread from the city gate to the streets, and the militiamen who were still on the city wall completely collapsed. One by one, they abandoned their positions in panic and fled towards their homes.

Wanyan Gou Shi was attacked from both sides by Zhao Li and Yelu Yudu. The defense area became narrower and narrower, and it even became crowded with people as they kept retreating.

Zhao Li mechanically waved the iron bone flower, and his soldiers would help stab the enemy with long spears. With no distractions, he hit almost everyone with a hammer, and those hit by the iron bone flower were either killed or injured.

From time to time, a long spear pierced the gaps in the armor, and more and more blood oozed out of Zhao Li's armor.

But he seemed to be unaware and continued to shoot heads.

This group of besieged Jurchen soldiers had actually collapsed long ago, because they had nowhere to escape and were crowded together. The Jurchen soldiers inside were squeezed so hard that they couldn't even hold their weapons, and the Jurchen soldiers on the periphery were just stabbing and slashing randomly.

Wanyan Gou Shi was squeezed in the middle and found it difficult to breathe. Suddenly, he felt his back loosen up, but it turned out that a Jurchen soldier chose to jump over the wall in fear.

At some point, Wanyan Gou Shi's mind was confused, his eyes turned black and he fell down with a bang.

It wasn't enough to take a hammer to the head, another Ming soldier shot him in the throat.

On the west wall, Li Kui had already helped Song Jiang climb the city, and the two killers were all elite soldiers trained by Zhao Li. They rushed with their soldiers, and more than 400 Jurchen soldiers quickly fled, following the horse path from the city wall into the city.

Countless local rebels, as well as the cannibalistic demons from Shamen Island, have entered from various city gates.

They killed men when they saw them, robbed women when they saw them, and looted floating wealth when they saw them. To put it bluntly, they wanted to massacre the city.

The reinforcements of the Jin soldiers in Liaoyang were about to arrive, and the Ming Dynasty would not defend this place to death. It was the best choice to quickly turn it into an empty city.

After sweeping the entire city, Zhao Li even ordered the houses to be burned down.

Under the massacre and looting, discipline still had to be emphasized, that is, all the looted things must be handed in, and then uniformly distributed according to military merits.

Whoever dared to hide privately was found, and if it reached a certain value, he would be beheaded, and if he only hid a small amount of wealth, he would also be beaten with a military stick!

In half a day, this place became an empty city.

Some young and strong people escorted the elderly, weak, women and children, and wealth and supplies, and took boats to Lushunkou in batches.

The remaining troops and young men dragged more than ten artillery pieces and headed for Gao's Wubao, more than ten miles south.

The troops there were even more than those in the city.

Because the Gao family was also arranged to recruit soldiers, plus the Gao family's private soldiers, there were more than 2,000 defenders in Wubao.

They were mainly Bohai people, and their equipment was not very good, because the real elite of the Gao family had all followed Gao Biao to Yanshan Prefecture at this moment.

Gao Liuge was already too old to bear it. Looking at the enemy outside Wubao, he could only hope that reinforcements would arrive quickly.

If half of his clansmen had not been relocated, Gao Liuge would have surrendered immediately.

He had also fought for the Liao Kingdom in the past. Seeing that the Liao Kingdom was doomed, he immediately surrendered to the Jin Dynasty with his son.

What's wrong with surrendering to the Ming Dynasty now?

But he couldn't surrender. His beloved son, half of the Gao family in Gaizhou, were now under the rule of Wanyan Zongwang!

He had to hold on and wait for help.

The enemy outside the city launched strange weapons one after another. Brother Gao Liu leaned out to look carefully, but his old eyes were blurry and he could not see clearly.

"Boom boom boom!"

A series of cannon shots shook the walls of Wubao violently.

The old brother Gao Liu could not stand steadily and fell to the ground. His grandson hurried to help him and found that the old man had fainted.