Li Juaner's words touched Zhu Yicheng's heart. This was the first time he had heard such thoughts about himself when he came to this era. Is it possible to do this? What is important is that Li Juaner is just a thirteen-year-old child.

"Okay! OK! Get up, if you have the chance, I will definitely not let you down!" Zhu Yicheng pulled Li Juan'er up with tears in her eyes and gave her a promise.

Hangzhou City couldn't sleep all night. When the sunlight appeared from the east horizon, Yuan Qi's army was also ready to attack the city, and the battle of Hangzhou that shocked the world began.

Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty was not the modern Hangzhou. At that time, Hangzhou was still centered on the city wall. Hangzhou was the capital of the then Southern Song Dynasty and its population began to increase. The court rebuilt the ancient Hangzhou city for this purpose and expanded outwardly in the original Hangzhou city.

The construction scale of Hangzhou City in the Southern Song Dynasty has basically been used to this day, and has been improved on the original basis in the Ming Dynasty. Now, Hangzhou City has a total of ten city gates, namely Wulin Gate, Genshan Gate, Fengshan Gate, Qingtai Gate, Wangjiang Gate, Houchao Gate, Qingbo Gate, Yongkin Gate, Qiantang Gate, and Qingchun Gate.

Yuan Qi's central army was stationed in the Fengshanmen area. The newly equipped navy blocked Wangjiangmen and Houchaomen from the river. The other rebels blocked Qingtaimen, Qingchunmen, Yongkinmen, Qingbomen, Qiantangmen, and Wulinmen, leaving only Genshanmen.

As a result, the situation has formed a form of siege of nine and one, and this method of siege is well-known for military tactics. Yuan Qi is not a fool, and he is naturally capable of rising among the grassroots. Looking at the situation in front of him, Huang Bingzhong and Fu Bao were both very surprised. It seems that this Hangzhou city is not easy to defend.

Not to mention Huang Bingzhong is a civil servant, Fu Bao is not unfamiliar with military affairs as a general in Hangzhou. Originally, the best way to defend was to keep some of his troops outside the city to move around, and then the defenders in the city were strictly guarded and defended, and seized the opportunity to cooperate inside and outside to break the enemy. In this way, the probability of successful defense of the city was the greatest.

But don’t forget that there are not many soldiers in Hangzhou now, and there are only ten civilians mobilized. Moreover, there are ten gates in Hangzhou. If the troops are divided in the Qiantang natural danger, it will inevitably lead to insufficient strength of the Hangzhou defenders.

The defenders are insufficient, let alone implementing the tactics of mobile strikes, if the rebels and ants attack are not good, they will be broken through by the opponent in one breath. Hangzhou, as a major city, must not make any mistakes. This is also the reason why Huang Bingzhong and Fu Bao finally chose to defend the enemy. After all, the personnel difference between the two sides is too big. At present, they can only hold the opponent in Hangzhou and wait for reinforcements from Jiangnan Admiral Zhang Yunyi to rescue him.

Starting from Shaoxing, Yuan Qi's troops were 80,000, and when he set up camp at the city of Hangzhou, his actual troops had exceeded 120,000, and this number was still increasing.

The reason is of course that Li Zicheng's method was used to sweep across the road like a wind and clouds. All the areas passing by, regardless of people or things, were "swallowed" by this rebel army. Although the people who came from the association did not have any combat power, they could not withstand many people! Looking at the densely packed under the city from the top of the city, the officers and soldiers guarding the city were frightened.

"Send the order, siege the city!"

With Yuan Qi's order, the Hangzhou battle officially began. The three gates of Fengshan Gate, Qingchun Gate and Yongkin Gate were the main attack directions, and the other six gates were auxiliary attacks.

First of all, of course, the one who attacked the city would not be Yuan Qi's old camp, nor was he directly under the rebel army. These were Yuan Qi's capital, so it was impossible for him to invest in it from the beginning.

The siege parties sent several other teams of the rebel army, and then a supervising team composed of thousands of people to steer the formation. As for Yuan Qi's elite roaming in the rear, on the one hand, they were guarding against accidents in various units, and on the other hand, they were also secretly staring at the direction of Genshan Gate.

"Marty Wuwei, the prince's attack order has come down, and your troops will attack Yongkinmen first." The messenger rode to Yongkinmen and issued an order to Zhu Jian, who was stationed here.

Zhu Jiancai, who was ready, nodded and made a siege gesture with a gloomy face. With an order, thousands of people from the Association each carried a sack and launched the first wave of siege under the cover of Zhu Jiancai's army.

The wars in ancient times were very cruel, but in fact they were the same until modern times. Whether in China or abroad, once the war broke out, the people were the first to be unlucky. Even the great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union was the same. If the Soviet Union had not devoted countless manpower to the front line at that time and flooded the Germans with soldiers who did not even have a gun, the Soviet Union would have been destroyed long ago.

Now, Zhu Jiancai, or the entire rebel army, did the same thing, directly rushing these ordinary people to attack the city as vanguards. On the one hand, it can consume the military and morale of Hangzhou City, and on the other hand, it can also use this to test the weaknesses of Hangzhou City Defense.

When the first wave of people with ant-twitches rushed towards the city wall, the defenders on the city were ready. As the city rushed closer and closer, with a series of orders, overwhelming feather arrows shot down from the head of the city.

Screams of screams came one after another, and more than a thousand people were shot in a blink of an eye. Some were shot to death, while others fell to the ground and screamed with pains. However, the people of the same family still covered their heads and rushed to the city, then took off the earth bag behind them and threw them down, and then ran back desperately.

When the survivors ran out of the range of the bow and arrow, they completely felt relieved and sat on the ground and gasped. According to the rules of the Rebel Army, as long as you can throw the earth bags into the designated place, they will not go into battle for at least three waves of attacks. This is also the trick of the Ant Hock attack. Although the lives of these people caught are not worth the money, they are just war consumables for the Rebel Army, in this case, they always have to give people some hope. Only in this way can these people work harder.

After the wave ended, more than half of the more than a thousand people who took the battle finally returned. This result made Zhu Jiancai feel relieved. The casualties are still within acceptable range. It seems that Hangzhou's garrison is not strong, and the situation is much better than he expected.

"Continue!" Zhu Jiancai ordered loudly. At this time, the second wave, which was ready, began the previous wave of attacks. When the second wave of people came back, not only were there many survivors than the first wave, but what was even more exciting was that the soil bags piled under the city walls had obviously begun to rise.

Then came the third wave. At the beginning of the third wave, not only did the casualties of ordinary people who attacked the city of Yitu only decreased to 30%, but Zhu Jiancai's Gongcheng equipment and archers also gradually increased the casualties on the front of Hangzhou city.

In just one morning, hundreds of casualties occurred in the three main siege gate defenders. Fu Bao led his troops to wander around the city gates, filling in the crisis wherever the crisis was. The soldiers who died in battle or were injured were lifted down from the city walls, bloodstains and huge rocks flying in the air, feather arrows and turbulent oil tanks were taken away anytime and anywhere.

In the afternoon, the head of Yongkinmen was finally boarded by the rebels and fought fiercely at the top of the city. If Fu Bao had not arrived in time with his mobile troops and finally drove the rebels from the top of the city, the Yongkinmen might have been broken.

By the evening, both the defenders and the siege rebels were exhausted. Yuan Qi ordered the Mingjin to withdraw the troops, and the Hangzhou defenders were exhausted and relieved. The siege battle that day was finally over.
Chapter completed!