Chapter 141
"Siege!"
Almost at the same time, nearly 20,000 People's Army soldiers launched an attack from all sides of Guangzhou City at the same time.
At this time, Ren Jianxiu was still in charge of the north wall. The People's Army kept bombarding the north wall, so Ren Jianxiu believed that the north was still the main attack direction of the People's Army.
The city gates on all sides were blocked, but Ren Jianxiu's face was very ugly at this time. There were only more than 5,000 Ming troops left in Guangzhou City. The young and strong men and the guards of wealthy families had no combat power at all. Nearly 20,000 enemies besieged Guangzhou City. Ren Jianxiu didn't know if he could defend the city this time. Even if he kept it, how many people would die, and whether he could defend the city next time.
The People's Army kept approaching Guangzhou City, and the Ming army's artillery had opened fire, causing slight casualties and injuries to the People's Army.
The Ming army guarding the city did not notice that the People's Army in the south charged faster, the People's Army on the other three sides were more than 200 meters away from the city, and the People's Army in the south was less than 150 meters away from the city.
Seeing that the People's Army was getting closer and closer to the city, the Ming army's musket soldiers on the city wall immediately came to the chassis and prepared to fire at the People's Army.
At this moment, the soldiers of the firearms hidden in the People's Army in the south pulled out the tiger-headed spears on their backs and opened fire at the Ming army on the city wall. In a few seconds, hundreds of Ming troops fell down.
Seeing so many people dead, the Ming general who was responsible for guarding the southern city wall changed drastically.
"How come the thief's musket soldiers are here? No, this is the main attack direction of the thief. Report to Lord Ren and ask for support!"
More importantly, the south city gate was not blocked. The main force of the Ming army was on the north city wall. Yesterday, the north city gate was broken and could be defended, which does not mean that the south city gate could be defended even if it was broken today.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows!"
Braving the rain of arrows, the People's Army soldiers rushed to the south city gate quickly. Just when the People's Army soldiers were about to rush to the south city gate and wanted to use explosives to blow up the south city gate, the South City Gate opened!
As soon as the city gate was opened, a person with the appearance of a leader appeared behind the door immediately shouted: "It was us who opened the city gate. We are not enemies, but friendly forces! We are friendly forces!"
"You guys get out of the way, don't get in the way!"
"Okay, we give way, we give way."
The Ming army, who opened the door, immediately retreated to both sides, and watched hundreds of people's army soldiers rush into the city from the south gate, without any idea of taking action.
Half of the People's Army soldiers who rushed into the city rushed towards the city wall, and most of the Ming army gathered on the city wall; half continued to rush forward, and their mission was to control the city as soon as possible.
Yu Po soon knew about the changes in the city gate area, and his face was full of anger.
"Why did the city gate open? Someone surrendered to the enemy?"
The People's Army easily rushed into the city from the south gate. Yu Po knew that Guangzhou City was really going to be broken by the People's Army this time, and the Ming army had almost no chance to block the People's Army. The main force of the Ming army was on the north wall and there was no time to support it, but Yu Po did not give up.
"Don't panic, follow me and kill all the thieves who rushed into the city." Yu Po shouted, holding a goose-feeding knife in his hand, leading the way toward the People's Army rushing up the city wall.
Seeing that all the generals had arrived, the personal guards and some Ming soldiers rushed forward. Some of the remaining Ming soldiers turned around and escaped, while some hesitated on the spot, not knowing whether to escape or go forward to fight.
"kill!"
Seeing that the People's Army was about to face the Ming army led by Yu Po, suddenly, more than a dozen iron lumps flew out of the People's Army and fell into the Ming army led by Yu Po.
Before Yu Po and the Ming army could not wait to wonder what the enemy threw over, the next moment, the more than ten iron lumps exploded and the large number of shrapnel produced by the explosion directly killed the surrounding Ming army. Some shrapnel even flew to the People's Army soldiers more than ten meters away, and were finally blocked by the shields in the hands of the soldiers who first climbed the camp.
During the explosion, Yu Po widened his eyes and fell down weakly.
More than a dozen grenades were cleared directly, and dozens of people were killed and injured in the Ming army at once, even the general was killed. The uninjured Ming soldiers around were also blinded by the bombing. When the People's Army soldiers rushed over, they realized that they were killed by the People's Army soldiers before they could resist.
"Put down your weapons, and those who surrender will not kill them!" shouted a man.
"Put down your weapons, and those who surrender will not kill them!" multiple people shouted.
Hearing these words of persuasion, even though several Ming soldiers who were blown off their courage dropped their weapons and chose to surrender, the Ming soldiers still wanted to resist, and the next moment they were killed by several knives.
The People's Army was quickly clearing the Ming army on the south wall of Guangzhou City, and reinforcements from the other three walls were quickly rushing towards the south wall.
Ren Jianxiu didn't know that the People's Army had rushed into the city from the south gate, but the enemies outside the north wall, the east wall and the west wall on the battlefield stopped more than 100 meters away, making Ren Jianxiu understand that these three sides were not the main attack direction of the People's Army, and the south wall that did not block the city gate was the main attack direction of the People's Army.
Ren Jianxiu quickly mobilized his troops to support the South City Wall, but he felt more and more bad feelings. If the situation was yesterday, the People's Army should have rushed into the city at this time. With the situation of the South City Wall, Ren Jianxiu did not think that the South City Wall could block the main force of the People's Army.
Regret, Ren Jianxiu really regretted death. If he had known this, he would not have persuaded the governor to block the South City Gate. Even if he had no way forward, he would have been better than now.
He could no longer stay in the north city wall, Ren Jianxiu took his personal guards to rush to the south city wall. He hoped that by the time he rushed there, the enemy in the south had been driven out of the city by the Ming army.
Just when the People's Army controlled most of the southern city walls, reinforcements from both east and west walls had arrived. Facing the enemy reinforcements, the grenadiers took action again, throwing out a wave of grenades, killing dozens or hundreds of people, and making the other Ming troops lose the courage to continue fighting.
"rush!"
"Put down your weapons, and those who surrender will not kill them!"
With the cooperation of the camp and the grenadiers, the People's Army advanced rapidly, and the South City Wall was completely controlled. The Ming army, who was cleaning up the East City Wall and the West City Wall, saw that the situation was irreversible, and some of the Ming army began to flee.
"Sir, the South City Wall is lost."
Ren Jianxiu and his personal guards came to the center of the city when they received news of the loss of the South City Wall. His face turned pale. Ren Jianxiu knew that he no longer needed to go to the South City Wall. The Guangzhou city was over.
"Guangzhou City is out of salvation, you can run away from your own lives." Ren Jianxiu said to his personal guards, then walked tremblingly towards the place where Wu Wenhua was at this moment.
The guards looked at their own adult figure and hesitated for a moment and chased after them. As the guards, they were unwilling to leave and could not leave. Even if they died, they had to take one step ahead of their own adults.
The relationship between the personal guard and the general is very close, and the relationship is equivalent to the master and servant. The general entrusts his life and death to the personal guards. Often, the general dies and the personal guards commit suicide and follow him.
Ren Jianxiu's personal guards were the ones he had when he was the general before. After Ren Jianxiu was dismissed, these personal guards left the Ming army and stayed with Ren Jianxiu as escorts. Wu Wenhua re-activated Ren Jianxiu, and the personal guards regained their identities.
Chapter completed!