Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 661 We are finished, run away...

Shaharul was very angry when his men retreated. He snatched the knife from the hands of the law enforcement team and slashed at the retreating soldiers crazily.

However, when faced with an unknown weapon, the soldiers who could not stop flinching even though Shahalu was so ruthless could only watch the legendary man escape surrounded by a group of soldiers.

Although Shaharul could not prevent the retreat of the Ming army, he naturally took over the city of Samarkand and sent 5 people to violently attack the Ming Palace, which was many times smaller.

Zhu Yunxi entered the palace, still thinking about the people of Kangdu City.When he saw Shaharul killing people and setting fire to the city of Kangdu, he shed sad tears.

Upon seeing this, Yang Shiqi hurriedly cried too.

"Your Majesty, you are so worried about the people of Kangdu City. The people in the city will definitely shed tears of gratitude when they find out, wuwuwu..."

Lan Yu rolled her eyes angrily when she heard this. What's there to cry about for a group of foreign people?

What's more, the person who killed them was their former prince.

Even if the people in the city hate him, they should hate Timur's fourth son.

Seeing what Yang Shiqi said, Qi Tai immediately flattered Zhu Yunxi and saved him some face of loving the people like a son.

"Your Majesty is worried about the people, which is really a blessing to the people of Kangdu City..."

With such shameless compliments, the two of them completely forgot who had just given the order to abandon Kangdu City and flee to the palace.

However, Zhu Yunxi had no choice but to give up Kangdu. Shaharul could enter Samarkand through the tunnels. Even if they beat these people out, who knows how many tunnels Timur still left in Samarkand.

Therefore, instead of staying in a capital city that seems to be high and deep, but full of countless hidden dangers, it is better to retreat to the newly built palace.

At least there are no tunnels prepared by the enemy in advance in the palace.

Zhu Yunxi was really embarrassed by the two people's praise, so he could only wipe away his tears and change the subject.

"Hurry up and notify the officials in the city through an emergency telegram and ask them to find a place to hide. As long as you escape for these two days, I will be able to recapture Kangdu!"

"promise!"

While Kong Yanjin hurried to the telecommunications office of the palace to send an emergency telegram, Zhu Yunxi looked at the burning city of Kangdu and prayed silently in his heart.

"Grandpa Huang, now my grandson admires your foresight. If you hadn't sent over 20 troops despite your objections, my grandson would have really failed this time!"

The biggest reason why Zhu Yunxi dared to play the empty city strategy was the 20 garrison troops sent to him by Lao Zhu.

In the past few years, the combat effectiveness of the Guard Army has soared under his management. They are almost out of production and spend all day learning the use of new weapons in the Guard House.

Although the most advanced ones are not fully equipped, some outdated muskets and artillery have long been distributed to the ordinary guards of the Ming Dynasty and have become their daily training tools.

"Gong Guo Ying, you and Duke Liang will take stock of the palace arsenal and see how many suitable weapons there are."

When the two heard this, they quickly agreed and then ran towards the palace arsenal.

After the two left, Qi Tai looked at Zhu Yunxi worriedly.

"Your Majesty, the enemy has occupied Kangdu. If they dismantle the artillery on the wall of Kangdu and attack the palace, we..."

Zhu Yunxi had already thought of this problem, and it was what he was crying about just now.

"I just hope they can move slower and Grandpa Huang's reinforcements can move faster..."

"His Majesty the Emperor's reinforcements?"

"The emperor heard that I was injured in an assassination, so he specially selected 20 guardsmen from the country and sent them to avenge me..."

When Qitai heard this, a look of surprise immediately appeared on his face.

"His Majesty the Emperor is wise!"

"By the way, Your Majesty, how far are the reinforcements sent by His Majesty from us?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head upon hearing this.

"I don't know, they report once every three days. The last time they reported, they were still two hundred miles away from us, but this afternoon, I sent someone to send them an emergency telegram, asking them to speed up their march and make sure to arrive before dark. We rushed to Kangdu City before."

When Qi Tai heard this, he silently counted with his fingers. A normal march could cover fifty miles in one day, and it would take four days at the fastest to reach two hundred miles.

"So the reinforcements will arrive before sunset tomorrow?"

Zhu Yunxi nodded when he heard the words.

"Almost, but how are we going to get through this night?"

After Shaharul occupied Kangdu, he immediately sent people to dismantle the cannons on the city wall.

Although he has not used this thing much, he is still very clear about the power of this thing. It is a magical tool for attacking cities.

"Be careful, if you break the cannon, I'll cut your necks off!"

A group of Khorassan soldiers carried the cannon and moved step by step towards the bottom of the city wall.

It took a full hour to successfully transport a cannon to the square in front of the palace.

With the help of cannons, Shaharul became more confident in capturing Zhu Yunxi alive. He immediately ordered people to light the cannon fuse and fired a cannon towards the palace gate.

After one shot, there was almost no other damage except for an extra layer of iron sand and debris on the palace gate.

This made Shaharul very angry and ordered the soldiers to load the shells and continue to fight.

When Shaharul attacked the city, the soldiers on the city wall went from horror to surprise.

"Hahaha, this idiot brought the explosive bombs used to defend the city. This thing only has a large explosive surface and is not very powerful..."

Zhu Yunxi also saw that the other side had not selected a good shell, and what they brought over were explosive shells that relied on iron sand and fragments to hurt people.

"It seems like Prince Shaharul doesn't know how to use firearms?"

When the officials on the city wall saw His Majesty making a joke, they all laughed in cooperation.

Mishalan also laughed with everyone, but his smile was obviously a bit forced.

At this time, Mishalan was also complaining a little bit about Shaharul. If this guy had learned more and looked at more things, he wouldn't have made such a serious mistake!

What a great opportunity to capture Zhu Yunxi alive, but he missed it in vain.

If you miss this time, you may never have another chance...

When Shaharul saw that three cannons were fired in succession and the thin gates of the palace were intact, he immediately lost his temper.

"Come here, lift another one from the city wall, I don't believe we can't open this broken city gate!"

Shaharul ordered someone to carry a bigger cannon this time. Although he didn't know much about firearms, he at least knew how to carry a big cannon.

When Shaharul carried the cannon out, the people on the city wall fell silent.

Zhu Yunxi also fell silent, because there was only one cannon in the entire Kangdu City, and it was a super long-range cannon specially used to snipe enemy camps.

This cannon has a small attack surface, but its range is very long and its power is very powerful.

If Shaharul used this to attack the city, it would not take two cannons to blow the palace gate into pieces.

After a burst of rumbling, the earthquake that Zhu Yunxi expected did not happen. Instead, just like the previous times, he still just felt the ground shake, and then nothing happened.

The officers and soldiers on the city wall tried their best to open their eyes after the smoke dissipated. They saw dense iron sand and shrapnel on the city gate, but the gate was still strong as a whole, standing there proudly.

"Did they just replace the cannon and not the shells?"

As soon as this thought came out, the officers and soldiers on the city didn't know whether to laugh or be grateful that they were alive.

Shaharul had so many good artillery shells lying around in Kangdu City, so why did he focus on these useless shells?
Zhu Yunxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had escaped another disaster.

"It's too dangerous!"

"But we still can't take any chances. We quickly ordered people to lay bricks and pile earth behind the city gate."

Qi Tai quickly replied after hearing this.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Duke Ying has already ordered people to prepare."

Shaharul changed two more cannons, but still failed to knock down the palace, and realized that the problem might be the cannonballs.

But there were too many cannonballs on the Ming Dynasty wall, and many of them looked very similar. He didn't know which one was the most powerful, so he could only order people to transport all the cannonballs and try them one by one under the gate of the palace.

When he reached the tenth try, the Ming soldiers watching the fun on the city finally changed to serious expressions.In the morning light, Shaharul's soldiers carried an oval cannonball shaped like a loofah, stuffed it into the barrel of the cannon with difficulty, and then held a torch behind the butt of the cannon...

"Hey, where's the lead?"

The soldier in charge of igniting the cannon looked at the bare butt of the cannon and was completely confused.

"Who lost the entire lead?"

"lead?"

Upon hearing this, Shaharul hurriedly came up and watched the cannon become furious.

"Hurry up and push the shell out for me, replace the fuse and put it back in..."

"Yes!"

A group of soldiers hurriedly pushed the shell out and found a lead to add it, but found that the shell was extremely smooth and there was no place to insert the lead.

"Your Highness, this cannonball has no place for fuses, so it may not need fuses..."

"No need for a lead?"

"Then how does it get out?"

Shaharul's words stumped his artillerymen. These artillerymen had never been exposed to artillery a few times, and all they had come into contact with were very old things. They didn't know how to use this thing.

After a group of artillerymen studied the cannonballs for almost an hour, a wise man finally slapped his forehead.

"Your Highness, I have an idea!"

"We could put the shells in the cannon and set up a fire behind the shells."

"Although we don't know where the cannonball fuse is installed, as long as it is a cannonball, there must be gunpowder inside. If we make a fire through the iron sheet of the cannonball, we can also ignite the gunpowder inside..."

Shaharul's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Yes!"

"This way is good!"

"Come here, get me ten torches to burn!"

"If you succeed this time, I will reward you with a hundred cows!"

Shaharul boasted proudly and hid in the distance to closely follow the progress of the burning cannon.

After the ten torches continued to burn for half a quarter of an hour, the cannon suddenly made a muffled "bang" sound and instantly blasted open the city gate blocking everyone.

Shaharul shouted excitedly when he saw this.

"Success!"

"We finally opened the city gate. When the smoke clears, everyone rushes to me..."

"Yes!"

Shaharul said to wait for the smoke, but how could his soldiers really wait? Before the smoke cleared, they rushed forward with their weapons raised high.

However, they only rushed back halfway.

First, the soldiers on the top of the city kept shooting them with fire blunderbuss. Second, when they walked in and took a look, they found that the inside of the city gate had long been filled with sand, gravel and soil.

"Your Highness, the city gate is blocked from the inside..."

"what?"

"Then keep blasting me!"

With their first successful experience, Shaharul's artillerymen quickly reloaded the artillery shells, and then continued to fire the cannons in the same manner.

After the second cannon blast, not to mention the masonry and earth in the city gate were gone, even the city gate tower was lifted.

Shaharul looked at the empty gap and burst out laughing triumphantly.

"Hahaha, we finally blasted through this broken city wall!"

"Everyone, come to me. Capture the Emperor of Ming Dynasty alive and reward ten thousand households!"

Shaharul took the lead and charged with the other soldiers.

The defenders in the city fired wildly upon seeing this, but still failed to stop the attack of Shaharul's army.

While they were fighting inextricably, each taking out bayonets, broadswords and other weapons to fight hand-to-hand, a loud horn sound came from the valley to the east.

"Woo~~~"

As a dull "woo~" sound came, the city was fighting desperately, and the Ming soldiers guarding Zhu Yunxi were stunned for a moment.

"Reinforcement!"

"Our reinforcements have arrived!"

At the shout of support, everyone burst out with unimaginable courage and fearlessly fought towards the enemy.

Shaharul also heard the sound of the horn, and quickly looked back in horror, only to see dust flying in the valley not far away, and birds and animals running away like crazy.

"Does the Ming Dynasty still have reinforcements?"

"Didn't my father say that the Ming Dynasty only had these armies, and he used a trick to transfer them all away?"

Shaharul's generals saw this and hurriedly admonished him.

"Your Highness, let's run away!"

"I'm not sure how many people are ambushed in the valley. It looks like 10 people are at least..."

"One hundred thousand?"

Shaharu also trembled in his heart when he heard this. They couldn't defeat [-] Ming soldiers, plus [-] useless Kangdu soldiers. What would happen if another [-] Ming troops came?
But after a second thought, Shaharul gave up the idea of ​​​​escape and turned to look at the Ming soldiers who were struggling desperately.

"kill!"

"Only by capturing the Emperor of Ming Dynasty alive can we have a chance of survival!"

After Shaharul said this, he charged forward on his horse. Seeing how brave their king was, the others also charged after the beaten man.

Both sides knew that this was the most critical moment, and everyone burst out with endless fighting spirit.

There is only one result of such an astonishing fighting spirit, and that is hundreds or even thousands of people falling on the battlefield every minute.

Soon, there were fewer and fewer people standing around Zhu Yunxi.

In contrast, although many people died on Shaharul's side, there were still tens of thousands of people left after all.

However, just as Shaharul was about to launch the final charge, he suddenly heard bursts of roaring, and then one after another cannonballs exploded in his cavalry phalanx.

Shaharu glanced behind him reluctantly and saw artillery fire on the mountain not far away, attacking fiercely towards him.At the same time, a cavalry force shot out of the valley, less than a few dozen feet away from him.

"Your Highness, we are done, run away..."

Seeing this, Shaharul knew that there was no point in continuing the fight, so he could only follow the advice of his subordinates and flee crazily with his cavalry.

The infantry brought by Shaharul saw their lord fleeing with his men, and their combat effectiveness was reduced to zero.

Seeing enemies in front and behind them, they were instantly confused and didn't know what to do.

Someone shouted, "Put down your weapons, surrender without killing." As if they had grasped a life-saving straw, these people quickly dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.

When the cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, they were filled with hatred when they saw this strange scene. They wished they could put their weapons back into their hands, and then hack a few to death to relieve their anger.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of killing prisoners. After seeing them lay down their weapons and kneel down to surrender, the cavalry that came non-stop did not embarrass them, but bypassed them and went straight to the city.

At this time, Zhu Yunxi also ordered his people to raise the canopy of his yellow umbrella to show his whereabouts to his people.

"Your Majesty, General Zhang Jiang has been late in rescuing us. I hope your Majesty will forgive me!"

(End of this chapter)