347. The raging flame
The fire burned the houses in Haikang County, but it seemed to ignite the blood in the hearts of the people.
The people's hearts that were gradually forgotten because of their ordinary life, their resentment and anger towards the Yuan thieves once again surged into their hearts.
Although there are still people leaving the city in panic, that is only a very small number.
More and more people ran to the streets with kitchen knives, hoes, shoulder poles, etc., and many even rushed to the city gate.
When Zhang Jue saw this scene, tears filled his eyes.
It seemed that he returned to the time when Chongqing Prefecture was besieged, where the people were the same, united in stubbornly resisting the Yuan army.
Su Liuyi was also stunned.
He suddenly understood why the emperor valued the people so much.
It turns out that this is the power of the people.
Perhaps many nobles also have such bloodiness, but compared to the general public, the power of the nobles undoubtedly seems very weak at this moment.
If all the people in the world are like this, why worry about the country not being able to recover?
Zhang Jue asked Su Liuyi to arrange military soldiers, ran to the front of the people, and persuaded them to go back with great sincerity.
War is the business of soldiers. Before Haikang County was completely destroyed, he would never want to see these people die under the butcher knife of the Yuan army.
At this moment, he was thinking that even if he died, he would still have to defend this Haikang County.
Outside the city, in the night sky.
Ren Wei led the Flying Army to approach the sky above the Yuan army camp at this time.
At this time, under them, on the official road, you could see the Yuan army torches stretching out, and a large army was heading towards Haikang County.
The Yuan army was not surprised by the backup plan.
Ren Wei didn't know whether Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng had left the military camp. After hesitating, he decided to restrain these Yuan troops first.
He didn't know what the situation was in the county town now, and whether the two deputy military orders, Su Liuyi and Zhang Jue, stabilized the situation. If the city was still as chaotic as when he left the city, then the tens of thousands of troops would be very likely to cause a catastrophe to Haikang County.
In this situation, it is obviously more important to buy time for Zhang Jue, Su Liuyi.
In this way, with the fear of countless Yuan army soldiers, Ren Wei led the Flying Army to fly to their heads.
Thunders fell down one by one.
In such a night where you can't see your fingers, the Sky Thunder is obviously even more difficult to guard against. No one can see where the Sky Thunder will fall.
Many fires exploded on the official road.
The originally stretched torches of the Yuan army immediately seemed a little panicked.
Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng are now in front of this army. They are both wearing armor and full of solemn faces.
However, Li Heng's fat body was covered with armor, and he felt a little funny no matter how he looked.
The war horse under his seat was panting, which was a disaster.
Seeing the Song army throwing thunder into their army, both of them looked ugly, but they had to shout: "Continue to march! Continue to march!"
The two tried their best to suppress the panic in the army.
The messengers and generals conveyed their orders.
This did make the army's morale a little stable and withstood the initial panic. However, the soldiers of the Yuan army were still unavoidable to be bombarded by thunder.
Hot air balloons can be considered a bug in this era.
If the Song Dynasty could have tens of thousands of hot air balloons, not to mention defeating the Yuan Dynasty and regaining the country, it would be no problem to rule the whole world.
Unfortunately, with the craftsmanship of this era, the speed of heating balloons was too slow. This made the Flying Army unable to achieve a large climate in a short period of time.
In a short while, many Yuan army corpses fell on the official road.
Thousands of sky-burning thunders carried by the Flying Army were all thrown below in a short period of time, and the scene was shocking.
When Ren Wei led the Flying Army back to Haikang, there were probably as many as 20,000 soldiers in the army of Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng.
But the two still led their troops to continue to go to Hikkam.
Because even though the army suffered heavy losses, they still had a great advantage over the Song army in the city.
As long as they can destroy Haikang County, these soldiers who died in battle can be said to be dead. And they can also give an explanation to Kublai Khan.
In this way, just over ten minutes, the cavalry of the Yuan army had already reached outside Haikang County. The infantry was only a few miles away from Haikang County.
Before Ren Wei could lead the Flying Army to the sky before he could return to Haikang County, the Yuan army outside the city had already launched an attack on Haikang County.
More than 20,000 cavalry quickly rushed outside the city wall like a tide.
The defense of the Song army on the top of the city has not been fully expanded, and the firepower has not been fully poured down.
The cannon chariots also had limited attacks on the extremely fast cavalry of the Yuan army.
A Song army soldiers kept pouring tinder oil into the city, which once again caused fire to rise below the city.
But compared with the Yuan army's offensive, these fires obviously cannot completely block the Yuan army.
A military soldier jumped to the moat with many corpses floating on it and built a floating bridge.
With a thud, the Yuan army cavalry rushed to the suspension bridge one after another, approaching the city gate that had not been fully sealed.
Rockets soared into the sky and shot towards the Song army on the top of the city.
Some rockets detonated the sky-booming thunder on the city wall, causing occasional explosions on the city.
The 30,000 Leizhou Army has fought to this point, and only nearly 20,000 are left. The Yuan army's artillery chariots have caused a lot of damage to the Song army before on the coast.
The Song army stationed on the inside of the city gate was 5,000, and there were only 15,000 above the city gate, so it was naturally a little empty.
If it weren't for thousands of militias to help, the Song army's form would probably be even more critical.
At this time, Zhang Jue had already run up to the city and ordered the soldiers to pour turbulent oil downwards, thunder and shoot arrows.
However, they couldn't see clearly what was going on under the city wall.
The fire did not shine through the entire city. Some Yuan army pontoon bridges were blown to pieces, but some were successfully built on the moat.
More and more Yuan troops rushed to the city gate.
The fight lasted for more than ten minutes.
Ren Wei led the Flying Army to leave Haikang County again and head out of the city.
But this time, they returned in vain.
Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng learned their lessons. When the army marched, they ordered the soldiers to extinguish the torches.
With the vague moonlight, they were still able to march. However, the Flying Army at high altitude could no longer capture their place.
After Ren Wei returned to Haikang County, he poured thunder in the sky above the city towards the vanguard of the Yuan army. But immediately afterwards, the Yuan army infantry also arrived.
Tens of thousands of people attacked the city at the same time. After Zhao Dongting took office, it was far from an unprecedented battle, but the huge scene was absolutely unquestionable.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is crowded with people.
Amid the continuous sound of cannons, more and more Yuan troops rushed into the city.
The city gate had long been blown up, and this was the fifth wave of offensive launched by the Yuan army into the city.
Haikang County is facing unprecedented pressure.
Su Liuyi personally led a large army to use the Shenlong gun to thunder to block the Yuan army, but the Yuan army's thunder bombing of the sky also caused them to suffer heavy damage.
The new type of artillery chariot is very small, just like the previous knife chariot. Although the Yuan army had burned many artillery chariots before, it was obvious that there were still reserves in the army.
This made the Dragon Gun unable to do everything in every way.
When the Yuan army infantry also rushed into the city gate corridor, the thousands of Song troops led by Su Liuyi were unprecedentedly under pressure.
However, Su Liu Yishuai never retreated.
Behind his thousands of soldiers were countless people looking forward to watching.
Many of them did not leave because of Zhang Jue's persuasion. They were all bloody people. Even though they were sweating on their hands, they never left.
The fire in the city has been extinguished.
Wang Wenfu led more than a thousand Imperial College students to a short distance from the city gate.
And behind them, more people were followed.
The people of the Song Dynasty in Haikang County burned completely this night.
The battle at the city gate was unprecedentedly fierce, and corpses were piled up in the corridor inside the city gate. The Yuan army was unable to completely break through the corridor, and this place became their meat grinding field.
Wang Wenfu stood in front of the students of the country's junior high school and kept encouraging them.
Scholars are sometimes really stubborn.
Later, he saw many familiar faces coming here.
I don’t know when the mighty aura of survival and death with Haikang County has spread throughout Haikang County.
Many high-ranking civil officials of the Song Dynasty also led their servants to the city gate.
Officials of all sizes, including Mu Kangxun, Xi Yi, Wen Qi, Chen Jianghan, Gao Manshan, Sun Shichuan, etc., all looked in agitation.
Even Liu Hongyi, who had broken arms, arrived with his servants.
Even female relatives followed out.
A raging flame was burning violently in the hearts of the Southern Song subjects.
This flame seems to be able to destroy the world.
Chapter completed!