At the city of Wuchang, the Han army dug trenches and advanced. After more than ten days, they finally pushed the trenches to the city of Wuchang.

The Han army then advanced forward and set up a mortar cannon. The soldiers approached the city wall from the trenches, avoiding the defending cannons, killing the Han army exposed to the city, causing the cannons in the city to lose their function.

Starting from mid-April, the Han army launched a fierce attack on Wuchang, and the two sides fought fiercely under the city of Wuchang.

In a few days, the Han army lost a gunboat, more than ten military ships, and more than 3,000 casualties. The city defenders, under the suppression of mortars, suffered even more casualties, with nearly 10,000 people.

This puts the Wuchang defenders under great pressure.

At this time, in the eastern suburbs of Wuchang, artillery roared and smoke filled the gunpowder.

The city was exploding, smoke and dust rolled, and water columns soaring into the sky were splashed on the moat.

The Han soldiers, wearing shields, quickly passed through the moat from the floating ladder. The splashing water column fell from mid-air, and together with the arrows in the sky, falling down. From time to time, the Han army was caught in arrows and fell into the moat.

In the trench, Li Chengdong waved his sword and yelled, "Go to another battalion of soldiers and rush for me!"

The general gritted his teeth and roared, leading three thousand soldiers and horses, carrying a ladder, jumped out of the trench, and charged under the city.

Three miles away, under the Han army's flag, Zhao Ming stood on a horse and observed the battlefield with a thousand-mile mirror.

Below the city wall, Han soldiers were everywhere like ants. Nearly a hundred cloud ladders were erected on the entire East City Wall. Han soldiers were on their shields and rolled on the top of the city, falling like hail, and Han soldiers screamed and fell one after another.

Zhao Ming looked at the battlefield, the battle was extremely fierce. He threw the fire pot on the top of the city, and hot oil and gold juice kept spilling, causing extremely heavy casualties in the Han army.

However, Zhao Ming was unmoved. After all, there were no one who could not die in the siege. Moreover, the newly-involved people are all newly recruited, so Zhao Ming didn't feel much distressed.

At this time, when the battle was fierce, a fast horse suddenly rushed into the Han army camp.

A moment later, Zhang Jiayu came out of the camp, rode a horse to Zhao Ming, and whispered.

When Zhao Ming heard the words, he frowned, turned his head suddenly and looked at Zhang Jiayu.

Zhang Jiayu nodded, "Hu Weizong has entered the camp!"

"Ding Ding Ding" a golden sound rang out.

The Han soldiers who were sieging the city were stunned when they heard the sound, and then retreated like a tide.

A small number of Han soldiers who rushed to the city wall hurriedly descended from the ladder. The Han army musketeers who were afraid of killing their own people by chance by chance immediately raised their muskets and shot them at the city wall, causing gravel to splash and smoke and dust to spread.

The Ming army on the city was suppressed by muskets and did not dare to emerge. The Han soldiers immediately set up the wounded and hurriedly retreated across the moat. As soon as the infantrymen retreated, the Han army musketeers who suppressed the city at the moat also retreated into the trenches.

Yuan Zongdi, the guard general with a smoke on the top of the city, stood by the city wall, looking at the dense heads in the trenches, evacuating the city. The defenders repelled the Han army's attack again, and couldn't help but raise their weapons and shouted excitedly: "The rebels have retreated!"

The Ming army cheered loudly on the top of the city, but with the sound of the Ming army's artillery array, the cheering Ming army immediately squatted down and hid behind the walls.

In the Han army camp, the retreating Han army was lying in the camp, and the doctors walked through the soldiers, bandaged the wounds for the injured soldiers and carried away the seriously injured.

Li Chengdong was wearing armor and holding a helmet in one hand, passing through the soldiers, and quickly walked towards the Han King's tent.

Outside the tent, a row of guards holding muskets and bayonets, with their chests raised and their waists stood straight on both sides. When they saw Li Chengdong coming, they immediately saluted with their feet.

At this time, Li Chengdong walked straight to the tent and came in. He was about to ask why he stopped the troops, but when he saw that the atmosphere in the tent seemed to be wrong, he swallowed the words to his mouth, and did not dare to talk too much, and stood silently in a corner.

Because of his rebellion and unpopularity, Li Chengdong is now like a young wife. He doesn't dare to speak loudly or stand up, and is very low-key.

At this time, Zhao Ming stood in front of a map, broke the wooden pole in his hand, and said angrily: "Wu Sangui, the clown who jumped the beam, dared to challenge Gu!"

There was a person kneeling on one knee in the tent. It was Hu Weizong, the commander of the Military Information Department. He whispered: "King, according to the detailed news from the Xi'an Military Information Department, Guanzhong is already gathering troops and will send troops to rescue Wuchang in the near future!"

When Li Chengdong heard the words, he was shocked. Wu Sangui also wanted to trek into this muddy water?

Zhao Ming regained his calmness and asked, "How many troops are Wu Sangui planning to send?"

Hu Weizong said: "According to the transfer of food and grass, it is estimated that it is between 150,000 and 200,000!"

The generals in the tent whispered, and Li Chengdong was shocked. Wu Sangui was about to send more than 100,000 troops. Is there still a variable to surrender to the wrong person?

Without waiting for everyone to come back from their surprise, Hu Weizong sent another message, "King, according to the news from the secret spies, Wuchang not only requested assistance from the Zhou Kingdom, but also requested assistance from the Western Army. He found out in detail that the southwest and the troops and supplies were also mobilized by Pingfan!"

When the generals in the tent heard the words and started to talk, Li Chengdong couldn't join in, so he could only think about it alone. Zhao Bo'an was not nostalgic at all. He used me as a cannon, and should I take the opportunity to change my boss?

Zhao Ming looked at the people in the tent and couldn't help but waved and shouted: "Quiet!"

Many generals quickly silently, Zhao Ming sneered: "Wu Sangui is just an ugly person, and the Western Army is just a group of defeated generals, and they are far from Wuchang. What are you afraid of?"

Zhao Ming looked around the generals and said in a deep voice: "Whether Wu Sangui or Li Dingguo, for Wuchang, it is far away and cannot quench the thirst in the near future. You must use your life to defeat the lonely general Wuchang!"

When the generals heard the words, they calmed down and clasped their fists together, "Here!"

At that moment, Zhao Ming waved his hand and asked everyone to retreat, preparing to attack again tomorrow, while he stood in front of the map and started to think.

As he expected, as the Han army grew bigger, other forces in the world were very likely to join forces to suppress him.

Humph, since Wu Sangui and Li Dingguo sent troops to rescue Wuchang, how could the Lone King give up capturing Wuchang?

In the next few days, the Han army continued to attack Wuchang, and the offensive became more and more fierce. The elite troops in the formation who had been supervising the battle and watching the show also began to participate in the siege.

The fierce battle made the Wuchang defenders gradually difficult to support.

But at this moment, a team of cavalry guarded the envoys from the Jianwu court arrived.

Zhao Ming did not go to greet the envoy, but sat in the big tent waiting.

At this time, the curtain was lifted up, and Zhang Huangyan came.

Seeing this, Zhao Ming was a little surprised and couldn't help but smile and said, "Why did Master Zhang come here? Hurry up, please sit down!"

"Your Highness!" Zhang Huangyan saluted Zhao Ming, then sat down, and smiled and said, "The emperor is here this time to pass on His Majesty's will!"

Is Zhu Yihai going to enfeoff himself? Zhao Ming couldn't help but wonder: "Oh? What will?"

Zhang Huangyan said: "Your Majesty has agreed to Zhu Linyuan surrender. Your Highness can attack Wuchang without spending troops!"
Chapter completed!