I, who plundered the heavens, had a hundred thousand dead men

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In Jiangning City, the Su family.

"Father, good news. The imperial court's reinforcements have arrived outside the city. I heard that the imperial court has sent 50,000 troops this time, but the bandit army that occupied Jiangning only has a few thousand troops. I believe our Jiangning city will be recovered soon."

"This is indeed good news. Ever since our Jiangning City was occupied by the bandits, not only has our Su family's cloth shop been closed down, but even if we go out casually, we will be questioned by bandit soldiers trained on the street. These days are really...

It’s a little sad!”

"Isn't that right? Since the cloth shop closed down, our Su family has been losing money every day. If we can't open our business like this for a long time, our Su family's losses will be huge."

The father and son in the second room of the Su family communicated constantly.

At this moment, in other places in Jiangning City, the wealthy businessmen and some literati in Jiangning City in the past learned that 50,000 imperial troops had arrived outside the city.

Everyone looked forward to it.

Because in the eyes of these people, the people currently occupying Jiangning City are all incompetent thieves, especially the literati in Jiangning City.

In fact, this is not surprising at all. After all, the Wu Dynasty has ruled this land for hundreds of years, and the majesty of the imperial court has long been deeply ingrained.

Although Li Yang's army of dead soldiers did not randomly kill the people in the city after occupying Jiangning City.

Nor did they raid the homes of the merchants and gentry in the city to collect their money.

In the past few days when Li Yang's army of dead soldiers occupied Jiangning, they only occupied several city gates and county offices in Jiangning, and sent troops to surround the residences of dignitaries who had connections with the imperial court.

And restricted the daily movements of everyone in the city.

In short, a policy comparable to a curfew was implemented.

But what Li Yang's army of dead soldiers did was rebellion. No matter what kind of rebellion happened in any dynasty, unless the situation was already very unfavorable to the court, no one would think favorably of these rebel thieves.

At this time, Li Yang's army of dead soldiers existed with the title of rebels.

Outside Jiangning City, Dong Daofu, the commander-in-chief of the Wu Dynasty army who was expected by many people in the city to regain Jiangning, was also discussing with his generals in a simple camp.

"Judging from the previous battle to encircle and suppress Lin, the group of thieves who occupied Jiangning are most likely an accomplice to the group of thieves in Lin'an. Therefore, we cannot underestimate the group of thieves in Jiangning City."

"I have decided to launch a tentative attack on Jiangning tomorrow morning to find out the general situation of the bandits in the city."

"In addition, we will strengthen patrols tonight to prevent any possibility of night attacks by the bandits."

"Yes, General!"

Although Dong Daofu brought a full 50,000 troops to besiege Jiangning this time, he did not take it lightly at all because of Lin'an's previous experience.

Nothing happened all night, and the next morning.

After completing their preparations for war, the army led by Dong Daofu formed a mighty phalanx and approached the city wall of Jiangning City.

On the tower of Jiangnan City, Zhao Jun, the commander in charge of all the dead soldiers in Jiangning City, stared calmly at the tens of thousands of troops of the Wu Dynasty in the distance.

"Let the archers be ready. As soon as the Wu Dynasty's army comes within shooting range, they will launch an attack."

Soon as time passed by, the advance army sent by Dong Daofu soon arrived about 300 meters away from the city gate.

At this distance, ordinary bows and arrows cannot shoot this far, but if it is a large crossbow, it can completely reach such a range.

Now, on the entire city gate, the Death Soldier Corps had already prepared dozens of large crossbows, waiting for the arrival of the Wu Dynasty army.

This kind of bed crossbow was originally not available in Jiangning, because this kind of bed crossbow is a powerful weapon in this era that is comparable to cruise missiles in modern society.

Normal cities are not equipped with such weapons.

In the past, Lin'an was an important military center of the Wu Dynasty and a major route south, so its status was much higher than Jiangning.

In addition, Lin'an was originally a place where the Wu Dynasty's Secret Reconnaissance Department secretly built and stockpiled ordnance, so there were so many large crossbows, a large amount of armor ordnance, and a large amount of gunpowder.

It can be said that in the entire Wu Dynasty, in terms of various materials and ordnance, apart from the Wudu in the north, Lin'an was the only city with the largest hoard of these materials.

Outside Jiangning City, when thousands of advance troops sent by Dong Daofu stopped a few hundred meters away from the city gate, they found that the dead soldiers inside the city gate had no intention of leaving the city to fight.

Therefore, the Wu Dynasty general who led the troops immediately came down and asked his soldiers to push forward the siege equipment.

After a lot of preparations, with the general's order, the drums of the siege began to become more intense.

Soon, these thousands of Wu Dynasty's advance troops pushed their siege equipment and ladders and rushed towards the city gate.

However, just when the Wu Dynasty soldiers at the front were less than 50 meters away from the city wall, a large number of crossbow arrows suddenly flew out from the city gate.

In an instant, densely packed crossbow arrows, like a rain of arrows, fell with lightning speed into the formation of the Wu Dynasty army outside the city.

In an instant, a large number of Wu Dynasty soldiers were killed by this wave of crossbow arrows. Hundreds of them were killed.

"It's a crossbow arrow!" Behind the army, Dong Daofu looked at the sudden rain of arrows shot out from the city wall, his eyes fixed on the tower in the distance.

"Where did Jiangning City get so many heavy-duty crossbow arrows?"

"Come on, withdraw!" Dong Daofu was shocked and quickly issued the order to withdraw.

Because he knew that in the face of such dense heavy crossbows, if there were not enough protective equipment, if he wanted to get close to the city wall of Jiangning City, he would have to spend a lot of lives to fill it.

After all, the power and range of this crossbow far exceed that of ordinary bows and arrows.

And the most important thing is that this kind of crossbow can be fired in groups.

Based on the scale of the wave of crossbows just now, Dong Daofu knew that at least 50 large and heavy crossbows were placed on the tower of Jiangning City.

There are so many large crossbows, and if they are fired in two batches, they can shoot thousands of sharp arrows at one time.

Without adequate protective equipment, most of his thousands of advance troops would have been killed or injured before they even got close to the city gate.

Therefore, Dong Daofu immediately issued a retreat order after the first wave of arrows fell.

As a result, the originally exciting drums of the Wu Dynasty army suddenly changed.

The soldiers who were continuing to run in front heard this change in the sound of the war drums and immediately began to change direction and start retreating.

However, the Corps of Death Soldiers above the city gate certainly cannot allow them to evacuate easily.

As a result, another wave of arrows hit the direction of the Wu Dynasty army again after a few seconds.

In an instant, the retreating Wu Dynasty advance army lost hundreds more people.