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20. On the Hanging Hucheng Flame

The generals of the Huaixi army suddenly became noisy. Some of them believed what Wu Shaoyang said, saying that they would simply fight to the end with the official army; but some were willing to seize any straw in desperate situations, and shouted to kill Wu Shaoyang first, and then subdue the official army.

Wu Shaoyang leaned on the pillar of the tower and cursed: "Did you forget how Gao Yue treated the surrendered Yuanyi troops when he pacified Mingzhou? In front of Wei Shi Tian Xu, he killed 700 generals and slaughtered them from top to bottom. This quelling of the civil strife of Zhaoyi Army is the preview of the Caizhou massacre. If I die, do you still want to live? Listen, Wei Shuai and Qing Shuai's troops have passed Dingtao, and Bian Shuai has already..."

While Wu Shaoyang was arguing with the generals in Huaixi, Gao Yue pointed at the opposite Runan Xicheng on Tianzhong Mountain. "No need to take care of the enemy troops on the north dam of the city, attacked several sides from Duanji River, Nanhu, and Chaitan, and captured the Xicheng with all their strength. In this way, the Cai thieves on the north dam will destroy themselves."

At this moment, the imperial court came to climb up to Zhongshan, panting, saying that he had brought the emperor's will, saying that Wu Shaocheng's head had been thrown into the government in Huazhou and had not entered the capital.

Gao Yue smiled and asked the emperor what he had to do to Caizhou City.

"Everyone said that if no thief in Cai could be left, if he could capture Wu Shaoyang alive, he would be escorted to the capital and killed; if he could seize Wu Shaoyang's head, he would be sent to Huazhou Gong Party to accompany Wu Shaocheng."

"The Holy Will, I will not leave any Cai thief!" Then Gao Yue raised his arm and shouted loudly on Dalixue.

With this shout, Gao Yuema, the top 16 heavily armored man, stepped forward, and then blew the horns carrying on his companion's shoulders. The shrill sound suddenly echoed around the entire Runan City.

"Bang!" Six cannons weighing one stone on both sides sprayed out green smoke in turn. With the huge shelling sound, the entire Tianzhong Mountain was trembling. This was the signal of launching a general attack on Xicheng.

The soldiers of the Dianji River embankment in the west of the city, the Nanhu Lake and Huwei in the south of the city, and the Chaitan area, horns, drums and whistles rang out. According to the organization of each team, the soldiers of the Dingwu Army, the Yining Army, the Tang Deng Sui Army, the Jingnan Army, the Wuchang Army, and the Huainan Army hit their heads and shook their flags and walked in the front. The second and third rows behind were all covered in armor and shouted and pushed the newly made donkey carts. The ones behind raised the group signs to protect them, walked out of the wooden fence and camp fort, and pushed towards the west city of Runan.

On the city walls and horse faces in various sections of the Xicheng City, some Cai soldiers lay on them, began to kowtow and wailed, and threw their weapons down; but more Cai soldiers were still roaring and cheering each other up. They raised their crossbows, carried temporary forged earth guns, and even used fire pots and stones to fire various weapons from the front of the city to kill and stop the attack of the official army.

When the fire cup hit the roof of the donkey cart, it did not explode. At this time, Cai Bing looked up and saw that the government army's pointed donkey cart and shield cart were covered with heavy quilts. Not only was it a quilt, it was also poured with water and stuffed into soil, making it difficult to catch a fire.

If the earth gun made by Caizhou was shot, the quilt soaked in water would be opened, and even the cotton inside could not be splashed.

In this way, the donkey cart arrived under the wall of the west city wall, and the soldiers of the official army team began to get into it, and used iron picks and iron turrets to pry it up frantically.

The defenders on the city listened to the frequent and dense excavation sounds as horrifying as the end of the world approaching.

One hour later, the entire west and south city walls of Runan West City stretched for several miles and were completely killed by donkey carts and shield carts. Then, they continued to lift the dirt blocks behind, and the officials behind raised the dirt blocks into "stairs" and continued to rise to the top of the city and raised them.

Two more hours later, in Zicheng's tower, Wu Shaoyang was tied to a carriage, crying and being carried up by groups of Huaixi troops, and sent him to the west city along the city wall. In the end, the resolution reached by the generals was to first ask Wu Shaoyang to the top of the city and apologize to the official army. If Gao Yue agreed, they would send Wu Shaoyang directly; if Gao Yue did not agree, they would take Wu Shaoyang as the main force and fight to the death.

However, after running less than thirty steps, the entire city wall of Xicheng suddenly shook violently. From bottom to top, violent sparks continued to rise and rise, mixed with the terrified cry of soldiers and the people in the city, which was so shocked that all the carriages were overturned. Wu Shaoyang fell on the top of the city and still struggled and scolded him.

It is the divine thunder gunpowder. After the official army dug out the cave in the city wall with a donkey cart, they stuffed gunpowder into it. The gunpowder was covered with wax paper, stirred evenly before the war, put it in a wooden barrel or even a coffin, dragged it with a rope, then pushed it into the donkey cart, and then concentrated in several designated large caves.

Then it ignited.

Three sections of the gap were immediately destroyed in Runan West City, and then all the officials rushed in, climbed the ground ladder, and began street fighting with the Cai soldiers.

By dusk, the official army had seized the main streets of the Fangshi in Xicheng, and there were several elite troops of the Dingwu Army who directly pushed the intact donkey carts, thinking that they were covered, they drilled through the walls of the houses adjacent to Dongcheng, and entered and began to dig the foot of the Dongcheng.

More than a thousand Cai soldiers in Xicheng were killed, and hundreds of them were carrying the people and their families. They jumped from the high part of the city wall in despair, fell to the water and died of death. The remains of the dead were countless, and the rest surrendered. Then they were taken to the dry Chaitan cofferdam by the official army and killed one by one.

Finally, the more than a thousand Cai soldiers from the North Dike to Eya Lake were indeed as "destroyed" as Gao Yue expected - the West City had fallen, and the East City and the others had no way to go, so they could only join the moat and drowned.

On the Chaitan Weir, ghosts cried;

At the top of the city of Dongcheng, mourning shook the sky;

There are countless floating corpses lingering in the moat that surrounds the East and West cities.

In the end, there were only more than 3,000 Cai Bing who could retreat to the East City.

Seeing this scene, Wu Shaoyang completely collapsed. He did not want others to force him. After nightfall, he put on white clothes and kept kowtowing to the direction of Tianzhong Mountain in the East City until his face was full of blood. He asked to put down the ladder, walked down, and apologized to Gao Yue's tent, allowing Gao Yue to deal with him and his family, only to protect the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city.

"The Cai thief was planning to be poor, how could he let the tiger return to the mountain? It is said that God will not take the blame instead of taking the disaster." Gao Yue flatly refused this.

Wu Shaoyang begged again, allowing the people in the city to come out.

"The holy order is urgent. As long as you take Runan City as soon as possible, how can you have time to identify and delay?" Gao Yue refused again.

In the end, the entire Runan City collapsed.

Two days later, the gate of Dongcheng was actually opened from inside.

This is simply a sign of killing when you open the door.

Because Huaixi had no confidence to resist, no ability to resist, and no will to resist.

All were shattered.

As the shouting was made, the official army rushed to the east city with the battle flag.

In the East City, the bodies of Cai Bing and his family who committed suicide were lying all over the houses, ditches and walkways, and there were more than ten thousand people?

Only the people knelt on both sides of the road and begged for life.

In Zicheng's view of the tower, flames soared into the sky. Wu Shaoyang first killed his wife, concubine, daughter, son, and Xianyu Xiong'er, then set fire and committed suicide, and completed it in one go.
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