Chapter 654

Liu Bu led the army and besieged Nanjing. He made a great momentum, but Xu Guogong, who was responsible for guarding the city, refused his surrender and made tenacious resistance, which made him very ashamed and angry.

Liu Bu was also unrelenting. He ordered his men to have large-scale stone catapults and put more than 100000 leaflets into the city.

The main content of these leaflets is to warn those forces who resist him and oppose Liu Jun, dare to resist Liu Jun, and there will be no chickens and dogs when the city is broken.

Liu Bu did not initiate such a style alone, but this is the case in this era, attacking a country, sparing life for surrender and killing all resistance.

When Genghis Khan led a large army to the west, countless countries were destroyed. Just destroying the country would destroy more than 40 countries. If they surrendered, they could still live. If they resisted tenaciously, they would not stay.

Not far away, for example, the Xixia state, which has been tenacious in the East, let him kill and become extinct.

The Xixia state in those days was a force that could fight against the Liao, Jin and Song dynasties. But who can hear about this country and its descendants today?

The superior is just kind and not in charge of the army. Without this iron and blood momentum, we can't suppress the enemy and be the leader of a powerful Legion.

He Liu Bu sits in this position, representing the interests of hundreds of thousands of people. He can't tolerate half of the benevolence of women.

Like Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng in those days, they were also the heroes of one side and anti yuan heroes. However, after they were defeated, they basically died and their families were destroyed. All their subordinates were killed, or they were demoted to Dalits, men were slaves for generations, and women were prostitutes for generations.

Taking Suzhou as an example, Zhang Shicheng was entrenched in Suzhou. Zhang Shicheng's business in Suzhou also won the support of the people, and his support rate was very high. As a result, Zhang Shicheng was defeated and his family was destroyed. His subordinates were demoted as Dalits, and even the whole Suzhou was punished by the emperor Taizu.

That is, Suzhou is a place with one government, and its tax is the highest in the whole Ming Dynasty. The tax of one government is equivalent to that of other provinces. Therefore, at the moment, it is not the point where you want to refund alone.

The Liu family either captured the world and became the co Lord of the world, or they were defeated and killed, and their families were destroyed.

Liu Bu ordered his troops to attack the city day and night after they were well prepared.

In order to capture the city, Liu Bu made a great reward. At that time, he publicly announced that whoever captured the city first would be granted Marquis with a reward of 10000 Liang.

At present, the Liu family has neither established a state nor claimed the title of emperor, but all people have regarded them as a powerful force and a country.

Liu Buxu gave such a big reward, which made everyone excited. For a moment, Nanjing City, which was tens of miles wide, was shouting and killing. Liu Jun surrounded the city. It was a constant siege day and night. This was to strive to capture the city as quickly as possible.

Instead of the traditional form of "craftsmen run the country, nine miles and three gates", the city wall of Nanjing abandoned the old square or rectangular system of the ancient capital since the Han and Tang Dynasties. Instead, it was built according to the astrological layout, according to the geographical situation of mountains, lakes and rivers, and according to the needs of defense. It has become a special case in the history of capital construction in previous dynasties, which is praised by future generations.

The city wall is built according to the aggregation of the stars of the South dipper and the Big Dipper in the sky. Its 13 gates correspond to the 13 stars of the South dipper six stars and the Big Dipper seven stars respectively.

The South dipper is a traditional residential area, that is, the south of the city, the North dipper is a newly-built Imperial City area, and the juntun area is between the handles of the two dippers, which not only met the economic conditions and popular aspirations at that time, but also protected the two most prosperous areas of Nanjing.

More importantly, the design thought of Taoist metaphor in the architectural language of Nanjing city wall adheres to the desire of the supremacy of imperial power and being the Lord forever, reflects the designer's thought of the unity of heaven and man and the acceptance of imperial power and God, and is a model of the combination of ethical system and nature.

Nanjing city has a circumference of more than 60 kilometers, an enclosed area of about 250 square kilometers, a height of 8-10 meters, a width of 6-8 meters, and 18 gates, including palisade gate, Jiangdong gate, tame elephant gate, little tame elephant gate, ande gate, little ande gate, Fengtai gate, Jiagang gate, Shangfang gate, Gaoqiao gate, cangbo gate, Qilin gate, Xianhe gate, Yaofang gate, Guanyin gate, Funing gate Shangyuan gate and waijinchuan gate.

The main body of the Guo City wall outside Nanjing is mainly hills and earth, and city bricks are added in the gate and other sections. In terms of orientation, the plane shape of Waiguo is roughly rhombic. The northernmost city gate is Guanyin gate, the easternmost city gate is Qilin gate, and the southernmost city gate is Jiagang gate. The Waiguo city wall in the west is not enclosed, and the left north-south gaps extend to the Yangtze River.

Liu Zhongyong of the West Road army took this as the breakthrough point and launched an attack.

Such a terrain is doomed to make it very difficult for those who surround him to completely besiege the capital.

More than 200 years after the completion of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, there was no force and no army could encircle him.

In the Jingnan rebellion of that year, after Zhu Di's army arrived near Jinchuan gate, the Ming army began to surrender. There was no large-scale offensive and defensive war at all. Seeing that the wind was wrong, Zhu Yunwen set fire to himself and quickly escaped.

It can be said that Liu Jun was almost the first army to surround Nanjing after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Liu Jun surrounded here, the army in the city broke through in many ways and sent envoys to all governments and counties for help, asking them to send troops to save it at all costs.

Nanjing is the key to the south of the Yangtze River. If it is attacked here, the whole south of the Yangtze River will be finished and there will be no danger to defend. I believe these state officials all know what it means to die with cold lips and teeth. If Nanjing is attacked, they will not be able to keep their place here, and the imperial court will not sit back and watch Nanjing be attacked.

That's why Duke Xu will guard here with confidence.

Let him go out and have a bloody battle with hundreds of thousands of Liu family soldiers. He must not dare to go, because the defenders in the city are mostly old, weak, sick and disabled. They are not the opponents of these tiger and wolf divisions at all. Even he is so old that he is no longer old enough to carry his knife to the battlefield, and there are no heroes under him who can fight.

Although there are many descendants of Xun GUI in Nanjing City, these people have experienced hundreds of years of wealth. They are good at women's hands in the backyard. They have long lost the courage and blood of their ancestors. They are very good at eating, drinking and playing. They can't let them fight and work hard.

Therefore, Duke Xu formulated a strategy to stick to it, that is, with the tall city wall of Nanjing, he can stick to it. As long as he sticks to it for a few months, reinforcements from all over the country gather and reinforcements from the North arrive, which is the end of Liu Jiajun.

Even he made a backup plan. He made a backup plan, that is, once the huge city wall of Nanjing could not be guarded and was broken through by the enemy, they would retreat to the inner city and the imperial city of Nanjing and continue to resist. As long as they were still resisting, they could drag hundreds of thousands of troops of Liu Jiajun here.

As long as he can drag hundreds of thousands of Liu Jiajun's troops here, they will not have time to attack other state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River, which in turn can be regarded as supporting other state capitals, so that they can get enough time to prepare their troops and support calmly.

Therefore, the relationship between Nanjing city and these places is a loss to all and a death to all.

On the one hand, Duke Xu organized the army to go to the city to defend the city wall. On the other hand, he called the strong men of all families to help defend the city.

At first, these dignitaries were very happy to send their servants to defend the city, because they knew that once the city was broken, they would not have a good life. However, since Liu Jun delivered a large number of leaflets to the city, they were like these dignitaries.

Because Liu Jiajun made it clear that if anyone dares to help the imperial court defend the city, they will be slaughtered and chickens and dogs will not be left.

For these nobles and dignitaries in the imperial court, their wealth is linked to the imperial court, which is a loss to all and a prosperity to all. However, for these officials or rich people, their wealth earned by themselves, there is no need to be linked to the imperial court.

In peacetime, they did not enjoy the power of the imperial court, and now there is no need for them to be buried and dragged into the water by him when the imperial court is in trouble.

As long as they remain neutral or do not do anything hostile to Liu Jiajun, I believe that whoever sits in the world will not be difficult for them, but if they provide strong men and food for the army guarding the city, they have enough reason to clean up.

So when these leaflets came out, the rich and powerful people in the city were in danger. They were not as enthusiastic in responding to the call of Duke Xu. They no longer had the money to donate money and materials, because they knew that the imperial court was about to lose Nanjing.

Once the Liu family takes over Nanjing, they will certainly pursue and kill the remaining evils of the previous dynasty. They don't want to be included in the ranks of the remaining evils of the previous dynasty by Liu Jun.

You should know that no matter who sits in the world, for the remaining evils of the previous dynasty and those who oppose them, they will kill all and leave none. This is true even for the Taizu emperor, let alone others.

So when Duke Xu again called on these rich families and nobles to donate money and materials, they all became timid, refused to pledge, refused to give, and refused to help.

Some people even said publicly: "guarding the city is an official thing, which has nothing to do with them. No matter who comes, we have to pay taxes and money."

Such an argument shocked Xu Hongji. No wonder the old man would say, "the country is going to die, there must be demons!" it's amazing that there are so many demons in Daming's situation.