So when the peasant army surrounded and attacked Dehua County, the Ezhou army did dispatch 10,000 troops as reinforcements in the direction of Dehua County.
However, after they arrived in Wuchang County on March 20, they stopped advancing because of drizzle.
The reason was that it was raining too much and the road was too slippery to walk on, so we could only take a short rest.
During this period, Wang Shun concentrated his troops to garrison around Ezhou City.
He set up two thousand troops in Qingshanji and Bailuji to deploy river defenses to prevent the peasant army from advancing westward along the Yangtze River waterway.
An army of 2,000 men was stationed in Fankou to support Wuchang's 10,000 troops.
The remaining 14,000 former troops were stationed in military camps inside and outside Ezhou City to form a dichotomy.
After completing this part of the work, Wang Shun felt that he was almost safe, and then he could wait for the Xiangyang army to come to rescue him.
Zhou Yun struggled to support himself and looked forward to Wang Shun's support, but Wang Shun's reinforcements did not arrive.
And on March 21, his camp outside the city was captured by the peasant army.
An army of 6,000 men in the camp outside the city suffered a devastating blow and was completely wiped out. No one escaped.
Facing the stubborn Song Army, the peasant army showed incredible combat effectiveness. Perhaps it was more than a year of military training that had an effect, or maybe it was ideological and political education that had an effect. Anyway, they should not be too brave when fighting.
Instructors at all levels do not need to do much war mobilization before the war. They only need to shout "launch a final decisive battle against the enemies who exploit us" to mobilize morale. The morale of the peasant army is directly over the top, and the will to fight is very strong. .
The stronger the peasant army's will to fight, the lower the Song army's will to fight.
At the end of the battle, the Song army in the camp could no longer resist. The peasant army used the crossbows they bought from them to smash the camp gate. The army swarmed in and the military camp outside the city fell immediately.
The fall of the military camp outside the city was a very fatal thing for the Song army. The morale of the Song army inside the city plummeted. The peasant army attacked the city many times that day. The peasant army soldiers caused huge damage to the Song army at the city wall until they were horrified. Zhou Yun finally saved the situation by sending his personal guards to fight.
But despite this, the Song army could not boost its morale.
What frightened Zhou Yun even more was that there were not enough ordnance reserves in the city.
The peasant army's offensive was so powerful that the Song army's ordnance consumption was extremely high. After only a few days of fighting, Zhou Yun received a report from the quartermaster, saying that the amount of ordnance was insufficient, especially arrows. It has reached the point of shortage.
Zhou Yun was shocked at first. He suspected that he had heard wrongly. How could there be insufficient ordnance?
After he calmed down and thought about it carefully, he realized that this was a matter of course.
Because he took all the high-quality ordnance to do business with the peasant army.
Because the peasant army was willing to buy the ordnance in his hands no matter how high the price was, so he resold the ordnance and made money without thinking clearly.
At this moment, he realized that the peasant army did not purchase ordnance for defense, but for attack.
And he took out all the ordnance that could have been used for defense and sold it to the peasant army, so that now there is no ordnance to use.
How can we fight this?
Zhou Yun was about to collapse.
However, the peasant army's offensive did not slow down at all. It was still very fierce. Various attacks and ants invaded the city, so that he had to consume a lot of arrows, rolling logs and rocks to fight against the peasant army, and these supplies were in short supply.
When the inventory was at its lowest, he had to dismantle private houses and buildings in the city and use them as defensive tools to resist the attack of the peasant army.
And all this was noticed by Zhao Yucheng.
He began to determine that the Song army was already in a state of lack of weapons and weapons, and if it continued, they would definitely not be able to sustain it.
What the peasant army had to do was to launch a feint attack that seemed violent but was actually powerful but not practical, so as to accelerate the consumption of the Song army's ordnance reserves in the city.
When their ordnance reserves are exhausted, the peasant army will break the city.
So the peasant army adjusted its strategy and began to enter a full-scale feint attack state, launching a massive attack. However, each time they no longer forced a breakthrough or attacked the city with ants. Instead, they counterattacked after being attacked from a distance by the Song army, and then slowly retreated.
This was repeated several times, and by March 22, the Song army's arrows finally could no longer support the battle.
Throughout the whole day, less than two thousand arrows were collected in the city. I originally wanted to make them on the spot, but there was a lack of craftsmen, so it was impossible to make them on the spot faster than the consumption.
As a result, the Song Army's long-range strikes completely stalled and could no longer threaten the peasant army. They could only use rolling wood, stones and gold juice to defend themselves.
But this could not stop the peasant army's rapid offensive.
On March 23, an elite unit of the Fourth Division of the Peasant Army stormed the city wall, broke down the Song Army's defense on the city wall, occupied the city gate, lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate. The main force of the Peasant Army swarmed into the city, and The Song army started street fighting in the city.
However, there were only a few Song troops in the city who were still willing to fight in the streets. Most of them collapsed the moment the peasant army broke through the city. They dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground with their hands on their heads and surrendered, begging the peasant army not to kill them.
Zhou Yun and his last bodyguards, who were stubbornly resisting, clung to the government palace in the city. The peasant army used ramming wood to knock open the gate, and rushed into the government palace, killing all those who resisted.
Zhou Yun hid in the house and cried bitterly. He wanted to commit suicide several times, but he couldn't do it at all.
When the cold knife was placed on his neck, he could always think of the golden gold and the heavy copper coins, so the courage to commit suicide disappeared.
He still had a lot of gold, silver and copper coins, a lot of houses, a lot of fertile land, and dozens of lovely wives and concubines. He still had a great life, but he really couldn't bear to commit suicide like this.
Who knows if I can be a master in my next life?
So until the peasant army came to kill him, he did not dare to commit suicide. He only dared to cry bitterly.
After all the personal guards were killed, Zhou Yun was found in the back room.
When he was found out, he cried like a grandson. He completely lost the majesty of the general he used to be. He knelt on the ground and begged the peasant army not to kill him. He would give him whatever money they asked. As long as the peasant army spared his life, he would give him anything. Can.
Because of his identity, of course he was not killed immediately, but was brought to surrender before Zhao Yucheng.
He knelt in front of Zhao Yucheng, kowtowed and begged for mercy, and begged Zhao Yucheng not to kill him. Zhao Yucheng quickly lost interest when he saw his appearance.
But some things must be made clear, otherwise this guy will think that Zhao Yucheng is the one who was taken advantage of.
"When I was doing business before, I was very happy with the price increase, right?"
Zhou Yun was stunned for a moment, then turned pale with fright, and quickly kowtowed.
"I'll give it all back to you, all of it! No matter how much I make, I...I won't even ask for the cost, I'll pay it all back to you and your army. You can have whatever you want, whatever you want! How much money do I have? Get out! I just beg... I just beg you to spare my life..."
He trembled and begged Zhao Yucheng for his life.
