The Song Army troops who came to support carried the Song Army's flag, wore Song Army uniforms, and used Song Army weapons.
Wang Yan, who was guarding Xiangyang, even saw the flag of the Song Army coach.
He didn't know who was coming to help this time, and he couldn't see the words on it clearly from a distance, but he knew clearly that the handsome flag did belong to the Song Army standard.
And only the head coach of the Song Army can use it, no one will use it fraudulently.
Thinking of the situation in the past few days and the expectations in their hearts, almost everyone subconsciously thought that the reinforcements of the Song Army had arrived. The reinforcements of the Song Army had broken through the Ming Army's blockade and came to support them!
What other verification is needed here?
Zhou Benyuan, who was under great pressure, watched as the reinforcements of the Song army defeated the besieging Ming army. The besieging Ming army fled in embarrassment, while the Song army approached Fancheng step by step.
The Song army in the city was furious and their morale was greatly boosted. Everyone shouted loudly that they wanted to go out of the city to help in the battle, defeat the Ming army and win the final victory.
Almost in ecstasy, he ordered the city gates to be opened, the suspension bridge lowered, and the elite troops sent out of the city, preparing to attack the Ming army from both sides and give the Ming army a hard blow to win the final victory.
After the suspension bridge was lowered, the Song army in Fancheng launched a large-scale attack, trying to cooperate with the Song army outside the city to kill the retreating Ming army.
The soldiers of the Song Army roared loudly. The posture, the courage, and the speed of the attack seemed to pour out all the anguish and fear these days in one breath, completely elated. .
But who knows that the situation suddenly changes.
The Song army that was chasing the Ming army and the retreating Ming army turned around and attacked the Song army that came to support them.
The Ming soldiers wearing Ming army uniforms and the Song army wearing Song army uniforms joined forces to attack the Fancheng Song army that had just rushed out, killing the Fancheng Song army in confusion. Many people did not even raise their swords. He was immediately hacked to death.
The soldiers of the Song Army who were killed did not even realize why they were killed and why they died so miserably.
Why?
Why do our colleagues want to kill us?
But this is not the most critical thing. The most critical thing is that after such a rush, there was chaos outside the city. A large number of Song troops were emotionally broken. They ran back howling like ghosts and wolves, blocking the road from the city gate hole to the outside of the city. The Song army in the city was also in chaos.
Zhou Benyuan, who was on the top of the city, had actually noticed the problem. He was suddenly frightened out of his wits and instinctively asked his soldiers to close the city gate and pull up the suspension bridge to prevent the Ming army from attacking.
But they couldn't do it at all, because the soldiers operating the suspension bridge and closing the city gate had been overwhelmed by the surging and collapsing Song army. Many people trampled and squeezed each other. Many people were trampled to death in front of and at the city gate. Many people were killed. Kill.
Moreover, many Ming soldiers and Ming soldiers pretending to be Song soldiers moved forward desperately, slashing with their swords, killing many people, and rushed forward directly to the city gate and in front of the city gate. There was another burst of killing.
What is even more frightening is that the main force of the Ming army in the rear is also pushing various siege equipment to attack Fancheng. The speed is extremely fast, and there is a strong tendency to directly attack the walls of Fancheng through the moat.
Zhou Benyuan was so frightened that he desperately ordered his subordinates to close the city gate and pull up the suspension bridge. When he found that it was ineffective, he sent all his personal guards out and asked them to perform the task. So this group of elite soldiers continued to fight with steel knives. , constantly killing the fleeing Song soldiers.
The Song army in the city fell into a complete melee.
They are killing themselves, and the Ming army is also killing them. They can no longer tell who is the enemy and who is their friend.
So in order to survive, they can only kill each other. No matter who they are, they will kill them when they see them. When they see them, they will rush over to fight, bite, poke eyes, insert nostrils, choke necks...
The city was in chaos, the order of the Song army completely collapsed, and the miserable situation was almost equivalent to bombing the camp.
Under such a chaotic situation, the Ming army outside the city finally penetrated the more than ten meters long Fancheng main gate, passed through the Wengcheng, and entered the city. They killed the Song army everywhere in the city, and then became extremely organized. They entered the city and seized important military and civil strongholds in the city.
When the city gate cave was completely lost, the Song army on the city wall could not hold back anymore, because the Ming army had already approached the Song army's city wall with large siege equipment such as wells and linchong chariots.
This was the first time that the Ming army attacked the Song army's city wall since it had besieged the city for such a long time. Faced with such a situation, the Song army on the wall barely reacted before the Ming army rushed onto the city wall and started fighting.
Zhou Benyuan is on the city wall.
He watched helplessly as the red-eyed Ming soldiers rushed to the city wall through the ladders on the siege equipment, jumped down and knocked down the Song soldiers one by one, and then killed them.
Most of the Song army at the top of the city was killed in an instant. Zhou Benyuan fought and retreated under the protection of a few guards and tried to escape. However, the armor he was wearing allowed the Ming soldiers to judge that he had a different identity, so they pursued him all the way. After killing all the way, Zhou Benyuan finally failed to reach the city wall.
He was surrounded by the Ming army in the corner of the city wall, and the battle continued. When the last guard was killed by the Ming army, he looked at the messy city wall and the pairs of eyes full of hatred in front of him, feeling extremely desperate.
So he gave up resistance, but did not surrender. Instead, he stabbed himself to death.
After Zhou Benyuan's death, Fancheng could no longer resist. Many of the more than 10,000 defenders in the city were killed by the Ming army, and the remaining ones defected and fled in embarrassment.
Under this situation, the strong men in the city couldn't sit still. They spontaneously picked up their weapons and began to chase the Song soldiers wearing Song army uniforms. When they found out, they rushed towards them with red eyes.
Often when the soldiers of the Ming Army chased the defeated Song Army, they would find a group of disheveled common people rushing over with weapons, knocking the Song Army soldiers who were fleeing in embarrassment to the ground, and then chop them into pieces.
Perhaps because they hated these Song soldiers too much, even some disheveled women rushed out with steel knives to kill the Song soldiers. Even the Ming soldiers who just came in wearing Song uniforms were attacked by the common people. .
They quickly shouted that they were not soldiers of the Song Dynasty, and then showed them the black cloth belts on their arms. Some people stopped and others were so furious that they continued to kill these Ming soldiers with knives. .
The Ming army's military regulations strictly stipulated that they could not use swords against the common people. They had no choice but to turn around and run away, looking for help from their comrades in Ming army uniforms.
This situation occurred in every corner of Fancheng. The young and strong men who were pulled into the city to serve as young men and cannon fodder had vengeance and grievances. They took machetes to chop down the Song soldiers who were running away with their heads covered.
A lot of Song soldiers were killed by the strong men in the city during the street fighting stage.
Until the entire Fancheng was captured by the Ming army, the Ming army finally took control of the restless young men in the city, disarmed them and put them under unified supervision.
The prisoners of the Song Army were finally safe for the time being.
On May 28th of the fifth year of Hongwu, Fancheng was captured by the Ming army.
