The next day, it was still dark.
Fuzhou City is like a giant beast, crawling on the coast. In the night before dawn, it looks very heavy and dark.
Especially the dirt burned by the fire and the corpses scattered all over the place made Fuzhou City even more eerie.
Soon, the sun slowly rose from the horizon.
The originally dark sky was torn apart by light in an instant, and a few rays of sunlight shone on the walls of Fuzhou City, adding a bit of life to the blood-stained walls.
Deng Yu led his remaining Ming troops early to guard the city wall.
After receiving Xu Da's letter, Deng Yu's mental state became excited, and he couldn't sleep all night last night.
After arranging Xu Da's plan with his personal guards without stopping, the sky was already bright.
Deng Yu simply stopped sleeping and took all the Ming troops to the city wall, looking at the rising sun with hope.
When the sun fully rose, Deng Yu discovered that pirates were already standing two miles away under the city wall.
Pirate leader Chen Zuyi stood in front of all the pirates and loudly encouraged their morale:
"Brothers, have you seen the city in front of you?"
"This is the richest city in Ming Fujian. As long as we capture them, we will have no worries about food and drink."
"I promise all my brothers here to take Fuzhou City and not seal the sword for three days."
"How much you can rob in these three days depends on your own ability."
"The gold, silver, property, and beautiful slaves you robbed are all yours, and I won't take any of them."
As soon as Chen Zuyi said these words, the pirates below all screamed with excitement.
As pirates, what excites them most is looting. If there is anything that excites them more than this, it is definitely unscrupulous looting, or even massacre of cities.
Although they had massacred cities in some small countries in Southeast Asia before, those small towns were simply not enough to fill their teeth.
The population of those cities is only tens of thousands, which is not as large as their number of pirates. How can they satisfy such a large base of pirates?
The current Fuzhou city in Ming Dynasty is different. It has a huge population of hundreds of thousands, which is simply not comparable to those small cities.
If in such a city, they would be able to loot without restraint, they would definitely be able to enjoy themselves.
"The great leader is wise."
"Long live the big boss, long live the big boss!!"
With the howling of ghosts and wolves below, the morale of the Japanese pirates reached its peak.
Upon seeing this, Chen Zuyi turned around and swung his sword in the direction of Fuzhou City, roaring angrily:
"Brothers, come to me, take Fuzhou City, eat well and sleep with women!!!"
"kill!!!"
“Robbing gold, silver, and women!!”
This time, the pirates no longer coerced the people and swarmed directly towards Fuzhou City.
Looking down from the city wall, it was as dark as locusts.
This time the pirates were not divided into batches, and there were no tactics. They were just simple human sea tactics. Chen Zuyi would use his strength to crush Deng Yu to death.
When Deng Yu on the city wall saw this, he was not surprised but happy. Looking at these stupid pirates who were not afraid of death, Deng Yu was extremely happy.
After the pirates approached, Deng Yu directly ordered not to save supplies for himself, but to throw them down desperately.
The arrows were like locusts, and the rolling stones were like rain, falling down like crazy.
The pirates were immediately smashed to pieces, but these pirates seemed to have been beaten to death. One wave of people fell down, and another wave of people rushed up.
It seems to be endless, killing without realizing it, and being brave without fear of death.
Fortunately, Deng Yu's men are all veterans. Soldiers who can persist for such a long time without being killed are indeed qualified to be called veterans.
Today, Deng Yu still has less than 3,000 men under his command, and these 3,000 men are stubbornly resisting the pirates' crazy attack.
Desperately, the defensive equipment prepared on the city was tilted down for free.
Although there were many pirates, due to the lack of siege equipment, these pirates could only line up around the ladder and climb up.
As a result, although the Ming army was small in number, it was able to occupy a numerical advantage on local battlefields. Coupled with the favorable location, it dealt a certain blow to the pirates.
But after all, there were too many pirates, and the supplies on the city were limited. The pirates soon realized that the Ming army was unable to succeed, and continued to climb up like crazy.
"Clang!"
The hand-to-hand combat came quickly. The Japanese pirates crowded onto the wall and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army.
When it came to hand-to-hand combat, the Ming army gradually fell into a disadvantage. After so many days of fighting, the Ming army was already exhausted and covered with injuries.
It is already very difficult to stand here and fight the pirates now.
When Deng Yu saw the casualties among his men gradually increasing, he immediately shouted loudly and said:
"Brothers, withdraw!!"
After saying that, Deng Yu asked his men to withdraw their troops and wanted to enter the city to fight with the pirates in the street.
When the pirates saw that the Ming army wanted to withdraw, they suddenly became more aggressive and pestered the Ming army, not wanting the Ming army to retreat.
Deng Yu was furious and led his troops to intercept and kill the pirates. He personally cut off the pirates and gave his brothers a chance to survive.
Seeing that Deng Yu was acting like a mad tiger, the pirates did not dare to push too hard. After all, as long as Deng Yu let go of the city wall.
When 100,000 Japanese pirates enter the city, even if Deng Yu has great power, he will not be able to defend Fuzhou City.
The monks can escape, but they cannot escape the temple. The pirates only want Fuzhou City.
As long as the people and wealth in Fuzhou City did not escape, these Japanese pirates did not care.
Finally, after a desperate charge, Deng Yu slowly retreated into the city with less than two thousand Ming troops.
The city gate of Fuzhou, which Deng Yu had defended for ten days, was finally breached by Chen Zuyi.
The moment the gates of Fuzhou City were opened, the pirates outside the city suddenly became red-eyed, and regardless of their leader's orders, they all swarmed into the city.
Everyone knew that the next time to massacre the city had arrived.
As the big leader, Chen Zuyi will not break his promise since he has already promised.
Although the pirates are very cruel and cruel, they have to admit that among the pirates, Chen Zuyi is very loyal.
No matter how ruthless, cunning and cunning Chen Zuyi was, he never violated what he said in front of everyone.
This is also the reason why so many pirates are willing to follow Chen Zuyi. After all, when you come out to hang out, you pay attention to integrity.
If Chen Zuyi didn't even have faith, it would be impossible for Chen Zuyi to gather so many pirates, and he would probably fall apart long ago.
The pirates were all ecstatic, feeling that the opportunity to make a fortune was just around the corner, and rushed into the city as fast as they could, fearing that they would be late and all the good things would be robbed by others.
But Chen Zuyi's face was not very pretty.
He felt that the matter was very strange, and Deng Yu might be deceiving.
Chen Zuyi had fought against Deng Yu for such a long time, so he naturally understood Deng Yu's temper.
Although Chen Zuyi defeated Deng Yu before, due to his sneak attack at that time, Deng Yu had no idea that he had returned to the Ming Dynasty.
But even if he ambushed Deng Yu with an army of 100,000, he still allowed Deng Yu to break out of the siege and escape back to Fuzhou City.
As a result, he has been unable to conquer Fuzhou. After fighting with Deng Yu these days, Chen Zuyi had to admire Deng Yu.
Under such a disadvantageous situation, Deng Yu was able to persist for such a long time. If it were anyone else, he would have become the soul of his own sword long ago.
But it is really unusual for such a person to take the initiative to retreat now.
If something went wrong, there must be a demon. Chen Zuyi believed that Deng Yu must have an ambush in the city.
Immediately Chen Zuyi shouted loudly:
"Stop, stop it all!!!"
Chen Zuyi's voice stopped the eager henchmen around him, but there were more people around him, rushing towards the city crazily.
In the crowded background, Chen Zuyi's personal wishes seemed so small.
"bass!!"
Chen Zuyi immediately pulled out his sword and shouted urgently:
"Anyone who dares to go forward will be killed without mercy!!"
Although the confidants around him have doubts, they have already developed a tacit understanding after following Chen Zuyi for so many years.
They all drew out their long knives and shouted behind them:
"Anyone who dares to take another step forward will be killed without mercy!!!"
The crowd behind him slowly became quiet and looked at Chen Zuyi in surprise.
After all, it was Chen Zuyi who agreed to the robbery, and now it was Chen Zuyi who stopped everyone. This kind of contradictory behavior can easily make people think wildly.
Chen Zuyi knew that the matter was urgent and shouted loudly:
"Brothers, listen to me. There is a scam in the city. You must not enter the city now."
"Everyone think about it, why did the Ming army let go of the city gates so easily when they tried their best to prevent us from entering the city."
"This move must be fraudulent."
The words were reasonable and well-founded, and the pirates gradually calmed down.
But before Chen Zuyi could continue to make arrangements, he saw a group of pirates who had entered the city first and returned home laden with gold and silver.
In less than a quarter of an hour after entering the city, these people had already grabbed so much wealth.
This scene instantly caused the pirate, who had already calmed down, to breathe a little heavier.
"Brothers, why don't you go in? There is gold everywhere in the city. Take it as you like. Brothers, go and get it!!!"
These people had just returned and did not hear Chen Zuyi's speech. When they saw everyone still staring at them, they hurriedly asked them to go into the city to rob them.
Now the pirates no longer cared about what Chen Zuyi said and were about to rush in and plunder.
Seeing this scene, Chen Zuyi was furious, drew his knife and hacked to death a pirate who was charging forward, and roared:
"Who dares to step forward!!!"
At this time, all the pirates were not calm. After all, the people in the city had already robbed things and returned, so there was nothing wrong at all.
But Chen Zuyi still refuses to let people in, which is unreasonable. Some people even think that Chen Zuyi is trying to burn bridges by crossing the river.
The pirates had always believed that Chen Zuyi was a man of faith, but now Chen Zuyi had broken his promise.
Wanting to monopolize Fuzhou City instead of everyone having a share as promised before, the anger in everyone's hearts suddenly began to build up.
However, frightened by Chen Zuyi's power, these pirates dared not speak out in anger and could only look at Chen Zuyi angrily.
When Chen Zuyi's confidants saw this scene, they knew something was wrong and hurriedly whispered in Chen Zuyi's ear:
"General, what the people want cannot be stopped by force."
Chen Zuyi's eyes were cold, but faced with so many pairs of eyes staring at him, Chen Zuyi finally gave in, slowly sheathed his sword, and said:
"Brothers, I hope you will kill me happily."
After saying that, he led his men out of the way.
