On the seventh day of the Ming army's full strength in siege, on the sixth day of the sixth day of the fifth year of Hongwu, on the afternoon after lunch, the siege initiated by the defeated enemy's third division finally successfully gained a foothold on the southern city wall after half an hour of fierce battle.

Liang Tiancheng, deputy commander of the Third Division, personally led his troops to the city wall and fought to the death, creating an excellent opportunity for subsequent soldiers to climb the city.

So a large number of Ming soldiers came to the city, and the musketeers tried their best to provide cover, so that several barrels were blown up, and several musketeers were injured.

The Song army retreated step by step, and the Ming army gained the upper hand. A wave of flowing pushed the Song army down the city wall, causing the collapse of the Song army under the city and the loss of the city gate.

Liang Tiancheng personally led his troops to attack the city gate, seized the city gate hole, and killed all the Song army crossbowmen on the urn and opened the city gate.

The Ming army outside the city had been waiting for a long time and immediately rushed into Xiangyang City like a tide, bringing a decisive blow to the Song army in Xiangyang City.

The fierce battle reached dusk, the Song army collapsed completely and the street fighting failed.

Liang Tiancheng was quite unlucky. During the battle, he rushed too hard and directly broke out from the front. The personal soldiers behind him did not follow. After killing a Song soldier with one knife, he was knocked on the head by a Song soldier and fainted and failed to participate in the next battle to annihilate the Song army.

The commander of the Third Division, Pang Yu, also personally led the soldiers to charge forward and attacked directly towards the core area of ​​the city, vowing to capture Wang Yan alive.

At that time, the entire Xiangyang City was fighting fiercely, and the city was fighting fiercely. The Song army collapsed while fighting, while the Ming army kept in mind the orders of the chief general not to be captured, so they did not care about some Song soldiers trying to surrender, and they did not accept surrender at all, and they killed them with a sword.

What happened in Fancheng also appeared in Xiangyang City. Seeing that the Song army was in trouble, the Ming army rushed in, and the anger in the hearts of the strong men who had been enslaved by the Song army for a long time gushed out, like a volcano erupting.

They picked up weapons and chased Song Bing.

The lonely Song Bing and the small group of Song Bing fell into their hands. There was no way out. They were either chopped into meat paste or dismembered, and died very miserably...

So much so that some Ming soldiers had their eyes red when they were killed, but when they saw these yellow-faced, thin-skinned and ragged men killing Song Bing, they quickly regained their rationality and did not continue to kill. Instead, they maintained order after these men vented their anger.

After entering the street fighting stage, a considerable number of Song soldiers were killed by the strong men in the city by various means after being disbanded by the Ming army.

Of course, these Song soldiers would not surrender, and they also caused some casualties to the strong men.

This often causes the Ming army to attack with all its might, and the Ming army will annihilate all these Song soldiers, leaving no one left.

The mutual attacks and killings in the city lasted all night until dawn the next day. Pang Yu, who was covered in blood, took Wang Yan, who was tied into rice dumplings and stuffed his mouth out of the city and came to Zhang Yuejing.

Wang Yan closed his eyes and did not move.

"This is Wang Yan, he is still alive."

After saying this, Pang Yu fell asleep and was unconscious due to excessive fatigue.

He personally led his troops to attack Wang Yan's commander's mansion, led the way to attack the commander's mansion, killed five Song Bings with his own hands, and kicked Wang Yan in the lower abdomen, directly causing Wang Yan to lose his combat power and fall into a coma.

Zhang Yuejing sent someone to settle Pang Yu well, and then sent someone to water the fainting Wang Yan with cold water.

After Wang Yan woke up, he found that he had been caught and struggled desperately. Zhang Yuejing asked someone to pull off the cloth that was tucking his mouth and let him speak.

"Let me go! Let me go! Minggou! Fight to the death with me!!!"

"What qualifications do you have to let me go of you?"

Zhang Yuejing suppressed his anger.

Wang Yan was furious.

"What qualifications do you have? What qualifications do you think I have? I am the prefect of Xiangyang, the commander of the army! I have this qualification! If you want to kill me, kill me now. If you don't kill me, let me go and fight to the death with me! Don't fantasize that I will surrender! No! Never!"

"Who said you wanted to surrender?"

Zhang Yuejing was angry and laughed: "You don't think I captured you alive to make you surrender, do you? What's the use of letting you surrender? Xiangfan has been occupied by us, the backbone of the Southern Song Dynasty has been interrupted, and our army has completely gained an advantage. If you want to destroy Song, go down the river, why do you need one? I can tell you clearly that you will die."

Wang Yan was stunned for a moment, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

But his momentum did decline at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if he realized that his failure indicated the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was hated but helpless in his heart.

Helplessly, he seemed to admit his failure and accepted the fact that the entire Southern Song Dynasty was about to be destroyed.

After a while, he spoke again.

"Who are the people who come to support us? How many soldiers have come?"

"The one who came to support you is Li Xianzhong, with 80,000 soldiers coming."

"Li Xianzhong? Eighty thousand people?"

Wang Yan was obviously shocked: "Li Xianzhong is so good at fighting and has an army of 80,000 under his command. How did you defeat him?"

"Is he a heavenly soldier and general so he is invincible in battle? Why can't we defeat him?"

Zhang Yuejing shook his head and said, "The Ming army is invincible in the world and swept the world invincible. You are not the first defeated general, nor will you be the last one, just don't worry."

Wang Yan suddenly had nothing to say.

Based on his understanding of Li Xianzhong, it can be confirmed that Li Xianzhong is the strongest general that the Lin'an court can currently produce.

He also knew Li Xianzhong's ability. When Li Xianzhong led tens of thousands of people from Shaanxi to escape from the Jin Kingdom and defected to the Southern Song Dynasty, he was still one of the witnesses.

If even Li Xianzhong was defeated, then there would be no hope for the Southern Song Dynasty.

Wu Lin from Sichuan and Shu is indeed able to fight, and the Wu family army is also very good at fighting, but the problem is that there is only one Sichuan and Shu, so how can we resist the Ming army that has the world?

The Southern Song Dynasty, a whole, still has the possibility of resistance, but if it loses Jinghu and Jianghuai, it can prove that the Southern Song Dynasty really has no hope.

It's over.

Wang Yan lowered his head in a grim expression.

"Kill me, don't humiliate me. I am already a defeated general. I cannot be a surrendered general, nor will I be a general who destroys my country."

"Don't worry, you'll die."

Zhang Yuejing sneered: "How can you die? I'm ready, but before you die, I still have a question to ask you."

"question?"

Wang Yan took a deep breath: "Since you want to kill me, what else is there to ask? I may not know what you want to know. Even if I know, I will not say that I have decided to die, don't bother me anymore, and don't humiliate me anymore."

"Don't worry, it's just a small problem that doesn't involve any of your military and national affairs."

"Small question?"

"Yeah, a small question."

Zhang Yue nodded and looked at Wang Yan very seriously: "Wang Yan, answer me, are you a human?"

“……………………”

It is no exaggeration to say that Wang Yan thought about a lot of things at that moment.

For example, Zhang Yuejing would ask about the reinforcements of the Song Ting.

But he never expected Zhang Yuejing to ask like this.

"What's the meaning?"

"Literally, are you human?"

"certainly!"

Wang Yan felt that he was insulted: "Aren't you insulting me? How come I'm not a human?"

"No, you are not a human, you are definitely not a human."

Zhang Yuejing shook his head repeatedly and said, "People cannot do such things."

"What's the matter?"

"Before the war started, you plundered 40,000 strong men and 30,000 strong women from Xiangfan area and transported them to Fancheng and Xiangyang respectively. Is this happening?"

"That's nature, this is a tactic of strengthening walls and clearing the fields, which has been in ancient times."
Chapter completed!