169. Discovery
The Tartars were ambitious and wanted to teach the Daning people a harsh lesson, but soon, they were taught a lesson by the Daning people.
First, some of the cavalry were lost in the minefield, and then when their infantry, under the cover of archers and catapults, carried ladders and battering rams to the city walls, the Daning people on the city walls also completely showed their sharp fangs.
The shield soldiers with huge shields constantly pushed down the ladders, and with the cover of the shields, no matter how powerful the Tartar archers were, they could not do anything.
And the catapults made by the Tartars are really rudimentary, let alone accurate. First of all, the catapult was placed too far away, and the stones thrown could not hit the city wall at all, and fell to the ground when it was still far from the city wall.
Later, I changed it a few times, and the distance was finally appropriate, but the catapult was too simple to carry too large a stone, and the stone was small, and the power was naturally much weaker, and it left a shallow pit on the wall at most, and the usefulness was really limited. If this continues, I don't know how long it will take to smash holes in the wall.
Moreover, its accuracy is too poor. Ten throws, and only one or two can throw stones at the walls and smash the soldiers on them.
However, the bed crossbows on the city walls had already been prepared, and as soon as the Tartar army arrived, the crossbowmen in charge of the bed crossbows immediately took aim and fired. Although the crossbow of the bed is not very good, it is much better than the simple catapult of the tartar.
The giant arrow was also strapped to explosives, and when it exploded, countless people were killed and injured.
These bed crossbows were all aimed at catapults, and after a few times, most of the simple catapults were scrapped, and their usefulness was even more limited.
At this time, the only thing the Tartars could rely on was the battering ram.
It's a pity that the city walls have already been prepared with 10,000 enemies.
This thing may not be able to blow up the huge battering ram, but as soon as it is thrown down, the infantry in charge of controlling the battering ram will suffer countless casualties, and the Tartars can only continue to replenish their manpower.
The war lasted for a long time, and both sides were fighting a war of attrition. However, Daning consumes firearms, while Tartars consume human lives!
Although Daning also had casualties, it was not worth mentioning compared to the terrible casualties of the Tartars.
The city wall could not be attacked for a long time, and the Tartar soldiers could not even climb the city wall, and almost died as many as they came. Gradually, the Tartars, who were still full of confidence, began to retreat.
Their army pressed the border to capture Daning, not to give Daning his life!
The boss was constantly persuaded by others, and the boss insisted at first, but when he saw the mountains of corpses gradually piling up under the city walls, he finally couldn't hold on anymore.
"Withdraw!" This word was almost spit out through gritted teeth, which showed that he already had a monstrous hatred in his heart.
However, just as the Tartars were retreating in a hurry, the gates of Daning suddenly opened, and a cavalry of thousands of people rushed out, following the Tartars to continuously harvest human lives.
One of them had a full beard, and his long beard almost covered his entire face, except for the eyes, which were as sharp as eagles.
He clenched a long knife in both hands, and each time it went down, it was a human life.
Scarlet blood splashed on him, gradually staining his armor red, and even splashing a lot of blood on his face, but he didn't care at all, constantly charging in the Tartar ranks, shocking the originally neat and orderly team to pieces, and then being surrounded and suppressed by the Daning people.
On the city wall in the distance, Feng Xuan was watching the battle situation here with clairvoyance. Feng Xuan did this not only to monitor the movements of the Tartars, but also to prevent the Tartars from suddenly turning around and coming to counter-encirclement and suppression. At the same time, it is also to observe the cavalry situation of Daning, so as to find out good seedlings to promote.
Taiping's fierce appearance of not fearing death soon fell into Feng Xuan's eyes.
Feng Xuan saw that he had sharp swordsmanship, and he knew how to cooperate with others to fight, and he could be regarded as a fierce general, so he suddenly became interested. It's just that as soon as he saw Taiping's beard, he immediately felt that he had exhausted his appetite.
Although he did not suffer much when he fought in Lingnan, Feng Xuan was obviously in the advanced stage of Yankong cancer and could not be saved. It's not that he doesn't look down on Taiping because of Taiping's beard, but he instinctively feels that the beard on his face is really unpleasant.
When he is promoted in the future, he must be allowed to shave his beard!
Feng Xuan silently made up his mind in his heart, and then found that those Tartars were unwilling to be killed, and they seemed to have plans to turn around and outflank.
He immediately gestured to the person next to him, who nodded, took off the horn in his hand and blew it.
This is the agreed clarion call, and there are two tones, one offensive and one retreating. Although blowing the horn is a bit similar to the horn of a Tartar, the horn is easy to carry after all, just hang it directly on the waist, and the sound can also travel far, which is much more convenient than the big drum.
Feng Xuan and Gao Zixin are similar, both are pragmatists, so they simply replaced the drum with a trumpet.
As soon as the horn sounded, the Daning cavalry who were fighting suddenly turned around and retreated, not at all in love with war. They retreated too quickly, and directly caught the Tartars off guard, so they could only give up the plan against encirclement and suppression.
From this day on, the army of the Tartars had to press the border once in a while, but there was no way to help Daning, who had firearms, but the losses became more and more severe.
For this reason, the status and decision-making of Yechai Khan were once again questioned, and even many people retreated.
They will gather here and obey Ye Zhu's dispatch because Ye Zhu said that he is sure to rush into the Central Plains, even if he can't completely take the Central Plains, rush in and loot it, then the oil and water are not bad.
But now, a lot of their people have died, but they haven't caught any oil and water, who can swallow this breath?
But if they just go back, they are even more unwilling. With so many people dead, how can they be willing to grab more things?
Therefore, although there are many people who question Jeho, no one wants to go back like this. Instead, he began to pray that Daning's firearms were running out.
In order to consolidate his position, and at the same time to stabilize the morale of the army, Ye Chai has always said this to people - Daning is now just relying on the benefits of firearms, and when they run out of firearms, they will naturally become lambs to the slaughter, and let us do whatever we want!
This word has spread a lot, and many people really believe it, and even deliberately forget how shameless Daning's cavalry is!
As a result, even more shameless things came.
The people of Daning played shameless guerrilla warfare, and they especially liked to engage in sneak attacks! The most shameless thing is that the time of their sneak attack is not fixed!
It was none other than Taiping who was responsible for the sneak attack.
When he was in the palace, he didn't go to Gao Zixin's side, at first he wanted to keep an eye on his son to deal with political affairs, but he was afraid that Gao Zixin would not handle it well. Later, he found out that Gao Zixin had a lot of good things there - such as those books from the traverser.
Ever since he discovered those books, Taiping has liked to read at Gao Zixin's. The more books he reads, the more his insight will naturally be far different.
In the past, he was also an ancient emperor, although he was still very wise, very martial and ambitious before being controlled by the Dusk Monarch system, but his knowledge was limited after all.
But after reading those books from later generations, Taiping's knowledge was constantly enriched.
He gradually discovered that his former self was simply a frog at the bottom of a well! mistakenly thinks that he owns the world, but in fact it only occupies a small area.
As long as he thought that there was so much land beyond Daliang, and the people in those places were still ignorant and barbaric, Taiping began to be tempted, especially coveting those places.
He was greedy for a moment, and he read books more seriously, and he just wanted to know more things.
This guerrilla warfare is what he saw in the book, and after reading it, he felt that his eyes lit up, if not for anything else, because it was so shameless!
And now, the army of the Tartars is stationed on the Daning border, not to sneak attack them, Taiping feels sorry for the so many books he has read!
In the past, the Tartars always robbed the girders, and every time they robbed it, they ran away, and they hated it as much as they wanted. This time, he brought people over to sneak attack from time to time, and he only felt how happy he was.
Taiping laughed proudly as soon as he was happy, but as soon as he smiled, he was slapped next to the wound, and he immediately bared his teeth in pain, and couldn't help but stare at the other party fiercely: "What are you doing?" ”
The man was a paramedic on the team, mainly responsible for treating the wounded. However, he is not the kind of weak military doctor or Langzhong, but a real martial artist.
Seeing Taiping's glaring, he snorted: "Yo, I still know how to stare at people, it seems that the injury is not too serious." ”
It is naturally impossible for Taiping to sneak attack from time to time, and it is naturally impossible not to get injured, but his luck is indeed very good, he has been there so many times, and he has basically suffered some minor injuries, and he has never been fatal.
To be exact, since Taiping's escape from the damn faint monarch system, his luck has been better.
He had just led people to run to attack the Tartars' camp, and when he retreated, he was hit by an arrow, but it didn't hurt the vital point, and now the arrow has been taken out, and the wound has been stitched up and medicated, so it can be said that as long as it is not infected, it will be fine.
But the effect of the hemp boiling powder had passed, and the man patted the wound around him, and immediately pulled the wound, and the taste of fire was really uncomfortable.
Taiping looked at the man angrily, and said coolly, "What? I'm not hurt badly, aren't you happy? ”
The man snorted again, and said angrily, "Who told you to always look for death?" ”
This person had never studied medicine, but since he was selected as a medical soldier and learned some simple wound treatment and medical science, he was infected with a little bit of feelings of saving lives and helping the wounded.
Taiping also knew his temperament, so although he was hurt by the shooting, he was not angry.
At this moment, someone suddenly came in and said, "Taiping, come with me, the national teacher wants to see you." ”
Taiping's face suddenly changed greatly: "The country ...... National teacher? "What did the pervert do when he saw him?