Chapter 208: Dead Guard

After Xie Wang's propaganda in Miyun City, he has now become a common enemy. The big guy's fear of the Tatars turned into a motivation for his own survival. The common people are thinking about it now, since it is a death anyway, it is better to die in battle, and if you can kill one or two Tatars, then you will not lose money. If you defend the city wall, even if you die in battle, your relatives will survive.

Not only did all the young men take an active part in defending the city, but countless women also came to the city walls to help deliver supplies and prepare meals for the soldiers and young men. These women had been frightened by the news from Gubeikou, and they were not afraid of death, but they thought that it would be better to die if they faced the ravages of the Tatars every day. Therefore, these women are desperately helping the officials and soldiers to defend the city, hoping to defend the city and save their lives and chastity.

Even many elderly people over the age of 50 do not discourage themselves from training next to the young and strong, only thinking that they can make a contribution at the last moment, and want to use their old lives to leave a way for the young children and grandchildren in the family.

Xie Wang actually had a glimmer of hope for holding Miyun City at this time, with these people working together, if the Tatars want to break through, I'm afraid it will not be so easy. In the end, if the Tatars lost too many men and horses. In the end, I'm afraid I can only go around the city, and there is nothing I can do about his Miyun City.

Xie Wang now has this idea in his heart, to encourage the people to fight, to make them understand that the Tatars are also human beings, and if they suffer heavy losses, they will also be afraid.

And the city wall was also prepared with countless rolling wood thunder stones, which were originally not available, and were only gathered by Xie Wang after demolishing the garrison mansion and the mansions of all the officials.

When the people in the city saw that the officials had demolished their houses to defend the city, they also took action one by one, and many of them demolished all the unused houses of their own families, and transported all the stones and various wood beams used for building houses to the city.

During this time, they used craftsmen from the Central Plains to build countless ladders and other siege equipment, such as crashing cars.

On the third day of the two sides resting, Arslen Khan led the army out together, and the army set up a position three miles outside Miyun City. Arslen Khan took the lead in coming to the front of the battle, put up a pergola and looked up at the city wall, only to see that the city wall was densely packed with countless figures, and all kinds of materials for defending the city were piled up.

When Arslen Khan saw this situation, he had a bad premonition in his heart. This reminded him of the siege battle in Kaiping Town. Although this time he is well prepared, but if he continues to fight like this. I don't know how much time it will take and how many people will be lost.

And now the situation of Miyun City Investment is very different from what Gu Xu described, looking at the materials on the city, where is the lack of preparation, this is simply a mountain. The army at the head of the city was densely packed, at least tens of thousands of people.

Seeing this, Arslen Khan turned a corner in his heart and decided to attack tentatively for a few days. If it doesn't work, you can't continue to attack. After finishing the work, you should go around the city and go straight to the capital, and it is enough to leave one or two thousand cavalry behind for surveillance.

After Arslen Khan had made up his mind, he issued an order to his generals to attack the city from all sides at once, and it must be continuous without a momentary pause.

The Tatars were not, merely ordering their own infantry soldiers to storm the city. These days, they have also plundered tens of thousands of people around, and the male soldiers among these people have naturally become cannon fodder for this siege, and they are the first to rush towards Miyun City.

These captives came, and Qingzhuang rushed towards Miyun City with a cloud ladder at the urging of the Tatars behind. When he came to the city and set up a ladder, he climbed the ladder and attacked the city under the pressure of the Tatars' swords and guns. And so the brutal siege began.

Seeing this situation, Xie Wang, who was at the head of the city, also had a trace of hesitation, and finally gave an order, and all the soldiers began to throw the Wood Thunder Stone downward. In an instant, the people who attacked the city suffered heavy losses, and this situation lasted only more than half an hour. These people have suffered great losses. There is no longer the ability to siege the city.

Seeing that the slaves had lost almost as much as they had gone, and that the Rolling Wood Mines had been consumed from their heads, Arslen Khan ordered his Tatars to begin the siege.

So the Tatars followed the example of the Central Plains. Carrying the ladder to the city wall, in the process of firing thousands of arrows on the city, the Tatars continued to fall in the way of the charge. But the Tatars, who were outnumbered, soon approached the city walls, and they climbed steadily with the ladders on top of the city, braving the rolling logs and stones on them.

And under the city, there were also archers sent by Arslen Khan, who kept shooting arrows upwards to suppress the firepower of the city project.

At the head of Miyun City, Xie Wang led hundreds of people to act as a supervision team and rescue team. But those who dare to retreat will be killed immediately, and where they will soon be unable to support it, they will immediately go to support.

At the same time, it is necessary to order the young and strong under the city, and constantly replenish upwards, sometimes it is too late to dispatch the young and strong, and even women go to the city to participate in the battle.

Sometimes from the head, because of the lack of rolling wood thunder stones, is it not directly thrown down the corpses of comrades who have just died in battle as rolling logs.

And what is surprising is that among them, the most courageous of these men were the women, many of whom were seriously wounded and could not see that they could not help it, and even jumped from the city with the Tatars in their arms. The tragedy and tragedy are beyond words.

In this way, the fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted for a day, and when the sky was dark, Arslen Khan finally let his troops be withdrawn, and this day's offensive and defensive battle made him see the cruelty that was different from the previous steppe war, which strengthened his determination to go around the city.

By the evening the losses were counted, and in this day's siege battle, the Tatars lost nearly five thousand killed and wounded two or three thousand. Such losses were beyond the limits of what the Tatars could bear, and many complained. treated Gu Xu, a Han man, with angry eyes. It was because he said that the city was unprepared, and it was easy to break through them, so he desperately attacked the city, and the thought of the first day was full of blood.

Arslen Khan did not blame Gu Xu, but said to his generals: "I saw the siege of the city today, there are not many regular soldiers in the city, most of them are young and strong people who have just been recruited, although we have suffered a lot of losses on this day, but the losses on the car are probably even more serious than ours." I think that if we can continue to attack for two more days, if we can break through the dense clouds, it will naturally be the best result, if we can't break through the city wall, then the people in the city will also suffer heavy losses, there is no danger to our back road, let's go around the city, go straight to the capital. ”

Everyone saw that Arslen Khan had set the tone, and they did not dare to resist, so they could only follow orders.

And in Miyun City, after a day of fierce fighting, the soldiers saw the Tatar retreating, and he collapsed on the city wall. Some people don't even care about the dead bodies around them, and just lie on the ground and fall asleep.

After Xie Wang saw the Tatars retreating, he immediately asked people to count the number of people, and the result surprised him. In this day's fierce battle, their losses exceeded 8,000, of which one or two thousand were soldiers with formal training, and within three to five days of this, Miyun City would definitely be conquered.

But now that he has ridden a tiger, he killed many wealthy gentry in order to defend Miyun City, if he can't hold Miyun City, take this as a credit. In the end, I am afraid that it will not end well.

Xie Wangsi thought about it, but he could only fight to the death. He immediately ordered that all the women in the city be gathered together over the age of twenty and under the age of forty. Carry out emergency training, and if necessary, all go up to the city tower to defend the city, so that he has another 10,000 or 20,000 people available, which can allow him to hold out for a few more days.

The next day, everything was as usual, the Tatars were still struggling to attack the city, and Miyun City was also desperately defending. Today's siege station is even more tragic than yesterday's, and the losses in one morning have exceeded the casualties of yesterday's day.

The two sides fought from dawn until dark, and Arslen Khan saw his troops rushing to the city several times, and he thought that the city was about to be broken, but he did not expect to be driven down by the other side.

After dark, Arslen Khan immediately sent people to count the losses, and today's one-day siege made him lose more than 8,000 people. The losses of these two days have already shaken whether it is time to break through Miyun City. Although he knew that according to such a situation, Miyun City would definitely be breached in a few days, but he would lose tens of thousands of elites, so it seemed that the gains outweighed the losses. And it will delay too much time, giving the Southern Dynasty Jingshi more time to prepare.

Arslen Khan immediately decided to change his strategy, leaving only one or two thousand cavalry to monitor Miyun. He led a large group of men and horses straight to the Beijing Division, sweeping all over the place.

Early the next morning, Arslen Khan immediately ordered the camp to rise, leaving only 20,000 men to monitor Miyun, and the other brigades bypassed Miyun and went south.

At the head of Miyun City, Xie Wang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as he watched the team go south. He didn't expect the Tatars to be so strong in combat, yesterday one day to defend the city, in the case of occupying the advantageous location, Miyun City lost more than 10,000, and almost all the veterans in the city were killed, the situation was completely beyond the grasp of a scholar.

Now there are some people who are supported on the head of the city, and after only a few days of training to the young and the strong, as well as the women. If the Tatars attack the city again today, Miyun may not be able to hold it.

And now in Miyun City, there are no professional officers to command. In the two days of the Great War in Miyun, except for one or two who were seriously injured and survived, the other thousands of households have been killed, although he is the chief bookkeeper of the army, but he is really not good at these battles. I thought that today would be the last day of my life, but I didn't expect the Tatars to go around the city.

In fact, this is Arslen Khan was shocked by Miyun's spirit, and he thought that if every city in the Southern Dynasty was like Miyun, he would bring all the people from the grassland, and there would be no way to invade the Southern Dynasty.

The Han people's will to resist also let him know that this nation is not so easy to conquer. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will definitely persevere. will fight to the death with the invaders.