Chapter 122 [Rain of Gunpowder]

At this point, the bandits retorted, "The Bird Commander is not here, otherwise you will need to take the lead?" As soon as the words fell, the red lady who couldn't bear it asked for her life: "Okay, this king has been the king of the mountain for so long, and today he will take the lead in killing the prestige of the Ming army with both hands." ”

I saw that the red lady began to set up a formation so that the hundred bandits with bird guns on their backs pressed the fire behind, keeping a distance of about one hundred and twenty steps from the Ming army in the city, and rushed forward with the bandit knife player and the bandit archers, the red lady took the lead and pulled (Kaiyuan bow) to set up four arrows at a time, and used her fingers to hold the arrow and aim at the city to let go of Xuan, the arrow quickly shot over Two arrows assassinated the two Ming troops next to the Mingyang City Zhixian, there was an arrow that hit the soldier who beat the drum, and an arrow was inserted in the pillar of the city tower, Seeing that Mingyang City Magistrate was very surprised, he thought that this person must be a strong enemy?

Sure enough, the next second the bandits rushed to the city with lightning speed, although the Ming army gunners shot effectively, but the bandit archers were not bad, the perennial hunting had already practiced their archery, not only agile and extremely fast archery speed, before the Ming gunners shot a few guns have been stabbed to death by the arrows!

Due to the short-range attack of the bandits, the Ming army began to throw 10,000 enemies under the city to blow up the bandits, and the bandit knife players threw their claws to hook the city tower and slash and kill the Ming army.

The general of the right battalion of Dashun, who was watching the battle later, saw that the red lady really had some ability, so he ordered the artillerymen to open artillery to cooperate with the siege, and then let the Shun cavalry rush up to shoot with crossbow arrows, and the dense arrows flew towards the city tower, and instantly shot six arrows in the chest of the magistrate of Mingyang City, piercing the heart and dying! As a result, the Shun army successfully occupied Yangcheng County and prepared to approach Ningshanwei.

At this moment, the local defenders of Jiaocangbao, Gaoping County, and Lingchuan County gathered in the territory of Ningshanwei, and the commander of Mingning Shanwei said: Su Zhikui, seeing so many people rushing to the city made him panic! After learning the news of the attack of the Liukou, he immediately asked the Mingning Mountain Guard to pacify: Yu Qitao, arranged for the defenders to live in the city and blocked the city gate to cover the retreat of the people to the back city.

Just as the soldiers were about to close the city gate, Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin quickly rode over and shouted: "Don't close the city gate, don't close the city gate!" When the soldiers saw someone shouting, they looked up at them.

Wu Junzhen, who grabbed the reins and stopped, quickly dismounted and saluted the city, saying, "We just escorted His Royal Highness the county lord here, I wonder if you can let us enter the city?" The soldiers looked around, and when they saw a woman on a horse carrying another woman behind them, they let them into the city to investigate.

As soon as he entered the city, before the soldiers could check, he was passed by by Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu and saw them, he always felt very familiar, he recalled it carefully, and Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin walked over directly and greeted, "Lord Zhenfu has not seen you for a long time!" ”

This accosting sentence instantly reminded him that they had come to the flag sacrifice before, and the happy Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu hurriedly greeted them down.

After entering the city, Wu Junzhen first informed Liukou of the upcoming news, but Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu was not surprised? Because he had already anticipated this matter and was dealing with the deployment of defenses, Ma Wei and Liu Ruilin asked, "I don't know how sure you are to defend the city?" Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu stretched out his finger and said that he was sixty percent sure, but after all, there was not enough ammunition and there were not many soldiers with combat effectiveness, so it was reduced by twenty percent! That sounds a bit suspenseful.

At this time, some soldiers ran over and said, "Lord Qiqi, the soldiers and civilians who have taken refuge here have arranged accommodations, do you want to gather troops to discuss how to deal with the situation of the rogue in the next step?" Mingning Shanwei looked at the soldier and asked, "Does Commander Wei have any instructions?" The soldier shook his head!

So Wu Junzhen and his entourage were ready to ask for orders to go to the Wei Command Post to meet the Wei Commander Envoy, and it happened that Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu also wanted to listen to his opinion and went together.

was looking at the commander of the Mingning Mountain Guard, who was planning how to deploy the defense in the sand table, and suddenly saw the Ming Ning Mountain Guard Zhenfu leading Wu Junzhen and others to break in, and he hurriedly asked, "Who is this?" Wu Junzhen, Ma Wei, and Liu Ruilin hurriedly stepped forward to report to their homes, and learned that they were once subordinates of Inspector Sun, and the commander of the Mingning Mountain Guard asked them what their plan was? Ma Wei first proposed to go south to unite with the garrisons of Henan Chengxuan's Huaiqing Mansion, Weihui Mansion and other places, and Liu Ruilin felt that it would be a few days or more than half a month, and I am afraid that Ningshanwei would have been broken by the rogues by then! Even if you evacuate, it will be difficult to transfer so many people for a while.

Wu Junzhen proposed to fight an ambush war to win, both; Draw out the main force of men and horses to ambush on the slopes outside the city to bring back and forth to attack the Liukou, and the city gate is covered by artillery remotely, but this move is very dangerous, which is equivalent to betting on the enemy's psychological tactics, once the Liukou sees through the plan, then the ambush outside the city may be extinguished! But this strategy is strong in flexibility and speed, and it is not impossible to scare off the enemy?

Therefore, the commander of the Mingning Shanwei decided to take a gamble, and he let the Mingning Shanwei command the servants: Jiang Jingbo, with the garrison in the city and the Ming army gathered here, a total of 30,000 people out of the city divided into two teams to ambush on the left and right wings, led by the commander of the Mingning Shanwei to lead a team, Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu led another team to lurk, the firecrackers lined up in turn to load the bullet and suppress the fire, the archers kept the range distance at the end, and the rest of the sword players held their sabers in front of them to prepare for the battle, and let people escort the county lord to Huaiqing Mansion for refuge first.

Before Zhu Youlan left, she looked at Wu Junzhen at the city gate reluctantly, and instructed: "Don't fight hard with the enemy!" In times of crisis, you must protect yourself before making plans. As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Junzhen, Ma Wei and the others bowed their heads and bowed with both hands, "Congratulations to His Royal Highness the County Lord!" ”

However, Zhu Youlan, who was helped onto the frame by the soldiers, still lifted the curtain with her hands and shouted, "You must be careful!" In this way, the coachman drove quickly with the carriage, and Wu Junzhen stood in place and quietly watched the carriage going farther and farther...

At the beginning of the afternoon, a group of rogue troops rode in front, and in the middle was the bandit army Red Lady and the general of the Dashun right battalion, and the general of Dashun Right Guoyi next to him felt that the relationship was not ordinary when he saw the two of them, and he looked very embarrassed here! He rode ahead and prepared to urge the soldiers to be on guard, after every step would be dangerous.

At this moment, the ambush on the left side of the Mingning Shanwei town picked up the leaves and saw a rogue army coming over, he waved his hand to signal the firecrackers to prepare to shoot, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei also each picked up the bird gun to suppress the fire, and raised the gun aimed at the soldier carrying the (Shunzi flag) to pull the trigger, the flint quickly pressed down (bang, bang) The two each fired a gun, Wu Junzhen shot the rogue soldier carrying the flag, Ma Wei shot a soldier next to him, the sound of the gun soon alarmed the rogue soldiers and bandits on the opposite side, and the Ming army gunners lurking on the left flank shot quickly, and the general manager of Mingning Shanwei on the right wing: Xiao Wanxi, asked the commander of Mingning Shanwei, "Lord Wei commander, the left wing has already started its combat effectiveness, do you think we also want to shoot?" ”

Thoughtful, he felt that he must not shoot at this moment, so as not to expose the target? Because the Liukou had not yet noticed them, the commander of the Ming Ning Mountain Guard decided to wait and see what happened.

At this time, the red lady saw that the front team of the rogue was attacked by the Ming army, she couldn't bear to lead her bandits to rush up to try to break through the Ming army gunfire formation, due to the disparity in strength, Ming Ning Shanwei Zhenfu did not dare to easily order the infantry knife player to charge, but sent a signal flare to the sky to let the Ming army artillerymen on the city tower ignite (knock, knock) a shell exploded to the Liukou army, Dashun right Guoyi general was afraid of suffering a loss and immediately retreated to the back, leaving only the bandit troops of the red lady in front of the artillery fire while shooting arrows and charging.

Because the red lady came quickly and bravely, and the bandits under her command were also good at combat and accurate archery, most of the Ming gunners were shot! Despite the artillery bombardment in the city, the Ming army on the left flank was soon overwhelmed! The archers of the Ming army in the rear team were also shooting arrows to kill bandits and rogues.

The general of the right battalion of Dashun was unwilling to let a female streamer charge, so he led his headquarters to rush up and join her to attack the Ming army formation.

Seeing that the left-wing Ming army is not guaranteed! The commander of the Mingning Mountain Guard on the right flank ordered the musketeers and archers to shoot at the Liukou cavalry, causing the Liukou cavalry to be immediately shot by lead bullets and arrowheads, and three commanders were killed on the spot.

Considering that the Ming army defending the city never dared to attack, the general of the right battalion of Dashun immediately guessed whether it would be that the Ming army did not have the main force here? Seeing this situation, he was not afraid to directly order the whole army to attack the Ming army outside the city, the two sides slashed together, the fight was very fierce, and it happened that the commander of the flying birds in the rear also caught up, he saw the Shun army and the bandits surrounded the Ming army, and guessed that the red lady must also be among them? He led the army to besiege the Ming army in front of the battle.

In less than half a pillar of incense, the strength of the Ming army was suddenly exposed, and the commander of the Ming Ning Mountain Guard, who was standing on the city tower and watching the battle, felt that they would lose this battle when they saw this scene! He ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn and gather the troops to retreat.

By the time the horn sounded, there were less than 5,000 Ming troops left! And most of them are surrounded by rogues and bandits, the generals of each battalion are struggling to kill the enemy, among them, Yao Qiuyue is exhausted in front of the rogue soldiers constantly waving her claws to kill the enemy, Wu Junzhen is also a person wielding a knife to fight several people, the cloth armor on his body was cut in a few places, Liu Ruilin and Ma Wei are struggling to kill the enemy back to back, the generals of the Ming army on both wings below 1,000 households have died four, and the hundred households have died three, the situation is very unfavorable for the Ming army!

In order not to let all the generals die here, Mingning Shanwei commanded the rest to retreat first, and after he led a thousand people, Yao Qiuyue was seriously injured in the back by the rogue soldiers, she was worried that Wu Junzhen would die in battle, so she pulled him back, Liu Ruilin and Ma Wei also began to retreat after cutting down a few bandit archers.

Only when Mingning Shanwei Zhenfu finished arranging for everyone to retreat into the city, he looked up to the sky and sighed, "I can be loyal to the country in this life, and we have lived up to Your Majesty's high expectations, but I hope that in the next life I will come to guard the Ming Dynasty!" After speaking, he and the ten Ming soldiers around him ignited the pig iron thunder, the wind and fire shook the sky and thunder to blow up the rogue who rushed up, which made Wu Junzhen, who retreated into the city, hear this huge sound, he quickly turned around and sighed, "It's really my loyal military general of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

At the same time, the commander of the Mingning mountain guard, who was blocking the rogues and bandits on the suspension bridge outside the city, also planned to make the final blow, he untied the chain mail on his body, revealing the gunpowder canisters tied up, and was just about to ignite the fuse, he was shot by the bandits under the Red Lady! However, the gunpowder in the gunpowder cylinder flowed down and touched the fire, but unfortunately he fell into the river and exploded with ten arrows in his body, so he did not kill a few rogues.