078 Cao Zuozhongji
Many moon-shaped cities are surrounded by a circle, but each city head is neither wide nor thick, so there is no way to put a cannon on the city, but it is still no problem to put a small cannon that people call the tiger squat cannon. Although the name of the tiger squat cannon is loud, it is actually very ugly, the length and size are about the same as a person's thighs, and if it is called a pig cannon, it will be more vivid.
Seeing that the Jurchens rushed over with a cart lined up a mile wide, the seven or eight city heads facing each other fired intermittently with artillery, although the small cannonballs and the small range of the cannonballs were also short, but the power of the cannonballs after sending them out should not be underestimated. An egg-sized piece of iron smashed into a person's body is a blood hole, and if you are particularly unlucky, you will be pierced two or three times in a row, even if you don't hit it directly, after a second rebound, it is difficult to save your life. After the tiger squat cannon fired three or four rounds, the Jurchen chariot was about to rush to the city, but the cavalry escorting them was also injured by the cannonballs because of the large target, and the formation at this time was no longer neat and seemed quite chaotic.
Seeing that the opportunity was rare, Huang Daozhou asked Cao Wenzhao to lead three thousand cavalry to rush out and slash around the city. Seeing that the cavalry were so embarrassed, the archers and cart pushers hurriedly fled backwards, and those who fled slowly were either cut off their heads or shot in the back by the swept cavalry, and when the Jurchen cavalry stabilized their formation and gathered to prepare to pursue the Ming army's horse team, Cao Wenzhao had already led people into the southeast corner of Yuezi Guancheng, turned a corner inside and returned to the northeast corner of Yuezi Guancheng to standby.
Seeing the tactics of the Ming army clearly, Hou Shan couldn't help but nod secretly, turned around and discussed with Ao Bai for a while, and then sent someone to attack again. This time, the formation is exactly the same as at the beginning, or the archers are escorted behind by the chariot cavalry, which makes people unable to understand the way of thinking of the Jurchens, don't you know that only continuous innovation can make continuous progress?
After Zuo Liangyu had a big chariot wrestling with the Jurchens in the west, he was transferred to the east by Huang Daozhou and asked him to help Ni Yuanlu defend the city at that time. Zuo Liangyu doesn't have a good impression of Ni Yuanlu, he is not tall and not handsome, and he makes a self-righteous underbeat at any time, which makes people look how unpleasant they are. It's just that because he is from Beijing, Zuo Liangyu will also allow three points, who knows that as soon as he went to the city, he heard a Jinyi guard officer talking to Ni Yuanlu, and after listening to their words, Zuo Liangyu almost exploded his chest.
An officer of the Jinyi guard asked Ni Yuanlu: "Lord Ni, I have never seen anyone fight in Beijing all this time, and today is considered to be a long experience, you see that this city is full of artillery and arrows, and if you smash it, you will die and be injured, but why don't these Jurchens know to be afraid?" All of them are desperately rushing forward, do these people often fight and beat their brains stupidly? ”
Ni Yuanlu replied with a smile: "Your opinion is very unique, but the lower officials think that they are not suddenly stupid, but they are just a little unconscious for the time being, and they will recover after the battle." After saying that, he laughed again.
As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention of listening, it was originally a joke, but Zuo Liangyu felt particularly harsh when he heard it, he thought: "Lao Tzu also rushed forward when he heard the order, so in your eyes, Lao Tzu is also a fool?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but stepped forward and said: "We are bleeding and fighting below, and the two adults are dressed cleanly and talking cool here, so they are not afraid that the soldiers will be chilled?" ”
Cao Wenzhao had just rushed back, and he was also very uncomfortable after listening to Ni Yuanlu's conversation, and took Zuo Liangyu's words and said: "Don't be a literati, the last general is preparing to find a few goose feathers to make a feather fan and present it to Lord Ni, so that there is Zhuge Liang's style when it is shaken, and Lord Ni waved the fan to send the wind to the wind, maybe the Jurchens will immediately flee from the wind." ”
Ni Yuanlu thought to herself: "I didn't offend you? Why are you dissatisfied with me? But he said: "The two generals misunderstood, and the subordinate told a few jokes, not aimed at the two generals, please don't mind the two generals." ”
Huang Daozhou said at this time: "At the moment of the great enemy, everyone should not have any unnecessary misunderstandings, as for why the soldiers can rush to their own officials without fear of death, they can explain." ”
Seeing that Zodiac Zhou came out to play a round, everyone didn't say anything, just looked at Zodiac Zhou and listened. Huang Daozhou said: "Sima Sui Tho has a cloud: 'When you are ordained, you will forget your home, if you are bound by the army, you will forget your relatives, and if you are in a hurry to help the drums, you will forget your body. That is to say, when a soldier is ordered to charge, he will forget that he is flesh and blood, and then man is a weapon, and a weapon is a man, so that he can conquer everything and be invincible. The Jurchens were able to do that. I wonder if my Ming soldiers can do this? ”
Zuo Liangyu listened to Huang Daozhou's words and immediately stood up and said: "Can I do it as a Ming soldier, just open your eyes, the Jurchens are about to rush to the city, this time Zuo will lead 3,000 people to charge, how about Brother Cao sweep the formation for the younger brother?" ”
Cao Wenzhao said: "What else do you and my brother say? Let's go, let them see how my Ming soldiers charged. ”
Ni Yuanlu watched Cao and the left two get out of the city, turned to Huang Daozhou and said: "Xiaguan almost caused a misunderstanding when he lost his words, it all depends on Lord Huang's thoughtfulness, and Xiaguan has thanked him here." However, Xia Guan admired Lord Huang for being able to turn their anger into fighting spirit in the blink of an eye! ”
Huang Daozhou laughed and said: "This is not enough to worry about, but the official is very curious about Lord Ni's secret weapon, the emperor pointed out that Lord Ni must have something to rely on to defend the city, I don't know what Lord Ni's secret weapon is?" ”
Ni Yuanlu said embarrassedly: "Lord Huang, forgive me, I originally told Lord Huang that there was nothing, but the emperor decreed that this is a top secret, and no one is allowed to disclose it." ”
After finishing speaking, he remembered the murder case in Ciyun Nunnery a while ago, and said: "Because Xiaguan began to have no sense of secrecy, Xiaguan's father-in-law was killed by Jurchen spies. ”
Huang Daozhou said: "Then the official won't look at it, everything depends on Lord Ni." ”
At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng next to him shouted: "It's not good, Cao Wenzhao and Zuo Liangyu have a plan!" ”
After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, Huang Daozhou hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Lu Xiangsheng said: "Lord Huang, you see, Zuo Liangyu led 3,000 people to kill from the northeast corner, and he should be killed from the southeast corner. But now as soon as Zuo Liangyu went out, the Jurchens immediately passed directly from the south, and about 10,000 people blocked Zuo Liangyu's return route, plus Zuo Liangyu's circle was a bit big this time, I am afraid that today is more than lucky. ”
Huang Daozhou said: "Yes, the enemy's soldiers did not flee this time, but turned around and blocked Zuo Liangyu's way to prevent him from coming back from the middle, what should I do?" ”
At this time, Zuo Liangyu also found that the situation was wrong, he killed 3,000 people himself, and now it seems that he has killed too deeply, and it will be difficult to go back. The enemy's chariot blocked his way back in the middle of the front of the Yuezi Pass City, and a little farther away was the enemy's interception cavalry of about 10,000 people, it seemed that the heavy armored cavalry queue was still very thick, and his own 3,000 men and horses were hedged against the 10,000 heavy armor and thick formation, and it was estimated that few could survive.
After all, Zuo Liangyu has rich combat experience, he did not try to rush back from the southeast corner of Yuezi Pass City as originally planned, but turned to the high slope due east and rushed over, as long as he turned a corner, he could add speed to kill back from the northeast corner. At the beginning, there were about 1,000 Jurchen cavalry who came out with the chariot, and when they saw Zuo Liangyu turn to the east, they understood that Zuo Liangyu wanted to return the same way, and immediately went straight to the northeast corner to block the road first, as long as they were dragged to the 10,000 heavily armored cavalry to surround and block the northeast corner, Zuo Liangyu would be unable to fly.
Seeing these Zuo Liangyu's heart sank, and when he was thinking of a way, he suddenly saw that the formation of the thousand Jurchen cavalry was slightly chaotic, and then it was split into two, it turned out that Cao Wenzhao saw that the situation was not good and also killed, this is really a tribulation to see the truth! Zuo Liangyu's tears were about to be moved. After the two armies converged, the two were preparing to kill back, and saw that the 1,000 Jurchen cavalry went crazy and entangled, regardless of the Ming army had 7,000 people and only 1,000 themselves, and only retreated after injuring half of the men and horses, at this time 10,000 Jurchen heavy armored cavalry had blocked the mouth of the northeast corner, and at the same time, there were about 10,000 Jurchen cavalry blocking the east and southeast corners of Yuezi Guancheng, and it seemed that the Jurchen people were going to leave all the 7,000 people of the Ming army.