Chapter 49 Yongping Second Victory Today's second update
If it weren't for the fact that it was too late yesterday, Amin would have to take Yongping City in one go, he was too familiar with Yongping's city defense, although the city was high and deep, but these officials and soldiers in the city were vulnerable, and when the soldiers pressed the border, traitors were everywhere. If he has enough patience, he will be trapped like this, no need to kill, no need to fight, and in a few days, someone will naturally come to sacrifice the city.
But now he can't wait, because there is a Lin Yi in the city!
Let them suffer repeated defeats, lose face, and even worse, yesterday's fire, a ditch came up on the bare front head, and a little bit lower, it was a big cover, as the second of the big Baylor in the post-gold hall, how could Amin swallow this breath?!
Therefore, Amin vowed to break the city, and after breaking the city, he promised his Tartars not to seal the knife for three days, catch Lin Yi, and break the corpse into thousands of pieces.
After this morning's war dinner, he came out with all his might, and he was bound to win.
As soon as Amin gave the order, the overwhelming Tartars shouted all over the world, rushed to the moat again, and launched a fierce attack on Yongping City.
The pattern was basically the same as yesterday, the arrows rained down on the city, and under the cover of the arrows, the Tartars' foot soldiers docked the long ladder, made an improvised bridge across the moat, rushed through the moat, and when they reached the bottom of the city wall, they erected ladders and climbed up.
But today the defense mode on the city has changed, there are bags of sandbags at the battlements, and the Ming army guards are hiding behind the sandbags and under the battlements of the city wall, although the arrows are raining, the Ming soldiers are safe and sound, on the surface, the Ming army in the city is suppressed by the bows and arrows of the Tartars.
But when the Tartars rushed to the bottom of the city, erected ladders and began to climb the city, the Ming soldiers came out from the battlements and sandbags and began to counterattack.
They cut the sandbags, and the quicksand flowed out and flew in the wind, and the sand swept up the sky to the Tartars.
The Tartars who were charging and climbing the city never dreamed that the Ming army would come to this trick, and suddenly they were covered with sand all over their bodies, some of them had a full face of flowers, and some of them ate a lot of food in their mouths, and their teeth creaked, causing a dry cough and even vomiting.
What's more, the visibility in the air is extremely low now, the Tartars are blinded by the sand, and they can't see clearly immediately, the dry sand is very irritating to the eyes, and this thing is very astringent, the more you rub it, the more uncomfortable it becomes, the more you rub it, the more red it is, and the tears are flowing down.
This was a delay, and they had to stop charging and climbing the city, and some of them could not grasp their balance in mid-air and fell from the ladder.
At this time, the soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city were in the upper hand, and they could see it clearly, and they saw that Lord Lin's trick really worked, so they hurriedly seized the opportunity to release the guns, send arrows, roll wood, and stones, and chisel at the tartars outside the city.
For a while, there was a loud gunshot, and the flowing stones, rolling wood, and stones mixed with the blowing sand in the sky, all the annoyance was vented to the tartars.
Some were knocked over by bows and arrows, some were crushed by rolling logs, some were hit by stones, and many Tartars were trampled on each other like brainless flies, and the casualties were incalculable.
This time, the siege of the Tartars was in chaos.
Amin, the leader of the Tartars who commanded immediately behind, saw that it was not good, and quickly ordered to retreat, but it was not easy for these rebel troops to withdraw immediately, because the command was no longer effective.
Lin Yi at the head of the city saw that it was time, and ordered the drawbridge to be lowered, the city gate was opened, and with a cannon shot, Lin Yi came out with hundreds of warriors.
Lin Yi took the lead, picked up the steel knife in his hand, and slashed these tartars like headless flies on the galloping war horse, like chopping melons and vegetables.
On his side, Zhang Hua, He Tao, Wang Qi, and Erhu followed closely and protected his wings.
Behind them came hundreds of warriors, shouting and screaming, among the hundreds of warriors, there were still 200 soldiers of the new battalion charging forward, these ragged, primitive special troops, in the eyes of others, this or not called an army at all, at most a group of mud-legged, called Hanako, but it was this rabble that became the nightmare of the Tartars.
Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan, who made the shovel, were the most brilliant, they wheeled the flat pole and the big shovel in their hands, and the dead bodies of the Tartars rolled, and the knives and guns flew wildly, like tigers entering the flock.
Annoyed and angry, Amin was unwilling to fail, and rushed over with hundreds of personal guards to turn the tide of the battle. When he met Lin Yi's group of people, Tartar was killed all at once.
In the melee, Amin met Gan Bao, who made the flat dan, jingle bell, and the big knife was in one place, and the two had not yet decided the winner, Jiang Xingyuan killed, and started from behind Amin's side, picking up the one in his hand
The big shovel was slapped.
Amin is really powerful, he dodged the deadly attack behind, but the war horse he sat on was not so lucky, he was slapped on the back butt by Jiang Xingyuan with a spade, and with a click, the big bone in the back buttocks of the war horse was smashed to pieces, and the group of black horses that sat down collapsed to the ground at once.
This is Amin's second lost war horse, if this beast has spirituality, he will definitely scold his mother, and it is really fucking unlucky to be Amin's mount!
Amin fell off his horse, Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan were just about to kill Amin, rushed over a few Tartars and killed the two of them, Amin was rescued by the guards in the chaos and fled in embarrassment, Lin Yi led people to chase and kill.
It is ironic that Amin's troops, which were the elite of the Tartars at that time, and could be called one of the most powerful armies in China and even the world at that time, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, were planted in the hands of this motley army.
Amin took the lead in escaping, he was the main general, and his Tartars ran more happily, which caused the defeat of the army.
The defeat of the Tartars was simply a falling flower, and Lin Yi and others chased more than ten miles in one breath before collecting their troops and returning to the city. The Tartars could not even go back to the camp, and they went around the camp like lost dogs, fleeing from it.
When Lin Yi came back with hundreds of warriors, he looked outside Yongping City, under the root of the city wall, and there were dead corpses of Tartars everywhere on both sides of the moat. There are not a few dead bodies in the river, and in some places the moat is blocked, and the dead and wounded Tartars this time are simply uncountable.
Next, Lin Yi asked his subordinates to treat the wounded, and the Ming army was not injured in this battle, and the 200 civilian soldiers of the new battalion did not even have a single casualty.
The booty left behind by the Tartars could not be left out, the dead and wounded horses were brought back to the city to eat, and weapons such as swords, guns, swords, and halberds were just right to equip the new first and second battalions.
Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan killed the most people and took the most credit, but they only picked two sets of cowhide armor to wear on their bodies, and they didn't match the weapons of the Tartars, so they felt that they were still easy to use with a flat pole and a shovel.
After clearing the battlefield, the drawbridge was pulled up and the gates were closed. Lin Yi ordered someone to report to the prefect, but in fact, there was no need to report it, the prefect had already known about it, not only the officials and lords in the city, but also the rich squires and even the ordinary people.
They are all concerned about this war, because the success or failure of this war is related to their vital interests and even their survival.
Within two days, Lin Yi won two big battles in a row, especially today's battle, which was too beautiful, and a burst of inconspicuous sand made the godlike Eight Banner Army stunned, and the entire Yongping City was a sensation.
The prefect was very happy, and ordered the officials of the yamen to prepare more wine and meat, kill cattle and slaughter sheep, and then he personally took the political envoy and the inspection envoy, and pulled several carts of wine and meat to reward Lin Yi and other soldiers defending the city.
In addition to the special offerings of the prefect, there are also the meat of the dead and wounded war horses of the Tartars outside the city, and this meal can be said to be particularly rich in the sea of wine in Roshan.
Lin Yi asked them to let go and eat as much as they wanted, but they couldn't drink too much wine.
For the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who defended the city and the cloth-clothed soldiers of the new first and second battalions who had just joined, this meal was more abundant than the New Year, especially the old people and children from poor families, who had not eaten such a meal for a long time, and even forgot the taste of wine and meat.
Now they can be regarded as caught, no one cares who says to eat, open the big molars, break the cheeks and eat this meal, it is like a wind, and they eat a ditch full of trenches.
In the next few days, there was an endless stream of ordinary people who signed up to defend the city, ranging from fifty-year-old soldiers to ten-year-old naughty children, as for young girls and middle-aged and elderly women, there were many small merchants and hawkers in the city, as well as the children of squires and wealthy families.
There are also several monks and old Taoists in the temple, who are dressed in monks' robes and Taoist robes, and they also form a long line in the crowd, waiting to sign up.
can keep Xiaoying, Dongsheng and the messengers of the Tuiguan Yamen busy, because Lin Yi is specifically responsible for this matter.
Of course, you have to carry out simple selection and screening, and you can't touch your head, even if it's one. In just a few days, after screening, there are more than 1,300 people's teams to join the army defending the city, plus the original new battalion and the new second battalion, the people's team alone is close to 2,000 people, Lin Yi disorganized them, re-arranged, according to the calculation of 300 people per battalion, six battalions were established, from the new battalion to the new sixth battalion, plus the original hundreds of soldiers in the city, and now the total number of soldiers defending the city has exceeded 2,600 people.
Of course, Lin Yi and the others have not been idle in the past few days, knowing that Amin and they may still come, because the night outside the city does not take back and tell Amin that they have not gone far.
Lin Yi strengthened the city defenses, and then drilled men and horses every day, mainly for these newly recruited, 12,000 cloth soldiers.
After more than 10 days of meticulous treatment in the hospital, the relatively seriously injured guerrilla commanders Zu Keyong and Wang Jian were able to get out of bed, and several minor injuries were treated and were able to go to the battlefield.
Zu Keyong and Wang Jian recovered so quickly, Lin Yi was also very happy, but after this catastrophe, Zu Keyong and Wang Jian obeyed Lin Yi's words, especially Zu Keyong, the guerrilla commander of the bare pole, regarded Lin Yi as his superior, and admired the five-body surrender.
However, what made Zu Keyong and Lin Yi wonder was that there was no news from the people sent out to move the troops, and they said at the time that if they could hold out for two or three days, Zu would come with reinforcements, but now more than ten days have passed, and there is still no news, it seems that there was an accident.
Lin Yi and Zu Keyong planned to send people to investigate again, but before they left the city, the battle report came and ordered, Amin came back with a large number of Tartars, this time they did not besiege the city, but camped outside the west and south cities.
Lin Yi knew that reinforcements might not be able to be counted on, and this time he had to rely on himself!