Chapter 11: Thunder
I don't know when, Wang Cheng and Xu Xiaoniang got out of the car and walked to Yang Ming. Wang Cheng's eyes widened, looking up at the cannon pointing high at the sky, his face was full of admiration, Xu Xiaoniang was holding the baby in her arms, looking at Yang Ming quietly, her soft gaze was as calm as water.
"Alas, you two, go back quickly, back to the cart!"
"Cover your ears! You, who told you to carry the baby? Go back and cover the child's ears, yes, tightly. ”
Yang Ming shouted loudly to Wang Cheng and Xu Xiaoniang, waved them back, and both of them did so.
He took a deep breath and jerked on the cannon rope.
The sound of the cannon sounded like muffled thunder, white smoke erupted from both sides of the barrel mouth, grenades were fired, and the cannon body shrank back sharply, embedding the plough hoe of the chassis deeper into the yellow earth, and the whole earth trembled.
"One, two, three......" Yang Ming silently counted the ballistic time in his heart.
Ding Yousan saw the Houjin Army's car start slowly, and the scene of the battle of Yongdingmen that day came to his mind again. In that battle, the 40,000 Ming army, with a fence in front of the formation, and ten heavy guns and cannons lined up on all sides, collapsed one by one under the impact of the rear golden car. Hou Jin's infantry armor and horse armor rushed into the Ming army array from the breach, rampage, slashing and killing, the human head rolled down, and the blood stained the earth red. In this battle, the Houjin Soldier Formation beheaded more than 30 people, including the general soldier Man Gui, Sun Zushou, deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrillas.
An irrepressible sense of fear enveloped Ding Yousan's body, and his steps began to hesitate.
At this time, there was a sudden dull thunder from behind, which was the sound of howitzer firing, and Ding Yousan felt the ground trembling slightly under his feet.
A white light flashed above the array of the Houjin Army, and gray-pink smoke and dust rose from the ground, enveloping the entire array of the Houjin Army. Immediately, a huge explosion came from the front, shaking Ding Yousan's ears buzzing.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Ding Yousan stopped in shock.
A thick wave of air collided head-on, pushing Ding Yousan to stumble, and the queue behind him was also blown crooked by this air current.
In the air wave, the stumps of several arms fell from the air and fell to the ground two hundred meters in front of Ding Yousan, and the stumps were still spinning and jumping after they landed, indescribably terrifying.
Ding Yousan was so frightened that he retreated straight, and the queue behind him also retreated like a tide, and some people even threw down their weapons and began to turn around and run away.
"All forward, kill the enemy!" Yang Ming's order came from the loudspeaker in the rear, and his voice was full of irresistible majesty, and the formation steadied.
The smoke and dust that enveloped the Houjin Army array gradually dissipated, and the entire Houjin Army array no longer existed, and the ground was littered with corpses and stumps of people and horses. Some were clearly not dead yet, struggling and writhing on the ground. In the pile of corpses, a white-toothed soldier tried to get up and run back, but as if drunk, he limped around a few times and sat down on the ground - although he was not hit by shrapnel, the shock wave destroyed his vestibular system, causing him to temporarily lose the ability to balance.
"Brothers, rush!"
Ding Yousan roared, carrying a spear and began to charge, and the formation behind him also shouted, rushing towards the direction of the Houjin army like a torrent.
The spear plunged into the bodies of the unbalanced Houjin soldiers, making a dull pop, and blood rushed out like a fountain as the tip of the spear was drawn. Hundreds of sergeants and Ding Zhuang, carrying guns, wielding knives, and axes, frantically stabbed and slashed at the Houjin soldiers, and the remaining Houjin soldiers fell one by one. Except for a very small number of Houjin soldiers who ran away, there were no more living Houjin soldiers on the battlefield.
Yang Ming stepped onto the Humvee, slammed on the accelerator and rushed towards Shunyi City, rushing under the city wall in less than a minute.
"Listen to the people in the city, the imperial army has arrived, hurry up and surrender! Surrender, spare you from death! ”
Yang Ming turned up the tweeter on the Humvee to the maximum volume and shouted to the city.
"Those who dare to resist will have no place for you to die!"
Turning the head of the car back, Yang Ming looked at the watch to time the timer, and ten minutes later, loaded the shell again, shook the runner, tilted the howitzer forward a few close positions, and pulled the gun rope.
A cloud of smoke rose from within the city walls, filling the sky above the north gate.
In the last world, Yang Ming had visited the scenic spots of the ancient city of Shunyi a few times, and he still had a little impression of the general regional structure of the ancient city. This cannon was fired at the junction of the school yard and the main street behind the city walls, and the defenders of the city would usually gather forces in this area. After the Ming Dynasty, the ancient city of Shunyi was repaired several times, but the positions of the four city gates were not moved, and Yang Ming's cannon could only be estimated.
Ding Yousan had beads of sweat on his face, trotted all the way to Yang Ming, and saluted with his fists.
"General, a big victory! The enemy has been annihilated! ”
Although he said that he had won a big victory, Dante Yousan did not have a trace of pride on his face, on the contrary, there was some apprehension and uneasiness. He knew that today's victory actually had nothing to do with him, it was completely Yang Ming's victory.
"Array, approach the gates!"
"Whoa!"
The procession was lined up again, still in the previous order, in a row of fifty men, marching in unison towards the city gates. This time, the fear on people's faces disappeared and was replaced by high morale and self-confidence.
The gate of the urn city opened, and a group of people walked out of the city gate, led by an official wearing a cyan heron official uniform and a black gauze hat, followed by a group of bound Houjin soldiers and generals.
Fan Tongzhou came to Yang Ming and arched his hand: "General, Zhao Zhixian has tied up Jiannu Haoge Belle and more than 20 officials and generals below and come out to sacrifice the city." ”
"Bring them up. Oh no, I'll go take a look. Yang Ming didn't want the Houjin generals to see his cannon and car up close.
As the grenade exploded over the Houjin array, Hauge was watching the battle from the city wall with his entourage. The city wall of Shunyi City is about three zhang high, that is, about ten meters high. The air explosion fuse of the grenade was set to be triggered at a height of 15 meters, and the shell exploded at a height of about three meters above the heads of Hauge and the others. Two people were wounded by shrapnel, and Hauge was at the front, and although he was not hit by shrapnel, the roar and shock wave of the explosion almost knocked him to the ground.
A group of people did not dare to stay on the city wall any longer, hugged Haoge down the city, and summoned the remaining more than 100 Houjin soldiers in the city to arrange countermeasures. What is happening in front of him is so terrifying that even if he is a battle-hardened Hauge, he can't make up his mind for a while. At this time, Yang Ming's second shell hit the city, and the grenade exploded at a distance of less than 100 meters from them, and most of the Houjin soldiers were killed and injured in an instant, and Hauge was also shocked by the shock wave and fainted.
Zhao Huizhong, the magistrate of Shunyi County, who had surrendered to Houjin, took this opportunity to lead the officials and the people to attack the remnants of the Houjin soldiers who were bombarded by high-explosive grenades, tied up Haoge and others, and came out to present the city to Yang Ming.
"The criminal minister Shunyi Zhixian Zhao Huizhong has seen the general, and I hope that the general will focus on the people of a city, and will not kill and poke, the crime is in Zhao, and he is willing to be dealt with by the law of the country." Zhao Zhixian threw Yang Ming to the ground, but did not bow down, and only said that he was subject to the "law of the country", but did not say that he was dealt with by Yang Ming.
The Ming generation, emphasizing literature over military force, has been accustomed for a long time in the past 200 years. It is common for the magistrate of the seventh rank to reprimand the staff of the third grade, and even the people who do not have official positions can sit and talk in front of the guerrilla generals, while the guerrilla generals can only stand and accompany them. This Zhao Zhixian guessed that Yang Ming was no more than an official position of a general and guerrilla, so naturally he would not bow down to Yang Ming. If it weren't for Jin Zaixian after his surrender, Yang Ming could have killed him as an enemy, and maybe he would have put on the prestige of a civil official and reprimand Yang Ming for his good life.
Yang Ming also has some understanding of this atmosphere in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't talk too much to Zhao Zhixian, so he arches his hand even if he returns the courtesy.
Looking at Na Haoge again, although his hands were tied behind his back, and the armor on his head was gone, revealing his bare head and the thin money rattail braid behind his head, he still stood tall, his face did not change, and his eyes looked at Yang Ming as if he was about to burst into flames.
Yang Ming waved his hand and said, "Let's take it down first." ”
turned around and instructed Ding Yousan: "Mr. Ding Bai, you take a hundred soldiers and accompany Mr. Fan into the city, clear out the remnants of the enemy, control the key points, and the others will line up outside the city, and they must not slack off." ”