Chapter 146: The Battle of Jinji Ridge

The fall of Chenzhou deeply dealt a blow to the momentum of the Ming army.

Therefore, Cheng Jikong went all the way down from Chenzhou to Yizhang, won many battles, and was almost unstoppable.

Of course, this is also related to the low momentum of the Ming army in Chenzhou.

The dispute between the two emperors of Yongli and Shaowu, although they tried their best to win over the Ming army forces from all sides, but they lacked enthusiasm for the Ming army here in Chenzhou.

The reason is simple, this is an enclave in the north of the Five Ridges.

Directly facing Zhang Xuan's blade.

Although the occupation of Chenzhou will be of great benefit to the future when going north, at least there will be a bridgehead in the north of the five mountains.

However, the future is the future, and the present is the present.

While Yongli and Shaowu were fighting with each other, keeping the bridgehead of Chenzhou, whether it was Guilin or Guangzhou, felt that the cost was too great to accept.

Therefore, in the territory of the Ming army, almost all prefectures and counties have the name of Shaowu, or Yongli, but here in Chenzhou, the name of the Ming Dynasty is hung.

Maybe when the dispute between Yongli and Shaowu settles, after the dust settles, this place will definitely be strengthened.

But until the two decide the winner, it's just a chicken rib. No one wants to add to the burden here. Therefore, both sides are Chenzhou guards, and they are very polite. But for the idea of the Chenzhou guard general asking for reinforcements, it was a strong shirk.

Therefore, when the Xia army attacked Chenzhou, it could go down in such a drum. There was no decent resistance at all.

Even the three battalion heads of Cheng Jikong's headquarters also opened dozens of miles, and when the soldiers behind had just entered Yizhang County, the vanguard had already reached Pingshi Town.

It also ushered in the news that the first offensive had been frustrated.

Cheng Jikong said angrily: "What's the matter? Nothing happened along the way, and when it came to you, something went wrong. Are there more enemies than you, are they better armed than you, or are they more elite than you? ”

This person is Chen Xiaoyi. is Cheng Jikong's sworn cronies. A native of Xiao County, he was regarded by Cheng Jikong as his right and left hand, and Chen Xiaoyi also lived up to Cheng Jikong's expectations. When he fought repeatedly, he also showed great bravery.

I don't want to, but I am disappointed today.

Chen Xiaoyi didn't know what to say for a while.

The Ming army stationed in Pingshi Town was not more than him, or even more than him, except for a few more tiger squat cannons, and the messy artillery that I don't know how many years ago, in terms of armament, it was not much more than Chen Xiaoyi's army.

If it weren't even for Chen Xiaoyi's chasing.

Throw the Tiger squat cannon and the small Franc cannon that he is equipped with behind, and compare it only with artillery. Chen Xiaoyi's department is much more than the defenders of Pingshi Town.

This is not Chen Xiaoyi's own excuse.

Chen Xiaoyi said with a little shame: "Big brother, Xiaoyi has embarrassed you." But it's not that Xiao Yi is not strong, it's really that Xiao Yi has never seen such a strange mountain, and his mother is not a mountain at all, it is clearly a city. ”

Cheng Jikong sneered and said: "I have been fighting in the south and north for many years, and I have never seen any kind of mountain. It's just a hill, what's so steep. ”

Cheng Jikong's words are not false, as far as the mountain is concerned, from Yizhang to Pingshi, it is all the way down. The mountains here are at most a few hundred meters above sea level, and for Cheng Jikong, it is really not a big mountain.

Chen Xiaoyi said with a little shame: "I know, I don't believe anything big brother, big brother go over and take a look, and you will know." ”

Cheng Jikong said: "It's okay. ”

Cheng Jikong's headquarters and Chen Xiaoyi's department were merged into one part and continued to go south. It doesn't take more than a few dozen miles. From a distance, I could see that the surrounding mountains were very different.

Although the mountains are not high and the ground they occupy is not wide, there are many kinds of vegetation in the mountains. Large expanses of red rocks were exposed.

Bright red as blood, red as the sun.

And the shape is very different.

In most of the mountains, you can actually see the undulation of the trend. But the mountains here are actually different, and they seem to have been cut into different shapes by an invisible force. Cliffs and cliffs are everywhere.

In many places, there is a difference in height of hundreds of meters under the lateral distance of one or two meters.

There are even places where a stone stands upright and stands out as if it were a stone pillar. It can be said that there are thousands of strange and strange rocks. Although there are many stones, they do not stand as abruptly as the stone pillars.

But there are still a lot of stones, and there are all kinds of strange animals, and if it's a peaceful season, the scenery here may be worth seeing. But nowadays, no one has the heart to see the scenery.

Especially Cheng Jikong's mind became heavier and heavier.

He had already believed in the city-like mountain in Chen Xiaoyi's heart.

When he arrived north of Pingshi Town, Cheng Jikong also stopped, and at the same time, he also believed Chen Xiaoyi's words and completely believed them.

Because the facts are in front of you.

Pingshi Town actually has no city walls. But he didn't seem to need the city walls, because a mountain peak was in the north of Pingshi, and the mountain was not high, but except for a few places where he could climb the mountain, almost all of them went straight up and down, and it seemed that God had thrown a stone from the sky and threw it here.

The peaks of hundreds of meters are like a city wall, sheltering Pingshi Town behind them, and the flags flutter on the top of the mountain. The Ming army did not stop troops and horses on Pingshi Town at all, but on top of this mountain.

Cheng Jikong's face was extremely ugly, and he waved his whip and asked, "What kind of mountain is this?" ”

Chen Xiaoyi said with a wry smile in his tone: "This is Jinji Ridge, there is a boulder on the mountain, facing north and facing south, it seems to be a rooster, and the locals say that it is a golden rooster placed here by the gods." Hence the name, I was also under such a terrain and had to be defeated. ”

Cheng Jikong was silent, and he looked at the surging Wujiang River on the side, stretching to the south of Pingshi Town.

Cheng Jikong had read the map, and he knew that the Wujiang River had a bay around Pingshi and flowed eastward from Pingshi Town. And Pingshi Town is the starting point for Zhang Xuan's planned assault on Shaozhou.

It is also his mission.

Zhang Xuan gave him three days, and it was already a day and a half.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan's people from all walks of life are hurrying here, maybe in the afternoon, Luo Dai's people will be able to arrive, so this time must not be delayed.

Cheng Jikong gritted his teeth and said to Chen Xiaoyi: "Xiaoyi, brother, I'm in trouble, the general has already issued a military order, and within three days, Pingshi Town must be taken." Otherwise, I will act under military law. I handed over all the Xuzhou troops. I don't care about anything, just Pingshi. ”

Chen Xiaoyi was silent for a while before saying, "A lot of people will die." ”

Cheng Jikong said: "I know, but if I can't do this, even if I don't die, my future in the court will be over." ”

Although in the Xia Dynasty, there were various punishments for the generals of the defeated army, and they would not be executed rashly. Generally, the generals of the defeated army will survive. But the current atmosphere of the Xia Dynasty. The generals of the defeated army are generally idle until they are old, and unless there are nobles to support them, they will crawl out of the shadow of the generals of the defeated army. And Cheng Jikong's relationship with Zhang Xuan has come to this point.

Chen Xiaoyi was silent for a while and said, "Yes." ”

After Cheng Jikong gave this order, Chen Xiaoyi adjusted his soldiers slightly, and began to attack.

"Kill the ------" in the burst of shouts and killing, the team began to attack the mountain, the mountain only has a few sloped passages, and the Ming army only set up a few artillery pieces on the mountain, condescending, bombardment, all the Xia soldiers, they were immediately pressed under the passage.

"Boom." One after another, it was not the artillery of the Xia army that fired, but the artillery of the Ming army. On the one hand, Cheng Jikong first attracted the attention of the enemy troops on the mountain, and on the other hand, he also wanted to know how strong this rock was.

Soon the results came out, and Cheng Jikong's face was quite ugly, because under the artillery bombardment, these cliffs were not unscathed. But the injuries were very minor, with only some debris dust falling.

It seems that even if you bombard it with a red-coated cannon, it won't have a good result. After all, the artificial structure of the city wall has a thickness limit, and the city wall is dozens of meters thick, and it is thick enough, and even only a few city walls in the world have such a thickness. But this Jinji Ridge is a mountain after all.

Cheng Jikong didn't know at all, and he didn't dare to think about it, how thick is this mountain?