Chapter Forty-Six: Occupying Ningxia Defender Li Kui used his brains

Emperor Chongzhen is probably the most loyal listener of Yaogang Radio Station. He also heard about Lu Xiangyun's deeds from the radio broadcast. After listening to the radio, he couldn't stop saying, "If the people of the Ming Dynasty are so bloody, why are the Mongols so rampant?" ”

Thinking of this, he issued an order to give Lu Xiangyun the title of "Martyr", and asked Zhang Zhimu to compensate the family of the "Martyr". Someone was sent to send the holy decree to Yaogang quickly, but the news was passed on by the flying pigeon, and Gonggong Li first sent it to Zhang Zhimu.

Zhang Zhimu didn't wait for the holy decree to arrive, and when he got the news from Gonggong Li, he broadcast the news through the radio.

In this era, women are staying at home and doing their best, and few women are soldiers. The women in the army are also slaves and maids. Even if there are women in the army, they still dress up as men. Now the female soldiers in Yaogang not only go to the battlefield, but also have pistols, they can also kill the enemy, and they can save their comrades at critical moments, and they have also been rewarded by the emperor. This is really not a small vibration for the entire Ming Dynasty, and it has also greatly improved the status of women.

Of course, Zhang Zhimu will not miss such an opportunity to carry out publicity.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhimu specially summoned Huang Yukun, Yang Yulin, Sister-in-law Xu, Red Lady, Mrs. Zhou, and Xiao Hongyu to a meeting. He said to them: "We should find ways to improve the social status of women, and this incident of Lu Xiangyun is a good opportunity." I suggest that we set up a women's joint committee in Yaogang. The purpose of this committee is to lead the women sisters in their quest for a proper social status and to free them from the appendages of men. We now have this condition, because women can support themselves as long as they work, and they don't need to rely on men to support themselves. Now that the emperor has also given Lu Xiangyun the title of 'martyr', we will take the opportunity to commemorate and learn from Lu Xiangyun to establish this women's federation. How about you take a look? ”

Zhang Zhimu's proposal, of course, was immediately recognized by the women. Since everyone else has their own positions, the director of this committee is the red lady, the deputy director is Mrs. Zhou, and the other women attending the meeting today are all members of the committee.

Zhang Zhimu said to them: "Your first job is to organize women and sisters to learn from Lu Xiangyun. Then they should be involved in supervising the sale of women who bind the feet of girls. ”

Sister-in-law Xu added: "We should also take care of those who beat their wives and children when they come home after drinking." Now it is a good thing to work in the kiln to earn more money, but many men go out to drink when they have money, and when they come home, they take their wives and children to drink crazy. It's time for someone to take care of it. ”

"You should take care of this matter, if you don't listen to persuasion, you can ask the police for help!" Zhang Zhimu is very supportive of this matter.

"We can also organize our sisters to carry out some amateur cultural activities. ”

Zhang Zhimu didn't expect that the women would very much agree with Xiao Hongyu's proposal. Zhang Zhimu certainly agrees.

After returning home, Zhang Zhimu asked Huang Yukun what was going on. Huang Yukun smiled and said, "Hehe! It's not that the living conditions are good. Men can go out for a drink or something, but women don't have a place to go. Who wouldn't want a place to go? ”

"Oh!" Zhang Zhimu knew that the cultural life of Yaogang still lagged behind the economic development, "Not only do you women have nowhere to go, but there are too few places for men to go." In the future, cultural and sports facilities should be increased, and cultural and sports activities should be carried out as much as possible. ”

Zhang Zhimu thought of organizing various sports competitions, but the best and most attractive competition was the martial arts ring match, which would definitely attract many people. The key is to set the rules of the competition so that you don't cause too much damage to the contestants. When the war in Shaanxi is over, an all-Shanxi sports meeting should be organized.

Although the people of Yaogang are worried about the war on the front line, everything here has not been affected. The people of Yaogang seem to have more confidence in their army than the leaders of Yaogang.

Meng Si'er and the others did not participate in the cleanup of Ningxia Mansion, and after explaining everything here, they led his men to drive a horse team along the west bank of the Yellow River in the direction of Lanzhou. Because some of his brothers had already established themselves in Lanzhou in advance.

Ningde's brigade rested for a while, and immediately set off in several ways. All the way, they had to follow Meng Si'er and them, along the west bank of the Yellow River, and go straight to Lanzhou, but this way needed to start two days late, and they had to move forward synchronously with the team on the east bank of the Yellow River.

On the east bank of the Yellow River, after the brigade left the Great Wall, it divided its troops into two routes, one led by Li Kui, and the task was to occupy the Ningxia rear guard along the Great Wall, send a small number of soldiers and horses to clear the pier sentry post between the Ningxia rear guard and the Dingbian camp, and hand over the guard task of the Great Wall to Zhou Yuji's men and horses from the east, and then advance to Guyuan, cooperate with Liu Yun and their men and horses, and attack Guyuan before and after; Ningde led a large group of men and horses along the east bank of the Yellow River to attack Lingzhou (Lingwu City) Qianhusuo, Ningxia Zhongwei (Zhongwei City), Jinglu (Jingyuan County), the target was Lanzhou.

Li Kui's Ningxia rearguard was defended by a mighty general of the Dashun army. This section of their Great Wall, which belongs to the side of the head road, directly faces the Mongols in the north. The defensive pressure of this side wall is very great, especially the flat terrain in the Ningxia Rear Guard, and the pressure of "anti-autumn" is even greater.

"Anti-autumn" is the time of autumn, the farmers have a bumper harvest, the grain is full, and the Mongols in the north also need to store the materials for the winter, this time is the time for the Mongols to come out and plunder, so there is a special name called "anti-autumn". The Ming Dynasty was generally reluctant to call the Great Wall the Great Wall, and they all called it the side wall to distinguish it from the Qin Dynasty. Because the Qin Dynasty built the Great Wall, the corpses became mountains and were scolded by the people of the world. The Ming Dynasty was afraid of getting involved with Qin's harsh government, so the Great Wall avoided calling it not the Great Wall, but the side wall.

There is another characteristic of the Great Wall here in Ningxia Defense, that is, the terrain of this place is relatively flat, and it is necessary to build dense beacon towers for defense in peacetime. This place is a long stretch of yellow sand, and according to the topography here, it basically has an enemy platform every 150 to 200 meters.

Li Zicheng's Dashun army did not dare to take this place lightly, so the Ningxia rearguard had a total of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses. When Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, raised his army, he established a guard system, but they were 5,600 people for guards, 1,120 people for 1,000 households, and 120 people for 100 households. It can be seen that Li Zicheng attaches more importance to the guards here.

In addition to some of these horses stationed at various piers, the main forces of these horses are concentrated in two large barracks, one is the Huamachi camp (Yanchi County), and the other is the Xingwu camp.

Originally, Ning De and Li Kui discussed when they divided their troops, there were too few people in this pass, so they could kill a little less, and try to catch as many prisoners as possible. But Li Kui and the others met with desperate resistance from the Dashun army here.

Because the sergeants of the Ming Dynasty guard are all hereditary, they are professional soldiers, and they can inherit their father's business. The sergeants of the guard station have their own land, and they are engaged in production without war, and they are self-sufficient. More than half of the sergeants guarding here now are the guards of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to Li Zicheng. Later, Li Zicheng also felt that this was a way to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the border passes. Hence the approach. Most of the sergeants here have also made their homes here. Therefore, they are fighting to defend their homeland, and how can they not fight desperately.

Huamachi Camp (Yanchi County) and Xingwuying are very characteristic here, because the northwest wind here is particularly strong, so their city is not open in the west and north, only in the east and south. The defenders here already knew that the Yaogang people would soon attack, and were ready to fight to the death.

Li Kui: The first thing they attacked was Huamachi Camp (Yanchi County).

At the beginning, Li Kui and the others thought that if they failed to persuade the opponent to surrender, they would use infantry artillery to open the city gate, use heavy machine guns to suppress the defenders on the city gate, and the team would rush into the city, and the battle between the soldiers would be resolved. However, after Li Kui and the others blasted open the city, they found that the defenders had actually piled up the holes in the city gate behind the city gate. The soldiers of the kiln gang rushed to the front of the city gate, but they could not enter the city at all. Not only that, the defenders hid behind the battlements and threw down a lot of **, causing great casualties among the kiln soldiers.

This time he was angry with Li Kui. At this time, Li Kui regretted that he didn't bring heavy artillery over. Because of the high slopes of loess and ravines here, it is difficult for those heavy artillery to be transported.

Li Kui looks very rough on the outside, but he knows it very well in his heart. Didn't take the suggestion of his subordinates to blow up the people in the city with cannons. He saw that it was already a great thing to have people survive in such a harsh environment and guard the border gates, and it was unbearable to blow them all up. Suddenly, Li Kui's heart lit up. By the way, the hard ones can't work, you can come with the soft ones.

Li Kui had people set up a loudspeaker outside the city to shout to the city:

"Officers and soldiers defending the city! We are the Yaogang People's Army, and we are here to help you. Li Zicheng had already fled from Shangyu Gudao to Xiangyang, and now the entire Guanzhong Plain and northern Shaanxi have been defeated by us, so don't give him any more life. Please don't worry about the safety of your lives and property, after you surrender, if you are willing to continue to guard the border here, you can continue. Nothing will change. We're here for the better. We are really impressed that you are guarding the border in such an environment. With you, the people in our rear can live and work in peace and contentment. We also want to tell you that the Ordos people in the north have now been completely defeated by us. We destroyed 20,000 of them in a single battle and took more than 10,000 prisoners. and captured alive their ten thousand households. The threat from the north is completely solved. In the future, if you are willing to graze on the Ordos grassland, you can go there, and if you are willing to go there to open up wasteland and farm, you can also go there. In the past, we also had subsidies to support you. You are our brothers, and we can't bear to fire and hurt you, or we will turn the city into a sea of fire! ”

The loudspeaker shouted repeatedly, but there was no response from the city.

In fact, the soldiers in the city were already tempted when they heard the shouts of the kiln workers. In particular, they have long heard that those who go to open up wasteland outside the customs not only do not need money, but also give money to livestock and seeds. Quite a few people have already run over. However, the Yaogang people said that they had defeated the Ordos people, and they did not believe that the Yaogang people could turn the city into a sea of fire. Especially the mighty generals, the soldiers were not allowed to listen to the shouts outside. He was afraid of shaking the morale of the army.

Li Kui looked at it for a while, and said in his heart, "If you don't give them something real, they can't believe it." ”

Li Kui called the artillery officer and said: "You aim at the northwest corner of the city, don't miss, first hit *** for a while, and then fire a few fire bombs." Go and prepare now, and then fire when you hear my orders. ”

The officer said yes and left.

Li Kui gave a few more instructions to the person who shouted with the loudspeaker, and the person who shouted went back to shout. This time, he shouted: "Attention to the officers and soldiers of the city, we are about to open fire on the northwest corner of the city, please leave there immediately." Attention officers and soldiers of the city, we are about to open fire on the northwest corner of the city, please leave there immediately. ”

After shouting for a while, Li Kui ordered the artillery to be fired, and this time Li Kui fired at the same time with thirty mortars.

There was a sound of "knock knock", and the mortar "squeaked" and flew into the city with a long sound, and then exploded in the city. Those who didn't believe the words of the kiln gang people suffered, and one by one, along with the broken houses, the flesh and blood were blown up. Then the kiln artillery fired a few more oil bombs into the city, and the fire immediately rose into the sky.

This time, the officers and soldiers in the city knew that what the kiln men outside the city said was not a lie, and if they didn't care about the life and death of the people in the city, they could turn the city into a sea of fire at once. In that case, none of them will survive.

The soldiers knew that this battle could not be fought, but this mighty general would never surrender. He knew in his heart that the people of Yaogang were afraid of the people in the city, otherwise these shells would hit the middle of the city, and those thatched houses would be burned down at once, and this battle would not be able to continue. What made the mighty general feel angry was that for a long time since the Yaogang people's attack began, General Guo Yi of Guyuan did not react at all. It seems that this time I can only die to be loyal to King Chuang.

Li Kui waited for a while, but there was still no reaction in the city. The brothers below could not hold their breath and said, "Deputy commander, we have killed them by opening fire." ”

Li Kui smiled and said, "Lao Tzu's tricks haven't been used up yet, so don't be in a hurry to make a dead move." ”

Li Kui made a new deployment. This time, while the mortars began to fire on the south gate tower, heavy machine guns opened fire to block the city gate tower. In this way, the Dashun army did not dare to show its head, and a team of cavalry infantry rushed out from the side of the kiln gang, they rushed to the front of the city gate that was blown up, and each of them threw out a **bag, and the **bag was piled up in the city gate hole.

After the cavalry returned from throwing **, Li Kui ordered the infantry artillery to fire at the ** bag.

The infantry artillery lived up to expectations, and the "Dong" shot hit the pile of ** bags. Then there was a dull loud bang, and the earth shook, and a puff of smoke rose from the gates, and the entire gate was blown down. The cavalry sent them all *****, and they were very powerful. The mighty general on the tower of the city gate was also bombed along with the city gate, and even the body was not found. Before the smoke cleared, the cavalry of the kiln gang rushed over. Before the soldiers of the Dashun Army could recover from the shock of the explosion, the Yaogang cavalry had already rushed into the city on the wreckage of the city gate building. Perhaps it was the loudspeaker broadcast at Fangcai Kiln Gang that played a role, and very few of the soldiers of the Dashun Army resisted, and those who resisted quickly fell under the muzzle of the automatic rifles.

After entering the city, it didn't take much effort to end the battle. The regiment commander, who had entered the city at the beginning, came back and said to Li Kui: "You say, this is a war, it took a long time. It's over before you can get into the city. You know, why do you spend so much effort like this? Just bang it. ”

Li Kui smiled and said, "Yes, if you don't listen to the next shout, you will do as you say." It must all be solved before dark today. ”

With the experience of Huamachi Camp (Yanchi County), when Li Kui and his troops moved to Xingwu Camp, they first persuaded them to surrender, and the soldiers defending the city certainly did not surrender. Li Kui immediately ordered the infantry to bombard the city gates. Li Kui and the others found that the defenders here had a road with the Huamachi camp, and they also blocked the city gate with soil. Li Kui saw that it was not early, so he directly suppressed it according to the old routine, mortars and heavy machine guns, and the cavalry still sent the ** bag up, and finally detonated it with infantry artillery. Everything went according to the path ahead. However, the difference is that although the defenders here did not have a mighty general to supervise the battle, their resistance was beyond the imagination of the Yaogang people. For a time, the officers and soldiers of Dashun here put up desperate resistance like crazy, and almost none surrendered. After a brief period of shock, the Yaogang soldiers were also red-eyed and carried out a one-sided slaughter without mercy. The blood flowed in the Xingwu camp that was directly killed.

It wasn't until it was nearly dark that the resistance in the city stopped. However, the soldiers of Yaogang were reluctant to spend the night in Xingwu Yingcheng, because the smell of blood here was too great. Li Kui asked the troops to drive out of the city for the night.

After everyone sat down, they all said, "I don't know why there is such an evil sect here, the same two cities, why are the soldiers of the Huamachi camp surrendering so easily, and the soldiers in this Xingwu camp are so desperate?" ”

Li Kui smiled and said: "Blame me for today's incident, I'm in a hurry, otherwise we use a loudspeaker to shout and persuade them, and they won't be like this." ”

Only then did everyone understand that the original propaganda was not enough, and the defenders here were engaged in a battle to defend their homeland, and of course they had to fight hard.

Li Kui reported the battle here to Ningde, and at the same time analyzed the different effects of the two city attacks. I hope to report this situation to the command center, and I hope that in the battles in other places, it is better to carry out a policy offensive first, because it will be easy to achieve twice the result with half the effort, otherwise the officers and men of Dashun do not understand us, and it is very easy to put up desperate resistance.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He received a telegram from Li Kui from Ningde, Chen Yufeng said: "I didn't expect Li Kui to be a very brainy person, but he looked a little stunned. ”

"Huh! Li Kui is a typical thick and fine. Just because he can use his brain to fight like this, who can say that he is a rough man? Ouyang He said with a smile.

"It seems that it is still a battlefield training person! Let's just talk about Meng Si'er, now he can be used as a general. Chen Yufeng said.

"Yes! Today I sent a telegram saying that he had already brought people to Lanzhou, so that there would be many of us in Lanzhou. Ouyang He said, "Also, the relationship between Li Zhi and Li Zicheng is very good, and with the help of Li Zicheng, they have opened another shop in Xiangyang." ”

"I think what we are doing now is more lively than what we do in the play," Chen Yufeng said, "and what we do today can be written into the book in the future." ”

At this time, Li Jing came in and said, "Uncle Shi, Mr. Ouyang, should we ask someone from the family to transport some of the prisoners away, there are too many prisoners now?" ”

"How many?" Chen Yufeng asked.

"There are more than 110,000!" Li Jing said, "But what is difficult to do is that there are more than 50,000 women." ”

"Haha! You are wrong Li Jing, if these more than 50,000 female soldiers let Mr. Lu know, he would jump up happily. Ouyang He said.

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