Chapter 174: Naturalization Blood Battle Dongshengzhou won skillfully

Azig outside the naturalization city was not as easy as Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, and he was still studying the plan of attacking naturalization with his military advisors. But now basically everything is in place, just wait for the artillery to come and start attacking. But suddenly, there was a rumbling sound in the distance, and then the ground beneath his feet vibrate. It happened to be moved, and it was not like it. A terrible premonition hit Azig's mind, because that direction was the direction from which his artillery was coming. They have a lot of ** there. Afraid that ** would not be enough, this time they deliberately brought a lot more.

Azig hurriedly shouted: "Someone! Send someone to check in which direction. Let's see what's going on. ”

When a group of cavalry galloped to the artillery camp, they saw that it was a bombed-up camp, only the unburned things were still smoking.

The cavalry sent by Azig lit torches and could not find anyone alive. Most of them were shocked to death, and it was hard to find a few who were not breathing, and they only had a faint breath.

They had no choice but to run back overnight and report back to Azig. Azig, who had been waiting all night, waited for such news at dawn. Azig was simply mad, and he ordered to mobilize five thousand cavalry to rush over and search for a sneak attack artillery camp near the camp. It just happened, and the sneak attacker couldn't run far.

The long-awaited artillery could not come now, and Azig decided that without artillery, he would also attack. Bring the Mongol cannons and the Qing artillery that accompanied the army to the front.

In order to take advantage of the large number of people, Azig decided to attack on all four sides at the same time.

When all the teams involved in the attack were ready, Azig ordered the defenders of the city to shoot a letter of surrender with bows and arrows, to the effect that the defenders should surrender immediately, otherwise they would immediately attack the city, and after the city was broken, there would be no chickens and dogs left.

But before they could attack, the mortar artillery of the kiln in the city opened fire first.

Artillery observers, through binoculars, have already discovered that the Qing army and the Mongol soldiers have pushed out the artillery. They definitely couldn't wait for them to fire first, so the mortars at the kiln opened fire according to the pre-marked shooting Zhuyuan.

Azig was still waiting for a reply from the city when he heard the sound of "dong dong" cannons coming from the city, and with the strange cry of "squeak", one after another shells exploded accurately on the artillery position of Azig. The exploding shells not only blew up the artillery and artillery, but also detonated the ** behind some artillery positions. **'s martyrdom was even more powerful, not only flattening the artillery position, but also killing a lot of soldiers who were on standby to prepare for the attack.

Azig thundered with rage and ordered the cannon that had not been blown up to fire. However, those cannons that had fired a cannon basically did not have a chance to reload, and they were covered by the artillery that returned fire from the kiln.

At this time, Azig was ready to shoot, and he immediately commanded the brigade to attack forward. The vanguard, of course, was the Mongol soldiers. However, their advancing stone throwers and arrow towers immediately attracted the artillery fire of the kiln gang, and they had no chance to advance to the distance where they could shoot.

When the Mongols came within range of their bows, a group of Mongol soldiers crouched down and began to shoot a dense stream of bows and arrows at the city. But at this time, the stone throwers in the city began to be fired, and they condescended to throw large stones under the city. The Mongol soldiers who lined up to shoot arrows fled in all directions.

The main direction of attack of the Qing and Mongolian armies was the East Gate.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, accompanied by Liu Chenghuang, also came to the East City Gate Tower.

Liu Chenghuang said: "Uncle Chen, Mr. Ouyang He, you see, that direction seems to be the command position of the Mongols, and there are many flags there. Let's cover them with 120 heavy mortars! ”

Ouyang He said: "Don't do this first, we beat them to death, they can stop attacking for a few days, but their strength has not been hit, they will still attack after changing the coach." It's too much of a waste of time. We try to attract their offense first, then consume them a lot, and then kill them at the end. ”

However, the Mongol officers who commanded the attack were not so lucky. Li Jing's naturalized special forces, especially those snipers, went on a killing spree. They shot the heads of the officers who commanded with their swords one by one. Killing these Mongol soldiers not only confused their command, but also dealt a great blow to the hearts of the nearby soldiers. The defenders on the city wall, the gunfire was not very dense, the Mongolian soldiers rushed to the city with ladders, and the soldiers defending the city taught the people who participated in the defense of the city, holding hands and throwing them to the city. The hand ** was at the foot of the dense Mongolian soldiers, and the explosion of "boom" made them cry wolf one by one.

The focus of the Mongol attack was still on the city gates, and they rushed to the city gates with their carts. However, the cave car with a roof can defend the bow and arrows and stones on the city, but it can't prevent ****.

The kiln artillery in the city did not give them a chance to approach the city gate, and they were all destroyed by **** far from the city gate. The infantry and cavalry, the defenders of the city did not give them a chance to approach the city gate, and the heavy machine guns on both sides of the city gate fired cross-fire, knocking them down one after another in the attack.

Chen Yufeng, who was on the tower of the city gate, said: "I think the siege combat power of the Mongolian soldiers is not as good as Li Zicheng's Dashun army. ”

Ouyang He smiled and said, "I think it's about the same, but our officers and soldiers and weapons are no longer the officers and soldiers and weapons of that time." You can see that kind of confidence they have, it's like a game. The more this happens, the better they play. ”

"Let them attack for a few more days, and we'll try to kill as many people as they can. Then a counterattack will knock them away, and it's time for me to open up the wasteland and farm. Chen Yufeng said.

"Yes! We don't have a lot of time to spend with them. After we beat them, it's time to study the matter of Shaanxi. After Ouyang He finished speaking, he handed over all the tasks of command to Liu Chenghuang.

They went down the walls and went back to their tea.

In this attack of the Mongol soldiers, few people could put up the ladder, and they were all killed under the city by hand **. The division of labor among the soldiers defending the city was very clear, those besieging the city were the targets of the mortar gunners, those who shot arrows in formation were the targets of the machine gunners, those officers were the targets of the snipers, and the Mongol soldiers who approached the city wall in large numbers were the targets of the bombardiers. The soldiers in the kiln gang tried not to fire in bursts, and some targets fired single shots as long as they were aimed.

A steady stream of Mongol soldiers were piled up under the city in batches, and they became fragmented corpses. Ezhe, who was watching the battle from afar, couldn't stand it anymore. He came to Azig and said, "Lord Belle, the battle cannot be fought like this. Let's figure it out! ”

Azig snorted through his nose and said, "How can you teach me how to fight?" If you don't fight like this, do you have a better way? ”

"Stop first, fight again in the afternoon, we will definitely come up with a better way." Ezhe said.

Azig actually knew that the war could not be fought like this, but he did not know how to fight it if it was not fought like this. Because he couldn't help but fight, fortunately, the people who died were all Mongolian soldiers, not the Qing soldiers he brought.

Let Ezhe and them take the lead, Ezhe has nothing to say, because people are here to help him fight. The Mongol soldiers who followed Azig to fight had nothing to say, because they were used to leading the Qing army, and the Qing army brought them here to do this.

Azig went down the slope and said, "Since you have said so, I will see yours in the afternoon." ”

After saying that, Azig got on his horse and left. Ezhe ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Although the Mongol soldiers were brave, they were already frightened by the mountains of corpses piled up on the ground, but the strict military discipline forced them to advance. Hearing the order to retreat for help, they immediately retreated like a tide.

Liu Chenghuang saw that the Mongol soldiers had retreated, and immediately notified Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He. At the same time, he said to the subordinates of Prince Torrey, who had shown confidence: "They will come again in the afternoon, and we will use our brains." When they attacked, we threw stones at the bottom of the city. They must think that we don't have enough hands. And their attackers were more crowded under the city. We'll pitch down at this point**. But we're going to count to three after we're done pulling the fire and then throw it down. In this case, the hand ** will explode on the top of their heads. It not only saves hands**, but also has a good effect.

The soldiers and civilians who had gained confidence nodded and said, "This is a good idea." ”

Liu Chenghuang, who had turned around, also returned to the headquarters.

Ouyang He saw that Liu Chenghuang was back and asked, "Commander Liu!" How's the result? ”

"There is no way to go down and count, it is estimated that seven or eight thousand Mongol soldiers were killed in this attack." Liu Chenghuang said.

"In the afternoon, when the Mongols attack again, they will come up with a new way, so you have to be careful. Mongols are very good at learning. Ouyang He said.

"I took a look and they were seriously ill-prepared for this attack. They didn't expect that their cannon didn't work at all. In the afternoon, they should adjust and play their role as a strong crossbow and hard bow. We still used artillery to drive their archers out of range. Besides, we just don't use rifles, and Prince Tori's archers are condescending, and they are not inferior to shoot at them with bows and arrows. Liu Chenghuang said.

When the Mongols attacked again, there was a slight improvement. They used the rapid onslaught of cavalry to shoot their bows and arrows at the top of the city to cover the infantry charge. This time, the Yaogang artillery did not politely suppress these archers with cannonballs, and at the same time began to show weakness as agreed, trying to use archers and throwing stones to attack the attacking Mongol soldiers. They thought that the defenders must have limited firearms and were reluctant to use them, so they quickened the pace of the attack. But neither Azig nor Ezhe noticed that, although their attack seemed to be smooth, few of them could carry ladders up the walls, and those who had been specially cared for by the riflemen of the kiln were turned into dead bodies and fell under the city.

In this way, the Mongol soldiers under the city began to crowd more and more. Azig and Ezhe also felt that something was wrong, but it was impossible to retreat at this time. Just when they hesitated, the defenders of the city began to exert their strength, and they threw their hands ** on fire for three times, and then threw them on the heads of the Mongolian soldiers under the city, and for a time the city became a purgatory on earth. There is nowhere to hide the fragments of the hand, wreaking havoc on the Mongolian soldiers from top to bottom, with the continuous explosion of "boom", there are too few Mongolian soldiers who can stand. The Mongol soldiers who were shooting arrows in the back did not dare to step forward under the blow of the mortars of the Yaogang people.

Helpless, Ezhe had no choice but to withdraw his troops again. However, this time, Ezhe's Mongol soldiers died more, attacking more than 10,000 people, and not many of them retreated, and they were already wounded.

Azig had no choice but to walk back in despair.

Azig, who returned to the Great Horde, understood that even if his Qing soldiers attacked it like this, the result would not be much better. Because the defenders didn't face them at all, they were guarding the tall city wall, and they threw them down with their hands, and their flesh and blood couldn't withstand it at all.

Azig knew that it was impossible to win in a short period of time, and his firepower was too far behind. In the evening Azig convened a military council and said: "Tomorrow, we will change our tactics and send a large number of cavalry, each with a sheepskin bag, to fill the city with earth. ”

These Qing generals and Mongol generals have all fought, and they all understand that there is no way out. So they all went back and got ready.

The next day, Liu Chenghuang on the city wall saw that a large number of Mongolian soldiers were riding war horses to quickly sweep in front of the city wall, open a pocket Yang and run back with a little soil, Liu Chenghuang understood, such tactics Mr. Ouyang talked about when he lectured, this is the Mongolian soldiers to use the mound of the city wall.

Liu Chenghuang took a look, and the four city walls were full of Mongolian soldiers piling up soil. Liu Chenghuang ordered the heavy machine gunners to start shooting, and the cavalry who ran over to fill in the earth began to be knocked off their horses one by one. But there were still cavalrymen who filled the city with earth.

Liu Chenghuang on the city wall smiled when he saw that the Mongols were so resolute in filling the soil, and he said to the officers in the city: "Let our machine gun shooters practice shooting live targets well, and pay attention to shooting accuracy." ”

The officers understood what Liu Chenghuang meant, and now the number of cavalry rushing over was not large, and they were also afraid of the dense formation of mortar and machine guns to kill them on a large scale, so they adopted a sparse formation, so that they could train machine gun shooters to shoot accurately.

After a while, before noon, the Mongols of the Horqin tribe who had come to fill in the earth today were gone, and the pile of his dead and horses was higher than the pile they had filled. So before noon, the Mongols never came to fill in the earth again.

Now Prince Tori was no longer worried, he came over and asked Liu Chenghuang: "General Liu, what do you say the enemy army below will do?" ”

"I don't know, what will they do if they do it?" Liu Chenghuang asked.

"Filling the earth and attacking the city is already a method used by our ancestors, I wonder what other methods they will have?" Prince Tori said.

"I think they have another way, the soil here is very thick, and they will dig tunnels to come in." Liu Chenghuang said.

"Makes sense. Does General Liu have any way to deal with them? "Prince Tori began to admire Yoo Sung-jeong.

"We haven't figured it out yet, but we'll have a way." Liu Chenghuang already had an idea, but he didn't want to say it now.

At noon, Liu Chenghuang reported the situation in the morning to Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, and also said that he was worried about the Mongolians outside digging tunnels.

Chen Yufeng said: "We are not afraid of digging tunnels, but we don't have time to wait for them to dig tunnels. ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "I'm afraid they won't be able to run first." ”

"No, the Mongols and the Qing army are very face-saving, and they will not run away without seeing victory or defeat. So that when they go back, they will be laughed at by their brothers. Besides, their Qing army hasn't gone into battle yet, so they won't just run away. Ouyang He said.

"There is also a possibility that they can't beat us and will take advantage of their large numbers to besiege us." Chen Yufeng said: "This kind of battle is not what we want. When they stop fighting, we'll start fighting. ”

"In addition, they will also have the possibility of sneaking up on Baotou." Ouyang He said: "We should remind Li Kui to pay attention. ”

After Li Jing and the others finished blowing up the Mongolian artillery camp and sending a telegram to the headquarters, they did not hesitate and galloped south with the team. Li Jing knew how big it was to do this work tonight, and those Qing troops would definitely send a large team of men and horses to look for them. Li Jing's soldiers are all baby bumps, and they are unwilling to use his special forces and brigade cavalry to fight hard. So they ran south all night. Fortunately, when they came out, they all rode in one person and two horses, and they could change horses when they were tired.

At dawn, they saw Dongshengzhou City from a distance, and Li Jing told the soldiers to go into the city to rest. The soldiers ran wildly all night and saw Dongshengzhou City, and when they heard Li Jing say this, they all cheered "Ouou".

Liu Yun had already known from the telegram sent by the headquarters that Li Jing and the others had done something earth-shattering, and he judged that Li Jing and the others would probably run back to Dongshengzhou, because they were the closest to here.

Sure enough, seeing Li Jing come back, Liu Yun was so happy that he was about to arrange wine and meat to celebrate. Li Jing said: "Wine and meat are exempt first, let's sleep and then talk!" ”

This night, Li Jing and the others were so tired that they all fell asleep when they went to the place to lie down.

Azig sent out the Qing and Mongol armies, with a total of 5,000 cavalry, who surrounded the exploding camp from the north and south. But their encirclement was so small that by the time they met at dawn at the exploding camp, there was no sign of men. But the tragic situation of the explosion in the camp made a solid mountain that led the team out of the country go crazy with anger. He ordered to expand the search area. As a result, someone came back to report the discovery of a fresh troop of cavalry horseshoe prints, all the way to the south. This Gushan ordered: "Pursue them south along the horseshoe prints, and chase them back to the edge of the sky." ”

And the brigade pursued them southward. At this time, Li Jing and the others had already fallen asleep.

This solid mountain chased with a large group of cavalry until it was midnight, and still did not catch up, but the horseshoe prints were clearer. At night, this solid mountain did not dare to chase anymore, and the people and horses were tired. I had to camp and rest.

At this time, Liu Yun had already placed a celebration wine for Li Jing and the others, and they were drinking. Liu Yun also asked Li Jing: "You say, those Qing troops know that you have blown up their artillery, will they chase them to Dongshengzhou when they are mad?" ”

"Senior brother! Are you looking forward to them coming? Li Jing said.

"My junior brother still understands me, and I really look forward to them coming. We can also share some of the pressure on the naturalization side here. Liu Yun said.

Just when Azig commanded the troops to attack Naturalization, the 5,000 cavalry chasing Li Jing chased to Dongshengzhou, and the arrogant Qing army didn't take the small Dongshengzhou in their eyes at all, especially the large Han people were surrounded in Naturalization, and there were not too many defenders here.

Liu Yun's headquarters sent a telegram to report to the headquarters that about a few thousand cavalry had come to Dongshengzhou. Chen Yufeng knew that there were now four regiments of cavalry in Dongshengzhou, and one regiment of infantry was stronger than the naturalized force. Therefore, the call back to Liu Yun was, "Drive away as appropriate." ”

Liu Yun and Li Jing were happy when they read the telegram. Li Jing said: "It seems that we can play as much as we want!" ”

Liu Yun said: "I think we will take advantage of these arrogant guys who don't understand us, and have a good time with them." ”

Liu Yun immediately summoned the four cavalry commanders and the two infantry commanders together for a short meeting, and after introducing the situation, he immediately arranged for the two cavalry regiments to lead the troops out of the city from the south gate before the Qing army and the Mongolian soldiers arrived. They all came with telegrams.

The guards of the city were also arranged, and at this time the soldiers at the east gate brought in a letter, which was shot in with a bow and arrow from outside the city. The interpreter looked at it and said, "What they mean is that as long as they hand over the people who attacked the camp last night, they will spare everyone in Dongshengzhou, otherwise they will all be killed after entering the city."

Liu Yun said: "It seems that Li Jing, you are very angry with others." ”

Li Jing said: "Don't talk nonsense, the guests are waiting." Let's follow the plan! ”

Liu Yun hid the pistol behind him, rode a horse with a big gun, opened the east city gate, put down the drawbridge, and rushed out with two hundred cavalry. When he saw that someone came out with a spear and two hundred men, he thought that this was a fool, and when he fought alone, he would fight alone. Besides, there were only more than 200 people in total, which showed that there were not many people in the city, and if it weren't for the fool, the general would not have exposed the emptiness of his troops.

Gushan led the team to slowly press over, and Liu Yun rode a horse and danced a big gun, meaning to ask them to come out with a big man to fight. This Gushan also doesn't want to lose face. Immediately sent a general with a big sword to come out and fight Liu Yun. But this general and Liu Yun took a look at each other, and let Liu Yun pick off the horse with one shot. At this time, another general rushed out and rushed towards Liu Yun, Liu Yun looked at him and used his gun to file his gun, Liu Yun knew that this person was not good, but he couldn't kill him again. In fact, after a face-to-face shot, the opponent also knew that he was not Liu Yun's opponent, but he couldn't help but fight. They looked at each other again, Liu Yun was running in the direction of his team, and then Liu Yun pretended to run directly to the city gate, and the two hundred cavalry also squeezed towards the drawbridge. Gushan, who was watching the battle from afar, knew that the opportunity was coming, so he waved his troops and chased after him. The general who fought with Liu Yun knew that Liu Yun was faking defeat, but he didn't have time to explain to Gushan, so he had to follow the team and rush towards the city gate. Gushan, who rushed into the city gate, found that it was an urn city, and he knew that he could not stay in the city, and he had to rush through the second gate. But they didn't know that this east gate was two urn cities. In this way, except for the 1,000 cavalry left outside the city by this solid mountain, most of them rushed into the urn city. At this time, the suspension bridge at the east gate was raised.

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The Song army occupied Hokkaido, and Yuankou landed on the island of Kyushu. Opening up the Japanese battlefield. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".