Chapter 52: The Bloody Battle of Lishan Chuang Wang surrenders

The leaders who defended Lishan turned out to be experienced officers in the official army, and they were determined to fight the battle of defending Lishan, and let the Yaogang head office see their own skills. Therefore, in addition to reinforcing the defensive facilities at the walled gate, they also made careful arrangements around it. This time, they went to Yaogang to attend a military meeting and saw a lot of new weapons. They are particularly interested in the kind of remote control ****. At the end of this meeting, they brought back this kind of thing.

After careful observation, they found that if they attacked the gate of the cottage from the outside, the foot of the hill outside the gate was a safe place to avoid the downward shots of the cottage. It's a starting point when attacking, and a place to take refuge when retreating. They judged that if someone attacked the cottage, it would be a good place to destroy the enemy. Therefore, they buried a large amount of black ** in the ground here, and then piled a large amount of gravel outside, and after heavy snowfall, there was no flaw to be seen outside. The stone kiln on the mountain sent a lot of black **, but this time it can be used.

When Li Zicheng's Dashun army under the mountain began to attack, they did not hide at the foot of this mountain, because they didn't take the people on the mountain seriously at all, and they didn't have the slightest intention of dodging. Therefore, the people on the mountain also took advantage of their carelessness and deliberately did not reply to their letter of surrender. When the artillery of the Dashun army was bombed, the commander was enraged and began to attack, the experienced defenders on the mountain did not show their heads, and when the soldiers of the Dashun army they attacked were crowded under the walled gate, they suddenly threw a large number of hands under the walled gate. Those with great strength throw at a distance, and those with little strength throw at a close place. Because the people below were too densely crowded, and the passage in front of the gate was too narrow, the lethal effect of the hand ** was fully exerted, and the chaotic soldiers crowded and trampled on each other. The more than 1,000 soldiers of the Dashun Army who rushed up were either dead or wounded, and very few could retreat.

Seeing this tragic scene, the officers who led the command were terrified, even though they were on the battlefield. He hurriedly led people to hide at the foot of the mountain where a large number of ** were buried, he knew that if he didn't capture the cottage today, he would have killed and injured so many people, and he would have to peel off the skin if he didn't die. But just when he was trying to calm down and wanted to collect the defeated soldiers and make plans again, the ** under his feet exploded. It turned out that the leaders on the gate tower were waiting for the moment when they hid somewhere, and he waved his hand and pressed ***.

This earth-shattering bang exploded a mushroom cloud, and the flying debris quickly filled the foot of the mountain and the valley next to it, killing hundreds of soldiers hiding in it at once. The commander who led the team didn't have to be afraid of going back and being punished, he was also blown to pieces by **. More than 500 soldiers were directly killed or shocked to death by the explosion. The hundreds of soldiers who were far away from being killed had never seen such an explosion, thinking that the end of the world had come, and after picking up a life, they ran back desperately in fear.

When they returned to the camp in Jiezhou and reported the situation to Liu Fangliang, Liu Fangliang was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. This time, he sent 2,000 elite soldiers, how could he die more than 1,500 people without meeting others. Since crossing the Yellow River to the east this time, he has not fought such a battle along the way, and if he let King Chuang know such a situation, he really can't explain it.

Liu Fangliang, who had been silent for a long time, slapped the table and said, "If I don't end this bandit den today, it will really insult the reputation of my Dashun Army." ”

Then he sent a general Guo Yi to lead a left battalion of nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and then went to encircle and suppress the "bandits" in Lishan. Liu Fangliang, who had already learned about the situation of the Lishan cottage, asked his army to bring five tiger squat cannons, because the red-coated cannons could not be used there, and because the road was not good, there was no way to carry them to the mountain.

This kind of tiger squat cannon is two feet long at the end and at the end, with seven iron hoops around the body, and the head of the cannon is erected by two iron claws, with a total weight of 36 catties. It looks like the tiger is very imposing. Before this kind of cannon is fired, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, and each time it is fired, it can be filled with 100 small lead or small pebbles weighing five coins, and it is pressed with a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels, and when it is fired, the large and small bullets fly out together, and the lethality and radiation range are very large. Due to its ease of carrying, this Tiger Squat Cannon is especially suitable for field warfare in mountainous forest areas.

Even so, Liu Fangliang made a fatal mistake with Li Zicheng, that is, underestimating the enemy.

This General Guo Yi of the Dashun Army is very experienced in battle. Generally speaking, Li Zicheng's officers can only be promoted by military merits, so this General Guo Yi is also experienced in a hundred battles. They led their army to the bottom of the mountain, and did not attack immediately, but took people to carefully observe the terrain. In the end, he came to the conclusion that this cottage was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was difficult to win with this 10,000 people, so he sent someone to Liu Fangliang to explain the situation here, suggesting that it was best to give up the attack here for the time being, so as not to delay the major event of cooperating with King Chuang to attack Beijing. If you have to attack, ask the general to send more men and artillery.

Liu Fangliang, who was very much looking forward to the news of Lishan's victory, saw this letter, and immediately tore the letter to shreds in anger, and told the person who sent the letter, "Go back and tell General Guo Yi that if you can't take Lishan, you will come to see you." ”

Liu Fangliang felt that if more than 10,000 people and horses could not take a den of bandits like Lishan, how could they talk about taking the world, and there was still a long way to go ahead to enter Beijing.

When General Guo Yi heard Liu Fangliang's message from the heralds, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "If the general does not come to the front line, but does not listen to the advice of the soldiers on the front line, can he fight to Beijing in this way?" ”

However, the order still had to be carried out, and he knew that his personnel could not be spread out in such a narrow space, but there was no place to start elsewhere, so he could only suppress the opponent with firepower and send soldiers to attack hard.

He arranged the five tiger squatting cannons in front of the walled gate, and at the same time ordered the firecrackers and crossbowmen to shoot together to suppress the opponents of the walled gate tower when they began to attack for a while, and cover the soldiers to set up ladders to attack.

However, the defenders on the upper floor of the gate did not want the shells to hit their heads, so when they saw five tiger squat cannons placed below, they ordered their artillery to aim at these cannons. When General Guo Yi ordered the soldiers to prepare for the attack, before the Tiger Squat Cannon could fire, the mortar covered the five Tiger Squat Cannons, and even the artillery and men were blown away. The helpless general Guo Yi had no choice but to order the firebolts to open fire on the gate, and the crossbow archers released their arrows, and the soldiers rushed forward with shouts. The first charge was the same as the last time the fire man came, killing a group of people and then retreating. This General Guo Yi knew that if he couldn't take Lishan this time, there was no need for him to go back, so he quickly organized the soldiers to adopt the tactics of crowds, and kept pouring up, braving the flying shrapnel, these brave soldiers finally began to set up ladders. At this time, the mortars on the tower of the gate began to fire, and the shells blocked the follow-up personnel of the attack team, and the fire bombs were dropped on the tower of the gate. When a shell explodes in a crowded crowd, a single shell will blow away several or even a dozen brave soldiers, and the fire oil bomb will stick to the soldiers, and the soldiers will cry and cry for their mothers. Fragments of corpses had been stacked on top of each other in the narrow valley. In this second attack, more than 1,000 people were lost.

This time, General Guo Yi knew that his attack formation was too dense, and he was too badly injured by his hands and shells. After reorganizing the ranks, he changed his tactics and ordered the musketeers to suppress the fire on the gate tower, and the soldiers carried ladders with shields and attacked in an evacuated formation. However, the formation of the attack on the gate tower was too sparse, and they did not waste the shellmen**, but instead used bows and arrows to start shooting. To those who had shields, they fired directly with muskets. These shields were useful against bows and arrows, but they were of no use against musket bullets fired at close range. The general Guo Yi, who was watching the battle from behind, saw that this was even worse, and the attacking soldiers did not even have a chance to get close to the bottom of the gate tower. Once again, he ordered the soldiers to retreat. After careful consideration, the general Guo Yi sent people back to report the failure of the attack here to Liu Fangliang, and at the same time asked for support for the siege of the cave vehicles and artillery. He repeatedly asked the people who went back to say that his life and death were small, but it was a big matter to delay the great cause of the king's expedition.

When Liu Fangliang heard the news that the messenger sent back, he already had a very bad feeling in his heart. Such a small den of bandits killed and injured thousands of his brothers in a matter of days. The general Guo Yi he sent out was also killed in a hundred battles with him, and he did not encounter great difficulties and would not ask for help again. Liu Fangliang gritted his teeth and sent out ten tiger squatting cannons, 5,000 soldiers, and 20 cave cars. This time, he ordered that this Lishan must be taken at any cost, and it must not set a precedent that the Dashun army could not attack the mountain.

General Guo Yi, who was besieging the city, received a report from Kuaima that General Zhi had sent reinforcements to help in the battle, so he stopped the attack at the bottom of the mountain, reorganized his team, and prepared to wait for the reinforcements to arrive before attacking.

After a few days of fighting, the defenders on the mountain also showed confidence, and everyone was vying to take turns to fight on the walled gate. However, the leaders of the defenders did not dare to be careless, and they constantly checked for possible loopholes. In the end, they discussed, although there is still plenty of ammunition on the mountain, but it is necessary to consider that these ammunition needs to hold out until the beginning of spring, so we still have to save some use, we are condescending, the Dashun army is so dense in attack formation, we can attack them with stones, in this way, those strong men of the salt gang will have a place to use, they have been fighting again and again. Later, the leaders discussed and decided to send people to fall from the cliff and attack the Dashun army from behind. The leaders analyzed the Dashun army under the mountain and thought that we did not dare to go out of the stockade, and we must be careless at night, so we sent people to take advantage of the night to sneak attack and run away after a fight, our people are familiar with the terrain, and they have nowhere to chase us.

After the leaders discussed, they went their separate ways, and some people went to discuss with the people of the Salt Gang about guarding the gate together, of course the Salt Gang was happy, and they didn't want to be protected like this, making them very shameless; There are also people who organize the skilled soldiers to participate in the night sneak attack. As the soldiers had already shown momentum and were all vying to participate, they finally selected twenty nimble soldiers to form a night raid squad.

The brothers of the Salt Gang were very excited when they heard that they could go to the gate of the village to participate in the battle. They began to carry stones to the gatehouse, which was a sharp weapon for war.

The night raiding team, each with a musket and a hand **, took advantage of the night to go down the steep cliff to the bottom of the cliff along a large rope. They were very familiar with every plant and tree here, so they quickly touched the outside of the camp of the Dashun army. Due to the lack of preparation of the Dashun army to attack the cottage, the tents they brought were not enough, so everyone had to huddle together in the tents, and there was no place to lie down. These tents were densely packed in a sheltered ravine, because they thought that the defenders on the mountain were just using the power of the terrain to fight them, but they did not expect them to dare to come down and sneak attack, so the guards were very weak. The soldiers who were guarding outside were quickly touched by the night raiders. The night raiders climbed to the edge of a ravine where the tents were kept, and from a high vantage point they could clearly see the tents huddled together below. The leader of the team motioned to everyone, took out all the hands, and unscrewed the cover. At the sound of the order, everyone turned their hands ** and threw them as if they were inside a tent, and more than 20 people each threw four or five hands**, and then turned around and ran. Most of these hands fell on the roof of the tent and exploded, nearly a hundred hands **, blowing up the densest tents in the ravine, and the explosion at night caused a lot of chaos in the camp, and the soldiers who were not killed were crowded everywhere and trampled on each other. It took a lot of effort for the general to stabilize the camp. By the time dawn was counted, more than 300 people had been killed and wounded in the night attack. But I don't even know how many people have come, this General Guo Yi wants to cry without tears. After many years of fighting, I have never fought such a battle, it is simply a war with the shadows.

It was not until the reinforcements arrived, bringing weapons and supplies, that the soldiers of the Dashun Army had a good meal, and the military spirit stabilized slightly. But it wasn't until evening that the cave carts were carried up the mountain. In the end, General Guo Yi discussed with everyone and decided to make the final decisive battle tomorrow.

The siege cart is actually a kind of wooden wheeled cart with a roof, because it can defend against bows and arrows and crossbows shot from the city, cover the soldiers to come to the city, or break the city or set up ladders. Therefore, the cave car is definitely a weapon for siege.

However, the Dashun army, which attacked the Zhaimen this time, encountered a problem, that is, the front of the Zhaimen was already full of dead bodies, and the frozen corpses were like stones, and it was difficult for the cave car to push up smoothly. There is also a problem, the artillery fire on the gate is too strong, as long as your own artillery is supported, it will be destroyed quickly.

But today, no matter how difficult it is, I have to fight to the death. The general Guo Yi ordered all of them to participate in the attack until they reached the walled gate. Artillery and cave wagons were to be dispatched.

In this attack, the first few rows were the shield bearers, followed by the cave carts, and then the archers and firecrackers in the back, and when the archers and firecrackers in front shot at the walled gate, the artillery behind quickly lifted the tiger squat cannon out and aimed at the walled gate. But this time, General Guo Yi saw clearly, the other party's cannon muzzle did not show out from the walled gate, and the cannonballs came over, and only one of his ten tiger squat guns was destroyed by the artillery fire on the walled gate. Several of the guns were overturned and exploded, leaving their artillery positions in shambles.

But there is no artillery, and today is going to attack. It seems that the suppression of his archers and firearms has worked, and no one has been seen on the gate until now. The brave soldiers of the Dashun Army quickly attacked the bottom of the walled gatehouse, and those cave cars were also pushed and carried by the soldiers to the bottom of the walled gatehouse. They began to desperately dig the gates. But the people on the upper floor of the gate began to refuse. A drum sounded from the gate tower of the walled gate to drop a lot of big stones, those cave cars can resist some bows and arrows, but in the face of the blow of the big stones, it is vulnerable. The crowded soldiers were even more mixed, and no shield could withstand the blow of a boulder, and often the shield and the person holding the shield were smashed together with the boulder.

However, in this attack, the whole army was ordered to die, and it was only allowed to advance and not retreat, and the Dashun army really went forward and followed. In the back, General Guo Yi saw that every ** was thrown on the gate tower today, thinking that the defenders had run out, and he was even more overseer attacking in the back.

The leaders of the guards on the gate of the fortress saw that today's attack of the Dashun army was different from that of the previous days, and it seemed that it was inevitable, so they also changed their tactics and could not save ammunition today. The mortars were ordered to use artillery shells to block the follow-up offensive troops of the Dashun army, and the one in front was still thrown down with the big stone and **. Those attacking Dashun soldiers, no matter how brave they were, did not dare to impact into the **** barrage, and the attacking Dashun army behind was quickly repulsed. The soldiers who attacked the downstairs of the gate in front had no follow-up support, and they were all killed not long after. In a distance of more than 100 meters in front of the walled gate, there were several layers of corpses piled up everywhere. Both sides exhausted their strength this time. This was the end of a morning's assault. This general Guo Yi, who had already gambled on his red eyes, repeated the morning offensive program again in the afternoon, except for leaving a large number of them in vain.

The general Guo Yi knew that his last days had come, so he did not make any more preparations for the attack, but wrote a letter to Liu Fangliang, introducing the situation here, and at the same time suggesting that if he did not make adequate preparations, no matter how many people died, it would be difficult to make progress. The opponent's thorough preparation and use of tactics were beyond our expectations. We knew too little about our opponents before, and our rash actions resulted in our deaths and injuries. As for me, I am personally willing to accept any punishment. Please think twice.

Liu Fangliang was only beginning to sober up at this time, he decided to withdraw the army, and sent someone to report the situation here to Li Zicheng's battalion. He knew that as a general in charge of an offensive on one side, it was unforgivable to pay such a price and delay too much time in a place where there was no strategic significance. It's all because the crusade has gone too well since the end of the crusade and caused trouble. In the letter to Li Zicheng, Liu Fangliang made a profound review.

After reading the letter of his confidant Liu Fangliang, Li Zicheng didn't speak for a long time, he knew that Liu Fangliang was not defeated by others, and Lishan was from Yaogang. If I lose more than 10,000 horses on such a small hill, is my nemesis really invincible? It is about to come face to face with the kiln people, and it seems that the whole army must be extremely careful. Before Li Zicheng could think about how to reply to Liu Fangliang, Liu Zongmin came in and reported the news that a team of cavalry had been wiped out by the Yaogang people. Li Zicheng didn't speak for a long time.

After listening to Song Xiance's introduction, Liu Zongmin said: "Liu Fangliang is a little careless, and we must not suffer his good losses." After speaking, he said to Li Zicheng: "Master, you don't have to worry too much, we have hundreds of thousands of people, and one person can bury the kiln with a handful of soil." Tell Liu Fangliang not to care about places like Lishan, the kiln gang is solved here, and those places will naturally fall. ”

Niu Jinxing said: "Yes, Zong Min's words are very right, we will concentrate on solving the kiln gang, and it will not be a problem for them to go to the mountains." ”

Li Zicheng said: "Li Yan's team will come up immediately, and our personnel and strength will be more sufficient. However, I think it is still in accordance with the usual practice to send a sign to the kiln gang, if the kiln gang people can understand the current affairs, it will be lowered. The world can be determined. ”

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Paragliding, rubber model airplanes, piano making, and building an air force. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".