Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VI The Battle of the Northern Frontier

Chapter 3 is quite stale

Section 5 Siege Battle (4)

After Yuan Mingxuan gave the order, the war drums in the Hanwei army roared, the flags were flying, and more than 20,000 soldiers of the Feiyu Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion marched forward in formation, like a fiery sea rushing to the embankment. Among them, more than 3,000 bird-gunners from the two battalions walked in the forefront, formed a three-row horizontal formation, and slowly pressed towards the southern city wall.

At this time, Huang Taiji and Azig had returned to the tower of the south city wall, looking at the large array of the Hanwei army in front of the array, their hearts were very heavy, the determination of the Hanwei army in this battle had far exceeded the expectations of the two, and Liu Yunwei had begun to fight with the Dajin warriors at any cost.

Huang Taiji said in a deep voice: "Taiji, now it seems that the main attack direction of the Hanwei army is the southern city wall, and the strength of Zhengbai Banner is estimated to be unable to cope with it, so I think it is better to transfer troops from the east and west to support." ”

Azig nodded and said, "Okay, I'll do it." ”

Suddenly, there was a roar of birds outside the city, and Huang Taiji and Azig looked in shock, only to see more than 3,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army holding bird guns and firing at a distance of seventy steps from the city wall.

"Pass the order, and all the warriors of the army should pay attention to avoiding the firearms of the Han Wei army!" Huang Taiji said loudly: "Immediately mobilize the archers to counterattack!" ”

It didn't take long for 2,000 archers with the white flag to assemble and launch a battle with the Hanwei army birds. This time, Lu Yinghe mobilized a thousand soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion in advance to stand by in front of the Bird Gun Array, and the soldiers all held eyebrow shields in their hands to cover the Bird Gun Hands. But even so, the Birdmen still suffered a lot of casualties, and the arrows fired by the Jiannu archers were very tricky, and many arrows were shot through the gaps in their shields.

Seeing this, Lu Ying ordered Edward to lead the artillery battalion to attack again, and concentrated the ninety Huzun cannons of the three artillery battalions to bombard the Zhengbai Banner Jiannu on the head of the city.

Soon, 1,500 soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion rushed forward with their shields held high, followed by more than 200 gunners, who in groups of three struggled to carry a Tiger Zun cannon, and rushed into a hundred steps from the city wall.

The soldiers in front of them were still firing a salvo, trying to suppress the Jiannu archers on the city head with dense firepower, covering the gunners behind them to open fire.

"Reloaded!"

"Ready! Put! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Ninety Huzun cannons opened fire together, and the scorching cannons suddenly turned into dozens of arcs and smashed into the city wall, killing and wounding the archers and soldiers of the white flag in array, and the defensive formation collapsed in an instant, and they all ran to places where they could hide from the artillery fire.

Seeing that the artillery battalion's artillery bombardment was effective, Lu Ying urgently ordered Edward to continue shelling to kill and injure as many Jiannu troops as possible.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Round after round of shelling continued, and the city, which had been baptized by dozens of big Buddha cannons for several rounds, fell into a sea of fire again, and Zhengbaiqi Jiannu had nowhere to hide, and fled from the city one after another.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji was furious, and while sending men and horses to stabilize the withdrawn army, he also ordered Azig to immediately mobilize troops and horses from the east and west walls to come to support.

Seeing this situation, Azig did not dare to refuse, and hurriedly ordered the white flag and the Mongol soldiers to send 3,000 men and horses each to the southern city to support. After about a stick of incense, a total of 6,000 reinforcements rushed along the city wall. However, before these reinforcements could gain a foothold on the southern city wall, they were beaten down by heavy artillery fire and dense bird fire, and after losing hundreds of corpses, they began to regroup around the southern city gate.

"It will never work if it goes on like this! Sooner or later, the warriors' military spirit will be destroyed by the firearms of the Hanwei Army! Huang Taiji secretly said in his heart, thought for a while, and said to Azig: Immediately send someone to the city to catch some Han people, let those Han people stand on the head of the city, and defend the city with the warriors!"

Azig immediately objected and said loudly: "What if those Nikans take the opportunity to take the city and rebel? We can't afford to take this risk! ”

Huang Taiji smiled sinisterly and said: "It's okay, go to the city to catch a thousand men, bring their wives and children to the school grounds, as long as those Han men dare to do anything wrong, kill all the women and children in the school field on the spot!" ”

Hearing this, Azig immediately laughed wildly and said, "It's still the fourth Belle who is very intelligent!" With that, Azig led a group of white-flaged Jiannu to the city.

Half an hour later, the artillery battalion of the Hanwei army had stopped shelling, and only the more than 3,000 bird-gunners were still firing and suppressing the Jiannu soldiers on the city.

At this time, Zhao Kaishan gathered all the soldiers of Camp A and Battalion B of the Huben Battalion, and prepared to personally lead the troops to rush up to the city to fight. Suddenly, many civilians appeared at the head of the southern city, and these people were driven by the Jiannu soldiers to carry stones and fortification equipment.

Some of the more unfortunate people were hit by the bird as soon as they came up, and they fell to the ground in agony, and blood flowed all over the ground. The rest of the people immediately retreated as if they had seen a ghost, but they were violently beaten by the Jiannu soldiers behind them, and several unlucky ghosts were hacked to death by the fierce Jiannu soldiers.

Lu Ying, Zhao Kaishan, as well as Yuan Mingxuan, Zhou Tianyi, and Hu Kun outside the city were all extremely angry, and everyone once again saw Jiannu's despicable and inhumane nature, and all the soldiers were full of anger. Seeing this, Lu Ying hurriedly ordered the bird gun formation to stop shooting and withdraw immediately, preparing to notify Liu Yunwei before making a decision.

And Zhao Kaishan found Lu Ying as soon as possible and said: "Lu Guerrilla, we can't withdraw, we finally have the upper hand, we should take advantage of the situation to kill!" ”

"Don't you see the people on the walls? If we kill them now, they'll all die! ”

"If we withdraw now, Jiannu will think that he has a plan, and he will use this method to deal with us in the future! How will the battle be fought in the future? Zhao Kaishan said anxiously.

Lu Ying frowned and stared viciously ahead, not speaking for a long time, and his heart was extremely impatient.

At this moment, Yuan Mingxuan rode his horse to the front of the battle and said to Lu Ying and Zhao Kaishan: "Two generals, I think we should slow down a little, if we continue to attack, those people will have no life, this is no different from slaughter!" ”

Lu Ying thought for a moment, nodded heavily, and was about to order the army to withdraw to the camp first. And Zhao Kaishan shouted loudly: "Lord Yuan! We can't withdraw, now withdraw, the soldiers' hard work will be in vain! ”

Yuan Mingxuan also looked helpless, and just as he was about to speak, he saw a burst of shouts suddenly erupt on the city, and everyone hurriedly looked over, only to see that the thousands of people on the city were already fighting with the Jiannu soldiers.

Seeing this, Zhao Kaishan immediately yelled: "What are you waiting for!" Rush up! ”

Lu Ying's face was also flushed, and he shouted: "The whole army is attacking!" Kill me! ”

The 20,000 soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion and the Tiger Battalion roared in unison, formed a formation and moved forward, and soon rushed to the foot of the city wall, more than 20 cloud ladders were set up on the city wall one after another, and the melee soldiers of the Flying Feather Battalion and the Tiger Battalion, a total of four thousand general battalions, rushed to climb up the ladder, while more than 3,000 bird gunners were still standing by in a formation sixty steps away.

At this time, Azig was fighting on the city wall with soldiers with white flags, and the people who resisted could not resist the slaughter of the slaves at all, and fell in a pool of blood, seeing that most of the people on the city wall were killed, Azig hurriedly called his subordinates to guard various defense points, ready to meet the Han Wei army that rushed up.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Hanwei army took advantage of the chaos to kill the city, Zhao Kaishan took the lead in rushing up with hundreds of soldiers from the Huben battalion, and the two white flag Jiannu fought together, the fierce battle escalated again, the original wide city wall suddenly became crowded, whether it was the two white flag Jiannu or the Hanwei army soldiers, whether it was the Mongolian soldiers or the people in the city, they were all crowded together, slashing each other.

After Azig killed four civilians and two soldiers of the Hanwei Army, he stared at Zhao Kaishan who was fighting at a glance, rushed forward with his knife, and chopped it when he got closer. Zhao Kaishan only heard the sound of a sharp blade breaking through the air behind him, hurriedly turned around to resist, and used a war knife to block the sharp blade cut by Azig, and then kicked Azig away with a kick, and quickly took a few steps back.

Looking at Azig in front of him, Zhao Kaishan shouted excitedly: "Haha, I didn't expect to meet one of the banner owners of the Tartars here!" Watch me take your head! ”

After speaking, Zhao Kaishan waved his knife and rushed up, fighting with Azig, the surrounding Hanwei soldiers and Jiannu soldiers all flashed to the side, and they couldn't step forward to help at all, they could only see the two war knives flying up and down, and there were swords and swords everywhere.

And Huang Taiji, who was watching the battle in the city, was anxious: now that the Han Wei army had rushed to the city, the situation had reached a critical moment, and the entire defense line would completely collapse if he was not careful. Moreover, because Huang Taiji himself ordered a large number of people to be taken from the city before, the situation in the city is also very unstable now, and the people in the city are already very hostile to Dajin, and now the anger in the hearts of those people has accumulated to the extreme.

Huang Taiji was also decisive, and immediately ordered the defenders in the east and west to mobilize troops and horses again, each mobilizing 2,000 soldiers and horses to rush to the south city wall to support, and then each mobilizing 1,000 soldiers and horses to patrol the city, ready to suppress the possible rebellion of the people in the city at any time.

After arranging these, Huang Taiji's heart settled down a little, but it didn't take long for a sudden unsettling feeling to come to his heart. Immediately afterwards, Huang Taiji looked back at the north city wall with a surprised expression, and said secretly in his heart: "Now that the Han Wei army is clamping down on both sides and attacking on the other, it has begun to fight hard, why is the north still so quiet?" It's scaryly quiet! ”