Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VII The Bloody Battle in the Southwest

Chapter 2 Gather and annihilate stragglers to defend Chengdu

Section 5 Defending Chengdu (3)

"Rush for me! Enter Chengdu! ”

"Kill!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

"Ahh Help me! ”

Hao Jiu Ming looked at the fierce battlefield in the distance, still expressionless, and couldn't see any joy, anger and sorrow. However, the eight Tusi who were watching the battle on the side could no longer sit still, and the army that was besieging the city in front was already in the third wave, but they still could not occupy the southern city wall, or even gain a firm foothold on the city wall. I saw countless rebel soldiers either killed by the officers and strong men, or driven off the southern city wall and killed on the spot, these are all these limited soldiers of Tusi!

An older Tusi saw that the army was seriously damaged, and finally couldn't help it, and said to Lu Jiuming: "General, I think we should withdraw first, now not only the southern attack is blocked, but the situation on the other three sides is not very good, and the losses of the army are too great if they continue like this, which will seriously affect the follow-up battle." ”

"Yes, the general should withdraw his troops for the time being, we can't afford to consume it."

"General, take the troops!"

"It's not too late for us to fight tomorrow."

When the rest of the Tusi saw that someone was leading, they got up one after another to persuade Hao Jiu to withdraw his troops for the time being, and set up camp to besiege the city first.

Seeing this, Hao Jiu Ming frowned slightly, and said: "You all know that Chengdu is a big city, and the population and materials in the city can be said to be inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Once the siege war drags on, the official army will have enough time to calmly mobilize the strong men and materials in the city for defending the city, and then we will face the situation that the defending troops are fighting more and more, and the city defense is getting stronger and stronger, and we will be consumed alive by the officials and soldiers under the city of Chengdu! ”

After speaking, Hao Jiu Ming glared at the eight toasts fiercely, and then said word by word: "The big thing has just started, do you want to break Chengdu?" ”

At this point, the eight toasts didn't dare to speak, and several people looked at each other, then they all sat back, and continued to watch the fierce siege battle with a bitter face.

At this time, the rebel brigade that was besieging the city in front of it was once again routed, and thousands of rebel soldiers fled towards their own camp screaming. The officers and soldiers at the head of the city took the opportunity to release arrows and firearms, and even the artillery on the head of the city began to roar, and the rebel soldiers who fled were even more frightened, and many of them rushed into the rebel army in a panic, and were immediately killed on the spot by the rebel warlords.

"No! Chengdu is too difficult to fight, the number of officers and strong men in the city is not less than our army, and our army does not have artillery such a siege weapon, if this continues, the army will be consumed alive in Chengdu! What to do? ”

Extravagant Jiu Life's face seemed to be unwavering, but he had already turned the river and the sea in his heart, and he kept thinking about countermeasures in his mind. But in the face of the iron-clad defense of the officers and soldiers, there is nothing to be done.

"Order, the army will be withdrawn immediately, and the whole army will gather in the south of the city to camp and rest!"

After thinking for a while, Hao Jiu Ming coldly dropped this sentence, and then turned around and returned to the big tent of the Chinese army. The eight Tusi were immediately overjoyed, and they all gathered their troops and prepared to camp and rest.

A moment later, the more than 10,000 rebels who were besieging the city around Chengdu all retreated like a tide, and gradually gathered into the rebel army outside the south gate of Chengdu. At night, a huge camp rose from the ground, and more than 20,000 rebels lit countless torches in the camp, illuminating half of Chengdu City very brightly.

Wu Hang stood on the south city wall and looked at the rebel camp in the distance, and breathed a sigh of relief, a day of fighting put this young general who was fighting independently for the first time under great pressure, but fortunately, the rebels were repulsed, and Chengdu returned to temporary calm.

Half an hour later, Wu Hang first sent someone to inform the old lady of the battle situation, so that the old lady could rest in peace, and then summoned four officers and soldiers and four strong stewards to the prefect's yamen to discuss matters. When the situation of all parties converged, Wu Hang's face also changed.

"In today's battle, 397 officers and soldiers defending the city were martyred, 2,011 were martyred in defending the city, and a total of 1,454 rebels were beheaded. There are still arrows left in the treasury......"

After hearing the number of casualties of the army, Wu Hang's heart was heavy: it was only one day of the war, and the soldiers defending the city had suffered more than 2,000 casualties, which was almost one of the strength of the defenders! Although the number of killed and wounded rebels will not be less than 2,000 (many of the heads are outside the city, and the officers and soldiers cannot capture them), but who knows if the rebels still have reinforcements?

Wu Hang calmed down his mood, and then first vigorously praised the officers and soldiers of various departments and the heroes for their heroic efforts, and then on behalf of Wen Poyu, he gave the reward a full amount of silver, and ordered to kill pigs and sheep, so that the soldiers defending the city could have a good meal.

After the thousands of presidents and stewards left happily, Wu Hang sat alone in the room frowning, thinking about how to deal with tomorrow's war.

At this time, a personal guard walked in and said, "Lord Qiqi, when I was cleaning up the arsenal in the city, I found a lot of big rockets, and I have come to report to your lordship. ”

Wu Hang was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "God help me!" Tomorrow will be able to wreak havoc on the rebels! ”

In the early morning of the next day, Hao Jiu Ming once again led more than 20,000 rebels into battle, preparing to start a siege battle. This time, Hao Jiu Ming still divided 9,000 soldiers and horses to attack the east, north and west sides of Chengdu, trying to contain the strength of the official army in the city, and led more than 10,000 main forces to continue to attack the south wall of Chengdu.

This time, Xuan Jiu Ming obviously made some preparations, and last night ordered people to rush to make a lot of thick shields overnight, hoping to reduce the casualties caused by the artillery fire of the officers and soldiers.

After the formation of the large army, Yu Jiuming did not rush to order the army to attack, but first mobilized 3,000 archers, and then mobilized 2,000 people who could pull the bowstring from the rest of the rebel soldiers, and gathered 5,000 archers, preparing to suppress the official army at the head of Chengdu first.

A moment later, with an order from Xuan Jiu, five thousand rebel archers, under the cover of a thousand rebel soldiers holding heavy shields, quickly approached the southern city wall of Chengdu.

When the rebel formation was less than two hundred paces away from the southern city wall, the large and small artillery on the top of the city began to roar.

"Ready! Put! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Reload the artillery! Preparation! Put! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Dozens of cannons continued to smash into the rebel array, even with the protection of a thick shield, there were still many rebel soldiers hit by the cannons, and several flesh alleys swept by the cannons were full of stumps and broken arms of the rebel soldiers. The thick and heavy shields prepared by the rebels may be able to defend against small cannons such as the Annihilation Run and the Tiger Cannon, but they are still unable to resist the heavy artillery such as the Big Buddha Cannon, and many of the thick and heavy shields have been shattered by the cannons and turned into debris.

"Speed up!"

Yu Jiu Ming said with a cold face, and the herald immediately passed the order down.

The rebel formation then turned from a brisk walk to a trot, and soon came to a distance of about a hundred paces from the city wall. At this time, the archers and musketeers of the official army did not fight back, but suddenly set up dozens of dry firewood on the southern city wall, aiming straight at the thousands of rebel archers who were approaching.

Seeing this, the Extravagant Nine Lives in the distance were immediately shocked, and hurriedly shouted, "Withdraw!" The whole army retreated! Fast! ”

But it's too late!

Wu Hang pulled out his sword and pointed diagonally at the sky, and roared loudly: "A hundred tigers are running together, and the fire dragon is going to sea!" Put! ”

"Ignition!"

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

"Tom! Tong! Tong! ”

After dozens of bundles of various large rockets were ignited, there was a loud noise, and countless arrows pushed out by the gunpowder flew towards the thousands of rebel archers and sword and shield men who were retreating. Each bundle of these large rockets has dozens to hundreds of arrows, and dozens of bundles are counted as hundreds or thousands of arrows. Moreover, with the help of gunpowder, the power of these arrows has increased several times, far from being comparable to the arrows shot by archers. These large rockets often hit one rebel soldier and then pass through the body and continue to shoot at the rest of the rebel soldiers in front, and one arrow can often kill several people!

After all the big rockets were launched, they immediately knocked down a piece of the rebel archers, and the rebel array was concave in an instant.

"Haha, this is much stronger than a bow and arrow, even the firecrackers can't catch up! One more round! Hurry up, get me ready to shoot! ”

Wu Hang laughed and said, at this time he was extremely happy in his heart, and secretly said in his heart: "After this battle is over, I must talk to the general town about a large number of big rockets in the army." Then again, it seems that the Shosakuji side has been building the god machine gun car, but I don't know when I will be able to equip the artillery battalion. ”

At the same time, the nine lives of the luxury and the eight toasts were cannibalistic portraits, which formed a stark contrast to the elated Wu Hang. In less than a moment, 5,000 archers and 1,000 sword and shield men were killed by the officers and soldiers with large rockets, and the army was routed in an instant.

"Looks like we don't have to fight anymore today."

One of the toasts said cool words, turned around angrily and went back to the camp, and the rest of the toasts also did the same and left angrily.

Luxury Jiu Life still didn't say a word, looking at the figures of several toasts, his eyes flashed with strange light from time to time.

At this moment, a rebel scout approached and whispered, "The rear hand arranged by the general's family master has arrived, and we can rush to the camp tonight." ”

Hearing this, some smiles immediately appeared on his face, and he said secretly: "Okay! There's a great show to watch tonight! ”