Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 9 The Great Tribulation

Chapter 3 The Gathering of Soldiers to Quell the Thieves and Rebellion

Section 3 Battle of Pingyang Fucheng (3)

Three days later, Liu Yunwei concentrated all his forces and lined up outside the city of Pingyang Mansion, preparing to launch a general attack on the army of thieves in the city and completely annihilate the main army of thieves.

In this battle, Liu Yunwei adopted the tactics of encircling three and missing one in order to take the city of Pingyang as soon as possible, and arranged the 20,000 troops led by the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou in the south, and the more than 10,000 soldiers led by Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, in the north, and personally led more than 30,000 soldiers of the pacesetter battalion to line up outside the west gate to serve as the main attack of the battle; Before going to war, Liu Yunwei settled the hundreds of thousands of people and displaced people who had been rescued around the camp, and ordered the garrison Zhu Xuyu to lead the soldiers of the baggage battalion to stay in the town.

At the same time, Liu Yunwei also specially ordered Guo Yi to lead the Long Xiang Iron Cavalry to the east of Pingyang Mansion to prevent the army of thieves from abandoning the city and fleeing, and waiting for an opportunity to pursue the escaped thieves. As for the Yue cavalry battalion, the iron cavalry had already gone north to Linfen City, Li Tianhao sent a letter, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were based on the city and resisted very tenaciously, so that the war was always deadlocked, so Liu Yunwei ordered Wei Wuhu to lead his troops north to support.

It didn't take long for the 60,000 officers and soldiers of the official army to complete the reorganization of the army in three ways, only to see the banners outside the city hunting, iron armor and Zhengzheng, one after another neat phalanx in the cold wind standing still, like a fiery red ocean, the morale of the army is like a rainbow, full of fighting spirit.

On the other hand, the army of thieves in the city seemed to be about to die, whether it was an old return or an ordinary thief soldier, they were all afraid of the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in front of them, and they did not have half confidence in the bloody battle that was about to begin.

"What to do? Am I going to die here? Why didn't Zhang Xianzhong lead the army to help? Where did Li Zicheng go? ”

Looking at the soldiers of the Hanwei Army outside the West Gate who were like heavenly soldiers descending to earth, Lao Huihui's heart was full of despair, and his pale face was full of frightened looks, which was extremely ugly.

In addition to the same fear on the faces of the rogue soldiers around him as Lao Huihui, there were some other meanings mixed in with it.

Suddenly, the Hanwei army outside the city sounded the war drums like thunder, and then tens of thousands of Hanwei soldiers roared in unison, like a landslide and tsunami, and a terrifying murderous aura rushed towards them, making the thieves army on the city head feel moved, and even some of the less courageous thieves turned around and ran, screaming and escaping from the city wall.

Seeing this, Lao Huihui was so angry that he immediately commanded his henchmen and soldiers to step forward, behead those soldiers who escaped from the battle on the spot, and hung the heads of the deserters on the head of the city, so as to warn the rest of the soldiers defending the city.

"Hold the walls! Those who escaped from the battle will not be spared! Brothers, as long as you repel the attack of the officers and soldiers, you can survive, and reinforcements are coming! ”

Lao Huihui roared loudly at the head of the city, leading hundreds of personal soldiers to patrol the city defense non-stop, desperately boosting the morale of the army, hoping to compete with tens of thousands of officers and soldiers with the help of the city defense.

At this moment, the large array of the Hanwei army outside the city suddenly rose with thick smoke, and a loud noise reverberated on the battlefield, and the Hanwei army artillery camp opened fire!

"Artillery!"

Lao Hui only had time to roar before he went headlong into the tower, while the rest of the thief soldiers were scattered, each looking for a place to hide from the cannons.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The continuous shelling made it impossible to see a single rogue soldier standing on the head of Pingyang Fucheng, and those siege equipment were also destroyed one by one, leaving only wreckage and debris everywhere.

At the same time that the Hanwei army artillery battalion bombarded the west city wall, Hong Chengchou and Zhang Zongheng also ordered the artillery in the army to bombard the city wall, but the firepower of the two armies was far less powerful than the Hanwei army artillery battalion, so the focus of the entire battlefield was concentrated on the west side of Pingyang Fucheng.

Liu Yunwei stared coldly at the west city wall, his heart full of anger. The tragic situation of the hundreds of thousands of people last night kept echoing in Liu Yunwei's mind, and the actions of these thieves were not at all different from the Qing army Tartars, they were all the same!

"If you don't kill all these bastards, how can Da Ming be stable!"

At this time, Liu Yunwei had already moved his murderous intentions to the army of thieves in the city, and he was not ready to leave anything alive, which also announced the fate of the army of thieves in the city.

Ahead, the iconic roar of the garrison Edward continued, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion skillfully fiddled with the artillery, which had already beaten the western city wall of Pingyang Mansion to a thousand holes, and the city bricks in many places had fallen off completely, revealing the rammed earth layer inside.

In this way, the artillery battalion of the Hanwei army bombarded for another hour before gradually stopping the shelling. Garrison Edward ordered people to wave flags at Liu Yunwei, indicating that the artillery was too hot to continue firing.

When Liu Yunwei heard the news, he prepared to order the first battalion to garrison Fengtian and lead the troops to take the main attack to carry out the battle in the city, and the third battalion to garrison Bao Desheng to lead the troops to cover. Liu Yunwei was just about to order someone to give an order to Feng Tian and Bao Desheng, when he saw Zheng Zhibao rushing over, so he didn't give an order for the time being.

"See the overseer!"

Liu Yunwei smiled and said to Zheng Zhibao: "What's the matter with Zheng Shoubei?" ”

Zheng Zhibao clenched his fists and said: "Qiyu Supervisor, since the army went out, the lowly position has not had the opportunity to serve the superintendent, and the soldiers under his command are also eager to fight, so the lowly position dares to ask the superintendent to fight, and the superintendent must let the lowly subordinate lead his troops to attack the city!" ”

Liu Yunwei smiled when he heard this, comforted Zheng Zhibao with kind words, and did not immediately agree to Zheng Zhibao's request.

It is said that the 8,000 Iron Man Army under the command of Zheng Zhibao is strong in combat and is a rare elite and strong army, and Zheng Zhibao is also a young general, and it is completely okay to serve as the main attacker. But Liu Yunwei had some scruples, after all, Zheng Zhibao was Zheng Zhilong's younger brother, and he also had the intention of treating Zheng Zhibao's department as a "proton", and he didn't really expect Zheng Zhibao's department to make meritorious contributions. Although the combat power of the Iron Man Army is far stronger than that of the army of thieves, after all, the soldiers are fierce and dangerous, in case Zheng Zhibao has any accidents on the battlefield, the relationship between Liu Yunwei and Zheng Zhilong is destined to crack, which is a big trouble for the Jiliao Governor's Mansion!

However, Zheng Zhibao didn't know what Liu Yunwei was thinking, he just blindly asked to fight, and his attitude was very sincere, which made Liu Yunwei feel difficult to refuse.

Seeing Zheng Zhibao's eagerness to fight, Liu Yunwei was also worried that after rejecting Zheng Zhibao, it would hit Zheng Zhibao's fighting spirit and make him misunderstand him. So, after pondering for a long time, Liu Yunwei said solemnly: "Okay, since Zhibao insists on being the main attacker, then the governor agrees." ”

Zheng Zhibao was overjoyed when he heard this, and was about to receive the order, but saw Liu Yunwei and said: "But the governor has said first, Zhibao, you are the commander of a battalion, you can only command in the center and cannot rush to kill willfully, otherwise the governor will definitely remove you as soon as possible and replace you with another battalion!" ”

Zheng Zhibao was moved when he heard this, and understood that Liu Yunwei was worried about his safety, so he hugged his fists and said: "Please rest assured, the supervisor must be careful!" ”

After the time of a stick of incense, Bao Desheng, the garrison of the C battalion, led his troops to open a large formation of the Hanwei army, and 7,000 soldiers marched forward in three rows, stopped at a distance of eighty paces from the city wall, and began to fire at the head of the city.

"Ready! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Ready! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The fierce firepower of the soldiers of the C Battalion made the army of thieves who had just caught their breath like a lightning strike, and they were suddenly shot into one piece, and the city was full of corpses and wounded soldiers who had been shot and fell to the ground, and the sound of wailing was endless.

Lao Hui watched one after another of his subordinates die tragically under the fire of the Hanwei army, and he couldn't help but be furious, roaring madly, trying to organize the already small number of archers to suppress the Hanwei army bird guns under the city.

However, in the blink of an eye, I realized how ridiculous my idea was!

The neat and fierce bombardment of the soldiers of the C Battalion shattered the rain of arrows of the thief army in the blink of an eye, and the poor thief archers were killed and wounded, and they had no power to fight back.

Lao Huihui immediately despaired when he saw this, and the rogue soldiers around him were even more terrified, and the rogue army on the city wall was in an instant commotion.

Suddenly, Lao Hui looked back and saw thousands of troops in the Hanwei army in the distance, rushing towards the city wall in formation. I saw that the thousands of Han Wei troops were all wearing heavy armor, holding strong bows, and carrying long-handled broadswords, and the formation was very strict, looking murderous!

"Defend! Fight to the death! ”

The old echo roared hoarsely, almost bursting his throat, and the rogue soldiers around him also saw the power, and plucked up the last bit of courage to prepare to defend the city.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong had already led eight thousand Iron Man soldiers to rush to a place about a hundred steps away from the west city wall, and suddenly shouted: "Release!" ”

I saw that the 8,000 Iron Man soldiers almost at the same time pulled the strong bow in their hands into a full moon shape and pointed at the head of the city, and then the arrow rain composed of thousands of sharp arrows rose into the air, instantly enveloping the entire western city wall, and even blocking the already dim sunlight!

What's even more terrifying is that the 8,000 Iron Man Army actually charged in formation and constantly fired volleys, without a trace of confusion, coherent and skillful.

Liu Yunwei was also amazed when he saw this in the formation, and said to the garrison Feng Tian beside him: "The Iron Man Army is really an elite and strong army, even if it is against our Hanwei Army, it can fight head-on!" ”

Feng Tian nodded, also in admiration.

At the head of the city, Lao Huihui, who commanded the battle, was very embarrassed, and at this time he was raising a shield to protect his body, curled up into a ball and squatted, not daring to make a move, for fear that the long arrows that fell like raindrops would shoot him to death.

Suddenly, the rain of arrows in the sky stopped, and then a cloud ladder leaned against the city wall, and the 8,000 Iron Man Army began to attack the city!

"Engage! Engage! ”

Lao Hui shouted, and the rogue soldiers around him suddenly panicked.

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