Section 117 Zunhua
Li Yu immediately asked You Shiwei and others for help, and You Shiwei was also sulking during this time, Ma Shilong sent Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and others to Yutian and Fengrun to fight guerrillas, and fought a few small victories, Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong felt that they had capital, and their tails were also cocked, and they began to point fingers at the military leaders, which made You Shiwei and his gang hold back their stomachs, and they were looking for an opportunity to suppress the arrogance of Qiu and Ma.
You Shiwei listened to Li Yu's story, and immediately decided to take the northwest generals to Li Yu's camp secretly, You Shiwei thought that the news must be temporarily blocked, he estimated that Jizhou and Shanhaiguan would have two or three days to get and confirm the news of the retreat of the main force of the Jin army, this is a good opportunity for our Northwest people to fight for military merits, we must rush to Sun Chengzong, Ma Shilong before the troops, and a knife will cut the key parts of the Jin army, the idea of fighting Luanzhou is not worth thinking about, Sun Chengzong, Ma Shilong This stupid person thought, The Jin army must have thought of it a long time ago, and must be waiting for them to come, the city wall of Luanzhou is strong, close to Yongping, and the Jianyi army can arrive in an instant, we can't afford to fight that kind of siege and decisive battle, we don't follow Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong to coax, since Jianyi is weak in Zunhua and Qian'an, of course we have to pick up soft fights, and there are also Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong to help us contain the other party's forces.
"The siege requires a large number of troops, and there must be siege equipment, such as artillery more than 1,000 catties, we don't have these, our soldiers are a lot, but I am afraid that there are only about 3,000 people who can pull out to fight, so this time we must use the elite in our hands to deal with the Jin army with the rushing tactics that the northwest people are good at, and do a large-scale movement, sometimes imaginary, sometimes real, so that the Jin army can not figure out the direction of our attack, and we will find an opportunity to start." You Shiwei said.
"This is too high a requirement for mobility, our soldiers in Fengzhou are fine, you are mainly infantry, can you keep up with the attack?" Li Yu was a little skeptical.
"We mainly rely on our families to fight, all of them are elite veterans, and they all have horses," You Shiwei pointed to everyone and said, "This time we are doing it alone, winning or losing are ours, no one should hide it, and use all the family members in our hands." ”
The scheming Wang Shiqin reminded that it is of course good to get rid of Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong, but this is also a move not to obey the military order and send troops without authorization, it is best for someone to help us with, he suggested that Liu Zhilun should be launched to make this head: "I have heard of this person before, he is a nerd who has read a few military books, but he is indeed a good person with no bad heart, these days the courtiers are too quick to be promoted to the office, and they join forces to suppress him, his life is definitely not good, we just pushed him out, he has the title of squire of the military department, and he is ordered to send troops, We can just use his name to send troops, and this man has no power in the court, so he can't bully us. ”
After deciding to push Liu Zhilun out as a cover, You Shiwei and others unanimously recommended Li Yu to command the horses, Li Yu was startled and hurriedly resigned, none of these old army leaders were fuel-efficient lamps, he didn't want to make trouble for himself, but everyone firmly believed that only Li Yu could take on this great responsibility, and they would definitely obey Li Yu's command.
"In fact, this is the same as doing business, although we have a lot of people, but the family together is only a thousand people, your people have the most shares, naturally you are the best to be the big shopkeeper, we are equivalent to the owner to hand over people to you as shares, you also have to do a good job in business, give us dividends." You Shiwei patted Li Yu on the shoulder and encouraged him, "Don't worry, as long as you work hard, no one who is the owner will demolish the shopkeeper of his own family." ”
These people discussed everything, Li Yu went to drag Liu Zhilun from the bed, Liu Zhilun was also in the praise and support of the soldiers, and sat in the position of the coach with peace of mind, and then the matter was simple, Liu Zhilun experienced a big defeat of escaping from death, and also understood that the war was not as simple as it was said in the book, under the constant reminder of Li Yu and You Shiwei's "should it be like this", Shun Shun should send the men and horses, Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo set off with Fengzhou Iron Cavalry that night, Bai Xianzhi, Man Zhu and Hou Shijie led Liu Zhilun's 3,000 volunteer soldiers to set off from the camp.
After dawn, Liu Zhilun went to Jizhou to find Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong, and scolded the two of them for cowering and falsely reporting their exploits, Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong have a better life these days, Cao Wenzhao's guerrillas fought several ambushes in Fengrun and Yutian, and brought back more than a dozen heads, Qiu Hejia wrote flowers, and blew out a big victory, the court was quite satisfied, and promoted Cao Wenzhao to a general, and the accusations of Qiu and Ma in the court were much smaller, but this "Liu Shengren" scolded them when they entered the door, and the two were scolded red-faced, Before Qiu Hejia could refute, Liu Zhilun stood in front of the generals and declared that he would send troops to attack Zunhua and Qian'an, which frightened everyone, and they all wondered if this guy was crazy.
"Gentlemen, Liu is deeply favored by the country, knowing that Jianyi is as cruel as a tiger, but also to sacrifice his life to take righteousness and serve my emperor, the righteous and brave and Fengzhou iron cavalry have set off, vowing to fight with Jianyi, and if you win, you will cut off its way back, if you succeed in a battle, if you lose, the whole army will be annihilated, kill Shengren, can you dare to follow?" Liu Zhilun raised his arms and shouted to the generals.
"Do you have anyone who dares to follow?" The generals hung their heads and were silent, and Liu Zhilun shouted again.
"Great! Righteous man, I am willing to go, You family is favored by the country, dare not obey your fate? I am willing to lead the loyal and brave men in the army to go with your lordship, and successfully serve the court. You Shiwei had tears in his eyes, and he raised his head in response, and then You Shilu, Wang Shiqin, Yang Qi, Wang Chengen, and Yang Jiamo came out one by one to express their willingness to fight to the death to serve the country.
Qiu Hejia, Ma Shilong and the generals were dumbfounded, and the leaders of the Northwest Army surrounded Liu Zhilun, shouting all the way, "Long live my emperor, the Ming army is mighty!" "Walk away.
"Crazy, all crazy, isn't this hitting a stone with an egg?" Qiu Hejia angrily pointed to Liu Zhilun's back and shouted, Lao Liu, a nerd, will embarrass him when he dies.
The generals in the northwest returned to their camps, quickly gathered their own families and three thousand elite soldiers who could fight, and followed Liu Zhilun out of the Jizhou camp, Wu Zimian, the general soldier of Yansui, was angry, these guys were determined not to take him to play, with his experience, these guys are absolutely unprofitable and can't afford to be early, this time there must be benefits to sending troops, he returned to his camp and shouted: "Gather our elite to keep up with them, it is not so easy to get rid of Lao Tzu and reap the benefits." ”
Two days later, near noon, Chakala and Fan Wencheng stationed in Zunhua received a report that there was a chaotic Ming army outside the city, and the two hurried to the city, and there was indeed a chaotic Ming army under the city who was scolding the formation, the number was about 3,000, the clothes and weapons were messy, and the formation was also crooked, which was worse than the bandits, if there was no banner of the Ming army, this was a group of ordinary people, Chakala immediately confirmed that this was the miscellaneous army that came to fight Zunhua a month ago, and this group of people must have gone crazy to send them to death. Chakara wanted to take people out of the city to disperse the gang, but Fan Wencheng stopped him.
"This is the Ming army's trick to lure the enemy, this little trick can't hide from me, don't worry about them, when they have enough trouble, they will naturally disperse." Fan Wencheng said disdainfully, in fact, he was also weak-hearted, the Great Khan left with the main force, the strength of the four cities of Yongping was seriously insufficient, the armored soldiers in Zunhua City plus the Aha who were incorporated into the army were only 800 people in total, and the recent Qian'an was only 500 people, and the Yongping garrison was more than 5,000 people, but it was really impossible to open his mouth to ask Yongping for help from this group of miscellaneous soldiers.
Chakara thinks about it, there is no need to consume troops for these people, they have almost no armor, and they have not seen siege equipment, don't think about attacking the city, let them scold, anyway, we don't understand, when they are tired and hungry, they will naturally disperse, if you have ambushes, then wait patiently, you will not be fooled.
The Ming army scolded for a while and saw that no one paid attention to them, and they didn't have the strength to scold anymore, with a team of forty or fifty people, they began to dig pits under the city, these guys seemed to be playing hoes before, and after a while, they dug holes everywhere outside the city, and several roads were even more miserable, and they seemed to have plans to connect the pits, Fan Wencheng understood a little, these people wanted to use a trench to trap Zunhua City, which was a bit troublesome, the Jin army had horses and livestock, and there were a lot of looted property in the city loaded on the car, Let them keep digging, and it will be difficult to go out in the future.
Chakala was furious, he really couldn't bear it, the Jin army in the city was having lunch, but these guys deliberately and peed in front of the Jin army, and used a shovel to shovel up the and urine and threw it under the city, the meaning couldn't be clearer - they invited the Jin army ****, the Jin army in the city blew up the pot, and some guys even smashed their rice bowls, it was too bullying, it would be impossible not to fight, the Jin army screamed and opened the city gate, Fan Wenchen hurriedly came to dissuade him, Chakala kicked Fan Wencheng to sit on the ground, and rushed out of the city with more than 200 people.
The Jin army went out of the city, and even the array could not be taken care of, and rushed over with a burst of rapid shooting, the Ming army was shot down a dozen, and the others threw down their hoes and ran, the Jin army did not have a good time, and did not follow closely behind, the Ming army fled backwards in a swarm, the pit they had just dug helped them, and the Jin army had to slow down the pursuit and carefully gallop through this piece of potholed ground.
Man Zhu and Hou Shijie escaped a distance, and when they looked back, there were only a few Jin troops, so what should we run, go back and kill them, Man Zhu shouted: "Brothers, they have few people, kill them and kill them, and the head of the Tartar is silver with white flowers." ”
Manzhu took the lead in killing back, Hou Shijie and their dozens of brothers were not afraid of death, they followed with a howl, and the righteous and brave saw that the officials went up, and the number of the other party was indeed too small, and the courage was suddenly strong, and they rushed to meet the Jin army.
Chakala was unlucky, after that piece of broken ground before he had time to accelerate, the Ming army was overwhelming, and the Jin army shot down dozens of arrows in one round, and it couldn't suppress the rushing flow of people at all, and the Jin army was divided and surrounded in an instant. Man Zhu and Hou Shijie have trained this group of people for less than a month, and they can only teach some simple queues and orders, and they are too lazy to teach the others - Bai Xianzhi told them that this group of people will go back to their respective homes after the battle, and it is useless to teach them too much, just practice their ability and ruthlessness to fight in groups, most of these people recruited by Liu Zhilun are disciples in the market, and they are easy to learn these things. Jin Jun is facing this gang of ruthless market gangsters, several, more than a dozen people around a Jin army to fight, knives, axes and sticks together, once the Jin army fell off the horse, it was immediately chopped into meat paste, Chakala couldn't stand it, he thought that killing some people like in the past could scare the Ming army away, how to get the other party really dare to fight hard, now he wants to run too late, hurriedly ordered to blow the trumpet for help.
Fan Wencheng was so frightened that his legs were weak, this group of ordinary people was more than the genuine Ming army, he understood that the best way now was to abandon the people outside the city and resolutely close the city to defend it, but he didn't dare, Chakala is the second generation of the authentic Eight Banners, no one cares if he dies, and his whole family will be unlucky if Chakala dies, Fan Wencheng had to bite the bullet and order 300 people to go out of the city to rescue, but he has a clever brain, and he will never join the battle group, but form a formation with a dense rain of arrows as a cover, and rush over to save Chakhala, I don't care if I will hurt my own people under the random arrows.
Bai Xianzhi saw this chaotic scene from a distance, and kept shaking his head, Man Zhu and Hou Shijie were full of thoughts about making meritorious contributions, and they had disrupted all the plans in advance, they should have continued to retreat, and Li Yu led the iron cavalry to ambush nearby.
"Blow the trumpet, please attack the commander, the two bastards Man Zhu and Hou Shijie have smashed the matter." Bai Xianzhi scolded and scolded and took his own soldiers to meet Fan Wencheng.
Fan Wencheng finally received Chakhala, this guy's helmet had already fallen off, and he was stabbed twice, fortunately he was protected by armor, and he didn't take his life, at this moment, there was a horn sound from their wings, and then there was an iron horse with the black eagle flag, Fan Wencheng's face changed, and he dragged Chakara and ran, and the others couldn't take care of it.
Fengzhou iron cavalry killed, they covered the retreat of the Jin army with a rain of arrows, and compressed the Jin army with a dense cavalry formation - the tattered ground restricted the movement of the cavalry, Li Yu ordered the cavalry to move slowly, using an oppressive style of play to crush the Jin army, Fan Wencheng ignored Chakhala's howl, braved the rain of arrows to bring him into the city, and then immediately ordered to close the city gate, Chakala cried and rushed to the city, seeing that the brothers who had no way to retreat under the city were tightly surrounded, under the oppression of the opponent's absolute superiority of forces, there was almost no way to fight back, One by one, they fell under the rain of arrows, and the battle was soon over, and none of the Jin troops who had not had time to enter the city escaped.
Chakara was angry, he roared and punched Fan Wencheng to the ground, and then kicked a few times, several Zhushen ran over, sent his anger on Fan Wencheng, punched and kicked Fan Wencheng to howl wolf, until they were tired of letting go of the unlucky Fan Wencheng, and then hugged each other and cried loudly, this battle was too miserable, there were more than 500 people who went out of the city before and after, less than 200 people fled back, and more than 300 people died tragically under the city, when did the Jin army suffer such a big loss, now there are only 500 people in the city, and they have actually lost the ability to go out of the city to fight back.
The Ming army under the city was jubilant, the miscellaneous army played a majestic style, although the casualties of the Ming army were also more than 500 people, but they could kill more than 300 Tartars, everyone felt that it was worth it, the only regret was that everyone wanted to relieve their hatred, and a lot of heads were destroyed under the chaotic knife, and finally the heads that could be picked out were only one hundred and fifty or sixty.
The first battle was won, Li Yu was also very happy, and Liu Xingzuo, Bai Xianzhi laughed loudly, Li Yu was full of pride, suddenly rushed to the city, raised his hand and shot an arrow at a Jin army holding a battle flag shouting, the Jin army flag guard screamed, even people with flags planted in the city, Li Yu then quickly turned his horse away from the city, stopped hundreds of steps away from the city, and shouted to the city: "I am Erlu, Chakhala, Fan Wencheng, I know that you are defending the city, do you dare to come out and fight me?" ”
Asari was also interested, and came to Li Yu's side on a horse, and shouted angrily: "I am Asari, the old Khan's former guard, do you dare to go out of the city to fight me?" I can tear you apart with my hands. ”
The two laughed and left, and the Jin army in the city was frightened.
After the battle, Liu Zhilun and the generals in the northwest also arrived, seeing the loot and heads piled up, Liu Zhilun felt angry, the generals complained that they were one step late, Li Yu was very generous, and immediately said that the head was useless to him, if it weren't for Bai Xianzhi and Zhang Chuanjie, he wouldn't even bother to cut the head, so everyone would have divided it, as for the spoils, give Liu Zhilun's bravery, their equipment is really bad.
There are also generous dividends for not contributing, the military leaders are embarrassed, this is the second time to take Li Yu's things for nothing, after everyone pushes and makes a difference, the boss You Shiwei spoke, since everyone works together, the benefits of sharing should also be, Yuzi is our junior, we don't accept it is to slap him in the face, but we can't take it in vain, the owner has to give the shopkeeper the benefit of making money, and the head we are assigned to is twenty taels of silver. You Shiwei's words were unanimously approved by everyone, and they still took advantage of it, in addition to reporting to the imperial court for rewards, the first level can also be sold on the black market, such as Wu Zimian, who has been following behind, fifty taels of one, he is absolutely willing to eat it.
Liu Zhilun is now anxious to attack the city, and his good friend Jin Sheng made more than 20 bamboo and wood cannons to send, Liu Zhilun thought that he could take advantage of the new defeat of the Jin army and low morale to take Zunhua City in one fell swoop. Li Yu immediately said, my people are all cavalry, there is no problem in field battles, but the work of attacking the city can't be done, You Shiwei and others shook their heads even more, is it easy for us to raise this little family, it is a waste to take it to siege the city, the others are still on the way to the army, and they will probably arrive tomorrow afternoon, you have to go yourself, of course Liu Zhilun does not dare to go, his righteousness will not even be able to climb the ladder, and it will be in vain to die if he goes up.
No one responded to the proposal to attack the city, Liu Zhilun was furious, and ordered Ding Qiming to shoot a few cannons on the city to vent his anger, and Ding Qiming took people to the city with a bitter face. There is a good show, Li Yu and everyone watched Ding Qiming's performance with great interest, Ding Qiming led people to load gunpowder and cannons, and waved vigorously to let the people watching the excitement hide a little farther, after a while, Ding Qiming lit the line of fire, shouted and led his subordinates to turn their heads and run, covering their heads and jumping into the nearby pit, after a rapid roar, some of the twenty or so bamboo and wood cannons were blown up, some were overturned to the ground, some were on fire, the city wall was stable and there was nothing at all, and the Jin army came out of the battlements with a burst of laughter, But then there was a loud bang in the city, and the explosion was full of smoke, a cry, and a large part of the battlements were blown down, and a golden army was actually jumped out of the city.