Section 18 Songjin
Although Fang Zhenghua felt that it was too early to let the Guards go to the front line for actual combat. However, as a servant of the Ming Emperor, although he has taken the Limb Resurrection Pill and has become a normal person again, he can marry a wife and have children to pass on the lineage. But this was given by the ancestors of the Ming royal family, which required them, the emperor's servants, to pay a hundred times their loyalty in return.
Besides, Lao Zu will also follow the Guards to the Songjin Defense Line, and I believe that the Guards will not encounter any danger. What's more, Fang Zhenghua also believes that although the training of the Guards is not very proficient now, with the advanced equipment of the Guards, the so-called Houjin is less than 10,000 and is invincible is just a joke!
No matter how invincible Jiannu is in riding and shooting, no matter how brave and invincible he is, under the advanced equipment of the Guards, no matter how rookie the soldiers of the Guards are, no matter how undertrained, they can make the vicious Jiannu become a ghost under the gun.
Zhu Yunwen stepped out of the hall, stretched out his hand, and a white cloud fell in the air. Seeing Zhu Yunwen raise his leg on the white clouds, Fang Zhenghua hurriedly followed. There are not so many opportunities to ride the clouds with the ancestor.
A few minutes later, Zhu Yunwen landed with Fang Zhenghua to the camp of the Guards in the depths of Yanshan. Fang Zhenghua walked to the big tent, picked up the drum and beat the drum vigorously. Suddenly, the originally peaceful camp boiled like a lake wrinkled by the wind.
After a while, the sound of hurried footsteps came, and the original eunuch Gao Shiming was dressed in military uniform, and came to the big tent with several generals in the same uniform, and was about to ask Fang Zhenghua why he beat the drum of the general Gao Shiming, through the gap in the tent, he saw Zhu Yunwen sitting in the position of the chief general in the big tent, and hurriedly walked into the big tent to salute.
After everyone saluted, Fang Zhenghua stood beside Zhu Yunwen and said in a deep voice:
'The ancestor had an order, ordering the 3,000 soldiers of the Guards to immediately pack up and sort out their equipment, and half an hour later, the whole army set up camp and went north. The strategic goal of this time is to defeat the Jiannu of the Songjin defense line, resolve the dilemma of the siege of Songjin, and rescue the trapped Ming soldiers and people.
The order was given to the General Staff to immediately make a plan for this operation and plan the route of the march. The logistics department should coordinate the work of this operation and ensure the supply of food, grass, and ammunition to the front-line combat units. The commanders of the battalions immediately returned to the camp to prepare, and when they received the order to set out, they should set off immediately without delay. ’
'Yes! ’
Half an hour later, the 3,000 guards formed a long line in the depths of the lonely Yanshan Mountain, heading to the north, asking the Songjin defense line outside the pass to march quickly. Along the way, the Guards avoided towns and villages, the vast engineering battalions of displaced people who built concrete roads, and the spies of Jiannu and Jin merchants. After climbing over the Great Wall, they approached Songshan Jinzhou and asked them about the upcoming first battle.
Three days later, the reconnaissance company of the vanguard of the Guards Army had already touched the outside of the encirclement of Jiannu and saw the smoke of gunpowder in Songshan.
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'How long will the food and grass in the city last?' ’
Hong Chengchou's face was full of exhaustion, and Jiannu's offensive was getting stronger and stronger in the past few days. Especially after Wu Bashi surrendered, the entire outer city defense line of Jinzhou had fallen into the hands of Jiannu, and Jinzhou was already crumbling. If Jinzhou is broken, Songshan will be independent and difficult to support, and it will only be broken by Jiannu.
The scouts who sent for help failed to bring back the news of reinforcements, but brought back the news that the emperor of the imperial court was confronting the Donglin party, the prince was hunting the whole city, and Emperor Jianwen became an immortal and returned to the Ming Dynasty.
But Hong Chengchou didn't dare to announce such news at all. can only announce the whole city over and over again, the imperial court has sent reinforcements, as long as it holds on for a few more days, the imperial court's reinforcements will arrive, and they are still able to recruit the Sichuan white pole soldiers and Guanning iron cavalry who dare to fight.
It was this lie that calmed down the generals with different minds and the increasingly panicked people in the city, and put their minds on defending the city. It's just that in the past few days, Jiannu's siege has become more and more fierce, and the material consumption in the city has become faster and faster. Maybe there is no shadow of the imperial court reinforcements at all, and Songshan in Jinzhou has already been broken.
'Governor, the food and grass in the city have been cut off, and today some old and sick military horses were slaughtered, so that the soldiers had the strength to defend the city. It's just that if the imperial court reinforcements don't come again, I'm afraid it will ......'
Although the chief soldier Wang Tingchen did not finish his words, Hong Chengchou understood what he meant. The reinforcements have not come for a long time, and as the reinforcements to rescue Jinzhou, they can only stay in Songshan and wait for rescue. It can only be said that Jiannu Emperor Taiji's trick to encircle the brocade is too good, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have been defeated, and there are no reinforcements to be sent to the imperial court.
I don't know what the intention of the imperial court is to recruit Cao Zongbing, if Cao Zongbing is here at this time, there will be one more fierce general, maybe the situation will be better. Chief soldier Yang Guozhu sighed and said.
Songshan's deputy general Xia Chengde sneered and said: "The current situation, how can it be resolved by one more Cao Bianjiao? Even if he Cao Changjiao really became a dragon, he would only be slaughtered! ’
Yang Guozhu and Wang Tingchen and other general soldiers glared angrily when they heard this, but Xia Chengde ignored these gazes and leisurely picked up the teacup in front of him. The crisis of Songjin made Xia Chengde disagree, and he started the idea of surrendering to the Manchus to save his family's life.
Last night, he asked his son Xia Shu to secretly go out of the city and saw the slave chieftain Huang Taiji, but he didn't expect Huang Taiji to be very generous, not only agreed to his conditions, but also promised that as long as he opened the gate of Songshan City to dedicate the city, he would allow him to be rich and noble in the Manchu Dynasty.
'Okay, let's not talk about that......
'Report ......'
Hong Chengchou was about to resolve the contradiction between the general soldiers, but there was a report from the pro-soldiers outside the door, and a pro-soldier broke in with a happy face and said loudly: "Report to the governor, the imperial court reinforcements have arrived, and this is a letter sent into the city by the reinforcements." ’
After the soldier finished speaking, he presented a thick envelope with both hands. Hong Chengchou and the general soldiers heard this, and immediately jumped up in surprise. Only Xia Chengde's face was gloomy, and he couldn't believe that this was true at all.
Hong Chengchou snatched the envelope from the hands of his soldiers, and after tearing it open, he found that in addition to a piece of stationery, there was also a square, black, non-gold, non-iron, non-wood kitchen, box-like thing. I don't know what it does.
Hong Chengchou was stunned, put the black box on the desk casually, and looked at the letter paper in his hand:
The word Cheng Hong Inspector:
The emperor was shocked to hear that Songjin was besieged for a long time, the grain was difficult to continue, and it was difficult to sleep day and night, lest Songjin be lost, because the prince reorganized the three battalions of the Beijing Division and had not yet formed an army, so he asked the ancestor of the emperor Jianwen to bring three thousand Tianzi Guards, equipped with new equipment, and rescued Songjin day and night.
Today, Jianwen Lao Zu and 3,000 guards have reached Songshan City and camped outside the encirclement of Jiannu, and will soon launch an offensive against Jiannu. For the military heart of the soldiers and civilians in Ansongshan City, a walkie-talkie was sent to the drone of Gewu to facilitate the contact between the supervisor and the Son of Heaven Guards outside the city.
Here's how to use the walkie-talkie......
There is not much content on the letter, Hong Chengchou has read it several times, but the emotions that have just been excited have subsided and cooled again. Hong Chengchou was speechless with the letterhead, but it made the excited Yang Guozhu and other general soldiers unbearable, and they all looked at Hong Chengchou with a blank eye.