Chapter 103: Vicious
But this time, the Dragon Frame prediction was wrong, just like a wounded beast that became even more ferocious after being hit hard.
After collecting troops and returning to the camp, counting the casualties, he saw that more than 500 people were killed and wounded in battle, and more than 1,000 were wounded.
Everyone thinks that the main reason is that Yang Lin concentrated his superior forces and urgently dispatched Long Zhijiao to come to reinforcements, mainly because of the secret weapon of the Volunteers, the Earthquake Thunder.
Although he was very frustrated, Ma Yuanli would not be discouraged by such a small defeat after a hundred battles.
Yang Lin didn't take the local squire as his eyes and ears, since this is the case, why not arrest the local squire and use it as a threat to coerce the other party?
It was at this time that I inquired and learned that Yang Lin had studied in the local area ten years ago, and had a teacher-student friendship with the private school teacher Zhu Dinggao, so why not use this as a threat now?
In addition, although Onishi was defeated, he had an absolute advantage, so why not divide the attack and force the volunteers to divide their troops?
Ma Yuanli ordered the governor Zhang Guangcai to lead his troops from Guang'an Prefecture to attack the ancient city of Yunshan, forcing Yang Lin to divide his troops to defend.
He ordered all departments to collect the dining tables and door panels of the farmhouses within a radius of more than ten miles around them, and block them in front of them to block the firearms and arrows of the volunteers.
After some adjustments, Ma Yuanli led his troops to Pengzhou City on the sixth day of the second month, that is, three days later.
The poor old Mr. Zhu was escorted to the front of the battle, and Ma Yuanli was majestic, claiming that if he did not return to obedience, he would kill the hostages.
Different from modern school education, in ancient times, the prince of heaven and earth was emphasized to be the teacher, one day as a teacher and a lifelong father, and the relationship between teachers and students in private schools was orderly and very close.
At first, I didn't know, hearing Mr. Zhu's hoarse wail under the city wall, and hearing the scene of reading in the past, Yang Lin of course knew that the best way to face the kidnappers was to ignore them, just like Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, when he faced the robbery of his father and wife.
But Yang Lin couldn't be like Liu Bang, and when he saw the other party like this, he had to shout loudly, hoping that it could be resolved satisfactorily.
Seeing that the treacherous plan succeeded, Ma Yuanli was triumphant, brandished the big knife in his hand and said: "Yang Lin Yang Ruzhen, Lao Tzu respects you as a hero, as long as you agree to submit to my Great Western Army, Lao Tzu immediately let Mr. Zhu and Mrs. Zhu go, and will never break his word."
A teacher for one day and a father for life, if you Yang Lin want to be a ruthless and unrighteous person, we should all serve and never let you down? ”
Yang Lin curled the beads of sweat on his face, and the whole person looked quite calm, shook his head and said: "Ma Yuanli, Ma Dudu, we are all adults, don't play this kind of child trick, okay?"
Resisting the tyranny of Daxi, defending the peace of the people, and protecting the territory and the people is the great righteousness, you threaten Mr. Zhu with this kind of threat, to threaten my thousands of volunteer soldiers, to threaten my Pengzhou soldiers and civilians, what is the use of your behavior, in addition to showing your cruelty and killing, and showing your banditry behavior? ”
Ma Yuanli laughed and said: "Yang Lin, you are like a river, if you want me to let my old horse let go of these two evil bad gentlemen, it is delusional."
Yang Lin, my old horse has already said, I wish the old gentleman is a local inferior gentry, if you are willing to submit to my Great Western Army, my old horse can spare their lives, if you insist on going against my Great Western Army, Lao Tzu will give them a good time today. ”
And Mr. Zhu, who saw the soldiers coming over to push himself and kneeling on the ground and crying, was panicked and shouted at the city wall, hoarse, which made people sigh.
Yang Lin was quite calm at first, but the screams of the Zhu couple under the city wall were too miserable, and they were quite moved in the end.
Seeing that the other party had a successful editing, Yang Lin was quite annoyed, but he didn't know what to do?
Suddenly ruthless, of course, the only way to do this is to force the other party to return a tooth for a tooth and force the other party to take a risk.
Thinking of this, Yang Lin waved his hand, and several soldiers escorted several Daxi prisoners.
Standing on the city wall, Yang Lin was arrogant, hoping that the two sides would change the prisoners, and if the other party released the Zhu couple, he would release ten Daxi prisoners.
If the other party dares to bully the Zhu couple, then he will retaliate.
Ma Yuanli didn't believe it at first, but when he saw that the ears of his two cronies were cut off, he was even more jumping, and in the end, he couldn't bear it anymore and actually killed the Zhu couple in public.
Zongren in the city was quite angry, and Yang Lin saw that he could not miss the opportunity, and immediately led the death squad to kill from the city gate.
After a rush, Fang slightly retreated and retreated to the city.
Now it is the dead of night, sitting in the back hall of the Zhizhou Yamen, Yang Lin listened to the cry of the maid Chun'er, and appreciated the bitter fruit alone.
Yang Lin shook his head for a long time and said: "This official is wrong, although this official knows that Ma Yuanli is cruel, he didn't expect him to be so brainless.
The official thought that Ma Yuanli would torture Mr. Zhu at most, but the official did not expect that the other party would torture him to death.
If I wish the old gentleman and still exist, Ma Yuanli can still hold it in his hand to blackmail me and so on, so that I will shrink back, and now that the person is dead, a good hand of cards is wasted. ”
Everyone was silent for a while, and Yang Bingyi, the deputy commander of the 5th Battalion, shook his head and said: "Your Excellency, you must not be so righteous, Ma Yuanli is cruel and treacherous far above us, and your Excellency thinks that Ma Yuanli brutally killed Mr. Zhu, so that the other party can no longer use any tricks."
But with the last general's understanding of Ma Yuanli, I think this traitor will definitely make a fuss about the death of Master Huang and Mrs. Huang tomorrow. ”
Shocked, Yang Lin grabbed the other party's arm with both hands, and said in a trembling voice: "Bingyi, you, tell me, everyone is dead, what does the other party want?" ”
Yang Bingyi arched his hand and sighed: "My lord, although Mr. Zhu was unfortunately killed, his body is still alive. If I didn't guess wrong, tomorrow Ma Yuanli will definitely make a fuss about Mr. Zhu's bones. ”
With a tense heart, he stood up from his seat, Yang Lin walked back and forth a few steps, and sighed with tears in his eyes: "At first, the official thought that Ma Yuanli was just like that, but he didn't expect him to be so cruel and treacherous.
The official can still bear it psychologically, but, but it's Madame, he was already weak, and he was hit like this today, and he had a miscarriage.
It is tolerable, which is unbearable, the official should be incompatible with Ma Yuanli, if he can't use his head to pay tribute to the dead villagers, I Yang Lin swear not to be a person. ”
When everyone saw Yang Lin say this, they hugged their fists one after another and said yes, and everyone looked extremely angry.
As expected, early the next morning, Ma Yuanli asked Mr. Zhu to carry out the corpse of Mr. Zhu, and the pawn insulted him in public, although he caused shouting and scolding on the city wall, but Yang Lin still closed the city gate and did not come out.
The Great Western Army had just been defeated by the Dashun Army in Hanzhong, and now the Quartet was restless, and the two armies were holding each other under the city of Pengzhou, and Ma Yuanli was even more worried about the instability of the rear.
When attacking Shunqing Mansion last year, Li Yiyi, the former Ministry of Rites, led his troops to attack Guang'an Prefecture and almost cut off his own back road.
A few days ago, in the battle of Longwang Temple, 2,000 volunteers defeated 4,000 elite Great Western Army, and now many soldiers of the Great Western Army are still frightened.
Now the morale of the Great Western Army is unstable, and what is even worse is that all kinds of rumors and gossip are flying all over the army in the army.
In order to defeat the Great Western Army, Yang Lin sent a number of envoys to the Shunqing army to persuade the left and right to prepare for Yingrui and Feng Youqing to surrender, hoping that the soldiers of the Shunqing army would be able to rebel.
Now that the volunteers were defending the city of Zhou, it was urgent to change the unfavorable situation, and Ma Yuanli urgently ordered the governor Zhang Guangcai to lead his troops to attack the ancient city of Yunshan on the other side of the river. Due to the Dragon Frame Battalion rushing to the aid of the state city, the ancient city of Yunshan is only a few places where the people are strong, and the combat effectiveness is quite limited.
Zhang Guangcai's department set out from Guang'an Prefecture and is now under the ancient city of Yunshan, according to Ma Yuanli's thoughts, as long as he captures the ancient city of Yunshan, so as to cut off the retreat of the volunteers, then Yang Lin has to go out of the city to fight.
Zhang Guangcai's department of about 3,000 people, after receiving the order, the whole army was dispatched, and everyone attacked from the foot of the mountain to the mountain, which was very difficult.
The rebel army defending the city was quite smooth, and everyone relied on the convenience of the terrain to defend and fight to the death.
From morning to afternoon, the Great Western Army captured more than 10 hills, but everyone complained bitterly one by one, and there were many casualties in various units.
I saw that there were wounded all over the mountains, although there were a little more dead and wounded, but they finally pressed the other party into the ancient city, as long as everyone added more oil, they would definitely be able to occupy the ancient city at that time.
Zhang Guangcai led the remaining soldiers to charge desperately towards the mountain, and suddenly saw dozens of fireballs rolling down from the mountain, all over the mountain, and the momentum was very amazing.
It turned out that Chen Huaixi led more than 30 officials and hundreds of people from the surrounding towns and eight miles to guard the ancient city of Yunshan, but because of the limited number of troops, he urgently asked Yang Lin for advice.
The ancient city of Guanyun Mountain was built on top of the mountains, the mountains were steep, the roads were rugged, Yang Lin suddenly remembered the story of Wu Jie, one of the four masters of Zhongxing in the Great Song Dynasty, guarding the immortal pass, and asked him to follow the plan.
Chen Huaixi came to the ancient city of Yunshan, on the one hand, people cut the dry grass in the mountains, this era is sparsely populated, although it is February, there are many dead branches and dead leaves and dry grass in the mountains.
Tie the dead grass into a pile and tie it to a wooden post, like a giant grass tree.
On this day, seeing Zhang Guangcai leading his troops to attack, Chen Huaixi led his troops to fight and leave, luring the other party to rush outside the mountain gate, and then taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to roll down these piles of grass and trees poured with tung oil one by one.
A pile of grass and trees is three meters long, forty or fifty piles of grass and trees are rolling down at the same time, and for a while, forty or fifty fire dragons are rolling down the mountain at the same time.
The ancient city of Yunshan is one of the eight pillars of the Song Dynasty in the late Southern Song Dynasty to resist the Mongols, the terrain is extremely difficult, in the years of confrontation with the Mongolian iron cavalry, the Mongolian pioneer officer has been damaged here, so it can be seen that the terrain is dangerous.
Fireballs and flaming haystacks rolled down the hill with an astonishing sound and lethality.
At the same time, Chen Huaixi was draped all over his body, and led hundreds of officials and people on the mountain to rush down from the mountain.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Guangcai was about to lead his troops to withdraw, but he did not expect an army to be killed from the north, and they ignored the stragglers scattered on the various hillsides, and went straight to the army under the leadership of a big general.
It turned out that while ordering Chen Huaixi to guard the mountain, Yang Lin also secretly asked Guo Chonglie in the mountain city thirty miles away to sit and prepare, and when the other party attacked the ancient city of Yunshan, he led the secret movement of his subordinates to the surroundings, and suddenly killed when the Great Western Army was defeated.
Although the Great Western Army was very numerous, after a day of hard fighting, the soldiers were very tired, first they were frightened by the fireballs and fire haystacks rolling down from the mountains, and now the Chinese army was in chaos, and in less than half an hour of fighting, the whole army lost its structure.
Zhang Guangcai led his troops all the way south, and after hearing the news of the defeat of the Great Western Army, the nearby villagers went out one after another, and everyone killed from the cottage where they lived, wielding hoes and steel drills one by one, which frightened the soldiers of the Great Western Army.
After hearing the news of the defeat of the right flank, the morale of the whole army of the Great Western Army was even lower, and many people persuaded Ma Yuanli to withdraw from the army.
Ma Yuanli was extremely annoyed, and in order to improve morale and raise the morale of the whole army, on the eighth day of the first month of February, he actually ordered Chen Yingrui, the left garrison of Shunqing Mansion, to lead his troops to dig up the corpses of the volunteers.
Seeing that Chen Yingrui led his troops to approach the mountain, Yang Lin couldn't bear it anymore, and urgently ordered Yang Bingyi to lead his troops to meet the attack, and the two sides fought for a long time, and Chen Yingrui was defeated.
When the grave excavation failed, Ma Yuanli became angry and said that it would not be too late to wait until more than a dozen Francophone guns arrived.