Chapter 660: Siege of the Mountain

The crowd receded, leaving a lot of corpses in the clearing, the dead were either Han people who were wrapped up, or wrapped, a small number of Han soldiers or Zhenyi's corpses were dragged down, and the corpses left behind were not cared for, and they would not be dragged aside until the next time they tried to push upward, it didn't matter when it was cold, the current weather, piles of corpses were already emitting a foul smell. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Now it is clear that the advance of the Houjin side is almost fruitless, there is still a considerable distance between them and the top of the slope, the ground is full of partitioned trenches, pits, piled stone walls, and huge trees rolling wildly, and it is already difficult to climb over the rugged mountain road on such a road, and with these man-made obstacles, the advance is even more difficult, almost an impossible task.

In the distance, before the Houjin camp, they dug out a few long trenches, at this time the Houjin side did not have much experience in the long-term siege, after all, their national strength was not able to support the long-term siege, until the battle of the Daling River during the Chongzhen period, due to the Huang Taiji's successful management, the Houjin completely solved the North Korea, Mongolia, and Dongjiang Town, the rear was not excellent, and a large number of materials were reserved, the main force of the Eight Banners surrounded the elite of Liao Town such as Zu Dashou in the Dalinghe City, although the strong attack could not be carried out, but the long-term siege made the city cut off foodAfter eating human flesh for a while, Zu Dashou had to choose to surrender, which was a huge blow to the Ming Dynasty, although the Jin Dynasty was invincible in field battles, but there was not much way to really defend the fortified city, several Ningjin battles were killed and returned, and after the emperor Taiji sacrificed the method of digging a long trench to besiege, he could be regarded as finding a good way to restrain the Ming Dynasty from defending the fortified city.

At this time, the Thirteen Mountains here, the Houjin fortifications are basically perfunctory, after all, in terms of manpower and material resources, it is difficult for the Houjin side to really build a long trench to surround the mountain more than 150 miles long. Under the same circumstance is the battle of Li Laiheng during the Kangxi period, in the case that the whole country has no resistance, Li Laixiang led the old army of the king to guard in the mountains more than 150 miles long, the Qing army of Kangxi three years mobilized more than 100,000 troops from three provinces to besiege for half a year, with long trenches and plum blossom piles and other fortifications will Li Laixiang and his department trapped in the mountains, has been used for more than half a year, the grain and grass in the mountains are exhausted, Li Laiheng and his subordinates can not break through, and finally commit suicide and die, the war around the mountain is over, the two are geographically the same, The difference is that Li has no food, and there are only a few thousand people, but most of them are elites, there is food on the thirteen mountains, but the number of soldiers and civilians is 100,000, and the Houjin side obviously does not have the ability to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege for more than half a year, if Nuerhachi really does this, the Ming Dynasty can celebrate the victory, because the Houjin side first dragged itself to death.

The men and horses of the Thirteen Mountains stationed in the trenches on the slope also withdrew one after another, leaving the people to continue to strengthen the fortifications and prepare arrows and logs and other tools and ordnance to guard the slope.

The whole team is obviously two parts, a little more people are Bi Mazi's department, and the less people are and Yusheng's people, but the way of standing on both sides is very similar, they are arranged according to the method of a small array of more than 100 people, from the point of view of ordnance and equipment, and Yusheng is a lot stronger, with spears and knives, firecrackers are the mainstay, and Bi Mazi's side, it seems that spears and halberds and big knives and iron axes are obviously slightly inferior in quality.

In the light drum beat, and Yusheng's three companies began to march in the direction of killing Hu Zhai, killing Hu Zhai is guarding the mountain road to the west, there is a village on the edge of the village, there are more than 300 acres of fields opened up, the wheat has grown heavy, it can be harvested at a glance, the soldiers in the passing, try to walk on the edge of the ridge, the movements are cautious, for fear of stepping on the wheat.

There are 7,000 acres of land on the mountain, which is opened up by the original mountain people, in terms of the number of mountain people, the per capita land is only more than two acres, plus all of them are dry land, their livelihood can not be satisfied by farming, but most of them are supplemented by picking pine cones, ginseng, and hunting, because the dry land is not cultivated legally, the fertilizer storage is very poor, and there is not enough water to irrigate, the average yield per mu is very poor, only more than one stone, but with these grains, it is finally a small supplement to the reserves on the mountain.

The leader of the team with Yusheng is a tall and sturdy man, the gray military uniform looks a little small on him, it looks tight, the body is full of muscle coils, the most conspicuous is the bald head under the round hat, it looks very conspicuous, Cheng Fang took this bald head and joked, if there is a moonlit night, this bald head does not need to be lit when walking, and the moonlight complements each other, it is enough to illuminate.

"The garrison tasks of the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Companies of the 1st Brigade of the 9th Regiment have been completed, 11 people have been slightly injured, the military doctor has been bandaged, and 2 people have been seriously injured, which have also been processed and recorded."

The bald man walked to Cheng Fang and Yang Yi's side, and after a military salute, he reported with a very rigorous attitude, and Yusheng's file records are very important, minor injuries and serious injuries are recorded, and it is also one of the important indicators for the future military division to assess the score of sergeants, after all, veterans who have been on the battlefield and have been injured must be very different from ordinary veterans or recruits.

The bald man reported seriously, but he spat at the bottom and scolded: "The Jianyu of the dog day has been crazy these days, one or two hundred people die in the battle every day, and most of the people who die are our Han, and there are hundreds of injured people, and if they are not treated, I am afraid that they will die a lot, fuck, his little feet grandma, it's really not a fucking thing." ”

"This is the same as the situation when the Northern Captives beat us in the former Song Dynasty." Cheng Fang has not studied much in recent years, and he said calmly: "When the Northern Captives attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, they used a new annex army like the Han Army to fight, and when they attacked the city, they coerced the people to fill in the trenches and built this set, which is nothing new. ”

"Bi Mazi is a dog, and he brings a lot of people, but he can't work." The bald man glanced to the left behind him, Bi Mazi was in the whole team with a thousand people, their passwords, arrays, and formations were almost all learned from He Yusheng, but it was the same as the bald man's evaluation, and the dragon robe on the dog day was not like the prince, Bi Mazi's people were crooked, and the people in line were also hanging, and they didn't take the officers' shouting seriously at all.

"It's really a waste of our food for them, but fortunately, everyone is collegial, and Bi Mazi is not allowed to recruit people again."

Yang Er and the others all learned training and tactics from He Yusheng, and also accepted the officers sent by He Yusheng, which was also a condition accepted by all families when they provided food, and although it was a joint meeting, the decision to garrison the pass was decided by Cheng Fang and others, including daily training and command, and He Yusheng was also the mainstay.

Some of these things were decided at the beginning, and some were imperceptible, and Yusheng's soldiers convinced most of the people on the mountain with their excellent performance, but Bi Mazi and his men became more and more nonsense, and the young training of the rest of the departments was very hard, and they entered Bi Mazi's gang, eating and drinking the same as the soldiers, but the training was perfunctory, and by virtue of this reason, Bi Mazi also gathered a large number of people who were unwilling to contribute to training, and there were more than 15,000 young and strong people trained on the mountain, and Yusheng accounted for a fraction, a regiment of more than 3,200 people, Yang Yi accounted for more than 6,000 people, and there were still some small forces of more than 1,000 people, and Bi Mazi's department was more than 4,000 people.

Their training is not good, but the equipment is still passing, the equipment that was pulled down by Yang Er in the past few positions, through the continuous building of weapons for more than half a year, has caught up, at least the core troops led by Bi Mazi and his henchmen, all have decent weapons in their hands, of course, they want to be far behind and Yusheng, they have no armor, and there is no firearm, which is also an important reason why He Yusheng is backward in numbers, but still dominates the mountain.

Bi Mazi also saw Cheng Fang and the others, he hesitated, but still strode over.

Beside Bi Mazi is his deputy and five or six big leaders, as well as more than 20 personal soldiers, this is the escort he will follow wherever he goes under the mountain, and when Bi Mazi walks to Cheng Fang and others, these personal soldiers stand in a semicircle, and their hands are pressed on the waist knife to guard.

Cheng Fang glanced over there and said with a smile: "Bi Shuai is hard." ”

Since there are 4,000 people under his command, Bi Mazi feels that he is stronger than the general army, he asked someone to embroider a flag with silk, which is embroidered with the words "Marshal Bi of Fengtian Advocate Righteousness and Protect the Territory and the People", although it will definitely not be recognized by the imperial court and Sun Chengzong, the superintendent, when the imperial court sends someone to contact, the flag will be lowered, but on the mountain, more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians have to call him marshal, Cheng Fang and others are unwilling to turn their faces with Bi Mazi in such trivial matters, and they also pretend to be Bi Shuai, which is considered to give the other party a face.

Bi Mazi said casually: "They are all unlucky ghosts who are sent to death, there are not a few knives and cards, and they come here to destroy our fortifications with human lives, but recently Jianyu doesn't know what to smoke crazy, and he has to come here three or five times a day. ”

Cheng Fang said: "What Bi Shuai said is very true, I think it is still necessary to strengthen vigilance, and the people on duty during the day and night must be doubled." ”

Bi Mazi's eyes were weak for a moment, and he muttered: "Recently, people's hearts have been a little fluctuating, you and Yusheng's food has been eaten for so long, and more than half of the hundreds of thousands of people on the mountain are afraid that you will starve to death, and now it is almost summer, there are many wild vegetables or something, and the wheat is about to be harvested, and this little land on the mountain can be harvested, otherwise, everyone's heart will be discharged, and how long has it been since the loss of Guangning, the imperial court always says those nice words, what emperor is in a hurry to eat, Sun Gebu is bent on coming to save us, The worst thing is to find a way to send food, but where are the soldiers of the imperial court, and where is the food? ”