Chapter 33: The Danger of Pingyang
The dragon king saves all the people!
The breeze whispers to all the people!
The weather is dry and the fire is on,
The seedlings on the ground~ dried,
Sun~ Dry!
On the high mountains along the river in Qinshui, Tang Xidong led 5,000 men and horses to walk on the rugged mountain road and walk on the road back to Pingyang.
Under the mountain is the Qinshui that winds southward, the water is clear and the mountains are green, and the rivers and mountains are good!
Only the Shaanxi folk songs that echo among the mountains and rivers remind Tang Xidong that this world is very difficult, with natural disasters and human disasters.
The tone of praying for rain is full of heavy tragedy.
The summer is scorching, in the Shaanxi Mountains, there is no food for thousands of miles, there is no rain for thousands of miles, and people can't live.
The song is the tune of northern Shaanxi, the people are the rebels from Shaanxi, and the world is the most difficult way of the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The age of cannibalism.
The road is not easy to walk, there are Shaanxi rebels chasing in all directions, and it has been five days since they left Yangcheng.
Day and night, in the middle of the ambush of two chasing rebels, killed a thousand people, finally got rid of the encirclement of the rebels, crossed the mountain beam in front, and went out of the territory of Zezhou, close to Pingyang.
Half a month after coming out, the new army began to feel homesick.
Pingyang is home, there is a family, the people's hearts are not big, the country is big, it is someone else's, they only need enough for their own life of one acre and three points of land.
But the soldiers of the New Army, deep in the mountains, did not know that Binh Duong City was facing a sudden crisis.
Just when Tang Xidong was about to leave Zezhou and enter Pingyang Mansion, King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong had already felt Anze with an army of nearly 10,000.
An Ze is only 100 miles away from Binh Duong.
At this moment, the city wall of Binh Duong City is only half built, and the channel of the moat has not yet been excavated.
Since Tang Xidong left, Pingyang City has been following the steps explained by Tang Xidong step by step.
It is still a drill for land reclamation, mining, coal mining, and reserve training.
In the Luoliang Mountain raid, more than half of the company's casualties were killed, and although the number of personnel was increased later, there were still 1,000 vacancies.
Tang Xidong hopes to forge the Luoliangshan Company into an iron army and a heroic company, so he would rather lack than abuse.
1,000 were stationed at Luoliang Mountain, and 2,000 were stationed at Pingyang City.
Before Tang Xidong left, he repeatedly emphasized that he had just defeated the imperial army by strengthening his defense, and he could not say when the Ming army would reorganize the siege.
The intelligence system has been operating at full capacity.
As soon as the rebel army led by King Chuang appeared outside Anze City, the secret agents of Pingyang immediately targeted this large anti-army that suddenly appeared.
However, because it was not clear for the time being that the purpose of this anti-army was not clear, no information was passed back.
On this day, when Tang Xidong led the army into the territory of Pingyang Mansion, King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong led the army directly through the outside of Anze City and arrived at the waterlogged water, and the waterlogging was bound to reach Pingyang.
It was only at this time that the spy sensed the danger signal, and Pegasus rushed back to Pingyang City to report back.
The information was sent back to Pingyang City as soon as possible, and Liu Lianqing, who was sitting in Pingyang, immediately notified Li Shangquan and Zhang Sanshi to come to negotiate.
Tang Xidong attacked Wang Jiayin, the most powerful anti-army force in Shaanxi, in Yangcheng, and at this moment, a 10,000-strong anti-army force appeared a hundred miles away from Pingyang.
It is already clear that the comers are not good.
After some discussion, while asking Cao Ran to send his subordinates to spy on the anti-army dynamics, he went south to report to Tang Xidong.
At this moment, Tang Xidong had just arrived at Fushan, and finally ran out of the anti-army encirclement and was camping and repairing.
The rebels came in a hurry all the way, pressing step by step, and Tang Xidong could not be contacted for the time being.
Binh Duong New City covers too much area, and now the city wall has not yet been built, and it is difficult for the enemy army to take advantage of the city to hold on.
Li Shangquan immediately made a decision, led his troops out to resist the enemy, and blocked the rebels on the way to Pingyang.
Fortunately, Binh Duong is located on a plain and surrounded by mountains, and now that the rebel army is coming from the east, as long as it is stationed in the eastern mountain pass and blocks the road, it will inevitably delay the speed of the anti-army's march.
Even if the time comes, the rebel army can cross the mountains and find another road, and the other side can delay the arrival of Pingyang in two days, and maybe Tang Xidong will have led people to rush back to Pingyang quickly, and with 5,000 new troops, Pingyang City will be as stable as a mountain.
The crater is the only way to go straight up along the river, the mouth of the gorge is arranged along the river into a large bay, a mountain beam protrudes in the middle, and the crater is turned over from the root of the mountain, which is the crater, which is in the valley between the two mountains.
Li Shangquan galloped with the company in the starry night, in addition to a thousand musket troops, five hundred artillery, and five hundred baggage troops.
Arriving at the crater in the evening, the construction of the fortifications began.
After the large and small guns were erected, the muzzles of the guns were directed towards the bend of the mountain road.
The trenches that prevented the opposing cavalry from storming, and the piled up bags of dirt were fanned out of the opening of the crater.
The mountain here is dangerous, and the mountain is high and difficult to ambush on the mountain beam, so it can only be clearly blocked.
At night, close to the waterlogging, it is not hot, and after cooking early to fill his stomach, Li Shangquan asked all the staff to be on guard.
If the other party gallops in the starry night, count the time, and after an hour, it will come.
The battle is about to begin.
At the bend, Li Shangquan sent someone to plant a sign: Pingyang boundary, outsiders are not allowed to enter.
If the other party blindly does not stop, it must be hostile, and then it will naturally be a gun greeting.
Half an hour later, several horses appeared from the bend, and after the bend, they saw the brightly lit mountain road.
So he instantly pulled the horse and stopped.
Scouts of the enemy army appeared, and the entire position was immediately prepared.
The scouts apparently did not anticipate that after the turn, there would be an army in ambush.
The horses moved forward slowly, and after a few breaths, a gunshot rang out, and the cavalry spears in front fell to the ground, and the horses jumped wildly.
The scout behind him saw his companion fall to the ground, and instantly hit his horse and galloped behind him.
Li Shangquan didn't stop it, watching the other party disappear around the corner.
Half an hour later, the scout galloped ten miles into the crater and found the group of men and horses that were being repaired.
Briefing on the military.
Unfortunately, these scouts were not able to get close to reconnoitre, and they couldn't figure out how many people there were.
But there were ambushes on the mountain road ahead, and King Chuang Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong knew that their team had obviously been exposed.
It was dark, and the Shaanxi rebels were not familiar with the terrain.
After some discussion, it was decided to attack again at dawn, Pingyang City must be defeated, although there is an ambush of enemy soldiers in front, but in the King of Chuang and the Eight Kings, there must be not many people.
Zhang Xianzhong also came up with a poisonous plan, ordering his cavalry to go to the mountain pass at night, feign a strong attack, and constantly disturb the other party, so as to achieve the effect of exhausting the troops.
King Chuang must have nodded in agreement.
After Li Shangquan waited for half an hour with the company, there was the sound of a large number of cavalry galloping.
So the order was to raise the vigilance and be ready to fight back at any time.
A large number of cavalrymen lit torches in the dark, came from the bend to beat their horses, and as soon as they rushed through the bend, they shouted and killed forward.
But the expected light cannon sound did not sound.
According to the positional warfare pointed out by Tang Xidong, if you are facing a cavalry attack, you must first use the dug trench to trip the enemy's horses, and then attack with firearms after disrupting the rhythm of the opponent's gallop.
The cavalry in front of him had not yet reached the location of the trench, and naturally no one gave the order to attack.
The cavalry galloped, and after approaching a hundred and fifty paces, the first trench appeared, and suddenly a man turned on his back, fell into the trench, and fell forward and slid forward.
But even then, no guns were fired, because the enemy brigade had not yet come into range.
The trench at the front made the cavalry suffer, and more than a dozen people fell to the ground in an instant, so shocked that the cavalry behind them pulled their horses one after another.
The rhythm of the natural impact of the pull was disrupted, and the one who couldn't pull was also followed into the trench.
More than a dozen cavalry were damaged by the trench before they could engage in battle, and the cavalry behind them stayed in place, and some people dismounted in the dark to reconnoitre.
Just when the opposing cavalry pulled the horse to a stop, Li Shangquan ordered a fixed point of shooting.
A few sparse gunshots rang out, and the horsemen on horseback fell to the ground with a muffled grunt as the guns rang out.
The fixed-point shooting is all the people who are accurate in the marksmanship of the musket team trained by Tang Xidong, originally to prepare for the formation of a sniper team in the future, and at this moment it was used by Li Shangquan to snipe the cavalry who did not move forward, and the effect was wonderful, because a large number of torches were planted on both sides of the mountain road, and the cavalry was clearly visible under the firelight.
Suddenly, the anti-cavalry kept pulling their horses and turning around, but the rear team was too numerous, and they were crowded together at once, and it was difficult to turn around and retreat for a while, so that when time was consumed, nearly 100 cavalry had fallen under the guns of the company members.
When the opposing cavalry finally ran out of range, a large group of empty war horses was left behind.