In less than two quarters of an hour, Zhang Jiude, the governor of Yansui, and Ma Chengen, the chief soldier, the deputy envoy of Shaanxi Province, Wang Wei, the deputy general, and You Shiliang, the general of the staff, all ascended to the top of the city. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The gongs and drums sounded at the head of the city, and a large number of soldiers were transferred from the rest of the gates to the north gate and the east gate.

"It's especially worrying," Zhang Jiude said to Ma Chengen: "The north gate is guarded by strong troops, and it can still be safe." However, the rest of the troops were too thin. ”

"You can only mobilize the people in the city to go to the city." Ma Chengen said very calmly: "The northern captives are surrounding Yulin, and it seems that there are many soldiers, but in fact, most of them are aiming to go south, even if the yellow sand is full of cities, they may not be able to make up their minds to attack the city." ”

Wu Zhiwang said: "What the chief military officer said is extremely true, Yulin is a difficult bone to gnaw on in comparison. ”

He hurriedly said: "The lower officials and the magistrate went together to comfort the soldiers at the head of the city, and gathered the gentry in the city, and persuaded the people to go to the city with weapons to guard the martial law. ”

Of course, Zhang Jiude and Ma Chengen will not have an opinion on this, Wu Zhiwang is a native of Shaanxi, he was famous for his medical skills when he was young, and he was famous in Guanzhong, and later became an official after becoming a sergeant, and he was also a gentle and elegant elder image, very popular with soldiers and people, so it was very suitable for people to appease and encourage the military and the people.

"Who discovered the Yellow Sand City?" Ma Chengen turned to Chen Hongfan and asked.

Chen Hongfan pointed at Zhang Xianzhong and said: "The big Zhang Xianzhong, everyone calls him Huanghu." Wilted and wilted, he has an idea in his heart, and he is a good offspring. ”

This can be regarded as a good word for Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Chengen took a closer look and said: "If you want, become a naturalized Yulin Zhongwei, raise a general flag, and become an officer in the army." ”

Ma Chengen didn't wait for an answer, turned his head and continued to look at the sand pile outside the city.

Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly knelt down to thank him, and some of the border soldiers behind him who had befriended him showed happy smiles on their faces.

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The Mongols found out that it was already after dawn the next day.

Huo Luochi and the others didn't think about attacking the city at all, and the siege was just a gesture, their camp was more than ten miles away from the city, and the nearest front camp was only three or four miles away from the city.

To the north of Yulin is a large desert area, to the northeast is the camel mountain, the whole city is a state of semi-flat land and half mountain, high in the east and low in the west.

Originally, Huo Luochi and the others were ready to call a large number of cavalry south, leaving a considerable elite to contain the Yulin defenders, and slowly move south to join the brigade.

By the time the defenders of Yansui Town gathered their troops and horses together and could fight with the main Mongol force, the looting plan had been successful and they could withdraw from the side wall.

As for whether they can achieve the big strategic goal and attract the attention of He Yusheng's soldiers and horses or the Ming court, Huo Luochi and Ka Luchen and others don't care very much.

When everyone knew about the Yellow Sand City, all the Taiji gathered together and rode their horses to the north of Yulin City.

A large amount of yellow sand had been blown south by the strong winds, and several large sand dunes had submerged the foundations of the city walls, where only the battlements and flags fluttering on the walls and the castle heads, and of course, the cold light of the guards and weapons.

The Taiji looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.

A Taiji said tentatively: "Yulin is like this, should we attack it?" ”

The other Taiji snorted coldly and said, "Yulin is so easy to attack? Besides, what's the benefit of taking it? ”

"Why is it not good?" Taiji, who spoke first, felt that he had lost face, and said angrily: "Once a town like Yulin is captured, the Ming Emperor in Beijing can't sit still, and the civil and military officials below can be good?" Let's talk about the city that was attacked because of He Yusheng, and the emperor of the Ming Kingdom is not in a hurry? Our Qingcheng is not preserved. Besides, Yulin is an acropolis and a town town, with a large number of military weapons and a large granary, those generations of Ming generals live in the city, and the big officials and gentry are also in the city. ”

Everyone was moved when they heard this.

Saving Qingcheng or something, everyone is not very interested, but the actual benefits of laying down Yulin make everyone moved. In a town like Yulin, there are a lot of military materials in it, and it is estimated that there are many warehouses for armor and weapons, and the grain should also be calculated in the unit of ten thousand stones.

This is still because the northwest military town is not as rich as Liaodong and Jizhen, think about Nuerhachi after breaking the fort cities in western Liaoning, after taking Guangning, he mobilized more than 100,000 people with the wrapping of the cart, and got a large number of weapons and food, all of which were the treasury of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and the Jurchen Eight Banners were full at once.

Of course, Huo Luochi and the others didn't know the situation in Liaodong, but it didn't prevent them from imagining the situation after they conquered Yulin.

Everyone was a little moved, and someone added fuel to the fire and said: "Didn't Xining build an iron field in the Wanli period?" At least half of the weapons and armor made of iron there are in Yulinli. ”

This time, even the fire fell into the red and couldn't hold it, he had an idea in the iron field of Xining, but this kind of fortified city was definitely not able to be attacked, the Mongol invasion was mainly in the countryside at most, and it was rare to capture the county seat, not to mention the Acropolis or the state capital, not to mention cities like Xining and Yulin.

Seeing Huo Luo's red look, Ka Luchen waved his arms first and said: "It's done, if you don't take advantage of such a good opportunity, the Buddha will blame you." ”

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Huo Luochi and the others went directly to a place about half a mile outside the city to observe the city defense.

Yulin City fell into their eyes, the city of ten miles long is long from east to west, short from north to south, high in the east and short in the west, it was originally a majestic and magnificent city, and now most of the city wall is covered by yellow sand.

"It's still very windy." Xiao Taiji said excitedly: "This yellow sand must be blown by the wind, and if it blows for another day, it will definitely be able to cover the entire north wall, and see what they will guard." ”

"You can't wait." Huo Luochi looked at the terrain carefully, the yellow sand was very loose, but people could walk on it, and some of the auxiliary garrison facilities outside the city had been completely covered by the sand, and the old Mongolian, who was close to the sixtieth year, couldn't help the excitement in his heart, and his voice trembled a little.

After capturing Yulin and obtaining a large amount of military funds, his army can go to the next level, and in the future, Yansui and Guyuan and several towns in Ningxia will become his pastures, come and go if you want!

Huo Luochi also made up his mind that he would never accept the appeasement of the Ming Dynasty, nor would he be crowned the king of Shunyi, who was a Laoshizi.

Look at what those people in Tumut's headquarters have become, who were originally descendants of the blue wolf, under the horse market and the favor!

The combat effectiveness of the herdsmen is not as good as that of the Ming army, and the armor is slightly inferior, but it is better than the number of people!

After Huo Luochi and Ka Luchen clearly saw the city defense, they decided to attack in batches immediately.

Thousands of men were thrown into each attack, and the entire Yulin East Gate to the North Gate was more than six miles long, and now it was a large area of yellow sand covering the sand slopes of various sizes, and the Mongols abandoned their horses and walked and suppressed them with bows and arrows.

The Ming army did not have too many firearms, the range of bows and arrows on both sides was about the same, the Ming army was better than the foot bow force, and it could be thrown at a high place, but their wind direction was unfavorable, which also offset these advantages, and the Mongolian soldiers were all archers, and the Ming army did not have many shooters.

"Sons, as long as we attack the city, the Ming army in the city is very small and is not our opponent. If you get the city, everyone will have good, enough wine and meat, enough gold and silver, and women, and food! "The great results are in front of him, and Huo Luochi is like a chicken blood, galloping in the team, boosting morale.

The Mongols were all screaming and screaming, and their eyes were red.

Grain, wine, meat, women, are the things that the shepherds and soldiers love!

For these, of course, you can work hard!

"Ah......h

There were no more arrows falling, the Ming army did not have many archers, and the wind direction was unfavorable, only a few of them could shoot long arrows with strong bows, and the sparse arrows could not stop the Mongol army that had been boosted in morale, and more and more Mongolians wearing yellow jackets climbed above the sand slope.

"Scolding the array," said with a nervous expression, "Ride horses and shoot arrows around the city gates, scold the formation, and attract people to other city gates to guard and defend." ”

The people in the city must know that the north gate to the east gate is the top priority of defense, but if a large number of cavalry is too close to the city defense, it will inevitably make the Ming army in the city nervous, and it is difficult not to make any reaction.

The cavalry of the brigade galloped out of the barracks everywhere, their equipment and armor were very ordinary, there were few armored soldiers, the weapons were very shabby, and the bows and arrows were also ordinary riding bows, but the shepherds in the set were obviously more fierce, and there was an obvious ferocity in their eyes.

This is a tribe that often fights, and most of the figures passing by in the ranks have some obvious scars.

or arrow wounds, or knife wounds, or gunshot wounds, or gunshot wounds.

This is actually the medal of the warrior, whether they are armored or not, the cavalry in front of them is much stronger than the sheep-like shepherds of Tumut.

The sky is very blue, half of the land is the green grassland, more than half of the place is the yellow sand of the sky, under the blue sky, this is what a magnificent and strange scenery, in later generations, many such places are the best scenic spots that people yearn for, attracting a large number of tourists, but at this time, under the blue sky, the war horses are galloping, the warriors roar, a large number of cavalry riding all kinds of war horses on the earth is soaring, if you look down from the sky, this is such a magnificent scene! A large number of cavalry was like a black tide, and it instantly slapped on the wall of Yulin City.

The sound of the bow and arrow pulling apart rang out, and people could only hear the sound of "collapse, collapse, collapse" in their ears, the Ming army at the head of the city began to play the Buddha Lang machine, the huge cannon sound and fire startled countless birds several miles away, the projectile flew through the air, hit the considerable cavalry, and a small number of gaps began to appear in the tide-like cavalry group, but the cavalry did not stop at all, and continued to pass under the city dozens of paces, just to take care of those antlers and horses and other defensive facilities, they failed to continue to go deeper, but the distance of fifty or sixty steps was close enough, The cavalry kept shooting arrows, and the iron tips of the arrows kept hitting the top of the blue-brick wall, and the clanging sound was constantly sounding, almost as dense as a storm. The number of Ming troops at the head of the city is too small, and they can't raise their heads by the rain of arrows, and only a few elite soldiers with the identity of Neiding, wearing heavy armor, shoot unhurriedly with heavy bows, because the speed is not fast and the bow is strong, after a crash, there will always be cavalry shot down.