Chapter 127: Scarlet Tongguan I
In the afternoon, the sun, whose face had just been exposed for a while, was shrouded in dark clouds again, and the wind was blowing in all directions.
Sun Chuanting, who was standing on the city wall, couldn't help but tighten his robe, he felt a little cold, maybe he was old, maybe because his body had not fully recovered. Seeing Zhang Xianzhong leading 10,000 soldiers and horses towards Tongguan, he sighed. In the past, Sun Chuanting would not sigh in the face of a powerful enemy, but aroused his blood, but this time it was different, he felt a little powerless. However, he still slowly drew his sword and watched Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers come to the city! Sun Chuanting raised his sword and roared:
"Prepare for battle!"
Lin Bai led five hundred brocade guards with firecrackers as a backing, and the five hundred firecrackers brought by Shanhaiguan were sent to the five hundred defenders of Tongguan, in the past few days, Lin Bai had taught them how to use firearms, and these five hundred people became the second line of defense, and the first line of defense was taken care of by the archers of Tongguan. The last line of defense is a sword fight, the final battle of the enemy to break through the city gates, and no one wants such an encounter.
This tactical layout was thought out by Zhu Qing when he was in Shanhaiguan, and before he set out to conquer Tongguan, Zhu Qing hastily drew a strategic deployment map and handed it to Lin Bai. Today, this diagram is finally used. When Lin Bai presented the strategic deployment map to Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting was overjoyed and secretly admired Zhu Qing's military talent.
The enemy was very red when he saw him. This time, Zhang Xianzhong didn't bother to talk to Sun Chuanting, the two looked at each other for only half a sound, and Zhang Xianzhong swung an axe to attack the city.
"Take Tongguan and go straight to Kaifeng! Kill me! ”
"Shoot the arrows!" Sun Chuanting was calm and composed, although the Tongguan garrison was less than 5,000, it was not easy for Zhang Xianzhong to break through these lines.
When the first batch of Onishi Legions attacked the city gate and entered the range of the archers of the Tongguan defenders, they were greeted only by a rain of arrows!
"! The second line of defense is ready! Lin Bai assisted Sun Chuanting in commanding on the city wall. The first batch of feather arrows was released, and the arrows were quickly withdrawn, and because they were powerful crossbows, it took some time. At this time, the second line of defense is up, and this time it is a firecracker! This kind of wheel change not only greatly saves time, but also changes tricks and confuses the enemy, who can't figure out how much firepower there is and what tactics to use to attack the city!
Sure enough, seeing the first batch of siege soldiers falling, Zhang Xianzhong was unconvinced, and waved his axe and ordered the second batch to siege the city!
"Put!" Lin Bai waved his small flag, "Bang bang bang!" "Although 500 gunshots rang out in the huge Tongguan, it is not surprising in such a battlefield, but compared to cold weapons, it is already terrifying!
The second batch fell to the ground!
"Withdraw!" Lin Bai ordered, and the fire gun team was replaced with archers.
"His grandmother's! Sun Chuanting! I haven't seen you for a few days, you've grown your skills?! Where do you get these foreign things? Zhang Xianzhong watched himself fall hundreds of people at once, he didn't even touch the city gate, he was on fire, and roared at Sun Chuanting.
"Humph! What kind of stuff? This is my treasure in the Central Plains! The ancestors of the Song Dynasty used it. I called it inheritance and development, and I wanted to use it to deal with foreigners and Japanese criminals, and I didn't want you to eat the ancients, so I'll let you taste it today. Sun Chuanting said coldly. Although he said it was very majestic, but his heart was flustered, a thousand firearms, only two thousand ammunition, that is to say, each person can only put two shots, even if the gun hits, the Onishi Army will only lose two thousand people, and the arrows and crossbows are even more tricky, because in the first battle a few days ago, most of them have been consumed, and now they are less than two thousand, so that these three lines of defense can only consume four thousand men and horses, and the other six thousand are left? There are less than 5,000 people in Tongguan, and they are already counted as old, weak, sick and disabled. This battle is still a bit hanging. The only thing that reassures Sun Chuanting a little is that there are five hundred brocade guards, they are almost one as ten, besides, there is also this city gate, Tongguan has become a war fortress for hundreds of years, and this city gate is naturally impregnable.
Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong was still moving, Sun Chuanting continued to agitate, "What? Scared, right? If you are afraid, surrender quickly, for the sake of your Zhang Xianzhongtiao man, my Sun Chuanting will leave you with a whole corpse! "Sun Chuanting is proficient in the art of war, and knows Zhang Xianzhong better, once Zhang Xianzhong is provoked, his thinking will be confused, and the Great Western Army will be in chaos, and the Tongguan defenders will have a chance!
"Humph! Will grandpa be afraid of you? Leave me all dead? It's almost the same to beg grandpa to keep your whole body. Shield cover! On the ladder! Although Zhang Xianzhong was angry, but the position was not chaotic, so many years of war have trained Zhang Xianzhong's temperament, and his methods are vicious and undisciplined!
The cloud echelons of the Onishi Legion approached the city walls under the cover of shields.
"Put!" Lin Bai waved the flag. Archers shoot the first rain of arrows! As you can imagine, the effect is much worse than the first time. But apart from the consumption of feathered arrows, the defenders suffered no casualties.
"Archers cover, stake team to knock open the city gate for Lao Tzu!" As soon as Zhang Xianzhong shouted, dozens of big men carried wooden stakes on the top, and the archers of the Great Western Army began to play a role, and a rain of arrows "swished" counterattacked the Tongguan defenders.
"Hidden!" Lin Bai snorted. For the first time since the start of the war, the defenders of Tongguan were traumatized, and although the losses were not large, they also gave the Great Western Army an opportunity to take advantage of.
"Hey......!" Stakes begin to pound on the gates!
"Catapult hand!" Seeing that the situation had changed, Sun Chuanting responded in a timely manner. The slingers on the city wall took the stones and threw them down, and the slingers in the city loaded the flints and launched them. Suddenly, the heavenly stones rolled, causing a lot of blows to the Onishi Army under the city wall.
Zhang Xianzhong didn't think that Tongguan was completely prepared, he thought that he could take Tongguan by sneak attack, but he didn't think that Ning'er had notified Sun Chuanting in advance, and now there are no catapults, no siege vehicles! The battle is difficult to open for a while!
Zhang Xianzhong saw that someone in his cloud echelon had already taken up. His eyes lit up, he took out a bow and crossbow, and with a "whoosh", knocked out the Tong army on the city wall who threw stones at the cloud echelon. This trick was miraculous, and Zhang Xianzhong's morale increased greatly, "Archer, aim at Lao Tzu!" Crack down on outcropping wall soldiers! ”
"Whoosh." There was another rain of arrows, and the defenders' offensive was once again suppressed. The cloud echelon has gone to the next level. Seeing that the ladder had been placed on the city wall, Lin Bai shouted, "Soldiers of the mountains and seas!" Above! ”
Five hundred brocade guards put away their fire guns, held machetes, walked to the front line of the city wall, and began a white-knuckle battle!
Fighting on the ground, the mountains and seas can still be ten with one, not to mention that they are condescending now? Except for the archers of the Great Western Army, when the archers of the Great Western Army could release their arrows, someone could come up on the ladder, and the Great Western Army had almost no chance to emerge, and it was "clicked" almost as soon as they reached the head of the city wall!
It hurts to see Zhang Xianzhong's heartache!
"Herald!" Zhang Xianzhong shouted!
"Here!"
"Go to Tongshan immediately to ask for help!" Zhang Xianzhong finally knew that he couldn't take Tongguan alone, but he was reluctant to give up like this, although he couldn't attack it for a long time, but after all, he consumed Sun Chuanting's vital strength, and with a little more troops to prepare for war, it was a matter of time before he took Tongguan, and he remembered Li Zicheng.
"Yes!" The herald hurried to Tongshan to ask for help, he only needed to arrive at Tongguan Muye Pass and light the wolf smoke, and Tongshan could receive the news.
However, when Zhang Xianzhong's heralds arrived in Muye, they were told that Li Zicheng had led an army of 50,000 to leave the pass! Catapults, artillery, siege engines, ladders...... War Machine, all in one! An army of 50,000 took a shortcut to open the Tongguan Pass.
It turned out that after Li Zicheng forced Li Yufeng to ask about the real situation, Li Yufeng told the truth, she was not poisoned, all for Zhu Qing. Li Zicheng was annoyed and angry, knowing that his daughter was fine, and his ambition to attack the city was rekindled, he had already sent a signal in Tongshan, which was only known to the generals of the Chuang army.
Huzi had already received this signal.
Just when Zhang Xianzhong couldn't attack the city and Li Zicheng's army pressed the border, Zhu Qing took the tiger hostage and came to the Muye Pass, he felt that something was wrong, how could the unruly tiger be so obedient? There is no wind in Makino, why is the dust and smoke billowing? At this moment, Zhu Qing heard the neighing sound of the wind-chasing horse, Zhu Qing looked over, in the direction where the wind-chasing horse was running, a pair of people and horses under black pressure were heading towards Tongguan, that was Li Zicheng's army of 50,000.
"Li Zicheng has gone down the mountain?" Zhu Qington felt bad.
"Hahaha. Do you think I'll be easily subdued by you? I have already received a signal that King Chuang is going down the mountain to attack Tongguan, before going down the mountain, King Chuang told me that the only task of my tiger is to drag you Zhu Qing alone, it is enough! Now it seems that I have completed my military life! Huzi told the truth and laughed.
"So, it's useless for you to live in this world!" fell for Huzi's plan, Zhu Qing was unhappy.
"Kill me! If you kill me, the thousands of soldiers here will fight with you, no matter how great your ability is, when you finish fighting these thousands of people and rush to Tongguan, you can only collect the corpse of Sun Chuanting! Hahaha! "Huzi is proud and arrogant.
"Humph! Do you think Lao Tzu will always be tricked by you? Get out of the way! Zhu Qing held Huzi hostage and turned around. He wants to break out of the encirclement and rush to Tongguan!
"Brothers, leave me alone! Lao Tzu is a good man again eighteen years later! I'm dead, and you take the head of the green dragon and go to receive the reward! Huzi was not bad, and as he spoke, the army began to stir. Huzi took advantage of the chaos to give Zhu Qing an elbow, Zhu Qing faced the swarming soldiers, and had no time to take care of Huzi, so he simply kicked him off the horse, and then whistled. Leap forward, parkour on the head of the intruder, and land firmly on the wind chasing horse!
"Bow and arrow!" Huzi screamed, took a bow and arrow, and with a "whoosh", an off-string arrow flew towards Zhu Qing. Zhu Qing turned the horse's head and rushed to Tongguan with all his heart, but he didn't think that there was a cold arrow coming from behind, "Ah! Huzi's arrow hit Zhu Qing in the back, "Drive!" Zhu Qing didn't pause at all, gritted his teeth, whipped his horsewhip, and hurried to Tongguan with a feather arrow on his back.
The soldiers wanted to catch up, but they were stopped by Huzi, "Don't chase." That's a poisoned arrow! Huzi looked at Zhu Qing who was far away, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
At this time, the dark clouds dispersed, Tongguan was already dusk, and the remnant sun was like blood!