Sun Yuan only brought cavalry to Yongcheng this time, and the main purpose of his coming here was to participate in the Battle of Zhuxian Town, as for the extermination of Yongcheng Liu Chao, it was just a convenient one. （）

In his opinion, this guy who has no name at all in real history is a small person, as long as the iron hooves of the Ningxiang Army arrive, he will not obediently bow down to death.

But he didn't expect Liu Chao to be so tenacious, and after suffering three defeats in a row, he still refused to surrender, and finally retreated in the city to defend it.

At this time, Sun Yuan still despised Liu Chao very much, and after getting the command of Lu Fengjun, he spent an afternoon and the next morning, demolishing all the houses in several nearby towns and villages, hastily getting siege equipment, and throwing himself into the attack on Yongcheng

。

The demolition of private houses and the production of siege equipment were Ma Shiying's proposals. When he first talked about it, Sun Yuan didn't take it to heart. Fortunately, it is a hot day, and even if the people do not have houses, they will not freeze to death. Sun Yuan even asked Huang You to come up with a compensation plan, and made a lot of white slips, preparing to convert the people's losses into silver after this battle, so that the people could rebuild their homes at that time. Anyway, it's not his own silver that is spent, so Ma Shiying will have a headache in the future.

It's a pity that he still underestimated the lower limit of the Ming Dynasty's guards, these bastards have turned this demolition into an armed robbery. As a matter of fact, the reason why Li Zicheng's military operation in Henan went extremely smoothly had something to do with the bastards of officers and soldiers. The soldiers who came from the guards were not the regular army of the Nine Sides, and the military discipline was extremely corrupt, and the robbery of the people was even more crazy than the previous peasant army. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also had a system of counting meritorious deeds by head, which inevitably led to the occurrence of killing good and risking merit. On the contrary, when Li Zicheng entered Henan this time, he had the intention of establishing a base area and reused small landlords and intellectuals, and his attitude toward the common people changed dramatically. Everywhere he went, he not only did not commit any offense to the people, but also opened a granary to buy people's hearts.

"Eat his mother, drink his mother, King Chuang will not pay for food" ----- people's hearts began to reverse.

……

The Lufeng Army is a new army formed by Ma Shiying, and its predecessors are all guards and displaced people in Luzhou and Fengyang, these people were beaten to the ground by Liu Chao in Suzhou a while ago, and they live in fear all day long, and their psychology is bound to be distorted. Together, no one can stop the beastly nature.

That night, several villages and towns outside Yongcheng City were on fire, and there were screams everywhere.

Henan was ravened by war, and the people were fierce, and that night, more than 100 Lufeng soldiers died at the hands of the people.

Thousands of people rioted with farm tools, and at the same time, Liu Chao in the city found out about the chaos of the Ming army and sent a force to kill it.

Sun Yuan had no choice but to send Tang Wenxing to bring two hundred cavalry out of the camp to suppress it.

Na Tang Wenxing was born in a famous family, and he was a well-known upright person in the Ningxiang Army. () After repelling Liu Chao's troops out of the city, without waiting for Sun Yuan's order, he cut off the heads of more than 200 Lufeng troops who had plagued the people and sent them to Ma Shiying's tent.

"It's terrible

！ Hearing the news, Huang You was so angry that he couldn't help stomping his feet: "The general finally won the command of the troops under Governor Ma this time, but General Tang killed more than 200 Lufeng soldiers in one go. These soldiers of the guard army have been military households for generations, and they are all related to each other, tearing vines and leaves. In this way, in the future, these soldiers will not regard General Sun as an enemy, how can they drive them to attack Yongcheng? ”

The two acne on Sun Yuan's nose were two points bigger, and he was on fire in his heart, and shouted: "What about the army of the imperial court, I think it is more powerful than the thief army when it comes to harming the people, Tang Wenxing killed it well." If he doesn't kill them, these bastards will be killed just as cleanly if they fall into someone's hands. They regard a certain person as a revenge, and when they attack Yongcheng, there is an enemy who is not the former, and a certain person recognizes him, but the military law does not recognize him. ”

Whoever killed more than 200 Lufeng troops would be furious, but the strange thing is that Ma Shiying remained silent, perhaps he also realized that he was confused about ordering the demolition of people's houses and taking their materials to make siege equipment.

Governor Ma ordered all troops to be under the command of Sun Yuan, and gave up the command to him, but he was a believer.

I heard that on the morning when the Lufeng army was preparing siege equipment, more than 2,000 local people ran into Yongcheng and took refuge in Liu Chao.

At this time, Yongcheng was already full of young men with weapons in their hands, all of whom were people without armor. Standing a mile outside the city and looking intently, Sun Yuan could clearly see the hateful gaze of the people in the city.

Presumably, the news of the destruction of their homes has been brought into the city by more than 2,000 people, and now, I am afraid that the people in the city are scolding Ma Shiying and Sun Yuan.

"Lu Fengjun, a group of wastes, there are more than enough successes and more failures, this is to help the enemy unite as one!" Sun Yuan spat angrily in the direction of Ma Shiying's old camp, and ordered: "Chen Tieshan, in the afternoon, you take a team of Du Du to fight against the enemy standing behind the Lufeng army, and if you don't move forward with the enemy, you will be killed; Turn around and run away, slash; Those who disturb the hearts of our army, slash! ”

The three "chop" words are really murderous.

"Order!"

……

After lunch and a pot of tea, Sun Yuan commanded the two troops of Lufeng and Ningxiang to start a tentative attack on Yongcheng.

This time, Ma Shiying and his officials also came, and stood on a newly erected high platform with Sun Yuan to look intently.

In the Cold Weapon War, the urban offensive and defensive battles are notoriously cruel, and the officials and generals of the Lufeng Army have long been mentally prepared for the huge sacrifices that are about to be paid, but the hellish picture in front of them still makes everyone tremble

。

He couldn't imagine that the battle could still be fought like this. In such a battle, life is so fragile, so insignificant.

……

The battle for Yongcheng was too hasty, no preparations were made at all, and the hastily made siege equipment was extremely sloppy, and everything seemed hectic.

Sun Yuan was all cavalry, infantry and artillery were thrown in Yangzhou, and as for the Lufeng army, there were no firearms. Therefore, this siege battle together is extremely classical. Looking at the soldiers of the Lufeng Army who were screaming frantically with all their strength and carrying the ladder towards the city wall, Sun Yuan was in a trance as if he was in the ancient battlefield of the Tang and Song dynasties.

In the first wave of the offensive, Sun Yuan dispatched more than 20 cloud ladders and more than 1,000 people, and he was too lazy to bloom in all directions, and directly attacked the south gate of Yongcheng.

Unfortunately, as soon as the team reached the dry moat, a rain of arrows fell down from the city.

The thieves' bows and arrows were actually quite sparse, and they weren't very accurate. Archers are technical arms, and a qualified archer usually needs to train for half a year, and he must be a strong and long-armed person, and the training difficulty is greater than that of a musketeer. The thieves are all newly coerced people, so naturally they don't have much accuracy.

It's a pity that the Lufeng army is worse than the thief army in the city, the ladder has just been erected on the moat, and it was shot by the enemy's arrows, and they all panicked, and they couldn't even stand on their feet, and they fell off the moat from the ladder one by one.

The tragic screams sounded earth-shattering in front of him, and already Lu Fengbing threw away the cloud ladder in his hand and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands.

One of the standard-bearers next to Sun Yuan hurriedly waved the flag in his hand, and two huge trebuchets made a tooth-aching "squeak" and threw lamb-like stones towards the city wall. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, with the further popularization of artillery, the form of siege warfare had changed dramatically.

In view of the huge casualties of the Ant Siege Siege, which was extremely demoralized, and the inefficiency of other siege equipment, it was during this era that people began to bombard the enemy walls with Hongyi cannons. Although the power of the Hongyi cannon is not as exaggerated as recorded in the historical records, what cannon goes out, erodes ten miles. In many cases, once the cannonball falls on the strong wall, it will only leave a shallow white mark, but as long as there are enough of them and the firing time is long enough, there is always a chance to blow the wall down

。

Because of this, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, bringing with them red-coated cannons and a large number of qualified artillery, which caused huge losses to the Ming Dynasty when Jiannu entered the customs and went south.

The two large boulders let out a huge roar and slid an obvious parabola in the air, which was not insignificant.

It's a pity that the accuracy is really reluctant, and one of them fell on the horse rejection belt under the city wall, and the huge potential energy directly scattered a row of horse rejection, and the broken wood chips flew everywhere. But the other one was over-egged, and it fell directly to a cloud ladder on the moat.

The two ends of the ladder were cocked and folded in the middle, and the ant-like figure on the ladder was bounced into the air, screaming and falling to the ground.

"Oops, oops!" The officials around Ma Shiying couldn't help but scream when they heard this terrible cry and the blood flying in the air.

Sun Yuan's expression remained unchanged, "Don't stop the catapult, the second team will follow!" ”

There were also thousands of soldiers in the second team of Lufeng Army, and soon more than 2,000 people were crowded on the edge of the moat.

Fortunately, thanks to the large number of people, they quickly built several passages in the moat with ladders and planks.

Seeing that the road was opened, everyone shouted and rushed to the bottom of the city wall, separated and set up the ladder on the city wall.

The catapult was still roaring, but it was still not accurate, and huge stones flew in the air, blasting clouds of smoke and dust on the walls and ground.

The rain of arrows in the city was much more dense, and Ming soldiers were constantly shot to the ground. But the soldiers of the Lufeng Army seemed to have gone crazy, they all bit their waist knives with their teeth, and climbed up with their hands and feet.

Suddenly, the opposite city wall was full of black figures.

Several of the soldiers had their hands on the women's wall, Yongcheng, at their fingertips.

The officials around Ma Shiying all stomped their feet excitedly.

Sun Yuan nodded with satisfaction, and said to Ma Shiying beside him: "Governor Ma, the thief army has lost its courage, and the arrows they shot down just now are extremely numerous, and it is obvious that the army has no heart to fight. This time is also simple, as long as our army climbs the city wall, the thieves will be defeated. ”

Ma Shiying also breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "General Sun, it is not a problem to capture Yongcheng

。 Or is it the same sentence, you must guard against the escape of the thief, are the cavalry on your side ready? ”

Sun Yuan: "Don't worry, wait a minute, as long as Liu Chao dares to escape from Yongcheng, our cavalry army will be able to follow and pursue." This time, even if Liu Thief goes to heaven and earth, he will be dug out. ”

At this time, all of a sudden, barrels of black liquid were spilled down on the city.

The soldiers who had just put their hands on the battlements were splashed with the liquid, and at the same time let out a thrilling scream, and fell from above.

"Oops, asphalt!" Sun Yuan couldn't help but scream, and goosebumps got on his vest.

The black liquid flowed down like a waterfall, and as soon as it stuck to the human body, it was a scream of pain.

Looking over from here, I saw that on the city wall that was still full of figures just now, Lu Fengjun fell down one by one, and the screams of horror resounded in the sky.

At the same time, torches were thrown from the city walls, and the ladders and horses below burst into flames.

It turned out that the enemy had already put gunpowder and fuel on the city wall in advance, and this burn suddenly turned into a prairie fire.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty retreated like a tide, and many of them had been burned to the ground like a burning torch, but they couldn't die for a while, running and letting out a sharp wail until the last breath of life.

The wind was blowing south, and the smoke was mixed with the strange smell of human flesh being roasted.

The officials around Ma Shiying were shocked and speechless, and they didn't know who spit out lunch with a "wow", and then everyone bent down and vomited.

Only Sun Yuan and the others and Ma Shiying stood there with their lips pursed, and a thought flashed in their hearts at the same time: I am afraid that this siege of Yongcheng is not as simple as imagined.

The first attack of the Lu Feng army was so simply defeated, and the Ming army's unbearable was beyond Sun Yuan's expectations.

Without waiting for him to give an order, Chen Tieshan led more than a dozen cavalrymen to chase after the routed army with sabers, slashing and chopping indiscriminately, and shouting in unison: "Go back, go back!" ”

"Boom!" Under the maintenance of the Dudu team, seeing the shining swords, the Ming army that had collapsed was frightened, and reorganized the troops and rushed forward

。 But at this moment, the cannon at the head of the city rang out.

Two small cannons retreated from the pheasant moat and fired non-stop.

Looking at the style, it should be a son-mother gun, this weapon is not very powerful, and the range is short, but when it hits out, it is a large piece, the projectiles fly sideways, and several soldiers are harvested in an instant.

Sun Yuan frowned: "Trebuchet, suppress it!" ”

But at this time, the trebuchet, which had been shooting indiscriminately, fell apart because it had been used too many times.

Sun Yuan had a cold face: "Continue to attack, and send another thousand men and horses to charge." The enemy's small cannon is not worth mentioning, that is, a few more deaths. ”

Ma Shiying then proposed: "General Sun, the morale of our army is no longer good, and it may not be useful to rely on the supervision team alone, is it to recruit some brave soldiers?" ”

Sun Yuan: "Since the governor wants to give out silver, it is difficult to say anything. However, the morale boosted by silver may not last. A soldier who fights for money may be able to muster up courage at the beginning, but it only takes a little setback to collapse. ”

Ma Shiying smiled bitterly: "How do you know if you don't try." ”

Baskets of silver were placed in front of the battle, and each soldier who was about to enter the battle received one, and then gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and ran forward frantically.

It's a pity that many people just don't go back.

Sun Yuan didn't expect Liu Chao and the thief army in the city to be so tenacious, and for a whole afternoon, the attack of the Lu Feng army did not stop. But whether it was attacking the city with a ladder ant, or rushing the car and hitting the door, or directly transporting the soldiers to the city wall, they were all repelled by the enemy without exception.

By dusk, the exhausted Ming army finally withdrew.

In just one afternoon, Lu Fengjun paid more than 600 dead and wounded.

A large number of curled corpses were piled up under the city walls, and most of them had been burned beyond recognition.

In just half a day, the Lu Feng army lost so many soldiers and horses. If you have to wait to take Yongcheng, you don't know how much sacrifice you have to pay and how many soldiers and horses you will lose?

Sun Yuan was secretly frightened.

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