"Lao Tzu is really blind to the eyes of a dog, and he sells such a dog thing to death! Phew! ”

The calmness on Li Qingshan's face had long disappeared at this time, and what he pointed to was a burst of scolding, smashing things while scolding, venting the extreme dissatisfaction in his heart.

It can be seen that he is really going crazy.

Several of the commanders under their command had a mixture of anger and fear on their faces, and they looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Relying on the fact that all the people in this big tent are their own people, if these words are spread, I am afraid that not only the life of the general will not be guaranteed, but also the teachers and commanders of his confidants will also be unlucky.

It's just that Li Qingshan has a lot of prestige, and he is angry at this time, and they don't dare to persuade each other.

After a while, Li Qingshan seemed to be out of breath, and sat on the chair panting.

A capable division commander under his command stepped forward and persuaded: "General, why don't we go and ask for a meeting again?" So many brothers have died for this, can't we just be so vain? ”

"Ask to see again? You can figure it out! Li Qingshan glared at him fiercely: "Do you make that old man jealous of us in his heart?" ”

He snorted coldly: "That old thing is the only one now, let's go again, he must have acted as a collision with him, and he doesn't hate it in his heart?" ”

Before the words fell, the voice of the guard suddenly came from outside: "General, Prime Minister Wen invites you to come over." ”

"Prime Minister Wen? Feng Xichen? Li Qingshan frowned: "What is he looking for me to do?" ”

"General Li, do you have a strategy to break the enemy?"

Feng Xichen's tent was not big and very simple, with only a few pieces of furniture in it. And it's very old, and it's not a precious commodity.

Li Qingshan just came in. The two met and served tea. Feng Xichen sent the people away, and immediately asked eagerly.

Li Qingshan glanced at Feng Xichen, was silent for a while, and said: "Back to the Prime Minister's words, I have an idea, but now I can't even see the face of His Royal Highness the Holy King, what is the good?" ”

It was a wry smile.

He knew that Feng Xichen was extremely loyal to Xu Hongru, so he didn't show the slightest dissatisfaction. This wry smile vividly expresses the image of a loyal but unfortunate general who has no way to serve the country.

Feng Xichen is resourceful and capable, but the city government is not very deep, let alone such an old treacherous and cunning person, to put it bluntly, his life is too flat, and he is a little naïve. He looked at Li Qingshan's appearance and was very relieved. patted him on the shoulder, but comforted: "You don't need to worry, His Royal Highness the Holy King is just a moment of confusion, how can it last so long?" Those of us who are courtiers only need to be loyal. With good words and persuasion, His Highness the Holy King will definitely be able to regain his strength. ”

When he said this, he was full of confidence. Obviously, the foolish loyalty to Xu Hongru has reached a certain level.

Li Qingshan didn't think so, but nodded on his face.

Feng Xichen said again: "His Royal Highness the Holy King has handed over all the military and political powers to me. I'm in charge of everything, what do you think? Come with me, let's discuss it. ”

Hearing this, Li Qingshan's heart sank, and his attitude towards Feng Xichen was even more respectful.

He pondered for a moment, leaned closer, and whispered a few words to Feng Xichen.

"That's a great plan!" After hearing this, Feng Xichen immediately slapped him fiercely and said excitedly: "General Li, if Tashanwei can be defeated, you will make a great contribution!" ”

Li Qingshan hurriedly said: "Look at what your lord said, if you want to talk about merit, the first is that His Royal Highness the Holy King is hanging down and ruling wisely, and the second is that Your Excellency Prime Minister is in the middle of the dispatch and strategizing, this merit is not the last general." ”

Everyone loves to listen to good words, Feng Xichen is not a saint, he was complimented by Li Qingshan, and his heart was also extremely comfortable, he smiled and patted Li Qingshan's shoulder: "General Li is too humble, this credit is yours, and no one can take it away." ”

Li Qingshan hurriedly said a few more words of petty and pleasing words, and seeing that the time was almost up, he said carefully: "Prime Minister, there is a reluctant invitation here." ”

"You say!" Feng Xichen said.

"That's what happened. A while ago, during the siege of the city, the soldiers under the command of the last general suffered heavy casualties and suffered a lot of losses. And we're not talking big! Li Qingshan patted his chest, and said with some pride: "If you want to lead troops to fight, the more we have, the better, and these people under our hands are really not enough to see!" ”

"You kid, you're a bit of a bold. But what you said is true, these generals in our army, in addition to the generals, have to count you the most! ”

Feng Xichen smiled lightly and punched Li Qingshan in the chest, Li Qingshan's heart was overjoyed, seeing Feng Xichen's attitude, he knew that this matter was almost done.

Sure enough, after Feng Xichen pondered for a while, he waved his hand very heroically: "This lord, I did it!" After breaking through Tashanwei, you can choose all the puppet officers and soldiers who surrendered to Cheng and the strong people in the city, and as for the regulations of your rear army, it will be set at 50,000 people! ”

Li Qingshan was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Prime Minister, I will be grateful." ”

Feng Xichen smiled: "This is what you deserve." Okay, let's go down and prepare, there will be a big battle tomorrow. ”

The moment Li Qingshan walked out of the tent and lowered his head, the humble smile on his face immediately disappeared without a trace. He sneered, and there was ridicule and sarcasm in his smile.

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Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as the sky was bright, there was a commotion in the White Lotus Sect camp.

The gates of the camp were opened everywhere in the camp, and countless White Lotus disciples dressed in white gathered outside the camp, and under the scolding of the officers' organization, they formed a huge phalanx in a chaotic manner.

The idea is that it is the White Lotus Sect, not the soldiers of the White Lotus Sect.

For a work with little technical content such as siege, using elite soldiers and driving civilians to attack, in fact, the difference in effect is not big, even if there is. The White Lotus Sect has no experience, and at the beginning, it still used elite soldiers to attack the city, but the Ming army had enough defenders, and the weapons and materials in the city were sufficient, and the soldiers had strong combat effectiveness. On the contrary, the losses are heavy.

After a few days, the top leaders of the White Lotus Sect have also learned to be obedient. Instead of attacking the city with elite soldiers, the armed people of the church were driven to attack the city.

The elite of the five armies in the front and back, left and right. is to press the formation in the back, one is to play the role of the team superintendent, and the other is to see that the battle situation has taken a turn for the better, and immediately pounce to expand the results. To put it bluntly, the lives of these believers are just used as foreshadowing.

Today is no exception, the direction of today's main attack is Dongcheng, and hundreds of phalanxes have been assembled several miles outside the Dongcheng Gate. A phalanx is a battalion of five hundred and twenty-five people. In other words, the number of troops invested in the siege this time has reached more than 50,000.

It is said that it is an armed mob, but in fact, it is just a waist knife for one person, and there are no other weapons. Just these waist knives, they still captured a few arsenals that the Ming army had time to burn in the future, and occupied a few towns and ordered the local blacksmith shops to build day and night, which can be regarded as one per capita, and their combat effectiveness is actually quite limited. But because all of them were dressed in white robes made of undyed white cloth, they looked very regular, but they had a bit of a serious atmosphere.

This white cloth is the cheapest, and most people who don't have money wear it. The so-called white Ding is like this.

One of the towns that the White Lotus Sect defeated was a well-known cloth-producing town in the entire Liaobei General's jurisdiction and even outside the Guan, and 100,000 horses of unprinted and dyed white cloth were seized from it. And he cut the garments. The dress is uniform, but it looks a lot more formal.

About half an hour passed. The White Lotus Sect members had already finished rectifying, and the desolate horn sounded with a whining desolation. Under the organization of the officers, these disciples rushed towards the distant Tashan Guard. There were quite a few tall things erected in the ranks, and they were ladders. There are about a dozen ladders in each phalanx, which doesn't sound like much, but don't forget that there are hundreds of attacking phalanxes.

In this way, it is very terrifying, and although the focus of the White Lotus Sect's attack is near the city wall, the battle line is very long, which invisibly makes the defenders have to divide their troops to defend.

Tashanwei commanded Zhou Kui to sit under the city tower.

Condescendingly, his eyes coldly scanned the dense white lotus cultists in the distance who were like ants.

Due to the serious lack of organization and discipline, and not a capable soldier, at this time, the White Lotus Sect's offensive phalanx was already completely scattered, and it was stretched and stretched several times, and everyone was running around with knives in their hands, and they were still shouting and shouting that they didn't know what it was.

Tens of thousands of people howled and rushed over, this scene fell in the eyes of outsiders, naturally it was a prestige and frightened, but the connoisseur looked at it at a glance, but it was full of flaws and not worth mentioning.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhou Kui's mouth, and his face was full of disdain.

He simply looked down on these thieves.

Zhou Kui is the 30 years of Zhengde Wujinshi, Zhengde 30 years, the military system was reformed, the Beijing army in the east and west of the official hall and the 12 regiments and battalions were abandoned, recruited 300,000 warriors in the country, rebuilt the Beijing army, divided into three battalions, and was a year to open Enke, take the Wujinshi, take 200 Wujinshi a year, enrich the officer force in the Beijing camp, and at the same time re-set up the establishment of the 26 guards, outside the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, directly under the emperor. As the first batch of martial artists after the first Enke, Zhou Kui's group of people received considerable attention, Zhou Kui himself was born in a Cangzhou martial arts family, the family background is good, he has also studied since he was a child, and he also practiced martial arts, which can be regarded as a figure of both civil and military affairs.

This road to promotion is also quite prominent and prosperous, and he climbed all the way to the high position of thousands of households in the Beijing army, when Zhou Kui was only thirty-six, and it was the time when he was in the prime of life. It's just that the Beijing army is very particular about seniority, and there are a lot of noble sons and daughters in it, all of whom are masters with a deeper background and a harder background than Zhou Kui. With his background, it is the ultimate to rise to a thousand households, and the hope of going further is extremely slim.

Zhou Kui is also an ambitious person, unwilling to be subordinated to others, gritted his teeth, and simply asked to be transferred out of the Beijing army. Zhou Kui brought his family and his mouth from the prosperous capital to this wilderness outside the pass.

Since then, I have been there for five years.

However, he also got his long-cherished wish, although Yang Xuezhong was mediocre and incompetent, he was not blind, and he was also entrusted with important tasks such as Zhou Kui, a capable and high-born officer, and he was promoted to commander within two years to guard the Tashan Guard.

He has been guarding Tashanwei for four years, holding tens of thousands of soldiers, and he has a hundred miles around. It's no different from the Earth Emperor. In the past two years, Duoyanwei has invaded the east almost every year, and every time Tashanwei is a must-fight. Zhou Kui had fought with the elite Mongols too many times, and he didn't look down on the White Lotus Sect at all.

These people are extremely poorly armed. The armor is extremely poor, the combat effectiveness is extremely poor, and they don't know how to cooperate and what tactics to fight at all, so they are really a rabble.

In Zhou Kui's opinion, the only thing they are commendable is the will to fight. These White Lotus Sect disciples have been completely brainwashed by the doctrine, they worship their sect leader as if they were gods, and they worship the words of the sect leader and those big officials above as Lunyin, although their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, but they are not afraid of death. As long as the order from above is not handed down, it will be fought to the death.

Don't die at all!

This kind of scene made Zhou Kui also can't help but feel chills in his heart.

Of course, there is also a point that cannot be ignored - their number - almost dozens of times his own troops, so that Zhou Kui also had to fully shrink and defend the city, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight at all.

The White Lotus Sect disciples were getting closer and closer, Zhou Kui took a deep breath, and said lightly: "Trebuchet, bed crossbow, prepare!" ”

As an important town for the defense of Duoyanwei, Yang Xuezhong has not been short-sighted enough to sell all the military materials here to the extent of corruption. The replenishment and supply of various military supplies here is still relatively sufficient. Just relatively. A total of dozens of trebuchets and bed crossbows were placed on the eastern city wall, and in this era, trebuchets played a similar role as cannons.

The twenty trebuchets on the city walls are generally large trebuchets. Underneath is a rectangular wooden frame that is ten meters long and eight meters wide. It is made of a giant wood that two people hug together. The wooden frame is topped by a five-metre-high frame, which is also secured by giant columns. The boom is six feet long. Above the frame, a counterweight weighing 20,000 catties is fixed.

Trebuchets of this specification. It is enough to throw a stone weighing 200 to 300 pounds over a distance of more than 350 paces.

Three hundred and fifty steps, less than a thousand meters, but when the weight of the projected object is reduced, this step can be done.

The other ten are small trebuchets, two circles smaller.

The self-contained heralds passed down Zhou Kui's orders layer by layer, and when they got the order, the Ming soldiers hurriedly tightened the machine.

The White Lotus Sect was getting closer and closer, and after entering the critical point of two miles, Zhou Kui raised his arm high: "Shoot!" ”

As soon as he gave the order, the soldiers immediately lowered the rope, and the balance hammer weighing 20,000 catties smashed into the other end of the boom with a whistling golden wind.

In the midst of the terrible sound of breaking the air, dozens of boulders weighing two or three hundred catties flew out quickly, and the boulders smashed down towards the White Lotus Sect below with a terrible sound of breaking the sky.

Then the next moment, these boulders fell into the array of the White Lotus Sect.

Each boulder is the size of two or three grinding discs, and the stones of this size carry huge kinetic energy, and the power is extremely terrifying, which makes people frightened when they hear it, and their actual effect is even more terrifying.

A White Lotus cultist was hit by a boulder, and then his entire body was immediately smashed into a puddle of flesh, and the boulder fell to the ground, smashing out a deep pit the size of a round table on the ground, and at the bottom of the pit, a piece of mud was also like the remains of this corpse. After the boulder hit the ground, it was ejected by a huge force, and rolled forward with great might, but anyone who was hit by it immediately flew out screaming with broken tendons and fractures, and some of them couldn't dodge, and even rolled over directly on their bodies. When the boulder runs over, it turns from a three-dimensional person into a flat painting.

A picture of flesh and blood.

This piece of boulder was enough to kill and crush more than a dozen people, and the knife lost its kinetic energy, and slowly rolled forward a few steps before it stopped in a pit.

But that's the end of the killing.

In this round of catapult attacks, the White Lotus Sect was roughly killed and injured more than 100 people.

In fact, it is not a good idea to use trebuchets against loose infantry - because a boulder is the limit even if it rolls on the ground a few times because of the huge kinetic energy, or if it crushes ten people to death, more often than not, the boulder is killing one person or not one person is killed because of the huge weight and impact force of the ground.

In addition to intimidating the besieging party, nothing has been done.

Some miscellaneous soldiers may collapse if they are smashed in such a round, but the army organized by the White Lotus Sect has always been fearless of death.

Now is a typical example, not every general's brain is as good as Lian Zining's.

These days. The White Lotus Sect has also seen a lot of such battles, and it is not very flustered. As if they hadn't seen the robes around them who were wailing with stumps and broken arms, they still rushed towards the city wall.

Some wounded soldiers were even trampled over their bodies by countless pairs of big feet. To the living trampled to death.

Zhou Kui's face did not change at all, and he raised his hand again: "Bed crossbow, launch!" ”

More than a dozen bed crossbows on the city wall were fired together, and a huge buzzing sound resounded throughout the battlefield, and more than a dozen thick crossbow arrows flew into the sky, forming a black cloud, because the arrows were iron balls, because of the weight of the arrows, these crossbow arrows showed a parabolic shape in the air. It fell heavily.

Fell among the White Lotus cultists.

The effect this time was also unsatisfactory, and it only caused dozens of casualties to the White Lotus Sect, which was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for the attacking side that had reached more than 50,000 in number.

But Zhou Kui didn't have any disappointment or anything like that, but a trace of expectation flashed in his eyes, he licked his lips gently, and a bloodthirsty expression appeared on his face.

After another round of shooting with the trebuchet, the White Lotus Cultists had already rushed to within a hundred paces.

Zhou Kui ordered: "Archers." Get ready! ”

In the Ming border army, the number of archers accounted for almost more than sixty percent of the entire army, and of course, they also had considerable melee capabilities. And when the city is guarded. This ratio will rise to 100 percent, and the defenders at the head of the city will have a bow for each person. The configuration of a pot of arrows. Anyway, as long as you shoot arrows down when defending the city, it doesn't matter how good your archery skills are. That is the killing of the enemy.

All the soldiers are armed with bows and arrows.

When he was fifty paces away, Zhou Kui gave an order: "Shoot arrows!" ”

"Archery ......"

The sound of the call was heard. The soldiers loosened their bowstrings, and without stopping, they continued to draw their bows and arrows, shooting downward.

The humming sound of the bowstring vibrating converged into a huge wave of sound, making people's eardrums flutter, and it was impossible to hear any real sound at all. Tens of thousands of arrows converged into a rain of arrows like a dark cloud and shot towards the city.

Cover the sky!

That's the real killer move.

The rain of arrows fell.

The feather arrows were shot down from a high place, with the dual power of gravity and power, although the Ming army was not a strong bow and heavy arrow, it was powerful enough.

An arrow hit the head of a White Lotus Sect disciple squarely, and the cluster of arrows shot into the head to a depth of about half an inch, which was already a fatal wound, but it could not kill immediately. The White Lotus Cultist who had been shot screamed and rolled on the ground for a while before his body twitched and died. The one next to him was shot in the right chest, thinking that a sharp arrow had been driven into the lung, he lay on the ground and coughed loudly, there was pink blood foam in his saliva, blood gushed out of his mouth, and the whole person was bent over his waist, like a shrimp twitching in place.

Some were shot in the eye, throat or chest by Nasharp arrows, and died very simply. Some of them were shot at the vital point, and they did not die for a while, but they were even more troublesome.

There are also those who have a fierce temperament, and when they are shot in the arm or thigh, they directly break the shaft of the arrow, and continue to rush forward with a roar.

The entire White Lotus Sect's attack formation was like being gnawed by a dog, and many gaps appeared.

The casualties of the White Lotus Sect under this round of arrow rain were as many as two or three thousand, and in an instant, huge casualties were caused, and corpses were scattered all over the field. And more of them were shot in the body but not dead, covering their wounds and screaming and crying there.

Before they could come to their senses, a second round of arrows rained down.

This is why early firearms were not as effective as traditional bows and arrows, which fired faster, had simpler steps, and were in no way inferior in range to those of the early firearms. But when the musket developed to the level of a flintlock musket, it was far superior to the bow and arrow, with a longer range and greater power, and the three-stage shot effectively made up for the long filling time. And the most important thing is to save effort, that is, no matter how well-trained elite archers are, they will no longer have the strength to draw the bow after shooting ten rounds at most, while the flintlock pistol is much more labor-saving, and it will not consume much energy at all.

After three rounds of arrow rain, the white-robed disciples suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and their combat strength was almost one and a half to two percent, but it was worth paying these costs.

The White Lotus Sect had already attacked the city, and countless cloud ladders were heavily placed on the city wall, and countless White Lotus Sect disciples began to climb and attack the city like ants. (To be continued.) )