Chapter XXVII
After a day of fighting, most of the Ming army was almost exhausted. On the street outside the Fushun Palace www.biquge.info there were a large number of corpses lying on the streets, as well as those Ming soldiers who were extremely sleepy.
Because the battles in the city were scattered and sudden, the Ming army could enter the battle at any time during patrol or movement, so that it was difficult for the Ming army's men to deliver hot food to them.
Some of the Ming troops, relying on the cold steamed buns they carried with them, fought from morning to night, while others hurriedly drank some water and found some scattered food, barely filling their stomachs and continuing to fight.
Chen Ce and He Shixian were greatly surprised by this, and they were both wondering how these Ming troops, who were a mixture of old and new, could suddenly have such strong combat effectiveness. When the herald also rushed over with two heads to report, Chen Ce immediately understood that these thieves were going to reward them for their military merits.
The elite combat forces of the Tartars in the city have long fled, and the rest are either the old, weak, sick and disabled, or the guards of the palace defense, in addition to some auxiliary soldiers, and it is not difficult to understand that the Ming army is against these Tartar soldiers.
In the evening, at the end of the battle, the men of the Ming army had to carry hot meals and look for the Ming soldiers who had not yet returned to the building and were still hungry.
The flames were still burning in some parts of the city, some by the Tartar soldiers, some by the Ming army, one trying to escape through the fire, and the other trying to use the fire and smoke to force out the remnants of the stubborn resistance in the building.
Li Hu, a member of He Shixian's former army, was hit by an arrow in the shoulder during the battle yesterday morning, when he thought he would die before he reached Fushun. However, when he arrived at the fort, the team doctor took off his cotton armor and found that it was only an arrow that had pierced the shoulder blade, and did not cause bone injuries.
This made Li Hu breathe a sigh, and after applying the medicine and bandaging, his arm could barely be forced, and he picked up his spear again.
Yesterday morning, the unscrupulous flirting of the Tartar archers made Li Hu extremely angry, and after arriving in Fushun at night, he secretly vowed in his heart that he must kill a few Tartars to vent his grievances and anger
As a result, this vow was fulfilled this morning. He was one of the first soldiers to storm the city, and he followed the army along the street to the south gate, and then turned back to the palace of the slave chief.
The journey was very hard, and his team had already suffered three casualties, one was shot through the eye but saved his life, another was killed on the spot by a large knife cut in the neck, and another was killed by an arrow while crossing the moat.
The rest of the people, including themselves, were stained red with blood. A group of people were not seriously injured, but there were constant minor injuries, and they were very tired at this time. However, when they heard that they were going to attack the palace of the slave chief, everyone stood up and rushed to go.
For this reason, a group of people were scolded by the centurion, and the centurion shouted again and again while panting: "Fucking bitch, it's all fucking red-eyed, this is not good." The big handsome said, when you enter the palace, don't take the taboo things, you won't be able to enjoy them if you take them, don't take those that are too eye-catching, take those things that no one pays attention to, and you can buy a wife for some food to live when you sell them. ”
Everyone laughed, as if they didn't feel so tired, and after regrouping their formation, a group of people rushed to the palace in the middle with confidence.
There were several routs on the road, and everyone rushed up like cutting melons and vegetables, and collected a lot of heads. Today went well, everyone is very happy, it seems that this seizure can be exchanged for a lot of silver taels.
rushed to the splendid palace in one breath, and there were already many Ming troops nearby, and it was strange that they were blocked outside the main hall.
The Ming army blocked outside the main hall seemed to lack the equipment to break the door. The roof of the main hall and behind the nearby walls were densely packed with archers.
The archers and firearms of the Ming army have not yet arrived, and they are scattered in the city, and if they want to gather together to rush over, I am afraid it will be a long time.
Houjin's intensive long-range attacks left the Ming army at a loss, and while everyone was watching, the marching staff officer of the marshal came over in a magic car.
The marching staff officer found five sword and shield soldiers, bowed their heads and whispered for a while, and then these five sword and shield soldiers rushed to the wall next to the main hall alone. The Tartars had apparently seen the five brothers, and they were about to draw their bows and shoot.
The marching staff officer once again turned on his terrifying firearm, and soon the Tartars standing on the roof of the main hall screamed miserably, and then rolled down the sloping roof tiles on the roof of the main hall, and fell to pieces.
Seeing this, the Tartars behind the wall hid behind the wall, leaving only a few Tartars to observe near the dead end.
At this time, the sword and shield soldiers quickly rushed up, throwing out a few black balls, and after a while, there were explosions one after another behind the wall.
Li Hu rushed forward with the rest of the Ming army, and when the remnants of the tartars behind the wall resurfaced, another black explosive ball was thrown over.
Li Hu and the rest of the Ming army took advantage of the situation and set up ladders and rushed to the top of the wall, and the Tartar archers saw that the situation was not good, and they turned and fled inward.
Not long after, the gate of the main hall opened, and a large number of Ming troops swarmed in.
Li Hu followed the Ming army, who entered first, and killed anyone until they rushed into the dormitory of the slave chief. There were also many Han people along the way, and Li Hu let him go according to the centurion's request.
There were a large number of fine utensils in the dormitory, and the Tartars had fled, leaving only a few trembling women, and the centurion ordered some men to keep an eye on them, while others continued to reconnoiter inside.
Li Hu picked up some delicate utensils and wine glasses, and his hands were heavy, as if they were made of silver, and he put them in his arms without thinking.
The dormitory was full of vegetarian food, and there seemed to be a cry in the tent, Li Hu clenched his spear and beckoned the two brothers to rush in together.
A woman, a very good-looking woman, was sitting there crying. Li Hu was a little stunned, this woman has curved willow eyebrows, big eyes, thin apricot lips and a fair and pretty face, which is much better looking than the cuihua in her village, and she really wants to touch this face.
Li Hu couldn't help but walk over, wanting to look more closely.
"Li Hu, what are you doing?"
Li Hu turned his head and saw that it was a centurion. Li Hu scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "My lord, there is a beautiful girl here, come and have a look." ”
"You fuck, the more beautiful the girl, the more troubled it is, this is the palace of the slave chief, what good goods can you leave behind, you hurry up."
After the centurion finished speaking, he drew his long knife with a brush, and the knife fell in his hand, and the crying was gone, only the head of a beautiful woman on the ground rolled around.
Li Hu was a little regretful, and glanced at the woman reluctantly, and then beckoned the other brothers to leave quickly.
Outside Fushun City, You Shigong's 2,000 cavalry was less than 1,000 and 5 left. Everywhere there were fleeing Tartars, who simply could not concentrate their forces in pursuit.
The Tartars did not completely lose the will to fight as they did when the Ming army fled, and they would look for opportunities to fight back, sometimes even sneak up on them.
Tartars are cunning, they are like wolves in the wild, they are not particularly strong, but they will always attack in the dark.
Of course, You Shigong understood that the battle in the city was about to end, but the battle outside the city had just begun.
When the city was broken, a large number of Tartars swarmed out of the city, many of them were unorganized, and after leaving the city, they became fierce bandits in the blink of an eye. They knew that the main force of the Ming army was bound in the city at this time, so they still had the opportunity to loot in the rural towns around Fushun.
On his way back to the city, You Shigong had already encountered several of these Tartar stragglers, and before he could give the order to attack, these Tartars immediately rode away.
You Shigong knew that he had to go back to the city as soon as possible and tell Lord Chen about these things. Once the surrounding rural ecology is destroyed, the villagers will become homeless and all pour into Fushun City, and it won't be long before the angry and hungry homeless people will devour the Ming army.
"Mr. Chen, Mr. He, the Tartars are robbing and setting fire outside the city, I have encountered several batches of such Tartars on the road, there are too many, I can't kill them."
"Whatever they do, the city is also a mess now, and it hasn't completely calmed down, so let's wait." It was He Shixian who spoke, he didn't care too much about civil affairs, generals, they were originally wars, and when it came to civil affairs, wouldn't they become crooked civil officials.
Chen Ce pondered on the sidelines, and he realized that things were not so simple.
During the Wanli period, the Tartars relied on surprise raids and plunder, which made it impossible for the border people of the Ming Dynasty to work and defend the border normally, so that the officials in charge of Liaodong even had to give up the border land and move the people internally. Later, although it was also reported by people of insight, the mistake had already been made, and it did not help.
Chen Ce sighed, the commander of Houjin didn't care about the gains and losses of the city, and came to this set of tired people's strategies, at this time, he didn't have enough manpower at hand, it was really difficult to do.
"General You, how many cavalry are there on your side?"
You Shigong said: "Less than fifteen hundred." ”
Chen Ce pondered for a while, and said: "You will lead another thousand troops from Tong Zhonghua, collect war horses and food as much as possible from the city and outside the city, alternate with Tong Zhonghua, go out of the city at three o'clock every day, return at the hour, and sweep the surrounding Tartars."
When You Shigong heard Chen Ce's arrangement, he felt a little relieved.
Grain was easy to find, and Houjin originally planned to stick to Fushun for a long time, so the granary in Fushun City was stocked with a large amount of rice and wheat, as well as bean cake forage for war horses.
You Shigong, under the leadership of the herald, quickly found Shen Jia, who was recording.
Shen Jia was holding a strange pen and was recording the seized materials on paper. The amount of materials seized in the city today is too large, but the Ming army does not have enough personnel to count the records, especially since most of the people are illiterate. Before the war, the Ming army streamlined the troops, which greatly reduced the number of secretaries with the army, and now there is no one available, and the angry He Shixian once scolded his subordinates for only killing people and not being able to read.
Looking at He Shixian, who was grinning with bared teeth, he scolded, and Wen Qing, who was straightforward, accidentally spit out: "Isn't Shen Jia a college student, what is literacy." ”
He Shixian didn't know what a college student was, but he could see from the disdainful eyes of the young girl that Shen Jia seemed to be a scholar, and he was still quite powerful.
This is simply lifesaving, He Shixian slapped Shen Jia on the shoulder who was wandering outside, and shouted: "You kid, you don't see what I'm in a hurry, why don't you help me if you can write, if you don't tell me, when are you going to hide it from me?" ”、
Shen Jia glanced at Wen Qing with a resentful expression, so he had to obediently follow He Shixian to count the supplies, so there was this scene that You Shigong saw.
Seeing You Shigong coming over, Shen Jia thought that he was here to change him, so he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Uncle You, you are here, I am really tired of doing this inventory of materials, and now that you are here, it is so good that I can rest." ”
You Shigong's eyes widened suddenly, and he said to the hairy boy in front of him: "Fart, who said I would change you?" ”
"Lord Chen asked me to bring some dry food, horses, arrows and weapons, armor, and go out of the city tomorrow to sweep the rout of the Tartars, besides, there are so many materials and oil and water, the handsome man sees that you are an acquaintance before giving it to you, and if others want to give it or not, you kid talk a lot."
Shen Jia smiled, scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Uncle You, how many people do you have, report it to me, and I will help you calculate the number of supplies." ”
You Shigong thought about it for a long time before calculating his manpower and another thousand men and horses and telling Shen Jia.
Shen Jia stroked with that strange pen on the paper, and said in less than a moment: "Uncle You, there is enough grain here, according to five catties per day, you have a total of two thousand four hundred and twenty-three people, and now you can take away twelve thousand one thousand and fifteen catties, and make up the fraction, which is seventy-nine stones." “
You Shigong looked at this kid in surprise, and said in his heart, "Are you accurate, the result will come out so quickly."
Shen Jia was not idle, and said: "As for weapons, there are still 1,230 long knives here, which should be able to make up for your shortfall, but there are only 50,000 arrows here, and you still need to go to the armory near the north gate to get 71,150 arrows, and others like... “
"Okay, okay, don't talk about Shen Shinephew, I can't remember what you said so much, you just write it on paper, I'll take it and let them look at it and withdraw it for themselves."
When Shen Jia heard that You Shigong wanted him to write it on paper, he suddenly felt like he was constipated.
Shen Jia scratched his head and thought for a long time before drawing something on the paper, then called You Shigong over, pointed to the paper and said: "Uncle You, you see this is the bow and arrow I draw, the number is behind, just draw according to this number, in addition, this is the armor, and this is the horse." “
You Shigong looked at Shen Jia's ghost-like note, looked at Shen Jia with disdain and said: "Shen Shijiao, learn more from the clerks in the camp, just read and take the top prize, know Braille, it is a treasure in the army, and your words are like dogs, isn't it a shame?" “
After speaking, he snatched the note from Shen Jia's hand and left without looking at it.
Shen Jia watched You Shigong leave with a confused face, and suddenly thought of the bow and arrows and horses he drawn, which really didn't seem to be, as for writing, the keyboard was typing too much, and it was really not good to write.