Chapter 19: Determining the Governor of Tongzhou
On that day, the anxious Azig did not even repair it, and omitted the historical step of persuasion and surrender, and directly ordered the construction of siege equipment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info said that it was an appliance, and in such a short period of time, it could only be a ladder. But Azig doesn't care about this, he just wants results, he wants to capture Zunhua City immediately, all he needs is results.
In the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang, the prime minister of Jizhen military training affairs, used the main and guest soldiers he brought from Zhejiang to demolish and redesign the entire Zunhua City. After the reconstruction, the whole city is made of stone, and the shape is like the head worn by the ancients, so it is also called the city. The circumference of the city is more than 1,000 zhang, the thickness of the city foundation is about 10 meters, the height is about 11 meters, and there are more than 1,000 battlements on the city wall. There is a city gate on the east and west, north and south sides, there is a moat outside the city gate, the river is more than six meters deep, and the width is about ten meters.
In addition to the four gates, there is a water gate on the west side of the north gate and a water gate on the west side of the south gate, which is not only used for defense, but also ensures the circulation of the waterways in the city.
In the big tent outside the city, Azig said: "Immediately build a thousand ladders to attack the city, and you must capture Zunhua before dark!" Amin said: "Do you want the Mongols to be the vanguard?" Azig said: "Let the Mongols fight the vanguard, and our warriors of the Eight Banners will follow." Amin said with a little embarrassment: "But the last time I ambushed Zhao Shujiao, the Mongols already had some resentment, and the emperor also said that the Mongols were usable but not exhaustive." ā
Azig waved his big hand and said: "When is this, if you kill Zhao Shujiao, you can take advantage of the situation to attack the city, but now that Zhao Shujiao has run away, is it still time to let the warriors of the Eight Banners risk death to capture the city?" The Mongols are our dogs, what is the grievance, my Eight Banners warriors can subdue them once and conquer another! ā
Amin nodded and went out. After Amin was out of the account, Azig took off his helmet, his fists gradually clenched, his mouth muttered, and a person's back gradually appeared in his mind. Xiao Yi, even if I find the edge of the sky, I will kill you with my own hands, and I will slam my fist on the seat with a bang.
Xiao Yi finally found a village, which was still quiet and peaceful, as if no one knew that Houjin was attacking Zunhua City more than 300 miles away, burning, killing and looting more than 300 miles away.
Xiao Yi staggered to the door of a house, looking at the wooden door, Xiao Yi finally couldn't support it anymore, and fainted at the door of this house as soon as his eyes fainted. After a while, the door opened, and out came a man in his forties, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, carrying a medicine box, like a doctor.
The doctor almost didn't step on Xiao Yi when he went out, and saw that there was a person lying in front of his house, looked around at no one, and carefully probed the tip of Xiao Yi's nose with his hand, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and there was a breath, and there was help! Shouting into the room: "Old woman, come and help!" Someone fainted. ā
A person who came out of the room was also an old lady wearing coarse cloth clothes, and the old lady came out and said in surprise: "Huo, which young man is this, why is this like this?" Come, son, help carry this man into the house! There was a sound in the room, and then a woman with a long ponytail and a coarse cloth dress in green and white came out, with a delicate face, although not particularly beautiful, but very delicate. Although she is a country woman, she gives people a different feeling from ordinary country women. The family of three carried Xiao Yi into the house with all hands and feet.
It turned out that the middle-aged man's name was Fei Youjin, the eldest mother was his mother-in-law Shi, and the woman was their daughter named Fei E.
"Mother, who is this person, why did he fall in front of our house?" Fei E opened a pair of big eyes, stirred the braid with her hand and asked, a pair of eyes looked at the unconscious Xiao Yi from time to time, looking at Xiao Yi's slightly resolute face.
Shi Shi said with a reluctant face: "Who knows, this is not what your father picked up at the door." Fei Youjin immediately came to the door and said: "Now the world is so chaotic, who knows where this little brother fled from, I just took the pulse for him." Fei E hurriedly asked, "How is it, is there any salvation?" ā
Fei Youjin smiled and said, "This person is purely overworked and unconscious, just rest more, I won't go out today, Ezi, I'll prescribe a prescription for you later, you two go out to pick some herbs, come back and boil and feed him, I guess you will wake up tomorrow." ā
Fei Youjin said to Shi: "Old woman, hurry up and go out with Ezi to collect medicine, it is a life to save people's lives." Shi said helplessly: "I know, who made our family a medical family, who made your old man like to help others." ā
Fei E smiled and teased: "Yes, my father is a famous doctor in these ten miles and eight villages." Shi Shi also smiled and nodded Fei E's little Qiong's nose, and said, "You dead girl, hurry up and go out with your mother to collect medicine, you can't save this young man if it's too late." ā
Fei E stuck out her tongue in response, and hurriedly picked up the medicine basket and went out to collect medicine, Fei Youjin looked at the backs of the two and smiled.
At this time, Zunhua City was already about to be a big war, Azig made people build a ladder and began to attack the city non-stop, first 30,000 Mongolian entourages carried the ladder and rushed to the city, and the four banners of the left wing of Houjin were recuperating.
And Zunhua governor Wang Yuanya was not idle, immediately scattered all his wealth to recruit people to help defend the city, as early as the discovery of the Houjin army he asked people to prepare wood and boulders at the head of the city, and spread firewood all over his own palace, wanting to live and die with Zunhua City. He also personally put on his armor and climbed the city wall to defend the city with the soldiers and the people, which greatly inspired the soldiers and the people. Everyone defended the city without fear of death, and the officers and soldiers kept throwing arrows down on the city platform, while the people and brave people threw logs and boulders into the sea of tartars under the city from time to time.
When he finally climbed to the top of the city, a defender of the city pushed down the ladder and the people, and the Mongol began to yell in panic, looking back in horror at the approaching ground and shouting. With a bang, the ladder fell to the moat. With it, a few tartars were brought down.
The shouting lasted for more than two hours, from early morning to noon, the Mongol entourage in charge of the attack almost suffered heavy casualties, and several princes kept looking for Azig to ask him to increase reinforcements, but Azig was still unmoved, wearing a helmet and not knowing what he was thinking.
The 30,000 cavalry of the four banners on the left wing of Manchuria waited quietly, and suddenly a fire broke out in the city, and there was a sea of fire everywhere, and the residents of the city scattered and fled, as if the Houjin had broken the city, and the hearts of the brave defenders were shaken, and people kept secretly fleeing.
Wang Yuanya, who was slashing the city wall, kept drinking useless, looking at Azig who was guarded by a group of white-armored soldiers in the distance, and looking at the city around him that was already at the end of the crossbow, Wang Yuanya, who was angry, couldn't help but gasp and shouted: "Your Majesty! The minister Wang Yuanya could have protected the city from losing, but he should have set fire to help, and the guilty minister would have lost his weight and the crime was unforgivable! The minister will let the thief step on the corpse of the minister! ā
The defenders of Zunhua City were less than 4,000, while the attacking Mongols numbered more than 20,000. There are the benefits of fortifying the city and recruiting more than 1,000 brave soldiers, and then the Jin army lacks siege equipment, if the army and the people in the city are united as one, they can still defend, but at this time there should be arson, the city is in chaos, and the robbery is everywhere, which is already the end of the strong crossbow.
The corners of Azig's mouth raised, he pulled out his steel shining sword, and shouted: "Jurchen warriors, follow me Azig to attack the city!" Follow me Azig to slaughter the lambs of the Ming Kingdom! "Anyway, rush to Zunhua City first!
"Kill!"
"Kill the dog!"
With Azig, the Jurchens of the Four Banners of the Left Wing rushed over as if Zunhua City was just a woman who had already shed her clothes, and under the iron hooves, the entire city seemed to tremble. The Jurchens were extremely excited, and the chase a day ago made them hold back the fire, but at this time, this Zunhua City was like a lamb to be slaughtered.
Xiao Yi's temptation failed to rewrite history after all, Zunhua City fell as scheduled, and the Azig army and the Huang Taiji army will meet here as scheduled. I don't know if Yuan Chonghuan will be able to stop the Manchurian iron hooves from attacking Jingshi next, and whether he will be able to rewrite his tragic fate.
Jizhen, the current Jizhen not only gathered tens of thousands of troops of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Ningyuan, and He Kegang, the deputy general, but also the Guanning iron cavalry brought by Yuan Chonghuan from outside the Guan. Yuan Chonghuan brought all the main forces to Jizhen, and brought all the three major generals under him to Guannei, which has fully demonstrated his determination to keep the slaves and thieves out of the Jingshi.
Yuan Chonghuan ordered the Gyeonggi area to be strictly guarded from Jizhen from the time he arrived, and ordered all the guards to be under martial law and ready to burn at any time. Jizhou, Sanhe, Miyun, and Shunyi, which are close to the northeast of Beijing, were closely fortified to prevent Houjin from entering Beijing from the northeast road.
Yuan Chonghuan ordered Cao Minglei, the chief soldier of Baoding, to be stationed in Jizhou to contain the enemy, and led the army by himself, with the chief soldier Zu Dashou as the vanguard, stationed in Jizhou in the center to dispatch and respond, and also ordered Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, to guard the three rivers.
On this day, Yuan Chonghuan convened a meeting of the generals in the government to discuss how to curb the Gyeonggi area of Houjin today. Yuan Chonghuan got up and asked, and Zhao led the sect to tell Yuan Chonghuan how he galloped into the march to the east of Huacheng, where he was ambushed by tens of thousands of Manchu and Mongolian troops from Azig and how to fight and finally be saved.
When the generals heard that Zhao led the sect to kill tens of thousands of Manchu and Mongolian troops in Azig with 4,000 people, they were all amazed, and they deserved to be the general army of Pingliao. Yuan Chonghuan was surprised: "Someone dares to provoke Azig and lead away tens of thousands of Manchu and Mongolian troops alone, I will definitely meet this person, Xilong, what is the appearance of this person?" ā
Zhao Shujiao smiled bitterly, "I haven't seen this person either, but his companion and I repaired in Dongsheng's right guard for one night, and I went to look for him this morning, and I don't know if he lives or dies for a while." ā
Yuan Chonghuan nodded and asked about the situation again, and Zhao Shujiao informed the news that Daankou had fallen a few days ago. caused a lot of commotion in the hall.
"What? Huang Taiji broke through Tongzhou a few days ago? How is Zunhua now? Deputy Chief Soldier Zhou Wenyu immediately asked. Zhao Shujiao replied, "I'm afraid Zunhua is now under siege, and the four thousand soldiers I brought are now only eight hundred, so I am here to ask for help from the superintendent!" ā
Zhou Wenyu immediately said: "Now there is only one way to give up Zunhua, there are two thieves and the location of one is still unknown, and the number of our army is not superior to the field battle as the next policy, immediately rush to Tongzhou to intercept it in Tongzhou, this is also a full strategy." ā
Yuan Chonghuan nodded and said: "Zhou Junyan is that my brother is afraid of rebellion and slavery, and he is like Jizhou, showing that he is in the shadows and does not fight with me." Only now can only quickly take Guan Ning Iron Cavalry to Tongzhou to intercept the thieves and slaves. ā
On the same day, Yuan Chonghuan took Zu Dashou as the vanguard, set up 9,000 Guanning iron cavalry to aid Tongzhou, and ordered Cao Minglei, the general soldier of Baoding, to be stationed in Jizhou to contain the enemy.