Chapter 509: Soldiers Descend on the City
Li Anliang's army rested for a night in Chamuliang Village, and then continued to advance slowly according to the original Sudu, and every time they encountered a Jurchen village, they would be slaughtered, but at this time most of the Jurchens had already received the news, so they began to quickly assemble towards the village where Fuman was located, the women and children were organized and began to evacuate to the north, and the men took up arms and prepared to protect their homes.
Fuman had already found out the number of the Ming army at this time, and when he learned that the other party had sent 60,000 troops, he was also shocked and sat there speechless for a long time, although they Jurchens were for the people when they entered, and soldiers when they came out, it can be said that every adult man is a qualified soldier, but even if all the adult men of their Jianzhou Left Guard are added together, I am afraid that in the end they can only make up 20,000 people at most, and in comparison, the 60,000 people of the Ming Dynasty are regular troops, and they Jurchens are temporary patchwork troops, if they really fight head-on, I'm afraid they will lose badly. "Novel" novel chapters are updated the fastest
It is precisely because of the above reasons that Fuman's first thought is to escape, but this is the nest of their Jianzhou Left Guard, and it is not easy to retreat, plus those women and children, who are not willing to escape the pursuit of the Ming army at all, plus it is now about to be winter, if you leave the warm village and go to the mountains in winter, the food will definitely not be guaranteed, and then I am afraid that even if they are Jurchens familiar with the environment, they will be frozen to death by the cold winter in the end.
However, fortunately, although the three guards of Jianzhou are constantly filthy with each other, they can still maintain unity when they are external, so he immediately asked for help from Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard, and at the same time organized the women and children of the tribe to evacuate to the Jianzhou Right Guard in the north. He married Agul Hou. It is equivalent to a marriage with Jianzhou Right Guard. The relationship between the two guards is also relatively bucuo, so now that Jianzhou Zuowei is in difficulty, the other party naturally has to share some of it.
However, even with the assistance of the other two guards, and the Jianzhou Right Guard also agreed to temporarily take in the women and children of the Jianzhou Left Guard, but Fuman had to lead the army to block the advance of the Ming army, on the one hand, to buy time for the retreating women and children, and on the other hand, to buy time for the reinforcements of the two guards, after all, the Ming army was about to hit the village where Fuman was located.
More than 20,000 Jurchens who had temporarily assembled were integrated with the fastest sudu. However, Fuman did not dare to directly lead this army to meet the enemy, but concentrated all the troops in the village where he lived, after all, their numbers were relatively small, and they were not as well-equipped as the Ming army, so they must not fight with the other side in the field, and can only rely on the strong village to hold on.
The village where Fuman lived was originally named after his father Xibaoqi, but after he killed Xibaoqi, this village naturally became Fumanzhai, which was a village that Jianzhou Zuowei had operated for many years, not so much a village. It is better to say that it is a small city, and the surrounding walls were built by the plundering Han Chinese and Koreans. Although it is not as good as the regular Daming city wall, it is also very strong, and the space inside the Fuman village is also large enough, in fact, this village was originally used as a refuge for the entire Jurchen clan in Jianzhou in times of crisis.
It is also the solidity of Zhidao Fuman Village, coupled with the storage of a large amount of grain in the village, so Fuman decided to stick to the village, according to his estimates, as long as he can hold Fuman Village for five days, then the reinforcements of Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard will arrive, and then the three guards will join forces in one place, which should be able to repel this Ming army.
When Li Anliang led the army to Fumanzhai, what he saw was a scene of waiting for him, the Jurchens on Fumanzhai were lying on the wall, the bows and arrows in their hands were all facing forward, and several simple trebuchets on the door of the village had also been prepared, which looked no different from the Jurchen villages that Li Anliang had captured before, the only difference was that this Fumanzhai was much larger in scale, and the number of people was several times larger, and there were several more trebuchets on the wall.
"Don't these Jurchens have brains? Obviously, we have artillery and can easily break through their walls, but we are still holding on to the village? A young Ming army general standing beside Xu Cheng opened his mouth and sneered, this time Xu Cheng is not only responsible for leading 10,000 Ming troops, but also a special officer team composed of hundreds of people, they are the cadets of the Beijing Army Academy who will graduate next year, and this time they came to Liaodong to let them see the real battlefield.
"Hehe, these Jurchens are not stupid, although their own city walls are very Keneng can't stop our artillery, but in the case of not having superior troops and equipment, they don't dare to fight with us in the field, so compared to the wilderness without any means of protection, this Fumanzhai can still provide them with a certain amount of protection!" Xu Cheng glanced at the junior next to him who was talking, and explained with a smile that although these young generals had completed their courses in the military academy, they lacked actual combat experience and could not apply what they had learned, which was also the reason why the imperial court arranged them to the army to experience the war firsthand.
"The lesson of the senior is that the younger brother is too much to take for granted!" The military cadet who spoke heard Xu Cheng's words, bowed his head and was taught, the military academy has always required the cadets to love each other, Xu Cheng's current teaching is the responsibility of the seniors, and as juniors, they are also zhidao, these are the experiences that the seniors have gained with great difficulty, so they are also humbly taught, and there are also a few students who are a little puzzled in some wenti, and they also asked Xu Cheng for advice on the spot, and Xu Cheng also answered them one by one, Don't look at him, he is only one or two years older than these juniors, but Liang Haode's tutor and the military camp experience during this period have made his knowledge far beyond these students who have just come out of the military academy.
Li Anliang, who was not far away, listened to the warm conversation of Xu Cheng's young generals, and couldn't help but show a little envy on his face, don't look at his current position is higher than any young man on Xu Cheng's side, but if there is no accident, his achievements in the future may only stop here, and Xu Cheng, these young people who graduated from military academies are completely different, they have talents and relationships, at least now in the middle and lower ranks of the entire army, most of them are held by young officers who graduated from military academies, and these young officers are very united, is also loyal to the imperial court, and it is foreseeable that most of the army generals of the Ming Dynasty in the future will be served by these young generals from military academies.
Thinking of this, Li Anliang couldn't help but sigh, he is now middle-aged, and he will not enter the military academy to study again like those young people in the army, plus he is a general, so after this battle, it is estimated that he will not be entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court. However, Li Anliang quickly cheered up again, although he has been keneng again in military colonels in his life, but he still has a son, and there is more than one, among them, the eldest son likes to study, and it is estimated that he will take the road of civil officials in the future, while the second son likes martial arts, and clamoring to go to the military academy every day, but he is only thirteen years old now, and when he is a little older, he will be sent to the military academy, and in the future, Xu Cheng will be taken care of by these seniors who are also from the military academy, presumably his son will definitely go further than him in the future.
Fu Man stuck to the walled city, Li Anliang naturally could only transfer the artillery unit to the front of the formation as before, and then bombard the opponent's city wall with artillery.
However, this time the artillery tactics of the Ming army had an accident, because when the cannonball broke the mud shell outside the city wall of Fumanzhai, it actually revealed the bluestone inside, it turned out that when Fumanzhai was built, the inside was a city wall made of bluestone, and then the long wood and soil were erected outside, although the bluestone inside was not very thick, but it also took a long time to blast open this layer of stone with cannonballs.
"I didn't expect that the leader of the Jianzhou Left Guard still had such a layer to rely on, but although the slate is strong, it just takes some more time!" A student behind Xu Cheng used a telescope to see the stone slab inside the opposite city wall, and he was talking to himself at the moment.
"Senior, we got the news from some Jurchen captives before, it is said that the current leader of the Jianzhou Left Guard is named Fuman, this person is not as good as a beast, and then raped his stepmother, and killed his father, and afterwards it is said that he killed many of his brothers, a brutal person like him, there should be a lot of opponents within the Jianzhou Left Guard, maybe we can use it to divide the Jurchens of the Jianzhou Left Guard?" At this time, another young cadet proposed, and as soon as his words came out, many people immediately agreed, after all, in their opinion, it is better to be able to achieve the goal with stratagem than with brute force.
However, Xu Cheng shook his head when he heard this: "You juniors don't know, the Jurchens don't have any concept of shame, they only look at the results and strength, such as Fuman in front of him, no matter what means he uses to sit on the position of leader, as long as he has the strength to sit in the position of leader, then no one will accuse him of using the method, and even if he is the previous opponent, I am afraid that he has already been cleaned up by Fuman, and the rest of the people will not care about Fuman's evil deeds of killing his father and adulterous mother." ”
When he said this, Xu Cheng paused deliberately, and then said with a solemn face: "In addition, all juniors should remember that when the strength is equal or slightly weaker than the enemy, use some strategies to make your own more haode achieve your goals, but when your strength is far superior to the enemy, there is no need to spend too much thought, you only need to use absolute strength to crush the past, when His Royal Highness King Zhao was the school supervisor, he said that in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and trickery are futile, all juniors should keep this sentence in mind!" (To be continued......)
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