Chapter 334: Perseverance and Confusion in the City
"Haha, God really help me, gou tartar, come up if you are ruthless!"
Chen Mingquan exaggeratedly knelt on the battlements at the head of the city, stretched out his arms and opened his mouth to welcome the rainstorm.
The storm had come at a good time, and the sky was full of black clouds, and in the distance there was a damned thunder that was shining continuously, and the whole sky was as if it had been nightfall, and it was almost impossible to reach out of your fingers. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"General, it's really a blessing from God, the Tartars don't dare to attack anymore."
A team behind him was also ecstatic, in such weather, not even an army dared to attack the city, because this was tantamount to self-defeat.
"Tell me to go down, and one person will be assigned to monitor the five wall battlements, and the rest of the men and horses will all enter the cave of the city tower to rest, and I will personally inspect the armies, and there must be no mistake!"
For this God-given opportunity, Chen Mingquan will never allow himself to waste, originally in the morning battle, the establishment of the army was completely disrupted, some of the departments can still have seven or eight people left, and some of them, but almost the entire army is killed, if there is no distribution and coordination, then the follow-up battle, there is no way to carry out.
"Whoa!"
This team was getting the order, so they hurried down to give the order, and there was a heartfelt joy in their voices, and they could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"But where the army is marching and fighting, the attention is to the right time and place, and the morale of the army is not affected by this, and now the Tartars are ready to besiege the whole army, but they are interrupted by a heavy rain, and they will be disturbed,"
Chen Mingquan wore the linen clothes sent by his subordinates to shield himself from the rain, and then pointed to the city and laughed,
"What the general said is exactly what the general said, on this rainy day, although our firecracker artillery can't be fired when damp, but the bow and crossbow team of the Tartar pressure formation is not as powerful, and it is almost the same as scratching us softly."
Fu Quanyou was lucky to save his life in the morning battle, but his arm was still cut open a big hole, and at this moment he applied some medicine at random, and beat this learned from the lord, wrapped in a white cloth, but he was injured and did not retreat, and still stuck to the castle tower.
"Otherwise, our fire oil and fire guns are on the city wall, although the door panels of the people's houses are removed, but it is inevitable to get damp, you look for an opportunity to see if there is a way,"
Chen Mingquan walked down the city tower to join the rest of the people, and whispered to Fu Quanyou,
"General, no, there is too much oil, if you move it down and put it in a sheltered place, then if the Tartars wait for the rain to stop, they will rush up and kill it, what should I do?"
Fu Quanyou shook his head resolutely, he would rather have a worse effect at that time, and insist on putting it on the city wall to facilitate access at any time.
"Then it's up to you."
At present, the streets below the city tower are full of soldiers running back and forth, either rushing to transport timber and stones to the people's homes near the city tower, or mobilizing the people from house to house to prepare for the formation of an army, and then go up to defend the city.
Chen Mingquan just stood silently in the rain and watched all this, and then sighed,
"Every man who goes into battle must record his life and place of origin, and when the battle is over, he will compensate from house to house, and the houses and beams of the people's houses have been demolished by us, remember to compensate, our cavalry town must not do anything that hurts the heavens and reason!"
A team around him was listening silently, and then turned his head to leave, Chen Mingquan looked at his back, and heard a roar and reprimand from a distance,
"It's not good,"
Fu Quanyou had already advanced to the cave of the city tower and other places near the place where the wounded were placed, looking at the circle of struggling soldiers, he was shocked, the whole three detachments guarding the east gate of more than 600 people, with more than 200 people, after three days of continuous consumption of defending the city, now it has been reduced by more than half.
"How many more people will be able to fight?"
Chen Mingquan doesn't care about his own casualties, and he is not qualified to care about this, the first task now is to defend the city!
In addition to this! He doesn't care about anything anymore, the city is in the people, and the city is dead!
"Except for the twenty or so intact brothers who are watching the city, there are only about 300 people here who can move, and the rest are either injured or dead."
Fu Quanyou glanced at him strugglingly, as if there was anger hidden in his heart, why, the big guy took his life to fight, but you couldn't even say a good word! It's a pity that he doesn't dare, and he doesn't want to tear his face with him on such an occasion,
Perhaps, this is the difference between being handsome and being a general! Fu Quanyou's level and vision doomed him to not understand the entire overall situation.
What is the big picture? Even if the second battalion is exhausted here, as long as it firmly occupies San'in, it will be difficult for the Tartar soldiers to free up the main force to go south, and the situation faced by the entire army will be much better at that time.
Chen Mingquan patted him on the shoulder silently, "This is our fate, don't worry, if you really get to that point, I will die in front of you!" ”
After saying this, Fu Quanyou stopped talking, lowered his head and was silent, as if the suppressed anger and resentment in his heart were instantly disintegrated by this fluttering sentence.
Oh, yes! It's all come to this point, who can accuse anyone of being cold-blooded? If the Tartars attack again, they will defend it, it is nothing more than losing their lives on which day, what Chen Mingquan did, everyone under them saw it, which gap was not brought by him personally?
"Okay, cheer up, our days are still long, if the Tartars want to break the city, it is not so easy, now immediately go down and mobilize the soldiers, take the opportunity to hoard the stones and wood needed to defend the city, and order the guys, how much ginger water, to replenish everyone."
As he spoke, he stood up and prepared to continue to go out in the rain, Fu Quanyou was stunned,
"General, you rest, I'll go to the other gates to have a look, and I'll come back to tell you."
Chen Mingquan smiled and pressed his hand, "No need, this is my responsibility, you recuperate first, the battle behind the east gate depends on you to support it." ”
After that, he took three or five personal guards, directly took the hat, and disappeared in the heavy rain in sackcloth.
Fu Quanyou stared at it for a while, but finally swallowed the words in his mouth, and then forced himself to come up mentally and mobilize the soldiers at the bottom to continue to fight.
However, the east gate, as the direction of the main attack of the Tartars, is indeed miserable!
The three teams of regular troops of 600 people, and the people with 200 people, fought for three days, and more than 120 brothers were killed, and the wounded brothers were as high as 300 people.
Therefore, except for the fatal wounds of the hands and feet that were cut off, the rest can still be treated, and at least there are enough manpower to carry them to the rear, so as not to affect the morale of the army to continue fighting.
Fu Quanyou, who was gradually shuttling in the group of soldiers, had a bottom in his heart, and now more than a hundred slightly injured soldiers were trained into a new fire oil boulder team, and their task was to act as those who did not directly participate in the fight on the second line.
There has always been no precedent for the use of the wounded to continue to participate in the war, but who has brought it to this point now, and if it does not continue to fight, wouldn't it be sorry for the dead brothers? Moreover, the tens of thousands of people in the city also forced them to continue fighting!
"Captain, there can only be four hundred-person teams here, such a long city wall, this amount of troops, how can we do it?"
A man who was temporarily designated as the leader of the team asked with a sad face, he really didn't have any confidence, the eight hundred elites who went into battle before were all disabled, not to mention now.
"Even if you die in battle! will also die on the city tower, who dares to take a step back and kill without mercy! ”
After Fu Quanyou learned about Chen Mingquan's mortal heart, he also made up his mind in his heart, since he wants to die, let's die here together, anyway, it will be consumed with the Tartar soldiers!
"This?!"
The team leader really didn't understand, why he had to fight to the death here, but he couldn't say the words of surrender, outside the city were Tartar soldiers who killed people without blinking, and the breath of despair and resentment gradually rose in the crowd, but unfortunately no one dared to easily get up and make noise, because it meant death!
The beggar army has always punished deserters extremely severely, if someone dares to escape from the battle, or even clamor for the soldiers to resist the boss, then the end is doomed, even if they succeed for a while, but what about the family in the rear?
"Where is the general? Checkmate! ”
Suddenly, a surprised voice came from outside the cave, Fu Quanyou looked back, wasn't this Ding Chengjiu who was sent to mobilize the people?
"Lao Jiu, how are things going? How many people have been mobilized? ”
This time, it is no longer to mobilize those young and strong, most of the young and strong in the city have already gone into battle, and the rest have to transport stones and trees and place the wounded, and continue to support the front line, and now almost all of those who can go into battle have come up, thinking of this, Fu Quanyou is also a little gloomy, and things seem to have come to the point of exhaustion.
Ding Chengjiu didn't notice that he was depressed, but when he saw that the general was not there, he said excitedly to him, "Captain, I brought back eight hundred people this time, let's continue to work with the Tartars!" ”
"Eight hundred? Oh my God, where did you find out where so many people came?! ”
Fu Quanyou was shocked, there were still so many people in this city? Why didn't he know, but this didn't prevent him from rushing out suddenly, and these words didn't avoid anyone, so those soldiers who were sitting on the ground weakly also moved, there were reinforcements?
The soldiers defending the city are not afraid of sacrifice, not afraid of hardship, afraid of no help in the future, for fear that they will be abandoned by the abandoned son, in that case, even if they are exhausted, it will not be of the slightest use, not to mention the sense of powerlessness in their hearts.
"This is our reinforcements?"
Fu Quanyou was stupid, what kind of situation was the group of eight hundred reinforcements standing in the rain and looking at him with firm eyes!
A whole 800 women and children, old and weak, came up, they were either dressed in thin clothes, or they had no vegetables on their faces, but such a group of people suddenly made him feel a stir in his heart! Even such a common man has been organized, so what qualifications does he have to give up?! (To be continued.) )