After that, Li Dana immediately rushed to gather people, Li Qingqing and Li Xing did not dare to refrain when they saw Li Rumei's mouth, and each sent an elite 100 horsemen from his subordinates to come to help. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Li Rumei was worried that the Tartars were outnumbered, and she specially sent someone to send a letter to Han Zonggong, the brother-in-law of the Chang'an Fort garrison, inviting him to send troops together. This Chang'an Fort was originally garrisoned with 420 officers and soldiers, and Li Chengliang added 500 soldiers and horses in order to support this unsuccessful son-in-law, plus Han Zonggong's family had no less than 1,000 people.

Han Zonggong saw that his brother-in-law was invited, and his wife Li Ruzhi brought a letter under the instigation of Li Ruliu, and in order to take off this 'unsuccessful' hat, he led 500 people to help.

Together with Li Rumei's headquarters, there are more than 2,000 people, including 500 people from the Li family, who is known as the 'Liaodong Iron Cavalry'.

In the past few days, Yang Hao, a soldier stationed in Haizhou, received a letter from Hao Jie and rushed to Liaoyang with Shen Yourong and the entire 3,000 men and horses of the firearms battalion. In addition, Li Rumei and the commander of the 'Dongning Guard', "Sainta", led 1,000 Jurchen soldiers under his command, with a total of 6,000 soldiers and horses. Hao Jie decided to personally lead a large army to help, and Liaoyang City was handed over to the general Li Xing to stay behind.

After the establishment of Liaodong Town, the Jurchens continued to come to annex, and the Ming Dynasty adopted the method of centralized resettlement of the Jurchens who returned. Therefore, in Liaoyang, Dongningwei and Zizai Prefecture were set up, and 30,000 Wei and Anle Prefecture were originally set up to settle the people attached to the Yi. In the battle of the wild boar skin to break through Kaiyuan and Liaoyang City, most of these Jurchens acted as internal responses, so that the Houjin soldiers successfully broke through the city.

At this time, the sky was clear outside Pingyu Fort, and suddenly a puff of smoke and dust rose from the ground, and I saw thousands of Mongolian Tatars abandoning their horses and walking to the north, east and west of Pingyu Fort. The Tartars who rushed to the front row were all dressed in iron armor, carrying large wooden shields that had been improvised and wrapped in freshly peeled cowhides to increase their bulletproof capabilities, while the Tartars who followed closely behind carried a large number of sandbags and wood and stones.

These large wooden shields, which looked very heavy and strong, gave the Mongol Tartars a lot of security, and their fear of the guns of the Ming army on the city was also reduced a little, and they began to approach the city at a rapid pace.

"The Tartars are ready to build a fort to the city!" Ziren saw the Tartar's intentions, and called Lei Zhenwei to order: "Order the enemy to approach the city one hundred and fifty paces after the extermination cannon and the furlong machine cannon with live ammunition. The shield aimed at the Tartar fired freely, and the Tiger Squatted Cannon waited for the Tartar to shoot a volley after a hundred paces closer. After that, he looked at the city and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

According to the Mohist classic "Mozi" compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period. Siege tactics can be divided into 12 categories: proximity, hook, rush, ladder, moat, water, hole, burst, hollow, ant, rein, and xuanche, and for these siege tactics. The corresponding defense methods are noted in the book, and Ziren is well versed in them.

The Tartars built the earth into earthen forts of the same height or higher than the city walls, and this method of siege was called "Lin", which was the next step in the siege methods. All you need to do is use guns and crossbows to stop the enemy from building forts.

And the cost of this method is staggering. When the Mongol Tatars destroyed the Zhao and Song dynasties, they forced the captured Song soldiers and civilians to build earthen forts. and stipulated that the people would be slaughtered if they were not built in time. Pile corpses and dirt together to build a fort. And the generals defending the city could not bear to shoot the flesh and blood compatriots who built the earthen fort until the earthen fort was built, so that the Tartars repeatedly succeeded.

However, the soldiers and civilians around Pingyu Fort had already retreated into several fortified cities to hold on, and the Mongol Tatars could not catch prisoners of war and had to lose their own people. Ziren has plenty of ammunition in his hand, and this attrition tactic of using Tartar lives to force it is naturally enjoyable.

One of the centurions in the Tartars, who led his troops to the front row, thought that he was strong and wore an extra piece of leather armor in the iron armor, and finally put on a cotton shoulder for insurance. As he approached the northern city, the centurion clenched the large wooden shield in his hand that had been transformed from a door panel, and gasped for breath. In his heart, he kept praying for the blessing of the immortal heaven, hoping to avoid the guns of the Ming people.

At this time, a cannon sound of 'boom' was heard.

The centurion felt a sudden shock to his body, and then he lost sensation in his right arm completely. A cannonball fired from the Furlong pierced the wooden shield in the Tartar's hand, and then smashed his right arm with unabated momentum, leaving a bloody wound.

Only then did the centurion react when he saw the terrible condition of his right arm, and the pain from the wound made him lie on the ground with a wail, rolling back and forth in pain.

Seeing the centurion's tragic condition, the rest of the Tartars immediately quickened their pace. However, as the cannon sound in the city kept coming to mind, the shields in the hands of the Mongols were pierced by cannonballs like papier-mâché. The shield shattered, and the splatters of wooden spikes shot into the bodies and faces of some of the unarmored tartars. caused a lot of secondary damage, and the siege Tartars instantly fell into chaos.

However, under the pressure of the commander's 'Shadow Ke' bullet who commanded the siege of the city, the Tartars continued to approach the city wall.

"Dog tartars who don't remember to eat or beat!" After Ziren scolded, he saw that there was a gap in the shield array of the Mongolian Tatars. Turned around and said, "Lei Zhenwei whistled!" ”

With the sound of cannons, the scattered bullets fired by the tiger squat cannon flew into the Tartar array with the whistle. Although some of the scattered projectiles were blocked by the Mongolian Tatars' leather shields, making a "bang" sound, many projectiles still entered through the gap, causing a ghost to cry wolf in the Tartar array.

Heavy casualties. The Mongols could not hold on to the earth and rocks and rushed back, leaving nothing but a few dozen corpses outside the city.

Lai Hong saw that before he approached the city, the clansmen suffered heavy casualties, and said anxiously: "Abu, this is not a way, if you want to capture this city, I don't know how many people will die, and the warriors on the grassland can't be so lost in vain." ”

At this time, Ying Ke also came to Changang's side and said, "Minister, the guns of the Ming people are too vicious, and the shields are useless, and the clansmen have suffered heavy casualties!" ”

Changang's face suddenly became difficult to look at, and the Tubao Lincheng was a tactic that completely relied on manpower consumption. I thought that I could block the Mingren's guns with a shield, but I never thought that this move would be useless, if I built a fort with the Mingren's guns, I don't know how many warriors would there be.

After frowning and thinking for a long time, Chang Ang suddenly had an idea, and while gathering his subordinates, he sent people to persuade Brain Mao Da and Bai Hongda to stop the siege first, and there was something important to discuss with the two.

Before the generals of the city had time to celebrate when they saw that the Tartars had retreated, they saw the Mongols rush out of the ranks of a hundred horsemen, rode their horses to the city in a scattered formation, threw down a hundred earthen bags at a distance of about seventy paces outside the city, and then turned and left. As the Tartars retreated, another group of cavalry of equal numbers rushed down the city, repeatedly throwing dirt bags outside the city.

Sun Shoujing, Jin Guan and the others couldn't guess the intentions of the Tartars, so they hurriedly came to find Ziren to discuss. And Ziren didn't answer, but his face added a bit of solemnity. (To be continued.) )

PS: (The next chapter will be updated before 10 o'clock tomorrow night)