Chapter 90: Preparing for War Overnight
After getting rid of the enemy's pursuit, Ziren and his entourage did not dare to be careless, and rushed back to Changning Fort all the way non-stop. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Wang Xuedao and Tang Yaoshun arrived one step ahead of Ziren to protect the women and children, and Ding Youcai, Ding Bi and others who stayed in the fort received the news and were gathering soldiers and horses to go out of the city to rescue. Seeing that his young master was out of danger, he hurriedly opened the city gate and put Ziren into the city.
After a series of battles, Ziren was already exhausted. However, the strong enemy did not dare to relax at the moment, and immediately ordered someone to report the losses in this battle.
There were five people in Changning Fort, plus Wang Xuedao and Ziren before and after two groups of people who went out of the city to respond, a total of 16 people went to fight. After a series of fierce battles, one person died while guarding the pier, two fell from their horses and died in the field, plus five seriously wounded, and half of their men were broken. Most of the wounded and killed in battle were people who could ride and shoot, so Ziren didn't feel heartache.
When I was distressed, I saw an old woman come to her side, grabbed Ziren and cried: "Lord Ding~Where is our second dog~? Why didn't he even see the corpse back after he went out of the city with you, I'm just such a son, how can I live in the future~! Then he sat down on the ground, crying.
When Ziren heard the old woman say this, he knew that the soldier must have fallen from his horse and died in the previous battle. I wanted to be appeased, but Wang Xuedao preemptively said: "This old mother, I can't complain about my young master about this." If Tong Dafang hadn't been reluctant to give up the little grain in the pier and procrastinated, we would have withdrawn to the fort a long time ago, and your son would not have died! ”
Han Shiyong was worried that Ziren would be angry, so he also came up to persuade him: "Tong Ergou and her mother, your son volunteered to fight, and he saved all the people of your Tong family." If it weren't for the fact that people would always risk their lives to rescue, it is estimated that none of the people in this Tong family dun would be able to come back, and you can't bite Lu Dongbin! ”
When the second dog lady heard the two of them say this, she also felt that Shangguan should not be blamed for this matter. turned to anger at Tong Dafang, the guard of the Tong family, relying on his high rank in the clan, pointing at Tong Dafang and crying and scolding.
"Shut up for me, the enemy is still crying and crying here, what kind of system!" Seeing that the scene was out of control, Ziren hurriedly spoke. At the same time, he ordered someone to take the old woman away, so as not to cause more trouble.
Later, Ziren announced the reward and punishment of the battle, and the fallen soldiers were each given five taels of silver, four taels for the seriously wounded, and two taels for the lightly wounded, and the fort was based on this system since then. Tong Dafang, the head of the dun, was temporarily removed from the post of head of the dun because of the disadvantage of organizing the retreat of the dunding. Together with the personnel withdrawn from each pier, they were incorporated into Cui Desheng and Han Shiyong, and continued to stay in the fort to listen to them.
Seeing that Ziren's rewards and punishments were clear, everyone had no objection and continued to perform their duties to strengthen the defense of the fort. Ziren immediately led people to the armory to check what other suitable equipment was in the fort. Only this Tong Dafang secretly glanced at Ziren and stepped aside with resentment.
After checking in the library, Ziren found that there were plenty of rolling wood, stones, and arrows in the fort. There are also many old-fashioned firearms such as bowl-mouth guns, hook-headed guns, line guns, and thunderbolt guns, but gunpowder and rockets are slightly insufficient.
In order to save ammunition, Ziren placed a bowl on each side of the west, north, and east. The remaining firearms were discarded and re-forged at a later date.
When Ziren was actively preparing for battle, Bo Yan'er also led a large group of cavalry to the castle. Seeing that it was not early, he took his subordinates to set up a large camp two miles away from the south gate of Changning Fort. Let the troops hurry to build wooden ladders, in order to prepare for the siege early tomorrow morning, and after arranging it, they returned to the big tent with a sad face.
"Abba, but you're worried about your brothers' injuries?" Seeing that his father was depressed, he hurriedly comforted him, and after seeing his father notice him, he continued: "Deng Er and Zhongtu were both injured by firearms, and the doctor has stopped the bleeding after diagnosis and treatment, and there is no danger to his life for the time being, please rest assured." ”
"Abba, according to the clansmen's report, the second brother and the fourth brother were both injured by one of the white armor generals. Tomorrow I will lead my army as the vanguard, and slaughter this man in white armor, and avenge the Anda. The third son, Bayandal, also helped to comfort him.
Seeing that the two sons spoke together to persuade him, Bo Yan'er had a few more comforts. At this time, several of Bo Yan'er's younger brothers came to the tent noisily to ask for a meeting.
It turned out that the three of them came for the sake of grain and grass. Several people sent troops this time at the invitation of their brother, and after the snow disaster in the clan, the military food was insufficient, so they came to ask for it.
Although he captured a lot of grain when he broke through Changning Fort a few years ago, Bo Yan'er didn't dare to be too generous for the sake of the future. But he ordered the men to snatch the grain from all the piers today, and took out sixty stones and divided them equally among the three people.
It was found that many of these grains were drenched in feces and urine, and many others were snatched from the fire, and half of them were inedible. Seeing this, the three of them refused to stop and pulled their brother to theorize. They also threatened to lead people back to the grasslands if they did not allocate any more grain and grass.
Bo Yan'er didn't dare to delay the revenge event because of this, so in desperation, he had to take out another thirty stones of good rice and allocate it to the three of them.
Only then were the few people in the family satisfied, and they were ready to get up and say goodbye.
As soon as the three of them stepped out of the tent, they saw countless rockets in the air coming from the north. Many of the tents in the camp were burned, and the flames were lit everywhere, and the various departments were in confusion.
Bo Yan'er also heard the news and came outside the tent, judging from the direction from which the rocket came, it must have been the Ming army in the fort that launched a night attack. Looking at the frequency of rocket launches, the number of people attacking is not small.
Immediately commanded everyone to extinguish the fire first, and sent his eldest son Tugen'er to lead the troops to chase and kill the enemy. Bo Yan'er led his subordinates to get busy, and finally put out the campfire.
He led the people to search for a long time, but he found no trace of the enemy. He also mistakenly hit the iron thistle set by the enemy, which injured many clansmen, so he could only go back to the camp to recover his life.
After Bo Yan'er got the report, he knew that the opponent was cunning and did not dare to be careless, so he immediately strengthened the vigilance of all departments. As soon as the morning dawned, he sent troops to attack the city and slaughtered the Ming people in the city. At this time, Changning Fort was celebrating Ziren's victory.
After learning that Mengnu was camped outside the south gate, Ziren immediately led people to the city to check, and found that the opponent's camp was set up in an orderly manner, and the guard was not strict, Ziren Jue decided to sneak attack at night.
In order not to startle the snake, Ziren lowered the rope ladder from the city, took Ding Bi, Ding Youcai, and Ding Shoutie, and secretly went down to the city with eagles and rabbit arrows, and sneaked outside the Mongolian camp.
The eagle chasing the rabbit arrow is a standard firearm in the Ming army, which contains 25 gunpowder and has a range of up to 100 steps. After igniting the rocket, Ziren quickly led his troops back to the city. Before leaving, he did not forget to sprinkle a lot of thistles around him, and when the pursuers arrived, they had already withdrawn to the fort.
Looking at the chaos in the Mongolian Tatar camp, we were indeed unscathed. Everyone in the fort was overjoyed, and the sense of urgency of the soldier's pressure on the realm could not help but ease a lot.
Ziren judged that early tomorrow morning, Mengnu would concentrate his forces to attack the south gate. Then all the firearms in the city, such as the Fran machine gun, the tiger squat cannon, the seven-star arrow, the nine dragon arrows, the fire crossbow meteor arrow, etc., were placed at the south gate, and Ding Youcai and Lei Zhenwei were responsible for the operation.
Ziren personally led Zhou Daqi, Cui Desheng and two soldiers and horses to guard the south gate, and Ding Bi stayed by Ziren's side to guard. The more than 40 soldiers under Han Shiyong were divided into four teams. Three of the teams were handed over to Han Shiyong, Wang Xuedao, and Tang Yaoshun to command, and with the cooperation of the old and weak, they guarded the west, north, and east walls respectively.
The king ordered a team of men and horses to be responsible for guarding behind the city gate, and once the city gate was broken, it was immediately blocked with a knife cart to block the gate. Because of the lack of armor, Ding Shoutie continued to lead the craftsmen to build some iron heart guards to defend the soldiers. Li Dequan's mission remained unchanged, and he took people to stay in the city as backup.
After inspecting all parts of the fort, it was already late at night, so he slept on the south gate that night as a precaution, waiting for the upcoming fierce battle.
Attached Ming rocket type:
Five tigers out of the hole and five arrows. Seven Star Arrows in a pack of seven pieces. Nine Dragons Arrows. Fire crossbow meteor arrows in a pack of ten. Twenty dragon arrows. The eagles chased the rabbit with 25 arrows, and the long snake broke the formation with 30 arrows. Thirty-two bee arrows in a swarm. Forty-nine arrows were loaded with a group of leopards, and one hundred arrows were loaded with a hundred tigers.
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