Chapter 117: The War Begins
The wheels are rolling, the flag is dashing, and the army that has always been a huge lineup is walking quickly on the official road.
"Dong Qi, Chitu, Abate, remember what I told you just now, you marched west with an army of 10,000, along the way, using the speed of your cavalry, to harass the major states and counties belonging to the Dashun Kingdom, under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and then persuade these state capitals to surrender, understand!"
Sitting in the carriage, Shi Lei instructed several generals around him, in addition to Dong Qi and Chitu are old men, Abate is a member of the Tumut tribe.
Hearing Shi Lei's order, although these people were full of doubts in their hearts, they still nodded in agreement, and then listened to Dong Qi ask, "My lord, although our 10,000 people seem to be a lot, but we are all cavalry, and we are not good at attacking cities at all, do you say those state capitals can surrender to us?" ”
"Hehehe, rest assured, although these places now seem to be occupied by the Dashun State, you must know that they were originally the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and many places saw the strength of the Dashun Army, so they had to surrender, and these places are because they are a little desolate, and the Dashun Kingdom does not pay much attention to them, most of the places are reserved for the original Ming officials, as for the garrison, except for Ningxiawei and other big cities, there are no soldiers of the Dashun Army at all.
As long as you are under the banner of Daming, you don't dare to say absolutely, but at least there are still some places where you want to be Ming, so they will have disagreements, as for how to do it, you can do it yourself! It was not Shi Lei who answered him, but Tong Chenfu.
"Ah, my lord, isn't Yulin besieged now, shouldn't we go all out to Yulin to rescue Yulin, why would your lord let us lead our troops to the west, doesn't Yulin care?" The impatient Chitu asked.
"You don't have to worry about this, I have already discussed it with Mr. Tong, as long as you do what I assigned to you, you will be the biggest hero of Yulin, okay, it's not too early, you are ready to go, when the matter is completed, when you come back, I will definitely reward you heavily, and I will definitely not let you down."
Looking at the distant army, Shi Lei's eyes flashed with inexplicable excitement, and Tong Chenfu beside him asked with some worry, "My lord, is our plan a little risky, now we only have Yulin, and the soldiers are only tens of thousands, although now Li Zicheng is leading the army to the east, the whole Shaanxi is blank, but if we wait until Li Zicheng ends the eastward expedition in the future, the pressure on us is very great, and at that time, if Li Zicheng is angry, so as to lead the army to attack us, Our only way is destruction. ”
Hearing Tong Chenfu's question, Shi Lei smiled, and then asked, "Mr. Tong, even if we don't carry out this plan, won't Li Zicheng attack us after the end of the Eastern Crusade?
When Li Zicheng went all out to the east, there was no time for him to take care of it, expand his power as soon as possible, and when the time came, even if Li Zicheng's Eastern Crusade was really over, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, we also had the capital to compete with Li Zicheng and the Dashun Army head-on, besides, whether Li Zicheng could successfully go east is still an unknown, and it is too early to think about the future now, Mr. Or think more about how to improve our plan, you know, if you want to implement this plan smoothly, you can't make a little mistake in all aspects. ”
Regarding Shi Lei's explanation, although Tong Chenfu still can't let go of his heart, he is just a minister, and it is Shi Lei who is in charge, if it is Shi Lei's business, he only needs to think about how to do things successfully.
Yulin City, the head of the city
Standing at the high head of the city, looking at the Dashun soldiers wearing green clothes below, pushing a pointed wooden donkey and nest cart and a variety of small siege equipment, slowly marching towards Yulin City, the original Dashun army siege is rarely using siege equipment, relying on human lives to pile up the victory, but since they occupied Xi'an, it is completely different.
Xi'an as Sun Chuanting's business for more than ten years, not only all kinds of war equipment is sufficient, the most important thing is that there are enough craftsmen, so many years of war, all forces are in urgent need of war tools, and the craftsmen who can build these tools, that is the talent that all parties urgently need, why the Manchu Qing Dynasty after the Huangtaiji, rapid development and growth, not only because of the unification of domestic decrees, the most important thing is that he entered the customs several times, and plundered a large number of craftsmen from the Central Plains, thus making the Manchu Qing Dynasty's combat effectiveness stronger.
Jia Hanqing said with some worry, "Lord Fang, from now on, the elite army of this Great Shun Kingdom is really different from the rabble of Hao Shaoqi, according to the orders of the adults, we want to entrust this Yuan Zongdi and the 30,000 army here for at least a month, can we hold on, don't fight the wolf but be bitten by the wolf, my life and death are trivial matters, but if we spoil the big things of the adults, we will be guilty." ”
Hearing Jia Hanqing's words, Fang Junchi also had a serious expression, he never thought that the regular army of the Dashun Army was so elite, although there was still a gap between it and the soldiers trained by Yulin with Shi Lei's method, but you must know that these are veterans who have gone through several battles to the death, and they are extremely rich in experience on the battlefield, and they are not at all comparable to those recruits who have just come down from the training ground, fortunately, this time they are not directly facing this elite, but relying on the city wall to guard.
"Don't worry, Lord Jia, if it's a face-to-face battle, I really can't guarantee it, but since we only need to defend the city, there is still no problem, in addition, we have a grenade as a weapon to defend the city, and it is definitely not a problem to delay them for some time, but, I don't know if the adults will carry out the following plans, think about it, I am really worried about him!" Fang Junchi said with a sigh.
"Hahaha, although you can rest assured about this, for the safety of adults, I have never been worried, I have never seen more fortunate people than adults, originally thought that adults went to Yanmen Pass this time is nine deaths, but did not expect, not only is there no danger, but there is also a great harvest, sometimes I can't help but wonder, God does not see that the people of Li in this world are too miserable, so as to send adults to rescue everyone." Jia Hanqing said with a smile.
As he spoke, the siege battle of the Dashun army under the city began, but what everyone in Yulin City did not expect was that the object of the Dashun army's attack was not the city wall of Yulin, but the small city outside the city that had just been built.
From the beginning of the construction of this small city to the end of construction, although it only took less than four months, the place is not big, and it looks larger than the ordinary mansions of large families, but this is only a superficial phenomenon, people who know this small city know that this small city looks inconspicuous, and when it comes to defense capabilities, it is stronger than Yulin City.
For the construction of this small city at the earliest, Shi Lei planned to use it as an arsenal, although now it can only make grenades and general weapons, but in Shi Lei's planning, it will definitely be slowly developed and manufactured in the future to manufacture thermal weapons.
And those things, in the future, will definitely be the most important place under Shi Lei, and the defense must be tight, so at the beginning of the establishment, this place was not built as a city, but as a fortress, a strong fortress to build, and even when it was built, Shi Lei also borrowed the principle of the famous defensive fortress in later generations to transform, it can be said that as long as this small city has enough manpower, outsiders should not want to attack it at all.
"Hahaha, Uncle Yuan, did you say that the people in this city were stupid by us, they were about to attack the city, and they haven't attacked yet, are they going to just watch us attack the city?" Standing behind the army, looking at the siege tools on his side, they were all about to attack the city, and the defenders in the city had not yet launched an attack, Niu Dilu suddenly laughed and said.
It's just that his laughter didn't get a response from Yuan Zongdi, on the contrary, Yuan Zongdi, who was still smiling on his face, saw the scene of no movement in the city in the distance, and a trace of worry suddenly appeared on his face.
Years of experience in leading troops let Yuan Zongdi know that on the battlefield, anything that does not conform to common sense will not be a good thing.
Sure enough, the battlefield soon changed, and I saw that the city head, which had been motionless, was thrown down from the top of the city when all kinds of engineering tools on the side of the Dashun army came to the city one after another.
And these things that didn't seem to have the slightest threat soon made a shocking movement, and they saw that the original dense, strong and powerful siege tools were quickly overturned and shattered one by one under the bombardment of these things, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army, who were originally relaxed, were also completely stunned by this bombardment, even if they had rich combat experience, they had never encountered this kind of thing, and they were not much stronger than recruits.
"Hahaha, Liu Roll has you seen it, just these things, if you want to come to our Yulin to take advantage, you can't even eat this little appetizer, wait for the big dish to come up later, I'll see what they eat." The name of the speaker is Yang An, when Shi Lei first came to Yulin, because he was dissatisfied with Shi Lei's policy of treating the homeless, so he gathered a crowd to fight, and was later sent by Shi Lei to the Yulin barracks that had just been formed, and later because of his bravery, he is now the captain of 500 people, and this time he and another brother Liu Roll together with a thousand people to guard this small city.
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