The Tianwu army broke through Chenzhou, but Chengdu Mansion, thousands of miles away, was already in danger. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The huge stone projectiles thrown by the return cannon smashed the city wall fiercely, and at this time, the Sichuan and Shu troops also experienced the pain of the Mongols in the bombardment of the flying thunder cannons. The brothers were not afraid of death, nor did they dare to fight with the Mongol Tatars, but this empty sacrifice made all of them feel extremely depressed.

"Come, be careful, his arm is broken, you lift it gently." Shi Xunzhong ordered the soldiers who came up from behind, and then walked quickly down the city wall, a stone bullet crossed his head and fell into the city, a private house had been crushed by force, and the surrounding soldiers rushed over to save people with shouts.

Zhang Jue and Gao Gao stood under the city wall and whispered something, Shi Xunzhong saw the two of them, and hurriedly stepped forward: "Two generals, we can't hold on for too long, now the city wall has collapsed in two places, and the urn city has also collapsed in large numbers, if it weren't for the moat, I'm afraid the Mongolian Tartars would have rushed up." ”

"What happened to the walls or is it a trivial matter, and what are the casualties of the brethren?" Zhang Jue asked in a deep voice.

"The casualties were not small, but they were mainly affected by the debris of the stone bullets, and there were many injured and few dead." Shi Xunzhong frowned tightly, "But the city wall doesn't care about ・・・・・・"

There was a loud bang, and another stone bullet roared into the city, and then it continued to collapse, and it collapsed three or four walls in succession before it slowly stopped. Even a banner of the Sichuan and Shu army was crushed, and the flag fell to the ground weakly.

"It's the sixth day, and the houses around the walls have almost been demolished." Zhang Jue shook his head, "The Mongolian Tatars obviously suffered in the previous battle of Mianzhuguan, so they didn't simply focus on the city wall, and would rather try to eliminate the possibility of us fighting in the streets before this." ”

Gouda looked at Zhang Jue: "The weather is getting colder and colder these days, but there is not much wood for burning in the city, and there are fewer and fewer houses that can shelter from the cold and cold wind. ”

"If the people are evacuated, there will be a lack of Ding Zhuang who will carry the equipment to defend the city, and there will be advantages and disadvantages." Zhang Jue said in a deep voice, "The top priority is to delay time, and say that you can't lose Chengdu Mansion before Wen Xianggong comes, not to mention that the firearms that came with Wen Xianggong and the newly developed firearms of the imperial court may really be able to save the situation of this Sichuan and Shu erosion." ”

"Fortunately, in Sichuan and Shu, there is no way for large siege equipment such as Mongolian Tatars to deal with those mountain cities, that is, to play prestige under these big cities in Chengdu Mansion, otherwise we will really have a headache." Gundam smiled bitterly, "Even if you and my brother are unlucky, the Mongolian Tartars rushed left and right, and finally chose Sichuan and Shu as the direction of the general attack." ”

Zhang Jue walked towards the city, and said in a low voice: "As a general, it is the responsibility to defend the land, but since the fall of Mianzhuguan, the towns around Chengdu Mansion have been lost, and there is almost no strength to fight with the Mongolian Tatars in the field, and it is a headache to defend in this city. A certain self-questioning is ashamed, and it is difficult to express it. ”

Gundam pressed the hilt of his sword, and just as he was about to speak, there was a sound of killing in the south of the city.

Both of them were stunned.

"Rush over!" Lou Yong took the lead with a mace in his hand, and the mace in his hand was already stained with red and white liquid, and he didn't know how many people had been made the souls of the mace. Countless short and swarthy soldiers around him surged forward like a tidal wave, and even some people directly took out their blowpipes, and poisoned arrows directly pierced the necks of Mongolian soldiers.

The Mongolian soldiers stationed in Dali at the beginning were almost wiped out, where did these Mongolian soldiers who went south from the grassland see these barbarians from the southwest and even the South Seas, not to mention that there were many people wearing strange and terrifying masks, which made those who saw it shudder.

If it weren't for the bright red dragon flags fluttering in the wind, the Mongolian soldiers really wondered if these people were ghosts and ghosts who had emerged from the ground. Rows of blades flashing with blue light pierced their bodies, and the poisoned blades didn't need to pierce the opponent's chest at all, just a cut was enough to make the person twitch for a while.

Behind these barbarian soldiers, the Yongzhou army and Jingjiang soldiers of the brigade marched forward in a neat queue, and at the same time, in front of and behind them, the earth trembled, and elephants took heavy steps, making those Mongolian war horses who had never seen such a behemoth retreat in panic.

"Where did the Southern Barbarians come from?!" One of the Mongolian captains who led the team also showed a panicked look in his eyes, the Southern Barbarians, the Southern Barbarians, compared with those great Ming soldiers, these are the real Southern Barbarians in front of them!

But before he could come to his senses, an arrow pierced his throat, causing him to stare wide at the brute who was getting closer and closer to him. The man was dressed in a Ming army armor and a somewhat messy thatched shirt, his hair was so messy that he didn't even have a helmet, he held a bow in one hand and a tribulus bone in the other, and he didn't look like a guy who could kill an eagle on the grassland.

"Well done, good job!" Lou Yong grinned, and the Zhenla commander who shot the arrow also burst into hearty laughter.

Pulling the reins of the horse fiercely, Lou Yong pointed to the three Mongolian cavalrymen who roared in front of him: "The three people in front, two are mine, and one is yours!" See whose hands are fast! ”

Shali suddenly waved his hand again and again, and said in stiff Chinese: "General Lou, this sentence is not right, you Han people often say that you can't bully ・・・・・・ bully honest people, we are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, whoever can kill first will be whoever!" ”

It's just that before Shari finished speaking, Lou Yong had already stepped forward, and the mace in his hand easily separated the saber of a Mongolian cavalryman, and then slammed it with a wave of his hand, and the head of the Mongolian soldier was like a burst watermelon, and red and white things flew everywhere.

"General Lou, you are too cunning!" Sarri suddenly shouted in a hurry, and the tribulus terrestris bone in his hand was also raised, crashing into the two cavalrymen, waving like a fly.

In front of and behind them, countless Ming soldiers desperately rushed forward, not only the Han people, but also the Cham people, Dali people, Zhenla people and even the Srivijaya people. All the forward Ming soldiers, regardless of nationality or affiliation, are shouting at this moment:

"Da Ming! Da Ming! ”

It was as if these two words were no longer referring to this new rising dynasty, but a heartfelt belief that drove them forward, drove them into an incomprehensible frenzy.

This reinforcement, which was hastily transferred from Nanyang, mainly the servant army, unexpectedly showed great combat power. Perhaps this also has a lot to do with the incentives implemented by Daming.

Those who join the Ming army and kill five people can get rid of the status of untouchables, including their immediate family members, will get the same equal treatment as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and will be rewarded for the normal military merits of the Ming army, and the subsequent merits will be calculated completely in accordance with the ordinary army of the Ming Dynasty, which means that the Ming Dynasty has regarded them as an integral part of the entire kingdom and regarded them as their own people.

After all, in the hearts of most Nanyang people, these Han people came from the Celestial Empire and were real people of the kingdom, and they usually only had the possibility of looking up to them, and more importantly, they were occupied by the Ming Dynasty instead of taking refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and the identity of the people was even more lowly prisoners and slaves, if they did not join the army as soon as possible to obtain the identity of the Ming people, when the Ming Dynasty levied coolies and needed slaves, Naturally, all such heads will fall on their heads.

This is the fate of those Luzon natives who tried to resist the Ming Dynasty in the South Seas, and everyone knows in their hearts that the number of Luzon natives is limited after all, and the Celestial Empire wants to drive away the enemies in the north, and secondly wants to build a huge passage through the north and south, and the number of these Luzon natives is far from enough, so sooner or later it will be their turn to go to these untouchables, and it will really be a journey of nine deaths and a lifetime.

Therefore, it is better to take advantage of the battlefield in the morning, and after winning the meritorious service, the whole family will be saved from such a disaster, and they can also win the status of the people of the Celestial Empire, and stand on the same height as these people who usually make them tremble and respect and admire.

This also caused a large number of Nanyang people to flock to the places where they signed up for conscription, and some even brought their own swords and armor directly, hoping to be favored for saving money for the army. Of course, for such a cheap and large number of cannon fodder, whether it is Li Fu, Ye Yingwu, or Zhang Shijie who is sitting in Nanyang, they don't have the heart to really train them, but after some basic training and popularizing the military orders of the Ming Dynasty to them, they hurriedly pulled north.

Originally, the task of this army in the short term was to conduct a series of coordinated training for the Dali army, which was reorganized after the breakup of Dali, but I didn't expect the war to break out so suddenly, so that Ye Yingwu had to urgently order this team to go north quickly for 800 miles, and Lou Yong, who had outstanding performance in several major battles, led the team, and strive to be able to share the pressure for the Sichuan and Shu army before the new firearms arrived in Sichuan.

And today's performance also proves that Ye Yingwu's arrangement is at least clear. In particular, the seven or eight war elephants who had gone to great lengths to find large ships to carry them through Lushui led to the rout of at least two or three thousand Mongol cavalry in the impact.

You must know that in the south of Chengdu, Mongolia did not deploy many people, in case the defenders in the city were really trapped and fighting, so these two or three thousand people plus more than 10,000 Han family foot soldiers were already all, and now the cannon fodder army that had just arrived on the battlefield collided non-stop, and soon collapsed like an avalanche.

With a long neighing of a war elephant, and then the Mongolian soldiers who were crawling under their feet were turned into pulp, the south gate of Chengdu Mansion, which had been closed, slowly opened, and the defenders in the city had rushed out with a roar. And a large number of Mongolian Han soldiers obviously saw the situation on the battlefield clearly, and they actually knelt down a lot.

Looking at the scene of the rout of the Mongol army in front of him, Gao Gao couldn't help but pat Zhang Jue's shoulder and didn't say anything. And Zhang Jue exhaled softly: "The surrender of so many Mongolian Tatars to the Han family is really rare in this life, I remember clearly before, these people would rather die on the battlefield for Mongolia than surrender to us" Southern Barbarians ". ”

"It's not like these people can't see the situation clearly." Gundam chuckled, "Don't forget that this is Sichuan and Shu, which is the place where the Mongolian Tartars have invested the most troops, and even this new type of large-scale siege equipment has not hesitated to invest, even so, the Mongolian Tartars have to face defeat, not to mention the other two battlefields, since these people have taken refuge in the Mongolian Tartars, it means that they are not fools, they must have seen the wind and the grass on the wall more clearly than anyone else." ”

"What should I do with that?" Zhang Jue subconsciously looked at Gundam, although the old general said that he would be depressed for a lifetime, but after all, Jiang was still old and spicy.

Gouda stroked his beard and smiled: "This is not simple, the imperial court wants to build a straight road, and a large number of slaves and laborers are requisitioned from all over the South Seas, these people might as well test them, if they sincerely want to surrender, they can be used as cannon fodder, I am afraid that the generals under the city will be very excited, but if they hesitate, pull to build a straight road, it is a good choice." ”

"How can you tell?" Zhang Jue raised his eyebrows.

Pointing to the soldiers below who were escorting the captives into the city, Gundam said, "You see, we have not only Han prisoners here, but also wounded soldiers from the Mongol Tatars, which just come in handy. ”

Suddenly, Zhang Jue gasped.

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The winter sun was bleak, and it seemed that there was no way to even tear through the dark clouds in the sky.

Tang Yu squinted his eyes and raised his head, and sighed softly, he was just an honest peasant in Hanzhong before this, in fact, he didn't have much love for the rise and fall of several dynasties, and the Mongolian came, in his opinion, it was just a change of person from the Qingtian Lord on his head, and he had little to do with an ordinary mountain village people.

It's just that human life is like grass in troubled times, even if Tang Yu wants to honestly cultivate his own one-third of an acre, the Mongols can't agree, as Mongolia loses troops on several battlefields, it needs a large number of supplementary soldiers, especially the Han family sons who can be used as cannon fodder, so Tang Yu was caught by the Mongolian conscription team when he went to the town to sell mountain goods, and was directly driven into the barracks with many people who suffered the same thing, and then Tang Yu took over the armor and blades in a daze, and went south with countless soldiers. Even in the process, he did not experience much formal military training, including wielding the blade in his hand, in the same way that he wielded a scythe when chopping wood in the mountains.

He only knew that if he wanted to save his life, the only way was to kill desperately, and only by killing the enemy could he live, and he could go back safely to see the wife of Ye Niang who had not even said goodbye.

But things often go unplanned, Tang Yu's hundred-man team as out-and-out cannon fodder, was naturally sent to the south of Chengdu Mansion, which is the direction where the Ming army is most likely to come with reinforcements, and it is naturally the most dangerous and there are not many opportunities to attack the city to burn and loot.

Tang Yu didn't have many complaints, because he knew that what he needed was not gold, silver and jewelry, but to kill, but the fact was that these southern barbarians who didn't know where to come from, when the people sleeping in a tent next to Tang Yu fell one after another, Tang Yu realized what kind of opponent he had encountered, but at that time, the spears were about to poke into his chest, almost subconsciously, Tang Yu threw away his blade, and then fell to his knees tremblingly.

Like most of the people around who are still alive.

In his opinion, dying in battle for Mongolia is simply a fart, because it is impossible for these Mongols to care about the life and death of their cannon fodder, and in this chaotic battlefield, only how to save their lives is the right thing.

Sure enough, he was not the only one who had such an idea that sometimes he would feel ashamed to think about, because he knelt in the open space in Chengdu Mansion together, not only his chief and centurion, but also many Mongolian masters. Everyone looked at the Ming army general who came over in front of them in the same panic, and those Mongols seemed to have predicted their fate, and their faces were like ashes.

Tang Yu, who closed his eyes tightly, felt someone say to a chief kneeling next to him: "Think clearly, do you surrender?" ”

After a long moment of silence, he asked tremblingly, "What's the difference?" ”

"will give you a way to live, one is for the Ming Dynasty to fight the world, and the other is to be a slave mining or road repair. If you want to say it's all life, you can say it's all death! There was a sense of perfection in that voice, as if life and death had been looked down.

"Then ・・・・・・ I ・・・・・・," Shi Chang hesitated suddenly.

"Drag it off."

Several soldiers suddenly stepped forward and set up Shi Chang, who suddenly struggled desperately: "I surrender, long live the Ming Emperor, I surrender, don't kill me, long live the Ming Emperor!" ”

"Spineless brute!" A Mongol sneered not far away, but no one around answered.

Tang Yu opened his eyes and happened to see the head of the Ming army standing in front of him, who did not put the words of the Mongols in his ears, but sighed leisurely: "If I had the backbone, I wouldn't kneel here." (To be continued.) )