Chapter 18: Defending the Fortified City

Jiang Jie and Huzi led a hundred horsemen to rob the camp, all the way unimpeded, invincible, and those who stood in the way would die. In less than half an hour, the entire Liukou camp became a pot of porridge, and only shouts and screams could be heard in the distance, and I don't know what was wrong. The one who was nearby was killed and fled, crying for his father and mother.

The advantage of cavalry lies in this, coming and going like the wind, which cannot be stopped. I think that Gan Ning's hundred horsemen robbed Wei Ying back then, but it was nothing more than that. It's just that the rogue in front of him, where can he compare to Cao's army, he was killed in a mess, and there is one who doesn't know what to do, and he has already begun to shout, "The army of officers and soldiers is coming, run quickly......"

The more enemy camps, the better it is for the officers and soldiers who are sneaking up, and estimating that all the leaflets are almost scattered, Jiang Jie grabbed the tiger and said loudly: "Retreat, kill back!" ”

As soon as Jiang Jie spoke, he followed behind Huzi, and the generals who never left quickly echoed, "Major General, hurry up and kill back." ”

Huzi hasn't killed him yet, but before leaving, Yue Su had an order that he must act according to Jiang Jie's orders, otherwise he will not be given a chance to kill the enemy in the future. Huzi didn't drink today, and his brain was still bright, so he nodded and agreed, and went back to Chengdu City.

When they came, no one could stop them, and when they went, no one dared to stop them, and the group of people fought out of the enemy formation and returned to Chengdu. Yue Su had been watching from the city, and when he saw Huzi and them coming back, he was very happy, and what made him happiest was that there was no rogue who dared to chase and kill behind. Yue Su hurriedly ordered the city to be opened, the drawbridge was lowered, the city gate was opened, and the warriors roared in, ending tonight's journey.

Lord Yue counted the number of people, and there were quite a few people who went, all of them covered with the blood of the enemy. But none of them were hurt.

"Great!" Yue Su was overjoyed and immediately ordered, "Serve the wine." ”

The wine had already been prepared, and the order was given, without waiting for the warriors to dismount. The soldiers brought bowls of good wine. Huzi took the wine and drank it all. After saying "good wine", he jumped off his horse and returned the wine to the soldier who delivered it. It's not like on TV, you have to smash the wine bowl to show heroism.

Ya, you don't need money to buy a wine bowl, even if it's cheap. In the future, you will have to use it when you drink water and eat.

Yue Su let them rest in the camp, Chengdu is divided into inner and outer cities. The outer city is now all garrisoned, and there are warm tents. Yue Su's big tent of the Chinese army has already placed wine and meat in it, let them eat and drink as they please, eat and drink to their heart's content, and then go to sleep and rest.

Compared with Yue Su's side, the Liukou camp is still a pot of porridge. Those rabble, one by one, are square inches, and some don't even know whether the officers and soldiers are going or not. Wang Jiayin sent people to appease people's hearts. It wasn't until dawn that the rebels found themselves safe. After checking the corpses, more than 500 people were killed and more than 200 wounded by officers and soldiers that night. This death and wound was nothing to the large number of rogues, but the worst thing was that not a single body of an officer or soldier remained.

Wang Jiayin was furious. Early in the morning, after breakfast, the order was given to attack the city. It's a cold day. You can't all drink the northwest wind outside the city, and hurry up to take the city. It's real to go in for the New Year. Along the way, in Mianyang City and Mianzhu Pass were stubbornly blocked, after the breakthrough, did not grab too much food, especially when it hit Shifang County and Pengzhou, basically there was no gain. Shifang is a small county, and you can't grab anything, Pengzhou, I received the news relatively early, there is food at home, almost all of them have run away, and the official warehouses have been emptied, and those who remain are some poor people who have nothing. Even the poor who could run ran away.

The rogues don't farm at all, and if they want to continue to live, they have to continue to rob. Otherwise, what will hundreds of thousands of people eat? Wang Jiayin calculated, at most there was a month's ration, so they had to capture Chengdu within a month.

The rogues began to attack the city, and there were many people anyway, so they attacked the four gates together. But the siege equipment is too weak, except for the ladder, there are a small number of wells and arrow towers. To put it bluntly, it relies on crowd tactics.

But this is nothing in front of the strong Chengdu City. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan, not to mention the high walls of the city, and there is also a military bureau specializing in the manufacture of weapons in the city. The firearms stored in the firearms department have all been transferred, not to mention that they are domestic cannons, there are more than 60 of them, plus Lord Yue also brought five Spanish cannons and five English cannons from Zhejiang, which is more than enough to fight these rogues. The artillery was aimed at the well fence and the arrow tower was fired, and the muskets were fired incessantly. One after another arrow towers were smashed by cannonballs, and wherever the cannonballs passed, one died.

The power of the musket is on full display here. The range of the musket is about 100 paces, but it is condescending, it hits farther, and it can shoot down in the city, and it can fire calmly, and there is no need to aim, and the people below are densely packed with people, and if you shoot down, there will definitely be those who have been shot. There are many muskets in the War Bureau, a total of 4,000 muskets, and no one is willing to use them in normal times, so Lord Yue likes to make this thing. A thousand in each city, in turn, the barrel of the gun is hot, just stop and cool for a while, anyway, it's winter, it's cool fast, take advantage of the kung fu, you can use a bow and arrow.

The rogue is killed under the city, there is no need to panic, boiling water and boiling oil have already been prepared on the iron pot, and if you pour it down, you can burn it to death. The red-hot chain of fire slashed along the city wall, and as long as the climbing rogues touched it, they had to fall down when they landed. When there are more people gathered in the city, they pour the fire oil down, and then a little fire, and the whole city can become a sea of fire, and as many will die.

There is a moat outside the city of Chengdu, half a day down, the moat is full of corpses, the four gates of the rebels attacked together, how big the loss is, in the future, the rebels together killed more than 6,000 people, more than 1,000 wounded.

The sun above his head is still high, and the rebels under the city will not dare to continue to rush forward, this is simply hell on earth, and if you go up, you will die.

Wang Jiayin supervised the battle at the north gate, and when he saw this situation, he was also a little stupid, when he attacked Mianzhu Pass, the casualties were not so miserable, and he thought that he could take Chengdu in one go, but it didn't seem so easy.

Looking for his subordinate dog-headed military advisors to study, I can't think of any good countermeasures, I want to use the method of breaking through Mianzhu Pass to attack Chengdu, basically impossible, the moat outside the city is so deep, it is full of water, how to dig tunnels. The only way is to rely on crowd tactics to make his men rush. Regardless of day or night, attacking in turns, no matter how many people there are, the cost can also consume the officers and soldiers defending the city to death.

Wang Jiayin also saw that this was the only way, commanded the Liukou, and continued to rush forward. But the rogue is the rogue, no better than the regular army, you say rush, the rogue can only fight with the wind, can not stand the setback, see that the situation is not right, which one will give you to play with your life.

The people under his command didn't rush, and Wang Jiayin had no choice but to collect his troops, bury the pot and make rice, so that the rogues could slow down and attack again tomorrow. The rogues have long wanted to rest, and this is exactly what they want, they clean up and cook one by one, eat enough, turn around and go to sleep.

But Wang Jiayin was more alert than last night, and specially sent people to keep an eye on it at night to prevent the officers and soldiers from robbing the camp again. Originally, the officers and soldiers in the city stole the camp and robbed the village last night, and tonight they will definitely think that there are preparations outside, and they will not dare to come again. But I never expected that the officers and soldiers would act again tonight, this time it was still a hundred people, and it was still Huzi, Jiang Jie, and Tie Qiu who led the team.

However, they did not hit the enemy camp outside the north gate, but the enemy camp outside the east gate. The Liukou camp outside the east gate was not attacked last night, and although he got the news, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that the official army would definitely not be able to come tonight. As a result, the officers and soldiers came, and Huzi and their hundreds of people slashed and killed in the camp of the Liukou, but not one of them died, and put down thousands of Liukou, tossed for more than half an hour, and then left.

When the news reached Wang Jiayin's ears, he gritted his teeth in anger, and this time Suo attacked in batches. When fighting during the day, some people rest first and fight until night, and those who rest during the day will attack with lights.

This way of playing, but it makes the defenders of the city more difficult, the other side is many, day and night can toss up, they are just such a few people, and they have to guard four city gates, if you stay up all night, wheel battle, you really can't stand it.

Yue Su asked the governor Zhu Xie Yuanyi to study, and the second gradient also began to go up, rearrange the troops to deploy, and also play two shifts with the enemy. Chengdu is a big city, what the governor yamen, the political envoy yamen, the inspection envoy yamen, the prefect yamen, the same knowledge yamen, the general judgment yamen, the official yamen, the big yamen has two or three hundred people, the small yamen also has more than 100 people, plus the Qing military department's errands, how to say that there are more than 2,000 numbers. Then he paid to recruit Ding Zhuang in the city, and the people recruited must be Chengdu people, and those who fled into the city from other places are not wanted. This is also a worry, there are ghosts in the city, and when the war is over, take the opportunity to open the door.

It can be said that there are very few cities that are open to the public, and the most common thing is to send people into the city and wait for the opportunity to open the city. It's just a pity that Lord Yue's arrangement in Chengdu City is not leaky, and he won't give you a chance at all. In this way, there is no need for outsiders, here in the outer city, the people are not allowed to come at all, and in the inner city, there are patrols on every street. Even if the errand is recruited to go to the city, it is only a thousand transfers, and the remaining one thousand are maintained in the city.

The Liukou did not take turns attacking the city during the day or in the middle of the night, and the city was methodically resisted, and your siege method was the same, and my defense of the city was released. After five days, the rogues were already unable to attack, with more than 20,000 dead and wounded, so what else to fight, the corpses were piled up, and they were burned to bones by the fire of the city. Such a scene is not too much to call it Shura Field, and the rogue who is besieging the city, when they are so frightened that they attack the city, they just shout on the side of the moat, and they don't even have the courage to rush forward.

Time passed, and the rogue had become a siege instead of a siege. This kind of scene is Yue Su's favorite thing to see. Don't look at the population in Chengdu City, the food doesn't last long, but it's also better than the rogues outside the city. There are houses in the city to shelter from the wind and cold, but there are no outside the city, although every day passes, everyone consumes food, but you are hundreds of thousands, can you consume it?