Chapter 457: The Earth Dragon Rises
Together with the guards, Itaia carried Erlu's body onto a wooden frame, where the corpses of hundreds of Jiannu soldiers were waiting to be cremated, densely packed with various yards on the wooden rack, like a ghost in the evening night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
A large pile of logs had been placed under the wooden frame, and at this time, the armor soldiers of the two blue flags began to place logs on the corpses, which had to be placed on both sides in order to be refined.
Itaea lightly placed large pieces of wood on Erlu's body, lest he disturb his Amma's spirit in the sky.
Eventually, the soldiers began to sprinkle the oil on the corpse, and the pungent smell immediately spread.
Already the armor had begun to ignite the oil, and immediately the scorching flames rose up, lighting up the nearby night sky.
Itaea prostrated himself on the ground, then threw the torch on it, and the fire rose immediately, quickly enveloping the wooden frame.
The fire in the vicinity was getting hotter and hotter, and it was unbearable to scorch people, and Itaia withdrew more than ten steps and knelt on the ground, tears gushing down.
His father, who has supported the family for more than 20 years, is gone, and the family can only rely on him to support him in the future, and Zhenglanqi is also in turmoil, and Yitai Aden feels confused about the future.
Itaea may not have thought that countless Ming people were also lying on this land, and they had no one to send them to their ends, only to die in humiliation and fear.
Under the frantic efforts of the Han army banner soldiers, the two underground passages quickly spread to the southern city of Lushun, and the Han army flag here was divided into several shifts, and all efforts were exhausted in order to grab time, because this was the strict order of Allah.
After all, the bitter cold weather has changed, the weather has become much warmer, and the sea ice in the bay is beginning to show signs of loosening. If it melts a little more. If a large sea vessel does not care about its own safety. It could hit it out.
Therefore, on the sixth day, when Huang Taiji knew that they were only a hundred steps away from the moat, he knew that the most critical moment had arrived, and at the same time, the Ming army in Lushun seemed to be completely unaware of it, and they were still on duty every day.
This made everyone at the top of the Jurchen level feel relieved, and now as long as you are careful, you can break through the last 200 or so steps, and everything will be fine.
As for Duoduo, he had already been ordered to draw 3,000 armor soldiers from the two red flags and the two red flags as the vanguard to break into the southern city of Lushun. For this reason, he had gathered these armor soldiers together and practiced them twice.
At this time, these 3,000 people were always preparing to set foot in Lushun, slaughtering the whole city with iron and fire, and warning the Han people in other places.
"Duoduo, be careful when you enter the city, don't rush to the front, even if the city wall collapses, there will be Ming troops on both sides and behind to plug the gap, the initial time is the most dangerous, you know." Dorgon and Dodor rode on their horses and looked at Arthur from afar.
That's their homework. The daily routine of watching the formation is to see if the Ming people are alert to the movement outside.
"Hmph. Just because these Ming troops can't hurt me, hehe, if you don't rush in as soon as possible, my brother is afraid that Zhao Lie will escape. "Duoduo doesn't care, he's a thief and bold,
"You really take it for granted, Zhao Lie is so easy to deal with, even if he doesn't escape in time, your striker won't take him, believe it or not." Dorgon hated that iron could not be made of steel, and made up his mind to strike him.
"This is impossible, once the city wall collapses, the soldiers suffer heavy losses, our army breaks into the city, and the soldiers under Zhao Lie's command are afraid that the army will have no heart to fight, but I am afraid that those Nikans will kneel and surrender when they see our army, lest our army slaughter them."
Dodor was extremely contemptuous of the Ming people who knelt down and surrendered, flattering for fear of losing their lives.
"Hmph, this Zhao Lie, including his subordinates, is not the Nikan you said, you know that Zhao Lie killed dozens of soldiers of our army's Zhenglan Banner in Lushun eight years ago, but he personally went into the battle formation, and the water division picked up tens of thousands of Liao people from here, and these Liao people are the foundation of his family,"
Dorgon stretched out his hand and struck Dordor,
"These Liao people Zhao Lie allocated acres of land to them, and gave them salaries, even in his jurisdiction, they were all disposed of in this way, in Jinggi and Xuanchuan, these Nikanke served him to death, and would rather die than retreat, you must know that if they don't have Zhao Lie, the acres of land in the family will have to be robbed by other Ming officials, and in the end there is nothing, so they can only become refugees."
Duoduo had never been very concerned with political affairs, and he didn't pay much attention to what the Emperor Taiji said to these royal Baylors, so he heard it for the first time, and listened to it from impatience to attentiveness.
"The heavy losses of our army in these two battles show that everyone in Zhao Lie's department dares to fight to the death, and can fight head-on with our soldiers without falling behind, and it is best for our army to besiege with a large force of cavalry, but Zhao Lie has never given me the opportunity to Dajin, he never goes deep into the territory of Dajin, and he has always taken the initiative to fight Dajin, and the blow is fatal."
For the first time, Duoduo's eyes became solemn.
"If the city is broken, these Ming soldiers will probably be extremely crazy, and they will fight to the death for their own acres of land and family wealth to protect their family wealth, covering their master Zhao Lie to break out of the encirclement, therefore, the beginning of the fight will be extremely tragic, do you still think they will easily collapse."
Dolgon squinted sarcastically at his brother.
"I see, there are such generals who dare to fight in Nikan, I thought that Nikan people are all timid and cowardly, it seems that this Zhao Lie can win many battles and also has some means." Duoduo touched his already resembling short hair.
"Do you think it is possible for Nikan to have such a large territory if he is what you think?" Dorgon shook his head speechlessly.
At the end of the next day, Fang Ximen led the tired and half-dead hundreds of Han troops to withdraw, and the Han army that took over the successor had already entered the tunnel and took over the responsibility of the local rats.
"Big brother, how is it, are you tired," Fang Ximen asked breathlessly.
These people are bending down to grope their way forward in the dark tunnels, and it is very breathless here, but fortunately every hundred steps there are large ventilation holes upward, otherwise no one will be able to hold on.
"It's okay, it's just that the back hurts badly, as long as you enter here every day, you have to bend your waist, and you have to work hard when you bend over, and you can't stand the pain when you go out." Fang Dongmen grinned.
"After Fang Tou went out, he always said that his back hurt, and sometimes he couldn't sleep because of the pain." Lu You interjected on the side.
"Uh, there's no way, now the Jurchen lords are staring at this, and if you don't see me, this bull will have to be forced to come down and watch." Fang Ximen was also helpless, under the pressure of the Jurchens, Shi Tingzhu Bao Chengxian and other Han generals were patrolling several times a day, just to open up this tunnel as soon as possible.
"I estimate that there are still two days to get through, although there is a moat, to fight more than a foot below, but it is more than two hundred steps away from the city wall, and it is not far away. Fang Tou was holding on for a moment, and it was almost over. Lu Youyou comforted.
Fang Dongmen nodded helplessly, how can he, a little Han man, endure it, he can't bear it if he doesn't want to die, it's as simple as that.
Boom boom, the deafening explosion continued, and there were large puffs of smoke and dust in the south passage, and the air waves came with dust, and the characters in the tunnel were washed away along the way, and even the logs supporting in the tunnel could not bear it, and they collapsed one after another.
All the people in the tunnel instinctively ran north, and they were not far from the north exit.
Seeing that the exit ahead was twenty paces away, the air wave behind them caught them up, pushing many people and flying out.
Fang Dongmen was thrown away at once, and his head hit a log and he immediately passed out.
After I don't know how long, there was a shaking that made him sober up, and he looked up, only to see some bright light coming in, and the person who pushed him was Lu You.
"Brother Fang, you're awake, do you have anything to do now?" Lu You asked anxiously, he was also covered in dust and bloodstains.
"I have a headache," Fang Dongmen touched the big bag on his head, and there was no big problem in moving his arms and legs, but it was a little sore.
"Then hurry up and help me rescue Lord Niulu." There are sharp roads on the road.
Fang Ximen is their foundation, and there must be no trouble.
Fang Dongmen also came to his senses all of a sudden, he struggled to get up, crawling forward on the same road, and now most of the support of the tunnel is still there, after all, this is far away from the site of the explosion.
The two of them finally moved the two logs out of the way, pulling out Fang Ximen, who was pressed under a dead guard.
Fang Ximen was fine, but he was pressed back by the two logs and the guards, and after being pulled out at this time, he gasped for a while and eased up.
The group crawled towards the entrance of the passage, because there were logs and human obstacles everywhere, they could only crawl.
They finally climbed out of the tunnel, and as soon as they got out of the tunnel, they saw Shi Tingzhu, Bao Chengxian and others waiting anxiously surrounded by guards.
Although Fang Ximen's face was full of dust, after all, it was his old subordinate for many years, and Shi Tingzhu still recognized it.
"Fang Ximen, how many soldiers are still alive inside."
Fang Ximen raised his head and thought for a moment, then shook his head, "My lord, the explosion inside is too violent, I'm afraid there won't be much alive." ”
When Shi Tingzhu heard this, he slapped his hands angrily, bitterly, they came to Lushun with 20,000 people, and the siege of the city was damaged, plus more than 1,000 people who were stuffed in it this time, it can be said that half of Thailand was lost, this is their foundation, these Han generals are all like the test of the concubine.
At this time, Zhao Lie and Zhang Pan were standing at the head of the city, looking at a long trench blown out along the moat a hundred steps away, where all the land was loosened and collapsed by explosives.
In order to deal with Jiannu's tunnel attack, Zhao Lie arranged for the Broken Army to dig tunnels from inside the city, and then dug out a long snake formation along the outside of the moat, an underground long trench along the moat, which was filled with thousands of catties of gunpowder.
It was not far from the tunnel that morning, and the remaining soldiers of the Broken Army lit the fire rope and immediately evacuated.
At that time, Zhao Lie was watching from the city, and after a series of loud noises, he saw a yellow earth dragon jumping up from the realm of hundreds of steps away and two miles long, and the soil layer in this underground area was all relaxed, and the tunnel of Jiannu was no longer to be saved.
As for the Han army buried in the ground, there are definitely not a few, after all, digging such a long tunnel is the most labor-intensive, and Zhao Lie is of course extremely happy about the loss of Jiannu's strength.
Zhang Pan also stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes like a bloodthirsty beast, and muttered, "Good, good." (To be continued.) )
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