Chapter 146: Heavy Artillery Bombardment
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Many of these traitor troops surrendered to Jiannu, and many of them were actually forced by the form. After they surrendered, they had such a tenacious fighting force, mainly because the Jiannu supervision system was very cruel, and those who retreated were all beheaded. However, at this time, these traitor troops encountered the Ming army not only with the same harsh military law, but also a Ming army with faith.
At the same time, the people of this era believed in the existence of the underworld. In the Ming Dynasty, the education of the City God Temple had reached its peak in history.
There are three modes of education in China, one is family education, one is school education, and the other is Chenghuang Temple education. Family education is generally only provided by cultural families, and school education can also be provided by civilians, but generally children can not go to school, they will go to the fortune teller to calculate the eight characters first, if there is this talent, the cold family fryer sells iron for the child to go to school, if there is no talent, at most go to Mengxue, and then go to be an apprentice. In rural areas, it is usually impossible to go to school, so they go directly to farming.
The last kind of education in the City God's Temple is something that all ordinary people have access to. In addition to the education of the City God's Temple, there are also many vivid stories with educational significance that children love to hear from the elderly.
City God's Temple education, that is, the so-called feudal superstition.
Since people have believed in this in recent years, Zhu Youxiao simply set up a 'loyalty shrine', so that all the soldiers who died on the battlefield would enter the loyalty shrine after their deaths and be worshiped by the whole country.
This thing is similar to the Yasukuni Shrine in small Japan in later generations. To say that this thing is completely false, that is not necessarily. Everything has yin and yang, since there is a zĂ i yang, why is there no underworld? Moreover, energy constitutes matter, and the mental activities of living beings produce energy. The yin god in the temple needs to be worshipped and other phenomena can be seen that people's spiritual energy can be used as currency in the underworld.
Moreover, during this period of the Ming Dynasty, many books expounded the essence of these things.
Whether it's true or not, anyway, in these years, from the emperor to the people. That's what people believe. Zhu Youxiao's move suddenly greatly improved the Ming army's will to fight, and Zhu Youxiao formulated a pension system, which made the soldiers have no worries.
Death is not terrible for people many times.
For soldiers. The terrible thing is that there are not enough benefits and reasons for them to die in battle, so that the ants will steal their lives.
Just like a rout on the battlefield, why does it cause a chain reaction? Because after some soldiers fled, other soldiers lost hope of victory, since there was no hope of victory. Why do you have to fight hard? Naturally, he ran away with a piece, which caused a chain of rout reactions.
In the course of World War II, many Japanese soldiers launched crazy suicide attacks on the battlefield, and many times they just went to eat peanuts, and they died in battle without any meaning. But are those Japanese soldiers tired of living? It's really a little tired, and the harsh combat environment makes them want to die, but if they surrender, it's not a dead end, but why did Japanese soldiers launch suicide attacks? It is because the Japanese soldiers firmly believe that they can go to see the god of sunshine if they die in battle. Go to heaven or something. This is the pie painted by the deceptive painting of the Japanese rulers.
Why is Little Japan's model deceptive?
Because going to heaven is obviously unreliable, in the ancient Chinese worldview, the Three Realms are the ghost world, the heavenly world, and the human world. They correspond to the balance of yin, yang, and yin and yang (yang dominates yin and follows, and the human world also becomes yang).
The heavenly realm is equivalent to heaven, according to the classics, the 'gods' of the heavenly realm actually have a lifespan, and when the life span is reached, they will fall into reincarnation, and the gods of the heavenly realm are equivalent to the top of the pyramid, but the level is lower than the immortals who jumped out of the three realms. If you go to heaven, you will naturally be a god of heaven. But if you want to be a god, you definitely can't achieve it by committing suicide on the battlefield.
And when he became a god, he still had to worship at the Yasukuni Shrine for Mao?
Therefore, the model of Little Japan is the real feudal superstition. And it adds elements of extreme religion. And the model adopted by Zhu Youxiao at this time, no matter which scholar it looks like in this era, is not a lie, and it is not extreme at all.
Move it to benefit and know it to harm. Attracted by the interests of the Loyal Ancestral Hall and driven by harsh military laws, these soldiers in the Beijing camp naturally regarded death as their home in a desperate situation.
It's just that the soldiers of the Beijing camp will not be like Little Japan in World War II. Go on a suicidal offense. Because if you survive, you can also enjoy the rewards of military exploits. So when it comes to the battlefield, these Beijing soldiers don't have too many other ideas, it's best to survive, and there's nothing to be afraid of if they can't survive, just kill a few more.
The biggest advantage of being a soldier in Beijing is that you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and you don't have to rack your brains for your livelihood. When they go to the battlefield, there are also officers who have ideas, and they just need to listen to the command.
In contrast, those traitor soldiers who used to be the Ming army had complicated thoughts in their heads. What deterred them was only the Jiannu system of supervising the war, and then forcing them to go to the battlefield to survive with the fate of retreating and dying. But when there is no way to live on the battlefield, it is impossible for these traitor troops to fight to the death.
The two sides fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and the wall was already full of corpses, and more corpses were rolling down from both sides. Countless traitor soldiers died under the spears of the Ming army, and the rear of the Ming army's pikemen were still full of people, and they also died one by one, as if there was no end.
The morale of the traitor soldiers who climbed up the wall finally collapsed, and they were stuck on the wall one by one. And the Ming spearmen did not compress their space, so they stalemate on the wall. But the traitor soldiers below couldn't climb up. It was already full of people, and there was simply no place for them to stay. So much so that many traitor soldiers could only hang on the ladder and wait, but they were also glad in their hearts, and they were not in a hurry to go up at all.
And the traitor soldiers at the front, no matter how they pushed and shoved behind, they were all dead and stopped, and they just didn't go further. The traitor soldiers behind quickly reacted, hurriedly stopped pushing, and stopped their heels one by one. Jiannu, who supervised the battle under the city, was dumbfounded on the spot, what should I do?
"Surrender or kill."
At this time, the Ming army on the wall shouted, and the traitor soldiers on the wall finally couldn't hold it anymore and dropped their weapons one by one. The one in the back saw that the one in front had dropped their weapons, and it was impossible to survive if they continued to attack, and there was no way to survive when they retreated. They can't even go back, and there are people hanging from the ladder! So he simply dropped his weapon.
The wild boar skin who was watching the battle could not see the problem, and the face of a donkey was already pitch black. At this time, the wild boar skin finally saw that the Ming army in Jinzhou Pass was obviously waterproof. With the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's pikemen, it was impossible for these Han troops to expand their positions to this extent. The only explanation is that the Han army was deliberately put on the wall, and then continued to kill.
At this point, there is no need to continue acting, and he simply begins to surrender. Many of the Han troops who had no combat beliefs were Ming troops before, and their surrender did not look blunt at all.
The Ming army even began to bombard the Jiannu archers under the pass with artillery with all their might, and the powerful firepower immediately beat the Jiannu archers to the point of crying wolf.
"Report the ......" At this time, a fast horse rushed over. A Jiannu turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground and made an urgent report: "Qi Yu Great Khan, Mao Wenlong's headquarters in Dongjiang Town took advantage of the emptiness of our army's troops, and within one day Lianke Zhenjiang, Changdian, Yongdian, Dadian, and Kuandian, and began to attack in the direction of Shouyang. â
"What! I'm mad at me! The wild boar skin was almost so angry that he spewed out a mouthful of old blood, and before the Jinzhou Pass was taken here, Mao Wenlong jumped up over there, covered his chest for a long time before changing it, and waved his hand: "Withdraw the army, withdraw the army immediately, and destroy Mao Wenlong for Ben Khan." â
The wild boar skin, which is about to catch fire in the backyard, naturally can't take care of Jinzhou Pass anymore. Moreover, the Ming army on Jinzhou Pass obviously wanted to drag them into the quagmire of attrition, and the wild boar skin, who realized this, could no longer stupidly send troops to Jinzhou Pass to consume.
Soon Jiannu 'Mingjin withdrew his troops'.
Every soldier of the traitor unit under the gate breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly retreated. The traitor soldiers who surrendered on the wall were also relieved, and it was good that they could surrender safely.
After the wild boar skin removed these Han soldiers and Jiannu archers, the wild boar skin with a belly of fire quickly sent these Han troops to Jinzhou Pass to carry the corpses of Jiannu's fallen soldiers.
After some tossing, the original Han army of more than 30,000 people, at this time, there were less than 6,000 people left who still had the strength to fight a battle, which can be described as heavy casualties.
In contrast, Jiannu's infantry also suffered heavy casualties. In order to cover the siege, more than 7,000 infantry archers were shot and killed, and thousands were wounded.
Those Han army troops are cannon fodder troops in the eyes of wild boar skin, and it is not a pity to die more. However, the death and injury of the Jiannu soldiers made the wild boar flesh painful, their population was already small, and now they have to continue to go into the mountains to capture the Jurchens to replenish the population and troops!
However, the corpses on the battlefield still have to be snatched back, so these Han soldiers have another task.
"Jiannu is estimated to retreat, otherwise he won't be in a hurry to collect the corpse now."
"It is estimated that General Mao launched an attack on the rear of Jiannu, otherwise Jiannu would not have wanted to retreat so simply." The staff officers of the General Staff analyzed.
After Zhang Kuotu heard this, he immediately ordered: "Since Jiannu is going to retreat, immediately bombard them with heavy artillery." â
"Yes, sir."
The Ming artillery at the head of the city received the order and immediately lifted the red cloth covering the heavy artillery. Suddenly, the muzzles of black holes were exposed, and when Jiannu in the distance saw this scene, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
Soon, this hunch was confirmed.
As the Ming army lit the fuse and lifted the thirty heavy cannons loaded with gunpowder and shells, there was a loud sound in an instant.
Boom Boom!
One by one, the big iron balls that were so hot that they glowed red roared out and smashed into most of the Jiannu's men and horses, and they were all in the direction of the handsome flag of the wild boar skin. (To be continued.) )