Chapter 24 Burning Emperor Taiji

Liu Ce saw that Wujia Province was going to take a thousand cavalry out of the city, and he was caught off guard by the Tartars and killed the opponent's spirit, and his heart became embarrassed. After hesitating for a long time, he finally nodded and said, "Even so, General Nawu should be careful, the Tartar is immediately powerful, and in case of danger, you must retreat quickly." ”.

Wu Jiaxing nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the last general must be careful." Only the arrogant robbers under the city knew very well, and they quickly withdrew. ”

Most of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry plundered in the towns and villages outside the city of Taiyuan, and went in and out as if no one was in a land, and the Jurchens still had some discipline and were not allowed to scatter their troops and act collectively as much as possible. The Mongolian soldiers were different, seeing the Ming army shrinking in the city and not daring to come out, they were very proud and full of contempt for the Ming army. They were unscrupulous under the city, and some even jumped off their horses and defecated in the open.

Just when they were arrogant and proud, the Taiyuan city gate suddenly opened, the suspension bridge fell, and a sentry roared out, and the leader was Wujia Province. Wujia Province took the lead, holding a big knife, and the flying horse killed the Mongolian cavalry, and before the guy could react, Wu Jiaxing had already raised his knife and fell under the horse.

At first glance, when they saw the Ming army coming out, the Mongolian soldiers were a little stunned, and the lamb in their eyes still had teeth. Picking up the saber, he wanted to resist, but because the formation was too scattered and could not organize an effective defense, Wu Jiaxing and his soldiers had already killed the Mongols. Wu Jiaxing has always been brave, and the soldiers he trained are also brave, and when he saw the arrogance of the other party in the city, he had already held back his anger, so he had to kill hard, and let out a bad breath in his heart.

Prepared to kill unprepared, mourning soldiers to arrogant soldiers, and most importantly, there are not many Mongolian soldiers under the city, and the Ming army also has an advantage in local numbers. With these three favorable conditions, if the Ming army can't win, it is really a little unreasonable, the fact is the same as Wujia Province thought, after a while, there were more than 50 Mongols were cut to the ground, the rest saw that the situation was not good, they fought horses and fled, the direction of their escape, is the location of the main force, Wujia Province of course will not be stupid to chase over, cut off the enemy's head, snatch the horses, turn around and collect troops back to the city.

After entering the city, he gave the order to hang the heads of the enemy in the air.

Since the Manchurian cavalry entered the customs, they have been invincible, with almost no casualties, and this time fifty people died, which is really infuriating. Huang Taiji is now leading his troops to attack Yangqu County on the edge of Taiyuan Mansion, and the people outside the city have basically entered the city, and they can't grab anything outside the city, so they naturally want to attack the city and grab it. He didn't plan to attack Taiyuan City, but the general small county town has a low city wall, so it can still be attacked.

Although the Tartars were the same as the Liukou, they did not have any siege equipment, they came lightly, and they would not bring objects such as well-railings and arrow towers. Huang Taiji first let people enter the city with arrows, and let the defenders in the city open the city to surrender, if they surrendered, they would not kill anyone, if they did not surrender, after opening the city, they would bear the consequences.

Surrender without fighting, that's impossible, don't look at Yangqu County, there are not many guards, but intellectuals are also good-looking, how can they surrender like this, and the Tartars are not as good as the Liukou, mobilize the people to go to the city to help defend, unite as one, and it may not be impossible to hold it. Seeing that the city did not fall, Huang Taiji ordered that the captured people, as cannon fodder, charge at the front of Yangqu City, and the Tartar soldiers followed behind, mixed with the people, and rushed forward with the ladder.

Seeing that his own people were rushing in front of him, all of them were compatriots, and that there were no arrows or stones under the city, the ladder was set up to the edge of the city, and the Tartars drove the people away, and climbed with them. Of course, the city could not sit back and throw stones or something, but all they heard was the screams and cries of their compatriots.

Driving the captives to the front and attacking the city is the usual means of the Tartars, and the Ming army is kind, and often cannot do a fierce resistance, even if it resists strongly, most of the dead are prisoners.

The people who were stoned to death in the city were all their own people, and they were obviously a little soft-handed, they were all from Shanxi, and among them were their own relatives, how could they do this. If you can't do it, the Tartars may go down, and when they see that the defense of the city has eased, the Tartars quickly climb the city, climb to the top of the city, pick up the butcher's knife, and slash as much as they want. More and more Tartars rushed up, and where could the officers and soldiers and people in the city withstand it, and in the end, it completely collapsed.

The Tartars came into the city, slaughtered first, and then plundered. All the survivors were captured, and all their belongings and food were robbed.

As soon as Quyang County was conquered, someone immediately reported that Taiyuan City suddenly sent troops to attack, killed many of us, and hung people's heads on the city to demonstrate. Huang Taiji was angry and furious, and immediately ordered the troops to send to Taiyuan.

If Dan uses the speed of the Tartar cavalry, he can kill the city of Taiyuan in a while, but he drives so many people, and when he arrives at Taiyuan, it is already dusk. Huang Taiji did not attack the city immediately, first set up camp, he was not like a rogue, just set up a tent and finished, the camp tent was set up in an orderly manner. Of course, Huang Taiji also had to order people to intimidate the city with arrows, telling the city to open the city and surrender quickly, otherwise the day the city was broken would be the time to slaughter the city.

Although Liu Ce is not very bold, it is impossible to be intimidated like this, besides, as the governor of a province and a feudal official, he is favored by the imperial court, even if he dies for the country, he can't do that kind of thing. Liu Ce didn't even pay attention to it, and directly tore up the letter, ordering Wu Jiaxing to lead the army and strictly defend the city.

Wujia Province is well versed in the art of war, leading troops to fight a very good set, he expected that the Tartars will inevitably think that the city is panicked, and dare not steal the camp and rob the village at night, so at night, he personally led five hundred cavalry, immediately dragged a bundle of firewood and grass each, prepared something to ignite the fire, and secretly killed out of the city on the fourth watch.

There are not many stars tonight, and the sky is dark, so I didn't say that I couldn't see my fingers, and it wasn't too much. Wujia Province is full of cavalry, with ranks, horses picking bells, and cotton cloth tied to the horses' hooves.

As expected, the Tartar soldiers were unprepared, and after a day of robbery, people were tired, of course, they didn't expect that there were still people in the city who dared to take the initiative. After the Ming army entered the camp, it was unceremonious, killing people when they saw them, raising grass and setting fires. The Tartar soldier woke up in his sleep, and had just crawled out of the tent with his weapon, and before he could find his horse, he was beheaded with a knife.

The Ming army set fires everywhere, and for a time, the Tartar military camp became a sea of fire, and the flames soared to the sky. At night, it is especially conspicuous and terrifying. In the winter night, the weather is dry and dry, and there is not a small wind, the wind helps the fire, the fire borrows the power of the wind, and the entire Tartar camp has become a pot of porridge. Moreover, there are still a lot of combustibles in the Tartar camp, the tents are easy to burn, the food is also lit at a point, and the fire can be smaller. The Tartars didn't know how many Ming troops were in the camp, and they were panicked one by one. The Ming army is only 500, if these 500 people alone, how many Tartars can be killed, but don't forget, there are no less than 100,000 prisoners in the Tartar barracks.

With so many captives, the Tartars naturally tied them all, and to put it mildly, there must be so many ropes to tie them. Moreover, the fierceness of the Tartars had already frightened the captives and emboldened them, and they did not dare to resist. But tonight, there was such a big fire, and the captives were boiling. There are those who are bold and take the lead and lead the people to flee, and there are fires everywhere, and they are easy to be burned to death if they do not move. The people were running around, making the already mixed Tartar barracks even more mixed.

The more the Tartar military camp, the more joyful Wujia Province became, and led the men and horses to slash and kill. At that time, Huang Taiji was not an idle person, seeing that the camp was on fire and someone robbed the camp, he was not in a hurry, calmly, and ordered Yue Tuo and Mang Gurtai to organize soldiers to resist, and their own soldiers and horses were not allowed to move, so as not to make the military camp more mixed. It can be said that if there were not so many prisoners in the camp, the chaos in the Tartar military camp would really be able to calm down quickly, but the number of prisoners was more than that of the Tartars, and the big guys had already given up in order to escape for their lives. In order to stop the captives, how could the Tartar soldiers not move, slashing everywhere with their knives, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering.

Wu Jiaxing led the soldiers to kill two more laps, and saw that the Tartars' position had gradually stabilized, and knew that they could not stay any longer, so they led the warriors, turned around and retreated, and returned to Taiyuan City. The people also fled to Taiyuan City, and when Wujia Province entered the city, they followed up with some, but Wujia Province did not open the city gate, let all the people follow in, and all the soldiers entered the city, so the city gate was closed. He also moved himself to compassion for a while, so that the Tartars could take advantage of it.

After going to the city, they only let the people flee elsewhere.

A fire burned all night, and the prisoners fled twenty or thirty thousand, and more than 10,000 were killed by the Tartars. Most of the grain, grass, and goods were burned. At dawn, Huang Taiji ordered to clean up the battlefield and count the losses, the Tartar soldiers suffered a total of more than 1,000 casualties, which was not a tragedy, and he was not distressed after escaping so many prisoners, but the grain, grass and property were burned, and this loss really made Tiancong Khan grit his teeth.

Barely made do with breakfast, it was already noon, Huang Taiji couldn't hold back any longer, and ordered the siege of the city. Taiyuan City is not comparable to the general city, and the height of the city is better than that of Chengdu. There is a moat outside the city, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if you have a sharp weapon to attack it, you have to work hard. Not to mention that the Tartars are not there yet.

Huang Taiji still used the old method, driving the people in front, and the Tartar soldiers followed behind, erecting pontoon bridges, crossing the moat, and then attacking the city with cloud ladders.

Originally, Huang Taiji thought that the defenders in the city could show mercy to their people, but the Wujia Province in the city didn't care about that, and ordered the soldiers to beat me hard, whether it was his own people or Tartars, as long as he dared to approach, he would kill them all.

Wu Jiaxing warned the soldiers that if we show mercy to our subordinates, after the Tartars enter the city, not only will we all die, but even the people in the city will not survive. The city is full of your families, and your mercy will cause them all to die.

When the soldiers heard this, coupled with the fact that Wu Jiasheng personally carried a knife to supervise the battle, which one dared to be soft. The most important thing is that Wujia Province has already established its prestige, not to mention the suppression of bandits, that is, yesterday, attacking and killing the Tartars during the day, and only bringing 500 warriors at night, the Tartar camp was turned upside down, which was enough to be worshiped by the soldiers as gods.

The bows and arrows on the city are like raindrops, Taiyuan City also has cannons to defend the city, the cannon roars constantly, if someone dares to approach the city, set up a ladder, the big stone and boiling water, boiling oil will be immediately greeted.

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