Chapter 112: Tragic Explosion of Chrysanthemum (Ask for the first order)
In Chongqing, the atmosphere became extremely tense.
Tusi Yu Chongming's sudden rebellion made the people in the city panic, and the military disasters have not been a joke since ancient times. Chongqing itself is a relatively stable place, because the commodity economy is not too widespread in Chongqing, so the life of the people of Chongqing is still good. It's just that the people of Chongqing obviously have little experience with the sudden military disaster, and the whole city was full of panic for a while.
Fortunately, Qin Liangyu immediately posted a notice, and then began to organize young people in the city to assist in defending the city, and prepared fuel, cauldrons, gold juice, rolling stones, sasswood and other materials for defending the city.
Although the young men in the city don't know how to fight, they at least know how to throw stones and pour gold juice into the city! If you don't even dare to go up the city wall, then you will always carry supplies underneath, right?
As soon as he organized it, Qin Liangyu organized fifty or sixty thousand young people. Although these young men did not have any military training, their enthusiasm was quickly mobilized, because Qin Liangyu directly announced: Kill one enemy, reward ten taels of silver!
Suddenly the young men who were organized were in a commotion.
"We are so high on the walls that we can kill the enemy by throwing stones and pouring hot water on them. If you kill one, you'll have ten taels of silver! ”
"But what if you get shot?"
"Coward, wealth is naturally a risk, not to mention that the opportunity is so big, it is worth a shot."
Many of the young people who were organized were eager to try, and there were also some who were afraid, but the effect was obviously achieved, and there were enough young people who were willing to go to the city wall to defend, nearly 30,000 people, and the rest were passing supplies under the city wall to rescue the wounded or something.
Coupled with the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Qin Liangyu's hands, the city defense was quickly stabilized.
Outside the city, the extravagant Chongming department is also preparing for the siege. After all, when there was no rebellion before, he didn't dare to blatantly build siege equipment, so the siege equipment of Yu Chongming was not sophisticated.
After two days of preparation, I only managed to make some simple ladders. The Lu bus used for the siege of the city is being built, but it can't be built in ten days and half a month.
It's just that Luxury Chongming obviously can't wait, and Qin Liangyu's decision makes Luxury Chongming extremely angry. Originally, the plan of the Ming Dynasty was to take Chongqing with lightning speed, and then capture the entire territory of Sichuan before the Ming Dynasty could react, and then rely on the natural danger of one man to establish his 'Li nationality state' in Sichuan.
Qin Liangyu's non-cooperation caused Yu Chongming to suffer losses, and then he became angry.
Carried away by his anger, he launched a siege battle just two days later. In the eyes of extravagant Chongming, the Ming army was simply vulnerable.
The only thing that made him a little worried was Qin Liangyu's stone pillar white pole soldiers, but the white pole soldiers had just suffered heavy losses on the battlefield in Liaodong, and not long ago they were transferred to the Liaodong garrison, and this time Qin Liangyu's soldiers and horses were only 3,000 white pole soldiers, and they were basically new soldiers.
This made Gao Chongming have great contempt.
Although the siege battle was launched after only two days of preparation, and Yu Chongming only had 20,000 troops in his hands, it was extremely contrary to military common sense.
But this phenomenon was too common in the late Ming Dynasty.
The various wars at the end of the Ming Dynasty were actually generally worse wars than anyone else.
The battles of more than 100 people and 10,000 people took place in the late Ming Dynasty. Military literacy is basically not good, that is, those who are afraid of being stunned, those who are stunned are afraid of dying, and those who are afraid of dying.
As long as there is a momentum of death, it is possible for hundreds of people to defeat tens of thousands of people on the battlefield at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, that kind of exaggerated phenomenon basically only occurs when the officers and soldiers encircle and suppress the thieves, and Yu Chongming is not comparable to the thieves, and the 20,000 Tusi soldiers in his hands are also known to be extremely good at fighting.
Basically, it is a poor mountain and a bad water, and there are many people, and they are naturally good at fighting.
It is precisely because of the erosion of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army that the Ming Dynasty has the courage to rebel. Gao Chongming, who is extremely proud of his military force, can wait for more than ten days, and the situation does not allow him to drag on in Chongqing for more than ten days, if he can't take Chongqing quickly, then the Ming army will soon counterattack.
20,000 Tusi soldiers launched a siege battle towards Chongqing with high spirits, the first step in the siege was to fill the moat, the Tusi soldiers pushed the cart close to the moat, and were immediately shot by the Ming army on the city wall with a random arrow, many arrows were shot crookedly, there were not many accurate heads at all, but under the random arrows, some enemy soldiers were still killed.
At the same time, the sound of fire on the city walls rang out. The momentum was amazing, but there was a Ming soldier's firearm that exploded on the spot, and he suddenly screamed and fell off the city wall.
However, the appearance of the Ming army caused the laughter of luxury Chongming and others, and they were even more convinced that the Ming army was vulnerable.
"Erlang, shoot them to death." The archers of the Extravagant Chongming Organization were already in place, and with an order, a neat rain of arrows suddenly shot out, and the sky fell on the city wall.
The Ming army and Qingzhuang on the city wall had already prepared, and a lot of shields and planks were prepared, and some Qingzhuang even covered the quilts at home on the planks to provide protection for themselves.
The effect was not bad, and the arrows reached the head of the city without causing too many casualties.
However, the Ming army on the city wall and those young men were too frightened to remove the protection, and the extravagant Ming rebels who buried the moat with soil under the city suddenly had no interference, and immediately seized the opportunity to fill the moat frantically.
The 10,000 soldiers and horses in Qin Liangyu's hands are obviously not very good. Among them, 3,000 white-pole soldiers were good, but they had not been trained for a long time.
The other 7,000 Ming troops gathered from all over the country, the combat effectiveness is indeed not flattering, Qin Liangyu has trained these Ming troops, but after all, the time is a bit rushed, and such a thing as archery is not something that can be improved in a short period of time.
Under the suppression of the bows and arrows of the extravagant Ming rebels, the soldiers and civilians on the city wall did not look very good. Only half a day later, Chongqing's moat was filled by the rebels with enough width to besiege the city.
The morale of the soldiers and civilians on the city walls was hit to a certain extent, and everyone was terrified. However, Qin Liangyu was calmly watching the battlefield, waiting for the rebels to attack.
The moat was leveled, and the rebels immediately launched a massive siege battle.
"Kill!"
"The king has an order, and the city will not be sealed for three days."
Tens of thousands of rebels were divided into three echelons, and the first echelon shouted and rushed towards the city wall of Chongqing's south gate, and Yu Chongming obviously wanted to use this direction as a breakthrough.
About 3,000 rebels, armed with ladders, under the cover of archers' firepower, braved the fire of the Ming army, rushed all the way across the moat, came to the city wall, put the ladder on the city wall, and then bit the steel knife in their mouths, and rushed to the city wall with the help of the ladder flexibly.
The Ming army and the young man on the city wall also began to brave the fire of the rebels and began to carry out various strikes on the rebel soldiers who climbed up.
A young man defending the city smashed a stone at the bottom of the city, and with good luck, it smashed it precisely on the head of a rebel soldier, who screamed and fell from mid-air. A smile appeared on the corner of the young man's mouth, and he hurriedly protected the wooden plank in front of him. When the rebels were filling in the moat before, the soldiers and civilians on the city wall still summed up some experience, and began to understand when they needed protection and when they could take advantage of the opportunity, which was considered to have found some sense of rhythm.
Not far away, a cauldron was boiling, a foul smell spread, and the country was full of golden color, this thing is called gold juice, which is a very terrifying biological weapon, and it is cheap and easy to obtain. A young man stirred the contents of the pot, while a young man scooped up a scoop of gold juice and poured it on several rebels on a ladder.
"Ahh
"Uh~!"
The screams suddenly sounded, a rebel soldier was poured on the face, directly covered his face and fell down, the two rebels below were also not happy, although it was only a scoop of gold juice, but some of it was poured on them, the hot gold juice made them let go of their hands in pain, and the other two soldiers also fell down from the ladder.
The rebels who were burned by the gold juice had a high casualty rate, and this thing could easily cause infection.
For a time, rolling stones, sassal wood, gold juice, boiling water, and arrows were all on the city wall, and the rebels besieging the city were knocked down. Attacking the city with only a ladder is obviously extremely tragic.
The tragic siege lasted for nearly twenty minutes, and the soldiers of the first echelon of the rebels rushed up the city wall several times, and under a slash, they killed many Ming soldiers and young men defending the city, but every time they just went up, Qin Liangyu would quickly put in superior forces and slash all the rebels who rushed to the city wall.
Because of the fact that Yu Chongming came hard this time, the direction of the siege was also very clear, after all, only one side of the moat was filled, and it was impossible to play the trick of attacking the east and the west, and it also allowed Qin Liangyu to concentrate his forces. Therefore, Qin Liangyu is not afraid of fighting with Luxury Chongming at all, Luxury Chongming only has 20,000 soldiers and horses, and there are as many as 60,000 lightly armed people in the city, and there are many who are not organized.
In order to prevent the city from being cowardly and leading the city to break, the soldiers and civilians on the city wall all retreated and beheaded, and at the same time promised heavy profits and killed a rebel and rewarded ten taels of silver. He then publicized the barbarism of the rebels under the command of Hao Chongming, and announced that the imperial reinforcements would soon arrive, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city became extremely tenacious.
The fight continued, staining bricks and stones red. However, this siege war gradually turned into a nightmare for Yu Chongming.
He couldn't have imagined that the soldiers and civilians in Chongqing would be so tenacious.
The rebels of the three echelons have been replaced by two, and the third echelon is climbing towards the city. However, the losses of the two echelons that retreated were already extremely heavy. Each echelon originally had more than 3,000 people, and when they retreated, there were only more than 1,000 people, and most of them were injured.
The soldiers and civilians defending the city on the city wall, who were unprofessional, made Yu Chongming see hope again and again, but disappointed him again and again.
gradually made it difficult for luxury Chongming to ride a tiger.
He had already paid too much price for this reckless siege, but giving up on this made him extremely unwilling, and the Ming army on the city wall seemed to be crumbling, perhaps as long as a little more troops were invested, it could become the last straw that broke the camel's back.
After all, the Ming army in Chongqing City is too scummy, Qin Liangyu's multi-pronged arrangement has indeed made the army and the people tenacious, but the gap in combat effectiveness still makes the scene extremely anxious, and many of the rebel soldiers who rushed to the city wall have gathered together to fight with the Ming army on the city wall.
After all, the place where the city wall can stand is so big, although the Ming army has superior forces in the face of the rebels rushing up, but there is only so much performance investment at one time. If the rebels can't be driven off the walls quickly, more and more rebels will be killed on the walls.
The city wall became the most brutal battlefield, and the Ming army could still have an advantage at first, but as the rebels fiercely attacked the Ming army, the kind of lifeless barbaric fighting made many Ming troops frightened. Fortunately, at this time, Qin Liangyu put the white pole soldiers into battle, and the spears were like a forest, advancing in rows, and soon many rebels on the city wall were 'forked'. However, the rebel archers shot at the white pole soldiers, disrupting the formation of the white pole soldiers, so that the rebels at the head of the city seized the opportunity and launched a desperate charge against the white pole soldiers, and the scene suddenly became chaotic again.
Although this group of white pole soldiers has not been in the army for a long time, they do not lack the courage to fight to the death, and the rebels under the command of Yu Chongming are not only desperate, but also elite soldiers, and the two sides are inseparable.
The battle has been carried out to the most critical moment.
Now it is more ruthless than who is more ruthless, Hao Chongming's eldest son Hao Yin is quite brave, seeing that the situation is stalemate, he immediately went out to ask Hao Chongming to fight: "Qi Qi father, if this matter is invested in an army, it will be able to conquer Chongqing, and the child is willing to lead the army to the city to fight." ”
Luxury Chongming has already played the banner of the emperor, but it is very hasty, full of cottage atmosphere, and only some people around him call Luxury Chongming the emperor.
"Okay, you lead two thousand troops and go to the city immediately." Yu Chongming's expression finally cheered up, and he immediately clapped his hands and ordered. The rebels had already occupied an area on the city walls, and the two sides were engaged in a tug-of-war on the walls. This made it much safer for the rebels' follow-up troops to enter the city.
Extravagant Yin was overjoyed, and immediately ordered 2,000 troops, and then climbed the city wall along the ladder to fight with the Ming army.
It was already evening at this time, and the two sides were fighting in the dark, when suddenly a fast horse galloped and shouted: "Report ...... Report to the king, a Ming army has come from behind us, only five or six miles away from our army. ”
"What!" Luxury Chongming was shocked, he didn't expect that a Ming army would quietly appear five or six miles behind him.
At this time, part of the rebel army under the command of Yu Chongming, five or six miles away, had already been violently attacked. In order to win by surprise, Ding Maoxin walked in the mountains with soldiers and horses for more than two days, and finally went around behind the rebels.
Before Yu Chongming had time to react, he had already been miserably exploded, and the grain and grass hoarded in the rear were directly burned. (To be continued.) )