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Chapter 988 Under the City of Shenyang

Twenty miles south of the Shenyang Acropolis, there was a flat river, and the materials looted by the Jurchen and Mengu tribes in the surroundings and outside the Shenyang Zhongwei were stored nearby. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is precisely because of these materials that they can support them to besiege Shenyang City in the early spring of winter, and the accumulation of reserves in Shenyang City is also sufficient, Ma Lin and several nephews of the Li family are in the city, and there are family guards as the backbone in the city, and a large number of soldiers are assisted.

After the ancients were driven to the grassland in the early Ming Dynasty, the ability to attack the city gradually degraded, it was not worth mentioning at all, at the beginning of the attack on Shenyang City, there were even cloud ladders to climb to half of the bastards, climbed to the head of the city and were directly driven down by the Ming army, and there were many people killed and injured by rolling wood boulders and boiling water under the city.

However, as time progressed, the battle gradually became more difficult, and the besieging team under the city began to know how to use the chariot to cover it, and began to set up wooden towers under the city to shoot arrows upwards to force back the defenders on the head of the city, and then drove the soldiers to climb and attack, what made the defenders even more angry was that the siege and the people who built fortifications under the city began to use the Han people captured nearby, and those who climbed the ladder also began to use the captured Han soldiers.

The people in the city began to be helpless, but they were still fighting to the death, and there were gradually casualties in the city, and what was more troublesome was that the morale fell sharply.

The attacks under the city are endless, and it seems that every day there are foreign Jurchen tribes and Mengu tribes joining, but they can only consume it like this.

The news of the partial reinforcements also came, and Wang Tong only brought more than 10,000 soldiers here, what can these numbers do, it is simply to send food to the Tartar soldiers under the city.

Indeed, it is rumored that Wang Tong has used thousands to break nearly 10,000, and once used 30,000 to break 100,000, but it is a rumor, Liaozhen and the barbarians have been fighting for so many years, and the false report of the war exploits is still less, who doesn't know what's going on, but the news from the city will not be false, more than 10,000 people have come, this number should not be vain, what else is this, everyone surrenders the city.

However, the deputy general in the city, Marin, was more elated, and such a fake sour man was confused in his head, and he really thought that he could be saved this time, and he would cry when the time came.

At noon on the twenty-sixth day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Wanli, the defenders of Shenyang City were relieved, and the generals hurried to let the soldiers at the head of the city take turns to rest, and began to demolish houses in the city to replenish the rolling wood and bricks and stones on the city, and some people planned to send people out to ask for reinforcements at night.

Everyone knows that it should be easier to defend the city these days, because the Tartars below will draw their strength to eat the arrogant tiger army first.

Shenyang City has been prosperous for more than 100 years, don't look at the wartime, some things are still not lacking, in the area of the southern city wall, a cadre of soldiers are staring greedily at a battlement, where several of their bosses are gathering together, from there from time to time wafted the aroma of wine and meat.

Today, on the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, the city also sent cabbage and radish stew and pancakes, which were considered a treat, but those people went to the city to hang around and actually got a jar of wine.

Several of the guards who were always the Li family's family soldiers were temporarily promoted, and the garrisons above should also be polite to them, drinking alcohol during wartime is taboo, but the siege of the city was suspended, and they turned a blind eye to it.

"Lao Zhang, today I went to my house to ask for peace from the master, and I heard my master scolding his staff there, I inquired with the following, and the staff said that when the tiger army came over, the city sent troops, and came to the outside to cooperate, but I was scolded by my general, saying that he was looking for his own death."

"You will know the master's mind, our family is still thinking about it like this, and was persuaded back by the following desperately persuasive, you think, that Wang Tong is His Majesty's No. 1 cronie, and the big victories are not false reports or whatever, and the above is not conniving, otherwise he is only in his early twenties, how can he be crowned."

"It doesn't matter what he does, just drinking, if he continues to toss like this, maybe we'll be here."

"You drink less, you didn't have an errand in the afternoon!?"

"What's more to drink less than this little wine, the soldiers and horses of the Tartars have gone to eat the Huwei army, leaving six thousand people to keep an eye on us, then there will be a siege of the city, I will go to the city in the afternoon to find a girl to tinker with, do you want to go."

Several people talked unscrupulously there, and one muttered a few words there:

"Damn, this is the downwind direction, wait for the messy smell to come all over the country, etc., what a sound"

After this man finished speaking, he stood up and looked out on the battlement, the city wall of Shenyang City was very high, and he could see a long distance when he climbed high and looked far away.

"It should be the Tiger Army over there! Here it comes!! ”

"Camp camp!! The horse team and the 7th Regiment are going to escort!! ”

The brass trumpet was blown, and the drums leading the infantry regiments were struck twice, and the whole army stopped, and the heralds from the Chinese army rode here and there shouting.

Now Wang Tong has more than 2,000 cavalry at hand, all of which are placed on the side of the baggage camp, guarding against a few light cavalry cruising around the periphery.

Ding Zhuang, the man of the baggage camp, looked frightened, but he still unloaded the carts in an orderly manner, because as soon as they were in disarray, the overseers' wooden sticks and leather whips would be drawn, and if they ran in panic, there were swords and bows and arrows, and they drove their livestock to the center of the camp, and carried the flammable goods to the middle of the camp, and connected the carts to each other with the baffles of the carts, and arranged them in the gap between the camps with one-pound cannons and tiger cannons.

The seven infantry phalanxes in front were in a tight formation, which was not a good target for an assault, but the chariot battalion that was setting up camp was a good target.

However, the infantry Tartar cavalry of this Ming army has not seen it, but the more than 2,000 cavalry Tartar cavalry knows that half of the more than 2,000 cavalry are in a strict formation, advancing and retreating like one person, and in the assault and melee, the Tartar cavalry is often defeated, and then covered and killed.

The other half has no formation, but it is extremely brave, and its combat skills on the horse are not inferior to the best warriors between the grassland and the white mountains and black waters, and they are even more fearless of death.

This Ming army is already fish on the chopping board, eat this Ming army, then this cart battalion and cavalry are not worth mentioning, and there is no need to risk knocking out his teeth to gnaw him off.

After suffering several losses, the Tartar cavalry cruising outside the Huwei Army Brigade no longer refused to move and assault, and some harassment had nothing to do with the overall situation in the dignified army battle.

Wang Tong looked at the military array on the opposite side on the horse, the Haixi Jurchen tribes and the ancient tribes of the Gate were messed together, although it was said that there were more than 30,000 people, but under this black oppressive formation, it was said that 100,000 Wang Tong also believed it.

The cavalry of the Jurchen tribes in Haixi is several thousand, and most of the cavalry in the Horqin Gate are cavalry, if you want to say that the combined forces of the Jurchen and the ancient tribes of the Gate are in any formation, that is, the cavalry is arranged on the right side, and the foot soldiers are behind on the left side, which is the routine in the art of war, and the Tartars are barely able to do it.

"The black pressure in front of me is full of people, I feel that I can't breathe, and I have been on the battlefield for a few years, but I am always not used to seeing this, I always have to look at the sky and the earth, so I feel more comfortable!"

In addition to a cadre of personal guards beside Wang Tong, that is, Li Hutou, the head of the first regiment, everyone laughed when they heard Wang Tong say this.

"How far is it from the enemy line!?"

"Go back to Dashuai, seven hundred steps away from the enemy formation!"

"Order, the seventh regiment as a reserve, the first to the sixth, from right to left, as a horizontal team!"

The herald beside him agreed loudly, and hurriedly rode over to give the order, and in the queue that had just been quiet for a while, the sound of stepping drums sounded again, the flag waved, and the column formation of the Tiger Army turned into a horizontal formation and slowly unfolded.

"Firecrackers, take the lead!!"

Another order was given, and the musketeers, who had been distributed on both flanks of the group, began to run towards the front of the group.

Originally, the voice on the opposite side was extremely noisy, although it was a few hundred steps apart, it could be heard clearly, but seeing the several regiments of the Ming army unfolded in a strict manner, even people who no longer knew about military affairs, seeing such team discipline and knowing what it meant, the combined forces of Jurchen and Mengu began to become quiet.

Wang Tong looked at his side, and then opened his mouth and ordered:

"Two hundred steps forward to set up a cannon!"

The artillery position was on the right side of Wang Tong, and after hearing this, the artillery who was preparing to unload the horses was nervously reloading and unloading, and it could already be seen that the horse team of the Tartar coalition army on the opposite side had begun to converge in front of the formation.

"The 1st Regiment to the 6th Regiment advances, and after the enemy enters the fire readiness distance, shoot and set up formations, give orders!"

The flag behind Wang Tong waved, and the brass trumpet sounded again, this time not a long stop order, but a short and sharp sound, and the regiments gave orders one after another, rhythmic drums sounded, and the horizontal formation of six infantry regiments began to move forward.

"Infantry brothers have gone up, our artillery team has to keep up, everyone work hard!!"

Mu En shouted loudly in the ranks, and the artillerymen all shouted the trumpet and pushed the cannon hard, and Wang Tong opened his mouth again:

"Five hundred volunteer cavalry, come forward to escort the artillery team!" As soon as this order was issued, Wang Tong's mount and the horses around him were restless, and the drums on the opposite side also sounded, and the cavalry brigade of the other party slowly moved forward.

Wang Tong turned his head and glanced at the guards, the veterans who were transferred out were quite calm, some of the people who had just entered the battlefield were pale, Sun Shoulian's son Sun Pengju's face was also not good, Wang Tong said with a smile:

"Sun Pengju, you are staring at the head of Shenyang City, if there is anything abnormal, report it to Ben Shuai at any time!"

Sun Pengju was stunned and agreed loudly