Chapter 53
The Tartars never expected that there would be artillery in the small village of Hewan, and the sudden attack caught them by surprise, at least a dozen Tartars were wounded and killed, and the iron sand hit a shield cart, sawdust splashed, and two more Tartars were stabbed to death.
As soon as he saw that the shield car was not safe, the Tartar behind him could no longer bear it, so he ran away. There were still many Tartars in the city who had no time to escape, and the morale of the recruits was greatly shaken, and one by one they clenched their spears and stabbed them out, and more than a dozen Tartars were strung with sugar gourds.
The Tartars who were killed before and after passed seventy, and there were forty or fifty seriously wounded, and they didn't have time to flee back, so they screamed at the bottom of the city, and they couldn't stand the screams, and Qiao Fu took the archers to use these Tartars as targets, and they were all shot to death in a short time!
Angai brought six or seven hundred men, and after a battle, he counted the number of people, and lost more than one percent. was so angry that this Taiji's nose was crooked.
"Rice buckets, they are all rice buckets, you are too embarrassed for the Mongolian warriors, what do those Nikans have? I defeated you with ice, are you still worthy to be a warrior, I will kill you! ”
The more he spoke, the more angry he became, he drew his waist knife and slashed two deserters in a row, blood splattered all over his face, making him look like a ghost, and he couldn't stand it anymore.
"Brother Angai, the warriors are attacking the city very carefully, and they can't take it because the Han people in the city are too tenacious, and they are more difficult to deal with than the Ming army in Daqing Fort!"
"Hmph, I don't care, if I can't take a small village, I won't have the face to go back to the grassland, everyone listen, immediately set up camp and rest, tomorrow I will continue to attack!"
Angai was still unwilling, and the recruits who had just gone through a big war were also hurrying to recover.
The wounded were carried down, and the bodies of the fallen soldiers were sorted and sent to the training ground in the middle of the village. The men brought ice bricks to repair the damaged battlements.
"It's dangerous!" Qiao Tieshan suddenly pointed to a crack in the city wall.
Zhang Ke hurriedly looked over, and sure enough, there was a deep gap, and ice chips fell when his hand touched it lightly.
"It must have been left behind when the enemy exploded!" Zhang Ke said with palpitations: "Fortunately, God blesses, otherwise we would have lost in our own hands!" ”
Ice walls are ice walls after all, and they still can't be compared to real masonry!
Zhang Ke hurriedly said to everyone: "Take advantage of tonight, everyone should water the city wall more, the thicker the better!" ”
"Well, let's go!"
Wu Boyan took the initiative to take over this task, Zhang Ke and Qiao Tieshan continued to inspect, they arrived at the blacksmith workshop, and Liu Blacksmith was leading the craftsmen to work.
"Uncle Liu, the 10,000 enemies you have made have been of great use, at least more than 20 Tartars have been killed!"
"That's great!"
Blacksmith Liu slapped his face excitedly and said with a smile: "We only used three of the ten loads of gunpowder, and there are seven loads, this time I will make a big one!" ”
Saying that, Blacksmith Liu went over a small water tank and put it in front of Zhang Ke.
"Not to mention that it can hold thirty catties of gunpowder, throw it over according to the pile, and it must not kill more than a dozen Tartars!"
Ooh! This one really dares to do it!
Qiao Tieshan smiled bitterly: "Lao Liu, I see that you didn't blow up the Tartars, you blew up the city wall first!" ”
Blacksmith Liu suddenly changed color in fright, and stammered, "Is it so strict?" ”
Zhang Ke nodded and smiled: "Uncle Liu, a 10,000-strong enemy charge can't exceed five catties, but you can put some broken iron filings and iron nails and iron pieces in it, which can also increase the lethality." ”
"Great idea!" Blacksmith Liu patted his head and said, "I'll get it now, and wait until tomorrow morning, at least a hundred of them will come out!" ”
After leaving the blacksmith shop, it didn't take long to reach the training ground, and by this time more than two dozen corpses had been carried over and placed neatly on the ground.
In less than half a day, the happy children became cold corpses in the blink of an eye, and no one could bear the pain of losing their loved ones.
A little old man sat beside his son in a daze, clutching his cold hands, tears rolling down his eyes. An arrow stuck in his son's throat, the blood gushing out had congealed, and the slightly furrowed brow seemed to indicate the painful struggle of dying.
The old man gently grabbed the spear in his son's hand and pulled it hard, but he didn't move.
"Son, let go, stop fighting and killing when you get there, let's live a peaceful life!" The old man was still struggling, but he just couldn't pull it off.
"The old man let him take it!"
Zhang Ke walked a few steps closer, and he still had a trace of the impression of the sacrificed recruit, he was a very shy young man, silent, but he was extra attentive during training, he really didn't expect to die on the battlefield for the first time!
The old man sighed heavily: "A good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail." My son has a hard life in this life, and he died in vain, and he will have to give birth to a good family in the next life! ”
Saying that, the old man didn't care about Zhang Ke, hugged his son's corpse, and tears fell silently, only giving Zhang Ke a back.
Zhang Ke didn't care about the old man's actions, but sighed and said: "Uncle Qiao, arrange manpower, write down each of the sacrificed brothers, and when the battle is over, bury them together, each of them will have a pension of thirty taels, one stone of grain per month in the future, and then divide twenty acres of land after the beginning of spring." ”
Qiao Tieshan nodded hurriedly, but the old man holding the corpse widened his eyes and couldn't believe it at all.
"What did you say, my lord?"
Zhang Ke said with a smile: "Old man, Ling Lang is a hero, the whole village should be grateful for his sacrifice, I am ready to bury the soldiers together and send people to sacrifice regularly." Then there is the pension and land for military dependents, which I promised to everyone, and if you still have any difficulties, just say it, and I will do my best to do it. ”
When the old man heard Zhang Ke's words, his facial features gathered together in pain, and he trembled with excitement. Suddenly, his legs weakened, and he knelt in front of Zhang Ke, with old tears.
"Adults, they are all ignorant and ignorant and collided with adults. You are benevolent and righteous, the child did not die in vain! He would be grateful to you if he knew about it in the Heavenly Spirit! ”
Zhang Ke hurriedly helped the old man up, his nose was sore, and said: "Old man, I said on the first day of the founding of the army that we are soldiers and must protect our fathers and relatives. The same military should also be respected, and your old man will never have to kneel again! ”
The old man burst into tears, and finally burst into tears.
"My lord, it's our blessing to meet a good official like you!"
Not only this old man, but even many family members around him cried bitterly, they didn't expect Zhang Ke to really do what he said, and his heart was warm! It seems that the pain of the loss of loved ones has also been alleviated a lot.
"My lord, the old man has nothing else, he has a request."
"Speak!"
"My lord, the old man has three sons, the eldest is dead, let the second brother take his eldest brother's position, and continue to work for the adult!"
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When the morning came again, Angay and his men ate only a little beef jerky, and they didn't even have hot water, so they could only eat a little snow. Although it is not pampered, Angai has not been used to living this kind of life!
He gritted his teeth in anger and vowed to God to take Hewan Village.
Before he could get out of the tent, Shanba ran in in a panic.
"Oh no, big deal!"
"What did you say?"
Shanba gasped and said, "Let's go out and have a look!" ”
The second monk was puzzled, so he could only follow him out, came to the high slope, and followed Shanba's fingers to look at the hateful ice city.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, Angay almost fainted out of anger at a glance.
After a night of watering and freezing, the walls almost doubled in thickness, and the crystal ice reflected the strong light, making the whole city look like a large ice sculpture.
"Too much deception!"
Angai gritted his teeth and said: "No matter what tricks they make, they will take it down for me today and prepare to attack the city!" ”
"No!" Shanba was still sober, and hurriedly said: "Taiji, don't be reckless, we lost more than a dozen shield carts yesterday, and now the city wall is frozen like this, the warriors can't set up a ladder to attack the city, and if you kill it now, won't you send it to death?" ”
Angai is not stupid, but he really can't stand the anger of losing his soldiers.
"Why don't you just go to the ice city, smash me with a hammer, burn it with fire, and break it for me in short!"
Bad Angai is iron-hearted after eating the scales, and it is useless to persuade Shanba.
Just then, a scout suddenly ran up.
"Qi Taiji, someone asks to see you!"
"Who?"
"He said it was called the Tiger!"
That's right, it was the Xiashan Tiger who came, and he was defeated in the hands of Zhang Ke, and he was still unwilling to retreat, wanting to find an opportunity to enter the city. But waiting and waiting, I didn't wait for the opportunity, but waited for the news of the five thunderstorms, and the nest was actually attacked.
The tiger could no longer hold on, and fled back to the Black Mountain Pass with a smoke, and he saw that the black smoke was still burning, and the old nest that he had worked so hard was over, and he rushed into the valley like a madman to search around, and there was nothing left of the accumulated wealth and materials.
Xiashan Tiger's heart was dripping blood, and he shouted angrily: "Who is it, who did it, Lao Tzu is going to split him!" ”
After shouting for more than half an hour, the Xiashan Tiger finally got tired, sat on the ground with his buttocks, staring at a ruin in a daze, his nails digging into the flesh, and the blood flowed down drop by drop, and he didn't realize that his heart was also dripping blood at the same time.
Seeing that the tiger had calmed down, the military advisor said tremblingly: "Big boss, the top priority is to think about how to spend this winter, you can't watch the brothers scatter!" ”
"Strategist, who do you say did it?"
"I think it's either the Mongols or the Ming army, I just asked a surviving brother, and he said that the Ming did it, but I don't know who sent it!"
"Who else could it be!" Xiashan Tiger suddenly stood up and said loudly: "It must be Xu Bangyan's despicable villain, he asked Lao Tzu to attack Hewan Village, he actually took advantage of the weakness to enter, Lao Tzu will not let him go!" ”
Xiashan Tiger couldn't have imagined that the small Hewan Village, the inconspicuous Zhang Ke would have such courage. Xu Bangyan helped Zhang Ke carry the black cauldron.
"The big boss is right, but what to do next?"
Xiashan Tiger sneered: "It's easy to do, didn't a brother just say that the Tartars entered the Great Wall, let's help the Tartars, they eat meat, let's drink soup!" ”
In this way, the mountain tiger led his subordinates to frantically search for Anergai, and found Hewan Village all the way.
Angai looked at the Xiashan Tiger, he didn't care much about this bandit leader.
"What are you looking for me?"
"Lord Qiqi Taiji, the poor mountains and bad waters of Hewan Village are out of the people, why do you have to meet them in general, the villain is willing to fight for Taiji, wouldn't it be better to attack Daqing Fort!"
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