Chapter Twenty-Seven: Attack and Defense of Hutou Mountain (II)
Zhang Fu has the confidence to conquer the city, because he believes that the thieves on Hutou Mountain have been frightened.
Of course, there is another idea, that is, I am also familiar with military books, and it should not be too difficult to attack a cottage that has just lost a battle. He had to win once to gain more morale, even if he knew that the soldiers knew who they should listen to.
Now that he can go out of the battle, and he came with him, it was originally Zhang Haobu who he prescribed, and he was so ideal, and there was no possibility of failure at all!
"Charge, break through the thief camp in one go, and reward the first meritor!" In order to boost morale, Zhang Fu shouted at the soldiers before he actually started the attack.
Everyone knows that this is the God of Wealth of the New Army, or that the money and food of the New Army are in his hands. Not to mention that Zhang Haobu was originally Zhang Fu's descendant, just for that promise, there is no reason not to sell his life. In the final analysis, there is still a reason, that is, the lives of people in Shaanxi are too worthless.
A bad life, if you can sell one tael of silver, it is capital protection, and if you can earn more than two taels, you will earn it!
From enlistment to the present, these soldiers have more or less earned ten taels of silver, even if this rotten life is lost here, they will not suffer, if they do not die, it is naturally the best.
The morale was greatly boosted, and the speed of the charge towards the top of the mountain was much faster.
Just those who saw this scene, whether it was Yang Hong, Zhang Hongbin and others, all showed disdainful expressions.
If you are in front of the cottage, it is naturally the best to boost morale, but if you don't rush up to play encouragement, that is the style of two fools. You must know that walking on the mountain road is originally a very laborious thing, and these soldiers who are so encouraged that they scream, this one runs wildly, and the body is not consumed? When the time comes, when it comes to the gate of the cottage, will you still have the strength to attack the city?!
Besides, when everyone is tired, morale will naturally fall, and the effectiveness of this encouragement will be considered invalid. Just as Zhang Fu said, 'one drum', now that the 'first encouragement' has been completed, what can happen to the second and third encouragement, doesn't Zhang Fu know?
"According to the dress, this girl should be the deputy general of this army, but why would Yang Hong use such an incompetent waste as a deputy general?" Li Dingguo laughed, that was laughing at this army.
"It's very simple, if it's not Yang Hong who is stupid, or this person becomes a deputy general, I'm afraid that Yang Hong won't be able to call the shots." Zhang Hongbin shrugged.
Li Dingguo and Wang Er are not illiterate anymore, at least after Ling He and Zhang Hongbin told about the Ming Dynasty again and again, they already have a certain understanding of some of the political and military shady scenes of the Ming Dynasty. I had already guessed in my heart that I was afraid that it was Yang Hong's superior who stuffed a gold-plated guy into the vice president.
Zhang Fu is really an idiot, just as Yang Hong and Zhang Hongbin expected, when this guy led five hundred people to the gate of the cottage, most of the soldiers were already a little tired, and the morale that was originally raised had disappeared.
Zhang Fu has not yet noticed this, maybe at this moment he only has enemies in his heart, and there are no more people of his own.
"Siege!" Zhang Fu shouted, only hoping that Hutou Village could be defeated one day earlier.
The siege ladder had been prepared a long time ago, and the soldiers in front of them could come up, but the people inside were not vegetarians, and they poured a large amount of boiling hot water from the guard towers on both sides as soon as possible. Even if the hot water is cooled down by a drop process, it is still hot to death, splashing on the face and body, it is a terrible pain, and many people even blister at the first time and roll on the ground.
"Archery!" Zhang Hao didn't know how to attack the city at all, and organized manpower shooting at the first time.
Fortunately, in front of the cottage, there are about more than 50 people, otherwise he would not have been able to organize a counterattack.
"Stones!" There was a sound from inside, and suddenly a large number of stones and logs were thrown down, and the thing was condescendingly smashed down, even if it was only a little more than two meters high, it was smashed to the head and bleed.
The biggest advantage of the cottage is that there will be no shortage of defending equipment, and the stones and logs are ready-made, so it is not enough to continue logging.
Not long after, there was already a corpse in front of the cottage, all of which were Zhang Fu's descendants. A few siege ladders, even if they were to be built, no one would be able to cross them.
Seeing that his morale was low, Zhang Fu stomped his feet and could only return in a huff.
The team of 500 people lost more than 100 killed and more than 40 wounded, but it was ironic that they did not even attack the cottage.
"The last general failed to attack the city, and I hope the lord will punish him!" Zhang Fu returned to Yang Hong and knelt down on one knee to admit punishment.
"Vice General Zhang has worked hard, if it weren't for the deputy general to attack the cottage, I wouldn't have been able to know the defense inside." Yang Hong immediately praised him.
Zhang Fu heard it, but he felt that this was so ironic, and he felt that he was completely laughing at himself.
"Don't think crookedly, the adjutant general, your ministry has indeed made meritorious contributions. The other party splashed with boiling water, which proves that they are not short of water, and there should be living water in the cottage. A cottage with living water will be much more difficult to capture than an ordinary cottage, and it will be meaningless unless it is besieged for a long time. But apparently, we don't have this time to Lang Fei here in Hutou Mountain! Yang Hong patiently explained.
"Then, I don't know how the Lord will attack Hutou Village?" Zhang Fu's face was a little more pale, at least not so embarrassed.
"Simple, surround for three days, continue to attack the heart!" Yang Hong said with a smile.
"Does it work?" Zhang Fu didn't believe it.
"If it weren't for those captives, it might not have worked, but now it's different!" Yang Hong laughed.
The first day of fighting was over.
Starting early the next morning, there were thieves in front of the cottage who had been captured yesterday and who had apparently surrendered to the cottage.
The content of the statement is nothing more than one, surrender to avoid death, and those who want to return to their hometown also have the usual money for the journey. They even waved the copper coins in their hands to show that they were not lying. At the same time, he also kept claiming that if he obtained the head of the Tiger Head King's family, the male could get fifty taels of silver for each head, and the female could get twenty taels of silver.
There was no indication inside the cottage, the captives were too far apart, and there was no possibility that their city defense equipment could be used at all. can only let the other party scold like this, but he didn't dare to go out of the city to face the battle, for fear of being eaten by this new army.
"Are they attacking the heart? At this pace, we should be able to win tomorrow, right? Li Dingguo muttered as he chewed dry food.
"That is, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, there is no need to continue watching this battle...... Let's go back! Zhang Hongbin got up, ate the last mouthful of dry food, and then clapped his hands and said.
"So you're going back?" Wang Er hadn't reacted yet.
"We should go back and think about how to deal with this army, and we must also urge the sons below to train quickly, so as not to know how to attack or not understand the order when it is a tough battle, then we will laugh to death." Zhang Hongbin shrugged.
"Will we be able to win the new army?" Li Dingguo is still a little worried.
"In a head-on fight, it's probably five or five, and our advantage is that our weapons are more advanced, and they don't seem to be equipped with strong crossbows. And our disadvantage is that we are not a regular army, and we lack an officer from a regular army, so we may not be able to match them in terms of layout and command.
However, fighting a war does not necessarily have to be a tough one. An army mixed with rat droppings, it's too easy to deal with them! Thanks to the lieutenant, if it weren't for his recklessness, I wouldn't have seen anything so funny! Zhang Hongbin smiled.
Li Dingguo also reacted quickly and laughed. As for Wang Er, he couldn't figure it out, but when he saw them laughing, he had no choice but to laugh.
Zhang Hongbin and others left one after another, and on the night of the next day, there was chaos in the cottage. The shouting and killing continued, and there was even a firelight, which was the table of something burning. On the second day, the gate of the cottage opened, and the three hundred thieves went out of the village to surrender, hoping to join the official army. The leader is the second master, who has wanted to be the boss for a long, long time, but he is a bit of a bad person, and to put it bluntly, he is the type with completely asymmetrical abilities and ambitions.
In order to show his sincerity in taking refuge, the second boss offered the heads of the Hutou Wang's family.
"Good, you're really nice!" Yang Hong said to him with a smile.
Immediately, the army pressed up, and without saying anything, they killed the three hundred thieves.
"Alright, call it a day!" Yang Hong laughed and motioned for the people below to clean up.
This is a logic that can be easily figured out, a second leader who can betray the big boss can also betray himself when necessary in the future. Besides, it is better to recruit 300 more garbage that has no combat effectiveness and drags down the overall combat effectiveness, so it is better to have 300 more heads of anti-thieves, so that the latter can be exchanged for silver, and the former will not only drag his feet, but also pay for silver and grain and grass.
Hutou Village was soon burned down, and a lot of gold and silver treasures were found in it, which were all captured by the army, so naturally they would not be handed over.
After arranging the work of repaying the merit and sending the head to the head, Yang Hong announced that he would hold a banquet to celebrate the day, and then returned to his camp.
A day later, the army continued to march towards the location of the next group of thieves.