Chapter 31: The Gale Strikes the Village
The Mazi water flows through the vicinity of the domestic city, and is about 45 degrees angle from the east and west, there is quite a flat land along the coast, the flat land in the south of the Yangtze River is only a mile, but the depth of the north of the river is more than four miles, so the Goguryeo people built the capital on this riverbank plain. The domestic city is surrounded by earthen walls, more than ten miles around, the south of the city is near the water, there is a water gate, and there is a water village to repair.
But the so-called water village is actually just an ordinary cargo ship wharf, only some wooden stakes are made in the water, a low fence is built, and it is just covered by wooden canopy - if the water village is in the Yangtze River, it is estimated that Zhou Yu will not care about it at all, and Lu Su will also laugh off his big teeth......
There are many fields on the east and west sides of the domestic city, and the north is the Marudu Mountain, which is more than 670 meters above sea level according to the estimation of later generations. There was a village on the mountain, built in the Eastern Han Dynasty to offer the emperor Jian'an for three years, the original name was Wei Na Yan City, and then because of the many fierce battles with the Liaodong Gongsun clan, the Liaodong army even once broke through to the domestic city, Goguryeo King Bogu fled to Wei Na Yan City, after the war was built in the city to build a large palace; In the time of his son Yimo, he simply moved the Baiguan Office to the mountain, thus forming a unique composite structure of "Marudu-Domestic".
At this time, the mountain city of Marudu, built by the mountain, mostly used stone walls, fifteen miles around, larger than the original domestic city, boasted of the solid of the golden pond soup city - the left-behind minister Pei lived on the mountain and controlled the overall situation.
But the main force has been taken away by the palace, at this time there are only more than 2,000 defenders in the mountain city of Marudu, and there are even less than 1,000 in the domestic city, and the largest armed force at hand is not the land division, but the naval army led by Hao Xu - of course, the strength of the combat effectiveness is another matter. Now that he has retribution, Hao Xu fought fiercely with the enemy. Although the paperwork is full of flowers. It's like a big win. However, instead of sending a head or a prisoner, he reported the loss of more than 100 people and more than 10 warships.
Fortunately, if the whole army is not wiped out, and he can still hold on to the water village, I don't know how many days Hao Xu can defend it? On the one hand, we have to send fast horses. went to the palace army to spread the news, urging him to return to the army, and at the same time strictly ordered Hao Xu to be sure to persist until the king returned. Then early the next morning, he secretly transferred all the defenders in the domestic city to the mountain - if the Wei army really attacked in a big way, it is estimated that the water village will not be able to defend for a few days, and the domestic Pingcheng will also fall overnight, so it is more certain to defend the mountain city of Marudu.
But this move couldn't hide it from Hao Xu at all, and Hao Wenjun scolded on the spot: "Pei is really a dog!" "I also want you to send a Lu Shi to help me defend, you are good. Transferred all the people away, and let me be one in front. Oh. I know, you saw Tian'er say in front of the king that the sailors were not in order, the soldiers bullied men and women, and the generals knew about the goods and asked to remove me, but the king didn't listen, so you seized this opportunity to frame me? Hu is a virtuous minister? The whole white-faced traitor!
At the moment, the generals were convened to discuss, and the big guys all said, if we are not benevolent, we will be unjust, just withdraw from the water village and take a boat to the upstream. When the Wei people came, they must attack the inner city, and they are not expected to chase after us.
Hao Xu even shouted "fart" - "I received the grace of the first king, and I made the handsome sailor, how can I abandon it?!" "And yesterday it was misdirected...... No, it's because the enemy is too cunning, so it's a little setback, in fact, if you think about it carefully, they only have a dozen or so boats, let's chase out for more than ten miles, there is no ambush, and there is no backup - I deliberately exaggerated the enemy's situation, I just want to send some reinforcements, who wants to scare him into abandoning the country, are you all blind, and are you scared?
That's fine, let's firmly guard the water village, wait until the king comes back, force the Wei army back, and then I will play an impeachment game, saying that he is afraid of the enemy and avoids war, abandons the domestic city, and lets the king treat him with a capital crime - no, I will behead him all over the house, and I will vent the hatred in my heart!
was discussing, a small colonel came to report, and the Wei army came to the front of the village again, and a war letter was shot in. Hao Xu used to be a small official of Xuansu, of course, he knew Chinese characters, and when he opened the book, it turned out to be a decisive battle. He immediately laughed "haha", and tore up the war book casually - "He has few boats and few soldiers, and he still dares to fight with me?" "Lao Tzu is not fooled!
Well, the feel of this tearing letter...... It's not silk, so what is this?
So does Deng Shizai really want to fight the enemy army? Despite his small victory yesterday, he was not carried away, but only hoped to take this opportunity to paralyze the enemy. To say that Deng Ai was lucky this time, he really caught more than a dozen Goguryeo naval army prisoners for him, interrogated him overnight, and the situation of the defense in the city was also touched. So today, I came by boat again, approached the water village, and shot into the arrow book to see the other party's reaction.
What if you go out of the village again to chase after you? I'll just repeat the tricks I played yesterday. If you dare not act rashly, or if you believe my letters, you will wait for the decisive battle tomorrow? Okay, I'll follow the original plan, get close to the south bank, and land under camp.
Sure enough, the arrow book was shot in, but the water village was quiet, and there was no reaction for a long time, and even an arrow was not shot out - it is estimated that the arrow will be released if it is closer. Deng Ai had a bottom in his heart, so he immediately landed on the south bank and set up a camp. Then he climbed the nearby high mountain and looked at the opposite bank from a distance, only to see that in the mist, Mount Marudu stood majestically, and the stone walls on the mountain were like belts, and the arrows were dense......
Deng Ai couldn't help but gasp, and said in his heart that such a strong city, even if the army gathers and the ants are attached regardless of casualties, it will not be able to be broken in a few days - seeing that the climate is getting colder and colder, how can we afford it. It seems that Taiwei Gong's plan to "fall into the capital" is about to go bankrupt......
However, before considering these problems, we must first defend the camp on the south bank and save the lives of myself and these three hundred brave warriors. Deng Shizai's first ascension to military power, coupled with the fact that he was young and undignified—how could the soldiers afford to stammer, how could the soldiers afford it—it was difficult to win the hearts of the people, and he vainly sought to "put him to death and live later". Fortunately, he first broke through the enemy's patrol post, fought a small victory, and then commanded properly, and survived in a desperate situation, and he took the lead in the white-knuckle battle of jumping ship, and finally roughly subdued the hearts of these warriors.
Therefore, Deng Ai still had some confidence in holding the camp on the south bank, and if the enemy ship only carried one or two thousand men, he was sure to stop it on the river beach - unless the other ship also had a giant repeater like the "Gale", or a small stone thrower. And if the enemy really comes to attack with all divisions, can't I win the battle?
But there are many precautions. On the other side, not a single soldier was sent......
Besides, it has to be transferred away from the defenders of the city in the country. Hao Xu closed the village again. The combination of the two incidents led to a major evil consequence - the leading party got the opportunity to echo the Wei army. Deng Ai's army originally had several Goguryeo people as guides, and when he saw the enemy's navy retreating into the village, he immediately sent people to follow these guides, quietly crossed the Mazi River, and infiltrated into the domestic city to make friendly contacts. If you want to say that there are many people in Goguryeo who are dissatisfied with the rule of the palace, some of them are the old genus of Baqi. Some were Chinese who were taken into slavery, and some were indigenous slaves. So these men were ordered to spread rumors and stir up a rebellion in the city.
It is rumored everywhere that the Wei army is attacking in a big way and has reached the outside of the city, so Pei Zhe has to transfer the defenders away, but he feels that the country is no longer defensible, and he plans to give up altogether. When the common people heard the news, some of them hurriedly went to the mountain city of Marudu to hide, and some of them directly helped the old and the young to flee to the east.
The domestic city has become a pot of porridge, and it has to cry blood. But he has no ability or strength to manage it; As for Hao Xu, he didn't want to care at all. Instead, his sailors rushed into the city, plundered the inhabitants, and made a fortune.
In this way, three days passed, and the army of the palace had not yet withdrawn, and the main force of Cao Wei's water division rushed to the city in advance after a hard journey.
Regarding the situation inside and outside the city in China, Deng Shizai sent a small boat to report to the brigade at any time, although Xiahoulan and Wei Yanren had not arrived, the situation had already been clearly understood. Therefore, when the big ship arrived outside the domestic city, it did not dock or slow down, Wei Yan directly ordered: "Shoot the 'gale'!" ”
Wei Wensheng's ship was in front, and on each side stood a huge repeater "Gale". However, such a giant repeater, according to Ma Jun's design, is not directly embedded in the string of the ship, but can be disassembled and moved, Wei Yan has already been prepared, and installed the two "gale" on the left side of the ship, and aimed at the Goguryeo Water Village at the moment, which is a series of twenty arrows each.
The crossbow arrows were powerful and could break through heavy armor, and the water village of Goguryeo was very simple, but there were only some slabs on the wooden stakes, and at the moment they were like a torrential rain hitting the pond, and the arrows were all pierced, and thirty percent of the guards hiding behind the arrows were shot into a sieve, and the remaining seventy percent were mostly wounded—including abrasions, injuries from flying sawdust, and those who fled in a hurry and broke their feet, and broke their heads......
The two "gale" bodies exchanged their boxes three times in a row, and when they were finished, the enemy village was riddled with holes, and not a single soldier dared to garrison it. At this time, the big ship was also close to the enemy village, so some sailors threw out the hook with a rope, or directly raised the hook gun, locked the fence, and pulled hard. "Hulala" a few times, the fence overturned, and the Wei soldiers were each short soldier, jumping up and killing the remaining enemies.
Of course, all the people who jumped directly from the boat with such a roar were sailors, and the land division could only change to a small boat first, and then slowly approach the shore.
The big ships led by the Wei army, the strings of the ships were more than a foot above the water, and there were higher buildings protruding from them, which looked like giants at that time, just like monsters - it is estimated that many Goguryeo soldiers were directly frightened silly, is this a ship? How can a ship be built that big?
This is a matter of knowledge and vision. In the early 19th century, the coastal residents of Japan were accustomed to seeing large ships, and they were still regarded as monsters when they saw American steamships, and the inland soldiers of Goguryeo in those years were only more frightened. Ignorance breeds boundless fear, and those who have the strength to turn around and run away are already considered daring, and most of them are just stupid and stunned, like a nightmare, and they will not come back to their senses until the swords and guns of the Wei soldiers are stabbed - of course, it will be too late.
Hao Xu is relatively bold, he didn't even have time to put on his armor at the moment, so he turned his head and ran away - he was still complaining in his heart, why wasn't he a Lu general, at least the Lu general still had a horse to ride, and he had to escape faster...... A member of the Wei general saw it from a distance, and saw that although this person was not wearing armor and a helmet, he was dressed quite gorgeously, and there were personal guards beside him.
Hao Wenjun had an arrow in his heart, and he was planted in the water with a wheel, and the river was surging, and the whirlpool turned, and there was no trace of it.
The meritorious general is not him, it is Shi Bud Shi Zhongrong is also - it's a pity that he didn't know that he shot the enemy general, and he didn't get the head, and he couldn't repay the merit...... (To be continued......)
PS: Friend Hao, the bento is served, goodbye~~