Chapter 364: Rescue
As Yue Yang got a large number of green three-color camouflage uniforms and stab-proof suits from modern society, the troops under his command also began to change their outfits on a large scale, as for why Yue Yang only got these old-fashioned three-color camouflage, there is only one reason.
That is, it is cheap, the factory price of a set of old-fashioned three-color camouflage is only about fifty yuan, plus the helmet and stab-proof clothing are only four or five hundred yuan, but a new set of anti-infrared digital camouflage is six or seven hundred yuan, and there is no need for that, after all, Yueyang now has more than 100,000 troops under his hands, even if each person only buys two sets in summer and winter every year, it is a lot of money.
Yang Guozhu looked at the surrounding troops again, and at a glance, they were all green, which was a little awkward for him who was used to seeing iron armor. However, although Yang Guozhu felt a little uncomfortable, after all, he was also a soldier in the battle formation, and naturally knew the difference between the soldiers marching in dozens of pounds of armor and advancing lightly, so he didn't say anything even if he was awkward.
Just as he was about to order his troops to speed up, a group of cavalry was galloping towards them. The speed of this group of cavalry was very fast, and after a while, they came to Yang Guozhu and reported loudly: "Lord Qiqi, I found a group of Tartars attacking the county seat of Dengxian County in front, and the number of enemy troops is about 1,000 people, please decide!" β
"Tartar?"
Yang Guozhu couldn't help but be shocked, and immediately asked, "Did the Tartars find you?" β
Ye Bushu grinned: "Don't worry, my lord, the brothers have found them with a clairvoyant mirror from afar, and the Tartars can't see us." β
"Good!" Yang Guozhu turned his head to Hu Dawei on the side and said: "Tiger Commander, after coming out for so many days, I finally met the Tartars, how do you think we are going to fight?" β
Hu Dawei also became excited, rubbed his hands and said, "His grandmother's, I finally met someone who would pant, I didn't say anything." Fuck it! Now the only concern is that the Tartar will slip away, so we have to sum up how to fight. β
"Well, yes!" Yang Guozhu nodded, and the two discussed in a low voice, and then began to arrange......
Deng County is subordinate to a small county town on the outskirts of Beijing, the whole county town is less than ten miles in radius, when the Qing soldiers approached the county seat, the county order and the gentry in the city threw their families and their wives and a family slave and fled the county seat overnight, at this time there was only one defender in the county town with more than 500 soldiers who had temporarily gathered together to resist the attack of the Qing army at the head of the city.
Originally, this defender thought that with the city, he could at least withstand waiting for reinforcements for a few days, but who knew that after only one morning, more than 500 defenders of the city suffered more than half of the casualties, and several times almost let the Qing soldiers attack the city. If he hadn't taken dozens of family members to rescue him desperately, I'm afraid the city would have been breached long ago.
The Qing army attacking this city was under the command of the white flag, led by a Jiala Zhangjing named Qi Hara, who was commanding the siege of the city under his vests, and under the cover of the shield chariots, the archers were shooting arrows on the city wall in waves, and the defenders were constantly falling from the city wall.
"Quick...... Push that ladder over there, and pour the gold juice over there! β
At this time, the smell of blood and pungent stench wafted everywhere on the wall of Deng County, which were a few large iron pots. It was filled with dung, commonly known as gold juice, and the iron pot was stuffed with firewood to burn the gold juice to a boiling hot point, and several soldiers were holding iron spoons and sprinkling the gold juice under the city wall.
"Ah......h
A young man who had been called up to the city wall was spilling a scoop of gold juice out of the city wall, but his head poked out too much of the battlement. Soon he was targeted by the archers under the city walls, and an arrow hit the major artery in his neck, and he immediately fell to the ground, and a large stream of blood immediately spurted out. I can't live now.
There are many people with the same fate as this young man, because he has never been trained and does not know how to protect himself, many young people were used as targets by the Qing army. The casualties were heavy.
Qi Hara is a small but unusually strong Manchurian, a big cake face and a flat nose with a full face of horizontal flesh and a pair of triangular eyes look extremely fierce, at this time he looked at the city head of the city and the city defenders who couldn't help but be shot down and nodded with satisfaction, according to this progress in another one or two hours, the Ming army on the city wall will be all finished, and then he can lead his warriors to rush into the city to enjoy the fruits of victory. He felt a pang of excitement at the thought of the weaker Han women struggling and crying in pain under his crotch. Thinking of this, Qi Hara felt a burst of excitement, and a certain part of his crotch began to become extremely uncomfortable.
Qi Hara shouted with a hideous smile in his eyes: "Tell the sΓΉ sons, the warrior who first attacked the city, Master Ben, allowed him to give priority to selecting ten girls and minions, and the rest of them could not be sealed for three days!" β
A Niu Lu Zhangjing was taken aback: "Master...... It's not appropriate to do this, but the Great Khan has instructed us not to stay in one place for too long, otherwise it will be troublesome for the Xuanda side to send troops to drag us down! β
"What are you afraid of!" Qi Hara snorted coldly: "Xuanda is so far away from us, even if he comes, it is impossible to arrive so quickly, not to mention that you want to watch those people in the Yellow Flag and the Zhenghuang Banner eat meat, and we can only drink soup?" β
Speaking of this, Qi Hara's heart was full of resentment. You must know that Qi Hara and they were originally subordinate to the yellow flag, but after Dolgon ascended the throne, they were all demoted to the white flag, from the upper three flags to the lower five flags, both the treatment and the status are a big difference, which undoubtedly makes Qi Hara extremely angry, the southern invasion of Dolgon has demarcated the territory for the ministries, those easy to fight and rich places are naturally given to him the yellow flag and the yellow flag and the blue flag, the three flags, and those more remote places he assigned to the lower five flags, which also makes Qi Hara extremely unhappy, It was he who gave the order not to seal the knife for three days.
Seeing that the herald was still in place, Qi Hara glared and scolded: "Why don't you go quickly, didn't you listen to Master Qing's order?" β
"Chirp ......" saw that Qi Hara was angry, and the herald hurriedly conveyed the order.
As soon as Qi Hara gave the order, the Qing soldiers next to him suddenly cheered, and bursts of wolf-like roars came and went, and the rain of arrows shooting towards the city became more intensive, and soon no one dared to show their heads on the city again.
Without the suppression of the gold juice and rolling stones at the head of the city, the actions of the Qing army immediately became rapid, and soon there were infantry soldiers wearing heavy armor to climb the city wall, seeing such a blessing, the Qing army under the city let out excited cheers, Qi Hara also cracked his mouth and laughed. He knew that this city was already in his pocket.
Just when Qi Hara was happy, several detectives suddenly galloped in the distance, and these detectives in the distance let out a sharp whistle, which meant to discover the enemy's situation.
"Hmm...... What the hell is going on? Before Qi Hara could ask a question, a sentry came galloping over, ran to him and shouted, "My lord, the Ming army has been found in the west!" β
"What? Found the Ming army, how many people? Qi Hara didn't care at first, but asked impatiently. In his opinion, as long as the number of the Ming army does not exceed four or five thousand, it is not a matter of concern, and he knows the combat effectiveness of the Ming army very well after dealing with the Ming army all the year round.
Because the sentry was running too quickly, his breath was a little chaotic and said: "My lord, the number of Ming troops is not much, but they ...... They are under the banner of the Xuan Army! β
"What? Xuan Dajun? When Qi Hara heard this, he was almost frightened and fell off his horse.
Since Huang Taiji's expedition to Chahar tribe failed to burp on the way back, the Qing army has developed a kind of "phobia", to put it mildly, there has been a deep fear of Yue Yang and his army, this fear was not formed overnight, in these years. The Qing army has repeatedly fought against Yueyang, but they have repeatedly suffered defeats, and in the end, even their own Great Khan was played to death, can they not be afraid. And a few days ago, Yue Yang took office as the governor of Xuanda and changed the Yingzhou army under his command to the Xuanda army. The spies arranged by the Qing State in the Guannai spread the news to Shengjing almost immediately, and Dolgon and the high-level officials of the Qing Kingdom naturally got the news, and the news naturally quickly reached the ears of the people below.
Qi Hara grabbed the placket of the stall and asked, "Are you sure they are Xuan Dajun?" How far away are these people? β
The stall said with a bitter face: "The slaves are not sure that they are not Xuanda's people, although these people are under the banner of Xuanda." But they were not wearing armor, but green clothes, and the minions had never seen them! β
"Dressed in green. And still not wearing armor? Qi Hara was also stunned, what is going on? Since under the banner of Xuanda, why didn't those cavalry wear armor, you must know that Yueyang's soldiers and horses have always been known for their wealth, not to mention the elite troops such as cavalry, and even the guys who cook are given a cotton armor as welfare.
As soon as he thought of this, Qi Hara felt angry, where did the poor ghost dare to tease him under the banner of Xuandajun. I wanted to send men and horses to destroy the Ming army that dared to pretend to be the Xuan army, but I thought that the siege had reached the last moment at this time and I couldn't be distracted, so in the end Qi Hara decided to endure it first, and it would not be too late to wait until Deng County was captured. So Qi Hara didn't take the sentry's words seriously, and continued to order a siege of the city, but he didn't know that he had missed the best chance to escape.
I have to say that the efficiency of the Qing army is still quite high, a quarter of an hour later, as a large number of Qing soldiers poured into the city, and then the tight city gate was also opened, Deng County was officially declared breached.
Just as Qi Hara was commanding all the men and horses to enter the city, there was another sound of horses' hooves and fighting in the distance.
"Bastard, what the hell is going on? The people on guard outside are all mixed ......" Qi Hara, who had not yet recovered from the excitement of breaking the city, scolded loudly, but before he finished scolding, he was immediately held in his mouth, so just as he was scolding, a crisp gunfire came from behind him.
"What's going on, how can there be a sound of firecrackers!" Qi Hara's face turned white at once, he was very familiar with this kind of gunshot, just half a year ago, he saw countless Manchu warriors riding war horses and wielding this long knife towards those Ming troops who lined up neatly, and then fell in rows in such gunfire, that kind of bloody scene still often appears in his dreams until now.
Looking at the Qing army that was swarming towards the city, Qi Hara felt annoyed for the first time that he had captured the enemy's city too quickly, and he couldn't care about anything else, and shouted frantically at the other party: "Quickly withdraw, don't enter the city...... The Xuan army is coming! β
It's a pity that there is a good saying, it's easy to get into the city and hard to get out of the city. However, it is not easy for an army with high morale to be launched immediately after entering a local city, especially in the era when communication is basically based on roaring, and it is not ordinarily difficult to concentrate an army that is scattered in all directions.
Just when Qi Hara was sweating profusely, the neighing of horses' hooves and gunfire outside were getting closer and closer, and soon the news that a large number of Ming troops had been found around the sentinel guarding outside came.
"Bang ......"
As more and more gunfire came, more and more Qing troops fell in pools of blood. A figure dressed in green had already appeared in front of Qi Hara, who found that breaking through had become a luxury.
"Master. Hurry up and break through, or it will be too late! A Goshha anxiously shouted to Qihara, who was riding on a horse.
"Break out......" Qi Hara laughed in despair, "Do you think that the Ming army has put on such a big formation, and it will leave a gap for us to escape?" Ten thousand steps back, even if I can escape alone, will the Great Khan spare me, the general of the defeated army, when I arrive at the camp? Rather than being trampled to death by ten thousand horses in a sack, I might as well die fighting here, at least so that Sheng Jing's family would not be implicated. β
Looking at Qi Hara with a desperate face, Goshha also understood that it seemed that they would not be able to escape here today, and he also drew his long knife and shouted: "Master." The minions have been waiting for you since they were young, so let the minions be loyal to you in the end! β
"Good...... Today, let's follow the emperor together! Qi Hara also picked up a tiger head gun from the saddle, and rode his horse towards the Ming army that was surrounding them, and behind him were more than a dozen Goshha and dozens of elite white-armored soldiers......
"Bang ......"
From a distance, I saw that this group of Ming troops rushing towards them lined up in a row under the command of a hundred generals and pulled the trigger on these people, as the gunshots continued to sound, Qi Hara and the Qing soldiers behind him were knocked to the ground one after another, and streams of blood flowed out from the bodies of them and the war horses under their crotches, but as soon as they flowed to the ground, they were quickly sucked clean by the arid land, leaving only a bloody red.
Less than half an hour after Qi Hara's death. The Qing army on the periphery of Deng County has been wiped out by the Xuan army, and the remaining less than 300 Qing troops can only helplessly run around in Deng County, these robbers who were still fierce and vicious just now are like lost dogs by the Xuan army from all over the place from hiding places, and some Qing troops feel that they have no way out. Before he died, he began to slaughter people and set fire to people's houses, but he was quickly annihilated by the Xuan army that rushed to hear the news.
When Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei felt the city of Deng County, all they saw were corpses everywhere and more than a dozen misty black smoke.
Looking at the wreckage everywhere, Yang Guozhu sighed and said, "No wonder the ancients said it. Prosper...... The people are suffering and dying...... The people are suffering, and it is always the common people who suffer together in this war! β
Hu Dawei glanced at Yang Guozhu a little strangely: "Chief Yang Bing." You Han people are strange, how can there be immortals in war, today the enemy killed our people, tomorrow we will kill their people back, is it useful to just sigh here? β
"You......" Yang Guozhu pointed at Hu Dawei helplessly and shook his head. This Tiger Dawei was originally a soldier outside the Saiwai, and he was also a Mongolian, and he descended to the Ming Dynasty during the Apocalypse, and since then he has been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but he has a lot of ideas that are always different from the people who grew up outside the Saiwai, which makes people laugh and cry.
While the two were talking, several sergeants came over with a bloodstained general and reported to the two: "Two adults of Qiqi, this person claims to be the defense officer of Deng County, and now he wants to see the two adults. β
Yang Guozhu and the two glanced at each other, with a look of curiosity in their eyes: "Oh...... Let him come! β
The person who came was brought over, and the middle-aged man's body and face were already covered with blood, but from the contours of his face and the beard under his chin, he could vaguely see that he was a middle-aged man.
Looking at the people who came, Hu Dawei asked with interest: "This official is Hu Dawei, the chief soldier of Datong, do you want to see this official and General Yang Bing?" β
The person who came knelt down and sobbed and said: "Wang Xin, the lowly Deng County defender, has seen two adults, and there was a sudden trace of the Tartar outside the city this morning, the county order and a group of gentry in the city escaped from the city with a cadre of domestic slaves and hundreds of soldiers, the dragons in the city were leaderless, and the lowly had to lead hundreds of remnants of soldiers and a cadre of young men to the city to resist the enemy, but the Tartars were too powerful, and the lowly post only resisted for half a day before the city was lost, and the defenders were almost killed and wounded, fortunately the two adults arrived, otherwise...... Woowoo woo ......"
Before he finished speaking, Wang Xin cried loudly.
"This county order should be killed!"
Hearing this, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei glanced at each other, and both of them saw the murderous aura in each other's eyes. As soldiers, what they hate most are those cowards who escaped from the battle, and if the two county commanders appeared in front of them at this time, they didn't dare to guarantee that they would not draw their swords and split them in two.
In the end, Yang Guozhu sighed: "That's it...... You can be regarded as a meritorious defender of the city, if you hadn't resolutely led the people to resist Deng County, it would have been impossible to hold out until the arrival of our army. You can rest assured, we will present this matter to the Marquis of Yue, and ask the Marquis to write to the court, presumably the court will give you a reward, and your county order will also be punished. β
Wang Xin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The kindness of the two adults has been accepted, as long as the function of the imperial court does not reduce the guilt and lowly duties, thank God, as for Qian County, they are ......"
Speaking of which, although Wang Xin didn't finish speaking, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei already understood what he meant...... (To be continued......)