Eightieth round: Ning Yuan
From Jingshi to Ningyuan for more than 800 miles, Yu Jingning took 50,000 horses dragged out of the camp in the western suburbs of the capital and galloped all the way, but it only took more than three days.
This year, the weather is cold, Liaodong is even more cold, the most common is the wind and snow weather, the wind pulls the flag in front of a team of people and horses hula hula, and now it is easy to stop snowing.
Yu Zhiwei raised her hand and touched her head, and she actually made a "tsk" sound - in order to keep warm in winter, there is often a circle of fur embedded in the waistband, and she only realized that the burr was wrapped in snow and was frozen hard. She sighed, palmed her hand down, and wiped her eyes with a handful of ice slag on her eyelashes, and pulled the reins, allowing the horse to run a few steps quickly to catch up with Yu Jingning.
It was night at this time, and the horse's hooves were stumbling on the snow, and it was not easy to walk, but at this time I heard the muffled sound of the horse's hooves stepping on the snow, and it was extremely urgent.
Yu Zhiwei forcibly endured the pain of the cold air inhaling into his lungs, turned his head and said to Yu Jingning: "It's the scout who came forward to come back!" ”
The little brother was far away from the crowd and began to pull the reins, shouting, "Lord Shizi, the people of Wuliangha are under the city!" The horse was so fast that he could not stop for a long time, and he rushed straight into the crowd.
"How far is it from Ningyuan City?" Yu Jingning and the others intercepted the horses that were rushing forward, and then they didn't stop, and immediately asked. The Daheng military system, a guard of 5,600 people, that is to say, the strength of the garrison of Ning Yuanwei is only 5,600 people.
And this so-called Wuliang Ha Sanwei refers to the three guards of Duoyanwei, Tainingwei, and Fuyuwei, which are assembled into an army, known as 100,000 iron horsemen.
Even if this Ningyuan has an urn city, and the terrain is favorable to the defenders, and it is notoriously easy to defend and difficult to attack, then this force is nearly twenty times more, where can it last long? "The Art of War" has a cloud: "Ten rules surround it." "Besides, there is such a huge disparity in strength, even if Ning Yuan has two layers inside and outside, it is more than enough.
The little brother of the scout who came at a gallop was hazy in front of him, and he didn't care to wipe his face, gasping for breath, and said concisely: "This is the closest to the south gate, about five miles. ”
Ningyuan Acropolis is a square city, four city gates, Chunhe in the east, Yanhui in the south, Yongning in the west, Weiyuan in the north, this is the Yanhui Gate.
"Wuli ......" Yu Jingning muttered in his mouth, and quickly calculated the result, "Listen to my order, the whole army rushed, the artillery truck was in front, and the gunners followed." ”
As soon as the words fell, the entire team moved-Yu Jingning just ordered the entire team to drop one by one.
Yu Zhiwei tugged on the reins, struggled to follow Yu Jingning's side, and reluctantly opened his mouth and asked, "What does this mean?" ”
"Hongyi heavy artillery, the longest range can reach five miles." Yu Jingning saw that Yu Zhiwei was about to speak again, so she hurriedly suppressed her words, "But that is the heavy artillery in the city, and the ones we are transporting from Beijing now are much smaller, and the farthest can only reach three miles." ”
Yu Zhiwei grew up in the Beijing division for more than ten years, and firearms were banned within the nine gates of the capital, so she obviously had never seen such a "world." ”
After listening to the explanation, Yu Zhiwei stopped talking and only galloped with everyone.
Two or three miles away is only a moment's effort, first I heard the war drums on the drum tower of Ningyuan City almost without stopping, and then it didn't take long to see the Wuliangha foot soldiers swarming to attack the south gate of Ningyuan City. There are many ladders, catapults move, and the shovels and pickaxes under the city almost dig a hole in the city wall.
In addition, ten thousand arrows were fired like rain, and the battlements on the city almost became hedgehogs. From time to time, I can hear a few earth-shattering loud noises, which are the guards in Ningyuan City defending to the death with the heavy artillery of Hongyi in the city.
But even so, it is still unsustainable.
The most conspicuous thing under the city is the high-height chariot pushed by the Uliangha foot soldiers under the city.
The car driver, the wooden shield car also.
The chariot carried a huge shield, on which the shield was made of thick wooden planks, covered with cowhide and iron sheets, so that the chariot made of "small bricks and stones did not move, large bricks and stones struck and rolled down, and firewood was thrown without burning", which was specially used to deal with the heavy artillery in the city.
By the time Yu Jingning and the others arrived, the soldiers in the city were almost crazy. In the winter night of Liaodong, when the water turned into ice, the barrels of several heavy guns did not even cool down for a few moments, and sometimes they did not even wait for the barrels to cool down, and then filled them with ammunition and fired them, blowing up a red Yi on the spot, connecting several gunners next to them, either dead or wounded.
The archers and crossbowmen said that when they ran out of arrows, they plucked the arrows that had been shot up from the battlements and returned them to them. But after all, there are infinite arrows and limited lead bullets, and the archer is completely different from the gun with which it is matched. There has always been a saying of "three birds in the north and three south" in the Daheng Shenji Battalion, which means that the north uses more three-eyed god guns for riding and shooting, and the south uses more bird guns. Now Ning Yuan Chengshang was standing in the front row, and the three-eyed gunner, who had used up the lead bullet, almost turned the fire gun in his hand upside down, and knocked it on the enemy's head as a hammer.
Just when all kinds of helplessness were in danger, Yu Jingning ran wildly and arrived in time.
The Shenji battalion naturally took the lead, with Hongyi heavy artillery in front, and several light Franc machines on the left and right, and Weiyuan and Po were lined up. This distance does not work for the time being, and most of the artillery wagons are rifle archers armed with bows and arrows.
Yu Jingning gave an order, and the cannon fire in the city and the city roared like a rhino, and several huge iron balls smashed into the Wuliangha soldiers who were not covered by a car.
There are people who have their limbs broken, there are people who have broken ribs and pierced their internal organs, and there are also people who have their brains burst on the spot.
Most of the Uliangha soldiers under the city focused on the city, and they didn't pay attention to the sudden attack behind them, so they were so frightened that they squeaked and screamed, and they didn't react for a while to see how the artillery fire in the city went behind.
Some of them reacted quickly, so they naturally found Yu Jingning behind them, but they didn't come up with a proper way in a short time.
Like the heavy artillery wagon, the cart had a fatal drawback: it was heavy and difficult to move, and it was impossible to turn around and attack the artillery fire behind it.
The Yanhui Sect and the others were only in chaos for a few moments, and they smashed the iron balls emitted by several heavy cannons on both sides, and the number of casualties almost doubled compared to before. Seeing this tragic situation, the general of Wuliangha in Yanhuimen immediately made a decision and led a group of people and horses to the east, wanting to seek support from Chunhemen in the east.
At the Yanhui Gate, the cavalry went first, and the foot soldiers pushed the cart laboriously behind, and the birds and beasts scattered and fled to the east of Chunhemen.
Yu Jingning held a three-eyed eye gun, and ordered Yu Zhiwei with his side head: "Follow the artillery cart into the city!" ”
Yu Zhiwei didn't think about it, and immediately replied: "Yes." "This is the first time she has been on the battlefield, and she lacks actual combat experience, so it is definitely not the time to be in chaos.
A group of riders followed behind Yu Jingning, and with his "chase", the horse's hooves rose up and headed east.