Chapter 140: The Beggar Investigates the Army
The few catchers fell to the ground with a plop, they saw that Gong Changyu shot so fast, where did they dare to step forward to fight Gong Changyu, so they had to run to the side of the catcher one by one, and a tall man said with a sad face: "Big brother, we are not his opponent at all, let's go up!" ”
"NTMD Rice Bucket!" The head catcher looked at the few catchers who had not yet gone into battle, and felt very faceless, and then kicked the buttocks of one of the short and fat duns fiercely: "You guys will continue for me!" ”
"Big brother, it's useless for you to kick me. You didn't see the spear in the boy's hand, we couldn't get close. Attacking others' strengths with one's own shortcomings is one's own loss. Humpty Dumpty rubbed his buttocks and stood still, while the rest of the people were also trembling, their hands trembling, and they could barely hold the knife.
Seeing this, the head catcher was so angry that he smoked: "A bunch of waste, all give me a retreat!" ”
So the dozen or so catchers retreated with interest. The head catcher jumped up, picked up the two Pu knives on the ground, one in each hand, pointed at Gong Changyu and said: "Boy, if you have a kind of Pu Dao, you will fight against me!" ”
"Whoever is afraid of whom, the knife will be the knife!" Gong Changyu smiled, he thrust the armor piercing gun into the ground, and then hooked his right foot slightly, and the Pu knife on the ground reached his hand, "How about General Ben fight you with one hand?" ”
"Speak wildly!" The head catcher was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and without saying a word, he slashed Gong Changyu like a storm.
I saw Gong Changyu clasping one hand on his waist to face the gold medal headcatcher. A move of the willows, the knife shined, shaking the head and couldn't open his eyes, he retreated again and again, without the power to fight back, and he didn't know when the knife was already on his neck.
This self-proclaimed gold medal capture of Wuyoucheng was controlled by Gong Changyu in less than ten rounds, and he was so frightened that he died, and his whole body trembled: "Hero, don't kill me, you are the general of Dusi, genuine, real material!" ”
"You know the goods! Don't go yet! Gong Changyu roared.
"Leave now, brothers, don't thank General Dusi soon!" The head catcher said.
More than a dozen catchers hurriedly knelt down: "Thank you for the mercy of the general's subordinates, we will never dare to arrest people casually in the future!" After saying that, he ran away with the headcatcher.
Everyone couldn't help but applaud when they saw that this group of people who were usually showing off their might and fled in an instant: "The general is mighty, the general is mighty!" ”
"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you, the wind blows the melon-eating masses on both sides!" Gong Changyu snorted, then patted the hem of his clothes, threw the hem back, carried the armor piercing gun, and strode towards the Xuanfeng Tower.
As soon as they arrived at Xuanfeng Tower, Hei Dashuai and others saw that Gong Changyu had not come back for a long time, thinking that Gong Changyu had left first, and did not wait for him any longer, so they pulled the goods back to Sidu.
There was no way, Gong Changyu had to walk on the trail alone, and walked for two hours before returning to Sidu. He did not return to the Zhu's compound, but went straight to the camp.
As soon as he entered the camp, Gong Changyu didn't say a word, just sat on a chair and drank by himself. Dai Daniu, Liu Yuntian and other generals entered the account: "General, you are finally back." General Xi Qitian sent someone in the morning and asked me to wait for three days and set off to go north to rescue Baocheng Mansion. ”
Hearing that there was another battle, Gong Changyu came to the spirit: "The blue wolf army of western Guangdong County invaded the north and killed my people, and the country is in danger."
"Who is the leader of the Blue Wolf Army...... Dai Da Niu asked.
Shi Xianda...... This madman! No wonder the saint has a reward, and if you capture this person alive, you can be promoted to an official. Gong Changyu smashed a punch on the case.
"General, what you said is true?" Liu Yuntian, Dai Daniu, and Miao Feilin came up.
"When did General Ben lie to you?" So Gong Changyu told the truth about the things in the city.
"You are willing to follow the general and capture Jin Shi Xianda alive!" The soldiers were excited.
"Brothers, don't rush yet. We had to practice for a day or two before we could go into battle with the newly purchased firearms. Gong Changyu said.
"Order, General." Miao Feilin came out of the camp tent......
The other side.
Since the ambush of Fengmenling, the vanguard troops led by Shi Xianda, the king of Wei of the Blue Wolf Kingdom, controlled the upper reaches of Zishui from the west, and organized a naval army to go down the river to threaten the plan of Baocheng Mansion was aborted.
On the one hand, Shi Xianda saw that the combat effectiveness of the local regimental training and armament could not be underestimated, and he hated the Jingnan Army so much; On the other hand, he was not willing to stop there. After returning to Yuexi County, Shi Xianda soon gathered more than 200,000 blue wolf troops from Yuexi County, arrived in Xinning County in early February, replenished war materials, rested for a month, and arrived at the periphery of Baocheng Mansion in mid-March.
Shi Xianda and Zai Fu Zhang Yimou were stationed in the south of the city, Lai Yuxin was stationed in Shendu Beach in the west of the city, and Fu Zhongxin was stationed in Niwan in the east of the city. According to the dangerous terrain, all the departments built camps, dug trenches, arranged wooden fences and traps, from the north tower to Shentandu, Fenglinpu are the camps of the blue wolf army, and the camp is more than 100 miles, and the Baocheng Mansion is surrounded like an iron bucket.
The city wall of Baoseongfu is about 4,000 meters long, 8 to 10 meters high, 12 to 19 meters wide, the east, west, south, north and northwest of the city, respectively, there are five city gates of Chao'an, Dingyuan, Da'an, Qingfeng, Imjin, and in the west and south two gates, and there are urn cities respectively, and troops are stationed there. There are 12 forts and 7 turrets built on the city wall, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Jingnan army relied on the strong city walls and stubbornly resisted the blue wolf army, which was ten times its size.
But the blue wolf army didn't bring much grain and grass, so Shi Xianda had no choice but to order to disperse his troops every day, go to the nearby villages to plunder, rob grain, cattle, and pigs, and force the villagers to join the blue wolf army, and kill those who resist or disobey the slightest.
Less than 100 miles away from Baocheng Mansion, Sanxi, Xiting, Tantou, Suping, Liujiapai, Jukoupu, Niushanpu and other villages were the most seriously damaged, and countless people were killed. This move by the Blue Wolf Army made them gradually lose the support of the people.
Shi Xianda learned that the Jingnan Army only had 40,000 newly recruited recruits, of which 30,000 were selected to be stationed in the city, and the rest were stationed outside the city by Zhao Huanlian, Zhou Kuanshi, Tian Xingshu and other elite 8,000 people of the Jingnan Army.
Shi Xianda believes that the 30,000 soldiers and horses in this city are rookies, and there is nothing to be afraid of, as long as they are trapped in the city, creating huge psychological pressure on them, surround but not fight, and when the ammunition and food are exhausted, the Qinghe army in the city will collapse without a fight, surrender the city, and achieve the strategic goal of surrendering the army without a fight.
But Shi Xianda was wrong. At the beginning of the arrival of the Blue Wolf Army in Baoqing, Yin Zongtang ordered the strong wall to clear the wilderness, and burned all the houses and temples outside Baoqing City, so that the Blue Wolf Army could not use them as a barrier and cover for attack
The city of Baocheng Mansion is solid, the east side of the city wall is close to Shaoshui, the north side relies on the Zijiang River as a natural barrier, the south side is nestled by the mountains, condescending, and there is a moat with a width of 50 meters outside the city wall in the west, and there is a trench dug in the city to prevent the sneak attack of the blue wolf army outside.
Xu Zongtang first placed the recruits in the middle of the city, and used the city wall to block the edge of Shi Xianda's troops, thus avoiding the frontal battle with Shi Xianda's main force. When waiting for a long time to defend the city, the recruits were stabbed to the head one by one, and the newcomers had become veterans, and then they opened the city to meet the long-tired army led by Shi Xianda......
Gong Changyu, who was far away in Rulin County, was training soldiers to operate firearms, and the three-day deadline had expired. He thought that the time was ripe, so he almost led his troops to march in a hurry, and stationed in the area of Huxing Mountain, a hundred and fifty miles away from Baocheng Mansion.
Then he took more than ten people such as Hei Dashuai, Zhang Weijun, and Gong Shengdi, disguised themselves as beggars, mixed in the fleeing crowd, and went to the area of Tangdu Port in Baocheng Mansion to collect the deployment of the blue wolf army's water camp.
Tangdu Port is located at the intersection of Fuyi Water and Zhenshui, up to Wuyou, Dongkou, Longhui, Xinning, down to Baocheng, Yiyang. The Blue Wolf Army seized this place, collected and transferred hundreds of civilian ships, and stepped up water training day and night in order to cooperate with the land camp to attack Baocheng Mansion.
Gong Changyu learned from the mouths of those beggars that most of the 300,000 blue wolf troops were family members of the army, and there were only 60,000 or 70,000 troops who could really go to the battlefield, so he felt much more at ease.
Seeing the boats shuttling back and forth on the river, and the clumsy movements of the blue wolf army training on the water entering the water, Gong Changyu secretly rejoiced: You continue to toss, as long as the wind picks up, I will burn your ships with a fire, so that you want to cry without tears.
After Gong Changyu finished reconnoitering the situation of the blue wolf army's water camp at Tangdukou, he asked Hei Dashuai to return to the station first, select a hundred soldiers with excellent water ability, and step up the daily training of arson and ship burning on the water.
And he continued to pretend to be a beggar, begging along the road, and when he arrived outside the city of Baocheng Mansion, how could the sky not be beautiful, it was raining continuously, and Gong Chang, who was ragged and soaked, shivered from the cold, so he had to hide in a dilapidated temple.
The monks in the temple had long since disappeared, and they didn't even look for something to eat. Gong Changyu, who was hungry, had no choice but to tear down the door panel of the temple's meditation room and move it to the Buddhist hall to make a fire: "Damn, this temple is too deserted, even if you don't have food, you don't even have someone to talk to." ”
Da Da Da –
There was a sound of footsteps outside the Buddha hall.
Gong Changyu was worried that the people outside might be the Blue Wolf Army, so he quickly poured a soak of urine on the fire, extinguished the fire, and quickly climbed behind the platform where the Buddha statue was enshrined and hidden.
The footsteps got closer and closer, and I only heard a voice say: "That guy is too ruthless, the wall is clear, and even the monks of the temple have driven away." ”
"Isn't it? The king of Wei pressed his troops in the narrow area of Baocheng and fought a protracted battle with the Qing army, which outweighed the losses. Another voice said.
"Master, why don't we dig a tunnel from this temple and go straight to the city?"
"No, I can't. This project is too big, even if we dig through the tunnel, it will not have much effect, and the Qinghe army in the city has long been ready to flood us. What worries me the most is the water camp at Tangdukou, where a few beggars have recently arrived, and their identities are very suspicious, perhaps to spy on the military. One of the beggars, I seem to have seen in Fengmenling. ”
"Then we'll have to find this beggar." ……
Soon, there were five or six blue wolf soldiers with knives and guns standing at the door of the Buddhist hall. The one who was called the commander of the division was none other than the commander of the Blue Wolf Army who chased and killed Feng Jiao'er in Lenghu Mountain.