Chapter 262: Hold on
Chapter 262
Everyone was shocked, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed, Liu Jin shouted sadly: "Your Majesty ......"
Song Nan looked at Zhengde speechlessly, and Zhengde patted Song Nan's shoulder and said, "You have to promise me." ”
Song Nan nodded and said quietly: "The emperor can rest assured, if it really comes to that time, the minister will do this, and the minister will also die with the emperor." But it wasn't there yet, and the Pope would see what the ministers were doing, and the ministers would make the corpses of the Tartars fold into a hill under this beacon. ”
Zhengde perked up and said, "Okay, I'll look at you." ”
Song Nan turned his head and shouted, "Where is Wan Zhi? ”
Wan Zhi stepped forward and said, "Humble duty." ”
Song Nan said: "Destroy the climbing ladder, block the Tartar climbing road, divide the Quartet on duty, and closely monitor the movement of the Tartar." ”
"Obedience." Wan Zhi immediately led people down the stone steps to the halfway point, and smashed the stone steps with a golden melon sledgehammer, making the already steep stone steps even more fragmented.
Song Nan continued to order: "The food and water at the peak are limited, and it must be supplied by a certain number of people before it can last for a long time, Gonggong Liu, from now on, you are responsible for distributing food and water, one meal a day per person, a certain amount of water, no waste, no more than one." ”
Liu Jin was stunned and said, "One meal a day? Won't the emperor starve? ”
Zhengde shouted: "Liu Jin, listen to Song Nan's assignment." ”
Liu Jin rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”
Song Nan said: "Father-in-law Liu, this matter is very important, if we don't have food or water to drink, we will be self-defeating, and we should not take it lightly." ”
Liu Jin said angrily: "Got it." ”
Song Nan turned to Dai Su'er and said, "Su'er, the princess is handed over to you." ”
Zhengde said: "Then what do I do?" ”
Song Nan smiled: "What does the emperor want to do?" ”
Zhengde said: "I want to kill the Tartars." ”
Song Nan nodded and said, "Okay, then the emperor will kill the Tartars with his ministers." Song Nan took out a double-barreled firearm from his arms and handed it over: "Your Majesty, this thing will definitely teach you to kill for fun." ”
Zhengde took it, and was about to speak, when he heard Wan Zhi shouting: "Lord Song, the Tartars are attacking upwards." ”
Everyone hurriedly looked to the edge of the cliff, only to see that the Tartar soldiers below had killed all the Ming troops in the village, and after a little organization, they began to climb up the cliffs around the beacon tower, densely packed like a large group of ants. Although the beacon tower is steep and difficult to climb, many thorns and small trees have grown around the long-abandoned tower, which has become a place for the Tartars to climb up.
Song Nan shouted loudly: "Brothers, move guys, smash the roots and thorns around you, and the protruding rocks must also be cleared, aim well, and don't waste ammunition." ”
More than 20 guards took out double-barreled firearms from their waists, Kabakaba loaded with ammunition, and Zhengde was stunned: "Song Nan, didn't you say that these things are still being tested?" Why are your guards equipped with this? ”
Song Nan said: "The emperor forgave the sin, the minister lied, and the minister cast more than 20 firearms, and this time the entourage was all equipped to the accompanying guards just in case." ”
Zhengde said: "Will it blow up?" ”
Song Nan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please watch." ”
With Song Nan's order, all the guards pulled the trigger, and suddenly the sound of 'boom' was loud, and the dwarf trees and gravel on the steep wall of the shotgun bombardment rolled down, and the Tartar soldiers around them suddenly fell from the air screaming like dumplings, and after a round of shooting, dozens of corpses fell around the beacon tower, and blood gushed out from the broken limbs, staining the ground into a blood-red color.
The Tartar soldiers screamed and retreated, and in a panic, more than a dozen people fell, and the scene was even more chaotic.
Zhengde gritted his teeth and shouted: "Good fight, teach the Tartar to know how powerful we are, Song Nan, this fire gun is really powerful." ”
Song Nan said: "It's just that the cost is too expensive, and there is not much ammunition, so the minister almost went bankrupt in order to build these dozens of firearms." ”
Zhengde said: "Don't worry, if I can return to Beijing safely, I will definitely issue an order to allocate funds for large-scale manufacturing for you." ”
Song Nan said: "Thank you to the emperor, do you want to try it with a shot?" ”
Zhengde stuffed the shotgun to Song Nan and said, "I don't know how to use it, so I don't have to waste ammunition, so this thing is more useful for you to use." ”
Song Nan picked his fingers and praised: "The emperor is sage." ”
Zhengde picked up a large stone and said, "I use this." With that, he threw himself down, and smashed it on the head of a tartar impartially, and suddenly his brain burst and fell.
As soon as Song Nan's shotgun appeared, he killed dozens of Tartars, and the originally disheartened situation suddenly changed.
Song Nan knew very well in his heart, more than 20 shotgun guns, each person equipped with only a hundred rounds of ammunition, if the Tartar climbed up regardless of a qiē, the result was self-evident, but the morale could not be vented, Song Nan would never spoil the scenery at this time, only pulled Wan Zhi to order, and it was not allowed to bombard with shotguns until the critical time.
The stone thrown by Zhengde reminded everyone that more than a dozen officials with knives had no firearms available, and there were no bows and arrows on the peak, and their dry eyes were in a hurry.
The Tartars suffered heavy casualties and hurriedly sounded their trumpets and retreated, waiting for further orders; It doesn't matter if he is bald, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is already a turtle in an urn, unless he has wings, it is only a matter of time before he catches him.
Soon after retreating, the Tartars organized another assault, but under the fierce blows of stones and fire from the top of the mountain, they soon paid the price of dozens of lives, and ended in failure.
Bald and fierce can simply order to camp and besiege, the Ming army is equipped with firearms, and is on high vigilance, at this time it is better to besiege and not attack, there is no food or drink on the top, how long can they hold on?
In the afternoon, the Tartars did not launch another attack, but set up camp tents inside and outside the fortress, and only kept ordering people to shout up to persuade them to surrender, and in the evening, the Tartars set up a bonfire below to roast cattle and sheep, and the fragrance wafted to the top of the beacon tower, hoping to arouse the appetite of the hungry Ming army and remind them that they were in a hungry situation.
The people on the peak were in an orderly manner under Song Nan's arrangement, Song Nan ordered people to cut down all the trees on the peak and build a few shelters where they could sleep, and they should be prepared to stick to it for a long time.
He even built a thatched hut on the back of a large rock on the edge, and ordered people to collect the rainwater accumulated in the recess for washing, and cleared a small piece of ground from weeds and gravel to use as a training ground to boost morale.
Song Nan's wilderness survival skills in later generations came in handy at this time, and in this case, maintaining fighting spirit and morale was the most important thing, and a well-organized arrangement was sending a positive signal to others, that is, the Tartars would not be able to attack at all, and they would definitely be able to hold on until the day when reinforcements arrived.
Since the Tartar soldiers did not attack, everyone took turns to sleep and rest during the day, and Song Nan couldn't stay up in the afternoon, and he stayed up all night last night to carry supplies to this peak, and his nervous spirit relaxed a little at this moment, and he was very tired suddenly; Seeing that the Tartars had no sign of attacking for a while, Song Nan arranged a guard and came to the north of a rock to bask in the sun and close his eyes and sleep.
I don't know when, Song Nan opened his eyes and saw that the sky was already full of stars, with a cloak on his body, a bonfire burning in front of him, and a petite figure next to him was sleeping soundly on his thighs.
Song Nan stared at the beautiful face and admired it carefully, Dai Su'er was really thrillingly beautiful, the beauty mole between the eyebrows was delicate under the reflection of the bonfire, and the pink lips were as delicate as flower petals, making people want to pounce on it and bite and suck hard.
Maybe it was the cold wind at night, Dai Su'er shrunk her body and pressed her body closer to Song Nan's body, Song Nan's thighs could feel the pair of firm softness rubbing, her heart moved, and she took off the cloak on her body and draped it on Dai Su'er.
Dai Su'er woke up in shock, looked up and saw Song Nan looking at her with a smile, and said with a red face: "Childe, you are awake." ”
Song Nan said: "Why did you sleep here, didn't you build a sleeping place for you and the princess?" ”
Dai Su'er said: "I came here when the princess was asleep, and I can't see you...... I didn't dare to sleep. As he spoke, he took off the cloak on his body to cover it for Song Nan.
Song Nan waved his hand and said, "I'm not cold."
Dai Su'er said: "Now your body is the most important thing, you can't get sick, everyone is counting on you, this cloak was specially sent by the princess to the slave family." ”
Song Nan smiled: "When you say this, I am under a lot of pressure, don't put pressure on me like this." ”
Dai Su'er said: "What the slave family said is the truth, the slave family is afraid of death during the day, but when they see the son's indifferent appearance, they are not afraid; The slave family could see that everyone thought this way. ”
Song Nan shook his head and said, "I'm actually afraid, but what's the use of being afraid?" ”
Dai Su'er said softly: "The slave family is still a son, and he is not afraid of heaven and earth." ”
Song Nan smiled: "Let me tell you a story, once I went hunting in the mountains, and was accidentally targeted by a group of hungry wolves. ”
Dai Su'er said, "What should I do?" ”
Song Nan smiled: "I was scared to death, it was late autumn, the weather was a little cold, and I was almost frozen at night, but I couldn't go down, the wolves squatted under the tree and waited for me, and I didn't bring dry food; So I stayed in the tree for three days, picking leaves and barking to eat when I was hungry, and drinking water from the hollows and licking the hoarfrost from the leaves when I was thirsty. There was a nest in the tree, and at first the birds were afraid of me, and then the birds jumped on my shoulders and, and they thought I was just a branch. ”
Dai Su'er wanted to laugh, but said worriedly: "Then how did you escape?" ”
Song Nan said: "Several times I almost fell off the tree, my body was completely unconscious, I almost froze to death at night, just when I was about to give up, the wolves couldn't stand it than me, and they all walked clean overnight, I got off the tree, my body was numb, dizzy, I could barely stand, but I finally survived." ”
Dai Su'er folded her hands and said, "God is pitiful, Bodhisattva bless." ”
Song Nan said with a smile: "The Bodhisattva will not bless me, I can survive only because of one reason, that is, persistence, get through it, any hardship will become a cloud of the past, and the hardship can only come, this is the revelation of that incident to me." ”