CHAPTER XVIII
"Amma! Why don't we go to North Korea with two red flags, it's a piece of fat! Back in the house, Yue Tuo asked his father a little incomprehensibly. Everyone knows that the king of North Korea, Yi Ju, is a rich man, and it will definitely be a bumper harvest to be able to take Pyongyang.
"Fat? What do I think it's a pit? Did you forget about the Golden State? Don't talk about our two red flags, the Red Armor Bayala Army is your father's personal soldiers. What do you think? Now Jue Luobai Mountain has been arrested, and it has become a meat ticket for people to be blackmailed.
Your eighth uncle is shrewd like a ghost, why didn't you see his white flag to grab it? Wait and see, your fifth uncle and Amin will throw the words out. When the time comes, I want to see how they turn their words back. I also mentioned it, I think they are crazy about money. ”
"Amma! You said that Uncle Eight also saw it? ”
"Kid! Don't underestimate you, the eighth uncle, he has a deep scheming. ”
"You said that in the future, Father Ma...... Will Uncle Eight ......! ”
Of course, Li Xiao in Pyongyang City will not wait for Li Yongfang stupidly, and he must grasp both hands in negotiations and preparations for war, and both hands must be tough. He began to have gunpowder in large quantities in the army. One nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal, gunpowder is no longer a high-tech product these days. Not only the North Korean Lyo Dynasty has a formula, but even Nurhachi has a recipe there.
It's just that the power of gunpowder in these years is really not flattering, and the Ming army with gunpowder weapons was killed by the Tartars. So, now people don't have much confidence in gunpowder weapons.
Li Xiao doesn't care about this, just a lot of matching. It was then bundled into explosives packs and placed in the castle tower for later use.
The power of gunpowder is not afraid, as long as the weight is sufficient, the power is no longer a shortcoming. The explosives pack was tightly wrapped in expensive cotton, leaving only a fuse to come out. On the outer layer of the explosives packet, brush with a batter made with flour. A lot of nails, lead, and other little things fell on it. The outermost is wound with a sturdy burlap again!
The test exploded two, and the power was obviously not as strong as the black smoke. However, the scarecrow ten meters nearby was full of all kinds of iron nails and lead. Some of the scarecrows had their wooden poles broken in two. The armor of the Eight Banners should not be of much use in front of this thing.
Li Kun's request for Li Xiao is responsive. Except for what you want for the throne, anyway, there are a thousand words. As long as you can beat away the Tartars, you can do whatever you want.
Li Xiao put all the trebuchets on the head of the city, if this time the Tartar soldiers came to attack the city. There would never be a battle like last time, where a flood of Tartars would quickly overwhelm his formation. Li Xiao is not stupid enough to go out of the city to fight them, Lao Tzu is waiting at the head of the city, and there is a kind of you coming in.
In addition to the explosives pack, Li Xiao also prepared another well-known weapon. 10,000 enemies!
I don't know who invented this thing, anyway, Li Xiao knew that this thing played an important role in the Battle of Ningyuan. The specific method of making it is to find a quilt, spread straw, and wrap it in gunpowder.
Many people in North Korea are still very distressed and use expensive quilts to make this broken thing. Don't you see that many North Korean people don't even have a quilt at home?
But after Li Xiao lit it in public, the voice of opposition disappeared immediately. It was so fierce that the fierce flames frightened Li Liang back several steps. If it weren't for the fact that he had many people around him to protect him, he would even have the urge to run away.
As the earliest prototype of the incendiary bomb, Li Xiao was very satisfied with the power of the 10,000-strong enemy. Striking off the king of Joseon was just a side effect, and the main effect of this thing was to burn the enemy's siege engines.
After ten days of preparation, seeing that the Spring Festival is approaching, everyone will celebrate the New Year in Pyongyang. The scouts came to report that the Tartar soldiers, who had retreated to the Yalu River, advanced again. The army marched towards the capital Pyongyang!
"Boy, I guessed wrong. Nurhachi didn't take your little miscellaneous fish in his eyes at all. Man Gui didn't believe that Nurhachi would agree to Li Xiao's conditions.
"Do you know why they came to attack Pyongyang?" Li Xiao asked Man Gui with a smile.
"Isn't it just robbing money, food, and women! What else can it be for! ”
"Wrong! It was we who didn't hurt enough to beat them, only to hurt these grandchildren. They don't dare to come again, and when they meet us in the future, they will weigh it. ”
This time, the two blue flags did not rush forward as they did last time. Instead, a large group of men and horses carrying baggage came to the city of Pyongyang. From the Yalu River to Pyongyang City, they walked for four days.
On a snowy afternoon, Mang Gultai and Amin arrived at the city of Pyongyang.
The corpse of the Red Armor Bayala was covered in a thin layer of snow, and the two men ordered their men to rip the frozen zombies out of the ground. What memorial service, farewell ceremony for the body are saved. He lit a bonfire on the side, and burned it.
These headless bodies have too much impact on morale.
The roar of the blazing fire melted the ice-like corpses and burned them to ashes.
Li Xiao stood at the head of the city, looking at the billowing black smoke rising in the distance. He knew that there would be a fierce battle tomorrow, and he didn't know how many people couldn't sleep tonight.
The king of Joseon, Yi Liang, was definitely the one who couldn't sleep, and this guy called Li Xiao tremblingly and asked him if he was sure of victory.
"It's absolutely impossible to get into the city, they can't get in. But if the king wants to go out of the city, he will bear the consequences. I believe that those soldiers of yours will never outrun the four-legged horses of the Tartars.
Believe me, they won't last long in the cold. Our houses are so cold that they can hold out for a few days with so many soldiers living in tents. ”
"I hope so, it's all up to the general." knew that it would be no fun to escape, and Li Liang could only nest in the North Korean palace three times a day. In my heart, I asked for help from the gods and Buddhas of Mantian, and sincerely prayed that the Jurchen Tartars would withdraw from the army as soon as possible.
Li Xiao is right, the ice and snow count nine cold winters. Camping in the wilderness is definitely a chore, but Mang Gurtai and Amin can grab a house to live in. But after all, there are more than 20,000 people, and there are so many houses around Pyongyang.
Early the next morning, the Tartars could not wait to begin the attack. Even if you die in battle, it's better than freezing to death in the wilderness. Damn North Korea, it's so fucking cold. As soon as the urine is sprinkled on the ground, it becomes an ice mound, which is the Tartar soldiers who come from the white mountains and black waters. If it is those soldiers from Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that I will not be able to bear it at this time.
Amin and Mang Gultai's big words are actually not blown out. The most capable of the eight flags is the positive yellow, inlaid with yellow two flags. Because they were all heavy cavalry, and the soldiers were the best among the banners.
But if you want to say that the siege war is the best, it is the two flags with baskets and blue. Because these two banners were mostly infantry, the number of cavalry was not large.
The two blue flags attacked the city, not bare-chested, and they also knew very well that they could not rush to the city wall on horseback, in fact, they had a fairly complete tactical system, roughly three groups of people.
Whenever attacking, the vanguard of the two blue flags is served by a special type of troops-the soldiers.
All the soldiers were pushing the carts. The so-called chariot is a kind of wooden car, wrapped in several layers of thick cowhide in front of the thick wooden board, splashed with water, because the wooden board and cowhide are quite leather, the firearms and bows and arrows of the Ming army can not be broken, this is the first group of people.
The second group of archers, hiding behind the carts, shot arrows into the sky at an oblique angle of 45 degrees (the range was very long), and even if they could not shoot, they would leave after shooting.
The last group was the infantry pushing siege engines, when the attention of the enemy army was drawn to the city walls. These men came to the city gate with siege engines, which were made in a similar way to the carats.
The difference is that the siege engine has a thick swinging log. More than a dozen men with big shoulders and round waists shouted trumpets and swung against the wood to knock the tall city gate open. As soon as the gates are opened, the city is generally considered broken.
There are many cities in Liaodong that were broken by these three waves of people.
However, this time it was a little different, because it was not the soldiers of the two blue flags who carried the cart and pushed the siege engine. It's a lot of North Korean people who have been caught!
The North Korean soldiers armed with crossbows on the city walls froze, not knowing whether to release their arrows or not. The people below are all ordinary North Koreans, and some of them are even their relatives. Seeing that the car was getting closer and closer, Li Xiao suddenly gave an order. The walls were pushed down by a dozen tied men, who were dressed in cotton clothes. The lower body was stripped naked, and the cold of North Korea made their thighs purple.
Wu Daji stood on the city wall, holding a horn rolled into iron sheets. "Tartar soldiers, you have heard clearly, the two armies fought with their own blood. Now you have taken the Korean people captive, and our army has also hung your prisoners of war on the city wall. You see, this is your Hongjia Bayala Army's main general, Jue Luo Baishan. If you use the Korean people to attack the city again, we will strip the mountain naked and freeze to death on the city wall. ”
"Fuck me!" Mang Gurtai almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, he had never encountered such a thing before.
"What should I do?" Amin reluctantly turned to Mang Gultai and asked.
"Shit, these bastards." Mang Gurtai let out a breath of white air, and his hateful teeth itched but there was nothing he could do.
"Jue Luo Baishan is the Great Khan's favorite general, and he has followed the Great Khan to the east and west for so many years, and his feelings are not ordinary. If you die like that......! Amin said with some embarrassment.
When the thirteen pairs of armor were raised, there was one of Jue Luobai Mountain. Over the years, my father's life alone has been saved several times. If he was frozen to death at this time, Daddy would know what he would think later. Mang Gurtai doesn't want to find his father unhappy!
"It's a trick to get those North Koreans to pull back." Mang Gurtai said dejectedly. He can't afford the consequences of losing Jue Luo Bai Mountain, even if he dies a thousand banner soldiers, he can't afford to lose one Jue Luo Bai Mountain. What kind of relationship does his father have with Jue Luobai Mountain, he knows best in his heart.