Chapter 110: Attack

At first, when the troops were just divided, You Futian was very proud. The two battalions of Tianyi and Nu Tao were deployed in the thorny water and the white river to face each other from afar, and they were called the trend of forming horns with each other.

Don't look at General You who is illiterate, I used to hear Mr. Storyteller talk about "Three Kingdoms", and I felt that the sentence "The two armies are each other's horns" is a good idea. When I was still working as a personal guard for Lu Yong, I secretly thought in my heart that when I could persuade the benefactor to hand over two infantry teams to him, I must set up a horn array for the Mongolian Tartars on the opposite side to taste the power! As for being able to command two fully staffed and first-class combat battalions, Xiao You Ke at that time didn't dare to imagine at all - how many soldiers called Huazi he had received as the benefactor of the celestials? Look at the weapons and equipment, the food and drink...... That is, the appearance of the auxiliary team in Guoqinglin, oh, more than that, it has to be the kind of middle to lower status! Now, if you really do it, let alone your own two battalions, even Zhang Ding's Thunderbolt battalion can easily beat the "mighty army" of General Lu at the "Mighty Border Pass......

After expressing his feelings, You Futian called all the battalion officers and officers, and explained to them the "horn array" in a matter-of-fact manner. The officers who didn't know a lot of words were very impressed by General You at first, and finally understood when they heard it: Isn't it just that you stop in the Baihe River and Tang Fu in the thorny water! But no one dared to say it clearly, nor did they dare to wipe the saliva on their faces, and when they got off You Futian's boat, they muttered and cursed one after another.

In the next few days, You Futian's feelings can be described as years old.

In order to facilitate the mutual coordination of the two battalions in the "horn situation", the auxiliaries had to build a road between the two rivers. This is not difficult, because there is a road in the first place, and it would be nice to widen it a little; The difficulty is to keep the road clear, that is, to deploy a vigilant force, which is certainly not possible: it is impossible to defend the road for three or five miles by auxiliary troops alone—if it can be done, they will be soldiers. It is not possible to rely on the soldiers, there are not enough manpower: even if the two battalions are suddenly counterattacked, they can hold out for a long time with the support of the auxiliaries, and one will always find a flaw to kill and join up sooner or later, but if part of the army is divided to the bank between the two rivers, it is difficult to say. What's more, his most important task is to block the escape route to the south, and if the road is not blocked, he will be attacked by the dog officer again, and he will be embarrassed to go home. In the end, You Futian, who didn't figure out a solution, decided, so let's just leave it at that! He gave Tang Fu a few horses to ride over, what is the situation, I hope that one or two horsemen will be lucky enough to risk death to report the news.

The storyteller said that "the fire burned Bowangpo", "the fire burned the red cliff", "the fire burned Xinye" and other famous passages You Futian remembered! Mr. Zhuge Wollongong was close at hand, so he was afraid that the dog official would send a death squad to come out at night and burn down the fleet, and You Futianbu stayed on the ship at night. The raft built in a hurry could not be very large, and a group of men were suffocated to death every night in a cramped space. During the day, you should always tense your nerves, and from time to time in the direction of Wollongong in the southwest, you can see a group of people one or two hundred, two or three hundred people walking towards Nanyang Mansion, don't look at the rags on their bodies that are so thin and thin that they are showing off in the wind, but they are all high-spirited, and even someone throws stones at the boat! Of course, the archers were not reconciled, and naturally fired back, and when the archers came to You Futian to ask for arrows, he remembered to take stock of the supplies he was carrying—there were not many feather arrows left!

The dog officer on the other side has no fear, needless to say Ximen, under his nose, the south gate also opens and closes like this every day, endlessly absorbing these guys who don't know how to die, and throwing them in the direction of the north handsome the next day.

A group of elite soldiers who were not afraid of the Beijing camp were smashed on the boat all day long by batches of passing people with clods of soil and stones, which was not very harmful and extremely insulting! I can't fight back yet - there are not enough feather arrows. You Futian also tried to send one or two infantry teams to fight, let alone go ashore, as soon as the boat moved to the opposite shore, the people scattered in a hurry, and they couldn't catch up! If this kind of nest lasts longer, his prestige in the army will plummet, how can he lead the troops? For whom, who doesn't want to be mad?

So when Luo Shifan came over and finished talking about the plan to break the city, Don't mention You Futian's excitement. The young military division tried his best to stop him from sneaking into the city in person, but seeing the fire lit by Tang Fu in Nanyang Mansion, Lao You was the first to rush into the south gate with two knives.

These people fought all the way from the border to the Central Plains, not only with explosive combat power, but also with rich battlefield experience. In the morning, before Tang Fu entered the city, he arranged a rear hand, and when the front team suddenly broke out to kill people everywhere and set fires, the last group of more than 20 people who had mixed into the city could walk near the city gate. A few city gate guards were all stabbed to the ground as soon as they felt that something was wrong with the movement in the city, and then they didn't go up to the wall, and picked up the long soldiers abandoned by the city gate guards on the ground, and in a blink of an eye, they formed a small double-layer defense line, and firmly controlled the south gate in their own hands.

The first to infiltrate the city were the two teams A and B of the Nutao Battalion, and the south gate was handed over to the two infantry teams of Bingding and the five hundred auxiliaries accompanying the battalion, and the other five hundred people stayed to watch the ship. After the auxiliaries pulled out a few fortifications on the wall and in front of the doorway, the C and D teams did not encounter any decent resistance, and the frightened rabbit-like people of all colors saw the defense line composed of tables, chairs and benches and the bright swords and guns behind them all turned around and ran away, and the people who had no organization and no command disappeared in a blink of an eye, and all that was left in their minds was to flee for their lives.

You Futian only sent Team A of the Tianyi Battalion to the wall, rushing up from the horse road all the way to the east, Team B responded along the root of the wall below, and when a stick of incense was burned, the hole in the east gate that had always been closed opened, and the Gangfeng Battalion of Gu Baihua, who had already sharpened its knives, rushed in with a shout. The C and D teams of the Tianyi Battalion did not spread to the west, but went all the way north under the personal commander of You Futian, and rushed straight to the Nanyang Mansion.

At this moment, Nanyang Mansion is full of billowing smoke and raging tongues of fire, to achieve the purpose of the raid as quickly as possible, You Futian's main force is only half armor, and Tang Fu's gang is completely dressed as cloth people, in order to distinguish and identify, they all tied a black cloth strip on their arms, and gathered in groups of three or five to form a small war group, while rushing to kill while setting fire everywhere to create chaos. Where do the panicked people know this, they are all gathered in the same village, and when they see those they don't know, they think they are thieves, and they can't escape, so they beat each other with wooden sticks in their hands, until they are both defeated, and they realize that a large group of guys with Xueliang steel knives are not far away and look at themselves with a vicious sneer......

Qian Yuchuan just lay down soon after he heard a big chaos outside, at first I thought that the people who had just entered the city had a dispute over the distribution of bread or something - the main force of the thieves was still far away in the north and was chased and beaten by the "righteous people", and the thieves in the two rivers in the south had not come ashore...... Master Qian only thought that he had countless lives here to gamble, and he never thought that he could be infiltrated into the city by his opponent!

Thinking in his heart, he must severely punish Diao Min, who took the lead in making trouble, cursed in his mouth, put on his official uniform and walked out of the back hall, and when he looked up, he saw black smoke in the air.

Qian Yuchuan himself had a guard of two hundred people. Among the prefect-level officials, this scale is definitely considered luxurious, even the four-rank prefect in the border area is not as strict as the rich adults. Lord Qian is not bad for money, the weapons and equipment are all the standards of the Beijing camp, and even the iron armor is available! Of course, on the books, these iron armors belong to the materials of Nanyang Wei - if you raise the guards, the imperial court can turn a blind eye, anyway, it is out of your own pocket, and theoretically the imperial court is not responsible for paying salaries; But iron armor and crossbow arrows belong to the important weapons of the country, and private individuals must not have them! As the saying goes, "one top three crossbows, three top three crossbows" is what it says. Because things like armor are usually useless: you definitely won't wear them when you fight with your neighbors, because you can't catch up if you win, you can't run if you lose, and the production cost is high (Xu Guangqi has calculated, a pair of armor costs twenty taels of silver, and the official silver is full of color. Of course, Lao Xu works in the Ministry of Industry, and the salary will be quoted higher, which is normal, you know. But even if you deduct half of it, it's still too high, and you have to spend money on maintenance on weekdays...... What is the purpose of keeping such things privately? The fine willow camp is powerful in the world, but Zhou Yafu died in prison because of his private armor - it still has to be used for burial. Lord Qian is very meticulous in his work, not only are the ironclad weapons on Nanyang Wei's account, but even people are counted! It was just "borrowed", and of course, most of the expenses were paid by the prefect's yamen in various other names.

Because he felt that he could almost "defeat the thieves" today, Qian Yuchuan sent half of the guards out of the city to suppress the formation, and there were more than 100 people resting in the wings. Although he hadn't fully figured out what was going on, Qian Yuchuan's reaction was quick: "Close the door quickly!" Before the words fell, some of the guards had already shouted "close the door" and ran outside.

When it comes to closing, it's actually the side doors on both sides that are closed. Not only the prefect's yamen, but even if it is a county yamen, the middle gate will not be opened on weekdays. The middle gate, which represents the majesty of the imperial court, will only be opened for the angels who read the edict of the Son of Heaven, the officials who have arrived, or the new palace.

"You, you, and you," Qian Yuchuan pointed, "all go outside and guard!" As soon as the dozens of guards who were ordered ran out with armor and weapons, the second door behind them fell with a "bang", followed by the sound of ping-pong heavy objects blocking the door. The guards looked at each other, a hint of despair on their faces. The rest of the guards in the courtyard were dressed in armor for each other, and as soon as they poked their heads out of the wall on ladders and tables, chairs and benches, there was a commotion and crashing sound outside the gate.

There were only twenty or so steps left, and the side door of the prefect's yamen closed heavily in front of You Futian's eyes. You Futian hurriedly explained a few words, and with a wave of his hand, Team D divided into two ways and copied the bread back, so that Team C gathered around him and was on guard. The auxiliary officer stopped and looked at the surrounding houses for a while, stretched out his hand, and the auxiliary soldiers immediately rushed towards the target they were pointing at, and then there was a great chaos! Not long after, there was a loud "boom", the houses collapsed, and several auxiliary soldiers appeared in the smoke and dust holding the heavy beams, and the gate of the prefect's yamen sounded with a heavy crashing sound...... At the same time, the other auxiliaries lifted tables, laid out the boards, and even removed the door panels from the surrounding houses, and the soldiers hid behind them, dodging the sparse feathered arrows from the walls, waiting for the moment to break the door.

The original plan was for Gu Baisong's horse team to rush towards the sparse place where the crowd was relatively sparse and seize the north gate as fast as possible. However, the first to storm the north gate was Gong Derun's Zhenyong battalion.

The luck of this guy is really good, the injured two days ago were driven to the side of the field by the officials according to Qian Yuchuan's order, so as not to demoralize the "thieves and righteous people". When a large number of people passed, they supported each other and went to the gate of the city. Of course, the gatekeepers did not let them enter the city, these people were injured, and they were all hungry for a day or two, thinking that they were injured for the government and Lord Qian, and they should always be rewarded for stuttering. These people are afraid of the officers and soldiers to death on weekdays, and at this time, one of them is relying on their own injuries and merits, the second is that they are really hungry and can't stand it, and the third is so bold that they simply lie down and pretend to be dead when they are beaten, and the others take the opportunity to make trouble and block the hole in the city gate tightly. When they saw that there were so many fierce gods rushing out of the boat, the guys who were still limping and struggling to move forward ran faster than rabbits, and directly threw a few city gate guards to Gong Derun.

Gong Derun didn't have the time to contain the guys who knelt on the ground and asked to surrender, and in the blink of an eye, all the corpses were on the spot, and the Zhenyong battalion shouted all the way from the city and the root of the wall to the west of the city. On You Futian's side, the beams of the house are still competing with the mansion gate one by one, and a "Gong" flag has been raised high in the West Gate Tower, fluttering in the wind.

After Gao Tengdou's three flying beast battalions and Guan Shengyun's sky-breaking battalion entered the city, they went all the way south and went straight to the Tang Wangfu - the Tang Wangfu was a little north and west of the prefect's yamen, because there were royal palace guards, it was expected to be much more difficult to fight than the prefect's yamen, so Guan Shengyun was determined to smash the four main battalions into the attack.

Zhang Ding's Perak battalion, with the support of a large number of auxiliaries, hastily built a small stronghold outside the north gate, and the front of the defense was very narrow, and it only needed to block the city gate and then return to the people with a stick in their hands at most. Gu Baisong's horse team, which was originally going to grab the door, was preempted by the Zhenyong battalion, so he simply stayed outside the city to deal with Zhang Ding. However, the people who had been arrogant and dry earlier did not pose any threat, and returned to the vicinity exhausted, and when they saw that the city had fallen into the hands of thieves, they all scattered and ran home crying.

This knowledge point: fire excerpts.

There were two main ways to make fire in ancient times. One is to use flint to hit the spark, ignite the scorched cloth (keep a piece of cotton cloth at a certain distance from the fire source, slowly bake it until it is burnt, and it will start to burn when it is stained with sparks). However, this method is too slow to be used in the heat of battle. The other is more swift - arson directly with a fire breaker.

Pick off the wormwood vine and beat it with a mallet, break it up thoroughly and soak it in water to let the other substances dissolve, leaving only the fibers. After drying, mix cotton or reeds, continue to beat until one, and finally spread on cardboard, sprinkle in saltpeter, sulfur, rosin, camphor and other flammable powders, and roll them into a tight rod-shaped fire strip.

In addition, take the appropriate length and thickness of the bamboo to make a bamboo tube, and open a small hole at the junction of the tube cover and the tube body. Stuff the rod-shaped ignition strip into the barrel body, ignite and blow it out to keep the smoldering state of the fire head. Twist the lid of the cylinder and align the two small holes to provide a minimum amount of oxygen to the smoldering fire head, and a fire fold is ready.

When using, pull out the lid of the cylinder, wave or blow a few times, and the smoldering fire will immediately burst out when it encounters enough oxygen. After the ignition is completed, the lid is directly closed, and the open flame becomes smoldering again, and it can be used continuously. A well-made fire fold can even remain unextinguished for more than ten days.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, after sweet potatoes were introduced to China, because of their better properties, potato vines gradually replaced mugwort.

Before the invention of matches, fire folds were hard currency and could be used as currency.