Chapter 63: The Second Battle of Siege (5)
Su Ming followed his eldest brother to the south wall of Erwei Fort, and saw that in addition to the two squads of guards, there were more than 30 people left, and the main combat forces in the fort should still be resting at this time.
Erweibao Wainan Village is full of pirates, Su Ming estimated that most of the pirates left behind may be wounded, they can't be carried, they can only stay, wait for the large army to capture Jinshanwei Town, and then turn back to take Erweibao.
The pirates who came to attack Erweibao, that is the force that can compete with Xu Dong and the Daming Sailor, came to Erweibao for two days, their losses here are not small, looking at the city wall that is not too high, all the pirates have a trace of fear in addition to strong anger in their hearts.
After noon, a team of pirates came from the northwest with a wagon, and the carriage should have been filled with grain, and I don't know if it was snatched from the castle, and smoke soon rose over the villages outside Erweibao, and the pirates began to make fires and cook.
Su Ming and his eldest brother watched the castle wall for a while, then went home for lunch, went back to the room and went to bed to sleep for a while, when his walkie-talkie rang.
"Captain, Captain!" Li Lin's voice sounded.
"Received, received, Li Lin, what is your situation now?" Su Ming saw that Li Lin was in 92% state, and he should be in no danger now.
"Captain, I have arrived 5 miles east of Jinshanwei Town, there are many pirates gathered outside Jinshanwei Town, all the village forts have been occupied by pirates, the pirates have not yet attacked Jinshanwei Town, I saw them building siege equipment in the woods." Li Lin's voice sounded.
"You try to get as close as possible to Jinshanwei Town, I've been waiting for your news, and if you need to retreat, I'll pull you back directly." Su Ming said.
"Got it, Captain. I saw a lot of refugees coming from the north of Jinshanwei Town, they were blocked by pirates and all of them were arrested, do these civilians need to be saved? Li Lin asked.
"You only have one person, you can't save the people, it's better to check the situation of Jinshanwei Town as soon as possible, try to check the troops inside and outside the city, and what are the other guards of Jinshanwei!" Su Ming said.
"Roger, Captain, I'm going, done!"
"Done!" Su Ming returned.
Finding out that the walkie-talkie could have a clear conversation 80 miles away, Su Ming was excited in his heart. Originally, I thought that this intercom opportunity was the most useless of all equipment, but now it seems that it may not be as useful as a gun, and a communication device that can talk in a random place is extremely significant in ancient times.
Putting the walkie-talkie to his ear, Su Ming waited for half an hour and no news from Li Lin came he checked li lin state everything was okay at this time the sound of iron pillars came out of the yard.
"Eighth master, eighth master!"
"What's wrong, Iron Pillar?" Su Ming heard the voice, opened the door and walked out.
"It seems that the pirates are going to make a move, and Lord Hyakunhe asked me to call you over." Tiezhu said.
"Come into the house and take all the bullets, let's go!" Su Ming said.
Tie Zhu saw that where Su Ming put the bullets, there were only 2 grenades and more than 300 bullets, this thing was likely not to last for half an hour, without bullets Tie Zhu knew that Erweibao would definitely not be able to block the pirate's attack, and his heart couldn't help but be heavy.
Coming to the Nanbao wall, the pirates were still gathering outside the South Village, and Su Ming saw that there were about three or four hundred pirates at the gate of the South Village, and many of them were slightly injured.
A pirate leader stood at the forefront of the pirate team and seemed to be giving a lecture to all the pirates, and Su Ming roughly estimated that the other party was nearly 600 meters away from the South Fort Wall.
The effective range of the 95 rifle is 400 meters, but it can also shoot enemies within 800 meters, Su Ming saw that he was lying down on the wall of the South Fort, took out a quadruple lens from his pocket, aimed at the leader of the other party and held his breath, he gently pulled the wrench.
Bullets flew out of the south wall of Erweibao and flew straight towards Nancun in the distance. The pirate leader in Nancun is now the largest pirate leader in Erweibao, and he is also boosting the morale of the pirates, telling everyone that the strength of Erweibao is no more than 200, and now it is almost impossible to hold on, as long as he puts a little more effort into it, he can take it.
Suddenly, a stream of blood flew out of his forehead, spraying directly on the small pirate leader in front of him, and all the pirates looked at everything in front of them in disbelief, watching their leader fall, and all their hearts couldn't help but be shocked.
At this time, several small pirate leaders, you look at me, I look at you, in the past, they would definitely compete for the upper position, but today no one spoke, a small leader saw that he went back to Nancun with the leader's body, he was the leader's relative, no one said anything, and the other pirates were waiting for several pirate leaders to speak.
"Now that the Tian family is dead, I think we have to discuss it with the other three brothers outside of Erweibao first." The death of the leader made them all realize that if they were not careful, they could all die.
"Okay, I think we have to discuss countermeasures, the enemy on the south wall is the strongest, why do we have to be in charge of the south wall." One of the leaders said.
Several leaders stopped gathering pirates to attack, and they went to several other directions to discuss countermeasures.
Su Ming saw that the leader of the Nancun pirates was shot by himself, and all the soldiers on the fortress wall only saw that the Nancun pirates were a little flustered, and they didn't know what had happened. This pirate may not be able to attack for a while, so Su Ming told the news to his eldest brother.
Sure enough, the pirates outside the west fort wall had just walked two hundred paces away, and then they retreated, and the situation was the same with the other two fort walls, and the expected hard battle did not happen, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this.
"Eighth brother, go home and have a good rest! Lord Cao, you take your people back too, let the first and fifth guard squadrons stay, and everyone else goes down to rest, the pirates should not come up soon and let the people go to the fort wall. Su Ren said.
Everyone also dispersed and went home to rest, Su Ming was still in good condition when he arrived at home, and he didn't want to sleep, so he sat in the courtyard and waited for Li Lin's news.
Li Lin didn't speak to him, and Su Ming didn't dare to call the other party on the walkie-talkie, if the other party was disturbing him in concealment, it might hurt him.
After sitting for a while and feeling a little sleepy, Su Ming returned to his room and fell asleep quickly.
I don't know how long it took, Su Ming heard a sound coming from the walkie-talkie, and he woke up all of a sudden.
"Captain, Captain!" Li Lin shouted.
"Li Lin, I'm here." Su Ming hurriedly replied.
"I captured a pirate leader, and I learned that there were about 8,000 pirates attacking Jinshanwei this time, and that the northern coastal villages and forts such as Qiyanbao had been breached, and many people in Qiyanbao had fled into Jinshanwei Town.
Now the pirates are holding tens of thousands of people outside Jinshanwei Town, but there is no intention of attacking, the city wall of Jinshanwei Town is more than three zhang high, there are crossbows, bowls and fire teams on the city wall, there are at least 30,000 people in the entire Jinshanwei Town, and it is not so easy for pirates to break through. Li Lin said.
As one of the four Davids of the Ming Dynasty, Jinshanwei connects the most prosperous Suzhou and Hangzhou areas in the Ming Dynasty. If Jin Shanwei misses, Songjiang City will be exposed to the pirates, and Songjiang City will be taken by pirates, then Hangzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion will be separated, and the entire southern Ming Dynasty will be hit hard.
Hearing Li Lin say this, Su Ming relaxed a little, Li Lin's task has been basically completed at this time, it is impossible for Songjiang City to ignore Jin Shanwei, and Hangzhou is likely to send a large army to support, as long as it can hold on for half a month, this pirate will naturally retreat.
"Then I'll take you back now!" Su Ming said to Li Lin on the walkie-talkie.
"Captain, I have blended in with the fleeing homeless people of Tuolin, among them there are more than 200 soldiers, and more than 2,000 homeless people have gathered at this moment, and now it is dark, they know the path to Jinshanwei, if I can help them, they will probably be able to enter Jinshanwei Town." Li Lin said to Su Ming that he wanted to save such innocent people.
"Okay, there you go! If you go to Jinshanwei Town, go to find the commander or other officials, and tell them that Erweibao has not been lost, and as long as there is one person alive, Erweibao will still be there. Su Ming said.
It is of great significance to let Jinshanwei know that Erweibao has not missed yet. Jinshanwei suddenly has a bridgehead, if the pirates retreat in Jinshanwei and are defeated, then Erweibao snipes at the rear of the pirates, which may give the pirates heavy casualties.
"It's the captain, if I can enter Jinshanwei Town, I will definitely tell the commander the news of Erwei Castle." Li Lin said.
The two sides broke off the conversation, Su Ming saw that it was already dark outside the house, and the possibility of the pirates attacking tonight was not very large, and the more the pirates delayed to capture Jinshanwei Town, the less pressure there was on Erweibao.
Moreover, the pirates outside the Second Castle have already seen the power of machine guns, and it will take great courage to attack again.
The fifth brother and the thirteenth brother both came back at this time, and they told Su Ming that the eldest brother was now on duty with Cao Chunrui on the fortress wall, and the three of them were going to go over to change guards in the second half of the night, and the three of them would hurry up and rest after dinner.
Not to mention that the battle of Erweibao seemed to be over, Zhang Daoshen, the commander of Jinshanwei Town, stood on the city wall, looking at all the villages and forts occupied by pirates in the distance, and he couldn't help but feel heavy in his heart.
Once the pirates have taken all the villages and towns outside Jinshanwei Town, they will inevitably start attacking Jinshanwei Town.
The last time Jinshanwei Town was broken was 34 years ago, when the entire Songjiang Mansion was almost bulldozed by pirates, and Hangzhou City was also breached by pirates. After the original Jin Shanwei commander fled to Beiping City, he was directly beheaded by the current Jiajing Emperor.
Even if you die here, you can't take a step back. Now although the elite of Jinshanwei is folded in the south of Zhejiang, but Jinshanwei was originally established to deal with pirates and pirates, and there are four thousand households outside, and more than ten hundred households fight against pirates and pirates all year round, although the equipment is not good, but the combat experience is not bad at all.
Since this morning, there have been soldiers and people from the east and north into Jinshanwei Town, and in the afternoon, even many guards in the west have been breached by pirates, and now the number of people in Jinshanwei Town has exceeded 40,000, and there are a steady stream of people gathered from all directions.
Zhang Daoshen knew that he couldn't throw the people to the pirates, and the other party would inevitably use the people as hostages to attack the city, and even if he held Jinshanwei Town, he would not be able to stay here any longer.
Therefore, Zhang Daoshen tried his best to let the people of the surrounding villages and forts return to the town, and this afternoon, there were more and more pirates gathered outside Jinshanwei Town, and they also began to rob the people, because the pirates also knew that they must take Jinshanwei Town as soon as possible, otherwise they would have no chance when the imperial court support army arrived, and in order to reduce their own casualties, it was necessary to arrest civilians.