Chapter 6: Conquering the Yique Pass
Li Jing led the Beiwei Army and the Shenji Battalion to rush to the outside of Yique Pass and join Xu Da.
"Order the artillery to build a heavy artillery position, and bombard the Yique Pass fiercely for me, and I must take the Yique Pass today."
Li Jing ordered the artillery to act immediately, push the field heavy artillery to the high slope, occupy favorable terrain, and aim at Yique Pass for debugging.
The artilleryman fills the muzzle with gunpowder, fuels, sticks through the muzzle, compacts it, stuffs the shells, and finally ignites the fuse with a torch.
This operation will take two minutes at the earliest, and although it has a slow rate of fire, it is powerful, and it has no problem at all to bombard the city wall.
The guards of Yique Pass climbed to the top of the city to observe the situation outside the city, and saw that Li Jing's army was waiting outside the pass, and did not appear to attack immediately, and he was puzzled.
Due to the distance of the heavy artillery position, the defenders of Yique Pass did not detect the existence of this firearms unit.
"General, the rebels are standing still outside the city, what should we do?"
Adjutant General Yi Que Guan asked.
"What else can I do? Just give me to defend the Yique Pass, presumably the imperial court is mobilizing a large army to quell the rebellion, I just need to stick to the Yique Pass, and wait for the arrival of the imperial army, which is the death of the rebels. ”
The guard of Yique said.
Little did he know that a crisis was coming.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
At this moment, a loud noise sounded outside the pass, countless cannonballs, cutting an arc in the air, and one shell after another fell on the city head of Yique Pass, smashing the walls of Yique Pass into huge holes, countless cracks around the pits spread around, and the ground under their feet shook!
The defenders of Yique Pass staggered, and almost lost their balance and fell to the ground.
After the first wave of shells, the artillerymen immediately cleaned up the chamber, cleaned up the remnants of the items inside, and poured cold water to cool the chamber, so as not to blow up the chamber too much.
After cooling down, the artillerymen worked together to lift the gun, pour out the water inside, tie a clean cloth to a stick and reach into the barrel, wipe the inside clean, and refill the ammunition again.
"What the hell is going on? What exactly do the rebels use? Will there be such a big movement? ”
The guard of Yique Pass, his ears are still buzzing at the moment, and the movement is so loud that he almost didn't deafen him!
"I don't know if I am humble, but this iron bullet is indispensable for twenty or thirty catties, and if this one goes down, it will smash our city wall into a hole four or five feet in size, if we come a few more times, the city wall of Yique Pass is afraid that it will collapse."
Admiral Yi Que Guan said, pointing to the potholed wall.
The Yique Pass guard frowned, if this is the case, then can the Yique Pass still be held?
Just when the guards of Yique Pass were at a loss, the artillery outside the pass bombarded Yique Pass again.
Rumble!
The cannonballs fired at Yique Pass again, and with a loud bang, the already battered walls became more fragmented, the holes in the walls widened again, and the cracks in the walls became bigger and bigger.
When Li Jing saw this situation, he was overjoyed, and if he bombarded again, he would be able to collapse the city wall of Yique Pass.
Without the obstruction of the city wall, his army could drive in for a long time, killing the defenders of Yique Pass without leaving a single piece of armor.
The Beiwei army is the elite of the elite, and when fighting against the Jin army, it defeated the Jin army of 100,000 with 20,000 troops.
There are only tens of thousands of defenders in Yique Pass, and without the protection of the city wall, these tens of thousands of defenders are like toothless tigers, and they are not ready to handle it.
"Pass the order down and kill the enemy with General Ben!"
Shoot a man first and shoot a horse first, and capture a thief first and capture the king first!
In the current situation, only by going out of the pass and fighting with the rebels can they have a glimmer of life, and it is not necessarily safe to stay in the pass, and when the city wall is blown down, they can only die in battle.
"Whoa!"
The deputy general of Yique Pass took the order and gathered troops and horses to prepare to rush out of Yique Pass to fight the rebels to the death.
Just as they were assembled and ready to open the gate of Yique Pass, Li Jing's artillery launched a third shelling, under which the walls could not withstand the shelling, and the shells were blasted, and many defenders were killed by stones flying everywhere.
"Kill!"
The wall of Yique Pass was blown down, and Li Jing immediately commanded a large army to launch an attack on Yique Pass.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
As Li Jing's army launched a charge, the defenders of Yique Pass resisted desperately, and the two sides fought together.
In the face of the 20,000 powerful and elite division's Beiwei army, the defenders of Yique Pass were quickly routed and were killed by Li Jing's army.
Seeing that the general situation had gone, the Yique guard had no choice but to flee on horseback and rush to the eastern capital to report the situation to the Empress Dowager Wu Cao.
"Shizi! We captured one of the enemy's generals and captured 10,000 soldiers!"
Guo came in to Li Jing's side and reported to Li Jing.
Li Jing bowed his head and said, "Bring him up, I will interrogate him properly." ”
Guo Jin received the order and waved his hand to bring the enemy general up.
"When you see my family, don't kneel down quickly!"
Guo Jin scolded loudly, pounced, and the other party knelt down decisively, shouting in his mouth that the prince spared his life!
"Who are you? Where are your guards now? ”
Li Jing rode a white horse and said condescendingly.
"If you go back to the world, the younger one is Situ Yun, the deputy general of Yique Pass, who was ordered to guard Yique Pass, and the guard general had already fled when he saw that the situation was not good."
Yique Guan's deputy general Situ Yun answered truthfully.
Li Jing asked Situ Yun some more questions, and Situ Yun answered them all 1510.
"Where is your grain and grass in Yiqueguan? Take me there!"
Li Jing sent people to search Yique Pass, but there was not even a single grain and grass, the Yique Pass guard would really know how to hide, Situ Yun, as the deputy general of Yique Pass, he should know where the grain and grass in Yique Pass were placed.
Situ Yun was stunned, the grain and grass in the pass, as early as when the city wall collapsed, the guard ordered to set fire to it, and now I am afraid that it will be gone long ago.
Situ Yun met Li Jing's cold eyes, and his legs were weak with fright!
Muma!
How to tell him about this, what if he tells the truth, annoys the plague god in front of him, and splits him?
"Shizi, the grain and grass in Yique Pass have long been destroyed by the guard Qiu Fei, Qiu Fei was worried that Yique Pass would not be able to hold it, so he ordered people to set fire to the grain and grass, and now there is not a grain of grain in Yique Pass!"
Li Jing's face changed greatly after hearing this, there was no food in Yique Pass, this time the troops were in a hurry, and there was no extra grain and grass prepared, I thought that after conquering Yique Pass, I could replenish grain and grass on the spot, who would have expected that the grain and grass in Yique Pass would be burned.
"You are the deputy general of Yique Pass, I plan to hand over 10,000 troops to your command, from now on, you are the guard of Yique Pass, are you willing?"
"I am willing to do my job, and it is my honor to serve the Son!"
Situ Yun immediately fell to the ground, he had no opinion at all, anyway, if he didn't follow the boss, a fool would object.
If you think about it carefully, not only was you not mistreated after surrendering, but you can also be promoted to a higher level, which is also a good choice, a good thing that others can't think of.