Chapter 334

Xie Shangkui quietly looked at the rebels pouring up from under the city, and he asked very puzzled: "These rebels are obviously very cowardly, why have they become so crazy now?" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Put a vicious dog behind you, and you won't run forward desperately!" ”

Xie Shangkui suddenly realized.

When Cheng Shijie was in later generations, there was a question that was very puzzled, why the Ming army became the Manchu green battalion after defecting to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the people are still those people, the equipment is still those equipment, in fact, the supply of the green battalion is not more than that of the Ming Dynasty army, but the combat effectiveness of the green battalion has risen in a straight line.

Now he understands that the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not treat the Green Battalion as a person at all, just as cannon fodder, or to die, and there was no mercy in killing the Green Battalion soldiers who were afraid of war. There is another problem, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were soldiers.

The biggest disadvantage of soldiers as generals is that generals have soldiers, they are still high-ranking generals, and they are nothing without soldiers, so in the event of a war, these generals do not want to win the battle, but to preserve their strength, and as a result, when they encounter an attack by Jiannu, they will be defeated.

As Daolang wrote in the lyrics of "Rakshasa Sea City", all problems are the fundamental problems of our human beings. The problems of the Ming army, in fact, are mostly the problems of the generals, not the problems of ordinary soldiers, just like this time, Xie Zhiliang had a will to die, led more than 800 defeated soldiers, stopped some soldiers and civilians, and defended Pingdingzhou, the Mongolian army suffered heavy casualties, but did not take Pingdingzhou, but insisted on the arrival of Cheng Shijie.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was not that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not brave, nor that they were afraid of the enemy, but that the generals were greedy for life and afraid of death, and did not dare to fight.

"It's just a pity! Their courage came too late! ”

Cheng Shijie heard Xie Shangkui explain clearly that the fundamental reason for the loss of Taiyuan was that He Sui, a general, suddenly launched a mutiny, and Xie Zhiliang was unprepared, so Taiyuan would be lost. Most of the Taiyuan Mansion soldiers could only be coerced to attack. But no matter the reason, Cheng Shijie will definitely not be soft on them.

Cheng Shijie said: "Prepare to shoot!" ”

Some of the scouts of the Annan Army in Ningnan are equipped with bows and crossbows, and they are also equipped with Chongzhen eight-year rifles, and they are all the elite of the elite, most of them have a seventy percent chance of hitting the target at a distance of three hundred paces. Especially when Chongzhen's eight-year rifle was fired, it did not need to stand up and be exposed to the rain of Mongolian arrows like a crossbow machine.

All the Ning Navy officers stood behind sandbags on the city wall and aimed their rifles at the enemy.

"Bang ......"

The continuous sound of gunfire swept across the battlefield, and the bullets burst out as if they were blowing the wind, falling into the middle of the enemy army, and the sound of bullets entering the flesh was endless.

Whether it is the Mongolian warlord, or the rebel soldiers who act as cannon fodder, they are all treated equally, they all fall to the ground and wail at the moment they are shot by a bullet, whether it is leather armor or steel armor, it seems to be like paper paste in front of the impact of the bullet, the lethality of Chongzhen's eight-year bolt-action rifle is too terrifying, once it is shot, it is the front chest in and the back of the chest, and it is also seriously injured if it does not die!

The rebels were in disarray, and the officers screamed: "Raise your shield!" Raise your shield! ”

The sword and shield hand woke up from a dream and raised his shield to form a shield wall, trying to stop the terrible rain of arrows. But the bullets kept flying, piercing the shield directly, forming a larger wound on the upper body of the shield hand, and people were constantly killed on the ground by the bullets that pierced the shield.

From the city wall, it can be seen that there are gaps in the shield wall, and people are constantly screaming and planting themselves in the trenches, and the howls are heartbreaking.

Although the first wave of attack was easily repulsed, and if the Mongol army had attacked on its own, they would have stopped to rest, but now they were only cannon fodder, and the rebel soldiers were driven to launch a second wave of attacks before they even had time to catch their breath.

Cheng Shijie saw clearly that the scouts of the Annan Regiment of the Ning Navy used rifles and grenades to repel the second wave of cannon fodder offensives.

However, as if crazy, the Mongol army launched three waves of attacks in just one hour, and the bullets and grenades of the Ning Navy were consumed very quickly, and if this continued, the bullets in the hands of the Ning Navy would not be consumed for long.

When he was in the Baihe defensive line, Cheng Shijie didn't have to worry at all, because he had too many bullet reserves in his hands, but the problem was that even six base ammunition couldn't last long.

"Great marshal, the attack of the Tartars has been repulsed!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Don't be busy celebrating, the Tartars will soon launch a second wave of offensive, after suffering hardships, they are annoyed and angry, ferocious, and will be even more ferocious, our hard days are still ahead!" ”

Li Dingguo couldn't laugh immediately, after all, he was a general who grew up with Zhang Xianzhong, and this kind of battle in front of him was too familiar, and they did it before. Only now he's on the defensive side. He actually wanted to lead the cavalry to charge for a while, however, he was a little frustrated when he looked at the dense Mongolian cavalry outside the city.

Even if so many Mongols stood still and let them cut and killed, they would be exhausted to death.

Li Dingguo said with a headache: "This ...... How is this good? We don't have reinforcements, we can't stop it! ”

"What else? You can only block it first, you are in charge of commanding, I will go to the city to see if I can find something useful! ”

When Cheng Shijie came to the city of Pingdingzhou, a head catcher surnamed Zhang, with dozens of young people, was looking for all over the city, yes, he was looking for.

Gold juice is a weapon for defending the city in ancient times, and it is also the original version of the biological weapon, the main ingredient of gold juice is human or animal feces, boiled with arsenic or tung oil and dung, and after boiling, poured on the body of the besieging soldiers, it will cause a large number of casualties, even in later generations, scalding is also very tricky, not to mention, gold juice contains a huge poison and a large number of bacteria, once injured, it is not cured at all.

However, the gold juice is best used in summer or spring and autumn, but the effect is not good in winter, the siege soldiers are wearing sad and thick clothes, and the gold juice is easy to cool down quickly when the cold wind blows, and it is not scalding through at all.

However, having gold juice to help defend the city can also save too many grenades, just when Cheng Shijie covered his nose and walked for a long time, he found a huge mansion, dozens of hundreds of carpenters were in full swing, or making large wooden cans, or making throwing guns, and the wooden cans or throwing guns were immediately moved.

The wooden jar was sent to the house next door, and there was a group of people who were very skilled in filling it with black powder, iron nails, crockpot fragments, and so on, and then sealing it, and there it was.

Cheng Shijie naturally knew that this was the usual weapon used in the Ming Dynasty army to defend the city, that is, the ancestor of the grenades equipped by the Ning Navy, each earth-shaking thunder weighed thirty or forty catties, and it contained black gunpowder or iron nails, ceramic pieces and the like.

As for weapons such as throwing guns, they were distributed as soon as they were taken out of the door, and a group of young men and women were armed, and these young men were also prepared, and once the officers and men of the Ning Navy were killed or wounded, they would plug the gap.

Now the fate of the military and civilians in the whole city is tied together, and the people also know that even if they want to run, they can't run away from the Mongols outside the city, and in the icy and snowy environment, where can they run? Only by defending the city of Pingdingzhou can they survive.

"Dashuai!"

When the people saw Cheng Shijie coming, they saluted Cheng Shijie one after another.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, Ben Shuai has good news for you, the three attacks of the Tartars have been repelled by us!" ”

"Great, great!"

Cheng Shijie said: "However, the Tartars are not dead yet, and they will come again, so we have to use these secret weapons!" Let's speed up production, the devil knows how long this battle will last, it's always right to prepare more guys! ”

Outside the city, the Mongol army attacked for the third time and was repulsed.

As the Chechen Khan Shuo Li, he didn't say anything, but just asked the two Mongol Wanfu to step up preparations and launch the fourth round of offensive as soon as possible. Siege of cities, how can it be so easy to take down, not to mention those big cities with a population of one million, even if it is some small cities, it is not impossible to beat them after a few years of siege, and there are not a few examples of such battles in history.

However, Shuo Lei didn't think that this Pingdingzhou city could block his offensive, and if it could withstand it for three days, they would burn high incense.

Commander Yatai thought that the morale of the defenders had been raised, and it was not so easy to gnaw down this county seat, so he said to Shuo Lei: "King Khan, the muskets of the Ming dogs are quite tenacious, and our people have not been shot dead and wounded a lot without iron armor!" Could you please send a group of heavily armored archers to suppress the Ming army's muskets? If Minggou's musket had been suppressed, the battle would have been much easier. ”

This request is reasonable, Shuo Lei said: "That Brun! ”

"In!"

"You bring six hundred heavily armored archers over to suppress the musketeers of the Ming army and cover the warriors to attack the city!"

"Yes!"

Naburen didn't make a single superfluous move, and went straight down to order people. In a moment, six hundred heavily armored archers lined up and joined the siege sequence.

These archers are wearing iron armor, but the iron armor is rusty, it seems that these armors are some years old, and some of them are wearing chain mail, even if it is a large base, he cannot equip 600 heavy armor soldiers, and these 600 heavy armor soldiers are also pieced together.

The strong bows and arms of these heavily armored soldiers were thick and long, and the feathered arrows were in the shape of sharp wolf teeth, with specks of rust on them. It's not that these archers are too lazy and don't care if the arrows are rusty, but they do it on purpose, before the start of the war, they will soak the arrowheads with dung, so that the arrows are rusty and full of bacteria, and once they are shot, even if they are not shot on the spot, they will suffer from incurable diseases such as tetanus and septicaemia, and they will die for life.

After several attempts, launching nine attacks in just one day, and throwing six or seven thousand lives, Shuo Lei finally had a full understanding of the city of Pingdingzhou, and he believed that the fighting power of the Ming army defending the city was extremely tenacious, especially those musketeers. However, if you break through the city of Pingdingzhou, there is no better way.

Yatai said: "King Khan, you can't attack anymore!" This hellish place is so evil that you can't get by at all! ”

Naburun's eyelids jumped, and he secretly rejoiced: "Fortunately, it's not my men and horses who are attacking the city, otherwise, I'm afraid I will have to fold the old book into these few rounds!" ”

Although the dead are all the Ming army soldiers, but he is a little distressed when he dies a lot, no matter how cheap these soldiers are, they can't be consumed like this, who is dead for them to be slaves, who helps them cut grass and herd sheep?

Yatai took a step forward and said to Shuo Lei: "This Pingdingzhou is really too difficult to fight, the entire defense line is like an iron wall, and there is no flaw at all...... Why don't we adjust our direction first, take Lu'an Mansion first, and enter the Daimyo's Mansion? ”

This road is actually the offensive road of Zasaktu Khan Subadi, after breaking through Taiyuan, the Chechen Khan and Zasaktu Khan divided the spoils of Taiyuan City equally, they began to part ways in Taiyuan, Chechen Khan attacked Pingding Prefecture to the east, prepared to break through Pingding Prefecture and then attack Yangquan County, lay down Yangquan County, attack Jingcheng, and then cross the Taihang Mountain, attack Zhending Mansion, attack Baoding Mansion, and threaten Gyeonggi.

And Zasaktu is preparing to attack Lu'an Mansion and break Changzhi, and then attack Fukou Cheng, break Fengyue Pass, and attack the Daimyo Mansion, and the richest of the provinces in the entire Northern Zhili region is now not Shuntian Mansion, but Daimyo Mansion. Since the third year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng was promoted to the right political envoy of Shandong to participate in politics, reorganized the Daimyo Army, governed the three prefectures of Daimyo, Guangping and Shunde, and formed the Tianxiong Army, and the Tianxiong Army was the first army in the Ming Dynasty to have its own military funds.

And as soon as it is shot, it is three prefectures, which is equivalent to the part of Xingtai City, Puyang City, Anyang City, Hebi City, Xinxiang City, and Heze City in later generations, and it is also the junction and junction of the four provinces of mountains and rivers.

In particular, the Daimyo's Mansion, as Lu Xiangsheng's base, spent money on building many roads and ditches, repairing the city wall, and improving road traffic in the past few years, which soon brought about a great change in the appearance of the Daimyo's Mansion. A few years ago, the earth master found two large coal mines in the territory of the Daimyo, more than a dozen iron mines, and the high-quality anthracite coal stored in it made the Tianxiong army ecstatic, and spent a huge amount of money to mine, not only used to make steel, but also a large supply of Daimyo Zhending, Jingshi, relying on the massive anthracite and steel, the money bags of the people of the Daimyo Mansion, who had been very poor, swelled up like blowing up balloons.

Once the Daimyo Mansion was occupied, the results achieved were no less than those of the Shuntian Mansion.

"No, Ben Khan, I'm not very interested in Pingding Prefecture yet, but now, I have to fight it!"

Shuo Lei pointed to the black tiger flag flying high on the city wall with a horsewhip, and roared: "That battle flag is more important than the ten Pingding Prefectures!" Lu Xiangsheng was trapped on the Huguang battlefield, and he couldn't come back for the time being, as long as he cut down that battle flag again, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty would be able to stop the rolling iron cavalry of the Chechen Khan! ”

Yaguan was anxious: "But Pingdingzhou City is too strong, and we can't gnaw on it at all!" And it's still the number one warrior of the Ming Dynasty who guards it, even if we all die here......"

Shuo Lei roared like thunder: "How about it? How about it? No matter how powerful he is, he is just one person, and there are only a few thousand defeated soldiers around him! Our 100,000-strong army is still a few thousand rabble? ”

Shuo Lei stared at Pingdingzhou City with a cold expression and a cruel smile: "Cheng Shijie, do you think that I can't help you if you put up a turtle formation?" You are indeed a master of defense, the entire defense line is like a Tangchi Iron Fort, if the battlefield is in Liaodong, I really can't do anything about you, but it shouldn't be, those nerds shouldn't let us in! In Shanxi, I have a way to deal with you! ”

Shuo Lei waved his horsewhip vigorously and shouted: "Send someone over to arrest the Ming people in the surrounding area, and let them attack the city instead of us!" ”

Yatai was confused: "Arrest the common people? What use can those unarmed civilians do with a line of defense that even our elite troops can't attack? ”

"Why didn't it work?"

"Who said they were useless? At least they can help us fill the trenches, at least they can help us consume a few crossbow arrows and a few bullets! ”

When Shuo Lei said this, he had a few bloodshots in his eyes, and stared at Pingdingzhou City, his bloodthirsty and crazy gaze made people shudder: "I want to see if those Ming dogs can be ruthless enough to shoot and fire in the face of thousands of their own people!" I want to see how many ordinary people will be slaughtered, and the Haiguo Gong, who has always had the reputation of loving the people like a son, is willing to come out of that turtle shell and fight with me in an upright manner! ”

The Mongol army retreated and did not attack again. Li Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief, and seized the time to repair the fortress that had been destroyed by the shells, and the wounded soldiers were carried down to treat them with all their might, and the vacancy that had arisen was filled by those young men who volunteered to join the army.

The casualties of the Ming army were very small, and the officers and men of the Ning Navy were very proud of killing and wounding more than seven or eight thousand enemy troops at such a slight cost of casualties, and the people of Pingding Prefecture also put their hanging hearts in their stomachs.

Only Cheng Shijie's gaze became more profound.

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Dashuai, don't look at the Tartars are very fierce, in fact, they are not beaten, we haven't used much strength, they will collapse!" ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Our trouble is coming!" ”

Cheng Shijie can judge what these Mongols are doing, Daming Taiyuan Mansion accounts for nearly 20 percent of the entire population of Shanxi, Taiyuan City, a fortification group composed of five cities, Fucheng, Jinwang City, Nanguan City, Beiguan City and Xinbao, more than 800,000 people.

But the problem is that now he really can't do anything, he can only beg for one thing, to see if the reinforcements from the Ning Navy come quickly, or if the Mongols capture the people and come back quickly.

It can be said that now is the speed of life and death, racing against time.

Just as Cheng Shijie was thinking, there was a scattered sound of horses' hooves in the east of Pingdingzhou City.

……

On the official road of Yangqu County, Zhending Prefecture, there were a large number of fleeing people at this time, and these people were going east along the official road, and the people thought that the Son of Heaven would not ignore them if they fled to the capital.

However, on this official road, there was a retrograde team, some of which were old and young, all of whom straddled their waists, braved the wind and snow, led mules and horses, and struggled to advance.

This is a small dart team, led by a dart master Mo who is about forty years old, followed by dozens of dart masters on horses, as well as hundreds of single carts, full of supplies.

"Chief dart, we have now entered the territory of Yangqu County, only two hundred miles away from Zhengding Prefecture, and it is still too late to turn back!"

The head of the dart Li Guanying is a Cangkou person, he owes Cheng Shijie a life, when he was walking the dart, he wanted to experience his son, but he never encountered a bandit robbery, an arrow shot Li Guanying's only Li Yiming in the abdomen, when Li Yiming was seriously injured, there was no way to ask for help, and happened to meet Cheng Shijie into Beijing, Cheng Shijie asked the military doctor around him to operate on him, remove the carrion, and used strange medicine.

Although Li Guanying didn't understand, he knew that kind of medicine was hard to find, but Cheng Shijie still saved his son, however, when Li Guanguan walked to Zhending Mansion, he heard that Cheng Shijie was leading more than 2,000 people to defend Pingdingzhou, and Li Guanying decided to go to Pingdingzhou.

Of course, Li Guanying adopts the principle of voluntariness and is willing to go, he pays the settling-in fee, he is not willing to go, he is not reluctant, there were originally more than 800 people in Zhengxing Dart Bureau, and now there are less than 300 people who are willing to follow Li Guanying to Pingding Prefecture.

As a dart master in the rivers and lakes, Li Guanying may not have the mind of Bo Yibo's bicycle into a motorcycle.

What kind of person is Cheng Shijie? can't fight with him, but the problem is, if Cheng Shijie is good friends, who in the rivers and lakes will dare not sell his face in the future?

"Ladies and gentlemen, Li owes Cheng Dashuai a life, this time Li has no intention of coming back alive, the two armies are facing each other, Li has no other ability, at least he can block a few arrows for Cheng Dashuai!"

Li Guanying said: "If anyone is afraid, you can go back immediately, wait for Li to come back, let's talk about the wine again, if Li can't come back, give Li a pillar of incense next year!" ”

"The head of the dart is all standing and urinating, and the cowardly ones have long stopped eating this line of food!"

In fact, Li Guanying's thoughts, how many people can't guess it?

Wealth and danger are sought, and the Bo should be Bo.

(End of chapter)