"Bang Bang

In the same month, when Zhu Di's idea of a northern expedition was rejected, the sound of fried bean-like muskets was heard in the dense forests of the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula.

"Phew!"

Several cavalrymen reined in on the not wide animal road, the four cavalrymen on the left and right looked vigilantly into the forest on the left and right, and the cavalry led by them turned over and dismounted and looked at a war horse that had been shot and fell to the ground.

The horse screamed, and where it had fallen, lay a dead body that was no longer breathing.

The cavalry of the Ming army turned him over, only to see that the top of his head was smooth, and his hair was braided and hung down on his shoulders on the left and right sides and behind his head, and he was dressed as a Jurchen.

"It's the chieftain's man, search for the traces of his coming, and search the past according to his tracks, and you will surely find a suitable way to march!"

"Yes!"

The cavalry turned around and ordered, and the other four cavalrymen also cautiously probed forward along the beast path.

After walking about a mile, a plain suddenly opened up in front of them, and a plain appeared in front of them.

"Finally here, when you get here, it's not far from the city of the chieftain, Wang San, you go back and tell the Hou Ye!"

The captain of the Tang cavalry instructed the young Tang cavalry behind him, and the Tang cavalry also turned his horse's head when he heard this, and galloped back towards the road from which he came.

After about half an hour, the Tang Cavalry leaped out of the beast path, and in front of them thousands of men who were cutting down trees, digging stumps and roots, and a small number of cavalry guarding them.

Tang rode away on horseback, all the way along the wide post road that had been carved out, and it was not until a quarter of an hour later that the people in front of him began to slowly decrease, and were replaced by soldiers wearing mandarin duck jackets and breastplates.

After a short time, he came to the position of the Chinese army, turned over and dismounted, and told the Qianhu official in charge of commanding the Tang Cavalry the information obtained by his team.

When the Qianhu official learned the news, he hurriedly relayed the information to Chen Chang, who was resting in the tent.

"You said that less than five miles away from here is Hezhou in the north of the Twin Cities?"

"Yes!"

Chen Chang asked the Qianhu official, and the Qianhu official also nodded hurriedly when he heard this.

Seeing this, Chen Chang said to the commanders beside him: "Order the people to work harder, if you can reach the plain and camp today, everyone will be rewarded with two hundred!" ”

"The last general commands!" Hearing Chen Chang's words, the commanders and envoys responded one after another.

Soon, the news reached the ears of thousands of people in the former army, and they also worked harder to cut down trees and raise their roots.

As time passed, before dusk, the fifteen-mile beast road that stood in front of the army was widened, and many tree stumps were dug out.

Although the ground is still potholed, it is finally ready for the march of the army.

Seeing this, Chen Chang ordered the whole army to march ten miles in a hurry, and the army completed the ten miles in only two quarters of an hour, and began to build a camp after coming to the plain.

At the same time, Chen Chang began to order Tang to ride along the coast to search for the cruising whale Haiwei warship, and at the same time, according to his own position, he formulated the task of searching north for the location of Jianzhou Zhongwei.

Such a large-scale search soon allowed the Ming army's Tang cavalry to search for Jianzhou Zhongwei in the north.

Because he did not know the art of war, what happened to his brother Timur at the moment is somewhat similar to what happened to his descendant Nurhachi when he made his fortune at the beginning.

Although he had more than 2,000 armored soldiers under his command, his method of fighting was the same as before, which was nothing more than to launch a pig attack on the enemy army with him as the leader, like a gang fight.

His method did defeat many North Korean troops who went deep into the mountains and forests, but in the face of Chen Chang, who also trained the Jurchen army, he looked very sad.

Most of his Tang Cavalry were more than ten miles outside Haiyang City, so when the Ming Army's Tang Cavalry appeared, the entire Haiyang City panicked.

When the fierce brother Timur learned the news, he also got up overnight and put on his armor, and summoned the small leaders who fought with the Ming army and escaped back by luck.

In the stone house, the fierce brother Timur, who had a Mediterranean hairstyle and braided hair around him, asked a few small leaders kneeling on the ground with a gloomy face, and there were several cronies and subordinates of the fierce brother Timur on the left and right in the stone house.

"They were moving forward in the dark, and after we found out, they were a little chaotic at first, but then they began to chase us and fight, and we couldn't beat them and retreated......"

Several small leaders spoke aggrievedly, and the fierce brother Timur didn't feel anything after hearing it, but just asked: "How many of them are?" ”

"There are probably a few hundred people, ten times more than us, otherwise we would have been able to fight." The small leader boasted about the number of Ming army Tang cavalry he encountered, but in fact, the Tang cavalry they encountered was only a small team, but only five people.

Only five Ming soldiers chased and beat dozens of them, and if this kind of thing was said, he was afraid that he would be killed on the spot by his fierce brother Timur.

It's just that they never thought that their lie would bring what kind of disaster would come to Jianzhou Zhongwei.

"Hundreds?" Hearing this amount, Brother Meng's Timur touched his chin: "It should be their front army, ready to strengthen the city defense." ”

When the order was issued, the men, women and children of the entire Jianzhou Zhongwei got up at night, lit torches to prepare the wood and rolling stones, and even took advantage of the night to stock up enough fresh water.

In the view of Meng's brother Timur, behind the front army of a few hundred people, there should be a middle army of three or four thousand, and a rear army of more than a thousand people.

If Chen Chang brought only this number of soldiers and horses, then he believed that he could repel Chen Chang, after all, he had defeated more than 1,000 Korean troops with more than 500 men last time.

Although the Ming army is very strong, it should not be much stronger than North Korea, otherwise how could North Korea be allowed to exist forever?

With the brain of Meng's brother Timur, he couldn't figure out this problem, so he chose to wait for the rabbit.

When the Ming army's siege of the city was frustrated, he led the army out of the nest and poured out the so-called Zhaozhou Hou Chen Chang's fart.

Thinking of this, Timur, the fierce brother who had been preparing all night, fell into a deep sleep.

At the same time, Chen Chang also learned about the combat strength of the Jianzhou Zhongwei in the return of the Tang cavalry last night, so after he left 3,000 soldiers and horses to guard the camp, he personally led 500 cavalry, 3,000 horse infantry and 5,500 musketeers and gunners to the Jianzhou Zhongwei.

In order to seek stability, Chen Chang did not order a rush because the distance between the two sides was very close, but asked the people to build and widen the post road left over from the Yuan period of the Liaojin Dynasty, and reinforced it with stone mills, before marching with 50 field guns and 9,000 soldiers and horses.

However, Chen Chang walked for three days on the road of more than 20 miles, and in these three days, Meng's brother Timur simply asked his army to strengthen the city defense, and at the same time let them sharpen their knives and prepare for war.

"Woo-woo-"

At noon, with the sound of the horn, the post road to Jianzhou Zhongwei was all widened.

In order to prevent being attacked by the Ming navy, the address of Haiyang City chosen by Meng's brother Timur was five miles away from the coast.

However, he can defend against artillery at sea, but not on land.

When the 9,000 Ming troops appeared outside Haiyang City under the scorching sun and camped on the spot, Timur, the fierce brother in Haiyang City, also climbed to the top of the city and saw the overwhelming Ming army.

"So much?"

Brother Meng Timur was startled, and subconsciously glanced back at the wooden houses all over Haiyang City, how did he feel that Chen Chang brought more soldiers and horses than his subordinates?

"General, what shall we do?"

"Do you want to go out and beat them, after all, there are more than 2,000 of us."

Standing beside Meng's brother Timur, several cronies spoke one after another, and Meng's brother Timur was also very moved.

Judging from the news reported by several leaders on the periphery, the Ming army obviously needed ten times the number to repel them, and there were two thousand brothers in armor here, did that mean that he could lead his troops out of the city to defeat Chen Chang?

"Let's defend the city first."

Brother Meng Timur suppressed that impulse, after all, he was not familiar with Chen Chang, in case the "front army" sent by Chen Chang a few days ago was just showing weakness, then he would fall in love with Chen Chang.

Thinking of this, Meng's brother Timur became more and more determined in his tactics of defending first and then counterattacking.

"This city is not too tall, after setting up the camp, first find a way to do it with two cannons to test the strength."

Putting down the binoculars, Chen Chang didn't think as much as Brother Meng's Timur, and what he wanted was to end the battle as soon as possible.

In addition to Fu Rang, Yang Zhan, and Wang Xuan, who were good at surprise attacks, Wang Yi, Zhang Chun, Chen Chang and others were more inclined to use a dignified formation to break the enemy army head-on, and then solve the opponent like a storm.

This kind of style of play, when encountering a fierce brother Timur who wants to defend and counterattack, it is simply not too suitable.

Under the watchful eyes of the more than 2,000 soldiers of Meng's brother Timur, it was already afternoon after the Ming army camp was set up, and at this time, fifty field guns were pulled towards Haiyang City by carriage, which could not help but cause a riot.

If it weren't for the 3,000 soldiers behind these fifty artillerymen, they would have even thought that the Ming army was preparing to give gifts.

"Beep-"

The wooden whistle sounded, and the 3,000-strong Ming army stopped a mile away from Haiyang City, and began to build artillery positions in an orderly manner.

The muzzles of the fifty field guns were turned towards Haiyang City, and after the busyness of the two words, with the arrival of Chen Chang, the order was given to open fire.

"Fixed firing loading, one mile away, the target is Jianzhou central defender, test firing a round, ready to ...... Put! ”

The sound of the burning arquebus sounded, followed by the sound of cannon cracking.

"Boom, boom—"

The gunpowder smoke also appeared at the same time, and the Jianzhou soldiers at the head of Haiyang City who looked like stupid melons were frightened by the sudden sound of cannons and squatted down, and fifty five-pound shells also smashed into Haiyang City.

The Hai Duong city wall, which is less than a mile wide in the south, is made of rammed earth and stones, and is one foot three feet high and seven feet thick.

In the eyes of Mengge Timur and others, such a wall was strong enough, and in their memory, no siege machine could break through such a city.

However, the Ming artillery was usually targeted by the battlements in the city walls, not the walls......

"Bang!!"

"Uhh

"The wall has been broken!"

When the iron cannonball smashed against the battlement, which was less than a foot thick and made of rammed earth and stones, the seemingly impregnable battlement was shattered almost instantly.

The flying debris injured many people, and even worse, the unfortunate ones were blinded and wailed incessantly.

Although only seventeen of the fifty shells hit the battlement, the rammed earth walls, which were not mixed with the three-fold earth, could withstand the power of the field artillery.

"As I expected, they are short of food, and even if they build a city, it is only a simple rammed earth and gravel wall, and the battlements are very fragile."

Putting down the binoculars, Chen Chang confidently continued to order: "Destroy all the battlements so that they don't dare to go on the road." ”

"Yes!" The commander responded and continued to begin to order an artillery attack.

Therefore, in the next hour, the artillery of the Ming army was rapidly sweeping the battlements at the speed of one round of artillery bombardment.

Most of the battlements that had taken a lot of energy to build the city of the Jianzhou Zhongwei Jurchens were crushed in less than an hour, and the speed made all the Jurchens stunned, and they also continued to flee frantically.

Before the war, the fierce brother Timur, who was still thinking about defending and counterattacking, was driven off the road by the artillery of the Ming army, and watched the wall battlements disappear continuously.

Without the battlements, they would be a target when they went up to the wall.

"Quick, take advantage of the rest of their shelling, go up and repair the wall battlements, and use barriers to block between the wall buttresses!"

Brother Meng's brother Timur gave the order in a hurry, but the Jurchen soldiers around were trembling with fear from the Ming army's shelling, and no one dared to go up to repair the battlements.

Seeing this scene, the fierce brother Timur could only forcibly drive them onto the road.

It's just that the little time they delayed was enough for the Ming army to clean up the barrels and continue the shelling.

"Boom, boom—"

"Run!"

When the cannon sounded, nearly a thousand Jurchen soldiers who were finally driven up the city wall ran down the city wall in a swarm, making the fierce brother Timur so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

In this day and age, except for some powerful countries, other countries have almost no means of defending against stone guns, let alone cannons that are more reasonable and powerful than stone guns.

If Haiyang City was a concrete city, Chen Chang estimated that it would take him a month to take it.

If Haiyang City was a brick-clad earth city built of rammed earth, Chen Chang estimated that it would take him half a month to take it.

However, the current Haiyang City is only a city made of mud and rubble, and Chen Chang feels that as long as he pays the price, he can take it in one day.

"Let the people build a cloud car, and we will use it tomorrow."

Chen Chang gave an order to the commander beside him, and then ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp after seeing all the battlements on the south side of Haiyang City destroyed.

At this time, the sky was already approaching dusk, and Chen Chang did not feel that he was in a hurry to take Haiyang City, since this was the case, it was more important to take some time to wait to ensure the safety of his own soldiers.

"Bell... Clang... Bell ......"

With the sound of gold, the artillery positions of the Ming army began to retreat back to the camp, and Timur, the fierce brother who had not heard the sound of artillery for a long time, also took the frightened brothers and walked up to the city wall cautiously.

When you get up to the city wall, you're greeted by a mess.

The one-mile wall that they spent more than half a month to build was completely destroyed in less than two hours in front of the Ming army.

Looking at this scene, the fierce brother Timur was frightened into a cold sweat, but his cronies wiped the cold sweat and said with a hard smile:

"General, the Han people are only relying on the fact that they have these weapons to knock down our wall battlements, compared to archery and short soldiers, they are not our opponents."

"Yes... Right..."Brother Meng's Timur nodded subconsciously, after all, now he has no way to retreat, even if he wants to surrender, it depends on whether the Ming army is willing to accept it.

Just thinking of surrender, the fierce brother Timur began to waver.

"Do you want to ...... Try? ”

Thinking of this, Brother Meng's Timur pretended to be calm and said: "Urigen, you take a few people out of the city, just say that we have seen their strength and want to surrender." ”

"If the court is willing, then I can continue to defend the border for the court, and I will obey the dispatch of the court in the future."

"If they don't want to, you can come back and talk to me, and then we'll attack them at night."

Brother Timur wanted to surrender, but it was too demoralizing to say it directly, so he thought of this way to get the best of both worlds.

After hearing the words of his general, he nodded and selected a few frightened soldiers, hung them off the city wall with hanging baskets, and led them to the Ming army camp on foot.

Standing at the head of the ruined city, Meng's brother Timur watched Wuzhigen and them being disarmed by the cavalry of the Ming army and brought into the camp, and his hanging heart finally relaxed.

If Chen Chang can accept his conditions, then he can continue to be his commander of the Jianzhou Central Guard, if Chen Chang does not agree, then don't blame himself for breaking the net!

"What are your leaders thinking?"

In the big tent of the Ming military camp, Chen Chang, who had taken off his armor, couldn't help but smile and pick up the water cup and take a sip after listening to Wu Rigen's words.

You must know that the reason why he came to quell the rebellion was because his brother Timur was unwilling to move into the interior as a commander like Aha and Fudaha.

Now this fierce brother Timur still wants to be the emperor of the territory in the frontier, who does he think he is?

"Okay, you go and tell your leader, either accept the appeasement and enter the interior as a commander, or lead a loose rank and martial arts to enjoy the wealth, or wait for me to break the city tomorrow and capture him alive."

Chen Chang's calm and calm appearance made Wu Rigen ashamed, and he could only hold his chest hard: "I will relay your words to our general." ”

"Stand down." Chen Chang leaned back in his chair and waved his hand to signal them to stand down, not seeming to take them seriously.

Such pride made Urigen angry, and when he thought of his own night attack, he couldn't help but turn his anger into laughter: "Retire ......"

After a few moments, Urigan withdrew from the tent and was taken out of the camp by the Tang Cavalry.

After he left, Chen Chang slowly put away the contempt in his eyes, and replaced it with his usual calmness.

He looked sideways at the commander of the army: "Let the brothers sleep tonight with their armor on, anyway, it will only be two days of hard work." ”

"When this battle is over, I will not take a penny of the reward, but will give it to the brothers."

"The last general commands!" Hearing Chen Chang's words, the commander was in awe, and spread the matter to the whole army.

The officers and men in the army were only happy when they heard this, after all, sleeping in armor is not that they can't sleep, it's just that they can't sleep well.

But if Chen Chang, who is the head of the officer, does not receive the reward, then each of them, the low-level soldiers, can get nearly 100 Wen, which is not a small amount.

Faced with such an arrangement, all the officers and men of the army obeyed the general's orders that night and slept in armor.

At the same time, Timur, the fierce brother who learned of Chen Chang's request, also became more determined to attack at night.

It was the cloudy environment at night, which helped the night attack of the fierce brother Timur.

He walked out of the north with two thousand men in armor, thinking that no one had found it, but in fact there were still Tang cavalry of the Ming army at the north gate.

Therefore, not long after they left the city, the news reached Chen Chang's ears.

"How dare he come?"

Chen Chang laughed, turned his head to the commander who came to report, and said: "Xu Zhen, tell the officers and men of the three armies, wait for the horn to sound, let's catch turtles in an urn!" ”

"Yes!" Xu Zhen was happy to respond, and the officers and men of the three armies also got up and waited after learning that the Jurchens, who were beaten so hard to leave the city during the day, tried to attack at night.

Braving the night, the fierce brother Timur and two thousand men squirmed through the dense forest like a gang fight, and the sound startled many birds.

With such a movement, even if there is no pond cavalry, as long as the soldiers on night duty of the Ming army are not deaf, they can know that someone is trying to attack at night.

Fortunately, Chen Chang told the three armies that there would be a night attack and asked them to cooperate, otherwise the soldiers on duty at night would have blown the whistle long ago.

Therefore, in the face of such a move, they could only pretend to be blind and deaf and could not see, and even in order to facilitate the fierce brother Timur, some soldiers even walked off the sentry, showing a loose camp.

"This Han man is not nervous at all, he must have thought that we were afraid of being beaten during the day."

"With the help of their idea, we will kill them all tonight."

Brother Timur whispered to the surroundings: "When my bone whistle sounds, the whole army will attack." ”

"Yes!" The crowd whispered, and then fell silent.

As time passed, when the time came, Timur, the fierce brother who was squatting on the edge of the forest, also felt that the time had come.

"Beep-"

"Kill!!"

With the sound of the bone whistle, more than 2,000 Jurchen armored men rushed to the gate of the Ming military camp less than 100 steps away from them.

That momentum, I don't know, I thought they wanted to fight against the Nine Thousand Ming Army head-on.

"Kill! Whoever killed Chen Chang gave him fifty Korean slaves! ”

Brother Meng Timur shouted, and the surrounding Jianzhou Jurchen men heard it as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and rushed to the door of the Ming military camp like crazy.

Seeing this, the Ming army at the camp gate did not even close the door, so they "hurriedly" fled into the camp.

"Haha! Kill it! ”

Seeing this scene, Meng's brother Timur was even more determined to the idea that the Ming army could not be short-handed, and rushed into the camp of the Ming army with more than 2,000 men.

It was only when they poured into the camp that they gradually realized that something was wrong, because the movement in the camp was too quiet.

"Woo-woo-"

In the dark, when Chen Chang saw that Brother Meng's Timur and they stopped, and less than half of the people poured into the camp, he knew that Brother Meng's Timur had reacted, so he decided to blow the horn immediately.

"Kill !!"

When the horn sounded, the shouts of killing came from all directions, and the five hundred Tang cavalry outside the camp also killed more than 1,000 Jurchen soldiers outside the camp gate from the shadows, and the thousands of Ming troops in the camp were even more towards the fierce brother Timur.

Their armor was distinct, and the look of bravery on their faces was terrifying, and many Jianzhou men who had never seen this battle couldn't help but be afraid.

Not only them, but even Timur, the fierce brother who led them in the night attack at this moment, only had one thought left in his mind.

"Damn, I've got ...... trick"

(End of chapter)