stubborn thief

Chapter 318
Lead pellets and feather arrows shuttled in the air, Khalkha's Bateer slashed his sword immediately, and groups of Mongolian herdsmen attacked the earth mountain again and again.

The horse team from the Marshal's Mansion in the distance came vertically and horizontally, and divided into two groups from the flank of the battlefield. Gao Yingdeng held his spears and led [-] horsemen to the Mongolian artillery team in the center of the battlefield, marching forward without hesitation.

Under Bajiao City, the [-] Mongolian cavalry that rushed to the rescue from the city also galloped towards the middle artillery at this time, vowing to take the twelve heavy bronze artillery back into the city.

Zhang Tianlin's cavalry and Gao Yingdeng separated while galloping, and galloped obliquely towards the Tushan. The cavalry scattered into two earth dragons in the running smoke and dust, trying to encircle the Mongolian teams besieging Tushan.

The horse team behind them galloped more and more anxiously, and the Mongolian herdsmen on the dirt hill attacked more fiercely. They were by no means blind to the imminent danger behind them, but they had only one goal—the red-bottomed Liu character flag seventy steps away, and the flag under the flag. The head of the young general who supervised the battle with a bow.

People also have only one belief, breaking through the defense line in front of them and taking the big flag.

After capturing the big flag, even as long as the big flag is hidden to the back mountain, the enemy on the battlefield can't see the commander's big flag, and this war trapped in the strange city wall and waiting to die will be over.

They will be able to get inexhaustible green salt, countless wealth, and fertile land that has never been seen in the desert, a place to live in their dreams!

But the red flag refused to retreat even a single step, and even faced the arrows and bows and knives, condescendingly approaching step by step.

Liu Chengzong suddenly lowered his body, raised his shield to block Liu Shi, and then straightened his waist. There was no fear on his face, but he grinned slightly, showing a crazy and malicious smile, eager to try.

At seventy paces, Chuoketu's camp vanguard was only seventy paces away from his commander-in-chief's flag, but the soldiers in the west of Changhe formed the most solid formation, blocking them, preventing the Mongolian soldiers from advancing an inch.

If you retreat, you will lose everything, and if you don't break through quickly, you will fail. Both sides were suffocated by the siege of the city for days, and they were red-eyed.

The shepherds formed a line with scimitars, spears and even hooked sickle spears, but they couldn't get close at all. The chieftain heavy infantry in the west of Changhe used thick spears five or six meters long to form a square formation to push them back again and again.

When the hook and sickle were entangled with the spears, the Mongolian infantry wearing leather jackets and shields rolled and attacked from under the spears and spears, and were blocked by layers of spears, and many people were even approached by three large crossbows Shoot into a hedgehog from a distance. .

Between the two formations, you come and go, and the soldiers gathered on both sides of the mountain road can no longer tell which one dispersed first. The Mongolian stragglers shot at people's faces at close range with bows and arrows on their waists. The chieftain soldiers also dropped their spears. With a huge shield and a big crossbow, they ran up the hillside barefoot, and threw javelins away.

However, Liu Chengzong believed that the two sides would not be able to continue stalemate like this. For a while, no one could do anything to the other. Some people didn't even know they were injured. When they lost their strength and fell into a coma, they would be hard to save. The casualties would be much greater than in the rout.

He turned his head and said, "Sanlang, go help."

Fan Sanlang, who was wearing two pistols on his body, responded when he heard the words. He raised the bird guns and ordered the guards around him. He led [-] guards and divided them into two teams. They occupied two small highlands next to the mountain road. shooting.

With a few bangs, gunpowder smoke spewed out in front of Liu Chengzong's right.

The five guards retreated in unison, crossed two rows of ten guards, and stood at the end of the line. They put the bird gun at their feet, cleaned the gun chamber without looking sideways, bit open the cartridge and poured gunpowder into the gun chamber.

The next two rows of ten guards took a step forward each, and the five in the front row fired their guns again, and retreated in unison. The last row of guards stepped forward again and fired at the enemy formation based on their height advantage.

After the small horizontal formation on the right side finished shooting, Fan Sanlang standing in front raised his arms to point to the left, and the same guard horizontal formation on the left also fired at the enemy formation.

The soldiers of the guard team were once the most valiant warrior battalion under Liu Chengzong's command during the Lion Camp, but with the westward migration and southern expedition, he experienced several blood changes, and now his guard has almost changed.

In the past, the guards either entered the Chinese military camp to study, or entered the Xining Academy, where they were cultural students and military instructors at the same time, or they went to the local township officials and went to the army to be in charge of the brigade.

But now these guys are a group of low-level military officers who have made great contributions in the Southern Expedition War and are waiting for promotion.

Although there are only thirty bird guns, according to the terrain, they are condescending, and they fire methodically and alternately towards the rear of the army formation at the foot of the mountain.

But the most eye-catching thing is the artillery drilled out of the flanking camp on the hillside.

This group of artillerymen was very courageous. They not only carried knives in close combat, but some even charged with carrying guns. At this time, their formation became a weapon that strengthened the firepower of even the next level.

Three of them were seen by Liu Chengzong alone. Their gun-carrying team followed the infantry and charged in a team. Two guns were filled with loose iron slag, and the other was filled with large lead. enemy formation.

A few steps closer, the gunman with a knife, shield and musket stood in front of him, raised his hand and knelt down on one knee, and lifted the gun tightly with a cloth scarf on his shoulder.

Scattered iron slag mixed with gunpowder smoke was sprayed out for several feet, leaving more than a dozen people bruised and bleeding, losing their fighting power in an instant and wailing in exchange for it.

The sound of the big gun was like a thunderbolt, and it pierced the nearest man's jacket, killing four people on the spot, and frightened more than ten people around them to the point of panic.

The army formation that was still relatively solid just now was directly breached, and then Liu Chengzong's artillerymen came to their forte, resolutely preventing the commander-in-chief from distinguishing what kind of arms they were.

Shi Chang threw his heavy musket on the ground, and the gunmen followed suit, drawing out their wild goose feather knives and pointing them at the enemy, forming a column and charging.

There were only wounded soldiers rolling all over the ground in front of them, and there were no more annoying spears.

Seven or eight artillerymen made a melee charge, cleanly smashing the Khalkha infantry formed by thousands of people from the side.

Liu Chengzong saw the enemy's formation collapsing on the hillside, and the soldiers fled in embarrassment on the mountain road. They swarmed to the rear of the climbing team, leading to a new wave of rout. Screaming and rolling down the mountain.

The soldiers climbing at the foot of the mountain only knew to keep their heads down and pay attention to their feet. They were unaware of the loud shouts coming from the front line. They suddenly looked up and saw the rout and were frightened to lose half of their souls. .

The cavalry team led by Zhang Tianlin galloped for four miles. Every horse shook its head violently as it galloped, spraying droplets from its mouth with every step. It was already at the end of its strength, but it arrived at the foot of the mountain at just the right time.

Zhang Tianlin approached to stand up on the back of the galloping horse, the saber resting on her waist was already raised above her head, she turned her head to give instructions to the flanking confidants to rush to the enemy's horse camp, and the [-] horse team came from the unharvested wheat field again in a blink of an eye. Divide into two teams.

One team was chasing the horses left by the Khalkha army at the foot of the mountain, and the other team, led by Zhang Tianlin, turned to pursue the rout at the foot of the mountain, holding a saber and shouting proficient Mongolian surrender.

The chaotic horseshoes swayed in the dust at the foot of the mountain. Many rout soldiers were frightened by the sudden snowball-like collapse of their own side. At this time, they just ran away and ignored surrender. Step, only belatedly fell to the ground clutching his neck.

At this very moment, when the four thousand-man troops attacking the camp were swept away, Gao Yingdeng also rushed to the artillery in the middle of the battlefield with his spear straightened out.

The rout on the front line made the two thousand-man troops who came later have no intention of fighting. At this time, they had abandoned their cannons and fled to the south gate in embarrassment. Dozens of war horses that were dragging the cannon were untied, and swept away to the south gate again.

Liu Chengzong's front line only had artillery and shells, but no gunpowder. The artillery was just a valuable and heavy bait.

The generals all knew that Chuck Rabbit was frightened by this thing and would definitely send troops to snatch it.

In fact, the Mongolian cavalry that transported the twelve cannons did not move as fast as the siege ladder led by Ah Liu, and even moved slower than Liu Chengzong expected.

In Liu Chengzong's expectation, these artillery should go outside the moat at the corner of the west and south of the city before being intercepted, just enough to bombard the battlements at the corner of the west and south of the city.

The gunpowder is all on the ladder car.

Ah Liu's Yongning chieftain soldiers first dispatched an elite group to protect the unattended artillery. Armor, everyone wears black robes over the armor, and walks quickly with a ring head knife.

Protected by them were dozens of artillerymen under Huang Shengxiao. After occupying the artillery, they immediately adjusted the muzzle, took the gunpowder from the ladder truck site and started filling it.

This time they didn't have the ammunition bags wrapped in silk, and they charged the ammunition by hand, and immediately launched a bombardment on the enemy troops who climbed the western wall.

With the defeat of the enemy army attacking the mountain, the crisis on the earth mountain has been resolved. Liu Chengzong ordered the bloody gas to form a team at the foot of the earth mountain, and looked at Bajiao City with a telescope on the mountain.

The enemy army in the city was like a flock of frightened birds. They even sent a small team from the west gate to try to take advantage of the chaos outside the city to demolish the pontoon bridge. You have to flee to the city gate.

Seeing that the defenders closed the city gate tightly, even though the nobles on the city cursed loudly, it was of no avail. The soldiers sent out of the city fled to the south of the city along the path between the sheep and horse walls under the city wall.

With the roar of the cannons, a row of shells hit the west wall. In fact, the shells either flew over the top of the city or hit the west wall. None of the shells hit the defenders on the city. The southwestern and northern walls of the city were scattered, giving way directly to the western wall without battlement protection.

This couldn't help but make Liu Chengzong smile and let out a long sigh of relief.

Did he remember that on the first day of the siege, Khalkha soldiers could stand behind the battlements of the western city wall like the bravest soldiers of this era, and welcome the baptism of [-] shells.

Even on the second day, the observers of the catapults were still stubbornly guarding three solitary battlements, providing instructions for the firing angle of the catapults.

Even the last three battlements were gone, and they still dared to lie on the west wall. People were not so panicked at that time as they are now.

Just based on their performance at this time, Liu Chengzong knew that the six-day siege had entered the final stage, and his soldiers could ascend the city.

Looking back, Liu Zishuai's flag was pierced by two small holes in the tent of the Chinese army commander on the earth mountain, but it was still fluttering in the wind.

The horns sounded on the top of the mountain, and the guards beat the drums. Huang Shengxiao and Shi Cheng, who were hiding on the other side of the mountain, also climbed up the mountain. Countless artillerymen were tied to the cannons with ropes, shouting the trumpet in unison. They put their baby on the door and slowly lowered it down the mountain.

Huang Shengxiao looked at the top of the wall and shook his head at Liu Chengzong, and said with a smile: "Commander, the enemy army has no intention to fight. I'm afraid they won't be able to use this treasure."

Liu Chengzong nodded. This siege made him think and learned a lot. He also had a personal understanding of the art of war that he could recite backwards in the past.

"When attacking Zhenyuan, I thought it was called siege when the army climbed up the city. Everything before was just preparations for the siege." Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "I know this time, all the preparations are very important in the siege." Important charter."

While talking, the moat cart had passed the pontoon bridge and put down the foldable bridge deck on the ditch, and then the ladder cart drove into the periphery of the city wall. The defenders tried to shoot arrows at the soldiers beside the ladder, but they were shot by three artillery salvos just after pulling the bow once or twice. He was so scared that he ran to the city.

The ladder was able to climb the top of the city smoothly, and the chieftain soldiers of Ah Liu and Gas gathered at the bottom of the city, and one of the subordinates climbed up the city from left to right, and fought against the defenders.

All the preparations are for this moment.

Liu Chengzong has too many insights. When a city looks like a united city and can be defended to the death, it cannot be attacked by force; and when it tries to show its own advantages, destroy the enemy's confidence, divide the enemy's forces, and prevent the enemy from trusting each other and full of suspicion. It seemed impossible to hold on.

A city that cannot be defended can be attacked.

Maybe this is what the ancestors said.

Liu Chengzong said with a smile to the people on the earth mountain: "Many of them didn't sleep last night. I think those people can't stop Ah Liu and Gas. Believe it or not, even if She Chongming is still alive, he never dreamed that his soldiers could follow him." The Khalkha Mongols fought against each other, and they still attacked the city."

Shi Cheng and the others laughed, Huang Shengxiao said with a smile: "How extravagant Chongming can compare to the Marshal's unconstrained style."

Liu Chengzong pretended to be angry and said: "What's wrong with me, I'm just flying around?"

"Didn't the commander always say that we will have a battle with Donglu? Who would have thought of that." Huang Shengxiao stood beside Liu Chengzong with his hips akimbo, watching the three-layer bronze mortar being dragged by the yak As he was transported to the front line, his expression was extremely proud, and then he changed into a look of anticipation and said: "It makes me always think now, when the commander sweeps the world and fights with the Donglu Tartars, I will use this to blow him up!"

"It's good for you to think so, as long as we don't die, sooner or later."

Liu Chengzong snorted heavily. After this battle, he should have gained a firm foothold in Qinghai. Whoever wants to invade his territory should weigh it carefully.

Now, he felt that he could develop the crafts of his land, reorganize his army, and gradually perfect his regime.

At this moment, a new change appeared on the battlefield. The Mongolian cavalry with a number of nearly a thousand in the south of the city rushed out and collided with Gao Yingdeng who was chasing and suppressing the defeated soldiers outside the city. However, Liu Chengzong could clearly see that the cavalry on both sides seemed to be They froze for a moment, slowing down.

Afterwards, the cavalry of that cavalry dismounted one after another and were taken elsewhere by Gao Yingdeng's cavalry. The two troops formed formation on the spot, and together they launched a blockade against the defenders rushing out of the city.

After two battles, the defenders retreated back into the city. Not long after, Gao Yingdeng's men brought a few cavalry and galloped towards the hill.

Upon seeing this, Liu Chengzong waved to everyone and said, "Go, go down and have a look."

When the cavalry came over, they got off their horses and saluted him, and then said: "Marshal, this man said that his name is A Haidaiqing, and he is the one who drove the ox cart in the valley. He took more than 100 letters of persuasion, and several Head, said he wanted to see the commander to receive the reward."

Who the hell is there to accept the reward?

Liu Chengzong's surprise was only in his heart. He turned his head to look at the majestic A Haidaiqing, and saw that he took off his helmet and there was still a layer of helmet, which was shining brightly, shining directly in the sun.

Liu Shizi thought to himself, why is the helmet so bright?Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a bald man.

I saw A Haidaiqing kneeling forward very obediently, swinging four heads from her waist covered with furry, and then kowtowing three heads without speaking, pretending to be a master.

Gao Yingdeng's cavalry stepped forward and explained: "This tartar can't speak Chinese, the one on the far left belongs to Chuoke Tutaiji, and the other three belong to the nobleman Nayan. This Nayan killed Taiji. Ji, I also killed that Yan, and in the end, the two of them got married, and they were both killed by this A Haidaiqing."

After talking for a long time, Ma Bing himself was confused, but he waited for a while before continuing: "A Hai said that he also avenged Taiji, and felt that there was no need to continue the fight, so he left the city and surrendered. Shuai can properly bury his Taiji."

Liu Chengzong folded his arms and looked at A Haidaiqing. He felt that this kind of fighting process might be fine, but this kind of pretentious loyalty to Chuoketutaiji was unnecessary.

"Let him get up, and follow me well in the future. For the sake of his surrender to me, I will bury Chuoke Tutaiji well..."

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, Ma Bing, who understands Mongolian language, translated, but A Haidaiqing didn't respond, just knocked his head again, and still didn't raise his head.

Liu Chengzong understood, he nodded and said: "You bring these heads to me, I will not treat you badly, and the rewards will all be sent to you."

Before waiting for the translation, A Haidaiqing raised her head, and there were little stars in her eyeballs looking forward to it.

Liu Chengzong just said, really loyal, who has nothing to do and stuffs more than 100 surrender letters in his crotch!
　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)