The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 747 The army gathers
Fu Tiande blurted out: "Who in the world can stop the army of the King of Zhenbei? Why don't you join the Wei capital?"

Everyone looked at each other again, but they didn't dare to make a sound.

"Let's go, please see the king of Zhenbei." Fu Wenyuan didn't dare to look any more, so he hurried to Tianjin.

The result is more terrifying as it goes forward.

There are already many soldiers and horses ashore ahead, and they are gathering one after another to Tianjin. All the elites are all along the way.

They soon discovered that King Zhenbei's soldiers and horses were almost all gunfire soldiers. It was rare to see pikemen, and most of the pikemen were hoarders.

But whether it is soldiers or hoarders, they are all very elite, and the formation is extremely neat.

When many soldiers and horses saw them on the road, they all showed expressions of contempt, which made them feel that their faces were dull since they thought that the Liaodong Cavalry was the strongest in Ming Dynasty.

Fu Wenyuan couldn't help guessing, presumably these soldiers and horses of Ding Yi may be thinking now, whose soldiers and horses are these SB cavalry?
When they arrived at the Tianjin Acropolis, they were horrified to see that there were still a large number of soldiers and horses converging on the main road from Shandong to Tianjin in the south.

Several people have been numb to see, apart from shock, they are still shocked.

When Fu Wenyuan arrived in Tianjin, a large number of Ding Yi's generals had already gathered in Tianjin.

Xu Fuzuo Department, Shen Shikui Department, Xiao Yongqiu Department from Lushun, Chen Time Department, He Xiaoche Department.

Fang Duotai, Chen Hongguo, Zhu Sheng, Zhang Qidong, and Zhang Guoying came from Shandong.

It was rare for so many generals to gather together, and the scene was very lively.

At this time, almost half of Ding Yi's generals gathered here. The total strength of Xu Fuzuo was 1, Shen Shikui was 3, Lushun had three battalions, and each battalion was 10. , is [-], and there are [-] Linhai general soldiers Wang Weizhong, the total force is [-] soldiers, and there are more than [-] hoarded soldiers, totaling more than [-].

Wang Weizhong is far away in Linhai, he has not arrived yet, and the rest of the generals have all arrived.

And they also got news that more than 2 people from Ding Yi were rushing here, accompanied by 5000 people from Yulin.

This requires Ding Yi to devote all his troops to the entire battlefield. Only the combat soldiers have exceeded [-], and there are [-] hoarded troops.

At that time, it can be called 50.

So where are the troops of Ding Yi and Yan Xiong now?

After receiving the notice from Deng Guangtie, Ding Yi decided to fight Yulin at the request of King Chuang.

At the beginning of April, he left Fang Xinghan to guard Datong with [-] soldiers and horses. He personally led [-] elite soldiers, each with horses, and [-] hoarded troops. He took a large number of carts, supplies, and utensils to Yulin.

Deng Guangtie watched it very well, first he found that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were really elite, and then he felt that Ding Yi was very obedient.

He is getting more and more crazy now, gesticulating in the camp every day, and hinting that after the capital division is defeated, Ding Yi will give him some troops and horses, and Ding Yi agrees one by one.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are all led by horses, and the hoarded soldiers also have mules and carts to march. The marching speed of the whole army is very fast.

They went west from Datong and soon came to Shuozhou. After passing through Shuozhou, they left Datong Mansion and entered Taiyuan Mansion.

Then go west, all the way to Yulin.

Around April [-], I went to Yan'an Mansion.

The reason why Ding Yi came to Yan'an first was to bring out the soldiers and horses from Yulin, and to give Li Zicheng a chance to fight the Qing soldiers.

It's just that he didn't expect that Wu Sangui didn't plan to surrender the Qing soldiers this time, and he didn't let the Qing soldiers over there, and waited for Ding Yi's conditions.

When Ding Yi arrived at the city of Yan'an, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and their [-] soldiers were defending Yan'an.

Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi were defeated by Yan Xiong before, and they have been guarding here, waiting for reinforcements to come.

After Ding Yi arrived, he asked to go to the city to supply food and grass, but Li Guo refused.

He sent someone to order them to fight Yulin directly.

Ding Yi was in the camp with Deng Guangtie at this time, and when he heard Li Guo's rumors, Ding Yi was furious: "I have loyally relied on King Chuang, but I didn't expect King Chuang to distrust me so much and not let me enter the city, it is simply unreasonable."

Deng Guangtie hurriedly laughed: "Li Guo is not sensible, so don't argue with Ding Zongbing. Let's fight Jiang Rang and Zuo Guangxian in Yulin first."

At this time, Li Zicheng's people thought that Yulin was Jiang Rang and Zuo Guangxian.

The two of them hadn't finished speaking when suddenly a long horn sounded from outside.

Everyone hurried out of the camp, only to see cavalry cavalry appearing densely on the horizon in the distance.

Yan Xiong stayed behind thousands of people in Yulin, and with [-] soldiers and [-] hoarded troops, he appeared north of Yan'an.

"Well done, just hit them hard." Deng Guangtie was overjoyed.

"Hahaha." Ding Yi laughed too: "Old Deng, it's useless to keep you, even Yan'an can't open the door."

"..." Deng Guangtie was taken aback, not understanding what Ding Yi meant.

Sudden.

There was a flutter of swords all around, and the generals Deng Guangtie brought to control the battalions were stabbed down one after another.

There were Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, four or five of them stabbed one, and stabbed all Deng Guangtie's men to the ground.

There were screams and blood everywhere.

Deng Guangtie understood it all at once, and shouted in horror: "What's the matter with Ding Zongbing?"

Before he could draw his sword, Ding Yi's soldiers had already pushed him to the ground.

"If I let you go back then, I could kill you again. You and Wang Weiguo really thought that the world belonged to Chuang Wang?" Ding Yi said sharply.

Deng Guangtie was not reconciled, and persuaded in a good voice: "Mr. Ding, you have surrendered the table, and the world knows it. This time, you are like a slave with three surnames. How can you convince the world?"

"Do you think fighting the world is just playing tricks?" Ding Yi sneered: "Cheng Zu Zhu Di once said that he would divide the world equally with King Ning."

"If the king takes over the world in the future, so what if the people in the world don't believe it?"

After finishing speaking, Ding Yi waved his hand.

"Puchi" Xu Bicheng chopped off Deng Guangtie's head with a single blow.

His head rolled to Ding Yi's feet, his eyes were wide open, and he could not rest in peace.

This time Ding Yi ran from Datong to Shaanxi to attack Yan'an, because Yan Xiong in Yulin had less siege equipment, especially the gasoline bombs, which were almost consumed when he attacked Jiang Rang for the first time.

In order to completely cut off Li Zicheng's way and at the same time slow the transmission of news, he adopted the method of attacking Yan'an first, then Taiyuan, from far to near.

Not long after, Yan Xiong's soldiers and horses merged with Ding Yi.

Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi in Yan'an City cursed, knowing that Ding Yi was still in the Ming army, and it was a fake surrender.

At this time, Chongzhen had just issued a decree to become the king, and the news of Ding Yi's becoming the king had not reached Taiyuan, otherwise Li Guo and the others knew that Ding Yi would not help them.

Ding Yi and Yan Xiong joined forces, and there were already 5000 soldiers, plus [-] hoarded troops, for a total of [-] troops.

Without saying a word, Ding Yi also knew that the two men would not surrender, so he directly mobilized troops to prepare for a hard attack.

Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi also mobilized the whole city to defend.

After lunch that day, with the sound of the horn, a large number of soldiers pushed various carts and slowly pushed forward.

This is the first time Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi saw such a big cart pushing forward, they were inexplicable, they didn't know what Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were doing.

"Ding Yi fool? The artillery is not used, what are these carts for?" Li Guo couldn't believe it.

They have already seen on the city wall that Ding Yi seems to have a lot of artillery being dragged by carts, but Ding Yi actually does not use artillery, but uses carts.

"Hahaha, the Ming army is probably bombarded by artillery?" Yuan Zongdi also laughed.

"They don't need it, we don't have to be polite to him, prepare the artillery." Li Guo shouted loudly, signaling the artillery to attack.

Not many of the peasant army knew how to use artillery. They used to be mobile and moved around the country, so they rarely used firearms, let alone carry artillery.

Since last year, Li Zicheng decided to seek the world and sent troops to defend the city. Only then did he start to pay attention to artillery and artillery.

This has led to the fact that most of those who know how to use artillery now follow Li Zicheng's main force.

There are only a few dozen artillerymen of the Ming army who surrendered here in Yan'an.

There are not many artillery pieces in Yan'an, only a dozen or so, all of which are general artillery and tiger squatting artillery with a relatively short range.

Li Guo's artillery prepared for a long time, and the Ming army's cart stopped 500 meters away from them, far beyond the range of their artillery.

Then I unloaded a lot of things from the cart and started to assemble it. It was Ding Yi's big killer, the petrol bomb trebuchet.

Li Guo saw what the Ming army was installing, and couldn't help being angry: "Why didn't you fire the cannon?"

"General, the officers and soldiers are too far away to fight." The artilleryman had no choice but to say.

"..." Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi were dumbfounded.

Seeing that the Ming army was slowly assembling and configuring, they could only stare on the city wall.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a series of trebuchets were assembled, large and small. The small ones had to be pushed within 300 meters, and the large ones could be pushed within 500 meters.

At this time, another cart came over, loaded with gasoline bombs, and then rows of gunmen moved forward slightly, keeping within 20 meters of the trebuchet.

The Ming army outside the city was arranged in an orderly manner. Not long after, about [-] trebuchets were set up in all directions of the entire Yan'an city. Basically, one large and one small were placed at intervals, covering the entire Yan'an city. All surrounded.

In the back row are a large number of musketeers, five rows in total, standing quietly.

"Damn it, it's a trebuchet." Yuan Zongdi finally figured out what it was, and he looked at Li Guo, who also had an incredulous expression on his face.

What age is it?Are there still people using catapults to attack cities?The two felt a little funny, but they just couldn't laugh.

At this time, Xu Bicheng from Ding Yi's side was also directing.

He took a telescope and looked at the top of Yan'an City. There were not many cannons in Yan'an City, only a dozen of them.

Get rid of these guns, and the trebuchet can approach within 100 meters.

"Order, the cannon on the target city, the large machine will throw it first."

"promise."

Some large trebuchets moved in one direction, basically two or three were thrown at a cannon.

When you are ready, try throwing first as usual.

Bang, as the weight box fell heavily, whoosh, a black solid ball flew out.

Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and the peasant army in Yan'an City were all watching.

All eyes are focused on this medicine ball.

I saw it flying out a beautiful arc, and when it flew to about 500 meters, it plopped and hit the outer facade of the city wall hard.

"Woo!" The Peasant Army all booed for a while, and many people laughed.

Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi looked at each other, and then laughed.

They saw that the solid bullet was not big, smaller than a human head, and throwing such a small solid bullet had no deterrent effect.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the catapult machine in the Yuan Dynasty could throw stone bombs weighing hundreds of catties, which could cause a strong panic in people.

(End of this chapter)