Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 289
"put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

When the shooting started, the stone bullets fired from the north and south sides of the battlefield intertwined in the air, and then fell into the opponent's army.

Compared with simple trebuchets that throw ray and have a range of only two or three hundred steps, the Ming army's ten-pound cannon with a range of three miles and the five-pound cannon with a range of two miles have shown their advantages.

Every artillery was aimed at the trebuchet at the top of the city, and the sound of the cannon was like thunder, and white smoke suddenly rose...

"boom……"

"Uh!"

"Squat! Squat behind the female wall!"

The stone bullets of the two armies fell into the army like meteorites and hit the top of the city. Both the Ming and Jin armies were attacked by the enemy, but compared with the casualties of the Ming army's infantry, the Jin army suffered greater losses.

Dozens of catapults were smashed by stone bullets, and even the catapults were killed by flying wooden blocks.

The battlefield was full of wailing and cries of pain. The riflemen of the Ming army were smashed to death and injured dozens of people, but for the army, these were only negligible casualties.

"Beep--"

When the Ming army entered the two-hundred-step range, the chief banner officers blew their wooden whistles one after another, and all riflemen also began to prepare.

The three thousand knife players and spearmen in the army also began to change their formations, and they took the initiative to walk to the first row.

The entire team of the Ming army began to change from a straight-line long snake formation to a U-shaped formation with a large arc, similar to a goose-shaped formation that surrounded more than half of the Jin army's camp two hundred paces away in front of them.

At the same time, the rear five-pound artillery position also began to move forward.

All these changes made the Jin army hiding in the barracks with broken eaves and broken walls uncontrollably nervous, swallowing their saliva one after another.

The ten-jin cannon almost destroyed more than half of the hundreds of trebuchets on the top of the Jinjun city, making them unable to effectively attack the Ming army's first ascending army more than [-] steps away from the city wall.

After finally waiting for the sound of the guns to stop, when Daishan stretched out his head again, he saw only the five-jin artillery carts that had advanced one mile, and they were less than [-] steps away from the camp.

This distance is just a cup of tea time for the draft horses that pull them.

The first ascending army of the Ming army and the camp outside the Jin army kept a distance of [-] steps. The two sides were in a stalemate for a while, and Dai Shan also said:
"Where's the trebuchet!"

"Baylor... this... there are only seventeen trebuchets left." Jia Laezhen, who had just returned from the inventory, had an ugly expression on his face, and Daishan was a little depressed when he heard the words.

The artillery of the Jin army was not as good as that of the Ming army. In addition to the failure of the battle against the Ming army in the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty, Fushun and other cities were taken away, and there were only about [-] inferior iron cannons in the army.

At present, the elite artillery of the entire army is still a lot of Franc machine guns snatched from the Ming army before the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty, and these guns were also taken south by Mang Gurtai to knock off the Daning Mansion.

It's just that the idiot Mang Gurtai, after walking for so many days, has not sent any news back...

"The army in the camp retreats first!"

Helpless, Daishan had no choice but to give up the camp outside the city, and Gu Shan Ezhen, who was next to him, also quickly sent an order.

Soon the golden army in the camp began to retreat continuously, and retreated into the city little by little through the stone bridge over the moat.

In this regard, the Ming army Xiandeng was indifferent, but watched them retreat into the city, and had no intention of pursuing them.

There is no gap, and a simple storming of the city gate will not be able to take it down. Even if it is taken down, Xiong Tingbi will not be able to bear the casualties.

"Jianlu has abandoned the camp outside the city." Sun Yingyuan put down his binocular clairvoyance and said regretfully.

"The barracks outside the city have been crippled, and now the five-pound cannons are suppressing the formation. Their fortifications simply cannot stop the flat fire of so many five-pound cannons. It is normal to retreat."

Xiong Tingbi was very open-minded. He knew that it was impossible for Daishan to let the Jin army die. After all, the battle of restoring the Liao Dynasty directly smashed the men of Jianlu, so now he is naturally reluctant to sacrifice too many real prisoners.

If it really comes to a time when nothing can be done, Daishan will definitely abandon Yidonghe City, and he will not gamble his life with the six thousand taels of red flag.

Without the two red flags, he would have no capital to fight against Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji.

That is to say, under his self-protection idea, the Ming army easily occupied the barracks outside the moat, and at the same time, the Ming army's five-jin cannon was pushed forward to a distance of [-] steps from the city wall.

"Fixed shot loading, gap in the northeast corner, preparation..."

"put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

With the sound of the wooden whistle, hundreds of five-pound cannons began shelling. They aimed at the gaps in the city wall and began to shoot stone bullets continuously. At the same time, the positions of the ten-pound cannons also began to move.

Along with the movement of the gunners, they also brought siege equipment such as cloud chariots and Lu Gong chariots.

Standing on the top of the city gate, Daishan's forehead was covered with sweat as he watched the Ming army's artillery that stopped after the shelling, as well as the Ming army's cloud chariot and Lu Gong chariot that were constantly being pushed.

He was constantly entangled in the dilemma of retreating and defending, and in the end he still felt that it was better to retreat first.

"Arrange the women and children in the city to ride back to Yimihe City first." Daishan turned around and ordered a Jiala Ezhen, and the other party immediately went to do it.

"Defend for half an hour, and after half an hour, the whole army will withdraw to Yimi River City!"

Daishan pulled out the long knife at his waist and shouted orders to the surrounding Jin army generals, and his words made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

There is not much arable land in Yidonghe City, and the old and weak, women and children are just some family members of the Jin army who are in charge of logistics.

As long as this group of family members withdraw, they can completely abandon Yidong River City and retreat to Yimi River City.

The distance between the two is close to [-] miles. Unless the Ming army has made plans to go north for [-] miles, it is impossible to fight there.

If they really hit there, it means that Xiong Tingbi and the others are not feints, but the main force.

Daishan thought well, but he underestimated the Ming army's siege ability.

"Beep--"

"Bang bang bang-"

The ear-piercing whistle sounded, and the artillery of the Ming army fired again, which made all the Jin soldiers crouch behind the female wall subconsciously.

During the period, many unlucky people were smashed through the parapet wall by stone bullets, and were even killed, but more people kept their heads down and escaped the catastrophe.

After finally waiting for the gunfire to stop, when they got up, the vanguard of the Ming army had pushed the cloud chariot across the moat, and began to set up the cloud chariot and Lu Gong chariot to attack the city.

They are seasoned veterans who know how to climb gaps and protect themselves as best they can.

But even so, the danger is still very high.

The Jin army who got up immediately noticed the actions of the Ming army. When the ladder of the cloud car was placed on the gap in the female wall, the soldiers of the Jin army started to smash down the rolling stones and logs piled up on the top of the city.

"Ming Gou, I treat you to a good meal!"

These rolling stones are as light as thirty or forty catties, and some are as heavy as fifty or sixty catties. Even if they are wearing triple armor, it is not something ordinary people can resist if they are hit so hard.

But at this time, the power of the Ming army's rifles was revealed.

According to the siege map drawn by Zhu Youjian, when the three-thousand-sword players stepped on the ladder to attack the city, the six-thousand-step musketeers of the Ming army aimed at every gap in the female wall, one gap for every four people. Concentrate on shooting.

Among them, it is natural to accidentally injure one's own comrades, but war is not a game, and some accidental injuries are inevitable.

Therefore, when the war started, some Jin troops did not counterattack at all. They were strangled to death by the Ming army's musketeers just as soon as they raised the stone to smash it down.

"Bang bang bang" gunshots sounded in an endless stream, representing a group of golden troops who were harvested.

Under such an attack, the Jin army couldn't even take the lead in melee combat. They could only raise a shield to defend, and one person raised wood and stones to fight back.

It's just that compared with the number of people in the Ming army, such a counterattack is as incomparable as a drop in the ocean.

During the counterattack, they could only watch the soldiers of the Ming army ascend the city wall and draw out their short soldiers to fight with them.

But even so, on the frontal battlefield, Xiong Tingbi, who was watching the battle with binocular clairvoyance on horseback, could see soldiers of the Ming army injured from time to time.

Some stones fell directly on the heads of Ming soldiers.

After the severe pain, some Ming soldiers lost consciousness instantly and fell off the ladder.

Paoze took a silent look, then filled the vacancy, and climbed up the ladder with all their might.

Many of them know each other, they are brothers who have known each other for many years, but the battlefield did not give them time to remember and heartache, every second of hesitation is irresponsible to themselves.

What's more, they know that the fallen robe will be treated by professional people...

Due to the medical school established by Zhu Youjian Institute and the teaching of Chen Shigong, a famous surgeon in the late Ming Dynasty, there were not many surgical students in the Ming army.

A surgical student can teach ten military doctors, and the number of military doctors is already quite a lot in the army.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Ming army who fell were immediately dragged to the rear by others, and were treated by the military doctors of the Ming army hiding in the camp.

As Zhu Youjian said, a first-class army often focuses on two things: logistics and fighting will.

The fighting will of the Ming army was determined by rewarding silver and pensions, and logistics was also the best in the world at the time.

The wounded soldiers who were dragged to the rear received medical treatment immediately. The wounds were disinfected with highly concentrated distilled spirits, and then the wounds were sutured and wrapped with special herbs and gauze. A large number of Ming soldiers who fell due to trauma were saved.

Because of wearing armor, most of the injuries to the body are external injuries, fainting or internal injuries, such as people whose arteries are cut and blood loss is rare.

Fortunately, they are a rare existence, otherwise, with the current surgical strength of the Ming army, the problem of blood transfusion would not be able to be overcome.

Under such medical and logistical support, many soldiers of the Ming army attacked the city under pressure, and as the artillery of the Ming army rang out again, the gap that had been blasted open was widened again.

The stones fell, the rammed earth collapsed, and the indestructible city wall in the cold weapon era finally fell in front of the artillery, and many Ming saber players waiting to attack the city rushed towards the gap.

"Go down to the city, block the gap!"

Daishan responded in a timely manner, and he has been paying attention to the gap.

After discovering that the gap had been blasted open, he immediately led two bulls down the city wall, blocked the gap immediately, and ordered the people at both ends of the gap in the city wall to block the gap with wood and stones.

The two Red Banner Golden Army in Yidonghe City were well-trained. Even facing the elite soldiers of Liaodong, they did not panic at all, but carried out the established steps in an orderly manner.

The gap became a meat grinder, and the heavy armored infantry of the two sides began to collide head-on, squeezing continuously, and people were constantly injured and dragged out.

The gourd hammer, mace, and ax became the favorites of both sides. Every second, someone fell down with blood on their faces, while Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan in the front line watched all this silently, without the slightest fluctuation in emotion.

Once the generals are successful, the war is bloody, and those who cannot bear it should go home honestly, instead of dragging their comrades down on the battlefield.

If a general cannot calm down, he cannot avoid greater casualties...

"Send some stones and wood to the city, if not enough, demolish the house!"

Behind the battle at the gap, seeing that the two armies were caught in an anxious offensive and defensive battle, Dai Shan also noticed that there was not enough material to repair the gap.

He sternly reprimanded those generals: "How to use the preparation supplies, do you still need me to teach you?"

With the deepening of the battle, the rolling stones and trees stored at the top of the city were already in a hurry.

Daishan obviously underestimated the fighting power and execution ability of the Ming army.

Facing such a tight defense, the morale of the Ming army did not waver in the slightest.

This kind of will and combat power did not appear a few times in the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty. Even the Shanxi soldiers in Weining Camp Fort began to retreat after suffering less than [-]% of the casualties.

Looking at the casualties of the Ming army and the vanguard army are already around [-]%, but they are still attacking bravely.

"Huang Taiji is right, the Ming army should not be given time..."

At this moment, Daishan thought of Huang Taiji's words after the Shenyang War, and felt extremely regretful at this moment.

At that time, if the Jin army could bear the casualties and take Liaoshen in one go, even if there were [-] to [-] Jurchen warriors killed or injured, it would be much better than now.

With the Liaodong Peninsula, it is impossible for them to be so passive.

The Ming army has been given enough time to train, but now they are not as good as the Ming army.

Gritting his teeth, Daishan turned his head and glanced at the rear, only to see some Jin soldiers nervously driving mules and horses along the horse road to bring some defensive equipment to the city.

He is still very satisfied with this, but it is useless to defend the city with more equipment. Right now, the casualties of the Jin army have reached [-]%.

Thinking of this, Daishan's heartbeat began to speed up, his brain was congested, and he kept thinking of countermeasures, but the dull sound of artillery interrupted him all the time.

Before he could come up with a good idea, the person he had been looking forward to had made a contribution...

"Drive! Drive!"

The Ming army's main formation, accompanied by Tang Qi's attack from the side, Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan and other generals who were watching the battlefield looked sideways.

The Tang rider rode forward, then dismounted in one go, and handed over the military information in his arms.

"Jinglue, this is the military situation of Daning Mansion!"

"Huh?" Hearing that there was a military situation in the Daning Mansion, all the generals frowned, realizing that something bad had happened.

Sure enough, when Xiong Tingbi snatched the military information and opened it, the military information on it was quite different from what he had guessed.

"Mang Gurtai led [-] troops to knock down Daning Mansion."

Xiong Tingbi turned his head and said this to Sun Yingyuan, and some generals behind him also showed surprised expressions.

They didn't expect that at such a time, Jianlu would dare to play the method of besieging Wei and saving Zhao.

But for this news, many generals did not show any panic, just because Xiong Tingbi had made all the preparations and arrangements before the expedition.

"Daning Mansion has He Shixian stationed in three cities with six battalions of troops, and Guangning Mansion also has three battalions. Mang Gurtai has to see if he can beat Madman He if he wants to beat the pass."

Closing the military newspaper, Xiong Tingbi stopped talking, but continued to watch the situation on the battlefield.

Time passed by little by little, and Daishan, who was in charge of defense, saw that the casualties of his own army were about to exceed [-]%, so he could only bite the bullet and reluctantly ordered:
"The whole army retreats to Yimi River City!"

"Beep beep—" the harsh wooden whistle sounded, and with the sound of the wooden whistle, the golden army began to withdraw from the city, retreating step by step.

On the battlefield, the most difficult thing for the army is not how to go up and fight, but how to withdraw.

Throughout the ages, many battles and wars have been defeated by retreat, and this is the same whether it is the East or the West.

"The whole army stops, and the poor don't chase after them!"

When the three generals of the vanguard of the Ming army saw that the Jin army was retreating step by step, they immediately ordered the whole army not to pursue them.

This made the Ming army, who was envious of Jianlu's leader, red-eyed, and watched the Jin army slowly withdraw.

After Jianlu retreated more than a hundred steps, the three generals ordered to continue the pursuit, and at the same time passed the news to the main formation behind.

"The army is stationed in Yidonghe City, and the soldiers and civilians will rest for three days. After the follow-up food and grass arrive, the cultivated land will be reclaimed. The news will be sent back to Liaodong and passed on to His Highness, asking His Highness whether to continue marching."

After receiving the news of the Jin army's retreat, Xiong Tingbi understood the truth of accepting as soon as he sees a deal.

After taking down Yidong River City, he continued to develop it and make it an outpost for the Ming army to sweep captives in the future.

They were always feints, not the main force, and he was not the commander of the sweeping north, but a partial division, so naturally he couldn't make a decision whether to pursue or not.

Although the supplies of the Ming army could support their more than [-] people to attack Yimihe City, the supply line was too long, and with Mangurtai on their flanks, there might be a risk of cutting off the supply line.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi decided not to go north for the time being, but was going to get a thorough understanding of the [-]-mile long plain between the Great Wall and Yidong River City first.

Xiong Tingbi wanted to take down Yidonghe City because of the [-]-mile-long, nearly [-]-million-mu plain to eat up and use it to resettle Shandong refugees, otherwise he would at most stick to what Zhu Youjian said.

Now that the site has been laid down, the rest is development.

After thinking about everything clearly, Xiong Tingbi began to lead the army into Yidonghe City, and when they entered Yidonghe City, there was also a big battle breaking out in the Changbai Mountains more than [-] miles away from them.

"Beep!"

"Bang bang bang-"

In the Changbai Mountain Road, with the blowing of the wooden whistle, the familiar five-pound cannon sounded again, but unlike Xiong Tingbi and others who fought on the plains, the five-pound cannon was fighting in the narrow river valley at this moment.

The sound of "booming" cannons and "bang bang" of stone bullets hitting the city wall continued to echo in the valley, and the target they attacked was one of the countless stone fortresses on the [-]-mile mountain road from Jianzhou to Huifa City.

"According to Cha, this Jian prisoner is like a mouse, building castles everywhere, and withdrawing as soon as the stone castle is knocked down, like a brown candy, it's really hateful!"

On the river valley mountain road, when Wang Chong's voice sounded, a thin general beside him also said correspondingly:

"It's also beneficial to lay down this stone fort. It can be regarded as recovering the barriers for Jianzhou County. Just looking at their appearance of ten miles and one castle, I'm afraid we can only march one or two hundred miles before the end of the war."

When the armored general opened his mouth and looked carefully, wasn't this exactly Lu Xiangsheng who was transferred by Zhu Youjian to be the deputy envoy of Liaodong.

It's just that Lu Xiang was promoted to be a civil servant, and if he was seen by the civil servants in the court, he would probably be ridiculed by the group of civil servants in the court.

In the eyes of the Chinese officials in the court, wearing armor for civil servants is simply an act of self-willing and degrading.

In their eyes, the civil servant leader is the scene of sitting in the middle of the army, wearing a feather fan and a scarf, talking and laughing while the mast and scull are wiped out, and the overall situation is under control.

Similar to Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, who were civil servants and went to battle to kill the enemy, but they were inferior, not to be liked by them, but to be ridiculed by them.

However, that was also the previous scene. Now that Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are members of the Qi royal party, it is estimated that the group of civil servants who would ridicule them can only make amends when facing them.

"After this battle is over, you should be promoted as well."

Wang Chong, with a grim wound on his face, smiled at Lu Xiangsheng next to him, and some generals behind them also laughed.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the king of Qi was deliberately giving Lu Xiangsheng points for military merit in this North Sweeping campaign.

Otherwise, according to the official position, the important matter of attacking Huifa City should be handed over to He Shixian or Sun Yingyuan to lead the army himself.

Even if it wasn't the two of them, it should be You Shigong who was stationed in Jingcheng, North Korea, and it was not Lu Xiangsheng's turn.

The fact that Lu Xiangsheng was able to get this good job was obviously done on purpose by King Qi.

This point can be seen by Wang Chong and others who have been with Lu Xiangsheng for two and a half years, so they celebrate Lu Xiangsheng's promotion in advance.

For their celebration, Lu Xiangsheng did not feel very happy, but felt that the pressure on his shoulders was heavier.

King Qi's care for him caused him to be a Jinshi who was born in the second year of Tianqi. In just four years, he jumped directly from a Jinshi to a fourth-rank deputy envoy.

You know, there were [-] Jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and Wen Zhenmeng, who was the number one scholar, was just a sixth-rank official who was still editing and writing in the Imperial Academy.

Most of the others who entered the imperial court with Lu Xiangsheng and were admitted to Jinshi were of the seventh rank, the seventh rank, and other official ranks.

From this, it is not difficult to see how much Zhu Youjian favored him.

However, it was this kind of favor that made Lu Xiangsheng feel pressured, and wanted to make some achievements in return for Zhu Youjian.

After this battle, no matter how bad he is, he will be able to advance to another level and become a fourth-rank inspector without having to bear the title of deputy.

For the twenty-six-year-old Lu Xiangsheng, it is indeed a great honor and grace to become a provincial inspector at such an age.

It's just that he personally doesn't want to be promoted in this way, he really wants to achieve something in this battle.

But when he looked up at the stone castle standing between the river valleys in front of him, he also knew that this kind of thinking was impossible.

From Jianzhou to Huifa City, there are high mountains on both sides of the road, there is no possibility of ambushes, and there are only rock fortresses that are difficult to crack.

However, for the Ming army with artillery, it was only a matter of time before these stone fortresses were conquered.

Lu Xiangsheng fought steadily, and every stone castle will be his achievement.

It can be said that Zhu Youjian chose the safest and easiest way to get credit for him, but this way is not the way he wants to take...

　I have to go to the hospital for a review at noon, so the update in the afternoon may not come out until [-] o'clock. If it doesn't come out at [-] o'clock, it is under system review.

　　
　
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