Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 461
"The heads of more than [-] healthy women, and the heads of [-] male prisoners, Huang Taiji is really cruel..."

At dusk, when the gunpowder smoke filled the air and the sunlight in Beishan began to disappear slowly, Cao Wenzhao, who was standing at the top of Beishanbao, couldn't help but "praise" Huang Taiji.

He looked up and saw that the plain in front of Beishan Fort was stained with blood, and there were thousands of corpses waiting to be burned on the side of the mountain, which made people feel sad.

"Huang Taiji is testing the strength of the various castles today. Since he dared to use a healthy woman to fight today, he will definitely dare tomorrow."

Cao Bianjiao supported the female wall, frowning tightly, and Cao Wenzhao, who was opposite him, nodded slightly:
"Although they only have 20 to [-] soldiers, there are more than [-] women and children."

"If they really break through at any cost, it will be difficult for us to hold on..."

It is Bai Qi's ability to fight more annihilation battles with less siege, not his Cao Wenzhao, so Cao Wenzhao knows very well that it is already great for them to besiege the Jin army, but it is very difficult to prevent the Jin army from breaking through of.

Under such circumstances, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but feel distressed. Fortunately, someone sent good news at this time.

"General soldier! The [-] riflemen of Shence Guard have assembled and have been assigned to Wulibao and Xishanbao."

The Commander of the Habayashi Guard made Xiao Can walk up to the stone castle and brought a piece of good news, which made Cao Wenzhao heave a sigh of relief.

"If you fight like this, you will definitely lose ground. Huang Taiji and the others have at least [-] healthy women to consume behind them. If all these healthy women go into battle, then..."

The fireworks in the Xishan Fort at the rear rose into the air every ten seconds, giving Liu Bian plenty of time to look at the battlefield.

"It's okay now..."

Fortunately, the situation in Beishan is still in Zhu Youjian's expectation, and Cao Wenzhao can also deal with the Jin army calmly and calmly based on Zhu Youjian's handwriting.

Seeing this, Qianhu of Shence Guard looked at Liu Bian, but Liu Bian was as motionless as a mountain: "Don't worry about it, let the artillery replace the stone bullets, and let me penetrate the shield car!"

Before they went to the battlefield, they never thought that they would actually attack women and children.

"It only needs to deploy a thousand magic riflemen, and it is enough to defend here."

Cao Wenzhao didn't think that Huang Taiji would exchange the lives of 10 people for the lives of 4 to [-] people, so after a simple arrangement, he returned to the Yamen of Baihufu in Shibao to rest.

This group of women was of different ages, ranging from twelve or thirteen to forties.

However, in the face of women and children, Liu Bian, who was in charge of defending Xishan Fort, did not intend to waste bullets, because he had something better.

Gradually the sound of the horn was getting closer and closer. Looking at the dark night, Cao Wenzhao took a deep breath and quietly waited for the next battle.

The casualty ratio between the men of the two armies is getting closer, because the men of the Jin army can hide among women and children and sneak attack, but the Ming army cannot.

To put it bluntly, with less than 3 people, it is impossible to prevent more than 30 people from breaking through, even if Bai Qi, who is good at fighting more with less, and often fights encirclement and annihilation battles, is brought in. , It can't stop the Jin army from breaking through at all.

Such a scene not only appeared on the battlefield of Xishan Fort, but also on the battlefield of Wulibao and the plain leading to Dongshan Fort.

In just a moment, Zhu Fuju saw clearly the "Golden Army" he was facing.

"As for the artillery, transfer the [-] artillery pieces and gunners from Wulibao back to Beishanbao."

Zhu Fuju in the trench didn't finish listening to the Baihuguan's words, because he felt that the first half of the Baihuguan's words were enough for him to make up his mind.

However, it is not the Ming army, but the Jin army that is using tactics right now.

In addition, even with fireworks, if the Jin army stubbornly wanted to break through tonight, the encirclement of the Ming army would be in jeopardy.

Zhu Fuju murmured, just because he knew in his heart that such a large-scale footsteps could not be achieved by the soldiers of the Jin army, so there must be a large number of women and children mixed in the Jin army attacking Xishan Fort.

Fortunately, there is a gap in strength between men and women, and the healthy women of the Jin army are only women in armor. Therefore, after a normal battle, the Ming army relied on their positions to behead [-] healthy women and more than [-] male heads. The women and children of the Jin army were defeated on their own.

"Fire at 150 paces." Liu Bian calmly faced the battlefield, facing the tens of thousands of women and children rushing towards him, with no expression on his face.

The strategy of exhausting the enemy, Zhu Youjian often used this strategy, so that the generals of the Ming army also liked to use it.

"The last general takes orders..." The military supply sima responded, then turned and left, and arranged for someone to make arrangements.

To deal with these people, it is not cost-effective to use rifles, and the same is true for rifles with slow firing rates.

"You should know..." Liu Aita said, and also looked at Fan Wencai. After a few seconds of looking at him, Liu Aita turned her attention to Beishanbao:
"The real battlefield is not with us, but with the Great Khan. What's more, let the Ming army continue to slaughter women and children. Do you think the people below you will think so?"

When Liu Bian saw that the tens of thousands of people rushing forward were women and children, he couldn't help frowning instantly.

As the night gradually darkened, the Ming soldiers on the valleys and mountain roads in all directions were wearing blankets in the trenches, cooking bonfires, and gradually began to fall asleep.

"put!"

Ten days is enough to kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.

He rode his horse to the gate of the village, but did not let anyone light the torch.

Cao Wenzhao raised his hand to stop the generals, and then said to the military supply Sima:

"Isn't it a bit..." to kill a woman..."

When he left, the generals could not help but breathe a sigh of relief:

Cao Wenzhao gave the order word by word, fearing that Cao Bianjiao and the others might have missed something, so he even read it himself.

"In addition, beasts are used to the night and can see at night. Although humans are not as good as beasts, they can still see some people clearly when the torch is turned off."

Deputy Qianhu's words made Cao Wenzhao's heart tense, and he quickly asked, "Did Jianlu light a torch?"

Cao Wenzhao looked up at the sky, but the sky was cloudy during the day, but it would not suddenly clear up at night, and naturally there was no moonlight to illuminate it.

"What I'm worried about is that Huang Taiji will use healthy women to confuse our army, and then put heavy troops on any of the four mountain roads, intending to break through."

"If you can't do it, put your head in your crotch."

You know, there are still a lot of bird gunners in the Jin army. If the Jin army forms a square formation to line up guns against the Ming army in the dark, it will be bad...

"No." Cao Wenzhao said confidently: "After Wulibao, there is Balibao, and after Balibao, there is Hala Mountain City. Huang Taiji will not choose this road."

However, compared to the Xishan Fort battlefield, the soldiers of the Shence Guards of the One Thousand and Five Mile Fort, who occupy a favorable location, faced only less than [-] healthy women.

But if a torch is lit, the human eye can only see the bright places around him, and the Jin army can use the firelight to see the Ming army a hundred steps away to attack.

"Our place? No way?" Cao Bianjiao was a little surprised. He turned his head and looked at the battlefield. You must know that although their battlefield is wide, it also has the most soldiers and horses.

"That's right... Jianlu enslaved the people of Liaodong. How come these women and children have not benefited from being enslaved by the Han people?"

However, when the time came to Zishi (23 o'clock), the overwhelming sound of horns sounded from the camp of the Jin Army, which shocked all the Ming troops to get up one after another and lay down on their own trenches.

The three cavalrymen used horns to each other, and trampled their horses back and forth. From time to time in the dark night, the flames from the guns could be seen, followed by the neighing of the horses and the roaring of the knights.

The figure was dense and dense, hidden in the darkness, almost occupying the entire river valley.

"This place is flat enough. If the people move here later, they can use the stone castle as a point to graze and cultivate the surrounding hills."

Of course, Zhu Youjian did not expect that the Ming army could stop the three 10,000+ Jin soldiers and common people from breaking through with the stone fort and a small number of infantry, so he assigned more than 2 cavalry to Cao Wenzhao, and these cavalry were used for pursuit Harassment.

They could only help Cao Wenzhao put on clothes and armor in a hurry, and while they were wearing the armor, the Qianhu officer who was in charge of the Tangqi scouting went quickly to the Baihu Office, and bowed to Cao Wenzhao who had just walked out of the backyard:
"Chief soldier, Jianlu didn't go out of the camp, but the horns keep sounding. It's probably a strategy to exhaust the enemy."

"If he doesn't rebel, with King Qi's benevolent government, Jianzhou Jurchen will definitely be properly resettled like the Southwest Miao people and Northwest and North captives."

Cao Wenzhao is very confident that Wulibao is not only not wide enough in the valley and plain, but also has a height gap.

He looked at the list of heads in his hand, and among the four directions where the Jin army broke through today, they left the most heads in Xishan Fort and Wuli Fort, followed by Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort.

"Huang Taiji is a good planner..."

In this situation where it is unclear whether the opponent is a healthy woman or a man, facing the team that is almost crowded in the valley and plain, even a brave general like Cao Bianjiao who dares to go straight to the big formation can't help but pinch for himself sweat.

Having said that, Cao Wenzhao showed embarrassment:

Therefore, the sound of the horn must be to cover some other sounds.

A piercing whistle sounded behind them, and Zhu Fuju and the other hundred household officials of the small banner also walked in the trench and scolded with a sullen face:
"Women and children, as long as they are armed, they only have one name...Jianlu!"

Liu Bian said lightly, and the hundreds of household officials next to him responded quickly, and then asked the gunners under his command to start placing propellant and shotgun bags.

Unfortunately, in the darkness, in front of Beishan Fort, only Cao Bianjiao's cottage was lit with fire, and the position in front of Beishan Fort was lit with fire, and the rest of the place was completely dark.

"Chief soldier, do you want to let the ministries turn off the torches?"

In just one round of shelling, more than a thousand women and children of the Jin army fell down in an instant, while Liu Bian calmly commanded the [-] Shenwu cavalry in Xishan Fort to replace them with rifles, and they all went down the ditch.

His senses are the most direct. Compared to him, Liu Bian, Shen Chaofeng, Zheng Ze, and Yubayashi Wei Xiaocan, Tiance Wei Yang Hong and others who are cruising in the rear, do not have an intuitive feeling for the number of the Jin army.

Throughout the day, more than 780 healthy women of the Jin army were killed, while the main casualties of the Ming army were in Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort. The scale was not large, and only [-] people died directly in battle.

For example, there are still more than 800 miles to break out of Beishan from the north bank of the Duoerbi River, and the Jin army will have to walk for at least ten days.

"I can't see the good... I can't see the good..."

"Will they attack Wulibao?" Cao Bianjiao thought of Wulibao with only 1000 people stationed there, but Cao Wenzhao shook his head:

They fled towards the Fourth Han Battalion in the rear, and the generals of the Fourth Han Battalion did not let them continue to die...

Cao Wenzhao clenched the handle of the knife around his waist, looked at the soldiers of the Ming army who were joking and laughing behind the line of defense, and said with a calm face: "For the 500 soldiers who have just arrived on the battlefield, 500 of them will be transferred to Wuli. Fort, 600 people were transferred to Xishan Fort, and the remaining [-] people were stationed in Beishan Fort.”

If he showed mercy, the soldiers under his command would suffer a little harm.

The Wulibao battlefield was deadlocked, but Dongshanbao was not.

However, in this case, many emotional soldiers have no pressure, such as Zhu Fuju who is lying in the trench of Xishanbao right now.

On the battlefield to Dongshan Fort, 5000 healthy women entered the battlefield under the supervision of more than [-] soldiers from the Fourth Battalion of the Han Dynasty. The goal was to rush through the Habayashi Guard cavalry and attack Dongshan Fort.

After he was sure that all the military orders had been written down, he nodded in satisfaction, and Commander of the Habayashi Guard Xiao Shen also frowned and said:
"There are only [-] pace gunners in Wulibao. Could it be that there are too few people?"

"Jianlu didn't even spare his own women and children, it's shameful!"

Cao Wenzhao, who had just fallen asleep for less than an hour after taking off his armor, walked out of the bedroom in a panic, holding his clothes in his hands, while the two followers guarding the door also looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Compared with them, Liu Bian's troops in Xishanbao killed more than 700 people, while Zheng Ze, a thousand households in Wulibao, relied on the terrain and killed more than 300 healthy women.

"Boom bang bang-"

Zhu Youjian prepared a lot of materials for the Beishan defense line. Although the quantity was not enough due to the sudden war, there were materials to deal with various wars.

"Woooooo-"

"There are fireworks in every stone castle, right?"

"Beep beep—" After finishing speaking, the hundred household officials blew the wooden whistle again: "Be alert!"

"If you are killed by this group of women and children that you look down upon, then you will go to the underworld after death. When you see the group of Liaodong people who were enslaved to death by the old slaves, you will make a wise detour around the Yellow River and hide far away."

When the sound of firecrackers sounded from the top of Xishanbao, a firework was shot into the sky, and then burst into bloom.

Not counting the 9000 riflemen of Shence Guard who had already arrived on the battlefield, there were still more than [-] of them here.

Without time to delay, he hurriedly led people out of Baihusuo, walked up to the wall of Beishan Fort, and looked into the darkness with binoculars.

"What's more, given the terrain of Wulibao, Huang Taiji may have to fill up the valley in front of the line of defense with corpses in order to successfully break through."

"Beep--"

"Guns loaded with shotguns, greeted with shotguns..."

Secondly, although the direction of Beishan Fort is not good, at least it can break through after going north, so the number of troops attacking Beishan Fort is about [-].

Liu Aita glanced at his own army formation with words in his words, and Fan Wencai also scanned the battlefield belatedly.

"This..." Only then did he realize that all the soldiers of the Fourth Han Battalion lowered their heads and buried them deeply, obviously unable to accept the scene of sitting and watching their own women and children being slaughtered.

"We have the most people here, but we are also the place where we can produce the most results."

"Chief soldier! Chief soldier!"

Although His Royal Highness King Qi said that Li Ting would sweep the acupoints, they only thought that they simply killed all the men above the wheel, and never thought that they would not spare even women and children.

The indiscriminate cursing of the Hundred Household Officials stabilized the Ming army on the ground, and everyone continued to be vigilant.

"Oh!"

"do not worry!"

"I didn't kill these women and children, but the old slave killed them himself. It's just that he adopted another method..."

Thinking about it, Zhu Fuju took a sip of water, then continued to hold the rifle, and lay down in the trench waiting for the military order.

Sure enough, as soon as Cao Wenzhao's speculation came to the fore, the deputy Qianhu who was in charge of Tangqi's scouting report rushed into the meeting hall and bowed to Cao Wenzhao and Tangqi Qianhu:

"Beep--"

Respect the old and love the young... This Confucian idea was originally intended to protect the weak and prevent people from bullying the weak. However, on the battlefield, the education they received since childhood became the moral requirements that bound the soldiers of the Ming army.

Dongshan Fort was garrisoned by Habayashi Guards and Tiance Guards, and the road was too long and the direction was northeast, which was contrary to the direction of the Jin Army's breakout. Therefore, Huang Taiji only asked Yue Tuo to bring five thousand healthy women and five thousand red flags. Attack with momentum.

"This is a battlefield, not a school. There is no such thing as anyone, only the enemy and ourselves."

"Jianlu is good at attacking at night, His Highness has already thought about it."

For Ming soldiers, these women reminded them of their wives and children far away in their hometown.

"What I am most worried about now is Huang Taiji's breakout from Xishan Fort and Beishan Fort."

Today's temptation caused more than 1 casualties to the Jin army, which almost made all the Ming army think that it was impossible for the Jin army to launch a second attack.

The violent cannon sounded, and the shotguns loaded with three catties were fired with hundreds of pieces per artillery, knocking down the women and children of the Jin army who came first.

The words of this Qianhu attracted the nods of the surrounding people, because no matter how inferior the human eyes are to beasts, they can still see some close-up figures clearly.

"Okay, it's almost done, let them go back to the formation and rest."

But even so, the group of Ming army soldiers lying in the trench and riding on horseback couldn't help becoming nervous when they heard the thunderous footsteps.

Although his eyes were blurred for a few seconds due to the disappearance of the light, he immediately saw the constantly moving figures in the dark night.

In addition, Cao Wenzhao wanted to win too much, so the Ming army broke out in this river valley in a bloody battle with [-] casualties in a single day.

Looking at this scene, Fan Wencai felt thirsty, and thought that if this went on, the soldiers of the Fourth Han Battalion would really rebel, and he was equally fortunate.

The fire lighted up for a moment, and then the lead bullets arrived at the front of the Jin army with the sound, knocking down hundreds of Jin troops and killing them.

After leaving behind the corpses of a thousand healthy women and more than 400 male corpses, Yue Tuo led his people to retreat.

"It's all women and children..."

In the dark night of the plain battlefield, the one-sided slaughter of the Ming army caused the healthy women to collapse collectively with less than a thousand casualties.

"What's going on? Jianlu attacked at night?"

At the moment when he frowned, the shield vehicles were pushed out by women and children. All the women and children hid behind the shield vehicles in a hurry, and began to attack the Ming army with daytime tactics in an attempt to consume the bullets of Shen Cewei.

However, it is not so much an attack as a unilateral massacre.

Five thousand fireworks, up to six or seven hours, that is to say, it can survive tonight, but it will be hard to say tomorrow...

Women and children without armor are no different from fragile scarecrows in front of the shotguns of the artillery. Even at a distance of 150 steps, the shotguns can kill them on the spot.

When the familiar voice sounded, Liu Aita, who was riding on a Mongolian horse, gave the order, and the soldiers of the Fourth Han Battalion heard the words, and immediately began to let go.

In the river valley, which is two hundred steps long and has a height drop of three or four feet, if one really wants to break through successfully, one hundred thousand women and children will probably die.

As soon as Liu Aita gave the order, Fan Wencai beside him couldn't help but speak, but Liu Aita just glanced at him, and then said:

Cao Wenzhao heaved a sigh of relief at the words of the Military Supply Sima, and then said, "Have someone bring out the fireworks and light them at a rate of one every ten seconds."

As long as the number of soldiers in the Jin army is equal to that of the Ming army in Beishan, then the Ming army in Beishan can use their mobility to bully the Jin army and attack and kill them all the way.

"Fortunately, Your Highness is well prepared."

They also don't want to send women to die if they can.

"It's pitch black right now, you can't see your fingers, and our army is lighting the torch alone, wouldn't it be a bright light in the darkness?"

The cavalry guards such as Habayashi Guard, Tiance Guard, and Lu Long who are mutually horned are stationed on this plain. For this cavalry team of nearly [-] cavalry, tens of thousands of healthy women are nothing more than tens of thousands of horses. slaughtered lamb.

"Yes!"

Calculated, the Ming army in Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort still had a casualty ratio of one to five, and the casualty ratio of the Jianluma infantry was less than one to two.

Cao Bianjiao was a little apprehensive, but Cao Wenzhao shook his head: "They don't have enough armor, and simply letting healthy women who don't have armor to die will have little effect on the battle situation."

"Before the battle, His Highness has already prepared people. Each stone castle has [-] fireworks, which are ignited at a rate of one in ten seconds, enough to last until dawn."

After resting, he couldn't help saying to the munitions Sima who was following him:

Zhu Fuju didn't even open his mouth, and some younger Ming soldiers couldn't help complaining in the trench.

With the same idea as him, there are generals such as Cao Bianjiao, Liu Bian, Shen Chaofeng, Zheng Ze and so on.

His pupils constricted in an instant, because what he saw was a group of healthy women who didn't even have armor, but only wore cotton clothes and held some weapons. They weren't even considered healthy women, they could only be called... women.

Baihuguan turned around, faced the golden army rushing in, drew out his long knife, looked around and said:
"You pity them today, why have you ever thought about how the people of Liaodong were humiliated?"

"Jianlu pushed out the shield chariot from the formation, and attacked the four river valleys, plains, and mountain roads. In the dark night, there were crowds of people, and it was unclear how many soldiers and horses came out!"

"Yes..." The Quartermaster Sima wrote down these words, and Cao Wenzhao also returned to his bedroom.

I have to say that Cao Wenzhao and the others did have a hard time fighting today with only rifles and artillery for defense without rifles.

After all, 10,000 Shence Guard riflemen and four [-]+ rounds of ammunition are enough to consume a lot of elite gold troops in Shibao.

Among them, Cao Bianjiao is the most prominent.

"This seems to be against the rules set by the Great Khan..."

"If you want to attack Wulibao, you need to pass through a bush, and there are less than 10 steps to pass through the valley of Wulibao. It will take a long time for the tens of [-] of them to pass."

Cao Wenzhao slammed his fist on the female wall, surrounded by seven or eight generals, one of the generals also said:
"During the battle of Saerhu, there was a heavy fog, and people and animals could not be seen five paces away. At that time, because our army ignited the cannon, Jianlu shot arrows at our army with the fire as the target."

The generals relaxed, but Cao Wenzhao did not.

"Tens of thousands of people in Liaodong were captured and transported to Jianzhou like livestock, or were taken to Ciluwei (Xingjing City) by old slaves, where they were exhausted to death like livestock."

If the battlefield of Xishan Fort is a pure duel of hot and cold weapons, then the battlefield of Dongshan Fort is an alternating use of hot and cold weapons.

The soldiers can soften their hearts, but he can't.

This is the night of March 11, Year 11 of Tianqi, and there are still two hours before arriving on March [-], Year [-] of Tianqi.

However, Zhu Fuju's self-comfort was finally broken by the sound of fireworks.

"No!" Deputy Qianhu nodded without thinking, which gave Cao Wenzhao a bad premonition.

"Clap clap clap!"

Although Cao Wenzhao was not capable of commanding more than [-] troops, he was not an idiot. He knew in his heart that Huang Taiji could not use the strategy of exhausting the enemy against them, because the Ming army waited for work at leisure.

"They don't even have armor..."

Due to the forest, they couldn't advance the battlefield, so they could only stalemate for a while.

"The last general takes orders!" Hearing this, Qian Hu immediately ordered people to run to the artillery position.

"We are just bait, and now we have achieved the result that the Khan wants."

It's just that Zhu Youjian didn't expect that Huang Taiji was dragged down so much by women and children that Cao Wenzhao dragged him for three full days on the north bank of the Duo'erbi River.

"In addition, for the remaining 13 rounds of ammunition, transfer 8000 rounds to Beishan Fort, [-] rounds to Wulibao, and [-] rounds to Xishanbao."

For war, Zhu Youjian still adheres to the concept of "war is logistics", prepares all kinds of materials, and then employs people to lead troops.

He propped his hands on the female wall and frowned, obviously aware of the problem of the Ming army's fireworks.

"If you want to blame, blame the rebellious old slave!"

People like him are no longer like Zhu Fuju's group of soldiers who have not fought hard. For him, as long as he is on the battlefield, he can order an attack regardless of the opponent's gender and age.

If it weren't for Zhu Youjian's order to sweep the caves in Liting and not leave any traitor behind, the soldiers of the Fourth Han Battalion and the Eight Banners of Mongolia would have turned their backs long ago.

Fan Wencai couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead, while Liu Aita snorted coldly in his heart.

But when he continued to glance at the soldiers of the Fourth Han Battalion, looking at the low morale, he had to say that Huang Taiji's move of using women and children to fight might have helped him.

Thinking of this, the corners of Liu Aita's mouth could not help but twitch slightly...

(End of this chapter)