Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 193 Destroy the city in one battle

Wu Sangui rushed over to report his work. After paying homage to the regent, Lu Mou tossed out a piece of gold and said, "My uncle, how are you? Is everything going well?"

"Thank you, Prince Regent. I don't smoke."

"How can that be done? Drinking is the true nature of a man, and smoking is the coolness of a man. (If I don't know how to smoke, how can I increase the output of my cigarette factory?) Come here to relieve fatigue."

Forced to have no choice, Wu Sangui took one, said thank you, and started puffing away.

Is this right? My cigarette factory has added another consumer.

"According to the plan of the regent, I rushed forward with light cavalry. At the pass of the Great Wall, I rushed in before the bandits could react. Then, according to the plan, I bypassed all the cities and went straight to Taiyuan. Unfortunately, I just When they arrived, the rogue bandits closed the city gate. So my plan to take Taiyuan lightly failed."

"Here, here comes another one. It is expected that Taiyuan cannot be taken lightly. But how many enemies are stationed in Taiyuan City now?"

Wu Sangui replied: "According to the report of the Jin Yiwei who sneaked out of Taiyuan, there are 20,000 rogue bandits. The elite soldiers dare not say that, but they can definitely do it with enough food. If it is a siege, I am afraid it will be difficult to win in a year. But a hard attack will probably be done." Paying a heavy price."

"I am most afraid of paying the price, because it is all money. Especially your cavalry, which is simply made of money. But a long-term siege is not enough. One is that Taiyuan is the transportation hub of this area, and business is prosperous. The population is densely populated. Once the city is under siege for a long time and the city runs out of food, those bandits are not humane and will eat people. So we have to think of some way."

"Taiyuan needs to be captured as soon as possible, otherwise I will not be able to safely cut off Hao Yaoqi and Yuan Zongdi's retreat to Shaanxi."

"This is right. Uncle, look, can we buy this Taiyuan City?"

Wu Sangui was simply shocked by the strange thinking of the regent. This was considered a war between the two countries. How could the enemy's city be bought with money?

Seeing Wu Sangui's confusion, Lu Mou explained: "What I mean is to bribe the general, promise him a high official, a generous salary, gold and silver, and let him surrender the city."

Wu Sangui frowned in thought, and involuntarily reached for the cigarettes Lu Mou put on the table. He took out one and lit it. He smoked slowly and began to think about the feasibility of this method in the smoke.

Lu Mou was very pleased that he had become a rich smoker.

Wu Sangui thought for a long time and finally shook his head: "I'm afraid this method of the prince will not work."

"why?"

"Because the Taiyuan guard is Li Chuang's fierce general Dang Shouyi. Although he is not Hao Yaoqi and Yuan Zong's faction, he is a die-hard loyal to Li Chuang. He is not Hao Yaoqi's or Yuan Zong's. For the sake of his future, he will also defend half of the country for Li Chuang's Dashun. He also understands in his heart that as long as he defends Taiyuan, it is equivalent to defending Shaanxi. He will never be bribed to submit to us. "

Lu Mou exclaimed: "Is he the only defender in Taiyuan City? Isn't there the original Ming army? Let's bribe them anyway. How about we cooperate inside and outside when the time comes?"

Wu Sangui smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I have also considered this. I also asked the Jin Yiwei to conduct a detailed investigation. It should not be possible."

"why?"

"Your Majesty, you should also understand what our Ming Dynasty's original army looked like. When Dang Shouyi took over Taiyuan, he immediately disbanded and sent back all the surrendered Ming troops. Therefore, the defenders in Taiyuan City can be said to be monolithic."

Lu Mou sighed in disappointment.

"According to what my uncle said, taking Taiyuan will require huge casualties."

Wu Sangui nodded: "I'm afraid the only way to go is to attack by force."

While the two were talking sadly, they suddenly felt the ground shake, and then there was a huge explosion in the distance. The sound was so loud that it was truly deafening.

The two people who were unprepared almost jumped up from the sudden explosion. Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of cheers that went straight to the sky.

"What's going on?" Lu Mou asked loudly.

A disgraced man ran in, and it turned out to be Xu Jie: "Prince Qi, we only needed half a day to successfully explode. The wall of Shanxi Town exploded, and our soldiers have already begun to attack the gap."

"How did you do it so quickly?"

Xu Jie said proudly: "During the Battle of Shandong, we were taught by Li Bingbu and learned various ways to break the city. As for our Second Army, as long as there are battle losses, we will recruit apprentices from the Xishan Coal Mine in Beijing to join the army. During the excavation We are good at the tunnel." Lu Mou was overjoyed: "Let's go out and have a look."

Lu Mou and Wu Sangui walked out of the tent and climbed up to overlook the Shanxi Town battlefield.

Shanxi Town has been shrouded in smoke and dust, and the huge explosion has blown a huge gap in the tall city wall of Shanxi Town. The collapsed city walls flowed into a slope, filling in a section of the wide moat. Now, countless soldiers are charging towards the gap along the slope.

This was the first time that Wu Sangui had truly observed the battle of the Xinming Army at close range. He watched with concentration.

This army was built by Lu Mou himself. He knew the physical quality of the soldiers; he had seen the equipment of the soldiers; he also understood the discipline of the army.

However, in fact, in the old army, combat effectiveness had little to do with the physical fitness of the soldiers and the equipment and discipline of the soldiers. The main thing was to see whether the soldiers were afraid of death.

Then he was shocked.

I saw the soldiers of the Second Army shouting and rushing towards the gap, but the bandits were all old bandits. They were not only rich in combat experience, but also fearless of death.

He was stunned in the explosion, but woke up and rushed to the gap, blocking the Ming army, and started a fierce battle for the gap with the Ming army.

The Ming army fired quickly one after another, killing batches of rogues. They had no time to reload, so they rushed to the gap in the city wall with their bayonets straight and fought hand-to-hand with the rogues who continued to come up.

The shouts of killing, the screams of death, were earth-shattering. One group died in the battle, and then another. Countless people were crowded into the narrow gap. Under their feet, there were layers of corpses. Even those who were injured and survived were trampled to death in the blink of an eye.

The blood from both sides has dyed the collapsed masonry of the gap red, making the gap extremely muddy. Eventually they merged into a stream, flowing down the slope and into the moat, which turned red.

The soldiers faced the fierce enemy and endured the rain of arrows from the rogues on both sides of the gap without retreating even a step. Even those who were wounded would continue to fight as long as they did not fall.

Boom, there was a loud noise. The elm trees set up by the bandits at both ends of the complete city wall were ejected. Countless stones swept everything in the gap, attacking regardless of the enemy or ourselves, leaving the gap empty.

However, the soldiers did not stop because of the power of the elm spray. One group fell, and those behind continued to charge with their guns without hesitation, filling the gap again.

There were a few more roars of elm trees, and the gap was cleared once again.

Go up and fill them up again.

That gap is like the gate to hell, constantly swallowing up lives. But in the face of hell, the soldiers of the Second Army still charged forward one after another to the death.

A battalion was completely wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Then the leader of the second regiment coldly ordered to his brothers: "It's our turn, brothers, advance or retreat, charge -" took the lead in rushing up the slope and continued the attack.

Another battalion was filled up, and another battalion shouted and charged without hesitation.

Wu Sangui was completely stunned by such succession.

What shocked him was not anything else, but the spirit of the soldiers who were not afraid of life and death.

With such soldiers, who else in the world can defeat them?

In front of such soldiers, Wu Sangui was finally convinced and finally gave up the little delusion in his heart.

Rushing in, countless soldiers rushed into the city like a tide.

The city gate was opened from inside.

Lu Mou smiled and extended his hand to Wu Sangui: "Uncle, how about we go to the high seat in the city and continue talking?"

Wu Sangui, who was more respectful, handed over his hand and said, "I obey my orders."

(End of this chapter)