Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 575 Enemy Attack
Because the governor of Monan is about to take office, Meng Sen, the magistrate of Qingsong County, hereby ordered that the concrete city wall be built within ten days.

Therefore, the county government increased the wages of workers. For this reason, Xin Qingdong worked harder than before.

He came to the northern part of the city early, and quickly carried bags of cement to the city wall. Whenever he took a breather, he would watch how the masons built the city wall. He didn't understand why these masons from the south Now when building a city wall, various stones and soil are mixed together and poured into a three-dimensional space framed by wooden boards and iron bars.

But what Xin Qingdong has to admit is that building the city wall in this way is really fast, much faster than rammed earth, and it will be as hard as iron after only a few days. Seeing that the guards had bombarded it with artillery, it was difficult to blow up such a smooth city wall with no brick cracks.

Xin Qingdong brought another bag of cement over, and he couldn't help but glance at the mason again. He was very envious that they could get twice as much salary as his own, and even if they were rushing to work, the county magistrate's lord would personally come to condolence them , he really wished he could be such a person.

What made Xin Qingdong even more envious were the officers and soldiers of the guards patrolling the city. He had been in Qingsong County for so long, and he already knew that these officers and soldiers of the guards were the most respectable warriors in the empire. Even the most ordinary soldiers were officials. Those Juren lords are as noble as they are, and they are also the most unapproachable. Although they sometimes behave very close to the people, Xin Qingdong saw with his own eyes that they cut down the herdsmen who did not obey the rules.

Therefore, Xin Qingdong didn't dare to approach them, he could only take a look from a distance.

But at this moment, a guard soldier holding a telescope on the high platform suddenly yelled: "Enemy attack!"

And Xin Qingdong, who was a soldier of the guards, couldn't help but thumped. He instinctively wanted to find his horse and sword, but found that he had become a Han citizen. Without horses and swords, he no longer had the responsibility to protect his homeland. , and the empire has a special army to protect the safety of the homeland and the people.

The dull bell rang non-stop, and the sound of orderly footsteps came, and a hundred guards officers and soldiers ran up the city wall.

"Go away!"

Xin Qingdong was pulled behind by a guard soldier, and he realized for the first time that he didn't have to rush to the front.

Gradually.

In the distance, there were clear shadows of Tartar cavalry.

The leader is a commander named Kulie. Xin Qingdong knows him, and even clearly remembers that this person named Kulie snatched his woman, but in order to survive, he chose to endure it. After all, Kulie is a Great Khan's own nephew, a member of the Golden Family that he couldn't afford to mess with.

But now he understood that these people were not noble people, but heinous robbers.

Looking at those Tartar cavalrymen with hideous faces and greedy eyes, it was the first time that Xin Qingdong felt that these guys were so annoying.

He looked at these officers and soldiers of the guards with serious expressions, and felt more at ease. He very much hoped that the officers and soldiers of the guards could repel the Tartar cavalry.

Because he didn't want his peaceful life in Qingsong County to be broken.

Not only Xin Qingdong, but all the residents of Qingsong County felt the pressure from the moment the Tartar cavalry from the Harqin tribe appeared, and they all hoped that the guards stationed here could repel this group of Tartar cavalry.

This place has become their homeland, and they have paid their sweat and painstaking efforts here, and they don't want the appearance of Tartars to destroy all the fruits of their hard work.

And the only thing they can rely on is the armed forces of the Guards officers and soldiers and the merchant group in the city.

Meng Sen, the county magistrate of Qingsong County, immediately activated the emergency plan. He had already prepared for the day when he would encounter an enemy attack, so from the moment the bell rang, he hurriedly ordered people to block the city gate.

Meng Sen is not a scholar magistrate in the traditional sense. He was born in the Guards and has rich military experience. From the moment he knew of the enemy attack, he did not feel fear or fear, but a tinge of excitement.

He knew that if he wanted to gain a foothold on this grassland, if he wanted to make Qingsong County grow steadily on this vast grassland, it would not be enough to rely solely on a solid city wall, and he still had to use the enemy's heads to build the strongest city defense and let the city Qingsong County has truly achieved peace and prosperity.

The guards in Qingsong County only have more than [-] officers and soldiers, [-] infantry, and [-] cavalry, and they are all B-type troops of the Guards. But according to Mengsen's current observation, the approaching Harqin There are about two thousand cavalry.

Therefore, although Meng Sen believed that he could defend Qingsong County, he did not take it lightly, and ordered a hundred infantry to go up to the city wall to assist the merchant groups in armed defense.

And he himself led a hundred infantry and a hundred cavalry out of the city to face the Karaqin cavalry. He had to go out of the city to fight because the main city of Qingsong County had not been fully built.

The Kalaqin cavalry were getting closer and closer, and the horseshoes stepped on the green grass and made a thunderous sound. The people who were shaking were panicking, as if they couldn't lift it up in one breath, and the dangling silver sword was even colder. People seem to be frozen, and they can't wait to get the whole person into the city wall.

Many people met the cavalry for the first time, and they began to regret coming out of the pass. Even Xin Qingdong was a little apprehensive at this time. Looking at the guards with no more than a hundred people, he could hardly believe that they could stop those cavalry on the grassland. Warriors with sturdy physiques, and they only hold firearms, even if there are cavalry, they are only a few hundred people.

But he didn't expect that these Guards officers and soldiers didn't panic, but calmly waited for Kulie's appearance, especially that the grandfather actually went into battle in person. Didn't it mean that Han officials can't ride horses? This grandfather can still hold such a heavy sword.

The commander-in-chief of the Harqin tribe, Ku Lie, came with his own cavalry on horseback. Seeing that there were only a few hundred Ming troops in front of him, he felt more at ease. He took out his short bow without hesitation, and was ready to shoot, but he He also knew that the Ming army's weapons were sharp, so he kept changing directions, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to disperse their attacks.

The infantry of the Guards also started shooting. The Chongzhen 22-style rifled gun quickly fired lead bullets out one after another, and they could shoot continuously, one shot after another. Then one by one they fell.

Kulie didn't expect that hundreds of riders were killed or injured before he rushed within [-] steps. He couldn't help being shocked. Based on the principle of running away if he can't beat him, he immediately led his subordinates to quickly turn around and kill in other directions. , while the cavalry of the Guards rushed up personally under the leadership of Meng Sen.

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