Ming Dynasty Road

Chapter 5 Tartar Siege
"Woo~~~~~" There was a deep roar of horns, which was the signal before the Tartars attacked. Before they knew it, the Tartars had assembled, and a bloody battle was inevitable.

Hundreds of Tartar cavalry, holding cavalry scimitars in their hands, gleamed coldly under the sunlight, and when they heard the signal to attack, they rode their horses and ran back and forth under the Tumu Fortress, waving them constantly. With the long knife in his hand, he shouted obscene language.

The faces of the officers and soldiers closest to Zhao Yi were a little pale, obviously frightened by the behavior of the Tartars. The Tartars cavalry galloped back and forth under the city wall, raising waves of dust.

Zhao Yi stood on the battlements of the city wall and looked down. As soon as he supported the city wall, a sharp arrow with feathers and feathers slammed against his cheek. On the rammed earth, the tail of the arrow was still trembling slightly, which shocked Zhao Yi into a cold sweat. Unexpectedly, the Tartars were still so sharp in archery on horseback.

Zhao Yi collected himself and only listened to a stammering voice speaking in Chinese from the city: "People in the city listen up, open the city gate quickly and let your Manchu grandpas enter the city, otherwise wait a while and let the grandpas kill you. The city will be massacred, and your little earthen fortress will be bloodbathed." Zhao Yi glanced down from behind the battlements. In front of the Manchurian Tartars, he was the first general, holding a mace, with a complexion like charcoal, full of The beard on his face looked extraordinarily sturdy.

The Tartar general with the beard shouted while urging his horses. After speaking, a few Tartar soldiers pushed a man out of the formation, and the bearded man raised his stick and smashed it down. The man's mind was broken. , red and white flowed all over the floor, the Tartar general laughed contemptuously after killing people, and looked at the Tumubao side mockingly.

Among the soldiers of Tumubao, there were those who saw the murdered man with sharp eyes: "Isn't that Wang Er who went out to watch, dog tartar, let's fight with them." When he shouted, everyone clenched their iron fists , holding a big knife and preparing to rush out to fight a bloody battle with the Tartars, Zhao Yi ordered the captains to calm down the emotions of the soldiers.

Facing everyone's suspicious eyes, Zhao Yi said calmly: "These Tartars deliberately lured us out of the city. If we leave the city, how can we fight against the Tartars' sabers without cavalry? Use your flesh and blood?"

Yang Tian, ​​the third captain who was following Zhao Yi, said anxiously: "Captain, are we just guarding this city?"

Zhao Yi went on to say: "Although the Tatars have only a hundred or so people, far less than ours, our infantry is definitely no match for the Tartars' cavalry. Now the earth and wooden forts have been repaired, and the city is strong and easy to defend. Attacking, I don't think the Tatars even brought any equipment to attack the city, so they must have just come to fight the autumn wind, and we must have suffered heavy losses if we rushed out of the city, and we fell right into the hands of the Tartars."

Yang Tian nodded unwillingly, "Commander, if the Tartars keep besieging us, our food and grass will only last for a few days."

Zhao Yi said: "Now the Tatars don't know the situation of our defenders. They surround us and don't fight us. In fact, they want to panic us, and the combat effectiveness will naturally drop. The reason why the Tartars are eager to provoke us to fight is more than half the reason. Because the cavalry is not suitable for attacking the city. Therefore, for the sake of the people in the city, we can't be brave for a while."

After waiting for a while, the Tartar general saw that there was no response from the city, and shouted triumphantly: "You Han people are soft bones, hahaha. We were so frightened by our Manchu grandpa that you would only hide in the turtle shell." The Tartar soldiers immediately burst into laughter, yelling Manchu for unknown meaning, but it seemed that it was definitely not a good word, and the Tartars laughed like they had been drugged.

In fact, there is a trace of helplessness in the smile of the Tartar generals. This time the autumn wind is a last resort. The past few years have been bad, and the years of famine have made it difficult for the people of Manchuria to even have enough food. These Han people can still eat enough. Thinking of this, there is a hint of jealousy in my heart, thinking about going to the city for a while, robbing money, food, and women, and the lustful eyes are like blazing fire.

The leader of the Tartars never expected that he would humiliate the Han people so much. The soft-boned Han people in the city did not respond. Seeing the gradually darkening sky, their hearts gradually became anxious.

Zhao Yi ordered, regardless of the shouts and curses of the Tartars below, don't bother to transport the arrows to the city quickly, and call the well-organized civilians to defend the city, and ordered the soldiers on the city to take bundles of arrows to the city. The arrows were placed on the archer's place in an orderly manner, and the organized minzhuang also went up to the city wall in an organized manner, with three minzhuang led by a soldier.

Zhao Yi looked at the soldiers who were about to prepare, and thought that it would be impossible not to hit the arrogance of the Tartars. If this continues, the morale of the defenders may be lost.

Now that the archers are all ready, the arrows are wound one by one and aimed at the direction of the Tartars. Zhao Yi gives an order, and the archers draw their bows to the full. The rain of arrows roars and shoots towards the Tartars. The first batch of arrows has not yet fallen. , the second batch, and the third batch followed suit and flew out.

The rain of arrows all over the sky stimulated people's nerves with the sound of howling wind. The rain of arrows came so suddenly that it caught the Tartars by surprise. Before the Tartars could retreat in the future, they were nailed to the ground by the rain of arrows. Immediately after the second batch, the third batch arrived. Dozens of Tartars were pierced through their bodies in an instant. For a while, people shouted horses, screamed for torture, and the generals of the Tartars held maces in their hands. Feng, while blocking the incoming bow and arrow, ordered to retreat.

Seeing the Tartars being repelled, the townspeople and soldiers cheered together, and all the suppressed emotions just now were vented.

Zhao Yi was not happy because the Tartars retreated, because they only repelled the Tartars temporarily. Sure enough, a team of Tartar cavalry rushed to the dense forest in the distance. siege implements.

"Get on the horse, charge" the simple command came out from the mouth of the Tartar general, and a group of Tartar cavalrymen rushed over with their bows and arrows in their hands, barbaric shouts from their mouths, and the bows and arrows in their hands kept firing. The horses under the crotch ran faster and faster, and it would not take long to chop off the heads of this group of Han people to avenge the brothers who died just now.

The soldiers of the civil fortress on the city, while dodging the bows and arrows of the Tartars, shot the arrows in their hands fiercely, and this went on and on again and again. Because of the protection of the city wall, and the fact that the Tartars shot arrows from the bottom to the top of the city, so Casualties were much less than Tartars.

The Tartar general watched his soldiers fall off the horse one after another, his distressed eyes were bloodshot, and he shouted anxiously: "Get the cowhide shield quickly." The Tartar cavalrymen came to their senses and took it off their backs one after another. The cowhide shield was in front of his chest, but the cowhide shield could defend himself, but it couldn't defend against the horses. He suffered heavy losses for a while, and some horses that missed the arrow also roared and fell to the ground, as if they had stepped on something.

It turned out that after Zhao Yi heard the news of the Tartar attack, he immediately ordered Niu Yong to lead the soldiers to sprinkle barbed caltrops all over the place near the Tumu Fortress, and then spread loess. Blacksmiths specially made sharp weapons for dealing with cavalry, with thorns on three sides, which can hurt horseshoes no matter what angle it is.

The Tartar general felt that he had been caught in a trap, but he hated this group of Han people even more. The Han people are cowards, only play tricks, and dare not come out to fight him openly. Endless hatred surged in his heart, and he must kill them. Just them, look hard at their humble heads!

He shouted even more hatefully: "Kill, kill all the Han people for me, and the first one to rush to the city wall will be rewarded with ten taels of silver." The surrounding soldiers were inspired by his shouts and the stimulation of money. , all shouted: "Kill the Han people!" Facing the oncoming arrows, they rushed forward without fear.

After Zhao Yi heard this, he was furious, grabbed a longbow, put on an arrow, and drew the longbow all at once. A sharp arrow roared towards the Tartar general's throat. The Tartar general heard The sound of piercing the sky, just about to escape but it was too late, a sharp arrow had pierced his throat, his eyes were full of unwillingness, he didn't want to die, there were parents, wife and children waiting for him to go back at home, he hadn't He had time to hug his newly born son, but he couldn't turn his head back. A glaring red flooded his eyes, and he let go of the rein with his hands weakly, and was thrown off the horse.

A group of Tartar cavalry, dazed by desire, did not back down because the general fell from his horse, but charged at the city wall even more frantically. Some Tartars who had lost their horses carried the big tree that had just been cut down, and slammed into the city gate. Come here, victory is just around the corner, you can see the faces of the Han people on the city wall, hurry, hurry up, and you will be able to avenge your brothers who died in battle immediately.

The knights on the horses turned their bows and arrows back, some drew out the scimitars hanging on the horses, and some took out the iron chains and flying tiger claws used for siege, and several flying tiger claws hooked the battlements in an instant Suddenly, the morale of the Tartars increased instantly, and the Tartar soldiers climbed up the iron chains and rushed up. Against the rain of arrows, they finally rushed to the city wall.

Seeing that the Tartars had climbed the city wall, Zhao Yi shouted, "Brothers, fight with knives." After speaking, he took the knives in his hand and rushed towards the Tartars.

In the narrow aisle of the city wall, the fight between the enemy and the enemy is not too fancy, it is completely hacked and stabbed. A Tartar soldier took a knife and slashed towards Zhao Yi's neck. His neck was wiped, and the Tartar body went limp and fell to the ground.

Zhao Yi swung his knife and cut down several Tartars one after another. The nearby Tartars saw Zhao Yi's bravery, and no Tartars dared to approach him again. The city wall was full of soldiers fighting hand-to-hand. Flesh and blood flew everywhere, like hell on earth. "

Shouts, the sound of the big knife cutting into the meat, one after another, at this moment, Niu Yong raised a bloody knife and yelled: "The Tartars have been beaten away, and the Tartars have run away." They retreated like a tide, shooting arrows to cover as they retreated.

The Tartars managed to get to the top of the city, and retreated as soon as they said it. Zhao Yi looked into the distance suspiciously, only to see a dark patch on the horizon in the distance, and there were tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry reflected in his eyes. .

(End of this chapter)