Three days later, Jiuyuan City finally arrived. of
This time, I finally encountered a real city.
Jiuyuan City is a rammed earth city in the Tang Dynasty. It has been seven hundred years now. The city walls are in dilapidated condition and have collapsed in many places. But overall the main body of the city wall is there.
The city is close to the bank of the Yellow River. This section of the Yellow River can be navigated by sheepskin rafts or ships with a draft of less than two meters.
Yang Fan had previously considered using the Yellow River water to transport military supplies. Yang Fan has a shallow-draft canoe, which can be navigable with steam engines and propellers. In this way, supplies can be transported by water from Hebei. Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, the Yellow River has thawed and is ready for navigation.
However, there were several difficulties that prompted Yang Fan to give up this idea. One is that Hukou Waterfall is not navigable. Supplies need to be unloaded in advance and then transported to the upper reaches of the waterfall by camel and changed to a small boat. It was too difficult for the boat to move against the current without power. The big boat was blocked by the waterfall again. Can't go up.
In addition, the Ordos people did not solve the problem, and Yang Fan did not dare to let the supplies leave the Yellow River. That is transportation under the noses of Ordos people. The Mongols were extremely short of supplies. With so much military supplies and food, they couldn't help but pounce on them like mosquitoes that saw blood.
Because this city is Tangcheng, its area is not small. The total area is four square kilometers, the city wall is sixteen miles in circumference, and there are four city gates. of
At this time, all buildings except the earthen walls had collapsed. Only bare earth walls stand on the desolate banks of the Yellow River.
The remaining walls currently range from five to six meters high. The moat has no water, it is just a trench, more than three meters deep and seven meters wide. Because now the Yellow River has become a hanging river, no one dares to dig a dyke and release water into the moat.
After Daza and others retreated here, the gaps in the city wall were blocked. This dilapidated city looks a bit better now.
Yang Fan had no intention of wiping out Daza here. Yang Fan's plan was that after the army captured this place, they would start to renovate the city wall. Stay here. Dasa retreated to Linhe to gather reinforcements from various Mongolian forces.
Linhe is the grassland with the best coat. It can provide pasture for the Mongols. Wherever these conditions are met, the Mongols will gather. The last thing Yang Fan wanted was for the Mongols to scatter all over the sky, fighting guerrillas, mobile warfare, and attacking everywhere.
Therefore, Daza must be kept. As long as he is still there, the Mongols will gather around him.
When the army arrived, it was noon. The army set up camp first to eat and rest. You can't start fighting immediately after traveling a long distance. You need to rest for two days first. When we get here, the battle ends here. Yang Fan is no longer in a hurry. of
After taking this city, the two sides are expected to be in a stalemate for a period of time, and Mongolians from all walks of life will gather at Linhe.
The Mongols hid vigilantly behind the remaining battlements and adobe walls piled up with history, and aimed their bows and arrows at the Ming army. They had been frightened out of their wits after the battle in Guihua City. At this time, they did not have enough troops and did not dare to take the initiative to attack.
On the third day, the rested army lined up and began to prepare to attack the city. This time it was not the Beijing camp that appeared, but Yan Yingyuan who had trained 40,000 regiments during this period of time. That is, the civilian husbands from Shanxi and Nanzhili who were escorted here by Yang Fan.
Yan Yingyuan is indeed quite capable. He is also very decisive and resolute. None of these people are good people, except for the felons brought up from prison, who are gangsters. Others were armed by the local gentry and landlords. Although they bully men and women in the local area and do all kinds of evil, they are all strong men with good physical fitness.
Yan Yingyuan first took away the officials from various counties who brought them here, and then captured these harsh and rogue leaders. Then mix them together.
In the past twenty days, countless heads had been chopped off to suppress these desperadoes. Fortunately, Yang Fan sent Zhang Geda to calm down Yan Yingyuan, otherwise he would really be unable to calm down.
Zhang Goda has gone, so there is no need to talk nonsense. The order given to him by the master is to make these bastards obedient. The master didn't say what method to use. Naturally, he will use whatever he knows how to do. of
Zhang Geda led 3,600 servants and more than 10,000 Beijing troops from three regiments, and directly surrounded them. Then everyone goes out to form the team. In view of the fun they had during this period, even Yan Yingyuan was shot in the dark and injured his arm.
Zhang Qida took it directly with him
The servants conducted extensive searches, and anyone who found a concealed firearm was immediately taken out and chopped up in public. In an instant, blood flowed like a river. Everyone trembled for a while.
But this was not over yet. After disarming, Zhang Geda announced the implementation of the eleventh search and kill order. That is, every guy. Just pick out a random person and behead him. Regardless of fault, whoever is killed will be unlucky. As for who to kill, it will be decided by drawing lots. This is fate, no one can complain.
Zhang Geda's cold eyes swept across the lot, and the unlucky ones below were dragged out crying for their fathers and mothers, and their heads were beheaded row by row. Zhang Geda was not interested in knowing what crimes these people had committed. All he did was make them afraid. But then again. There is nothing good about these thugs raised by local powerful men.
If you catch any of them and chop them, you won't be wronged. In the late Ming Dynasty, armed landlords preyed on local people, seized land, and robbed women. Do no evil.
This ferocious man with a Liaodong accent completely scared the shit out of them. They are vicious, and this guy is even more vicious. It's totally unreasonable and I'll kill you if you don't like it.
Looking at the pile of heads on the ground, Zhang Jida stood on the podium and delivered a lecture. He imitated the way the master spoke and said loudly: "Listen to me, you bastards. From now on, whatever Yan Yingyuan says will be whatever he says." You can do whatever you are told. If anyone dares to disobey, these people will be punished. Those who obey will be rewarded, and those who disobey will be knifed. Do you understand?"
I understood the shouts from the mountains below like a tsunami. All they wanted was to send this plague god away as soon as possible. He couldn't stand Yan Yingyuan's control before, but now compared with Zhang Goda, Yan Yingyuan treats them better than his own mother and I. The most it can do is hit with a military stick.
People are like this. When they encounter an evil star, their souls will be out of body. Now I changed to a gentler one, and he immediately became obedient. Yan Yingyuan's training work has begun.
One good thing about Yang Fan is that he does not discriminate against these people and eats the same as the army. As long as you are obedient, the benefits will inevitably come to you. If you are disobedient, then I'm sorry, and I will release Zhang Geda to communicate with you.
At this time, twelve militia groups, each with 3,600 people, formed a square formation and were slowly moving forward. The people in the front row all held shields made of tamarisk, angustifolia, and poplar trees from the Gobi Desert. Behind them are the spearmen, and those behind them are equipped with weapons they brought themselves, as well as captured Mongolian scimitars and other weapons.
Chen Daquan got close to Gao Qiqi and whispered: "Who are these people? Why don't they look like the Jingying camp? Even the clothes are all kinds of things. The leather armor and broken iron armor on the outside are clearly from those Picked from dead Mongolians."
Gao Qiqian is the admiral of the Royal Horse Supervisor. The Royal Horse Supervisor is in charge of the military. He has a high enough status and knows some inside information. At this time, my eyelids jumped.
