Huang Hao looked down the hillside and at the battlefield in the distance and asked the troops to stop. He took out his telescope and carefully observed the city in the distance.
Miao County is not very big among the county towns, but its city walls are very new. The walls are very strong. At this time, the crenellations of the city wall were filled with soldiers and civilians.
There are also hanging doors hanging on the crenels. That is to say, a T-shaped bamboo pole is used to hang the quilt on the crenel to block arrows. It seems that the guards in this city are quite good.
Huang Hao thought. He had never seen Wang Jiayin, but he saw people constantly opening corners of hanging doors on the city wall and shooting arrows down.
A large number of rolling logs and stones were also thrown down, causing the rebels who were attacking the city to fall off the ladders one after another.
I know that this guy is at least a real person and not a fool. The history of city building here is relatively short in Beizhili.
The walls looked strong and new. With a bright cyan hue. During the Taiping period of Liao Dynasty, Miaoyin County was established and belonged to Xijin Prefecture.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, because the Mongolian royal family
"Nabo Culture" and the needs of Baihe water transportation were promoted to Miaozhou, which belongs to Dadu Road. Commanded Wuqing and Xianghe counties.
The palace served as a hunting ground for the emperor. In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was demoted to Miao County and belonged to Tongzhou. This small town is actually not that big, it is a lower-class county town.
The meaning of Miao is concern, concern and reluctance. This place became a town in Tongzhou in later generations. However, before the Qing Dynasty, this was an important city.
Many famous ministers and scholars came from this place. During the Zhengde period, Liu Liu and Liu Qi rebelled, rampaging across Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places, cutting off water transportation and approaching the capital.
In order to strengthen the defense, the county magistrate Guo Mei presided over the construction of the city. The city wall built at that time was only about two miles long, and even the moats for the city protection were not excavated.
In the 22nd year of Jiajing reign, Zhili Inspector Yan Wei and Tongzhou Prefecture Tong Chen Chang presided over the reconstruction, and the surrounding area was expanded to three miles.
A parapet was added to the top of the city wall, and towers were built on each side. It was still a rammed earth city. The wall was one foot or two feet high, one foot wide at the top, and nearly two feet wide at the base.
In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing reign, Lu Zhe, the magistrate of the county, rebuilt it again and inscribed the foreheads of the four gates.
"Gongque", southern name
"Yingxun", Dongyue
"Linjin", Western name
"Tongdu". In the fourth year of Wanli Period, the city walls of Miao County were covered with bricks. At that time, Cao Danmian of Bazhou Bingbei Road, Magistrate Li Zizuo, Magistrate Song Zhi and others successively repaired it, laying bricks on the outside and laying stones on the foundation.
The city was also greatly expanded. The city wall is about 2.5 kilometers long, 6 meters high, 3.6 meters wide at the top, 7.3 meters wide at the bottom, and 1.7 meters high.
There are moats on three sides, nearly 9 meters wide and 4 meters deep. In the east, the Ganggou River was used as the moat, and the north and south gate towers were newly built. The old name was used in the south, and the north gate was changed to
"Gongjing" has a small gate in the east and west. At this time, the regiment training army arrived right outside the south gate.
The rebels and defenders are both camp soldiers, with similar equipment and similar tactics. They were all taught by a master, and it was basically impossible to break the moves.
It looked like they had been fighting for a whole day, and there was no winner or loser, with both sides suffering heavy casualties. Three-eyed muskets and Folan cannons fired at each other above and below the city.
Bows and arrows shoot at each other. People kept falling down after being struck by firearms and runoff. Wang Daan's face turned pale as he looked at the fierce battlefield in front of him.
I wanted to pass here quickly before the war started, but I still ran into the battlefield.
"General Huang, what do you think about this?" Looking at the dense crowd of rebels under the city of Miao County, he had no idea.
The rebels looked so high in morale that they almost didn't look like soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen how much impact the non-payment of pay has on the soldiers.
Now they have rebelled. This is to work for themselves, not to work for the emperor. Everyone's subjective initiative has been greatly mobilized.
It's like taking a shot of chicken blood. Siege the city with great shouts. Huang Hao sighed in his heart, if the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were so energetic, they would not be afraid of Mongolia and Jiannu.
It is true that the Ming army is invincible without paying troops.
"The Zajia family doesn't understand. This Miao County is not a rich place. How can these Qiu Ba scream at the rebels who are climbing the city?" Wang Da'an cursed. These rebels have looted a lot during this time. Everyone has A lot of property was robbed. This drove the frightened camp soldiers into madness.
"There is indeed nothing to rob in Miao County, but the capture of Miao County opened the way to Zhangjiawan. That is one of the termini of the Grand Canal. Private merchant ships are all disembarked there. The prosperity is almost comparable to that of the capital city. To rob Zhangjiawan Jiawan is completely full." Huang Hao said with a sneer.
"Then what should we do? We only have more than 3,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 rebels in this city." Wang Daan said anxiously.
"I am reminded of what a slave of the establishment who was captured at the rocky beach said when the master was starting out."
"What did Jiannu say?" Wang Da'an asked.
"Wolves are never afraid of more sheep." Huang Hao sneered and said, "Let's rush down and defeat them." Wang Daan was stunned, this guy must be crazy.
Huang Hao pulled out his command sword and raised it high. The sharp and slender cavalry sword glowed dazzlingly under the strong afternoon sun.
"Brothers, 10,000 infantrymen are nothing. Come on down with me and defeat them," Huang Hao shouted.
Suddenly, the entire cavalry team let out a roar like a mountain roar and a tsunami. The huge sound came overwhelmingly, immediately alerting the rebels who were attacking the city.
They were shocked to find that a cavalry group was coming behind them. On the top of the city, Wang Jiayin, who was under great pressure, was surprised to find that a cavalry of thousands of people appeared in the distance.
Reinforcements! Unexpectedly, there would be reinforcements. At this time, Huang Hao took the lead and rushed down the slope. Behind him were 3,600 cavalry, closely following Huang Hao, rushing over like a rainbow.
The sound of huge horse hooves was heard, and the ground was shaking. The cavalry quickly dispersed, opening up a skirmish line. To deal with these rebels, there is no need to deal with the Mongolian wall-mounting tactics.
Now, after a long period of fighting, Xinghe Tuanlian has surpassed the Mongols in both equestrian and sword skills.
Not to mention these rabble. In recent days, these originally impoverished soldiers have plundered a lot of property after robbing them.
The guards and battalions everywhere were defeated at the first touch and had no fighting power. This made them so confident that they thought they had no opponents.
In fact, these people, like them, have no will to fight because they are not paid. These people run away cowardly.
If you are brave, just join the gang and go out to rob together. At this time, they suddenly saw a large group of cavalry rushing toward them, and they suddenly panicked.
The infantry had already been frightened by the cavalry. For two hundred years, Jizhen has been using infantry to deal with cavalry. Although the Ming Dynasty's army did not lack horses, after all, the horse administration in Beizhili went deep into the grassroots and even forced horse breeders to go bankrupt, which led to a large-scale rebellion among the horse households led by Liu Liu and Liu Qi.
But the court is short of money. The pay of one cavalryman was the cost of at least seven infantrymen. Infantry fighting cavalry is similar to today's infantry fighting tanks.
It is basically a highly difficult act of seeking death. Otherwise, a Tatar's head would not be given fifty taels of silver and promoted to one level.
The Arabian horse ran quickly and arrived at the city in a blink of an eye. Following Huang Hao's order, countless cavalry swords were drawn out with a swipe.
Suddenly, a ray of sunlight almost blinded the eyes of these rebels.
