Ma Dengyun looked at the unconscious Tan Shide, waved his hand, and asked the soldiers to carry their commander into the city quickly. He stood there by himself like an iron tower, holding a simple knife.
He didn't turn back until the last person entered the city. The suspension bridge behind him made a heart-wrenching sound. was slowly pulled up. Jianu was obviously stunned. Didn't come in pursuit.
The cavalry did not return and wandered away as agreed, while the driver caused trouble for the enemy. Let the enemy not dare to attack the city wholeheartedly. If there is no threat outside the city, the enemy will surround the city. This will lead to passivity.
Ma Dengyun walked out of the city gate and saw about thirty women opposite, wearing armor and holding torches. One person in front of them was in military uniform, with a wide cowhide girdle tied around his waist and a long sword of the Imperial Forest Army hanging on his waist. Wearing a red cloak. It is his wife Malan.
"It's such a cold day, Madam, why did you go out and endure the cold?" Ma Dengyun was moved and held Madam's cold hands, warming her while saying distressedly.
The outside of the Great Wall is not as good as the inside. The temperature is 20 to 30 degrees below zero, and it is not easy to stand for half a night. The armor is covered with white frost. Apparently, after Madeng Yun left the city for a sneak attack, she was waiting for him to come back here. It's almost dawn now.
"Master, after all, I am a skilled archer and horseman. If there is a special situation, I can help you." Malan said with a smile.
The two led the horse back.
"Sir, it went well to steal the camp tonight. I saw General Tan being carried back. He seemed to be seriously injured."
"It's not like you don't know Jiannu, how can anyone be so easy to fight? They were so arrogant that they didn't even dare to prepare for us to sneak attack. They were caught off guard at the beginning. We took advantage of the chaos and killed more than a thousand people. But very quickly Soon they controlled the chaos, and the situation became unfavorable. At the end of the fight, our soldiers and servants were still able to compete with them. Ordinary soldiers, one general banner cannot defeat more than ten people."
Ma Dengyun said in a tone of voice, it’s okay not to mention the morale of the Ming army.
There is no solution to this problem, because the crux of the problem lies in arrears or even non-payment of wages.
"Master, don't be discouraged. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. At least we have a foothold in the city. The art of war has it that those who were good at fighting in the past first made themselves invincible, waiting for the enemy to be victorious. The invincible lies in ourselves, but the victorious lies in the enemy. We Defend the city tightly and find another opportunity to kill them."
Ma Dengyun looked at Madam's heroic profile and smiled warmly.
After so many years, Alan is still the same, unchanged at all. Not at all like a mother who gave birth to four children.
In a daze, he seemed to have returned to Datong Town twenty years ago.
That year, his father asked him to bring gifts to visit the Ma family in Datong Town. It was said that a marriage was arranged for him back then and he was asked to go to Ma Mansion in Datong Town.
Give Mr. Ma a New Year's gift and take a look at his fiancée.
He was young at that time, and his horses were hoofed in the spring breeze. On the grassland outside Datong City, he met a heroic girl who was riding a horse and hunting with her maid.
That glance made his heart skip a beat. The girl looked at his stupid look, laughed like a silver bell, and rode away.
In a blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. The young lady from the Ma family has already given birth to three boys and one girl.
Ma Lan felt that he didn't respond, turned her head in surprise, and suddenly blushed. They are already an old couple, why is the master still looking at her blankly like he did when he was young.
"Master," Malan said angrily.
"Ah, haha, I just remembered what happened on the battlefield and was fascinated." Ma Dengyun smiled awkwardly.
The two were speechless for a moment, and Ma Dengyun silently took her hand.
She held the horse and lowered her head, feeling her cheeks feel a little hot. It’s been so many years since I’ve had such a warm hand-in-hand walk. They walked in silence, enjoying their own time.
"Master, do you think Chifeng City can be defended?" Malan suddenly whispered.
"Whether we can defend it or not, we have to defend it. The imperial court is determined to keep the enemy out of the country. Hehe, there is no choice for us. Our two families have been guarding the country and guarding the border for more than a hundred years.
, if the city falls, there will only be death, but it will not bring shame to the ancestors. "
"Master, you sent all the children to Yinchuan in advance, are you worried that you won't be able to keep them?" Ma Yun asked.
"It's enough to have us here. There's no need to catch up with them. Tan'er is already twenty this year. If anything happens, he can take good care of his younger siblings. The fields and shops in the house are enough for them to live on. Don't think about this. Heng. The next thing I want to do is fight to the death with Jiannu."
Ma Dengyun also felt a little sad and angry in his heart. The cabinet was giving completely blind orders. This arrangement was bound to fail miserably. If Chifeng City was lost, the whole Rehe gate would be opened. He would definitely not be able to escape the blame.
It was impossible to retreat. If he died here, the emperor could still consider his sacrifice and take care of the Ma family.
If he loses ground and retreats, he may bring trouble to the family. In fact, he had no choice.
Why doesn't Malan know this truth? Although the current emperor is young, he is very strict and strict. There may not necessarily be rewards for meritorious deeds, but losing ground may result in a beheading.
The two of them were relatively speechless for a moment, and both sighed.
Early the next morning, the sound of horns came from all directions. Then hundreds of big cowhide drums beat loudly. Madengyun climbed up to the tower, opened the window, and looked around, only to see the black mass of the Mongolian army approaching overwhelmingly.
Jiannu held the line from behind. There are also many Han military flags pushing Franco machine guns and turret carts, and many slaves pushing carts are slowly leaving the camp and rushing towards the city wall.
Madeng Yun frowned, he hated these carriages very much.
The shield on the Eight Banners Cart is made of thick wooden boards covered with cowhide and iron sheets. The car made in this way "will not move when hit by small bricks, rolls down when hit by large bricks, and will not burn when thrown by firewood", which has a very special effect. Strong defense.
Although the Ming army has been equipped with a large number of firearms, these firearms are mainly aimed at the unarmored and lightly armored Mongolian light cavalry, so their power is seriously insufficient when facing the chariots.
Ma Dengyun knew that this kind of carriage was the result of Jiannu stealing the Ming Dynasty and adding his own improvements.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to deal with the threat from the "Northern Barbarians" Mongolia, a group of military strategists such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou developed a chariot camp that was "encircled by chariots and used to attack the enemy with muskets and cannons."
The Ming army used chariots as vehicles carrying firearms and movable barriers, effectively restraining the Mongolian army, which was famous for its cavalry. In the twelfth year of Wanli (1584), Nurhachi, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, used the carriage when he unified the various tribes in Manchuria and attacked the Mardun Mountain City.
During the siege, Nurhachi ordered three carriages to advance side by side in an attempt to cover the soldiers from reaching the city wall.
It was from that time on that Jiannu paid more and more attention to the carriage. They developed many tactics. Some are field tactics. Some are siege tactics. There are also tactics to deal with cavalry. In the battle to defeat the camel cannon of Galdan Camel City, the tactics of chariots to restrain cavalry played a great role.
Now, it is obvious that Huang Taiji used the siege method of the carriage to attack Tongliao City.
Ma Dengyun observed carefully and found that in every Niulu of Jiannu, there were four carriages for every one hundred people, operated by twenty-five soldiers. These people were hiding behind the shields of the carriages. It was difficult to hit them with the bows, arrows and muskets on the city wall.
Behind each cart were a group of more than twenty people. They also had shields on their heads, and there were carts in front of them, so it was basically impossible to attack them. And once they push the cart to the bottom of the city, they will immediately put up ladders to climb up the city.
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