Chapter 228: Chaos
She Chongming left more than 5,000 people for She Yin to guard the Chishui Guards, while he led nearly 20,000 main troops to attack Yongning. In She Chongming's view, in the past few years, Luo Qianxiang would only be able to raise the city walls and dig a few more ditches at best. After all, it was his home base that he had been running for generations. In such a short period of time, Luo Beigou could not convince the public no matter what. Sun Jie, the evil star, went to Guizhou and could no longer support him. As long as he climbed up and shouted, even though he did not dare to say that the city There are so many people who respond, and the rebellious dog will definitely never be able to sleep peacefully again. Not only did he have to deal with the army outside the city, but he also had to dedicate a large part of his strength to keep an eye on the villages in Yongning. It didn't require a hard fight. As long as the army was stationed outside the city in an attacking posture, the huge pressure from both inside and outside would sooner or later be squeezed out. The rebellious dog ran away with its tail between its legs.
What King She never expected was that the first wave of offensive failed as soon as it was launched. If he had not been experienced in facing the enemy and ordered the withdrawal of troops in time, I am afraid that not hundreds of people would have died, but one or two thousand, or even more loyal people would have died. An elite veteran!
The walls in Yongning were indeed heightened and there were a few more trenches. Naturally, the Luo rebel dogs also dug a lot of pits, with sharp bamboo sticks inserted upside down... But these are nothing, they are all due to She Chongming. as expected. King She calculated the outcome of the battle as follows: it would cost almost a thousand lives to get back the lair. Added some difficulty? Well, then add another thousand lives!
However, what She Chongming didn't expect was that when the spies reported, Luo Beigou actually placed at least twenty or thirty cannons on the wall at once!
Luo BeiGou has a cannon?
And there are so many! real or fake?
It must have been Sun Jie, the general of the Han Dynasty, who taught Luo Rebel Dog how to forge cannons. He has actually made so many new cannons in the past few years!
Well, if just a few dozen cannons are not incapable of being fired, at worst, a thousand lives may be added to it. If you risk yourself and get blasted by him for five or six rounds, those cannons will have to stop and wait for the temperature to cool down. As long as you can climb the wall, most of the chances of victory are still with you. Thinking of this, She Chongming began to think about whether to press all the soldiers up at once and give them a thunderous strike - if each attack had to endure so many rounds of bombardment, it would definitely cost a lot more lives.
With an order, the Yongning army rushed toward the city wall with overwhelming shouts. King She sent half of his men out first, giving Luo Beigou a half-truth and a half-false show of strength. Regardless of whether he could succeed with one blow, he would take the lead in the first battle and gain momentum. On the one hand, it puts pressure on Luo Beigou; on the other hand, it lets the people in the city know that the old boss is coming back, and he is fighting back with great momentum - once people's hearts are moved, Luo Beigou's life becomes more and more difficult. Got it! With these seven or eight thousand people rushing forward with all their strength, Luo Beigou could only fire two or three rounds, right? After leaning against the wall, there should be about 70% to 80% left. At that time, we will decide whether to push everyone up in one go based on the progress of the battle.
It's a pity that in this battle, artillery is actually a supporting role!
Although they have clearly entered the range of the artillery, there is no sign of counterattack on the wall. She Chongming is wondering whether the row of black holes on the wall is a decoration for Luo Rebel Dog to scare people. The crowd at the front is two sides away from the wall. Three hundred steps away, people fell down wailing and screaming. The people behind didn't know what was going on. They kept running forward to avoid the expected bombardment, and then fell to the ground and rolled over with the same screams... She Chongming, who was watching the battle on the slope behind the formation, naturally also Not knowing what happened, he stared dumbly at the strange sight in front of him, until in his field of vision, three to four thousand warriors crowded into a dense mass two hundred steps away from the wall, and then, a wave of fire erupted from the top of the wall. White smoke accompanied by orange-yellow fire!
The continuous roar hit She Chongming's eardrums again and again. It was hard to count how many sounds there were, but there were indeed twenty or thirty puffs of smoke rising from the wall - that was really twenty or thirty cannons! She Chongming, who had suffered a heavy loss from Sun Jie's rocket, specifically asked the soldiers to wear rattan armor and just hold rattan plates. If they were hit by a rocket, they could abandon it on the spot. In front of a thousand iron pills, not to mention shield cards, what can even iron armor do?
But, since there are so many real guys, why did Luo Beigou put the Yongning Army so close to fight? As long as he rushes at full speed, these two to three hundred steps are only a matter of a few breaths. Luo Beigou must know such a simple truth, and it is impossible for these elite veterans under him to not understand - what is holding them back? ?
Upon seeing this, She Chongming immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops. Soon after, the soldiers who withdrew from the front line got something that made them scream and fall to the ground and stop moving forward: iron caltrops.
This is an extremely simple infantry armor: it is just four iron spikes. No matter how you throw it, one triangle will always land on the ground, and another two or three-inch long spike will point straight to the sky. Not to mention the Miao soldiers who were accustomed to barefooted straw sandals, even the elite officers and soldiers who wore combat boots would still get a bloody hole in the sole of their foot as soon as they stepped on it! There are two common types of caltrops. One is used for temporary deployment when marching and camping. It has holes in the middle and is connected with ropes. There are six pieces in a bunch. After camping, they are scattered outside the camp and collected in bunches before breaking camp the next day. Sun Jie taught Luo Gan. The one spread by Xiangbu is another kind of permanent defense weapon: the only difference between the two is that there is no hole in the middle, and the four iron thorns are longer - because if it is spread, it will not be recycled again. In order to ensure the defense effect, it will last for a long time. Uncovered by wind, sand, rocks, fallen leaves, etc., the iron thorns were more than three inches and nearly four inches long.
Of course Luo Qianxiang, who seemed to be loyal but had a clean heart, knew that Zhang Heming had Sun Jie locked up in Chengdu and pinned himself down in Yongning to shield him from She Chongming's knife. She Chongming wanted to recapture his lair wholeheartedly, but he almost certainly couldn't count on any support from Chengdu Prefecture, so he also spent a lot of thought on city defense. Fortunately, during several hurried meetings, Sun Jie not only brought a cannon-casting master from the army and a large amount of pig iron, but also helped him come up with the good idea of using iron caltrops for defense. Luo Qianxiang not only scattered a lot of grass seeds, but also deliberately scattered a lot of grass seeds at the same time. It didn't take long for these thorns to disappear into the vigorously growing grass. Unless a large number of people were organized to completely renovate the land, this land would be destroyed every step of the way!
Then, Luo Qianxiang waited patiently, until most of the dark Yongning Army in front of him was trapped in the iron caltrop formation, and the artillery crews with little experience and accuracy could only point their muzzles at the dense crowds. , two rounds of cannons easily killed five to six hundred of them.
She Chongming was in trouble: How could this caltrop formation be broken? Organize old and young people to dig soil under the muzzle of the cannon? Unless forced with a knife, no one would be willing to take the initiative to die - She Chongming knew that even if he could be ruthless enough to do so, even if he cleared the passage under the bombardment of Luo's dog, even if he finally got Yongning back, he would lose his life. If you lose people's hearts, you will be at the end of your rope. Use sand bags to create a path? Don’t even think about it! How wide can the pad be? In the early stage, Luo Beigou didn't even need any intervention. The more than twenty cannons on the wall were adjusted and aimed at the passage, waiting for their own people to rush up. Then they fired one after another with their eyes closed. No matter how many people there were, they wouldn't be enough to die. !
In addition to the hundreds of people who died on the spot after being shot, there were more than a thousand wounded soldiers whose soles were pierced and unable to walk. Although I have never heard of terms such as infection and tetanus, She Chongming knows based on experience that probably less than half of these people will die miserably and painfully in the near future: rust is poisonous, and the high fever after the wound suppurates is a hurdle. Whether you can survive it all depends on your luck and the blessings of your ancestors and gods.
That damn Luo rebel dog actually sent a hundred people to the Tribulus Formation in a big way, and dropped thousands of additional coins in full view of King She’s followers!
When She Chongming was in a dilemma, She Yin, who was left behind to guard Chishui, sent an urgent message, asking him to return to the army immediately: something big happened in Usa Mansion, and An Bangyan asked him to send troops to rush to the rescue.
In fact, Wusa was not originally Anxiaoliang's territory, but Zhanyi, Yunnan (today's Xuanwei) was. An Xiaoliang was the son of An Shaoqing, the chieftain of Zhanyi. The ancestors of the chieftains of Pu'an, Zhanyi, Shuixi, Wumeng and Wusa were all Longmu. They were connected by land and had been relatives for generations. The history books record that "Sichuan Wusa Military and Civilian Mansion, Although Zhanyi Prefecture in Yunnan is under the separate jurisdiction of Yunnan and Shu, the sect has the same origin." However, after several generations, chieftains from various places often had no heirs, and a huge contradiction emerged: the locals wanted to be inherited by the old chieftain's side branches, while the chieftains from other places had no heirs. Clan relatives, especially those with many sons in the family, would inevitably covet him. Theoretically speaking, they did have the same legal status as the local branch of the old chieftain.
If your tongue can't solve the problem, use your teeth - can't we reach an agreement? Then fight. As a result, a strange sight appeared in the areas of northern Yunnan, southern Sichuan, and western Guizhou: Look at the genealogy, they are close relatives, but they are incompatible with each other. Sometimes the two tribes are obviously incompatible with each other in terms of blood. They fought over a certain piece of land, but after getting married once, they became allies and shared the same hatred!
An Shaoqing was in great power when he was alive. It happened that Tusi Wusa died and there was no successor. The eldest son An Yunlong could inherit the benefits in the future, so he asked his second son An Xiaoliang to seize it. An Yunlong died soon after. An Shaoqing and An Xiaoliang, father and son, were close to each other. One was at the throat of Yunnan and Shu, and the other was the gateway to Qujing, dominating one side. Unexpectedly, after An Shaoqing's death, Zhanyi would immediately fall into this situation: An Shaoqing originally had two sons, the eldest son An Yunlong and his two grandsons died one after another. The combined forces resisted An Xiaoliang, who wanted to take Zhanyi and Wusha as their own, and they even won the battle! So An Xiaoliang had no choice but to guard Wusa Mansion honestly.
An Xiaoliang raised troops to respond to An Bangyan and sent troops to Guizhou with more than 10,000 troops. In addition to having a good relationship with Elder An, it was also because An Bangyan promised to help him regain the benefits when the big event was decided. But in this case, Usa Mansion seemed empty. In the past, there was no need to worry when Zhang Heming came to Fuchuan, but when Zhu Xieyuan took office, he went to Guizhou and immediately ordered Yunnan to attack Wusha. The Long family also knew that if An Xiaoliang was not beaten to the ground, their only precious son Guan Bao would have to face his uncle's machete sooner or later. In addition, they only actually took advantage of Zhan and did not obtain official approval from the court. He admitted that Mr. Zhu was the governor of the five provinces and had a good reputation. As long as he sincerely worked hard, he would never treat himself badly, so without saying anything, he went straight to Wusa with the officers and soldiers sent by the governor of Yunnan!
Shibai is bent on avenging An Wei's sister and An Xiaoliang's first wife. Master Zhu has said in black and white that his precious son An Qijue will be the boss of Wusha in the future, and she also has a clan! Although Wumeng in southern Sichuan (now Zhaotong, Yunnan) has limited strength, in normal times they have to swallow their anger, but how long will it take if they don't take action at this moment?
The empty Ussa Mansion immediately faced threats from the west and south.
An Xiaoliang couldn't hold back his anger, and hurriedly went to find An Bangyan to return to his hometown for reinforcements. Knowing that the evil star Sun Jie followed Zhu Xieyuan into Guizhou, An Xiaoliang was the most capable of his men. How could An Bangyan dare to let him go back at this time? So the situation turned out to be as Luo Qianxiang had judged in advance, and She Chongming needed to be transferred to be the fire captain.
