Chapter 336
"General Lee!"
Li Dingguo suddenly turned around, only to find that it was Cheng Shijie's personal soldier Hou Hou, whose surname was Hou, and his real name was Hou Si Wuji, which can also be said to be Si, one, two, three, four.
"Why are you back?"
Hou Si said: "I have a way, which may be able to solve the problem at hand!"
"What?"
Li Dingguo asked happily: "What can you do?"
"General Li, you are also going to Jingan Fort. You should know what method the commander used to stop Tuxie Tuhan's 60,000 to 70,000 troops, right?"
Li Dingguo thought of the crux of the problem: "Breastwork?"
"That's right!"
Hou Si pointed to the city. Now the Mongolian army could not wait to launch an offensive. They used whips to drive countless people towards the city wall of Pingding Prefecture. Anyone who moves slightly slowly will be whipped with the strongest whip. When the whip is applied, there will be a trace of blood. Driven by leather whips, thousands of civilians carrying sandbags stumbled toward the city wall of Pingding Prefecture. Their desperate expressions could be clearly seen from such a distance.
Now the Mongolian army does not expect to be able to attack the city wall using the method of attacking the city with ants. They drove away the captured Ming people and asked them to carry sandbags and prepare to build a slope under the city wall of Pingding Prefecture. As long as the slope is built, Their Mongolian army can ride on their war horses and rush to Pingdingzhou City along this slope.
Hou Si spoke faster and faster: "We can actually abandon Pingdingzhou City now and follow Pingdingzhou to the southeast. There is a valley section for nearly thirty miles. We can hold the valley section. We retreat while building a snow wall. Let the Mongols drive these people to dig snow walls, and let us compete now, whether we can build snow walls faster or they can dig snow walls faster!"
Li Dingguo sighed and said: "The idea is good and has certain feasibility, but it's a pity that we don't have time!"
Li Dingguo could clearly see through the telescope that the first people to come up carrying sandbags were gray-haired and wrinkled old men! At their age, they should be having fun with their grandchildren at home and enjoying family happiness. However, now they are being beaten mercilessly by the enemy's whips and driven away, staggering towards this meat grinder. The battlefield is coming!
Li Dingguo naturally knew that the method mentioned by Hou Si was feasible to a certain extent. However, the problem was that this place was different from the Baihe River Valley. From Jingan Fort through the Great Wall defense line to Miyun County, there was only one road, and that was the Baihe Ancient Road. Cheng Shijie At that time, we only had to defend this route, which was sixty or seventy miles long. The widest point was only 1,780 steps, and the narrowest point was less than 500 steps.
But the problem is that things are different after Pingding Prefecture. After Pingding Prefecture, there are two roads, the southern route and the northern route, that can lead directly to Yangquan. Li Dingguo does not have many people under his command. Once the troops are divided, whether it is the southern route or the northern route, On the northern front, each defense line only had an average of two thousand men, and the Ning navy was almost out of ammunition and food.
More importantly, Ning Haijun has too few troops, and God knows whether Xie Zhiliang's old troops, those defeated troops, can still be relied on. Will they defect in the face of battle because the Mongolian army has captured their relatives?
It's okay to guard the city. If they are asked to retreat, will they herd the sheep immediately? Li Dingguo didn't dare to bet. If Li Dingguo was asked to command 10,000 Ning naval infantry, he would definitely dare to do so, even if it was 5,000 troops, but the problem was, he didn't dare to bet now.
Shuolei looked at the big banner with the word "Cheng" on the wall of Pingding Prefecture, with a ferocious smile on his face: "Cheng Shijie, I want to see if you are really ruthless. Facing so many old people, can you be ruthless? Order the archer to shoot! If your heart is really that hard, it doesn’t matter. I still have thousands of women and thousands of children in my hands, and I will send them to you in batches to kill. Let’s see how long you can endure it!”
As these gray-haired old men got closer and closer to the city wall, the Ming soldiers guarding the city wall began to cry. As they cried, they held rifles or crossbows: "Don't come here again, or you will die if you come here again." of!"
At this moment, an old man with white hair and a Confucian shirt among the crowd knelt down towards Pingding Prefecture City. He kowtowed to Pingding Prefecture City and shouted at the top of his voice: "We are not helping the tyrants to do evil. In fact, It is a last resort. The old man is not afraid of death, and it is not a pity to die. However, the old man’s grandson is only one year old. He does not deserve to die, he deserves to live..."
The hundreds of households from Pingding Prefecture who were guarding the city wall lowered their voices and said: "He is from Pingding Prefecture..."
Before he finished speaking, the old man didn't know where he got the strength to carry more than a hundred kilograms of sandbags and ran towards the city wall. Under his leadership, dozens or hundreds of old people speeded up.
"boom……"
A bullet flew more than a hundred steps away, and hit the old man's forehead. The bullet entered from the forehead, but penetrated through the back of the head, and took a large piece of skull with it. Half of the old man's head had been shattered by the rifle.
Li Dingguo put down the smoking gun barrel: "Fire!"
Whether they were crossbowmen or archers, they gritted their teeth and fired. Bullets and crossbow arrows flew everywhere for a while, but the problem was that the shooting effect was too poor. Many soldiers, even Ning Haijun, fired with their eyes closed. Yes, they really couldn't bear to shoot at the people of Ming Dynasty.
However, although the hit rate was very poor, many people were hit by arrows or bullets and fell to the ground screaming.
The old people who were trying to build up the earth fell down one by one. Those who were still alive held the arrow shafts that were deeply pierced into their bodies and let out screams of extreme pain. Every scream was like a knife, stabbing fiercely. The heart of the Ming army.
Especially those defeated soldiers who retreated from Taiyuan, their eyes were covered with a layer of blood! If they had not retreated without a fight and abandoned Taiyuan, even if the enemy troops marched in, how could these old people who had worked hard all their lives suffer such a fate! If they hadn't fled and lost all the castles along Taiyuan, turning Pingding Prefecture into an isolated city, how could these kind old people have suffered such misfortune!
Xie Shangkui said with red eyes: "General Li, I am requesting to go to war!"
"As a general, you will not raise an army when you are angry!"
Li Dingguo looked determined: "Righteousness does not manage finances, kindness does not lead to military affairs!"
"They are all innocent!"
"The Marshal once said that in an avalanche, every snowflake is innocent!"
"The fall of Taiyuan has nothing to do with them!"
"How could it be unrelated? They are soldiers. The duty of a soldier is not to scheming, nor to flatter others, but to protect their home and country. When they escaped, didn't they think about today?"
Li Dingguo's words made the surrounding Taiyuan soldiers look angry: "It's the official who ran away, and there's nothing we can do about it!"
Li Dingguo turned to look at Admiral Ning beside him and said, "If you encounter this situation, will you run away?"
"No, Ning Haijun will never take a step back without the commander's order!"
"What if your general runs away?"
"As the supervisor of Ning Haijun, do you think our military law team is just a living wage?"
This situation will definitely not happen to Ning Haijun. Even if a general is bribed, as long as he cannot produce a formal military order, he cannot mobilize more than fifty troops. And like He Sui's attack on Xie Zhiliang, ordinary Ning Haijun soldiers Everyone knows that this is absolutely impossible. Even if a general like "Xie Zhiliang" betrays Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun, the people who do it will only be the military law team, not ordinary soldiers.
Once a general issues such an order to his subordinates, ordinary Ning Navy soldiers will judge that the general has defected to the enemy and rebelled. The most correct thing to do is to arrest him and send him to the Military Justice Department or to a higher-level military supervision department.
This was the real purpose of Cheng Shijie to carry out ideological education when he founded Ning Haijun, without even launching military operations.
Although the soldiers in Taiyuan Prefecture began to intentionally release water, more than two thousand Ning Navy reconnaissance soldiers opened fire in an orderly manner. More than two thousand bolt-action rifles opened fire. This is such a terrifying killing density. Even the heavily armored Jiannu slaves White-armored soldiers can't escape death, let alone a group of old people carrying sandbags?
Within a few volleys, dead bodies were already lying on the ground in front of Dingzhou City, as many as two to three thousand. However, such a "record" could not make the Ming army happy. On the contrary, with every crossbow arrow and bullet fired, their hands trembled even more.
At this moment, someone finally collapsed, threw the crossbow to the ground with a bang, pulled out the crossbow, gasped, and cried out: "I can't stand it anymore! Let me go, I will die with the Tatars." !I'm going to kill the Tatars..."
"boom!"
The revolver in Li Dingguo's hand killed the soldier with one shot.
"Keep firing, or he'll be your example!"
Naturally, these Ming soldiers did not dare to disobey Li Dingguo's orders.
Li Dingguo also knew that if he continued to press hard like this, a mutiny would immediately occur. He began to organize his troops. Li Dingguo said to the surrounding defenders: "Keep the city wall safe, otherwise more people will die!"
"Report to the general, the scout cavalry is ready!"
More than 800 Ning Navy reconnaissance cavalry have already formed up. Some of these cavalrymen have five or six grenades hanging on their bodies, or huge wooden barrels hung on their horses' necks.
In fact, these wooden barrels were like thunder. When Li Dingguo decided to go out of the city to fight back, just like Xie Zhiliang who had been guarding Pingdingzhou City, he had no intention of living.
As the first wave of the Mongol army failed, the second wave of attacking troops, that is, when the women and children began to prepare, the gates of Pingdingzhou City suddenly opened wide.
Li Dingguo rode on a black war horse, raised his sword and said: "Annan Army attacks!"
"attack!"
More than 800 Dutch thermobaric war horses, with their hooves whipping into the wind, rushed out wildly, avoiding the women, children and children who had long been dumbfounded, and headed straight for the royal flag of the Chechen Khan!
The hundreds of Mongolian cavalry wielding sabers and driving these women, children and children to fill the trenches probably never dreamed that the Ming cavalry would dare to open the city and charge out, and they were stunned.
Before they could react, Li Dingguo had already rushed in front of them. He stabbed the centurion with his spear, and with a pop, he stabbed the centurion who was leading the team forward and backward. The speed of his horse did not slow down, and he used the elasticity of the gun barrel to easily move the gun. He drew his spear, and at the moment when he passed by a Mongolian cavalry, he used the horse's spear as a long whip and whipped it towards the unlucky guy with a roar!
The entire horse spear weighed eleven kilograms and seven taels, or about 6.77 kilograms. Such a heavy weapon was as flexible as a branch in his hands. The gun barrel was stretched into a bow shape and hit the Mongolian cavalry's temple hard, snap. The whole head was blown open with one sound.
The several hundred Ming army reconnaissance cavalry were not as brave as Li Dingguo, but in anger, they were like lions and tigers, stabbing with spears and waving their sabers. They killed the hundreds of Mongolian cavalry with one charge, and then followed Li Dingguo's battle flag. Go straight to the royal flag of the Chechen Khan!
The women, children and children who had reacted were still stunned on the spot. The Ming army defenders on the city wall were in a hurry: "Run, run, run into the city!"
With the roar on the city wall, these women, children and children woke up, and they rushed to the city gate. At this time, the Mongolian army had no energy to take care of them, because Li Dingguo had already rushed towards Shuolei's king's flag.
"Protect King Khan!"
Shuolei looked at thousands of Mongolian troops rushing toward him. Behind thousands of Mongolian troops, a black wave was crossing the horizon and approaching here. Every time this black wave approached, The Mongolian army fled faster. Such a strange scene was really surprising.
Nabulun rode out of the formation, drew his saber, and shouted sternly: "Stop the route, anyone who disrupts our formation will die!"
More than two thousand archers drew their bows and arrows, aimed at the fleeing Mongolian soldiers, and shouted in unison: "Anyone who disrupts our army's formation will die!"
Although these thousands of Mongolian troops were beaten out of their bodies, they still had some sense. They knew that if they rushed forward like this and disrupted King Khan's army, and Ning Haijun took advantage of the situation to attack, this place would become a sea of blood. They bypassed the military formation one after another. Although they caused some chaos, they did not disrupt the Khan King's guards in Shuolei as Li Dingguo wanted.
Shuolei was so angry that he whipped Sundusi, the leader of ten thousand men, with a whip. While whipping, he scolded: "You dog-like dog, look at the stupid thing you did. Seven or eight thousand people were defeated by eight hundred people!" The Taichiwu family has been disgraced by you!"
Sundusi is also the surname of a Mongolian aristocrat, and its ancestry can be traced back to Boyan, the famous founding general of Kublai Khan and the prime minister of Zuo. Of course, the word Boyan means wealth in Mongolian, which is roughly equivalent to someone rich in Chinese. , a name like a certain Lai Cai.
"King Khan, this Ming army is full of weirdness. In my opinion, you should be cautious!"
One more thing to say here is that the word slave comes from Mongolian and means dog.
Li Dingguo saw that there were too many men and horses around Shuolei, and that Ning Haijun had no advantage in artillery, so it would be too much of a disadvantage to fight, but he turned and rushed towards the artillery position of the Mongolian army.
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About twenty miles away from Pingding Prefecture, a small cavalry force was advancing desperately. In the middle of the team, there were two horses pulling a fishing net.
Lying on the fishing net was Cheng Shijie, who was wearing a standard Ning Haijun armor. Cheng Shijie slowly woke up after a bumpy ride. He opened his eyes and listened to the whistling sound coming from his ears.
"Come here, what's going on?"
Cheng Shijie remembered what Li Dingguo wanted to report to him, but his eyes went black and he didn't know what happened next.
"Commander!"
Fang Quan didn't know how to explain it to Cheng Shijie.
"Where is this?"
"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, we are still twenty or thirty miles away from Yangquan!"
Fang Quandao: "We will be safe when we reach Yangquan!"
"go back!"
"What?"
"Your fucking ears are stuffed with donkey hair!"
Cheng Shijie showed a fierce, wolf-like gaze: "I want you to go back!"
Fang Quan shook his head and said: "Commander, Pingding Prefecture can no longer be defended. Commander, if you go back, if there is any chance... do you know how hard this will hit Ming Dynasty? If you have any chance, Didn’t those despicable people succeed?”
Cheng Shijie took out his shell gun: "Fang Quan, you are a coward, stop!"
Fang Quan had no choice but to ask the cavalry to stop.
"Commander, if you kill me, I won't let you go back!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Aren't you afraid of death?"
"I'm afraid, but the commander-in-chief can't do anything. The world cannot live without the commander-in-chief!"
(End of chapter)
