Fire Sieve never paid attention to the generals of the Ming Dynasty.
As the well-deserved number one warrior in the grassland, he has never been at a disadvantage in battles with the Ming Dynasty. Even in the battle at Helan Mountain in the first year, Wang Yue fought against Dayan Khan's men, and he did not suffer any loss.
For Wang Yue...
Huo Si felt that he was already a figure from his father's generation and it was time to go to the grave.
But when he heard that Wang Yue personally led the troops at such a special time and in such a special scene, he felt an unprecedented feeling from the bottom of his heart.
It is a kind of tribe that will be defeated, the future is unpredictable, and may even lead to death and annihilation——
fear.
"Reorganize the troops and rely on city defense..."
Firesieve ordered.
But before he could finish his words, there was a loud noise less than fifty steps away.
The house was blown directly into the sky, and what fell to the ground were not only bricks, rocks, sand, but also broken limbs.
Looking at the direction of the city gate tower, there are already several gaps in the city wall. It is almost impossible to use the city wall as a defense to get close. And if you stay in the city, who knows where it will suddenly explode? It seems like every inch of the city is unsafe.
"Grand Master, there are Ming Dynasty troops in the south, east and southwest of the city. The enemy situation is unknown."
The Piantou Pass of the Ming Dynasty did not have city gates on the north and west sides, because the Ming army did not need to leave the pass. The two sides were either battlements built on steep cliffs or towering towers for defense. Used by Tatars.
Now the Tatars have circled back and entered the Piantou Pass. There are only city gates near the southeast of the Ming Dynasty for entry and exit, and these gates all have barbicans. Who knows whether the Ming Dynasty's army will enter the barbicans and then ambush inside the barbicans. , fight with it?
Fire sieves the generals around them.
However, he found that due to the ongoing robbery and the inexplicable explosion, it was actually difficult for the tribal warriors under his command to form effective resistance.
In other words... I don't even know where the enemy is.
"Organize the army!"
Huoshai pulled his war horse over, without even a single follower beside him, so he mounted his horse and raised his sword, as if he could single-handedly reverse the occupying warriors, relying on his prestige to inspire the soldiers he saw along the way.
At his call, many Tatar cavalry reorganized and regrouped. The materials that had been looted and piled up to be transported out of the city were ignored, and many were even burned directly.
Robbery and the like can only be put aside.
Decisive battles are no child's play.
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The explosions in the city continue.
Outside the city gate, Wang Yue had completed his raid on the Huile tribe.
The Huile tribe had less than 300 soldiers and horses. Facing the attack of Wang Yue's 2,000 cavalry, only sporadic arrows were shot out during the initial battle, and one arrow even hit Wang Yue's armor. But this was nothing to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
The cavalry defeated Huile's camp with just one attack.
Because Wang Yue had issued a military order in advance to "don't pursue the enemy when the enemy is in trouble", more than half of the soldiers and horses in Huile's army fled towards the northern gap. Wang Yue did not have enough soldiers and horses to pursue him, and his goal was not to pile up a large number of troops in Huile's army. Xiaoshan's supplies, he wanted to hold the pass south of Piantou Pass and wait for the defeated Tatar remnants to flee from inside.
The other two sides.
Cavalry teams of 500 people each have arrived near the south and east gates of the city, and have set up artillery and lined up firecrackers.
As artillery joined the battle, it became a situation where the Ming Dynasty army used artillery to attack the gates of their own cities, while the Tatars took advantage of the danger and defended it.
However, the Tatar cavalry in the city continued to run out from the city gate or the gaps in the city wall in an organized manner... At this time, the tribal-based organization of the Tatar army was not disrupted. When fleeing outside the city, the explosions around the city walls continued, and the Tatar cavalry had to disperse the cavalry team as much as possible while fleeing to reduce the number of people "ascend" in each explosion.
"General, the tribal flag of Fire Sieve has been found at the city gate. Fire Sieve may be inside the city gate!"
Wang Yue was guarding the city gate and had not achieved much results yet.
But as the intelligence came, the soldiers under his command also cheered up.
To catch a turtle in an urn, he actually pressed the fire sieve himself into the urn, and even the fire sieve could be pressed to the ground and rubbed... This fight was probably the most hard-core war since Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty.
Although there are fewer people on our side, under such a situation, if the defenders in the city do not run out, it is equivalent to "drawing" and waiting to die... An explosion may occur at any time, which will shatter their bones.
So they don't even need to do anything, they just stand guard at the city gate. If the Tatars come out, they will surround them and kill them. If they don't come out, they will wait...
Is there any more comfortable way to fight than this?
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Compared with the relaxed and comfortable situation of the soldiers and horses in the east and south of the city, the breakout and counter-breakout battles in the southwestern part of the city were more intense.
The Ming Dynasty only deployed five hundred soldiers and horses here, and this was where the camp where the Fire Sieve Division was stationed before entering the city. After the war started, many piles of grain and grass were burned, and the night was lit up. The Tatar soldiers and horses in the city discovered, The Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses were relatively weak on this side, so the Tatar soldiers and horses in the city preferred to break out from this side.
In the south of the city is where the King's Yue Army is located.
The messengers urgently conveyed the news from the southwest of the city: "Uncle, the Tatars have rushed out from the west corner gate with thousands of soldiers and horses, and they are almost unable to withstand them!"
Wang Yue seemed not to know that there were these five hundred people at all, and said coldly: "Everyone is guarding his position. Even if all the troops on either side are gone, you are not allowed to leave without permission!"
Just as he was talking, there were still sporadic people breaking through from the main gate in the south of the city, but before they could rush out, there was another violent explosion in the barbican. With the collapse of the barbican, in addition to dozens of Tatar cavalry being buried, the people in the south of the city from the city gate tower When I arrived at Wengcheng, there were basically no walls still standing there...
This side has been basically flattened.
The war advances.
Although the explosion in the city was violent, the Tatars gathered in different directions and the nitroglycerin needed someone to detonate it, so the explosion in the city did not cause much damage to the Tatars.
The main reason is to deter their military morale.
Wang Yue was outside the city, looking up at the stars in the sky. Midnight had already passed. After the explosions in the city subsided slightly, Wang Yue seemed to feel that the war must enter the second stage.
"Fire!"
Following his order, three artillery blasts were heard.
In the Ming Dynasty, the main method of conveying orders was the firing of artillery. The number of artillery blasts was important. The signal bombs... could not fly high and were difficult to see from a distance. It was not as direct and clear as the sound of artillery.
After three cannons were fired, Wang Yue raised the long sword that had made him famous in the battle at Weininghai and shouted: "Kill!"
"boom!"
A bigger explosion sounded.
This was the signal for a gap to open in the north of the city after three cannon shots.
With these explosions, the gate tower of the northern city wall of the Ming Dynasty Piantou Pass will also be blown up and collapsed... The Tatars can have a "survival path" to break out to the north precisely because they have prepared such a survival path. , Wang Yue could also use his three thousand soldiers and horses to directly charge past the Piantou Pass where ten thousand Tatar soldiers and horses were stationed.
Are you brave and good at fighting, good at defeating more with less?
Today I want to show you what a real tiger is. I will attack your city with three thousand soldiers and horses.
If you can, don't run away. Let's fight to the death!
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A bloody battle has only really begun at this time.
The previous crazy bombings and the Tatar breakout were just appetizers. As Wang Yue led his troops into the city, the real battlefield fighting began.
Just when Wang Yue launched his offensive.
Zhu Feng, who was in the east of the city, was in a daze watching the Tatars running out of the city sporadically.
He was also calculating in his mind, just like when doing business in the past, he always had to count on his fingers... A Tatar's head is very valuable, and if he exchanges it for military merit... he can probably make a lot of money.
The problem is not just one or two, but in this moment alone, his group has harvested no less than fifty Tatars... some were captured, and some were directly slaughtered.
"Young Master, my uncle has given the order to attack the city!"
The deputy general sent by Wang Yue reminded Zhu Feng who was still in a daze.
Zhu Feng looked at the corner gate in the east of the city and shivered, not knowing whether it was the cold or something else.
This way of standing at the door to gain military glory is simply too wonderful. Why do you want to rush into the city and risk your life?
How many Tatar ghosts are there in the city? He only brought five hundred people with him!
"If you don't enter the city, you will delay the war! General Zhu!"
The deputy general was also anxious.
I call you Young Master, you are so stupid that you don’t hear me. Then instead of calling you based on your birthplace, call you General Zhu instead. It’s time for you to cheer up, right?
Zhu Feng said: "If we enter the city, wouldn't it be... a street fight?"
The lieutenant general said: "The men under your command are all fierce generals personally selected by Uncle Weining. As long as you enter the city, there will be warriors protecting you. Please give the order!"
"Then...then come in..."
Zhu Feng wanted to cry but had no tears.
I'm having a lot of fun picking up money here. Would you like me to continue picking up money for a while?
You have to let me go in and fight...
Sure enough, pie-in-the-sky things can't last long, and you still have to rely on your own hands at critical times... I'm a thin-skinned and tender-meat person, so let me fight the Tatars to the death.
My youthful life of hanging out and waiting for death without any worries, running around in the sunset, is gone forever!
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The five hundred cavalry led by Zhu Feng had not yet entered the city.
Just as there was a loud "boom", the city wall on the east side of the city was also blown open.
Some of the Tatars who were still on the city wall preparing to put up a stubborn resistance were directly blown away, some were buried under the city bricks, and more of them took advantage of the situation and fled into the city because the news had come... to the north of the city. A hole was opened by the explosion. Although there were not many vehicles and horses that could pass through, in some places it was necessary to set up ladders behind the city wall to escape...
But at least there is no need to run to the south or east of the city. That is the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
After leaving the pass, heading north... there is an endless prairie.
That's where they live.
"kill!"
Zhu Feng had no confidence at all and hid near the end of the line.
But when he discovered that the city wall had been blown down and that there were still a few Tatars, but now not even a ghost could be seen, he suddenly felt a little more heroic.
Isn't it just hard work?
After all, I, Zhu Feng, am a member of a famous family. My ancestors shed blood and made meritorious service for Emperor Taizong.
I can't rush to the front, I just hide behind the team and show off, letting others work hard while I wait to get some credit...
That's okay, right?
(End of chapter)
