I saw the Ming army throwing large objects from the inside of the earthen wall, under the dim light of the fire. The parabolic trajectories landed on the outside of the earthen wall, glowing with fire. In just the blink of an eye, more fire spewed out and began to rotate.
Jianlu just attacked and was caught off guard. Many people were immediately sprayed with fire. Some unlucky ones were even sprayed in the face. They screamed and dropped their weapons and fell to the ground covering their faces.
Moreover, this rotating thing seemed to be smoking. Most of the people in the Jianlu were not burned by the fire, but they lost their weapons one by one, covered their mouths and noses, and some even coughed loudly. Just ran back.
The Ming army threw more than one of these things, but they threw them according to the number of Jianlu in front of them, which was enough to cause considerable chaos to Jianlu. Taking this opportunity, the Ming army inside the earthen wall took the opportunity to shoot arrows and fire, and harvested another wave.
"Ten thousand enemies!" Azig shouted after he came to his senses.
This thing, he suffered a loss once when he attacked Changli County. But since then, he hasn't encountered it again. However, because he suffered too much, he remembered the name of this weapon for defending the city.
He really didn't expect that after so many years, he would see this city-defending weapon again when he faced the Ming army in Guihua City. He didn't know that in fact, tens of thousands of enemies had already used it during the battle in Pyongyang, but he was not there.
In this winter, the cold wind blew from the north. It happened that Jianlu was attacking the north gate. The wind was blowing from north to south. Just in time, the poisonous smoke spewed out by ten thousand enemies was all rewarded to Jianlu. prisoner.
Although Jierhalang didn't know that this weapon for city defense was originally called "Ten Thousand Enemies", he saw that after this thing was thrown out, the Qing warriors were immediately defeated and unable to stand at all. In addition to their quick reactions, they escaped from the beginning. Those and other people were basically knocked down by poisonous smoke, and then shot by bows, arrows, lead bullets, etc. They lay there coughing and struggling before death.
To be honest, at this time, Jierhalang really felt a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart. He had a feeling that the Ming Kingdom was too powerful!
Not only the Ming Dynasty's vast territory and large population, but also the Ming army's endless variety of weapons were far superior to the bows, arrows, swords and guns of the Qing Dynasty. In the past, I always felt that those things were just fancy and useless, and they were far less practical than the bows, arrows, swords and guns of the Qing Dynasty.
However, now, he has experienced it many times. It is not that it is useless, but that the previous Ming Dynasty was corrupt and incompetent, and it was so shoddy that it could not exert its due power. Now that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is so powerful, these things that were previously considered useless have exerted their original power, making it difficult for the Qing Dynasty to resist.
He didn't know that this was the difference between civilization and barbarism. As technology advances, this gap will only grow!
However, the original history is full of endless regrets. Before the superiority of civilization was reflected, it was conquered by barbarism, or it was taken advantage of.
After the Ming army used "ten thousand enemies", the Jianlu were defeated and the fierce fighting was temporarily suspended. Just like two wolves, after biting for a while, they retreated and licked their wounds, but their eyes were fixed on each other, not knowing when they would pounce on each other again.
Sure enough, Jilhalang almost didn't let his men rest for a while, because he knew that time was not on his side. Therefore, he immediately ordered: "Let me bypass them all and attack from the north. The Ming army's ten thousand enemies will be ineffective!"
Inside the earthen wall, troops and generals were obviously being mobilized, and figures were moving back and forth.
The Ming army and Jianlu fought against each other with wits and courage, and the fighting began again.
On a grassland far away from Guihua City, there are countless horses resting here. Many of the horses had saddles and other things on them, and they were obviously war horses.
Yes, these horses were the horses of the Hussars Camp, and they were driven far away from Guihua City. Only in this way can the hussar battalion be able to guard the north and south gates with peace of mind, without having to worry about anything else, and can concentrate their forces to defend them.
The strength of the hussar battalion was limited, and only about 500 soldiers were assigned to guard these horses. Generally speaking, the main thing is to prevent these horses from running away, which will be a big loss.
Of course, just in case, a hundred soldiers were fully armed and on guard, while the other soldiers mostly rested around and watched the horses.
They didn't know that there were more than thirty pairs of eyes staring at them in the dark night.
"Sir, what should we do?" One person suddenly asked the leader in a very low voice.
This person is Ying Erdai outside the city. Previously, he discovered that the Ming army had driven all the horses so far, and after thinking about it for a while, he roughly guessed it. Therefore, he followed under the cover of night.
At this time, he was still worried that there were too few people available. Although the Ming army was small, there were about 500 people at least, but there were only about 30 people on my side. They were about to fight head-on, and they were undoubtedly trying to hit the stone with an egg.
However, he was also a famous person on the Jianlu side who knew how to use his brain. After continuing to observe the movements of the Ming army for a while, he nodded a few people with his hands, and then whispered: "Go around to the south and ride on your horses to drive away those horses. Use as many as possible to create chaos and lead the Ming army to chase you. Take them away, as far away as possible."
After he finished speaking, he tapped a few more people with his hand and ordered them to do the same thing, but this time it was the west side. Of course, there is also one on the east side.
After all this arrangement, he only had twenty people at his disposal.
After the men who had received the mission had gone away under the cover of night, he said to the remaining people: "Everyone should be prepared to seize these horses as soon as the Ming army is transferred." Go to Guihua City. If there are not many people left, kill them first. If there are too many people and we can't beat them, we will split up to create chaos and drive the horses to Guihua City. How to be specific? Will obey my orders!"
"Cha!" His men, even a little more excited, replied to him in an extremely low voice.
After they waited for a while, sure enough, first from the south, there was a sudden commotion of horses, and the commotion became louder in almost a short period of time.
The guarding Ming army was immediately alarmed. The nearby Ming army soldiers suddenly shouted: "No, someone stole the horse!"
Immediately, the nearest group of Ming army soldiers rushed over on horseback. And half of the heavily armed Ming army soldiers immediately left the team and rushed over there.
In this dark night, I don’t know how many people stole horses, and I don’t know who they are? Of course, there are enemies in Guihua City nearby, most likely Jianlu, so we have to rush over to take a look.
Unexpectedly, one wave after another broke out, and the horses on the west side also started to commotion. Apparently there were enemies. On the side of the Ming army officers and soldiers, everyone began to be on guard, and immediately sent another team to rush over to see the situation.
Needless to say, there is also something going on over there in the east.
In just a short while, there were enemies on almost all sides, alarming the resting horses. Without anyone driving them, the horses started running on their own, wanting to change places.
Upon seeing it, the Ming army officers and soldiers were all anxious. If these horses run away, the grassland is so big, who knows where these horses will go!
The five hundred Ming army was already many times that of Ying'erdai's side. It was a lot. But for a group of nearly 30,000 horses, it is really a bit small. Especially these horses are not in the stables, but in the open grassland.
The grassland where this herd of horses was located suddenly became chaotic. There are horses running around everywhere, and there are Ming army soldiers everywhere who want to drive the horses back together.
At the beginning, the soldiers of the Ming army were divided into teams, but later, they couldn't stop them, so they slowly separated.
Ying Erdai couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw it. He immediately led the people around him to start taking action, and ran towards the lone Ming army soldier in an open and honest manner.
Among the Jianlu, Ying Erdai was a linguistic genius and was proficient in more than ten languages, including dialects. At that time, Ming Mandarin was the largest language and the most practical language, so he naturally knew it.
Just like that, he greeted the soldiers of the Ming army in Ming Dynasty Mandarin and greeted them.
In such a panic, how could the Ming army officers and soldiers distinguish whether the group of people they came across was their own or someone else? Seeing him coming so openly, I subconsciously thought that he should be one of my own.
However, when they got closer and could see each other clearly, it was too late.
In this way, after Ying Erdai killed a dozen Ming soldiers in a row, he was finally caught by a group of Ming army soldiers the next time he attacked.
"No, there are prisoners, kill them!" When the soldiers of the Ming army saw them, they immediately shouted loudly, giving their colleagues a reminder, and at the same time they immediately killed them.
As soon as Ying Erdai saw what had happened, he immediately led his men and ran to the horses.
It was too dark and the horses were running around. The Ming army soldiers quickly lost sight of Ying Erdai and others. But in this way, he also knew that the enemy who disturbed the horses was Jianlu.
So, they shouted loudly to remind their colleagues to pay attention to the sneak attacks of Jianlu hiding in the dark.
It was unknown how many enemies there were. In this case, the Ming army soldiers had to give up gathering the horses, but immediately began to gather, and then began to look for traces of the enemies. In this case, naturally he no longer cares about the horses.
Seeing that there was no chance of succeeding again, Ying Erdai immediately led his men, mounted their war horses, and drove as many horses as possible towards Guihua City.
These men of his are all good at herding, otherwise they wouldn't be outside the city. Therefore, although there were only about twenty people, they drove thousands of horses and galloped towards Guihua City.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming Army discovered this movement and sent out manpower to chase them, but because of the darkness, it was difficult to do anything to them.
On the Guihua City side, Jianlu adjusted his direction and once again focused on attacking the Ming army camp on the north gate side.
This time, they learned their lesson and started attacking from the upper side, that is, from the north. Not to mention, it was much easier than the south side of the camp where the Ming army focused on defense.
Although there are about 5,000 people in the Ming army camp, there are indeed a lot of troops. But just as Jierhalang thought, the Ming army first came day and night. Even if Hu Dawei's troops were not as fast as He Renlong's troops, they still came in a hurry.
After they arrived at Guihua City, although they did not participate in the battle, they did not take any rest and directly took over the defense of He Renlong's command. As soon as it got dark, they used the equipped engineer shovel, which is said to have been invented by the emperor, to immediately start building the earth wall. In this twelfth month of winter, if you want to build an earth wall, even if you have a handy engineer with a shovel in hand, it will take a lot of energy to complete.
Therefore, the Ming army officers and soldiers here in Beiying are actually quite tired, and their combat effectiveness is naturally not as good as usual. Thanks to the various firearms that didn't require much physical exertion, I persisted.
At the beginning, the soldiers in the camp took turns to rest for a while. However, Jianlu was desperate and eventually had to join the battle all together, but even so, they felt huge pressure.
After all, although Jianlu didn't usually eat enough, he had been in Guihua City so he still had plenty of physical strength. For this war, after a hearty meal, he attacked like a raging fire, and his combat power was even higher than usual.
Even during this attack, Jianlu became more cunning. They fired rockets into the earthen walls, not into the camp, but near the artillery. Of course it is good to hit the artillery, but even if you miss the artillery and hit the gunpowder or something, it will be even more profitable.
No, suddenly, there was a loud "boom", an explosion occurred inside the earth wall, and a rocket just landed on the Ming army's gunpowder barrel. Although protected, this rocket was shot in and came into direct contact with the gunpowder.
This explosion illuminated the area near this earth wall.
Ji Erhalang and others on the city top were delighted to see that at the place where the explosion occurred, the earth wall was gone and there was a big pit, surrounded by stunned Ming troops.
"Okay!" Azig even shouted. The Qing warriors seized the opportunity and rushed in through this gap, and they could fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army.
However, at this moment, there seemed to be some movement.
Jirharang and Azig looked south at the same time, and their faces suddenly turned pale.
The rumble of horse hooves became louder and louder, and the sound of fighting in Guihua City could no longer be concealed. Almost everyone heard the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground.
The Ming Dynasty's reinforcements have arrived before dawn? Almost all Jianlu thought like this.
Because, in this Guihua City, there could be no reinforcements from the Qing Dynasty. At this time, what will come will definitely be reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty.
It’s not like no one has ever thought about whether this might be a ploy to confuse the war horses of the Ming Dynasty. But this is obviously impossible!
The day will soon dawn. If the Ming army dared to do this, wouldn't it be sending horses to the Qing Dynasty again? Then what's the point of blocking the gates on the north and south sides?
