stubborn thief

Chapter 166 Cannon!
Yang Yanchang is very grateful to Ma Shilong of Prime Minister Qin Wangjun.

Ma Shilong had already discovered the elite force under Wu Zimian.

Those who were sent to King Qin were all elites from various towns, especially after experiencing the great mutiny of the Western Army, those who stayed were all hardcore elites.

During the war, all of them were the best in military skills, but the direction of the elite in the Yan'an Camp was different.

A regional general like Yang Yanchang, if he leaves Yan'an Mansion, no matter which army is in charge of him, he will be beaten all over the place.

In terms of the morale of soldiers, they are not good; in terms of orders and prohibitions, they are much worse.

But only in terms of discipline towards the common people, any Qinwang army that came from the border came from Changping Jizhen, Baoding Shanhai, Shanxi Guyuan, Yansui Lintao, Ningxia Gansu, and Yan'an Camp.

Prime Minister Ma Shilong saw the characteristics of the Yan'an camp, no matter where it was stationed, it could do no harm to the local people. After thinking about it, he asked Wu Zimian to separate this army and asked him to be promoted as a militiaman, responsible for recruit militia.

There is only one requirement, find a way to let the people bring their own dry food to join the army, and recruit as many as they can.

Ma Shilong's order saved Yang Yanchang.

Otherwise, his troops from Yan'an Guard would mutiny.

The discipline of the Yan'an camp did not come from Yang Yanchang's strict restraint. Among the 500 people and less than a thousand households, [-]% of the [-] households have the same surname as Liu, and most of the banner troops are also surnamed Liu.

In other words, while Qin Wang's frontier army generally suffered from starvation for more than half a year, the soldiers of the Yan'an Camp only starved for a few days.

They have always been used to self-sufficiency, so they have never robbed the people, and they don't even bother to do petty theft.

But stationing troops in Ji Town, I was really hungry.

In this regard, they are not as good as Qin Wangjun. When people are hungry, they think of a warm home. Frontier soldiers basically do not have a warm home. They have to go hungry when they go home. They are different.

Their Yan'an Guard has sufficient food and grass provided by Liu Siye, so everyone is thinking, if it doesn't work, let's go home?

Yang Yanchang tried to dissuade him again and again, but it seemed that he could no longer persuade him. When Ma Shilong sent a transfer order, he was overjoyed.

Seeing Wang Ziyong, Wang Ziyong was also very happy, saying that it was easy to handle, and went to Tongzhou alone.

Tongzhou is the terminus of the water transport. In a few days, Wang Zi used this old Shannong to collect half-person-high brochures, recruited more than 3000 people from Caobang Luo's followers and Xu Hongru Wenxiang's.

Later, through this group of people, they incited the people in the Shandong area of ​​Beizhili.

In less than half a month, Yang Yanchang had just built a camp west of Liusha River in Yutian. Wang Ziyong brought his own guns, sticks, food and grass, and gathered nearly 2 people outside in eight large camps.

Monk Wang had already put on a bare-shoulder Taoist robe over his battle armor, and a purple gold crown on his head. He took out a piece of talisman and pasted it on Yang Yanchang's green face.

"Who are you recruiting!"

Wang Ziyong was very familiar with these people, raised his hand and muttered in a low voice: "The first, fourth, fifth and third battalions are the sons of Luojiao, a water worker, who are honest and reliable; the second battalion and the third battalion believe in Huang Tiandao, Taoist figures; the sixth battalion, the seventh battalion and the eighth battalion It is the people who fled from Luanzhou, they are the best at fighting."

Seeing Yang Yanchang's disbelief, Wang Ziyong sighed and said, "Well, let me tell you the truth, there are not only people from Luanzhou in the [-] Battalion, but also Shandong people, mainly Wenxiang Sect followers."

Yang Yanchang wanted to commit suicide.

Luckily for Luo Jiao Caobang and Huang Tiandao, neither of them thought about rebelling.

But this Wenxiangjiao, Liu Chengzong's anti-thief leader, compared with Wenxiangjiao in terms of rebellion qualifications, can be regarded as a prenatal education level.

Everyone has a lineage, and Wang Sen, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, rebelled in the 42nd year of Wanli.

After Wang Sen's death, his tribe was divided into two branches, one was led by his son Wang Haoxian and his disciple Yu Hongzhi, and accumulated strength in Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion; the other was led by his apprentice Xu Hongru to operate in Shandong.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the two forces met to rebel. Xu Hongru called Zhongxing Fulie Emperor and cut off the water transportation in half of Shandong, which lasted for 190 days.

The group of people that Wang Ziyong is now recruiting are all Xu Hongru's apprentices or former close comrades in arms. For example, Liuying came from Zhending, the Haobangchaihui, and the founder of the teaching is Zhou Yin, who also followed Xu Hongru back then. It was a toss.

This camp gave Yang Yanchang a chill on the back of his neck.

He leaned closer and asked in a low voice and eagerly: "How did you gather this group of people together to help the court guard the gate?"

"Knock knock."

Wang Ziyong cleared his throat, stood up straight, raised his chin slightly and said: "Wang is a Confucianist, Buddhist and Taoist, and has also studied the White Lotus Sect. He has also been sent by an official to co-organize and promote. Isn't it difficult to recruit people? ?”

"You're still proud, what are these madmen going to do if they attack the capital?"

Wang Ziyong waved his hand and said: "You don't understand, they are peasants, not stupid, once the congregation incited them, they came here to cheat the imperial weapons, and they all went home when they finished here, what are they doing against the capital?"

"I don't know how many people believe in religion. They are all protecting the village and attacking the capital. Who do you expect to die?"

Saying that, Wang Ziyong raised his finger to Yang Yanchang again: "They are here to cheat weapons, and you don't expect to be able to order them to serve you to death, it's impossible, you will be a civilian husband."

A few days later, Ma Shilong, who came to inspect the work, entered the camp and his face turned green.

Among the eight camps, there are those who burn incense and worship Maitreya Buddha in the camp, and those who sit neatly cross-legged in the camp. The only camp that looks normal is practicing guns and sticks, but they all look like bewildered people, shouting that good things are not good. Far.

Ma Shilong was stunned, wishing Yang Yanchang could disband the Eighth Battalion on the spot.

Prime Minister Qin Wangjun looked at Yang Yanchang with no temper at all.

It cannot be said that this mission was not well completed.

Ma Shilong asked to bring his own dry food, and he did it, no problem. Not only did he bring dry food, but many people also brought weapons.

And the finished work is not bad either. The several promotions sent by Ma Shilong to recruit civilian husbands have now each recruited 500 people, adding one piece can make up two battalions, and Yang Yanchang recruited eight battalions by himself.

It can only be said that it is not the same as imagined.

Ma Shilong just felt that something was wrong with Yang Yanchang, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

In the end, Old General Ma had no choice but to sigh: "That's it, restrain them."

Yang Yanchang chased out of the camp: "Commander, when will you send troops?"

His group of people didn't have much food, and it was his luck that they could disperse after eating the food they brought with them.

"Hurry up, I have to listen to Governor Sun on this matter."

Looking at the back of Ma Shilong leaving the camp, General Yang looked back at the Noisy Battalion, deeply feeling that the world is not safe.

In the evening on such an endless plain, he suddenly began to miss the sunset in Yan'anwei.

I miss the days when I was still trying Baihu.

It was a carefree life back then.

Although poorer, it's good to be poor, and don't worry about being poor.

Where is it like it is now, Yan'anwei is walking a tightrope, and going to Beizhili is walking a knife edge.

He didn't want to do meritorious service, he just wanted to finish this battle quickly so that the court could let him go back to Yan'an Wei as a commander.

If the situation forced him to make a contribution...Yang Yanchang prayed to heaven, no matter where the court let him go, he hoped that God would let Wang Ziyong stay away from him.

On May [-]th, Sun Chengzong swore an oath at Shuangwang in the east of Luanzhou, summoned the generals to give military intelligence, and He Kegang was stationed at Shuangwang Mountain to support the Houjin army stationed in Yongping. Immediately, the army headed by Zu Dashou advanced westward.

As for Ma Shilong in the west, the army of Qin Wang from the various ministries advanced eastward from Guye, and Yang Yanchang led [-] civilians who prepared their own dry food to accompany the army.

Their goals are Zunhua and Luanzhou.

The situation of the battle has changed. After Huang Taiji returned to Shenyang, to the west of Shanhaiguan, there are still Yongping Fucheng, Zunhua, Qian'an, and Luanzhou in the hands of Houjin.

The guards were originally Abatai and Qierhalang. In the earlier battle, Abatai repelled the Ming army attacking Luanzhou, and then led the army back to Shenyang.

The defender of Yongping Mansion who replaced him was Amin, and the defender of Luanzhou was Namutai, the chief of the Zhenghuang Banner, who led the three banners of Zhenghuang, Zhenghong and Xiangbai to guard the city.

Wu Zimian and Xie Shangzheng went to Zunhua, Yang Yanchang was left by Ma Shilong's side, but the difference was that the others led the army to enter the besieged camp, while General Yang led the army to build the besieged camp.

On May [-], two groups of troops surrounded Luanzhou, one east and the other west.

The guns of the Jianzhou Army on the city were lined up, the camp below the city was covered with flags, Ma Shilong was still gathering his generals to discuss attacking the city, and Zu Dashou in the east had already launched an attack on the moat.

Amidst the thunderous shouts of killing, Yang Yanchang received his mission.

"Cut down trees?"

Wang Ziyong, wearing a purple gold crown, was particularly dissatisfied with this task: "We have more than 2 people, and General Ma asked us to cut down trees?"

"Such a wide moat, can you use the Taoist method to fly over?"

Yang Yanchang said something angrily, then looked at the officers and soldiers in the besieged camp in the distance, and whispered: "Zu Dashou's side is almost filling up the moat, learn a bit, go back to Shaanxi and follow General Liu, these tricks Also useful."

Wang Ziyong had no choice but to order the Eighth Battalion to cut down trees and break willows.

That afternoon.

Yang Yanchang personally led the Eighth Battalion to line up outside the city, staring at the black muzzle of the cannon and sucking his nose.

The Eighth Battalion of militiamen behind him didn't care whether they believed in Maitreya or Huangtian, they didn't dare to shout, they lined up obediently, carrying branches, earth and rocks on their backs.

When the flag of the Chinese army changed, Yang Yanchang left the camp with great strides.

The cannonball fell not far from his side, which made him tremble all over in fright. He cursed the defenders who had defected to the enemy, and then continued to walk forward.

Now that Jin is sticking to these four cities, there are large-scale army mutinies, because the imperial court disarmed the army in the three places of Jimiyong in order to save military pay.

The weapons and equipment in the city also became the property of Hou Jin.

Being bombarded by such artillery fire, for Yang Yanchang, there was a strange feeling in his heart.

At least in the process of filling the trenches, the bows and arrows of the Jin army after the city could not reach him, only these gunners could hit him.

So this is a battle that took place between the army of soldiers who surrendered to the bandits in Shaanxi and the army who surrendered to captives in Yongping.

As the cannons roared, Yang Yanchang took a deep breath, raised his head, chest and legs trembling, and walked towards the moat step by step in a stiff and cowardly posture.

He didn't dare to run, because the people behind were carrying supplies and couldn't run.

I can only turn around and shout: "Go forward steadily, throw things into the moat, and run back from the wings!"

The siege battle was different from Wang Ziyong's imagination. There were not as many mountains in northern Shaanxi. There was a huge city standing alone on the entire large plain, but there was a wide moat that was incomparable in northern Shaanxi.

The artillery shell fell into the frontmost soldier formation, and two soldiers were smashed into a pool of flesh and blood, but the soldier formation did not disperse. This is Xu Hongru's old troops from Shandong. They fought against Yang Yufan, the current deputy general of Tongzhou.

Next to the army formation were the Bailian disciples from Luanzhou. Their hometown was occupied by Houjin, and their morale was even higher. They wished they could walk faster than Yang Yanchang.

Two hundred steps closer to the moat, the artillery shells became denser, Yang Yanchang began to walk forward quickly, and the speed of the whole team increased.

They faced the guns at the top of the city and pressed on the moat, filled the moat with earth, rocks and tree trunks, and then filed in from both sides of the army formation. Guns began to be fired from the city. inside the trench.

Then move the ladder to assist Ma Shilong in attacking the city.

Things got even more paradoxical, because the siege vanguard Ma Shilong chose was Yang Zhaoji's troops, which came from Yizhou City, and were Yang Jiajiading and Yizhou Xiangyong.

Guns are like scatter, bows and arrows are like rain.

The Bailian disciples held up the ladders at the bottom of the city, and Yang Zhaoji, who had taken care of the Bailian disciples, climbed the ladders to attack the city.

Naturally, they didn't take it down, and the Bailian disciples wished they could pull out the ladder.

Yang Zhaoji scolded Yang Yanchang in the besieged camp after returning home.

Ma Shilong saw that the situation was wrong. At the same time, Zu Dashou's siege also suffered setbacks. The troops attacked the top of the city and burned the gate tower. However, the east city was Namutai's main defense direction. feather fan.

After a discussion between the two sides, the militia units were replaced. The west city used the militia recruited by Zu Dashou, and the east city used the militia recruited by Yang Yanchang.

They attacked again the next day, but this time they cooperated properly, but they still failed to capture the city. The defenders sent messengers to break out of the encirclement and rush to Yongping Amin to ask for help.

That night, hundreds of reinforcements from Yongping broke through and entered the city.

On May [-], the siege was even more urgent.

The camp in the two cities was full of mourners, and various rumors and experiences spread to Yang Yanchang's ears and eyes.

Ma Shilong in the west city was hit by several arrows and wounded the warlord to attack the city; the Yellow Dragon Department in the east city attacked more than half of the casualties in the past few days, and the whole camp was crying.

Corpses piled up under the city like a mountain, and there were screams of wounded and surviving soldiers everywhere.

Yang Yanchang was transferred by Zu Dashou to Huanglong's command, the general's face was still wet from tears, his eyes were red, and he gave him a mission to transport the artillery.

More than [-] heavy artillery were borrowed from various ministries, and Yang Yanchang transported them from the west city to the outside of the east city, and dug positions overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, Huang Long did not lead the crowd to climb the city, but stood in the artillery camp, divided the artillery into three formations, and let the artillery directly bombard a battlement at the head of the city on the way for the infantry to carry ladders to attack the city.

Several heavy cannons fired in unison, and the sound of the cannons made Yang Yanchang's brain buzz.

The battlements were shattered, and the eastern soldiers at the breach were either dead or injured, and the defenders on the side also retreated one after another. A gap was made in the ladder frame, and the infantry began to climb the city and attack.

Huanglong sent an order again, ordering the artillery team to bombard both sides of the gap.

Rows of artillery shells shot directly at the top of the city, and the shells spread to both sides of the siege troops, smashing the battlements one by one, repelling the Eastern soldiers who wanted to block the gap time and time again, and the officers and soldiers finally stood on the top of the city again.

Then the army set up ladders from all directions.

On the fourth day of the siege, the east city of Luanzhou was declared to have fallen.

Yang Yanchang could no longer hear the sound, he just dragged Wang Ziyong out of the gunpowder in embarrassment.

The hair on the back of his neck has stood up, pointing to the top of the city and opening his mouth to speak words that no one can hear.

He said gun!Siege!

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)