Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1016 Bloody Battle at Gule Village (Part [-])
Li Chengliang originally thought that after showing a decisive victory today, the army must be quick to conquer the city, but who knew that after waiting, he waited for the news that Cha Dashou was seriously injured and brought back, and he couldn't help being furious: "The Jianzhou thieves have nothing to lose. At two o'clock, I actually hurt my general. I have been in Liaodong for 20 years, and I have never suffered such a serious setback!"

Yang Yuan took a step forward, saluted and said: "Commander, although the Gule village is only a tiny place, it is very dangerous. Although our army has a large number of soldiers, it is difficult to use it here. I think it cannot be taken blindly."

Li Chengliang nodded and said: "What you said makes sense!" Then he got up and ordered: "I will order the firearms battalion to gather at the foot of the mountain, and bombard the city with the Frang machine until it collapses."

Yang Yuan hurriedly asked after hearing the words: "Marshal, how did Flangji get here in such a deep mountain?"

Li Chengliang smiled triumphantly, twisted his beard and said: "I heard that more than ten years ago, Qi Yuanjing was instructed by someone to build a new type of gun cart and practice it day and night... This gun cart can be equipped with Frang machine light guns and medium guns to travel in the mountains, like walking on flat ground. However, Qi Yuanjing cherishes himself, and has always refused to reveal the shape of this object.

It was not until later that Jinghua got involved in the military industry, and Qi Yuanjing dedicated it to Gao Bingxian for his success... After the Monan War, the imperial court turned its attention to Jiliao, and allocated 120 artillery pieces of various types and more than [-] artillery vehicles. If you have this thing, you can rely on it to make contributions today! "

Yang Yuan didn't know the inside story. In fact, when Qi Jiguang built the new gun carriage, he originally built it according to the blueprint given by Gao Yushi, and he refused to disclose it because Gao Yushi felt that the Ming army's equipment at that time The manufacturing system is very problematic, and if it is handed over to those government-run factories, sooner or later it will produce some superficial rubbish. Therefore, Qi Jiguang is asked to only practice, not to mass-produce, and to figure out a way later.

Later, the military industry was done privately, and Jinghua presented the gun carts while making the guns. This is how Li Chengliang said, "Qi Yuanjing dedicated this thing to Gao Bingxian because of his prosperity."

Yang Yuan didn't know about this at all, so naturally he believed what Li Chengliang said, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion after hearing this: "Qi Nantang is also considered a famous general in the country, but he actually made such an act of following others, it's really disgusting. If I Liaodong has had this thing for a long time, and it must have been easier when the commander broke through the Gule village in the third year of Wanli... But then again, now that the commander has obtained this wonderful thing, it seems that breaking the Gule village is easy."

Zu Chengxun jokingly said, "This is the proof that the commander-in-chief Jiren has his own celestial appearance, and it is also a sign that Wang Gao, Atai and his son will die at the hands of the commander-in-chief sooner or later."

Li Rumei knew more about the inside story, so she just smiled silently after hearing what the two of them said, and didn't answer.

Li Chengliang didn't know if he saw Li Rumei's appearance, waved his hands, and said: "Stop talking about these gossips, let the bastards of the Firearms Camp move."

Li Chengliang, Li Rumei and others stood on a hillside and looked up into the distance. They saw more than [-] cannons lined up at the foot of the mountain, thick and black like small chimneys, and behind them were dozens of cannons piled up like hills, and the cannon carts Made of thick Zhe wood, the shape is obviously different from that of ordinary gun mounts, especially the wheel axle part, which looks quite delicate, and everyone can't see the mystery of it for a while, only to find that many places on it are embedded with fine steel, and the axle part There is also a wire loop that bends like a snake coiling an old tree. It is unknown what it is.

Yang Yuan asked Li Chengliang for advice, and Li Chengliang shook his head and said, "I don't know how to make a skillful thing. I only know that the thing is called a spring. I heard that gold is very expensive. Don't think it's just iron. People in Jinghua say that thing is cheaper than the equivalent." Gold is not much cheaper, and it is extremely difficult to make... But no one knows whether it is true or not. In short, this artillery carriage, not counting the artillery itself, Jinghua's asking price for the Ministry of War is 16 taels of silver, four of which are The spring is said to cost 12 taels."

Everyone's eyes were about to pop out when they heard that, just those few wire coils that looked like snakes and old trees, how could they be so expensive?There must be something tricky between the Ministry of War and Jinghua, right?I heard that Da Sima Wu is Gao Bingxian's senior brother...

A group of Liaodong generals didn't dare to think too much, and forced themselves to continue watching the artillery battle, but they saw two soldiers standing in front of each cannon, one holding a torch, the other carrying a medicine bag, and every five cannons had one of them waving Xiaoqi shouted orders.

Upon hearing the order, one soldier stuffed the gunpowder pack into the cannon's belly, and the other pawn lit the gunpowder rope with a torch. There was a loud noise, and the mountains fell and the ground cracked. Thunder came out, and in the blink of an eye, Gule village was knocked down everywhere, countless pellets hit the wall of the village, stone chips flew down, and several inches of deep pits were blasted out.

Zu Chengxun looked at it and praised: "It's a magic weapon! If you hit it like this, it won't take half a day, and the gate of the village will be broken."

Who knew that not long after this was said, all the cannons stopped firing, and everyone was silent. They calculated back and forth, but each fired five cannons.

Zu Chengxun was stunned for a moment, and asked why, Li Chengliang said: "Although this thing is beneficial, it should not be fired for a long time, because the gunpowder is hot, and if it is fired for a long time, the chamber may explode, so every five shots must be stopped. For a moment, to dissipate the heat."

Zu Chengxun regretted hearing the words: "It is so, but it is not beautiful."

Li Rumei interrupted and said, "I heard from my elder brother that there are also Jinghua's new cannons at the Shenji Camp, but they said they can fire ten cannons in a row...Father, why can we only fire five cannons here?"

Li Rumei's elder brother, Li Rusong, was the right lieutenant general of the Shenji Battalion before he became the general soldier of Shanxi. The Shenji Battalion is the old base of the three battalions. Supply is still the first priority, so Li Rusong has seen Jinghua's artillery before, and knows its effects quite well.

Among his brothers, Li Rusong had the best relationship with his younger brother Li Rumei, so he mentioned all these things to Li Rumei, which is why Li Rumei asked this question.

After hearing what his son said, Li Chengliang waved his hands with some disdain: "The people who made cannons in the past can only believe half of them at most. If they say ten rounds, they can only fire five rounds, otherwise they may explode at any time. Fight for the father." In 20 years, how can you not understand this truth? In the future, you must be careful when listening to these people, and don’t be too honest, otherwise you will suffer the loss.”

Li Rumei frowned, and was just about to argue that this was personally approved by the elder brother after performing in the Shenji Camp, and he was not cheating. Unexpectedly, before he could speak, Yang Yuan next to him calmly pulled his sleeve.

Li Rumei glanced at Yang Yuan, but Yang Yuan was staring at Gule Village in the distance solemnly, as if he was observing the impact of the shelling on the defense of Gule Village.But Li Rumei still came to her senses—well, whatever my father-marshal said, I'm afraid there would be no good fruit for arguing with the old man about these things.

Seeing that Li Rumei remained silent, Li Chengliang's face softened a little. He was about to give the order to wait for the artillery to cool down to continue the shelling, but suddenly he saw someone from Gule Village holding a small white flag jumping from a gap in the shelling to a wall passing by the city. In the middle of the river, and then hurriedly swam over, waving the white flag from time to time while swimming.

Li Chengliang ordered someone to bring that person over for questioning. Who knew that the person claimed to be sent by Jue Changan, and begged for mercy as soon as he saw Li Chengliang, saying that Jue Changan, Tu Keshi and his son are also in the city now, and they are contacting like-minded people to prepare for revenge. After leaving Atai, the whole city surrendered to the commander-in-chief, and asked the commander-in-chief to suspend the shelling, otherwise he might have missed the big event.

Li Chengliang and all the generals sneered in their hearts. It must be that Jue Chang'an and Tu Keshi were afraid that the cannon would not be good enough, so they killed their father and son, so they sent people out to beg for mercy after being bombarded.

But Li Chengliang still agreed.

In fact, he doesn't like to use artillery to fight randomly, because artillery costs a lot. The more he saves on shooting, the more money he can get out of it to support his servants - anyway, it is too much to report artillery expenses Reported, so the savings are their own.

The person who reported the letter quickly thanked him, but he didn't leave. Li Chengliang realized after a turn of his head that this person could jump out of the river in broad daylight. I can't find out who this person is, but if he runs back again, he will be courting death.

It was easy to promise not to shoot anymore, but breaking the city became troublesome. Li Chengliang frowned and was thinking, when suddenly he found that the sky had turned cloudy, and a strong wind blew up in the mountains, blowing all kinds of banners and flags.

Li Chengliang's eyes lit up, and he asked loudly, "Where is the wind going?"

This time it was Li Rumei who answered the fastest: "Report to Father Commander, this is West Wind!"

Li Chengliang knew that his five sons were good at archery, and those who are good at archery must be good at observing the wind.When the generals heard about it, they didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly followed him back to the big tent.

Not long after, Li Chengliang was fully clothed and came out in a majestic manner. Zu Chengxun asked: "I don't know what military order the commander has?"

Li Chengliang waved his hand and said: "I want to take advantage of this wind to set fire to the Gule village and take advantage of the chaos."

Yang Yuan was taken aback for a moment, hesitantly said: "Commander, Jue Chang'an and Tu Keshi father and son are still in the city..."

Li Chengliang waved his hand again, and said in displeasure: "Those who care about big things don't care about small things. Now everything is about destroying the city. Don't let Xuan Dake look down on my Liaodong warriors, so don't care too much!"

Afraid that Yang Yuan would talk too much, Zu Chengxun hurriedly asked, "I don't know how the commander-in-chief intends to take it?"

Li Chengliang said: "A man who is good at shooting is needed, and he will lead three thousand archers to line up at the foot of Longshou Mountain. Taking advantage of this wind, he will attack the village with rockets, and all the generals under the tent will respond?"

As soon as Li Rumei heard that someone who is good at archery is wanted, she quickly stepped out and responded: "Father, the general is willing to go!"

Li Chengliang smiled and said: "That's the best!" Then he said: "I need a general who dares to die, lead more than a hundred warriors, and stand on the earthen platform, and climb up with a drum when the fire breaks out in the village. It's dangerous, who among the generals dare to respond?"

I saw a general in the squadron grabbing his head and kowtowed without saying a word. Everyone saw that it was Li Pinghu who was dressed strangely.

Li Chengliang laughed loudly when he saw this, and praised: "Pinghu is indeed a dead man!"

As soon as the words fell, another person rolled in from outside the tent, prostrated himself on the ground and begged: "Father, my son is also willing to be a dead man!"

Everyone saw that it was Li Rubai. He behaved too badly last night and hated Li Chengliang. Now it is obvious that he hastened to make amends.

After all, he is a son, Li Chengliang was overjoyed when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Okay, if you succeed this time, this commander will naturally remember the merits for you! Now I order Li Pinghu and Li Rubai to be the first army, each leading the family Wei, attack at the right time and make no mistakes!"

The two responded immediately.

Seeing this, Yang Yuan and Zu Chengxun all went out to fight, and even Zha Dashou, who was listening with a bandage on his shoulder, couldn't help calling for the fight.

Li Chengliang asked Zha Dashou to take a good rest first, and then said: "Zu Chengxun led an army to meet Li Pinghu and Li Rubai; Yang Yuan led an army to lie down on the back mountain path." After speaking, he said loudly: "The opportunity is rare, if you move a little bit, you will see it." Passes away, everyone will act quickly, and there will be no mistakes!" Everyone obeyed and left in unison.

After the generals got the order, they all mobilized their troops and swarmed towards Gule Village. After a while, they had reached the foot of the mountain, and all the generals lined up according to the previous order.

Li Chengliang personally supervised the army behind the palace, and in front of the army was Li Rumei, with a red robe and silver armor, standing on a stone, holding an iron tire bow in his hand, and a pot of oil burning under his feet. Behind him was a raging army formation, three thousand archers Distributed in rows, all stand against the wind, with fire on the soles of their feet, bows and arrows, glaring at each other.

In front of Li Rumei's formation are Yang Yuan, Zu Chengxun, etc., leading hundreds of soldiers to lie on the side of the slope.

Further forward, there are two ladder frames leaning on the soil slope, and two generals are climbing on them. One of them is wearing fine armor, holding a heavy shield in his hand, and holding a three-eyed gun in his arm. It is Li Rubai; The large machete and the skull hanging on the waist are Li Pinghu.

Seeing that everything was ready, Li Chengliang gave the order to go to war with a serious expression on his face.

There was only a rumbling drum, and [-] soldiers shouted in unison, and words such as "Daming mighty" and "Fengtian begged for rebellion" came and went one after another.

Hearing the order, Li Rumei focused her gaze, drew out an arrow, lit it on fire, bent her bow and stretched her strings, and shouted, "Call!"

Taking advantage of the wind, the rocket went straight to the top of the mountain and fell into Gule's village.

Seeing this, the other [-] archers drew their bows and arrows one after another, and drew ladles like gourds.I saw bursts of rockets falling from the sky like torrential rain, and at this time there was more wind to help the fire, and the fire broke out in the Gule village, and there was chaos everywhere.

Li Chengliang was overjoyed when he saw the smoke and fire in Gule village, and ordered to beat the second drum.

Li Pinghu and Li Rubo heard this, turned over to the earthen platform, held the shield in one hand and the blunderbuss in the other, and stepped forward quickly.

Over there Ah Hai was calling for Jianzhou soldiers to put out the fire on the city, he couldn't help being shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered his troops to come to defend.The Jianzhou soldiers shot down arrows like rain, and in an instant they shot arrows like hedgehogs on the armor and shield of the Ming army.

But at this point in the battle, when the blood was surging, the Ming army was all Li Chengliang's servants, and they all went straight to the wall and set up the ladder without fear.

The Jianzhou soldiers on the wall quickly leaned out, stretched out the hook and sickle, trying to turn it over.

Li Pinghu and Li Rubai covered themselves with shields, lit the three-eyed blunderbuss with a matchlock, and aimed at the crenel, only to hear two bangs, white smoke burst out, and several lead pellets shot out from the blunderbuss mouth (shotgun shells were used for the short distance, In fact, it was some small lead pills), and several Jianzhou soldiers turned over and fell.

Li Pinghu and Li Rubai took the opportunity to jump on the ladder and quickly climbed up.Seeing that the situation was not good, Ah Hai ordered the Jianzhou soldiers to throw down the rolling logs and rocks. Li Pinghu and Li Rubai held up their shields to cover them and relieved their strength. Although they were not injured, they could hardly advance.

Seeing this, Li Rumei hurriedly ordered the archers under his command to shoot them with arrows, and shot to death some Jianzhou soldiers who took the lead. Li Pinghu and Li Rubai took the opportunity to jump up a few steps, and they were close to the crenel.

The Jianzhou soldiers on the wall frantically shot down with bent bows, smashed down with wood and stones, and stabbed down with spears. Li Pinghu and Li Rubai held the ladder with one hand and held up the shield with the other, clenching their teeth and fighting fiercely.But after a long time, it is still unavoidable to gradually feel a little helpless, and now the distance between them is very close, Li Rumei is afraid of accidentally hurting the two of them, so she dare not shoot any more arrows. think.

Li Chengliang in the distance also felt a little regretful, especially with his second son Li Rubai at the top, which made him even more nervous.

But Li Rumei, who was in front of Li Chengliang, suddenly jumped onto a big rock, held a bow in his hand, carried two pots of carved feather arrows on his back, and shouted: "Second brother, be careful!" The bow creaked as it was drawn.

Li Rumei's eyes were fixed, and she yelled again: "Crap!"

An arrow shot out in response, and shot directly at Gule Village.Li Rubai felt the piercing scream on the ladder, turned his head and saw a beam of cold light piercing the wind and carrying electricity, hitting his face, his heart was horrified, he shrank his neck subconsciously and tried to hide, when he suddenly heard an "Ahhh" from above his head, a The Jianzhou soldier turned over and fell down the wall.

Everyone saw that Li Rumei's carved feather arrow hit the Jianzhou soldier in the face.
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PS: Li Rumei performed well in quelling the Japanese Invasion in Imchen. It is said that he is quite good at shooting, so I also show him in the book, so that no one will say that I am Heitieling Li.I am not against anyone, and I will write truthfully in what period and performance.People change. In my opinion, depravity in the late stage and heroism in the early stage do not conflict.

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