Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 377 Attack on Daizhou City

There were more than 2000 people in the original Yanmen Pass, but in order to better defend Dongxing Pass, Xing Tianzhong arranged most of the soldiers on the defense line of Dongxing Pass. There are more than 600 people.

However, it was precisely because of Xing Tianzhong's approach that in the end a large number of defenders were killed by artillery fire, and in the end there were only more than 1000 people left in the entire Yanmen Pass.

Zhao Wen looked at the low-spirited defenders in front of him, and said to Qi Dazhuang: "Take them down, remember, you must take good care of them. By the way, let out a few prisoners, and give each of them a pair of A poor horse used to pull goods.

Let them pass on the news of our breach of Yanmen Pass. I want to see what Chongzhen's expression will be after he knows that I have breached Yanmen Pass. "

Qi Dazhuang clasped his fists at Zhao Wen, and then led the prisoners to the back.

When Qi Dazhuang walked back with the captives, Zhao Wen looked at the ruined Dongxing Pass ahead, and led Li Xiaosan and a dozen armed guards towards Yanmen Pass.

At the same time, Qi Dazhuang also released the selected prisoners.

After these prisoners were released by Qi Dazhuang, they directly stepped on their horses and fled to the south.

Zhao Wen rode a war horse on the ruins of Dongxing Pass.

The entire Dongxing Pass has now been turned into messy ruins, with rubble everywhere on the ground, and among them, the fragmented corpses blasted by the artillery fire can still be vaguely seen.

Zhao Wen stepped over the ruins of Dongxing Pass and slowly marched towards the city of Yanmen Pass.

Not long after, Zhao Wen came to the Guancheng of Yanmen Pass.

The Guancheng of Yanmenguan is a pass city carved out of the mountains. The area of ​​the pass city is not large, 20 meters long from east to west and 200 meters long from north to south.There are large and small beacon towers and watchtowers around Guancheng.

The city wall of Guancheng is not as high as the city wall of Dongxingguan. On the city wall of Guancheng, there are several red cannons and Flang cannons.There are four city gates in Guancheng, all of which are poured with molten iron and controlled by winches on the city wall.

Zhao Wen led the guards behind him to Guancheng.

"This pass city is well built. If it is an ordinary soldier, even if you take Dongxing Pass, it will not be so easy to take down the pass when you attack here." Zhao Wen held the horsewhip , Pointing to the city wall of Guancheng and the defensive facilities on the city wall, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

After wandering around in Guancheng for a long time, Zhao Wen went to see Xixing Pass in the west.

About half an hour later, Zhao Wen led Li Xiaosan and his personal guards out again.

"Order the whole army to serve dinner!" Zhao Wen came to the front of the army. He looked at the sun in the sky and realized that it was already noon, so he ordered the whole army to serve dinner.

At the same time, Zhao Daniu had also broken through the Guangwu camp. He led his subordinates, tied up the captives with ropes, and began escorting them to Zhao Wen's side.

Song Hu also came to the city of Daizhou at this time.

Song Hu looked at the defenders on the wall of Daizhou City, and said to the messenger behind him: "Send the order to surround the three walls of Daizhou City, east, west, north, and leave the south wall for me."

"Obey!" The orderly shouted, and hurriedly ran to the back.

After Song Hu's soldiers and horses surrounded Daizhou City, Song Hu rode on the horses and led a dozen personal guards slowly to the front of the moat.

Song Hu held up the binoculars to look at the defenders on the top of the city, then put down the binoculars, and shouted at Chengtou, "Now that the army is overwhelming, you are just fish on the cutting board, I advise you to surrender as soon as possible, so as not to lose your life! "

Every time Song Hu yelled, the guards behind him shouted towards the city wall in unison.

Chen Zhong and Daizhou Zhizhou stood on the city wall, listening to the voice from below, with different expressions on their faces.

Chen Zhong looked at Song Hu who was standing below, and kept sneering.

"Bring the bow and arrow!" Chen Zhong shouted to the guards behind him.

The personal guard hurriedly fetched a hard bow and handed it to Chen Zhong.

Chen Zhong looked at Song Hu who kept roaring outside the moat, opened his bow and set up an arrow, and shot towards Song Hu.

Chen Zhong looked at Song Hu behind the moat, and let go of the bowstring in his hand.

"Whoosh!"

An arrow flew down from the top of the city and landed in front of Song Hu.

The distance from the top of the city to the moat has already exceeded the range of a bow and arrow, so the arrow did not hit Song Hu.

Song Hu looked at the arrow that fell in front of him, and cursed: "It's really a toast and you don't eat fine wine. Since you are determined to seek death, then don't blame me. After half an hour, I hope you can block my attack."

Song Hu backed back with a gloomy expression. He pointed at Daizhou City in front of him with his horsewhip, and shouted to the messengers behind him: "Give me an order, and all the 40 fire shooters in the general will be assembled for me. After half an hour, bombard the gates on three sides of Daizhou City for me."

Chen Zhong, the commander of Zhenwuwei, looked gloomy at the Song Hu soldiers who were about to launch an attack outside the city, and cursed in a low voice: "The speed of these rebels is really fast. They have already approached the city in such a short time. Could it be that they Has the Yanmen Pass been breached now?"

"It shouldn't be. Yanmen Pass is the most dangerous pass in the world. Although there are only more than 2000 defenders inside, relying on the advantages of the city wall and the terrain, even if it can't hold it, it is impossible to be breached so quickly." Daizhou Zhizhou stood next to Chen Zhong. He looked at the Song Hu soldiers and horses outside the city, shaking his head, with a dull expression on his face.

Chen Zhong turned his head and looked at Zhizhou, "According to what you said, there is only one situation, and that is the arrival of reinforcements from the rebel army, otherwise, it would be impossible for them to divide their troops."

"Then what should we do now?" Zhizhou panicked when he heard this.

"For help, go to Shanxi Town for help. We only need to hold on for a few days. When the reinforcements arrive, the siege of Daizhou will naturally be lifted."

"But can we hold on until then? These soldiers and horses are so powerful, I think our hope is very slim." Zhizhou looked at the soldiers outside the city with a panicked expression.

Chen Zhong looked at Zhizhou like this, and said with contempt: "What are you afraid of? Although the troops outside the city are strong, we also have a lot of troops.

In the past, I had already ordered all the military households in the city who could hold weapons to collect all of them.With the credit of these military households and the strength of my troops, I should be able to last for three or four days. "

Although Chen Zhong had heard about Zhao Wen's firearms, he had never seen them with his own eyes, and everything was just hearsay.

In his opinion, the most powerful firearm is the red cannon. Even with the red cannon, it may not be so easy to break through Daizhou City in a short time.

After all, Daizhou City and Yanmen Pass co-manage Shanxi Zhendong Road. Although the city wall of Daizhou City is not as good as that of Yanmen Pass, it is much stronger than ordinary city walls.

In Chen Zhong's eyes, Zhao Wen's firearms were nothing more than red cannons.

"I hope so." Zhizhou sighed faintly, and then turned his attention to the soldiers outside the city.

At the same time, in a deep house compound in Daizhou City, a servant hurriedly ran to the study in the backyard.

"It's not good, master is not good, the rebels are going to attack, the rebels are going to attack." The servant stood at the door of the study and yelled at the study in panic.

A middle-aged man with a square face, about 40 years old, with a long beard, and wearing a Taoist robe put down the brush in his hand and hurried out.

The middle-aged man looked at the panic-stricken servant, frowned and said, "What's the point of yelling?"

The servant hastily made a accusation, then pointed in the direction of the city gate, and said to the middle-aged man: "Master, you asked the villain to find out the news, but now the villain has found out the news."

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, "Quickly tell me, what's going on?"

"Master, almost two quarters of an hour ago, the army of the rebels had already reached the outside of the city.

The rebels did not attack immediately, but persuaded them to surrender.

The Commander did not agree to surrender, but instead shot an arrow at the rebel general.

This behavior of the commander angered the generals of the rebel army. The generals of the rebel army rumored that they would launch an attack in half an hour. Now two quarters of an hour have passed. "The servant kept talking to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man's face became serious. He stroked the beard on his chin and looked in the direction of the city wall.

This middle-aged man is none other than Sun Chuanting who is unemployed at home.

"How many troops are there in the rebel army outside the city? How are the weapons? It is rumored that the Zhao thief's firearms are fierce. We must guard against this." Sun Chuanting hurriedly walked outside, and asked the servant as he walked.

The servant followed Sun Chuanting and replied: "Master, the villain only inquired about this information, the other villains did not inquire clearly, so they are not very clear about this matter."

Sun Chuanting didn't reply, instead, he speeded up and went to the stables in the backyard of his house.

Sun Chuanting is not comparable to ordinary literati, and he is not bad at bowing horses, although he can't say they are perfect.

"By the way, let the family servant go to the city wall with me, and don't see the situation of the rebels with my own eyes. I am really worried." After Sun Chuanting came to the stable, he hurriedly shouted to the servant who was following him.

The servant nodded and rushed out quickly.

After a few breaths, seven or eight burly men came to Sun Chuanting's side.

Sun Chuanting told them a few words, then got on his horse and headed towards the city wall.

At the same time, Song Hu has assembled 40 fire shooters in the general.

Except for the northern city wall where he is located, there is a large number of 40 fire shooters outside the eastern city wall and the western city wall.

Song Hu quietly looked at the defenders on the city wall, his face gradually darkened.

"They are going to attack." Chen Zhong looked at the soldiers who had begun to gather under the city wall, his face darkened to the bottom.

"But I haven't seen their cannons and siege equipment. How are they going to attack the city?" Zhizhou looked at a blank look when he saw that there were no siege equipment used in this era under the city wall.

Not only Zhizhou, but even Chen Zhong was puzzled.

"Everyone says that Bandit Zhao is good at using firearms, and that Bandit Zhao's firearms are the most powerful in the world, but why haven't you seen their cannons?"

Chen Zhong looked at the soldiers standing on the ground below the city wall, holding 40 fire, and couldn't help but wondered: "What are they holding? What do they want?"

Chen Zhong had never seen 40 fires before. He looked at these soldiers holding 40 fires and couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Could it be the firearm used by the thief Zhao when he broke the siege of the capital?"

At this moment, Sun Chuanting led his servants up and stood beside Chen Zhong.

Sun Chuanting's prestige in Daizhou City is quite high, plus Sun Chuanting is a Jinshi, the people and officials in the city have to give Sun Chuanting three points, so Sun Chuanting can directly climb the city wall that has been controlled.

Chen Zhong turned his head and looked at Sun Chuanting, "Mr. Sun? Why are you here? It's dangerous here, please don't stay here, Mr. Sun."

Sun Chuanting laughed loudly, "Haha, what is this little danger? You must have underestimated me."

"Mr. Sun knows the weapons in their hands?" Zhizhou pointed to the 40 fires in the hands of those soldiers and looked at Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting nodded, "I've heard of it before.

Back then when bandit Zhao was just a garrison, he led his soldiers and horses to support the capital with this weapon.

Although I haven't seen this kind of weapon with my own eyes, I heard people say that this kind of weapon hits very far. Even the red cannon is far inferior to it.

This kind of weapon not only hits far and is powerful, but also very light. It is said that it can be carried on the shoulder and walked.

From what they look like now and what they have in their hands, they should use this kind of weapon to break through the city gate. "

Zhao Wen was also seen by many people when he used 40 fires when breaking the siege of the capital. Sun Chuanting had heard of this weapon and was no exception.

"I think it's time for people to block all the city gates with earth and rocks, otherwise they might really blow the city gates down." Sun Chuanting frowned.

"Block the city gates? Mr. Sun's words are too alarmist, right? Is there really such a weapon as you said in this world?" Chen Zhong had never seen 40 fires before, so he scoffed at those rumors.

He has seen the red-clothed cannon, and once controlled the red-clothed cannon.

If the cannon in red wants to shoot farther and be more powerful, it needs to make the barrel and body of the cannon bigger, otherwise it will not achieve the effect.

In Chen Zhong's eyes, those bamboo-like weapons under the city wall had nothing to do with what Sun Chuanting said.

Sun Chuanting stroked the beard on his chin, and said anxiously: "Don't you know that it is better to believe it than to believe it? It was definitely not luck that Zhao thief was able to break the siege of the capital."

Although Sun Chuanting was also very puzzled by the rumor, it was true that Zhao Wen broke the siege of the capital and defeated Jiannu.

"In that case, then I will listen to the master." Chen Zhong said and asked someone to pass the order.

At this moment, Song Hu drew out the long knife at his waist, pointed at the city wall ahead, and shouted: "Fire!"

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen messengers rushed into the line of 40 fire shooters and shouted at the top of their voices.

"Chi la chi la!"

For a moment, the rockets fired by 40 Fire headed towards the city gate like wasps.

(End of this chapter)