Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 852 Princess Defending the City
Western Regions.

To the north of Tianshan Mountain, to the west of Xuanchi Lake, and to Bohuo Xibao.

Siege No. 18 days.

In the east, the fish belly is white, and the sky is getting brighter.

Regardless of her pregnancy, Princess Zhu Deji of Nanchang stood on the top of the city in armor and held a blunderbuss to boost morale. soldier.

A coach of the Zhenxi Army, a tall man from Guanzhong, stood at the head of the city, holding a severed head of a Junggar besieger, and shouted at the retreating enemies like a tide.

"Call out and tie the tent, and the hero can't help but smile.

A certain man trampled on the Tang camp alone, the son who was killed directly was sad and mistaken, the blood of the direct kill flowed into the sea, and the bones of the direct kill were piled up on mountains with no place to bury them.Little Tang'er was frightened by a certain guts, who would dare to come when the horse stepped into the fifth battalion..."

The man roared at Qin opera with exhausted voice. He sang Zhan Dantong, which is well-known in Guanzhong. When he attacked Zheng, Shan Xiongxin rode on the Tang Army's company battalion alone, and almost captured Li Shimin alive, but was stopped by Wagang's old brother Xu Gongmao to let Li Shimin escape.Later, when Li Shimin broke Luoyang and Shan Xiongxin was captured, Li Shimin wanted to kill Shan Xiongxin for revenge. All the old Wagang brothers pleaded with Li Shimin one after another, but Li Shimin refused. The one who scolded hid his face and was ashamed.

That instructor didn't sing Qin Opera, but after another siege, on the pile of corpses in the sea of ​​blood, he held the enemy's head, opened his chest, stood on the battlements and roared Qin Opera at the retreating enemies , although many Junggar left-wing herdsmen and soldiers could not understand what was being sung.

Even many Da Ming soldiers and instructors who joined the Zhenxi Army in the Central Plains did not understand the Shaanxi dialect Qin opera, but the emotion expressed in that roar resonated.

A tragic story, an unbridled vent.

There is no technique at all, it is purely emotional catharsis, but everyone who listens is deeply moved.

The armor on the princess's body was also stained with blood. The Junggars almost succeeded in the surprise attack last night.

At the top of the city and under the city, there are countless corpses left by the two sides who fought fiercely.

The princess rushed to the city with her guards and maidservants to help. Regardless of the guards' persuasion and obstruction, the princess went to the city with a firecracker and a sword. In the midst of filial piety, she was mourning for her husband Sengge. She cried and hurt these days, but she finally stood up.

She discussed with the generals of the Zhenxi Army and the Taiji in the city to discuss the strategy of defending the city against the enemy, and also began to practice firecrackers and fencing. The one who supported her to grit her teeth and persevere was the child in her belly, and also the side of the Zhenxi Army on the top of the city. flag.

She is not fighting alone.

This is Bohuo Xibao, which represents the Junggar Left Wing Deputy Khan Tent, and also represents the interests of Daming in the west of Xuanchi.

Chu Hu'er, Zhuote Babatur, Kundu Lun Utaishi and others are all rebels.

"Your Highness, we have won again." A maid came up to support her.

"Hatton, the gunpowder is gone."

The coach who yelled at the Qin opera finally finished the song "Zhan Dantong", turned around and came to see the princess with a Taiji. Taiji was hanging a freshly bandaged arm that was still bleeding, and he was a little tired and weak to the princess. report.

The city was besieged for eighteen days, and to be able to defend until this time, apart from the strong counterattack and defense of the Zhenxi Army stationed in the city under the leadership of the military attache of the Ming Army, the biggest reliance was the few firearms in the hands of the Zhenxi Army.

After all, Bohuoxi is just a newly built small castle. In fact, it is a small earthen city with a circumference of no more than two miles. It is square and square and made of rammed earth. The wall is less than two feet high. The bastion, Bohosi's defense ability is much worse.

There are neither city defense cannons nor sharp gunners in the city, not to mention that there is not much gunpowder in the storeroom, let alone the three-dimensional defensive forts like the bastion and the firepower net with no dead ends for cross-firing.

There are only a few general guns, tiger squats, and Frang machines in the city. These are all eliminated by the Ming army and sold to the Zhenxi army. They are considered advanced firearms in the Western Regions. There are also some bird guns. After eighteen days of fighting, Bohoxi, who had no supplies, finally ran out of gunpowder that was not much.

At the critical moment last night, the last ammunition saved was used intensively to repel the enemy troops in the upper city.

Although he won, he was completely wiped out.

"There are not many arrows left." Taiji gave another bad news.

After all, Bohuoxi is a small fort, and Junggar is a nomadic tribe. There are not many people in the castle. Sengge went to the Chuhuer Khan tent to meet and was killed. Chu Huer led troops to attack Bohuoxi. He was from the Ming army, had stricter military regulations, and guarded the city gate more carefully, so Sengge, who was not faked by Chu Hu'er's men, opened the city gate.

Chu Hu'er opened the city gate without cheating, and launched a strong attack.

again and again.

The two sides fought around the small castle for eighteen days in this icy and snowy field.

"Where are the reinforcements, where are our reinforcements?"

A guard couldn't help asking.

No one could answer him. On the first day of the war, they saw Zhuote Babatur holding Sengge's head and showing it under the city to persuade him to surrender.

The princess does not surrender.

The generals of the Zhenxi Army did not surrender either.

Next, the two sides attacked and defended, and fought for eighteen days. During the period, Zhu Shifu, the governor of Yanchang County, also sent people out of the city at night to report the news, but Chu Hu'er was already prepared, and sent many rangers to intercept him, and there was no messenger. Able to break out of the siege, a dozen people went out back and forth, all of them fell outside the city.

They can't deliver the letter now, and they don't know the situation outside.

Only Seng Ge's head was seen.

Then Chu Hu'er and others sent people to persuade them to surrender every day, and they didn't know the authenticity of all kinds of shouting. They said that Duerbert and Shuoqi Khan had risen against the Ming Dynasty, and they said that Khalkha Zhasaktu Khan had risen against the Ming Dynasty. After a while, he said that Lute's deputy Khan Kundu Lun Utaishi rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.

The next day it was said that Tacheng had been captured, and the day after tomorrow it was said that Wushi had been captured.

People are panicked, but they have no way of knowing what's going on outside.

They could only defend again and again, and Zhu Shifu led his troops to launch a few counterattacks, but the enemy was outnumbered, and he didn't know the outside situation, so he didn't dare to abandon the city easily to break through.

Chief Shi Zhu Shifu came over. He just got the post-war statistics. The battle last night was very fierce. More than 300 people were killed and seven or eight hundred were injured. injury.

Now there are no more than two thousand people still fighting in the city, and almost everyone is injured.

There is no gunpowder, no bows and arrows, and a serious shortage of medicines. The food is okay, but trapped here, the outside news is unknown, the people are panicked, and the morale is low. No one knows how many more days they can last.

Maybe the next time the enemy attacks again, they may not be able to defend.

"Your Highness, after dark, I will send people out of the city to attack the enemy's camp at night, intentionally harassing Chu Hu'er, exhausting and paralyzing the enemy. In the middle of the night, I will send three hundred elite cavalry, each with three horses, to escort His Highness out of the city to Burroughs. Zinburg."

Zhu Shifu was extremely haggard at this time, and the arrow wound on his left shoulder was still festering. He is now the supreme commander of Bohuo Sibao. After Ketu Jinong, Kunling County King, and Beiting Deputy Chief Hu Sengge were killed, he is now the supreme commander of the city.

With just a few thousand people able to resist Chu Hu'er's attacks, his performance is already good, but he still blames himself deeply, especially for letting the princess fall into such a predicament, he feels even more guilty.

No matter what, the princess has to be kept safe. Bo Huoxi can be lost, but the princess cannot fall into the enemy's hands.

He has already decided that tonight, there are still Ming army members and military officers who have the strength to break out in the western army of the town, plus some Junggar cavalry to form a breakout escort team of 300 people to escort the princess to break out.

Burqin Fort and Tacheng, one east and one south, finally Zhu Shi chose the closer and more unobstructed Burqin Fort. Although Chu Huer said that Durbert Khan was also against him, he still felt that it was unlikely.

Although Tacheng was directly garrisoned by the Ming army, it was separated by Tashan, and Chu Hu'er was obviously more defensive there, so he had to take the risk of breaking out to Burqin Fort.

"No!"

The princess shook her head.

"I won't go." She endured the bloody smell in the air, which made her want to vomit, but she endured it. From the very beginning, she went to the city to help treat the wounded, deliver arrows, knives, and food and water. Up to now, she is able to join the battle with a firecracker, and even her firecracker has hit several enemies, and she must have killed them. From the initial vomiting, she has become a habit now.

This is hell, but the princess refuses to go.

"Your Highness, they will definitely protect your safety."

"No, it is impossible to break out at this time, and if I leave with a few hundred soldiers with only combat effectiveness, Bohoxi will definitely not be able to hold it." The blood that hasn't dried up is next to the corpses of soldiers who didn't come and were carried away.

The wounded soldiers moaned and wailed in the distance.

She can't just leave.

"Your Highness, Bo Huoxi can't stand the next attack. Tonight is the last chance to break through." Zhu Shi said.

"Uncle Huang, stop trying to persuade me. The city is here, and the people are here. I will live and die with everyone."

She is the righteous daughter of the emperor, and Zhu Shifu, the Duke of Yanchang County, belongs to the King Su's lineage. In terms of seniority, Zhu Shifu is still the emperor's cousin.

The princess signaled Zhu Shiduo to stop persuading, "We have held on for eighteen days, and I believe reinforcements will arrive soon.
There is no winter that cannot be overcome, and there is no spring that will not come. "

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To the north of Xuanchi, beside the Irtysh River.

The ice on the river had not yet melted, and a cavalry came on the ice.

The leading knight was a young man. He was the governor of Dabson Lake on the left wing of Junggar, Gardan Nuoyan. This nine-year-old boy left the side of Daming Son last year and returned to Junggar. Under the left wing led by his elder brother Seng Ge, He served as the governor of the Dabson Lake Dudu Mansion among the [-] left-wing Dudu Mansions.

His territory is in the middle and lower reaches of the Irtysh River, near Dabson Lake.

Dabson means salt in Mongolian. Dabson Lake is a salt lake in the lower reaches of the Irtysh River. It was originally a nomadic land for the Durberts attached to the Junggars.

It was later taken away by the Kyrgyz people, and then Tsarist Russia began to enter this area along the Irtysh River.

Galdan was ordered to come here to build the Dabson Fort, and formally established the Dabson Lake Governor's Mansion. He led the people to move here, grazed cattle and sheep, mined lake salt, hunted fur, and also treated the Giligis, Kazakh tribal administration.

After contacting the Tsarist Russians who entered this place, after warning them to leave to no avail, the two sides began to fight in the Dabson Lake area.

Although Galdan was only nine years old, he had a team of staff and instructors from the Ming Dynasty by his side to help him train a Dabson battalion.

Relying on the firearms bought by the Ming army, coupled with Junggar's natural riding and shooting skills, and the help of the Ming army's staff and instructors, the small number of Tsarist Russian Cossacks were defeated by them, with more than a hundred casualties. They were all uprooted. Although this battle was also a tough battle against the newly-built Dabson Battalion, the Russian Cossacks were also very powerful in cavalry, shooting and firearms. Especially they relied on the camp to defend and counterattack. The Cossacks finally wiped out the Cossacks, seized their camp, and took away the fur, grain and dried meat they robbed and hunted.

In this battle, the young Seng Ge also began to show good leadership skills. Not only was he able to accept the good advice from the staff and instructors, but he was also very brave to stand on the front line and stand under the banner during the battle. Raise the morale of the whole army.

Even in the final battle to break the stronghold, he joined the battle with a musket and killed a Cossack.

After the war, Galdan also rewarded the soldiers generously, and gave generous compensation to the dead and injured, so that the young Nuoyan was accepted and supported by the soldiers of the newly-built Dabson Battalion.

"Nuoyan, there is a group of people blocking the way ahead."

"Whose team?"

Galdan was dressed in cotton armor and fur, with two flintlock guns in his waist, a bird gun on his back, a knife in his waist, and a bow and arrow in his double gun. This young man was very dignified.

Not long ago, after he heard about the big changes in the south, he immediately led the Dabson Battalion to go south first, and asked the tribe to mobilize soldiers, and then came.

A knight quickly went back and forth, and the horseshoes kicked up the snow powder. He told Galdan that the troops blocking the way in front should be the troops of his second brother Zhuot Babatur, and about a thousand riders were stationed at them. on the way.

Galdan looked around, and they had reached the mouth of the Xuanchi River in the Irtysh River, only a few dozen miles away from Bohuo Sibao.

"Zhuote Babatur, he and Chu Hu'er murdered my fifth brother, damn it!"

"Nuoyan, there are so many of them, should we go around?"

Junggar looked ahead, and if he went around, he would have to go around a lot, and now the emergency is like putting out a fire, so there is no delay.

"You and I will quietly approach them to spy on their situation before we talk," Galdan called his officers, all of whom were coaches and recruits drawn to him by the Daming Imperial Battalion, and he called twenty cavalry to follow him.

Zhuote Babatur led 1000 people to station on the west bank of the Irtysh Estuary in the northwest of Xuanchi, obviously to guard against troops coming from the north, or to prevent Bohuoxi City from breaking out to the northwest and escaping.

He set up several interceptions on the northwest side, this is the northernmost one, with 1000 troops, and many tents were set up in the snow. It was very quiet at this time, and the Junggar soldiers were all warming up in the tents to avoid the wind and cold.

"They didn't see us."

"I think we can just raid their camp!"

Galdan pointed at the camp in a dignified manner. He served the prince and emperor in Daming. He also practiced martial arts and lectures while studying. Yu has a little experience in using soldiers.

You have to be bold and careful in battle. Although there are thousands of people on the opposite side, they are defenseless, so you can try it.

Joining the army, the coaches also thought it was worth a try, and they also had a thousand horses in the Dabson Battalion.

Just as they were about to return to the enemy camp, a sharp arrow shot out, followed by the sound of horns. A secret whistle found them and blew the alarm.

Junggar soldiers emerged from tent after tent, and they shouted.

Galdan was about to withdraw when he saw his second elder brother Zhuote Babatur in the noisy crowd of the camp. When he thought about whether the fifth elder brother Seng Ge who loved and took care of him the most died in his hands or was killed in his sleep. He cuts off the head.

In a fit of anger, Galdan pulled out his pistol, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and roared, "Zuot Babatur, take your life!"

Single-handedly, he rushed straight to the thousand-man camp.

Seeing this, the twenty Ming military officers behind him couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly chased after him.

"kill!"

Galdan didn't care about the staff and coaches who came to persuade him. Now he only sees Zhuote Babatur, and there is no one else, and there is only one thought in his mind, to kill him to avenge the fifth brother.

In the snow, a strange scene appeared.

A young man in brocade and fur riding an iron horse, holding a flintlock pistol in each hand, roared and rushed towards the camp of thousands of people. Behind him, twenty military officers of the Ming Dynasty also pulled out their firearms and followed closely behind the guards. Gritting their teeth and rushing over, they couldn't leave the master and run away by themselves.

Over there, Zhuote Babatur heard the horn warning, got out of the tent, and saw a small cavalry team secretly looking at the camp in front of the camp from a distance, still wondering where it came from.

As a result, the other side suddenly rushed over, shouting while rushing.

It was too far away to hear clearly, but soon it was approaching, and the sound came with the wind.

Is it the sixth child Galdan?
Zhuote Babatur was a little surprised, even a little dazed.

At this time, his personal soldiers reacted faster than him, they had already stringed their bows quickly, and then opened their bows and set up arrows to intercept them.

The arrows flew quickly, but many of them missed. The north wind was strong and the distance was far.

After several rounds of arrows passed, they finally hit a few people, but no one fell off their horses, and they still galloped forward.

Zhuote Babatur also realized that the sixth child was looking for him desperately.

This little bastard, how old is he, is so fierce.

"Don't shoot this little bastard to death, this is my sixth brother, catch him alive." Zhuote Babatur shouted loudly, "Shoot the horses, just shoot their horses, don't shoot people."

More Junggar soldiers ran over and formed a wall of soldiers in front of Zhuote Babatur.

boom!
Firecrackers shoot.

21 rides, rode the horse and rushed close, facing the rain of arrows, ignoring the pain of being injured by the arrow, as long as he did not fall off the horse, he raised the flintlock pistol and pulled the plate machine to the front.

There was a series of bang bang bangs, and the lead bullets flew, tearing apart the wall of soldiers in front of the horse.

Zhuote Babatur didn't expect this small cavalry team, everyone had two flintlock pistols, two rounds of rapid fire after approaching, knocking the soldiers in front of him to the ground in an instant.

When he realized that something was wrong, the opponent was too sharp and strong, and when he wanted to retreat, it was too late. Galdan had already rushed forward, and the horse directly knocked him into the snow. Before he got up, Galdan A military officer from behind had already charged towards him, and a superb underwater moon exploration lifted him up from the ground.

Immediately, Zhuote Babatur, who fell dizzy, was captured alive and pressed on the horse's back. He struggled, but what he got in exchange was a slamming gun butt in the face, which was covered with blood. He hesitated. It's like opening a dye shop.

"withdraw!"

The military officer yelled at Galdan, sped up his horse and continued to rush forward without looking back, rushed across the camp, and then circled towards his main force. Galdan screamed excitedly on the horse and rushed forward .

21 riders, half of them with many feathered arrows stuck in their bodies, galloped like a hedgehog all the way. Fortunately, they were all top-notch horsemen and horsemen, and their riding skills were also superb, so none of them fell off the horse.

In the camp, Zhuote Babatur's men were overturned, and the main general was taken away.

At this time, more soldiers had just gathered here, but the coach had already been taken away by captives.

"Chase,"

"Rescue Huntaiji!" A Junggar soldier shouted angrily.

The soldiers quickly jumped on their horses and chased after them, but Galdan and the others had already galloped away.

(End of this chapter)