Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

The city wall of this county has indeed been reinforced and raised, but it has not been thickened at all, because no one would have thought that the peasant army would use the method of digging holes in the city wall to attack the city?So the guards on the top of the city desperately poured boiling oil and gold juice on the heads of the refugees who were digging holes, and fired firecrackers and arrows. It was a one-sided massacre.

If according to the general law of siege, with such a large number of casualties, it is completely possible for the peasant army to stop the siege party from attacking the city.But now Gao Yingxiang doesn't care at all.

For those refugees, those who dug the hole in the wall would die if they escaped, but digging the hole in the wall would have a glimmer of life, after all, all they needed to do was dig a bagful of broken bricks and mud.

As for the casualties of the refugees, Gao Yingxiang didn't care even more. Anyway, the peasant army has a lot of cannon fodder, so it doesn't matter to consume some.Even Gao Yingxiang still had some pleasure in his heart. Without these cannon fodder, he could save himself a lot of food.

And from the very beginning of the siege, Huang Long watched the movements of those refugees with dumbfounded eyes.After a while, he figured out what method Gao Yingxiang wanted to use to attack the city.Huang Long couldn't help but muttered: "This idea is simply not thought of by humans."

At this time, the leaders of the Peasant Army hadn't mastered the knack of flattering, so Huang Long's words were very vulgar.But his demeanor and words seemed to be the most flattering words, which stretched the pores of Gao Yingxiang's body, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.

Although the attack at the top of the city was rapid, it could not hold back the refugees who were digging holes in the walls like ants.The hole in the wall was dug bigger and deeper, and in the end, the city wall was finally dug through.

After all, those who defended the city were recruited men, not well-trained soldiers, so they were killed when the city wall was dug through.The psychological defense line has actually collapsed.Those strong men immediately jumped off the city wall and fled towards the city. They did not try to block the holes in the city wall or fight at the holes to prevent the peasant army from entering the city while the holes in the city wall were still small.This also lost the last chance to hold the county seat.

Don't blame those strong men, even the county magistrate kept talking to himself in a daze on the tower: "How could this happen? How could this happen?" [

Gradually, the entrance of the cave was dug enough for one person to pass through, and several peasant soldiers who had been prepared for a long time rushed into the county town first to guard the entrance of those caves.However, they saw the strong men defending the city running around like flies.I couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat from nervousness, for fear that those strong men would attack me who was alone and alone.But those strong men seemed to regard the entrance of the cave as a scourge. No matter how they ran around, they dared not approach the hole in the city wall protected by the peasant soldiers.

So the hole in the city wall was dug bigger and bigger, gradually.The two holes are connected together, and then there are three, four... .In the end, a large gap of more than twenty feet long was formed.And the refugees stopped digging.They got out of the way and let the old battalion soldiers from Gao Yingxiang's department behind them rush into the county seat.

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"Chuang Wang! There is quite a lot of food in this city, enough for us to eat for a month." Huang Long said excitedly.

After breaking through the county seat, the peasant army killed all the officials and big family officials and gentry as usual, and looted all the official warehouses and the property of the officials and gentry.

But Gao Yingxiang was not satisfied with this. He then ordered: "Take away all the food from the people in the city. Then drive them out of the city. If they join our rebel army, we welcome them all!"

Huang Long was stunned for a moment, because in the previous looting, the peasant army always had to take into account the reputation of the rebel army.It does not touch the private property of the people very much.Of course, the common people have no private property, so robbing them is not worth the loss.But now Gao Yingxiang's order has driven all the people in the county to a dead end.Those people have no food and are in the wilderness. As long as they want to survive, they have to join the peasant army.

But Gao Yingxiang felt helpless in doing so.The current peasant army does have a little less food, and there are too few refugees in the wild, which makes it more difficult for the peasant army to coerce. In addition, the loss of cannon fodder in the siege just now is quite large, these reasons make Gao Yingxiang have to act like this.

Sure enough, after doing this, basically all the people in the county joined the Peasant Army.After resting for a day, the peasant army immediately rushed to the next city like a swarm of locusts.

After receiving help from several border counties, the other Ming troops could passively avoid the battle, but Henan governor Li Xianfeng was responsible, and he couldn't avoid it.After pondering in every possible way, he asked Chen Yongfu to lead 3000 troops to the border for support.

But before Chen Yongfu set off, Li Xianfeng told Chen Yongfu thousands of times: just make a gesture of rescue.Don't be greedy for merit and fight the peasant army to prevent the main force of the Henan Ming army from being lost.

Chen Yongfu was a well-known honest man among the military officials in the late Ming Dynasty. His honesty is reflected in his special observance of the rules of the gentlemen and the military, especially Chen Yongfu obeyed the orders of the civil servants.Therefore, successive governors of Henan regard him as their confidant.

But at this time, it is not good to be a confidant.When Li Xianfeng was about to send troops, all the military officers of the Henan Ming Army entrusted them, and Li Xianfeng had no choice but to focus on the most obedient Chen Yongfu.

But Chen Yongfu's honesty is only reflected in the officialdom, and he is not so honest when he is fighting.Seeing that it was impossible for him to entrust this dangerous task, Chen Yongfu asked Li Xianfeng for a large number of horses, so half of the 3000 men he led were cavalry.And Chen Yongfu is ready to slip if the situation is not right.

Moreover, Chen Yongfu did not go to the rescue in a straight line. He led the army along the banks of the Yellow River, preparing to retreat into the cities along the Yellow River if there was any trouble. [

But as soon as he entered Henan Mansion, Chen Yongfu got a piece of information: two counties on the border of Henan fell one after another, and the peasant army's method of attacking the city turned out to be to use the method of digging holes in the city wall.

In fact, when Gao Yingxiang adopted the new siege method, he also did a good job of keeping it secret. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ming army did not know this siege method, and captured a few more counties. The city must be surrounded in front of the city, just to prevent people from escaping and reporting.

But Gao Yingxiang made a mistake in the end.Because there were only bandits in the wild in Henan, the common people gathered in the cities and stockades.And many of those stockades are places where the local rich gentry formed villages to protect themselves.

Of course, many of these villages were originally dens of bandits, and the Ming army would fight and kill them when they encountered them.But at this time, the common enemy of the peasant army linked them together. (to be continued...)