Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 189 The Enemy Approaches the City
In any case, Li Jing couldn't let Sun Yuanhua die in the hands of Kong Youde. (Actually Kong Youde did not kill Sun Yuanhua after he was captured, but released him. After Sun Yuanhua arrived in Beijing, Chongzhen arrested him and killed him later.)
Not only did Li Jing want to save Sun Yuanhua, but he also had to bring Sun Yuanhua back. However, the technical content of this job was too high. There were not many people under Li Jing who could do this job. The most suitable person was actually Li Jing himself. Jing is now doing his best to deal with Wang Ziyong, and he can't escape at all, so he can only send Chen Erhu's commando.

During this period of time, Chen Erhu's commando team had a good record. Many rogues wanted to sneak away, but they beat them back.Chen Erhu and the others were extremely ruthless, and they basically beat them to death when caught. Such a group of people wandered outside the camp of the rogues all day long. In the past two days, no small group of rogues have escaped privately. The members also relaxed.

Chen Erhu and the others became idle, and it happened that some people could be spared to do this work.

Li Jing ordered someone to call Chen Erhu back, and then explained to Chen Erhu the mission of the trip in detail, telling Chen Erhu to rescue Sun Yuanhua.

Chen Erhu took the order, selected a dozen capable men, and hurried to Dengzhou Prefecture.

After Chen Erhu left, Li Jing picked up the letter that he was promoted to Jiangzhou garrison and read it again, and then meditated in the tent with his hands behind his back.

In some respects, it is true that there are many conveniences in holding an official position in the imperial court, but there will be correspondingly more inconveniences, especially for military officers.

Generally speaking, most of the guards are fifth-rank. It sounds like the rank is not low, but in fact it is only equivalent to seventh-rank civil servants, especially after the middle of the Ming Dynasty. Be on guard.

Li Jing served as the garrison of Jiangzhou. If the bandits were rampant under his rule, he might speak a little harder. If his rule was stable, the court could send a bunch of fathers to take care of him.

Even if Li Jing ignores these officials who only know how to make trouble all day long, as long as they don't raise the flag to rebel, they have to entertain them, but how can Li Jing have time to deal with these people now.

Shaking his head, Li Jing sighed in his heart, why didn't Cao Wenzhao discuss it with himself?

Immediately Li Jing burst out laughing, Cao Wenzhao must have known that he would not agree, so he didn't discuss it with him.

Thinking about it, it was difficult for Cao Wenzhao. He couldn't guess what Li Jing was thinking, so he had no choice but to recommend Li Jing as an official, hoping to tie Li Jing to the court's chariot.

It's just that it's a bit lame to get yourself a wealthy businessman's identity. As for recruiting Liuqian Xiangyong, it's even more superfluous. With Chongzhen's suspicious character, a wealthy businessman who recruits Liuqian Xiangyong will never end well. Six hundred words are justified.

Sighing, Li Jing called a soldier and asked him to deliver this letter to Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli was very experienced and thought he would have a way to deal with this matter.

Li Jinggang arranged for his soldiers to go back to deliver the letter, and the scouts who were in charge of investigating the movements of the rogues came to Li Jing's tent nervously.

"What happened?" Li Jing asked.

"Report to Commander, there seems to be something wrong with the tents of the rogues. It seems that many of the tents are empty." The scout said.

Li Jing was shocked: "What are you talking about, many tents are empty?"

"Yes, I found out today that when the rogues were cooking, there seemed to be much less smoke, and many tents didn't fire at all," said the scout.

Li Jingjing nodded. It is the most basic common sense for scouts to check the number of enemy troops through marching pots and cooking smoke.

However, there were more than [-] rogue bandits, and the scouts found that there was less smoke, so at least thousands of pots and stoves had to be unfired to be discovered.

The rogues lost so many pots and stoves, so they naturally sent people out.

While looking at the map, Li Jing tapped on the table lightly, where can the rogues divide their troops?
It is impossible to go north, all the roads are blocked by troops.

There are only three roads to the south, and Jishan County doesn't need to worry about it. Li Jing originally wanted the rogues to run there, and if the rogues want to go in the direction of Jishan County, they can't just send a few thousand people. Jishan County is the state seat of Jiangzhou. The rogues couldn't be beaten at all.The possibility of Quwo is not very high. Quwo's ​​position is not good. It is in the middle, and it will be surrounded by people anytime and anywhere.

Then there is only Yicheng County.

Yicheng County borders Zezhou, and Gao Yingxiang's troops are tossing around in Yangcheng.

Li Jing suddenly patted the table vigorously, the rogues must have divided their troops and rushed to Yicheng County overnight.

Yicheng County has been attacked by bandits many times, and the city walls have long been dilapidated, so Wang Ziyong and others dared to send only a few thousand people to attack the city.

"Damn it, I wondered why these guys didn't live in the city after taking down Xiangling, but went outside to set up tents, so it was convenient to send troops when they were preparing for a sneak attack." Li Jing cursed in a low voice.

At the same time, Li Jing was also secretly blaming himself. For the past few days, the bandits had followed the route he commanded, so that he became paralyzed.Of course, the monitoring of the scouts below is not strict, and the failure to see the movements of the bandits is also a reason.

Thinking about it, now is not the time to blame yourself. Yicheng County does not have many troops to defend, so troops must be sent to rescue immediately.

Thinking of this, Li Jing hastily called his own soldiers to give orders quickly.

"Order Zhou Daqing and Wang Ermao to press forward quickly and form an attack posture against the bandits. Sun Hutou led the troops from the headquarters to rush to the aid of Yicheng. The logistics troops followed and returned to Yicheng."

Following Li Jing's order, Ji Shijun moved quickly.

After passing the order, Li Jing ordered his soldiers to bring the horses, got on the horses, and galloped towards Yicheng County.

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Yicheng County.

Yuan Keli looked solemnly at the rogues outside the city.

It is not surprising that the rogues can come to Yuan Keli in Yicheng County. After all, Li Jing has too few troops, and there are only more than 1 recruits. It is too embarrassing for 1 people to chase and intercept 10 people .

After passing Xiangling, it will be even more difficult for the Jishi army to control the rogues. There are too many forks in the road ahead, and Li Jing's troops will definitely not be able to take care of it.

Yuan Keli was ready for the rogues to attack Yicheng County when the rogues began to attack Xiangling. Before the rogues captured Xiangling, he ordered Zhang Chu to be transferred back to Yicheng County with Li Jing's troop transfer talisman.

He also ordered Zhang Chu to break up the vanguard battalion overnight, and let Tian Liangyu and Meng Jin's two teams each bring a thousand recruits to the city wall. As for Zhang Chu, he took his own guards and the rest of the recruits were on standby for support.

Yuan Keli's preparations were not untimely, but the actions of the rogues were faster than he expected.

As soon as Yuan Keli made the arrangements, the army of rogues came to the city of Yicheng County, and launched an attack on Yicheng County as soon as they arrived at the city. It can be said that if Yuan Keli's action was later, it would be too late.

Although Yuan Keli had already made preparations, the number of soldiers in the Pioneer Battalion was too small. There were only about 70 soldiers in total. Li Dingguo took more than [-] people with him when he set off with Cao Wenzhao.

How is it enough to defend a city wall more than three miles long with less than 500 people?After all, the weapons used by the Pioneer Battalion were rifles rather than machine guns.Therefore, although the vanguard battalion caused great casualties to the rogues, the troops of the rogues rushed under the city wall quickly.

Now is the time to test those recruits who have just trained for a short time.

Due to the fact that there were too many rogues, the energy of the veterans was mainly to deal with those rogues shooting arrows in the distance, and to shoot and kill those long-range units that threatened the recruits the most.

This is a very risky move.

Because the recruits had never been in contact with combat, when they saw those ferocious bandits rushing up viciously, their hearts were filled with fear.

Putting new recruits into battle rashly, sometimes not only can't help, but will drag those veterans down.

Because the recruits will scream or make some unexpected actions when they panic, which will seriously interfere with the combat of the veterans.

Under normal circumstances, only after a period of fighting with the rogues under the leadership of veterans can the new recruits' fear be eliminated gradually.

But now there is no other way, the rogues have already rushed up, if you don't stop these rogues, there will be only one result, the city will be destroyed and people will die.

Yuan Keli stood on the city wall, drew his sword in his hand, pointed at the rogues below the city wall and shouted to the recruits: "Brothers, there are rogues in front, and our home is behind us. If we can't stop the rogues, our family will suffer The massacre of bandits, if you don’t want your family to be destroyed, then follow the old man to kill the enemy.”

"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!" The veterans of the Vanguard Battalion shouted loudly.

"Tian Liangyu! Meng Jin!" Yuan Keli shouted loudly.

"The last general is here! Please order from the military advisor!" Tian Liangyu and Meng Jin responded loudly.

Yuan Keli said loudly: "The two of you are here to supervise the battle. If you encounter the enemy and do not go ahead, or shake the morale of the army, you will be killed!"

"Yes!" Tian Liangyu and Meng Jin replied loudly.

After finishing speaking, Tian Liangyu and Meng Jin held their knives in their hands, commanding the soldiers to fight loudly while cheering up the recruits.

At this time, no one would explain the facts to those recruits. Only knives are the best way to use them. Those who want to run will be hacked to death, and those who don't want to die will have to fight with bandits.

The Jishi army fought fiercely with the bandits on the city wall. Zhang Chu had already cleared out [-] recruits in the city. At this time, he was leading the recruits around to inspect the battle situation.

When he got to the south gate, he suddenly found Yuan Keli standing on the city wall directing the battle. Zhang Chu was shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Sir! Sir! Why did you go up the city wall? Come down quickly!"

"Zhang Chu, do your own thing, don't worry about me!" Yuan Keli responded casually while shouting loudly.

Zhang Chu was in a hurry: "Sir, don't you want my life? If you are always hurt, the commander-in-chief will not skin me when he comes back? I beg you, come down quickly!"

As Zhang Chu said, he winked at the two soldiers around him.

The two soldiers understood, one on the left and one on the right stepped forward to clamp Yuan Keli, and forcibly helped Yuan Keli down.

(End of this chapter)