Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 190 Battle of Wing City
Yuan Keli shouted loudly: "Zhang Chu, tell your people to put down the old man, you are not cowardly? How dare you hold the chief general!"

Zhang Chu said with a wry smile: "Sir, when you are old, you will take care of the younger ones in the back. If the younger ones can't stand it anymore, will you make it again?"

Yuan Keli struggled for a few times and saw that he couldn't break free, so he gave up struggling, sighed and said: "Alright then, go quickly, if I don't come down, you probably won't go, I won't go up, just watch from behind. "

Zhang Chu hastily clasped his fists to Yuan Keli and said, "Thank you, sir!" Then he turned his head and shouted to the two soldiers: "You two must protect sir, if you lose a hair, I will take you as a question."

"Yes!" The two soldiers responded loudly.

As soon as Zhang Chu waved his hand, he continued to patrol around with his men, and sent troops to reinforce wherever there was danger.

Although Yuan Keli was forcibly pulled down, his actions just now greatly stimulated those recruits. An old man in his 70s can fight fiercely, so why don't we dare?
What's more, the old man is right. Behind them is their home, and their family lives in it. If the city breaks down, the home will be over, and they will fight with these shit.

After the initial panic, the recruits started to take action, and in fact they had no choice but to take action. At this time, if they didn't kill the rogues, the rogues would kill them.

And when they killed a rogue, they immediately realized that the rogue was nothing more than that, and there was nothing to be afraid of. At this moment, they became more courageous, and they had no scruples about making another move.

The recruits used the simplest wooden guns. This weapon was used for training. To be honest, its power was really limited.

Fortunately, they guarded the city wall. Although the city wall was not high and was seriously damaged, it was condescending after all. When they saw the bandits rushing up, they stabbed them down with a single shot. They could stab people down without killing them.

When encountering unlucky people, a single shot to the vitals can kill half the life of the rogue, and the rogue's weapon will be picked up immediately if you are quick.

Therefore, although the casualties of the recruits were not small, the combat effectiveness was getting stronger and stronger.

Fighting with cold weapons, especially in melee, the things trained by the queue are useless. At this time, it all depends on the individual's ability. Whoever has quick hands and whose hands are cruel can survive.

Sun Huacheng had already killed three rogues, and the knife he snatched from the rogues was curled up because he slashed too hard.

Throwing the knife on the ground, Sun Huacheng picked up the spear again and stabbed a rogue who had just climbed up the city wall with a powerful shot. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a rogue slashing at a soldier next to him with a knife. The soldier couldn't stand it anymore, he backed up again and again, suddenly his feet tripped, the soldier fell back and fell down.

The bandit was overjoyed and swung his knife to slash at the soldier. Seeing that the soldier was about to die, Sun Huacheng yelled, swung his gun round and smashed it hard.

"Bang! Crack!" The rogue's head was split open in an instant, red and white gurgled down his forehead, and then he fell to the ground with a plop.

Throwing the broken gun in his hand, Sun Huacheng leaned over to pick up the lone sword left by the bandit. Just as he stood up, he heard the soldier shouting, "Be careful behind you!"

Sun Huacheng threw forward with all his strength, and with a loud sound, the knife fell on his body.

Sun Huacheng swung his backhand and slashed the leg of the man behind him with his knife. The man abandoned the knife and hugged his leg in pain and shouted loudly.Sun Huacheng jumped up and slashed at the man's neck. In a blink of an eye, he saw two more people climbing up the city wall. fall down.

"Get up!" Sun Huacheng shouted loudly.

The soldier who saw Sun Huacheng killing two people in a row just now was already stunned. Hearing Sun Huacheng's shout, he came to his senses. He hurriedly picked up a long spear and ran to Sun Huacheng's side.

"If you don't want to die, kill the enemy just like I did just now! Do you understand?" Sun Huacheng shouted.

"Yes!" The soldier responded hastily.

Just at this time, Zhang Chu led troops to reinforce him. Seeing Sun Huacheng fighting the enemy bravely, he couldn't help praising: "Good! What a good man! What's your name?"

Seeing a group of soldiers behind Zhang Chu, Sun Huacheng knew that this man was an officer, so he hurriedly leaned down and said, "The villain's name is Sun Huacheng."

"Sun Huacheng, from now on, you are the main soldier of my vanguard battalion. You have made great achievements in killing the enemy, so I will promote you today!" Zhang Chu said with a smile.

"May I ask who you are?" Sun Huacheng asked suspiciously.

"Hey, you are blessed, this is Zhang Chu, the battalion officer of our vanguard battalion, why don't you come over to see me!" A soldier beside Zhang Chu hurriedly said.

Sun Huacheng chuckled, chopped a bandit off the city wall with a single knife, and said with a smile, "Master Zhang, I'm at war right now, so I don't have time to visit you."

Zhang Chu smiled, and chopped down a bandit with his knife, and then said to Sun Huacheng: "Good man, what's more rare is that he can distinguish priorities. It's serious to kill the enemy now. You have a fart to see me."

Sun Huacheng kept his hands on his hands, and said in his mouth: "You are a good official, after this battle is over, I will mess with you."

"Hahaha, good! I'm waiting for you, don't die!" Zhang Chu laughed.

Zhang Chu and Sun Huacheng fought while talking, and killed five or six bandits in an instant.

Zhang Chu brought troops to help, and the situation on Sun Huacheng's side soon stabilized. Seeing that the bandits no longer attacked from this direction, Zhang Chu hurriedly led people to reinforce elsewhere.

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After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the bandits finally retreated.

Yuan Keli boarded the city wall and looked at the formation of the rogues from a distance, then turned to Zhang Chu and said, "Let everyone clean up the city wall quickly, the rogues are rectifying their troops, and they will attack the city again soon."

Zhang Chu nodded, and hurriedly ordered Tian Liangyu, Meng Jin and others to repair the city wall, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to carry the dead and wounded soldiers down from the city wall.

After explaining everything, Zhang Chu went back to the city wall and said to Yuan Keli: "Sir, brothers are running out of ammunition, so we must prepare for the worst."

Yuan Keli nodded silently upon hearing this.

When fighting at night, the power of the rifle will inevitably be greatly affected, and the rogues are scattered too widely. In addition to killing a large number of rogues at the beginning, it mainly plays a deterrent role in the later stage, so that the rogue archers dare not step forward.

Therefore, even if the vanguard battalion has sufficient ammunition, even now, the ammunition is not sufficient.

After thinking for a while, Yuan Keli said, "You ask the soldiers to count how many grenades are left?"

Zhang Chu shook his head: "Not many, at most two per person."

Yuan Keli nodded. At the beginning, Hongshanling only made three batches of grenades. The first batch was made during the encirclement and suppression by the government and army. It was never made again.

The main reason for not making more grenades is that there is not enough iron in Hongshanling. Most of the grenades are made of yellow mud and ceramics. Yellow mud and ceramics absorb moisture. The grenades that are made will get damp after a long time. Therefore, the first batch of grenades made of earth It has long been unusable. As for the second batch of pottery grenades, most of them have also been scrapped. Now everyone uses the last batch of grenades.

The ceramic grenade is not very powerful, mainly because of its deterrent effect, and it is not easy to store, so Li Jing didn't let it go too far.

The last batch of grenades, after removing the waste products, was less than 2000 pieces, of which more than 1000 pieces were left in Hongshanling, hundreds of pieces were brought by Li Dingguo when he set out for the expedition, and more than [-] pieces were brought by Gaoqi to defend Lingchuan, and the rest were in the vanguard. camp here.

These grenades have been kept useless. It’s not that Zhang Chu doesn’t want to use them, but the deterrent effect of using grenades at night is not great.

During the night battle, it is all lit by torches, and people in the distance can't see the situation in front of them at all. Moreover, the sound of rifle shooting is not small, and with shouts, it is easy to cover the sound of grenade explosions.

In addition, only the soldiers of the vanguard battalion can use grenades. At that time, the soldiers of the vanguard battalion spent all their energy on shooting, so they didn't have time to take care of the enemies under the city wall.

What's more, the grenade needs to be ignited. Although there are torches on the city wall, the distance between each torch is not short. We can't let the soldiers of the vanguard battalion hold the torches and throw grenades while shooting.

After thinking for a while, Yuan Keli said: "Gather the soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion together, don't spread them too far, once the rogues attack the city, tell them not to shoot, and when the rogues gather at the city, they start throwing grenades, giving the rogues a ruthless taste." Taste! After receiving this blow, the rogues must retreat, and then order the soldiers to shoot and kill. We don’t have many bullets, let those soldiers aim and shoot for me, don’t waste bullets.”

Zhang Chu nodded, knowing that Yuan Keli was going to concentrate on fighting some rogues. As for the rogues elsewhere, he would hand them over to the recruits. As long as the vanguard battalion repelled their current enemies, they could turn around to support the recruits.

Sighing, Zhang Chuxin said: "No wonder the commander-in-chief respects Mr. Yuan so much. Regardless of his age, this old gentleman is very ruthless and stable in the use of troops, which is beyond the reach of others."

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Outside Yicheng, Wang Ziyong saw that his brothers were unable to break through repeatedly, so he had no choice but to order the attacking soldiers to withdraw temporarily.

"Leader, what's the matter with this city? Why is it suddenly so capable of fighting? It seems that the people stationed inside are not officers and soldiers?" said a person next to Wang Ziyong.

Wang Ziyong turned his head to look at this man, shook his head and said, "It's not the officers and soldiers, it's the guys chasing after us."

"What is the origin of this group of people? Why are they so powerful? I think they are stronger than Cao Wenzhao's troops! They even carry cannons, his grandma's! The cannons are much more powerful than the cannons of the official army. They are firing so fast without stopping, what are those cannons?" said the man next to him.

Wang Ziyong frowned and said, "Yang Liu'er, how the hell would I know? I want to know that I also made cannons! But we don't have to worry, there must be no cannons in this city, otherwise we would have used them long ago."

"Leader, what do you think these people are up to? I don't think they seem to want to beat us to death." Yang Liu'er continued.

Wang Ziyong shook his head: "I don't know for sure, but I always feel that these guys have malicious intentions. You see, after coming out of Huozhou, they blocked all the intersections leading to the east and west, leaving us only the south The purpose of the road is obvious, which is to let us run in the direction he pointed."

At this time, a woman behind Wang Ziyong said: "Leader, you said he told us to go south, what good will it do him if we go south?"

(End of this chapter)