Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 103 Yunmeng Offensive and Defensive Battle ([-])

With a shrill scream, the auxiliary soldiers rushed up carrying the dirt on their backs.Even if there are a thousand or ten thousand reluctances in my heart, I still have to rush at this time. If I rush, I may be able to survive by luck, but if I don’t rush, I will definitely not survive.

Seeing the Tartar auxiliary soldiers approaching the moat, a squadron leader in charge of commanding a group of archers waved his hand and ordered to release arrows.Immediately, a burst of sparse arrow rain shot over.After mopping up the entire Yunmeng, the Seventh Battalion managed to pull out a squadron of archers.However, due to the tightness of the bow and arrow, there is a lack of live ammunition training on weekdays.So archers can only cover attacks, and you can't count on accuracy.

Fortunately, the density of the Tartar auxiliary soldiers was high enough. After a sparse shower of arrows, dozens of auxiliary soldiers fell to the ground.The rest of the hundreds of auxiliary soldiers quickly poured down the earth and rocks in the sacks, and ran back like crazy.These days, supplies are scarce, prices are high, and human life is worth less than a sack.If Kong Youde needs it, he can press tens of thousands of people in a radius of tens of miles to attack the city at any time, and the sack has to be bothered to do it.So Kong Youde ordered that the sacks must be recovered when filling the trenches, and the auxiliary soldiers who came back without sacks would be chopped off.

After the first team of auxiliary soldiers came back, a thousand auxiliary soldiers of the second team also rushed up with shouts in unison.Several auxiliary soldiers in the second team saw dozens of auxiliary soldiers lying on the ground by the moat and screaming miserably, their legs trembling and unable to take a step, but the supervisor team behind them raised their knives and fell. A human head rolled into the grass.Seeing such a stabbing attack, the auxiliary soldiers of the second team could not wait to turn into scuds and rush forward.

Similarly, the second team also suffered a blow from the bow and arrows, leaving dozens of people behind.

After coming and going several times, the auxiliary soldiers suffered more than half of the casualties, and the moat was filled for a long time.

Although the auxiliary soldiers suffered heavy casualties, Kong Youde did not order the artillery attack.For him, auxiliary soldiers are consumables, far less expensive than artillery.It is impossible for him to waste precious gunpowder and shells to reduce the casualties of lowly auxiliary soldiers.

Seeing that the moat had been filled in, and Kong Youde ordered the flag to be raised, several teams of archers rushed forward, followed by dozens of green battalion soldiers carrying ladders to attack the city, and some green battalion soldiers followed behind with carts.Because Yunmeng City is less than two feet high, Kong Youde did not prepare any ladders, but only built hundreds of long ladders.

The Tartars came rushing towards them, and the regiments defending the city were very nervous. Some people were so frightened that their weapons slipped from their hands.At this time, Ni Zhan shouted loudly.

"Comrades! Tartars are coming to rob my land, burn my house, kill me, strip me of my clothes, rape my sisters, and enslave my descendants. What should I do?"

"Kill the Tartars!"

"Kill these bastards!"

Everyone yelled, and it seemed that yelling would calm their nervousness.The fact is that, after a few loud yells, many people calmed down and were no longer so nervous.

The tartars rushed over with the sound of drums and shouts, and the squadron leader in charge of commanding the archers hastily ordered to release arrows.

However, this time it was not as easy as shooting the auxiliary soldiers last time.The archers had just shot straight, when suddenly the Tartars shot a rain of arrows.Although they were shooting from the bottom up, even though they were protected by the pile, there were still more than a dozen regimental archers who fell down with arrows in their hands.

At the same time, the Tuan Ding archers also shot bows and arrows, but the effect was mediocre. Only a few Tartars were shot, because the Tartars were protected by chariots and armored, so no fatal injuries were caused.

In just a short while, the long ladder carried by the green battalion soldiers was put on the city wall.The long ladder is just a little lower than the city wall, it is easy to be overturned if it is high, and it is not easy to reach if it is short.This is a simple version made by Kong Youde. The more complicated long ladder has a hook on the top, so that it can be hooked on the wall and is not easy to overturn.

When the Green Battalion soldiers climbed up the long ladder, countless bricks, stones, and boiled dung juice poured down, and there was a scream on the long ladder.It's just that there is a price for this. The Tartar archers who hide behind the chariot keep shooting arrows.The regiments exposed outside the wall were shot with arrows one after another, some fell on the city wall, and some fell outside the city, acting as stones and knocking over several green battalion soldiers.The tuanding who fell on the ground was quickly dragged away, not for treatment, but to avoid blocking the way.The following group members took over, lifted the stones on the ground and continued to smash them down.

As soon as a battle is fought, the visual and auditory stabs will increase the adrenaline in the body, making people on the battlefield feel that they are not afraid of anything. , Let your combat power soar, and you don't know what death is.But when he calmed down and his mood calmed down, his legs might tremble and he might become terrified.

At this time, these regiment members seemed to have gone mad, desperately lifting stones and wood blocks to smash them to death, desperately stabbing the spears in their hands, and brandishing the big knives in their hands.The Tartars attacked the city wall several times and were driven down again.All of a sudden, people's heads rolled, their intestines were rotten, and bloody internal organs were all over the floor.

In the first siege, the Green Battalion of Tartars was blocked.

Kong Youde had expected this situation.Generally speaking, as long as the defenders are united, even if there are fewer people and less weapons, they can always withstand several attacks.

A few years ago, Kong Youde was under the city of Jiangyin, and he personally experienced that under the leadership of Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun, the people of Jiangyin resisted the 24 army of the Tartars with hundreds of thousands of people who had not received military training. , defended the city for 81 days, killed the three kings and eighteen generals of the Tartars, and killed more than [-] soldiers.

Therefore, with united will, even if you are a farmer, you can become a warrior and fight against the bandits.However, Yangzhou, where Shi Kefa defended, was different. Under internal strife, the city changed hands in a few days, and 80 people were slaughtered in the whole city.

The Tartars entered the pass like a broken bamboo. In many cases, not only did the traitor troops benefit from the battle, but also because many powerful cities surrendered without a fight during the siege.

Those members of the peasant guards who had vowed not to surrender before let Kong Youde know that this attack on the bandits might not be a good thing to surrender without a fight, so Kong Youde was psychologically prepared for the disadvantage in the first battle.

At this time, there was a sound of gold clanging from behind the Tartars, and the green battalion soldiers who attacked the city quickly fled the city wall like an amnesty, leaving behind broken equipment and hundreds of corpses.

Seeing the Tartars retreating, the members of the regiment shouted excitedly, and many members of the regiment whose enthusiasm had receded felt exhausted and sat on the ground slumped.

Ni Zhan also breathed a sigh of relief, the enemy's first attack is the most dangerous when defending the city.Unexpectedly, this time the Tartars turned out to be just a probing attack. As long as they fight a few more battles and let their regiments see more blood, then this battle of defending the city will be easy to fight.Even if the city is still destroyed and people die in the end, let these Tartars bleed to relieve Anlu's pressure.

Just when the regiments on the city wall were relaxed, a shrill sound came closer and closer, and the Tartars began shelling.

(End of this chapter)