Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 115 Meeting Teachers (Part [-])

The fighting became more and more intense. Every day, the Tartars bombarded the city with cannons, and then drove the captured people to attack the city to consume the defense materials in the city.The security team also used new recruits to drive the restless elements captured in the city to defend the city. The untrained attackers and defenders quickly sacrificed under the successive attacks. They were either killed by the enemy or hacked to death by the supervisory team. The death toll on both sides was in the thousands.Fortunately, the weather is getting colder now, otherwise the smell of rotting corpses would be unbearable.

Now Anlu City has become a huge slaughterhouse, and all the people who are slaughtered are living humans.

In a quiet place in the city, there is a large house.There are many people guarding the place closely, and a group of regiments come on patrol from time to time.In the courtyard, Zhou Xiuzheng lived alone in a hut, and she was more than seven months pregnant at this time.Because of the misfortune of her previous pregnancy, she was very worried that she might not be able to keep this one, so every day she pleaded sincerely to the heavens and gods and Buddhas in the sky, so that her child could come to this world safely.

Last year's escape left a deep shadow on Zhou Xiu, and now that the war outside the city has resumed, that shadow casts a deep shadow on her, making her feel as if she is going to flee again.Fear and powerlessness made Zhou Xiu especially afraid of the sound of footsteps.I'm afraid it will be like half a year ago, the sound of hurried footsteps came, and the piercing sound of weapons clashing from far to near, and then the confidant pushed open the door heavily, shouting that the enemy was approaching, the guards couldn't resist, and fled quickly.

This situation is like a nightmare now, making Zhou Xiu, who already has pregnancy syndrome, extremely exhausted every day.Waking up in the middle of the night, palpitations during the day, and gradually losing weight.And her husband has been busy with the war and has not returned home for several days, which makes Zhou Xiu, who longs for her husband's company, feel even more depressed.So she followed the advice of those close to her, and set up a Buddhist hall and a Taoist altar at home.After worshiping the Buddha Avalokitesvara every day, I offer incense to Sanqing.In this way, after a few days, Zhou Xiu felt that the emptiness, fear and other distracting thoughts in her heart were much less, and she became more fulfilled.In fact, Zhou Xiu doesn't believe in either Buddha or Taoism, but she thinks one of them will be useful if there are too many prayers.

Therefore, the husband kills people outside, and the wife cultivates herself inside, and the husband and wife can be regarded as bringing out the best in each other.

The killings outside the city continued, and the fear in the city continued to intensify.Restaurants, restaurants and other places have no business closed down.Only the grain store is still open, and there is a long queue outside.The security regiment implements a food rationing system, and every day they don't receive food, they won't be able to eat.So no matter how fearful I was in my heart, I had to muster up the courage to go to the street and line up to receive the rations of the day.

The sound of fighting outside the city was deafening, but everyone in the city kept silent, except for the rustling of food being loaded.

Fear hangs over everyone's heart.

A hundred miles away, two armies were galloping towards the starry night of Anlu City, one behind the other.In order to speed up, Chen Chen took out three brigades, namely [-] elite soldiers, as the advance team, and personally led the team to build roads and bridges in the mountains to ensure the smooth flow of the roads.

Along the way, Chen Chen encountered many refugees coming towards the rear with their children. After inquiring about the news, he learned that the Tartars surrounded Anlu City five days ago.Now they don't know whether the city has fallen or not. The reason they fled is because the Tartars captured villagers everywhere as siege pawns, so if they wanted to escape to Xinyang, it was inevitable that they would be driven to attack the city by the Tartars and end up dying.

After hearing the news, Chen Chen was extremely anxious.The Tartars have been besieging the city for several days, so I don't know how the regiment headquarters is doing now.In this way, the advance team was getting farther and farther away from the main force behind. When the advance team approached Anlu City, it was already more than 60 miles away from the main force behind.At this time, the regiments of the advance team were unkempt, ragged, dry food was about to run out, and their combat strength was extremely weak.

When the advance team was ten miles away from Anlu City, the Tartars had already spotted the advance team.Knowing that he was about to be attacked, Kong Youde withdrew his siege troops and adopted a defensive posture.

Today's attack failed again, and the morale of the Tartar warriors did not drop.In the past few days, their attacks have been long-range and heavy bombardment, shooting with bows and arrows in the middle range, and attacking the city with captured bandits in the short range.In short, there is not much loss in the core combat power of his side, and the only one who has lost a little bit is the archer.

In fact, there is a reason for this situation.Because Yunmeng City fought so badly, Kong Youde realized that although the bandits were not strong in battle, they had a strong will to fight.If such an opponent defends the city, he will definitely suffer heavy losses, but if he is dragged outside the city to fight in the field, then the role of fighting will will not be as great as when defending the city.

Therefore, Kong Youde's idea was to encircle the bandits' headquarters, draw all the bandits' wings, and then annihilate them one by one.

Today, Kong Youde's strategic goal has been achieved, and the first batch of bandit reinforcements has appeared ten miles away.According to reports from Tanmalai, there were thousands of bandits who came to help, most of them were infantry, and there were less than a hundred cavalry.Moreover, the regiment's reinforcements were full of travel and dust, and it seemed that they were coming at a gallop, and they hadn't been rested yet.

Kong Youde looked at the sun, he saw the sun was high in the sky, it should be around noon, the sun is strong but not hot in autumn and winter, it is time for battle.

In ancient times, the number of soldiers lost, frozen to death, acclimatized to the soil and water, and wound infection died far more than those who died in battle in ancient times.So even if the bandits and villagers were used to attack the city, there were still hundreds of wounded and sick in the army, so now Kong Youde's combat power was only about [-] except for the captured villagers.This eventuality is a real soldier!Among them are the elite Eight Banners soldiers of the Han Army!Compared with the newcomers recruited by the security regiment headquarters, these people can be said to be able to count as ten, or even one as a hundred!At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Tartars entered the customs to plunder, they drove thousands of former Ming officers and soldiers away with eighteen banner soldiers. At this time, the combat power of these new recruits was not as good as those of the former Ming army.Therefore, Kong Youde is very confident about the field battle.

Leaving 3000 people guarding the camp to prevent bandits from leaving the city to attack, Kong Youde mobilized an army of [-] to attack Chen Chen's advance team of [-].

(End of this chapter)