Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 165 Moved to Shandong ([-])

The Tartars had been attacking the city for seven consecutive days. This time, the Tartars did not want to repeat the mistake of besieging and attacking the city. Instead, they attacked with all their strength, without giving themselves a chance.

Looking at the Tartars who were still attacking vigorously like a rainbow, and looking at the exhausted regiment beside him, Sun Zhi was very worried.Even the armored supervisor team was demoralized. Just now they killed more of their own people than the regiments killed the enemy.

The gunpowder had been used up, and even if there were some pine guns left, they were useless.Without the rudimentary artillery of the pine tree cannon, Ruyang City's resistance became more and more difficult.

At this time, the setting sun was gradually lowering in the sky, and the Tartars also ended their day's attack, and Ming Jin returned to the camp.

Ma Lin, the training officer who has been busy giving ideological education to the captives for the past few days, came over. He looked at Sun Zhi with a complicated expression, and then said in a low voice.

"Battalion Commander, we lost another thousand regiments today, and the soldiers and people in the city are in panic."

Looking at his old partner, Sun Zhi just nodded to show that he understood, but didn't speak.

Looking at Sun Zhi, Ma Lin gritted his teeth, motioned for Sun Zhi to come to a remote corner, and then said softly.

"Battalion Commander, the Tartars came prepared this time. The soldiers and horses were even more elite than last time. They attacked the city with all their strength as soon as they arrived, and did not give us a chance. Now, our battalion has suffered heavy losses, and the Tartars have seen through several sneak attacks. After the division of the first battalion, Battalion Commander Chen left Guangshan, and the remaining troops were also wiped out by the Tartars. Battalion Commander Li of the Fourth Battalion also took his elite to go to Shaanxi. They went deep into the Dabie Mountains and lost contact with us. The people in the city did not support us as much as the people in the base area. There are still thousands of captive soldiers who have not yet returned, but they have restrained our [-] troops. Now, we have no reinforcements from outside. No fighting strength!"

Excited to speak, Ma Lin paused for a while, then continued.

"Ruyang City is dead now! Battalion Commander!"

When it came to the emotional part, Ma Lin cried anxiously.The security regiment is his life's work, and the second battalion is his life's destination.As a small student, he is now the deputy of the first battalion, which makes Ma Lin feel that he has reached the pinnacle of his life.But now, the Second Battalion is about to be wiped out, so why is Ma Lin not in a hurry?He has put the career of the Second Battalion above his life.

"That's what to do." Compared to Ma Lin's excitement, Sun Zhi just said lightly.

In the past few days, Sun Zhi felt as if he had fallen from the sky to hell.How ridiculous it seemed to be so high-spirited and complacent in the past.He once thought that the Tartars were nothing, but unexpectedly, when the Tartars were besieging Jiang Tiao, they could crush themselves to death with just one little finger.

There is nothing greater than death, and the idea of ​​dying with the city has already arisen in Sun Zhi's heart.

"Battalion Commander, we still have a chance." Looking at Sun Zhi, Ma Lin gritted his teeth and said.

"Some time ago, several groups of refugees escaped from Shandong, bringing news of chaos in the southwest of Shandong."

"According to them, last year the Shandong Yuyuan Army started an uprising in Caozhou Mansion, and there was a great chaos in Southwest Shandong. When the subordinates learned about it, they immediately sent people to Guide Mansion, which borders Caozhou Mansion, to inquire about the news. After many inquiries, they learned something. Information about the Yuyuan Army."

"The Yuyuan Army is mainly active in the Puzhou and Fanxian areas of Caozhou Prefecture in Shandong. Natural disasters and man-made disasters continued in Shandong in the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, it is known as a million. The Yuyuan Army not only used the dense elm forest as cover, but also created tunnel tactics, digging criss-cross passages underground for hundreds of miles, and attacked the Tatar army mysteriously. Today, the Yuyuan Army It has expanded to most of the Caozhou Prefecture, and the momentum is quite huge."

"In July last year, Li Huajing was appointed by the traitor Liu Zeqing of the four towns of the former Nanming to contact the nearby Yuyuan Army and other rebels in Caozhou Prefecture to support a Ming Dynasty clan as king, and issued a document under Tianzheng as the reign name, and successively conquered Caozhou. , Dingtao, Chengwu, Dongming and other prefectures and counties. People in Juye, Shandong, Daming Mansion in Zhili, which borders Caozhou, and Guide Mansion in Henan, responded one after another. The Tartars were furious and ordered the dispatch of officers and soldiers from the three provinces to suppress them. Those who participated in the siege There were garrisoned in Dongchang Prefecture, Meile, Zhangjing Lai, Tong Yangliang, the general soldier of Yizhou, Yi Yonggui, the general soldier of Linqing, Lu Guonan, the general soldier of Baoding, and Gaodi, the general soldier of Henan. A large number of Tazi troops flocked to Caozhou, and the rebels Although they resisted bravely, they were outnumbered, and their corpses were scattered all over the field, and the grass was stained with blood. The Tartar army successively recaptured Dongming, Dingtao, Chengwu and other counties."

"Afterwards, Li Huajing went out of the city to negotiate, but was detained by the Tartar army, and he, the former Ming clan and Liu Zeqing's three nephews were escorted to Beijing. However, although Li Huajing was captured, the rebels in Caozhou Prefecture still stood firm. Ten In the first month, Jierhalang, Prince Zheng of the Tartars, led an army from Beijing to Huguang to Caozhou, and attacked the city with red cannons. Two days later, the capital city of Caozhou fell, and the righteous people were captured everywhere, and the rebels suffered heavy casualties."

"However, although the Yuyuan Army's uprising failed, it was not destroyed. Now the Yuyuan Army is still active in Caozhou Prefecture. So the subordinates think that our second battalion can go to Caozhou Prefecture to open up a base area and cooperate with the Yuyuan Army."

After Ma Lin finished speaking, Sun Zhi thought for a while, and then said.

"Since Li Taiping of the fourth battalion is willing to throw away the pots and pans of copper and cypresses and go to Shaanxi to start a new stove, then I, Sun Zhi, can't be worse than him, so let's go to Shandong! This place has been repeatedly attacked by the Tartars, and the people have been barren and poor after the war. Yes. Shandong, very good."

"Instructor Ma, go and arrange the relevant personnel and supplies. Each person should bring bedding and weapons, and dry food for ten days. When selecting personnel, choose elite soldiers and strong generals. The number should not exceed five thousand." Sun Zhi Said.

"Then, what about those captured Green Battalion soldiers?" Ma Lin asked.

"All the green battalion soldiers who were still imprisoned in the big camp were killed, leaving no one behind. As for the green battalion soldiers who surrendered to us and the regiments who were eliminated, we will organize them to break through from the south gate, so that our elite soldiers can come from the north. Take advantage of the chaos and escape from Ruyang City."

Three days later, that is, on the night of February [-]th in the sixth year of Huaxing, the south gate of Ruyang City opened wide, and more than ten thousand regiments rushed out holding hands in silence with knives in their mouths and spears tied to their backs.Seeing that the bandits had broken through, the Tatars who were in charge of monitoring lit all the fires and hurriedly laid down the line of defense.The Tartar camp was set up in the east, and the other gates were lined up to prevent bandits from leaving the city.Of course, in order to concentrate the forces and prevent them from being too scattered, these lines of defense are mainly used for surveillance.Seeing the fire burning in the south, the Tartars hurriedly mobilized troops from the camp, and went to the south gate to lay down layers of formations to prevent the bandits from breaking out.

Before leaving the city, these regiments were told that they were sitting guarding the isolated city and that the Tartars would massacre the city to vent their anger after victory, so the only way to survive was to fight desperately and rush out in the dark.As a result, the regiments stepped forward, stepped on the corpses of the sacrificed comrades, stepped on the flesh and blood all over the ground, and killed them step by step.

At the beginning, the Tartars were caught off guard, and because of the lack of troops, a small number of regiments took the opportunity to rush out, which inspired the regiments behind even more.It's just that when the soldiers and horses in the Tartar camp came to help, it became more and more difficult for the regiments to attack.Although the impact of the regiments made the front of the Tartar troops form a concave shape.But with more and more Tartar soldiers and horses, the sunken battle line gradually leveled off.

Taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the Tartars was concentrated in the south, Sun Zhi gathered [-] elite troops, including [-] cavalry, and rushed out from the north gate.The cavalry broke through the barrier of the Tartars and galloped away under the bright full moon tonight.

Before leaving the city, Sun Zhi discussed with Ma Lin and Chen Ziliang, the captain of the first brigade. Sun Zhi led [-] cavalry first, and the remaining [-] cavalry were led by Ma Lin and Chen Ziliang, and the three walked separately. , and finally gathered in Ningling County in Guide Mansion, and then entered Southwest Shandong together.

On the night of the full moon, the Tartars captured Ruyang City, killing more than 5000 bandits and capturing [-] bandits.On the second day, hundreds of regiments of bandits and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were arrested one after another because of night blindness. In the end, only less than [-] people left.

So far, the four major bases opened by the security regiment at the junction of Henan and Hubei have all been lost.

(End of this chapter)