Blood from Daming

Chapter 543
Zuo Ming asked Li Gui's North Korean army to attack the city today and tomorrow, and Xue's army broke the city in the early morning of the 26th. Li Gui secretly despised Zuo Ming's arrogance when he attacked a border city like Yizhou City. Very lucky, I haven't heard that the general can break the city at a certain time.

Fortunately, Zuo Ming only wanted the North Korean army to feign an attack, and Li Gui naturally agreed. After Zuo Ming explained Xue Jiajun's cooperation with the North Korean army on the 25th, and made preparations for the North Korean army to enter the street fighting in Yizhou City, he let Li Gui Leaving the battleship "Yellow River".

Wu Yang asked Zuo Mingdao: "General Zuo, if you say that you will destroy Yizhou City in the early morning of the 26th, are you absolutely sure?"

Zuo Ming said with a smile: "Wu Dudu, now the world is developing towards hot weapons. The young master said that the future is the era of artillery and guns. Jianlu and North Korea's native hats are still in the primitive period of slash-and-burn farming. This general and others Let the walls and gates of Uiju City fly into the sky, and let Korean sticks and wild boar skins attack dogs in Uiju City."

Wu Yang said: "This is the best way. In a few days, Dongjiang Town General Mao's troops will arrive. At that time, Uizhou City has been taken down, and we will try to get those North Korean troops to the west bank of the Yalu River to fight against Jianlu."

Zuo Ming said: "Wu Dudu, as long as the interests are big enough, I'm not afraid that the North Koreans won't take the bait. I made a big deal in the old village of Jianlu. On the 26th, there should be more Jianlu arriving, and this general let these Jianlu watch with their own eyes that the North Korean army broke through Uiju City."

Wu Yang said: "General Zuo is tall, he is really tall, now it is impossible for the Koreans and Jianlu not to fight."

After noon, 2 soldiers and horses from North Korea's Nyongbyon Metropolitan Guard began to wave flags and shout around Uiju City, but most of them were building siege equipment, which made the Jianlu in Uiju City flustered and went to the city to defend. Unexpectedly, the Xue Family Army navy in the west fell into trouble, and a cannonball bombarded Yizhou City. Many Jianlu who could not escape were killed and injured 50 people. Jianlu ran far away.

However, Marshal Zhang Wan and Deputy Marshal Li Gui of Ningbian Dadu Protectorate did not order the siege of the city. They just withdrew their troops and returned to the camp to report when it was getting late. Dozens of soldiers were killed or injured, which made the Jianlu in Yizhou city very suffocated.

When Zhang Wan and Li Gui returned to the camp, the news from Manpu arrived. Zhang Wan gasped when he saw the information sent by the officials of Manpu. The size of the land is nearly [-] fortresses. After the slaughter of the captives, nearly [-] people from the Golden Banner have been captured. Countless cattle, sheep, mules, horses, property and women have been seized. Now in the range from Kuandian in the south, Changbai Mountain in the north, and Niumao Village in the west, there are corpses all over the place. The spies covering the shop traveled more than ten miles, but they did not see a single living thing...

Zhang Wan handed the information in his hand to Li Gui, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "I always thought that the Jurchens were the most ruthless, but now I know that the Xue family army of Ming Dynasty is vicious in heart and cruel in means. Above the Jurchen."

After reading the information, Li Gui said: "Marshal, the former Xue Polu was very difficult to talk about. The Liaoyang City in the Later Jin Dynasty was burned by Xue Polu. Places like Anshan Post, Kuandian, and Changdian are rare now. Beasts are infested, I didn't expect this Zuo Ming to be an evil star, we in North Korea really shouldn't cause such a big trouble for Xue Jiajun."

Zhang Wan said: "Well, the left general of Xue's army didn't mean that he could break the city tomorrow night. Between Jin and us in North Korea, there should be a place for Xue Jiajun."

The next morning, the morning of May 25th, Zhang Wan and Li Gui commanded [-] soldiers and horses from the Dadu Protectorate in Ningbian to go into battle in turn, killing the morale of the soldiers in Yizhou City and disturbing the patience and physical strength of the guards. , This farce lasted until the evening, which made the Jianlu of Yizhou City feel that something was wrong, but the Jianlu who guarded the city could not grasp the vital point. The North Korean army should have a few more days to prepare siege equipment, so the leader of Jianlu ordered the soldiers to take a good rest in order to cope with the fatigue tactics of the North Korean army during the day.

On May 25th, Zuo Ming and Wu Yang spent most of their time on the top deck of the "Yellow River" battleship. The two of them kept watching the movement on the east and west banks of the Yalu River. The [-] soldiers and horses of Ningbian Dadu Protectorate took turns to perform to their heart's content, just thunder but no rain.

On the west bank of the Yalu River, Jianlu cavalry began to gather at noon. When the sky darkened, two or three thousand Jurchen knights gathered one after another. Zuo Ming and Wu Yang estimated that by the 26th, there would be more Jianlu coming from the entire west bank of the Yalu River. It is also a test for Xue Jiajun's navy in the heart of the Yalu River.

After nightfall, Zuo Ming and Wu Yang had dinner and chatted together. Some subordinates came in to report that there were more than 5000 Jianren on the west bank of the Yalu River. The cowhide camp had been set up for nearly ten miles, and the light of torches was still moving in the distance. It will be dawn tomorrow. , the number of people will increase a lot.

Zuo Ming said to Wu Yang: "Tomorrow your navy will exercise its muscles and bones, otherwise these Jian captives on the west bank really don't know that Prince Ma has three eyes."

Wu Yang agreed, and then went on to ask Zuo Mingdao: "General Zuo, if Jianlu continue to gather on such a large scale, I don't know if Mao Zongbing from Dongjiang Town will dare to join our Xue family army."

Zuo Ming said with a smile: "Mao Zongbing is a hero of the times anyway, and he will not be intimidated by the Jurchen bannermen who have been put together improvised. In fact, it is icing on the cake to harass Jianlu this time. Nothing to lose."

Wu Yang smiled: "In this case, General Zuo's strategy of attacking Jianlu will not work."

Zuo Ming said with emotion: "The second uncle ran across Liaodong the year before last, outwitted Liaoyang City and ran for thousands of miles to take down the old village of Nurhachi. What a heroic spirit. A man should be like this in his life. He wants to do a great job. This time you and I How about the navy teaming up to turn the entire Liaodong upside down."

Wu Yang asked, "General Zuo, what good idea do you want?"

Zuo Ming said: "Wu Dudu, this general is still thinking about it, and he can act according to the plan when he gets the general soldiers of Qi Mao and North Korea. Okay, it's getting late, I'm going to go down to Yizhou City for a walk." .”

When Zuo Ming came to the land on the east bank of the Yalu River, a thousand firearms soldiers had already landed, and all those who were going ashore were naval sailors and selected naval soldiers. Zuo Ming, accompanied by a group of generals, came down to a raised Behind the big rock, ask the officers around you about the defense situation of Uiju City.

The commander-in-chief from Zuo Ming's side said: "The general is really clever. After seven days of bombing by our Xue family army in Yizhou City, Jianlu basically dared not stand on the west wall of Yizhou City, and our Xue family army did not launch any ground attack. Jianlu in Zhoucheng has very weak defenses to the west, and they are all focused on three directions: southeast, north, south, and north. Now it is an excellent opportunity to attack Yizhou City from the west."

Zuo Ming asked, "Is the blasting team ready?"

General Ba said: "According to the general's order, the blasting team has expanded from 300 people to 500 people. Each person carries a pack of ten catties of explosives. A total of five thousand catties of explosives has been invested. There is no problem in blasting the west gate of Yizhou City."

Zuo Ming asked, "How is the bombing team getting ready?"

Someone in the dark replied: "General, each of the five hundred firearms soldiers carried ten bombs. After the explosion at the west gate of Uiju City, they quickly occupied the entire west gate and waited for the North Korean army to enter the city."

Zuo Ming said: "Okay, now the general ordered that the [-] soldiers of the blasting team quickly arrive at the gate of the west gate of Yizhou City in five routes, and lay out explosives to prepare to blow up the gate of the west gate. The soldiers are ready to respond, and the blasting team can set off when they are ready."

Soon the Xue Jiajun blasting team lurking three miles away from Yizhou City shot towards the west gate of Yizhou City like an arrow. Now Zuo Ming is most worried about the speed of the blasting team. Can the main force of the captives successfully complete this huge blast before they go up to the west city wall.

Zuo Ming's throat felt a little dry, right? But he restrained his emotions and turned around and asked, "Has the North Korean assault force that attacked Uiju City arrived yet?"

Zuo Ming's soldiers replied: "General, the [-] elite North Korean forwards have already arrived at the predetermined position. Only once we blow up the West Gate, they will rush to the West Gate within a quarter of an hour. At the same time, other troops will also help. The second and third groups will follow and enter the city of Yizhou to join the battle."

Zuo Ming said "Okay" and looked up at the five black lines swimming towards the west gate of Yizhou City. Jianlu, who was guarding the west of Yizhou City, hadn't noticed the actions of Xue's army. Zuo Ming hoped that the Jianlu of Yizhou City would cross Wan realized that his actions were better, but Zuo Ming knew that this was his own wishful thinking. He anxiously watched his soldiers cross the moat of Yizhou City. Zuo Ming saw his soldiers start to pile up explosives under the west gate. After a while, half of the explosives were stacked in the gate hole of Caixi City Gate. At this time, Jianlu's horn sounded from the west gate of Yizhou City.

(End of this chapter)