Blood from Daming

Chapter 74 Tianlei
The four sides of Datong City, Huang Taiji, chose the strategy of lacking three and attacking one, trying to take down Datong City in one go, gathering the Manchurian and Mongolian troops to rush forward with the tactics of crowds.

Huang Taiji coerced Wu Keshan into doing his job in many ways, but the two were still relatives. Wu Keshan's aunt, Zhezhe, was Huang Taiji's wife. Zhezhe married Huang Taiji's wife when he was just 16 years old.The relationship between Wu Keshan and Huang Taiji is chaotic. He is both uncle and nephew.

Huang Taiji half threatened, half lured, even coaxed, and promised Datong half of the wealth to Wu Keshan.

Huang Taiji is anxious. It is a trivial matter for a woman to be robbed of face. However, the Manchu-Mongolian marriage system is the basic national policy for establishing a state and a country. The state is directly exposed to the attacks of two major enemies.

Father Khan Nurhachi is preparing to become emperor in Shenyang, Liaodong, and the name of the founding country is Daqing.In Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, bad things kept happening. First, the tenth brother Degelei Baylor was shot and killed by the Ming general, and now the fifth brother Mang Gurtai was injured by the same Ming general. It's hard to say.

Fifth Brother Mang Gurtai's shoulders and clavicles were shattered, and his left thigh was broken. Huang Taiji thought about the man's archery skills, and suspected that he did not want to shoot Mang Gurtai to death on purpose.

Looking at Mang Gurtai's resentful eyes, Huang Taiji felt guilty. After all, he ran away without saying hello. Mang Gurtai was shot to stop him. How could he not hate himself.

If you don't fight a big victory here in Datong, you will be able to save your own head when you return to Shenyang and see your father Khan Nurhachi, and you will have to sleep alone in the days to come.

Huang Taiji looked at the Mongols under his threat in the city of Datong as cannon fodder, pressing 5 people at a time. He couldn't help but feel a little strong and fiercely pointing out the country. A thought came to him unconsciously, but when he thought of his father Nurhachi suddenly became depressed.

Father Khan Nurhaci once wrote to ask: Does a small Ming Dynasty Qianzong need him to go to Datong in person.

Huang Taiji knew that the death and injury of the two brothers made Nurhachi hate the Ming general Xue Yun to the extreme, and he had to complete this mission for his father Khan, so he could only consume the strength of the Mongolian Horqin tribe to the maximum, so he couldn't help silently mourning to Wu Keshan.

Xue Yun walked out of the city gate tower and came to the back of the horse face of the city wall. Most of the Tartars had passed through the moat. The densely packed crowd under the city wall looked like countless ants. Thousands of ladders were erected, and the Tartars followed the ladders. Start climbing up.

The officers and soldiers on the city wall hung up the curtains one after another, stretched out six or seven feet, and let the curtains fall outside the female wall like arrows and stones, and poured the boiling oil and boiling water that had been prepared in one pot after another, mourning in the city. The screams continued, and the smell of meat could be smelled in the steaming smoke. After a slight pause, the tartars began to crawl up again.

Perhaps Huang Taiji had discovered Xue Yun. With thousands of people killed and injured in the city, the Tartar Niu Luzhang Jingda Yinbu led the [-] fresh troops supported by Huang Taiji directly to the Xuandong Gate tower where Xue Yun was.

Niu Luzhang Jingda Yinbu shouted: "Huang Taiji Baylor has an order: those who go to the city first will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver, and those who capture and kill the Ming general Xue Yun alive will be sealed as shellfish, and Datong will never be sealed if the city is broken."

The Tartars under his command passed on one by one, and later tens of thousands of people shouted: The first to go to the city will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver, and those who capture and kill Ming general Xue Yun alive will be sealed as shellfish, and Datong will never be sealed if the city is broken. "Everyone yelled like they had taken aphrodisiacs and gathered under the city.

Yu Dacheng ran over and said: "Master Xue is dying, send reinforcements quickly, if it's too late, we won't be able to support him."

There are 2000 Yu Dacheng's subordinates in Xuandong Gate, 1000 guard soldiers, and 1000 Minzhuang.There are 1000 men under Yu Dacheng at Wudingmen, 2000 guards from General Zhang Shen, [-] guards, and [-] civilians.Yu Dacheng suspected that Xue Yun was wasting his strength.

Xue Yun said: "Wait a little longer, until the density of Tartars is higher."

The battle at Wuding Gate was safe and sound, the Tatars put all their strength on the city of Xuandong Gate this month, and finally some Tartars came to the city, and the five hundred families brought by Miss Yu from the inner city were thrown into the battle. During the battle, the first Tartar to go to the city was picked off the city wall with two spears by two members of the Yu family, and fell down the city as soon as he sent them off with force.

Tartars continued to climb up from the wall, one, two, and three openings were getting bigger and bigger. Xue Yun ordered to sprinkle all the lime on the city wall.

Turning back to Xue Liu, he said, "Ji Tianen sent the general's [-] infantry battalion to the city." After speaking, he drew his bow and released three feathered arrows, and the three tartars rolled down from the city wall.

Xue Liu asked: "Then how do I pull my men and horses up?"

Xue Yun fired nine fast arrows and hit them. The Tartars in the upper city panicked for a moment and were cut down by Yu's army.

Xue Yun said: "Wait for your cavalry. You send someone to the inner city to tell Li Xiaoyong that Yu Si will pay close attention to the south gate. I am most worried about the complicated personnel there."

After Xue Liu shot the arrow in his hand, he turned around and went down the tower. He led the general and Ji Tianen up to the city wall with a total of 100 infantry battalions. The dozens of gaps in the city wall were immediately reduced by half, and there were more than 200 officers and soldiers in this short period of time. Killed in battle, more than [-] Tartars died on the city wall and fell into the city. More and more Tartars gathered under the city. Some Tartars who were blinded by lime could not see anything and had to squat there.

Xue Yun asked Lu Yaojin to come over and said: "You bring the brothers up, and I will order the commander of the Datong Guards to make the battle enter the most critical moment. All the reserve troops of the guards will go to the streets to control the intersections, and inform the whole city that some people will not obey the martial law order. If you go out, you will be shot or killed." Lu Yaojin went down to the city.

Miss Yu came over sweating profusely and asked, "Xue Yun, how many Tartars did you shoot, but I killed eighteen of them."

Xue Yun pointed to the five arrow pots that were empty on the ground, and Miss Yu secretly said, "Ouch!" Five arrow pots are one hundred, and he shot and killed half of the Tartars that everyone killed while standing here. The lady secretly hates what you have done, do you still have the face to hang out in the army?

Huang Taiji's thirty giant siege towers are only about two hundred steps away from the city wall, and the giant siege towers are swarming below.

Under the three city walls, it was difficult for the Tartars to turn around like dumplings, and the unsafe accident occurred in just half an inch. In just half an inch, two giant siege towers fell down, and dozens of people in the towers were thrown everywhere. Yes, most of the undead are also disabled, and the fallen siege tower also hit many people.

This made the officers and soldiers on the city very happy, and they became more energetic in killing the Tartars who climbed the city. The Tartars on the city wall were grouped together. Ji Tianen knocked down the general infantry battalion, but the Tartars still went up desperately. Climbing, the officers and soldiers on the city continued to push down the ladders, and the dead and wounded Tartars under the city wall were all stacked up to the height of a person.

The five hundred men led by Lu Yaojin came up to the city with explosives, and all leaned against the inner wall of the city wall. After everyone was in place, Xue Yun made a downward gesture, and Lu Yaojin waved a red flag and shouted: "Light the fire!" ".

Miss Yu looked at these 500 people mysteriously beside Xue Yun. After watching for a while, she was still puzzled and asked, "Xue Yun, what are you doing? Why can't I understand it?"

Xue Yun smiled and said to Miss Yu: "You will understand right away, you and your women's army have blocked your ears."

Xue Yun started to demonstrate. Miss Yu didn't quite understand, so she asked her subordinates to follow Xue Yun's example. Lu Yaojin's red flag fell, and after about five breaths, Miss Yu saw that there were about Two hundred packages, smoking green, were thrown into the city.

Miss Yu took about the third breath, and there was a continuous explosion of explosives under the city. When it was the most dense, it was shocking. Miss Yu was dumbfounded when she heard it, and hurriedly followed Xue Yun to lie on the city wall Looking down from the stack, there are densely packed Tartars lying down, lying, and standing under the city wall, and most of them are corpses all over the ground.

The officers and soldiers on the city were also shaken to the point that their ears buzzed and they felt that the city wall was shaking. Everyone lay on the horse's face and looked down. The Tartars who had been piled up like ants just now seemed to have suddenly disappeared. Everywhere was covered with guys with stumps, limbs, arms, heads and feet, and the whole battlefield suddenly froze and became quiet like no one, and time stopped.

I don't know who was the first to crawl out crying, or who was the first to take the lead in running away. In a moment, one person ran away, and then two people ran away, and the Tartars suddenly collapsed.

The rest of the Tartars receded like the tide, leaving behind howling or whining Tartars and endless corpses that could not speak.

Huang Taiji saw that the Mongolian and Jianzhou coalition forces were about to attack Datong City, and he still hadn't made any moves. Suddenly, continuous thunderstorms broke Huang Taiji's hard confidence. After a burst of smoke, half of the people fell on the ground I can’t get up in the same city, I’ve never seen such a scene. Huang Taiji is extremely terrified, but he doesn’t believe that this is a punishment from heaven, no, there must be something I don’t know about it, I must figure it out, God of longevity You must not desert your faithful son.

Wu Keshan stood dumbfounded outside the camp, he heard the explosion sound like thunder from the sky, Changshengtian was angry that he was punishing his people.

Wu Keshan stood there in pain and listened to the reports of his subordinates. He had nearly 5 people, at least 1 of whom were buried in other places, and an unknown number of disabled people returned to Horqin. At that time, anyone who spit would drown himself. Huang Taiji, you and I have suffered a lot.

There were 28 giant siege towers standing alone outside the city of Datong. Xue Yun ordered the city gates to be opened immediately and prepared to leave the city to destroy the siege towers.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of fighting in the south of Datong City, and the soldiers who were about to leave the city looked at each other and turned pale. Xue Yun thought to himself that Huang Taiji really had a backup, but it's a pity that the Tao is one foot tall and the devil is one foot tall. I, Xue Yun, know you How could Huang Taiji underestimate you so much?

Xue Yun led Lu Yaojin and 2000 soldiers from the headquarters to the south city to help in the battle, and asked Xue Liu to rush over immediately to solve the matter at the north gate. Long-handled grappling hook A few people grabbed the siege tower with the grapple, and everyone pulled the siege tower hard for a while, and then it fell down.

Xue Yun and the others used nearly a hundred long-handled grappling hooks three times, five times and two times, and all 28 giant siege towers were pulled down. In the end, Zibing still couldn't escape the fate of being stabbed.

Huang Taiji looked heartbroken and urged the Mongolian and Jianzhou coalition forces to rescue the people in the siege tower. Wu Keshan ignored him wherever he was in a daze. The leader also believed that Changshengtian had abandoned Huang Taiji, and that the true god had no desire to fight anymore on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji wanted to cry but had no choice but to force his Jianzhou knights to fight again. When Huang Taiji led two thousand of his own troops to drive away the Mongolian and Jianzhou coalition forces and rushed to the north gate of Datong City again, the 28 giant siege towers It had been completely destroyed by the Datong army defending the city, leaving only the broken limbs of the siege tower and countless dead Tartars under the city wall. The Ming army had already returned to Datong city.

(End of this chapter)