Blood from Daming

Chapter 826
The 36th Battalion of Shaanxi Rebels who besieged Jiangzhou City and Wuping Pass, although it was said that they attacked the city three days later, the 36th Battalion of rebels were not idle in these three days. On April 29th, King Zijinliang, leader of the 36th Battalion of Shaanxi Rebel Army, used it for himself, but failed to surrender Jiangzhou City and Wuping Pass for the last time.

On the first day of August in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zijin Liang Wang himself led the old man back to Ma Shouying, the general Li Zicheng, the collapsed sky, the sky, the king Li Jin, the party family, the piercing cone, the eight kings, the king of heaven, the scorpion block, and the mountain reminder Tiger, Chongtianzhu, Slick, Yi Lieyan attacked Jiangzhou City, Zhao Sheng who lit the lamp, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Cunmeng who didn't stick to the mud, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Sweeping King, Xing Honglang, Heisha God, Cao Luorucai, Troubled Times Wang, Zhang Miaoshou, Bai Jiuer, Gust of Wind, Qilang, Great Heavenly King, Nine Dragons, Four Heavenly Kings, Shangtian Monkey, Ya Touzi, Qi Tianwang and Yingshanhong attack Wuping Pass.

The battle started at Wuping Pass first. Zhang Xianzhong, the Eight Great Kings eager for revenge, volunteered to act as the vanguard. The leader, Zhao Sheng, the lighting man, Gao Yingxiang, the Chuang Wang, and Zhang Cunmeng, the Buzhanni, agreed that the Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, the Sweeping King, Xing Honglang, and the God of Heisha , Cao Luorucai led [-] rebels to lead the battle. Half an hour later, the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong led [-] rebels, [-] ladders and four siege vehicles to attack Wuping Pass.

Under Wuping Pass, Zhang Xianzhong commanded the rebel army from his headquarters to climb the city first, and Ma Yuanli was the first to climb up the ladder. Soon, the thousand ladders erected were filled with people. Suddenly, countless ceramic earthen pots flew down from the wall of Wuping Pass. There was an explosion of "boom" and "boom", and then the liquid splashed in the ceramic crock burned, and the entire Wupingguan city wall turned into a fire dragon.

The Xue family army who closed the Wuping Pass only threw three rounds, and 5000 rebels under the city wall were burned to death and burned, and the burning fire could not be extinguished at all. After passing Wuping Pass, the entire Wuping Pass rebel army was in chaos.

Xue Jiajun of Wuping Pass also used hooks, sickles and guns to overturn hundreds of ladders. The bold Zhang Xianzhong also ran away in fright. He didn't have time to take care of the general Ma Yuanli who fell from the ladders. In this way, the first attack of the rebel army failed. , but the raging fire under Wuping Pass did not stop, and the smell of cooked meat was still wafting.

Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang looked at the smoky Zhang Xianzhong secretly laughing, if the Xue family army is so good at fighting, it would be your turn to be an idiot like the Eighth King. The soldiers and horses under him are basically intact.

Zhang Xianzhong yelled: "The bloody Xue Jiajun doesn't do anything to harm people, ouch, the whole hand is full of blisters, oops!"

Not sticking to the mud, Zhang Cunmeng looked at Zhang Xianzhong's blistered hands and said, "Eight Great Kings, this is not a ghost thing, it's a kerosene bottle that the frontier soldiers don't often use."

Zhao Sheng, a lamplighter who was born as a scholar, said: "The kerosene bottles used by the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty are not as good as those of the Xue family army. These bottles of the Xue family army are not only explosive, but also stick to people's bodies and burn. They are long-lasting and inextinguishable. They should be What was added to the bottle."

At this time, the situation of the first offensive of the rebel army was roughly calculated: 1000 rebel soldiers were killed or injured, of which less than 4000 were actually killed, and most of the 700 were burned. , more than [-] ladders were damaged, and two siege vehicles were burned. Zhang Xianzhong's troops suffered the most losses. His general Ma Yuanli fell from midair and lay there with his waist injured and unable to move.

Zhang Xianzhong suffered a loss and he was unwilling to take the lead, but kept crying and motivating the leaders Zhao Sheng, Wang Chuang, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Cunmeng and others to attack the city, but Zhao Sheng, the lamp lighter, was coerced by Wang Ziyong. Pingyang Shigu already knew that Xue Jiajun was not easy to mess with. Wang Ziyong's defeat in Pu County last year was still fresh in his memory. Now that he saw Xue Jiajun's kerosene bottle, he was even more unwilling to sacrifice his own strength, so he hummed and said nothing.

Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang disapproved of the Xue family army at all because of Gao Guiying's relatives and the fact that he was often able to obtain cheap military supplies through his niece. And the King of Chaos, Zhang Miaoshou, Bai Jiuer, Gust of Wind, Qilang, and Da Tianwang all attacked the city.

Zhang Cunmeng let go of Sweeping King, Xing Honglang, Heisha God, and Cao Luoru's tribes, but Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, sent troops. Leading 1000 troops into the battle, Zhang Cunmeng went to command the siege with satisfaction. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong greeted enough of the women of Zhang Cunmeng's family.

This time, Zhang Cunmeng used 2000 sets of ladders, reorganized four siege vehicles, and dispatched [-] rebels to attack the city. This time when Wuping closed, not only Molotov cocktails, but also grenades and explosives were thrown out. The battle lasted for an hour, and the rebel army added more than [-] corpses under Wuping Pass, but the siege did not make any progress.

Not sticking to the mud, Zhang Cunmeng became angry, and went back to find the lamp, Zhao Sheng, and Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang increased his troops to fight again. Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang proposed to fight again the next day because of the lack of siege equipment. Zhao Sheng, who lit the lamp, also agreed. Shangtianhou, Yatouzi, Qitianwang, Yingshanhong and other leaders of the rebel army did not want their own troops to suffer losses, and they all advocated building more ladder chariots before attacking Wuping Pass.

Not sticking to the mud Zhang Cunmeng lamented that the rebels were not united. This Wuping Pass might be difficult to break through, but he was just a leader of the rebel army, and the leaders of the rebels were only temporarily cooperating. He had no right to force them to attack the city, so he gave up the idea of ​​attacking the city and ordered The troops were withdrawn, and the rebels retreated from Wuping Pass like a tide.

Now the most unlucky one is Zhang Xianzhong. He spent all his time on the leader Zijin Liang Wang's own use, and encouraged Zhao Sheng, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, and Zhang Cunmeng to take down Wuping Pass to avenge Xue's army. In the end, he attacked Wuping twice Guan, Zhang Xianzhong killed and injured nearly [-] men, and the entire team was disabled, but they got nothing. This is really a waste of money.

Accompanied by Lei Batian and Wen Cunyang who closed Wuping Pass at the end of the night, they looked at the dead and wounded peasant army. With Lei Batian's heroic command, Xue's army sacrificed the lives of more than 300 soldiers to defend Wuping Pass. The two believed that it was the most difficult day to attack and defend Wuping Pass. In the past, Wen Cunyang admired Lei Batian's composure very much, as if he was desperate and wanted to commit suicide at one time, now Wen Cunyang's only thought is that the reinforcements from Datong's Xue family army will come soon.

On the same day, the offensive and defensive battle between the rebel army and Xue's army in Jiazhou City was also in full swing. Li Zicheng, the leading general, was the vanguard of Zhengyin, and led Mantianxing, Li Jinwang, Dangjia, Sundering Cone, Bajingang, and Huntian Wang to attack the city first. Although it is easier to attack than Wuping Pass, Jiazhou City has a large number of people. Li Zhizhou and Jiangzhou gentry tried their best to cooperate with Xue's army to defend the city, making Jiazhou City a Ningyuan City in Shanxi.

The commander Wang Dajun, who has been rich in battles, is determined. Jiangzhou Xue’s army also used incendiary bottles. This is a traditional kerosene bottle, adding flour, rust, sugar, soybean paste, rosin, grease, camphor, rotten acid, etc. It has extremely strong high-explosive, high-melting, high-viscosity, poisonous smoke, corrosion and other functions. It is the latest scientific research achievement of Xue Jiajun Taiwan Taiwan Institute of Science and Technology Chongzhen for three years, and it is the best weapon for defending the city.

In the first attack led by general Li Zicheng, half of his cloak was burned off. Li Zicheng almost became a turkey because he took it off so quickly, but Li Zicheng refused to retreat, and has been supervising the battle on the front line. Of the 5 troops of Li Zicheng, Mantianxing, Li Jinwang, Dangjia, Sundering Cone, Eight King Kong, and Huntianwang, 3000% of the troops were lost in the battle, and more than [-] rebels died.

More than half of the [-] pairs of ladders were lost, and nine of the twenty siege vehicles were burned. The rebels who could not withstand the incendiary bottles, grenades, and explosives dropped from Jiangzhou City all retreated. When the army attacked the city, they were dragged away from the battlefield by their nephews Li Guo and Liu Zongmin.

Zijin Liang Wang himself is well versed in the art of war, so that Liu Guoneng led the scorpion block, the reminder mountain tiger, the towering pillar, the slippery, and Yi Lieyan's wheels to fight against the Xue family army in Jiangzhou City. Another [-] rebels attacked the city. Heaving a sigh of relief, the soldiers and civilians of Jiazhou City once again threw themselves into the arduous offensive and defensive battle.

The wheel warfare method used by King Zijin Liang was really effective. Taking advantage of the fatigue of the soldiers and civilians in Jiangzhou City, the rebels unexpectedly rushed up the city wall of Jiangzhou City from five places, and were finally driven off the city wall by Xue's army, but at least caused Jiangzhou City. On the one hand, the 600 people killed in battle were not the main soldiers of the Xue family army who risked being killed by the eyes of the city and threw Molotov cocktails, grenades, and explosives down the city. Jiangzhou City was likely to fall.

The rebel army led by Liu Guoneng also lost a lot. The fierce siege of the city caused Liu Guoneng, Xie Zikuai, Cuishanhu, Chongtianzhu, Youlihua, and Yi Lieyan to sacrifice nearly ten thousand soldiers of the rebel army. Several rebel armies such as Tianzhu, Zhantianzhu, Youlihua, and Yi Lieyan have basically lost their combat capabilities.

Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong saw the weakness of Xue's army, and he could take Jiangzhou City with just one more force, so Wang Ziyong ordered Little Red Wolf and Laohui Hui Ma Shouying to lead the main force of Fugu Rebels with [-] troops to attack the city, and the main force of [-] rebels swarmed the city At the foot of Jiangzhou City, the third round of the battle to seize the city began.

But Wang Ziyong ignored the rebel army's siege equipment. Of the [-] ladders, only less than [-] were left, and [-]% of the ladders were injured. Of the [-] siege vehicles, only five remained, all of which were incomplete. The effect of using it is greatly reduced, which greatly reduces the surface and point of the rebel army's attack. A large number of rebel soldiers do nothing under Jiangzhou City, the threat to the defending soldiers and civilians of Jiangzhou City is reduced, and they become living targets for soldiers and civilians born in Jiangzhou.

Seeing this scene, King Zijin Liang sighed sadly: "Hey, our army lacks siege equipment. If we miss this good opportunity to siege, it will hurt me to death."

(End of this chapter)