Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 415

Just when Sun Kewang's troops outside the city were about to launch a charge, their artillery was firing, and some of them had already started to ignite.

Countless torches suddenly lit up on the top of the city, illuminating the night sky.

The outline of the entire city appeared in the night sky, and the top of the city was like a mountain of soldiers and a sea. Every face of them was illuminated by torches, and they were clearly visible. Each of them was neatly dressed and fully armed.

Obviously the city had already prepared.

Look at the cannons on the crenel next to each other, and the muzzle of Heidongdong has already been aimed at the people outside the city.

The general with the torch was already ready to light the fire.

In the gaps between the cannons are countless musketeers, and then there are archers.Then the rolling wood and thunder stones piled up like a mountain on the top of the city.

The sword is on the verge of breaking out.Sun Kewang and others outside the city were taken aback when they saw this scene.

"Let these turtle grandchildren taste the power, light it up!"

At this time, the Ming army on the city started, and with an order, the torch lit the fuse.

After the soft chirping sound, the cannons blared all over the sky.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of cannons fired, and their cannons fired one step ahead of Sun Kewang's cannons outside the city.

As a result, on Sun Kewang's artillery position, only a small number of cannons were ready, and most of the cannons had not been ignited. Some soldiers were busy fiddling with sights, rear sights, and even loading ammunition, busy with these things.

The artillery shells of the Ming army flew over the city, and then exploded with a bang.

Thousands of guns were fired, the earth shook and the mountains shook, and thick smoke billowed.

Sun Kewang's artillerymen were killed countless times on the spot, some were playing with the rear sight and were blown down on the muzzle, some were playing with the front sight and the rear sight was blown up, and some destroyed the cannon.

Their artillery battalion was in chaos immediately, and only a few red cannons played a role.

Of course, the Ming army on the top of the city not only aimed at their artillery position, but also aimed at the thousands of troops outside the city. The red-clothed cannon had a long range. This red-clothed cannon blasted the corpses of Sun Kewang's men and horses all over the field, and blood flowed like a river. , the rest scattered and fled in all directions, and immediately fell into chaos.

At this time, Sun Kewang realized that he had been fooled, and the mutiny in the city was probably fake. He knew that Lin Yi was good at making surprise attacks, and this must be his trick, but he had already become angry from embarrassment at this time, and even lost his mind a little.

The one hundred thousand army has already been pulled out, and after a long time of tossing, they can't just withdraw their troops after suffering the artillery fire for nothing, otherwise, what face will there be?Where is the prestige?Especially now that his more than 20 troops are actually a coalition of three forces, and of course his Sun Kewang is also a shameless person.

So he ordered: "Come to me!"

Originally, according to their plan, a [-] army launched a sudden attack. Under the cover of artillery fire, they attacked the city in one fell swoop. With the cooperation of the elephant army, the city was taken, but now things were unexpected. Sun Zhongwang's men were killed It was dizzy and a mess.

However, Sun Kewang's military orders still worked. His generals Ai Nengqi and Wang Dingguo personally supervised the battle, cut down a few soldiers who were running around, and the situation stabilized. Then Ai Nengqi and Wang Dingguo personally led the charge. Don't be afraid of death, and braved the sky-shattering artillery fire to rush towards the city gate.Some carried ladders, some drove siege vehicles, and under the light of torches, they rushed towards the moat like a sky and earth.

At this time, the muskets on the top of the city rang out, and tens of thousands of self-propelled flintlock guns filled the blind range of the red cannons, crackling like fire whips, and Sun Kewang's men and horses fell down in groups, but they were really brave Yes, he just rushed through the moat, but then the archers on the city showed their power, and the arrows rained down to fill the gap in the range of the muskets.

The red-clothed cannon, the self-propelled flintlock gun, and the bow and arrow are three kinds of weapons, starting from long-range strikes, forming a dense firepower network from far to near. Sun Kewang's men and horses are out of luck. Almost no one can break through the triple fire defense line. Even if he was brave and lucky enough to get to the base of the city wall by luck, the rolling logs and stones from the city fell and were smashed to pieces before the ladder was erected.

Sun Kewang's men launched three attacks successively, but none of them were able to reach the top of the city. In contrast, the first charge had the best results, and the soldiers were full of energy. Their cannons still had little effect. , But in the next two times, their cannons were blown up and their firepower was suppressed. These soldiers failed to rush through the moat, so they were beaten back.General Ma Yuanli was injured, and several middle-ranking generals of Yunnan chieftains were killed.

It was dawn at this time, and there were dead bodies everywhere outside the city, those who were bombed to death, those who were shot by guns, those who were shot into hedgehogs by bows and arrows, those who were smashed to death by wood and stones on the city, and those who fell into the moat and drowned Those who were trampled like mud by people and horses, and those who were hacked and killed by their own people because of poor charge, died anyway.

The wide and deep moat was filled with dead bodies, and the bloody water overflowed out of the river. The smell of water mixed with the smell of burnt food permeated the morning air.

But the Ming army on the city stood still. They were full of energy and high morale, which formed a strong contrast with the exhausted Sun Kewang outside the city.

At this time, Song Xiance, Gao Guiying and Li Yan appeared on the top of the city. Mr. Li was also young, and his cloak fluttered in the wind, looking elegant and chic. Sun Ke looked up and couldn't help laughing, "Hahaha..."

Loud and far away, this laughter floated over the city.

Li Yan pointed at Sun Kewang and yelled: "Sun Kewang, why did you stop? Master Jianguo is planning a strategy. Brothers have been guarding here in the middle of the night. You have only attacked three times and you are not satisfied. Come on, keep going, the more violent the more OK, hahaha..."

Sun Kewang was so angry that he vomited blood, but he didn't dare to attack again when he was angry again. Tens of thousands of horses had been lost in these three attacks. The number of people has not been checked yet, but it is estimated that it will not be less than 3.

The artillery is basically paralyzed. The situation in front of us is obvious. If we continue to attack, the [-] troops will be wiped out, but the key is that even if we fight all the [-] troops, it will be difficult to achieve the goal. It seems that today is a waste of time.

But how could this happen, could the mutiny in the city be true or false?
This is Song Xiance from the top of the city, telling him the truth: "General Sun, don't be discouraged. You have conducted this battle well. If you want to blame, you can only blame our Lord Lin for being too predictable. The mutiny in the city has long been quelled." , the culprit Gao Jie and others have already put down the law."

Song Xiance's words were even more irritating. Sun Kewang couldn't figure out what was going on, and was so anxious that he was fuming, so he had to retreat back to the camp with Mu Tianbo in disgrace.

The Ming army was not tired at all after fighting in the middle of the night, maybe it was the stimulation of the victory, especially these troops in Chengdu, who have suffered defeats these days, were forced to the city by Sun Kewang's troops and did not dare to fight, even provoking and making trouble, they They are all useless, today can be regarded as elated.

Seeing Sun Kewang leaving in embarrassment with the remnants of the defeated general, they cheered at the top of the city with their swords and guns in hand, some of them jumped up and down like children, shouting and screaming, it was as lively as New Year's Eve, and they were so angry.

After Sun Kewang's men and horses had gone far, the gates of the city were opened wide, and a Ming army came out of the city to clean up the battlefield, take care of the spoils, clear the moat, and strengthen the city defense...

Gao Guiying, Li Yan, and Song Xiance went down to the city to report the results of the battle to Lin Yi. At this time, Lin Yi, who had been asleep for several hours, woke up energetically, washed up, and had breakfast.

After such a battle outside Nancheng in the second half of the night, Lin Yi was able to sleep. The main reason was that he was confident and didn't worry about any mistakes at all. He had already mastered the basic situation, and when Gao Guiying and others reported the details to him, Lin Yi couldn't help but also burst out laughing.

In fact, the battle outside the south of the city was a by-product, because Lin Yi had expected in advance that if there was a mutiny in the city, the outside of the city would definitely take advantage of the fire to loot overnight, so he arranged this battle when the mutiny was quelled, and Sun Kewang was really fooled. Delay in quelling the rebellion, and the battle was fruitful, the Ming army wiped out tens of thousands of Sun Kewang's rebel army with only a small cost of casualties.

This was tantamount to giving Sun Kewang a big blow, Gao Jie, the rebel army was eliminated, Zuo Liangyu was obedient, the stubborn disease and cancer were eliminated, and the "counter-revolutionaries" in the team were eliminated. It can be described as double happiness.

This battle was so cleverly planned and fought so beautifully, how could Ji Dong be unhappy?But the fly in the ointment is that there is no news from Xu Dingguo, the rebel leader Li Chengdong is still at large, but Lin Yi believes that it is only a matter of time before he is caught, and he must still be in the city.

Therefore, Lin Yi praised several generals such as Gao Guiying, Li Yan and Song Xiance.

The three generals hurriedly said: "I will never dare to take credit for it, it's all due to the ingenious plan of the Supervisor of the Kingdom, and he planned a strategy. The ministers and the others have only fulfilled their due responsibilities, so what's the point?"

Ji Dong asked them to return to the camp to rest, rectify their rear horses, in order to fight again, because the battle with Sun Kewang has just begun, and this is at best a prelude.

Go back in time a few hours.

Li Chengdong witnessed Xu Dingguo kill Gao Jie and then surrendered to the officers and soldiers who surrounded them.

Li Chengdong saw that the general situation was over, and he couldn't keep blind eyelids any longer.But he didn't choose Xu Dingguo's routine, because it was too risky, and he didn't know if he could save his life.

Of course, he had his own strategy. He screamed and fell into a pool of blood in a hurry. I smeared other people's blood on her face and pretended to be dead.

When the other soldiers were about to leave, he got up from the pile of dead men, scrambling, dog holes, ditches, over walls, and headed for these dark places.

He was born as a thief, this is his specialty.So it quickly disappeared into the night...

Gao Jie's camp.

Xing has been feeling unwell for the past few days, so Gao Jie didn't let her participate in tonight's operation. In the tent, a maidservant accompanied her to wait on her, and outside the tent sent a sentry to protect her.

With such a big event happening in the city, who can still sleep?Even if some didn't know the inside story, they were awakened by the sound of rumbling guns and loud shouts.

I don't know if it's good or bad, I'm all waiting here.

Mrs. Xing was lying on the bed, and the maids and women were also sitting in the room, feeling very upset.

At this time Li Chengdong came.

Everyone present was terrified, including the generals outside, because Li Chengdong was covered in blood at this time, especially his face was not good-looking at first, but now it seems that he has learned from it. A steel knife.

Who is not afraid of such a look, in the middle of the night?
After all, these soldiers were more courageous. They recognized Li Chengdong and saluted him quickly, wanting to know some news from there.

Li Chengdong ignored them and strode inside.

This is Xing's sleeping tent, outsiders, especially men, are not allowed to enter without Gao Jie's order.

But Li Chengdong was an exception. He didn't know how many times he came to Xing's room. Some Gao Jie knew about it, and some Gao Jie didn't.

He is Gao Jie's confidant and favorite general, his right-hand man, he has a special status in the army, no one of Gao Jie's generals will show courtesy to him when they see him.

But when Gao Jie didn't know, he entered the Xing family's dormitory very low-key.

Li Chengdong couldn't care less now, under the watchful eyes of everyone, he came in straight in the middle of the night.

He would never dare to be so presumptuous before.

But looking at this posture now, no one dared to stop him.

Li Chengdong broke in suddenly, but frightened the maids inside, some screamed, some fell down, and only then did they see who it was.

"Get out of here, all of you!" Li Chengdong was not polite, as if he was the master here.Seeing that the momentum was wrong, these maids came out tremblingly, but they didn't dare to go far.

The Xing family inside also heard that something was wrong, turned over and sat up from the bed.Just in time to see Li Chengdong coming in.

Xing was also taken aback, but after all, he is a man of martial arts, he has been in the army for so many years, he has talked about murder a lot, and he is also very courageous, so he recognized Li Chengdong at a glance.

This big beauty's red face was full of astonishment: "Ah you?... General Li, why are you here? How are Gao Jie and the others?"

"Oh, madam is in a hurry..." Li Chengdong briefly described the previous situation. Under the situation, his beauty turned pale and he was in disarray. Now that her husband was killed for rebellion, the sky would collapse for a woman.

Li Chengdong whispered a few words into Mrs. Xing's ear.

Xing forced herself to calm down. After all, saving her life was the most important thing, and she felt that this was the only way to go. She quickly brought in the maid outside.

These maids were terrified.

Then she found a set of servant's clothes and Xing changed into it.Then she asked a beautiful little maid to change the clothes she took off, and gave the maid all the gold and silver jewelry, and let them take whatever valuables were in the account.

But these maids and maids now have a premonition that something is wrong, and they are crying one by one.

Li Chengdong stared, and cut down two of them with a click. The remaining maids were so frightened that they were schizophrenic.

Xing only brought some gold and silver with him, and made up to look like ordinary people.At this time, Li Chengdong also took off his military uniform and changed into servant's clothes.

Someone outside had already harnessed the car, and his little girl in new clothes and two women stuffed it into the car and lowered the curtain, letting the group of generals outside protect the car and flee for their lives.

Now these generals also know that Gao Jie is about to die, and Ji Yi's men will soon come to settle accounts with them.

These soldiers and horses protect the maidservant and run for their lives like dogs in mourning...

Of course Li Chengdong and Xing Shi didn't care about these people, Jin Chan escaped her shell, and each brought a steel knife, and rushed out of the camp from another direction.

As soon as the two of them left, countless Ming troops arrived and surrounded the big camp, and then Xu Dingguo led his men to conduct a three-foot-digging search overnight. The carriage, the generals, and the maidservants were all found by the Ming army. Army under control...

After leaving the camp, the streets were full of troops. Li Chengdong and Xing didn't dare to take the main road, they could only go through the alleys, take the alleys, and hid in those abandoned ancient buildings, not daring to come out like mice.

But soon they found that it was not safe here, because the Ming army was searching for them everywhere, and if they were blocked inside, it would be a dead end.

Li Chengdong came up with an idea. Two nights later, Li Chengdong and Mrs. Xing came to Resident Lane in the north of the city and chose a house.

The two rushed up to the top of the wall, and asked Xing to lean on the wall to let the wind out. Li Chengdong's legs fluttered and he jumped into the yard.

There are two entrances to this yard, the front and the back. There are five people in the family. The front yard is a shop facing the street. They usually do some small business, but now there is a war in the past two days, the door is closed, and there is no business. The old couple lived with their son and daughter-in-law. The couple and their three-year-old son live in the backyard.

Li Chengdong jumped in and fumbled in, and came to the backyard.There are three upper rooms and three wing rooms in the backyard.

At this moment, the lights in the upper room and the wing room were on. Li Chengdong had just arrived at the window of the wing room and wanted to take a look inside. Suddenly, the door of the upper room slammed, and an old man came out from inside.

Li Chengdong hurriedly hid, but was still caught in the shadow of the old man, who is over 50 years old and still has good eyesight.

"Who?"

"Me, old man, don't you even know me?"

When Li Chengdong saw that he had been spotted, he couldn't hide, so he clenched the steel knife in his hand and put it behind him, promising to come to the old man.

Of course the old man didn't know him, and since Hei Tian was staring at him, Li Chengdong came up to him and a cold light flashed in front of him, and the old man screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

"What's the matter with you, old man?" The old man's wife was in the back room, when he heard the sound outside, he thought the old man had fallen, so he hurried out to see what happened.

Before he could see what was going on at the door, Li Chengdong was already in front of him.

Li Chengdong stretched out his hand and grabbed the old woman's neck. The old lady was suddenly attacked, and she couldn't cry out with her hands and feet.

The knife in Li Chengdong's right hand pierced into the old lady's body at once, blood spattered in the darkness, until the old lady's body softened, Li Chengdong let her go, and the body collapsed on the ground.

Two lives in the blink of an eye.

However, the scene of Li Chengdong killing the old lady happened to be seen by the son and daughter-in-law of the West Wing.

The daughter-in-law was so frightened that she lost her pulse and collapsed on the ground.

The son is still a bit bloody in his 20s.As soon as he saw the thief who came, he killed all his parents, so he also went all out.

He took a kitchen knife from the kitchen, rushed out suddenly, and slashed at the black shadow in front of him, cursing and slashing wildly.

The young man really had a drive, and this hack really hit Li Chengdong.Li Chengdong had just finished killing someone, so he was unprepared for someone attacking behind him. He dodged left and right in a panic, but he was still stabbed.

The knife hit the back of the head, and because it was cut sideways, it was still a kitchen knife. This knife was fine for cutting vegetables, but it was not so sharp for cutting people.

Therefore, the knife was not fatal, but it did not hurt Li Chengdong to death, and his face was covered with blood in the darkness.

Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and swung the knife over. The poor young man screamed and fell into a pool of blood, and the kitchen knife in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.

Li Chengdong was puzzled and chased after him.Kacha Kacha slashed more than a dozen knives at the young man on the ground.

The pain in his head was unbearable, and he tore a piece of blood from the dead man and wrapped it around his head, feeling better.At this time, the lights in the wing room suddenly turned off, but the cry of a child could be heard.

Holding the bloody steel knife, Li Chengdong kicked the door open.

After igniting the fire sickle, I found that a woman inside was shivering into a piece with her young son in her arms, shivering in a corner.

She covered the child's eyes, crying and shaking her head, but she couldn't say a word, which meant begging Li Chengdong to let him go and not kill them.

At this time, Li Chengdong was already frantic. Seeing that the young woman was still pretty, he snatched the three-year-old child away, and said with a grim face: "If you want me to spare you, it's okay. Your clothes are off."

The woman had no choice but to endure the humiliation with tears in her eyes, and took off all her clothes, revealing her snow-white and crystal-clear skin.

But the little son kept whining and crying, and Li Chenglong stabbed him to the ground with a knife.

Seeing her son lying in a pool of blood, the woman rushed towards her son screaming like crazy, and was pushed to the ground by Li Chengdong, but she struggled endlessly.

At this time, Li Chengdong completely ignored it and took off his pants...

After Li Chengdong finished venting, the woman had already passed away.

Li Chengdong pulled out the knife, and carrying the blood-dripping steel knife, he went around the courtyard again, the upper room and the wing room, and found that there was indeed no one, and then went to the front yard to call Xing Shishi in.

The two dug a big pit in the yard, buried all five bodies, and then the two lived in the backyard.

Three days later, calm was restored in the city, and there were more businesses on the streets.

Xing has now become a housewife, but she still can't hide her beauty, which is enough to drive Li Chengdong crazy.

After another cloud*rain, Xing asked Li Chengdong how long would he stay here?
Li Chengdong's head was twisted like a spindle, and he said that the business would definitely be completed in the next two days, and when the two of them went out of the city, everything would be safe.

Mrs. Xing nodded in agreement. At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the front yard, and there was a violent knock on the door.

"Open the door, open the door quickly..."

The faces of the two people froze, and they quickly put the steel knife in their hands, dodged to the back of the door, and looked out through the window.

Soon a group of Ming soldiers broke into the door, the leader of the general was in full armor, with a sword straddling his waist, Li Chengdong was frightened when he saw this man...

(End of this chapter)