The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 119 The Tartars Frustrated
Under Duoduo's strict order, Kong Youde had no choice but to order his subordinates to continue attacking the city no matter how unwilling he was.

It's just that this siege method is almost the same as suicide. Waves of Qing troops attacked, and then piles of dead died under the city. There were charred corpses everywhere and the smell of roasted human flesh.

In this situation where they could only be beaten, the morale of the besieging Qing army was rapidly disappearing, and they were unwilling to continue to die.

In desperation, Kong Youde had no choice but to intercede with Duoduo himself, hoping to postpone the siege.

"My lord, please forgive me for speaking bluntly. Our army went out in a hurry and did not carry large siege equipment. Now it is difficult to resist the counterattack of the defenders on the city with these improvised ladder baffles. If this continues, it will only increase casualties. Please forgive me, Lord!" Kong Youde knelt on the ground after finishing speaking.

Duoduo stood high above the cloud car, looking at the extremely tall city wall fortress in the distance, with no expression on his face, as if he hadn't heard Kong Youde's words at all.

Sweat was dripping down Kong Youde's face, his lips were biting tightly, and he said loudly: "I ask the prince to show mercy and order the suspension of the siege!"

It was only then that Doduo seemed to hear his words, turned his eyes to look at him, and said with a cold smile: "A bunch of trash, get out."

Kong Youde suppressed the anger in his heart, and left quickly after thanking him.

A wave of attack by the Qing army was repelled again, and there were another hundred corpses under the city.

Less than an hour has passed since the beginning of the siege, but there are nearly a thousand corpses of the Qing army left under the city.

This is just a tentative attack, and the loss is so big.If they really attack with all their strength, the defenders on the city will definitely open their firepower, and the losses will be heavy.

Kong Youde's Xiangbai Banner's seven or eight thousand troops may not be many left in the end.

Looking at the scorched corpses below the city, there were some groans coming from the corpses, which were the nostalgia for the world of the Qing soldiers who were seriously injured before dying.

All this made the remaining Qing army with white flags inlaid with the Han army even less fighting spirit.

If you go forward, you will die, and if you retreat, there will be Manchu soldiers waiting to chop off their heads. Therefore, these Han Banners who are in a dilemma have already begun to resent Kong Youde.

When Kong Youde hurried back and looked at the eyes of the remaining soldiers, his heart trembled, knowing that the attack just now had severely damaged the morale of the soldiers.

If you continue to forcefully attack, maybe something will happen.

"The lord has an order to stop the siege and retreat to rest." Kong Youde's words made the resentment in the soldiers' eyes slowly dissipate.Everyone began to retreat slowly amidst frustration and resentment, leaving only corpses on the ground.

Seeing the retreat of the Qing soldiers, Jiang Chuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.It seems that the tall city wall I specially built has received a good defensive effect.In addition, all kinds of defensive equipment and materials configured by the system are sufficient, so that the first attack of the Qing army was repelled.

Watching the retreat of the Qing army below the city, there was a burst of cheers from the top of the city.

Listening to the cheers from the top of the city, the retreating Qing army felt even more frustrated.

"Li Jian, go and count the casualties of our army." Jiang Chuan turned and asked Li Jian, the military commander behind him.

Li Jian took the order to leave, and turned back a moment later to report: "My lord, ten of our army were killed and 35 were injured, including 15 seriously injured and 20 slightly injured."

Jiang Chuan nodded. This result was actually considered a small price, and it was negligible compared to the nearly thousand casualties of the Qing army.

Needless to say, these casualties were all caused by the archers of the Qing army.

"Well, send an order to send the bodies of the fallen soldiers to the valley for proper placement, and ask the military doctors to treat the wounded soldiers." Jiang Chuan ordered.

Li Jian took the order and left.

Jiang Chuan's men now have nearly 2 troops, and military doctors are naturally indispensable.

Fortunately, military doctors can also be recruited in the fortress base.Therefore, Jiang Chuan recruited five military doctors from the base, and then selected 30 people from the folk women in the valley to help the five military doctors and let them do some basic nursing work.

These 35 medical personnel were compiled into a military medical team.

Jiang Chuan knew that after the Qing army's first attack was frustrated, it would not launch a second wave of attack in a short period of time, so he ordered the soldiers to replenish all kinds of supplies that were lost.Such as stones, arrows, fuel tanks and so on.

Some civilians were organized to deliver food and supplies to the soldiers in the city, as well as the remains of the fallen soldiers.

Now during the Great War, the registration of civilian households and the selection and training of reserve forces are all on paper, so we have to organize these civilians to do these things.

At this time, Guan Bao followed Bai Mu and led a group of guards from the guard battalion to direct the peasants to put the supplies in place.

Yang Chuliu, the youngest bodyguard, followed Jiang Chuan as a messenger.

"Put these kerosene tanks here, put them lightly. If they break, it will cause trouble." Although Guan Bao is young, he is very orderly in commanding and dispatching these civilian workers, busy but not chaotic.

"Baby Bao, you are really promising." Suddenly a person shouted behind Guan Bao.

When Guan Bao turned his head, he immediately smiled happily, because standing in front of him was Guan Hu, the best hunter in Guanjiatun.

"Brother Huzi, why are you here? Is your injury healed?" Guan Bao greeted Guan Hu with a friendly smile.

In the past, Guan Hu was Guan Bao's role model in the village, and the two were still cousins.

The last time he joined the army, he became Lord Jiang Chuan's personal guard, which made Guan Hu envious.But Guan Hu was injured, so he had to recuperate at home.

Both of them have not seen each other for more than a month, so Guan Bao was very happy when they met.

Guan Hu sized up Guan Bao, who was dressed in military uniform, and praised enviously: "My injury is almost healed, you can see that I have no problem walking at all. But you boy, it's really good now, wearing this armor It’s just energy, spirit!”

Guan Bao smiled and said: "Brother Huzi, you would be majestic in this outfit. You are capable, you can shoot arrows so accurately, you can run so fast, and you have killed Tartars. If you want to be a soldier, I will take you there Talk to Mr. Jiang. Mr. Jiang is easy to talk, and he will definitely agree."

Guan Hu's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he said with a smile, "I have to discuss this matter with your sister-in-law. If Mr. Jiang hadn't saved me last time, I would have died under the hands of Tartars. Your sister-in-law has been very nervous since then. Worrying about me, I have never wanted me to be a soldier. But sir, you can’t let a woman decide. In two days, I will report to Mr. Jiang.”

Guan Bao was overjoyed when he heard the words, and took Guan Hu's hand and said happily: "That's great, then we can serve as soldiers in the same battalion, and you also come to the guard camp, and we brothers can see each other every day .”

Guan Hu shook his head and said, "I want to be a cavalry soldier. If I didn't have a horse last time, I wouldn't have been injured by those tartars."

Guan Bao was a little disappointed, but he soon cheered up: "That's right, Brother Huzi, how powerful you are, when you become a cavalryman, let's show those Tartars some color. Did you look down the city just now? The corpses of the dead Tartars were piled up so high that there were more than 1000 dead people. I just took a look and almost fell down because of fainting."

"Guan Bao" Bai Mu saw it over there, and reminded him sternly.

He naturally knew Guan Hu, so he didn't say much.

Guan Bao shrank his neck, knowing that Bai Mu was very serious on weekdays, and it was already a kindness for him not to punish him in public today, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he hurriedly talked to Guan Hu, then turned around and went to the side to get busy.

While helping to carry things, Guan Hu carefully observed the soldiers stationed on the city wall and various defense equipment, all of which shocked him.

He didn't expect that Mr. Jiang, who rescued him back then, would have such a great ability to transform a former horse thief's den into a high-walled fortress, and even let the tartars get bloody here.

And I heard that Lord Jiang led troops to break through Liaoyang City last time and captured a tartar princess. These things, plus Jiang Chuan's rescue of him, made Guan Hu feel extremely grateful to Jiang Chuan, and now he still has A feeling of adoration.

In fact, he is just a young man less than 20 years old.Although he is already a husband and a father, the enthusiasm for worshiping heroes and yearning for the battlefield is still high in the bones and blood of a hot-blooded man.

Moreover, his old mother died at the hands of the Tartars, so from that day on, he made a great wish to wipe out the Tartars and avenge his old mother.

He knew he couldn't do it by himself.Jiang Chuan's oath in Guanjiatun that day made him firmly believe that only by following this young general can he truly wipe out all the Tartars.

Therefore, these days, he has been looking forward to recovering from his arrow wound all the time, so that he can kill the Tartars under Master Jiang's command.

While working, while thinking about these, Guan Hu's eyes became brighter and brighter, he felt full of strength all over his body, and wished he could put on that armor right away and fight the Tartars with his sword and bow.

On the other side, Jiang Chuan took Yang Chuliu and several personal guards to patrol the city wall.

Under Li Jian's arrangement, the remains of all the fallen soldiers had also been sent out of the city and placed in a safe place in the valley.

The wounded soldiers were placed in the city tower, and several military doctors and their female nurses were healing them.

Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the city and shouted: "My lord, there is something wrong with the city."

Jiang Chuan turned his head and looked down the city, and saw a group of Qing soldiers approaching the city slowly.Looking at it again, they didn't carry any weapons, and there were some stretchers and carts behind them.

Jiang Chuan looked at it carefully for a while and said, "This should be the body collection team of the Tartars. Don't attack, keep a close watch on it."

The Qing army tremblingly walked to the range of the arrows on the city and stopped, and found that there was no intention of shooting arrows at them from the city, so they continued to move forward tremblingly.

"Collect the corpse as soon as possible. If you do something wrong, you will never return." Li Jian on the city shouted at the Qing soldiers on the city under Jiang Chuan's order.

Only then did the Qing soldiers have the courage to gather up the corpses of the fallen Qing soldiers, dragging them back one by one.Many corpses were glued together due to the fire, and they were inseparable. The pungent smell of burnt meat made many Qing soldiers want to retch.

These unlucky Qing soldiers vomited while cursing Duduo and Kong Youde in their hearts.

Damn, they are all a bunch of liars, what about bandits and horse thieves?This damn is better than the official army.

　The second one arrives.Ask for a recommendation ticket.

　　


(End of this chapter)