The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 184

The sound of rumbling cannons rang out from time to time, and the sound of shouts of killing from far or near was endless. People kept entering and leaving Yuan Chonghuan's Chinese army camp. Many people had blood on their faces and fear and words in their eyes It's not clear whether it's a look of frustration or despair.

Some people went out from here and never came back. The bad news was brought to Yuan Chonghuan one by one. news like beheading.

All bad news, not a single good news!

Yuan Chonghuan's black face became darker, and the despair in his heart became more and more intense.

He still doesn't understand how this battle ended like this.

He set out with an army of 1, but in less than two days, the front and rear armies each had [-] troops destroyed one after another, and his two favorite generals became prisoners of the bandit army that he felt was vulnerable.

If it wasn't for Hong Chengchou's personal commander who broke out of the siege to report the news, and he made a timely decision to go to a higher hill to defend before the enemy surrounded him, the camp must have been broken by the enemy long ago.

He wanted to scratch his head but couldn't figure out why a bandit army that started out as a horse thief would be so tyrannical! It was so tyrannical that his [-] army could not fight back, and it was still facing the danger of annihilation of the entire army.

If before he felt a little disapproving of this army known as the Jiang family army, and still had doubts about their record of defeating the Tartars repeatedly, then he has completely believed it now.

Only such an army can fight the [-] Ming frontier army in such a state of embarrassment.

What made him even more desperate was that the enemy not only had sharp knives and guns, strong cavalry, but also powerful artillery fire.The power and range of these cannons are among the top and most powerful among the artillery series of the Ming army.

This further confirms the news that the enemy has completely wiped out the artillery team of the Tartars.

If the Ming army had an advantage over the Jiang family army before, it was because they were equipped with a considerable proportion of artillery.

But this advantage quickly disintegrated and collapsed after Jiang's army transferred the red cannon.

Although this three-ton, three-meter-long cannon is more suitable for siege and shooting fixed targets, it is precisely at this time that the stubborn Ming army meets this condition.

When more than a dozen red cannons exploded one after another, the last hope of the Ming army was shattered.

Who the hell said it was a horse thief?Your horse thief still has cannons?And still so many cannons?This cannonball flew farther than the largest cannon of the Ming army, and it was more powerful after the explosion.

The Ming army's contempt for the Jiang family's army and the crude intelligence caused their morale to collapse quickly after they suffered a heavy and violent blow.Many soldiers began to think that Yuan Chonghuan deliberately deceived them and did not tell them the truth, which led to the current predicament.

This kind of thinking is spreading among the soldiers. Although it is not likely to cause mutiny, it has obviously affected the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. Many people are simply perfunctory. The ground surrendered.

The Jiang family army did not kill these soldiers who surrendered. This gave more soldiers of the Ming army the hope of survival, and more and more people simply surrendered.

Later, some generals simply surrendered to Jiang's army with soldiers who had thrown away their weapons in the formation.

The intensified wave of surrender was barely stopped after Yuan Chonghuan's direct descendants beheaded a group of people who showed signs of surrender.

As the night grew thicker, the sound of Jiang's army's cannons became much quieter, and the shouts of killing gradually fell silent.

This made the lingering soldiers of the Ming army relax a bit, lying on the icy ground one by one, holding the weapons in their hands, looking at the dark night sky with helpless and numb eyes.

Some people never woke up after lying down, and the wounded who were cold and hungry and could not receive timely treatment had only one way to die.

Many generals also squatted on the ground or leaned against trees, thinking about their own fate.

Compared with Jiang's army's attack, another thing that made the Ming army even more desperate was the food problem.

In order to allow the soldiers to march more quickly, the soldiers on this expedition only carried two days of rations.All other food was in Hong Chengchou's rear army.

Originally, such an arrangement was of course understandable for exterminating a group of horse thieves.Not to mention that there are [-] troops in the rear escorting the luggage.

But no one could have imagined that on the first day of the war, their supplies of food and grass, followed by the [-] rear troops, would all become the result of the horse bandits they wanted to wipe out.

Today, the rations carried by the Ming army have been exhausted, and many soldiers have lost their dinners.Continuous fighting, and fighting in winter that requires more heat, this greatly accelerated the energy consumption rate in the soldiers' bodies.

There are many ways to die, and probably the last way people want to die is to starve to death.

Today's morale of the Ming army has almost fallen to the bottom, coupled with the lack of food, the whole battalion began to spread a sense of despair mixed with resentment, and many people looked at Yuan Chonghuan's central army tent with a bit of unkind eyes.

If it weren't for the deterrence of the direct descendants brought by Yuan Chonghuan from the Central Plains, these desperate and hungry soldiers don't know what they would do.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, several generals surrounded Yuan Chonghuan silently, with anxious and uneasy expressions on their faces.

Yuan Chonghuan just turned around and looked at the map of Liaodong in front of him, without saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Master, if there is no more food to eat, I'm afraid my brothers will..." A general said with difficulty.

He didn't finish his sentence, but everyone present understood what he meant.This is what they think too.

They looked at Yuan Conghuan's back who was not considered tall, and they all began to plan their own way out in their hearts.

After a while, Yuan Chonghuan spoke, his voice obviously tired and helpless.

"Let's kill the horse, first kill the horse of the governor, and kill the horses of the generals below the governor and above, so that the soldiers can have a good meal. The governor has sent someone to ask for help from Datong Li Yongnian, and we will persist until tomorrow. We will definitely wait for reinforcements."

kill horse?Although many generals knew that this was the only choice, they were still surprised when Yuan Chonghuan said this answer.

War horses are the scarcest strategic resource for the Ming army.There were few war horses in the Ming army, and every war horse was very precious.Now it's time to kill a horse?

"Master, kill the horse of the last general first! Your yellow pussy horse followed you in the Central Plains, but it saved your life, so you can't kill it!"

Yuan Chonghuan's personal commander yelled anxiously, his expression twitched, and his eyes were red.

　It's five o'clock today.The first update arrives.Let's vote for a few recommendation votes, the number of recommendation votes has decreased a lot these days.We don't have the ability to compete with the great master for the monthly ticket, and the recommendation ticket is enough to comfort the old cat.

　　
　
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