Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 307 Attacking Zhenjiang
Liu Meng rode forward and checked the [-] carts of supplies.

Not to mention, it is really rich, there is a whole truckload of refined iron ingots, a whole truckload of salt and grain cloth, in general, there are really a lot.

Seeing this, Liu Meng hated the Eight Great Masters in Shanxi even more.

With just one hundred carts of supplies, how much combat strength can Hou Jin bring?

What's more, this is not the only batch every year. According to the greedy nature of the Eight Great Families and Houjin's unreasonable style, at least two or three times a year, materials will be sent to Houjin.

Thinking about it again, those skinny people who were starving, looking at the food in this cart after cart, Liu Meng wished to lead his troops to slaughter the animals of the Eight Great Families immediately.

It's a pity that now is really not the time. Leading troops to Shanxi will definitely touch the sore spots of those officials who have been bribed by the Eight Great Families.

It is bound to cause their backlash and send a large army to encircle and suppress themselves.

And the current Liu Meng really doesn't want to go to war with Ming's army. It's not because he's afraid that he won't be able to defeat those weak guard soldiers, but because he's afraid that his loved ones will hurt his enemies, and that Hou Jin will seize the Ming Dynasty ahead of schedule. Can't do it.

Half an hour later, all the corpses were dug and buried, and Liu Meng put all the supplies into the space in front of all the soldiers.

This is not the first time Liu Meng has done such a thing. As early as on Shicheng Island, Liu Meng took out a large amount of materials from the space in front of everyone.

Doing this is also to increase his prestige. With such unpredictable means, what else can we say about the morale of the soldiers?

These days, there is an officer who is like a fairy leading everyone, so what is there to be afraid of?
After everything was cleaned up, Liu Meng led 5000 troops and continued to go deep into the territory of Houjin, and we will talk about destroying a city of Houjin.

Running all the way, Liu Meng's 5000 troops arrived outside Zhenjiang City.

Liu Meng also had considerations for choosing this place:
First, Zhenjiang is the closest to me;
Second, after all, Dongjiang Town was brought down by Mao Wenlong in Starry Night. Although it is still in the hands of the Tartars, let’s take it down again, so as to boost the morale of Dongjiang Town’s soldiers and civilians;
It can also cause Huang Taiji a headache for a while. He has to consider whether to attack the Ming Dynasty once in Chongzhen's five years.

After all, with Liu Meng's Dongjiang Town restraining him, would he still dare to lead the army in a big way like in the second year of Chongzhen, and attack the pass?
Don't be afraid, Liu Meng took people to raid his lair, Shengjing City?
The arrival of Liu Meng's 5000 troops was immediately discovered by Wu Laha, the Tartar general guarding Zhenjiang.

This Wulaha can be regarded as one of the rare fierce generals among the Tartars.

There is a full-blown Tartar Niulu, and a Niulu Mongol, plus miscellaneous Han people, more than 2000 tribesmen from Aohan, Naiman, Khalkha, Jalut, and Karaqin people.

Therefore, in Zhenjiang City, there are almost 3000 troops.

Facing the 5000-strong Ming army in general, Wulaha really didn't take them seriously.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that if you don't have ten times the strength of your troops, don't try to break through a city that is well-defended and well-supplied.

Well, this kind of argument doesn't make sense to Huang Taiji.

Because the Tartars siege the city, they seldom fight it down by strength, most of them rely on traitors and spies to open the city gate and capture the city!
That's even more impossible for Liu Meng.

You know, Liu Meng's new artillery has a longer range and greater power than the cast iron artillery defending the city.

The feeling that you can't hit me, but I can hit you, is only available to the devils during the Anti-Japanese War.

Wu Laha looked at 1.5 kilometers away, so he lined up and set up fifty guns. Compared with the artillery of the city defense, the barrels were smaller and the smaller artillery was just when he was wondering what the Ming army was going to do. .

Through the binoculars, Ulaha could see that the fifty cannons had been fired one after another.

Amidst the sound of the "rumbling" guns, the shells in the distance flew towards the city like rain.

Ulaha suddenly opened his mouth in shock, and said in his heart:
Isn't this power too strong?The maximum range of the city defense artillery is only two miles, but such a small artillery can shoot three miles away.How do I fight back?

Sanli, this is an unreachable distance for the artillery of the city defense, what should we do?
Wu Laha watched anxiously as the shells fell towards the city wall, and the sound of "boom, clatter" kept ringing out, and many soldiers were directly or indirectly killed by the shells.

Before Wulaha could react, she was pulled away from her standing position by the soldiers.

However, he heard a loud noise behind him. The place where he was standing just now was smashed into a big hole by an iron bullet as thick as a bowl. The iron bullet was deeply embedded in the masonry of the city wall.

Ulaha couldn't help feeling a little scared in his heart, and said in his heart:

Fortunately, his personal soldiers came to the rescue in time, and after defending the city, he must promote this slave well.

Then I thought, I can't be beaten passively like this, I have to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight this militia army!

He believed that in field battles, no Ming army would be a match for the brave Houjin warriors.

Several times more people will not work, let alone only 5000 people.

What's more, if the artillery of this civilian army is captured, once it is handed over, it may be appreciated by the sweat, and it may not be possible to change it to Jiala Dangdang.

Thinking of this, Wulaha couldn't help drooling, that's Jiala who is in charge of 500 people!

If they can become Jiala, their family's status in Houjin will not be soaring!
Thinking of this, Wulaha made the decision he regretted the most, that is to go out of the city to face Liu Meng's 5000 people.

This is also doomed, Liu Meng will take Zhenjiang City and loot it when Huang Taiji can't react.

Wu Laha did not participate in the invasion campaign in the second year of Chongzhen, although I heard that there was a team in Dongjiang Town that was stronger than Mao Wenlong.

But he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, so he naturally couldn't recognize that the Dongjiang army was attacking the city in front of him.

No way, who called Liu Meng the chicken thief and didn't play the banner of Dongjiang?
He just wanted to force these arrogant Tartars to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight against him.

His reputation has already spread, and if he came under the banner, I believe that no Tartar army would dare to go out of the city to fight with a similar number of people.

That way, the raid would turn into a protracted siege, and he couldn't afford to wait.

After all, there are only 5000 horses, if Huang Taiji is forced to rush and bring more than [-] horses to surround and kill him, he really has to run away.

Don't tell me, there are cannons that can blast open the gate and take Zhenjiang City.

You know, even during the Anti-Japanese War, the devil's planes and cannons were sharp, right?

It is also impossible to take down the city with the help of cannons.

Except for those generals who have no guts, no matter how big or small a city is, it doesn't take the devils a day or even several days to take it down.

Not to mention, Liu Meng only had fifty relatively advanced artillery pieces.

(End of this chapter)