Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

On the second day, the army continued to march north after having breakfast as usual, and when they were less than ten miles away from the moat of Liaoyang City, they saw more than a dozen of Daming's cavalry scouts fleeing frantically in front of them, chasing cavalry scrolls behind them. There was a snow fog all over the sky and rushed to the south.

This is the soldier sent out to lure the slave army.

Each of their horses is the best in the army, and their riding skills are also among the best in the imperial army.

The prince of England was a vanguard officer in the front team. Seeing this scene, he immediately ordered the [-] soldiers in the vanguard to stop advancing, and set up a hundred artillery pieces in front to prepare to meet the enemy. At the same time, he sent someone to send a message to the Chinese army.

When the chasing Jiannu came within range, the scouts had already joined the vanguard, and half a hundred artillery fires greeted the hundred or so people.Zhang Zhiji's regulations are very clear, and each cannon is only allowed to fire once.

The gunpowder smoke dissipated, and there were still a few surviving survivors, lost among the corpses.In the stupefied state of the Jiannu who were bombarded by the sudden artillery bombardment, Zhang Zhiji followed the deployment of last night and directed the 3000 forwards to move forward.

The red jacket like a burning cloud rushed towards the few living Jiannu soldiers. The Jiannu soldiers who were in the stun of the explosion also woke up, but they just staggered in circles or walked up and down a few steps. , and struggled a few times in vain, before being cut down by the forward of the Ming army.

Dingguogong Shizi ordered the soldiers to pick out a relatively lightly injured man from the group of Jian slaves who were blown up, and then pulled out a mule from the army, tied the wounded man to the mule, and whipped the mule's buttocks. With a whip, "report the letter."

Then according to the instructions of the emperor, spread out the formation to meet the enemy.

The brothers Mangurtai and Aldai, who had been stranded in the city of Liaoyang for more than two months, had suffered enough since they joined the army.Mang Gurtai ordered his soldiers to ride horses to demolish the beams of the vacant houses around Liaoyang City, and made more than a dozen ladders.When these more than a dozen ladders were built on the city of Liaoyang together, Zhang Quan, Tong Zhongkui and others faced the first difficulty in the defense battle.

This day is the New Year's Eve of the Han nationality.

After receiving the report, Hou Shilu hurried up the city wall with his own soldiers, regardless of staying up all night.The 1000 forbidden soldiers and [-] white soldiers in the city, as well as the more than [-] soldiers assigned by Zhang Quan to Mao Wenlong to make up for his [-] soldiers, also participated in the defense of the city.The slave soldiers who successfully climbed the city wall several times were beaten down, and when the sky turned dark, the soldiers guarding the city were also exhausted.

After all the wounded soldiers were properly dealt with, Zhang Quan had to choose from the original Liaoyang garrison who could go to the city wall to defend against the enemy.

Hou Shilu knew Zhang Quan's heart knot, so he had no choice but to comfort him and said: "Now that we have fought like this with the Jiannu who attacked the city, no matter how half-hearted they are, Jiannu will not let them go. I have already ordered these people to be included in the hundred. The head of the household and the head of the department told them this truth."

Zhang Quan had no better way, but to mess up these soldiers and organize them into white soldiers.Although the white-armed soldiers were brave, they were still not as organized as the Forbidden Army sent for reinforcements from Beijing.

As the number of corpses of slave-building soldiers in the city increased, the people in the city fell silent.Those who have had a lot of contact with Jiannu know that with the number of casualties like Jiannu, once the city is broken, it will definitely be massacred without explanation.Hou Shilu and others began to boldly drive the original garrison.After the battle, the battlefield was cleaned every day, water was poured from the top of the city, and the bodies of Jiannu who could not be evacuated in the future were frozen under the city.

In this arduous offensive and defensive battle, thanks to Mao Wenlong repeating his old tricks and blowing up several ladders of Jiannu again, the area where Jiannu could attack the city was reduced, and the chance of Jiannu climbing to the top of the city was barely curbed.

Anyway, in the offensive and defensive battle at the head of Liaoyang City, the defenders fought with their lives, but the attackers were not as invincible as before, and they also lost troops.If there was no hope of capturing Liaoyang City at all, Mang Gurtai might have taken these people with the Xianglan Banner and obeyed the command of □ Ha Chi to call them back to Shenyang.However, he climbed onto the city wall several times, and was seen by the messenger who came to deliver the order, and every time he was immediately beaten back by the soldiers defending the city.

Such a result made Mang Gurtai and others want to give up.

In this kind of battle, the peeping of the ranger scouts sent by Ming Dynasty is simply contempt and provocation to Mangurtai and others. There is no need for these soldiers sent to lure the enemy to do more, their big red army alone Mang Gurtai was about to go crazy when he was irritated by the jacket.He immediately dispatched more than a hundred cavalry to pursue the dozen or so people, thinking that with the Jurchen's riding and shooting skills, it would be easy to capture and kill the dozen or so scouts who were obviously reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty.

But in a short time, after the roar of the cannon by the Taizi River, a Jiannu wounded soldier who had been sent out to pursue was tied to a mule and came back from the south.

The news of the annihilation of the entire army immediately alerted Dardai.He told Mang Gurtai to stop the siege and prepare to withdraw to Shenyang.

"Sanbeile, Ming's reinforcements are here. There are usually a lot of reinforcements, and we have less than [-] warriors now. We should go back and gather with the Great Khan. Otherwise, if the Ming army in the city comes out, we may be surrounded. .”

Mang Gurtai disagreed, "They are huddled in the city, we only have these two cannons sent by Father Khan, we can't do anything to them, but the Ming army wants to compete with us on horseback, our 10 warriors can kill [-] of them people."

Those who besieged Liaoyang were all bannermen of the Xianglan Banner, and one death meant that the strength of the Xianglan Banner was reduced by one.Aldai understood what his brother meant, so he said to Mangurtai: "The Great Khan called us back several times, and Sanbeile said that taking Liaoyang City is just around the corner. But these thousands of banner people died here, but we didn't We can take Liaoyang. Now that Ming Dynasty has reinforcements, let’s join the Great Khan and listen to the Great Khan’s command.”

Mang Gurtai stared, "I was sent by the Great Khan to supervise your brothers' attack on Liaoyang. If you dare to retreat now, I have the right to chop off your heads."

The three quarreled for a while, but no one could convince the other.

Mang Gurtai said: "The city gate of Liaoyang has been frozen, and the soldiers in the city can't come out. Why don't we go to meet the reinforcements first, take their arms and food, and we are the two of us who are in front of the Khan. Thanks to the month."

Both Dardai brothers also participated in the Battle of Sarhu, and their contempt for the Ming army was engraved in their bones.Mangurtai's proposal was finally approved by the Dardai brothers, and the three of them headed south as a whole army.

The battlefield just now was not far from the north wall of Liaoyang City. After a burst of roaring cannons, Jiannu's siege momentum slowed down immediately, and the siege soldiers quickly retreated and assembled to go south.

The soldiers on the city wall immediately realized that it was the reinforcements from the imperial court.Someone couldn't help shouting with tears streaming down his face: "The imperial court sent reinforcements. We are saved."

But this joy was only for a moment, and then the soldiers collectively fell into anxiety.

Hou Shilu said to Tong Zhongkui: "Will the imperial court still send out the forbidden army? Who will be sent to be the commander-in-chief? This is to fight a field battle with Jiannu? Oh, what should I do!"

Qin Liangyu and the others were a little dazed, could the imperial court still have imperial troops sent abroad?If the imperial army can still be sent out, shouldn't they be transferred from the long and remote Sichuan?

Zhang Quan's face added a layer of worry, worried that the reinforcements would not be able to resist the tens of thousands of cavalry like Jiannu.However, the city gate of Liaoyang was frozen to death, and it was impossible to go out and cooperate with the reinforcements in a short time, and outflank Jiannu back and forth.

The former army had set up their formation, and Mang Gurtai and others led all the soldiers with the inlaid blue banner to roar.

Zhu Youxiao had already arrived in the former army at this time.

After he visually detected that the enemy was within range, he dropped the command flag in his hand.The guards around Zhang Zhiji yelled "fire", and a hundred cannons were fired together.

Hundreds of shells basically fell on the Jiannu soldiers rushing at the same time, and immediately exploded with screams of people turning their backs.But how could Mangurtai and the others be afraid of this? According to their experience in confrontation with the Ming army, with such a short distance, before the Ming army fired a second shot, they could rush into the Ming army's formation and attack the Ming army. Take the heads of the soldiers in front of you.

As for the soldiers behind the Ming army, they would naturally be frightened and run away, they just chased and hacked.

The Ming army in front of them didn't even set up the most basic barriers to refus horses, and it was like giving them military merit.The cavalry who followed around Mang Gurtai screamed with excitement, and galloped towards the Ming army's position on their horses.

But this time Mangurtai and the others made a wrong calculation.The roaring artillery of the Ming army did not stop, and batch after batch of inlaid blue flag soldiers fell under the blasted shells.

The few lucky ones who were not hit by the shells fell three hundred feet away from the Ming army.

When these soldiers arrived at that place, they were thrown off by the horses that suddenly jumped around and went crazy for some reason.

All in all, it's like a line that can't be crossed in the past.

After the quota of twenty rounds for each gun had been fired, there were basically no Jiannu standing on the opposite side.A few blue banner soldiers who were not hit by the shells at the end of the line stared blankly at the tens of thousands of cavalry who disappeared in front of them in a daze.But in their daze, one of them suddenly woke up and yelled, and they pulled up their horses and headed north.

Prince Dingguo sent [-] soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and make up for those who were thrown off their horses and survived the bombing.The most important thing is to retrieve the square steel cones that were placed in front of the cavalry.

Marquis Taining smiled and said, "Your Majesty, those few are going to report to Shenyang."

Zhu Youxiao nodded, "I reckon those messengers will arrive in Shenyang in the evening. They won't come to Liaoyang at night, and we will have a decisive battle with Jiannu's army tomorrow."

Then he ordered to the prince of England: "Send someone to Liaoyang City to order Zhang Quan to continue to defend the city. Let the soldiers of the imperial army who came to Liaoyang for reinforcements follow the army to Shenyang tomorrow.

Order the three armies to bypass Liaoyang City to the east and continue to the north. "

The soldiers on the city wall of Liaoyang, when the army of slaves who attacked the city went south, they only hesitated a little, and then turned to the city wall to the south.Seeing that more than a hundred shells fell on the Jiannu queue charging in the wilderness, blowing up the Jiannu cavalry; seeing the continuous roar of the artillery, it seemed that it was just a moment, and the rumble of the artillery stopped.When the gunpowder smoke cleared, nearly ten thousand Jiannu on the battlefield were annihilated in front of their eyes.

Mao Wenlong blinked, grabbed Qin Minping's arm and asked, "Did I read it wrong? Did I read it wrong? We Daming fired a thousand cannons together this time?"

Zhang Quan watched on the city wall that the team of tens of thousands of people was about to go around the city, and hurriedly ordered people to go down to the city in a basket to ask about the situation, when he saw a messenger riding towards the city wall.

When the messenger saw the soldier sitting down in the basket, he gave him the military order again.But when he saw the crowd watching on the city wall, he shouted the military order again.

Zhang Quan hurriedly came forward to reveal his identity, hurriedly responded to the military order at the top of the city, and then shouted to the messenger, asking who the commander in charge of the army is this time.

The orderly shouted proudly, "The commander in chief is the Son of Heaven, and you will personally conquer." Then he mounted his horse and chased after the army.

Zhang Quan's heart almost jumped out of his throat when he was so excited by his words.He excitedly asked the left and right: "The coach is the Son of Heaven, Yu Jia personally conscripted. Yu Jia personally conscripted? Did I hear wrong? Did I hear wrong?"

Hou Shilu slapped the city wall, "Master Zhang, how could those adults in the court let the emperor lead the army? Besides, I have never seen the emperor's guard of honor come out."

Tong Zhongkui said: "Let's not care whether it's the imperial conquest or not, or quickly open a city gate. Just now there was an order for the reinforcements to follow."

Although Mao Wenlong was on defense, in the past two months, he was able to speak in front of Zhang Quan and Hou Shilu based on his military performance in defending the city.He said puzzledly: "Looking at the artillery formation just now, it seems that there are more than a thousand artillery pieces, but the army in the past is not like that."

Everyone had the same doubts as Mao Wenlong, but just now they all witnessed the roar of the artillery. Without thousands of artillery pieces, it is impossible to fire so many shells in a short time.Doubts exist in everyone's mind, but no one can solve this weirdness.