Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 247 Turn Your Face and Suppress the Bandits

It's a pity that things backfired. The camp of the Qing army was burned to ashes on the ground by Zhu Cihong's fire, and there was nothing left.

"In that case, we can only depend on the destiny. I hope His Majesty will notice the flames of war here as soon as possible." Kong Youde never thought that things would develop to this point so soon.

However, since they have surrendered to Zhu Cihong, there is no room for change. Li Zi has become his own face, and I am afraid that he will not let them go no matter what.

Kong Youde and the others are ready to pay all the price and fight to the death without retreating.

Li Zicheng is just a rogue after all, no one would be willing to bow his head like him.

But at the moment when Kong Youde and Zu Dashou were talking, the Chuangjun broke through their first line of defense. This line of defense was composed of armored soldiers holding spears and spears. sundries.

Before that, there was a shallow pit hastily dug.

With this shallow pit, it can be guaranteed that the invading army is in a disadvantageous position when attacking upwards, and the armored spearmen can easily stab down and kill the intruders who jumped into the shallow pit.

Although such a line of defense is a bit crude, it is enough to resist the peasant army with poor equipment and unsystematic tactics.

But why is it so easily breached?Kong Youde and Zu Dashou were puzzled.

"General, there are many strong bows and crossbows in the Chuang army. Although the brothers are wearing armor, they shoot at the face. Even the iron man can't stop it." A soldier who was defeated from the first line of defense said to Kong Youde. explained.

It's no wonder that they have no crossbowmen to use, but the Chuangjun has a large number of crossbowmen, and their soldiers are all sticking to the line of defense and do not take the initiative to attack.

In this way, Chuangjun can shoot with bows and crossbows unscrupulously. If he is lucky, if he shoots to weak places such as the face and armpits, he will cause a lot of casualties in a short while, causing Kong Youde's army to collapse instantly.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde slapped himself reproachfully, and said to himself, "The older you get, the more useless you are, how can you use such a tactic?"

Just when he was about to slap him a second time, Zu Dashou stopped him, "Don't slap, let's think about how to get Li Zicheng out."

Now that the military situation is urgent, he can't watch Kong Youde blame himself there, no matter whether he is acting or not, he doesn't have that time now.

I don't know if it was because of Zu Dashou's words, Kong Youde suddenly had an idea and thought of a good way.

"Yes, using fire as a soldier, we will be burned by things that can be burned, and we will create a line of defense, so that we can stop the invading army for a while."

"Is this really okay? Li Zicheng is not a fool. If we set fire to it, there is no way he can do it." Zu Dashou shook his head and said.

Using fire as a soldier is easy to say, but what if you burn yourself.

Besides, they don't have much combustibles now, so it's impossible to create a wide fire field.

But if it is only one or two meters wide, it is easy to be destroyed by the Chuangjun. All in all, Zu Dashou thinks this method is not feasible.

"At least it can stop the enemy army for a while. Besides, if we don't do this, we will have to fill it with the lives of officers and soldiers to stop the invading army."

"As long as the fire can be dragged on for a while longer to attract attention until His Majesty sends troops to rescue him, then we can defeat Li Zicheng without much cost."

Unlike Zu Dashou, Kong Youde felt that this was really a genius idea.

It can not only reduce the casualties of officers and soldiers, but also delay the time for a while, and also attract Zhu Cihong to send troops to rescue.

Hearing what Kong Youde said, Zu Dashou remained silent and acquiesced to his words.

He thought to himself, since he didn't have a better idea, why not follow Kong Youde's method, anyway, the situation couldn't be worse than the current situation.

Now that the decision has been made, Kong Youde will do what he said, and he can send people to collect all the combustibles in the general.

Things like tents, horse manure, and discarded weapons were all piled up outside their [-] army and placed in a full circle.

If it weren't for the fact that there is no vegetation nearby, Kong Youde would even order the soldiers to pull out all the grass roots nearby and burn them, just to buy him more time.

Facts have proved that Kong Youde's method is very effective. After the combustibles piled up, Kong Youde immediately ordered the soldiers to light the fire.

In an instant, Kong Youde's [-]-strong army ignited a line of fire one or two meters wide, in which a fire soared to the sky, and under the evening wind, the flames in the air were like dancing demon gods, threatening to devour all the offenders in the future Falling, blocking the footsteps of Chuangjun outside.

There is no water source on the Tongguan battlefield, and it is dry now, and sparks cannot be extinguished once they hit it, so none of these invaders dared to cross.

But soon, Chuang Jun came up with a way to deal with it, that is to take a shovel and cover the fire with loess. The fire was extinguished.

"Damn it, these mud-legged people can use their brains." Seeing that his method was easily deciphered, Kong Youde cursed secretly.

Since the method of using fire as a soldier does not work, we can only fight head-on. Fortunately, Kong Youde and his 5 soldiers are all elite soldiers, and they are not afraid of fighting tough battles.

It's just that they have been tired all day, and they have no food to replenish their strength. They are already exhausted, and they don't even bother to take knives and guns.

Just when the Chuang army was about to enter the army of Kong Youde and others, Zhu Cihuang suddenly came with a large army, more than a hundred thousand people held up torches, almost lighting up the nearby sky like daytime.

"It's Your Majesty, your Majesty is here." Kong Youde said excitedly when he saw the mighty Ming army coming.

At this moment, he didn't look like a general in charge of the army, but like a child who ate candy.

"Support Kong Youde and other officers and troops to wipe out the rogue bandits, leaving no one behind, and taking two liang of silver from each head." Zhu Cihong mobilized the soldiers of the three armies before the battle.

There was also a reward for the head of the Chuangjun, two taels of silver for each head, which is very little, even if all the Chuangjun in front of him were killed, Zhu Cihong would give 10,000+ taels of silver at most.

However, Zhu Cihong has always said that he will do it, and that he will give two taels of silver per head, which is really given, not like the Ministry of War used to try his best to deduct it for you, and use all means not to count it for you.

At the same time, Li Zicheng, who discovered that Zhu Cihong had led his troops to kill him, scolded angrily, "Damn it, this kid turned around and killed him so quickly."

"Ming Jin withdraws troops, the whole army retreats, don't fight anymore." In order to avoid being caught in the enemy's situation, Li Zicheng made a decisive decision to withdraw his troops.

(End of this chapter)