Lord of Ming Dynasty

[-], but it is obviously impossible for him to use [-] to serve the Qing army. It is obvious that Yao Qisheng sent troops to Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture to disperse and contain the Huaxia Army's troops.

At this time, cavalry kept coming and going, reporting to him the movements of the surrounding enemies and our army. He led the team to Dawang Town while thinking of ways.

No matter what, you have to go to Dawang Town. There are nearly 300 wounded soldiers here, and the bodies of nearly [-] dead soldiers have to be taken back. The bodies of more than [-] dead soldiers gathered by the militia team must also be brought to Dawang Town. Go for a temporary placement.

The enemy's corpses and horse corpses had already been thrown into a mountain nest by them, and then they randomly threw some boulders and branches into it to get some fallen leaves to bury them. They didn't have the time to deal with their corpses.

Almost half of the more than 300 people became the stretcher team for the wounded and the corpse transport team. I don’t know how many dead bodies there are in Dawang Town. I heard that several villages here were slaughtered. This time The Huaxia Army lost a lot.

He forcefully broke off a somewhat withered old branch hanging from an old willow tree that passed by, threw it out fiercely, and cursed: "Don't let me catch these traitors, I will kill them all!" Kill them all."

Over there, a militiaman who had just joined the army looked at Tianying, and the old militiaman beside him whispered to him: "The Huaxia Army has always treated those enemies who slaughtered their own people harder than the enemy."

It took the team 45 minutes to reach Dawang Town on the mountainside. People said that Wangshan ran a dead horse. Sure enough, they had climbed for nearly five to 6 minutes to reach Dawang Town on the mountainside.

Dawang Town is backed by a mountain, and there are some thorn trees and low grass on the hillside. Occasionally, one or two pines and cypresses grow crookedly on the protruding rocks, but it is already very steep, and ordinary people have to work hard to get there Climb up.

This side is a hill of more than ten meters high that lasts for more than one mile. Below the hill is a mountain path that goes down. The entire Dawang Town is located between this hill and the steep hillside, a gap less than [-] meters wide. On a winding hillside, the terrain towards the Fenghuang Ferry is getting higher and higher. You have to climb over a mountain to see the road on the other side.

There are archways at the intersections on both sides, and there are village walls 30 meters back, all of which are built with wood and huge stones.

They entered the stockade from the low-lying side. There are some shops and wooden houses on the flat ground on both sides of the stockade. There are some stone houses on the slightly higher ground. There are some cave dwellings on the side of the road from the stone houses. steeper.

On the downward side, there are also several cave dwellings on the hill, and a three-meter-wide road that crosses the stockade bends through the stockade. This is Dawang Town.

In the center of Dawang Town, under a shaved upright circular hillside, there is a threshing ground that can accommodate a thousand people. This is the most spacious place in Dawang Town.

There are no buildings on the edge of the threshing ground. Under the upright hillside, there is a stone house half built with stones. The first half of the stone house is a large yard built with wood that can accommodate dozens of people. There are some houses in the yard. Made of wood, it is divided into east and west wing rooms, demolition rooms, toilets, stables, sheep pens, and pig pens.

This is the place where the most powerful people in Dawang Town live, and it is also the place where Dawang Town discusses its affairs. It is the home of the mayor.

The threshing floor is public.

The mayor of the town is a native of Shanxi Prefecture, a local, and the company commander of the local ordinary militia company. This is the policy of the Huaxia Army. Generally, the locals are hired as the principal, and the Huaxia Army is the deputy. Try to respect the customs and habits of the locals. , Appoint local people, so as to manage the local area well, but this local person must be a loyal person who fought in the Southern and Northern Wars of the original Huaxia Army.

The town was a bit dilapidated and miserable, after all, it was once attacked by enemies whose strength was several times larger than theirs.

A militia company was abolished, leaving only dozens of combatants. The others either died in battle or disappeared or did not come back when they went out to perform missions. They don't have the time and energy to take captives. The scene where the special forces raised in the TV series are walking around with captives is impossible to appear. In wars, captives are generally only possible during large-scale battles. They act in the wild If the enemy army destroys the enemy army, no prisoners will be left behind. They are generally executed on the spot, otherwise the marching speed will be slowed down, unless the prisoner has a high official position and is valuable.

Because he was worried about Ruicheng County and Fenghuang Town, Tianying left behind all the wounded and dead bodies, and then left behind a 50-member militia team, and he took the others out to Fenghuang Town.

Where are there still many troops waiting for him to command? He asked the disguised militia company commander and found that Wandou Ni did not designate a commander-in-chief for these troops. There is no commander-in-chief for so many troops. It would be better if it was a field army, but these They are all militia companies, whoever obeys them, even if they are sorted by rank, the militia troops may not be able to knead together. Only myself, the garrison general from the corps headquarters, can convince them completely and obey the command, even if they are a little disobedient. What a big kite.

The field army is famous, and these militia companies are waiting to be promoted to the field army. It is something they long for to deal with him, a high-ranking staff officer. Now that they are in front of them, they will definitely perform desperately.

In the night, a bright moon hung in the sky, which made it easier for the troops to move. Tianying led an army of about [-] people and rushed to the ferry of Fenghuang Town.

At this time, he didn't know that nearly [-] Qing troops were besieging Ruicheng County.

On the city wall of Ruicheng County, Wan Dou Ni led the elite soldiers of the field army infantry company to stand on the gate tower and use binoculars to look at the densely packed enemies approaching in the mountains against the hillside, woods, and vegetation.

After counting, there are about ten thousand of these enemies.

So he sent cavalry squads to rush out of the city gate desperately. Several cavalry squads were intercepted by the enemy's firepower. Two squads were completely destroyed and one squad was half-extinguished. Go to the Ferry of Phoenix Town to find reinforcements.

On a hillside in the distance, dozens of people were lying on the hillside looking at the mountain city in the distance.

One of the officers held the handle of the knife with his hand, and quietly said to a middle-aged veteran in a coat, with a blue crown, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a round face, and a chin that seemed to have a scar, "Master General, The enemy's cavalry for reinforcements has been released, should we attack the city immediately?"

The veteran said: "Well, since the enemy sent people to rescue the soldiers, then we should also take down this mountain city. When the enemy rescues come, we will just rely on the city wall to hold the enemy back."

He turned his head and said to Guan Dai: "Your troops go down the mountain to guard the ferry, don't let the enemy reinforce you from the ferry, you must stop me, I will assign the cavalry to your department, don't let the enemy reinforce you from the other side, otherwise come and see me. "

Guan Dai immediately half-kneeled on the ground, "Zha. The general is going to guard the ferry."

The veteran turned his head and said to the red-capped general beside him: "Investigate ahead, how many enemy soldiers and horses are there in the city?"

General Hongdingzi said: "Report to my lord, the enemy originally had 800 soldiers and horses, and the others were scattered in the village. There are a total of [-] soldiers and horses in this area. Later, a battalion of regular enemy troops came from the other side of the river. About [-] people are currently in the city. During the day, I saw [-] cavalry go out with a company of infantry from the elite militia brigade here, which means that the enemy's regular soldiers are no more than [-] people.

During the day, we saw that the enemy dispatched about [-] soldiers and horses outside the city, but they did not return. That is to say, the enemy's soldiers and horses now number between [-] and [-], half of them. "

The veteran murmured: "The main force of the enemy is the militia, and its combat power is equivalent to that of the green battalion. We have [-] township bravery and [-] regiment bravery. There are [-] regular troops, five or six times the enemy's troops. Okay, First let those village braves, remnants of the Miao people, and chieftain soldiers and horses try to attack. You take the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to suppress the formation, and take a battalion led by the artillery. "

After the Hongding Ziguan took him away, he murmured: "My lord, success or failure depends on one action. I hope you can break through the ferry and wipe out the enemy's soldiers and horses."

"Bang, bang, bang," the Miao people's muskets began to fire towards the enemy's city wall in a random manner, but now they still have a distance of nearly 300 meters, and their muskets can't hit anything at all, and the range is only a few tens of meters. It is to listen to the sound and scare the enemies on the city wall.

There are not many torches on the city wall here, and the enemy can be vaguely seen by the moonlight.

Tusi soldiers, Miao soldiers, and some brave soldiers from the Dajin Kingdom began to charge towards the city. Since it was a mountain city, there was no moat at all, and they could directly rush to the city through the flat ground hundreds of meters around the city wall.

The height of the city wall is only a little over two meters. The stone city wall and the stone on the mountain are convenient. In some places, the city wall is simply made of wood and earth. The width of the city wall varies. Some places are only more than 500 meters wide, and some places are more than one meter wide , in some places the width can park a Dongfeng truck.

The city is not very regular, winding, using the surrounding hills and slopes, and even the walls built by the trunks of big trees. The thickness of the city is different, and the height of the highlands is uneven. Some are more than five meters high, and some are only 1.8 meters high. However, the stones and slopes below are one or two meters high, and the average height of the entire city wall is a little over two meters.

When the Miao soldiers approached the city wall for 50 meters, the company soldiers of the ordinary militia brigade on the city wall began to fire. The muskets in their hands were much more advanced than the enemy's, at least the Jinkai 2 matchlock guns. These Huaxia troops eliminated it for a long time The musket of time.

In the night, the city wall suddenly sparkled with dots of fire, like fireflies flying rapidly, rushing towards the black figure of the enemy outside the city wall.

The sound was like the sporadic sound of firecrackers before the midnight of the new year.

There was a crackling sound, and there was a scream under the city wall, but the people on the city wall only had low shouts and hurried footsteps, and there was not much movement.

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The Qing army was very dissatisfied, and yelled to the messengers, "Hurry up, let them attack quickly, the stronger the better, they are so close, can't they charge up? Let a sentry follow, use our muskets Suppress the top of the city wall, let the gang of natives rush up, and use their knives and bows to kill the enemy, and their muskets are an insult to musketeers."

With the addition of soldiers and horses from the Qing army, the sound of gunfire on the city wall became louder, and some elite militiamen also joined in the shooting, but they used front-mounted single-firing muskets.

Some are still rifled guns, and the accuracy is good.

Many chieftain soldiers roared and shot arrows at the city wall, but where the militiamen already had helmet protection, their bows and arrows were already weak when they reached the city wall, and could not hurt anyone at all.

Instead, many people were knocked down by the increasingly dense muskets on the city wall, and they fell screaming and screaming at a distance of 50 meters to 30 meters in front of the city wall.

In the end, the chieftain soldiers gave up using muskets, threw away their muskets, pulled out big knives, scimitars, and daggers, and rushed towards the city wall at high speed. At this time, a whistle sounded on the city wall, and the shooting rhythm suddenly changed, turning into a row of guns. Fire the guns at the outside of the crenel, and then retreat. The other row of people gets up, takes two steps forward, puts the guns on the crenel and shoots at the enemy, then squats down to load, and then goes up to another row, lying on the crenel Shooting holes below.

The first row stood up after the third row and continued to cast.

You don't even need to see if you hit the enemy outside, and then continue to retreat two steps to reload, and the second row advances two steps to fire the guns on the crenel.

Such continuous casting, although the distance between the chieftain soldiers is short, but facing such dense firepower, most of them fell on the way of charging. Although some agile Miao soldiers dodged well, they rushed under the city wall and raised their heads. Throwing stones and torches, exposing them to the fire, and then the soldiers at the bend of the flanking city walls shot at them one after another, and they fell to the ground. Even if one or two managed to escape, there was nowhere to hide. Stones and torches hit.

The Green Battalion soldiers of the Qing Dynasty had rushed to a distance of 200 meters. At this time, the militiamen lying on the shooting holes began to shoot at them. Although the enemy also started shooting, it is still unknown how many militiamen their guns can hit. Maybe there are a few unlucky ones The one who was hit was quickly dragged away by the militiamen on standby, and was taken down the city wall for treatment.

Half an hour later, the gunfire stopped abruptly. Fewer than 2000 Tusi soldiers returned, less than [-] Miao soldiers returned, and [-] or so soldiers from one post returned [-] or so. Annihilation.

Bodies are everywhere under the city wall, but there is not much fire, because they are all shot by muskets, and nothing can be ignited. The front of the city wall is still vaguely under the dark moonlight, and only occasional cries of pain can be heard. There were one or two sobs, and if you had a sensitive nose, you could still smell the faint smell of blood and the confused smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.