Can you live forever

Chapter 287 Unfavorable start, help whoever wins

Did Daming keep any cards in Thanh Hoa Mansion?
The answer is no. The war has reached this level, and the front line has been stretched so long. The Southern Expeditionary Army is unable to guard Annan, and can only hope for the help of the people after the land is equalized and the tax is exempted.

But reality taught them a hard lesson.

Before "they help whoever wins", it is "whoever wins they help whom". These are two different stages. If you can't survive the first stage, there will be no second stage at all.

Hai Rui didn't have this concept, but he knew that if he didn't fight hard and let the people see their spirit and determination, he wouldn't help them.

thus.

In Xiangtian County, he led [-] militiamen and defended for six days without being attacked by Li Pi, so that Li Pi was directly nailed to Xiangtian County. He had thought about bypassing Xiangtian County and directly Attack Tsinghua Mansion, but...

These civilian warriors in Xiangtian County are so difficult to fight, what about the Ming army in Tsinghua Prefecture?
After six days of fierce fighting in this small county, [-] soldiers and horses fought to [-] soldiers and horses. There are frequent reports of success in Ngee An, Xinping, Hue, and Shenghua. It is expected that in five days, the southern border will be fully recovered.

At that time, more than 20 soldiers and horses will be able to gather under his command.

However, Xiangtian County is like a mountain, blocking Li Pi, making his ambition even shorter...

Give up the siege today.

With a whip, Li Pi threw it at the battalion commander who had retreated, and angrily said: "A small Xiangtian county has only [-] civilians in it. If you can't take it down, what use are you for!"

"10 people! A whole army of [-] people."

"One person and one spittle can flood Xiangtian County, but you can't take it!!"

The battalion commander dared not speak out.

Li Pi was the general of the third division of Tsinghua Mansion earlier, and he brought the ten thousand elites with him for more than ten years. After arriving in Tsinghua Mansion, he immediately expanded his army, expanding his lineage to 3 people, a total of ten battalions .

The weapons and equipment supported by Nanjing are given priority to their direct descendants.

Basically, every five people had a blunderbuss, and everyone had knives and guns. Although the armor was not complete, in terms of weapons and equipment, they crushed the militia.

Zhao Jing gave Hai Rui the key to the arsenal, but there was nothing left in Tsinghua Mansion due to successive wars.

Everyone's armor is similar, messy is better than nothing, but in terms of weapons, Annan's army was originally full of messy firecrackers, knives and guns, and some bows and crossbows.

The rebels backed by Nanjing were obviously better equipped, even with artillery.

However, thousands of corpses have been lost under the city wall of Xiangtian County, and the county town has still not been breached...

The incomplete city wall, and the temporary supplementary defense line made of wood and sandbags, no matter how you look at it, it is crumbling, but the attacks are always repelled time and time again.

"Marshal, there may be more than 4000 people in Xiangtian County..."

Seeing that Li Pi was so angry that he attacked the officer, the other battalion commanders hurried to find the steps. After all, everyone is the same. The marshal has already whipped the whip today. Whoever loses in the battle tomorrow may be beheaded immediately!

"More than four thousand? Didn't you watch Hai Rui lead troops into the city!"

"We surrounded the city for six days, but not a single mosquito could fly in. Could it be that the reinforcements entered the city out of thin air?"

"You bastards, idiots!"

"You're trash that can't even be defeated by the militiamen, what use do I want you for!"

"I'll tell you."

"Qinghua Mansion can't be defeated any longer. When Shenglong City is breached, Lao Tzu will stand aside in the imperial court. None of you will be able to get promoted and get rich!"

Li Pi slapped the table angrily, and drank a bowl of wine before calming down slightly.

Several battalion commanders looked at each other, and they all saw the tension in each other's eyes. They were not in any hurry to be disadvantaged in the war, but in the future, if Li Pi stood aside, they would not be able to ascend to heaven, which would be very serious.

Immediately.

The battalion commander of the Jiazi Battalion stood up and said: "Commander, it's not that we don't work hard to attack the city, but that the enemy's tenacity is not like civilians at all. Maybe the Ming army secretly left a troop Pretend to understand Minyong to confuse us, in order to delay time?"

Bang!
Li Pi directly smashed the wine pot on the man's head, and said angrily: "Pretend?!! If there are really four thousand Ming troops, there are nearly six thousand Ming troops in Tsinghua Mansion. From the moment we walk out of the mountains, they should drive us out." Let's fight!"

The man covered his head, not daring to say anything.

The rest of the people tensed up, but still bit the bullet and made excuses. Someone said, "Marshal, that Hai Rui only brought four thousand people with him, but there are people in Xiangtian County."

"Is it your size!"

Li Pi directly kicked the man down, and said angrily, "There are only over 2 people in Xiangtian County, a remarkable five thousand young and strong. Are they all going to work for Hai Rui?"

Someone reminded: "Marshal, you said you were going to massacre the city..."

"..."

Li Pi was silent suddenly, he was used to going smoothly all the way, he never thought that when he threatened to massacre the city, the people in the city would dare to resist, and they resisted desperately.

"Even if [-] young men in the city try their best to defend the city, there are only [-] brave men in total!"

"You haven't trained in these years, and you can't attack?"

Everyone was silent and didn't answer any more. Li Pi also knew that going on like this was not a problem, so he skipped the topic and asked, "How are you preparing to drive away the strong men and build the slope?"

The commander of the Dingzi Battalion, who was in charge of attacking the city in the west, murmured, and said, "The soil slope has been built, but...the strong men have all run into the city."

"It's unreasonable! All the children of those traitors were mollified!"

"Master..."

"Say!"

"These days of burning, killing and looting, many women were unbearable to be humiliated, and committed suicide, and some were killed by their men, children... The Home Returning Group deliberately killed children for fun, saying that they would punish those muddy legs...those strong men, it seems nothing concerned."

"..."

Li Pi was speechless, he had vaguely guessed the reason why Xiangtian County was standing, but he didn't want to admit it, and he didn't dare to admit it, because it was really like that...

The anger of the people will burn up everything.

He suppressed the panic in his heart and asked, "How many shells do we have?"

"There are only [-] rounds left, Commander, you said you would save them for fighting Tsinghua Mansion."

There are quite a lot of ordinary weapons supported by Nanjing, but there are only dozens of artillery pieces and few shells, only 2000 rounds in total.

In the past, so many shells were not a lot, but now the times have changed, and the war situation has changed even more. With 2000 shells, when the Southern Expedition Army fought Thang Long, there were more than 2000 shells in an hour!
Using 2000 of the only 1500 shells in Xiangtian County, it cannot be said that Li Pi saved money.Don't you see how rotten the walls of this small county town have become!
The inability to break through Xiangtian County is definitely not because of the city walls, but because of the people inside!

There can't be more people like this...

"Don't wait, use up all the shells."

"Tomorrow I will hold the battle in person. If I can't defeat Xiangtian County, I will take the human sacrifice flag!"

Li Pi glanced coldly, and the battalion commanders remained silent...

(End of this chapter)