The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 734
Jiang Rang quickly ordered the gates of the city to be closed tightly, strictly defended to the death, and would never fight easily, waiting to see the battle between Ding Yi and the Qing soldiers.

But after a while, a group of sentry cavalry from the Ming army ran outside Yulin Acropolis, swished and shot more than a dozen arrows inside, then turned and left.

This group of sentinels came and went like the wind, and the people on the city wall were still hesitating whether to ask which Ming army it was, but they all left.

Jiang Rang quickly got the letter on the arrow. The letter was sent by Yan Xiong, telling them that Jianu's three thousand cavalry were being chased. As long as they send troops and attack from both sides, Jianu can be blocked in Shaanxi.

"Go to motherfucker." Brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan yelled at each other when they saw it.

Ding Yi robbed their silver and their soldiers and horses in Datong. It was fine if the two of them didn't help the Qing soldiers, and they wanted to count on them to help Ding Yi.

At this time, one of Jiang Rang's generals said in a low voice: "Ding Yi's men have shot several arrows in, and many soldiers know of this letter."

"If we don't send troops, and he will report to the court afterwards, I'm afraid the court will blame him."

Jiang Rang was also very courageous. After thinking about it, he still decided to close the gate of the city and resolutely not come out.

After a while, he saw the flames of war rising into the sky in the distance, and Changle Fort was attacked.

The people of Yulinwei were all standing on the city wall, staring into the distance, feeling unhappy.

After all, they can now imagine that their brothers from the same town may be screaming under the sword of the Tartars.

I don't know how long it took, suddenly.

A row of cavalry appeared in the distance, and more and more cavalry appeared on the horizon.

"Tartars are coming." Someone yelled, and the city walls were almost scattered, and many people subconsciously ran down the city.

Brother Jiang Rang was so angry that he was half dead, and Jiang Rang was even more furious: "Whatever panic, keep your position."

"It's my own, it's the Ming army, it's the Ming army." Immediately someone called out again.

When everyone heard that it was the Ming army, they couldn't believe it.

The crowd slowly quieted down, and finally, it seemed to be the Ming army.

The Ming army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and six thousand Ming soldiers rode horses, and they came to the city in a short time.

Yan Xiong and Zhou Guangbao led their soldiers and horses to stop at [-] paces outside Yulin Acropolis.

Jiang Rang's face was filled with displeasure. He knew that this was Ding Yi's soldier. If he didn't go to fight Jiannu, what did he mean by running away from my Yulin Guard?
After a while, Ming soldiers rode forward and came all the way to the city, shouting at them.

Jiang Rang also called out with a loud voice and shouted at him.

The other party asked him why he didn't send troops to attack Jiannu. Now Jiannu has broken through Changle Fort.

Jiang Rang asked in turn, why did you lure Jiannu to our Shaanxi, and what do you mean by your soldiers and horses from Datong Town going to Shaanxi?
The other party said, we are chasing the enemy, don't we attack the enemy?Also, we are out of food now, please give me some food.

Give me a hair, of course Jiang Rang refused, and ordered the soldiers and horses of Datong Town to leave quickly.

Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan had already seen how bold Ding Yi was in Datong, but they didn't expect Ding Yi to be so bold in Shaanxi.

Hearing that Jiang Rang refused to open the city gate or give food, Yan Xiong and Zhou Guangbao immediately split into two groups.

Yan Xiong went straight to Zhenbeitai in the north of Yulin Weicheng, and Zhou Guangbao went to Baoning Fort in the west of Yulin Weicheng.

The distance between these two piers, guarding Yulinwei, is less than five miles.

The two castles each have three or four hundred troops, of which less than two hundred are capable of fighting.

Zhou Guangbao and his two men learned how to build slaves, and each sent [-] soldiers to surround the two fortresses to prevent them from coming out.

Only then did Jiang Rang realize that Ding Yi's troops were actually planning to attack his fortress?

He couldn't believe it, Ding Yi is now openly attacking officers and soldiers of the same dynasty, what is the difference from rebellion?
He immediately sent sentry cavalry to report to Suide Mansion.

Unexpectedly, some of the sentry cavalry returned soon, saying that all the roads and trails were blocked by Ding Yi's sentry cavalry. They tried to rush over, but no one succeeded.

While Zhou Guangbao surrounded Yulinwei with his men, he also dispatched a thousand pacers to sweep around and deceive the fort.

They are all from the Ming army. Many people in the nearby forts thought they were friendly troops when they saw them. They were deceived by several forts at once. Some forts were more careful. When they saw someone coming, they quickly closed the fort. See the person who closed the fort gate, Zhou Guangbao The soldiers and horses did not attack, but turned around and left, but they must have no siege weapons.

On March [-]th, Zhou Guangbao led a thousand-step cavalry to Mizhi County.

Mizhi County is the nearest county near Yulinwei, with a small population. After experiencing such a chaotic era in the late Ming Dynasty, the management of the local county government was already very chaotic. In the fall, Zuo Guangxian took his troops directly from Yulinwei to Li Zicheng.

At this time, there were no officers and soldiers in Mizhi County, only the government servants of the county government. When they saw the Ming army coming in, they naturally did not dare to stop them.

Zhou Guangbao drove in, found the county magistrate, and used the pretext of fighting Jiannu to collect food.

The news that the Qing soldiers attacked Changle Fort had already spread here, and the county magistrate had nothing to do with the armored soldiers, but he said that Mizhi County could not collect any food either.

Zhou Guangbao said, let the gentry come out to donate food.

Looking at the gleaming knives of Zhou Guangbao's subordinates, the gentry in Mizhi County had to donate two thousand stones.

After Zhou Guangbao got the food, he continued to surround Yulinwei without attacking.

After waiting for about ten days, a wave of soldiers from Datong rushed to Yulinwei with carts, trebuchets, and petrol bombs.

Jiang Xuan had seen the power of the trebuchet before, and when he saw the trebuchet, his face turned green, and he hurriedly said: "Ding Yi's trebuchet is very powerful. After it is filled with kerosene, it will burn with one throw, and it can't be extinguished even if it is extinguished." .”

"Brother, either gather your troops and rush out now, and fight them to the death, or open the door and see what they want to do."

Jiang Rang's face changed slightly when he heard the words. He saw Zhou Guangbao's soldiers and horses milling around outside for the past few days, and it seemed that they were very elite. Although there were many soldiers under him, they were not necessarily the opponents of Zhou Guangbao's soldiers and horses.

But he was really unwilling to just open the city gate and let them in.

Why?I'm also the chief soldier, what the hell are you?Don't beat Jiannu to beat Lao Tzu?

Jiang Rang was ashamed, angry and scared.

He hesitated at the critical moment, but Jiang Yu couldn't help it. He thought about his uselessness in Datong, and said sharply: "We fought with them. I really thought our Jiang family was easy to bully. We have so many soldiers and horses, and one person can be wiped out with one piss." he."

Jiang Rang, the general soldier of Yulin, has 5000 soldiers on the list, and 8000 horses. In fact, there are about [-] people now, and [-] horses.

But those who can be called strong and strong are estimated to be around [-]. As for the qualified war horses, it must be less than half.

His strength is already better than that of Datong Town, mainly because he hasn't lost any major battles in the past few years, and there are not many casualties.

Unlike Datong Town, which participated in Songjin, several battles such as entering the customs, suffered heavy losses.

Now he has more than 3 soldiers and horses guarding various places, and Yulin Acropolis has only a little over [-].

The three Jiang brothers compared the soldiers and horses of the two sides. The elder brother Jiang Rangjue was difficult to fight, but Jiang Guan and Jiang Xuan supported the fight.

The reason why Jiang Rangjue was so difficult to fight was that apart from Zhou Guangbao's elite soldiers and horses, the other Yulin soldiers and horses stationed nearby had not come to support for more than ten days.

And now all their soldiers and horses are gathered in the city, even if Zhou Guangbao doesn't fight, if he continues to surround them, it will consume too much food.

But if you lose, there is no way out.

"Let's fight, brother, they are assembling the trebuchet." Jiang Xuan said anxiously at this moment.

"Fight with them, brother, look for an opportunity to go south. Jiang Guan wants to go south.

The two younger brothers were both called beating, and Jiang Rang finally made up his mind: "Damn it, our Jiang family is not easy to bully."

But in this Yulin city, there is still a big boss, the former chief soldier Zuo Guangxian.

As mentioned earlier, the Zuo family's hometown is Yulin Jiangmen, and the family is rich and powerful.

After his general was dismissed, he was able to give Sun Chuanting [-] horses not long ago, saving his son's life.

Right now his son is still with Sun Chuanting, who lives in Acropolis, Yulin.

Their family and the Jiang family have been married since childhood, and both parties are local military giants.

In history, when Zuo Guang first led people to seek refuge with Li Zicheng, he had thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, all of whom were his Zuo family's confidantes and generals.

Jiang Rang quickly found Zuo Guangxian and asked him to attack Ding Yi's soldiers outside.

Zuo Guang was dismissed first because he was cowardly, and later he was cowardly, so he quickly joined Li Zicheng. When this guy heard that he was going to fight the Ming army, he immediately stared at the boss. Isn't this a rebellion?
Jiang Rang said sharply: "Ding Yi rebelled and sent troops to surround us. If we don't attack, they will come in."

Zuo Guangxian's head shook like a drum. It was his fault that Ding Yi beat us. If we want to beat him again, we are also at fault.

Seeing that Zuo Guang was useless first, Jiang Rang went out angrily, and then decided to gather troops and teach Ding Yi a lesson.

Just as he was gathering troops and horses in the city, bang, a petrol bomb had fallen on Yulin City.

Yulin soldiers and horses scolded angrily.

Jiang Rang was even more furious: "Open the door, teach Ding Yi a lesson."

With a bang, as the four city gates in the east, south, west, and north opened, Yulin's soldiers and horses rushed out like a tide.

Apart from the 3000 people left to defend Yulin City, almost thousands of people rushed out, led by a thousand members of the Jiang family.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, those who could train a thousand family members were quite capable, and this was all the capital of the three Jiang brothers.

Thousands of soldiers and horses rushed out together, full of momentum.

Outside the city gate, the troops of Zhou Guangbao and Yan Xiong were slowly gathering into two groups, like two clenched fists.

Because they were guarding two places before.

"Prepare."

The cavalry and gunmen stood up one after another.

Zhou Guangbao couldn't bear it, it must be that the Ming army didn't want to fight the Ming army.

But he thought about Ding Yi's words, all the soldiers on the ground can fight, and the loyal ones are servants. It is difficult for us to use servants.

"Hit me hard," Zhou Guangbao yelled.

Bang bang bang, the sound of gunfire rang out continuously.

Yan Xiong led [-] blunderbuss soldiers, divided into two sides, and [-] blunderbuss soldiers were divided into five rows to shoot.

The servants who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, screaming, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

At this time, the quality of the Yulin Ming army was much worse than that of the Qing soldiers. Even the servants were no exception. Suddenly encountering such a violent gunshot, the vanguard collapsed in an instant.

Zhou Guangbao and Yan Xiong once again saw how unbearable the Ming army was, and each side fired a round of gunshots. The charging Ming army was killed and seriously injured, and then some people turned their heads and ran away.

It was almost a replica of the battle against the Qing soldiers. Someone in the forward turned around, and the army collapsed immediately.

The Ming soldiers of Yulin Town fled in embarrassment, turned their heads one after another, and ran desperately towards Yulin Acropolis.

"Chase." Zhou Guangbao took a look, waved his big hand, and three thousand cavalrymen covered him from behind.

Yulin Mingjun ran even faster.

At this time, Jiang Rang at the gate of Nancheng could hardly believe it.

He was leading a team of servants, and just assembled outside the city gate, ready to charge, the vanguard in front had already been defeated.

It was too fast, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses fired a round of guns, directly hitting their entire army to collapse.

Jiang Rang was shocked and angry, turned his head to look at other places, and found that two of the soldiers and horses coming out of the four city gates were beaten back by Ding Yi's men, and the other two had not encountered Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, so they ran back quickly .

"Damn, hold it up, hold it up for me." Jiang Rang couldn't even scream, and the defeated soldiers fled into the city as if fleeing for their lives.

But Zhou Guangbao chased after him anxiously, seeing that the Ming army was about to kill him.

Jiang Guan at the top of the city was shocked: "Quick, fire, fire."

"I will hit my own people." Someone shouted.

"Close the city gate, close the city gate." Jiang Xuan called again.

"It's all our people outside."

The command of the two brothers was also in a mess, and they lost too quickly, which made them panic.

Jiang Rang, who was about to rush out of the city, also hurried into the city.

Zhou Guangbao's cavalry did not chase too far ahead, probably afraid of being hit by artillery, and their [-] cavalry were about to drive them away, driving the Yulin Ming army into the city.

Wait for the Yulin Ming army to squeeze into the city in a panic and close the city gate.

The trebuchet appeared again.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, petrol bombs were thrown into the city from all directions.

Yan Xiong first threw ten on each side.

Immediately, on the other side's city wall, as long as it is thrown, no one can stand.

"I can't stand it." Jiang Yan stomped his feet. If the artillery can't knock down the trebuchet and let Ding Yi throw it like this, they will be finished sooner or later.

So many people gathered in the Acropolis of Yulin, if they didn't starve to death, they would be burned to death.

So on March 24, Zhou Guangbao and Yan Xiong led troops to surrender the Ming army in Yulin Town.

In history, this Ming army finally surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Now he was forced to surrender by Ding Yi ahead of time.

Jiang Rang brothers were brought before Yan Xiong, Jiang Rang was furious: "Does Ding Yi want to rebel? Openly annex our soldiers and horses? Are all the court officials blind?"

Yan Xiong rode on the horse and said, with a shocked expression on his face: "How did Mr. Jiang talk about it?"

"Obviously your Yulin Town was breached by Jiannu Yierden's troops. If our Datong soldiers hadn't come to rescue, the three general Jiang's corpses would have been separated. Don't you thank us? Do you still want to impeach Ding Zongbing?"

Jiang made his brothers dumbfounded, and there is such an operation?

But after thinking about it, now here, it is not Yan Xiong who has the final say. He said that Yulin Town was breached by Jiannu, that is, it was breached by Jiannu.

After all, Jiannu also broke Changle Fort before, this is something that even the magistrate of Mizhi County knows.

"You, you—Ding Yi—lawless—" Jiang Rang was angry and scared.

Jiang Guan hurriedly grabbed the elder brother: "General Yan, you have won, we admit it, and take whatever you want."

He just wanted to save his life and it would be good.

Yan Xiong laughed: "Vice General Jiang, don't worry, my uncle only wants your soldiers and money." As long as you know what's interesting, your life will be kept.

After saying that, he turned around.

Jiang Rang was annoyed and wanted to curse, but Jiang Guan persuaded: "Brother, don't be impulsive."

"Yulin Town is destroyed, we can die in the chaos and survive."

When the three brothers heard the words, they looked at each other in dismay. The next moment, they couldn't help crying. The Jiang family's business for several generations was ruined.

On March 25, Yan Xiong joined forces with Zuo Guangxian and Mizhi county magistrate to report to the imperial court.

In mid-March, [-] elite soldiers from the Yierdeng tribe of the Qing Dynasty fled from Shanxi to Shaanxi, first breaking Changle Fort and then Yulin Town.

Ding Yi's Datong soldiers and horses followed closely, and fought with the officers and soldiers of Yulin Town inside and outside to repel Jiannu.

The three Jiang brothers and Zuo Guangxian were all seriously injured.

Zuo Guangxian and the three Jiang brothers were quite speechless when they saw the Tang newspaper.

Yan Xiong said that they were all seriously injured, if they were obedient, they could recover from their injuries in the future.

If they are disobedient, they may be seriously injured and die in the future.

Ding Yi covered the sky with one hand, playing tricks on the imperial court, which really made them angry and scared.

(End of this chapter)