The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 830 Siege in the Rain
Wuding City belongs to Chuxiong, and its area is not large, but in Wuding County, the terrain is rugged and there are continuous mountains.Mountains, hills, valleys, valley plains and intermountain basins (locally called Bazi) intersect each other. The area of ​​mountains accounts for 97% of the total area of ​​Wuding, and Bazi and water account for 3%.

This kind of place is even difficult to stockpile and grow grain, and even in later generations, it will still be a national-level poverty-stricken county.

But this kind of terrain has an advantage, that is, it is easy to defend.

This is also the reason why Shadingzhou transported a lot of wealth here.

The total length of the city wall of Wuding City is less than five miles, but it is surrounded by mountains on three sides. There are many walls connected to the mountain wall, and the front wall is connected between the two mountains. It is by spying on insiders, otherwise it will be difficult to break through from the outside.

The garrison general is called Sha Xiong'an, who is Sha Dingzhou's nephew and confidant. There are about [-] guards in the city, and there are more than [-] peasants who brought wealth. The door was opened by internal spies, and I was afraid that the Ming army (Qian army) would do the same.

Sha Xiong'an was standing at the top of the city at this time, seeing the densely packed Ming army (he always thought it was the Ming army, but in fact they were already big cadres) camping under the city, he didn't take it seriously at all.

The Ming army under the city seems to have only 3 to [-] people, and there is not enough Wuding City to surround him, so they can still attack?

Wuding City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, which has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the enemy army is difficult to attack and cannot climb the mountain to attack. The disadvantage is that if the defenders want to go out, they can only go from the front (southwest), and they cannot go down the mountain from other places.

At this time, he was carefully watching the Ming army several miles outside the city, and found that the Ming army was not in a hurry. The general of the Ming army divided the soldiers and horses into three sides, guarding the city gate on one side, and facing east and west on the other.

Obviously, the defenders of the Ming army also knew that they only needed to attack one gate, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were on guard.

He saw that there were less than [-] Ming troops in the front, and he couldn't help laughing. Didn't the general of the Ming army think that [-] troops could break our Wuding City?
At this moment, a cavalry soldier from the Ming army suddenly came over in front of him. The cavalryman ran fast, with an arrow in his hand.

"General, the Ming army is here, do you want to fire?" A deputy general immediately asked.

Sha Xiong'an originally wanted to talk about shooting, but seeing the appearance of the cavalry of the Ming army, it seemed that they were about to shoot arrows in, so he couldn't help but think: "No hurry, let's see and talk."

Sure enough, after the Ming army ran in, swish, an arrow shot into the city.

The letter soon reached Sha Xiong'an's hands, and it really was to persuade him to surrender.

The letter also said that as long as you surrender, you can take away 1 taels of silver from the city, and you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life.

"Damn it." Sha Xiong'an yelled, "Tomorrow's general has a problem with his brain, and 1 taels wants to send me away?"

The wealth in Wuding City is piled up like a mountain. Because of too much, a large number of civilians in the city have no place to sleep, and they all sleep in the open air.

Sha Xiong'an also had ideas for trapping so many peasants in the city. Once the Ming army kept surrounding him, and in the end there was not enough food, hehe, this chieftain really dared to do anything.

So much wealth in the city belongs to my Sha family. I sold the Sha family for 1 taels?Isn't it sick?

"Come here, let me bombard him." Sha Xiong'an wanted to bombard the Ming army, but after the Ming army finished shooting the arrows, they turned and ran away, so naturally they couldn't bombard him.

But in order to vent, he still ordered two shots.

At this time, someone said: "The Ming army has artillery, should we send people to seal the city gate?"

"It looks like it will rain, so the Ming army's artillery should be useless?"

Sha Xiong'an raised his head, and sure enough the weather was not right, he couldn't help but put a smile on his face.

As soon as the artillery was fired here, Zhao Dashan knew that persuading surrender was useless.

The reason why he persuaded him to surrender was because he was afraid that if the guards couldn't stand it, they would destroy the wealth in the city.

Persuasion to capitulate is invalid now, only a strong attack.

"The ministries are ready to attack, and the trebuchets are being assembled." As soon as Zhao Dashan gave the order, a local former Ming official ran over: "General Zhao, wait a moment."

"?" Zhao Dashan.

"Let me watch the weather, it might rain."

Zhao Dashan suddenly realized, looked up at the sky, and found that the sky was a bit dark with dark clouds.

"Fortunately, you reminded me." Zhao Dashan couldn't help being taken aback. When the fight was about to start, it suddenly rained, which made him lose face.

Ding Yi asked him to lead troops to attack Yunnan. If he made such a mistake, even if he won, he would be ridiculed.

"Xiaguan, we all have more firearms. Let's talk about it after the rain stops."

Zhao Dashan smiled: "I'm not afraid, we are prepared."

He immediately ordered to prepare for the rain.

I saw that the auxiliary soldiers opened many boxes, and then took out some strange clothes from the boxes and distributed them to the soldiers in front.

There are not many of these things, only about [-] sets.

Of the [-] to [-] soldiers and horses that entered Yunnan, they only brought [-] sets, all of which were on Zhao Dashan's side.

The official also got a set, thick, soft and hard, I don't know what kind of material it is, and the soldiers sent over helped him put it on.

"This is called a raincoat. If it rains, you can block it."

It turned out to be a raincoat made of rubber by the senior staff.

The raincoats of this era are very simple to make, so they are a bit rough, relatively thick, and a bit hard, and they are easy to dry out and break after a long time, but Ding Yi will ask for recycling and redoing.

Of all the soldiers and horses in the army, only Annan and Yunnan soldiers and horses are equipped with raincoats.

After everyone took it out, some people had already wrapped it up, while others didn't approve it.

At the same time, a large number of pikemen moved forward, and gunmen retreated.

Then someone took out a larger canopy, and after opening it layer by layer, pulled up the four corners with a stick to form a canopy, and then pushed the cannon into it.

A rainproof canopy is better.

Sha Xiong'an at the top of the city didn't know what the Ming army was doing, but saw the Ming army pulling up canopies one by one, which made him dumbfounded, not knowing what it was.

"It's rainproof, the Ming army is protecting it from the rain." Someone exclaimed: "The Ming army's artillery can be used at that time."

"Damn, how can it prevent the rain?" Sha Xiong'an couldn't believe it.

Because I have never heard of it or seen it in history.

Besides, who fights when it rains?Is Ming Jun sick?Won't it start again after the rain stops?
The biggest disadvantage of Wuding City is that there is no moat, and it is very troublesome for the Ming army to attack on rainy days.

Because all the defensive weapons at the top of the city cannot be used, such as artillery, kerosene, fire barrels, ten thousand enemies, etc.

Boom, suddenly there was thunder in the sky, and then the dark clouds on the scene became thicker and thicker.

After a while, there was a clatter, and the tiny rain fell down, and then it became bigger and bigger.

Zhao Dashan's soldiers and horses below put on raincoats one after another, and many people directly stood inside the rain shelter.

About one hundred canopies were built outside, only the ten directly in front had artillery, and the rest of the canopies were full of people.

The sky suddenly rained, and Sha Xiong'an's face became ugly, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the chieftain soldiers at the top of the city began to retreat, or went down the city wall to hide from the rain.

"Don't let it go, don't let it go." Sha Xiong'an was furious: "The Ming army is also in the rain, don't let it go."

But the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and no one was in charge of the artillery above. A lot of gunpowder was directly wet, and those who could be rescued had to be moved to the city and the Wengcheng.

At first some people could not go down to the city under his order, but as the rain continued and showed no sign of stopping, Sha Xiong'an himself could not stand up anymore.

Wouldn't it be sick if the Ming army came to attack the city in this rainy day?
He really couldn't think of how the Ming army would attack the city?
"Let's go." Sha Xiong'an himself hurried down to the city, leaving people watching with umbrellas and coir raincoats.

After a while, only a dozen or so people in coir raincoats and umbrellas remained on the front wall.

Zhao Dashan was standing in a canopy and looked at the city wall with binoculars from time to time. Although the sight was not good on rainy days, he could see that there were indeed no people on the city wall.

That’s right, in this day and age, whoever fights on a rainy day, everyone rests.

But the soldiers and horses we are working hard must fight when it is raining.

"Get ready, push the cannon forward."

Following Zhao Dashan's order, some auxiliary soldiers carried sandbags filled with soil on their backs, and some soldiers went to take the four corners of the canopy one after another.

The sticks at the four corners were raised, and the canopy was raised high.

Then the artillerymen began to push the cannon, and the canopy moved slowly.

There is also a canopy behind to protect the gunpowder and shells, let's go forward together.

In the crazy rainy day, everyone watched the awnings slowly move forward. If there is a puddle that is difficult to walk, someone will come forward with sandbags to fill it.

"Not good." Seeing the Ming army approaching, the guards on the city wall were shocked, scared and couldn't believe it, and ran down to report to Sha Xiong'an.

Sha Xiong'an hadn't returned to his residence yet, and was thinking about going back to take a hot bath, when he suddenly received a report that the Ming army had attacked.

"What? How is it possible? Damn, they are sick?" Sha Xiong'an had no choice but to rush back to the city, and at the same time ordered: "Assemble, assemble, call all the civilians to assemble."

But it will be raining heavily in the whole city, who will come out.

When he hurried back to the city, the canopy of the Ming army had already reached 30 meters away from the city gate.

Sha Xiong'an's nose was crooked: "Why didn't you hit me?"

Under the heavy rain, all the soldiers kept touching the rainwater on their faces and asked, what should they use to fight?

Artillery can't be used now, and neither can bows and arrows. What is the use of this?

Sha Xiongan was dumbfounded.

Then I watched helplessly as the canopy below was pushed forward another ten meters, almost reaching the gate of the city.

"Damn it, take an arrow and shoot it, shoot it."

He didn't care anymore, even if the bow and arrow were useless, he would still shoot.

But now Zhao Dashan's cannon has been aimed at his gate.

"boom"

The artillery fired first.

It is difficult to shoot arrows in rainy weather, and the distance and force are difficult to control. After finally hitting the top of the canopy, the arrows are stuck in it and cannot penetrate.

Even if it penetrates, there are still soldiers holding shields below to block it.

It is difficult to affect the artillery in a short time.

Moreover, Zhao Dashan's first shot made a hole in the city gate, and then some soldiers wore raincoats, wrapped a hundred enemies in the raincoat, and rushed directly under the city gate, opened the raincoat, set fire to a few hundred enemies, and threw them from the hole. Come in, get down.

Boom, boom, boom, three consecutive explosions, the gate of Wuding City was blasted open.

In March of the first year of Rende, Zhao Dashan led his troops to attack the city under strong wind and heavy rain, and caught the defenders in the city by surprise. Many defenders stayed in their houses to avoid the rain and did not want to come out.

After all the soldiers and horses rushed in, they were unwilling to go out.

Because of the rain, bows and arrows were almost useless, and the iron armor of the Ming army was unbreakable. It was a one-sided battle. In less than two hours, all the rebels in the city were wiped out.

(End of this chapter)