The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 643 Siege
After Ruan Zhengyu finished speaking, he took out a command arrow from his bosom and handed it to Du Peng, "You take my command arrow and go to the south to organize an army. This time, no matter what, you must gather another 50 troops for me."

Du Peng took the command arrow and replied decisively: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely not disgrace Your Majesty's order when I go to the south this time."

Ruan Zhengyu nodded, and then went on to remind: "This time you go to the south, you don't have to wait to gather all the troops to go north, but gather 2 people and send them to Longcheng Pass as soon as possible."

Du Peng understood as soon as he heard it, Ruan Zhengyu had no confidence in the defense of Longcheng Pass. After thinking about it, it was true. There were only a few thousand old and weak soldiers at Longcheng Pass, plus more than 1 untrained farmers. One hundred thousand elites from the Central Plains makes one's scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Du Peng quickly patted his chest and assured Ruan Zhengyu that within five days after he left, 1 people would be sent to Longcheng Pass to resist the invasion of the Central Plains.

Ruan Zhengyu then asked Du Peng to leave overnight without delay.

In fact, Du Peng has long been looking forward to leaving this ghostly place. Who knows if the soldiers from the Central Plains outside China will attack the city overnight, or is it safer to leave this place?
So Du Peng made a righteous gesture, and said to Ruan Zhengyu: "Since the military situation is urgent, I will not delay any longer. I will set off now, and send soldiers to make Longcheng Pass safe."

How did Ruan Zhengyu know that the general under him wanted to leave quickly, thinking that he was loyal to the court, so he was relieved to let him go immediately.

Du Peng got the order without delay, and immediately left the hall, led his own horse, and led his personal guards directly to the south gate of Longchengguan.

Ruan Zhengyu didn't dare to neglect that night. On the one hand, he recruited civilian husbands, and on the other hand, he ordered the top of the city to strengthen the guard because he was afraid of being attacked suddenly at night, which would cause the Longcheng Pass to be broken.

And that night, Jia Ke's troops outside the city did not attack Longcheng Pass. Jia Ke just prevented the opponent from attacking him, and sent Eight Banners cavalry to roam around the city.

Although it is said that Jia Ke did not attack the city, but because the Eight Banners cavalry kept walking downstream of Longcheng Pass all night, the officers and soldiers on the city were so nervous that they did not sleep all night, and by the next morning, all of them were listless. .

Besides, Jia Ke immediately beat the drums and assembled the generals in the morning. After all the civil and military personnel had arrived at the tent of the Chinese army, Jia Ke entered the tent accompanied by Li Deshan and sat in the middle.

"Everyone, Longcheng Pass is a dangerous place in the world, but once the Longcheng Temple is captured, there will be a flat river to the south, and now according to my scouting report, there are not many soldiers and horses at Longcheng Pass, it is our It’s a good time to attack, otherwise, if Annan transfers troops from the south, it will be very difficult for me to capture Longcheng Pass.”

After Jia Ke finished speaking, she looked at Sun Yan who was standing below, "Master Sun, what do you think of this battle?"

Hearing Jia Ke's question, Sun Yan stepped out of the squad, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said: "My lord, generals, I don't have much food and grass waiting for me. If we can't take Longcheng Pass immediately, then we can't take it." We have to stay here again for a while, waiting for food and grass to arrive from the country, at that time, even if we win, we will consume a lot of strength, so I agree with the idea of ​​the lord, it should be resolved quickly regardless of the cost."

Jia Ke nodded after listening, "Master Sun's intention coincides with mine, since that's the case, then I will give the order."

"Where are the Manchu Eight Banners unified?"

As soon as Jia Ke finished speaking, eight burly men came out of the generals.

"The servant is waiting."

"I order you to divide into 4 equal waves, and attack Longcheng Pass separately within an hour limit. You must not let the enemy soldiers above the pass city have a chance to breathe."

The eight people looked at each other in dismay after listening to it. They brought cavalry this time. Wouldn't it be better to let them attack the city?
Looking at the eight people in a daze, Jia Ke knew they didn't understand what she meant.

"Eight idiots, I didn't ask you to send cavalry to attack the city. You have captured so many enemy troops. Could it be that I have kept them for nothing? Now is the time for them to contribute their strength."

As soon as these eight people heard what Jia Ke said, they understood what it meant. This was to let the captives attack the city to reduce the casualties of their own troops. They used to use this trick often when they were Tatars, but since Jia Ke has seldom done these things, but he didn't expect that they could go back to their old profession now.

Now that they understood what Jia Ke meant, these people naturally agreed.

Jia Ke then ordered: "Wu Lv, the commander-in-chief of Guangxi, and Liu Zhi, the commander-in-chief of Yunnan, each of you will lead [-] wolf soldiers, and lie in ambush behind the Eight Banners cavalry, waiting for my order."

After hearing Jia Ke's order, the two general soldiers immediately bowed their hands and said yes, and then went out of the big tent to rectify the army.

Next, Jia Ke took the rest of the generals and a lot of siege equipment to personally supervise the army's siege.

And Ruan Zhengyu had been busy with young and old things until dawn last night, and had just slept for a while, when suddenly his personal soldiers broke into the room and shook him awake.

"My lord, wake up, the enemy army has begun to attack the city."

Ruan Zhengyu didn't sleep soundly at first, but when he heard this, he woke up with a jolt.

"what happened?"

Seeing that Ruan Zhengyu had woken up, the soldier hurriedly reported: "Just now the enemy's battalion came out in full force, there seemed to be hundreds of thousands of them, Prime Minister Li Guangqing ordered me to come and inform His Majesty, so that He can go up to the tower to command the battle. "

Ruan Zhengyu didn't care about anything else after listening, and immediately ordered his soldiers to straighten his armor.

After Ruan Zhengyu finished dressing, he immediately brought his horse to the top of the city.

At this time, Li Guangqing was standing on the tower, commanding the young and strong and the old and weak soldiers in Longcheng Pass to carry the rolling wood and thunder stones there, always guarding against the opponent's success.

But Ding Hao's remnants, those several thousand troops, were Ruan Zhengyu's last hope. Ruan Zhengyu had already issued an order that no one could mobilize this army without his king's orders.

When Li Guangqing saw Ruan Zhengyu approaching three steps and made two steps, he first bowed to him, and then said: "My lord, the enemy army is about to attack the city, and the vanguard is probably our captured soldiers. .”

After hearing this, Ruan Zhengyu couldn't believe it, and finally he came to the front of the city and looked down.

Sure enough, as Li Guangqing said, the soldiers wearing their military uniforms had been driven by the enemy cavalry and stood in a line.

I saw these people holding simple weapons in their hands, and some of them were waiting to charge there with ladders on their shoulders.

Ruan Zhengyu was very angry when he saw this. He had already seen the soldiers under the city. If they dispersed in a crowd, the opponent's cavalry, although powerful, would not be able to kill all of them. It seems that his soldiers were already frightened. up.

As the leader of Zhenghuangqi, Jirigla is now directing the first wave of attack, and next to him is the leader of Xianghuangqi, Mandu Latu, the deputy of this attack.

Mandu Ratu is also considered a courageous and resourceful person among the Eight Banners. He watched from the bottom of the city. There are already a lot of rolling wood and lightning stones on the tower. If there is no cover, the captives below may suffer heavy losses. .

So Mandu Ratu urged his horse to come to Jirigela's side and said, "Jirigela, let me see if we send some cavalry to shoot arrows below to cover these captives."

Jirigla also saw what was going on in the city, and he nodded: "Then each of us will send 5000 cavalry, and we will divide into two teams and walk down the tower to give some support to the captives so that they don't die. The grassland can't explain to the family."

After the two made up their minds, they each sent 5000 men and horses to walk under the tower from the left and right, and kept shooting arrows at the tower.

And those people on the city wall were originally old, weak and remnant soldiers, and the young and strong who were gathered just last night. Don't dare to show your head.

Seeing that the enemy soldiers on the tower had been suppressed, Jirigla hurriedly ordered his cavalry to drive the captives to attack the city.

To say that these Annan prisoners are honest and grandson-like to the soldiers of the Central Plains, but they are very cruel to their own people.

Many of them have tried their best to express themselves since they surrendered, so they have been reused by the Eight Banners.

Now these people are the supervising army, they are shouting with knives and guns one by one, and at the end they are driving these captive soldiers forward, but the one who dares to stop, these supervising troops of them immediately stepped forward and punched and kicked , This is not bad, if there is a little resistance, the steel knife next to it will come over.

Therefore, these captive soldiers could only take crude weapons and carry ladders to the city, because they knew that if they retreated, they would die without a place to die, and if they moved forward, there was still a chance of survival, so instead they fiercely attacked upwards.

When Ruan Zhengyu on the city wall saw this situation, he hurriedly ordered his soldiers to urge the young men and soldiers on the city wall to start throwing rolling wooden thunderstones down.

This time the fierce siege battle began.

Due to the insufficient preparation of Longchengguan, there were not many rolling wood and thunder stones on the top of the city. At the beginning, it caused huge damage to the Annan prisoners who attacked the city.

But as time went by, there were fewer and fewer rolling wood and thunder stones, and the soldiers and young men on the top of the city had to pick up weapons and go up to fight with the Annan captives who were besieging the city.

But these people on the tower are either old and weak soldiers, or farmers who have just been recruited. How can they be the opponents of the trained Annan prisoners downstairs.

As a result, it didn't take long for Leilei to be killed and wounded from the top of the building. Ruan Zhengyu saw that this was not an option, so he had no choice but to send the soldiers brought back by Ding Hao to the tower.

There are about 6000 of these soldiers. Originally, Ruan Zhengyu would use them as a reserve team at the last moment, but judging from the current situation on the tower, if you don't join the reserve team now, I am afraid that without you, Longcheng Pass will be closed in two hours. I can't keep it.

With this new force joining the city tower, it finally stabilized.

But there are too few soldiers and horses, and they are just delaying time by joining the city wall.

An hour later, Jirigla blew the horn and made his troops withdraw.

Next, Dutong Jiya of the Zhengbai Banner and Dutong Menggen of the Xiangbai Banner began to take over their siege.

(End of this chapter)