Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 386 Chongzhen's Calculations

In early September of the 1646th year of Chongzhen ([-]), Chongzhen led [-] new troops, [-] cavalry, and [-] barbarians to the new army camp five miles east of Pingyiwei. follow.

Li Xiangjun actually hoped to come to the front to join the war, but Chongzhen did not agree.

Needless to say, Chongzhen still believed that fighting was a man's business.

There is no problem for women to join the army, but it is okay to go to battle to kill the enemy. This is not discrimination, but the physical gap between women and men that is difficult to make up.

Some people will say that it doesn't take much physical strength to shoot a gun.

The problem is that fighting is not just about shooting guns. After shooting, you have to charge and fight with bayonets. Women can't compare with men in these things.

All in all, the female soldiers just stay behind to protect the supply line.

After all, the Wang and Hu caravans were continuously transshipping grain along the official road in central Guizhou to Pu'an Prefecture. Bandits and bandits along the way and even some chieftains had already set their sights on this piece of fat.

Wang Pingshan and Hu Renzhi still overestimated the transport capacity of the porters along the way.

This is because they have never transshipped such a large amount of goods before, so there was an error in the estimation, which led to the delay of grain transshipment.

So far, the first batch of 20 shi of military rations has been transferred to Pu'an Prefecture.

However, the follow-up 40 shi army rations are still on the way. The official road for more than a thousand miles from Tongguwei in the east of Guizhou to Pu'an in the west of Guizhou is full of porters pushing chicken carts and mules and horses carrying grain.

But the imperial army has already arrived in Pu'an Prefecture, and can no longer accompany and protect the caravan.

So Chongzhen left the female barracks to protect the Wang and Hu caravans.

Of course, it is not safe to rely on more than [-] female soldiers to protect the supply line, so Chongzhen also kept Qin Liangyu's [-] white soldiers. He had the heart to let the Xuanfu Department of Shi Jie produce another batch of little widows.

Closer to home, when Chongzhen led the army to arrive, he saw that the [-] local soldiers from the west of Hunan and Hubei had set up more than [-] camps along the official roads in the east of Yunnan.

At the forefront, less than five miles away from Pingyiwei, is the camp of the new army.

After Chongzhen led more than [-] rear troops to arrive, they directly lived in the new army camp.

Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and dozens of leading scholars stepped forward to salute Chongzhen one after another.

"No." Chongzhen seemed very casual about the real direct lineage of the imperial party.

"Youzhen, and Baoheng, did the rebels take the initiative to go out of the city to launch an attack in the past seven or eight days?"

"No." Xu Yingwei said, "Pingyiwei's rebel army has never been able to shrink back, even after the reinforcements arrived three days ago, they still can't shrink back, but just continue to strengthen the city defense."

Chongzhen said: "Are reinforcements coming? How many reinforcements are here?"

"At least ten thousand people." Yan Yingyuan said, "Maybe more."

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, then ordered Gao Qiqian: "Gao Banban, you go and inform Ran Sanniang that she select a chieftain from Shi Nanxuan Fusi to attack Pingyiwei immediately. You can stay in this chieftain as the supervisor and go to battle." Let me tell all the local soldiers to lay down the Pingyi Guards, and each soldier will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!"

"The old slave leads the decree." Gao Qi rushed away excitedly.

It's really not easy, our Lao Gao finally became the supervisor of the army again.

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At this time in Pingyi City, Sha Dingzhou was also very confused.

"Mr. Tang." Sha Dingzhou asked Tang Jiabin, "It has been seven or eight days since the officers and soldiers came outside Pingyi City, but they haven't even made a tentative attack. What are they doing?"

Tang Jiabin said: "If the subordinate guessed correctly, he should be waiting for a certain weapon."

"Waiting for a certain weapon?" Sha Dingzhou's expression froze when he heard this, "Hongyi Cannon?"

"It should be." Tang Jiabin said, "Although the Hongyi cannon is powerful, it is extremely cumbersome, and the official road in central Guizhou is rough and difficult, so there is no way to transport it quickly."

"We can't let the officers and soldiers bring the Hongyi cannons over!" Sha Dingzhou was anxious.

"If the officers and soldiers were to bring the Hongyi cannons over, we would definitely not be able to defend Pingyi City."

"Don't worry about the headquarters." Tang Jiabin comforted, "The soldiers from the Xiwushidong Division, the Jiaohua Division, and the Gumusi Division have all detoured from Yizuo across the mountains and ridges, and they will launch raids on the official roads in central Guizhou in a few days." , so the red cannons of the government army will definitely not be able to reach Pingyi City, at least it is absolutely impossible to transport them in a short time."

Hearing this, Sha Dingzhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Because he had seen the lethality of the Hongyi Cannon before.

There are more than a dozen Hongyi cannons on the top of the city of Kunming.

It's a pity that these Hongyi cannons are too heavy, otherwise, he would definitely dismantle the dozen or so Hongyi cannons and transport them to Pingyi City, so that his confidence in defending Pingyi City will be greatly increased.

While he was thinking, he suddenly heard the faint sound of horns.

Immediately, the general Li Rifang hurried in and reported: "General Mansion, the government army is about to attack the city!"

"Have the officers and soldiers finally lost their hold?" Sha Dingzhou's face suddenly sank, he got up and said, "Let's go and have a look."

In a short time, Sha Dingzhou came down to the east gate tower of Pingyi City surrounded by Tang Jiabin, Li Rifang and others, only to see that there were already a dense army of Ming officials outside the east gate, at least [-] people.

"It's a native soldier!" Tang Jiabin, who was well-informed, pointed to the turbans of the officers and soldiers outside the city and said, "Judging from the style of their turbans, they should be the native soldiers of Chieftain Rongmei under the Shinan Xuanfu Division in Western Hubei."

"It turned out to be a native soldier?" Sha Dingzhou's expression changed slightly.

Tang Jiabin also reacted quickly, and said in a low voice: "Is the government planning to buy the local soldiers?"

"That's right." Sha Dingzhou said with a dark smile, "Whether it's the Yongshun Xuanwei Division in western Hunan, the Baojing Xuanwei Division, or the Shinan Xuanwei Division in western Hubei, they traveled thousands of miles to Yunnan to attack us, but It's not because of how loyal they are to Daming, but because of money, as long as they want money, it's easy to do."

"Indeed." Tang Jiabin said with a smile, "Money is probably the most important thing we need in Yunnan."

After a pause, Tang Jiabin said again: "General Mansion, tonight, my subordinates will send people to infiltrate the chieftain camp to make contact, and try to get all the chieftains to defect, so as to attack the Ming officials and troops outside the city."

Sha Dingzhou said decisively: "No matter how much money they want, I can agree to them."

"The general government is really a hero that never comes out of this world." Tang Jiabin flattered, "If there is a master like this, our army will surely win!"

While the two were talking, three thousand native soldiers had already carried dozens of bamboo ladders to the outside of the city, and the rebels guarding the top of the city clasped the bird guns, Lumi guns, and bows and arrows one after another.

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The firepower of the rebel army poured in frantically, and chieftain Rongmei's soldiers fell one by one.

However, Rongmei's soldiers were indeed tyrannical. Although the casualties were heavy, none of them flinched. The soldiers in front fell down, and the soldiers behind picked up the bamboo ladder and continued to rush forward.

After paying hundreds of casualties, the Rongmei native soldiers finally rushed out of Pingyi City.

Immediately, more than a dozen bamboo ladders were set up, and before the bamboo ladders touched the city wall, more than a dozen beautiful soldiers were already climbing up with seedling knives in their mouths, and jumped up very high in two strokes.

However, the rebels at the top of the city did not panic at all.

Some picked up rolling logs and threw them down, some raised rocks and threw them down, and some held bamboo ladders with long wooden forks, trying to overturn them with people and ladders. The musketeers and archers of the rebels also Continuous shooting, continuously pouring lead, iron sand and arrows on the heads of the Rongmei soldiers crowded under the city wall.

Although the Rongmei soldiers have wooden signs, there are still people falling down.

After a stalemate for about two quarters of an hour, a bigger blow landed on Rongmei's head, and a spoonful of hot golden juice poured down from the top of the city, first on the wooden sign, and then along the wooden sign. The cards flowed to the soldiers, the poor Rongmei soldiers mostly only wore thin linen clothes, how could they bear it now?
In an instant, there were continuous wailing sounds from under the city wall.

Seeing this, Chongzhen sighed lightly, and said, "Call back the troops, no more testing."

"Retract the troops, hurry up and call back!" Ran Sanniang, who was guarding Chongzhen's side, shouted eagerly.

Casually, the distant and long ox horn sounded, and upon hearing the distant ox horn sound, the beautiful soldiers crowded under the city wall retreated like the ebb tide.

But out of the [-] soldiers who attacked, only [-] came back.

The remaining [-] Rongmei native soldiers have been lying under the city of Pingyi forever.

This is war, and in less than half an hour, more than a thousand lives were lost.

Ran Sanniang was so distressed that her beautiful eyes were flushed and she was about to cry, while the handsome chieftain Tian Xuan was so angry that his face was livid, but he was not angry with Ran Sanniang and the emperor, but with the Yunnan rebels.

"Old General Tian." Chongzhen said, "The Rongmei native soldiers who died in battle each receive fifty taels of compensation!"

The money that should be spent must be spent. For example, the compensation money for the dead soldiers must not be saved, otherwise the soldiers will not be able to work for the court in the follow-up battles.

"Veteran, on behalf of the families of the soldiers who died in battle, I would like to thank the Holy Lord Long En." Tian Xuan hurriedly knelt on the ground to express his gratitude.

"Old General, please get up." Chongzhen stepped forward to help Tian Shu up with his own hands, and said, "Although Chieftain Rongmei lost nearly a thousand soldiers, their sacrifices were not without price. At least let us know that the soldiers stationed in Pingyi The guards are the elites of Ami Prefecture and Mengzi, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to have such combat power."

"The veteran also thinks so." Tian Xuan nodded.

"Since the native soldiers of Ami Prefecture and Mengzi are in Pingyiwei, it's easy." Chongzhen smiled and said, "I will pass on my order, and the whole army will strictly guard the camp from now on, and it is strictly forbidden to go to war without authorization."

"Ah? Strictly guard the camp." Ran Sanniang, Tian Xuan and the chieftains looked at each other.

Only Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and other Qin Wang scholars vaguely guessed the intention of Chongzhen's move.

As soon as he returned to the camp, Zhu Cijiong couldn't wait to ask: "Father, are you waiting for Guangxi wolf soldiers?"

"You're smart." Chongzhen chuckled and said, "That's right, father is waiting for Guangxi wolf soldiers."

(End of this chapter)