In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 149 Reinforcement Attacks
The secret transactions between Lin Jiajun and Lu Xiangsheng could not be hidden from the people in the Datong area, let alone Pinglubo Wang Pu, who was now in the ascendant.

But since his butt was not clean to begin with, Wang Pu did not intend to bring this matter to Emperor Chongzhen.

After all, it would be bad for everyone if this kind of thing was brought to the emperor.

But after listening to the butler's report, the other party refused to trade with him. Wang Pu was so angry that he cursed Lin Rui for crossing the river and destroying the bridge.

After all, this group of rebels originally traded with him, but now they not only turned around and traded with Lu Xiangsheng, but also refused to trade with him. It was really unethical.

He was also gnashing his teeth in hatred towards Lu Xiangsheng who had robbed him of his business. In addition, in the past six months, he had not been given any military supplies, food, grass or horses, so he was almost going crazy with anger.

"Master, from what I see, that group of rebels is busy attacking Guihua City right now, so they have no time to trade with us. Once they finish attacking Guihua City, they will definitely not refuse in the future. After all, the bandit leader is not You fool, there's no way you wouldn't be on guard against Lu Xiangsheng, otherwise you wouldn't be giving away a batch of BMWs in return."

Wang Can said carefully, fearing that the master would vent his anger on him and blame him for not handling things well.

"Yes, Not Bad."

Wang Pu thought it was right, and felt much better. Then he sighed with a solemn expression: "Isn't this Loop really going to change?"

Thinking of the news brought back by the butler, Wang Pu was shocked and envious. At the same time, he regretted that his gift this time was a little too light. He should have given it to a few more beauties.

Once the man surnamed Lin conquers Guihua, he will be the real king of Hetao from now on. He can easily recruit [-] cavalry. Building a good relationship with him now will bring no harm to the future.

Lu Xiangsheng, who is far away in Yanghe, is also paying attention to the situation on the grassland these days, especially the war in Guihua City.

Knowing that the Lin family's army's attack was blocked and failed to capture Guihua City in one fell swoop, he looked at the map on the wall, frowned, and became increasingly anxious.

At this time, Zhang Han rushed in with a panic look on his face.

"Zhiyuan, why are you so panicked?"

"My lord, I'm sorry, I just came to report that a large number of slave cavalry appeared more than 100 miles north of Zhangjiakou, numbering no less than [-], and they are advancing rapidly to the west..."

Zhang Han wiped the sweat from his forehead and said hurriedly.

"what?"

Lu Xiangsheng's expression also changed drastically, and he immediately turned to look at the map.

Then he said in a solemn tone: "This army of slaves must be going to rescue and naturalize them, but why did they come so fast?"

Naturalization is more than two thousand miles away from Liaodong, and it takes at least two months to go back and forth. However, less than a month has passed since Jiannu hid in the city.

"Sir, I think Jiannu had been preparing to send a large army to reinforce the Hetao early in the morning." Zhang Han thought for a moment and replied.

"Yes, the Pseudo-Emperor's Tai Chi is not simple."

Thinking that Huang Taiji had made the decision to dispatch [-] cavalry reinforcements in one breath before he was informed of the situation in the Loop, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but feel heavy. It was really unfortunate for the Ming Dynasty to have such an opponent.

"Sir, the cavalry is fast. Even if there are [-] troops, it will only take three to five days to reach Guihua. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Lin family army to break through Guihua City before reinforcements arrive!" Zhang Han said worriedly.

"Fortunately, all of them are cavalry. Zhiyuan, you write a letter immediately and send it to Guihua as fast as possible. Tell Lin Rui that if you cannot capture Guihua City within three days, you will switch to defense. The governor will Report to your majesty to gather troops and horses, and then the two armies will attack Jiannu at the foot of Guihua City."

After Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, there was an unconcealable sparkle in his eyes.

Obviously, they also understood that after Jiannu sent [-] additional reinforcements, if the Lin family's army failed to capture Guihua City in time, they alone would be able to protect themselves at most, so they planned to lead the army in person to join the battle.

It has to be said that compared to other civil servants and generals in the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng was indeed the most fierce person when it came to talking about slaves. He always actively pursued a decisive battle with Jiannu and had no fear at all.

What's more, they have now formed a cavalry, and they are even more confident. If they were not afraid of causing misunderstandings among the Lin family army and making the situation more complicated, they would have already requested an order to take the initiative to attack the grassland.

"Students will go now..."

Zhang Han also knew that the situation was urgent and immediately stepped out of the study.

In fact, what the two of them didn't know was that Lin Rui had received news of the incoming slave reinforcements an hour earlier than them.

At this moment, in the general camp outside Guihua City, Lin Rui also had a solemn look on his face.

Obviously, they did not expect that the Jiannu reinforcements would come so quickly.

"Master Xu, how many siege engines and trebuchets have been built so far?"

"Come back to the commander, thirty trebuchets have been built. Because the siege engines are too huge, only two have been built for the time being..." Old carpenter Xu replied anxiously. It's not that they didn't work hard, but that the time was too short. .

"Just two. We still have about a thousand kilograms of gunpowder. Tomorrow we will use siege engines to dig ten big holes at the base of the wall, then stuff the gunpowder barrels in and blow up a section of the wall. "Originally, he planned to build more siege engines and then dig more gaps, preferably several sections of the four walls.In this way, a large number of Jian Nu can be killed and injured in the gap, and the casualties when entering the city in close combat are reduced. After all, Jian Nu have no way to escape. Once the city is broken, they will definitely fight to the death.

Therefore, it is most cost-effective to fight with them at the gap.

But now that time is running out, we can only use the thousand kilograms of gunpowder to blow up the gap as big as possible.

This thousand kilograms of gunpowder was originally seized in Yanghe City. In order to preserve it, the outside of the gunpowder barrel was not only sealed with oil wax, but also tightly wrapped in oilcloth.

Originally, he planned to keep it and make it into explosive packets or gunpowder cans for use in defending the city in the future, but now he had to take it out.

"Rui Lang, what if the Jiannu reinforcements arrive and we fail to break through Guihua City?"

After everyone left, Na Muzhong stepped forward and said worriedly. At this moment, she finally understood why Rui Lang wanted Hao Ge to take the people and run away directly.

"Then drag them to death. This time the slaves are all cavalry, and they can't bring much food. We still have [-] shi of food, and Lu Xiangsheng has also prepared [-] shi, which is enough for us to use up until they withdraw voluntarily. The most is Just let the reinforcements rescue Haug!"

Lin Rui waved his hand and said.

Immediately, they began to adjust their deployment and evacuate all the troops on the remaining three sides to the West City. Then they prepared to set up another camp on the hillside not far to the north of the West City to serve as the cavalry camp and to reinforce the West City camp.

Not only did trenches need to be dug on the outside, but all the remaining wood was made into Juma stakes and arrow towers. Apparently, Lin Rui was not prepared to attack Guihua City before he started attacking the city.

In fact, he knew that it was easy to attack Guihua City, but the difficult thing was to kill all the slaves in the city.

Apparently, the slaves at the top of the city also noticed something strange about the Lin family army outside the city.

"Your Majesty, the other side has not only begun to shrink its troops, but has also called back the cavalry. Could it be that our reinforcements have arrived?"

After Obai finished speaking, the eyes of the other Eight Banners generals also lit up.

After all, no one is afraid of death. The horse bandits have been busy building trebuchets in the past few days, but they can see it clearly. If they say they are not panicking, it is definitely a lie.

Hauge didn't answer until he discovered that the Lin family army had begun to build a camp on the northern hillside, then he laughed and said excitedly: "Obai, you are right, our reinforcements must be arriving soon."

If the opponent is just shrinking their troops, they may be engaging in conspiracy to trick them into breaking out, but now they are spending manpower and wood to occupy favorable terrain, then they are definitely guarding against other troops.

Besides their reinforcements from the Qing Dynasty, what other troops could there be?Could it be that it's still the Ming army?
After everyone listened to Hauge's explanation, they were all in high spirits, and some even couldn't help but cheer, sweeping away the decadent and depressing atmosphere of the previous two days.

Yes, when the Lin family army attacked, all the slaves were fearless and fearless, with high morale and a ready-to-go attitude.

On the contrary, after the attack was stopped, Jiannu was free and his morale was getting worse day by day. If not for the fact that all the horses were killed, many people would have proposed a breakout.

The next day, early in the morning.

Thirty trebuchets were lined up in a row, and under the operation of the young craftsmen, they began to throw stones towards the city.

Thirty trebuchets are all built using the simplest lever principle. They are extremely laborious to operate and require dozens or hundreds of people to pull the ropes together.

But the advantage is that it is simple and rough to make, and does not require special materials, just wood, rope and a huge stone.

At this time, stones weighing dozens of kilograms were thrown into the city from two hundred steps away. Although not many people were killed, the momentum really scared the slaves in the city.

As the trebuchets continued to launch, from time to time, unlucky people would be smashed into meat patties by the trebuchets, causing the slaves in the city to find a place to hide. However, they searched everywhere, and the safest place was under the west city wall.

However, not many people can hide under the west city wall, not to mention that as the trebuchets become more and more accurate, places too far outside under the west city wall are not safe.

Outside the city, two huge siege vehicles were slowly approaching the city wall, driven by the combined efforts of the young men.

Siege engines were originally used to hit city gates, but generally the city gates would be directly blocked by bricks and stones. Therefore, siege engines were not very useful in siege warfare and were far less practical than ladders and trebuchets.

But facing an earthen wall that is not wrapped with blue bricks, and there are no flammable oil cans or other things to ignite, it is a different matter.

No, looking at the two siege vehicles approaching slowly, the slaves on the wall, whether they were firing arrows, throwing stones or wood, or even pouring manure, were all blocked by the thick roof-like cover. It won't hurt the young men hiding below.

And as the front of the car reached the base of the wall, the young men began to work together to pull the huge hanging log and hit the base of the wall. They felt a slight tremor under their feet, and the slaves on the wall panicked.

Obviously they all understand what these two big guys are doing.

Hauge was also a little anxious, but he could only order people to bring all the rocks and wood over and smash them down as hard as possible.

Unfortunately, in the face of the rain of arrows from the Lin Family Army's long archer, this section of the city had no room for anyone, and they could only watch the siege vehicles carve into the wall.

(End of this chapter)