Borrow the day to change the day

The rapid march of the [-] cavalry, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and the momentum was huge.Fortunately, it is wartime now, and there are no pedestrians on the road, so there is no disturbance to the people.

Gu Baichuan and other Dongchang soldiers guarded Zhong Jinwei in the middle of the cavalry army, marching with the army.

Suddenly, the cavalry commander He Kegang ordered the cavalry to change from galloping to trotting.

Zhong Jinwei was a little puzzled, soldiers were quick, and saving people was like putting out a fire, so why did the speed slow down instead.

At this time, He Kegang had come to Zhong Jinwei's side. Because the sound of horseshoes from the army was too loud, he loudly told Zhong Jinwei the purpose of his order: "Supervisor, this place is still half the distance from Changli City. Forty to fifty thousand Tartars, in order to prevent an ambush by the Tartars, we must move slowly. Wait for the rewards for the nights scattered in the front, and then decide according to the situation.” [

"Oh, do you mean that the Tatars will besiege the city and fight for aid?" Zhong Jinwei has watched it, and he has also watched many movies and TV shows. Therefore, as soon as He Kegang said it, the word "siege and aid" popped up in his mind.

Without thinking about it, He Kegang shook his head and said, "Probably not. If you want to besiege the city, you have to besiege the city that must be rescued to be sure to come to the reinforcements. If it weren't for the supervising army, whether Changli County can be rescued or not is a problem. Will go to great trouble to surround a small military target, and then wait for reinforcements that may not exist."

Zhong Jinwei nodded again and again when he heard it. He is indeed a man who has experienced battles, and his analysis is brilliant and incisive.

He Kegang admired Zhong Jinwei's character and taught him further experience: "Besieging the city and fighting for aid is Jianlu's forte. They used to do this when they were outside the pass. They even used it once when they entered the pass. They attacked Zunhua and Santun battalion, forcing Marshal Zhao to rush to help at night, so that they fell into their strategy of besieging the city and fighting for help."

"Then why didn't Jianlu continue to use this move?" Zhong Jinwei felt the power of this move, but he didn't hear Jianlu continue to use it in the pass, which was a bit strange.

"Actually, the siege of the city requires surprise. If Marshal Zhao knew that there were [-] soldiers in the besieged Zunhua and Santun camps, he wouldn't go to the rescue with only [-] cavalry, and he wouldn't send Yebu Just accept it and pierce through it." He Kegang explained to him seriously without a trace of impatience, nor did he despise Zhong Jinwei's shallow military knowledge.

Zhong Jinwei benefited a lot from He Kegang's words, and when he thought of some questions about the cavalry, he asked him for advice again, and He Kegang carefully answered them one by one.

After a period of time, He Kegang took a look at the place and time he was at present, ordered the whole army to rest and eat, and at the same time sent out the police force.

Guan Ning's cavalry got off their horses one after another, and took out the dry food they carried with them for the horses and themselves.

Zhong Jinwei and Dongchang Fanyu didn't expect to go out with the army at all, so they didn't bring dry food, which was a bit embarrassing for a while.

Fortunately, He Kegang's personal guards came over immediately to share the dry food, and also helped feed their horses.

Zhong Jinwei looked at the dry food in his hand and was studying it.When He Kegang saw it, he smiled and explained to Zhong Jinwei: "Supervisor, the piece in your hand is a deer cake, which is made by chopping up venison, cooking it and drying it in the sun."

Zhong Jinwei brought the deer cake to his nose and smelled it, it really smelled like meat.Then, he took another pimple to smell.

"That's wrinkled rice, that's rice porridge. The other ones are miscellaneous cakes and oily sesame balls." Seeing that Zhong Jinwei wanted to figure out the dry food in his hand, He Kegang explained everything in one go.

Zhong Jinwei no longer hesitated after hearing this, he was hungry after driving for such a long time, so he took a bite of the black lump rice paste.Immediately, his face wrinkled into a ball.It's cold and hard, and it's really unpalatable.

When He Kegang saw it, he remembered that Zhong Jinwei was not a member of the army before, and he had never eaten this food, so he quickly apologized: "Supervisor, you have to go on your way after a short rest, and you can't make a fire to boil water..."

Zhong Jinwei didn't wait for him to finish, and interrupted: "It doesn't matter, the important thing is to save Changli. I'm not hungry, just eat whatever you want."

Such a supervising army is really rare. He Kegang was secretly grateful for Zhong Jinwei's kind words, and then he accused Zhong Jinwei of a crime, and then went to deal with military affairs by himself.

Seeing him go, Zhong Jinwei stopped eating the wrinkled rice lumps, took a small bite of the deer cake, and chewed slowly. [

Too salty, not tasty, Zhong Jinwei left a comment.But when he raised his head and looked around, he found that all the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army were eating with gusto, and only the eight Dongchang soldiers who were guarding him had the same expression as him.

Zhong Jinwei was hungry, but he had to eat something. At this time, he missed the compressed biscuits and canned fish for later generations.By the way, why are there no fish? There are so many fish in the sea, which are inexhaustible, and they can be made into dry food to improve the food.By the way, it can also be transported to the disaster-stricken areas in the northwest for emergency relief.You have to think about this carefully, Zhong Jinwei thought in his heart while continuing to gnaw on the hard-to-swallow dry food.

Not harvesting at night is the most tiring. When the army is resting, they return one after another to report the military situation ahead, and then spread out again and again.

Not long after, the army that had just rested had to continue on its way.

At this time, the offensive and defensive battle in Changli City has reached a fever pitch.The soldiers at Changli City had been rotated twice due to physical limitations, especially the soldiers who threw the rolling wood and rocks three or four times. The fighting time was shorter each time. After all, it was not so easy to recover strength.

As for the Tartars under the city, although there are many people, there is no problem of running out of strength.However, since they have been unable to attack the top of the city, watching their companions who attacked the city either get injured or die tragically has seriously affected their emotions and their morale is not good.

At the head of Changli City, many wooden rafts of the city wall have been destroyed, and some sections without wooden rafts have even been connected.The Tartar attacks were particularly fierce on these sections of the city wall, and most of Changli's reserves were sent to support these sections.

The soldiers who had rested in the city were hurrying to eat, while Zuo Yingxuan on the watchtower didn't have any food, and put the food brought by the yamen servants aside.

Suddenly, he discovered that the Tatars had a military order passed from the rear to the front. He didn't know what the military order was, which obviously boosted the morale of the Tartars.

The attack of the Tartars was more inclined to the long section of the city wall without raft protection, and gave up the short section of the city wall without raft protection.

Zuo Yingxuan frowned, did the Tartars want to focus on breaking through that section of the city wall?It should be like this, because there was no protection of wooden platoons on that section of the city wall, the township soldiers at the top of the city were suppressed severely.

The original artillery returned fire, which was a bit better, but the gunner was shot and wounded many times, and there was no backup, and now the remaining gunners were operating with novices who didn't understand at all.The interval between shelling was much longer than before, which greatly weakened the suppression of the Tartar archers on the top of the city.

There are too few artillery pieces. There are quite a few places on the four walls that are not protected by wooden rafts. Six artillery pieces are not enough.The remaining sections of the city wall can only concentrate muskets and earth guns to counter the Tartar archers.

The blacksmiths in the city were also busy, and the iron pots used for pouring gold juice were piled up around the blacksmith's shop.The blacksmiths were busy repairing these iron pots, but it was not the original apprentices who helped them, but some half-grown children, both boys and girls.Their original apprentices have all been recruited into the village soldiers.

It may be that the attack of the Tartars has reached the end of its force, and there are no Tartars attacking the other areas protected by wooden rafts, or only a small section of the city wall without raft protection.Only the archers were still shooting arrows at the city wall as if they didn't want money, and the ladders of the tartars had been moved to those places where the attacks were fierce.

Many of the rural soldiers in the siege area without ladders, especially those who threw rolling logs and stones, sat on the ground and leaned against the city wall to breathe a sigh of relief. Only the archers among the rural soldiers were still fighting back.

While resting their breath, most of the villagers watched the place where the battle was fiercest, praying that the brothers there would withstand it and prevent the Tartars from attacking.

The Tartars outside the city actually wanted this effect, and the strategy of attacking the west was taking effect, and a huge crisis of breaking the city came to Changli City immediately.