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Chapter 185

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Regardless of the Auba defenders in the city of Glejurgen, they concentrated their superior forces to attack the Dongshan Huangtaiji Army, which was at an angle with the city of Glejurgen. Although this move was crazy and risky, it was almost a gamble, but after the bet was won, But what you get is a huge gain proportional to the danger.In just three hours, the Ming army pulled out the nail that threatened the flank of its own army, and captured more than [-] Tatar herdsmen, as well as countless cattle, sheep and horses, which greatly eased the situation that the army was about to run out of rations. At the same time, it also brought huge psychological shock and pressure to the defenders of Gelejuergen City. Almost from the moment the Ming army besieged the city, the Horqin general Taiji, including the Oba brothers, died to fight and break out. With all his thoughts, he only wanted to stick to the city of Gelejurgen and wait for the slave-building reinforcements to rescue him.

Standing firm and waiting for help, of course, must be built on a solid foundation for city defense. In order to defend this city that survived the rise and fall of the Horqin Grassland, the always stingy Oba brothers can be said to have worked hard. They can only rely on imported arrows for supplies. All the branches were moved out of the warehouse and sent to the city wall, and the defense supplies that were difficult to obtain on the grassland such as giant trees and boulders were also piled up on the city wall, ready to be used for the city defense at any time.In terms of the more critical army, in addition to having an army of more than [-], the Oba brothers also organized the Horqin Tatar herdsmen who had fled to the city to take refuge. Form a team, only waiting to carry the supplies for the defense of the city during the war.What's even more rare is that the Ouba brothers actually figured out an inspiring strategy, sending people around the city to promote it and boost their fighting spirit and morale.

"Descendants of the wolf and the white deer, warriors of the grassland, listen carefully!" In front of countless Tatar soldiers and civilians, Oba shouted loudly without blushing: "The barbarian army outside the city has already said, As long as we break through the city of Geljurgen, we must kill all the wolves and white deer in the city, not a cat or a dog! But you don't have to be afraid, the reinforcements of our Dajin army have already We set off, and in less than ten days at most, Dajin's army will be able to reach the city of Glejurgen and kill all the barbarian troops outside the city! As long as we defend the city of Geljurgen, we will be able to win the final victory! The wolf and the white deer will bless us, and Genghis Khan will bless us too!"

"Bless the wolf and the white deer!" Countless Tatar soldiers and civilians screamed, and according to Oba's order, they tried their best to spread the news, strengthen the determination of the army and the people to defend the city, and boost the morale of the army.But at this moment, the alarm gong at the east gate of Glejurgen City rang loudly, and countless people shouted, "The barbarian army is coming, the barbarian army is coming!"

"So fast?" Brother Oba was taken aback, thinking that Zhang Haogu's soldiers are all monsters who don't eat or drink. They fought a bloody battle all afternoon during the day and set up camp at night. What's more, they immediately launched a siege?However, they rushed up to the east gate tower with the army and took a look, but the Oba brothers were dumbfounded again—on the Ming army position outside the east gate, which was brightly lit by torches, tens of thousands of Tatar civilians were brandished by the Ming army. The whip was driven to the foot of the Dongshan Mountain where Huang Taiji once stationed troops. Every captured civilian had a sack or a piece of hemp cloth in his hand. Under the threat of the Ming army, he was forced to pack soil from the Dongshan Mountain with a bag of cloth, and was driven back together again. , came to the east gate of Glejurgen City in a mess.The cries of the Tatar people shook the sky, and the shouting and whipping of the Ming army and the Mongolian soldiers never stopped.

"People's siege tactics?" The Oba brothers and the generals of the Tatar army were all dumbfounded - driving the enemy's people to attack the city as a vanguard, and filling the enemy's moat with earth and stones. , Returning to him with the same way, caught the Tatar generals Zhu Taiji a little unprepared.Under nervousness, Budachi quickly asked Auba: "Brother, what should we do? If the barbarians drive the people to fill the moat, will we let the arrows go?"

"Release the arrow! Why don't you let it go?" Auba bite the bullet and shouted: "If we are soft-hearted and don't let the arrow go, the barbarian army will rush the people to fill up the moat, and they will definitely drive the people to attack the city. At that time, everything will be in jeopardy." It's over!"

"But, those are all our Horqin people." He Erhedui, who was conferred the title of Qingzhuoliketu by Jiannu, said with a sad face.Auba roared: "It's good that they are our people, but once the city of Glejurgen is destroyed, not only we and the army and people in the city will be finished! None of them can escape! Zhang Haogu, the little barbarian, is in Shengjing Don't you know how to treat the people of Dajin?"

He'erhedui was speechless, and Oba ordered loudly: "Order the whole army, prepare bows and arrows, once the people rush into the range of 150 steps of bows and arrows, release arrows immediately!" Horqin's generals agreed together and quickly organized the army Prepare bows and arrows, draw bows and set arrows to aim at the Horqin people who were driven by the Ming army.

In the eyes of everyone, under the torches that are as dense as stars, tens of thousands of Horqin people were driven by the Ming army's whips, knives and guns, and they were slowly walking towards the city of Gelejurgen. , but they have also heard how their ancestors drove the people to attack the city.In fear and fear, countless Tatar people cried out, "Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows, we are all descendants of gray wolves and white stags, don't shoot arrows—!"

"Stop!" Just when these Tatar people who were driven by the Ming army were about to despair, the first Tatar people resisted the earth bag and walked to the position two hundred steps away from the city of Glejurgen. The general of the Ming army immediately stopped him from moving forward, pointing at the ground and shouting: "Pour the soil here, go back and refill it!"

"Just pour the soil here?" The Tatar people couldn't believe their ears, and they couldn't believe that they didn't have to be driven forward to block the arrows.The general of the Ming army thought that his Mongolian was not good enough, so he quickly called a general from Alashan to help translate, "Just pour the soil in your pocket here, and take the bag back to Dongshan to refill the soil. Play tricks, kill you immediately! Do you hear me?"

"I heard it, I heard it." Then the Tatar people came to their senses, quickly dumped the soil in the sack under their feet, and ran back to refill the soil happily. The soil was poured out within 150 steps of the city wall, and then turned back to reload the soil. Not a single citizen was forced to walk within the bow and arrow range of [-] steps away from the city wall to be shot to death by the defenders of Glejurgen City.Seeing this scene, the Tatar people, who thought they were doomed to death, were naturally cheering. They tried their best to move the soil in order to please the Ming army. It is clear what kind of tricks Young Master Zhang is up to.

At the same time, the other three gates of Glejurgen City also took action. A large number of Tatar people were driven two hundred away from the city wall, digging deep ditches along the city wall, and piled up earthen walls-this move It is very simple, use anti-horse ditch and anti-horse wall to block, prevent the defenders of Glejurgen from charging and breaking through.In order to speed up the progress of the project, many Tatar troops also joined in the trench digging work, and a crescent-shaped anti-horse ditch surrounding the city of Glejurgen on three sides was gradually formed.On the east gate side, the carriages and wheelbarrows used by the Ming army to carry supplies were also sent to the common people, so that the common people could move the soil faster and pile up the earth hills two hundred steps away from the east gate. Excavating and transporting has become a huge construction site.

As a result, not only the defenders of Gelejuergen City were confused, but also the Mongolian Taiji and Ming army generals in the Ming army were also confused, and they flocked to Young Master Zhang to ask what happened.Among them, Wu Sangui directly asked Young Master Zhang: "Brother Zhang, what are you doing? What is the purpose of transporting the soil to two hundred distances away from the city wall?"

"What's the purpose?" Master Zhang's handsome face showed a sinister smile, and he said mysteriously: "Of course it is to build a wall of earthen mountains. I want to build a four-mile long, high Fifty feet of earth and mountain walls."

"What's the use of building such a wall?" Wu Sangui wondered even more.Young Master Zhang smiled and did not answer. When he looked at the faces of the generals of the Ming army, he saw that most of them were full of doubts. Only Lu Xiangsheng was thoughtful, and Song Xiance was full of wicked smiles. Master, see what I plan to do?"

"Boss, it's no wonder that you said that the city of Geljurgen could be breached within three days. I was skeptical at first, but now I finally believe it." Song Xiance replied with a sinister smile.Young Master Zhang also laughed and said, "At first I didn't expect to capture so many Tatar people as coolies, but now it seems, two days! Within two days, I will be able to break through this city." After all, Zhang Da The young master looked up to the sky and laughed, extremely proud.At this time, Lu Xiangsheng finally came to his senses, slapped his thigh and shouted: "Understood! Firearms and bows and arrows! Mr. Zhang is using the range gap between our new firearms and bows and arrows!"

"What do you mean?" Wu Sangui and others hurriedly turned their heads and asked.Lu Xiangsheng replied with a sly smile: "Generals, you can think about it carefully. The wall of Gelejurgen City is four feet high. After the Tatar people built a four-mile-long and five-foot-high earth mountain wall two hundred Then, the musketeers of our slave-slaughter army climbed up the earth mountain and fired at the Tatar defenders on the city wall with rifled muskets with a range of more than [-] steps. Let's laugh together.

Ever since, with the joint efforts of the soldiers of the Ming army and the Tatar people, on the morning of the next day, that is, the morning of August [-], a five-foot-high and three-mile-long earth mountain wall took shape. When the wall of the earth mountain was completely completed, Wu Sangui and Zhao Shuilun's Wolf Cavalry and Ji Cavalry soldiers couldn't wait to climb up the earth mountain, spread out word by word on the earth mountain wall, and aimed condescendingly at the east gate of Gelezhuergen City two hundred steps away. garrison.At the same time, Zhang Dapao's thirty Franco cannons were also moved to the wall of the earth mountain, loaded with shells to assist in bombarding the defenders.At the same time, the [-] snipers under Young Master Zhang's command also spread out, wandering around the four sects to pick on the Tatar generals and weaken the morale of the defenders.The Mongolian soldiers led by Alxa Forebu also lined up four gates, and the defenders rushed out of the city to charge. Of course, if Young Master Zhang knew that the gates of the city had been sealed by the defenders, he wouldn't have to bother so much.

At noon, when everything was ready, Master Zhang gave an order, and the soldiers of the Slavery Army on the wall of the east gate began to shoot in unison. Amidst the sound of popping beans, the rifled muskets of the Slavery Army fired in unison, and countless miniature bullets whistled. He flew out of the muzzle and shot at the dense enemy group on the city wall two hundred steps away.Almost instantly, desperate screams rang continuously on the east gate of Glejurgen City. One after another, Tatar soldiers and generals were shot, and fell wailing in a pool of blood. The defenders were in chaos; and the thirty Franco cannons commanded by Zhang Dapao also began to show their power, pouring one after another of the explosive shells on the city, blowing up the Tatar defenders, crying ghosts and wolves, and even more. The chaos of the defenders in the east city was further increased. The soldiers of the Tatar defenders panicked, ran and evaded, crowded and trampled, and squeezed many of their companions off the city wall.

"Free shooting!" After the first round of orderly shooting, the soldiers of the Slaughter Army began to shoot targets and practice free shooting. Each soldier of the Slaughter Army quickly loaded ammunition, aimed at the target and fired accurately, almost two or three shots down, basically A Tatar soldier screamed and fell down the city wall, dying. It was almost as if Franco shot down, and the densely packed Tatar soldiers on the city wall were about to fall down.Many Tatar soldiers summoned up the courage to shoot back with arrows, but the arrows they threw basically could only hit the ground forty or fifty steps in front of the hill, while the bullets fired from rifled guns from two hundred steps away , still able to accurately and easily penetrate their solid leather armor, and then drill into their bodies, ending their lives!The advantage of rifled muskets over twice the range of bows and arrows is fully revealed at this moment.The Ming army cheered like thunder, and their morale was surging.

"Ah——! Mother——! Ouch——!" In stark contrast to the elated Ming army, the defenders of Glejurgen City were simply too miserable, especially on the east gate wall. Taiji generals, cavalry and infantry, as long as they dare to step forward, they can be knocked down and killed by rifled muskets almost in the blink of an eye. If they are not careful, they will end up either dead or injured.Seeing their companions being shot one after another and falling down in a pool of blood spraying blood and screaming, and the bows and arrows they released couldn't even touch the hair of the Ming army, all the Tatar soldiers and generals were in despair. , crowding each other and scrambling to retreat to the rear, pushing their comrades forward as shields and being shot, you pushing each other, I don't know how many soldiers were squeezed into the city, and I don't know how many soldiers drew their swords to push their companions forward, Infighting.

"Raise your shield, quickly raise your shield!" There are also clever generals who thought of using shields to defend, but unfortunately most of the generals who dared to stand up and organize were targeted by Ming army snipers, and then their lives were ended by a bullet——Southeast This is true of the four gates in the northwest. Whenever a Tatar general wearing a general's uniform appears at the top of the city, he will be killed by a Ming army sniper almost as soon as he makes a turn!Later, all the Tatar generals didn't even dare to go up the city wall. They either lay down in the tower and shivered, or hid in the corner of the city wall with their heads in their arms and let the more senior generals scold them. They didn't dare to go up again. city ​​walls.

"Raise the shield, quickly raise the shield." Following the cries and orders of the Tatar general lying on the wall, one shield after another was finally raised, but it is a pity that the Ming army was condescending on a five-foot-high earth mountain. Shooting, even if the Tatar army is covered by shields, they can't take care of the head and the tail. The precise shooting of the rifled muskets of the Ming army is still harvesting the lives of the Tatar soldiers all the time. Ten bullets go down, and at least five or six bullets can hit them. The Tatar soldiers were wounded in the attack, and the desperate screams still echoed on the city wall, and the Tatar soldiers were still injured and fell down-no way, the Tatar soldiers on the city wall were too dense.Seeing this scene, Auba, who was crawling in the city to direct the battle, suddenly had a desperate thought, "If the barbarian army launches an attack at this time, can we still hold it?"

The general shooting of target practice is still going on, and the construction of the earth mountain wall for carrying earth and rocks is still going on. As the earth mountain wall continues to extend to both sides, the shooting area of ​​the Ming army is also getting bigger and bigger. When it was completed, there was no place on the wall of the east gate of Glejurgen City that was not exposed to the guns of the slave slaughter army, and there were no dead spots at all.At the same time, Young Master Zhang made adjustments, let Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong team and Wu Liuqi's Tiger Hunting team go up to the earth mountain, replaced Wu Sangui's army and Zhao Lilun's army whose barrels were already red, and continued to suppress the Tatar defenders with muskets ——Since the end of the chicken fighting battle, the Ming army has been using the Mongolian soldiers as cannon fodder to charge and suppress. The consumption of gunpowder and bullets is almost zero, and Young Master Zhang still has a lot of ammunition to squander.In addition, the Mongolian soldiers were ordered to drive away the Tatar people to continue transporting the soil, and to fill the moat under the cover of the rifled muskets of the Ming army.

"The barbarians are here to fill the river, let the arrows go, let the arrows go!" Amid the screams of despair, the archers were driven up to the wall by the supervising team with knives, and shot arrows at the Tatar civilians who died on the soil loaders.But it is a pity that the firepower of the rifled guns of the Ming army is too powerful. In the face of the hail of bullets, the Tatar archers who dared to go into battle were basically beaten to death by the rifled guns before firing two arrows. Shouting and falling on the blood-stained city wall, the bows and arrows released were limp and powerless, not to mention hurting the soldiers of the Ming army hiding behind the people, those Tatar people who pushed and carried the soil , and hardly constitutes a strong threat.

"Move quickly! Move quickly! Fill up the moat, each person will be rewarded with five catties of beef and mutton, and if you dare to escape, you will be killed without mercy!" Amidst the frenzied roar of the Mongolian soldiers and the sound of whips, the Tatar people pushed and picked up the soil desperately Going forward, rushing to the edge of the moat, pouring the soil in the bag, bag and car into the river, holding the head and pushing the car to escape to the rear. ——Fortunately, the Tatar archers on the city of Gelejurgen have been suppressed by the Ming army's musketeers so that they can't even lift their heads. can be ignored.

The moat of the so-called No. 4 city in the grassland, Gelejurgen City, is actually not as good as the most common medium-sized Daming city. More than [-] Tatar people only go back and forth, and the moat under the east gate of Gelejurgen City has already been filled. became flat.At this moment, the sky is completely dark, and the accuracy of rifled muskets is greatly reduced under the condition of blurred vision. In view of this situation and the fatigue of the army, Young Master Zhang finally ordered to stop the attack, let the army and the people rest overnight and continue to attack the city tomorrow. At the same time, the army was organized to keep a close watch on the movement in the city, and strictly prevent the defenders in the city from breaking through at night.

The Ming army finally retreated, and the Tatar defenders, who had been suppressed and beaten for a day, finally recovered from their shock, and began to move the corpses on the city to count the casualties. As a result, after the casualties were counted, the faces of the Oba brothers stretched longer than donkeys After half a day, the Tatar defenders lost 21 centurions, 500 generals above the centurion level, half of the generals of the Tatar army at the grassroots level disappeared, and the casualties reached an astonishing four. More than [-] people!One-sixth of the main force of the defenders didn't even touch the hairs of the soldiers of the Ming army, so they lost their lives in a daze, and became the ghosts of the soldiers of the slave-slaughter army.

"We can't fight like this anymore. If we continue to fight like this, in three days, at most three days, our main force will be completely wiped out by the barbarians." The oldest old Sa in Horqin Taijizhong counted on his fingers. After a long time, he said with a gloomy face: "We have to find a way to break the barbarian's musket array, otherwise the barbarian doesn't need to attack the city at all, as long as we shoot on the dirt hill, our army can be killed in three days."

"Then how do we break the barbarian's musket formation?" Mang Gusi said with a sad face: "We can't send cavalry to attack the barbarian's musket team? I heard that the barbarian's muskets can shoot three or four hundred paces, but our bows and arrows can only Shooting 150 paces, not to mention that the barbarian musketeers still have cavalry protection, even if there is no cavalry protection, our cavalry has not rushed to the range of the bow and arrow, and they are all beaten by the barbarian muskets."

"Father, do you think this will work?" Ouba's son Badari Jinong suggested: "Tomorrow if the barbarians hit us again with muskets, our army will temporarily withdraw from the city wall, leaving only a small number of troops to hide behind the arrow stacks. Monitor the movement of the barbarian army. If the barbarian army attacks the city, our soldiers will go up to the city wall to defend the city. In this way, we can reduce unnecessary casualties of soldiers, and when the barbarian army uses ladders to attack the city, their muskets will not accidentally injure the city. The friendly army must not dare to be too arrogant, even if the casualties of our army are larger, we can still stop the barbarians from attacking."

"That's the only way to do it." Auba nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Starting tomorrow, only a small number of troops will be left on the east gate wall to monitor the barbarians. The other troops are hiding in the city, and the barbarians will attack before going up the wall."

Although Auba and the Horqin nobles had a good plan, it was a pity that Young Master Zhang's cunning had far exceeded their imagination. In the early morning of the next day, after discovering that the defenders on the East Gate City had been greatly reduced, Young Master Zhang immediately made up his mind. Following the plan of Auba and his group, Young Master Zhang also quickly adjusted his tactics and adopted the most stupid and most effective method to attack the city—to pile up a mountain of earth under the city wall!After the order was issued, the poor Tatar people were driven out again, and rushed to the bottom of the city carrying and pushing the soil, poured the soil under the city wall, and built a slope about half a mile wide to go up the city; all four thousand slave soldiers went into battle, More than 4000 rifled muskets were used to suppress the defenders on the city and cover the people's construction of fortifications.

Discovering Young Master Zhang's intentions and intentions, the defenders of Gelejurgen City almost fainted from fright—soil is a very strange thing, you can't hurt it with knives, spears or arrows, and it can't be burned with fire. It can't be burned, but once it piles up a mountain of earth that can go straight up to the city wall, Young Master Zhang's army and even cavalry can directly rush to the top of the city and start killing the Tatar defenders!In fear, the Oba brothers and others had no choice but to force the army to go up to the city and use bows and arrows to suppress the Tatar people who were moving earth and rocks. Under the bombardment of random guns and cannons, the Tatar archers on the city wall kept falling like harvesting wheat, and the casualties became more and more heavy.

Amidst the crackling gunshots, Tatar soldiers on the city of Gelejurgen screamed incessantly, while countless Tatar civilians below the city were driven back and forth by the Mongolian soldiers, dumping carts and bags of soil on the ground. On the raised soil slope, the four-foot-high Glejurgen city wall is getting shorter little by little.In order to suppress these people, the Oba brothers desperately added troops to the city wall, but before the troops they sent up had time to draw their bows and arrows, the muskets of the slave slaughter army had already crackled, and just as they drew their bows, The Tatar archers also screamed and fell into the corpses, and the casualties were far greater than that of the common people.Later, there were even a large number of deserters in the Tatar team. Countless soldiers would rather flee into the city and be searched and killed by the supervising team than go up to the city wall to be living targets for the slave slaughter army.And it was rare for Young Master Zhang to make a promise to ask Mongolian Taiji to tell the Tatar people that as long as the upper slope of the city is repaired, all the Tatar people can be released home. In order to survive, the Tatar people naturally worked extra hard, holding The earth bag protects the vital points of the face, desperately rushes up the slope to dump the soil, and raises the slope little by little.

Finally, around Shen time in the afternoon, a half-mile-wide slope was built, almost level with the top of the city. The Tatar people, who had been approved by Young Master Zhang, ran away cheering, while large groups of Mongol soldiers silently Line up [-] paces away, and wait for Young Master Zhang to give an order, then they can go straight to the top of the city, grab money, food, and women.The slave slaughter army also stopped their continuous shooting and left the hill to rest in line. The battlefield was surprisingly quiet.

"It's over, I can't hold it anymore." Auba sat down on the blood-stained city wall in despair, almost committing suicide in despair.And most of the other Tatar generals were like this, their eyes were full of despair, knowing that once Young Master Zhang ordered a general attack, the cavalry and infantry of the Ming army could easily come to the city and kill them all.But at this moment, a petite girl with a white flag in her hand suddenly appeared in front of the Ming army formation, and slowly walked towards the slope that went straight up the city wall.

"Bumbutai? It's Bumbutai!" Auba was the first to recognize his own daughter, stood up uncontrollably, and rushed down the slope to meet his daughter with tears in his eyes.Da Yuer also threw down the white flag, and rushed towards her father with tears shining. When she got close, both father and daughter opened their arms and hugged each other tightly. Two lines of hot tears flowed down the faces of both father and daughter...

"Father, surrender, you are not my father-in-law's opponent, but you are his father-in-law, and he also needs you to restrain Jiannu from behind, so after you surrender, he will not kill you, nor will he weaken you too much. "

(End of this chapter)