nanming man

Chapter 402 Meeting Outside the City
Wuguan is defended by Zhongzhou people, and the wall is guarded against the enemy from the east.

Now that Gao Yihuan occupies Wuguan, he is defending against the enemies inside the pass and preventing Li Zicheng from leaving the pass. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out certain modifications to the pass wall.

In November, the weather was cold, and many soldiers of the Wei Wu army wore only single clothes, sweating profusely in the city above and below the city.

The soldiers dug trenches in the pass, built sheep and horse walls, arranged horses and antlers, and shoveled down the steps to climb the city.

Outside Guancheng, a section of the original moat was filled up, or wooden boards were put on it, and wooden climbing towers were built directly on the city, so that soldiers could directly climb the city wall.

The city gate was also dismantled, replaced with a side, and installed on the inside of the city wall.

In this way, the entire Wuguan is equivalent to turning around, from defending outside the pass to defending inside.

Of course, after this temporary change, Wuguan's defense was naturally greatly reduced.

The soldiers were busy piling sandbags on the city wall, adjusting the trebuchet, and hoisting several cannons on the city wall with ropes. Gao Yihuan led a group of generals to the city wall to check.

Suddenly, a few cavalry came galloping from a distance, and rushed directly to the closed gate, "Report! Shunjun is fifteen miles away!"

Hearing the sound, Gao Yihuan walked to the inner wall, supported the sandbag with one hand, glanced at the scout who reported the report, then turned his head and said, "Let the battalions deploy their defenses!"

Several generals of the Wei Wu army immediately bowed with fists in their hands.

Not long after, there was a sound of war drums when the gate was closed, and the busy soldiers inside and outside the gate immediately stopped what they were doing and began to deploy their defenses.

This time defending the enemy is different from defending the city in the past.Because the enemy army is attacking from inside the pass, the pressure will be enormous if you only rely on the inner city wall to defend.

After all, it was a temporary renovation, and there was not enough time. The inner wall was not protected by a wide moat, and the enemy army could easily approach the city wall.

In order to deal with this, Wei Wujun not only deployed a large number of musketeers, archers, and artillery on the gate, but also placed many melee killer teams under the inner gate wall to prevent enemy soldiers from approaching the city wall.

The reason for this arrangement is mainly because there is no large moat on the inside, and the enemy's climbing ladders and siege equipment are too easy to approach the city wall.

Therefore, Wei Wujun built a chest-length low wall with sandbags and soil outside the inner wall, and a large number of soldiers stood in array behind to guard against the enemy's climbing equipment and soldiers, and approached the city wall.

At this time, the soldiers under the city had already set up their formation with swords and shields in front and spears behind, while the soldiers on the city were busy setting up artillery, and the officers were checking the soldiers' equipment.

The squadrons of each firearms squad were watching the twelve soldiers standing in a line, and as they walked past them, they touched each soldier's firecrackers to check that they were straddling their bodies and hanging propellant powder. Take the belt of the bottle, and check the bullets in the iron box to see if there are any omissions, and finally draw out the saber from the soldier's waist, and then return it to the scabbard.

Before the Wei Wujun encounters a big battle, the officers will check the equipment of the soldiers so that the soldiers will not make any mistakes when they start the battle.

"Commander, here we come!" When the Wei Wu soldiers were preparing, Zhao Daxian suddenly pointed to the distance, "Sure enough, the grandson of the turtle has no species, and dare not do it with the Tartars, but came for us."

Gao Yihuan hurriedly pulled out the binoculars and looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw a big banner appearing, followed by various yellow umbrella covers, and various flags and banners, which were Li Zicheng's guard of honor.

"Damn it, Lao Li's ostentation is not small!" Gao Yihuan put down the binoculars, turned around and said to the crowd: "Can you tell how many people there are?"

The generals stood at the top of the city and watched, and they saw human figures all over the wilderness in the distance, flags like clouds, spears like forests, innumerable, like a blue ocean, like sea water gushing from between two mountains. It's like filling Wuguan with water.

"You can't see the end at a glance, and there are countless secrets, at least tens of thousands of people." Bai Wenxuan replied with squinted eyes.

Hu Dawei on the side snorted coldly, "The pass is narrow, even if there are millions of intruders, they can't use it, and it's useless if there are too many people!"

Gao Yi laughed happily, "That's right, although Li Zi has many horses, most of them are mobs. In such a terrain, no matter how many horses he has, he can't use them well. He can only fight with fuel."

Speaking of which, Gao Yihuan sneered, and waved his hands to order, "Pass down the order, once the enemy gets close, the ministries don't have to show mercy, and give this commander a head-on blow to wake up these turtle grandchildren!"

All the generals behind him clasped their fists together and accepted the order solemnly, "Here!"

At this time, in the field ten miles away from Guancheng, behind a big flag, there was a yellow canopy with a nine-dragon crank, two cloud gongs, ten yellow nine-dragon umbrellas, twelve big flags, countless small flags, and strong men holding them. There are sabers, guns, halberds, axes, axes, hooks, forks and other ritual utensils.

After Li Zicheng's guard of honor, the boundless soldiers of the Shun army marched with their heads bowed, their morale low, like a defeated army fleeing.

Faced with the current crisis, Li Zicheng finally decided to continue his strategy of going south.

He left Liu Zongmin in Shangzhou to lead 10 horses to guard against the following Qing army. He led more than [-] people and rushed directly to Danfeng. After finding that Gao Yihuan had withdrawn, he rushed directly to Wuguan.

Li Zicheng wanted to beat Gao Yihuan, not only because Gao Yihuan blocked his way to the south, but also because he couldn't tolerate Gao Yihuan, who used to be sympathetic to him, to challenge him.

This wolf-hearted thing has failed his trust.

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, wanted to defeat Gao Yihuan, told this traitor, let him know that I can promote you, and also destroy you, let this traitor know that he was wrong, and make him regret that he should not betray.

At this time Li Zicheng saw Wuguan from a distance, and with a wave of his hand, the army stopped.

He stared at Guancheng for a moment, and couldn't help snorting coldly, "Hmph, I want to see how the traitors block my army."

After finishing speaking, he suddenly turned his head and said to a personal guard: "Go to the city and tell Gao Yihuan to come out and see me."

On the city, Gao Yihuan was inspecting the defense of the soldiers of the Wei Wu Army. He saw the soldiers on the city wall standing with firecrackers in their hands, and saw the swords, shields and spears standing awe-inspiringly below the city. Just as he was nodding secretly, Zhao Daxian suddenly pointed to the distance, "Commander, Li Zicheng!" Send someone over!"

Not long after, a group of cavalry from the Shunjun galloped to an emergency stop two hundred steps away from the wall. Their horses kept pawing the ground with their hooves. The leading cavalry pulled the reins while turning its neck. , seeing the black cannons on the city, couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and shouted at Guancheng: "His Majesty Emperor Dashun, please leave the city for a while."

A general ran up to the top of the city with his saber in his hands, hurried up to Gao Yihuan, and reported on one knee, "I want to report to Commander, Li Zicheng, please, Commander, stay outside the city for a while!"

Needless to say, Gao Yihuan also heard the yelling of the Shunjun cavalry, and he smiled slightly, "Okay, Li Zicheng is obsessed with obsession, so I will do a good deed, enlighten him, let him know how to go astray, and I will also accumulate points." merit."

As he said that, he asked someone to reply to the person, telling them to meet three miles in front of the city, and each side would bring 50 people, and then asked someone to bring his outfit.

Following the army's formation, Li Zicheng immediately pulled out the reins and galloped out after hearing the report.

At this time, Li Zicheng's mood was like a man who was betrayed by the woman he liked. He had to ask Gao Yihuan why he betrayed, and at the same time he had to scold Gao Yihuan and speak harsh words, otherwise he would be unwilling to eat and feel happy~

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