Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 105 Yunmeng Offensive and Defensive Battle ([-])
This time the Tartars attacked extremely swiftly and violently, arrows rained down from the sky, and the sea of ​​people on the ground was like a tide.The Green Battalion soldiers who were forced by Kong Youde seemed to turn into ferocious beasts, attacking the city wall crazily regardless of their own lives.

The regiments on the city wall were also red-eyed, and large pieces of wood tied with ropes were thrown down the city wall, and were quickly pulled up after hitting a large number of Tartars.Pots of foul-smelling golden juice were poured down, causing many Tartars to fall down the long ladder with a scream.However, these wood throwers and gold pourers are often hit by an arrow flying from nowhere, and then fall down.

boom!There was a loud noise from the top of the city wall, and many Tartars who jumped on the wall were knocked down.In fact, the security regiment also has cannons, but they are not copper cannons, but pine tree cannons.Drawing on the film and television dramas of the red regime's anti-encirclement and suppression that he had seen in his previous life, Qiu Tianxing asked people to make many pine tree cannons.It's just that because of the lack of iron wire, hemp rope can only be used to tie the pine tree that has been cut in half, so it will be useless after one shot, and it can be regarded as a one-time consumable.The Seventh Battalion with plenty of manpower made hundreds of them at once, and Ni Zhan hurriedly took them out when he saw that he could no longer bear it. Relying on this artifact, Ni Zhan was able to withstand several attacks by the Tartars.

In fact, if the city wall is strong and the defenders are determined to resist, the siege will be a bitter battle.Usually, a long-term siege is adopted to let the defenders consume all the food in the city, and then the city will fall without a fight.But Kong Youde thought, this battle Yunmeng is not an isolated city, there are still several bandit cities after it.Dunbing under the city will not only waste food and grass, but also damage morale. If a large army of regiments strikes, maybe they will suffer a defeat.Besides, if I went to attack a small county with [-] elite soldiers, if I couldn't fight for a long time, I would lose my face.

Therefore, Yunmeng must be captured, and it will be captured very quickly.This means that both the attacker and the defender will pay a huge price.

In this way, the Tartars attacked again and again, and retreated again and again.The walls of Yunmeng City are crumbling, and the top of the wall has become a flesh and blood mill. When there is nothing left to lose, the corpses also become weapons.

Here, the meaning of life is only to consume one more arrow or one more stone.

The defenders of Yunmeng City decreased rapidly. Facing Kong Youde, who had a large number of artillery and muskets, Ni Zhan was really hard to resist, so he could only support himself with pine cannons.It's just that the pine tree cannon is consumed too quickly. When the pine tree cannon is used up, what is there to resist?At this moment, he already regretted sending most of his troops out of the city.The momentum of cornering, defending the center and leading the offense, those who are sure of defending will do it.I definitely can't defend this city. The purpose of defending the city by the Seventh Battalion is not to be able to defend Yunmeng, but to use Yunmeng City to delay the time for the Tartars to march and inflict a lot of damage to the Tartars.Unfortunately, I was wrong at the beginning.If the strategy is wrong, it will be useless to make up for it tactically.Ni Zhan knew that he was not a qualified general after all.

As soon as the Tatars appeared, Ni Zhan sent someone to Anlu City to report.Because they were afraid that the Tatars would set up an ambush on the road, the regiment who reported the message did not take the main road at the city gate, but escaped from the city at night, and only took the small road on the road.In this way, it was already the second day when Qiu Tianxing received the news that Yunmeng had been attacked by the Tartars.

Knowing that the Tartars invaded massively, Qiu Tianxing was anxious.It's only been three months since I've been in charge of the De'an mansion, and the strength of the security regiment headquarters is still being accumulated. At the critical moment, the tartars came to make trouble.Although Qiu Tianxing had expected it long ago, he still felt uncomfortable when the fact happened.

Urgently summoned Zhou Zhen and others, and after a meeting, the security team began to implement the wartime system, all for the sake of war.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs began to organize people to quickly harvest the grain, trying to harvest all the grain outside Anlu City, even if it could not be harvested, it would be destroyed.

The Political Propaganda Department should start to expand the publicity to let the people know that the Tartars are coming, they are here to rob them, burn them, and kill them, so as to arouse the strong resistance of the people.

The Ministry of Public Security is going to investigate Anlu City closely. Anyone who makes negative comments or comments against the security team will be arrested, and anyone who commits acts of stealing, robbery and fighting will be severely punished. This is an extraordinary time, and we must keep the city peaceful.

Several main battalions and reserve battalions should also hurry up to practice and prepare for war at all times.

Earlier, Qiu Tianxing had sent someone to send a letter to the Second Battalion, hoping that the two sides would ignore the previous suspicions and join hands to resist the Tartars.However, until now Sun Zhi has not given a reply.

In addition, Qiu Tianxing also sent people to the first battalion and the fourth battalion, and also hoped that if the headquarters was besieged by the Tartars, they would send troops back to help.However, there was still no reply.

Therefore, Qiu Tianxing prepared for the worst, defending the city and fighting the enemy to the death.He has already escaped once, and felt the pain of being dependent on others. If he had a choice, he would not want to escape a second time.

With Zhutiao's order, the citizens of Anlu City felt the shadow of war coming.In troubled times, they have long realized that war is a part of their lives, but as the people at the bottom, no one likes war.Only ambitious people like war, because war can change their status.

Along with the war, the citizens felt a lot of inconvenience.The inspections at the entrance and exit gates have become stricter, a curfew has been imposed at night, and food control in the whole city has begun. That is to say, even if you have money, you can’t buy more food. Instead, food is distributed per head every day.

People depend on food, as long as they have some money, people like to stock up enough food to eat, but now they can't buy food for the next day even if they have money, which makes many people panic.

The Security Corps is now implementing a high-handed rule in De'an Mansion. In a series of actions, the Security Corps claims to represent the people and the nation, and anyone who violates the interests of the Security Corps will be punished as a traitor.Although the security team took away the money after the house was ransacked, the land house was left to the villagers.But firstly, the time to be in charge of the De'an Mansion is short, and secondly, a small number of traitors have been dealt with but a large number of clan forces have been left behind, so the security team still has not fully won the hearts of the people.

In order to maintain the team of tens of thousands of people, Qiu Tianxing consumed all the wealth of De'an Mansion, and copied all the landlord's houses that could be copied. Even the low-level villagers paid the same taxes as in the past.Therefore, the public voice of the security group is far inferior to that of Chuang Wang, who claims to have come without paying food.

In terms of what the people want, the security regiment is actually no better than the Tartars.Not all Tartars are unpopular, at least those traitors who turn to Tartars to gain glory and wealth all have their hearts towards Tartars.The bureaucrats of the former Ming dynasty turned into the bureaucrats of the new dynasty, the army of the former Ming Dynasty turned into the army of the new dynasty, and the gentry of the former Ming Dynasty turned into the gentry of the new dynasty.In this change, interests have completed a huge transformation.The small officials of the former Ming Dynasty became the officials of the new dynasty, the small officials of the former Ming Dynasty became the high officials of the new dynasty, and the small landlords of the former Ming Dynasty became the big landlords of the new dynasty.In order to maintain their current status, they will all be loyal to the Tartars and the eternal enemies of the security regiment.

This time, the security team had to use tens of thousands of Xinjian troops to resist the [-] elite men of the Tartars. The difference in strength was too great. If there were no cities to defend, Qiu Tianxing was almost in despair.But right now, the only way is to persevere.The anti-Tartar struggle is about to fall into a low ebb, and the security team is about to welcome the full-scale attack of the Tartars.

(End of this chapter)