Blood from Daming

Chapter 73
The Mongol and Jianzhou Tazi soldiers besieged Datong City and did not immediately attack the city. The two sides maintained a balance for about ten days, and gradually other Mongolian troops joined. look.

In the early September of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Datong Defense War officially started. In the past half a month, the Mongolian and Jianzhou coalition forces changed the past tradition of dividing troops into four raids.

At dawn on the first day of September, Abatai brought [-] Tatar soldiers and [-] Mongolian cavalry to the south and surrounded the south of Datong City. Jianzhou Niulu Erzhen Yaxichan sent [-] Manchurian cavalry to guerrilla Datong City. Ximen, Jianzhou Niulu Erzhen Boerjin led [-] Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to attack the east gate of Datong City.

Huang Taiji personally led the Mongolian and Jianzhou armies to attack the north of Datong City. For a while, people outside the Xuandong Gate shouted horses and neighed like a forest of flags. Nearly [-] coalition troops rushed towards Datong City. They pulled a large number of siege equipment and ladders. , rush car, catapult and so on.

Xue Yun personally sat at the Xuandong Gate, and the generals Yu Dacheng, Xue Liu, Lu Yaojin, etc. stood beside him. A large number of Manchu and Mongolian soldiers approached the moat, and saw a horse from Huang Taiji's army running directly to the Xuandong Gate. He came and stopped his horse when he was about [-] paces away. All the soldiers in the city saw that this was the candidate general who had escaped some time ago.

Waiting to join the general shouted in a hoarse voice outside the city: "All the soldiers and civilians in Datong City, listen: Nurhachi, the holy Khan of Manchuria, sits down and the wise and powerful Huang Taiji Baylor leads the 40 Manchurian soldiers. Xue Yun, the enemy of the Holy Manchuria, cut his body into thousands of pieces to serve as an example to others, and the rest of the soldiers and civilians who sacrificed Xue Yun will all be innocent, otherwise the city will be destroyed, people and animals will be killed, and no chickens or dogs will be left behind, do you understand clearly?"

The soldiers on the city wall saw the traitor Hou Canjun talking nonsense there, but they were too far away, so they all cursed at the waiting general, and raped all the eighteen generations of the female generals in his family. .

General Hou was the opponent of so many people alone. Seeing his former subordinates, he was both ashamed and annoyed and shouted: "Look at how fierce you are roaring now. You won't know how powerful I am, Uncle Hou until Datong City is broken." Said When he was done, he hit his horse and ran back to the Tartar army.

During the time when the soldiers on the city wall were scolding the generals, about [-] Manchu and Mongolian soldiers launched an attack along the entire north gate to the main city Wudingmen, and the east, west, north, and east sides of the city. A large number of Mongolian herdsmen and Tartars The slaves put down the Hao crossing equipment and connected several Hao bridges on the moat, and then climbed over the Hao bridges one after another.

Xue Yun could clearly see from the Xuandong Gate tower that Huang Taiji hadn't wasted half a month, and the siege equipment was well prepared. Outside the city, Huang Taiji's hundreds of catapults were [-] paces away from Datong City under the protection of a large shield. The place stepped up the installation, and the car was aimed at the city gate of Xuandong Gate.

However, the military defense of Datong City was one of the best in the Ming Dynasty. From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da guarded Datong for 200 years. Datong City can be said to be impregnable. Apart from people, storming the city by force is probably daydreaming.

The whole city of Datong is solid and perfect, its city is square, the city wall is rammed, outsourced with blue bricks, there are layers of sheep and horse walls outside the city, moats, horse guns, horse pits, staghorn wood, thorns, etc., covering both sides of the moat .

The Manchurian Tartars who entered the outer defensive area of ​​Datong City are inconvenient to move around slowly, and they have to be careful everywhere. If they are not careful, they will be stabbed by thorns, or fall into a horse trap and be stabbed to death. Although there are not many unlucky people, But it made the Manchurian Tartars flustered and frightened, and the attack slowed even more like a snail.

Yu Dacheng was in charge of defending the city in the north. He ordered hundreds of catapults in the city to fire at once. Hundreds of stone bullets flew towards the Tartars outside the city, hitting both sides of the moat with Mongolian Tartars dodging everywhere. The luck was very good. The one who won the first prize won the first prize. Thirty-odd people were killed on the spot and more than 100 people were injured. Only thirty or forty Tartars were wounded by the stone bullets, and they were lying there crying and howling with blood everywhere, missing legs and arms.

The leading Jianzhou Tartar pioneer, Niu Luzhang Jingda Yinbu, yelled for everyone to disperse, but it was not easy to turn around in the defensive area of ​​Datong City. No matter how everyone dispersed, it was like a bunch of live targets waiting to be smashed Well, after a few rounds of stone bombing, more than 100 Manchu and Mongolian Tartars were crushed to death under the city, and hundreds of people were injured. Although this is not a big loss for the attack of 2 people, how can hundreds of wounded soldiers be called dead? Living still affects the morale of the army.

Zhang Jingda Yinbu ordered a thousand Mongolian Tartars, each with an ax in hand, to hack along the direction of the Xuandong Gate Tower, facing obstacles such as horse-repelling guns and antler wood, and some Tartars climbed over the moat, sheep and horses. The wall began to be erected with ladders, and the real hand-to-hand siege battle came.

Yu Dacheng felt a little regretful in his heart that he got the command of Beicheng through his daughter, thinking that he had mastered the most important military base in Datong City, and it would be a shortcut for him to be promoted in the future. He knew how many Tartars came all at once, This Xue Yun is too capable of making troubles, and he doesn't know how many of his brothers will be left after this battle is over.

Yu Dacheng knew that it was useless to think about it now, so he had to finish the battle first. Seeing the Tartars approaching the city wall, he immediately ordered the soldiers to release arrows.

Although the Tartars were proficient in riding and archery, the terrain was unfavorable. As a result, hundreds of people fell under the city wall, and more than 100 Ming officers and soldiers were killed and injured. Most of them were shot in the head. It was so ugly that it once caused panic among the officers and soldiers and was suppressed by Yu Dacheng.

The Tartars under the city took advantage of the time of attack to pull away a lot of antlers, cut down a lot of horse-repelling guns and antler wood, and filled up some pits and ravines. The horn for retreat was sounded, and [-] Tartar soldiers retreated with wounded soldiers and nearly a thousand corpses.

Xue Yun sat on the tower of Xuandong Gate and watched Huang Taiji's attack. Although the scene was big, the action was thunderous and rainy. The first attack on Huang Taiji was to remove the obstacles under the city of Datong.

Today is the first day of September, and the weather in the north is getting colder day by day. The time we can fight is only this month. Let’s not say that fighting is freezing to death. This group of dog tartars will be frozen to death, so Huang Taiji is determined to capture Datong City The key is that in the last few days, today should be the most dangerous day.

Xue Yun turned around and asked Lu Yaojin: "Is there any situation in other places, um, how many medicine bags did you bring to the city?"

Lu Yaojin replied: "Master, according to the news from other city gates, although there are Tartar cavalry outside the city and there are no siege equipment, there should be no possibility of attacking the city. I took half of the medicine packs according to the master's order, which is [-] packs." .”

Xue Yun thought for a while and said: "You personally arrange to get another [-] medicine packs, and find a safe place behind the city gate to put them away. Most of the time, you take them out for critical use. You tell Yang Zhenlei not to worry. You must pay attention to safety when processing medicines, this is the most important thing, understand." Lu Yaojin nodded and agreed to take the people there.

Lu Yaojin disappeared at the edge of the city wall. When Xue Yun was about to look away, a graceful figure appeared at the end of the wall. Today, Miss Yu was even more heroic in military attire, with a group of heroines behind her.

Usually Miss Yu also wears military uniforms, but Xue Yun thinks it is very beautiful today. Looking carefully, it turns out that she has changed into a brand new armor with many embellishments. She is wearing silver attire, and the fluttering ribbons are so beautiful that Xue Yun's eyes are staring at it. I stopped, and when I saw Miss Yu's smug smile clearly, it took me a long time to realize that Miss Yu was here to fight, and it was clear that she came to the tower to show off to me.

Seeing that Miss Yu had arrived, Xue Yun could only ask perfunctorily, "How dangerous it is for you to come here if you are not at Wudingmen."

Miss Yu chuckled and said, "It seems that you still care about it, then I thank you very much."

Xue Yun wished for her to leave now, and seeing her astounded, he said, "You don't need to risk this arrow in the Chinese army, go back to the city quickly." He quickly turned his head away.

But he heard Miss Yu's laughter like silver bells, just as a deafening roar came from the city. With thousands of ladders and thousands of leather box carts, thirty giant siege towers slowly approached the city of Datong.

The Ming army in Datong City was taken aback by this new type of weapon. Everyone didn’t understand how to deal with this huge monster. When Miss Yu saw it, her face paled with fear. Xue Yun called Xue Liu to arrange for him to go Prepare strong long logs, as many long bamboo poles and iron hooks as spares, the better. The progress of the siege tower is slow, and it will not be able to reach the city of Datong in an hour.

Seeing the ant-like Tartars rushing down the city, the Datong army started to fire stone bombs again, and Huang Taiji's Tartar army also fired stone bombs to attack. For a while, stone bombs flew up and down the city wall, and people on both sides kept falling down. It's just that the convenience of avoiding casualties in the city is much less than that of the Tartars, but it is also the time when the loss is the most since the war started.

Xue Yun was sitting in the city gate tower, and saw with his own eyes a soldier not far away was hit on the head by a stone bullet, half of his head was smashed in, lying on the ground twitching white brain splashed all over the ground, Miss Yu saw Unable to take it anymore, she leaned towards Xue Yun, she didn't leave an inch, and a male soldier under her stood in the seat where she had stood.

It just so happened that a stone bullet hit the male soldier's face, and the soldier fell on his back at that time. His face was buried by the stone bullet, and his facial features were gone. Only blood continued to invade from the edge of the stone bullet. Although Miss Yu killed someone Quite a few, but she had never heard of such a way of dying, and felt very uncomfortable, dizzy for a while, and couldn't stand up.

Miss Yu opened her eyes and found herself lying in Xue Yun's arms, looking at Xue Yun's malicious smile, Miss Yu was ashamed and indignant and desperately wanted to get rid of Xue Yun's clutches, but she felt weak and reluctant to get up. Seeing Xue Yun hugging her more and more tightly and making small movements in her hands, Miss Yu didn't know what to do, thinking that one day you, Xue Yun, would fall into my hands and see how Miss Ben can fix you.

(End of this chapter)