Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty

These words are all said by Yang Chendong, and Bai Shuang is naturally convinced. Seeing that Tong Sheng is so anxious now, he comforted and said: “Don’t worry, everything is under control. By the way, this time, Mr. Tong has worked so hard to help defend the city. I will definitely report your credit. Presumably King Wunan will not treat you badly.”

Speaking of his own affairs, Tong Sheng had to be a little reserved, smiling and said: “It’s easy to say, easy to say.”

And not Speaking of what happened in the Zuowei City of Jianzhou, Chen Dula was defeated and fled. He just ran away several dozen li, and then met General Li Tong who came to meet him. He brought 170,000 Northern Ming troops to come. I originally thought that if everything went well, he could move in to Jianzhou Zuowei, but when he saw Chen Dula’s embarrassed appearance and his strength was obviously less than when he sent troops, he frowned, “General Chen, it seems everything It’s not going well.”

“Ai, the opponent did not play the cards according to the routine, and I was defeated.” Chen Dula seemed to be getting older at a time. After all, there were none of the cavalry chasing him. Shao was originally the soldier of Jianzhou Zuowei, that is, his soldier.

He has been the commander of Jianzhou Zuowei for many years, and he thinks he can control everything, but now he is defeated by his own soldiers. The depression and disappointment can be imagined.

“What the hell is going on.” Li Tong said with a nasty expression. This is an army of 30,000, and now it’s only one third back, and the gap is too huge.

Although it is a bit embarrassing, it has already happened, and it is impossible to hide it. Now Chen Dula explained it in detail without omission and in detail. At the end he said, “The Five Star Army’s cavalry is indeed powerful. Don’t look at our superiority in military strength, but without preparation, the superiority in military strength simply can’t be used. Don’t dare to do it, General Li, I’ll beg you.”

Li Tong’s face is very ugly. He wants to say that you are indeed guilty. You lost 20,000 troops in one fell swoop, and even deserved death.

It’s just a matter of thinking about everything in my mind. Li Tong really didn’t dare to speak of a crime.

Let’s not say that Chen Dula is a third-rank military attaché of the Imperial Court. Like himself, he has no right to set up private courts at all. Let’s just say that this is the Liaodong region. Chen Dula has been operating here for many years. , Or to say that there is no network at all, that is impossible. Such a person, if he dared to really kill, would surely be resisted by other guards. If this is the case, it would be strange that he can feel well.

Even if it can’t be guilty, Li Tong won’t let Chen Du feel better, think about it and say: “General Chen, in any case, we have lost 20,000 soldiers and horses this time, and we have also taken all our food. , The army’s food and grass can’t last for a few days, look…”

This is giving Chen Dula a chance to do meritorious service, and it’s also negotiating terms. If you don’t want to be convicted, you have to do it. Some what. Chen Dula didn’t understand, and patted his chest to make sure, “General Li, don’t worry, I’m not familiar with this one. Everyone who has money and food is pretending to be in my heart, so I’ll go to them now. , Just collect the taxes once.”

“Then all the hard work will make General Chen happy.” Li Tong asked for this sentence, and until this moment, his expression Much better looked at it. .

The two immediately divided the labor, and decided that Li Tongbing would leave Jianzhou Zuowei early tomorrow morning and try to win there; Chen Du took to the nearby area to raise food, in any case, we must not let the army be hungry.

Not to mention the process of raising food, Chen Dula brought 10,000 soldiers to the people’s livelihood and said that Li Tong and 170,000 troops came to Jianzhou Zuo the next morning. Below the city of Wei, looking from a distance, the banners are fluttering, and the soldiers are standing in their standing, like a look of waiting.

“It seems that the opponent has a lot of soldiers. In this way, arrange for people to call the city. By the way, before going there must do a good job of defensive work, especially the resistance stakes, must arrange more. “With the lessons learned from Chen Dula’s defeat before, Li Tong at this meeting did not dare to show any carelessness.

That’s right, Jianzhou Zuowei seems to be standing on the ground with a large number of soldiers. What Li Tong didn’t know was that most of them were their companions in the Northern Ming Army yesterday.

It turned out that Bai Shuang was still worried about the lack of troops. In yesterday’s battle, 15,000 prisoners were directly taken, and he used the means of giving money to all of them. Not much money was distributed this time, only two or two per person. In his words, waiting for the military merits to be rewarded.

On this point, the Northern Ming prisoners are convinced. Because just last night, they saw with their own eyes that the three thousand prisoners of the original Jianzhou Zuowei who stayed behind in the city, although they did not go out of the city to fight, because of the merits of defending the city, one person was rewarded with a silver taels.

If you don’t do anything, you will have money to take. Such a good thing actually happened in front of you. Based on this, everyone was very convinced by Bai Shuang’s words.

With the addition of this 15,000 captives, Bai is full of confidence. What he is thinking now is not how to defend the city, but how to cooperate with the main force of the First Cavalry Division to eat these Northern Ming is in the army.

The persuasion to surrender began. A well-spoken Northern Ming Emissary came to the city and shouted loudly. It’s just that you surrender now and live. Otherwise, once the city is captured, all the people who helped Five Star Army To be convicted and so on.

This remark can be said not at all. On the contrary, under threat, it will only make the captives rely more on Five Star Army. Bai Shuang kept watching on the gate tower, and he didn’t even mean to stop it. This gave the Northern Ming Emissary more confidence, thinking that the other party was really scared. As a result, the threats were even worse until he took the city. When the soldiers on board were all eager to say, watching the fire, Bai Shuang ordered the arrows to be released, scaring the Northern Ming Emissary who had come to persuade him to surrender.

Unable to persuade the surrender, Li Tong had to start a siege war. In order to show his strength advantage as much as possible, he prepared four echelons, one echelon of 5,000 people, and attacked the city by taking turns. He wanted to let the Five Star Army know how good he was and not give them any time to rest. In the end, the fatigue tactics won.

Since ancient times, the party who attacked the city will suffer. After all, they have to rush into the dangerous zone several meters and hundreds of meters, and they have to rush to the gate tower at the risk of bows and arrows, sleepers, kerosene, etc. With this advantage, Bai Shuang only arranged three thousand defenders on the gate tower at one time. He had already seen that the opponent was going to fight in a wheel fight. That was the case, he would play with each other.

The battle started in the afternoon. Using the ladder that had been prepared for a long time, the Northern Ming Army launched a crazy siege mode. Under the gate tower, the densely packed soldiers were all charging soldiers. They shouted loudly, and the left-handed knife and right-hand shield continued to charge.

The Five Star Army on the gate tower, under the leadership of Bai Shuang, counterattacked in an orderly manner. Using bows and arrows in the distance, and boulders, sleepers and kerosene nearby, they give full play to their condescending advantages, and the enemies that will commit in the future will retreat in waves.

From afternoon to night, two 5,000-person assault teams were defeated. Faced with this result, Li Tong’s expression remained unchanged. This was already in his expectation, but no matter how much he paid He didn’t mean to stop. Strictly speaking, this was his first battle here, and Xu Sheng was invincible.

Under Li Tong’s order, even though the sky was completely dark, the attack still continued. Everyone used the torch to illuminate the surroundings and continued to attack the city. The battle continued. It’s three days and three nights without stopping.

After three consecutive days of siege, there was no one who won. The White Shuang who defended the city lost more than 6,000 Northern Ming prisoners in three days and three nights. Among them, 4,000 were injured and could not participate in any battle in a short time.

On the side of the siege, Li Tong’s army suffered more losses, with more than 30,000 casualties, and most of the soldiers were exhausted, and the food and grass seemed to be exhausted.

On the fourth day, Chen Dula showed up with a large number of grains and grasses, which were collected by him in the vicinity of Sanwanwei and Songhua River.

Considering that I had received it before, I naturally encountered a lot of resistance when I did it again this time. In the end, it changed from the collection to the grab. With the advantage of the number of 10,000 soldiers, it was really grabbed by him. A lot has come, this can be considered completely solved the problem of food and grass in the army.

Looking at the piles of grain and grass, and the looted silver lying there like a hill, Li Tong finally sighed in relief, looking at Chen Dula with bloodshot eyes and said: “General Chen, You have worked hard.”

Chen Du pulls out a said with a bitter smile: “It doesn’t matter if you work hard. It’s just that the second expropriation will do more damage to the people nearby. I hope this The battle will end sooner, and give them a chance to recuperate.”

“It will definitely be.” Li Tong said confidently. Then he ordered to cook, cook a full meal for everyone, and then made an effort to win the Jianzhou Zuowei tomorrow.

Above Jianzhou Zuowei’s gate tower, the siege is still going on. From time to time, a scream will be heard, and each scream represents the life’s deterioration of a soldier. This caused the white eyes under the gate tower to be narrowed once and then again.

There are only a fraction of the 18,000 prisoners left, and looking at it this way, the price to be paid tonight will not be too small. If this is the case, the city can still defend for a few days. People are not sure.

This time Bai Shuang was a little miscalculated. He somewhat overestimated the battle strength of these Northern Ming prisoners. I thought that with the strong walls of the city, there was no problem in defending the city. But when it really started fighting, it’s not the same thing at all. The military quality is not good, they don’t know how to cooperate, and some soldiers are even very courageous. When they see the densely packed siege army under the city, their legs are weak before fighting. Up. Under various changes, he has lost so much. If it weren’t for the strength of the Northern Ming army, it would be more than two to say whether it could achieve the effect of three to one.