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Chapter 18 Defending the Fortress

Jiang Jie and Hu Zi led hundreds of horsemen to rob the camp. They were able to clear the way and were invincible. Anyone who stood in their way would die. In less than half an hour of charging, the entire camp of rogue bandits was in chaos. From far away, only the shouts of killing and massacre could be heard.

The screams came from someone who didn't know where the situation was. Those nearby were killed and fled, crying for their fathers and mothers.

The advantage of the cavalry lies in this. They come and go like the wind and cannot be stopped. I think that when Gan Ning's hundred cavalry robbed the Wei camp, it was nothing more than this. But the rogue bandits in front of them were nothing compared to Cao Cao's army. They were killed in a mess, and there was no clue what

The people inside have already started shouting, "The army of officers and soldiers is coming, run quickly..."

The more chaotic the enemy camp is, the better it is for the sneak attack. Guessing that all the leaflets have been scattered, Jiang Jie rode up to catch the tiger and shouted loudly: "Retreat, go back and kill!"

As soon as Jiang Jie opened his mouth, he followed Hu Zi, and the family general who never left his side quickly echoed, "Major General, hurry back and kill him."

Huzi hadn't had enough of killing yet. Before leaving, Yue Su had given instructions that he must act in accordance with Jiang Jie's instructions, otherwise he would not be given the chance to kill the enemy again. Huzi didn't drink today, and his brain was still bright, so

He nodded in agreement and fought back toward Chengdu City.

When they came, they could block them, but when they left, they dared to block them. The group fought their way out of the enemy's formation and returned to Chengdu. Yue Su had been watching from the top of the city. He was very happy to see Huzi and the others coming back, which was the most disturbing thing.

He was also happy that not a single bandit dared to chase after him. Yue Su quickly ordered the city to be opened, the suspension bridge was lowered, the city gate was opened, and the warriors roared in, ending tonight's journey.

Mr. Yue counted the number of people and found that there were quite a few people who had gone. Each of them was covered in the blood of the enemy, but no one was injured.

"How magnificent!" Yue Su was overjoyed and immediately ordered, "Serve the wine."

The wine was already prepared. After giving the order, the soldiers brought bowls of good wine over before the warriors could dismount. Huzi and the others took the wine and drank it all in one gulp. They said, "Good wine."

", then he jumped off the horse and returned the wine to the soldier who brought it. It was not like on TV that he had to smash the wine bowl to show his heroism.

Damn, you don’t need money to buy a wine bowl. Even if it’s cheap, you’ll still have to use it for drinking and eating.

Yue Su asked them to rest in the camp. Chengdu was divided into inner and outer cities. All the troops were stationed in the outer city and there were warm tents. Yue Su's central army tent had wine and meat in it, allowing them to eat and drink as they pleased.

Go to bed and rest.

Compared with Yue Su's side, the rogue camp was still a mess. The mobs were in chaos, and some of them didn't even know whether the officers and soldiers had left. Wang Jiayin sent people to calm people's hearts, and the rebels found out that they were safe until dawn.

After checking the corpses, we found that more than 500 people were killed by the officers and soldiers that night, and more than 200 were injured. These casualties were nothing to the large number of bandits. What was fatal at that time was that the corpse of an officer and soldier was also dead.

Didn't stay.

Wang Jiayin was furious. After breakfast in the early morning, he ordered an attack on the city. On a cold day, you can't just drink the northwest wind outside the city. You must quickly capture the city and go in to celebrate the New Year. They snatched it all the way and stopped at Mianyang City and Mianzhu Pass.

They were all stubbornly blocked. After the attack, they didn't get much food. Especially when they attacked Shifang County and Pengzhou, they basically didn't gain anything. Shifang is a small county, so they couldn't get much. Pengzhou,

I received the news relatively early. Almost everyone who had food at home ran away, and all the official warehouses were emptied. What was left were some poor people who had nothing. Even the poor people who could run ran away.

The bandits did not farm at all. If they wanted to continue to survive, they had to continue to plunder. Otherwise, what would hundreds of thousands of people eat? Wang Jiayin calculated that they still had at most one month's rations, so they had to attack within a month.

Go to Chengdu.

The rogues began to attack the city. Since there were many people, they attacked the four gates together. However, the siege equipment was too weak. In addition to ladders, there were only a small number of manholes and arrow towers. To put it bluntly, they relied on the tactic of a sea of ​​people.

But this is nothing in the face of the strong city of Chengdu. As the capital of Sichuan, Chengdu has high walls and thick walls. There is also a war bureau in the city that specializes in manufacturing weapons. All the firearms stored in the Firearms Department were transferred out.

, there are more than 60 domestic cannons, not to mention them. In addition, Mr. Yue also brought five Spanish cannons and five English cannons from Zhejiang. It is more than enough to fight these rogues. The artillery can be aimed at the well railings and watch towers.

The muskets were fired non-stop. Every archery tower was smashed by the cannons, and wherever the cannons passed, they were all killed.

The power of the musket is even more revealed here. The range of the musket is about a hundred steps, but it can shoot farther from a higher position. When shooting down on the city, it can fire calmly without having to aim. There are densely packed people below.

If you shoot one, you will definitely hit. There are many muskets in the War Bureau, a total of 4,000 muskets. No one is willing to use them at ordinary times, so Mr. Yue likes to use them. There are a thousand muskets in each city, and they are fired in turn.

When the tube gets hot, stop and cool down for a while. It’s winter anyway and it gets cold quickly. You can take advantage of the time to shoot with a bow and arrow.

There is no need to panic when the rogue bandits arrive at the city walls. The boiling water and boiling oil have already been prepared on the iron pot. If you pour it down, it will burn a piece of it to death. The red-hot fire chain can be swung horizontally along the city wall, as long as the rogue bandits climb up.

If you encounter them, you will have to fall down immediately. When there are more people gathered under the city, they will pour kerosene down and then light a fire. The entire city will turn into a sea of ​​​​fire, and as many people as possible will die.

There is a moat outside the city of Chengdu. After a long time, the surface of the moat was filled with corpses. The rebels attacked the four gates together. The losses were huge. By the end of the day, the rebels had killed more than 6,000 people and injured more than 1,000 people.

The sun was still high above our heads, so the rebels below the city did not dare to rush forward. This was simply a hell on earth, and you would die if you went up there.

Wang Jiayin was supervising the battle at the North Gate. When he saw this situation, he was a little stupid. When he attacked Mianzhu Pass, the casualties were not so heavy. He thought he could take Chengdu in one go, but it seems that it is not that easy.

I asked my dog-headed military adviser to study it, but I couldn't think of any good countermeasures. It was basically impossible to attack Chengdu by breaking through the Mianzhu Pass. The moat outside the city was so deep and full of water. How to dig a tunnel?

.The only way is to rely on the human sea tactic and let your men rush forward. No matter whether it is day or night, take turns to attack. No matter how many people there are, the officers and soldiers guarding the city can be killed.

Wang Jiayin also saw that this was the only way to command the bandits and continue to rush forward. But bandits are bandits, no better than the regular army. They charge as fast as you want. Bandits can only fight with the wind and cannot stand setbacks. When they see that the situation is not right, they can only fight with the wind.

, which one will give you a life-threatening rush.

None of his men attacked, and Wang Jiayin had no choice but to withdraw his troops, bury pots to make rice, and let the bandits take a break before attacking again tomorrow. The bandits had long wanted to rest, so this was exactly what he wanted, so they packed up and cooked and had enough to eat.

, turned around and went to sleep.

At that time, Wang Jiayin was more vigilant than last night, and specially sent people to keep an eye on the camp at night to prevent the army from robbing the camp again. Originally, the officers and soldiers in the city stole the camp and robbed the camp last night. They will definitely think that there are preparations outside tonight.

Dare to come again. But I never expected that the officers and soldiers would take action again tonight. This time there were still hundreds of people, led by Hu Zi, Jiang Jie and Tie Qiu.

However, they did not attack the enemy camp outside the north gate, but also attacked the enemy camp outside the east gate. The rogue camp outside the east gate was not attacked last night. Although they received the news, they did not take it seriously, thinking that the army would tonight

He definitely couldn't come. As a result, the officers and soldiers came. Hu Zi and his group of about a hundred people chopped and killed no one in the bandit camp. They knocked down thousands of bandits. They struggled for more than half an hour and then walked away.

When the news reached Wang Jiayin's ears, he was so angry that he simply attacked in batches this time. When fighting during the day, some people would rest first, and then fight at night. Those who had rested during the day would attack by light.

This method of fighting makes it more difficult for the defenders on the city. There are many people on the other side, and they can afford it during the day and night. But I only have so many people, and I still have to guard four city gates. If I stay up all night and fight on wheels, I really can't stand it.

ah.

Yue Su asked the governor Zhu Xieyuan to study, and the second step was also started. He rearranged his troops and deployed his defenses, and also played two shifts with the enemy. Chengdu is a big city. There are governor's yamen, chief envoy's yamen, inspector's yamen, and prefect's yamen.

There are two to three hundred people in the Zhi Yamen, Tongpan Yamen, and Guan Yamen. There are two to three hundred people in the big Yamen, and there are more than a hundred people in the small Yamen. In addition to the officers of the Qing Military Hall, there are more than two thousand in any case. Then they spent money to recruit Ding in the city.

Zhuang, the people recruited must be from Chengdu. Those who have fled to the city from other places are not allowed. This is also worried that some insiders sneak into the city and take the opportunity to open the door during the war.

It can be said that rogue bandits rarely have a city that is open to the public. The most common method is to send people to sneak into the city and wait for an opportunity to open the city. It is a pity that Mr. Yue has arranged everything in Chengdu City so that you will not be given a chance.

For this reason, outsiders are not used indiscriminately. People are not allowed to come here at all in the outer city. In the inner city, there are police officers patrolling every street. Even if the police officers are recruited to go to the city, only one thousand are mobilized, and one thousand are left.

Maintain order in the city.

The rogues took turns attacking the city during the day and midnight. The city was resisting in an orderly manner. Your siege method was the same. I let my defenders go. After five days, the rogues could no longer attack the city, and they suffered 20,000 casualties.

The rest of the crowd, why fight? The corpses piled up like mountains and were burned into bones by the fierce fire on the city. Such a scene could not be called a Shura field. The rogues who were attacking the city were so frightened that they just attacked the city.

The other side of the moat was shouting, but they didn't even have the courage to rush forward.

As time goes by, the rogue bandits have turned from attacking the city to besieging the city. This kind of scene is what Yue Su likes to see the most. Although there is a large population in Chengdu, the food will not last long, but it is still better than those outside the city.

The wandering bandits are strong. There are houses inside the city to keep out the wind and cold, but there are no houses outside the city. Although everyone consumes food every day, you have hundreds of thousands of wandering bandits. Can you afford it?
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