When the rebel soldiers appeared thirty miles away from Yan'an City, Yan'an City was already ready to resist the enemy.
Although Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses disappeared without a trace, the Yan'an Prefecture started from the town where Li Zicheng defeated Wang Jiayin's vanguard and released scouts dozens of miles outside.
Now, in the west of Yan'an Prefecture, the furthest distance for scouts can be fifty miles away. It is naturally not that difficult to know the arrival of Wang Jiayin's army.
All the salt fields outside the city have stopped working, including the refugees who were repairing the city wall and digging the moat. All of them have stopped working. According to the prefect's yamen, these people must not be taken into the city. What I just experienced is that
The prefect's Yamen, which had purged a wave of spies in the city, really couldn't guarantee what would happen to the city if they let these refugees in.
Jiang Wan had no intention of letting these refugees enter the city, but he would not do such a thing if they were allowed to stay outside the city amid the collision and fighting of soldiers and horses from both sides.
He gathered all the refugees, young and old, as long as they could move, and they all started digging trenches outside the city of Yan'an Prefecture. According to his instructions, they dug a trench around the entire city that was more than one person deep and two people wide.
Deep ditch.
This deep ditch can include all the salt fields and refugee camps, and of course, it can also include Yan'an Prefecture.
Therefore, when Wang Jiayin's army arrived at Yan'an City, what they saw was such a scene.
A huge and complete trench surrounded the entire Yan'an Prefecture. Behind the trench, officers and soldiers were neatly lined up under the city, waiting for their arrival. His soldiers and horses, no matter which direction they attacked,
You have to cross this trench first.
"What a bunch of idiots!"
Next to Wang Jiayin, Little Red Wolf, one of the men he relied on, was particularly surprised: "It's such a good city wall, but they didn't rely on the wall to defend the city. Instead, they dug such a ditch out of their minds. They planned to rely on this ditch to block the city."
With our army?"
"Don't take it lightly!"
Wang Jiayin frowned and looked at Wang Er who was standing in the distance with the army but was not qualified to stand beside him: "If Wang Er is right, these officers and soldiers should be equipped with many firearms.
This ditch is just used by them to delay our actions so that their firearms can work better. Their ultimate move is not the ditch, but the firearms!"
"Commander, don't listen to that boy's bragging. He is just a coward who was frightened by the officers and soldiers!" Little Red Wolf said disapprovingly.
"I was once an officer and soldier. I was a gang of thieves. Is it strange to be frightened by the officers and soldiers?" Wang Jiayin looked at this somewhat complacent subordinate coldly: "We just bully Yan'an Prefecture because there are no border troops stationed there. If there were,
The city where the border troops are garrisoned, do you think I will think of attacking it?"
Little Red Wolf's laughter stopped suddenly, and he glanced at the trench in front of him angrily: "I'll send some people to try it first!"
Wang Jiayin nodded. Regardless of whether the opponent's trench was as useful as he thought, he would always give it a try. If he didn't try it, how would he know how to fight this battle?
In front of the army formation, one or two hundred people were picked out from the crowd. They were in ragged clothes and had all kinds of weapons in their hands, including bamboo spears, wooden clubs... but no iron weapons were seen.
Wang Jiayin's expression did not change at all. This was the rule in his army. These refugees who came to him from all directions, if they did not really fight for him or killed people for him, would always be objects that he could abandon at any time.
He will not give these people anything except a ridiculous amount of food. If they want more food, clothing, or even better weapons, they have to kill people and fight for them.
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These people began to scream and rushed towards the trench. Wang Jiayin paid attention to the movements of the officers and soldiers behind the trench. So far, he had not seen any firearms, and if nothing else happened, Yan'an Mansion should not have any.
The capital is equipped with a red cannon.
The officers and soldiers remained motionless, as if they had not seen the charge of these people.
On the other hand, hundreds of figures appeared near the trench, as if they had emerged from the ground. When Wang Jiayin saw those people, he immediately smiled.
The tactics used by these officers and soldiers were almost the same as mine, as if they were all taught by the same master.
Although he was a little surprised that these people came out of the inner ditch that he didn't notice, the attire of the other party made him feel reassured. In addition to the fact that many of them were holding extremely simple
They were simple spears with long pieces of wood inlaid with spearheads, but they were indeed not much different from the men who were trying to charge into the battle.
Those are also a bunch of refugees!
They were standing by the trench, ready for battle. In front of their eyes, enemies swarmed in with strange screams. Before this, these enemies had never known each other, and they might even see someone familiar to them in the other side's camp.
faces, but this trench separates them clearly and distinctly.
On this side of the trench are their own people, on the other side of the trench are the people they want to kill.
"Are you shooting?" A general beside Wang Jiayin asked softly. Although at this distance, the officers and soldiers in formation could not be reached, if a round of arrows rained down, they could kill many of the opponent's people.
"No, save some arrows!" Wang Jiayin shook his head. In his heart, the insufficient arrows were much more valuable than the lives of one or two hundred refugees.
The refugees swarmed in, but when the people who rushed to the front arrived in front of the ditch, they were dumbfounded. The ditch was as wide as two people, and it was impossible to jump over it no matter what. If you wanted to get over, you had to
Jump into the ditch, then climb out of the ditch to the other side.
However, their dumbfoundedness did not last long. They stopped, but the people behind them did not stop. One after another, the person in the front was immediately hit by his own people and fell into the ditch.
The screams started in response, so fast and fierce that the people who rushed to the front of the ditch stopped one by one and tried to keep their bodies away from the ditch.
Wang Jiayin's eyebrows moved slightly. Is there something in the ditch?
The people on the other side of the trench began to throw their weapons at the people opposite them without hesitation. The simple spears in their hands turned out not to be waiting for the enemy to cross the trench and fight with them. This kind of simple spears
Spears, they basically use them for throwing short spears.
Blood splattered on the opposite side of the trench. After more than a dozen people fell, the refugees were not willing to be outdone and flew their bamboo guns, wooden clubs, etc. towards the opponent. This round of counterattack also caused the opponent's camp to
There is damage inside.
However, what they didn't expect was that the enemies who threw away their weapons soon had spears that were much sharper than their bamboo spears and wooden clubs. As soon as these spears were in hand, they immediately
He flew towards them without hesitation.
It goes on and on and seems to never stop.
In the invisible inner ditch opposite them, I don’t know how many people and how many such simple spears are hidden. If this continues, all the people except theirs will die in front of the ditch, and the people on the opposite side don’t seem to be able to
Will give up.
"Okay, let's ask them to come back!" Wang Jiayin said calmly: "How many can come back? I want to know what's in the ditch?"