Zhuo Butai looked at the guy in front of him patiently.
Tieshan City is right in front of him, and the gang of bandits who killed his son and occupied Tieshan City are in the city, but the guy in front of him arrived a day and night earlier than him, and he hasn't even taken this ruined city yet.
.
Sure enough, all North Koreans are idiots.
"Lord Niu Lu, I have already tested the enemy's strength!" Lu Zhen, who was wearing a muddy military uniform, looked like he was asking for credit: "The number of bandits in the city is only a few hundred, but we came too fast.
The bandits had no time to escape, we were all blocked in the city!"
"There are only a few hundred people, why don't you attack them directly!" Zhuo Butai didn't have a good look on his face: "Is it because of your incompetence?"
"Lord Niu Lu, last night, I led my men to conduct a night attack on Tieshan City. The enemy troops suffered heavy casualties. However, these enemy troops laid a large amount of iron caltrops outside the city. In order to prevent you and your cavalry from
Blocked by these despicable methods, we will be cleaning these things after dawn!"
Zhuo Butai saw that not far from where they were talking, hundreds of sharp iron caltrops were placed together. He even saw dark blood stains on some of the iron caltrops. It was obvious that cleaning these things was the best thing in front of him.
I'm afraid this Korean has also lost a lot of people.
"Is it cleaned up?" he asked.
A strange look appeared on Lu Zhen's face: "There are too many. It will take a long time to clean them up. Sir, how about I go and persuade you to surrender? They are just a group of bandits. How dare you resist your heavenly soldiers!"
Zhuo Butai shook his head: "Everyone in the city will die. Kill my son and still want to live. How can there be such a good thing!"
"One day, I'll give you one more day. After one day, I want to see you attack. If you can, I will replace you, the guarding general, with someone else!"
On the top of the city, Geng Zhongming finally saw the figure of the Tatar cavalry in his telescope. When he changed the direction of the telescope, the expression on his face remained unchanged, but he sighed slightly in his heart.
It's the fourth day. If Marshal Jiang's reinforcements arrive, it will only take a day or two. The distance between Pidao and Xiaoshan Village is only one day more. Plus Marshal will mobilize his troops.
time, we should have arrived at the small mountain village by this time!
Last night, the North Koreans tried to steal the city, but they were taught by the dense caltrops. But when they woke up early this morning, the North Korean soldiers began to carefully clean up the iron caltrops. Although their progress was very slow, sooner or later they would
A passage will be cleared, but I don't know how long it will take sooner or later.
Reinforcements, reinforcements, where exactly have they arrived? If the fighting really breaks out, how long can these few people in the legion support them?
Even if the telescope in Geng Zhongming's hand was Tang Ruowang's personal collection, it could not see the small mountain village twenty miles away. What he didn't know was that the reinforcements he had been thinking about arrived at the small mountain village almost at dawn, and right there
On a certain hillside that he didn't care about, several people dressed as scouts had clearly seen the current situation in Tieshan City and were turning around and heading towards the small mountain village.
The reinforcements were personally led by Li Zicheng, with more than 500 people. This is a limited transport capacity. The Luochuan can carry more than 200 people. None of Chen Yue's other ships can even carry 100 people. Even so.
, they didn’t bring anything extra in order to bring enough people.
After everyone disembarked, Li Zicheng and Fan Zhen immediately made sure that the food stored in the small mountain village could meet the needs of his army, and then sent scouts towards Tieshan City.
The members of the Shen family and the Li family who stayed in the small mountain village had truthfully told them the news that all four naval regiments were dispatched to Tieshan City a few days ago. However, these people were not clear about the current situation.
At noon, the latest news was brought back by the scouts.
The enemy force was huge, with no less than two thousand men, including Tatar cavalry. However, Tieshan City was still intact. The defenders could be seen vaguely on the top of the city. It was also known that the enemy had attacked the city several times. Anyway, there was nothing under the city wall.
Saw the corpse.
Of course, it might be that the corpses were restrained, but the scouts were very sure that there were no traces of fighting on the city wall.
Li Zicheng became serious. It had been four or five days since he received the news asking for help and when Marshal Jiang sent his support troops over. For such a long time, there was no trace of the battle.
Could it be a trap?
The five hundred people he brought were almost a hundred musketeers, four hundred pikemen and shield bearers. In terms of equipment and tactics, they were similar to the three thousand families of Nanhaiwei brought by Marshal Jiang. Li Zicheng
He has confidence in his own soldiers, but he is still a little afraid of the Korean soldiers and Tatars who have never fought against each other.
The fighting power of the Tatars was greatly exaggerated in the Ming Dynasty. Even if Li Zicheng was conceited, he did not think that his troops could withstand the same number of Tatar cavalry. Well, I didn’t think that, but they would definitely not be able to withstand it. If more were added
Thousands of North Korean troops were thrown into the battlefield, and he was afraid that the five hundred men would be overwhelmed by the enemy in an instant.
"Continue to investigate and report back once every half hour! If a battle begins, report immediately!" He sent out scouts again.
"Uncle, something's not right!" Li Guo also frowned. As his uncle's right-hand man, he knew that his uncle wanted to achieve success in this first battle so that he could gain a foothold in Pi Island. However, this did not mean that his uncle would lead him.
Leading everyone to plunge into the enemy's trap.
"I also feel something is wrong!" Li Zicheng nodded: "It seems that the Tatars are specifically waiting for us. If they were determined to capture that city, they would have captured the hundreds of defenders long ago!"
Li Zicheng did not know the tactics of siege and reinforcement. His only experience in leading troops to fight was either obtained from actual combat or figured out by himself.
"So I sent people to keep an eye on them. Once they come towards us, we can deal with them!"
"What else should we deal with!" Li Zicheng glanced at his nephew: "Didn't you hear the commander's order? If something cannot be done, we are allowed to act according to the situation. Even if we evacuate, the commander will not blame me!"
He snorted slightly: "In Korea, we only have Mei Baihu and a few surrendered soldiers. The rest are recruited soldiers. If you don't want to part with this food road, just lose it. It's no regrets."
of!"
"The key is Mei Xiaofei!" He pondered for a moment: "He is the commander's confidant. If we can rescue him, the rest of the things will be easy to handle. It will be much easier for us to fight or retreat, advance or retreat.
Now, let’s do whatever it takes to take advantage!”
"You watch here!" Li Zicheng thought for a while: "I will take people to see the situation with my own eyes. If I don't see with my own eyes what is going on, I will always feel uneasy!"