Chapter 1061 1056 [Wu Dalang’s first soy sauce battle]
The war horse that Wu Juyuan received was captured by the Ming army in Yizhou last year and came from the grassland cavalry at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.
To be honest, it's much better than the horse at home.
"There is a river and a camp in front of you, just rest there!" the leading officer shouted.
This is a grain transport team composed of Han immigrants, responsible for transporting some grain and grass baggage from Yanqi to the front line. In addition to the immigrants transporting grain, there are also 500 sergeants to protect them along the way.
Wu Ju Yuan is the temporary battalion commander, so naturally he does not need to carry food and grass himself.
He is responsible for managing the immigrants in his battalion and has to deal with all kinds of trivial matters. Sometimes he doesn't know what to do, so he goes to the small school in charge of food security for advice.
The geographical environment of the Western Regions made Wu Juyuan quite strange.
They passed through a desert area, and there were oases wherever there were oases. The river in front of them came from nowhere, as if it suddenly appeared in the desert.
The camp by the river should have been left by the main force. Now it has become a transfer point for grain and grass, and some sergeants are still staying in the camp.
After settling down his battalion of immigrants and handing over all the supplies, Wu Juyuan ran to get close to Xiao Xiaotao.
"General Hu..."
"How many times have I told you not to call me general? My military position and rank are not qualified."
"Hey, it's about morning and evening."
Wu Juyuan was very good at getting things done. Not only did he complete the task with quality and quantity, but he also found every opportunity to flatter the small school that was responsible for the grain.
This small school named Hu Zun was very comfortable being flattered by Wu Juyuan, so he taught him some experience in marching and fighting from time to time.
Hu Zun sat down cross-legged, and Wu Juyuan immediately walked around behind him, rubbing his shoulders and beating his back.
Feeling comfortable after being massaged, Hu Zun closed his eyes slightly and asked, "Do you know how to retreat if an enemy attack occurs?"
Wu Juyuan said: "Choose one or two elite troops to attack, and the rest of the troops will slowly retreat."
Hu Zun shook his head and said: "Retreating slowly is easier said than done. Even for the truly elite, retreating in the face of the enemy can easily turn into a rout. At this time, we need to use the team drawing method."
"What is the team drawing method?" Wu Juyuan asked hurriedly.
Hu Zun said: "Draw a team from every other team. When the team is ordered to retreat, the captain personally escorts the team to face the enemy, and the deputy captain guides the entire team to retreat. This team retreats to the designated position, immediately reorganizes the formation, and is ready to defend the enemy at any time.
The enemy covers the friendly forces. The teams that have not been drawn form a formation on the spot and are on guard. When the friendly forces withdraw to the designated position, they will be guided back by the captain and deputy captain."
Wu Juyuan immediately understood: "It's just a cross-cover retreat between teams to ensure that there are soldiers guarding the enemy at all times."
"You are very smart," Hu Zun nodded in approval, "I will only teach you these things today, digest them slowly, and I will teach you something else tomorrow."
Wu Juyuan was not greedy for too much and was even more diligent in giving Hu Xiaoxiao a massage.
After eating, he took out a pen and paper from his bag, took water and ink and carefully recorded the "Team Drawing Method".
The grain transport team continued to move along the edge of the desert and arrived at the frontline battlefield the next day.
Ming army cavalry can be seen along the way. I heard that enemy cavalry occasionally come around to attack the grain transport team. Several cavalry battles have broken out nearby.
Wu Juyuan was incorporated into the Minfu camp and was stationed in a camp.
Outside Kucha City, the enemy has built fortifications and built two circles of camps around the city.
It reminds me that Qiuci City has better anti-cannon capabilities than Gaochang City and Qiuci City!
The city area here is smaller, the city walls are shorter, and the moat is even less than 8 meters wide. However, the city walls are extremely thick!
The wall base thickness generally exceeds 15 meters, and even reaches 22 meters in some places.
I don’t know which architect it was, but Kucha City is very strange anyway. The moat is narrow and shallow, and the city wall is short and thick. The shortness here is just compared to Gaochang City, which is actually in the Western Regions.
Extremely high.
Don't underestimate the city-building ability of the Uighurs. Their ancestors even built cities in Mobei. The earliest city-building craftsmen came from Luoyang.
"Tomorrow, you will help fill in the trenches and obey military orders!"
After receiving the order, Wu Juyuan was excited and excited, but the immigrants under his command were quite scared. Although they received weapons and leather armor, they never really fought in the war.
Perhaps because he was too excited, Wu Juyuan actually fell asleep that night.
Wake up the next day, gather in formation, and advance slowly with the troops.
The regular army stopped hundreds of steps away from the enemy camp, while Wu Juyuan and his fellow civilians really took action - digging out sand and putting it in sacks or tamarisk baskets.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The artillery was rolled out and fired in volleys, and some soldiers were responsible for protecting the gunners.
Wu Juyuan was digging in the sand. When he heard the sound of cannons in front of him, he couldn't help but look up, but he couldn't see clearly at all.
Not long after, a messenger came over on horseback: "The civilian men from the first team to the tenth team will go out with the army immediately!"
But they saw the auxiliary soldiers pushing the light tank forward. All the weapons on the tank were dismantled, and the dismantled artillery was being fired from the position. Not only was the baffle of the tank erected high, but a long pole was also erected to hang it.
Curtains, those curtains also have the function of blocking arrows.
The first ten groups of civilian men hid behind the chariots, carrying bags of sand and earth, and slowly moving forward with red willow baskets on their backs.
There are also a large number of distant and close combat units hidden behind the chariots to prevent the enemy from rushing out of the camp, and at the same time looking for opportunities to rush through the camp.
Wu Juyuan wanted to observe the battlefield, but his view was blocked by the army, and he did not know what the fighting was like ahead.
"The civilians from the 11th to 20th teams move forward and wait for orders to go into battle!"
Another herald came.
Wu Juyuan was a little anxious, why wasn't it his turn yet?
I don’t know how long it took, but dozens of batches of civilian husbands were transferred, and it was finally his turn at noon.
Wu Juyuan led many civilians and followed the officers who led them, only to find that the enemy's first fortress had been breached.
The enemies were determined not to get out, and the barrier did not leave any passage for troops. Some civilians who had been sent out were digging barriers everywhere to open up passages for troops, otherwise tanks and artillery would not be able to pass through easily.
The first trench has been filled in to a width of several miles.
Behind the first barrier, there were corpses of enemy soldiers everywhere. Many of them died from injuries in the back, and they were quite far away from the barrier. They should have been killed by the Ming army while escaping.
"vomit!"
A farmer next to me suddenly vomited.
But there was an unlucky man among the enemy soldiers whose head was blown open by a cannonball. Two-thirds of his head was missing, and the remaining third was hanging on his neck. The death was not only miserable but disgusting, and the corpse directly hit the civilian husband.
Made me vomit.
Wu Juyuan turned his head and glanced at the corpse. Although he also felt disgusted, he was more excited.
This guy is a born killer!
"Follow up, keep up, the artillery has been deployed, and we are about to advance. Hide behind the chariot, be careful of stray arrows!"
The peasants were all carrying sandbags and carrying red willow baskets on their backs. Some were too afraid of death and even half-crouched to drag the sandbags.
The sound of gunfire rang out again ahead.
Wu Juyuan carried the bags of sand and soil and advanced for a while. He couldn't see any enemies at all. He only saw his own regular soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and chariots.
The chariot's baffle completely blocked his view, and the wide curtains hanging on the long poles made a roar in the strong wind. A shower of arrows came, most of them blocked by the baffle and the curtains, and occasionally a few shot through the gaps in the curtains.
Fly over.
"call out!"
A stray arrow flew in front of Wu Juyuan and plunged into the bag of sand and earth he carried on his shoulder.
If it had been half a foot higher, the arrow would have hit Wu Juyuan in the face.
"I'm lucky!" Wu Juyuan muttered.
After a while, fewer and fewer arrows were fired, and the enemy army was suppressed by the long-range firepower of the Ming army.
An officer shouted to them: "Quickly pass between the tanks and throw the sand bags into the ditch!"
Wu Juyuan immediately rushed forward carrying sandbags. When passing by the chariot, he saw fusiliers and archers firing towards the opposite side through the shooting holes.
"Duan's majesty!"
Wu Juyuan actually had the heart to admire him, he couldn't wait to become a member of the soldiers.
After rushing past the chariot, there is a trench in front of you.
Wu Juyuan threw the bag of sand and soil into the trench, immediately turned around and ran back.
But I saw a man who was too panicked and threw him on the ground, causing most of the sand and soil in the red willow basket to spill out.
Wu Juyuan went over to fetch the red willow basket, turned around and ran towards the ditch again, and poured the remaining sand and soil in the basket into the ditch.
Perhaps because he realized that there was no danger, Wu Juyuan even took the time to look at the enemy's position.
Behind the barrier on the opposite side, there were several collapsed temporary buildings, probably enemy archery towers, all of which had been destroyed by artillery fire.
Occasionally, enemy troops can be seen emerging, but as soon as their heads protrude from the barrier, they will be shot by muskets and crossbows.
Wu Juyuan retreated to the rear of the chariot and was ordered to return by the officer.
On the way back, we met another group of civilians coming with their backs of earth. Those civilians had no cover, but they were not shot by the enemy. The enemy's position was silenced.
The sacks have been used up and only the tamarisk basket is left.
Wu Juyuan received a basket on his back, quickly dug out sand and loaded it with it, and then went to the battlefield to fill the trenches again.
After going back and forth several times, the trench was finally filled up.
He and other civilians were ordered to retreat, and countless soldiers advanced to the sound of war drums.
The sounds of fighting could be heard in the distance, but Wu Juyuan could not see clearly.
With the Ming army's flag firmly planted on the barrier, Wu Juyuan realized that the second barrier had been captured.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"
Wu Juyuan blurted out, stood among the people, raised his arms and shouted.
The frightened civilians nearby couldn't help shouting after him, and then more and more civilians cheered and shouted.
The Ming army's position moved forward as a whole.
Wu Juyuan and others were also sent out to flatten more barriers and consolidate the uneven trenches, because there would be siege equipment to pass later.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The sound of artillery sounded again, this time it was bombarding the fortifications of Kucha City.
The city towers, war tents, arrow towers... were torn off by cannonballs one after another, and there were also a large number of gaps in the parapet.
Under such circumstances, no matter how tall and strong the city walls are, the city's defensive power is almost halved, and the defenders only have the advantage of being at a commanding height.
The siege equipment was pushed to the bottom of the city one by one. They were built by the craftsmen who were the first to accompany the army when Wu Juyuan was transporting grain from the rear.
Two consecutive fortifications outside the city were breached, and the Ming army was about to advance to the city, and the fortifications on the city were also destroyed. At such a critical moment, perhaps realizing that the defense would be doomed, the city gate with the urn suddenly opened, and many enemy soldiers
They marched out shouting jihadist slogans.
Those holy soldiers had no time to form a team, and under the guidance of the noble generals, they rushed straight towards the Ming army's siege equipment.
What greeted them were bullets and arrows!
This time, Wu Juyuan could see clearly. He cooperated with the civilians. As soon as they leveled a section of the barrier and before they could evacuate, the defenders in the city rushed out from Wengcheng.
Those enemies were still dozens of steps away from the siege equipment, and they all fell down after being hit by bullets and arrows.
As if they had been brainwashed and not afraid of death, the survivors continued to rush forward. But another round of musket fire finally woke them up. They turned around and ran away screaming in fear. Only a few of them were able to escape back to the barbican.
"Woooooooo~~~~"
Just as the siege equipment was getting closer and closer, a trumpet sound suddenly came from the northwest.
The Ming army was surrounded by three and one was missing. That side was the missing side.
The Kucha soldiers continued to defend the city, but some Dongkara nobles were afraid of death.
This is not the territory of the East Kara Kingdom, they are just here to help. Seeing that the Ming army might attack the city, one of the East Kara nobles took the lead in abandoning the city and fleeing, taking several other nobles with him.
The rumble of horse hoofbeats came from the southwest of Wujuyuan. It was the Ming cavalry dispatched, chasing the enemy's escapees.
"Took it."
Wu Juyuan sat down on the remaining barrier and looked at the city being attacked with a smile.
With his limited knowledge of military affairs, he also understood the consequences of desertions among the defenders.
Within the royal city.
"Your Majesty, several armies of the Black Khanate have fled. They have no intention of fighting to the death here!"
"knew."
Kucha King Kuma wanted to sigh.
He is already old and has become frail and sickly in recent years. He may not live long.
After thinking for a while, he said to the chief prime minister Bayibuhua: "Let the whole army surrender."
But Bayi Buhua said: "Your Majesty, the two armies are already fighting, where can they stop? If you order surrender at this time, the enemy troops will definitely take the opportunity to attack the city, and I am afraid that the generals of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to stop it. They should send envoys first, as they have never been
If we leave the city on the northwest side of the siege, perhaps the envoy can be taken to see the Ming army general."
"Then send envoys out of the city." Kuma Yu sat there feeling helpless.
In fact, he has never had any desire to resist. If he could have made the decision, he would have surrendered from the beginning.
But he couldn't even command the nine prime ministers. Some of those prime ministers were controlled by the East Kara Kingdom, and some were controlled by the Western Liao Kingdom. And most of the clergy in the country were interested in the East Kara Kingdom, and they didn't care about it at all.
Kuma wanted to take it seriously.
Love so much.
The city was becoming more and more chaotic. One after another, the Dongkara nobles abandoned the infantry and fled the city, not caring that the infantry was brought by them during the holy war.
These guys are nothing but common people.
At that time, the Eastern Kara Khanate was so big that even the rebels could not be quelled, so Yelu Dashi took the opportunity to annex it, leaving only a small piece of land for them to serve as a vassal state.
Now they are deceiving the people to engage in jihad, and many people come with hoes and sticks. When the fight actually begins, they abandon the jihadist people and run away.
The Kucha envoy sent by Kuma Yu was captured by the Ming Dynasty's cavalry not far out of the city.
"We are here to contact you for surrender!"
shouted the translator brought by the messenger.
More than a dozen rangers gathered around, looked at each other, and raised their bows and arrows.
Isn’t it nonsense to surrender at this time?
Suddenly, another city gate opened in the west, and countless soldiers rushed out.
Those were the jihadi people who came from Kashgar. At this time, they had thrown away their dung forks, hoes, and wooden sticks. The soldiers who broke through the defensive gates fled towards their hometown.
