This kind of transportation of materials is not only for the five hundred soldiers of Buffalo Village, but also for the smooth march to the front in the future. It is equivalent to the soldiers and horses on the battlefield moving ahead without using food and grass, and there is no room for any mistakes.
Qianhu Huang Shan, the commander of Phoenix Ridge, always delivers supplies on time, but today is already evening, and he still hasn't seen the soldiers from Phoenix Ridge arrive. Luo Guan Center is a little puzzled, so he wants to go early tomorrow morning.
Go to Phoenix Ridge and have a look.
According to the latest military regulations of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason for this kind of time delay must be clarified, and then reported specifically to the superior Guizhou Zuowei commander.
There are eighteen bends in the mountain road in Guizhou. Although the distance between Buffalo Village and Phoenix Ridge is not too far, walking on the mountain road is very dangerous and slow, so you can only go there during the day.
After entering the night, Luo Guanzhong arranged all the warning posts, and then returned to his barracks in the stockade to rest.
Luo Guanzhong took out a thick stack of paper, then opened a book of popular romances and commentaries on the Three Kingdoms, and started writing.
The popular romance of the Three Kingdoms in his hand has a somewhat confusing story, and there are many shortcomings in the words and sentences.
Luo Guanzhong loves the history of the Three Kingdoms very much, and not long ago he made up his mind to use his spare time to write a novel about the Three Kingdoms that is more exciting and closer to historical facts.
Unknowingly, Luo Guanzhong wrote with great energy and had already written a thick stack of paper without feeling tired at all.
Just when he was full of thoughts and was ready to continue fighting for a long time.
Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then Luo Guanzhong's guards came to report outside the door.
"Master Qianhu! Someone is coming from Phoenix Ridge." There was a hint of anxiety and panic in the guard's voice.
"Why did Phoenix Ridge send people here in the middle of the night?"
Luo Guanzhong was suddenly startled and had an ominous premonition.
He dropped the pen and paper in his hand and walked out of the door in two steps.
"Where is the person from Phoenix Ridge?" Luo Guanzhong asked.
"Your Majesty is at the guard post in front of you," the guard said.
Luo Guanzhong immediately arrived at the port post in front. Under the bright torch, a Ming soldier covered in mud and blood was slumped on a chair.
"Luo Qianhu is in trouble, the mountain people have rebelled, Fenghuang Ridge has fallen, and Huang Qianhu has died for his country." The soldier from Fenghuang Ridge cried loudly.
"What's going on? Tell me quickly." Luo Guanzhong's face darkened, and he immediately grabbed the soldier's shoulders and asked sternly.
The soldier from Fenghuangling then calmed down and explained everything about Fenghuangling. It turned out that after the Ming army defeated these chieftains, they used land to win over the people. Many mountain people were the original chieftains.
The young serfs of the army swore allegiance to the Ming army.
However, the chieftain still had considerable influence in the hearts of these serfs.
Some of the mountain people accepted the chieftain's secret instructions and deployed internal responses inside and outside Fenghuang Ridge. The chieftain's troops took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, bypassed the sentinels on the mountain road, and suddenly attacked the Ming army in Fenghuang Ridge.
Huang Shan, a member of the Thousand Households in Fenghuangling, was in a hurry. With only three to four hundred men under his command, there was no way he could withstand the attack of thousands of people.
In the melee between the two sides, Huang Shan was tragically killed.
At that time, only a few Ming soldiers escaped in the chaos.
"Luo Qianhu, the spies have captured Phoenix Ridge and cut off the road to our rear. Their next target must be us." After the Ming army soldier was defeated in Phoenix Ridge, he immediately thought of coming to Buffalo Village.
Luo Guanzhonghui reported to the police.
"Help this brother go down to rest, and everyone will gather immediately."
Now that the situation was critical, Luo Guanzhong immediately ordered the entire army to be on alert, regardless of whether it was night or day.
The two camps behind Buffalo Village are Phoenix Ridge and Wanjun Mountain.
Phoenix Ridge is located between Wanjun Mountain and Buffalo Village. Phoenix Ridge has been captured by the chieftain rebels, so Buffalo Village is already fighting alone.
Luo Guanzhong knew that the situation was urgent, and immediately ordered all the detective horses to patrol outside the village. He himself sat in Buffalo Village and ordered the soldiers to patrol the camp, prepare ammunition and arrange artillery positions.
If the Ming army wanted to take advantage of its defense, it had to make good use of the muskets and artillery in its hands.
More than five hundred Ming soldiers were busy in the dark night. When it got light, the Ming soldiers on guard outside brought news that made everyone nervous.
"Sir Qianhu, the chieftain's rebels have been found on several mountain roads outside."
"There are at least a thousand people on the road, and the total number is almost ten thousand."
The Ming army in Buffalo Village only had 500 soldiers.
However, the chieftain rebels approaching them numbered more than 10,000 people. The twenty-fold strength gap made everyone nervous.
Fortunately, at the War Preparation Warehousing Base, the Ming Army in Buffalo Village has abundant supplies. Nowadays, buffalo Village has all kinds of supplies. Whether it is weapons, ammunition, or grain and grass, it can sustain five hundred people for several months.
After Luo Guanzhong calmed down, he immediately felt confident.
Buffalo Village is located at the intersection of three roads, and its position is equivalent to the center of a "pin" shape.
In normal times, it is an excellent place to set up tax cards and collect taxes, but in times of war, it is a place that is not conducive to defense.
There are no tall mountains to rely on in Buffalo Village.
Moreover, the chieftain rebels have also received news that there are a large amount of supplies and weapons in Buffalo Village.
Therefore, they first thought of ways to conquer Phoenix Ridge, and then concentrated their efforts to besiege Buffalo Village.
The chieftain rebels outside the Buffalo Village quickly surrounded the Buffalo Village with water and water.
"All our detective horses have been withdrawn. What should we do if there are too many thieves?" Several Ming army households gathered around Luo Guanzhong and asked.
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Luo Guanzhong also knew that any decision he made would affect the lives of these four to five hundred brothers.
Luo Guanzhong calmly analyzed the situation and found that Buffalo Village now had sufficient ammunition and adequate food reserves. As long as they held the camp and waited for follow-up reinforcements from the Ming army, they could repel these chieftain rebels.
"Strictly guard against death, no one is allowed to leave the camp even half a step!"
Luo Guangzhong had made up his mind that as long as he defended Buffalo Village, he believed that with the Ming army's muskets and artillery, the chieftain rebels would not be able to break through Buffalo Village.
The Ming army's persistence gave the chieftain rebels outside Buffalo Village a big headache.
"Sir, we scolded each other for a long time before going to the village. The Ming army is still a coward. What should we do?" A small leader wearing buffalo leather armor said to a chieftain wearing iron armor.
This leader is the leader of this group of chieftain rebels. His name is Yang Wanzhong, and he is a member of the Yang family of Bozhou chieftain. In several battles with the Ming army, the Bozhou chieftain suffered heavy losses. Yang Wanzhong relied on his own skills to defeat the chieftain.
The young people were rescued from the siege of the Ming army, which saved the Yang family in Bozhou with the last strength to fight back.
This time, the Bozhou Yang family secretly contacted the mountain people who were loyal to them, launched a sneak attack on Fenghuang Ridge of the Ming army, and then came to surround Buffalo Village, hoping to seize the buffalo village's grain, grass, baggage, and weapons to restore the strength of the Bozhou Yang family.
"There are only four to five hundred Ming troops in this buffalo village. We have more than ten thousand people. Don't worry about it. We just charge forward and kill no one."
Yang Wanzhong waved his hand and gave the order to attack without hesitation.
Buffalo Village was originally built by the chieftain of Bozhou. The camp itself was not very tall, and there were a lot of damage and gaps in many places. After simple repairs by the Ming army, the defensive power was not very high.
Now the rebels of the Bozhou Chieftain surrounded the Buffalo Village and began to build siege equipment.
In less than a day's work, long ladders were erected outside the Buffalo Village.
"Master Qianhu, look what that is?"
A member of the Ming Army raised his hand and pointed forward, and Luo Guanzhong immediately looked in the direction he pointed.
I saw a chieftain rebel group of about a thousand people appeared in that direction. These chieftain rebels were wearing strange armors and were protected from body to bottom, leaving only two black eye holes.
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"What kind of strange armor is this?" Luo Guanzhong was suddenly confused.
With the sound of rebel trumpets and drums, the rebels wearing strange armor launched a charge towards the Ming Army's Buffalo Village.
Judging from the speed at which they ran, the armor they wore was extremely light, and even when climbing over trenches and low walls, their movements did not slow down at all.
"Fire! Fire!"
When the rebels were within fifty steps, Luo Guanzhong immediately gave the order.
Hundreds of muskets and more than a dozen artillery pieces from the Ming army immediately started firing at the rebels.
In less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of rebels were killed or injured in the open space ahead.
When Yang Wanzhong, the leader of the Bozhou rebels, saw the scene in front of him, he became furious.
"It's these firearms again, I'm a vine armored soldier!" Yang Wanzhong said sadly.
These more than a thousand vine-armored soldiers were elite soldiers he borrowed from Shuixi Chieftain.
Generally speaking, these warriors equipped with rattan armor are basically invulnerable. Even if there are very heavy armor-breaking weapons, they will not cause much damage to the warriors if they hit the light and tough rattan armor.
Yang Wanzhong originally wanted to use these rattan armor soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army, defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, and then seize the Buffalo Village. However, he never expected that the Ming army would be so ungrateful in martial arts. With their flame-breathing guns and artillery, they would force everyone who dared to move forward.
All the charging rebels were killed at the front of the battlefield.
"Continue the attack."
Yang Wanzhong ordered other rebels to launch an attack together.
Because Buffalo Village was too small, when the rebels launched a full-scale attack, the Ming army was gradually unable to withstand it.
Many rebel soldiers have already overcome the Ming army's defense and climbed onto the wall of Buffalo Village.
"Come here! Pass my order and pour down all the kerosene."
Luo Guanzhong looked at the densely packed rebels under the Buffalo Walled City and knew that if they continued to be so passive, the Ming army soldiers would exhaust all their strength and would no longer have the energy to fight back.
So Luo Guanzhong made a prompt decision!
Immediately ordered the soldiers to carry out all the kerosene and spirits stored in the camp, and then dumped them under the buffalo camp.
A large number of rebels climbed up the ladder, but suddenly felt a slippery liquid pouring down above their heads.
Before these rebels could react, they saw the Ming army throwing down torches on the wall.
Just a loud bang was heard, and a large ball of orange flame exploded instantly beneath the Ming army's Buffalo Stronghold.
"oops!"
Screams sounded from underneath the Buffalo Village.
These kerosene and alcohol were ordered by Zhu Han to be hoarded and transported when the Ming army attacked Guizhou. They could be used specifically to attack the wooden city walls of Guizhou chieftains.
Alcohol is a very good disinfectant and can control the local miasma in Guizhou.
Kerosene and alcohol are both valuable, even more valuable than gunpowder.
Luo Guanzhong also knew that the situation was critical now. If the Buffalo Village was lost, his life would not be saved, let alone these supplies.
The raging flames immediately burned the rebels until they cried for their fathers and mothers.
When Yang Wanzhong saw that his chieftain rebels were about to invade Buffalo Village, he was already in a good mood, but the situation suddenly reversed.
The fire attack tactics of the Ming army can be said to be indiscriminate killing. Whether they were miscellaneous soldiers composed of serfs or elite vine-armored soldiers, they were all killed miserably on the spot in the raging flames.
"Damn it! Damn it!"
Yang Wanzhong looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was already bleeding with pain.
Is the last hope of the Yang family in Bozhou about to be lost in this buffalo village?
Yang Wanzhong looked at the blazing flames in front of him and felt unwilling to do so, so he had to order a retreat.
As a result, in less than half a day of fighting, the chieftain rebels lost more than 1,500 people.
For an ordinary feudal army, a loss of ten percent of its troops would be considered a serious loss of vitality.
Especially in this battle, more than half of the vine-armored soldiers of the chieftain rebels were burned to death, which had a fatal blow to morale.
Luo Guanzhong keenly captured the changes in the morale of the rebels. After nightfall, he led a death squad of dozens of people to sneak out of Buffalo Village and launched a sneak attack on the chieftain rebels.
Taking advantage of the cover of night, the Ming army caused chaos in the chieftain rebel camp with almost no damage.
After struggling for most of the night, the chieftain rebels bombed the camp, killed each other and killed hundreds of people. When daybreak, the chieftain rebels were all listless.
Yang Wanzhong also knew that the rebels' momentum had plummeted, and if they were allowed to launch another charge and attack, it would only cause more losses.
Therefore, Yang Wanzhong changed his original strategy from a quick victory to a long-term siege.
The chieftain rebels dug trenches and set up means to resist horses, and surrounded the Buffalo Village.
Luo Guanzhong also knew that the firearms in the hands of the Ming army could be beneficial to defense, but they were not good at taking the initiative to attack. After seeing that the rebels planned to besieged for a long time, he could only order a strict defense to prevent the rebels from launching a sneak attack on him.
The positions of both sides have basically entered a state of confrontation.
