Huang Hao looked down the hillside at the battlefield in the distance and asked the troops to stop. He took out his binoculars and carefully observed the city in the distance.
Miao County is not very big in the county town, but the city wall is very new and very strong. At this time, the crenellations of the city wall were filled with soldiers and civilians.
There are also hanging huts hanging on the crenellations. That is to say, T-shaped bamboo poles are used to hang quilts on the crenellations to block arrows. It seems that the guards in this city are quite good.
Huang Hao thought to himself. He had never seen Wang Jiayin, but he saw people constantly opening the corners of the hanging doors on the top of the city and shooting arrows down.
A large number of rolling logs and stones were also thrown down, causing the rebels who were attacking the city to fall off the ladders one after another.
I know that this guy is at least a real person and not a fool. The history of building a city here is relatively short in Beizhili.
The city wall looks strong and new, with a bright cyan color. During the Taiping Period of the Liao Dynasty, Miaoyin County was established and belonged to Xijin Prefecture.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, because the Mongolian royal family
"Nabo culture" and the needs of Baihe water transportation were promoted to Miaozhou, which belongs to Dadu Road. It controls Wuqing and Xianghe counties.
It was used as a hunting palace for the emperor. In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it was demoted to Miao County and belonged to Tongzhou. This small town is actually not that big, it is an inferior county town.
Miao means care, concern, and reluctance. This place became a town in Tongzhou in later generations. However, before the Qing Dynasty, it was an important city.
Many famous ministers and scholars came from this place. During the Zhengde period, Liu Liu and Liu Qi rebelled, rampaging across Hebei, Shandong, Henan and other places, cutting off water transportation and approaching the capital.
In order to strengthen the defense, the county magistrate Guo Mei presided over the construction of the city. The city wall built at that time was only two miles long, and not even the moats for the city protection were excavated.
In the 22nd year of Jiajing, Zhili inspected the imperial censor Yan Wei, and Tongzhou Prefecture and Chen Chang presided over the reconstruction, and the surrounding area was expanded to three miles.
A parapet was added to the top of the city wall, and towers were built on each side. It was still a rammed earth city. The wall was one or two feet high, one foot wide at the top, and nearly two feet wide at the base.
In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing reign, Lu Zhe, the magistrate of the county, rebuilt the building again and inscribed the four gates with inscriptions.
"Gongque", southern name
"Yingxun", Dongyue
"Linjin", Western name
"Tongdu". The city walls of Miao County were covered with bricks in the fourth year of Wanli. At that time, Cao Danmian of Bazhou Military Preparation Road, Magistrate Li Zizhao, Magistrate Song Zhi and others successively repaired it, laying bricks on the outside and laying foundation stones.
The city has also been greatly expanded. The city wall is about 2.5 kilometers long, 6 meters high, 3.6 meters wide at the top, 7.3 meters wide at the bottom, and 1.7 meters high.
The moat is open on three sides, nearly 9 meters wide and nearly 4 meters deep. In the east, the Ganggou River is used as the moat, and the north and south gate towers are newly built. The old name is used in the south, and the north gate is changed to
"Gongjing" has a small gate on the east and west sides. At this time, the regiment training army arrived right outside the south gate.
The rebels and the defenders are both camp soldiers, with similar equipment and similar tactics. They are both taught by the same master, and they are basically unable to break the moves.
It seemed that they had been fighting for a whole day, and there was no winner or loser. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Three-eyed muskets and French cannons were fired at each other above and below the city.
Bows and arrows were fired at each other. People kept falling down after being hit by firearms and fire. Wang Daan looked at the fierce battlefield in front of him, his face turned pale.
I wanted to pass here quickly before the war started, but I still ran into the battlefield.
"General Huang, what do you think about this?" Looking at the dense crowd of rebels under the city of Miao County, he had no idea.
The rebels seemed to have very high morale. They almost didn't look like soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It can be seen how much impact the lack of pay has on the soldiers.
Now they have rebelled. They are working for themselves, not for the emperor. Everyone has greatly mobilized their subjective initiative.
It was like taking a shot of chicken blood. They attacked the city with great shouts. Huang Hao sighed in his heart, if the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were so energetic, they would be afraid of Mongolia and Jiannu.
It is true that the Ming army is invincible if it does not pay its troops.
"The Zajia family doesn't understand. This Miao County is not a rich place. How can these Qiu Ba scream at the rebels who are climbing the city?" Wang Da'an cursed. These rebels have looted a lot during this time. Everyone has
A lot of property was robbed, which drove the frightened camp soldiers into madness.
"There is really nothing to rob in Miao County, but the capture of Miao County opened the way to Zhangjiawan. It is one of the termini of the Grand Canal. Private merchant ships are all disembarked there. The prosperity is almost comparable to that of the capital city. robbed Zhangjiawan
Jiawan is completely full." Huang Hao said with a sneer.
"Then what should we do? We only have more than 3,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 rebels in this city." Wang Daan said anxiously.
"I am reminded of what a slave of the establishment who was captured at the rocky beach said when the master was starting out."
"What did that slave say?" Wang Da'an asked.
"Wolves are never afraid of more sheep." Huang Hao sneered and said, "Let's rush down and defeat them." Wang Da'an was stunned, this guy must be crazy.
Huang Hao pulled out his command sword and raised it high. The bright and slender cavalry sword glowed brightly under the strong afternoon sun.
"Brothers, 10,000 infantrymen are nothing. Come on down with me and defeat them," Huang Hao shouted loudly.
Suddenly, the entire cavalry team let out a roar like a roaring mountain and a tsunami. The huge sound came overwhelming and immediately alerted the rebels who were attacking the city.
They were alarmed to find that a cavalry force was coming behind them. On top of the city, Wang Jiayin, who was under great pressure, was surprised to find that a cavalry force of several thousand people appeared in the distance.
Reinforcements! I didn’t expect that there would be reinforcements. At this time, Huang Hao took the lead and rushed down the slope. Behind him, 3,600 cavalrymen followed Huang Hao closely, rushing over like a rainbow.
The sound of huge horse hooves was heard, and the ground was shaking. The cavalry quickly dispersed and opened up the skirmisher line. To deal with these insurgents, there was no need to deal with the Mongolian wall-mounting tactics.
Now Xinghe Tuanlian has surpassed the Mongols in both horsemanship and swordsmanship after long-term battles.
What's more, these rabble-rousers. In recent days, these originally impoverished soldiers have plundered a lot of property after robbing them.
The guards and battalions everywhere were on the verge of collapse and had no fighting power. This made them confident and thought they had no opponents.
In fact, these people were just like them, because they were not paid and had no will to fight. These people fled cowardly.
The brave ones simply joined the group and went out to rob together. At this time, they suddenly saw a large group of cavalry rushing towards them, and they suddenly panicked.
The infantry has long been frightened by the cavalry. For two hundred years, Jizhen has been using infantry to deal with the cavalry. Although the Ming army did not lack horses, after all, the horse administration in Beizhili went deep into the grassroots and even forced horse breeders to go bankrupt, which led to Liu
Liu Liu Qi led Mahu to launch a large-scale rebellion.
But the court is short of money. The salary of one cavalry is the cost of at least seven infantry. If infantry fights cavalry, it is similar to today's infantry fighting tanks.
It is basically a very difficult act of seeking death. Otherwise, a Tatar would not be promoted to the next level by being given fifty taels of silver for his head.
The Arabian horses ran quickly and arrived at the city in a blink of an eye. Following Huang Hao's order, countless cavalry swords were drawn out with a swipe.
Suddenly, a dazzling sword light almost blinded the eyes of these rebels.