Chapter 183: Bloody Battle of Gule Village (Medium)
Li Chengliang originally thought that after taking out a decisive posture today, the army would conquer the city quickly, who knew that he waited and waited, and even waited for the news that Cha Dashou was seriously injured and carried back, and couldn't help but be furious: "The land where the thieves in Jianzhou captured the projectile, and in less than two hours, they actually injured my general." Ben Shuai has been in Liaodong for 20 years, how could there have been such a heavy setback! ”
Yang Yuan took a step forward and saluted: "Marshal, although Gule Village is only a projectile land, it is very dangerous, although our army has many generals, it is difficult to perform here, and I think it cannot be taken blindly." ”
Li Chengliang nodded and said, "What you say is reasonable!" Then he got up and ordered: "Pass my order, the firearms battalion will gather at the foot of the mountain, and bombard the city with a Buddha machine until it collapses." ”
Hearing this, Yang Yuan hurriedly asked: "Marshal, how did the Franc machine come to be transported in such a deep mountain?" ”
Li Chengliang smiled proudly, twisted his beard and said: "I heard that more than ten years ago, Qi Yuan was instructed to build a new gun carriage to drill day and night...... This gun carriage can be set up with a light cannon and a medium cannon in the mountains, as if walking on the ground. However, Qi Yuan cherished the broom and cherished it, and never refused to leak half of the shape of this object.
It wasn't until later that Jinghua got involved in the military industry, and Qi Yuanjing dedicated this thing to Gao Bingxian for Feihuang Tengda...... After the Great War of Monan, the imperial court turned its attention to Jiliao, and allocated 120 artillery pieces of various types and more than 200 artillery vehicles. ”
Yang Yuan didn't know the inside story of this, in fact, Qi Jiguang's new artillery carriage was originally built according to the drawings given by Gao Pragmatic, and it was also Gao Pragmatic's requirement to refuse to leak it, because Gao Pragmatic felt that the equipment manufacturing system of the Ming Army at that time was very problematic, and handed it over to those government-run workshops to build, and sooner or later there would be some waste, so he asked Qi Jiguang to only perform first, not mass manufacturing, and wait for himself to think of a way in the future.
Later, the military industry was privately organized, and Jinghua gave a gun truck at the same time as making the cannon, which gave Li Chengliang the saying that "Qi Yuanjing is flying Huang Tengda, and he dedicated this thing to Gao Bingxian".
Yang Yuan didn't know about this at all, so naturally he believed what Li Chengliang said, and couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "Qi Nantang is also a famous general of the national dynasty, but he actually made such a move that tends to be inflammatory, which is really despicable." If I had this thing in Liaodong, it would have been easier for the third year of Wanli when the commander broke through Gule Village...... But then again, now that the handsome man has this wonderful thing, it seems that it will be easy to break the Gule Village. ”
Zu Chengxun laughed on the side: "This is the proof that the handsome Ji people have their own natural appearance, and it is also an omen that Wang Gao and Atai father and son will die at the hands of the big handsome sooner or later." ”
Li Rumei knew more about the inside story, and after listening to the words of the two of them, she just smiled silently and didn't say anything.
Li Chengliang didn't know if he saw Li Rumei's appearance, waved his hand, and said, "Don't mention these gossips, let the rabbit cubs in the firearms camp move." ”
Li Chengliang, Li Rumei and others stood on a hillside and looked into the distance, only to see more than 20 cannons under the mountain, thick and black like a small chimney, and then there were dozens of guns piled up like a hill, and the gun carriage was made of thick and strong wood, the shape is obviously different from the ordinary gun carriage, especially the wheel axle part, it looks quite exquisite, everyone can not see the mystery for a while, can only find that there are many places embedded in the steel, the axle part is more bent like a snake plate old tree-like wire loop, I don't know what it is.
Yang Yuan asked Li Chengliang for advice, Li Chengliang shook his head and said: "Ben Shuai is not a kit kat, I only know that the name of that thing is spring, I heard that gold is very expensive, you don't look at it but iron, the people of Jinghua said that that thing is not cheaper than the equivalent of gold, it is extremely difficult to make...... But no one knows whether it's true or not. In short, this artillery car, not counting the artillery itself, Jinghua's price to the military department is sixteen taels of silver, of which four springs are said to cost twelve taels. ”
Everyone's eyes were about to pop out when they heard this, just those few snakes and old trees-like wire rings, how expensive they were? Isn't there something wrong with the military department and Jinghua? I heard that Wu Da Sima is Gao Bingxian's senior brother......
A group of Liaodong generals didn't dare to think about it, and forced themselves to continue to watch the artillery battle, but they saw that there were two guards standing in front of each cannon, one holding a torch, one carrying a medicine bag, and every five cannons and a small flag waving, shouting orders in their mouths.
One pawn heard the order, stuffed the medicine bag in the belly of the artillery, and the other pawn burned the medicine rope with a torch, only to hear a loud noise, the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, everyone did not change color to cover their ears, and saw the cannon fire burst into smoke, the projectile came out like thunder, in the blink of an eye, the Gule village has been bombarded everywhere, there are several pills hit on the wall, the stone chips fly down, and they bombard several inches deep.
Zu Chengxun looked at it and praised it: "It is an artifact!" According to this attack, it will not take half a day, and the gate will be broken. ”
Who knew that not long after saying this, all the cannons stopped together, and all of them fell silent, counting before and after, but each fired five cannons.
Zu Chengxun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked why, Li Chengliang said: "Although this thing is good, it can't be used for a long time, because of the heat of the medicine fire, and there is a risk of exploding the chamber for a long time, so each five cannons must be suspended for a moment to dissipate its heat." ”
Zu Chengxun regretted when he heard this: "This is so, but it is a little unbeautiful." ”
Li Rumei interjected on the side: "I heard from the eldest brother that there are also Jinghua's new cannons on the Shenji Battalion, but what they said is that they can fire ten cannons in a row...... Father, why can we only fire five cannons here? ”
Li Rumei's eldest brother Li Rusong was the right deputy general of the Shenji Battalion before he became the chief soldier of Shanxi, and the Shenji Battalion was the old foundation of the three major battalions.
Li Rusong has the best relationship with his younger brother Li Rumei among his brothers, so he mentioned these things to Li Rumei, which is why Li Rumei asked.
Li Chengliang listened to his son's words but waved his hand with some disdain: "The people who have always made cannons can only believe half of him at most, and if he says ten shots, then he can only shoot five shots, otherwise he may explode at any time, and he will fight for his father for 20 years, how can he not understand this truth?" In the future, you should also be careful when listening to these people, and don't be too sincere, otherwise you will be the one who suffers. ”
Li Rumei frowned, and just wanted to argue that this was personally recognized by the eldest brother after the Shenji Camp drill, and he did not cheat, but before he could speak, he was quietly pulled by Yang Yuan next to him.
Li Rumei glanced at Yang Yuan, but Yang Yuan stared at the Gule Village in the distance seriously, as if he was observing the impact of this artillery bombardment on the defense of the Gule Walled City. But Li Rumei still came to her senses - yes, whatever the father says, fight for these things with his old man, I'm afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat.
Li Chengliang saw that Li Rumei was silent, his face was slightly softened, he was about to give the order to wait for the artillery to cool down and continue the shelling, but suddenly saw someone on the side of Gule Village grabbing a small white flag and jumping from a gap in the shelling to the river that went around the city, and then hurriedly swam over, waving the white flag from time to time while swimming.
Li Chengliang ordered someone to bring the man over to inquire, who knew that the man claimed to be sent by Jue Chang'an, as soon as he saw Li Chengliang, he begged for mercy, saying that Jue Chang'an, Takshi father and son are also in the city now, and are contacting like-minded people to prepare to turn against Atai, raise the city to surrender to the marshal, please suspend the shelling, otherwise I am afraid that the big thing will be wrong.
Li Chengliang and the generals all sneered in their hearts, presumably Jue Changan and Tucker Shi were afraid that the cannon would not be long-sighted, so they killed their father and son, so after being shelled, they hurriedly sent people out to beg for mercy.
But Li Chengliang still agreed.
In fact, he doesn't like to use artillery at every turn, because the cost of artillery is very large, and the more he saves fighting, the more money he can take out of it to support his own family - anyway, the cost of reporting artillery is overreported, so what is saved is his own.
The person who reported the news hurriedly thanked him, but he didn't leave, Li Chengliang turned his mind and realized that it was okay for this person to jump into the river and run out in broad daylight, after all, Gule Village was like this, and the order in the city was obviously not much better, and Atai couldn't find out who this person was, but if he ran back again, he would be looking for death.
It is easy to promise not to fire again, but it will become a trouble to break the city, Li Chengliang frowned and was thinking, and suddenly found that the sky was overcast, and a strong wind blew in the mountains, blowing all kinds of flags and hunting.
Li Chengliang's eyes lit up, and he asked loudly, "Where is the wind?" ”
This time, it was Li Rumei who replied the fastest: "Back to my father, this west wind is also!" ”
Li Chengliang knew that his five sons were good at shooting, and those who were good at shooting would be good at observing the wind, and his statement would never be wrong, so he was immediately overjoyed and ordered to beat the drum and gather the generals. When the generals heard this, they didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed him back to the big tent.
After a while, Li Chengliang was draped all over his body, and he came out majestically, and Zu Chengxun asked: "I don't know what military orders the marshal has?" ”
Li Chengliang waved his hand and said, "I want to take advantage of this momentum to burn Gule Village and take advantage of the chaos." ”
Yang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Dashuai, that Jue Chang'an and Takshi father and son are still in the city......
Li Chengliang waved his hand again and said unhappily: "For those who do big things, they are not informal." Now that everything is based on breaking the city, we must not let General Xuan Dake underestimate my Liaodong warriors, so I can't take care of a lot! ”
Zu Chengxun was afraid that Yang Yuan would say more, so he hurriedly asked, "I don't know how the handsome man intends to take it?" ”
Li Chengliang said: "Need a good shooter, lead 3,000 archers to line up at the foot of Longshou Mountain, take advantage of this wind, attack the village with rockets, and the generals under the tent, can there be a response?" ”
As soon as Li Rumei heard that she was going to be good at shooting, she hurriedly stepped out and responded: "Father, the last general is willing to go!" ”
Li Chengliang smiled: "So it's the best!" Then he said: "I need a general who dares to die, leading more than 100 warriors, based on the earthen platform, and when the fire in the village is in chaos, this task is the most dangerous, who dares to respond?" ”
I saw that a general was snatched out of the train, and he didn't speak, he bowed his head, and everyone watched it, it was Li Pinghu who was dressed strangely.
Li Chengliang laughed when he saw this, and praised: "Pinghu is really dead!" ”
As soon as the words fell, another person rolled in outside the tent, and asked on the ground: "Father, my son is also willing to be a dead soldier!" ”
When everyone saw it, it was Li Rubai, his performance last night was too bad, and he hated Li Chengliang, and now he is obviously hurrying to redeem it.
After all, it is a son, Li Chengliang was overjoyed when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Okay, if you succeed this time, Ben Shuai will naturally remember the merit for you!" Today, Li Pinghu and Li Rubai are both the first to ascend the army, and each leader Ding guards them, and attack at the right time, and there must be no mistake! ”
The two immediately responded.
Seeing this, Yang Yuan and Zu Chengxun all went out to ask for battle, and even Zha Dashou, who was listening to the side with bandages on his shoulders, couldn't help but ask for battle.
Li Chengliang first asked Cha Dashou to recuperate, and then said: "Zu Chengxun led an army to pick up Li Pinghu and Li Rubai; Yang Yuan led an army to ambush on the back mountain path. After that, he said loudly: "The opportunity is rare, fleeting, each will be sent quickly, and there must be no mistakes!" The people obeyed the command and went away in unison.
After the generals got the order, they all lit up the headquarters of the people and horses, and swarmed to Gule Village, and after a short time, they had reached the bottom of the mountain, and each general lined up according to the previous instructions.
Li Chengliang personally supervised the palace of the army, in front of the army is Li Rumei, red robe and silver armor, standing on the ground, holding an iron bow, with a basin of oil fire burning under his feet, behind him is a surging military array, three thousand archers are distributed in several columns, all standing against the wind, the soles of their feet are on fire, holding bows and arrows, and their eyes are angry.
In front of Li Rumei's formation, Yang Yuan, Zu Chengxun, etc., led hundreds of soldiers to lie on the side of the slope, all with thick armor and heavy shields, carrying a simple knife, and holding a three-eyed gun (Wanli did not finish dressing).
Further on, there are two cloud ladders leaning on the dirt slope, and there are two generals climbing on them, one of them is wearing fine armor, holding a heavy shield in his hand, and holding a three-eyed gun in his arm, which is Li Rubai; The other, carrying a large machete and a skull around his waist, was Li Pinghu.
Li Chengliang saw that everything was ready, his face was calm, and he ordered a war.
I only heard a rumbling drum, 20,000 soldiers shouted in unison, and words such as "Daming mighty" and "Fengtian rebellion" came and went.
When Li Rumei heard the order, her eyes froze, she pulled out an arrow, set fire to it, bent her bow and stretched her strings, and shouted: "Boom!" ”
The rocket took advantage of the wind to go straight to the top of the mountain and fell into the Gule village.
Seeing this, the remaining 3,000 archers drew their bows and arrows one after another, and painted scoops according to the gourd. I saw bursts of rockets falling from the sky like a downpour, and at this time there was more wind to help the fire, and the fire broke out in the Gule village, and there was chaos in all directions.
Li Chengliang couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the smoke and fire in Gule Village, and ordered the second drum to be beaten.
When Li Pinghu and Li Rubai heard this, they dodged and turned onto the earthen platform, holding a shield in one hand and a gun in the other, and walked forward, and Zu Chengxun and others followed and went up, carrying the shield ladder and entering.
Over there, Ah Hai was shouting at the Jianzhou soldiers to put out the fire in the city, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered his troops to come to defend. The arrows of the Jianzhou soldiers rained down, and the arrows on the armor and shield of the Ming army were shot like hedgehog thorns in an instant.
But at this point in the battle, it was the time when the blood was surging, and the Ming army was all Li Chengliang's family, all of them were not afraid, and they reached the wall and erected the ladder.
The Jianzhou soldiers on the wall hurriedly leaned out and stretched out their hook sickles, trying to hook it over.
Li Pinghu and Li Rubai covered their shields to protect themselves, lit the three-eyed guns in their hands with fire ropes, and aimed at the battlements, only to hear two roars, white smoke burst out, and several lead shots were shot out from the mouth of the guns (so shotguns were used at close range, in fact, they were some small lead shots), and several Jianzhou soldiers turned over and fell.
Li Pinghu and Li Rubai took the opportunity to jump on the ladder and quickly climbed up. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ah Hai ordered the Jianzhou soldiers to drop the rolling wood and stones, and Li Pinghu and Li Rubai raised their shields diagonally to cover and unload their strength, although they were not injured, but they were also unable to advance an inch.
Seeing this, Li Rumei hurriedly ordered his archers to shoot them with arrows, and shot some of the emerging Jianzhou soldiers, Li Pinghu and Li Rubai took the opportunity to jump up a few steps and were close to the battlement.
The Jianzhou soldiers on the wall went crazy or shot down with a curved bow, or smashed down with wood and stones, and stabbed with spears, Li Pinghu and Li Rubai held the ladder with one hand and a shield with the other, gritted their teeth and fought hard. But after a long time, it is still inevitable that they will gradually become a little overwhelmed, and at this moment the distance between the two of them is already very close, Li Rumei is afraid of accidentally injuring the two, and does not dare to shoot arrows again.
Li Chengliang in the distance also regretted a little, especially with his second son Li Rubai above, which made him even more nervous.
And Li Rumei, who was in front of Li Chengliang, suddenly jumped on top of a big stone at this time, holding a bow in her hand, carrying two pots of carved arrows, and shouted: "Second brother beware!" With that, the iron-tired bow creaked.
Li Rumei's eyes froze, and she shouted again: "Wow! ”
An arrow shot out in response to the sound and shot straight at Gule Village. Li Rubai only felt a screaming and piercing on the ladder, turned his head to look, only to see a beam of cold light breaking through the wind and electricity, hitting the face, his heart was shocked, he subconsciously shrank his neck and wanted to hide, and suddenly heard a "Ahhhhh
Everyone saw that Li Rumei's carved arrow was in the middle of the face of the Jianzhou soldiers.
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PS: Li Rumei performed well in the pacification of the Renchen War, and it is said that she is quite good at shooting, so she also showed him a hand in the book, lest someone say that I am Heitieling Li. I don't have anyone black, and I write truthfully about what period and what kind of performance I have. People change, and the late depravity and the early heroism do not conflict in my concept.