Chapter 241: Battle Spirit
Nearly half of the afternoon, the south gate opened, and hundreds of people swarmed out, which was a newly established civilian logistics team, all of which were held by refugees in the city, and their first task was to clean up the battlefield.
Chang Yu's helmet was hung up, and accompanied by Niu Yong, he crossed the moat and stopped to look at the trench position.
The corpses on the battlefield are all over the field, the remnants and severed limbs can be seen everywhere, and the eyes are full of hell, which makes people unbearable to look directly, although the warm sun is melting, it is like falling into an ice cave.
Chang Yu dismounted, across the sword, there are several crossroads in the trench array, narrow and curved, only for infantry, not suitable for cavalry, a careless will fall into the trench by the sharp wood pierced through the heart.
The five-mile trench was leveled by the thief army by more than half, and only more than two miles remained, and Chang Yu and his party quickly passed through the complete area and entered the place that had once been captured by the thief army.
It was also the place where the fierce fighting was fiercest, with corpses piled up and blood pouring all over the ground.
The total length of the trench position was about ten miles long from east to west, and about five miles deep from north to south, and the thief army launched an attack in the direction of the Great South Gate, filling in a road about 50 meters wide and about 2 miles long overnight.
It seems that the results are fruitful, but the cost is also heavy.
Chang Yu's eyes were red and he looked around, and saw that most of them were the corpses of thieves and homeless, and most of them died from arrows.
"Lord Factory Governor, the thief army camp has been calm and motionless since the retreat in the morning, it's too abnormal!" Niu Yongnan turned his head and asked.
saw Chang Yu walking towards a corpse.
It was the corpse of an officer and soldier, with a bloodied face, kneeling on a knife and dying.
Chang Yu quietly walked to the corpse and squatted down, seeing that there were no less than dozens of knives on his body, but the fatal blow was an arrow that penetrated his neck! He died a tragic death, his face distorted in pain, and his eyes were blind.
"I, Chang Yu, swear that I will destroy all the thieves to avenge you and your brothers!" Chang Yu let out a low roar with a shudder, stretched out his hand to wipe his eyes, and then stood up and saluted the entity with a standard military salute.
The people behind him were silent, the air seemed to be condensed, and the cold wind that was whistling through was like ice, so even the logistics personnel who were busy collecting the corpses relaxed their movements.
After the salute, Chang Yu took a long breath and turned his head to look at the camp of the thief army in the south.
Sure enough, as Niu Yong said, he vaguely saw the outer bandit patrol, and other than that, it was calm, like a dead camp.
"Huang Lai'er, tired" Chang Yu said lightly, and then said no more.
Niu Yong was thoughtful, and the thief army fought fiercely all night, nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers were wounded, although most of them still had the strength to fight again, but nearly 2,000 people were killed in the battle, which shows the intensity of the battle.
If the officers and soldiers relied on the trenches and fortifications to suffer casualties like this, the thieves' losses were even greater.
Although most of the outburst thieves mobilized last night were peripheral troops such as cannon fodder and surrendered troops, it also caused his head to be broken and bleeding, and he should be resting like officers and soldiers at this time.
Therefore, Chang Yu deduced that it was impossible for the thief army to fight continuously today, at least it was impossible to still fight with him, even if he attacked again, he should still fight.
Although the warm sun is in the sky, but the cold wind is raging, it still makes people shiver, on the trench position, the logistics workers are cleaning the battlefield, the corpses of the officers and soldiers are carried back to the city, and the corpses of the thieves are piled up on the spot and burned.
"My lord, why don't you take the opportunity to mobilize manpower and dig those trenches again?" Niu Yong looked at the trench that had been filled by the thief army and said.
Chang Yu turned his head and looked: "The time has passed, the role has been lost, and besides, Bendu dares to bet, you see that the thief is as calm as water now, but if we dig here, he will immediately send troops to attack."
Niu Yong nodded, thinking about it, how could the thieves allow the officers and soldiers to dig a pit again after a fierce battle all night to take the position.
"The weather was so nice.
Chang Yu looked up and looked at the sky again.
Yes, Niu Yong and others echoed, it is indeed a rare good weather recently.
"But life is getting harder and harder!" Chang Yu looked cold, and turned his head to look at the majestic Taiyuan City.
Niu Yong's heart was cold, yes, the real fierce battle has just begun, and last night was only a prologue.
The Forbidden City, on the Qianqing Gate, Chongzhen, who had just retreated from the dynasty, walked out of the city tower, stood against the wall, looked up at the sky, Beijing City is also a rare sunny day today, although the wind is very strong.
The crown prince Zhu Cihong stood behind him and also looked up at the sky, the father and son have been almost inseparable recently except for their daily lives, and others have not even realized that only the queen knows that the two of them are now working hard for the Ming Dynasty and for the sake of his Zhu family.
And the person tied to the other end of the rope could not be imagined by anyone, not even Chongzhen's father and son, and suddenly a nameless little eunuch with an unknown nationality in the palace could become the last straw for his Ming Dynasty.
The Qing army outside Shanhaiguan is eyeing each other, should Wu Sangui be transferred to the customs? Bai Wang is making trouble in the Yangtze River Valley, and his Daxiguo Co., Ltd. led by Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest is attacking Sichuan for the fifth time, coupled with natural disasters such as drought and plague in various places, like a number of sharp knives piercing Chongzhen's heart, and the knife is bloody.
However, what made him most concerned was the battle of Taiyuan in front of him, because according to the prince's "dream", this battle was too important, once Taiyuan was lost, it would cause a series of collapses, and finally Li Zicheng was beaten to the doorstep, and the Ming Dynasty fell.
Chang Yu's birth surprised Chongzhen's father and son, but also was more of an unexpected joy, never thought that this little eunuch he sent out to be used as an eye, would become a sharp blade that could charge for him in the blink of an eye.
Because of the establishment of a special communication channel, what happened in Taiyuan was sent to the capital several days and nights, and every message could shock him and then be ecstatic.
Chang Yu's actions are simply against the sky in his opinion, not to mention that this thing is crazy for him over there, not to mention the various designs of the thief army with the bigwigs in Taiyuan, and even went to the battlefield several times to challenge the thief general.
If you can fight and be able to hold money, God really can't bear to see the Ming Dynasty perish, so he specially sent this goods!
Although there are all bad things around me now, everything seems to be out of breath on Mount Tai, natural and man-made disasters, lack of money and food...... But when he thought of this little eunuch, Chongzhen felt comfortable, and he always felt that things would take a turn for the better, and there was a glimmer of hope, because ......
According to the prince's "dream": the thief army arrived in Taiyuan Mansion on the sixth day of February, and the eighth city was broken!
But today is the ninth day of the first month, but according to the latest information, the thief army has just arrived at the city of Taiyuan, and it was ambushed by officers and soldiers, and the thief leader Ma Chongxi and Ren Jirong were captured!
And all this was planned and implemented by Chang Yu, can this little eunuch turn the tide in Taiyuan?
Under the city of Taiyuan, by the moat, Chang Yu looked at the dense sharp trees on the frozen ice, looked up at the south, and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "After this pass, I will see the true chapter."
"The thief army has only taken half of the trench after countless casualties in one night, but I am afraid that the thieves are distressed at this time, and he has to think about this moat." Niu Yong was on the side, smiling faintly, and the rest of the people laughed.
"Do you think he'll feel distressed?"
Chang Yu turned his head and glanced at Niu Yong: "The so-called countless deaths and injuries in your mouth may be relieved by him, maybe he is really grateful to me at this time."
Everyone raised their eyebrows: "What does the factory governor mean?" ”
"There are too many soldiers and displaced people, his burden is too heavy, and he can not only attack the city and go to the ground, but also reduce the burden, killing two birds with one stone, otherwise why should he have to fight Taiyuan, he would have returned to Xi'an with the war profits, and he would have to die at least half a times as much cannon fodder when he defeated Taiyuan, and he could get a city of wealth, if he couldn't fight it, the cannon fodder was almost dead, and he could still easily return to Xi'an" Chang Yu sneered.
"I didn't want to break into the thief's scheming so insidious...... Niu Yong couldn't help but scold.
Scheming? Hey, hey, I don't know who is the deer dead, Chang Yu sneered.
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