Chapter 36 Breaking through three levels in a row and taking Weinan lightly

Li Jing and the others knew that today's task was very heavy, and today they had to break through the defense line of the remaining two camps, lay down Weinan, and the cavalry would raid at night, and they must rush to Xi'an before dawn tomorrow. Because only in this way can the Dashun army not be left with time for large-scale destruction.

Leaving a regiment to clean up the battlefield, Li Jing and Li Wei led people to the front of the second line of defense of the Dashun army.

Looking at the second camp, Li Wei said to Li Jing: "Now you need to fight hard, and you don't have time to play your tricks of stealing chickens and dogs." ”

"Yes! Time is running out. Let's lighten the burden on Yang Jing and their convoy and unload some more shells! Li Jing said.

"Wait!" Li Wei said, "Listen, Lao Fan, the cannon on their river is no longer sounding. It means that their work is done, and the matter of opening the door will be handed over to their naval guns! ”

"Okay! Our artillery just needs to deal with the infantry in the camp. After Li Jing finished speaking, he used the radio station to get through Fan Chengkun and said to him: "Old Fan! When you're done with your work, come and help us blast the fence of the camp in front of us!" ”

"Huh!" Fan Chengkun smiled and said, "Okay! Our brethren are itching their hands as they see you playing. We listen to you, when to fire your squeaks. We'll be able to support you with our heavy machine guns in a moment. ”

"Let's start when our artillery is arranged," Li Jing said to Li Wei, "you go and urge the artillerymen to hurry up." ”

"Good! I'll take a look. After saying that, Li Wei left.

When Li Wei came back, he said with a smile on his face: "Okay! You see if my trick is easy to use. I said to the artillerymen, if you don't hurry, your mission will be fulfilled by the navy. This time they were in a hurry. ”

"Huh!" Li Jing said, "This trick works! I'll immediately ask Commander Fan to open fire. When it's over, let our artillery fire. ”

Li Wei said: "I'll go to the artillery position to have a look, and you can greet you here!" ”

After Fan Chengkun and the sailors on the Xiurong cleared the forts on the bank of the Wei River, they heard that they were going to participate in the bombardment of the second camp defense line of the Dashun Army, and they all came to their senses.

Waiting for Li Jing's order to open fire, the six 130mm heavy guns on the Xiurong spoke again.

From south to north, the 130 guns of the Xiurong began to cut through the camp wall of the Dashun army. Shells lifted the camp wall into the air one by one, along with the soldiers guarding it.

Most of the army artillerymen in those kilns had never seen the firing of 130 heavy guns, but this time they saw the power of 130 heavy guns, and the confidence of the artillerymen, who had always thought it was very good, was hit. Compared with other people's guns, their own mortars are simply like toys, and even 120 heavy mortars can't be compared with others. Besides, other people's guns are aimed at directly, that is, they are aimed at each other, and the accuracy is different, and the level targets are not as good as others. However, Li Wei told them that the target behind the attack wall was mortars had an advantage. The artillerymen only regained a little confidence.

After a while, the Dashun army spent a lot of effort to build the wall, and they were all bombarded into the sky. The officers and soldiers of Dashun all knew that the camp could not be held, but none of them dared to retreat. Seeing Fan Chengkun and them finish bombarding the wall, Li Wei commanded the artillery to cover the camp again.

Li Jing then ordered the infantry to occupy the camp and clean up the battlefield. Just as Li Jing was about to go forward to deal with the third camp, the special forces who reconnoitred in front came back and reported that the Dashun army in the third camp had run away.

When Yuan Zongdi fought against the Yaogang people in Shanxi, the right battalion he commanded suffered heavy losses, and he was very clear about the combat effectiveness of the Yaogang people. Before dawn today, I was awakened by the sound of an explosion in the distance, and when I got up and asked, I realized that the explosion was coming from the east, and Yuan Zongdi knew the direction of his own defense over there, could it really be that the Yaogang people called? Although Yuan Zongdi has been on the battlefield for a long time, it is a lie to say that he is not afraid of the people of Yaogang. After getting dressed, some soldiers came to report that there was a big explosion in the first camp, and the kiln gang people were firing at the camp, and the first camp might be difficult to hold.

Yuan Zongdi knew too well that as long as the Yaogang people attacked, his 10,000 people would be fat on the lips of others. He set up a fence there to block it, which was something that Li Zicheng could not help but do. Yuan Zongdi knew that his Weinan would not be able to hold on for long. He immediately sent a fast horse to deliver a letter to Li Zicheng in Xi'an, asking King Chuang to prepare early. Then he ordered the camps that came out to resist desperately and never retreat.

Even if Yuan Zongdi was mentally prepared, he didn't expect that the first line of defense would not be able to withstand for a while, and then the second line of defense would be shelled. Yuan Zongdi understood that such a camp was like nothing in front of the Yaogang cannons. In particular, the soldiers reported that Yaogang had a very powerful cannon, which had never been seen before, which could fire from a boat on the Wei River, and a single shell could blow up a fort and even the cannon and the people.

Yuan Zongdi immediately ordered the soldiers of the third camp to retreat to Weinan City quickly.

As soon as the officers and soldiers of the third camp entered the city of Weinan, the soldiers came to report that the second camp had been occupied by the Yaogang people.

Yuan Zongdi said in his heart, "I will order it quickly, otherwise the soldiers in the third camp will be gone." There are not many veterans left in their own right battalion. Everyone retreated to Weinan City, and maybe they could resist for a while. Thinking of this, Yuan Zongdi once again sent someone to send a letter to Li Zicheng and report the current situation to Li Zicheng.

Hearing that there was no one in the third camp, Li Jing was happy and said, "Okay! We save a little effort, and the army behind us still has a place to live, so we don't need to set up tents. We directly advanced to the city of Weinan, and we will eat after laying down Weinan. ”

Li Wei said: "Let's transfer my heavy artillery division." We don't have to talk nonsense, just blast the Weinan city wall open and be done. ”

"Huh!" Li Jing smiled and said, "Are you really afraid that Commander Fan will rob you of all your jobs?" Don't be afraid, if you go any further, their Xiurong number won't be able to enter. The rest of the dirty work of tearing down the walls is yours. ”

"Huh! Let's just cooperate and do this work together! Li Wei said, "Didn't Mr. Ouyang say that someone must go to Xi'an tomorrow morning?" ”

In fact, Li Wei now has four heavy artillery divisions, but the number is complete, and each division only has ten 130 heavy guns. Because the heavy artillery produced now must first be used for modification on the Fu ship. They ran out before they could give them to Li Wei. However, Li Wei made the number of heavy artillery divisions very terrifying, which was to make a talent reserve.

There were originally more than 25,000 people in Weinan City, but this time more than 10,000 people came back, and there were more than 30,000 people. Yuan Zongdi also asked the people in the city to come out to help defend the city. Because after Li Zicheng seized Shaanxi, he regarded Shaanxi as his home, and indeed did a lot of good things for the poor people. Those people were also willing to help the Dashun army defend the city, which was the only thing that the Yaogang people didn't expect. Of course, this is something to consider when taking stock of the post-war period.

When Li Jing and the others came to the city of Weinan and lined up the cannons, they could see clearly without binoculars that the walls of the city of Weinan were densely covered with the heads of people defending the city. The people of Yaogang have long received information that the Dashun army has cast a large number of ** and is ready to be used to defend the city, because they suffered a lot of losses when they attacked the city in Shanxi.

Li Wei put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Li Jing, "Li Jing, the situation is a little bad!" Many of the people who defended the city were the people of the city. ”

Li Jing picked up the binoculars and looked at them for a while and said, "It's a little troublesome." Let the propaganda vehicle behind hurry up, ask the people to leave the city wall, and tell us that we are about to run away! ”

"Don't bother with it, just let Commander Fan shout from the loudspeaker on their ship." Li Wei said.

"Great idea!" After Li Jing finished speaking, she used the radio to communicate with Fan Chengkun.

After a while, several loudspeakers on the Xiurong began to speak: "Hello, officers and soldiers of Weinan City! We're about to fire on the walls of Weinan. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, please leave the city walls! In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, please leave the city walls! ”

The officers and soldiers in Weinan City had never heard such a loud voice, and they all felt very strange. What's even more strange is that they are about to run away and tell us that this is a war, and it must be to scare us. As a result, the officers and soldiers of the people on Weinan did not move, they all watched the excitement in the city, and it was also interesting to listen to this loud voice that had never been heard before.

There was no way, Li Jing and Fan Chengkun communicated again.

The loudspeaker on the Xiurong sounded again, "People of Weinan, please don't be afraid. We came to Shaanxi to beat Li Zicheng away and not hurt the people. After we conquer Shaanxi, we will adopt the policy of exempting taxes for three years, and the tax revenue after three years will be half of that of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, all the taxes collected in the first year were set aside for the livelihood of the people in various states and counties, such as building bridges and roads. The tax revenue of the second year is also three or seven cents, and seven cents are reserved for various states and counties; After the third year, it will be opened to five or five, and half will be reserved for the states and counties. As you may know, this is already the case in Shanxi. Moreover, the officials of the states and counties are elected by the people themselves, and whoever can do good things for everyone, you can elect him, and if you can't do good things for the people, the people can remove him. Therefore, we ask the people not to die for the Dashun army. We must have tried our best to persuade each other because we cherish everyone's lives, otherwise we would have fired a long time ago. In order to show you the power of our artillery fire, please leave the corner tower at the northeast corner of the city wall. Our cannon was already aimed there, and we were going to shoot it out right away. Please get out of there now, please get out of there now! ”

At this moment, the people of the city were moved to hear it, and those who were close to the corner tower on the car wall left one after another. No one wants to be a target there! The officers and soldiers of Dashun also left there.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang on the Xiurong, and a cannonball went straight to the corner tower on the northeast corner of the Weinan City Wall. There was an explosion of "boom", and in the flash, the entire corner tower was blown away.

The soldiers and civilians on the city wall were stunned for a while, and after the people woke up, they all began to walk down the city. Those officers and soldiers did not dare to leave, and they all looked at their superior officers with their eyes. But the officers didn't dare to leave, and they didn't want to be blown up like that. Because this is not on the battlefield, you can rush up and fight with the opponent. No one wants to wait for death on the city wall like this.

At this time, the horn on the Xiurong sounded again, "Officers and soldiers in Weinan City, we don't have time to wait any longer. We must be under the city of Xi'an tomorrow morning. This time we will only attack the east and north walls of Weinan, you can escape from the south and west gates, we will not chase after the city, if you are willing to surrender to us, please go outside the city and wait for us to accept. We don't need to talk about the preferential treatment we have for prisoners, and everyone knows about it. Please leave the walls now. I started counting to a hundred, and when we got to a hundred, we opened fire. Now, one, two, ......."

The numbers were counting, and each number was shaking the hearts of the soldiers of the Dashun Army in the city. Even Yuan Zongdi, who pretended to be calm in the city and told everyone not to be fooled, couldn't support it this time. His own soldiers carried him out of the city and ran towards the city. Yuan Zongdi knew that Weinan could not hold it, but he could not evacuate without the order of King Chuang. Yuan Zongdi immediately wrote a letter to Li Zicheng amid the sound of artillery outside the city, telling Li Zicheng that the weapons of the Yaogang people were much more powerful than when we encountered them in Shanxi. We couldn't hold Weinan for half a day, so I decided to live and die with Weinan. I hope that King Chuang will not stick to Xi'an and find another way. Then send someone to send it to Li Zicheng quickly.

The sound of the tweeter on the Xiurong, when it was counted to a hundred, six 130 naval guns and Li Wei and his ten 130 heavy guns opened fire together. Sixteen 130 heavy artillery shells were fired at the northeast corner of the Weinan city wall, and half of the city wall collapsed after a loud bang. Then the continuous direct fire of sixteen heavy guns blasted the city wall more than ten zhang wide, Li Wei and their mortars began to shoot into the gap, covering the infantry to rush into the gap, the heavy machine gunners set the heavy machine guns on the high places on both sides of the gap, and fired into the city, covering the charging infantry poured into the Weinan city.

Yuan Zong in the city was the first to be abnormal, and he did not reach the first line in the first battle. When he learned that the Yaogang people had entered the city, he ordered the surrounding ten guards to flee for their lives. In the end, there were still more than a dozen pro-soldiers who insisted on being with Yuan Zongdi.

Soon, the soldiers of Yaogang surrounded the general's yamen. After the gate of the yamen was blown open with a bang, the kiln soldiers armed with automatic rifles rushed into the courtyard and immediately surrounded Yuan Zongdi and others in the courtyard. More than a dozen of Yuan Zongdi's personal soldiers held sharp blades and protected him behind him.

At this time, the special forces who came to arrest Yuan Zongdi on the order of Li Jing rushed into the courtyard. One of the squadron leaders who led the team, who was also a veteran of Li Jing, held a single knife in his hand and said to Yuan Zongdi: "General Yuan! If you resist a dozen or so, it will be a dead end, and you should consider that they also have parents and brothers, give them a way to live. Now that the matter has come to this, let's accumulate a merit! ”

Yuan Zongdi was also very sensible and said: "What this hero said is true. Boys! Listen to my orders and lay down your weapons! ”

These pro-soldiers were still a little hesitant, and Yuan Zongdi shouted, "Bold!" Dare not listen to orders! ”

The pro-soldiers were helpless, and they dropped their blades and were escorted away by the kiln soldiers one by one. Yuan Zongdi laughed and said, "Please leave me a whole corpse for this hero!" As he spoke, he raised the sword in his hand and wiped his neck.

The squadron leader drank, "Wait! ”

"General Yuan! I have heard of the general's name for a long time, and I heard that the general is also a martial artist. I'll give the general a chance today, let's try our martial arts. If I lose, let the general out of the city. If I win, how about the general being my prisoner? ”

No one wants to die, and since there is a chance and reason to live, no one will let it go.

Yuan Zongdi said: "Since I am not afraid of death, am I still afraid of competing with you?" Come on! After saying that, he opened his posture and waited for the squadron leader.

Li Jing's squadron leaders are all veterans who followed Li Jing first, and they are all masters among masters. Over the years, they have been constantly learning together. Chen Yufeng, Liu Yun, and Li Wei also often communicate with them, and their martial arts are even greater, especially in actual combat ability.

Yuan Zongdi's martial arts were originally good, and he also fought on the battlefield. But that's all battlefield practical stuff more. As for the one-on-one serious battle, he didn't have time to study it as Li Jing's special forces.

So after a few rounds of fighting, they all knew what their opponents were doing. When he looked at him again, the squadron leader knocked Yuan Zongdi's sword away with a single sword, and then arched his hand and said, "General Yuan, please keep your word and follow me!" ”

Yuan Zong stomped his feet for the first time, sighed and said, "Alas! Let's go! ”

From the time they left Tongguan, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He handed over the matter of the striker to Li Jing, and the two of them were more relaxed this time than in Yaogang.

Li Jing was in front of them, and when the explosion of the war sounded, Chen Yufeng asked Ouyang He: "Li Jing, this little rabbit cub, can you hit Xi'an tomorrow?" Are we putting too much pressure on him? ”

"Huh! Chen is always distressed, right? Ouyang He said, "Since we set off yesterday afternoon, we haven't stopped all night until now, and the soldiers may be tired." However, their forwards, regardless of cavalry and infantry, have horses and should be able to hold out. As for whether they can reach Xi'an on time, I think as long as they take Weinan today, it will be fine. Actually, it's nothing if we arrive in Xi'an a little later. It's just that if we can arrive on time, we can hit Li Zicheng's confidence. Let him see how fast we can advance, and let him know better what we're capable of. ”

"Haha! The big explosion just now may be the old routine played by Li Jing and them, which blew up people's camps. Chen Yufeng said, "In this way, it seems that the first camp can be solved after dawn." ”

"It should be," Ouyang He said, "I heard Mr. Zhang say that Li Yunhe's tractor has been successfully developed." It was said to be strong enough to hold up to a hundred horses. You don't have to eat grass yet, that thing will be made in the future, and if it's called a tank, ordinary houses and walls can be directly hit over. ”

"That's right! I've also heard about the tank. Chen Yufeng said, "In the future, the battle will be even better." Tell me about Li Zicheng, what else are they comparing with us? How good is it to drop early? ”

"Haha! No one is reconciled! Ouyang He said with a smile.

By the time Chen Yufeng and the others arrived in Weinan, Li Jing had already begun to lead people to clean up the battlefield. Hearing that Yuan Zongdi was caught, Ouyang He said: "Mr. Chen, let's put General Yuan back, we can't kill him if we keep him, we can't use it." It's better to let him send another letter to Li Zicheng and urge him to hurry up! ”

"I'll see it!" Chen Yufeng agreed.

Yuan Zongdi was very entangled when he heard that the kiln gang people were going to release him. First, I don't understand why the kiln gang people let themselves go, and besides, the kiln gang people let go of themselves, and they don't have the face to go back!

Later, Li Jing personally came to see Yuan Zongdi and said, "General Yuan, as a soldier, you have completed your mission. You also saw that it is not that you and your soldiers are not brave and do not give their lives, but that the gap in strength is too great. Today's defeat is not your personal defeat either. We, Mr. Ouyang, ask you to go back and bring a letter to King Chuang, and also to persuade him not to waste the lives of soldiers. Dying a few more people won't change anything. We will also return your personal soldiers to you, and you can take your personal belongings with us. ”

After listening to Li Jing's words, Yuan Zongdi looked up to the sky and sighed!

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".