Chapter 143: The Qing Army Herds Horses

The Qing army has besieged the city for many days, and it has always been the Mongolian and Han army banners of the outer vassals attacking the city, but tonight it was Bayala, the most elite of the Qing army, who attacked the city.

These people are selected from each Niulu, and only ten people are selected for a Niulu, and the Eight Banners are already strong, and the selected Bayala is naturally one in a hundred elites. Normally, these Bayalas only serve as escorts or supervise battles, but seeing that the foreign vassals and Wuzhen Chaoha have never been able to take Linqing, Abatai thought of using this elite army to try it and see if he could make a miraculous achievement.

Most of them wear three-layer armor, their swords are difficult to hurt, and they are not only powerful in foot combat, but also extremely accurate in archery.

The "whooshing" arrows under the city were shot up, and the city immediately screamed.

Wang Yan held down Wang Weidong, holding the arrow shaft on his shoulder socket with some trembling hands, and then broke it violently, Wang Weidong's face turned pale, he bit the pass tightly, inserted the knife in one hand, and sat up directly with his body.

At this time, Wang Yan just helped him up, and there was a scream next to him, a soldier fell on his back, Wang Yan looked back, the soldier was hit by an arrow in his left eye, his face was covered with blood, he covered his left eye with one hand, blood was left from his fingers, and the whole person wailed in pain.

"Quick, drag it down!" Wang Yan now had experience and knew that the wounded could not affect the morale of the defenders, so he greeted him and dragged the wounded soldier down the city with Ah Chen.

On the back of the city wall, a long row of beds had been laid out of the door panels, and in a moment there were already five or six wounded, all wounded by the bow and arrow of the back of the Tartar.

Wang Yan put the wounded on the plank, and an old man immediately ran over, Wang Yan didn't care anymore, and hurried up the city wall. Ah Chen followed behind him and shouted again and again, "Childe, you slow down, be careful~"

Although the Ming army in the city occupied a favorable position, the archers and firecrackers were suppressed by the Tartars under the city, and did not have any upper hand, and as soon as the soldiers showed their bodies, they were easily shot by the Tartars.

Li Ponu didn't even shoot a few arrows to kill a Tartar, the Tartar had arrows stuck in his body, and continued to climb up like a hedgehog, and the defenders of the city immediately panicked when they saw that they couldn't kill these Tartar soldiers.

"Smash the oil and burn them." The injured Wang Weidong roared angrily, lifted an altar in one hand, fell directly from the city, and smashed on the shield raised above his head by the tartar below, the jar shattered, and the fire oil splashed.

Seeing this, the climbing Tartar showed fear on his face, and at this moment, Li Ponu threw away his bow and arrow, pulled out the torch next to him, and threw it down directly.

Wang Yan's heart was beating violently at this time, his throat was dry, and he stood on the steps of the city, his chest rising and falling for a while, before he untied the fire gun on his back. He was a scholar, and knives, guns, and bows and arrows, all of which required a foundation and were not suitable for him, he could only use a firearm that was relatively easy to master.

At this time, the Tartar's bow and arrow were shot quickly and accurately, Wang Yan did not approach the city wall, he squatted on the side, loaded the ammunition, adjusted the position of the arquebus, and then blew the fire head, and prepared to shoot the Tartar who went to the city.

On the city wall, there were screams, and the Tartar soldiers had begun to climb the city wall, but Wang Yan had been aiming for a long time and had not made a single shot.

At this time, Li Ponu and Wang Weidong faced a fierce Tartar, although the Tartar was bloated and inconvenient to walk, but the Yanling knife in his hand was extremely fast, pressing Wang Weidong and Li Ponu to slash and kill.

Wang Weidong waved the knife with one hand to resist, the knife edge cut a lot of gaps after a while, he was injured, and was cut back again and again by the Tartar, seeing that he was about to be forced to the wall, Li Ponu hurriedly forced up from the side, wanting to threaten the flank of the Tartar, but who knew that the Tartar ignored him at all, and continued to force Wang Weidong to slash, Wang Weidong couldn't resist, the knife was chopped off, and the whole person was kicked away by the Tartar, and his body hit the wall heavily.

Seeing this, Li Ponu rushed up and slashed at the Tartar, the war knife slashed across the armor, making a piercing Jin Ge sound, and the sparks splashed, but he couldn't break through the three layers of the Tartar's armor, which made Li Ponu's eyes glare in horror.

The Tartar was about to step forward and kill Wang Weidong, but when he saw this, he slashed through Li Ponu's chest with a backhand, and instantly opened a hole in the cotton armor.

This Bayala itself is very fierce, and it is not easy to break the armor, so it is almost invincible, which is terrifying.

He saw that Li Ponu had been stabbed in the leg, and was about to raise the knife to catch up, when suddenly there was a bang behind him, and a projectile hit him in the back. As if he had been hit by a hammer, the Tartar was dented and knocked forward, hitting the bridge of his nose on the ground. Li Ponu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, but the Tartar moved and wanted to get up again.

Wang Weidong, who got up from the wall, suddenly flew up, pressed the tartar, and then roared urgently, "Quickly pick the armor away and cut off his dog's head." ”

Li Ponu reacted and kicked the war knife in Fei Tartar's hand, while Wang Weidong threw away the smooth knife and short axe on the Tartar's waist, and then picked up the armor on the back of the Tartar's neck.

"If you trip with a hook and sickle or rope, pick open your armor and kill it!" The city was full of cries on the walls.

At the junction of Caozhou, Jining and Yanzhou in Shandong, there is a lake called Nanwang Lake.

According to records, the lake is the eastern end of Junozawa, lingering for more than 100 miles. The Song Dynasty and Liang Shanluo became one, also known as "Zhang Zeluo". In the twentieth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Jeju River, which flows from Imseong to Ansan, was excavated to transport water. Jeju River south and north pass through Namwang Lake, and divide Namwang Lake into two, the west part of Yunxi is called Namwang Lake, with a circumference of 90 li, and the Yundong part is called Namwang East Lake, with a circumference of nearly 100 li.

At this time, in a reed swing on the west shore of Nanwang Lake, a small boat was hidden in it, Gao Yicheng opened the reeds with his hands, looked out, and saw a group of horses galloping in the fields on the edge of the lake, the scene was very spectacular, as if it was to the grassland.

Around Nanwang Lake, there was originally a large area of fertile land, but because the Qing army invaded Shandong, it has become a pasture for the Qing army.

The amount of food of a war horse is very amazing, the Qing army is basically one person and two horses, 100,000 Qing troops plus more than 200,000 war horses, if they all eat grain and beans, the food that the Qing army grabbed is estimated to be not enough to eat themselves, in order to reduce the consumption of food, the Qing army took advantage of the spring when the grass and trees soared, and chose a few places where the terrain is flat and suitable for grazing horses, grazing war horses.

Nanwang Lake has sufficient water sources and the surrounding terrain is flat, which is favored by the Qing army and has become one of the places for the Qing army to herd horses.

Gao Yicheng looked at it for a while, then retreated back and asked, "Brother Fang, are you sure that the main forces of the Qing army have gone to Linqing, and the Qing army here only has two Han army Niu Lu and a thousand Mongolian soldiers?" ”

A man on the boat nodded and said, "Although we are not all the way, but you saved me, how could I lie to you." Since the Tatars entered the customs, the Ming tribes did not dare to fight, they were in Shandong, as outside the customs, since February, Jiannu had people unsaddled and grazing. ”

Gao Yicheng really didn't expect that the Tartars were rampant to this point, and he really regarded the officials and soldiers as nothing, and regarded Shandong as his home.

The man pointed to the outside of the reeds and continued: "As far as I know, on the west bank of Nanwang Lake, there are only so many people in the Tartars, and they are responsible for taking care of more than 8,000 war horses and some people and livestock captured from Caozhou~"