Chapter 156: The Exiles Attack the City
"Hold the people hostage and attack the city with exiles? I didn't expect the loyal battalion to attack the city in this way! The messenger sent by Chen Shuigen came to Nanjing, and Wang Xinyu was extremely shocked when he learned the news. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wang Yuyou sneered: "A thief is a thief!" Rehash! Again, this is the way to attack the city! That's how they used this method to tie my Daming City back then! Later, the Tartars entered the customs, and the thieves were defeated by the Tartars in the field, so this trick was useless! If you can't fight in the field, how can you talk about attacking the city? Now they're doing it again! ”
"Wang Jinbao is ruthless, this trick can be useful against Wang Jinbao?" Wang Xinyu asked.
Wang Yuyou replied: "Wang Jinbao is ruthless, and he really won't show mercy to the people. However, this move can consume Wang Jinbao's city-defending weapon, and can make auxiliary soldiers follow behind. In this way, Wang Jinbao couldn't resist it in the end! ”
"If Zhao Liangdong transfers troops to Yuan, won't Wang Jinbao be able to defend it?" Wang Xinyu asked again.
"Can't hold it! Zhao Liangdong was beaten by Wu Sangui and suffered heavy losses, where is there still the strength to fight in the field? I can only protect myself! With the student's understanding of Wang Jinbao, this person will run away again! Probably all the way west! Wang Yuyou nodded lightly and said, "It's a pity for these innocent people!" I don't know how many people will be killed or injured. ”
Wang Xinyu said: "If the trick of the displaced people attacking the city is used in the Central Plains, it will harm the people, and heaven will not tolerate it!" This is the last time the clan will tolerate them! ”
Yao Qisheng shook his fan and said, "Handsome and benevolent!" ”
"For my Han people, this clan is benevolent and generous. But if it's not my race, this clan is ruthless! Broke into the camp and went to the countries of the Western Regions, and coerced the exiles to attack the city, whatever they wanted! Those Heavenly Sect disciples outside the Jade Gate Pass, no matter how many deaths this domain has, they don't feel distressed! Wang Xinyu stroked his beard and said, "Write a letter to Li Laiheng immediately, so that he will no longer coerce the exiles to attack Xi'an!" The battle of Baoji is the last time! When you get out of the Jade Gate, you can use this trick as you like! No matter how many Heavenly Sect disciples died, this clan doesn't blame him! But if he wants to attack the city with this trick in Xi'an, Hugh blames the clan for being ruthless! ”
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In Baoji City, the corpses under the city are piled up, and most of the corpses are ragged people wearing people's clothes. On the battlefield, the drums were noisy, the trumpets were sounding, and a large group of ordinary people with vegetables on their shoulders rushed towards the city under the supervision of the auxiliary soldiers of the loyal battalion. Behind the auxiliaries, there are also soldiers pressing the formation.
"Attack the city, and don't seal the sword for three days! All the people who participated in the siege of the city were turned into loyal battalion soldiers! Hao Shaoqi shouted and ordered people to go down.
The three days of not sealing the sword stimulated these homeless people, and after taking the city, they could turn into regular soldiers, which also had a great temptation for the homeless. Originally, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi has been poor, and it is precisely because the common people can no longer survive that they will rise up to rebel. After the Qing army entered the customs, because of the increase in the tax revenue in the south of the Yangtze River, the tax revenue in Shaanxi was reduced, so that the people of Shaanxi lived a little better, so the Ganshan Green Camp was particularly loyal to the Qing court.
But even if the Qing army entered the customs so that the people of Shaanxi could live, their lives were not much better, but they could barely guarantee that they would not starve to death, and there were two key factors, the first was that after years of war, the population of Shaanxi was reduced; The second is the entry of high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes into the north.
Now these ordinary people have been looted by the loyalty camp, and have become homeless again, and they have nothing, they can only desperately try their best to capture Baoji.
Cannons rumbled at the head of the city, and feathered arrows and birds fired like a torrential rain, and countless people fell under the rain of arrows and projectiles before they could get close to the moat. These people had no armor on them, and every arrow they shot was an arrow to the flesh, and every round of arrows rained down, and a mist of blood flew through the crowd.
Crowds of people fell, sandbags on their shoulders fell to the ground, corpses and sandbags piled on top of each other. The people in front fell, and the people behind rushed up again, and the hill of corpses and sandbags grew higher and higher. Some turned around and fled, and were immediately hacked to death by the auxiliaries behind them. The people in front didn't dare to turn their heads again, so they could only rush desperately towards the city wall.
"Go on! One day of attack today, and the moat will be flattened! Attack again overnight, and wait until tomorrow morning, and we will be able to go straight to the top of the city! Hao Shaoqi waved the treasure knife in his hand and laughed.
The people in front of them kept falling, and the crowd of displaced people opened the way with corpses, and in less than a day, the moat was filled with corpses and sandbags. Hao Shaoqi ordered again to continue to drive the displaced people to attack the city.
People carrying sandbags rushed across the filled moat and threw sandbags on the ground. Everyone just had one thought in their hearts, to throw the sandbag on the ground as soon as possible, and they could turn around and go back. Although he said that he would have to carry sandbags again after he returned, it would be good to live for a quarter of an hour more in the rain of bullets.
"Huhu, Lao Tzu has survived again!" Zhao Xiaowu dropped a sandbag, turned around and ran. Of the twelve people in his group, there were only three left.
Zhao Xiaowu turned and ran back, followed by his wife and son, who assisted the auxiliaries in pushing the shield cart, which was piled with sandbags. What Zhao Xiaowu had to do was to turn around and run a hundred steps, then pick up another sandbag from the shield cart and come back to pile the mound. The women and children in the back would push the empty shield cart back and carry sandbags up.
Li Laiheng was not as ruthless as Li Zicheng back then, and he couldn't bear to let women and children go to death, so he thought of this method, using women and children to relay, and Qingzhuang attacked the city in front.
As it darkened, the army of displaced people continued to attack fiercely. The Qing army's arrows, gunpowder, projectiles, oil cans, and rolling wood and stones were consumed like flowing water, and the archers and bird gunners of the loyal battalion who followed behind the homeless army continued to shoot at the head of the city, which also caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army.
A bonfire was lit at the head of the city, and bonfires and torches were also lit in the large array of the loyal camp under the city, and the two sides fought at night. Driven by the loyal battalion, the displaced people attacked the city overnight. The corpses and sandbags under the city were piled higher and higher.
The fortified walls were indeed a nightmare for the besieging troops, and the casualties among the displaced people driven by the loyal battalion were extremely heavy, and the corpses and sandbags that continued to fall gradually increased in height. By the time dawn came, the corpses and sandbags were piled up at the top of the city.
"The city can't be defended! Let's go! Wang Jinbao took a few personal soldiers and prepared to run away.
"General, why don't we go through the east gate?" Seeing Wang Jinbao running north, a pro-soldier asked.
Wang Jinbao snorted coldly: "Just think about it with your ass, why did the thieves only attack the south gate and the west gate?" They set up an ambush at the east gate, waiting for us to fall into the net! ”
There are only three gates in Baoji City, the East Gate, the South Gate and the West Gate, and there is no City Gate in the north. When Li Laiheng ordered the storming of the west gate and the south gate, the cavalry of the loyal battalion set up an ambush outside the east gate, waiting for the Qing army in the city to escape from the city.
Wang Jinbao fled from the north with his own soldiers. When they arrived at the northern city wall, dozens of people slid down from the city with ropes, and before the sky was completely bright, Wang Jinbao fled from the city with his own soldiers.