Chapter 225: Artillery Bombardment of Taiyuan, Transshipment Makes Capture of the City (II)
The Jin soldiers had no way of knowing what Wang Mingde and the transport soldiers were thinking, they just knew that if the Song army in front of them did not retreat as soon as possible, they would be killed or captured like the wounded soldiers who stayed in the east gate before, and became the "cross slaves" in the mouth of the Song army.
War, that's it. Either you die or I die.
When the two armies go to war head-on, everyone understands one truth, that is, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.
Regardless of whether Wang ordered the virtue to deceive or not, whether he really wanted to give the Jin soldiers a chance to get closer, those Jin soldiers had only one choice at this time, that is, to rush forward and rush to the Song army to kill the Song soldiers they saw.
It's a pity that the ideas are very plump and the reality is very skinny.
Because these Jin soldiers on the way to the charge ignored another more critical matter, this time it was not just the hundreds of Song troops in front of them who rushed into the city. In addition to these Song troops, there were more than 1,000 Song army vanguard troops who entered the city.
Just as the front team of the Jin soldiers was running to a distance of fifty or sixty paces from Wang Mingde and other soldiers, in the alleys on both sides of the street, 1,500 other transport soldiers were lightly burrowing into the houses facing the street.
When the golden soldiers holding shields in the front team entered the range of the transporters, Wang Mingde did not immediately order the soldiers to open fire, but first glanced sideways at the rooftops on both sides of the street.
After seeing that the soldiers who had sneaked up to the enemy's flanks from the alley had already prepared for an ambush, Wang Mingde suddenly shouted angrily: "One team of one hundred guns, five rounds of combo!" ”
"Bang, bang, bang......"
The bombardment, which was face-to-face and within easy reach, began. The first row of 100 transporters unleashed the first rain of bullets at the golden soldiers holding shields when the enemy had rushed to thirty paces.
This wave of bullets went out, but a hundred people quickly shot out 200 projectiles. Knock down more than 100 golden soldiers who rushed to the front directly to the ground.
When the leader of the army, the golden general, saw that the shield soldiers at the front were all knocked down in the blink of an eye. Dead dead, wounded wounded. Immediately stunned.
At this moment of his shock, Wang Mingde let out a second roar: "Fire on both wings, fight!" ”
"Bang, bang, bang......"
The sound of guns sounded intensively again, but this time it was not only the transporters directly opposite the golden soldiers who opened fire, but also the more than 1,000 golden soldiers on the roofs of the wings and in the attic, after Wang Mingde cheered, and at the same time, these golden soldiers on the street sprayed a rain of bullets like locusts.
The sound of guns was endless, and the Jin soldiers who originally wanted to rush forward and drive the opposite Song army out of the city were instantly defeated.
Seeing that many soldiers were knocked to the ground in an instant, some of the golden soldiers who were walking at the back of the line immediately turned around and wanted to escape.
It's a pity that they will have a chance to escape.
Just as those golden soldiers who wanted to flee for their lives turned around. They were desperate, because when they turned around, they realized that there were already about 500 Song soldiers behind them, holding those small objects, cutting off their retreat.
Before the Jin soldiers, who wanted to be deserters, came to their senses, the five hundred transporters who suddenly appeared behind them also sprayed a rain of bullets at them......
Massacre, this is no longer a war between two armies against each other, you go back and forth. This has turned into a massacre through and through, a massacre completely dominated by firearms, completely dominated by the Song army.
More than 1,000 golden soldiers barely had a chance to release their bows and arrows, and they were all slaughtered on this street in the midst of tea......
Looking at the mountains of enemy corpses, Wang Mingde smiled, and smiled very happily.
Because this is the first time in his life that he has led troops to the battlefield in the real sense. This is the first time. It was so easy for him to kill thousands of golden soldiers in the blink of an eye, face to face.
Who said that scholars can only go to study and become civil officials, with these new firearms that Liu Xing has come up with. Wang Mingde firmly believes that even a person who has no cultivation at all can go to the battlefield and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.
Just as Wang Mingde was smiling happily and counting the corpses of the golden soldiers on the ground, there was another shout of killing from not far behind him, in the direction of the east gate.
There is no need to look back, as soon as he heard the slogans of "protect the country and protect the family, dare to fight first", Wang Mingde knew that it was Zhang Xian who rushed into the city with his Hebei warriors.
The city has been attacked, and Wang Mingde has no intention of greedy for merit. When he heard the shouts of those Hebei warriors, he just gave an order to the soldiers around him lightly: clean up the battlefield and rest in place......
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"Huh?"
That night, the East Gorge was closed.
After Liu Xingcai received the good news that the soldiers and horses of the three routes were being sent all the way to the top priority of the enemy's soldiers and horses gathering and the surrounding area of Zhending City, he also received the good news from Taiyuan City.
But it is different from Li Zhuang, Su Dong and Bi Jin, who walked through a place to kill all the local landlords and Haoqiang, and divided the land to the local people.
The good news from Taiyuan City surprised Liu Xing.
Blinking his eyes and looking sideways at the people sitting around, Liu Xing shook his head a few times and said, "Isn't there a hundred thousand golden soldiers in Taiyuan City, how come Zong and Zhang Ershuai only caught more than 20,000 prisoners for me?" Could the other 80,000 people be killed by Wang Mingde's kid? ”
Seeing Liu Xing so puzzled, Yue Fei, who was sitting on the side, rolled his eyes and suddenly opened his heart.
He smiled lightly, looked at Liu Xing and said, "Taifu, the soldiers under Zong and Zhang Ershuai are mostly Han people who have been bullied by golden dogs in Hebei and western Beijing, right?" ”
Nodding slightly, Liu Xing said in a daze: "What's the matter, Hebei and Jingxi are the worst places to be slaughtered and bullied by the golden dogs, do you think that those seventy or eighty thousand people were deliberately slaughtered in Taiyuan City by the soldiers under Zong and Zhang?" ”
Still smiling lightly, Yue Fei said, "With the mind of the king's envoy, he will definitely not give any order to slaughter the Jin soldiers. The minds of the soldiers under the command of Zong and Zhang Ershuai once they find an opportunity to avenge the blood and the sea. Hmph, Taifu, think about it, what will be the result? ”
If there is revenge, there is no revenge, and there is a deep hatred in the sea of blood, who will not be bloodthirsty.
After listening to Yue Fei's words, Liu Xing also understood that this must be the soldiers of Zong and Zhang, who were mostly from Hebei, Hedong and Jingxi, and launched a massacre as soon as they rushed into the city and were no longer under the control of the generals.
I can't figure out if the more than 20,000 captives are the lucky survivors who Wang Mingde went to capture and protect after he went first.
Liu Xing could fully believe that if Wang Mingde did not protect the Jurchens who laid down their arms and would rather be slaves than be loyal to the Dajin Kingdom, I am afraid that there would not be even those 20,000 captives left.
I'm afraid that Taiyuan City at this time is staging a scene of blood flowing like rivers and corpses everywhere after Wang Yu's army was defeated and the city was broken.
But who is to blame for this? If you want to blame, you can only blame the golden dog for being too arrogant and cruel. If you want to blame them, you can only blame them for having their own land and not living a good life, but they have to expand their ambitions and invade the Central Plains.
The men of the Central Plains seem to be very polite on weekdays, but Liu Xing knows better that the lyrics of a song in later generations are the true nature of the men of the Central Plains: if a friend comes, there is good wine, and if the rich wolf comes, he will be greeted with a shotgun.
It is true that there is no shotgun yet, but the master has come up with a firecracker, a handle, a rear-loading primitive musket and a Shenwu cannon with a range of 1,000 steps.
Once upon a time, you were fierce, but now what is it?
In the past, it was you who killed my Han people like slaughtering sheep and dogs, but now the world has been reversed by the master, and it should be replaced by the soldiers under the master, and you should be slaughtered at will like pigs and dogs.
Flaws must be reported to be a man, kill it, kill it, only seventy or eighty thousand golden dogs, and the master still thinks he will kill less......
In a very short period of time, after Liu Xing quickly thought about these things in his heart, a cunning and murderous smile appeared on his face: "Kill it, kill it, kill it well!" Anyway, there are so many golden dogs, and the master is not short of the seventy or eighty thousand 'cross slaves'. ”
Hearing this, Yanling, who was making tea for Liu Xing on the side, turned his head and glared at Liu Xingdao: "This is the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, what kind of prime minister there is." You have to think about it, if you go on like this, unless you kill all the golden dogs. Otherwise, you'll never want to fulfill your dream of ending the war with war. ”
"What's so hard about killing all the golden dogs?
Listening to Yanling dismantling her own platform, Liu Xing still looked at her sideways with a sly smile and said, "Kill all the golden dogs, I just mobilized the people to ask for land in that wild place." Such a large area of land, the golden dog did not cultivate, only grazing, and was wasted. If one day I kill them all, I can develop the Great Northern Wilderness! ”
Inadvertently, Liu Xing said the original name given to the land occupied by the Jurchens in later generations, which made Yue Fei, Chong Yanling and others all look at each other.
When they came back to their senses and wanted to talk to Liu Xing, Liu Xing had already taken Lei Zhen and Liang Xing and ran out of the room like a smoke and went straight to Zhao Zhen's Luan car......
In the evening of the next day, firecrackers and gongs and drums were noisy in Taiyuan City.
All the soldiers didn't expect that they could still get the reward from Taifu Liu and the emperor when they saw the soldiers under Zong Ze and Zhang Suo slaughtering the golden soldiers in the city.
Zhang Xian and Zong Ying became the first batch of people on the battlefield who were ordered by the Wutai City Communication Division to officially award the first-class Yunlu Medal. Zong Ze and Zhang Suo were also awarded a brand-new Tiger Medal for their meritorious service in supervising the war.
Even Xu Huiyan, who had been stationed outside the West Gate and had not officially sent troops to attack the city gate at all, was also awarded a third-class Yunlu Medal.
The most eye-catching thing for the soldiers in the city was Wang Mingde, who made a military order and was originally scheduled to take the lead in Taiyuan City in a day and a half but only two hours.
When the ambassador of the Communication Department read the emperor's decree, he was full of praise and nothing, and finally let him deserve to receive the greatest reward after the battle to recover Taiyuan City, and was awarded the first-class Tiger Ben Medal, the founding baron, and 400 households.
Being rewarded for meritorious service as an official may not be a real thing that a soldier will be happy about. What really made them happy was that the four transshipment battalions of the advanced cities each received a medal of valor of the third class. The soldiers under the command of Zhang Xian and Zong Ying each received ten stone of grain. And those officers and soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion were rewarded with a third-class Medal of Valor and ten stones of grain each...... (To be continued......)