Chapter 224: A Beautiful Fire
When the two letters were on their way to Beijing together, outside Huairen County, a 'earth-shattering' battle was about to start here.
Fifteen thousand elite rebels, armed with weapons, all stood outside Huairen County, forming one after another decent infantry phalanx.
About 500 paces in front of the rebels, 6,000 tigers and leopards on foot, also unwilling to stand up and down on the battlefield, confronted the rebels who were several times their size.
The only difference is that in front of the 6,000 Tiger and Leopard Army Infantry Cavalry, there are almost fifty medium-sized and even heavy Franc machine guns, and at this moment, they have raised their black hole hole cannon muzzles, waiting for the arrival of the attack order.
After glancing at the empty city wall of Huairen County in front of him, Wei Zheng directly ordered Wang Feng beside him: "General Wang, you can start... Order the artillery brothers, don't save shells, aim at the city walls, and give me a hard bang..."
"Artillery, fire right away..."
"Boom..."As soon as the order was issued, a deafening roar sounded on the battlefield.
Dozens of artillery barrels, which reflected the cold light of the forest outward under the sun's rays, quickly sprayed out fireballs mixed with a large amount of white smoke and black smoke. Wrapped in these fireballs, solid iron bullets that had been burned red erupted directly from the muzzle of the cannon, and then, with a piercing whistling sound, flew into the distance.
To the bewilderment of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on both sides, the solid shells with a sharp whistling sound did not fall into the rebel formation. Instead, he jumped over the rebels' heads, and then smashed them against the wall of Huairen County.
"Boom, boom, boom...", a series of dull crashing sounds sounded on the front line of the city wall of Huairen County. The blue bricks of the masonry wall were hit hard by iron bullets. Directly smashed to pieces. Gravel flying...
In the blink of an eye, four or five large craters with a depth of more than a foot were blown out on the city wall, which had just been intact. In these big pits, because of the loss of the protection of green bricks, the loess wrapped in the center of the city wall is flowing out along the big pit.
On the city wall, which stretches for hundreds of meters, there are not only several large craters suddenly. The battlements that could not see the end were also smashed several times, revealing one gap after another...
It is conceivable that if there are still thousands of rebels guarding the city wall at this moment, under the attack of this round of solid iron bullets, if nothing else, it can be said that the flying rocks and gravel caused by the iron bullets on the city wall can harvest the lives of many rebels.
What's more, there are many solid iron bullets that fall directly on the city wall and are powerful.
When the commander of the rebel army and a group of generals began to feel the strength of the Haw Par Army's artillery fire. The second round of the Haw Par Army, and even the third round... Solid iron bullets. It had already crossed over everyone's heads with a whistling sound again, smashing into the city wall with more and more precision, bringing round after round of more severe destruction to the city wall.
As the city wall was slowly covered by the flying rocks and smoke from the solid iron bullets, the solid iron bullets that kept whistling over everyone's heads finally disappeared when the entire city wall had been smashed into gaps everywhere.
Seeing this, the rebel commander quickly put away the worries in his heart, and shouted to the adjutant general behind him: "It's time to start the operation....order all departments, immediately act according to the plan... Quickly retreat into Huairen County, and then retreat from the South Gate....Don't forget, when you retreat, you will burn the county government of Huairen County...."
"Also, when you retreat, you all shouted to me....only then will others think that this is a war...."
More than 10,000 rebels shouted slogans, like bursting embankments to control floods, and quickly poured into the county seat of Huairen County.
In the face of such a situation, the 6,000 tiger and leopard army infantry riders were not idle.
In particular, the three thousand musketeers who followed closely behind the artillery, under Wang Feng's order, quickly moved into action.
Raising the musket, the muzzle of the gun was pointed diagonally to the sky, and without hesitation, he pulled the trigger.
As soon as the shooting was finished, the musketeers in the second row, who followed in the same way, pointed their guns at the sky and pulled the trigger......
As a result, although the shouts of killing on the battlefield of Nuoda shook the sky, the sound of muskets and artillery shots continued to sound. However, not a single one was injured on either side of the enemy...
When this lively scene was about to last for half an hour, the more than 10,000 rebels standing outside the city of Huairen had disappeared...... Of course, although there are no people, all kinds of cold weapons that have been eliminated by the rebels are spread everywhere.
As for the role of these cold weapons, needless to say, everyone knows that they are used for the imperial court to report success...
Just as Wei Zheng's face slowly showed a heartfelt smile of satisfaction, an exclamation suddenly came out of Zhao Yun's mouth.
"It's on fire....General, the county government of Huairen County is on fire..."
"What's the matter, in all our plans with the rebels, there is no such thing as burning the county government of Huairen County... If the rebels burn down the county government of Huairen County, even if we recapture Huairen County, it will be a ruin..."Wang Feng said to Wei Zheng with a puzzled face.
"If nothing else, this is a surprise from the rebels...", Wei Zheng replied thoughtfully.
"Unexpected delight...."
Zhao Yun directly showed a thick expression of incomprehension on his face,
Facing Wei Zheng, he asked, "General, the rebels are burning down the county government, or even the entire Huairen County, how can it be happy?" ā
After a meaningful smile flashed across Wei Zheng's face, he explained: "Of course it's an unexpected surprise....think about it, after such a big battle to recover Huairen County, it is impossible for us not to kill a rebel." However, we have an agreement with the rebels that we will only shoot guns and not kill people. Under such circumstances, the rebels sent us to burn the county government of Huairen County, which directly solved the problem we were facing..."
"Think about it, if Huairen County is burned by the rebels, then the thousands of rebels we killed in Huairen County will be burned to the ground, and not even a single corpse will be left."
"In this case, the drama we staged with the rebels will become more realistic......"
"Besides, today's Huairen County has long been empty except for the rebels. Even if we were burned by the rebels, we had nothing to lose..."
Wang Feng first reacted from his incomprehension and said loudly: "The general is wise... The last general thought that the fire set by the rebels in Huairen County had also helped us in Tuntian in Huairen County on a certain distance......"
"If the rebels burn down the entire Huairen County, with the existing financial resources of the imperial court, there is absolutely no silver to rebuild a Huairen County. In this case, Huairen County, which has been burned to the ground, will become a piece of chicken ribs in the hands of the imperial court, which wants to take it for itself and has no money to rebuild it..."
"In this way, Huairen County will be in a state of no one to take over and no one to manage for a long time to come. And we, the Haw Par Army, took advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of the situation and gain the actual right to occupy it. ā
"Therefore, the last general will build yƬ, for the fire set by the rebels in Huairen County, not only do we not want to save it, but also find a way to add another fire, and strive to burn the entire Huairen County to ruins...."
Wang Feng was able to have such an opinion, which was obviously unexpected by Wei Zheng.
Just when the satisfied smile on Wei Zheng's face became thicker and thicker, Zhao Yun, who had not spoken, said with a look of unwillingness to lag behind: "General, the last general thinks that this fire of the rebels has another benefit for us..."
Seeing Wei Zheng nodding his head and motioning for himself to continue, Zhao Yun quickly sorted out the thoughts in his mind and opened his mouth to analyze: "General, I remember that you once said that one of the most important reasons why we want to play this scene with the rebels is to raise our own respect..."
"Since it is to raise the self-respect, the last general is thinking, since we know, the court also knows. And in order to prevent the imperial court from being suspicious of us because of this, and once again saying that we are not good at using troops, we can just make a fuss about the fire set by the rebels in Huairen County. ā
"After a bloody battle, our Tiger and Leopard Army successfully attacked the city of Huairen County and fought the rebels at close range. However, in order to inflict mass casualties on our Tiger and Leopard Army and to block the offensive of our army, the cunning rebels actually arranged a large number of fire-burning objects in Huairen County. ā
"When more than 1,000 soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army rushed into Huairen County, the rebels ruthlessly set fire to Huairen County."
"In Huairen County, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army and thousands of elite rebels were burned to ashes by this fire in the blink of an eye, and they didn't even have time to react. And the remnants of the rebels also took advantage of our time to fight the fire in Huairen County, and successfully escaped from Huairen County......"
"Beautiful....this story is well told....The last general thought that the story told by General Zhao could be written on the fold and sent to the imperial court...... In this way, the imperial court will believe that we did not deliberately let go of the rebels, and there will be no way to hold our Tiger and Leopard Army accountable for not completely annihilating the main force of the rebels..."As soon as Zhao Yun finished speaking, Wang Feng, as a comrade-in-arms and brother-in-arms, said loudly to Wei Zheng.
Under the simultaneous gaze of the two pairs of eyes, Wei Zheng nodded and replied: "This idea is very good, it is reasonable, and there are facts in front of us, even if the imperial court sends Lord Qincha, we can't find any fault with us, and it can indeed be written into a fold and reported to the imperial court..."
It is rare to get any of Wei Zheng's face, and a trace of irrepressible excitement quickly flashed.
The whole person seemed to be beaten with chicken blood in an instant, and said excitedly to Wei Zheng: "General, since you have agreed to the last general's proposal, then the last general will immediately send someone into Huairen County, add another fire to Huairen County, and strive to completely turn Huairen County into ashes within one day..."
Wei Zheng replied with a tacit face: "Go, remember to pick our most trusted soldiers to complete this task........."