novelraw Chapter 804 The Carpenter Emperor 79
Chapter 804 The Carpenter Emperor 79
The city of Shenyang, which resisted Jiannu's madness for several days, was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the faces of every defender of the city were full of excitement and exhaustion.He Shixian, You Shigong, Chen Ce, Jiang Bi, Zhu Wanliang and other commanders-in-chief, they rotated during the day and night, which was slightly better than Xiong Tingbi and Zhou Yongchun who guarded the city day and night.
Xiong Tingbi's voice was so hoarse that he couldn't speak.The soldiers who were afraid of his identity and official position in the past, now admire him wholeheartedly.Zhou Yongchun was not only the deputy manager, but also the governor of Liaodong. Because he properly arranged the treatment of wounded soldiers, he also made the guarding soldiers who rotated every two hours have enough heat every time they went down the city. The food and the ginger soup to dispel the cold earned him the same respect.
As the supervisor of the army, Wang An quietly took over the task of maintaining stability in the city because of the large amount of military supplies such as meat, ginger, and medicine sent before.Not only did he not interfere in the military and political affairs of Xiong Tingbi and Zhou Yongchun, but he often stood on the city tower and recorded the actual records of the soldiers repelling the Jiannu attack. Inner friendly treats.
The harmonious relationship between the military and the government and the soldiers made Shenyang City look like an iron wall.
Xiong Tingbi asked for Wang An's writing pen during the interval of the battle, tore a piece of paper and wrote quickly.
"Meng Tai, have you checked the gunpowder depot?"
"Brother Feibai, don't worry, the gunpowder depot is still [-]% full." Zhou Yongchun was originally a silent character, and he didn't speak unless necessary, so his voice was tired and hoarse, but it was related to his own responsibility. The answer was quick and unambiguous at all.
"Send heavy troops to keep an eye on the gunpowder depot, and anyone who tries to get close will be killed without mercy."
The wild grass baring its teeth and claws revealed Xiong Tingbi's mood at the moment.
Zhou Yongchun nodded, "Okay. I'll send some more guards over there."
Jiannu's bow is strong and the arrows are thick, and Daming has to rely on the crossbow machine, so he doesn't have much advantage in shooting against each other.Now the Jiannu who started attacking the city were all wearing double-layer cowhide armor. Only a few soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could shoot through at a hundred paces, but at such a distance, as long as the soldiers dared to stand up, they would be shot and killed by Jiannu.
Without the help of artillery, explosives/powders, and the thick ice armor, Shenyang City might not survive even three days and would have to change hands.
Wang An has been watching more and talking less these days, he instructed his eunuch to pour tea for Xiong Tingbi.
"Xiong Jinglue, according to our family, there are basically no Han Chinese who attacked the city yesterday."
Xiong Tingbi nodded
Zhou Yongchun saw that Xiong Tingbi had no intention of writing, so he said to Wang An: "The Han people brought by Jiannu as slaves have been exhausted. Now Nu/Erhachi has to let their clansmen start playing. They Jurchen clansmen are limited. , within ten years of death in the city of Shenyang, there will be one less person who can join the army. The tens of thousands of us will fight him one-on-one, and Jiannu will definitely not be able to afford us."
Xiong Tingbi quickly wrote on the paper: "Five-to-one offense and defense."
Zhou Yongchun disagreed and said: "Our soldiers are not strong enough. It takes two or three men to stand down from a high position to withstand a Jiannu attacking the city wall. If it weren't for their limited ladders, our casualties would be even greater."
Xiong Tingbi patted Wang An on the shoulder, gave him a thumbs up, and quickly wrote on the paper: "Fortunately, Wang Neixiang brought the forbidden army. Two of these forbidden soldiers are worth three Liao troops."
After Wang An and Zhou Yongchun read this sentence, Xiong Tingbi immediately threw the paper into the carbon basin.All three fell into silence.Wang An is hard to talk, Zhou Yongchun knows that the corruption of the Liao army is not a matter of a year or two.
The starting point was in the 19th year of Wanli (1591), when Li Chengliang was impeached and dismissed by the officials for killing good men, embezzling military pay, and being extravagant.In the next ten years, the generals of the Liao army still followed Li Chengliang's extravagant habits, but they did not have Li Chengliang's ability to govern the army with an iron fist, which made Liaodong's frontier preparations more and more slack.
By the time the imperial court had to rehabilitate the 29-year-old Li Chengliang in the 1601th year of Wanli (76), Liaodong was no longer the situation where the Liaodong iron cavalry swept Liaodong in Li Chengliang's most glorious period.Although Li Chengliang forcibly moved more than [-] households of Liao people to the interior and abandoned Kuandian and other six forts, it was also because the Liao army at that time was no longer capable enough to hold on to such a large territory as before.
For this matter, Li Chengliang was impeached by the officials, but it also made Liaodong a stable situation again.When it comes to Li Chengliang's merits and demerits, in the more than [-] years of Ming Dynasty's history, he was able to stabilize the border for decades by himself, which is unique.
The rest is up to good luck.Li Chengliang died in the 43rd year of Wanli (1615).Xue Sancai (1612-1617), governor of Jiliao, also told the court that Nu/Erhachi "obeyed" Ming Dynasty.But at this time, Nurhaci had already conquered most of the Jurchen tribes, and in the next year he was called the "Wise Khan of Fuyu Kingdoms" in Hetuala, and established the Jurchen Empire with the country name "Great Gold".
Then two years later (1618), Nurhachi "swears to heaven" in Shengjing, announcing the "seven major hatreds" with the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time led an attack on the Ming Dynasty with 2 horses.Most of the forts east of Fushun City were captured by Nu/Erhachi.He even planned to attack Shenyang and Liaoyang, but due to lack of strength and the threat of Ye He's flank, he also found out that the imperial court had decided to reinforce Liaodong, so he took the initiative to retreat in September.
After that, Liaodong was the rotten mud of Daming.The money was invested, [-] to [-] soldiers were sacrificed, and many general officers who were able to conscript and fight well died. There were also a large number of military supplies and ordnance, etc., which were sent to Nurhachi in vain.
In the past few days, seeing Han slaves attacking the city with the Ming army's standard swords and guns, and seeing the artillery rumbling to the top of the city, they were also captured from the Ming army. Xiong Tingbi and Zhou Yongchun are not the only ones who feel fried. .
The bitterness inside can only be felt by the leaders struggling on the line of life and death at the head of the city, and it is difficult for outsiders to feel it.
The soldiers of the Liao army guarding the city in the past few days have been unexpectedly powerful. One is that Xiong Tingbi's iron-fisted army has achieved good results.Another is that the soldiers defending the city were frightened by the Han slaves who were driven by Jiannu to attack the city.Live to lead the battle, die to be eaten.The soldiers don't need to be mentioned by the commander-in-chief. Everyone knows that once the city is broken, they will be lucky enough to survive, and the future of those slaves is their future.
Otherwise, these soldiers would not be so desperate.
Zhou Yongchun looked at He Shixian, the chief military officer who came in, and got up to give him the seat by the brazier.
He Shixian nodded his thanks and sat down in the seat vacated by Zhou Yongchun, stretched his legs, stepped on the edge of the brazier with the soles of his boots, rubbed his somewhat frozen hands, and then took the ginger tea handed over by the eunuch.
After drinking a cup of hot ginger tea, He Shixian seemed to regain his vitality.
"Lord Xiong, it's a good thing that Jiannu came to attack our Shenyang first. If this posture is taken to Fengji, they will not be able to take Fengji away."
Wang An has never been to Fengji, so he doesn't know the situation there.Xiong Tingbi and Zhou Yongchun both nodded in unison.
Zhou Yongchun said: "Jiannu is based on the fact that there is a lot of food in Shenyang City, and he plans to take Shenyang and withdraw his troops if he can pass this winter. Brother Feibai, Mr. He, do you think this is the case?"
Jiang Bi, who lifted the door curtain and came in, answered, "The old Jiannu made a wrong decision this time. We soldiers are united, and we will grind with him like this. I don't believe in that evil anymore. Wait until the spring of next year to see them eating in the city. What fills the stomach. Eat dirt."
Seeing that both of them came in, Zhou Yongchun knew that Jiannu had temporarily stopped attacking the city.He turned back and said to his guard: "Bring the food box here, we will all deal with it here."
Jiang Bi said: "Chen Ce and Zhu Wanliang are going up to the city to watch. They asked me to persuade the two adults to go back and have a rest. Sleep for two hours at least so that you don't suffer too much. I don't know how many days it will take."
Zhou Yongchun persuaded Xiong Tingbi, "Brother Feibai, you go back to sleep for two hours before you replace me. There is nothing wrong with the city, so I can sleep here for a while."
Xiong Tingbi shook his head and refused.
Wang An then suggested: "Why don't you just move a screen over to cover you from the wind and forget about sleeping here for a while. In case something happens, you can call Xiong Jinglue to get up and make up your mind."
Jiang Bi looked at Xiong Tingbi's reddened eyes and the black eye sockets that had been squeezed in. Before Xiong Tingbi agreed, he got up and asked the guards to move the screen and bring some more bedding.
Sixty miles away in Fengji, Chai Guozhu, the commander-in-chief, saw that Jiannu had evacuated about half of his troops from the city, so he said to his colleagues Li Bingcheng and Liang Zhongshan: "Do you think that Jiannu's evacuated troops went to Shenyang?" Reinforcement?"
Li Bingcheng nodded, "It seems that the battle in Shenyang is fierce."
Liang Zhongshan was eager to try, "There are only ten thousand people in the city at most, and we can almost eat them all."
Chai Guozhu immediately shook his head, "Our tens of thousands of troops are dispatched, and it's okay to eat Jiannu's [-] troops. But it is impossible to be unscathed. If we can achieve two-on-one casualties in a field battle against Jiannu's elite soldiers, we will all be killed. It was a fluke.
But the slaves under the city must be closely related to the siege of Shenyang.Without these 1 people, the old Jiannu will inevitably send tens of thousands of people to take revenge.
It's just the three of us here, and we don't say anything false.If it's just for defending the city, the manpower we have collected will be able to remain undefeated against [-] Jian slaves, with the advantage of the city wall.If there are casualties and more than [-] personnel are reduced, we will not have enough manpower to defend the city.
Do you two say so? "
Liang Zhongshan nodded and said, "Old Chai, you are right. We may have to exchange Fengji and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers for this achievement. I think we should make strategic arrangements to defend Fengji."
Li Bingcheng thought about it and felt that what Chai Guozhu said made sense.It also gave up the idea of going out to fight the slaves who besieged the city.But Jiannu took away [-] elite soldiers to go to Shenyang, and he began to worry about Shenyang.
"You said Shenyang plus the [-] elite soldiers from the past, will Lao He and the others not be able to hold it? If they can't hold back the Jiannu army and turn back and attack Fengji with all their strength, I think Fengji will be suspended."
Liang Zhongshan laughed at him.
"Look at how courageous you are, you are smaller than a mouse." Seeing Li Bingcheng staring incredulously, he added: "Shenyang has more soldiers than our side, the city walls are stronger than Fengji, and artillery, explosives, etc. More or less, Xiong Jinglue, Governor Zhou, and Wang Jianjun are all in Shenyang City. With their heads, as long as they want to defend the city, there is no way they can't keep it. Don't worry."
Although what Liang Zhongshan said was reasonable, the three of them still had no confidence in besieging Shenyang with Jiannu's elite soldiers.
Chai Guozhu gritted his teeth after thinking about it, and said, "If Shenyang falls, we will still defend Fengji desperately. Defending the city can always make a one-on-two fight, and we can even pull one more back.
Once it becomes impossible to do anything, we will light the explosive/drug storehouse, burn all the food, and we must not leave a grain of rice for Jiannu.
The imperial court chopped up all the Shanxi merchants, which obviously cut off the supply of Jiannu.Even if we die, we will drag a few more starving ghosts. "
Liang Zhongshan and Li Bingcheng nodded in agreement.
"As generals, we have long been prepared to shroud ourselves in horse leather. If we can fight Jiannu one-on-one, I will not be weak. After 18 years, I will be a good man again."
The author has something to say: Hetuala Ancient City
Located in Yongling Town, Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province.It is 5 kilometers away from the world cultural heritage and national key cultural relics protection unit Qing Yongling Mausoleum in the west. "Hetuala" is a Manchu language, which means Henggang in Chinese, that is, a small hill with a flat top.Now it is a key cultural relic protection unit in Liaoning Province and a national 4A-level tourist attraction.
补充
Nu/Erhaci's Seven Great Hatreds: (The original edict is available online)
1. The Ming Dynasty sent troops to defend Yehe and resist Jianzhou;
2. The Ming Dynasty favored Yehe and Hada and oppressed Jianzhou;
3. Because of the support of the Ming Dynasty, Yehe broke the oath and passed on the woman who married Hachi to Mongolia;
4. The Ming Dynasty killed □□Hachi’s father and ancestor for no reason;
5. The Ming Dynasty forced □□Ha Chi to withdraw from the cultivated Chaihe, Sancha, and Fu'an lands, and was not allowed to harvest crops;
6. The Liaodong authorities of the Ming Dynasty sent the garrison Shang Bozhi to Jianzhou to act as a domineering force;
7. Jianzhou hunted and killed Ming people who crossed the border according to the oath with the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty forced □ Hachi to pay for the lives of the people who crossed the border.