018 [To fight against the general]

Back to the camp, Ma Gui personally praised Huo Fangyi: "You did a good job this time"

Huo Fangyi blamed himself and said, "This time it's all my fault, otherwise I won't let Tu Wenxiu escape." Huo Fangyi said this, but he didn't think so. He thought that you didn't call me in the war anyway, and you can't blame me for escaping the enemy, but he still has to say something good.

Ma Gui smiled gently and said, "How can I blame you? It's just that the worship is too fierce. I didn't expect you to be very good, but you lack a war horse. Later, you can go to the logistics to choose a war horse and be my general. How can you do without a war horse!"

"Thank you, General Ma, but I'm worried that the thief will definitely bring Mongolian reinforcements!"

"Haha, you don't have to worry about this. They have reinforcements, and we also have them! According to Tanma's report, Li Rusong's rebel coalition will arrive in Ningxia in less than three days. This time, it seems that a lot of people have come, and they feel good!" Ma Gui smiled reluctantly, because the arrival of Li Rusong has proved his incompetence in Ningxia City. Although he has never met Li Rusong, he knows that this 25-year-old young man is very *. His father is Li Chengliang, a Northeast warlord. Li Chengliang is a big celebrity in front of the emperor. Li Rusong is the eldest son. It is said that he has a different personality. Often arrogant, Ma Gui couldn't help but be a little worried. He was also an old bone. Although he was not as old as Li Chengliang, he could be Li Rusong's uncle anyway. It was really uncomfortable for him to listen to Li Rusong's command.

However, whoever listens to the command is not based on age or ability, but according to the size of the official position.

On the morning of the third day, General Ma received news here that the coalition was about to arrive. Please lead the troops to welcome them. Ma Gui did not dare to neglect, so he quickly informed the generals of the four directions and lined up together to welcome the new general officer.

The generals in the four directions of southeast and northwest received the news that they rushed to the north gate. Ma Gui had arranged the army neatly, leaving space in the middle. Four people rode horses and stood in the center, looking at the rising sun in the distance.

Before long, a large number of people and horses began to appear in the distance, and the low sound of tens of thousands of people walking. At the forefront of the team are several rows of people riding horses. The front one is more than 180 meters tall and wearing blue armor. He looks like he is in his forties, and his face is full of determination and maturity. Behind him is a big flag with a big letter: Li! It seems that this person is Li Rusong.

Next to Li Rusong, there is also an older one who is tied with him. Generally speaking, every time he goes to the general, he will be accompanied by a supervisor appointed by the emperor himself. This person should be the supervisor. There are more than a dozen generals riding horses behind them, who should be Li Rusong's men.

Li Rusong's army could not see the end from the beginning, and walked very slowly, stirring up endless sand and loess. Li Rusong took people to Ma Gui and others in a hurry, and did not disen the horse. Ma Gui and the four quickly got off the horse and said, "Welcome to the Admiral"

The supervisor next to Li Rusong began to read the imperial edict: "The edict!"

Li Rusong and others got off the horse and knelt down.

"Li Rusong was the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi to discuss rebellion, and Ma Gui was the deputy commander-in-chief of Shaanxi. At the same time, Dong Yikui was removed from the position of commander-in-chief of Ningxia. The rest of the people take on their own duties and calm down the affairs of Ningxia as soon as possible. I look forward to it.

After reading the imperial edict, Admiral Li called Ma Gui and all the general officers here to hold a military meeting in Ma Gui's tent.

Li Rusong sat down and covered his face and scolded: "What have you done in these months when the Holy King has given you an important mission? A Ningxia city can't be taken down for several months. What's the ability of the thief to make you helpless? The Holy Spirit is very disappointed with you! So ask me Li Rusong to scold you instead of him! What other face do you have to go back to meet the emperor? What other face does it have to live in the world?

Li Rusong scolded a little too much and asked who had never lost the war? Lord Ma Gui has experienced hundreds of battles and lost a lot of battles, but he has also won a lot of battles, because he has to suicide if he can't capture a city? That's too fit, and no one will be stupid enough to do that.

"Look at your general officers, which one is not the leader? Unexpectedly, you can't even take a small Ningxia city. This is not a matter of your personal face. This is simply a loss of the people of the country! He also made the thief think that the emperor was full of mediocrity! I don't know what you have done here in the past few months? Eating the country's imperial grain and taking the country's salary is not to let you do nothing here.

Ma Gui sounded very unhappy: We can't take it, but you may not be able to take it when you come! Besides, we have no credit and hard work. At least we have been besieged for so long and consumed a little of his food. Maybe there is no food in the city now, and we should come out and surrender in a few days.

Li Rusong continued to scold. No one dared to reply, but he was not convinced. Li Rusong was just promoted to such a Shanxi admiral because of his father. What's crazy? When we started to go to the battlefield, your boy was still nursing! But who makes others the imperial admiral? With the emperor, no one can afford to provoke him!

Li Rusong has already thought about it. Although he has fought wars before, they are all small battles and are not famous. This time, the emperor gave him such an important task. He must grasp it well. Because he is young, he must first give these old guys a majesty when he comes here, and he will not be able to command him in the future. We.

After scolding, Li Rusong took a sip of water and said, "The emperor only gave me three months. I want to hear about the specific situation of Ningxia City."

Ma Gui doesn't want to explain by himself, but who let him be the deputy general? This job can only be done by himself, which makes a generation younger than him feel very uncomfortable!

While explaining the situation to Li Rusong inside, the army brought by Li Rusong began to move in four directions in an orderly manner outside. In the morning, it had been surrounded by several layers behind Ma Gui and other troops. Liu Dongyan, the general in the city, looked at the addition of more than 100,000 people to the Ming army and was worried. Uneasy." How long can we last?"

Xibai stood beside him: "Mr. Liu, don't worry. With the friendship between me and Hetou, I believe that Tu Wenxiu will definitely call Mongolian reinforcements. At that time, we will be afraid of his Ming army!"

"I hope so!"

After listening to the report, Li Rusong ordered everyone to return to their respective positions, and then buried the pot to make rice, so that these long-distance troops had a good meal, and then had a good sleep. Two days later, he would use his troops!

According to Ma Gui's explanation, the reason why they can't conquer Ningxia City is that the wall of Ningxia City is too high, and the soldiers who worship are brave and good at martial arts. Li Rusong doesn't think so. He believes that Cheng Gao is one aspect, and worshipping soldiers' good at fighting is one aspect, but Ma Gui's incompetence is also a reason. Therefore, Li Rusong believes that Ningxia City is not a bone that is too difficult to gnaw. Under the attack of his great coalition, he will definitely break through the city and kill the enemy within a month! But now he wants to give the enemy another chance to surrender! The result was not satisfactory to him, because a few days later, there was no movement in the city, and he sent Li Ruzhang to the city to verbally persuade him to surrender, but it was a fire together.

So six days later, Li Rusong mobilized his 5,000 soldiers to set up ladders to attack the city, and this time he also brought a very expensive general cannon! There are several kinds of general's cannons. The gun body brought by Li Rusong is cast in raw iron. It is three or five feet long and weighs 100 catties, with a range of one kilometer away. The gun is filled with solid bullets. This kind of solid bullet is cast from lead, which is more lethal to the city wall. Li Rusong just wanted to use it to collapse the city walls of Ningxia.

Li Rusong obviously underestimated the strength of worship and the strength of the city wall of Ningxia.

His cannon has a disadvantage, that is, it is easy to explode. At that time, the artillery technology was not very developed, so it was too dangerous to play with artillery. Huo Fangyi had read history books and he knew this, so when Li Rusong pushed the general cannon to the front line, Huo Fangyi hid far away and only stood A place where he can see the war clearly, he just wants to know what kind of military man Li Rusong is.

These soldiers who specialize in operating general artillery also look a little scared. They are careful every time they ignite for fear of blowing themselves, but there is always bad luck. Several soldiers were injured when these shells were fired. However, the shell hitting the wall did not achieve the ideal effect. At most, it blew up a small hole on the wall, which really did not pose a threat to the defense of Ningxia City.

Huo Fangyi shook his head: It seems that the cannons in the Ming Dynasty were still relatively backward, with high risks and little returns.

Li Rusong also saw that the general's cannon could not play a role and simply abandoned it. Then he sent his brother Li Ruzhang to lead these 5,000 people to attack the city.

Libai has already laid a defense system on the wall. Rows of * hands have stood full of the wall, and there are many defensive artillery on the wall.

"Fight!" At the order, Li Ruzhang took the lead in rushing to the gate of Ningxia. 5,000 soldiers carried the ladder and pushed the crash car and began to advance to Ningxia City.

"Fire!" Waiting for the Ming army to come to the shooting range, under an order, the cannonballs fell from the sky and hit directly on the side of the Ming army soldiers. Some were directly blown up, and some were blown up to be disabled. Then there was a rocket all over the sky, and many people caught fire in an instant, but they all rushed forward desperately, and even if they died, they would put the ladder to the city, and if they were alive, they would knock open the gate of Ningxia!

The soldiers in front fell down, and the soldiers behind them followed up to carry the ladder again and push up the crash. I don't know how many people were killed or injured, and the Ming army finally attacked the city.

Then the ladders were built on the city one by one, and the soldiers began to scramble to climb up. But Baibai has already prepared a way to deal with it. The ladder has just been set up, and several rebel soldiers have come up to overturn the ladder. The Ming army had no choice but to set up the ladder again, and then send a few people below to firmly support the ladder. As soon as the rebels in the city saw that the ladder could not lift, they began to shoot the soldiers who climbed up with bows and arrows. In addition to these, Bai also prepared boulders and hot boiled water. Under the hospitality of these things, Li Rusong's siege army was killed and injured countless times.