Chapter 169 Attack Camp

On the morning of the second day of March, as soon as Chen Shi arrived, the officers and soldiers inside and outside the Runing Mansion heard the rumble of the cannons of the Xingtian Army outside the city. With the sound of drums after the sound of the cannons, the first team of the line of fishes out of the battalion and lined up in phalanxes outside the city. At the same time, there was also a gun was also used by the Xingtian Army. He dragged out of the camp and quickly put it in the area of the east of the city, pointing the gun directly at the camp of Huang Degong, who camped in the east of the city.

Huang Degong hasn't slept all night since the arrival of Xing Tianjun. He still remembers the battle of Hongshi Mountain. The sharp gunfire of the thief army seems to be echoing in his ears. The defeat that day has almost become his nightmare. Although he has been defeated in these thieves, he has always There is no defeat that can make him remember so deeply like that day.

The fierce artillery fire of Xing Tianjun, as well as a team of generals who regard death as home, neatly like a team cut out by a knife, and the long gun array like a forest, all made him amazed. The battle defeated in the hands of Xing Tianjun can be said to make him be convinced. Think about it for yourself, if In that battle, it was not that Xing Tianjun had found a battlefield in advance. Even if he chose a random place for him to fight with Xing Tianjun, in the end, he did not believe that he could win, but he could delay the defeat for a period of time at most and lose a little more decently.

Such a conclusion made Huang Degong frustrated, but there was nothing he could do. He didn't know how the thief army trained the soldiers and how to train the exiles under him into such a strong soldiers. When the thief controls the soldiers, it can be said to be as easy as his arm and fingers. If it were their officers and soldiers, he would not be able to do it anyway. On this point, not only can he not do it, even if it is any general in the present, he may not be able to do it like Xing Tianjun.

There is no comparison between the two sides in terms of equipment, morale, or even the degree of training. It is no wonder that the thief army of the Xing Tianjun has always been invincible in repeated battle with the officers and soldiers.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Huang Degong. After all, Huang Degong is an old-fashioned military general. The training of ancient military generals is not as strict as the practice of modern armies at all. Among the officers and soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty, that is, Qi Jiguang's Qi's army has always been strange, but even Qi's army training is still three days and one exercise. It's good for officers and soldiers to exercise for seven or even more than ten days, and the general training consumes more military food than usual. Officials have been thinking about how to deduct some money from the teeth of their soldiers all day long, enrich their own pockets, and how to spend so much time training soldiers and food. Horse! Therefore, the generals of the imperial court often muddle along, and the soldiers under their hands can stand in formation, which is satisfied.

In terms of equipment, although the quality of the officer's and military equipment is better, in fact, it is not much better at this time. The military bureau responsible for building weapons is in the control of the eunuchs. If the military generals want to use the armor, they have to bribe the eunuchs from top to the bottom, and finally get what they want. Armor, distributing weapons has actually become a way for eunuchs who control the production and management of weapons and warehouses to make a fortune. If you don't have money, you don't want good weapons! Even if you are under pressure to assign a batch of armor to you, it is full of tattered old goods at the bottom of the box, which is unbearable at all. Therefore, military generals sometimes look for officials to collect weapons, but it is a bit like buying them at their own expense.

When an officer still expects to make a fortune, how can he pay out of his own pocket to buy good things for the soldiers? Therefore, in terms of equipment, after Huang Degong was defeated in Hongshi Mountain, he basically lost the little capital he brought out of the Beijing camp and gave it to Xing Tianjun cheaply.

Nowadays, although Huang Degong has been ordered to recruit thousands of new soldiers and horses, the great eunuch in charge of the military warehouse in Nanjing refused to allocate the armor to him. He was really helpless and only allocated some of the old junk goods to him. Therefore, Huang Degong's equipment quality is now better than that of the first time against the Shang Xing Tianjun. It's not as good as a lot.

In contrast, Xing Tianjun has its own set of training methods for soldiers. Every day, they do not hesitate to spend a lot of food to feed the soldiers and generals, and then let them carry out all kinds of exercises. Often the amount of training in a month is almost as much as the training of the officers and soldiers in a year, so this is also The main reason why Xing Tianjun is getting stronger and stronger.

This time, Huang Degong heard the news that Xing Tianjun took the initiative to attack him and Sun Yingyuan first. Even if he was a little scared, if it was not for the emperor's order, he really wanted Lima to go back to his home. He would rather run back to the western Anhui area to fight with the Fifth Battalion of Hege, rather than stay here to fight with Xing Tianjun to the end. .

Because of this, when Xing Tianjun came to Runing Mansion, Huang Degong didn't even have the idea of sending troops to fight with them. Yesterday, all day, he personally urged the generals under his command and the captured people around Runing Mansion. They were busy around the camp, digging trenches and trapping horses. The pit was to bury the horse, and to send people into the city to spread iron thistocks and other royal guards around the camp. From the beginning, he made up his mind to stay in the camp to death. No matter how the Xing Tianjun forced him, he would not go out of the camp to fight.

But what were you afraid of? As soon as Xing Tianjun arrived here, he immediately aimed his spearhead at his battalion. When he heard the sound of Xing Tianjun's trumpet, Huang Degong hurriedly dressed up neatly and hurriedly ran to the watchtower built in the camp with his own soldiers. At the same time, he ordered his generals to prepare for the battle. No one was allowed to leave the camp. When he saw that the thief army outside the camp began to line up directly at his camp, he finally ordered to dig a deep ditch in the gate. In short, he made up his mind not to go out of the camp.

The army battalion was full of people shouting the sound of horses. The officers and soldiers were kicked out of the camp by the officials. They were kicked out of the inside of the barracks in the camp. A messy gun was also carried out of the barracks, set up in the barracks, aimed at the outside, and not many bee rockets were also carried out. As for The archers and firemen were ordered to prepare the crossbows and firemen at the front of the team. The knives and axes simply arranged behind these archers and firemen. Whoever takes half a step back will immediately be on the spot (long live harmony)!

With the departure of Xing Tianjun's camp, the prelude to the battle gradually opened. Even the cannons on Runingfu City were removed from their gun coats, and the black holes were aimed at the outside of the city. There were shouts of officers and soldiers everywhere. A group of panicked officers and soldiers were driven to the wall, and more civilians in the city were robbed and arrested. When I got to the bottom of the wall, I helped carry the guard.

However, Xing Tianjun didn't care how busy the officers and soldiers in Runing City were, but rushed to Huang Degong's camp step by step under the order of Luo Li.

In front of these soldiers, there was a large row of rovers, which covered the officers of the Xingtian army behind the rovers. In front of the team, there was a row of knife players carrying a big shield on their shoulders, followed by the long gunmen and gunners behind them to force them to the army's battalion.

Seeing that Xing Tianjun's team was about to approach the camp about a hundred steps, Huang Degong shouted upstairs: "Fire me! Don't let the thief army get close to the camp!"

So the limited messy artillery in the camp immediately roared, hitting a stone bullet or iron bullet at the Xing Tianjun's team, and immediately raised a group of dust and smoke in the front and back of the Xing Tianjun's offensive team. The two tarrest cars were immediately hit by jumping shells and immediately fell off.

"Fire!" At this time, Huang Shengqiang also arranged the position of the artillery battalion under his command. Before the bunkers of each gun were completely built, he pulled out his waist knife and roared loudly.

Since then, the tragic offensive and defensive battle of Runing has begun. In the dense rumble of artillery, the shells of both sides roared through the sky and fell towards the other side.

An officer of the Xing Tianjun roared: "The general has an order to conquer this officer camp and cut off the head of Huang Degong! Kill it!!"

These officers of the Xingtian Army who slowly advanced to the periphery of the Huang Degong Battalion, whether they were recruits or old soldiers, burst out a roar from their lungs: "Kill..." Then they accelerated their pace and pushed the rowing cart to rush towards the officer's battalion under the cover of the front row shield.

Huang Degong looked palely at the thieves who rushed through the team outside the camp, as well as the cannons of the thieves who kept spitting fire and the shells that kept falling on his camp, the soaring earth, stone and broken wood, and the broken limbs of the soldiers, gritting his teeth and roaring and shooting arrows.

A cluster of dense arrows rose from the officer's camp, and the locusts fell on the open space outside the camp. When the Xing Tianjun advanced to a distance of 30 steps from the officer's camp, the car was blocked by the horse, deer forts and other things outside the camp, and could no longer cover the subsequent soldiers. The soldiers had to follow the knife card. The hand surged out of the car and began to work hard to dismantle the defensive facilities in front of them.

The arrows and fire pellets fell densely on their bodies or beside their feet. People kept screaming or humming and falling on these rebellious deer forts. Blood was sprayed on the land under them, and many of people's feet were pricked by the iron terrests sprinkled on the ground and fell on their feet. On the ground.

In the face of such a counterattack, Luo Li was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Huang Degong still had this ability. The resistance was so fierce, so he immediately ordered the fireman to fire.

A row of firemen immediately hid behind the rowing car and stretched out the pipe outside the rowing car. As a row of gunpowder rose, the sound of popping beans immediately came out far away. After the sound, the officers and soldiers archers or gunners standing in the barracks began to fall into a row of blood.

However, such a platoon shooting did not stop the crazy counterattack of the officers and soldiers in the camp. As soon as a row of archers fell, another row of archers would be driven forward to shoot arrows. In addition, the officers and soldiers also tried their best to move all kinds of wooden sandbags and other things into the camp fence, and set them up as a bunker to cover the Xing Tianjun. The projectile was shot, and the whole battlefield was full of all kinds of gunfire, shouts and screams.

At this time, even the officer artillery on the head of the west city began to sound. Although the accuracy was not good, it still caused certain casualties to the attacking Xingtian army. Among the ash soil, it was also mixed with the broken arms of the Xingtian army and the bloody corpses. One by one fell down.