Chapter 869 Evacuation
The 6,000 troops are not short, but it is still impossible to completely encircle and blockade Heitai Mountain. Moreover, Heitai Mountain is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack. If officers and soldiers want to break the camp, they can only attack the gate from the front. However, the mountain road is narrow, and although there are many officers and soldiers, it is difficult to fully spread out, and they cannot exert their advantages in military strength.
In addition, although there is a large open space outside the Heitai Mountain Village, it can only accommodate five or six hundred people. In addition, the open space is seriously inclined, making it difficult to use siege equipment such as the Arrow Tower, and even the cannons are erected.
Wuding Hou Guo Xun came to get a bargain this time, so he naturally would not send his own troops to be cannon fodder, especially when he saw the terrain in front of him, he was even less interested in taking action. He just stationed three thousand soldiers in Yaowu Camp at the foot of the mountain to watch the fun, and threw the hard bones to the general Wang Bogu to chew. Anyway, as long as the copycat was broken, Wang Bogu would not dare to lose his contribution.
Wang Bogu naturally dared not speak out about this, so he had to order his generals to launch a fierce attack on Heitai Mountain Village. The emperor personally issued an order, and the deadline was only one day, so how could he dare to neglect the slightest.
The Pinglu Guard was the main attacker this time, with a force of 3,000, and the commander Zhao Wu personally commanded it. Zhao Wu's military talent was just right, and he divided the three thousand troops into three batches, led by his respective thousand households to launch a series of attacks on the Heitai Mountain Village.
"Kill!" Five hundred officers and soldiers of Pinglu Guard shouted loudly and took the lead in launching the first wave of attacks.
They mainly used tools such as quilts to climb up to the wall, but a row of sharp arrows shot out from the village, shooting more than a dozen people on the spot. The remaining officers and soldiers immediately turned around and left only a dozen bodies, and several wounded people screamed in a pool of blood.
Seeing this, Wang Bogu was shocked and angry. He pulled out his waist and cut a retreating officer and soldier, shouting sternly: "Those who retreat, behead!"
The officers and soldiers had to bite the bullet and attack again, but this time they learned their lesson, they all found shields, wooden boards and other blocking arrows, and at the same time sent archers to shoot and cover the archers in the village.
Whoosh swish swish swish...
But seeing the rain of arrows, this time, nearly a hundred officers and soldiers finally touched the wall under the cover of shields. Some people drew their swords and slashed the gate of the village, and some people threw the quilt on the wall, trying to climb up the wall. As a result, they had just climbed halfway through, countless stones and hot feces fell down...
Amidst the shrill screams, the officers and soldiers rolled down from the wall like dumplings. They were either hit by stones and bleeding, or they were scalded by feces and flesh. Some officers and soldiers climbed up to the wall by luck, and before they could have time to be happy, they were pricked by spears and bamboo guns. The body was dropped and bloody and confusing.
In this way, the second wave of attacks of the officers and soldiers was repelled, and the casualties were even worse than the first wave. Cheers were heard from the village.
"Haha, look, the officers and soldiers have only such skills. I have said that they don't need to retreat." A villager holding a bamboo gun said proudly loudly.
Another villager who was carrying a manure bucket and holding a manure ladle even stood on the wall, waved the manure ladle in his hand and shouted loudly: "Listen, the dog officers and soldiers outside, listen, there is so much fresh and hot yellow soup, welcome to climb the wall and taste it!"
The other villages burst into laughter, and their morale was extremely high. Unexpectedly, before the laughter stopped, he heard a bang of gunshot. The village people wielding the dung puddle was shocked and fell directly from the wall. The manure that was rolling in the soup made him look over. It was just that he was sad!
"I hit it, I hit it!" An officer and soldier outside the village raised the still smoking musket and shouted excitedly.
Wang Bogu, who had a pale face, looked a little clear and shouted: "Transfer the cannons so that these bandits can understand what it means to block the chariot with a mantis arm."
Soon, seven or eight artillery pieces were carried up by the officers and soldiers and lined up in the open space outside the village gate.
"No, the officers and soldiers are going to use artillery!" Xue Bingxin, Zhao Hu and others changed their faces and hurriedly ordered the archer to use heavy bows to kill the officers and soldiers' gunners.
Since the open space outside the village gate is not large, it is completely within the range of the three stone bow. However, there are not many archers in the village who can make the three stone bow. The second leader Lei Jun is one, but Lei Jun's injury has not healed yet and he cannot make the bow, so only two other archers who can make the three stone bow are left.
However, after the two archers used the three stone bow to kill several gunners, the officers and soldiers were also prepared to cover the gunners with the cards and finally set up several cannons.
"Fire the cannon, blow it up!" Zhang Wu, the commander of Pinglu Guard, shouted fiercely.
Boom boom boom boom...
The officers and soldiers shot several shells in succession and hit the solid wall, which naturally had little effect. In addition, the open space was tilted, and every time a gun was fired, the artillery would slip away far away, and one of them rolled down the mountain.
Seeing this, Wang Bogu and Zhang Wu couldn't help but get angry. Fortunately, a gunner finally fought hard and hit the village gate. With a bang, the village gate was blown away and the wood chips flew away.
"Okay, I'll add chicken legs to you tonight, and I'll send you another shot!" Zhang Wu praised.
Boom...
The village gate finally split into pieces under the bombardment of artillery, and the officers and soldiers immediately rushed towards the village gate like a tide, but this was not the arrival of victory, but the beginning of a nightmare.
At this time, the walls on both sides of the village gate became meat grinders for harvesting lives. The seven or eight officers and soldiers who rushed in the front were immediately stabbed into human flesh skewers by the spears poking out of the wall hole, and the way forward was immediately blocked. Then, two barrels of turbulent oil fell down on the arrow towers on both sides, and many officers and soldiers burned the soup to death.
Not only that, a rocket shot down, and the gate of the village suddenly burned into a sea of fire. The officers and soldiers who were rushing forward just now immediately ran back crying and shouting for their parents. As they trampled on each other, countless casualties were injured. In addition, sharp arrows shot down from both sides, the casualties of the officers and soldiers became even more severe, and the neighborhood of the gate of the village instantly became like a Shura hell.
Seeing this, Wang Bogu and Zhang Wu were both jealous and did not dare to send people up to die for a while. Guo Xun, the Marquis of Wuding who was watching the battle behind, was also sweating coldly.
There were cheers in the village again, and the second in commander Zhao Hu laughed and said, "Dog officers and soldiers, if you are not afraid of death, come!"
Xue Bingxin dared not be blindly optimistic. This was just the beginning. She immediately ordered someone to carry the spare gate and reinstall the gate while the officers and soldiers did not dare to attack.
"Uncle Fourth, how many people have been withdrawn?" Xue Bingxin couldn't help but ask in relief when she saw that the village gate had been successfully installed.
There is a secret path behind Black Taishan, which can directly lead to the adjacent Jiaotai Mountain. From Jiaotai Mountain to the north, you can cross the Great Wall to the fortress. However, the road is very difficult to walk and is not suitable for the elderly, weak, women and children. It is just that things are urgent and I don’t care about so many things now. Just before the officers and soldiers attacked the mountain, Xue Bingxin had already asked the elderly, weak, women and children in the village to evacuate from the back mountain trail.
The fourth uncle replied with a serious expression: "There are only more than fifty people withdrawn, and there are more than two hundred people!"
Xue Bingxin couldn't help but say anxiously: "It's too slow. Let everyone bring only clothes, bedding and food, and leave all the other unimportant ones."
"Okay, I'll inform you now. Miss, please be safe!" The fourth uncle reminded with a serious expression. Although he temporarily resisted the attack of the officers and soldiers, there were many officers and soldiers. Once the arrows, turbulent oil, and stones were consumed, the counterfeit village would probably not be able to defend it. It can be seen that the attack of the officers and soldiers this time was different from the past. They probably wouldn't give up until they broke the counterfeit village.
But if the order was given by Emperor Jiajing, how dare these officers and soldiers not fight to the death? So evacuation is right. Not only should they evacuate, but they should also escape far away.
Next, the officers and soldiers launched several more fierce attacks, but they were all repelled. However, the villages were not happy at this time because the officers and soldiers also caused a lot of casualties to them. The key was that more than half of the defensive materials such as arrows, stones, tincture oil had been consumed, and the officers and soldiers would have used up their fierce attacks a few more times.
At this moment, the camp members realized that the officers and soldiers were really trying their best to fight for their lives this time. They didn’t retreat even if they were so much casualties. This was completely different from the previous bluff. Now it was a big trouble!
For a moment, the villagers who had opposed the evacuation began to regret it vaguely, but there was no such thing as regret medicine in the world. Now they have to hold on to it, because there are still many elderly, weak, women and children in the village who have not withdrawn. Even if they withdraw, they have to buy at least half a day to escape.
Fortunately, it was finally completely dark at this time, and the officers and soldiers retreated to the foot of the mountain to set up camp. It was estimated that they would launch another attack until dawn.
Chapter completed!