The rapid march of five thousand cavalry troops was loud and powerful. Fortunately, it was war time and there were no pedestrians on the road, so there was no disturbance to the people.
Gu Baichuan and other Dongchang officers were in the middle of the cavalry guarding Zhong Jinwei, and marched with the army.
Suddenly, the cavalry commander He Kegang ordered the cavalry to change from galloping to trotting.
Zhong Jinwei was a little puzzled. Soldiers are very fast and saving people is like putting out fires. Why did the speed slow down instead?
At this time, He Kegang had already arrived at Zhong Jinwei's side. Because the hoofbeats of the army were too loud together, he loudly reported the purpose of his order to Zhong Jinwei: "Supervisor, this place is still half the distance from Changli City. There is a road ahead.
There are 40,000 to 50,000 Tatars. In order to prevent a Tatar ambush, we must move slowly. We will make a decision based on the situation after waiting for the return of the night ahead."[
"Oh, are you saying that the Tatars will besiege the city and call for reinforcements?" Zhong Jinwei has seen it and has also watched many movies and TV series. Therefore, as soon as He Kegang said it, the word "siege the city and call for reinforcements" came to his mind.
Without thinking about He Kegang, he shook his head and said: "Probably not. If we want to besiege the city for reinforcements, we must besiege the city that must be rescued before we can be sure of reinforcements. If it weren't for the supervisory army, it would be a question whether Changli County could be rescued or not.
They will go to great lengths to encircle a small military target, and then wait for reinforcements that may not exist."
Zhong Jinwei nodded repeatedly when he heard this. He was indeed a man who had experienced battles for a long time, and his analysis was very insightful.
He Kegang admired Zhong Jinwei's character and further taught him his experience: "Besieging cities and providing reinforcements is the Jianlu's specialty. They used to do this often when they were outside the pass. They even used it once when they entered the pass this time. They attacked Zunhua and Santun.
camp, forcing Marshal Zhao to rush for reinforcements at starry night, thus falling into their strategy of besieging the city for reinforcements."
"Then why didn't Jianlu continue to use this move?" Zhong Jinwei felt the power of this move, but he didn't hear Jianlu continue to use it in the pass, which was a bit strange.
"Actually, siege and reinforcements must be taken by surprise. If Marshal Zhao knew that there were 100,000 prisoners besieging Zunhua and Santun camp, he would not go to the rescue with only 4,000 cavalry, let alone send nocturnal troops.
Just accept it and dive in." He Kegang explained to him seriously without any impatience or contempt for Zhong Jinwei's superficial military knowledge.
Zhong Jinwei benefited a lot from what He Kegang said. He thought of some questions about the cavalry and asked him for advice again. He Kegang answered them carefully.
After a period of time, He Kegang looked at where he was and what time he was, and ordered the entire army to rest and have meals, and at the same time dispatched vigilance troops.
Guan Ning's cavalry dismounted one after another and took out the dry food they carried with them to feed their horses and themselves.
Zhong Jinwei and Dongchang Fanyi did not expect to go out with the army, so they did not bring dry food, which was a bit embarrassing for a while.
Fortunately, He Kegang's personal guards immediately came over with dry food and helped feed their horses.
Zhong Jinwei looked at the dry food in his hand and was studying it. When He Kegang saw it, he smiled and explained to Zhong Jinwei: "Supervisor, the chess pieces you are holding in your hand are deer cakes, which are minced venison, cooked and dried.
Made of.”
Zhong Jinwei brought the deer cake to his nose and smelled it. It really smelled like meat. Then he took another lump and smelled it.
"That is wrinkled rice, which is rice cereal. The other items are miscellaneous cakes and sesame balls." He Kegang saw that Zhong Jinwei wanted to understand the dry food in his hand, so he explained everything in detail.
After hearing this, Zhong Jinwei no longer hesitated. After traveling for such a long time, he was hungry, so he picked up the black lump rice paste and took a bite. Suddenly, his face wrinkled up. This thing was cold and hard.
, it’s really unpalatable.
When He Kegang saw it, he remembered that Zhong Jinwei was not in the army before and had never eaten this food. He quickly said apologetically: "Supervisor, I have to hurry up after a short rest. I can't light a fire or boil water..."
Zhong Jinwei interrupted before he could finish his words: "It doesn't matter, it's important to save Chang Li. I'm not hungry either, just eat something."
Such supervisors are rare. He Kegang was secretly grateful for Zhong Jinwei's kind words. Then he complained to Zhong Jinwei and went to deal with military affairs by himself.
When Zhong Jinwei saw him leaving, he stopped eating the wrinkled rice cake, took a small bite of the deer cake, and chewed it slowly.[
It was too salty and not tasty, Zhong Jinwei commented. But when he raised his head and looked around, he found that all the soldiers of Guan Ning Army were eating with gusto. Only the eight Dongchang soldiers who were guarding him had the same expression as himself.
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Zhong Jinwei was hungry, but had to eat something. At this time, he missed the compressed biscuits and canned fish of later generations. By the way, why is there no fish? There are so many fish in the sea, inexhaustible, they can be made.
Dry food, improve the food. By the way, it can also be transported to the northwest disaster area for emergency relief. You need to think about this carefully, Zhong Jinwei thought in his mind while continuing to chew the hard to swallow dry food.
Staying late at night is the most tiring. When the army rests, they return one by one to report the military situation ahead, and then go out again one by one.
It didn't take long for the army, which had just rested, to continue on its way.
At this time, the offensive and defensive battle in Changli City has also reached a fever pitch. Due to physical limitations, the rural soldiers at the head of Changli City have been rotated twice, especially the rural soldiers throwing rolling wood and rocks, which have been replaced three or four times. The fighting time is longer than
After all, it's not that easy to regain your strength.
As for the Tatars under the city, although there were many people, there was no problem of lack of strength. However, because they were unable to attack the city, they watched helplessly as their comrades who were attacking the city were injured or died tragically, which seriously affected their emotions and seemed to have low morale.
good.
The wooden rafts of many sections of the city wall at the head of Changli City have been destroyed, and some of the sections without wooden rafts have even been connected. The Tatar attack on these sections of the city wall was particularly fierce, and most of the reserves in Changli City
All have been allocated to support these areas.
The rural soldiers who had gone to rest in the city were taking the time to eat, but Zuo Yingxuan on the archery tower did not have any food. The food brought by the government servants was put aside. He did not even look at it, and kept staring at the inside and outside of the city wall.
Suddenly, he discovered that the Tatars had a military order passed from the rear to the front. He didn't know what the military order was, which obviously improved the morale of the Tatars.
The Tatar attack was more inclined to the long section of the city wall that was not protected by wooden rafts, and gave up on the short section of the city wall that was not protected by wooden rafts.
Zuo Yingxuan frowned. Are the Tatars trying to break through that section of the city wall? It should be like this. Because that section of the city wall was not protected by wooden rafts, the rural soldiers at the top of the city were severely suppressed.
The original artillery fire back was a little better, but many gunners were injured and there was no backup. Now the remaining gunners are working with novices who don't understand anything. The interval between bombardments has been extended than before.
There were so many, which greatly weakened the suppression of the Tatar archers on the city top.
There are too few artillery. There are quite a few areas on the four walls that are not protected by wooden platoons. Six artillery pieces are simply not enough. The remaining sections of the city wall can only focus on muskets and earthen guns to counterattack the Tatar archers.
The blacksmiths in the city were also busy. Pierced iron pots for pouring gold juice were piled around the blacksmith shop. The blacksmiths were busy repairing these iron pots, but the person who helped them was not the original apprentice.
Instead, they were some half-grown children, both boys and girls. Their original apprentices had all been recruited into the rural soldiers.
It may be that the Tatar attack has reached its end. Other areas protected by rafts, or only a small section of the city wall without raft protection, are no longer attacked by Tatars. Only the archers are still attacking the city wall for free.
The arrows and Tatar ladders were moved to the places where the attacks were fierce.
Many of the rural soldiers who were attacking the city without ladders, especially those who were throwing logs and stones, sat on the ground and leaned against the city wall to catch their breath. Only the archers among the rural soldiers were still fighting back.
Most of the country soldiers took a breath while staring at the place where the fighting was fiercest, praying that the brothers over there could withstand it and not let the Tatars attack.
The Tatars outside the city actually wanted this effect. The strategy of attacking in the east and in the west was taking effect, and a huge crisis of city destruction immediately came to Changli City.