The terrain of Pingfeng Village is high, and there are many watchtowers built in the village. From a high position, the viewing angle is excellent, and you can overlook several main roads from Xiong'er Mountain to Song County.
At this time, the night was dark and dots of starlight shone on the wall of the village. Because it was rumored that the intruders were about to attack Pingfeng Village, the soldiers in the village were all waiting for Dazhong's repeated orders. Several groups of soldiers were holding weapons.
No one dared to relax at all while patrolling the wall of the village. If anyone was lazy and was caught by the village owner, he would be punished by the numerous heads hanging on the tower.
A gust of west wind blew by, mixed with the chill from Guan and Shaanxi. The cold wind from the northwest seemed to be about to sweep across the land of Zhongzhou. The many torches erected on the wall of the village swayed when the west wind blew, and the dancing oranges
The lustrous light resembled that of elves and demons, which caused an inexplicable sense of panic in the hearts of the soldiers.
In addition to the local miners from Song County, the soldiers guarding the wall were also some other copycat armed forces and bandit armed forces recruited by Yu Dazhong. The Qin bandits who had conquered the world in the past few years, after conquering Fengyang, came from Huaishang
After returning to Henan, they were defeated by the official army in Henan. Many people fled to the Xiong'er Mountain. Yu Dazhong collected his troops and formed a refugee army in addition to the miner army.
There was a small leader of the refugee army named Zhu You. He was eight feet tall and tall, but had a big nose and big eyes. His appearance was very strange. Zhu You was ordered to inspect the wall of the western section of the village. He had just come down from the watchtower when he was blown by the west wind.
My body felt a little cold, so I rubbed my hands together several times to keep them warm.
The officer who followed him and inspected the wall of the village was an old brother of Pingfeng Village who was a miner in Song County. Seeing Zhu You's cowering look, he joked: "Pigskin, why are you still trembling?"
Are you here? People from Shaanxi haven’t arrived yet, just look at how scared you are.”
Zhu You smiled bitterly and did not answer. Because of his weird name, he was nicknamed "Pigskin" by his brothers in the village, and he was often made fun of.
In fact, it can be seen from his name that Zhu You's identity is not simple. He was originally a member of the Ming Dynasty clan vassal Prince Rong's palace, and could be regarded as a member of the royal family. Zhu You relied on his clan status to enjoy a long life.
Many people are rich and powerful, and develop a domineering and arrogant character.
He once abducted women from the streets in Changde, the fiefdom of Prince Rong's Mansion, and later even took away the wife of a Hunan magistrate who had never married before, causing public outrage and alarming Emperor Chongzhen, who fined him 300 shi of salary.
But Zhu You did not learn his lesson and continued to bully men and women in Changde by relying on his clan status. As a result, a Hunan official reported him, saying that when Emperor Chongzhen's concubine Wang Shun died of a hemorrhagic collapse, he not only refused to submit, but also entertained himself in the palace for three days.
This finally made Chongzhen furious and ordered Zhu You to be deprived of his title and salary and imprisoned in Fengyang High Wall.
But unfortunately, a few years later, after Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and other rebels broke through Fengyang, they released all the criminals imprisoned within the high wall. Zhu You was then coerced into the peasant army and went to Henan. Later, the peasant army was captured by the officials in Henan.
When the army was defeated, he fled to the Xiong'er Mountain. Relying on his experience in running shops and mines for the prince in Changde, he threw himself into Pingfeng Village and actually became a small boss.
Traveling thousands of miles from Hunan to Fengyang, and then from Fengyang to Henan, completely changed Zhu You's character and conduct. He laughed at everyone who teased him as a "pig skin" but was not angry.
The main problem that Zhu You is worried about now is that the people in Pingfeng Village are shaken. He knows that although everyone seems to be uncompromising and guarding seriously, the leaders of the mine army and the refugee army all have their own connections.
, even Zhu You himself established communication channels with the coalition forces through some village owners who were familiar with him in Xiong'er Mountain.
He didn't know that when the coalition forces really started to attack the stronghold, how many people would be buried with Yu Dazhong for their loyalty, and how many people would open the gate of the stronghold immediately to welcome the coalition forces in?
It was almost three o'clock, and several officers and generals on the wall were preparing to go back to rest for a while. Zhu You also wanted to go to bed for a few hours. But everyone suddenly heard shouts and the sound of cannons on the wall.
He hurriedly ran up the wall of the village and saw the flames blazing into the sky outside the south village. He cursed, "Damn it, are the people from Shaanxi coming?" Then he picked up a knife and led a group of subordinates of the refugee army from the wall to the south.
The other end.
There were many figures running in the firelight in the distance. A small village outside the village was set alight by the Shaanxi people, and the thatched cottages and firewood piles were filled with flames.
Zhu You suddenly heard someone shouting "The stronghold is broken! The stronghold is broken! Run for your life!" He couldn't believe it. He didn't believe that the Shaanxi people would break through the rock-solid Pingfeng Stronghold so quickly.
Fortunately, although Dazhong had a cruel temperament, he was indeed very brave. He personally carried a three-eyed gun and led dozens of trusted subordinates to block the south gate and organized other village soldiers to join forces to resist the Shaanxi people who attacked the village at night.
The soldiers tried their best to throw bricks and bricks, shoot arrows, shotguns and firecrackers at the Shaanxi people who climbed the wall.
At this time, Zhu Youcai gradually understood the situation. It turned out that there was a small group of soldiers in the village who were bribed and bewitched by Shaanxi people or other village owners. They set fire in the village and shouted everywhere that the village was broken. In order to cause chaos, they cooperated inside and outside to break it.
Copycat.
Yu Dazhong became very ruthless. He killed the traitors who had caused trouble in one go. He asked his subordinates to use spears and poles to hang the traitors' heads high in public, and organized defense.
The condescending village walls and watchtowers used bricks, tiles, and stones as dense as a rainstorm to repel the Shaanxi people's offensive.
Yu Dazhong put a three-eyed blunderbuss on his waist and held a sharp-edged knife in his hand. He shouted in a hoarse and fierce voice: "Go and silence me. Whoever moves one step slower will belong to the people of Shaanxi."
If you are a traitor, your whole family will be beheaded!"
Zhu You breathed a sigh of relief. Although he also had contact with the coalition forces outside the village, he was only the leader in Pingfeng Village. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Zhu You did not want Pingfeng Village to fall. He saw Yu Dazhong holding the place.
After that, the village soldiers restored their organization, especially those mine soldiers who were good at civil engineering and fortification, became more active and used their various skills honed in the mines to create great trouble for the Shaanxi people.
But at this moment, Zhu You suddenly heard a "boom" from a cannon, and a piece of orange fire exploded on the top of the village wall. He couldn't dodge, and was also hit by countless iron sand sprayed from the sparks.
Splash injuries, there were dense and horrific wounds on his left arm and shoulder from the iron sand splashed.
"Is it Hyakoko Franji!?"
After all, Zhu You had been among the Qin invaders for several years, and he knew much more about firearms than the ordinary soldiers of the Qin invaders. When he saw sparks exploded on the wall of the village, he knew that it was used by the coalition forces attacking the village.
Some kind of artillery. Then after he was injured by a large piece of iron sand, he suddenly remembered the artifacts such as the Baizifang machine modified by Qi Shaobao.
But after a while, when Zhu You recovered a little from the shock, he knew that this was definitely not Bai Zi Fo Lang Ji, otherwise he would not have only been injured, but should have been killed.
He estimated that the allied forces attacking the village should be using some kind of old-fashioned artillery that was lagging behind the Baizi Folang machine. This kind of artillery might not be able to break the earthen wall of Pingfeng Village, but the scattered iron sand would hit the soldiers on the wall.
The threat is great.
Sure enough, before Zhu You ran to report the inside story to Yu Dazhong, three or four more iron sand bullets landed on the wall. The shells fired by the coalition forces were mainly solid stone bullets, supplemented by iron sand and explosives.
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Those stone bullets that broke through the air put a lot of psychological pressure on the soldiers. But what caused damage to the soldiers at the top of the wall was mainly the iron sand that spattered after the stone bullets landed. These dense bullets
Although the iron sand could not directly cause fatal damage, its terrifying visual effects and dense wounds after being hit greatly reduced the morale of the soldiers and made everyone extremely frightened.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Immediately afterwards, there was a sound as dense as the bursting of soybeans, and smoke filled the wall. A row of muskets took advantage of the situation to shoot lead bullets onto the top of the wall, causing the soldiers who were still in chaos after being suppressed by the iron sand bullets to be harvested again.
A wave of life.
"What the hell, why are you standing there? It's not like we don't have guns and cannons, let me shoot them all back!"
In his rage, Yu Dazhong beheaded six or seven more village soldiers in succession. There was no shortage of weapons such as bird cannons, three-eyed muskets and light cannons in Pingfeng Village. Moreover, the village soldiers relied on the walls and watchtowers to stand down from a high position.
With a better firing range and a longer range, the actual firepower advantage is much greater than that of the attackers.
It's just that everyone was attacked by Shaanxi artillery, and they were hit and turned around, and they didn't react for a while. After Dazhong used massacre and high pressure to restore order to the defenders, the soldiers in the village hurriedly fought back with firearms. Look at the people on the stairs.
The soldiers fired rockets to try to ignite the siege tools such as ladders made by the Shaanxi people. The soldiers on the wall knelt half-kneeling in front of the gun holes and battlements, using bird blunderbuss and three-eyed blunderbuss to sweep down the attacking soldiers who climbed up the wall.
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Regardless of casualties, the Shaanxi people took turns attacking. They held door panels and wooden signs in their hands and rushed towards the wall. Several officers stood in the crowd of Shaanxi people, shouting something like "Fill it in! Fill it in!"
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Zhu You knew that "Guan" was not a dialect of Shaanxi people, but a dialect of Henan people. It meant that water was used to describe a team. When a team attacked a city or residence, it was like a stream of water pouring into a pond. The attacker would "fill water" and retreat.
It's called "Water".
He felt that although there were many Shaanxi people in this wave of attacks, there were probably also many local Henan copycats. This made him feel even more uncertain about the future of Pingfengzhai. Even if this wave of offensive was blocked, Pingfengzhai could no longer suppress the local people.
After the copycat, how many days can Yu Dazhong maintain his hegemony?
Yu Dazhong, who was red-eyed with murder, repeatedly patrolled the wall of the village, and stabbed seven or eight soldiers to death with the sharp knife in his hand. Everyone was frightened, fearing that the enemy troops outside the wall would attack and they would be frightened.
He was beaten beyond recognition with iron sand, and he was also afraid that Yu Dazhong, who was furious and out of control on the wall, would behead him and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.
"Pigskin, hurry up and bring someone to set off the cannons!"
Yu Dazhong shouted twice. Zhu You was barely considered one of the firearms experts in Pingfeng Village. He was suddenly called by Yu Dazhong to lead someone to control the artillery, and he felt relieved. This way, he no longer had to fight with the enemy hand-to-hand.
When fighting, you can also stay away from the violent Yu Dazhong to avoid accidentally angering the boss and being sacrificed.
"Okay! Brothers, come upstairs with me, and let's let the people of Shaanxi eat some cannon balls too!"