Before the Little Tigers attacked Pingfeng Village, they first cleared out a nearby farm. There was a house in front of the farm, which belonged to a wealthy squire, but no one was living there now.
The front of the house faces the street, and the back is empty. There is an alley between the adjacent house on the left and only the right is connected to another house, but it is shorter. Li Laiheng chose it to house the coalition headquarters.
In addition to Li Laiheng, Gao Yigong, Bai Wang, Li Hao, Puxiang Zhenren and other team leaders also gathered here. The coalition's original plan was to use the internal contacts Li Hao had formed in advance in Pingfeng Village and agreed to
The sound of the cannon was used as a signal, and the inside should set fire to the stronghold and open the door. The coalition forces would use all their strength, and the inside should cooperate with the outside to capture the Pingfeng Stronghold in one fell swoop.
However, Yu Dazhong personally went to the village wall to take charge, killed a large number of traitors, and used their heads to frighten the army. The plan of the coalition forces to use internal forces to quickly attack Pingfeng Village went bankrupt.
After that, Li Laiheng quickly changed his combat strategy. He asked Fang Yiren and Li Shiwei to gather all the firearms in the army. He tried to rely on the power of bowl-mouth blunderbuss, small general cannon and bird blunderbuss to level the wall in one fell swoop, and then organized brave and powerful swordsmen.
The team rushed in with ladders.
However, Pingfeng Village has deep ditches and high fortifications, and there are also many firearms in the village. Yu Dazhong took advantage of the shooting range from his commanding position and used firearms to counterattack from the wall of the village. Instead, he killed many coalition soldiers.
Li Laiheng sighed, feeling a headache after the coalition's attack failed again. Many soldiers on the front line were killed and wounded by firearms, bows, arrows, and masonry, and were then transported to this farm for treatment and rest. All around the headquarters, there were the wails and screams of the wounded soldiers.
, making Li Laiheng feel even more irritable.
"Damn it! Why are you still standing there? Come to the front line with me!"
Li Laiheng slammed the table in anger, grabbed the waist knife in his hand, and strode out to kiss the front line to attack the wall. It was Gao Yigong and Bai Wang who pulled Li Laiheng from behind together, and they made him calm down a little.
However, Gao Yigong also said: "Let's all take our personal troops and go to the front line to supervise the battle first and check the situation. If there is an opportunity, it won't be too late to lead the personal troops and rush in!"
When Li Hao and Pu Xiang said this, they both nodded. They both felt that it was unfavorable to attack the city now. Even if they brought their own troops and horses to the front line for a strong attack, it would be of little use and the casualties would be particularly serious.
Li Laiheng reluctantly nodded, but also strongly requested that all generals and village leaders of each village follow him to hold the battle close to the village wall.
Hao Yaoqi has been at the forefront. He is wearing a bronze helmet, holding a big knife in his mouth, holding an elm door panel as a shield with both hands, and rushing forward desperately. Behind him are several capable swordsmen.
The poker players also used door panels to protect themselves. Two of them lost their lottery tickets and rolled down the slope of the house, but he didn't even look back and continued to move forward.
The arrows stuck in his door panel were like hedgehogs, and bricks and tiles hit the door panel like raindrops, making a loud banging sound. Seeing that there was nothing they could do against him, the defenders lit a firecracker.
When Hao Yaoqi saw the light of the fire, he stood still, took up a posture and waited. The defenders were not using firearms such as blunderbuss, but a light cannon loaded with many iron pieces and nails the size of broad beans.
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After the fire flashed, a gunshot was heard. Hao Yaoqi felt as if someone pushed hard against his door panel, causing him to sit on the slope of the house. At the same time, his ears were buzzing. Some of the gunshots were fired on
Part of his door panel swept across the top and sides of the door panel, hitting the slope and ridge of the house, knocking down the two brothers behind him at the same time.
The soldiers who were shouting "Go! Go!" suddenly stopped, thinking that he was either killed or defeated. Even Li Laiheng, Gao Yigong and others were worried. On the contrary,
But the people guarding the stockade cheered loudly and proudly. Before the second cheers stopped, Hao Yaoqi jumped up and rushed forward in a thick cloud of smoke full of the smell of saltpetre and sulfur.
As he ran up the ladder that his predecessors had set up in front of the village wall, he held up a big wooden stick and yelled, "Brothers, come with me! Come with me! Fuck his mother to death!"
Dozens of soldiers cheered in unison behind Hao Yaoqi. Everyone jumped over and followed Hao Yaoqi, shouting wildly as he rushed forward.
Hao Yaoqi braved bricks and stones, and was hit by a stray arrow on his shoulder. However, he did not waver at all and kept shouting forward. When he was about to climb over the wall, he suddenly stood up from the wall.
Five or six village soldiers got up.
One man slashed him on the head, but he blocked it with his knife. The second man stabbed his chest with a spear almost at the same time. He grabbed the spear shaft with his left hand and chopped the other man to death with his right hand, but he
He also fell down. When he was falling, another spear also stabbed him. Then the soldiers fired volleys of firecrackers and random arrows. Everyone thought that Hao Yaoqi was probably doomed.
Unexpectedly, Hao Yaoqi used his spear pole to support the ground, ducked, and killed two more village soldiers before retreating with his brothers. He had almost ten wounds on his body, but none of them were on his back.
It's all about the front. Although Li Laiheng always disliked Hao Yaoqi's bad habits, he was impressed by his bravery at this time. He personally helped Hao Yaoqi up, applied medicine to him, and praised him: "You
He is Zhang Fei of our Little Tigers, and he is also Zhao Yun of our Little Tigers, full of courage!"
At this time, Fang Yiren was also commanding the musketry team with Li Shiwei. He also said respectfully to Hao Yaoqi: "In the early days of the Republic of China, Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping, took a small boat and braved the chaos in the rapids during the Battle of Caishiji.
He marched bravely with arrows wielding his spear, rode ashore alone, and clashed with left and right, as if he were in a deserted place. Leader Hao really has the majesty of a hundred thousand soldiers!"
Li Hao then sighed: "Leader Hao is really brave, but it's a pity that Pingfeng Village is really well-defended. Even a fierce general like Leader Hao can't get in, so we have nothing to do."
Li Laiheng was not interested in Li Hao's "mourning" remarks, so he called Li Shiwei, a young man just a little older than Li Laiheng. He was Li Laiheng's hometown in Mizhi, and he had also been trained by Li Laiheng in the past. He had a simple face.
His face is matched with a pair of smart eyes, and he is particularly studious.
Li Shiwei sent someone to transport a cannon. It was the heaviest cannon among the coalition forces and fired the largest stone projectiles. It was carried by more than 20 people, and many others carried food packages and haystacks to form a temporary fort.
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Seeing this, Zhu You on the wall also concentrated his firepower, firing volleys of three-eyed muskets, shotguns, and light cannons and crossbows, in an attempt to interfere with the preparations of the Little Tiger Team.
But when they were shooting, the soldiers of the Little Tiger Team crouched down and used food bags and haystacks as cover. When their firepower stopped, they prepared the cannon. In a blink of an eye, the fort was piled up, the cannon was set up, and gunpowder was loaded.
and more than ten kilograms of iron nails and stones, ready to be lit.
Li Shiwei introduced to Li Laiheng: "Guan Dui, this is our largest artillery piece. We have already corrected the distance according to Mr. Leshan's method, and this cannon will definitely have miraculous effects."
Hao Yaoqi and Zhang Pili also prepared door panels and ladders. They were all waiting for the sound of a cannon, ready to rush forward in the thick smoke and break the city in one fell swoop when the enemy suffered heavy casualties and the wall shook.
Unexpectedly, the muzzle of the cannon was not high enough. After the fuse was lit, everyone waited with bated breath, only to hear a bang. It only knocked a distant watchtower sideways and failed to hit the wall of the village.
What's even more surprising is that the cannon itself was loaded with too much powder. After it was fired with a bang, the temporary fort where the cannon was mounted fell apart. The flying grain bags and haystacks all hit the big guy, and even Li Laiheng himself was hit by a bag.
The food bag fell down. After the battle, everyone talked about it as a joke for several years, but at that moment, it was really disappointing.
Fang Yiren and Li Shiwei quickly asked the brothers from the Bird Cannon Team to build a temporary fort and prepare to recalibrate the firepower. But at this time, the defenders also counterattacked again. They dropped many similar thunderbolts and tens of thousands of enemies from the wall.
The soil bombs burned the door panels and ladders under the wall to pieces, further hindering the coalition's offensive.
At this time, the sun was already as high as the tops of the trees. Several successive waves of offensives by the coalition forces were blocked. The brothers suffered heavy casualties. All Li Laiheng's nose could smell was the smell of burnt human flesh.
"What kind of thing is this! Making a copycat, since it keeps falling like this!"
Li Laiheng was angry in his heart. Because of the smooth development of the Little Tigers during this period, he had his tail raised to the sky. He didn't care much about Gao Yigong and Bai Wang, and became more and more arrogant. This time, in a completely safe situation,
, I suffered a series of setbacks in front of Pingfeng Village, and I had to reflect on whether I was too "floating" or too "inflated" during this period.
After Gao Yigong studied the battle situation and looked at the terrain of Pingfeng Village, he suggested: "Let's come up with a 'siege division that must be lacking', withdraw the troops surrounding the back door, give them a way to escape, and focus on the main gate."
How about it?"
Li Hao smiled bitterly and said: "The gate of Pingfeng Village is the strongest. The thick elm gate is covered with iron leaves and has rows of large-head pig iron nails. If you attack from the gate, you will probably suffer more casualties!"
In fact, it was not that Li Laiheng had no way to break the city. He thought that if he could dig out the stones from under the gate piers on both sides and dig holes downwards. Then he would bury gunpowder under the gate piers and use hole blasting to blow up the foundation of Pingfeng Village. Naturally,
You can break the city.
But the problem is that digging tunnels is not easy. The Little Tigers and other coalition forces lack people who are good at civil engineering. On the contrary, Pingfeng Village has a large number of mining soldiers. If you use this method to attack the village, you may be taken advantage of.
Dazhong's suit.
Li Laiheng was upset and couldn't think of the most suitable idea. He could only say: "Now it seems that we have to continue to attack in turns to consume the strength of the defenders of Pingfeng Village. Then we will look at Fang Yiren and Li Shiwei's artillery to see if they can come.
A well-targeted shot smashed the gate of Pingfeng Village."
This method of using troops can only be said to be very crude and simple. Gao Yigong and Bai Wang looked at each other and felt that something was not good. Li Hao, Pu Xiang and other cottage owners also had pale eyes and did not want to do this again.
The strength is wasted in vain.
At this time, a small colonel from the gun team of the Little Tigers stood up and intervened to Li Laiheng and said: "Guan the team, continue to attack in turns, it is nothing more than casualties and casualties among brothers. I think it is extremely inappropriate to use troops like this."
Li Laiheng frowned, feeling displeased, and stared at the small school captain. He searched in his mind and remembered that this person was one of the camp veterans that Li Zicheng was initially assigned to the Little Tiger Team. He was sent to the camp because he had a broken finger on his left hand.
He was listed among the old and weak. Later, it seemed that he was gradually promoted because of his bravery in battle.
The name of the primary school was Guo Junzhen 1. He was stared at very unkindly by Li Laiheng, but he showed no fear at all. He still talked eloquently: "Pingfeng Village is built near mountains and rivers. In addition to the front, there must be other mountain roads leading to the village.
Inside. Now Yu Dazhong is putting all his energy into defending the front. If we attack with an elite force from the mountain roads and infiltrate into the stronghold, it is very likely that we can prompt those wall-mounted factions to become internal agents and seize the stronghold."
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1. Guojun Town, whose name is Xiongli, with the following characters, his birth year is unknown, and he died in March of the fourth year of Yongchang (1647). A native of Jingyang, Shaanxi Province, there is a local chronicle that records that he "marched in order, did not enter people's homes, did not kill and loot,
To welcome you".
According to the entry "Liu Wenbing was captured and sacrificed by Guo Junzhen" in the first volume of "Selected Historical Materials of Peasant War in the Qing Dynasty", it can be seen that Guo Junzhen was one of the middle-level generals of the Shun Army in the later period.
In the second year of Yongchang, Li Zicheng abandoned Xi'an and evacuated from Shaanxi. In the future, he had no time to gather the Dashun Army troops who had stayed in the northwest and hurriedly withdrew to Huguang. Guo Junzhen was left in Shaanxi. Under the attack of the Qing army, he led his troops
, retreated into the mountains. In December, Hanzhong guard He Zhen raised troops to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. Guo Junzhen responded by raising troops in Yaozhou and "largely defeated the Qing troops in Fuping and Heyang." The attack on Sanyuan was unfavorable. After He Zhen's defeat, Guo Junzhen
The town retreated to the state.
In December of the third year of Yongchang, Guojunzhen joined forces with He Hongqi, another remnant of the Shun Army, to conquer Ningzhou, Gansu Province. In March of the fourth year of Yongchang, the Qing army sent the main force of the Eight Banners troops from Xi'an to encircle and suppress the army. When the army arrived, Guojunzhen took over.
The troops went to Sanshui County for a decisive battle with the Qing army. They "arranged their troops in formation and led the masses to meet the enemy." After a fierce battle, they were shot by the Qing army's stray arrows and died. The rest of the troops, together with Wang Yongqiang and other troops, continued to resist the Qing Dynasty. They were wiped out by Wu Sangui in the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649).