After Fang Yiren heard the good news about the rescue of Yangjiao Mountain, he sat down and took a sip of wine. But what Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin drank were Shaojiu, and it was Shandong Gaoliang Shaojiu, which did not have the sauce flavor of Shanxi Fenjiu. Fang Yiren did not pay attention.
I almost choked myself to death after drinking it.
In his hometown in Tongcheng, he usually drank alcohol, and the worst thing he drank was Shaoxing wine. At that time, the Jiangnan scholars thought that Shaoxing wine had a mellow taste, just like famous celebrities and elites who had stayed in the world for a long time and had learned all the worldly knowledge, so they called it "celebrity"; as for Shaoxing wine, the scholars called it "celebrity".
Then he also had an alias, but it was much more unpleasant, called "Bachelor".
Fang Yiren smashed the bar in his mouth twice, shook his head, and sighed: "Shaoxing wine is popular all over the world, and I'm used to it. Recently I came to Huguang, and drank Sichuan Pitong wine and Jiangxi Jiujiang wine. Xun wine, Sichuan wine
The freshness is not as good as Shaoxing wine...but I will skip the Shaoxing wine because I really can't drink it."
Fang Yiren did not mean to belittle Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin. He was just choking on the soju and said something casually. But in the eyes of the two generals, this was clearly a mockery of the poor quality of the wine they drank.
Too bad, he can't get into the eyes of a young man from an aristocratic family.
"Hmm, Mr. Leshan is a son of an aristocratic family, so he is naturally well-informed." After Yin Xianmin laughed a few words, he gave Min Yiqi a look, "After daybreak, we will still have to rely on Mr. Leshan's cannon to help us. Mr. Leshan, why not come back early?"
Let’s rest.”
"Okay. Tomorrow we need our two armies to join forces and break the city together... As long as Yiling can be recaptured, the traitors and traitors in the city will be dealt with by the two generals." Fang Yiren put the wine glass back on the table and talked to him.
Tan Yi exited the tent together.
"Haha, natural, natural, that's natural."
After another round of greetings, Fang Yiren and Tan Yi walked outside the camp, and his expression immediately became much gloomier.
"These two old veterans keep delaying, and I think there will be problems sooner or later!"
Tan Yi wiped his sweat and then persuaded: "Fortunately, the siege of Yangjiao Mountain has been lifted. I think the defeat of the rogue bandits has been determined. It is only a matter of time before Yiling is recaptured."
"I promised him such a big benefit, but Yuan soldiers will not attack the city until daytime. A group of arrogant and fierce generals!" Fang Yiren threw off his robe angrily and cursed, "This thief Min Yiqi wants to join the army... he still wants to
My Fu Biao took the lead, but the Yuan soldiers only wanted to plunder and plunder, which is really hateful."
But Tan Yi was still uneasy, "Mr. Leshan, there are many strong men in Yiling City. If the bandits forcefully recruit civilians and ask them to help defend the city, they may not be so easy to defeat."
"That's not the case. Although the bandits can force the traitors in the city to help with hard work, but now that the soldiers are attacking the city, the residents in the city will at most help the bandits carry wood and building materials. There are absolutely not many people who dare to go to the city under such circumstances.
The city wall helps the bandits defend the city."
Fang Yiren hated Yuan Bing with gnashing of teeth, and the two Yuan Jiangs in the tent also hated him. After Fang Yiren walked out of the tent, Min Yiqi also threw the wine glass that Fang Yiren drank from directly to the ground.
"This fair-faced scholar, relying on his uncle Fang Futai's tiger skin, really thinks he is Zhuge Liang."
Min Yiqi kicked away the wine glass that had fallen to the ground and said to Yin Xianmin: "Old Yin, let's not use too much force tomorrow. Let Fang Yiren use cannons to break the city, and our Yuan soldiers must conserve their strength. After the city is broken,
We must search carefully before bidding. The gold and silver are so soft that nothing can be left to Fang Yiren."
After hearing this, Xianmin Yin lifted the door curtain, looked at the sky, and said: "Although it is still very cold tonight, I don't think it will snow. If there is no wind and snow tomorrow, it will not be a problem to enter Yiling."
The river near Yiling City is still surging and has not been frozen by the winter snow. In the sky after the snow, the bright moon is bright, and the frost-white light reflects the red and white land.
Hundreds of corpses were scattered unevenly on both sides of the city wall. The broken holes and gaps in the wall showed the intensity of the battle during the day.
The nearly three thousand officers and soldiers had an absolute advantage in strength after Wang Guangen's camp escaped from Yiling Prefecture City. They were not worried about tomorrow's battle, they were just waiting for things to come to an end, rushed into the city, indulged their desires, and launched an attack.
An unabashed massacre.
The soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty had rested well, and they did not think there would be any difficulties in tomorrow's battle. The morale of the bandits was so low, and thousands of them escaped during the night! The outcome of this battle was already known without having to fight.
The main question everyone is thinking about is, how much money can they get after the city is broken? Some people are also thinking about the women in the city, and some officers and soldiers who have been stationed in Yilingzhou City are jokingly commenting with their accomplices on whose family is in the city.
The wives and daughters are more beautiful and it is difficult for everyone to restrain their desires. They are eagerly waiting for the sun to rise so that they can vent their animal desires.
Even Tan Yi was full of confidence. Although he only had 400 Sichuan Guardsmen who had no fight under his command, Tan Yi also felt that there would be no need to fight tomorrow's battle. The rogue bandits could only number a few hundred people. There were three officers and soldiers.
Thousands of troops, and cannons in the face, tell me, how can we lose?
Of course, Tan Yi at this time had no idea that in later history, he would join Li Laiheng in the Thirteen Kuidong families and become allies against the Qing Dynasty. Yiling was a particularly important place in his destiny.
In the year, he would participate in the battle to recapture Yiling, leaving a glorious page in the history of the Southern Ming's war against the Qing Dynasty.
But in the end, he was still in danger. When the Qing army launched a large-scale attack on Guizhou and Yunnan, and the Yongli court was in danger, Li Dingguo and others, in order to save the crisis, petitioned Emperor Yongli to send five eunuchs to eastern Sichuan to contact the Kuidong court.
The three families asked them to quickly move their troops westward and attack Chongqing, so as to contain the Qing army from going south.
In history, Li Laiheng organized all the elite troops of the Thirteen Kuidong families to raid Chongqing, almost cutting off Wu Sangui's retreat, putting him to death, and turning the tide of the anti-Qing war in one fell swoop. However, Tan Yi killed himself at the critical moment.
His elder brother, Tan Wen, who advocated resistance to the Qing Dynasty, was assassinated and led his troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, which caused the situation in the Battle of Chongqing to take a turn for the worse.
In this way, not only did Emperor Yongli and Li Dingguo's plan of expecting the Kuidong Ming army to counterattack Chongqing to hold back the Qing army from Sichuan to Guizhou come to nothing, but the Thirteen Kuidong families also suffered heavy losses and no longer had the strength to launch an attack on the Qing army.
A large-scale strategic attack was launched.
Tan Yi didn't know the future direction of history. He was just resting quietly in the barracks. He was still thinking that when the city is breached tomorrow, although the guardsmen under his command are weak, they still have 400 heads, right?
Can I have a big spoonful of the soup too?
While the officers and soldiers were relaxing and resting, the Chuang camp, under the command of Li Laiheng, stepped up the repairs to the city's defense. Yuan soldiers did not attack the city immediately that night, giving Li Laiheng an excellent opportunity to improve the city's defense. He would
He tried his best to turn Yiling into a burial place for officers and soldiers.
About the fourth watch, the cold wind blowing from the Yangtze River stung the soldiers' faces like knives. Everyone's ears and noses were frozen. There were thick clouds in the sky, and it seemed like it was going to snow.
But occasionally there were cracks in the moving clouds, and a few cold stars suddenly appeared, and soon disappeared. The night was dark. There were many torches and lanterns on the top of the city, because the city wall could not be seen, and the endless lanterns and torches were visible.
It's like hanging in the air.
Li Laiheng stood on the top of the city, and beside him were Bai Wang, Gu Kecheng, Xin Sizhong and others. All of them had dark faces, and layers of shadows were cast by the fire.
"Wang Guangen ran away as expected." Li Laiheng said in a very cold tone, "He was smart. After seeing us seizing the stables and treasury, he did not fight with us, but directly escaped from the city with the camp. Look.
In Wang Guangen's eyes, the troops and horses of Guanying are his most important asset."
Bai Wang was commanding the soldiers to pour water on the city wall, taking advantage of the severe cold and freeze to quickly repair the damage to the city wall. He sighed: "Although the people in the city are unwilling to go to the city to defend us, they are still very happy after taking the money.
Seriously help dig trenches and repair city walls."
Li Laiheng turned around and looked into the city. Hao Yaoqi and Uncle Qing used the savings from the city's treasury to hire a large number of people to dig trenches in the city. With the Yamen Office as the center, they dug trenches within the inner city in a short time.
A deep trench emerged.
Xin Sizhong was a little puzzled by this and asked: "Guan Li, shouldn't we dig trenches outside the city? What's the use of digging them inside the city?"
"Our time is so tight. The perimeter of the outer city wall is too long, and there is simply not enough time for us to dig the trenches." Li Laiheng explained as he walked down the city wall, "Won't the officers and soldiers notice that you are digging outside the city? Maybe they will send troops.
We will attack and dig into the city, and when the city is broken, we will retreat to the trenches."
He pointed in the direction of the trench and said to Bai Wang: "We can't dig too deep in our haste. Lao Bai, ask someone to cut some wooden stakes and insert them into the trench."
Li Laiheng's method of digging inner trenches was learned from that of the later Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zhou Tianjue, the general who encircled and suppressed the Taiping Army in the late Qing Dynasty, once said that the Taiping Army "is not as good as breaking through and sacrificing, but going deeper than it is". The Taiping Army's defensive tactics
, it is worth learning from Chuangjun.
Li Laiheng considered that the city wall was a shoddy project and the government troops had artillery with a high accuracy. Even if they used ice water to strengthen the city wall, they might not be able to withstand it. Therefore, he decided to defend the inner city and selected an area around the Yamen government office.
, first use ice water, soil, and masonry to build an earth wall. Then dig a trench outside the earth wall, with wooden skewers inside and wooden stakes nailed outside.
"Have all the gold and silver treasures in the treasury been distributed to the soldiers?" Li Laiheng walked to the edge of the trench construction site that was being dug and asked Gu Kecheng.
"Yes, it's all been sent out."
"After the city wall is lost, let the brothers throw away all the gold and silver treasures between the city wall and the inner trench." Li Laiheng pointed to the army camp outside the city and said, "Let the officers and soldiers loot, and we will seize the opportunity to counterattack.
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"We also need to make use of the gunpowder in the government warehouse. Time is urgent, so we use ice water and soil to make a shell, fill it with gunpowder and iron filings, and make earthen thunder and ten thousand enemies."
Li Laiheng stepped on a small mound and looked at the city that had turned into a construction site. He didn't have much confidence in his heart, but he unconsciously felt the courage to fight against the sky.
Liu Zongmin’s sacrifice will never be in vain!
Rewarded with huge sums of money from the invading army, thousands of migrant workers were hard at work digging trenches. Row after row of migrant workers carried soil and walked past Li Laiheng. The excavated soil was mixed with bricks, stones and ice water, and was built into a trench.
Earth wall.
Uncle Qing's white hair was very obvious in the dim lights. His presbyopic eyes were wet with sweat, so he had to stop his busy work and wipe his eyes. Hao Yaoqi carried two loads of soil on his shoulders and stood in front of the Yamen.
He strode across the open space, and his natural divine power played a great role at this time.
Bai Wang, Gu Kecheng and Xin Sizhong also had their own tasks. Everyone was extremely busy. They had to complete all deployments before dawn, and then use less than 500 troops to resist the 3,000 official troops with cannons.
Li Laiheng didn't know if his bet was right. How was this battle fought in history? Was it the right choice to escape with Wang Guangen? Even if Yiling was recaptured by the army, maybe Li Zicheng could also annihilate the Chu army at Yangjiao Mountain.
.Did you add too much to the problem and get yourself into trouble?
"Guard team! The outer city walls have been repaired! The wooden pegs in the inner trench have also been inserted!"
The young general Zhang Pili suddenly ran to Li Laiheng to report the news. He was also sweating profusely. The sweat made all his hair stick to his forehead, making him look very slovenly. This young man, who looked like a half-grown child, was breathing heavily and almost said
No words came.
He half-bent down and said to Li Laiheng: "All the arrangements ordered by the management team have been completed!"
"good!"
Li Laiheng stared into the distance, knowing that the sun would rise soon. The red sun would shine on the invading army and they would fight to the death!