After Xie Wang's propaganda, Miyun City has now become a common enemy. Everyone's fear of the Tatars has turned into their own motivation to survive. The common people are thinking about the same thing now. Since they will die no matter what, why not?
It is better to die in battle. If you can kill one or two Tatars, then you will not lose money. If you can defend the city wall, even if you die in battle in the end, your relatives will survive.
Not only did all the young men and women actively participate in the defense of the city, but countless women also came to the city walls to help transport supplies and prepare meals for the soldiers and young men. These women had been frightened to death by what happened at Gubeikou. They were not afraid of death.
But they thought that if they faced the ravages of the Tatars every day, it would be better to die. So these women desperately helped the officers and soldiers defend the city, hoping to defend the city and preserve their lives and chastity.
Even many elderly people over fifty years old ignore the dissuasion and follow the training beside the young adults. They just want to contribute at the last moment and use their old lives to leave a way for their young children and grandchildren to survive.
At this time, Xie Wang actually had a glimmer of hope in defending Miyun City. With the efforts of these people, it might not be that easy for the Tatars to break through. In the end, if the Tatars lose too many people, I am afraid they will have no choice but to do so.
After going around the city, there was nothing he could do to take advantage of his Miyun City.
Xie Wang now has this idea in mind to encourage the people to fight and let them understand that the Tatars are also human beings. They will also be afraid if they suffer heavy losses.
Countless rolling wood and thunder stones were also prepared on the city wall. These things did not exist originally. They were collected by Xie Wang after he demolished the garrison mansion and the houses of all officials.
When the people in the city saw that the officials were demolishing their houses to defend the city, they also took action one by one. Many people demolished all their unused houses and took away the stones and various types of wood used for building houses.
All the beams were transported to the top of the city.
While Miyun City was working hard to defend the city in the past few days, the Tatars were not idle. During this period, they used craftsmen plundered from the Central Plains to build countless ladders and other siege equipment, such as car crashes, etc.
wait.
On the third day when both sides were resting, Arsleng Khan led the army to go into battle together. The army set up a formation three miles outside Miyun City. Arsleng Khan took the lead and came to the front of the formation. He put up a pergola and looked up at the city wall. He saw that the city wall was densely packed with people.
There were countless figures, and all kinds of defensive materials were piled up.
Seeing this situation, Alsileng Khan had a bad premonition in his heart. This reminded him of the siege in Kaiping Town. Although he was well prepared this time, if the fight continued like this, he didn't know what to do.
How much time was spent and how many people were lost.
Moreover, the current situation of Miyun City Investment is very different from what Gu Xu described. Looking at the materials on the city top, there is no lack of preparation. It is simply piled up like a mountain. Looking at the soldiers on top of the city, they are densely packed, at least tens of thousands of people.
Seeing this situation, Arslen Khan changed his mind and decided to test the attack for a few days. If it failed, he could not continue to attack by force. After that, he should go around the city and go straight to the capital, leaving behind another 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry.
, it is enough for monitoring.
After Arsleng Khan made up his mind, he sent an order to his generals, ordering them to attack the city from all sides immediately, and they must attack the city continuously without any pause.
The Tatars did not just order their own soldiers to attack the city. In the past few days, they had also looted tens of thousands of people from all around. The male soldiers among these people naturally became cannon fodder for this siege.
A group rushed towards Miyun City.
These prisoners came. Under the urging of the Tatars behind them, the young men rushed towards Miyun City carrying the ladders. When they got to the city and set up the ladders, they climbed up the ladders and attacked the city under the pressure of the Tatars' swords and guns. So they brutally attacked the city.
This is how the battle began.
Seeing this situation, Xie Wang on the top of the city hesitated for a moment. Finally, he made up his mind and gave the order. All the soldiers began to throw wooden thunder stones downwards. In an instant, the people who attacked the city suffered heavy losses. Such a situation only
It lasted for more than half an hour. These people suffered heavy losses and no longer had the ability to attack the city.
Arslen Khan saw from behind that almost all of the slaves he had plundered had been lost, and a lot of them had been consumed by the rolling wooden thunder above his head, so he ordered the Tatars under his command to start attacking the city.
So the Tatars imitated the Central Plains people and ran towards the city wall carrying ladders. In the process, thousands of arrows were fired from the top of the city. Some of the Tatars fell down on the way to charge. But the Tatars are human beings after all.
Although there were many people, they soon approached the city wall. They held the ladder on the city wall and climbed steadily, braving the rolling logs and rocks above to fight and climb up, showing their fierceness.
There were also archers sent by Arslen Khan below the city. They kept shooting arrows upward to suppress the firepower of the city.
At the top of Miyun City, Xie Wang led hundreds of people to act as a battle supervisor and rescue team. Anyone who dared to retreat was immediately killed. If they were about to lose their support, they immediately went to support them.
At the same time, the young men under the city must be ordered to constantly replenish them. Sometimes there is no time to dispatch the young men, and even women come to the city to join the battle.
From the beginning, sometimes because of the lack of rolling logs and thunder stones, the corpses of comrades who had just died in battle were simply thrown away as rolling logs.
What's more surprising is that the most courageous among these people were the women. Many women, when they were seriously injured and couldn't stand it anymore, actually jumped off the city top with the Tatars in their arms. The tragedy and tragedy in it were not just
language can describe.
Such a fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted for a day. When the sky darkened, Alsileng Khan finally ordered his troops to withdraw. This day's offensive and defensive battle allowed him to see the cruelty that was different from previous grassland wars, which further strengthened his determination to retreat.
The determination to leave the city.
In the evening, the losses were calculated. In this day's siege, the Tatars killed nearly 5,000 people and injured two to three thousand people. Such losses have exceeded the limit that the Tatars can bear. Many people
They all complained in their hearts. They also glared at Gu Xu, a Han Chinese. It was because he said that the city was unprepared and it would be easy for them to break through, so they attacked the city with all their might. When they thought about it, they would suffer a bloody blow on the first day.
Alsileng Khan did not blame Gu Xu, but said to his generals: "I saw the siege today. There are not many regular soldiers in the city. Most of them are young men who have just been recruited. Although we suffered a lot today, we lost a lot of money."
It's big, but the damage on the car is probably more serious than ours. I think if we continue the attack for two more days, if we can break through Miyun, that will naturally be the best result. If we can't break through the city wall, then the people in the city will also suffer heavy losses.
, there is no danger to our retreat, so we will go around the city and go straight to the capital."
Everyone saw that Alsileng Khan had set the tone, and they did not dare to resist, so they could only obey his orders.
In Miyun City, after a day of fierce fighting, when the soldiers saw the Tatars retreating, they would rather collapse on the city wall. Some people even lay down on the ground and fell asleep regardless of the dead bodies around them.
After Xie Wang saw the Tatars retreating, he immediately asked someone to count their numbers. The result surprised him. In this day's fierce battle, their losses exceeded eight thousand, of which one or two thousand were formally trained soldiers. If this continues for three days,
Within five days, Miyun City will definitely be captured.
But now he is on the verge of death. In order to defend Miyun City, he killed many wealthy gentry. If he cannot defend Miyun City and takes this as his credit, he may not end up well in the end.
Xie Wang thought about it and had no choice but to fight to the death. He immediately ordered that all the women over 20 years old and under 40 years old in the city be gathered together for emergency training. If necessary, they would all go to the tower to defend the city. This would give him more
Ten to twenty thousand people are available, allowing him to hold on for a few more days.
The next day everything was as usual, the Tatars still fought hard to attack the city, and Miyun City was also defending desperately. Today's siege station was more tragic than yesterday, and the losses in the morning had exceeded the casualties in yesterday's day.
The two sides fought from dawn to dusk. Alslen Khan saw his troops rushing to the top of the city several times. He thought that the city was about to be broken, but he did not expect to be driven back by the opponent again.
Alsileng Khan immediately sent people to count the losses after dark. Today's one-day siege cost him more than 8,000 people. The losses in these two days have already shaken whether Miyun City should be attacked. Although he
He knew that under this situation, Miyun City would definitely be breached in a few days, but he would lose tens of thousands of elites, which seemed to be more than worth the gain. It would also waste too much time and give the Southern Dynasty capital more time to prepare.
Alsileng Khan made a decisive decision to change his strategy, leaving only 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry to monitor Miyun. He led a large group of troops straight to the capital and raided various places.
Early the next morning, Alslen Khan immediately ordered the camp to be raised, leaving only 20,000 people to monitor Miyun, while the rest of the group bypassed Miyun and went south.
On the top of Miyun City, Xie Wang watched the large group of troops heading south, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He did not expect that the Tatars' fighting power was so strong. During the day of defending the city yesterday, Miyun City lost more than a thousand people while occupying all the favorable ground.
Ten thousand, and almost all the veterans in the city died in the battle. The situation was so bad that it was completely beyond the control of a scholar like him.
Now there are only a few people supporting the city, only young men and women who have been trained for a few days. If the Tatars attack the city again today, Miyun may not be able to hold it.
And now there are no professional officers to command in Miyun City. In the past two days of the battle, among the thousands of households in Miyun, except for one or two who were seriously injured and managed to survive, the other thousands of households have died in the battle. Although he is a member of the military
The chief clerk was really not good at these battles. I thought that today was the last day of my life, but I didn’t expect that the Tatars actually circled the city and left.
In fact, Alsileng Khan was shocked by the spirit of Miyun. He thought that if every city in the Southern Dynasty was like Miyun, he would not be able to invade the Southern Dynasty even if he brought all the people from the grassland.
The Han people's will to resist also let him know that this nation is not easily conquered. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will persevere and fight the invaders to the end.