Chapter 262: Yingzhou Victory

It is evening, the goshawks circling, and the red sun that sinks west is like blood stains, revealing a heavy sadness. New·

The soldiers on the front line of Guguan stood above the city and looked at the vast grassland. Suddenly, a black line appeared in the sky. Then the black line became closer and closer, and finally formed a fierce torrent and rushed straight toward the city gate.

"The Tatars are attacking! Let the wolf smoke, hurry up!"

As the first shout of the defenders at the city wall fell, in an instant, everyone in the pass started to move.

"call"

The fierce flames on the stacked walls were ignited, and then they were suppressed by the wet firewood. Then, black smoke columns soared into the sky appeared and floated towards the sky.

“Huhuhuhu”

At the same time, after seeing the wolf smoke at the rear, the wolf smoke was lit. So, in less than a moment, the news of the Tatar army attacking Guguan had been conveyed to Xuanhua City.

"Okay, finally here!"

At this time, Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists at the head of Xuanhua City, and was filled with excitement. At this time, he wanted to run to the Guguan front line and fight with the enemy. However, he knew that it was not the time and he could not be too impulsive. He had to continue waiting until it was suitable for him to take action.

"Kill!"

Just as Zhu Houzhao was watching the soaring wolf smoke, the Ming army on the Guguan front had already fought with the Tatar army.

The Tatar army was coming in full force. After the vanguard arrived at the gate, it immediately launched an attack on Guguan. Because the Tatars were the best at fighting immediately and raiding for long distances, they continued the tradition of fighting immediately. While using light cavalry to raid down the gate, they used light cavalry to raid down the gate, and released arrow rain to suppress the Ming army at the top of the gate, but on the other hand, they sent out a team of suicide squads, carrying siege equipment, such as ladders, rope hooks, and other items, rushed under the wall, trying to climb up to the wall and seize the gate.

At the moment when the Guguan line was fighting fiercely, Prince Boyan, the leader of the Tatars, decisively divided his troops into three groups. The army bypassed Guguan and took a small path to attack Guyuan. The army traveled westward and feinted to attack Zijing Pass to prevent the Ming army from Zijing Pass from rushing to Guguan. The other army was rushing to attack Maguan, and the purpose was naturally to block the Ming army in Maguan and prevent them from rescue Guguan.

After the arrangement of the little prince Boyan, the 60,000 army immediately dispersed halfway, leaving only 30,000 troops. They chased Guguan and tried to quickly take Guguan down, so that their own troops could have a stable foothold.

However, what the Tatars did not expect was that the Guguan defenders this time were different from previous years. Although their number was small, their combat effectiveness and the defensive equipment equipped on the city were all improved many times than usual.

"boom!"

A ball of fiery red fireworks suddenly exploded on the wall of the pass, and the Ming army's cannons opened fire. Just this cannon killed dozens of Tatar troops trying to attack the city.

However, after all, the Tatar army was large. After a group of people died, the people behind continued to rush up. At the same time, the arrow rains of the cavalry in the back row were projected increasingly densely, and the situation almost made the Ming troops in the pass unable to raise their heads.

However, when the Tatars were puzzled, at this time, even under such a dense rain of arrows, there were still many Ming troops on the narrow wall. They continued to resist and resist. They actually dug holes on the raised female wall and shot arrows out of the hole. This made the Tatars a little helpless. In desperation, they could only send people to the rear army to dispatch stone throwing cars, preparing to use the method of bombarding huge rocks to knock down the narrow wall at the pass.

It took some time for the catapult to arrive. Then, just before the catapult to arrive, the Tatars suddenly discovered that the Ming army guarding the pass this time not only had fierce artillery fire and dense guns and bullets, but most importantly, the arrows they shot were actually poisonous arrows that were harsh.

The poison on the arrow is really a bit powerful. It can wipe a little skin into a person, and it can make people immediately paralyzed and lose their ability to move. In a short time, they will bleed in seven holes and die tragically on the spot. What kind of poison is this? It is so powerful?

For a moment, the Tatars were a little shocked. Then they looked at the walls with more and more corpses piled up, and they couldn't help but feel a little scared. Then the fear turned into irrepressible anger. Then they finally removed the troops that had hit the walls, emptyed the ground, and pushed up the catapults dispatched from the rear army.

“Huhuhuhu”

With the sound of roars, there were more than a dozen shirtless Tartar men behind each catapult cart pulling the thick ropes, shooting out the stones on the catapult cart, and smashing them towards the narrow wall of Guguan.

"Bang bang bang bang bang"

As the stones fell down, all of them bombarded the pass. The wall of Guguan was immediately smashed to pieces and the stones flew around. However, even so, such bombardment still could not effectively shake the wall. After all, the wall was several feet thick and could not be smashed by ordinary stones.

At this time, what made the Tatars depressed was that when they saw them attacking with a catapult, all the Ming troops immediately hid like turtles, and there was no one on the top of the city. However, when they wanted to attack, the Ming troops immediately began to fire guns and arrows, and the cannons bombarded one after another. This time, the Ming troops were even more cruel. The iron sand shot bullets released by the musket were also severely poisoned. This led to the second wave of attacks of the Tatars, with more casualties, but there were no less than a thousand people, either died directly under the wall or were poisoned to death on the road to retreat.

But why is the iron sand shot bullet also highly poisonous? It turned out that the defenders in the pass were very lethal. Seeing that the poison arrows were very lethal, they splashed the poison-tempering potion distributed to them by Zhu Houzhao onto the iron sand used by the musketeers. Then they mixed the iron sand and mixed the poison evenly, but all the iron sand was poisoned.

Therefore, the Ming army's counterattack became even more fierce and sharp. Not only was the poisonous arrow powerful, but the toxicity of the iron sand was even more terrifying, because after the iron sand was blasted out, it flew out one by one. Although it was rarely beaten to death directly, it was easy to scratch people. Once it was scratched, it would be poisoned. Therefore, at this time, the Tatars were really miserable, and they were both angry and angry. They screamed and cursed at the gate, but they no longer dared to assemble a large group of troops to attack.

The battle continued until late at night. Almost all the big rocks smashed out by the catapult were about to fill the gate, but the Tatars still failed to step into the gate. Not only that, they also left three or four thousand living lives under the gate. This made the Tatars start to think about it, thinking that such an attack was too dull. So soon, a general advised the little prince of Boyan, asking him to surround Guguan first, but not attack. Then they just needed to use the high maneuverability of the cavalry, cross Guguan, and rob the people of the Ming Dynasty behind them.

In fact, Prince Boyan was not unaware of this, but he was a little hesitant about this suggestion. After all, he did not come here just to rob. He wanted to seize the land and city of the Ming Dynasty. You must know that at this time, King Anhua rebelled in Ningxia. So, if he could cooperate with him at this time and conquer the border guards of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty would no longer be able to fight against him in the future. At that time, he would not be as good as he said. How dare the Ming Dynasty negotiate terms with him?

However, what made Prince Boyan feel depressed was that the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty defenders was so tenacious and the tactics were so cruel. Therefore, he did not feel hesitant or shaken at this time. In the end, he had no choice but to accept the advice of his subordinates. Then he left five thousand defenders trapping Guguan, and then led a large group of troops to bypass Guguan and rushed towards Guyuan City behind.

However, what the Tatars did not expect was that after they bypassed Guguan, they rushed forward all the way. They originally thought they would meet the group of Ming people who fled in a hurry. As a result, what made them feel depressed was that this time, they rushed to the bottom of Guyuan City, but they did not even see a single person along the way. Not only that, they not only did not see the people, but they did not even see a grain of food, a piece of cloth, or a cattle and sheep. The Ming Dynasty actually moved all the people in this area in advance. At this time, the people were gone and the houses were empty, and even some houses were burned. This was a bit beyond the expectations of the Tatars, which made them feel unconsciously uneasy in their hearts, and they felt that the Ming generals they faced this time were probably not ordinary people.

"Have you found out clearly who the Ming army's border commander was?"

It was dark on the moonlit night, and the little prince Boyan squatted on the high-headed horse and asked his men suspiciously.

Hearing his words, the subordinate immediately reported: "Your Highness, my subordinates heard that the commander of the Ming army was named Zhu Shou, and he was granted the title of General of the mighty war."

"Zhu Shou? When did there be such a person in the Ming Dynasty? Have you found out his background?" Boyan was surprised and frowned and asked at his subordinate.

"This, after many inquiries from many sources, my subordinates failed to find out the origin of Zhu Shou. Even if we were a detailed work in the Ming Dynasty, we didn't know the name of this person," the Tatar general couldn't help but replied with embarrassment when he heard Boyan's words.

Hearing his subordinates' words, Boyan became even more suspicious. Afterwards, he frowned and waved his hand and said, "Tele the entire army to attack Guyuan City with all my strength. I want to see who Zhu Shou is. He used so many despicable and cruel methods. This person is really dangerous and must not be kept, otherwise serving the queen will definitely become a major concern for our clan!" (To be continued)
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