Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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When the explosion was over, Xing Bingzhong stood up with a look of embarrassment.

Just when he stood up, Xing Bingzhong heard the scream again.

"Get down!" Xing Bingzhong yelled, and hurriedly curled up under the crenel of the city wall.

"Chi la chi la!"

Another round of rockets landed on the city wall with a shrill howl.

"Bang bang bang!"

Explosions followed one after another, and each explosion could take the lives of soldiers.

"Don't stop the fire, continue bombing!" Wang Tiewa said expressionlessly, watching the constant explosions above the city.

Soldiers carrying 40 fire kept attacking the top of the city, and rockets kept pouring towards the city wall of Dongxing Pass.

Under the blow beyond time and space, even the most elite soldiers could not withstand such a blow.

The defenders on the top of the city began to panic. If they did not retreat, they might collapse.

Xing Bingzhong squatted behind the crenel, his heart was in a mess.

"There is no way to go on like this. Quickly withdraw, first withdraw."

Xing Bingzhong yelled at the soldiers on the city wall, and then rushed down under the protection of his personal guards.

After receiving the order to retreat, the defenders on the top of the city hurriedly withdrew to the bottom of the city under the arrangement of their respective officers.

Some soldiers were so frightened by the artillery fire that they had no time to retreat from the stairs, so they jumped off the city wall.

Of course, few of these soldiers could stand up after jumping.

On the back of the city wall, there are large and small caves for hiding soldiers. When these soldiers retreated, they hurriedly hid in the caves for hiding soldiers.

Xing Bingzhong was standing in the cave for the soldiers on the back of the city wall, listening to the continuous sound of explosions, he was in a state of confusion.

"These people are really too powerful. What kind of firearms are they using and why are they so powerful?"

Xing Bingzhong frowned tightly, he really couldn't figure out why there was such a weapon in the world.

Every time the 40-fire rocket exploded, the city wall would shake slightly, and the hearts of the soldiers hiding in the caves would beat violently.

Yanmen Pass is located in an important throat, and it is a battleground for military strategists, so the imperial court is also very concerned about the construction of Yanmen Pass.

Almost every emperor will allocate funds to repair Yanmen Pass.

After more than 200 years of improvement in the Ming Dynasty, the entire Yanmen Pass has been repaired like an iron barrel.

The city wall of Dongxing Pass is very thick, and the building materials used are also the best building materials.

The outermost bricks are either green bricks mixed with glutinous rice juice, brown sugar water and egg whites or solid green bricks.

The rammed earth wrapped by the blue bricks is rammed earth mixed with glutinous rice juice, egg white and brown sugar water, and it is more than 30 meters thick.

Although such rammed earth costs a lot, its defensive effect is surprisingly superior.

Although the 40 fire is very powerful, it is not so easy to destroy the city wall when it falls on this kind of city wall.

Unless it is the 152mm cannon howitzer in Zhao Wen's hands, it is difficult to blast away the city wall of Dongxing Pass with 40 fire.

Song Hu held up his binoculars and looked at the rockets that exploded as Yanmen closed, his brows were tightly knit together.

"Send the order down, let them return, there is no need to waste shells."

Song Hu pointed to the soldiers in front and shouted to the orderly behind him.

The messenger bowed his hands at Song Hu, and then hurried towards Wang Tiewa.

At this time, Wang Tiewa held up the binoculars and looked at the ineffective bombing above the city, with a look of anger on her face.

Although he had already guessed this kind of result, but when he met this kind of result, he was full of resentment.

"My lord, the general has an order to withdraw the troops now." The messenger stopped in front of Wang Tiewa and shouted at Wang Tiewa.

Wang Tiewa sighed, and gave orders to the soldiers under his command to retreat.

When Wang Tiewa retreated with the soldiers, the explosion at Dongxing Pass stopped suddenly.

"The bombardment has stopped." Xing Tizhong walked out of the cave of the soldiers. He saw the explosion on the top of the city, and hurriedly said to Chuanlongbing: "Let Li Dou lead his men up to see if it is the city or not." Soldiers outside withdrew."

After a few breaths, Baihu Li Dou led his soldiers up the city wall carefully.

When he watched the two hundred soldiers outside the city begin to retreat towards the rear, his face was filled with excitement.

"My lord, the rebels have retreated." Li Dou lay on the city wall, shouting to Xing Tizhong below.

A trace of excitement flashed across Xing Tianzhong's face, but the excitement quickly disappeared.

Although the enemy has retreated now, who knows if they will attack again. If they continue to attack, how to defend at that time is also a problem.

Although their artillery just now didn't blast the city wall away again, the defenders couldn't stand still on the city wall.

The defenders are untenable, and it is only a matter of time before Dongxing Pass falls.Xing Tianzhong looked at the city wall and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Xing Tizhong called a messenger over, wrote another autographed letter, handed it to the messenger, and asked the messenger to take his own letter to Zhenwuwei not far away, and let Zhenwuwei The command envoy led the troops to help.

If there is no reinforcements, with today's level of attack, I am afraid that Dongxing Pass will fall in a short time.

After Dongxing Pass missed, half of the entire Yanmen Pass would be lost, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Although he had already sent a signal for help before, just in case, he had to ask someone to run again.

After Wang Tiewa returned to the team, Song Hu ordered to camp in place.

The camp tents were set up quickly, and it didn't take long for them to be set up.

After setting up the camp, all the generals in General Song Hu gathered in their big tent.

"About today's battle, do you have anything to say?" Song Hu sat on the main seat, looked around, and asked.

Wang Tiewa of Qianhu took the lead to stand up, "My lord, this Yanmen Pass is a famous dangerous pass in the world. The city is high, the pool is deep, and the city wall is extremely thick. When I led the attack today, I found that 40 fire rockets hit the city wall. The damage is really limited.

Therefore, it is unrealistic to want to blow away the city wall with 40 fire.If our soldiers also use ordinary methods to attack the city, they will use their own weaknesses to attack the other's strengths, wasting our firepower advantage. "

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Chapter 372

Listening to Wang Tiewa's remarks, Song Hu kept tapping on the armrest of the chair.

"What you said is also reasonable, I also looked at it today, and the damage caused by ordinary shells to the entire city wall is indeed limited.

That being the case, then let's follow the command of the commander-in-chief, don't rush to attack, first scatter all the soldiers, and cover the entire area around Yanmen Pass first.

If there are reinforcements coming, then implement the strategy of besieging and attacking reinforcements to wipe out the reinforcements. "

According to the news brought back by the scouts, the Chinese army is now less than two days away from Yanmen Pass, so it is better to wait until the Chinese army arrives.

Song Hu stood up and looked at the people in the big tent, "Now send me an order to cover Yanmen Pass starting tonight. There are also Zhenwuwei in the south and Guangwuying in the north. These two places also need to be tightly guarded." monitor.

The implementation method is a rotation system, which changes every two hours. The first wave will start with Wang Tiewa and Li Tianming.

As long as reinforcements dare to come over, they will be wiped out immediately. "

"Obey!" The general in the big account shouted loudly at Song Hu.

After Song Hu's order was issued, Wang Tiewa led the soldiers under his command to step on their horses and began to circle around Yanmen Pass, and part of the soldiers and horses went to Guangwu camp in the north.

Li Tianming led his troops towards Zhenwuwei.

The sun gradually set into the western mountain, and the whole world began to darken.

The troops sent by Xing Bingzhong to ask for help escaped the patrolling soldiers because of the relatively early time, and went all the way to Zhenwuwei.

After running around, I finally arrived at Zhenwuwei when it was dark.

Zhenwuwei has five thousand households in the front, middle, back, left, and right. According to the roster, there should be more than 5000 soldiers.

But now that the guard system is broken, the number of soldiers in these five thousand households is far from that many.

In the current Zhenwuwei, including all the soldiers and the general's servants, there are only more than [-] people.

Zhenwuwei's camp is located in the city of Daizhou, and he also has the responsibility to assist in the management of Daizhou.

The current commander of Zhenwuwei is a man named Chen Zhong.

"Quickly open the city gate, I am the guard of Yanmen Gate, and I have a serious military situation."

The messenger sent by Xing Bingzhong stopped outside the moat of Daizhou, shouting loudly at the city wall of Daizhou.

"Who?" A head protruded from the city wall, holding a torch and questioning loudly towards the moat.

"I am the soldier sent by General Xing Bingzhong, the guard of Yanmen Gate, to ask for help. This is my identity card. Quickly open the city gate and let me in."

The messenger took out his identity token from his pocket, and kept dangling it in front of his eyes.

"I'll let you put down the suspension bridge on the moat first, and later I'll fish your identity tag up with a basket, and let us check it.

Only after checking your real identity can I let you in, otherwise, we really can't bear this responsibility. "

The soldiers on the top of the city shouted loudly at the orderly.

"Okay, anyway, hurry up." The orderly replied.

The suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and the orderly put away his identity card, and controlled the horse to rush over the suspension bridge.

At the same time, a bamboo basket was lowered from above.

The orderly put his identity badge in.

After the soldiers at the top of the city checked and found no mistakes, they opened the city gate and let him in.

A while later, the messenger, accompanied by several city guards, arrived at the mansion of the Commander Zhenwuwei.

At this time, Chen Zhong, the commander of Zhenwuwei, was wearing a coat and sitting in the study. He looked at the messenger standing in front of him, frowned and said, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"

The messenger took out Xing Bingzhong's handwritten letter from his pocket and put it on Chen Zhong's desk.

"Return to your lord, this is a letter from my lord, he told me to send it to your lord.

Now the rebels have approached Yanmen Pass, and launched a tentative attack on Yanmen Pass today.

The weapons in the hands of the rebels are powerful, and the number of defenders in my Yanmen Pass is limited. If there is no reinforcements, I am afraid it will not last long. "The messenger looked at Chen Zhong and kept talking.

Chen Zhong took the letter under the candle, checked the sealant and signature on it, opened the envelope, took out the letter inside and read it.

After reading it, Chen Zhong put the letter on the table.

"It's not impossible for me to send troops to rescue Yanmen Pass, but after I send troops, what should the entire Daizhou City do?

Daizhou City is not far from Yanmen Pass. If the rebels come to attack Daizhou City, once Daizhou City falls, it will be my responsibility, Chen Zhong. "Chen Zhong said with a gloomy face and a low tone.

When the messenger heard this, he knelt down and said anxiously: "My lord, you can't just ignore the Yanmen Pass. If the Yanmen Pass falls, the rebels will drive straight in, and Daizhou will definitely not be able to keep it."

Chen Zhong said: "I also understand this point, but Daizhou City has to be guarded. How about it, tomorrow morning I will send 500 people to reinforce Yanmen Pass. This 500 people plus the original Yanmen Pass Manpower, should be able to guard the Yanmen Pass."

The next day, just after dawn, Chen Zhong sent 500 people under the leadership of two thousand households to head towards Yanmen Pass.

But before they had walked much distance, they were discovered by soldiers monitoring Zhenwuwei.

After discovering them, the former soldiers hurriedly reported the news to Song Hu.

"Sure enough, as I expected, Zhenwuwei really sent reinforcements." Song Hu walked out of the camp excitedly, "Pass me the order to let Wang Tiewa come to see me."

Song Hu shouted to the guards outside the big tent.

It didn't take long for Wang Tiewa to appear in the big tent with armor on.

"grown ups!"

Wang Tiewa looked at Song Hu and shouted loudly.

Song Hu nodded, "Now I have an order for you. Now that Zhenwuwei has sent [-] soldiers to reinforce Yanmen Pass, I now order you to lead your troops to defeat all the reinforcements, including them. If you can catch them alive, try to catch them alive."

"Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely complete the task." After Wang Tiewa finished speaking, she hurried out.

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Tiewa led the men and horses under her command to ride towards Daizhou City on horseback.

At this time, the team going to reinforce Yanmen Pass was slowly walking on the official road.

"Brother Wu, do you think Commander-in-Chief is a little too sensitive? Where is Yanmen Pass? Is it so easy to break through? The defenders in Yanmen Pass have a total of more than 2000 and nearly 3000 people, and we still need reinforcements." ?"

A Qianhu named Cui Jichuan was riding on a horse, looking at Wu Xiao who was walking on top of him, with a dull expression on his face.