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The weapons used by these [-] people were knives, guns, bows and arrows, and they didn't even have decent defensive equipment, let alone cannons.

How should a city like this be defended?

Agumu and his personal guards patrolled back and forth on the city wall.

The city wall of Jingyuan Fortress has been in disrepair for a long time, so many places are damaged. Although the defenders in the city have repaired some of them before, there are too many places that need to be repaired, and they cannot be repaired at all.

"Send an order to demolish all the houses in the city, and move things like bricks and beams to the city wall." Agumu turned around and looked at the guards behind him.

A personal guard asked with a puzzled look: "It's all demolished? Where do you live?"

"Where do you live? Why don't you live? Once the city falls, we are all finished. Where do you still want to live? Let me tell you, don't live there, just stay on the city wall obediently." Agumu was a little anxious scolded.

Although these things have little effect on the Xuanzhen soldiers, they are better than nothing. What if they can work?

"By the way, I'll write you a military report asking for help later. You quickly take the military report out of the city at night and go to Shengjing City to ask for help. Just say that we met five thousand Xuanzhen soldiers." Agumu suddenly remembered What, he pointed to a personal guard, and exhorted.

The guard pointed at by him looked at Agumu in surprise, "But we didn't find out how many soldiers and horses came outside the city at all. If the Great Khan finds out that we lied about the military situation, we won't be able to survive. .”

"When do you still care about these details? You hurry up and do what I say, or I will punish you for disobedience on the battlefield." At this time, Agumu also had to threaten the guard.

"Slave obeys!" The guard saw the fierce light in Agumu's eyes and shouted hastily.

A few quarters of an hour later, hundreds of people began to demolish the houses in the city, and the beams, bricks and tiles that were removed were transported towards the city wall.

At the same time, the four war horses also rushed in the direction of Shengjing.

On the other hand, Chen Dehao and Meng He's camp was very quiet.

All the soldiers in the camp were sleeping in their tents except for those who had been on night watch, and the camp was full of snoring.

Around Jingyuan Fort, there are still a large number of Ye Bu Shou, including Meng He's men and Chen De Hao's men.

Ye Bushou kept wandering around the Jingyuan Fort, and it didn't take long before he found the soldiers with the white flag who had come out of the city to ask for help.

"Haha, you dare to go out of the city at this time. You are looking for death. Brothers, rush up and capture them alive."

Ye Bushou of Horqin waved a steel knife in his hand, and chased after these Zhengbaiqi soldiers.

The soldiers around him also hurriedly followed behind him, chasing forward.

"No, someone is catching up." Hearing the sound of horseshoes behind him, a soldier with a white flag turned his head and saw more than a dozen big men on horses riding towards him in the moonlight. Follow me here.

He hurriedly turned around and shouted at the Zhengbai Banner soldiers who were running at the forefront: "You go with the military report first, and I will lure them here!"

Before the soldier with the white flag in front could reply, he turned around and chased towards the other side.

The pursuers behind them included men from Meng He and men from Chen Dehao.

"They have split up, let's chase them separately!" A soldier of Meng He yelled at Chen Dehao's men beside him, then turned his horse's head and chased after the soldier with the white flag who attracted them.

Chen Dehao's men controlled the horses and chased the remaining Zhengbaiqi soldiers.

After all, Horqin is on the grassland, and he has taken refuge in Zhao Wen, so he has plenty of time to cultivate excellent war horses.

But Liaodong is different. When Horqin took refuge in Zhao Wen, Liaodong lost a source of war horses. Although there are still some tribes that did not take refuge in Zhao Wen, these tribes are terribly poor, and now it is the Little Ice Age , even the people in the tribe can't get enough to eat, so how can they have the energy and food to cultivate excellent war horses?

Therefore, although the soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner were actively running, the distance between them and the pursuers was constantly shrinking.

In about two quarters of an hour, Chen Dehao's troops finally caught up with Zhengbaiqi's soldiers.

Although in the process of chasing, Zhengbaiqi soldiers kept turning to distract Chen Dehao's men.

However, because of the large number of Chen Dehao's troops, they can handle it completely.

"Hehe, keep running, aren't you good at running? Keep running?" When Chen Dehao's men stopped the last two soldiers with the white flag, he took out his big black star all night, panting Pointing to the two soldiers with the white flag.

One of the two white flag soldiers carried Agumu's military newspaper.

They pulled out the knives from their waists and looked at the soldiers surrounding them warily.

"You still want to do something? What a joke, beat their horses to death!" As soon as the leading soldier finished speaking, Ye Bushou, who surrounded the two white flags, took out his big black star, The horse under the crotch of the soldier holding the white flag pulled the trigger.

Although things like war horses are not easy to kill with the big black star, there are five or six soldiers around them.

The big black stars in the hands of these five or six soldiers can completely kill the two horses under their crotches.

After a burst of gunshots, the two horses under the Zhengbai Banner fell to the ground with a mournful cry, and threw off the Zhengbai Banner soldiers on their backs.

Looking at the Zhengbaiqi soldiers who fell to the ground, the leading soldier Ye Bu Shou pointed at the two of them and shouted, "Tie them up and take them away!"

In addition to these two Zhengbaiqi soldiers, the other two Zhengbaiqi soldiers were also captured.

About half an hour later, these Zhengbai Banner soldiers were escorted to the camp of Chen Dehao and Meng He.

When Chen Dehao learned of this order, he rushed out of the camp directly.

"Where is he?" Chen Dehao looked at Ye Bushou, the leader standing outside the tent, and asked excitedly.

"My lord, it's on the big tree in front!" Ye Bushou, the leader, pointed to the front and said to Chen Dehao.

Chen Dehao laughed twice, and then walked quickly towards the front.

Not long after, Chen Dehao came to the captured Zhengbai Banner soldiers.

At this moment, Meng He arrived at Chen Dehao's place with seven or eight personal guards and a soldier with a white flag.

In the previous chase, Meng He's Ye Bushou captured a Zhengbaiqi soldier, and Chen Dehao's Ye Bushou captured the remaining three.

Chen Dehao stood among the soldiers of Zhengbai Banner who were tied to three big trees not far away, looked at Meng He who rushed over, and said with a smile on his face, "I have really gained a lot tonight."

Meng He laughed, and asked people to tie up the Zhengbai Banner soldiers he escorted over with the Zhengbai Banner soldiers who Chen Dehao refused to take prisoners at night.

Meng He walked in front of Chen Dehao, and said with a smile: "I used to say that the Eight Banners of Houjin are powerful, especially their Tan Ma, and seeing them today, it's nothing more than that!"

"Haha, the Eight Banners are less than [-], and they are invincible. This is just a joke. Who would believe this kind of bragging? Let me tell you, I am still good at Xuanzhen. Our Xuanzhen army should be. Xuanzhen is less than a thousand, full of thousands Invincible!" Chen Dehao laughed loudly.

"Yes, yes, this sentence is most suitable for Xuan Zhenjun." Meng He complimented with a smile on his face.

"Okay, let's not talk about these things for now, let's interrogate these Jian slaves first." Chen Dehao turned around, and said to Ye Bushou who was standing next to these Zhengbaiqi soldiers: "Let's take them all first." Give me a good body search, and then proceed to the interrogation."

After Chen Dehao finished speaking, he stood in front with Meng He, quietly watching the scene in front of him.

It didn't take long to find a bamboo tube from one of the Zhengbaiqi soldiers without collecting it all night.

This Yebushou hastily handed over the found bamboo tube to Chen Dehao.

Chen Dehao took the bamboo tube, opened it, and took out the military report inside.

Chen Dehao looked at the words on the military newspaper by the light of the brazier next to him, his head was dazed.

The characters on it were not Chinese characters at all, but Jurchen script, which Chen Dehao didn't recognize at all, nor did he know what was written on it.

Meng He glanced at the military newspaper and said, "I happen to know these Jurchen texts!"

The Jurchen script of the Later Jin Dynasty has little to do with the Jurchen script of the Song Dynasty. The Jurchen script of the Later Jin Dynasty mainly borrowed from the Uighur-style Mongolian script, and then added some Jurchen language features, so the difference between the two is not very big.

In addition, Meng He is Bu He's confidant, and Horqin is Huang Taiji's in-law, so Meng He also naturally knows Jurchen Wen.

"Oh? If that's the case, then hurry up and see what's written on it!" Chen Dehao hastily handed the military newspaper in his hand to Meng He.

Meng He took the military newspaper and read it with narrowed eyes.

A moment later, Meng He pointed to the military newspaper in his hand and snorted coldly: "Huh, this is a request for help. It said that Jingyuan Fort encountered five thousand Xuanzhen soldiers and horses, and hoped that Huang Taiji would quickly send troops to come to the rescue. .”

Hearing Meng He's voice, Chen Dehao kept sneering: "Hehe, we only have 500 people in total, and it's ridiculous that they treat them as 5000 people. It turns out that the so-called Eight Banners athletes who have been rampant in Liaodong for many years are actually a group of eggless people." of color."

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Chapter 468 Attacking Jingyuan Fort

"What should we do now?" Meng He pointed to the military newspaper in his hand and looked at Chen Dehao.

Chen Dehao squinted his eyes and began to think, for a moment he didn't know how to deal with this matter.

If this military report was sent to Huang Taiji, if Huang Taiji saw the description of the number of soldiers and horses in Xuanzhen, he would never dare to send troops.

In fact, regardless of whether the description is correct or not, in Chen Dehao's opinion, there is a high probability that Huang Tai will not send troops over.

It seems that Huang Taiji now knows that he and the Horqin tribe have joined forces to come to Liaodong.

If Huang Taiji believed the news released before and believed that there were a total of [-] Xuanzhen soldiers and horses, then there was a high probability that Huang Taiji would not send troops to rescue Jingyuan Fort.

After all, all the troops sent by Huang Taiji to North Korea have not been returned yet, so he will only hoard all the troops in his hands in the west of Shenyang City.

In this way, the military newspaper in his hand is of no use to him, it is just a piece of waste paper.

After thinking about it, Chen Dehao pointed to the military newspaper in Meng He's hand, and said, "This military newspaper is of no use to us, so let's just burn it. As for the prisoners, let's interrogate them first. After interrogating something useful , just kill it directly.”

Meng He nodded, and then put the military newspaper in his hand into the brazier next to him.

Looking at the military newspaper that had been reduced to ashes in the brazier, Chen Dehao said to Meng He, "That's all for today. You go back and rest. You have to attack the city tomorrow morning!"

Meng He nodded, did not stay any longer, and walked towards the distance with his personal guards.

When leaving, Meng He pointed to the Zhengbai Banner soldiers who were tied to the tree and said: "These soldiers probably don't know Chinese, and my guards can speak both Chinese and Jurchen. Leave these guards to you for interrogation."

"Thank you so much!" Chen Dehao cupped his hands at Meng He.

Meng He waved his hand and said indifferently, "Why are you saying thank you? There is nothing to thank between us."

After Meng He finished speaking, he called out the bodyguards he mentioned just now, left them to Chen Dehao, and Wen led the rest of the staff to turn around and leave.

After Meng He left, Chen Dehao pointed to the Zhengbai Banner soldiers who were tied to the tree, and said to Ye Bushou next to him: "Interrogate these people in detail, and kill them immediately after the interrogation reveals the news."

After Chen Dehao finished speaking, he also turned and left.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun was still smoldering below the horizon. If it was the time when the farmers were slack, it would be the time to sleep soundly. If it was the busy farming, then the farmers would also start to get up at this time to make breakfast and prepare to go to the field. work.

Farmers can eat a little breakfast during the busy farming season, but only eat two meals a day during the slack season.

At this time, Chen Dehao and Meng He's soldiers had already woken up and began to sit around the camp and eat breakfast.

After breakfast, half of the sun jumped out of the horizon, and the sky became brighter.

Chen Dehao and Meng He also began to assemble their teams.

At this time, Agumu also appeared on the wall of Jingyuan Castle.

He looked at the slowly rising sun in the east, his face full of sorrow.

Because of his worries about the war, he didn't fall asleep all night last night.

He stared at a pair of dark circles, looking at the field ahead.

"I am afraid that the enemy army outside the city is about to attack the city today. Let the brothers cheer up and tell them that as long as they can defend Jingyuan Fort, I will definitely ask for a reward in front of the Great Khan. Whoever can kill a Xuan Town soldiers, reward a hundred taels of silver, kill more than five, and keep him a Niu Luzhangjing!" Agumu stretched his body and shouted at the guards behind him.

"Obey!" The guard behind him ran along the city wall in a hurry with his order, shouting his words loudly.

After hearing the news, the defenders on the top of the city instantly became much more energetic.

"Let's storm the west wall directly!" Riding on his horse, Chen Dehao shouted to Meng He who was following him.

Behind them is their team, every soldier in their team is excited, and the will to fight is extremely high.

From the point of view of the Xuanzhen garrison, the small dilapidated castle in front of them couldn't stop them at all.

In the eyes of the soldiers under Meng He's command, the most difficult battle is the siege battle, but with the help of Xuanzhen soldiers, the city wall in front of them will be easily breached.

And if the city wall is breached, they can rush into the city and reap the lives of the Zhengbai Banner soldiers inside.

Whether it was the soldiers under Meng He or the Xuanzhen garrison, in their view, it was only a matter of time before they could break through the Jingyuan Fort in front of them.

Not long after walking, Chen Dehao and Meng He led the troops to a place two miles away from Jingyuan Fort.

The Jingyuan Castle has not been repaired and repaired all year round, so the moat outside the castle has dried up, and the inside is full of black mud.

"Stop moving forward!" Chen Dehao waved his hand and shouted loudly.

The guard next to him rushed towards the back with a loud voice, conveying Chen Dehao's order.

When the team came to a complete stop, Chen Dehao turned around and started shouting again, "Artillery out, set up artillery positions fifty paces ahead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the guard next to him hastily conveyed his order.

Under Chen Dehao's order, the artillerymen in the team pulled the artillery forward fifty paces away.

After about half an hour, the artillery position was completed.

Among them, there are twenty 120mm mortars and more than 50 40-fire mortars.

Agumu looked at the artillery positions being set up in front of the city wall, feeling very anxious.

Especially when he saw the 120mm mortar being built, his body began to tremble involuntarily.