Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 147 Defense Master Luo Guanzhong 【For further reading】

The transportation of this kind of material is not only for the [-] soldiers in Buffalo Village, but also for the smooth march forward in the future, which is equivalent to the soldiers and horses on the battlefield going ahead without using food and grass, and there is no room for the slightest difference.

The commander of Fenghuang Ridge, Qianhu Huang Shan, has always delivered supplies on time and on time, but today is already evening, and still no soldiers from Fenghuang Ridge have arrived. Go to Fenghuang Ridge to have a look.

According to the latest drill code of the Ming army.

This kind of time delay must find out the reason, and then report to the superior Guizhou Zuowei Commander.

Guizhou's eighteen bends in the mountain road, although the distance between Buffalo Village and Fenghuangling is not too far, but the mountain road is very dangerous and slow, so you can only go there during the day.

After entering the night, Luo Guanzhong arranged all the guard posts, and then returned to his barracks in the village to rest.

Luo Guanzhong took out a stack of thick paper, and then opened a commentary on the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and started his own writing.

The popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his hand, the stories in it are a bit confusing, and there are many deficiencies in the words and sentences.

Luo Guanzhong loves the history of the Three Kingdoms very much. Not long ago, he made up his mind to use his spare time to write a novel about the Three Kingdoms that is more exciting and touching and close to historical facts.

Before he knew it, Luo Guanzhong wrote like a spirit, and he had already written a thick stack of paper, without feeling tired at all.

Just when he was ready to continue fighting for a long time.

Suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, followed by Luo Guanzhong's guards reporting outside the door.

"Lord Qianhu! Someone is coming from Fenghuang Ridge." There was a hint of anxiety and panic in the guard's voice.

"What is Fenghuang Ridge sending people to do in the middle of the night?"

Luo Guan's heart was suddenly startled, and he already had an ominous premonition.

He threw down the pen and paper in his hand, and walked out the door in three steps at a time.

"Where is the person from Fenghuang Ridge?" Luo Guanzhong asked.

"My lord is at the guard post in front," said the guard.

Luo Guanzhong immediately came to the Hong Kong outpost in front. Under the bright torches, a soldier of the Ming army covered in mud and blood was slumped on a chair.

"Luo Qianhu is bad, the mountain people have rebelled, Fenghuangling has fallen, and Huang Qianhu has died for the country." The soldier of Fenghuangling said, just burst into tears.

"What's going on? Tell me quickly." Luo Guanzhong's face darkened, and he immediately grabbed the soldier's shoulder and asked sharply.

The soldier of Fenghuangling then stabilized his mood and explained everything about Fenghuangling. It turned out that after the Ming army defeated these chieftains, they used land to win the hearts of the people. Many mountain people, that is, the original chieftains The young serfs under the command swore allegiance to the Ming army.

However, the chieftain still had a lot of influence in the hearts of these serfs.

Some of the mountain people accepted the chieftain's secret instructions, and arranged internal responses inside and outside Fenghuangling. The chieftain's soldiers and horses took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, bypassed the sentries from the mountain road, and suddenly attacked the Ming army in Fenghuangling.

Huang Shan, a thousand households in Fenghuang Ridge, was in a hurry. With only three or four hundred people under his command, there was no way to resist the attack of thousands of people.

In the melee between the two sides, Huang Shan was killed in battle.

At that time, only a few Ming soldiers escaped in the chaos.

"Luo Qianhu, the spies have captured Fenghuang Ridge and cut off the road behind us. Their next target must be our place." After the defeat of Fenghuang Ridge, the soldier of the Ming army thought of coming to Buffalo Village immediately. Luo Guanzhong reported to the police.

"Help this brother down to rest, and everyone gathers immediately."

Now that the situation was critical, Luo Guanzhong immediately ordered the whole army to be alert regardless of whether it was night or day.

The two camps behind Buffalo Village are Fenghuangling and Wanjun Mountain.

Fenghuang Ridge is in the middle of Wanjun Mountain and Buffalo Village. Fenghuang Ridge has been conquered by the chieftain rebels, so Buffalo Village is already in a situation of fighting alone.

Knowing the urgency of the situation, Luo Guanzhong immediately ordered all the scouts to patrol outside the stockade, while he sat in the buffalo stockade and ordered the soldiers to patrol the camp, while preparing ammunition and setting up artillery positions.

If the Ming army wanted to give full play to its defensive advantages, it had to make good use of the muskets and artillery in its hands.

More than 500 soldiers of the Ming army got busy in the dark night, and when the sky brightened, the scouts of the Ming army who were guarding outside brought news that made everyone nervous.

"Master Qianhu, the chieftain's rebels have been found on several mountain roads outside."

"The least number of people along the way is thousands of people, and all of them add up to nearly 1 people."

The Ming army in Buffalo Village has only five hundred.

However, there were more than 1 chieftain rebels approaching them, and the difference in strength by twenty times made everyone nervous.

But fortunately, at the storage base for war preparations, the Ming army in Buffalo Village has abundant material reserves. Now there are all kinds of materials in Buffalo Village. Whether it is weapons, ammunition or food, it can support 500 people for several months.

After Luo Guanzhong calmed down, he immediately had sufficient confidence.

Buffalo village is located at the intersection of three roads, which is equivalent to the center of a character.

In general, it is really an excellent place to set up a tax card and collect taxes, but it is not a place that is not conducive to defense during a war.

There are no tall mountains to rely on in Buffalo Village.

Moreover, the chieftain rebels have also received news that there are a lot of supplies and weapons in the buffalo village.

Therefore, they first thought of a way to conquer Fenghuang Ridge, and then concentrated their forces to besiege Buffalo Village.

The chieftain rebels outside the buffalo village quickly surrounded the buffalo village.

"All our scouts have already withdrawn, what should we do if there are too many thieves?" Several Ming army families surrounded Luo Guanzhong and asked.

As the supreme commander of the Ming army in Buffalo Village.

Luo Guanzhong also knew that any decision he made would affect the lives of these four or five hundred brothers.

Luo Guanzhong calmly analyzed the situation. Now the buffalo village has sufficient ammunition and food reserves. They just need to hold the camp and wait for the follow-up reinforcements from the Ming army to repel the chieftain rebels.

"Strictly guard against death, no one is allowed to step out of the camp!"

Luo Guangzhong has made up his mind, as long as he sticks to the buffalo village, he believes that with the Ming army's muskets and artillery, it is impossible for the chieftain rebels to break through the buffalo village.

The Ming army's insistence on not letting go of the chieftain rebels outside the buffalo village was also a big headache.

"My lord, we scolded for a long time before we went to the village, and the Ming army is still acting like a turtle, what should we do?" A little chieftain in buffalo leather armor said to a chieftain in iron armor.

This leader is the leader of this group of chieftain rebels. His name is Yang Wanzhong, and he is a member of the Yang clan of the chieftain of Bozhou. During several battles with the Ming army, the chieftain of Bozhou suffered heavy losses. The young people were rescued from the siege of the Ming army, which was regarded as saving the last counterattack force for the Yang family in Bozhou.

This time, the Bozhou Yang family secretly contacted the mountain people who were loyal to them, attacked Fenghuangling of the Ming army, and then came to surround the buffalo village in order to seize the food, supplies and weapons of the buffalo village, and use it to restore the vitality of the Bozhou Yang family.

"The Ming army in the buffalo village is only four to five hundred people. We don't care about more than 500 people. Just charge forward and kill no one."

Yang Wanzhong waved his hand and gave the order to attack without hesitation.

The buffalo village was originally built by the chieftain of Bozhou. The camp itself is not very tall, and there are many damaged gaps in many places. After simple repairs by the Ming army, the defense is not very high.

Now the rebels of Bozhou Chieftain have surrounded Buffalo Village, and then began to build siege equipment.

In less than a day, long ladders were erected outside the buffalo village.

"Master Qianhu, look at what that is?"

A member of the Ming army pointed forward, and Luo Guanzhong immediately looked in the direction he pointed.

I saw a chieftain rebel with about 1000 people appearing in that direction. These chieftain rebels were wearing a strange armor, which was completely protected from the body to the bottom, leaving only two black lacquered eye holes.

"What kind of strange armor is this?" Luo Guanzhong was suddenly puzzled.

With the sound of rebel drums, this rebel in strange armor charged towards the buffalo village of the Ming army.

Judging from their running speed, this kind of armor on them was extremely light, and even when they climbed over ditches and low walls, their movements did not slow down at all.

"Fire! Fire!"

When the rebels were within fifty paces, Luo Guanzhong immediately gave an order.

Hundreds of muskets and more than a dozen artillery pieces of the Ming army immediately sprayed at the rebels.

In less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of rebels were killed or injured in the open space ahead.

When Yang Wanzhong, the leader of the Bozhou rebel army, saw the scene in front of him, he suddenly became furious.

"It's these firearms again, I'm a rattan armored soldier!" Yang Wanzhong said sadly.

These more than 1000 rattan armored soldiers are elite soldiers he borrowed from Shuixi chieftain.

Generally speaking, these warriors equipped with rattan armor are basically invulnerable. Even if there is a very heavy armor-piercing weapon, hitting the light and tough rattan armor will not cause much damage to the warrior.

Yang Wanzhong originally wanted to use these rattan armored soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army, defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, and then seize the buffalo village, but he never expected that the Ming army would be so ignorant of martial arts, with flame-breathing guns and artillery, and put everything that dared to move forward. The charging rebels were all killed in front of the battlefield.

"Keep attacking."

Yang Wanzhong ordered other rebels from all walks of life to attack together.

Because the buffalo village was too small, when the rebels launched a full-scale attack, the Ming army was gradually unable to resist.

Many rebel soldiers have already crossed the defense of the Ming army and boarded the wall of Buffalo Village.

"Come on! Pass my order and pour out all the kerosene."

Luo Guanzhong looked at the densely packed rebel army under the Buffalo Walled City, and knew that if he continued to be so passive, the soldiers of the Ming army would use up all their strength, and they would no longer have the strength to fight back.

So Luo Guanzhong made a decisive decision!

Immediately ordered the soldiers to carry out all the kerosene and spirits hoarded in the camp, and then dumped them under the buffalo village.

A large number of rebels climbed up the ladder, but suddenly felt a slippery liquid poured from their heads.

Before the rebels could react, they saw the Ming army throwing torches on the wall.

There was a bang, and a large group of orange flames exploded instantly below the buffalo village of the Ming army.

"oops!"

Screams sounded from below the buffalo village.

These kerosene and alcohol were hoarded and transported by Zhu Han when the Ming army attacked Guizhou, and they could be specially used to attack the wooden city walls of Guizhou chieftains.

Alcohol is a very good disinfection and sterilization drug, which can restrain the local miasma in Guizhou.

Both kerosene and alcohol are valuable, even more expensive than gunpowder.

Luo Guanzhong also knew that the situation was critical now, if the buffalo village was lost, he would lose his life, let alone these supplies.

The raging flames immediately burned the rebels to the point of crying.

Yang Wanzhong saw that the chieftain rebels under him were about to attack the Buffalo Village. He was already in a good mood, but the situation suddenly reversed.

The fire attack tactics of the Ming army can be said to be indiscriminate in killing and wounding. Whether it is the miscellaneous soldiers composed of serfs or the elite rattan armor soldiers, they all died tragically on the spot in the raging flames.

"Damn! Damn!"

Yang Wanzhong looked at the scene in front of him, his heart was bleeding from pain.

Is the last hope of the Yang family in Bozhou about to be lost in this buffalo village?

Looking at the raging flames in front of him, Yang Wanzhong felt unwilling and had no choice but to order to retreat.

As a result, in less than half a day of fighting, the chieftain rebels lost more than 500 people.

For an ordinary feudal army, a loss of [-]% of its strength is considered a great loss of vitality.

Especially in this battle, more than half of the rattan armored soldiers of the chieftain rebel army were burned to death, which dealt a fatal blow to morale.

Luo Guanzhong was keenly aware of the change in the morale of the rebel army. After nightfall, he led a death squad of dozens of people to sneak out of the buffalo village and launched a surprise attack on the chieftain rebel army.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, the Ming army caused chaos in the chieftain rebel camp almost unscathed.

After tossing around in the middle of the night, the chieftain rebels bombed the camp, killing each other and killing hundreds of people. By dawn, all the chieftain rebels were listless.

Yang Wanzhong also knew that the momentum of the rebels had already plummeted, and if they were allowed to charge and attack again, it would only cause more losses.

So Yang Wanzhong also changed his original strategy, changing the original quick decision to a long-term siege.

The chieftain rebels surrounded the buffalo village by digging trenches and setting up horse repelling methods.

Luo Guanzhong also knew that the firearms in the hands of the Ming army were good for defense, but they were not good at taking the initiative to attack. After seeing that the rebels planned to besiege for a long time, he could only order strict defense to prevent the rebels from launching a sneak attack on him.

The positions of the two sides have basically entered a state of confrontation.

(End of this chapter)