Nanming Engineer

Chapter 203
Early the next morning, stepping on the ground covered with winter frost, Li Dingguo opened the gate of Shehong City and marched out of the city. Sixteen battalions of 3000 troops marched out in a mighty formation to Longquan, which was more than ten miles away. Shan Jinfa.

Li Dingguo's subordinates are also divided into two battalions: war soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers. Each battalion of miscellaneous soldiers has 1000 people, a total of ten battalions, with 2000 soldiers. , unsuitable for use, it was used as cannon fodder for rushing into the formation; there were six battalions in total, five battalions headed each with 3000 soldiers, and the personal battalion had 3000 soldiers, for a total of 3000 soldiers. , most of them were the soldiers of the original Ming army, and many of them were still frontier soldiers. Both individual combat effectiveness and organization were much better than that of the miscellaneous barracks. Li Dingguo's trump card is Li Dingguo's trump card. There are [-] cavalrymen in uniform. They wear iron armor and horses with leather saddles. They have everything from spears to bows.

Therefore, leading such a strong army, Li Dingguo is full of confidence. A strong general still needs strong soldiers. Without the athletes under his command, Li Dingguo will not be listed as one of the four righteous sons in Daxi Kingdom, and Zhang Xianzhong will not value him so much. .

With an army of more than 2 people, the whole army marched forward, and the smoke and dust raised could be seen from a long distance away. Li Dingguo secretly ordered the whole army to be on guard against the Ming army on Longquan Mountain. He rushed out suddenly and was caught off guard, after all, that's how Liu Jinzhong was defeated.

However, after walking all the way to the foot of Longquan Mountain, and lining up in front of the mountain city, I didn't see a single person rushing out from above. On top of the city at the top of the mountain, several blue and green flags were fluttering, and there were still faintly crowded people. No one came out of the city to fight.

Li Dingguo was riding on the horse, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, and a trace of pride appeared on his face unnoticed: "The Ming army still knows the importance. Seeing that I am invincible, I am huddled in the city and dare not come out."

Smiling, he stomped his feet firmly in front of the mountain, and lined up the whole army in a crescent formation, enclosing the pass of Longquan Mountain in an arc.

Then he narrowed his eyes and looked up at the terrain.

Longquan Mountain is not high, but it is steep, and the geographical location is even more critical.The whole mountain is a huge stone mountain, stretching from north to south, separating Tongchuan Prefecture from Chongqing Prefecture. To the west of Shanxi is Tongchuan Prefecture, and to the west and east is Chongqing Prefecture. The so-called one mountain opens two prefectures refers to this place.

In the middle of the mountain, there is a stone crevice, about several feet wide, through which the simple loess official road passes, and two traffic places form a pass, which has always been the main road from the Chengdu Plain to the east of Sichuan. If you want to cross Longquan Mountain, you have to go around to Baoning Mansion, and you have to walk hundreds of miles. Therefore, there has been a stone city here since the Southern Song Dynasty. Built on the side of the mountain, standing at the top of the city, you only need to reach out and throw a stone and ash bottle, and you can block the official road ten feet below.

Li Dingguo frowned slightly, feeling a little tricky, and then looked at the road up the mountain to attack the city, and frowned even deeper.

The stone city was built halfway up the mountain. Because the mountain is not high, the top of the city is already close to the top of the mountain. The city was built on the basis of the mountain. The cliffs on the mountain have invisibly increased the height of the city wall. The four sides are as high as tens of feet. It can't reach the top of the wall. If you want to attack, you can only follow the dirt slope that stretches from the foot of the mountain to the city gate at the pass halfway up the mountain.

Originally, there were no obstacles on this earth slope, and a stone staircase led directly up, but now, the Ming army took advantage of these few days to build four or five stone walls on the earth slope, the walls are half a person high, along the way. Going up the hillside like terraces one above the other, if you want to attack the city gate, you have to break through these stone walls first.

And behind the stone wall, rows of Kuizhou soldiers wrapped in white cloth scarves are sizing up at him. Although the stone wall blocks their view and they cannot see what weapons they are holding, the fool also knows that he will definitely not Flowers for welcome and cakes for reward.

Li Dingguo's teeth were itching. Looking at the Ming army, they couldn't get down from the mountain. They had to force themselves to attack the mountain. People in the government were the most cunning. Where had all the arrogance in beating Liu Jinzhong the past few days gone?Come down and fight me.

There are more than 2 people under King Anxi's command, which sounds a lot, but Li Dingguo is reluctant to spend here. In the original plan, he could easily defeat the Ming army here, so he took the time to go north to Baoning Mansion and join forces with Zhang Xianzhong outside the Jiange. Dao said, conquer Hanzhong before the Tartars, and take advantage of the geographical advantages of Hanzhong to fight the Qing army. As long as they win, the north of the Qinling Mountains will be the territory of the Great West.

Then go out of Tongguan in the east, and the Central Plains is in front of you. The majestic city wall of Beijing is not out of reach. What Li Zicheng did not complete, the Daxi Army will complete on his behalf. What a glorious future this is. In the history of China, there will be Li Dingguo's brilliant figure and brilliant military exploits make one's blood boil.

However, now that he was blocked under this stone mountain, Li Dingguo felt an inexplicable anger rising up.

He stabilized his mind and instinctively began to think of ways to defeat the enemy.

"Liu Yun!" Li Dingguo was silent for a while and then shouted.

"My lord, the last general is here!" A strong general came in response. He wore a helmet and clattered iron leaves all over his body. Under the iron helmet with a wide eaves, he had a heroic face in his twenties, with two thick eyebrows. Eye-catching, with a square face and wide lips, a pair of piercing eyes, exuding a martial spirit, riding a black horse, with two halberds stuck in the heart belt behind his back, his voice is like thunder: "My lord! What are your orders?"

"Take your battalion leader and march two hundred steps forward to form an formation." Li Dingguo said in a deep voice: "Choose people who are good at scolding and call for formation!"

Liu Yun was originally from Shaanxi. He was born in a poor family. His ancestors had been in military households for generations. He had practiced martial arts since he was a child. Because the eldest brother in the family took care of the lack of military service, he didn’t even get any land. When he was a teenager, he couldn’t support himself because of his family’s poverty. Living in the rivers and lakes, relying on performing arts to exchange a few coins for a living, in the summer of 12 years in Chongzhen, he shot and killed a few rogues who bullied foreigners in Kaifeng, and was wanted by the government. Li Dingguo immediately fell in love with this young man who was a few years younger than himself, and he made him his confidant, and entrusted him with the leadership of the two battalions of the Zhanbing Battalion. Liu Yun lived up to his expectations and fought bravely. In the past three years, he has made countless contributions, and Li Dingguo values ​​him even more.

Liu Yun cupped his hands and said loudly, "Obey!"

He pulled up his horse and left, rushed to the side of his camp, stood in front of the crowd, and shouted sharply: "King Anxi has an order, ordering me to go out in front of the field and shout at the enemy! All the generals will follow me!"

The 4000 people at the head of the two camps agreed in unison: "Here!"

The neat military formations marched forward together, two hundred steps forward, forming two square formations. There were many swords and flags waving. Less than five hundred steps in front of them was the dirt slope going up the mountain.

More than [-] soldiers who were good at scolding and had high-pitched voices ran out from the formation, puffed up their eyeballs, coughed a few times to moisten their throats, and opened their throats to start.

"The bright dog raised by the son of a bitch, if it has been planted, what is hiding in the turtle shell? The grandson of the turtle?"

"Grandpa stands here, take a pee and see if you dare to come out!"

"Fucking officer, you're not even a mouse in front of my Great Western Army! They're all cowards raised by a group of women!"

……

The slanderous words are endless, but the voices are cadenced, and the curses have a clear rhythm, with high and low levels, like an unpleasant chorus, which makes the listener angry and the listener irritated.

There was a burst of laughter in the big formation of the Great Western Army, some applauded, some laughed wildly, and even more people booed together, especially those former Ming army soldiers who laughed vigorously. He was eager to have fun and laugh. At this time, Li Dingguo's military order of cursing the formation was there, and he was even more happy.

Li Dingguo stared closely at the top of the city and waited steadily. If the Ming army couldn't bear it, it would be in his arms to go out to fight against the city. If the Ming army was invincible with ninjas and couldn't be scolded to death, it would also severely hit the morale of the Ming army on the city. When morale is low, the army will be defeated.

But on the top of the city, there was silence, and the white-robed soldiers behind the stone wall were also motionless, as if their ears were stuffed with cotton, and they turned a deaf ear to the curses that had been insulting their ancestors for three generations.

Unknowingly, the yelling and cursing had lasted for a quarter of an hour, and the twenty-some soldiers in the yelling formation had already entered their best condition, new words and old words came out one after another, and there was no repetition of the same set of words. , Several people even took off their armor, and they were all sweating.

Just at this time, there was a "swish" from the top of the city, and something shot out from the sky with a sharp piercing sound, flew over a distance of nearly [-] steps, "tied", and smashed into the ground in front of the scolding sergeant. On the ground, there was a spear about five feet long.

The spear fell into the ground, the shaft was still trembling slightly, and the buzzing sound was still there. It happened to hit a sergeant just in front of his toes, scaring the sergeant into a pale face. A cold heart is not a problem at all.

The spear was obviously launched from the bed crossbow on the top of the city. Longquan Mountain already had these weapons for defending the city. Those who raised the banner lost the mountain city and left these things to the Kuizhou army.

The sergeant stayed there for a long time before he forced himself to grin and was about to say something bold, but the next second he immediately widened his eyes and stared straight at a circle tied to the spear shaft. Shape things.

He looked carefully, turned his head in horror and shouted: "This is the head of General Liu Jinzhong!"

(End of this chapter)