Nanming Engineer

Chapter 206 The Unexpected Action of the Onishi Army
The sound of gold was heard in the Great Western Army, and the retreating defeated army returned to the main formation sparsely. Of the two thousand charge soldiers, less than 500 came back alive, and the rest turned into meatloaf and stayed on the hillside forever.

Seeing the Great Western Army retreating slowly at the foot of the mountain, Zu Bian couldn't help shouting: "Junmen, the bandit army has retreated, why don't you take this opportunity to go out of the city and do a big kill, and let your heart out!"

Hearing what he said, all the generals became a little impetuous and echoed everywhere. This battle was won too easily. It is the usual style of the Kuizhou army to take advantage of your illness to kill you. Taking advantage of the opportunity of victory, they rushed out of the city to chase Why not do it for a while?

Unexpectedly, Wang Huan and Li Tingyu shook their heads in unison: "No!"

Everyone was startled, but Wang Huan and Li Tingyu looked at each other and smiled, Li Tingyu bowed and made a gesture of asking Wang Huan to speak, and everyone turned their attention to Wang Huan.

"It is advisable to be brave enough to chase the poor bandits, not to be known as the overlord." Wang Huan said indifferently: "The ancients said it well, but now, the bandit army is not a poor bandit, and even the defeated army can't be called that."

He stretched out his hand, pointed at the slowly retreating Daxi army and said: "Look, everyone, the bandit army is defeated but not chaotic, orderly, and faintly controlled by formations. Such soldiers and horses can send out a thunderbolt at any time." When we thought they were defeated and scattered, we chased them hastily and fell into their trap. Look at the thousands of armored cavalry tightly surrounded by the bandit army. It’s so tight in the field!”

Li Tingyu nodded again and again, and said: "The military sect is right. Li Dingguo is deliberately selling a loophole. It looks like the whole army is retreating, but in fact he is trying to lure me to attack. The key point is to offer the thief's army and horses. Li Dingguo's cavalry, It is his elite, back then Yang Ge's troops could not stop him with a net on all sides, they relied on these cavalry to come and go like the wind, my Kuizhou soldiers are all infantry, it is not the best policy to go out to fight in the city and run into his elite cavalry."

Only then did Zu Bian and the others suddenly realize that Li Dingguo had withdrawn his troops in a pretentious manner, and he was also hiding these tricks.

Wang Huan and Li Tingyu stood side by side on the top of the wall, staring into the distance, quietly watching the Daxi army at the foot of the mountain, slowly gathered up the defeated soldiers, and slowly walked away, seeing what it meant, they almost opened their throats and let out a sound Shout: "Come after me!"

Li Dingguo rode his horse in the army, his face was covered with clouds, the Daxi army had already retreated a long way, turned his head to look back, Longquan Mountain City had become a small black spot on the horizon, but none of the Ming army in the city came out .

Liu Yun came up on horseback from the rear army and reported, holding his breath, "My lord, the Ming army has not been fooled. They have no intention of going out of the city to pursue them. I'm afraid they have seen our intentions."

Li Dingguo's face was ashen, and his heart was full of anger, but his voice was still calm, and he said slowly: "As expected, if the Ming army was so easy to be fooled, they would not have defeated Liu Jinzhong in a single battle. This group of Kuizhou army is also a strong enemy!"

Liu Yun rode beside him and said angrily: "Li Tingyu is too cunning. He actually came up with the method of using rolling stones as a line of defense. He is so vicious and unworthy of a man."

Li Dingguo laughed dumbfounded, and said: "A soldier is a general who is good at using tricks. You say that, but you are praising him."

He changed his tone, and continued with some doubts: "But when you say that, I think that with Li Tingyu's temperament and style, he can never think of a way to make a wall with rolling stones. He has an upright personality and a good reputation, not the scheming style of today."

Liu Yun was stunned: "My lord, you have seen it all, and the Ming army has done it."

Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "No, if Li Tingyu is really the commander-in-chief, he will definitely open the gate of the city, stand behind the city with his soldiers, and fight our army. He just played tricks when he came up, and he won for a while, seeing our army retreating and not chasing after him, he was too calm, unlike Li Tingyu in the rumors, I think the guards in the city may not necessarily be Li Tingyu."

"It's not Li Tingyu?" Liu Yun frowned and said, "I've counted all the generals of the Ming army in Sichuan, except for one Li Tingyu, I really can't think of anyone who can defeat Liu Jinzhong. Although Liu Jinzhong is a bit domineering, he was originally on the side of the Ming army. Chief Soldier, there are quite a few capable soldiers in his subordinates, if the emperor hadn't surrounded him with a large number of people, he would not have surrendered me to Daxi."

Li Dingguo's eyes became far-sighted, and he turned to the distance: "So I said, the guard in the city is my strong enemy. No matter who he is, it is inevitable to force us to fill Longquan Mountain City with our lives."

Liu Yun's expression changed, and he said sternly, "My lord, are you going to drive the people to attack the city?"

The bandits used to fight in the past. Whenever they attacked a big city, they would definitely use the refugees as the vanguard and use them as cannon fodder to consume the fighting spirit and rockets of the defenders. Anyway, the old, the weak, women and children are not a big deal in their eyes. If you die, you will die, and if you are alive, you will waste food, and you can play a little role as a front line.The scene of those women, children, and common people rushing forward, crying, is extremely miserable. The city guards are often at a loss. Snatch the door and hit it down.

That's why Liu Yun asked, the rolling stones on Longquan Mountain are there. The Ming army would not scatter eagles if they didn't see rabbits, and they wouldn't release the rolling stones if the Western army didn't attack them. Those rolling stones are big and heavy, and those who attack them will die. One, it is too uneconomical to use soldiers to attack.

But without consuming the Rolling Stones, the Daxi Army would not even be able to reach the edge of Longquan Mountain City.

Soldiers and civilians, it is easy to make a decision on who to use as cannon fodder.

Li Dingguo looked at Liu Yun strangely, and frowned, "What? Do you think it's time to use them?"

Liu Yun's face turned pale, and he said hesitantly: "If King Pingdong was waiting here, he might have done so today."

Li Dingguo frowned deeply and said solemnly: "King Pingdong is King Pingdong, and I am my king. How can I do the same thing as them?"

"Since Daxi has established a country, we can no longer use the trick of extorting thieves and harming the people. Except for a short time, it is of no benefit to us. It will only increase the anger of the people. It is easy to be a bandit, but it is impossible to do it when you are an officer."

Li Dingguo held the reins tightly, and continued to say in a deep voice: "Tang Taizong said that the people are water, and the king is a boat. Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it. Drive the people to be pawns and let their lives die, even if we can If we win this battle, we will have countless enemies in the future. No one will dare to get close to us. Everyone in the world will regard the Daxi Army as a monster. Surrender, but if you do that, you will lose your morality, Daxi's hard work in the world and being kind to the people over the past year, and the little support of the people that he has finally earned will be wiped out."

Liu Yun listened silently, couldn't help raising his head and said: "The prince cares about the world and cares for the people. Liu Yun admires it very much, but the prince wants to do this alone, and he is helpless in major matters. The emperor and other ministers and generals, none of them Just as the prince thought, the princes and generals all regard the people as pigs and dogs, they..."

Li Dingguo lifted the rein, interrupted Liu Yun's words, and said sharply: "Shut up! You can't talk about important matters in the court! There are so many people talking here, do you want to move your head?! Why don't you think about it if you have that spare time? Destroy the city!”

Liu Yun shuddered and quickly stopped talking, Nuonuo bowed his head and fell silent.

Li Dingguo lost his temper and remained silent. The army of more than 2 people returned to the edge of Shehong City in silence.

The people in Shehong City had already escaped for most of the time when the Daxi Army left the city to attack the mountains. The already bleak county town was even missing. Except for some old people who couldn't move, there were no people in the city. .

Li Dingguo did not go after those fleeing civilians, he rested in the barracks outside the city until the next day, and then drove his army horses to call for battle at the foot of Longquan Mountain.

Of course Wang Huan turned a deaf ear to it, and waited until he was scolded severely by the Daxi army who was called to the formation, and shot down some heads of Liu Jinzhong's army. Pressed by the bows and arrows of the supervising team, they bravely went up the hillside. This time, there were few people going up, and the dodging ones scattered widely. The Ming army refused to release the rolling stones, and shot down the miscellaneous soldiers with crossbow arrows.

Li Dingguo's face turned green, and he ordered the supervising team to shoot and kill several generals who had retreated, and then forced the two miscellaneous battalion heads up again. This time, the Ming army saw that there were more people, and happily put down another Rolling stone, the rolling stone rolled down with a rumbling rumble, harvesting the lives of hundreds of people.

Li Dingguo was determined and vowed to achieve a result today. Once the second stone wall was broken, he drove the military camp up again. After several attacks, he managed to destroy the Kuizhou Army's place with nearly [-] lives. Five stone wall barriers on the front slope of the mountain city.

When the last stone wall turned into rolling stones and rolled down the hillside, the white-robed soldiers guarding the hillside did not dare to hold back, and rushed into Longquan Mountain City, from the slope down to the city wall. Between them, there was no obstacle that could stop Li Dingguo.

Seeing the shattered corpses and blood stains on the vast hillside, Li Tingyu couldn't bear it. He sighed to Wang Huan who was standing on the top of the city, and said, "Li Dingguo is going to do his best, but he is so determined that he would rather spend so many soldiers as cannon fodder. Not like a thief style."

Ma Long also said: "Besides, he didn't catch the common people as the former army, but used his own soldiers to consume our Rolling Stones. Has the traitor changed his character?"

"The bandits attacked Chengdu the year before last. Zhang Xianzhong rounded up all the people in the surrounding villages. He gave each of them a stick and forced them to smash the gates of Chengdu. At that time, my father was defeated and died, and the team was broken up. I hid outside the city of Chengdu with a few skirmishers. I wanted to enter the city, but was blocked by the bandits attacking the city. I saw the tragic scene with my own eyes." Zhang Jianchun said with a desolate tone: "The wailing sound under the city was like Shura. Hell, the thieves were hiding behind the people. When the defenders on the city didn't know what to do, they got up and mingled with the people and climbed up the city wall. They also opened the city gate from inside the city. The huge city of Chengdu was destroyed. It’s so broken.”

Wang Huan listened to the words of several people, narrowed his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes, and said with a faint smile: "In this way, Li Dingguo has not lost his humanity, he understands the truth that bad things can't be done forever, Zhang Xianzhong thinks highly of him, and also has some vision."

"But now is not the time to praise him." He said coldly: "The bandit army is about to attack the city, and the next battle will be tough. All generals, according to their respective divisions of the city wall, return to your respective positions!"

All the generals sang loudly, and strode away. On the Longquan Mountain Fortress, they bowed their bows and drew their knives out of their sheaths, as if they were about to fight.

And at the bottom of the city, Li Dingguo was already in front of the hillside. On the hillside in front of him, thousands of people's bloody corpses were lying all over the ground. When he thought of losing several battalion troops before the siege started, he was furious. .

"Send the order, the archers line the city, use their bows to suppress, and the four battalions on the left guard and left sentry, go forward to attack the city!" He roared, drew his sword in his hand, and suddenly swung it into the sky.

The drums sounded, the horns sounded, the sound was like the roar of a dragon, and the momentum was like the howling of a tiger. Four thousand Western troops poured out from the queue on the left. Shouting away from the stone city above.

(End of this chapter)