Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 13 The Enemy Is the Same, I Prepared a Good Meeting Ceremony

The [-] troops rushed towards Ningling County, like a tide, like a gathering of ants, like locusts flying around, like crucian carp crossing a river.

Banners cover the sky, black clouds roll in; spears are like forests, and it's chilly.

Fortunately, Li Cunming did not suffer from mass phobia, otherwise, let alone going to the front line in person, just looking at the dense crowd like mountains and seas would be a kind of torture.

About four miles away from the north gate, the enemy army stopped suddenly and stood still for an instant.

What a cunning enemy. The reason why they stopped four miles away was to be wary of the red cannons in the city, because the range of the Ming army's red cannons was generally about three miles.

Afterwards, four teams flew out and drove towards the four city gates to investigate the geographical environment.

A quarter of an hour later, the spies sent out galloped back.Immediately afterwards, the enemy army began to divide their troops. Sure enough, they chose the east gate as the main attack direction.

The most conspicuous thing is that the big banner with the word "Dashun" written on one side moves towards the east gate.The big flagpole is spear-shaped, with a corner on the top and a disc on the bottom. It is the "flag head" in the army. Wherever it is, the commander will be there.

Li Cunming roughly estimated that 2 enemy troops besieged Ningling County, of which [-] troops attacked the east gate, and the remaining [-] troops attacked the other three gates.

He quickly ran to the east gate. Since the main battlefield is around the east gate, as the supreme commander of his side, he should also stand upright on the tower of the east gate!
Come on, Li Guo, come on, Gao Yigong, I will fight with you at the East Gate!
The deployment has been made in advance. There are more than 3000 soldiers on our side, [-] guard the east gate, and [-] guard the other three gates.There are [-] left as a reserve team, who will send orders in the center and provide support to the most critical places depending on the battle situation.

The guard of the east gate is Zhou Yuji. Among Li Cunming's current courtiers, he has the most combat experience and is also the bravest and fearless, so the most arduous task naturally falls on his shoulders.

When Li Cunming came to the east gate wall, Zhou Yuji was orderly ordering the soldiers to prepare, check weapons, and straighten the formation.

Two hundred trebuchets have been placed on the city wall, divided into three rows at the front and back, and five thousand ceramic mines are neatly placed aside.Fifty tiger crouching cannons and two hundred shells were also distributed.

In addition, rolling logs and rocks were piled up beside the wall, and there were even bricks and rubble removed from houses, beams and rafters, heavy iron pots, stone mills, and hundreds of bags of quicklime mixed with sand. Anyway, they could be used to defend the city. Everything is collected.

Every [-] steps, a large iron pot was set up, with a raging fire under it, and a mixture of tung oil and human excrement was boiled in the pot.

That smell is so sour and refreshing, and the "fragrance" wafts for miles, Li Cunming's tears are about to come down!
"Your Majesty, the enemy troops are setting up camp and arranging their troops. I estimate that it will take half an hour at the earliest before they attack the city." Zhou Yuji saw the emperor and hurried over to report.

Li Cunming looked outside the city, and the enemy army was still maintaining a distance of four miles from the city, deploying in an orderly manner in an open field.

"General Zhou, what do you think of the enemy's deployment?"

"Forgive me, Li Guo and Gao Yigong can be called young generals, and they marched very well." Zhou Yuji stared at the enemy's actions and admired them from the bottom of his heart.

Li Cunming nodded and said: "I don't know much about marching formations, so I don't see any cleverness for the time being. But one thing is for sure, although Li Guo and Gao Yigong are young, they can hold their breath."

"They should already know that I am in Ningling County, facing a weak enemy with a strong army. As long as they break through the city and catch me, it will be a great contribution and their name will surely go down in history. But they are not in a hurry, they still choose Steady and steady, such a young man is terrifying!"

Zhou Yuji said: "Your Majesty's words made me look at Li Guo and Li Guo with admiration even more. I'm afraid this battle will be very difficult."

"I'm not afraid of difficulties!" Li Cunming smiled slightly, waved his hands and said, "Go and do your work, you don't need to accompany me."

Taking advantage of the brief calm before the war, Li Cunming walked on the city wall and inspected the soldiers.Sometimes he patted the soldier on the shoulder, and sometimes he said a few words of encouragement and comfort.

When he came to a soldier who had just grown a soft beard on his lips, Li Cunming saw that he was nervous and swallowed his saliva, so he stopped in his tracks.

"Boy, what's your name?"

"Xiaomin Wang... Wang Yi."

"Wang Yi, how old are you?"

"fifteen."

"It's not easy to be as old as my prince. Tell me the truth, are you afraid?"

Wang Yi looked at the emperor's amiable face and said, "I was a little scared, but I'm not afraid anymore. For the sake of the emperor, I won't be afraid anymore!"

His words are simple, but he has a strong heart.

"I'll tell you something secretly. I'm actually very scared. Facing a powerful enemy, it's human nature to be afraid, so there's nothing to be ashamed of." Li Cunming said frankly.

He was speaking from his heart. It was his first time visiting the front line and participating in a war. How could he not be afraid?

Besides, Li Cunming grew up in a peaceful age before crossing, let alone a war, he never fought.When he was studying, his grades were not very good, but he was very quiet. When he saw the gangsters in the society at the school gate, he always avoided them immediately.

It's just that Li Cunming knew that others could retreat, but he had no way to retreat, so he restrained his fear.

"Before moving to the south, there were ministers who strongly opposed it. They wanted me to guard the country and kill the country, saying that I moved to the south because I was greedy for life and afraid of death."

Li Cunming raised his voice, speaking not only to Wang Yi, but also to all the soldiers on the city wall: "Is it true that I am greedy for life and afraid of death? I am just thinking that death must be a vigorous and valuable death! You will see it with your own eyes today. See, I will stand guard on the city gate and will not take half a step back!"

"If the city is broken, I will jump off the six-foot-high city wall, and I would rather be broken than whole!"

The voice was resounding, and the soldiers shouted. Wang Yi raised his fists and shouted the most excitedly: "Long live, long live!"

"Ding, get Wang Yi's positive emotion value of 1000"

"Ding, get 20000 positive emotions for all soldiers"

Zhou Yuji sent a general order: "The enemy army has begun to attack the city, and everyone is in a fighting state."

Li Cunming pulled out the seven-star sword and shouted: "The city is alive and the people are alive, and the city is dead and the people are dead!"

"Where the city is and the people are, the city is dead and the people are dead!" The voices of the soldiers echoed for a long time.

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Soldiers in Li Zicheng's army have a habit of wearing white felt hats, and the Chuangjun is also called "White Felt Army".

Looking down from the city wall, the dark enemy soldiers charged forward with white hats on their heads and black weapons in their hands, which was spectacular.

The first is a thousand infantry, followed by the team that transports the siege equipment, ladders, bridges, and goalposts.There are wheels on the ladder and Hao bridge, which can be pushed.

After the development of the past dynasties, the ladder is even more advanced. The ladder is folded, and there is a carriage under it, covered with cowhide or iron, and the soldiers hide inside to avoid attack.

The infantry running at the forefront is actually used to attract firepower from the city and buy time for the siege troops.After passing the moat and building the ladder, climb the ladder and climb the city while hitting the city gate with the gatepost.

This is the procedure for the ancient army to attack the city. In the Ming Dynasty, it will naturally cooperate with various firearms.

The thousand infantrymen rushed to a place one mile away from the city gate like wind and clouds.

One of the bearded leaders was extremely excited, waving a knife and shouting: "Brothers, I heard that the dog emperor is in Ningling County, kill him and catch him!"

"Brother, I heard that the dog emperor's wife, Empress Zhou, is very beautiful. She never puts on makeup and is gorgeous. I'll catch it and present it to you!" a man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks yelled wretchedly.

Amidst the roar of laughter, the nightmare of the traitors began.

The monkey-cheeked man had just finished yelling and ran two steps forward when his feet suddenly stepped on the ground and fell into the trap.

There was a scream, and the man was pierced through the stomach by the wooden stake in the trap, and died in pain with his eyes wide open.

"Brothers, be careful!" The beard yelled, subconsciously slowing down, and poking the ground with the long knife in his hand.

The tip of the knife touched a foreign object, which was very hard, probably a stone in the soil.

Beard pulled out the knife and wanted to continue walking, but there was a loud bang.

Everything happened very quickly. His forehead was hit by the iron sheet that flew out from the explosion of the landmine. The iron sheet was embedded in his brain, and he opened his mouth blankly. Before he could shout out "pain", he died.

Immediately afterwards, there were explosions one after another, and miserable howls continued.

Some of the thousand rebels fell into the trap, and their stomachs were pierced; some were killed by landmines on the spot, or iron flakes flew into their stomachs, or iron nails pierced their bodies.

The Ming soldiers on the tower saw such a tragic scene, but they were very excited and clapped their hands in applause.

"Your Majesty, look quickly, one died, and another... ah, three were killed in one blow!" Wang Yi cheered.

Li Cunming smiled, and secretly said: "Li Guo, the meeting gift I prepared for you is not bad, right? Humph, the fun is yet to come!"

(End of this chapter)