Chapter 293 The Furnace of War Nirvana Rebirth The fire between the second ice wall and the first ice wall engulfed at least three or four hundred Han soldiers, and these Han soldiers let out a terrible sound.Looking at the Han soldiers in the fire trap, and the screams like killing pigs in their ears, the faces of these whole family soldiers changed slightly.They didn't expect that Quanxu would be so ruthless.Like between the first ice wall and the second ice wall, this is like a simple version of the urn city, for the enemy soldiers here, there are too many ways, you can shoot, you can also shoot arrows, and even throw 10,000 enemies into it, in short, the whole family army soldiers have countless ways to eliminate the Han soldiers who entered the ambush.However, Quan Xu told the whole family of gunners not to shoot, artillerymen not to fire, and archers not to fire arrows, but to burn them.When the fire burns, the pain is the most intense, and it does not make people die instantly.Those terrible screams, like magic sounds, penetrated into the ears of every soldier present."
Ruthless, too ruthless!"
Many soldiers of the whole family army looked at Quan Xu with a relaxed face, and this inexplicable thought rose in their hearts.If you ask who Quanxu hates the most?
That's definitely not Emperor Chongzhen, nor is it Jiannu, although Jiannu destroys cities and towns, burns, kills and loots, and does all kinds of evil, this is just the law of the jungle, just like you can't pray that a tiger doesn't eat people, and a group of evil wolves have a good heart.What he hates the most is actually the Han army that aids in the abuse, like the current Li Sizhong, with the word loyalty on his name, as a general of the Ming Dynasty, but he has no loyalty to the imperial court, as a generation of generals, he is even more willing to fall, he not only surrendered, he used himself as Li Chengliang's grandson, Taiyuan Tongzhi in Liaodong, Liaoxi Jiangmen's influence, everywhere said that the Ming army generals.To put it mildly, Li Sizhong is really unlucky, if he hadn't met Quan Xu, he should have followed Prince Yu Duoduo to conquer Li Zicheng, Shaanxi, Potong Pass, Xiajiangnan, Keyangzhou, and Jiangbei Prefecture.The official was promoted to the governor of Shaanxi, and he was promoted to a first-class male and a cloud cavalry captain.It's a pity that he met Jeon Wook.More than 1,000 people under his command attacked the camp of the whole family army in Hongshankou City, and the early progress was smooth, of course, this was Quan Xu luring them to go deeper, using this furnace of fire to put more than 1,000 people in the flames to burn.As time passed, these screams gradually weakened, but the fire between the ice walls showed no signs of extinguishing, but burned more and more, and the human body was like a candle, which is usually not easy to burn, but when it comes into contact with other open flames, the candle wick effect will occur.It was nearly a quarter of an hour later that Li Sizhong learned that Quan Xu had put fire oil in the urn city and burned the four or five hundred people under his command who attacked the urn city to ashes.Even his trusted garrison Shi Chongshan was killed in the flames.At this time, Li Sizhong had no way out, as one of the remaining generals, Li Sizhong was not as trusted by Huang Taiji as Fan Cheng, not as noble as Ying Erdai, and he had been around for generations, this responsibility for losing Hongshankou must be borne by him, who let Hongshankou guard Jin Youguang be recruited by him?"
Keep attacking!"
However, at this time, the morale of the Houjin Han army began to decline, and the miserable screams for nearly a quarter of an hour made the Han army frightened, and finally organized a second wave of attack under the whipping of the pro-soldiers.The soldiers of the whole family relied on the ice wall to have contacts with the Han army, and the fight was very lively.Quan Xu's eyes looked at Hongshankou City from time to time, and he hoped to use the battle to arouse the blood of these captured people and arouse their desire to fight.But at the moment, it still hasn't achieved very good results.From the morning of December 18 in the second year of Chongzhen, until more than two hours of fighting, Li Sizhong's command used nearly 1,500 lives to replace the three ice walls of the whole family army, and pushed about 140 steps in the direction of Hongshankou City, nothing more.In Hongshankou City, a tall man stood on the street, looking south.His name is Zhang Meng, and he is the general flag manager under Yi Ai, the deputy general of Hanerzhuang.As a soldier of the Ming Army who has been in the army for many years, he occasionally participates in training and occasionally participates in tearing up.The Ming Dynasty was not peaceful, not only Jiannu, but also the Mongols outside the country, often burning, killing and looting.He still remembered that more than three months ago, Deputy General Yi gathered them overnight and asked them to rescue Longjing Pass, but they just set off when they encountered an ambush by the Houjin people, sharp arrows rained down, and the comrades around them were shot one after another.With the death of the deputy generals Yi Ai and Wang Zunchen successively, he began to flee with his comrades-in-arms, and then was chased and killed by the Jurchens until he was exhausted.But a few days later, he was caught by the Houjin people and imprisoned in Hongshankou City, because he knew a little technology to heal livestock, he could still exchange this technology for some rations.Although he was not starved to death, he lived in fear all night for three months.Although it is said that when he followed Vice General Yi in the Hanerzhuang camp in the past, there were also commanders in the army who beat them as soldiers, and there were also Shangguan who withheld their rations and vegetable money, but compared with the Houjin people, their Shangguan was simply a good man of the ninth generation.The Houjin people and those Han soldiers have never been afraid of them being seen as people, they are happy to whip a few times, or kick a few times, and if they are not happy, they will be angry, in short, they will be beaten when they say that they will be beaten, no matter what they do, no matter how obedient they are.Being beaten is just a convenience, the key is that kind of fear day and night.These days, Zhang Meng has become a little numb, he wants to die, but he is worried that after he dies, he has not married a daughter-in-law, has not left incense, even if he dies, he will not have the face to see his dead father.Until last night, they were rescued by a large army, who had treated their captured people so well, that for the first time in more than three months, they had a hot meal, and although there was no oil or water, he was very content.Then the prefect named Chen Yongshun divided them into 19 towns and 194 guarantees, and he is now the protector of the 63rd guarantee.There are more than 100 people under his hands.After eating, they were assigned twelve iron houses, two of which served as toilets for men and women.Let them live, and as the chief of the guard, not only must be responsible for the food of the top ten under his command, but also all the population should not run around.These ten rooms are a kind of large house, the area is not large, anyway, there is only one place for more than a hundred of them to sleep, and a few fires are lit in the house, but it is not too cold.A man in armor asked them to chat, and he said that his experience, his situation, the more than 100 people who were originally very unfamiliar, slowly became familiar.As the chief of the guard, he could leave the twelve rooms of their guard, and when he got up early in the morning, while they were still eating, he heard the shouts of killing outside the city, and the Houjin people called.He was very nervous, very afraid that the whole family army would be defeated by the Houjin people, and if they were defeated, they would have to live the same dark life as before.Holding a knife that was distributed last night, he came to the room of Sixty-Three Guarantees, Zhang Meng looked at the room with big eyes and stared at the people with small eyes: "Old and young masters, it has been more than two hours now, what should we do, big guy said" "Brother Zhang, what do you say we should do?"
”Zhang Meng sat on the haystack and said slowly: "Yesterday I heard from our mayor that they are the Tianxiong army from the Daimyo Mansion, there are not many people, only about 3,000 people, and they are caught off guard by the cold shot, and now that the Houjin army is coming, I don't know how long they can last!"
”A woman looked at Zhang Meng: "But what can we do?"
”"That's what I think, I'm Lao Zhang alone, and if he dies, he's dead, he has nothing to worry about, if he is lucky enough to kill a Tartar, it's enough!"
Zhang Meng's somewhat honest face showed a touch of ruddy: "I can't let you drag your family up."
Sister-in-law of the Guo family, you are old, you are fair, and the big guys listen to you, if I am gone, you will be the chief of this security!
”The sister-in-law of the Guo family shook her head: "I can't do it, I'm just a woman's family, or let Brother Han!"
”The man named Brother Han shook his head: "I can't be this security chief, I want to go up with Brother Zhang" "Zhang Meng, Zhang Meng!"
”Outside the door, the shouts of the whole family army were heard.Zhang Meng got up, looked at the soldiers of the whole family outside the door and said: "My lord" "This is your sixty-three guarantees' rations, take inventory, there is a war in front, we have to go up!"
”Zhang Meng took a bag of grain, which contained soybeans, wheat, and some millet, and he put the bag of grain in front of Sister-in-law Guo: "Sister-in-law of the Guo family, this grain is for you, you take care of the big guy!"
”After speaking, Zhang Meng lifted the knife in his hand and walked towards the door.The descendant of Han Fu followed Zhang Meng, the other men looked at each other, and more than a dozen people stood up and followed Zhang Meng out.When Zhang Meng walked to the street, he met Zhang Anshi head-on.Zhang Anshi was the eldest brother who took the big guy and Jiannu desperately last night, and he still had injuries on his body, followed by four or five hundred men."
Fierce son!""
Brother Zhang!""
Good look, like a man!"
At noon, more than 1,000 young men appeared in Hongshankou City, these men were holding all kinds of blades, and the leader was Zhang Anshi, who had launched the attack before."
General Quan, Zhang Anshi obeys the command!"
Quan Xu ignored Zhang Anshi, he took the binoculars and said, "Jiang Baisheng, go up to Lao Tzu and leave them all!"
”"Leave them all!"
Quan Xu pointed to Jiang Baisheng's location and said: "There are only 200 people there, I have no one to send them, if you are not afraid of death, bring 200 people over!"
”"If you're afraid of death, you won't come!"
Zhang Anshi rushed over with more than 200 men behind him."
Kill!""
Bang bang bang" With a series of fire guns, a choking burst of gunpowder smoke filled the air.Zhang Anshi will always remember this day, the 18th day of December in the second year of Chongzhen, the first day he became a soldier of the whole family's army.