In the vast Qingdu Temple, Zhu Mei from the backyard of Hedong Township also looked at the subordinates who were demolishing houses and pushing houses and building fortifications. In a sense, this is also one of the skills and lessons learned from those thieves.
Because these Taiping thief army relied on these obvious on-the-spot materials, and seemingly crude and crude temporary constructions, they could hardly stop the offensive positions of the officers and army again and again, and then took advantage of the strength of the officers and army to defeat them. The intermittent lack of international and backing power, in turn, pushed forward and erode the defense zone of the official army.
Therefore, for officers who were defeated or driven out of the defense, once the thieves were allowed to rush to repair the corresponding barricades and defenses in a short period of time, it would mean that more troops and more tragic were needed. The price, the uncertain probability that can be regained.
Many of the officers and army units deployed in the city were officially due to the gains and losses of being too obsessed with these fronts; as a result, in the seesaw of the back and forth attack with the thief army, they inadvertently suffered casualties or became exhausted and unable to fight again. In turn, the thief army found the flaws and weaknesses and emptiness in the battlefield, and broke through on the spot.
Therefore, despite the repeated losses, the officials and soldiers of the various roads have to change their course. According to the barricades captured nearby, they use various vehicles, furniture and building materials acquired nearby to build corresponding barricades in order to gain confrontation. Periods of short or long breathing and recuperation. (Although it still can’t keep up with the efficiency of the thief’s armament demolition)
Although, in the siege of the thieves’ regiments, it does not make much sense to rush to repair these defenses temporarily, but at least it can delay some time and gain some psychological comfort and sense of security; on the other hand, there are some things that can be done. Part of the anxiousness and worries of these soldiers was shifted away, leaving them no time to think about it for the time being.
Speaking of which, the backyard army led by Zhu Mei can be regarded as one of the veteran fighters in Hedong Town. Because the daily duties are where the guardian's house is located, they are well-paid and well-equipped, as well as the quality of their personnel. They are usually judged not to be a tooth soldier, but similar in shape to a tooth soldier.
Because the Hedong Jiezhen’s tooth soldiers are likely to have changed and dispatched, released, and even slaughtered and purged with the replacement of the previous Jieshuai; however, the organizational system of the backyard army has basically not changed much. Keep within this small but fine army of 1,400.
It’s just that the casualties that have been accumulated all the way through the battle now, and after the seesaw loss in Chang’an City, there are less than 500 veterans in the backyard, and the rest are from the soldiers who have been broken up or who have lost their generals, priority is given to them. Selected and supplemented from the strong and strong.
And they did not live up to Cui Sanggong’s entrustment. They twisted and smashed along Chengtianmen Street, attacking and rushing down, and they were worthy of the Diagonal City Square outside the Daqi Ling Pagoda, which is very clear from the target of the thief army. It was stopped.
When the sky was about to shine, he wanted to organize another round of offensive to threaten and shake the place of the Taiping thief’s army, but found that the surrounding friendly forces were either dead or wounded or already destroyed, or simply not. Saying goodbye, leaving behind his iron-hearted man who stood till the end was trapped in the enemy's siege.
However, this was something he had already prepared mentally before he decided to go to war. As one of the many military families in Hedong, Zhu Mei has served and followed a dozen different sources since Tang Yizong Xiantong’s ten years ago, a middle-aged man (15 years old) replaced his father who died in the military chaos and applied for military service. It's handsome. ,
During this period, he has experienced all the chaos and changes in Hedong Town, and personally participated in the suppression and massacre of unscrupulous tooth soldiers, and executed the relatives and families of mutinous soldiers. They were also evaluated as "loyal and loyal, and persevering." Jieshuai valued and began to support straight forward.
Especially in the sixth year of Qianfu (AD 879), on February 11th, when the Hedong Army drove to Jingle, the soldiers made chaos and killed Kongmu officer Shi Yu and others. Until February 14th, Zhang Kai and Guo Ying led the army to attack Dongyang Gate and advance to the Jiedu Mansion to kill Cui Jikang.
On the second day of May, the tooth general He Gongya led his troops to riot, burned and looted the three cities of Jinyang, and arrested the Kongmu official Wang Jing and escorted him to Mabusi. Jiedu made Li Kan and the eunuch’s supervising army personally come out to declare Consolation and exhortation, Wang Jing beheaded to Yamen.
Immediately on May 28, nearly a hundred people from the Rebellion Army, who claimed to be "retributors", looted the three cities of Jinyang and burned the residences of Zhang Kai, the capital of Mabu, and Guozheng, the capital of Fucheng. At that time, Zhu Mei, the coach of Ma Budu, was ordered to be the envoy of the Three Cities, and led the soldiers to arrest the "generals for retribution" and behead all.
When the former Jieshuai Kang Chuangui took office as Jieya, he ordered the beheading of Zhang Kai, Guo Zhen and others who came to meet him. Zhu Mei was also the first to be ordered to go. Since then, he has been able to quit due to his merits and take charge of the army in the backyard to this day.
Therefore, in his world, as long as he wholeheartedly serves the court and obeys the commander’s instructions to kill and slash his opponents, to gain fame and fortune and rewards, or to be killed by others one day, that’s the biggest in his life. Stand up and rely on the battle.
"The military envoy, has been initially prepared to stop working... I have also explored and explored all sides..."
A general's report interrupted Zhu Mei's memories in her life.
"As long as the rain drops a little more, you can desperately follow the military envoys and go out of the battle... By no means will I insult my Hedong children..."
However, just like the truth is always unsuccessful after encountering a difficult situation, the sharp whistle and the rapid horn sound like a reminder, alternately resounding around the courtyard wall of Qingduguan, and then turned into Youyuan. The near roar.
The courtyard wall that collapsed with successive roars, as well as the screams of officers and soldiers who were caught off guard from being lifted, knocked down, or overwhelmed below, were suddenly slaughtered out of the collapsed gap with the blue flag held high, with their top armor pierced. A thief soldier who is very sharp and intrepid at a glance. ,
The officers and soldiers who quickly reacted from the shock and hurriedly greeted them, but failed to stop or contain the momentum of the opponent. On the contrary, they were caught in the fierce roar and fight with swordsmen and soldiers, as well as the stabs and stabbings. The continual reversal of the retreat.
Then, on the top of the Taoist temple still intact, there were several figures. They all held up the slender gun tubes in their hands and radiated slightly towards the rear of the officers and soldiers who were struggling to fight.
Suddenly, among the officers and soldiers who came to encircle the encirclement, with the silhouettes of falling to the ground and the screams one after another, a lot of bright blood blossoms bloomed; and then there were people with smears of smoke. The objects were thrown out, scattered among the officers and soldiers struggling to form a battle.
Within a few breaths, there was a thunderous noise among the army of officers and soldiers who were leaning against the group, exploding a large pile of mud and clods. Although these explosive firearms were severely weakened by the muddy ground full of water, their damage and power were severely weakened; however, with the impact of the air wave, they overturned and overturned many gaps in the array of officers and soldiers.
As a result, the formation of the officers and soldiers in the courtyard of the courtyard was rushed to pieces and collapsed; it became a figure scattered and fleeing and avoiding. . . After another, I don't know how long the sky lighted up, and Zhu Mei also fought bloody battles to the end, and retreated to the Xuanyuan Hall, the main building of Guannei.
Here is not only the "True Portrait of Emperor Xuanyuan" bestowed by Emperor Kaiyuan (Tang Xuanzong), but also the inscriptions of famous masters of the past dynasties of "Rainy Night in Qingdu View" by Wei Yingwu, but they are all roughly lifted from the wall panels. , Dismantled and used as a bunker to block the door.
And the scarlet Zhu Mei sighed in her heart when looking at the faces that followed for a long time. Ever since he was surrounded by these tough and tough peace thieves, he has no longer hugged this place. What an expectation of being able to be full.
Next, he just hoped that he would persist here for a longer time. Even if it is impossible to escape the destruction of the whole, he would still buy some more opportunity and buffer for Cui Sanggong.
At the same time, between the imperial city Ouchi and Bei Nei that Zhu Mei missed; the imperial road paved with spacious stones for the emperor’s travels, has been accompanied by many peripheral partition walls that have been broken through It has become a chaotic battlefield that is constantly fighting everywhere.
The officers and soldiers of different designations who retreated from the city square were also crowded in a mess here, and then they continued to explode, drill through and knock down the outer partition wall without any organization and order, and suddenly slammed into the Taiping who came in. The sergeant pawns, one after another, tore into a group.
However, from time to time, cannons fired from the commanding heights in the nearby city square, with the largest curved arc and metaphysical distribution probability, fell between them, and set off under the number of bounces that zigzagged in the crowd. Flesh and blood storms flew after another.
Or, the fire oil bombs and explosive bombs thrown out of the Taiping Army that broke into the battle regiment easily frightened and destroyed the officers and soldiers who wanted to resist or be trapped in battle.
Then, they chopped down, knocked over, shot to death, and even drove wave after wave to the direction where the gates of the imperial city were located. After that, these collapsed people were quickly surrounded in despair, under the Yanxi Gate and Jingfeng Gate on the east side of the inner wall.
No matter how they screamed and slapped, the thick and massive gate of the vermilion lacquer palace, which is several feet high, has never received any response or reverse. Even the top of the city should have provided cover and support for arrows and throwing. The means disappeared, leaving only the flags.
And in the Bei Nei (Daming Palace) on the other side, they have regrouped and led their troops to abandon the innocent Hanyuan Palace square, its attached two-wing palace walls and the spacious Longwei Road, and retreat to the Hanyuan Hall. On both sides of the Zhaoxun Gate and Guangfan Gate, the Zhaoyi Army Jiedu made Meng Fangli; he also sternly questioned:
"Why hasn't Cui Xianggong responded yet. (End of this chapter)"