MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 916 Shangdang as bait

  Chapter 916 Shangdang as bait

Liu Da urged his horse to run down the city wall, and ran to the school yard worriedly. He had just established a foundation on the Taihang Mountain two months ago, and was urged down the mountain by Li Ying ten days ago, and once again set up a flag in Shangdang County to denounce gold. Although the bankrupt farmers who turned to him gathered like ants, Liu Da couldn't be happy at all. He knew very well that he would become the first target of Jin Bing's suppression if he made such a publicity.

   Sure enough, as he expected, just now he received the news that a group of golden soldiers was coming to Shangdang County in mighty force.

  Liu Da urged his horse to rush to the school grounds. The shouts and killings were loud in the school grounds. Li Ying was wearing armor and was training the five thousand recruits he had just recruited.

Li Ying is Yanqing's general, and he served as the commander of the scout battalion in the Song army. The integration of the Hebei Rebel Army caused the Hebei Rebel Army to lose control, and was finally wiped out by Wanyan Zongwang. Therefore, when the Anti-Gold Rebel Army appeared on the East Road, the first thing Li Yanqing did was to control these rebel troops, follow his own orders, and use them for himself.

   This matter is in charge of Yanqing's intelligence battalion. Five commanders under Yanqing have led people to various places to guide the rebels to fight against gold.

   "General Li!" Liu Da waved and shouted at the gate of the school grounds.

Li Ying glanced back at Liu Da, who was full of anxiety at the gate of the school grounds, and handed over the training to one of his subordinates. coming?"

   Liu was taken aback, "How does General Li know?"

  Li Ying smiled slightly, "I also just received a pigeon letter from General Yan, so I know a little bit about the situation."

  Liu Da admired Yan Qing the most. He was able to raid the Linfen warehouse without spending a single soldier. He was even more powerful than Zhuge Liang. He hurriedly asked, "What did General Yan say?"

   "General Yan said that 10,000 Jin soldiers are coming to Shangdang County, let us reject the city and strictly guard it!"

   "Ah!" Liu Da was stunned, how could he resist ten thousand gold soldiers?

  He suddenly panicked and said: "In this case, we must retreat into the mountain immediately!"

  Li Ying shook his head, "This time it is the order of our commander in chief, asking us to stick to the Shangdang and defeat this golden army."

   "But the opponent has 10,000 troops!"

  Li Ying smiled, "We also have reinforcements, and they will arrive soon."

   Liu Da was overjoyed immediately, "How many reinforcements are there?"

   As soon as the words fell, a soldier rushed to report, "General Liu, an army has arrived from outside Beicheng."

  Li Ying smiled lightly, "It should be that reinforcements have arrived, let's take a look!"

He and Liu Da got on their horses and ran towards the North City Gate. Outside the North City Gate came a 200-man Song army with five fully enclosed donkey carts. Besides the leading general, there was also a middle-aged scribe. Come with them.

This army belongs to the firearms battalion of the Jingzhao Army. The firearms battalion has about 10,000 soldiers. It was established after the Battle of Xixia. In addition to Feihuolei), it is also responsible for the use of other firearms, such as rockets, fire kites, etc. The newly established Leiguan Army in Yan'an Prefecture is also under the jurisdiction of the Firearms Battalion. The establishment has also begun to refine.

  At this moment, the gate opened, and Li Ying and Liu Da rode out from the city. The first general got off his horse and knelt down on one knee to salute, "The last general, Hou Jing, see Commander Li!"

  Hou Jing is the general of the Firearms Battalion, Li Ying knew him, and Li Ying said with a smile: "Dutong really took care of us, so he even sent General Hou here."

   "Thank you General Li for your compliment, and Mr. Yan is here too."

  Mr. Yan is a middle-aged scribe who accompanied him. Yan Jiuling, the secretary of Jinglue Mansion, joined the army. He was appointed by Li Yanqing as the prefect of Longde Mansion. This time he came to take up the post with him.

   Li Ying hurriedly stepped forward to greet Yan Jiuling. Yan Jiuling smiled and handed Li Yanqing's appointment letter to him. Li Ying was overjoyed, "Great, we finally have a magistrate, and we can be liberated."

  Li Ying is now in charge of government affairs, and all kinds of trivial things come to him all day long, which makes him burnt out. Now that he finally has a magistrate, how can he not be overjoyed.

  Yan Jiuling smiled slightly and said: "I am only temporarily serving concurrently, and the official appointment has to be appointed by the court."

Yan Jiuling has been an official for 20 years, and has a lot of experience. Because he was not a Jinshi, he was a clerk in the yamen for more than ten years. Since he met Li Yanqing, he has stepped up to the official rank. Now he is Chaosanlang from the seventh rank. At this level, he is the magistrate of Chi County at most, but Li Yanqing appointed him as the magistrate, and told him clearly that the procedures of the Ministry of Officials will be completed later, which means that he will jump from the current seventh rank to the fifth rank.

  Yan Jiuling was not the first to receive such an honor. Before that, Liu Fang was promoted from the eighth rank to the governor of Ezhou from the fifth rank, and Mo Jun was promoted from the seventh rank to the prefect of Pingjiang from the fourth rank.

  Yan Jiuling has not been officially appointed by the imperial court yet, so of course he needs to be humble.

   At this time, Liu Da walked forward slowly, looked at the 150 soldiers of the Song Army and asked in astonishment: "General Li, is this the reinforcement?"

  Hou Jing chuckled, "We are not reinforcements, the reinforcements are in donkey carts!"

  He opened the car door and said with a smile, "General Liu might as well come over and have a look!"

  Liu Da walked forward slowly, and saw dozens of black iron bumps neatly placed in the carriage, which looked like winter melons, and each iron bump had a coil of thick rope on top of its head.

   "What is this?" Liu Da asked in a daze.

   "This is Zhen Tianlei, haven't I trained all the soldiers?" Li Ying stepped forward and said with a smile.

   "Ah! Is this the number one firearm that General Li said?"

  Li Ying nodded, "This is the most powerful firearm in the world. After it is thrown, every soldier must cover his ears and lie on the ground."

   Liu Da looked shocked, and gently stroked the black iron shell, Li Ying asked again: "How many thunders are there?"

  Hou Jing stepped forward and said, "There are thirty thunderbolts in total, all of which are throwing thunderbolts. There are also two hundred and forty flying fire thunderbolts, which correspond to the 120 thunderthrowers I brought."

  This time Hou Jing brought a total of 150 soldiers from the Firearms Battalion, of which 120 were mine throwers, and the other 30 were in charge of controlling the Thunderbolt.

  Li Ying led everyone into the city. He first led Yan Jiuling to the government office to take over the government affairs of Longde Mansion, and then took Hou Jing to the military warehouse. Ten cannons were placed on the square outside the warehouse, covered with tarpaulins.

   This was discovered by the rebel army when they were transporting the warehouse materials in Linfen County, and they were also transported back to Shangdang County.

  Li Ying patted the cannon and said with a smile: "I have asked a craftsman to repair it, let's see if it can still be used?"

Hou Jing stepped forward to check the ten cannons carefully. They are medium-sized cannons, which can throw ordinary thunderbolts fifty steps away, which is almost enough. Hou Jing finally nodded and said: "Basically they can be used, but It was actually made during the reign of Shenzong, and it is old enough."

   "The main reason is that the maintenance is good. The crossbow machine is oiled and there is no rust."

  Liu Da said on the side: "Will it hurt the city wall if you throw the thunderbolt with it?"

"Won't!"

Hou Jing laughed and said, "Unless a piece of city brick is dug out and the Thunderbolt is stuffed in, the Thunderbolt will not collapse the city wall. It has been tested many times, and there will be no problem. However, the explosion at fifty paces away is harmful to the hearing of the soldiers. It will have an impact, so we must cover our ears in time."

   "We have already trained on this, and we will train again in rotation today and tomorrow!"

At noon the next day, a rapid alarm bell rang above Shangdang County, and groups of rebel soldiers rushed to the city. These rebel soldiers received a large number of armor supplies in Linfen County. Wearing iron helmets, holding standard long spears, or holding bows and arrows, they did not get military crossbows in Linfen County, but only 3,000 pairs of defensive bows. Li Ying selected 3,000 people from the newly received rebels to form archers.

After nearly two months of training, the initial 5,000 Rebel Army has begun to look like an army, but the newly received 5,000 Rebel Army is still in the nature of a militia and cannot be used for direct combat. It can only be used as a second-line soldier, mainly for archers .

Although Shangdang City is not a big city, it is close to the Taihang Mountains and has a lot of stone materials. The city walls are all quarried and are still very strong after a hundred years. Five feet, only the central cannon can be placed, and large cannons cannot be placed.

Five thousand soldiers rushed to the head of the west city. In addition to the two thousand spearmen, there were also three thousand archers. Two hundred soldiers were responsible for the ten cannons. Twenty mine throwers, each with two sets of flying fire mines, stood behind the battlements, waiting for the enemy to start attacking the city.

  In just a moment, 10,000 gold soldiers, like a long black dragon, rushed to Shangdang County from afar from the official road.

  (end of this chapter)