Chapter 295: Retreat to Beiping

After the main force of the Southern Army led by Xiao Fan arrived at the city of Baoding, he immediately began to attack the city.

Perhaps because of the previous negotiation incident, Xiao Fan did not hold back this time and ordered the soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Baoding.

The use of firearms in the early Ming Dynasty was already quite large. In addition to the Hongwu cannons, there were fire dragon spears, landmines, and rocket launchers running together with hundreds of tigers. If used to siege, the Hongwu cannon was the most powerful. This time, Xiao Fan could not ignore this powerful firearm. His philosophy was very humane. Although he was a general since ancient times, he was kind and did not control the troops, but Xiao Fan did not like to exchange live lives for victory. When he had sharp firearms in his hand, why should he use human lives to fill it?

So, before the siege, more than a hundred Hongwu cannons accompanied by the Southern Army exerted their power. Starting from Xiao Fan's order to siege, more than a hundred Hongwu cannons were moved to a distance of 500 steps from the Baoding city wall. Then hundreds of cannons were fired together, solid iron bullets, flowering bullets, and even incendiary bombs filled with flammable tinder oil. These powerful firearms shot wildly towards the head of Baoding city. The rumbling cannon sounded over Baoding city. Several rounds of artillery fired, and the smoke of gunpowder disappeared. The walls of Baoding city were already covered with bullet craters, and it was devastated.

The Yan soldiers guarding the city were lying under the arrows on the city, and were at a loss. Several soldiers who were not afraid of death caught their heads curiously, and were very unlucky to be beaten to pieces by the storm-like iron bullets, and fell to the ground with convulsions.

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Xiao Fan took a few steps closer to see the results of the shelling, then frowned and shook his head, as if he was not satisfied with the effect of these rounds of shelling.

Cao Yi, who was following him, understood what he meant, so he waved his hand: "A few more rounds!"

Boom boom boom boom!

A new round of artillery bombardment began. The Yan soldiers at the front of Baoding city were always suppressed by cannons and dared not look up. The shocking sound of cannons and the downpour of artillery shells caused the morale of the soldiers guarding the city to quickly decline. Everyone lay on the horse road at the front of the city, looking around with horror and despair, and a doomsday breath filled the entire city.

The artillery fire outside the city paused for a short time. The Yan army soldiers had just breathed a sigh of relief. Before they could smile relieved, the cannons outside the city began to roar again, and the shells were rushing towards the city as if they were not worth money.

The huge sense of depression and the approaching death threat made the already depressed morale of the Yan army soldiers almost collapse. Finally, a Yan army soldier threw away the weapons in his hand and jumped up like a madman. While tearing his clothes, he ran wildly under the city, crying hysterically: "I can't stand it! I don't want to fight! I want to go home..."

boom!

A solid iron bullet smashed the heads of the running soldiers, splashing red and white all over the ground. The heads were smashed by cannons, but their bodies ran for several steps before they fell to the ground. The bloody and strange scene caused a chill of despair in the hearts of the Yan soldiers.

After the Southern Army stopped shelling, the Baoding city wall was already full of holes, and the south wall was most damaged. Because the shells were completely concentrated on this side, a large hole had been collapsed by cannons, and countless Yan army soldiers had to carry sandbags and fill the hole like an ant moving house.

Xiao Fan saw this scene from afar and finally showed a satisfied smile on his lips.

In the face of the huge power of hot weapons, siege is that simple. As long as the city wall is collapsed, Baoding City is like a big girl stripped of her clothes by a hooligan, touching whatever she wants.

The smile on the corner of his mouth gradually turned into a sneer, and Xiao Fan ordered lightly: "Send the order, continue to shell the shelling!"

Cao Yi rubbed his hands with some excitement and said, "Sir, don't fire any more guns, right? Look, the city walls have collapsed, can you rush in?"

Xiao Fan shook his head: "It's not OK, it's not completely collapsed. What we are now slamming not only the city wall, but also the will of the 90,000 Yan soldiers in the city. I want to use cannons to knock them out to collapse..."

"Is this... necessary?"

Xiao Fan sighed and had to explain patiently to him: "For example, you are a pervert..."

"No need for this, I was a pervert." Cao Yi narrowed his eyes and accepted Xiao Fan's praise.

"Well, okay, you are a pervert. When you meet a charming girl, you drag her to a place where no one wants to be careless. Now that the girl's clothes have been stripped down by you, you have only a bellyband and underwear left. Should you give up now, or continue to take her off until she is naked?"

Cao Yi said without hesitation: "Of course you have to take off all your clothes, otherwise what should you do?"

Xiao Fan nodded and praised: "At first I heard that Brother Cao is an experienced old hooligan. The same thing we do now is. If you want to fight, just defeat their will and don't give them a chance to restore morale in the future. If you beat them up and get them disabled once, they will not have the courage to fight us again. It's still the same metaphor. If you flirt with that girl once, if you meet that girl again the second time, and if you are in a mood, you still want to flirt with her once, I can guarantee that the girl's resistance will not be as fierce as the first time..."

Cao Yi's eyes straightened: "Your metaphor is very simple... But I want to know which girl is so unlucky and is touched by perverts one after another?"

"Zhu Di is that unlucky girl. I shot one after another... I will send orders to continue shelling!"

"yes!"

Xiao Fan didn't even raise his eyelids and said lightly: "If the shells are all exhausted, remember to stuff my master into the cannon barrel and shoot it onto the Baoding city wall."

Boom boom boom boom!

A new round of artillery bombardment continued. The Yan army soldiers who had just breathed on the city wall had to lie down again, covering their ears and waiting for the sound of artillery to stop in horror.

In Baoding City, Zhu Di and Daoyan were also lying on the top of the city. Raindrop-like iron bullets flew over their heads and hit the arrows behind them hard. Flashes of stone chips and dust flew over and over.

Zhu Di leaned on the ground, motionless, but his face turned greener than the moss on the city wall.

"This bastard, isn't the shell worth it? A prodigal son! Wasting the imperial court's money! I..."

boom!

An iron bullet landed less than ten feet behind him, and a huge bomb crater was smashed out on the ground, and the huge impact interrupted his words.

Daoyan shook his head vigorously, reached out to wipe the stone powder from his bald head, and gasped and shouted: "Prince, Baoding is not guaranteed, you cannot defend it anymore. We should abandon the city and withdraw our troops, otherwise all the soldiers of the Yan army will be ruined here, and the prince's great cause is unsuccessful!"

Zhu Di said angrily: "I have never abandoned a city for twenty years. I have 90,000 soldiers under my command. How can I abandon the city and escape? I don't believe that Xiao Fan's shells cannot be killed in endlessly. Once the sound of cannons stops, what other tricks can he play?"

Daoyan smiled miserably, raised his hand and pointed to the panicked Yan soldiers around him, and said sadly: "Even if the cannon sound stops, if the Southern Army starts to attack the city, can we still defend it with our current morale?"

Zhu Di looked around and saw the soldiers all looking pale and their eyes were dull. He was obviously frightened by the uninterrupted artillery of the Southern Army. Who could be as if nothing had happened to such a powerful shelling like Mount Tai?

Zhu Di knew very well that the Yan army had now reached the verge of morale collapse. If they rely on them to defend the city, it would be more difficult than climbing to heaven.

His expression changed, his face was sometimes blue and sometimes white, and Zhu Di's cheeks were chewing loudly, and his heart was in pain.

Suddenly, a loud noise came from the south city wall, and the soldiers' horrified voice floated from afar: "The city wall collapsed again! It collapsed again!"

Zhu Di was shocked all over and looked at the southern army camp with unwillingness through the battlement of arrows outside the city, and finally sighed heavily, and the tiger's eyes instantly burst into tears.

"We abandon the city and...return to Peking!"

Under the artillery fire of the Southern Army like raindrops, the Yan army abandoned the city that day. There was no way. Xiao Fan's method of siege was too alternative and he did not follow any rules at all. The Yan army felt very stressed. From ancient times to the present, who has seen only sieges only? Only Xiao Fan could do such a shameless method. Thanks to the strong foundation of the court, decades of rest and recuperation, the national treasury accumulated a lot. One by one, it was money to shoot one by one. There was a saying in the previous life that "A cannon fires, ten thousand taels of gold." Xiao Fan was fine. When the cannon fires, ten thousand taels of gold flowed out. If the court's steward Yu Xin was present, he would probably be heartbroken to death.

After the war, more than a hundred Hongwu cannons were shot too fiercely and more than twenty cannons were blown on the spot. Xiao Fan summarized his experience and extended a truth. Fire cannons like sex, they should not be too frequent, otherwise they would be scrapped. Those men who are known as "seven times a night" should not think that they are too great. If they use too many iron cannons, they will still be blown off, let alone meat.

True insights often arise in the working lives of the people, including fighting wars.

The Yan army chose to break out from the northern gate of Baoding, and fled to Beiping in panic. Baoding City was easily captured without a single soldier. The battle was very easy. The forward officer Ping'an looked at Xiao Fan and his eyes changed. The head coach was the head coach. The method of siege was simple and crude, but it was effective. He took Baoding City without hurting a life. What a great skill.

Faced with the praises that were surging like the tide of the generals, Xiao Fan was very modest. He felt that nothing worth praising. This siege was completely made with money. The typical behavior of nouveau riche. As for how many artillery shells were shot out in total... Xiao Fan didn't dare to think about it. Even the quarantine officer reported the consumption of artillery shells to him was stopped outside the commander's tent. He was too lazy to listen and dared not listen. He had already predicted in advance what the old face of Shangshu Yu of the Ministry of Revenue, who was so distressed that he looked like.

The Yan army left and the imperial court successfully recovered Baoding.

When the army entered the city, Xiao Fan rode his horse, walked forward without rushing, half-closing his eyes, and saw no joy of victory at all. This victory without any technical content did not have much sense of accomplishment for him. The only thing he felt relieved was that he did not commit many murders to recover this city. In his heart, life is worthy of respect. Whether it is grass or famous flowers, living is the duty, and the power granted by heaven.

Looking at the gradually gloomy sky, Xiao Fan rode on the horse and pondered for a while, saying, "It is better to chase the remaining brave men..."

Cao Yi was stunned and said, "What did you say?"

Xiao Fan smiled, turned his head and shouted: "Where is the forward officer Ping An?"

A cavalry flashed out of the team entering the city and rushed towards him quickly.

"The last one will be here!"

Xiao Fan said in a deep voice: "Yan Ni retreated this time and would inevitably retreat to Beiping. General Ping'an ordered you to lead 50,000 troops and set out immediately and pursue Yan's rebel army northward. Although there were a large number of people on the other side, they had suffered repeated defeats and their morale was gone, and their physical strength... Well, they must be very weak. If you encounter 50,000 people, you will definitely not suffer any loss. I believe you have experienced this in person. Go quickly! If you annihilate them before they enter Peiping, it will be your first contribution!"

Ping An excitedly licked his dry lips, clasped his fists and shouted: "Yes!"

After receiving the order, Ping An turned his horse's head and shouted out some soldiers to go.

Xiao Fan looked at peace, thought secretly in his heart, and murmured: "The hidden chess that was buried should be used at this time..."

"What kind of dark chess?"

Xiao Fan smiled slightly and said softly: "Duoyan Three Guards!"

Cao Yi laughed and said, "Those guys who have used money for free, are you finally going to use them? If you don't say it, I would have thought you were the one who was the one who was accused of this."

"I didn't use it before, because there was no time. The three guards of Duoyan used to changing their minds. They could only add icing on the cake and never provide timely help. When our war was unfavorable, don't expect him to help us. On the contrary, when we fought smoothly, they cried and shouted that they would come and beat the dogs in the water..."

"Now is the time to beat the dog in the water?"

Xiao Fan nodded and said, "Yes, Zhu Di's defeat has been decided, there is no suspense. Although the three guards of Duoyan are far away from the pass, they must be clear about what happened in the Ming Dynasty. If you don't come quickly to express your loyalty to the emperor, when will you go? Brother Cao, you will send a message to the flying pigeons in the thousand households outside the pass of the Jinyiwei, and order the three guards of Duoyan to enter the pass immediately. Shanhaiguan is still in Zhu Di's hands, so they cannot come in from Shanhaiguan. The cost of casualties is too high. Let them detour Shanxi, cross the Great Wall, enter the pass from Datong Prefecture, and send my handwritten letter to the General of the Guard of Datong and His Highness Dai. If the three guards of Duoyan are not allowed to stop entering the pass, tell Lu Huchaer, and go straight to Zijing Pass after entering the pass, cooperate with Ping'an to give Zhu Di a fierce attack!"

Cao Yi nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "If the three guards of Duoyan are used to suppress the rebellion, will the court really grant Daning to Duoyan in the future?"

Xiao Fan was stunned and said in surprise: "Who said he wanted to grant Daning to them?"

Cao Yi was also stunned: "Didn't you tell Tuoluhuchaer yourself?"

Xiao Fan sneered and said, "What a joke! I will give it to them for free if I give it to such a big place. Am I not a traitor?"

Cao Yi was shocked and said, "Yes...but you and Tuoluhuchaer swore to the heavens..."

"There are so many men who have made vows. How many people have you seen taking their vows seriously?"

Cao Yi only realized today that this handsome appearance was so despicable and shameless soul hidden under his handsome appearance. Xiao Fan's life values ​​shocked him.

"Can you really betray this...? What should I do if Tuoluhuchal doesn't agree?"

Xiao Fan spread his hands very rogue: "Do you have a document? Is there a contract with black and white? Is there a witness? A commoner's family needs three media and six certificates to become a relative. Why should Tuoluhuchaer say that the big place of Daning belongs to him? Isn't this blackmail? The yamen sue him..."

Cao Yi was dumbfounded: "…………”

Xiao Fan patted his shoulder and said earnestly: "Life is a big fool. Whoever believes in it will be unlucky, let me encourage you!"
Chapter completed!