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Chapter 25 Bombardment of the Golden Army Camp
"Wonderful, seconds."

Mang Ergutai couldn't help nodding his head frequently after listening to Li Sutai's detailed plan for digging tunnels.

According to Li Soltai's plan, during the day the golden soldiers attacked the city as usual to put pressure on the opponent, and then used two to three nights to dig tunnels in the middle of the night, digging all the way to the bottom of Wanghai Fort, waiting for an opportunity to break into the interior of Wanghai Fort.

"The subordinate will take people to dig the tunnel tonight." Li Sutai said.

As night fell, most of the Jin soldiers stationed outside Wanghai Fort fell asleep peacefully, leaving only two Niulu soldiers patrolling.Mang Ergutai believed that although the artillery of the Ming army was powerful, they were all deployed on the city. If the Ming army left Wanghai Fort, they would definitely not be the opponents of the Eight Banners cavalry. The strength of the two Niulu was more than enough.

In addition to the two patrolling soldiers from Niulu, Li Sutai led hundreds of soldiers out of the camp quietly carrying shovels and shovels, and began to dig tunnels secretly under the eyes of the Ming army.

This night will not be an ordinary night.The cold winter night is very quiet, only the crackling sound of torches splashing, and the trivial sound of patrol soldiers stepping on the snow and dead branches.

Suddenly, the sound of howling artillery broke the tranquility of the night.

boom!boom!boom!
A loud noise shook the sky, and all the sleeping Jin soldiers were awakened by the sound of artillery!

The awakened Jin Bing hurriedly grabbed the weapons at his feet, and rushed out of the military tent like flies.Mang Ergutai also strode out from the main army tent.

"Why did the Ming army in Wanghaibao start firing again? Don't they know that it is impossible to hit us from such a long distance?" Mang Ergutai looked in the direction of Wanghaibao, puzzled.

"Lord Baylor, the shelling doesn't sound like Ming army artillery coming from the top of the city, but from our rear." A patrolling Eight Banners Niulu Ezhen reported to Mang Ergutai.

"You said there is a Ming army behind us?" Mang Ergutai thought carefully, "Is this possible?"

boom!Before Mang Ergutai had time to react, the second round of shelling began, a pitch-black iron ball fell from the sky, happened to land next to the main army tent, and then exploded...

"Protect Lord Baylor!" The soldiers of the Eight Banners rushed to rescue Mang Ergutai when they saw that Mang Ergutai had fallen in the shell explosion.

No one knew what happened to Mang Ergutai, the camp of golden soldiers in the dark was in chaos.The Eight Banners soldiers reluctantly gathered together under Niu Luerzhen's yelling.However, the recruited Han soldiers were completely out of control. Some Han soldiers fled in all directions, and some Han soldiers blindly hacked and killed the surrounding friendly troops.

"Musketeers, go forward!"

In the darkness, a neat row of musketeers under the command of the officer launched an attack on the out-of-control Jinbing camp.Unlike an arquebus that needs to be fired, the French musket is a viper lurking in the dark.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A swarm of bullets swept across in the darkness, shooting through dozens of golden soldiers.

"The Ming army is coming, everyone, run away!" The Jin soldiers who were attacked by the musketeers became even more flustered, unable to tell how many people there were in the Ming army.

When the Jinbing camp was in chaos due to the surprise attack of the Ming army, Li Sutai and others who started digging tunnels looked bewildered.

"Did the army mutiny?" Li Sutai looked at the noisy camp of Jin soldiers.He who was in charge of digging the tunnel didn't notice that there was a Ming army coming out of Wanghai Fort. It shouldn't be because of a surprise attack by the Ming army, right?
"Let's go back and set up our defenses quickly. If the Ming army in the city finds out about our camp, they will definitely come out of the city to attack." Li Sutai was in no mood to continue digging tunnels, but hurriedly retreated to the camp with his men.

Inside Wanghai Fort, holding torches high, Chu Yun gathered all the main forces that could be gathered.As soon as the first cannon shot outside the city, Chu Yun received a signal from outside the city.

"My lord, the newly established Fourth Infantry Battalion on Guanglu Island has arrived, and we can attack the golden soldiers from both inside and outside!" Mrs. Yang held a rifle in her hand, unable to suppress her excitement.

"Everyone, our reinforcements have arrived outside the city, it's time to counterattack! When the Jin soldiers are driven away, this Golden State will be the Golden State of our common people! Let's kill them!"

The gate of Wanghai Fort opened suddenly, and teams of musketeers rushed out from the gate!At the front of the line are musketeers on horses!They will attack the Jinbing camp as quickly as possible, forming a pincer attack with the Fourth Infantry Battalion outside the city.

"The Ming army in the city is also coming, let's run for our lives!" The Han army attached to the Eight Banners saw that the situation was not good, and ran away.

Chu Yun led more than a thousand soldiers to fight out. He didn't dare to win at the moment.Although I was caught by surprise, I was facing three times as many golden soldiers as myself, and there were quite a few of the most elite Eight Banners cavalry in this group of golden soldiers. It would be bad if the boat capsized in the gutter.

However, things developed more smoothly than Chu Yun imagined.As soon as the musketeers launched their first round of impact, the golden soldiers on the opposite side were defeated in one blow.No one commanded a large-scale counterattack, and at most only a hundred or so golden soldiers gathered together.Moreover, the elite Eight Banners cavalry seemed to lose their fighting spirit and began to retreat to the north, not wanting to fight.

"Where's Lord Baylor? Where's the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners?!" Li Shutai, who was still holding a shovel in his hand, returned to the barracks, and the Ming army who was looking at Haibao came to kill him.

The deceived Li Sutai found that Sanbeile Manggutai was gone, and the Eight Banners cavalry of the Zhenglan Banner seemed to have begun to retreat, and there was no one in the thousands of Jin Army camp to direct the counterattack.

"Disarm and don't kill!"

The burning torches in the Jinbing camp clearly showed the appearance of the Ming army who attacked the Jinbing camp in the middle of the night.The leading officer of the Ming army was blond and blue-eyed, with a handsome command knife tucked around his waist, and said to the Jin army in awkward Chinese, "Disarm and don't kill."

Chadley, the head of the French Ordnance Bureau summoned by Chu Yun a long time ago, is temporarily serving as the captain of the newly established Fourth Infantry Battalion.

"Ming army lords, we surrender, don't kill us!" After the Eight Banners cavalry in the Jinbing camp fled away, the Han soldiers who remained in the camp gave up resistance and surrendered to Chu Yun and the others.

"The situation is over, let's go!" Li Sutai couldn't find Mang'er Gutai, only when Mang'er Gutai saw the bad situation and fled, so he took some cronies to take advantage of the chaos and fled.

When a ray of sunlight pierced the night in the early morning, the Jinbing camp was completely controlled by Chu Yun.Hundreds of Jin soldiers were killed and injured in this battle, and the number of captured soldiers was exaggerated. There were nearly 2000 soldiers, which may be more than Chu Yun's army.

"Boss, we have gained a lot from this battle. Two thousand captives may build another Liao camp!" Yang Tai cheerfully said to Chu Yun.

"That's right, thanks to Mang Ergutai who sent us a steam engine." Compared with the captives, Chu Yun cared more about the civilization points he gained. The civilization points gained from this military operation can already be used to develop steam engine technology.

"What chicken? Steam chicken? Is it delicious?" Mrs. Yang asked puzzled.

"That's a good thing, and you'll know about it later. Let's go, since the Eight Banners cavalry has retreated, let's go to take Jinzhou!"

Chu Yun rectified his army and marched towards Jinzhou with more than 1000 Musketeers and [-] captives.

(End of this chapter)