Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 401

Sure enough, it did not meet Zhang Yuan's expectation.

Considering that the Ming army's firecrackers could be fired from between the logs of the barracks, and the coaters could not withstand several rounds of bombardment, and then could not destroy the barracks, Yue Tuo did not order the Qing army to take the risk of launching an attack in the afternoon. Instead, they plan to wait until after dark to dismantle the barracks and gather troops to fight tomorrow.

After nightfall, thousands of Han people, wrapped in clothes and under the protection of the Qing army, flocked to the barracks on both sides of the north gate of the Ming army with axes and big saws, and began to demolish these logs. This is no response.

The Ming army’s barracks buried almost one-third of the field. Due to the lack of iron materials, most of the tools in the hands of the coaters were blunted because they were not repaired in time, and a thick round hole was planed out. Wood will take a long time.

At the beginning, because they were afraid that the Ming army would send troops to stop them, the coaters worked in the dark, which also made the progress of the whole project very slow. It took almost an hour to dig out dozens of logs.

Later, when he saw that there was no movement from the Ming army, Kong Youde simply ordered to light the torches, so that the working coat could be seen to speed up the progress.

The move worked.

With the visibility greatly improved, the progress of the entire demolition operation was accelerated.

Two hours later, all the barracks in the north were cleared away, and the entire defense line of the Ming army was completely exposed to the sight of the Qing army.

After Kong Youde ordered the Qing army and the packers to retreat and rest, he also rushed to Yuetuo's camp to hand over the order.

Just after the second hour, with the sound of horns resounding all over the field, [-] soldiers of the Qing army with red flags inlaid with red flags led by Jia Lazhangjing went out to line up, and in another camp, [-] Han soldiers The soldiers of the Eight Banners also followed Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi's banner out of the camp and set up their formations.

Not long after, [-] Han Chinese Baoyi gathered chaotically from one side to the Ming army camp under the chastisement of more than a hundred Qing soldiers.

A commander of the Han army flag stood in front of the coating team and yelled a few words before turning around and leaving. The coating team began to move forward slowly, aiming at the Ming army camps in two places.

On both sides of the wrapping team, there were a hundred Qing soldiers on horseback holding knives and bows to watch. As long as any of them escaped, they would be mercilessly hacked and killed by these supervising Qing soldiers.

At the forefront of these [-] coats are more than a hundred shield carts, and the carts are pushed by hundreds of selected Han Chinese who have been assimilated by the Eight Banners.

For various reasons, these Han people show a high degree of recognition and sense of belonging to the Eight Banners in their daily life, longing to have the identity of Banner people, and are usually used to control their original compatriots, and treat Han people more than Banner people. worse.

Because Yue Tuo promised these hundreds of people through Kong Youde in advance that as long as they perform outstandingly today, they will raise the flag for them when they return to Shengjing after the war. From then on, they will become a member of the Han Eight Banners and will be honored by the original compatriots Lord Bannerman.

This group of Han scum who got the promise of their master was as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, full of longings for becoming masters in the future, and embarked on a road of no return.

After the dressing team moved forward, the red flags on both sides and the Qing army flags of the Han army began to move slowly, planning to jump up and fight the Ming army at the right time.

The two originally isolated forts on the left and right that had been revealed in front of the Qin army's camp had now turned into fortresses.

Within [-] steps in front of the base of the fort are two low walls with an exit in the middle. Behind each low wall, there are a hundred musketeers sitting on the ground waiting. On a small high platform, there is a tiger squatting cannon on each side, with two gunners.

This arrangement formed three three-dimensional fire strike nets, the upper, middle, and lower, together with the [-] musketeers behind the low walls extending to the camp fences on both sides, and [-] tiger crouching guns placed in front of the low walls, it was enough to make the The Qing army was beaten to death.

In order to support each other with Chen Yong's troops defending the camps to the west, Zhang Yuan also ordered that a large gap be removed in the wooden fence separating the two camps, and a number of landmines were planted in advance on the passage between the camps.

If there are Qing army scouts who want to probe forward from the middle, the result will definitely be the person who was bombed.

On the large fort on the left side, Zhang Yuan was watching the movement of the Qing army on both sides. Two soldiers stood on his right side. One was holding a shield, a long knife hanging from his waist, and a copper trumpet hanging under his neck; One of them held two black and red pennant flags in his hand, a longbow on his back, and a quiver full of three-edged arrows hanging from his waist.

In the middle of the fort, the fully loaded Fran cannon pointed forward obliquely. The copper basin filled with charcoal was burning vigorously. A pair of tongs was placed on the side. The main gunner was visually measuring the distance between the Qing army and the fort. The two loaders watched the main gunner's back nervously, waiting for his order at any time.

After a while, more than [-] shield vehicles in the lead poured into the original camp gate in disorder, but Zhang Yuan didn't give the order to attack, and didn't even look at the group of coats.

After seeing that the Ming army behind the low wall did not stand up and prepare to shoot, someone yelled, and the packers in the front row of carts screamed and suddenly accelerated forward, and the packers who followed behind also rushed forward. Cheering up and shouting, he surged forward.

The Qing army infantry on both sides also accelerated their pace under the order, and rushed towards the low wall.

"Prepare!"

Following Zhang Yuan's order, the gunner quickly reached out and picked up the tongs and plunged into the basin. The cold tongs turned orange-red at a speed visible to the naked eye in the burning brazier.

"put!"

The main gunner pulled out the tongs from the charcoal basin, and pressed it on the fuze at the tail of the Fran's cannon. The rapidly burning fuze was like a fire snake, twisting its body and making a slight chi-chi sound, and suddenly disappeared.

Amidst the loud bang of "Duang", a one-jin-heavy projectile shot out and flew towards the front team of the Qing army on the right along the muzzle that had been adjusted in position.

Immediately afterwards, the Frang cannon on the right turret also roared, and the long-prepared second battle between the Ming and Qing armies officially started.

Bao Yi, who was rushing forward with the shield cart, was startled by the loud noise of the cannon, and his footsteps also involuntarily slowed down, and the clamor of the entire crowd in the rear team was also frightened to a stop.

After discovering that the shells were not falling towards them, dozens of shield vehicles sped up and rushed forward again.

The two projectiles landed in the camp of the Qing army one after another. After hitting two Qing soldiers respectively, they landed and bounced forward several times. They stopped moving only after causing several Qing army casualties.

Immediately afterwards, there was a series of "boom" and "boom" explosions, followed by screams, and the smoke filled the air, and the broken limbs and arms flew into the air with the broken wood of the shield car.

The packers pushing the shield cart in the front row stepped on the landmines planted by Qin Jun about forty steps in front of the low wall.

Before the Qing army on both sides could react, the gunners of the two forts had quickly cleaned up the gunpowder residue in the primer pool and the gun bore.

A loader quickly fills the propellant package and projectiles into the gun bore, and pushes it to the bottom of the gun bore with a wooden ejector rod. The gunner sprinkles the primer in the primer pool and inserts the fuze. The other loader Quickly replaced the blunderbuss of the Frang machine gun, and then sealed the valve tightly. The gunner then lit the fuze with tongs, and the second projectile flew towards the Qing army with a loud noise.

The Qing army dispersed in an orderly manner amidst the continuous loud noise of the Frang machine guns, and they were still moving forward, while the pissed coats who were bombed by the mines stopped.

Although there is a huge temptation to become a bannerman, and there will be slaves to serve him, but if his life is gone, how can he still enjoy the blessing?
The Eight Banners hard-core coaters in the front row began to hesitate. More than a dozen companions who were killed and injured by the bomb were lying beside them, and several shield vehicles that fell to the ground seemed to declare their fate.

Amidst the screams of "whoosh", several hesitant cart coaters fell heavily to the ground and died after being pierced through their heads by flying sharp arrows.

"Keep going! Those who retreat will die! Those who move forward will be rewarded!"

The screams of the Qing army supervising the battle on both sides came.

Looking back, he saw a bunch of strong bows opened dozens of steps away, and the coating in the front row raised the handlebars at the same time, and rushed forward bravely.

　Thanks to book friend Lin Lingsu for the reward in 2018.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)