I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 6 The Battle of Mopan Mountain

The people who had finished their discussions left the big tent and began to work separately.

Zhu Cixuan saw the crowd walking away, called Mu Zhongliang who was standing behind him, and said, "Zhongliang, in the name of protection, you send a few people to keep an eye on Lu Guisheng, the young minister of Guanglu Temple. Without my order, He must not be allowed to leave the camp without authorization, especially before King Jin's ambush of the Tartars begins, understand?"

Mu Zhongliang blinked his eyelids, with a look of astonishment, what does His Highness mean by asking him to send someone to watch Lu Guisheng, the young minister of Guanglu Temple, in the name of protection, and not let him leave the camp? Could it be that there is something wrong with Lu Guisheng? ?
However, he quickly suppressed the doubts in his heart, left the big tent thoughtfully, and arranged for his cronies to carry out the orders of His Royal Highness according to the orders of the crown prince Zhu Cixuan.

After Mu Zhongliang left, Zhu Cixuan breathed out a long breath, and muttered to himself: "Lu Guisheng, this prince sent someone to watch you this time, to see how you can still report to Wu Sangui."

On the morning of February 21, the second day after Li Dingguo crossed the Nu River, Wu Sangui led a brigade to cross the Nu River on rafts and marched to the foot of Mopan Mountain.

Riding on his horse, Wu Sangui looked around, and saw that there were clusters of peaks and dense forests in front of him, and there was only one winding path, and there was no other path to find.

There was not a single soldier of the Ming army on the path, and occasionally birds flew over and uttered a few clear birdsong, breaking the silence in the mountains and forests.

The terrain is so dangerous, military strategists always have to be extra careful when encountering such a situation, and beware of ambushes.But Wu Sangui didn't care about it.

I think that since he dispatched troops from Kunming, he has been chasing and suppressing all the way, first defeating Bai Wenxuan's department, driving him across the Lancang River, and then defeating Li Dingguo's department.Li Dingguo led [-] remnants and fled in a hurry, crossing the angry river to the west.

Now I am leading my troops to weave a raft across the Nu River, and there are rolling hills nearby, and I don't see a single soldier of the Ming army.

Wu Sangui judged that Li Dingguo must have led his troops to flee west, so he no longer had any vigilance.

Although the troops under him were scattered at this time, he didn't take it seriously, so he ordered the army to continue to advance, intending to cross Mopan Mountain and continue to pursue westward.

"My lord, this place is steep and the mountain roads are narrow. There may be an ambush. The general will send people to investigate once or twice before advancing." Wang Fuguo, the commander-in-chief beside him, said worriedly.

Wu Sangui waved his hand indifferently, and said, "Don't worry about Fuguo. We have sent troops for hundreds of miles since Kunming, and we have won consecutive battles. The Ming army has already been terrified and panicked like a bereaved dog. We just need to go to Tengyue and capture Ming Yongli Emperor Zhu You Lang, you're done, the glory and wealth are in front of you, let's enter the army!"

"Yes, my lord." Seeing that Wu Sangui wasn't worried at all, Wang Fuguo suppressed his doubts and sent an order to march in.

The Qing soldiers lined up in a long snake and filed in single file. After passing a certain distance, they began to climb the mountain along the winding mountain path.

Due to the rugged and narrow mountain roads, as time went by, the Qing soldiers became more and more scattered.

About an hour later, all [-] Qing soldiers climbed up Mopan Mountain and entered the narrow mountain path.

At this moment, there was only a cannon sound from the top of the mountain, and immediately after that, countless Ming soldiers with firecrackers and crossbows appeared densely in the bushes on both sides of the mountain road.

"Boom boom boom" for a while, the entire Mopanshan mountain road was filled with the rumbling of cannons, bursts of firecrackers, and arrows falling like rain.

The Qing soldiers on horseback were suddenly hit. Before they could react, they were hit by bullets fired from firecrackers and arrows from bows and crossbows, and they fell off their horses one after another. The Qing soldiers on the entire Mopan Mountain Road were in a mess, scurrying around like headless flies.

Wu Sangui, who was riding on the horse, suddenly turned pale with fright, pulled out the sword at his waist, and roared: "Get off the horse, get off the horse, the artillery fires back quickly, the archers, the archers! Shoot quickly, shoot quickly..."

Although Wu Sangui's voice was loud, it seemed so insignificant and insignificant on the battlefield where the guns were rumbling, the gunpowder was full of smoke, and people were screaming.

On the other hand, the Ming army occupied the favorable terrain on both sides of the mountain road, and fired cannons in an orderly manner. The musketeers lit the matchlock, "Zizizi, bang bang bang" shot bullets from the muzzle, and the crossbowmen shot arrows in their hands. and crossbow bolts.

The Qing soldiers were divided into countless sections on the mountain road of more than ten miles, and each fought separately, avoiding projectiles and arrows shot from all directions.

The Qing soldiers were flanked on both sides. They couldn't care about the front and the back, and couldn't care about the left and the right. They suffered heavy casualties in a very short period of time.

Zhu Cixuan, who was in Olive Slope, heard the rumble of gunfire in the direction of Mopan Mountain, and knew that Li Dingguo's ambush was about to start, so he, Mu Tianbo, Wang Sheng and others led the 5000 troops they selected to rush out of the camp to help Mopan Mountain.

When Zhu Cixuan, Mu Tianbo, Wang Sheng and others rushed to the west mountain pass of Mopan Mountain with their troops, the Ming army commanded by Li Dingguo had already fought hand-to-hand with the Qing soldiers.

Without further ado, Zhu Cixuan immediately ordered Mu Tianbo, Wang Sheng and others to lead their troops into battle.

"Kill!" Mu Tianbo yelled, and the meteor hammer in his hand flew out like lightning, hitting the chest of a Qing soldier, and only heard a muffled sound of "dong", the Qing soldier flew more than a foot in the air, He fell heavily on the mountain road, his sternum collapsed, and he died on the spot.

Five thousand soldiers and horses followed closely behind Mu Tianbo, screaming and killing, pouring into the battlefield from the west mountain pass like quicksilver, drowning the Qing soldiers blocking the front.

From time to time, Zhu Cixuan raised the rifle in his hand and shot and killed the brave Qing soldiers on the way.

Mu Zhongliang held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other to protect Zhu Cixuan's side.A group of people advanced layer by layer along the mountain road from west to east, killing the Qing soldiers on the road one by one.

After turning a corner, Zhu Cixuan saw a mountain depression in front of him. Mu Tianbo led hundreds of Ming troops to attack a group of Qing soldiers.

These Qing soldiers were extremely brave. Under the command of two Qing army generals, they formed a circle and fought back wave after wave of Ming army attacks. The ground was strewn with corpses of soldiers from both sides.

Zhu Cixuan filled the magazine with bullets, and said to Mu Zhongliang beside him, "Let our people get out of the way."

"Okay." Mu Zhongliang agreed, and shouted loudly: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, the crown prince is coming."

When the Ming soldiers surrounding the Qing soldiers heard Mu Zhongliang's shout, they retreated one after another, and the Qing soldiers surrounded by them immediately showed their figures.

Zhu Cixuan raised the Mauser rifle in his hand, and nearly [-] guards of the Eastern Palace followed suit, pointing their guns at the surrounding Qing soldiers.

At this time, Mu Tianbo ran over, sweating profusely, pointed at a general in the Qing army, gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness, that person is the traitor Wu Sangui."

Wu Sangui?Zhu Cixuan didn't expect to meet Wu Sangui so soon, since he met, there is nothing to say, let's kill him first, he can be regarded as a big boss no matter what.

"Bang" Zhu Cixuan aimed at Wu Sangui who was in the crowd and fired first. At the sound of the gunshot, Wu Sangui was shot in the forehead and fell down in response. The Qing army was in chaos.

Then "bang bang bang" sounded like popping beans, and a dozen of the surrounded Qing soldiers were shot and fell to the ground in an instant. Even if they held their shields in their hands, they couldn't stop the 98mm pointed bullets fired by the Mauser 7.62K rifle.

"Kacha" Zhu Cixuan pulled the bolt to eject the cartridge case, reloaded a bullet, and continued to raise the gun to shoot.

Repeatedly and repeatedly, until nearly [-] gunmen finished all the five rounds in the magazine, dozens of Qing soldiers in the encirclement had fallen, and the rest of them all showed fear and morale. none.

While pressing bullets into the magazine, Zhu Cixuan shouted loudly: "Come on, kill them all, leave no one behind."

Hundreds of Ming soldiers raised their swords and guns at the same time, and attacked the Qing soldiers in the encirclement from all sides. After a short while, the remaining dozens of Qing soldiers were overwhelmed and annihilated by the loud Ming army.

When Zhu Cixuan came to Wu Sangui's body, he saw Wu Sangui's face was full of astonishment, as if he still didn't believe that he, who was brave and good at fighting, died in Mopan Mountain like this.

Mu Tianbo picked up a scimitar on the ground, cut off Wu Sangui's head with a "poof", then reached out and grabbed Wu Sangui's hair, holding the bloody head, with tears in his eyes, he laughed loudly: "Wu Sangui!" , you also have today, hahaha..."

Zhu Cixuan raised the Mauser 98K rifle in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Wu Sangui, the traitor, congratulates you. The soldiers will continue to kill the enemy with me."

"Kill the enemy, kill the enemy..." The soldiers of the Ming army shouted in unison.

Afterwards, Zhu Cixuan, Mu Tianbo and others led the Ming army whose morale was greatly shaken and continued to kill eastward along the mountain road.

On the way, when encountering Qing soldiers gathered together, Zhu Cixuan commanded thirty gunmen, and fired a volley to disrupt the formation of the Qing soldiers, and then let Mu Tianbo, Wang Sheng, Wang Qilong, Chen Qian and others command the Ming army Go up to surround and kill.

In this way, according to this tactic, I did not know how many Qing soldiers who resisted stubbornly were eliminated along the way. It was not until the eyes suddenly became clear that they knew that they had killed Mopan Mountain from west to east.

At this time, Zhu Cixuan felt the burning pain in his right shoulder. Zhu Cixuan knew that it was caused by his continuous shooting, and the butt of the gun hit his shoulder again and again under the action of the recoil. After all, he was only 12 years old. Years old, still too young.

Although he doesn't know if it's because of his rebirth, his physical fitness has gradually improved these days, and his strength is slowly increasing day by day, but it is still far behind the level of his previous life, which also makes him unable to resist shooting well The recoil force generated when.

Hearing the shouts of killing gradually falling down from Mopan Mountain behind him, Zhu Cixuan knew that the Ming army would win this time, history would also be changed because of this battle, and the precarious Ming Dynasty also ushered in a glimmer of life.

(End of this chapter)