Daming kill

Chapter 128 The Enemy
At first, the cannons from Fancheng were fired one by one at long intervals, but they soon became dense, and the fool knew that this was not a test firing.

At this time, most of the soldiers who were sitting and resting on the sheepskin beach stood up and looked east, their already relaxed expressions became tense again.

Some people took out bamboo tubes to drink water, some people asked for leave to leave their battle positions and went to pee in the woods, and some people took out the little dried meat on their bodies and began to chew slowly...

Li Ping saw all kinds of small movements of his subordinates very clearly from the only high place like a small bumpkin.

His headquarters is located on this small soil bag, which is the place with the best view around, and he can roughly see the entire defense line.

Li Ping was not surprised by the current performance of his subordinates.

He did not order to restrain.

Proper release of pressure is not a bad thing before the enemy army arrives.

His unit was so new and had never seen a major war that the demands would only add to the stress in the men's minds, making them more nervous and potentially making real mistakes.

The sound of gunfire in the direction of Fancheng has not stopped, but it has become tighter and looser as time goes by, and there is still no trace of the enemy on the other side of Yangpitan.

Because Li Ping didn't sleep well last night, he quickly sat on the ground and became dazed.

When he woke up, he looked at the sun. Si time (9:11-[-]:[-]) might have passed, but there was still no sign of the enemy on the other side.

Li Ping turned his head and looked around.

Ma Yong, Duan Qiang, and Hu Zhongshan were sitting in a pile, chatting without saying a word, and they were holding up a big red flag without any pattern (Li Ping's camp) The big stupid Liu Qiang with the flag sign) went somewhere to be lazy, and the military flag had already given way to a soldier of the flag support team.

The troops deployed on the unobstructed beach have long since stood stupidly, most of them are sitting or lying on the ground, only a few officers are strolling along the river.

Smoke and fire are also rising in the woodland behind the soil bag. The cooks are preparing lunch. It seems that no one has taken the sound of the artillery in the distance seriously.

When Li Ping was going to ask Ma Yong to find out if there was any report from the cavalry scouts who were constantly patrolling the upper and lower reaches, a staff officer suddenly rushed to Ma Yong's side and whispered a few words.

Then, Li Ping saw Ma Yong standing up abruptly, and rushed to his side in the astonishment of Duan Qiang and Hu Zhongshan.

"The thief army was found on the opposite side!"

Ma Yong's voice was not sure whether it was because of nervousness or excitement, but it was trembling anyway.

Li Ping also stood up immediately.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously, and looked in the direction pointed by the staff officer, still wondering why he didn't see it just now.

In the haze, he finally saw a large number of looming shadows on the edge of a forest far away on the opposite bank.At this time, the people on the entire soil soon stood up and stretched their necks to look.

Slowly, I saw that the shadows in the distance became clearer, more numerous, and denser, accompanied by billowing smoke and dust, and a large number of people and horses were coming towards the sheepskin beach.

"Blow the combat readiness number." Li Ping ordered without hesitation.

"Immediately issue an order and blow the combat readiness number!" Ma Yong immediately issued an order to a signal soldier.

Due to the needs of combat, the number of bugles in Li Ping's army has increased to more than 20.

Of course, only the trumpeters will be able to master the additional horn sounds in the later period, because it is impossible for officers and soldiers who are not professional horn officers to have the time or energy to master dozens or even hundreds of horn sounds, let alone have So many musical cells to distinguish clearly.

This also makes the buglemen more professional and important, which means a bit of a report soldier who will master the code in later generations.

Soon, a resounding "beep, beep, beep..." bugle sounded, which was the sound of ten bugles of the divisional bugle team directly under the staff office.

Under the sound of the trumpet, the entire position on the shoal "hula" moved nervously, and many lying soldiers jumped up almost instinctively, and the officers' passwords were heard everywhere.

Many officers kept turning their heads to look at the opposite bank while giving orders, but due to the problem of sight, many of them on the flat ground still did not see the enemy.

The big, stupid Liu Qiang reappeared out of nowhere, snatched the flag from the flag supporter, and stood behind Li Ping like a god.

The first to arrive at the north bank was a group of enemy cavalry. There were dozens of them. Because of the distance, it could be seen that some of them seemed to be wearing cotton armor, but more people seemed to be wearing only civilian clothes.

Those cavalry kept looking towards the south bank, and ran back and forth along the shoal several times.

Several riders also stepped into the river at different places, but they all retreated after not going far in the shallow water.Then, several cavalrymen began to rush back towards the large crowd.

Soon, more cavalry arrived, but most of them gathered in disorderly groups and looked towards this side.

Among the largest group of cavalry who never got close to the river, many of them wore shiny metal armor with tall red tassels on their helmets, showing their rank.

But oddly, they don't have flags, which makes it hard to tell what rank they are.

After a long time, a large crowd finally came, and the enemy infantry finally arrived.

Although these infantry filled the riverside on the opposite bank in a chaotic manner, there were still no complicated flags, just a large number of colored flags and small flags.

At this time, about dozens of people left the crowd and walked into the river suddenly in a line. They did not carry weapons or wear armor, and they were all only wearing thin civilian clothes.

"Light the match."

Someone in the shallows on Li Ping's side gave orders.

Soon, several people held torches and ignited the matchlocks in the hands of the soldiers behind the low wooden walls.

The bird gun is a matchlock gun. Soldiers need to rely on the matchlock to ignite the gunpowder in the gun for firing. The matchlock is a long string specially treated, which can burn slowly like a mosquito coil.

"Tell the soldiers, it is strictly forbidden to fire without an order to fire! Repeat it again." Li Ping turned to Ma Yong and ordered, and soon several signal soldiers ran down to deliver the order.

In the sight of everyone on both sides of the strait, the dozens of enemy soldiers who entered the water were slowly staggering forward in the river. They were generally tall, and the deepest river did not reach their chests.

About halfway through the river, they trembled and began to return quickly.

Although this is a typical reconnaissance, many people still fell to the ground the moment they returned to the shore.

Although they were not under any attack, Li Ping's troops just watched them quietly.

The water is too cold, it should be beyond their imagination.

At this time, the sound of the guns in the direction of Fancheng seemed to have stopped, and there was no sound for a while.

Li Ping looked in the direction of Fancheng suspiciously, then looked at the enemy on the other side, and then immediately ordered: "Chief of Staff, you can go down, the enemy is about to attack, remember: less than one foot six feet (about 52 meters) , do not fire."

"Yes, I understand." Ma Yong answered in a deep voice, and immediately strode down the high ground.

After Ma Yonggang left for a while, the peasant army on the north bank of Yangpitan suddenly shouted violently.Then all the Peasant Army seemed to shout.

Amidst the loud noise, some complicated flags began to emerge from the crowd, especially five oversized pennant flags of red, yellow, green, white, and black appeared among a group of cavalrymen.

Li Ping knew that it was a big flag, and only the commander of one side would use it.

Most of the peasant army inherited the Ming army in command, and this kind of banner will not be used indiscriminately.

As expected, a large colorful square handsome flag also appeared very quickly, and then a large number of riders holding what should be small blue triangular flags appeared around these large flags.

But because it is a bit far away, the format of these small flags cannot be accurately determined.

But the big flag and the handsome flag are still very easy to identify.

Li Ping was startled, this meant that the opponent was either Li Zicheng or Luo Rucai, and only the two of them dared to use such a flag.Anyway, on the side of the Ming army, Li Ping knew that only Zuo Liangyu dared to use it, and had the power to use it.

While these flags were being erected, the peasant army at the front kept crowding to the left and right to make way for many gaps, and then a large number of bamboo rafts, wooden rafts and sheepskin rafts were rushed towards the crowd through the gaps. In the river.

"This sudden play is really good! I haven't shown up for so long, so I went to do this. Could it be Luo Rucai? I heard that he is the best at making surprise attacks!" Li Ping said to himself.

As the bamboo rafts, wooden rafts and sheepskin rafts were pushed into the river, countless peasant armies began to rush forward, fully demonstrating their high morale and determination.

The river was soon filled with the yelling and screaming of the enemy soldiers, and then densely packed vehicles carrying the enemy soldiers rushed towards the south bank of Yangpitan.

There is no official army fleet in the Han River, and the peasant army should have figured it out.

These vehicles crossing the river are obviously newly made, and they are various, generally small, and some of them even fell apart as soon as they entered the water.

Although the water flow in the shallow water area is very slow, most of the vehicles began to collide with each other as soon as people got on it, and some even just turned around in place and did not move forward. There was shouting and confusion everywhere.

There was a lot of momentum, but after half a day's work, there were not many people who started to effectively row to the Ming army's side, and it was better to walk. The characteristics of soldiers in the Northwest and Central Plains who are not good at water and "land ducks" were fully revealed.

"Crossing the river requires practice! Things that seem simple are often not simple." Li Ping silently despised in his heart.

Then he suddenly remembered something, and immediately called a staff officer to explain: "Let the reconnaissance company send a small number of cavalry along the downstream to guard against the enemy soldiers who rushed downstream from harassing our troops after crossing the river. At the same time, put this Immediately send someone to report the situation to Lieutenant General Hui and other friendly forces downstream, so that they are also prepared."

After seeing Li Ping's order, Duan Qiang, who had been silent by the side, interrupted and asked, "Sir, why do we have to fight here? Since the enemy can make bamboo rafts, where can we cross the river?"

Hearing this, Li Ping glanced sideways at Duan Qiang, he was a little speechless.

But after thinking about it, he explained briefly: "When the army crosses the river, there is no bridge, and only relying on those bamboo rafts, how many troops can be delivered at one time? When the whole army arrives, even if there is no enemy's sniping or harassment, I don't know." The year of the monkey will be the year of the monkey. And because there are few people who cross the river first, once they are found, it is basically equivalent to giving away their heads. With such a shoal, a large group of infantry can directly ford across the water quickly, and then the cavalry and luggage can easily come over safely. "

After finishing speaking, Li Ping stopped talking and just looked at the river below. This was the first time he had seen such a scene, and he needed to learn and observe too much.

But after waiting for a while, the already much sparser enemy troops gradually approached them, and the frontmost one was a small sheepskin raft.

There were six enemy soldiers crowded on this sheepskin raft, two of them each held a small wooden shield, and the rest only held spears, and none of them had armor. They relied on a few simple wooden oars to keep their heads buried. row.

On this sheepskin raft was a little leader wearing a turban. He was holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. His eyes were always staring at the defense line of the officers and soldiers ahead. His raft was less than [-] meters away from the shore.

The little leader could clearly hear his own heartbeat now, he was very nervous, he felt that the whole world was filled with the heavy breathing of the brothers around him except for the sound of splashing water.

The little leader had already realized that his raft was at the front, and the excitement he had had had long since disappeared, and the long paddling had calmed him down a lot.

In order to relieve the pressure, he turned his head and looked back, just in time to see a brother holding a bow on another sheepskin raft not far from him, kneeling and drawing the bow.

His eyes naturally followed the arrow that was thrown into the sky and returned to the officer's side again.

But unfortunately, the arrow didn't hit anything, it just landed on a clearing, where it was inserted obliquely.

(End of this chapter)