Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 617 Together: Chain Counting

"What? The fun has just begun?"

Now it was Hou Fangyu's turn to be dumbfounded.

Over there, Hong Chengchou was already issuing military orders.

Let the Han army of the Eight Banners immediately evacuate from the second layer of the blunderbuss platform, which is not covered, and enter the outer trenches on the north and south sides of the blunderbuss platform and the east of the blunderbuss platform to stand by.

In this way, the red cannons of the Ming army could no longer hit the Eight Banners Han army hiding under the horizon.

At this time, Hou Fangyu also reacted: "Hong Butang, do you think our Qing soldiers still have a chance?"

"Of course there is a chance." Hong Chengchou said, "Yan Yingyuan's play of playing hard to get was really beautiful, and everyone in the headquarters was applauded by him, but he also made a fatal mistake."

"Hong Butang is saying that Yan Yingyuan has too many verticals?" Hou Fangyu asked.

"Yes, he has played too much." Hong Chengchou said, "If Yan Yingyuan only gave us the first blunderbuss platform, and then placed the red cannon on the second blunderbuss platform, we might not do very well for him. Method."

"It's not easy to capture the triple gun platform on the east bank of the canal at least once."

"But now Yan Yingyuan has directly surrendered the double gun platform, and he is looking for a dead end."

Having said this, he paused, and then said: "Don't we Qing soldiers have red cannons? As long as our Qing soldiers' red cannons can overwhelm the Ming army's red cannons, we can easily destroy the Ming army's third layer of cannons." At that time, the Ming army’s triple gun platforms on the east bank of the canal will all fall, so that our Qing soldiers will be able to confront the Ming army across the canal.”

The confrontation between the two armies across the river meant that the Ming army's grain road had been cut off by the Qing army.

"Should we use red-clothed cannons to fight?" Hou Fangyu's eyes showed a look of excitement, "More cannons than anyone else?"

"Yes, there are more cannons than anyone else." Hong Chengchou said fiercely, "If I read correctly just now, the number of red cannons in the Ming army should be around one hundred, but our Qing army has five hundred. Red-clothed cannons! Five against one, with red-clothed cannons at close range, how can our Qing soldiers be invincible?"

"There is a problem." Hou Fangyu frowned, "The Ming army planed out the first and second blunderbuss towers facing the west and the slope protection in advance. , because there is a wall and slope protection to the east of the second blunderbuss platform in the middle, there is no way to hit the Ming army."

"That's why the Ming army can only be defeated by placing the cannon on the second blunderbuss platform."

"Then a new question arises, how to place the red-clothed cannon on the second-heaviest gun platform?"

Having said this, he paused, and then said: "After all, the entire platform of the second blunderbuss platform is exposed under the muzzle of the red cannon of the Ming army, and there is no shelter in the middle. It was blasted to pieces."

"Who said we must pull the red cannon to the second stage? Wouldn't that be courting death?"

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Our Qing soldiers don't even need to put the red cannons on the first heavy blunderbuss platform, but only need to put the red cannons outside the slope protection of the first heavy blunderbuss platform, and then let Lian Yong plan If we drop the retaining walls and slopes on the east side of the double blunderbuss platform, wouldn’t the shooting range of the red cannon be cleared? Wouldn’t it be possible to hit the third blunderbuss platform?”

"Huh?" Hou Fangyu's eyes lit up, which was unexpected.

Hong Chengchou immediately issued an order, and Lian Yong was immediately transferred to the soil work.

……

Seeing that the situation had reached a stalemate, Xie Yuancai became anxious again.

"Brother Boheng, Jianu hid in the ditch of the second blunderbuss platform. Our field artillery and mountain artillery can no longer hit them. Only the infantry can still hit them, but the lethality is also very limited. How can this be? Is that good?" Xie Yuancai said, "Should we organize a counterattack and drive Jiannu out of the ditch of the second gun platform?"

"Hey, what kind of counterattack is organized?" Yan Yingyuan said, "Doesn't that become our offensive again?"

"Then what should we do, should we just wait like this?" Xie Yuancai said, "What if Jiannu also brought the cannon in red?"

Yan Yingyuan smiled and said, "Brother Xingdou, you've said that, my little brother is waiting for Jiannu to pull up their red-clothed cannon, hehe."

"Huh?" Xie Yuan was stunned when he heard this.

Could it be that this turned out to be a trap?
……

Taking advantage of the confrontation between the two armies, the green battalion soldiers quietly dragged the red cannon up.

After dragging it to the slope protection of the first heavy gun platform, the green battalion soldiers nailed the iron rods into the ground one after another to fix the gun mount.

While the Green Camp was fixing the gun mounts, Lian Yong was also excavating the slopes and walls of the first and second gun mounts.

During the ping-pong-pong shooting of the two armies, the time soon came to Zichu, and the battle had lasted for two hours.

Except that the Qing army suffered more than 2000 casualties at the beginning of the attack, there were not many casualties in the subsequent battles, because there was a full 150 steps between the two blunderbuss platforms, which was beyond the effective range of the Ming army's flintlock guns. It was night again, so the hit rate was even more uncertain. Whether you could hit after shooting could only be a matter of fate.

However, Lian Yong had already dug up the slope protection and the retaining wall of the double gun platform.

The Green Battalion has also loaded a total of two hundred red cannons.

Hong Chengchou finally decided to invest only two hundred red cannons.

One is because of the limited width of the battlefield, and the second is because of caution.

Hong Da hurriedly climbed onto the command nest car, and reported with one hand on the ground: "Master, the two hundred red cannons have all been pulled outside the first heavy gun platform on the east bank, the first heavy gun platform and the second heavy gun platform The parapet wall and slope on the east side were also basically dug out, leaving only a thin layer of parapet wall on the east side of the second blunderbuss platform.”

Of course, this thin layer of protective wall was reserved to block the sight of the Ming army.

With this thin layer of protective walls, the Ming army could not see the red cannons of the Qing soldiers.

"Yes." Hong Chengchou nodded and asked again, "Is the red cannon equipped with a hundred bullets?"

"Returning to the master, the solid iron bullet and the hundred bullets are ready." Hong Dagong said.

"Okay, very good!" Hong Chengchou immediately shouted, "pass on the order, and the green battalion will immediately start shelling the Ming army. Pay attention, after the parapet of the third heavy gun platform is bombarded, the solid iron bullets will be changed to hundreds of bullets, so as to kill the Ming army in large numbers. Army, when the Ming army is gone, the Eight Banners Han army will take advantage of the situation to launch an attack and seize the gun platform on the east bank in one fell swoop!"

"Hey!" Hong Da promised with a bang, and ordered his servant to turn on the signal light.

The servants guarding the nest car hurriedly hung up the three-color signal lights.

At the same time that the servant hung up the three-color signal lantern, Hong Da also rushed out of the nest car.

The three-color signal lights can only convey simple orders, such as asking the green battalion to launch shelling.

But more complicated military orders, such as changing the solid iron bullets to be loaded with hundreds of bullets after destroying the protective wall of the Ming army's gun platform, or letting the Eight Banners Han army take advantage of the situation to attack after the Ming army was exhausted, required dictation.

……

Yan Yingyuan has been asking Guo Zisheng to monitor his surroundings through a telescope.

Because Jiannu's communication system cannot be as efficient as that of the Ming army, especially at night, most of them can only communicate through signal lights in the simplest way.

The eight Guozi students held a binoculars to monitor a direction respectively.

At a certain moment, a Guozijian suddenly called out: "Yan Gejian, there is a signal light in the northwest direction!"

Yan Yingyuan hurriedly raised the binoculars and pointed his field of view to the northwest. Soon, three colored signal lights appeared in the field of view of the binoculars: The green battalion is about to fire!
The secret investigation department has long since found out the meaning of the various arrangements of Jiannu's signal lights.

So Yan Yingyuan saw at a glance that the signal light was ordering the green battalion to fire.

"Order!" Yan Yingyuan immediately issued an order, "All artillery battalions immediately drag all field artillery and mountain artillery away from the blunderbuss platform, and all infantry battalions immediately enter the trenches on both sides of the blunderbuss platform to stand by!"

More than a dozen sons and daughters of the state rushed to scatter to pass on Yan Yingyuan's military orders.

Immediately afterwards, the artillery and infantry of the Ming army on the third blunderbuss platform moved.

The artillery was busy pulling out the fixed iron rods, while the infantry quickly entered the trench to hide.

However, before the artillerymen could fully pull out the iron rods, and before all the infantry entered the trench, there was a sudden booming cannon sound outside the first heavy gun platform on the opposite side.

Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled sound of swelling on the parapet of the third blunderbuss platform.

Hearing this sound, one knew it was the sound of a solid iron bullet hitting the parapet.

Fortunately, the gaps between the battlements of the parapets are very narrow, and it is difficult for shells to enter through the gaps, so the field artillery and mountain artillery that were too late to evacuate did not suffer losses.

"It's broken!" Xie Yuancai's face suddenly changed.

"Gou Jiannu really planed out the protective wall and slope protection of the two gun platforms in front!"

However, Yan Yingyuan was not surprised but happy, and said with a smirk: "Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou, if there is a way to heaven, you don't go, but if there is no way to hell, you just barge in. Then don't blame me, Yan, for being rude."

After a pause, Yan Yingyuan shouted again: "Pass on my general's order to detonate the Tianzi minefield!"

More than a dozen Guozi students behind Yan Yingyuan shouted at the same time: "Yan has an order to remonstrate, detonate the Tianzi minefield!"

A dozen Guozisheng who received the order lit the fuse at the same time, and the burning fuse quickly retracted into the ground, and quickly extended forward through the previously buried pipeline.

Yan Yingyuan prepared [-] improved landmines for the Tianzi landmine formation for Jiannu!
In order to ensure the detonation of the Tianzi minefield, Yan Yingyuan prepared more than a dozen sets of fuses.

As long as one set of fuses successfully burns to the target location, the minefield can be detonated.

After about five or six minutes, a large amount of dazzling red light suddenly bloomed on the artillery position of Jiannu in front, and then the cannons in red were overturned to the ground.

The green battalion soldiers guarding the cannons in red clothes were also blown up and down, bloody and bloody.

There were even gunpowder barrels stacked next to the red cannon were detonated, resulting in a martyrdom explosion.

The strong light emitted when the gunpowder exploded, and the red light after the serial minefields were detonated complement each other, almost lighting up the entire night sky red, and then the huge explosion spread violently.

Yan Yingyuan, Xie Yuancai, and Guo Zisheng behind them all became deaf in an instant.

The whole world became dead silent, and no sound could be heard anymore.

Yan Yingyuan smiled smugly, Jiannu's red cannon was finished.

[There should be another chapter in the downlink]

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