Villager of Daming

Chapter 326 The Plot of Deadhead Mountain (Second Change)
The moon was round on April [-]th, and the soldiers who had just crossed the desert quickly ran towards a small river ahead under the guidance of the scouts.

The call signs sounded, the torches were lit one by one, and the soldiers waved their military shovels and began to set up camp.

The army with flintlocks crossed the river, and another group of cavalry went away, looking for possible traces of the enemy.

When the moon rose to the middle, the fusiliers in charge of the guard ran back and relied on the small river for defense.

Xu Da and Lan Yu sat in the tent to discuss the military situation, they had slept for two hours before.

"Tang He and those 1 people don't know where they are at this time." Sapphire mentioned another general, Tang He.

Tang He also belonged to the Central Route Army, sent out 5000 people, all cavalry, and Zhang Cundao, the commander of Chuzhou, went to fight Yanghe County.

As long as Yang He is defeated, there will be no danger behind Xu Da. The cavalry is fast and highly mobile.

"I have told them that the enemy should not risk their lives according to the rules." Xu Da didn't know Tanghe's side either, so he ran to Lingbei.

"It's good to preserve your strength. If you don't succeed this year, there will be next year." Sapphire is very concerned about his vitality now, and he doesn't have to fight if he can't fight.

"There is Wang Baobao's army in front, but when he came out, His Majesty told him that Wang Baobao's subordinate He Zongzhe was also there, so be careful not to be ambushed by him."

When Xu Da talked about the battle in front of him, his combat strategy was to walk slowly and never advance rashly, even if the enemy dispatched troops to help him, he would not care.

In history, when Tang He and Zhang Cundao arrived in Yanghe, they were stopped by the army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty by using the terrain. This place is called Duantou Mountain.

A continuous mountain range, suddenly interrupted, is called Broken Head Mountain.

And there are a total of eighteen Duantoushan Mountains here, all of which are stones, and there is only one road up the mountain.

According to historical time, both Tang He and Zhang Cundao did not arrive in Yanghe until July. Now they set off early and rushed all the way, chasing the Northern Yuan army ahead.

On the same full moon night, five thousand cavalry set up camp, and Tang He held a meeting with Zhang Cundao.

"General Tang, they ran too fast, as if they deliberately led us here." Zhang Cundao sensed that something was wrong.

"At dawn tomorrow, we will be able to reach Broken Head Mountain. Bei Yuan will definitely rely on the steepness of the mountain to stop us, but we don't know how many people will be hidden on the mountain."

Tang He opened a can, saved half of it in chapters, and figured out how to make it.

The order he got was not to attack by force, and it was not worthwhile to fight Bei Yuan desperately.

"It's really impossible to fight around, it's just a long way." Zhang Cundao didn't want the cavalry to have problems.

"Go around, you can't just go around now, you have to see the situation of Duantou Mountain." Tang He shook his head and didn't intend to leave immediately.

Now the position he took is not short of grass for the horses to eat, and the food brought by the army is also enough, all of which are meat floss, which makes him very hungry.

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The moon was slowly setting and the sun was rising. Five thousand cavalry, one man and two horses, stepped on the dew and came not far from Broken Head Mountain.

"It's hidden, our scouts saw them first. Hehehehe!" Zhang Cundao looked at the mountain with no one in front of him and laughed.

The Ming army had binoculars and saw a group of people on the mountain in advance. As a result, when the team arrived, those people were hiding behind the rocks and on the other side of the ridge.

Tang He raised his head and looked up: "Unfortunately, it's not a city wall. If we throw stones down, we won't be able to deal with it. How long can we have dry food?"

"It's fine for half a month. When Yanghe is defeated, there will be supplies."

Zhang Cundao is very satisfied with the meat floss, but it is expensive.The value of meat floss was thirty times that of normal military rations, and it was compacted when carried.

Cut off a small packet, and a large handful of meat floss will appear in front of your eyes. Pinch a little and stuff it in your mouth, then pinch a little bit of dried green onion and dried carrot that you also brought, drink saliva, and feel full soon.

Tang He narrowed his eyes, looked around, and ordered: "Follow the plan, withdraw!"

With an order, [-] cavalrymen and [-] horses turned around and ran out diagonally, dust flying.

Two quarters of an hour later, the dust of the cavalry could no longer be seen from the mountain, and soldiers from Bei Yuan emerged one by one.

"Hurry up and report, they want to go around from the north, tell the people over there, they must be blocked." The general here shouted to arrange.

"General, what should we do?" The young general next to him asked.

"Continue to guard. They have to find a place to attack Yanghe. Yanghe is almost surrounded by mountains. They are afraid that they will find a place with few guards and break through."

The general looked at the sun in the sky, and knew that the stone mountain would be very hot in a while, and there was no water on the mountain, so he had to go down to see the river.

Guarding the mountain is a helpless way, but fortunately, the back is his own territory, and he will not be surrounded.

After a while, the general ordered: "Go down the mountain to fetch water in turn. The people on the mountain keep an eye on the distance. When they see the enemy, they call out immediately."

300 people went down the rugged path, carrying wooden barrels one by one.

Tanghe walked around here and came to the destination. This place is also a mountain, and there are not enough stones, all of which are loess.

"The pistol soldier puts the arrow." Tang He felt that this position was good, the pistol soldier's pistol could fly three hundred steps with the wooden horse and arrows on it.

Even if the enemy shoots arrows down from the mountain, the shooting ranges of the two sides are different, and Ming has the advantage.

Five hundred firecrackers lined up in five rows, approaching the foot of the mountain step by step, the wooden sticks behind the firecrackers were clamped under their armpits, and they held torches in their hands.

When the people above saw this formation, they didn't hide anymore, they stood up one after another, some raised their shields, and some bowed their bows.

The gunfire soldiers approached step by step, and when they reached two hundred steps, they all stopped and shouted up the mountain: "Come down and fight, if you have the ability, come down and fight!"

"Fire the arrows!" The general on the mountain obviously wouldn't run down to fight the Ming army, so he shouted.

"Swish, swish, swish..." A group of arrows fell, and because the distance was too far, they were condescending and did not hit anyone.

The firecrackers saw the location where the arrow fell, and moved forward again. The nearest one was still thirty or forty steps away, and twenty steps would be close to twenty steps.

Sure enough, they walked forward, the one above continued to shoot arrows, and moved forward twenty steps to stop.

One by one, the firecrackers lit the fuses, raised the firecrackers and tilted upwards.

'Bang bang bang...' As the smoke rose and the sound sounded, arrows flew up one by one.

"oops!"

"what!"

"Too far."

"What gun is that?"

The people on the mountain yelled, and some people couldn't make a sound at all, and fell down holding their throats.

"Withdraw!" After the firecrackers fired, the leader shouted, and the 500 people turned around and ran back to reload the ammunition.

A dozen or so people fell down on the mountain, and some others were injured.

Tang He looked through the binoculars and nodded with satisfaction: "Good! Good job!"

He thought it was a good deal to kill more than a dozen people on the other side. There were no casualties on his side, and the improved firecracker is really easy to use.

The firecrackers ran back, seized the time to load the powder, mounted the wooden horse, and put the arrow in it.

After a while, they took torches and moved forward with wooden poles between them.

"Quickly send people to tell other places that the Ming army's firecrackers have a very long range, and our bows and arrows can't shoot them from the heights. Their firecrackers can shoot arrows."

The general above is anxious, this information is too important.

At the same time, he told his people: "Hide well, don't worry about them, the firecrackers can't attack."

(End of this chapter)