Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1083 Attack and Detour

Chen Guangfu was also old in battle, so he found it tricky after watching it for a while—it was much more troublesome than fighting Huang County. Back then, Huang County didn't have many armed forces, and morale was not high from top to bottom, so it was easy to break through.Now this group of Xiangyong has won a battle in Baimatang, both in terms of combat strength and morale, they are all on the head of Wangsheng.I'm afraid I won't be able to take advantage of it for a while.

It is obvious that he wants to chew a hard bone.

But if they can't chew on this hard bone, they can't go to Laizhou with peace of mind.Whether it's easy or not, Qimu Island must be fought.

Mao Chenglu and Chen Guangfu discussed for a while and decided to launch an attack tomorrow morning.Mao Chenglu led a large force to attack from the sand embankment, attracting the attention of Dao Xiangyong, while Chen Guangfu led the elite to detour to the ice and raid Qimu Island.

"Capturing Qimu Island, my brother is the first achievement." Mao Chenglu smiled all over his face, "I heard that the population of Qimu Island is very large, food and property. If we take it down, our brothers can make a lot of money."

Mao Chenglu played tricks.He had already suffered a great loss from Qimu Island Xiangyong in the Battle of Baimatang. Although he was not in command at the time, he still knew from the mouths of the defeated troops who fled later that the opponent's firearms were extremely sharp. The fire is fast, and the soldiers can't hold on after a few rows of guns.

When one person said this, Mao Chenglu could think that he was evasive, and dozens of people spoke in unison, and the authenticity of this statement was greatly improved.

So Mao Chenglu encouraged Chen Guangfu to lead a surprise army to turn around, and he himself led a large group of troops to attack from the front - no matter how sharp the enemy's firearms were, they would never be able to match his six Hongyi cannons.Hit it with a dozen catties of giant bombs, let his fortress be strong, under the bombardment of his own giant artillery, and let the refugees rush to fill the ditch, the enemy will naturally be confused.At that time, he will have a chance to take advantage of it.

As for Chen Guangfu, it would be best if he could attack the island, and it would be fine if he couldn't.

Chen Guangfu knew his plan from there, and thought that it was because he led the reinforcements. Mao Chenglu wanted to give him a favor, and he immediately agreed, and said that if he conquered Qimu Island, he would divide the property equally, and he would never let Brother Mao suffer.

At the moment, the calculation is appropriate, and each of them goes back to rectify the troops.

Among the nearly 1 people brought by Mao Chenglu, only 5000 could be called soldiers.The rebels in Huang County and the reinforcements brought by Chen Guangfu totaled 10 people. Although the rebels engulfed nearly 3000 people in Huang County, they claimed to have [-] horses.But there are no more than [-] soldiers among them.Mao Chenglu left half of his soldiers to guard the county.Bring the other half of the soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers to attack Qimu Island, and most of the rest are refugees.

Because the warehouses in Dengzhou are extremely rich, these [-] soldiers are fully equipped with armor, although the quality is different, everyone has armor anyway, which is already a rare thing for the Ming army. .Many of the auxiliary soldiers also wore cotton or leather armor.The most exaggerated thing is the firearms. In addition to the six Hongyi cannons, these [-] warriors are actually equipped with [-] guns of various types. When it comes to the popularity of firearms, they were considered world-class at that time.

These complex firearms and ammunition were either loaded on trolleys or carried by people on their shoulders, and were transported by the refugees who were kidnapped.The six "big cannons" were pulled by the captive cattle, and slowly headed towards the sand embankment.

Those who walked in the lead were newly "recruited" refugees, called "soldiers", but in fact there were young and old, old and weak, and there were even women mixed in.As for weapons and equipment: most people just hold a wooden stick, and some people have nothing at all.The rebels only used refugees as cannon fodder and labor, so naturally they had no intention of arming them, let alone any training.

Only after a few battles have been fought and most of the people die in obscurity will the survivors who have experienced battles be absorbed into the army and become members of this team-this was the case in the chaos of the various armies in the late Ming Dynasty. is the most common growth pattern.Those who can survive in the end must be the most powerful soldiers who have experienced many battles.

In order to prevent the refugees from escaping, the horse-riding servants patrolled around the large group of refugees and drove them in the designated direction with whips.

Chen Guangfu's team was quietly separated from the brigade. He only led 500 people. Except for his family members and some night-buying soldiers, the rest were all veterans who had been fighting for money. He is a lifeless person. I heard that there is a village on Qimu Island with tens of thousands of refugees. All of them have shining eyes. As long as they attack, they will not worry about not getting dozens of taels of silver and a few beautiful women.

Under the cities of Dengzhou and Huangxian, a large number of women have formed a population city because of the rebels' looting.The rebels who went out to rob sold the captured women to their friends in the human market, and the business was very prosperous.

All people have horses: these people have experience riding on ice, and the horses' hoofs are wrapped with non-slip cloth strips.Moreover, Chen Guangfu's purpose in giving them all the horses was not to let them ride the horses to charge, but to quickly pass through the ice.Immediately after landing on the island, they abandoned their horses and fought on foot-in fact, they were mounted infantry.

Although the dragon cavalry was created in Europe, mounted infantry has always existed in China, and maneuvering on horseback, dismounting and fighting on foot were not uncommon in the wars of the late Ming Dynasty.

Because they had to walk on the ice and heard that the other party had a lot of firearms, all of these people put on cotton armor that was lighter and more effective against firearms.The boots were all wrapped with straw rope.In addition to carrying swords and shields, each person also carries a javelin - this javelin is not only used for throwing before the assault, but also for self-rescue in case of falling into the ice cave: The Dongjiang Army has long been in the Liaodong Island, the experience of fighting on the ice Relatively rich.

In addition to weapons, each person carried a few small crock pots filled with fire oil and a slow-burning kindling, and as soon as they broke into the island, they immediately set fires everywhere.

In his opinion, regardless of the large number of people on the island, as soon as his five hundred elite soldiers landed on the island, the village warriors would be in chaos.At that time, the whole Qimu Island will be at your fingertips.

The team stopped at the entrance of the sand embankment, and Mao Chenglu's generals were in a hurry to straighten out the chaotic team and barely maintain order.

Mao Chenglu rode on a horse and walked slowly to the huge crowd surrounded by servants, shouting loudly: "Everyone is fighting desperately to enter the stockade, and take whatever money and food you want! Enough is enough!" There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and Mao Chenglu sneered With one sound, he said loudly again: "There are thousands of women in the village. If you want to get as many as you want, as long as you can get them! In troubled times, human life is as cheap as paper. Everyone is going to live today without knowing whether there will be tomorrow. He's a man, let alone a woman's cock, he's a bird!"

There were a few applause from the originally dull crowd, and someone shouted: "A man is dead, and he will not die for thousands of years! If you die, you have to eat to your heart's content. If you have played enough, women will die!" The surrounding crowd suddenly There was a burst of screaming.Under the instigation of these few words, these poor people who were good people less than ten days and a half months ago were exposed, their eyes turned red, and their morale suddenly skyrocketed.

Mao Chenglu knew that his few words had already played a big role, and immediately ordered the whole army to advance to the sand embankment.

The sun gradually rose, and there was a cold white light in the four fields. On the winter morning in the first month, the wind was biting cold, and the huge rebel crowd rolled towards the sand embankment of Qimu Island like a flood.The white gas emitted by tens of thousands of people walking is spectacular.

Chen Sigen stood on a watchtower on the wicker bastion, watching the advancing rebels with binoculars.

The dense crowd made his scalp tingle when he looked at it—what made him even more embarrassed was that the people walking in front, as Zhu Mingxia said, were all poor people with ragged clothes and pale faces.

They were all in tattered clothes, and many of them simply walked barefoot in the snow, their skin was blue from the cold, knowing that they were going to die, just for a few empty promises.

Thinking of what Zhu Mingxia said to him, he knew that Captain Zhu didn't mind how many poor people he killed, and he was also worried that he would be soft.

I can't do it even if I want to be soft.Chen Sigen thought to himself, with the situation in front of him, it would be impossible if there were no rivers of blood flowing in front of the wicker.

The defense around the willows has been urgently reinforced. The original willow fence has been cut off and the canopy sharpened. The cut branches are thick and straight and tied horizontally between the willows. superior.There is a heavy price to pay for simply climbing this fence.

According to Chen Sigen's instructions, the artillery on the bastion was mainly deployed on the two wings - it could not only concentrate fire on the enemy coming from the front, but also shoot on the ice.After all, the sea on both sides of the sand embankment was frozen, and the enemy could go down to the ice and bypass the wicker-edge barriers to directly attack the bastion.Therefore, a steep slope roughly one person high has been dug out on the coastline near the bastion - most natural coasts have this kind of eroded slope, and the detachment just repaired it, pouring water on the steep slope to freeze ice.

He noticed that six Hongyi cannons had been installed about 800 meters away from the wicker edge. Judging from the appearance of the cannons, they should be half snake guns that fired twelve-pound shells.The effective range of this gun is nearly two miles, and it is quite a powerful artillery.

From the information sent by Chen Sigen, he knew that the rebel army was very experienced in using firearms, and they used heavy artillery on the move many times, repeatedly defeating the officers and soldiers.In the entire Dengzhou Rebellion, the use of artillery by the rebels was the most brilliant.

The gunners under Mao Chenglu are busy here.These six Hongyi cannons were all taken from Dengzhou City, and these gunners were also trained by the Portuguese. A general was always watching and issued orders constantly. The soldiers performed their duties and set up the artillery positions. , Loading artillery seems very skilled.

A gunner held up a wooden ruler, closed one eye and looked at the side of the wicker - they used a relatively simple and primitive method of parallax distance measurement, but even so, it was considered rare in the Ming army at that time .

(End of this chapter)