Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

It wasn't until Zheng Kezang finished speaking, that night, the Qing army took advantage of the darkness of the stars and moon to start taking action.

In fact, the generals of the Qing army still have a lot of war experience.No, the Qing army who attacked did not choose to act in the first half of the night when they were physically alert, but quietly left the camp near dawn. In the first half of the journey, everyone had their mouths in their mouths and sneaked slowly until it was estimated that they were almost approaching the ditch. Only when he was on the sidelines did he run wildly.It's just that the Qing army didn't notice that Zheng Jun had already set up a hidden bamboo stick formation along the water barrier when he was packing up the corpses. As a result, under the action of its own weight, the sharp bamboo stick pierced through the thin-bottomed soldiers of the Qing army. Shoes, causing a buzzing sound and the impact of the body falling to the ground.

The sound shook Zheng Jun's sentries in various horse-faced forts, and countless grass fireballs were thrown out one after another, illuminating several areas immediately.Seeing that his behavior of stealing the muck had been discovered, the Qing army, who never stopped doing anything, simply fought openly, and hundreds of lower-level officers and soldiers rushed towards the ditch.

Zheng Jun's artillery fire soon rang out, and the firecrackers on the sentry tower continued to fire, but the grass fireballs from the horse-faced fort either extinguished quickly and naturally or were submerged by the Qing army's muck. Under normal circumstances, Zheng Jun's shooting was blind in many cases, and only God knows the damage caused.

However, since the Green Battalion soldiers in the water trench operation mainly played with the [-]-meter impact and threw some debris, they had no attempt to resist the law violently, so they defended the earth walls, horse-faced forts, sentry towers, etc. and shot outwards desperately. Zheng Jun hardly suffered any losses, but fierce fighting still took place at the gate.

Speaking of it, it was also because of the darkness, anticipating that the Qing army might smear them, the Zheng army did not set up easily attacked guards by the low wall in front of the gate plug, but only set up a staggered arrangement inside and outside the broken large wooden gate latch. Therefore, a group of sneaky green battalion soldiers easily touched the place very close to the gate plug, and for the first time captured the undefended low wall section without loss.

But after the section of the low wall changed hands, the Qing army found that the door leading to the high wall at the back end was closed. If they tried to break through it, the Zheng army who was defending would be alarmed. The Qing army had no choice but to go back to the front of the gate and try to remove the iron chain. Connected heavy refusal horses.But before the Qing army made any moves, the action of the muck brigade was discovered.

Because Zheng Jun's simple stone catapults had a very limited throwing height, they were not placed behind the high walls on both sides of the door plug, so they couldn't shoot grass fireballs for lighting to the front of the door plug.However, the alarmed Zheng army garrison still prepared to throw several torches towards the low wall and the front of the door stopper. The swirling torches only illuminated the extremely limited darkness, but it was enough to reveal the truth, so the dense row of guns Then they fought in the past, causing great bloodshed to the Qing army.

Since the Qing army came to touch the door, they were naturally prepared. After being hit, they not only used bird guns to fight back, but also brought tiger crouching guns, which were close-range killers.After the tiger crouching cannon that raised the cannon body at an angle of more than [-] degrees hit a piece of scrap copper and iron, Zheng Jun had to usher in the first batch of casualties that night.

At this time, the Zheng army's rear support troops had already arrived. Since the passage was not very wide, the troops formed a compact three-array formation in the darkness after rejecting horses. , the flat-ended rifle pointed directly at the flames and jumped.The crowded door plugs the entrance.

"Let go!" With a low shout from the team leader, the muzzles of the thirty firecrackers jumped in unison, and the Qing army, who was chopping down heavy repelling horses, burst into wailing and howling. "Stand up and reload." The team leader continued to order. At this time, the crackling sound of the Qing army's blunderbuss was heard from outside the gate, and the two Zheng troops sent in the first row collapsed immediately, but the team leader didn't even notice. See, just ordered. "Deputy (leader), drag people down, load the ammunition, let's come again!"

The infantry team exchanged casualties with the Qing army across the rejected horses, and the high-wall defense temporarily suppressed by the Qing army's bird guns and tiger squat guns began to throw ignited thunderbolts vigorously in the direction of the Qing army.The flames ignited by the thunder that exploded in mid-air illuminated the night sky, and the shrapnel flying in all directions even knocked down the green soldiers with hideous faces.

The Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and the Qing army was still attacking. Whether it was the Qing army ordered to fill up the water barrier, or the Qing army who wanted to seize the gate at night, each of them went crazy and frantic. In the tragedy of the alien race, he devoted himself to serving the ruler of the alien race.

After paying a huge price, the Qing army who attacked the gate finally chopped up and removed the rejecting horses outside the gate, rushed in, and stabbed Zheng Jun's white soldiers through the rejecting horses inside the gate---Zheng Ke Zang's intention was to turn both the Zheng Army's land division and the navy's Longxiang Army into an all-firearms force. However, due to the rapid expansion of the army, not only did the first few old divisions fail to complete the scheduled refitting, but even some of the newly reorganized divisions were originally The ratio of infantry and white soldiers has also been reversed. Fortunately, in order to cope with the upcoming change of clothes, the original sword and shield soldiers have been replaced by spear soldiers. Therefore, in the stabbing, the Zheng army everywhere did not lose the wind. .

The Qing army was unable to succeed at the gate for a while, but it achieved great success in front of the water barriers everywhere.Since the width of the Zheng army's trench was only between one and a half feet, and the Qing army had made some progress in the previous daytime burial, after using the cover of night to withstand the Zheng army's shooting, the Qing army Army has tended to complete the task of landfill.

"My lord, I just ran to the front and looked at it." The panting soldier reported to the chief officer who commanded the operation. "It's basically filled." The supervisor still didn't believe it, but the soldiers swore. "My lord, if the little one lies, you will cut off the little head at dawn. Really, if you fill it in again, there will be a mountain in front of you."

As there were similar reports everywhere, Shanahai finally ordered to withdraw his troops out of consideration of appeasement of the Green Army.

When the clear sound of the gong sounded, the Qing soldiers, no matter they were running halfway or approaching the water barrier, dropped their burdens one after another, and rushed back at several times the speed since then, leaving their backs behind Zheng Jun. In the afterglow of the muzzle flame.

Of course, unlike the Qing army in the Shuizhang area who could escape back as long as they were not too unlucky, the Qing army in the Mensai area did not have such convenience.Although Zheng Jun's white soldiers were blocked by the repelling horses he set up and couldn't pursue for a while, the thunder and volleys of guns dropped from the high wall still left more victims for the fleeing Qing army.

The task was successfully completed, but when counting the number of people returning to the camp, the Qing army couldn't laugh.Zheng Jun's shooting may have been inaccurate due to the darkness, but the various divisions of the Qing army still left at least [-] soldiers and horses behind. The head was annexed by other troops, but there is no shortage of deserters who slipped away at night.

The camp leaders of the Qing army who lost their subordinates may be unhappy, but Shanahai and Naertu are very satisfied. In their opinion, it only took less than 7000 people to break through the outer barrier of the Zheng army and give the Zheng army a certain amount of damage. However, this deal is still very cost-effective, so they even set up wine overnight to celebrate the achievements of the various units of the green battalion, which also boosted the morale of the green battalion soldiers for a while.

Shanahai is a veteran, so naturally he would not forget the vigilance of the camp when he was celebrating, it would be embarrassing for Zheng Jun to do the same.But after all the calculations, he still didn't expect Zheng Jun's revenge to be so violent. Just when some Qing soldiers in the Qing army camp were dizzy from eating and some green flag soldiers on guard were drooling, the shelling happened.

Zheng Kezang opened six passages, transported out eighteen three-inch cannons, and shelled the Qing army's camp stretching more than ten miles indiscriminately for half a quarter of an hour from two miles away.If it was daytime, the Mongolian cavalry could reach the distance of these two miles in minutes, and even without the cavalry, the infantry assault would have cost the Zheng Army artillery team a good look.But this is night, and it is the darkest dawn, who knows if Zheng Jun ambushed the brigade outside and waited for the Qing army to surrender, so the beaten Qing army had to hide in the camp and suffer , Until Zheng Jun withdrew safely.

The shelling severely dampened the morale of the green battalion that had just recovered, and the dead and wounded sent by Zheng Jun again the next day made all the green battalion soldiers feel sad.As a last resort, Shanahai had to rest for another day, but on that day, he received good news: Barhu returned.

Of course, Balhu did not come back alone. He captured more than 3000 family members of Yichang town officers and soldiers who followed Cao Zhongying to Zheng from Jingzhou, Yichang, Changyang, Zigui and other places.When the Qing army suppressed these crying old and weak women and children and appeared in front of Zheng Jun's battle line, Zheng Jun was a little dumbfounded. What did the Qing army want to do, drive the people to attach themselves?It's really disgusting.

The Zheng army was furious and their fighting spirit doubled, but the loud voices from the Qing army made the newly attached army, who mainly served as auxiliary soldiers, shattered their hearts, and the cries echoed internally and externally. Army actions.

"Using women and children, the Qing prisoner is too despicable." Facing Zheng Kezang's calm face, Cao Zhongying, who intentionally or unintentionally showed an extremely painful expression, said so. "Your Majesty, rest assured, the ministers will take their revenge on the Tartars."

"I alone know the loyalty of Qing and others." If it weren't for the role of the newly attached army to disintegrate the fighting spirit of the green battalion soldiers, Zheng Kezang didn't need to talk so much to Cao Zhongying. "But what the Qing captives did was to shake the morale of the army." This is also partly willing. After all, many of the Zheng army today are converted from the new attached army, and many of them are soldiers from the north. "So I can't turn a blind eye, so come here." Zheng Kezang ordered. "Send a military envoy."

"What!" Shanahai didn't think Balhu's actions would be so effective, so effective that he and Naertu were restless. "Hai Ni is willing to exchange the same captured banner people for this group of rebels." It must be known that Zheng Jun captured more than 1 Beijing flags in the battle of Changzhou, and also captured many banner soldiers and flag officers in other battles. , most of these bannermen are now carrying stones in Shilu, and those who are not dead are almost half-lifed. If they can be exchanged for these people, let alone one for one, it is one for two, one for three, or even one. Changing ten cities will allow Shanahai and Naertu to gain great reputation among the bannermen. "My lord, what do you mean?"