Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1179 The Battle of the Three Kings ([-])

The Jin-Qing allied forces came clamorously, wanting to seek a battle with the Ming army in the wild, but Wang Yan held up the card of avoiding the battle and hid in the camp to avoid the fight.

As a result, Dorgon's situation is not good.The Jin-Qing coalition forces are nearly 20, and there are many horses, and the daily consumption cannot be estimated. The Jin Kingdom only has 5 horses. In addition, the internal affairs are good, and the supply is not a problem, but the Qing obviously cannot last for too long.

Dorgon angrily set up a camp opposite the Ming camp. While he had people preparing weapons for attacking the camp, he sent light cavalry to harass the Ming army's back, trying to cut off the Ming army's food road, forcing Wang Yan to fight him.

Since March, the horse troops of the Ming and Qing armies have been fighting non-stop. Every day, the horse troops who went out of the camp did not return, and the battle was extremely fierce.

It is worth mentioning that the rampaging horse army equipped with breastplates did not lose the wind when they met the elite Manchurian cavalry. The army released three blunderbusses, and swung the three axes that were smashed round, but they have not yet failed.

On March [-]th, the weather was not as cold as it was in February. The soldiers of the Ming army could not wear cotton-padded jackets, and they were too cold to bend their fingers. The soldiers felt very comfortable basking in the warm sun on the walls of the village.

On the two-foot-high wall of the village, soldiers of the Ming army were busy carrying swarms of honeycombs, rockets, oil tanks, etc., and soldiers came up with wooden boxes one by one.

If you look carefully, you will find that there is still a seal from the Ministry of Industry on it. No one is allowed to open it until the military order is issued, because it is full of thunder and thunder. If one accidentally blows it up, it is not a joke.

On the wall of the stronghold, various artillery pieces of the Ming army were lined up one by one, and the gunners were making the final inspection to ensure that the equipment was in good condition.

Wang Yan led the crowd to walk over the wall of the village. He reckoned that the Jin-Qing coalition forces were almost ready, so he patrolled the defense to prepare for the attack of the Jin-Qing coalition forces.

The defense of the Ming camp did not rely on the camp walls built. It was only built of earth, which was not strong or tall. The Qing army could easily blow down the earth walls with cannons. After the Qing army approached the city wall, it was easy to climb up the city. , so the effect of leaning against the wall is not great.

The defense arranged by Wang Yan mainly relied on the advantages of the Ming army's firearms, which prevented the Qing army from approaching the earth wall.

In order to achieve this, he dug three deep moats within the range where the firecrackers could cause effective damage, and inserted sharpened moso bamboos underneath. If they fell, they would surely die. The speed at which the enemy approached the earthen wall allowed the shooters on the wall to shoot in volleys.

In addition, under the earth wall, he also built a low wall that only reached his waist. He will arrange a large number of sword shields and spearmen here to prevent the enemy from approaching the earth wall.

The key to this defense is the firepower on the earth wall. It must be strong enough to cause great damage to the enemy before the pikemen and shield soldiers behind the low wall approach the earth wall, making the enemy fearful. thus retreat.

At this time, Wang Yan was walking on the not-so-wide earthen wall, and military commanders at all levels saluted him from time to time.

Every soldier watched Wang Yan pass by them with his eyes. In the hearts of many soldiers, Wang Yan was not only their coach and the Ming King of Chu, but also a hero in the hearts of everyone and an idol of the times.

Standing at thirty, Wang Yangang is in his early thirties, but he has already become the master of Ming Dynasty, leaving behind many legends.Young soldiers all use the deeds of King Chu to motivate themselves to make contributions.

Wang Yan and his party arrived at a relatively wide part of the earthen wall, on which three bronze cannons were arranged.

This kind of gun is a long-range weapon, but its range and power are not comparable to the red cannon, and it can only be regarded as a medium-sized artillery.However, when it was designed, it was designed to be quick-firing, light and suitable for field battles, not a heavy artillery for siege.

The Ming army also had heavy artillery, but they were pulled to the mountainside by Wang Yan and concentrated. The red cannons of the Ming army shot far, and they were placed on the mountainside, so they were able to hit the artillery formation of the Qing army.

Wang Yan was in a good mood today. He walked up to a bronze cannon, and Chen Yujie who accompanied him said, "Your Highness, the red cannon on the mountainside will be used to suppress the siege artillery of the Qing army. Sharp weapon. These bronze cannons shoot the second farthest, with an effective range of two miles. If the enemy troops attack the city, they will be bombarded by these bronze cannons first!"

Wang Yan nodded slightly, and Liu Fangliang behind him stretched his head to look, "Old Chen, give it a try!"

Chen Yujie nodded, and the gunner immediately loaded the charge, pushed in the iron bullet, then pierced the charge with an awl through the priming port, inserted the fuse, and finally the torch approached to ignite the fuse.

Everyone saw that the fuse was flickering with fire, and it went into the medicine room with a "boom", and the gun body retreated suddenly after a loud "boom", a cloud of white smoke rose, and a black shell rushed out of the white smoke and shot out. A straight line hit two miles away, splashing a cloud of dust.

All the generals applauded, the red cannon is expensive, and it is inconvenient to transport. It cannot be mass-produced, and the army cannot carry it in large quantities. The artillery carts can keep up with the marching army, so the Ming army in the middle road is fully equipped with four hundred guns.

These artillery are arranged on the city wall and will cause a lot of damage to the enemy.

Listening to the left and right, he said, "Good gun! Great gun!" Wang Yan laughed, pointed to a wooden barrel on the wall, and said to Chen Yujie, "Try this too!"

"Your Highness, the enemy army is charging intensively. When crossing the trench, in addition to the volleys of gunfire, this swarm will also cause huge damage to the enemy army!"

While speaking, a soldier had already picked up the vat, and the one behind helped ignite the fuse, and saw more than 30 rockets rushing out of the barrel, scattering out like a group of demons dancing wildly, covering a large area under the city.

If this thing only shoots one person, maybe after more than 30 arrows fly out, the person to be shot is still standing, but if it shoots a group of people, the 32 arrows must hit more than a dozen people, and the rockets are chaotic. Fleeing can also frighten the enemy.

After the demonstration was over, everyone applauded again, but at this time Liu Fangliang was squatting in the corner, looking at a box of Zhentianlei with a seal on it, and looking sideways at Wang Yan, "His Royal Highness, try this!"

"This is the Zhentianlei improved by the Ministry of Industry. It uses iron sheets to wrap gunpowder. It is said that it is not small. The army has not equipped it yet. You can try it, but be careful!" Wang Yan said.

Liu Fangliang nodded happily when he heard the words, and stopped talking, and directly pried open the wooden box, but at this moment, everyone suddenly heard a cry of surprise, so they hurriedly turned their heads and looked outside the camp.

Just as Wang Yan and others were patrolling the city defenses and inspecting their equipment, the enemy army had already poured out of the enemy camp like a tide.

Everyone stood on the top of the city and looked out, only to see that the enemy army had slowly gathered into a sea, and in this sea of ​​people, weapons stood tall.

Wang Yan just took a casual look, and saw knife carts, goose carts, cave houses, cannon carts, and trench bridges. There are probably thousands of these equipment that can be seen with the eyes. In order to attack the Ming camp, the servant really worked hard.

"Your Highness, Dorgon is going to attack the city?" Looking at the enemy's posture, Li Guo said with a smile.

Just looking at the number of people, this dark place really makes people feel a little stressed, but Wang Yan has enough confidence in his arrangement and his men.

Everyone was watching the gathering of the enemy army, but Liu Fangliang on the side, like a child playing with a firecracker, took a thunderbolt, lit it and threw it directly outside the camp.He threw it a little early, and when he walked to the wall to look down, the thunder that shook the sky exploded with a "boom".

The stones, dust, and iron sheets wrapped by the explosion, and the iron beads inside were scattered in all directions, drawing everyone's attention back.

Seeing this, Wang Yan felt that the power of Zhentianlei was much stronger than that made of stone before. He smiled, and suddenly waved his arms and said to the generals, "Dorgon is coming to die, we can't let him down, you all immediately Go get ready, I want you to give the lonely king a head-on blow!"

Everyone hurriedly clasped their fists together, while Wang Yan waved his hands, "Yu Jie, there are others who are accused, go get ready immediately!"

When Wang Yan gave the order, the sound of horns outside the city soared into the sky, and the sound of the horns resounded through the earth one after another!After many days of preparation, the Jin-Qing Allied Forces finally made their move!

Lu Shikui was the commander of Wang Yan's personal guard. He was worried about Wang Yan's safety, so he stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, go down."

"No hurry, I just want to see what tricks Dorgon has prepared!" Wang Yan waved his hands.

While he was speaking, the sword-shield and pikemen of the brigade of the Ming army came out of the camp in line, and then divided into two directions, left and right, and began to deploy their defenses behind the low wall close to the earth wall. wall.

At this time, Doer Gun had already called all the generals to the central army, Meng Qiaofang clasped his fists and asked, "Prince Rui, I don't know how to attack the stronghold, what mission does our Great Jin Army have?"

Dorgon looked at the Ming village and said with a smile: "This king first let the red cannons destroy the Ming army's wall, then the Jin army attacked the left side of the Ming army's main camp, Shang Kexi attacked the right side, and connected the Ming army's main camp with the two wings. Cut it off, and finally Lou Qin led his troops straight to the main camp, wrapped up the king thief, and we will defeat the enemy in one battle!"

The camp of the Ming army spread out along the mountain, like a big snake. Dorgon's intention was to cut off the big snake piece by piece.

At this time, the artillery team of the Qing army, driven by horses and manpower, entered the range of the red cannons of the Ming army, but the red cannons of the Ming army did not fire.

The Qing army knew that their artillery was not as good as the Ming army in terms of range, so they also learned to behave. In order to reduce the damage caused by the shelling, they dug many artillery holes and built earthen walls in front of the artillery to reduce the damage caused by the Ming army. Cannonball damage.

"It's strange, why didn't the Ming army fire artillery?" Kong Youde, who had participated in the battle of Nanyang, was very puzzled.

When he attacked Nanyang, before the artillery was set up, the Ming army artillery on Nanyang City began to aim and fire. Why did you watch the Qing army build the artillery array today, but did not respond?

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