Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1246 Bloody battle on the fort
The shelling of the Ming army lasted for nearly three days, and most of the stone wall built on the fort was knocked down. However, the Dutch have traveled across the sea for decades, and every time they occupy a place, they will inevitably be counterattacked by local forces. Standing on the heels, there are naturally some ways.

The Dutch used gunpowder blasting to blow out a ditch in front of the stone wall they built. Therefore, although the stone wall is high, only the upper half is exposed, which reduces the probability of being hit by shelling and guarantees that it can only be shot by Knock down the upper half of the stone wall.

Before dawn on the fourth day, Li Dingguo ordered the soldiers to get up and make meals. After a full meal, the soldiers of the Ming army stood in line according to their duties.

Chen Youlong, Liu Wenxiu, and Yu Youming led 5000 men each, and each attacked a fort. Li Dingguo led a crowd of [-] to fight against the Dutch army from the main fort. battleship.

After the deployment, the soldiers of the Ming army who had had a full meal were full of strength, ready to gnaw off the hard bones in front of them.

After all, the army has been fighting for nearly four months since it went to Nanyang in September, and it is time to end.

At this time, the army was outside the range of the fort, forming a formation, and the officers with the flags on their backs were cheering up the soldiers from time to time.

After the generals of each battalion finished the meeting in the command tent, they returned to the formation and called thousands of households from each department. After listening to the order, these people also called hundreds of households from each division and bureau, and explained the essentials of today's attack. Then they implement it to the lowest level of the flag and team.

Over the years, the Ming army has paid great attention to the cultivation of low-level officers. There will be a selection in the army every year. The low-level officers with outstanding abilities can pass the selection and be sent to the martial arts in Nanjing. After they come out, they will have the opportunity to be promoted to mid-level officers. .

This is equivalent to an ascending passage, and once the passage is opened, the officers below will unconsciously compete.

This is the same as the imperial examinations. The government said that if you take the stereotyped essays, you can become an official. Then the scholars will study the stereotyped essays. If the government says you need to take the exams on miscellaneous subjects, such as archery and firecrackers, then the scholars will follow the requirements to learn astronomy and geography, and to shoot with bows.

This is the trend of interests, because only in this way can they become officials, and when they become officials, they will rise from the middle and lower classes of society to the upper middle class. This is driven by interests.

Then the best people in the army are sent to martial arts, and after graduation, they can go further. They don't have to retire, and they have the opportunity to become a noble class. This is also an upward channel like the imperial examination. Slowly realize the modernization of the army.

Zhang Yiguo is a general banner selected by Division A and Division B of Fengjie Camp in Zhongyi Town. After this battle, when he returns to Daming, he will be sent to Nanjing Wuxue together with nearly a hundred other small banner officers from Zhongyi Town.

At this time, the artillery of the Ming army began to bombard the mountain again. The sound of the rumbling artillery was deafening, and thick white smoke covered the long line of the Ming army at the foot of the mountain. Roaring and hitting the top of the mountain, the broken stones from the Dutch fort were splashed, countless stones splashed into the air and then fell like raindrops.

After several days of bombardment, the stone walls on the fort had been broken everywhere, and there were constant sounds of stones collapsing from the top of the mountain, mixed with the panic and screams of the Dutch.

Ba Nanshi slumped, dragged a wounded and howling Dutch soldier on the messy fort, and moved slowly amidst the billowing smoke and dust.

The stone wall beside him was hit from time to time, and several Dutchmen lay on the ground with their heads in their hands, not daring to move at all.

Bananshiding dragged the injured Dutch soldier to a safe area. Looking back, he saw a section of stone wall behind him being hit by shells. The whole wall trembled violently and suddenly collapsed. The stone fell into the ditch and made a clanging sound. His heart sank, and he immediately shouted: "Leave a few people on the top to watch, and the others will go down to the fort first to hide, and then come up after the Ming army attacks."

The Dutch who were lying on the wall with their heads in their arms got up one by one in a hurry, bowed their waists, and bowed around the corpses of several Dutch soldiers lying on the ground, hurriedly got off the fort, and hid behind the wall.

Zhang Yiguo was explaining the matter to the three teams under him, when the Ming army's cannon fired, the three of them turned their heads to look at the top of the mountain, Zhang Yiguo could only say with a straight face: "Don't look, after a few days of bombardment, haven't you seen enough? "

The three teams under him turned around with some reluctance, one of them touched his head and said, "I think the top of the mountain has been smashed, is there anyone still on it? This time, our Fengjie Battalion will definitely be able to charge down the fort with one charge."

Zhang Yiguo glared at him, "It's really so easy to fight, the commander will spend so much effort? Don't look at the most taboo in our Zhongyi Town is the arrogant soldiers."

In the Battle of Hezhou, Zhongyi Town was maimed by the Jin army, and there were no soldiers left. This is a lesson that Zhongyi Town always keeps in mind.

Seeing that the three of them bowed their heads and remained silent, Zhang Yiguo continued, "Mr. Qian said that the task of our Division A is to attack from the front, rush out from the middle, branch into the top of the mountain, and Division B and C climb up the mountain from the left and right sides. When charging , you should pay attention, before reaching the mountainside, try to conserve your energy, and it doesn’t matter if you climb slowly, because the distance is far away, and the Dutch’s muskets can’t shoot accurately. After reaching the mountainside, you have to rush up without any hesitation .”

"Don't worry, boss, we know that before we reach the mountainside, we should climb up with a bent waist, save our energy, and wait until we pass the mountainside before rushing!"

Zhang Yiguo nodded. The mountain was sixty to seventy feet high, and it was difficult to climb up. He rushed too early, and when he reached the top of the mountain, he had no strength to fight.

"Very well, the Dutch on the mountain are said to have only 500 people, and we are ten times their number, so everyone must have confidence." Zhang Yiguo encouraged, and continued: "In addition, when charging, shield players should pay attention to covering fire. Gunslinger, how the killer team, firearms team, and combat team in each of your teams assign tasks is up to the three of you."

The Ming army is now fighting, and the upper level formulates a big plan, and the lower level formulates specific tactics.In this way, the requirements are passed down layer by layer, and the most detailed can assign different tasks to each soldier.

At this time, they were discussing. Suddenly, someone found Li Dingguo and several generals coming on horseback.

When the surrounding soldiers saw them, they all stood up and saluted. Wherever they passed, the soldiers all said: "Marshal."

Li Dingguo rode through the various formations, and kept raising his whip to respond to the soldiers to boost morale. When he walked through all the battalions responsible for attacking the fort, the sun had all come out.

December is the coldest month in Daming, but it is still hot in Nanyang, so there are not many times suitable for attacking. The Ming army can only choose morning and evening.

At this time, Yu Youming immediately stood in front of the battle. Seeing that it was getting late, he galloped in front of the army to boost morale.

He can be regarded as the second generation of generals in the Ming army. He is one of the young generals with the highest official position in the Five Loyalty Army system.

In the second generation, only Sun Shoufa's nephew, Qin Feng, could compete with him.

The horse galloped, kicking up a cloud of dust, the eyes of the soldiers moved with his running, and the shouts were louder than the waves, and the blood of both soldiers and generals gradually boiled.

Under the other two forts, one and a half battalions of the Shence Army under the command of Chen Youlong, one and a half battalions of the Shence Army under the command of Liu Wenxiu, and one and a half battalions of the Shence Army under the command of Liu Wenxiu also began to shout, and the three echoed each other from afar.

Inside the main castle, Moschell, the president of the East India Company, and several officers stood at the highest point of the main castle, observing the battlefield with binoculars. Everyone's faces were ugly.

"Your Excellency, the Ming people cannot let the fort be captured. Once the company loses the fort, the Ming people will be able to turn the artillery around and bombard our warships. The company's fleet will suffer a devastating blow, and even the entire army will be wiped out."

When the Dutch were observing the Ming army, Yu Youming suddenly reined in his horse amidst the shouts of the soldiers. He swung the saber in his hand forward and shouted, "Attack!"

As soon as the military order was issued, the soldiers of the Ming army lined up neatly in opposite rows acted like a gate was opened to release a flood. The soldiers in the front row immediately trotted forward with their guns in hand.

The Dutchman who was in charge of observing on the fort hurriedly gave a warning, and shouted, "Ming people are attacking, get into your position!" The Dutchman, who was dodging the shelling, got up in a hurry and ran back to the fort.

Zhang Yiguo and his one-banner troops took up weapons, and the soldiers stared at him with the Banner on his back, and marched forward with the main force.

The flag on the back is written with the team's number, so that soldiers can easily find their commanders on the battlefield. It is similar to the flags planted on the back of Japanese samurai, but Japan also learned from the Tang army.

At this time, under the bombardment of the artillery on the top of the mountain, they quickly approached the first parallel trench, and the soldiers in front jumped into the parallel trench one after another.

Zhang Yiguo jumped into the trench, counted the number of people, and immediately walked along the trench to the entrance of the zigzag trench in the middle, and then lined up with other teams to pass through the trench and march towards the foot of the mountain.

The description on the fort was difficult to see that the trenches below the mountain were full of human heads, but it was difficult for the shells to fall into the trenches and could not cause damage to the Ming army. He suddenly became nervous.

Zhang Yiguo and the others quickly walked to the second parallel ditch at the foot of the mountain. They came out of the "Zhi" ditch, walked a distance to the left of the parallel ditch, and then stopped.

After a while, the second parallel trench with a width of one foot was full of Ming troops.

At this time, a red flag waved left and right in the middle of the trench, and the vice president of Department A and Division B, where Zhang Yixing was located, suddenly drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Get ready, check the equipment!"

When the soldiers heard the sound, they immediately checked the guns and ammunition, and then took off the iron helmets on their backs, put them on, and tied the knots.

Nanyang is too hot, and soldiers are used to carrying helmets on their backs, and then wearing them on their heads during war. They also carry a quilt and other things when marching.

At this time, the red flag suddenly waved forward, and saw Mr. Jiabu Qian suddenly take out a pistol, held it high and fired it into the sky, and shouted loudly: "Get out of the trench and attack!"

The soldiers asked for orders, immediately climbed out of the trench from the steps of the trench, and ran towards the hillside at a trot.

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