Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 460 No War on the Northern Front

"Pull! Plane! Plane..."

In the early morning, as Cao Wenzhao expected, the Jin army began to prepare various equipment to attack the stone fort, and the most prominent of these was the shield chariot that the Jin army was good at using.

After suffering from the loss of rifles, Huang Taiji ordered people to build [-] crude chariots weighing a thousand catties in one go.

Not so much a chariot, but actually a coffin on a chariot.

Just to counteract the impact of the artillery, and to allow people to push it, the interior of the cuboid shaped like a coffin was separated by wooden boards, and some fine sand and rags were filled in the middle, as well as the hides of the horses killed yesterday.

The baffle has a total of six layers. When the chariot is moving, the heavy infantry can hide behind it and wait for the success of the charge, and then meet with the Ming army.

In addition to these, as Cao Wenzhao thought, the tens of thousands of armor left on the battlefield yesterday were stripped off by the Jin army and put on some healthy women in their 40s and [-]s.

They held large simple shields in their hands, and were responsible for defending against bullets for the men of the Golden Army, and this simple shield was nothing more than a wooden board wrapped in horsehide.

The sound of planing wood rang all morning, and Ming Jun Tangqi also observed it all morning.

The news spread to all the castles in the rear, and the people in charge of defending the city knew that today they would face a tougher battle than yesterday.

At the same time that the sentry cavalry reported back, Cao Wenzhao distributed the remaining 550 artillery pieces to Wulibao, Beishanbao and Dongshanbao.

Counting the fifty cannons transferred to Shence Guards yesterday, each stone fort has two hundred cannons.

As for the stone bullets, last night, the Ming army transferred a lot of stone bullets from other stone fortresses at the rear, and obtained local materials, polished tens of thousands of stone bullets, and collected [-] packets of shotgun ammunition.

This kind of wild river pebbles can damage the barrel of the gun as a shot, but for Cao Wenzhao, all he wants is the shell, and the wear and tear of the gun is not included in the calculation.

In short, the Ming army raised a lot of stone ammunition and shotguns in various forts in one night, and gunpowder from other stone forts in all directions was also continuously delivered.

The soldiers of Shence Guard will not be able to arrive at the battlefield until the afternoon, which puts the pressure on the Ming army a bit.

Fortunately, Guo Sangdai sent Tang Qi to send a message. Right now, he is leading an army along the Duoerbi River to pull the two hundred artillery pieces of Tuomuhewei. More than [-] catties of gunpowder are heading south, and he is expected to arrive at the battlefield at noon the day after tomorrow. It was half a day faster than Cao Wenzhao and the others expected.

For Cao Wenzhao and others, this is probably the last piece of good news before the bloody battle...

"Woooooo-"

"coming!"

When the horn sounded, Cao Wenzhao clenched the long knife in his hand.

He stood on Beishan Fort, and the plain nearly two miles in front of the fort had already built various fortifications such as barbed wire, horse repelling, horn walls, ditches, and trenches.

More than 4000 riflemen were guarding the trenches, and the remaining [-] gunners and [-] riflemen who were responsible for shooting the hands were guarding next to the [-] artillery pieces.

Beside the cannon was piled full of stone bullets and shotguns, and the ten cannons on Beishan Fort were also aimed at the distance.

From the perspective of the Beishanbao Ming army, there is a low mountain with a height of [-] to [-] feet in the northwest direction at the end of the plain. The mountain is very gentle, and the flag of the Ming army is flying.

That's where more than [-] cavalry from Cao Bianjiao's troops were stationed, and when the horn sounded, they could see it more clearly than Cao Bianjiao's troops than the Beishanbao Ming army.

Tens of thousands of gold troops pushed more than a hundred shield chariots into the mountain pass and attacked Beishan Fort. There was also a team of five or six thousand soldiers and horses also pushing more than a hundred shield chariots to attack Xishan Fort.

Seeing this, Cao Bianjiao turned his head and ordered Tang Qi to pass on the message, and Tang Qi also received the order to pass the news to Cao Wenzhao in the rear.

Cao Wenzhao didn't have any special arrangements. To put it bluntly, defending to the death means fortifying the stronghold and fighting dumbly. Just hold on, and there are not so many fancy operations.

The only thing that needs to be manipulated is the command flag beside him.

Once the two-foot command flag is waved, it is the moment when Cao Bianjiao and his more than [-] cavalry support are needed. Cao Wenzhao will not use it unless it is a last resort.

"Woooooo-"

The horn sounded louder and louder, which made the Ming army guarding the trench more and more nervous.

"The size of the Golden Army is no more than [-], and the two divisions of our army total [-]. There is no need to be afraid!"

"Golden Army..."

Tang Qi, who was running back and forth, began to pass on the military information to stabilize people's hearts. After hearing the news, many Ming soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they are Shangzhi, most of the Shangzhi infantry guards have never fought. This is also the reason why Daming suffered from a severe drought and was unable to attack the country on a large scale and use the enemy army to train troops.

Not only Shangzhi, but also the guard battalions.

At present, the best equipment is Shangzhi, but in terms of combat experience, the first to bear the brunt is the Western Army Dudufu and the Southern Army Dudufu who participated in the Fan War.

This time, Liting Sweeping Points was a battle of military training directed by Zhu Youjian for Shangzhi. Although the process was somewhat cruel, after this battle, Shangzhi infantry guards could bring out the advantages of their equipment on the battlefield.

Yesterday's bloody battle made Yingyangwei, Shenwuwei, and Baotaowei infantry see the cruelty of frontal combat, and today's bloody battle will teach them how to defend on the plains...

"put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The cannon sounded, but it was not the artillery of Beishan Fort, but the artillery of Xishan Fort separated by a mountain range.

With a shrill howling sound, the stone bullets were fired from behind the defense line of Xishanbao, and hit the golden army shield vehicle that had entered the shooting range of Erli.

Of the two hundred stone bullets, less than fifteen hit the shield chariot.

Facing the simple shield vehicles, they broke through four or five layers of partitions in an instant, and finally got stuck in the interlayer.

"Beep--"

"Beat the drums and march!"

The sturdiness of the shield chariot gave many soldiers and horses of the Golden Army confidence. Jierhalang, who was in charge of commanding the 6000 troops, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after seeing this scene.

What he was most worried about was that the Ming army produced a kind of artillery that was even sharper than the Yanshan artillery, and it couldn't even defend the shield car.

But now it seems that although the Ming army's firecracker research has made rapid progress, the artillery technology is still behind, and the Jin army's shield car tactics are still usable.

Thinking of this, Jierhalang commanded the army to approach Xishan Fort little by little.

He used the binoculars captured on the battlefield to observe the defense line of the Ming army, and the terrain of Xishan Fort was also doomed, and it was more suitable for a small number of troops to defend.

Although it is not as wide as Wulibao, which is less than [-] paces wide, it is only [-] paces wide, and there are mountains and dense forests on the left and right sides, which is very suitable for defense.

As long as there are enough troops deployed on the defensive line, it is not difficult to hold the mountain pass.

For example, now, Liu Bian and Shen Chaofeng, one commanded [-] guards to stand guard in the trench, the other commanded [-] cavalry to cruise, and another [-] cavalry dismounted to control the [-] cannons.

Although there are only 700 people, it is enough to defend Xishan Fort like a fort.

What they relied on was none other than the Apocalypse XI rifle in their hands.

Jin Jun pushed the shield chariot forward at a speed of forty steps per minute, most of them were healthy women in armor.

Some of these healthy women wore Ming army armor, some wore golden army armor, in short, they wore all kinds of clothes, and Huang Taiji asked them to wear armor not to protect them, but to let them attract more firepower.

If they wear the same armor and enter the formation of the Ming army, it will easily cause visual confusion to the Ming army, and it is easy to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. A healthy woman of the Jin army in armor of the Ming army.

With the footsteps of the Jin Army, time is passing by little by little. When 5 minutes passed, the rumbling guns on the Xishan Fort continued to sound, and two hundred stone bullets blasted towards the Jin Army's camp like a violent storm. shield car.

As the distance of the Jin army continued to approach, the aim of the artillery also began to rise. In this round of shelling of [-] stone bullets, more than [-] stone bullets hit the shield car.

It's a pity that, like the previous stone bullets, they are basically stuck in the interlayer of the shield car.

"Will Jin Jun's shield car break through the barbed wire?"

Inside the trench, Shen Chaofeng looked at Liu Bian worriedly, but Liu Bian was confident:

"The barbed wire is wrapped around the horses and the horn wall, and there are trenches behind it."

"It takes at least 2 minutes to clean them up before attacking."

"Two minutes... It's enough for the brothers to reload twenty times!"

The [-] rifle is reloaded twenty times, that is, shot twenty times.

Not to mention the 6000 people in Jierhalang, even 1 people had to retreat in despair.

"We still have to fight sparingly." Shen Chaofeng was worried that Huang Taiji was deliberately wasting their ammunition, because the people who were sent to attack Xishan Fort were mainly healthy women in armor and a small number of Zhenghuang Banner Eight Banners soldiers.

"No need..." Liu Bian glanced at Jin Jun's healthy woman, and said casually:

"Anyway, they are all going to be shot, Li Ting sweeping the hole... Your Highness's words are not just words."

"Jianlu and the northern captives and traitors under his command, everyone gets it and punishes them!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Bian raised his hand, and the Baihu officer lying beside him immediately blew his whistle.

"Beep--"

The sound of the wooden whistle also means that the Jin army has entered the shooting range of one mile (four hundred steps).

All the Shence Guards began to aim. Although they couldn't see anything at a distance of this mile, they only needed to hear the whistle blowing.

Perhaps it was the crushing battle situation yesterday that gave them confidence, so none of the people in the trench panicked, and they all waited quietly for the second whistle to sound.

"Boom bang bang-"

They didn't wait for the whistle, they waited for the cannon from Beishan Fort in the next mountain range, and shortly after the Beishan Fort's cannon sounded, their artillery roared again.

A large number of shells poured on the way forward of the Jin army, which dealt a heavy blow to Jierhalang's troops.

Some shield vehicles that had been bombarded once were pierced after receiving the second round of shelling, so that the healthy women behind the shield vehicles were hit by shells one after another. The shields in their hands were broken, their arms were broken, and their bones protruded. It was extremely terrifying.

"Uh!"

"It hurts! It hurts!"

The healthy women in Jianzhou have a strong ability to resist stress, but when they were really injured on the battlefield, the horror of the battlefield still made them unable to walk, and their faces were pale.

For this group of healthy women, most of the soldiers of the Golden Army felt guilty in their hearts.

Letting women go to the battlefield is undoubtedly the greatest humiliation to men of a nation, but they have nothing to do.

Under the shelling at such a close range, more than a dozen shield vehicles of the Jin Army were pierced one after another, and the healthy women behind the shield vehicles suffered heavy casualties for a while.

"how come……"

Seeing that the shield car was penetrated by only two stone bullets, Jierhalang, who was sitting in the rear army, had a blank mind and a dry mouth.

In the past, even if the Yanshan five-pound cannon of the Ming army bombarded the shield chariot of the Jin army within one mile, it would take at least five or six stone bullets to penetrate the shield chariot, but now...

Jierhalang didn't know what to say for a while, and he naturally didn't understand the increase in the power of artillery and stone bullets after the Ming army replaced the propellant.

"The infantry continued to advance. After cutting the barbed wire, the horse infantry prepared to outflank from both sides!"

When the battle started, Jierhalang discovered that the overall artillery power of the Ming army had greatly increased.

In order to make up for the decision-making mistakes before the war, Jierhalang could only hope that the remaining shield vehicles would break through the barbed wire defense line as soon as possible and enter the trench to fight with the Ming army.

It's a pity that his combat intention failed to be realized, because the remaining 80 shield vehicles encountered another round of shelling within 5 minutes after he ordered, and this shelling even scrapped more than 30 shield vehicles.

More than 50 shield vehicles covered the golden army's healthy women and arrived at the barbed wire position, but the riflemen of Shence Guard hadn't fired yet, even though the distance between the two sides was less than ten steps.

A group of healthy women in armor swung heavy waist knives and slashed at the barbed wire. At the same time as sparks were flying, Liu Bian also picked up the wooden whistle and put it to his mouth...

"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang!"

Intensive gunshots sounded, and hundreds of healthy women rushed out at once. The healthy women who tried to destroy the barbed wire were shot and fell down one after another, and the following healthy women also rushed up one after another.

It's a pity that a head of blood can't save Jin Guo and Jianzhou Jurchens. The continuous gunshots rang out, and Jierhalang also watched this scene that he would never forget, and couldn't calm down for a long time.

No matter how the more than 4000 healthy women rushed forward, slashing with waist knives, even if they used shield carts to collide with the barbed wire fence, the barbed wire fence remained motionless, and the heavy horses were constantly dragged, plowing out gullies on the ground.

Braving the dense bullet rain of the Ming army, the team of healthy women pushed the shield car to attack many times, but as rounds of bullets continued to hit, even the shield car was overwhelmed in the end. A bullet passed through multiple partitions, Hit a healthy woman, blood scattered...

"Failed……"

Looking at the dwindling team of healthy women in front of him, Jierhalang couldn't bear to look directly at him, so he could only turn his head and order to Zhenghuang Qijia La Ezhen next to him: "Retreat."

"Yes!" Zhenghuang Qijia Laerzhen couldn't stand it any longer, so he grabbed the gong himself, and quickly rang the gold.

The golden sound of "Dang Dang Dang" sounded, and many healthy women of the Jin Kingdom knew that this was the military order to retreat, so they all retreated scrambling and crawling.

This is a funny scene, but also a scene of helplessness, a scene of humiliation...

For the Ming army, this is very funny.

For the generals of the Jin Army such as Jierhalang, this is very helpless.

For the men in the Kingdom of Jin, this is very humiliating.

"Boom bang bang-"

The war will not end with the Jin army's Mingjin. The roaring artillery, flying stone bullets, and Ming army soldiers who keep getting up and shooting are the true portrayal of the battlefield.

Originally, the healthy women of the Jin Army pulled the shield car to cover the retreat, and they were able to retreat successfully. However, most of them, who had not received military training, fell on the way to retreat.

They faced the men on their side and fell down one by one. Some Jin Jun turned their heads sideways and couldn't bear to look directly at them.

It's just that for the Ming army, even a healthy woman represents the head of the silver reward.

The bullets continued to shoot out. In such a sad situation, more than 4000 healthy women were shot in the back and fell down one after another. Only more than [-] people retreated successfully.

"Beep--"

Liu Bian blew the whistle, and all the Shence Guard riflemen stopped shooting and started chatting and laughing, and skillfully cleaned up the residue left in the barrel of the paper-cased fixed-loading bullets.

"Today is just a test."

Shen Chaofeng put down the binoculars in his hand, and Liu Bian nodded slightly.

The two didn't think there was anything immoral about shooting the healthy woman, because this was a war, or a war of extermination.

When Nurhachi rebelled and massacred the Ming army, they didn't show mercy, so why should they be affectionate?
The two talked and laughed, but compared to them, Jierhalang's hands and feet were cold.

He got off his horse and walked up to the horse to look at the battlefield.

On the narrow plain one mile in front of the Xishanbao position, dead bodies were lying here and there, almost filling up the place.

The blood flowed out from the wounds of the corpse and spread towards the surroundings. When encountering some potholes, they gathered into "water puddles".

Jierhalang felt a sense of sadness in his heart. Although he had received information about the firepower of Xishan Fort and the combat power of the Ming army, this information was obtained in exchange for thousands of healthy women...

"Let's withdraw the troops..." Jierharang stopped talking, or he forced himself not to think about those things.

He walked back to the war horse, got on the horse, and retreated with the golden army men who were trembling with fright and lowered their heads and demoralized.

When they came, there were more than 2000 people, but when they retreated, there were only more than [-] people left.

"Beep!"

"Clean up the battlefield!"

As they gradually disappeared, Liu Bian and several hundreds of household officials blew their wooden whistles, chanted the words to clean up the battlefield, and then walked out of the trench, came to the rear artillery position and started laughing.

Compared with them, more than [-] Ming soldiers stepped onto the battlefield.

They opened the barbed wire, appeared on the battlefield full of corpses, and saw the "work" they created with their own eyes.

Some people are heartless and very excited to go up and start harvesting heads.

For them, the head of a healthy woman is a white flower reward, a treasure that can make their family's life better.

It’s just that for some emotional people, watching such “works” created by themselves at a close distance makes them somewhat unable to adapt.

"Little Prince Zhu, why are you standing here in a daze? Cut off your head! Don't you want to send money to your parents?"

"Huh? Oh oh oh... cut it, cut it..."

On the battlefield, when Zhu Fuju was slapped, he turned his head and saw the old face of his little flag officer, he immediately came to his senses, took an ax and began to chop off the head of a healthy woman.

Just looking at the neck of the healthy woman who had taken off her helmet with her back turned to him, he couldn't bear to do it for a while.

He is not a good person, as a soldier who has been in the army for three years and guarded Taining Mansion, he has killed eight if not ten heads of the North Prisoners.

It was his first time to chop off a woman's head.

He is a collateral descendant of Prince Qin's Mansion who came out of Wufu. Since King Qi confiscated the land of the vassal king and distributed it to the clan, the clan's life is actually going well.

For example, the three members of Zhu Fuju's family divided 150 mu of land in Lutai County, Xi'an Prefecture.

Before the land was distributed, his parents were both tenants of the county prince's mansion, taking care of ten mu of land, but even so, they still couldn't make ends meet every year. His father Zhu Cunji didn't dare to give birth to him until he was 23 years old, which was considered the oldest in the Ming Dynasty There are only men left.

He is 20 years old this year, and it was four years ago that Zhu Youjian's place was divided.

His purpose of joining the army is very simple, just to make money.

Although the three members of the family received 150 mu of land as the clan, they would never be able to grow it, and if they hired tenants, they would have no money or food.

In addition, the land cannot be sold, so Zhu Fuju joined the army at the age of 16, and took the army silver to his family to ask someone to help farm the land.

During this period, he was assigned to the Shence Guard of Taining Mansion as a rifleman, and it was not until two months ago that he changed to a rifle.

He didn't have any thoughts or complaints along the way, and even felt very happy.

Compared with the days when he was a tenant of the county prince's mansion, the current life is very comfortable.

His parents added two younger brothers to him, and the family suddenly became five people. With the severe drought and migration in Shaanxi, it became more and more difficult to hire people.

At the beginning of this year, after he wrote to his father saying that he would go to war, he also wrote back to him, wishing him to be safe, and at the same time, he also sent him 32 taels of silver, thinking that after the war, as a soldier, he would pay a low price. Buy some captured cattle at a low price.

After this battle was over, the five months of vacation he had accumulated during his three years in the army could be used, and he just happened to bring the cattle home to relieve some of the burden on his family.

32 Although there were a lot of taels of silver, the price of the seized farm cattle was also ten taels per head. This amount of silver could buy three heads at most.

In order to reduce the burden on the family, Zhu Fuju thought about killing more Jianlu, taking more heads, getting more rewards after the war, and buying more cattle to go home, so as to reduce the burden on the family.

Therefore, in their small banner, he was actually the most reckless person in the battle and the most diligent in harvesting heads in this battle.

It's just that today, looking at the heads that he chopped off one by one, Zhu Fuju is a little confused for some reason.

This kind of pure one-sided massacre made Zhu Fuju wake up at this moment. He was thinking, are they human or animals?

The Emperor, King Qi, Lao Nu, Huang Taiji, Cao Zongbing, Commander Liu...

Are these people in power wearing silk, talking about etiquette, and wearing a cultural jacket, or are they greedy animals?
For the sake of their power, the young men from the Ming and Jin sides, as well as the healthy women who died under Zhu Fuju's hands were thrown into the wilderness like this, and their heads were cut off.

With just a whistle, they, together with a group of young people around them, shuttled between the dense barbed wire, the horses and the horns.

Just a whistle, and everyone started to rush towards the enemy army, dreaming of making great achievements, returning home, and showing off their bravery with the girl they love.

However, people like them are only worthy of a bullet or a hammer in the end, and they didn't see the enemy who killed them until they died, so they fell into the mud.

The corpse that hadn't completely expired was also dragged away, its head was cut off, and it became someone else's military exploits and rewards...

Zhu Fuju cut off the heads numbly, and after the cleaning was over, they piled up the headless corpses and burned them together, and collected the armor.

During this process, Zhu Fuju was very numb. He didn't return to the trench and lay down until everything was done. He leaned his rifle on his shoulder and didn't know what he was thinking.

His experience was staged on every battlefield, until the Jin army in front of each stone fortress was repelled by the Ming army stationed, and all the soldiers happily cut off their heads and cleaned up the battlefield.

They were so happy that they didn't know that today's battle was just an appetizer before the big battle...

　Update Chapter 2 around [-]pm.

　　
　
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