Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 213: Snow Night Attack
It was already dark outside.

However, Jiannu's large tent of the Chinese army was illuminated like daylight by more than a dozen suet torches, and the charcoal fire in the stove was burning brightly, warming the entire tent.

But Doduo's face was as cold as the northwest wind outside the tent.

Doduo could barely accept the failure of the blue flag in the morning.

But Duduo couldn't accept the failure of the inlaid white flag in the afternoon.

This is not only a matter of losing face or not, but two consecutive failures have already dampened the confidence of the Eight Banners soldiers to a certain extent. If there are more such failures, the battle of Xuzhou will definitely be a stalemate.

If it is really a long-term siege like Ningyuan and Jinzhou, Duoduo is not willing.

There was no other way. He would never choose to besiege the city for a long time until the end. After all, Xuzhou was neither Ningyuan nor Jinzhou, so it was not so easy to besiege.

"Master, wake up! Wake up!"

He Luohui rushed in and said excitedly.

"Are you finally awake?" Duoduo asked, "Hurry up and bring him in."

"Master has an order, bring it in." He Luohui immediately turned around and waved, "Hurry up and bring it in."

When even two flagmen carried Va Xing'a into the big tent on a stretcher, a strong stench immediately permeated the Chinese army's big tent as Va Xing'a came in.

The Eight Banners nobles such as Luo Luohun and Luck Dehun covered their noses in disgust.

Fifty years have passed since the old slave started his army. Although the second and third generations of Jiannu still maintain a brave and good fighting style, they are no longer as hard-working and simple as the older generation.

Duoduo's eyes fell on Va Xing'a, resisting the urge to vomit, and asked with a dark face: "Va Xing, what did you encounter on the gun platform? Why did you lose so badly?"

In the disastrous defeat half a month ago, it was normal for the entire army to be wiped out.

After all, it is stealing chickens, it is gambling, and since it is gambling, there is a possibility of losing money.

But this time it was a frontal attack. The [-] white-armored soldiers who invested in the attack did not have the problem of exhaustion at all, but why couldn't they take down the Ming army's blunderbuss?And it also ended in annihilation of the whole army?
Anyway, Doduo couldn't think of it even if he wanted to break his head. What's going on?

Ever since Duduo could remember, the white armored soldiers had never fought such a useless battle.

"Master." Va Xing'a almost cried, "Those smart dogs, those smart dogs are too vicious."

After a pause, Wa Xing'a gritted his teeth again and said: "That blunderbuss platform is a bit big, and there are hundreds of Ming dogs stationed there, and what's even more shameless is that Ming dogs also prepared a variety of defense equipment."

"At that time, we rushed up to the blunderbuss right behind the fourth wave of flags."

"The dog on the gun platform didn't have time to react, and we easily entered the gun platform."

"Ming Gou immediately fired another row of guns, but it was useless at all, and it couldn't stop us at all. We are the Ba Yala of the Qing Dynasty. How can a mere bird gun stop us?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Duoduo said angrily, "Get to the point."

"Hey!" Ah Wa Xing responded, and continued, "Just as we were about to go forward to kill the Ming Dogs guarding the gun platform, the Ming Dogs in the front row suddenly threw out dozens of fishing nets!"

"What? Fishing net!" Duoduo was stunned.

Luo Luohun and other Eight Banners nobles also looked at each other in blank dismay.

"It's the fishing net." Va Xing'a said sadly, "Except for the slave who had been fishing before and knew how powerful the fishing net is, he escaped by chance, and the other Ba Yala soldiers were caught off guard."

"Except for the slaves, everyone else was brought down by the fishing net."

"Immediately, golden juice and boiling water were poured over my head and face."

"There are also paper bags filled with quicklime and other things."

"These paper bags shattered as soon as they hit us, and quicklime and something else splashed on our faces, but that thing was so overbearing, we couldn't open our eyes and coughed."

Speaking of this meal, Wa Xing'a said sadly again: "The slave almost didn't escape back."

"You still have the face to say it." Duoduo scolded with a dark face, "You have shown your ability by running away, right?"

"Master, this slave is not running away." Va Xing said anxiously, "The reason why this slave came back is to report Ming Gou's insidiousness to Master, otherwise he would have fought Ming Gou long ago."

"Okay, I'll punish you later." Duoduo waved his hand to signal Banner Ding to carry Wa Xing'a down.

It wasn't until Va Xing'a was carried away that the Eight Banners nobles in the tent breathed a sigh of relief, and finally the smell stopped.

Duoduo's eyes wandered back and forth on the faces of the Eight Banners nobles in the big tent, while his fingers unconsciously tapped on the brocade mat, he was repeatedly weighing in his mind whether to launch an attack at night?

……

Hall of the No. [-] Guntai Bunker on the Ninth Peak of Yunlong Mountain.

The slightly rough sand table before has become much more refined, and even the two parapet walls surrounding Yunlong Mountain have been realistically simulated.

One of these two parapets is on the mountainside and the other is at the foot of the mountain.

The perimeter of the protective wall at the foot of the mountain is more than ten miles, and the height is about three feet. Most of them are the original cliffs of the mountain, and a small part is made of straight earth walls carved from gentle slopes. The retaining wall was formed by mixing stones with rammed earth. In short, the entire Yunlong Mountain has been built into an independent city.

The perimeter of the parapet wall on the mountainside is slightly shorter, and the height is about two feet.

In addition, the gun platforms at the foot of the mountain and on the mountainside were also built on the back of these two parapets.

Because of this, the blunderbuss of Yunlong Mountain is very different from the blunderbuss of other directions.

The blunderbuss platforms in other directions are polygonal and complete, while the blunderbuss platforms on Yunlong Mountain are circular, and half of them are embedded in the mountain body of Yunlong Mountain.

In the firelight, everyone looked at the sand table model.

Chongzhen said: "You guys said, after Jiannu has suffered this loss, will he continue to attack?"

Zheng Sen said without hesitation: "I thought that Jiannu would never give up, and would definitely continue to attack. Maybe tonight will launch a night attack in the dark!"

"Night attack?" Chongzhen nodded slightly.

He asked again: "If Jiannu really launched a night attack at night, how would he attack?"

Ma Huabao said in a deep voice: "The blunderbuss towers at the foot of the mountain are heavily guarded. Jiannu has already experienced it, so he probably won't ask for trouble again, so if he attacks at night, he will probably attack the parapet between the blunderbuss towers."

"The wall between the gun stands? That's a bit interesting."

There was a slight smile on the corner of Chongzhen's mouth.

……

"The king decided to launch a sneak attack at night."

Duduo glanced at Luo Luohun and other nobles of the Eight Banners with his hawk-like eyes, and said, "However, the gun towers at the foot of Yunlong Mountain are well-defended, so I'm afraid it's hard to have a chance."

"So this time, we're not going to play on the gun platform."

"Specially hit the wall between adjacent gun platforms!"

"My king observed it during the day, and the protective wall is not high."

"The height of the wall is just over one foot, and the trench is only three feet high."

"The key is that there are very few guards behind the parapet, and the Eight Banners warriors launch a sneak attack at night, and they will definitely be able to go down with a drum."

"After taking down the protective wall, my Eight Banners warriors can continue to go up the mountain, and then launch a dive, and can break through all the gun emplacements at the foot of the mountain without any effort."

The idea is still very good.

……

Just in time, suddenly it began to snow again.

"My God." Jin Shenghuan scolded, "Why is it snowing again?"

Xu Yingwei added a piece of firewood to the fire, and said, "It's cold in the spring and it's cold in the spring. Isn't it normal for snow to fall at this time? We don't have snow until Qingming in Kuaiji, let alone this is Xuzhou."

Jin Shenghuan said: "Even so, it's still unbearably cold."

"Eat a piece of wheat cake and it won't be cold." Xu Yingwei picked up the baked wheat cake and handed it over.

"I don't have an appetite." Jin Shenghuan leaned back, shook his head and said, "I just want to drink now, if only I could have a sip of soju. It's been a long time since I've had soju."

While he was speaking, a muffled bang suddenly sounded from outside the gun platform.

"There are Jiannu!" The two got up and rushed behind the parapet.

After all, Xu Yingwei was still young, and he raised his head a little higher.

"Looking for death?" Jin Shenghuan hurriedly lowered Xu Yingwei's head.

Almost at the moment when Jin Shenghuan pressed Xu Yingwei's head down, there was a shriek in the night sky, but a heavy arrow had already passed by Xu Yingwei's head, and the tasseled spear was shot off in one fell swoop.

Xu Yingwei suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, as expected, Jiannu's Yeburei was lurking outside the gun platform.

If Jin Shenghuan hadn't pushed his head down just now when there was no time to send, he would have been shot right through the face by Jiannu.

The two quickly retracted the gun platform again, changed to a location with a slightly darker light, and then poked their heads out to look out, just in time to see several suet torches lit up in the wilderness ahead.

Immediately, several torches were thrown forward.

The eyes of the two moved forward with the torch, and soon saw a figure.

Jin Shenghuan's face immediately collapsed, because he could tell from the position that this was the ambush army he had sent.

It was too late, and then it was fast, after another scream that tore through the air, a heavy arrow shot through the body of Fu Lujun, Fu Lujun ran forward a few steps, and fell to the ground slumped.

Jin Shenghuan said grimly: "Jianu really wants to attack at night!"

Xu Yingwei turned around and shouted loudly: "The trumpeter listens to the order and blows the rallying call!"

The two trumpeters immediately raised their suonas, and then the assembly call sounded.

Hearing the sound of the assembly horn, the six blunderbuss platforms at the foot of the Ninth Peak were the first to light up torches, followed by the six blunderbuss platforms on the Eighth Peak, and then the four blunderbuss platforms on the mountainside... In a short while, the entire Yunlong Mountain was lit up. A torch was lit.

Even the parapets between the gun platforms were lit with torches, and the whole mountain was as bright as white.

Xu Yingwei looked out again, and saw that there was no Jiannu in the ditch outside the gun platform.

However, the wall between the No. [-] gun platform and the No. [-] gun platform at the foot of the mountain was already crowded with Jiannu.

Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan couldn't help but licked his tongue: "Xu Xiucai, you really hit the spot!"

"Wrong, this is not what I said, but the Holy Majesty." Xu Yingwei shook his head and shouted sharply, "Musketeers, all line up, line up!"

The tactics are still the same tactics.

The musketeers of the Ming army lined up inside the blunderbuss platform, and the Jiannu archers and musketeers outside the blunderbuss platform could not be seen.

However, as long as Jiannu, who climbed the ladder to attack the middle parapet, passed the height of the parapet, he would be exposed to the firing range of the Ming army's musketeers, and this time it was still crossfire.

The two gun platforms, about fifty paces apart, formed a crossfire.

To put it bluntly, Yunlong Mountain is actually equivalent to a super-large bastion.

The gun platform built on the raised part of the mountain foot is equivalent to the convex corner of the bastion.

The crossfire formed by the protruding corners can effectively cover the fort wall in the middle of the corners without any dead ends.

While the musketeers fired their guns in turn, Jin Shenghuan also quickly led the frontier soldiers to the inside of the wall. Once a Jiannu who slipped through the net or a white armored soldier of Jiannu forced his way in, he would immediately pack them with fishing nets, lime packets, and flour pepper packets. call.

There were indeed a few Jiannu white-armored soldiers who climbed up the gun platform under the firepower, but they were covered by fishing nets.

Immediately, packets of lime and flour and peppers rained down on these white-armored soldiers. These white-armored soldiers lost their ability to resist in an instant, and were stabbed to death by the spearmen of the Ming army.

At this moment, the spearmen of the Ming army also revealed their experience.

The spearmen of the Ming army did not stab the torso and four feet of Jiannu Baijia soldiers, but only stabbed the face.

The face is the weakest point of the white-armored soldiers. Usually there is only a thin layer of visor. Some white-armored soldiers do not even have a visor because of their high skills, so the spearmen of the Ming army stabbed every time.

The reason is very simple, one or two spears, Jiannu Baijia soldiers can block them with their weapons, or push them away with their hands, but five or six or even a dozen spears come at them all at once, how to block and hide?
Jiannu's first wave of offensive was disintegrated, and the sneak attack failed.

In the ditch at the foot of the Ninth Peak, hundreds of Jiannu corpses were thrown down.

……

"hateful!"

When the news came back, Duo Duo slapped the saddle hard, and the horse under his crotch was frightened and immediately backed away, almost throwing Duo Duo off the horse.

Fortunately, He Luo quickly took the rein of the horse.

Fan Chengmo, who was standing beside him, tensed up subconsciously.

Not surprisingly, the master's whip should fall on him again.

But this time it didn't, and Doduo didn't vent his anger on him.

He Luohui persuaded in a low voice: "Master, the Ming army on Yunlong Mountain is too heavily guarded, we have no chance, and the red cannons are also inaccurate at night, if the Ming army cavalry in Xuzhou city suddenly rushed out to outflank the back, it would be more dangerous. It’s a big loss, or forget it, and it won’t be too late to fight after tomorrow’s dawn.”

"Forget it, then withdraw them all." Duoduo said helplessly.

Because what He Luo would say is also reasonable, this black light not only affects the Ming army, but also affects them, especially the red cannon can't play a role.

It's just that the battle was too useless.

Doduo already felt helpless.

After returning to the big tent, Duoduo began to drink shochu.

One is to relieve boredom. When Doduo is in a bad mood, he will drink to relieve boredom.

The second is that the brain is most active when drunk, and can often come up with some good ideas.

After drinking a few glasses of shochu, Dodo really thought of an idea, and immediately asked Fan Chengmo to call He Luohui.

"He Luohui, I remember that Shangqiu's gentry sent a group of children to Xuzhou with the army." Duoduo drank a drink, and said, "Where are these gentry's children now?"

"They're all here." He Luo said, "Living with the servants."

Duoduo said: "Go and ask, who has been to Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou."

(End of this chapter)