Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 214

"Xiaosheng Hou Fangyu, please ask the prince Jin'an."

Hou Fangyu flicked his sleeve clumsily and knelt down on one knee, and slapped Duoduo a thousand.

"Excuse me." Duoduo didn't show it on his face, but there was some contempt in his heart. This is a soft bone, far from those noble scholars.

Duoduo then asked: "Have you been to Yunlong Mountain?"

Hou Fangyu nodded and said: "Xuzhou is not far from Shangqiu, and it is the only way to go to Nanjing. Every time Xiaosheng goes to Nanjing from his hometown, or returns to his hometown in Shangqiu from the north of Nanjing, he will stay in Xuzhou for a few days. It is inevitable that I will invite several friends to climb Yunlong Mountain and sing poems to reminisce about the past."

Speaking of this, Hou Fangyu let himself go a little bit.

Then he continued: "Xiaosheng has quite a few poems in Yunlong Mountain, please correct me..."

Seeing that Hou Fangyu was about to chant a poem, Duoduo's face immediately collapsed. What do you mean?This is mocking us Eight Banners who only know how to wield knives and guns, but don't understand poetry and writing, right?I gave you face?
"Shut up!" Duduo yelled with a dark face, "Who told you to recite poetry?"

"Eh?" Hou Fangyu just woke up like a dream, and in front of him is the murderous Jiannu!

Although Jiannu treated the gentry in the city pretty well after entering Shangqiu, the accusations against Jiannu by the National Disaster Troupe and the Scholars Camp were not all groundless, and most of them were true.

Hou Fangyu immediately shut his mouth.

Duoduo snorted and asked again: "Since you have been to Yunlong Mountain many times, you must be familiar with the terrain of Yunlong Mountain. Now you can explain the terrain of Yunlong Mountain in detail for me."

"Yes." Hou Fangyu bowed his head and said, "Yunlong Mountain generally runs northeast-southwest. There are nine peaks in total. The length from north to south is about nine miles, and the width from east to west is about one mile. The highest mountain is about fifty feet."

Duoduo said: "Then is there any underground tunnel or a small path such as a cave in the rock that can go directly to the top of the mountain?"

Good guy, realizing that a frontal attack won't work, Doduo started to use his brains and prepared to launch a surprise attack, but then again, this is actually a traditional craft of Jiannu.

Back then, the old slaves often carried out various surprise attacks in Liaodong.

"The secret passage in the rock crevice cave?" Hou Fangyu was stunned for a moment, and then said again, "There used to be many such paths, but now they are all blocked by rammed earth and stone walls."

"Build it?" Duoduo frowned, "You mean the entire Yunlong Mountain is surrounded by rammed earth or stone walls?"

"Yes." Hou Fangyu nodded and said, "Before the arrival of the Qing soldiers, Xiaosheng visited Xuzhou once in the name of visiting friends, and he also climbed Yunlong Mountain. It’s almost the same, and it must have been completely repaired by now, the entire Yunlong Mountain is surrounded by a three-foot-high parapet, and the mountainside is still there, but it’s a little shorter.”

"Really?" Doduo was greatly disappointed, if this was the case, a surprise attack would not work.

A strong attack won't work, and a surprise attack won't work either. Duoduo really has nothing to do now, Xuzhou is really hard to fight.

He Luohui said: "Master, if it doesn't work, bring the red-clothed cannon in! Let the Eight Banners Han army set up the red-clothed cannon at the foot of Yunlong Mountain and bombard him for three consecutive days and nights. If you don’t believe in blowing up these bullshit towers built by Minggou, as long as the towers are blown down, the Minggou on the mountain will become local chicken tile dogs.”

"It's easy to say." Duoduo said unhappily, "Where are you going to put the red cannon?"

"This..." He Luohui was at a loss for words. Where to put the red-clothed cannon is indeed a problem. It is safe to put it in the trench dug by the coated slaves, but it cannot hit the Ming army's gun platform.

But if it is placed on the ground, the Ming army gun platforms on both sides of the trench will not be polite.

The Ming army's tiger squatting cannon had a range of [-] paces, enough to cover the red cannon position.

Moreover, there are red cannons of the Ming army on the top of Yunlong Mountain, which is also a huge threat.

After a long while, He Luohui said again: "Then clean up the gun mounts on both sides of the gap and make a big gap with a width of more than five miles, so that the red cannon can be pushed forward by at least five hundred One step, you can hit the gun platform at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, and the next battle will be easy to fight."

"Come up with a bad idea." Duoduo said angrily, "When will it be clear?"

He Luohui was speechless again, because Duoduo was right, time was indeed a big problem, but it took almost half a month to clear the current gap of more than [-] steps.

How long would it take to widen the gap to five miles?

What's more troublesome is that the gap of [-] steps in the middle is relatively easy to clean.

Because of the blind spot, the red cannon on the top of Yunlong Mountain couldn't hit the coating of the trench.

But if you want to expand the gap to the east and west sides, you have to work with the red cannons of the Ming army.

The power of the red cannon is not comparable to that of the tiger squatting cannon. The trenches will collapse with one shot. At that time, the coat slaves who are responsible for digging the trenches and cleaning the slope protection will be killed and injured.

A stern look flashed across Doduo's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "If it doesn't work, attack with a hundred bulls!"

"Bai Niulu's general attack?" He Luohui said in amazement, "The master means to mobilize the Manchurian, Han and Mongolian cavalry of Bai Niulu to launch a fierce attack on the blunderbuss platform and the protective wall at the foot of Yunlong Mountain at the same time, right?"

"Yes." Duoduo nodded emphatically, "Simultaneously launch a frontal attack on dozens of blunderbuss platforms at the foot of Yunlong Mountain and a ten-mile-long protective wall. I don't believe that there are so many defenders on the mountain, and they can simultaneously defend dozens A blunderbuss platform and a ten-mile parapet wall, as long as one blunderbuss platform or a section of the parapet wall is breached by our Eight Banners warriors, Minggou on the mountain will be dead!"

He Luohui frowned and said, "But master, there is still a problem here."

Duoduo said: "You are worried that the warriors of the Eight Banners will not be able to complete the encirclement of Yunlong Mountain, are you?"

"Yes." He Luohui nodded and said, "Although it means that the dogs dug a trench two feet deep and dozens of steps wide around Yunlong Mountain, and the Eight Banners warriors advanced along the trench to avoid the shelling of the Ming army's squatting cannons. However, the musketeers of the Ming army on the gun platform can still use the cover of the gun platform and the protective wall to shoot at the Eight Banners warriors in the trench."

"Then just let them shoot." Duoduo said in a deep voice, "The Eight Banners Manchuria and Eight Banners Mongolia can fight back with bows and arrows in the trenches, and the Eight Banners Han army can also use bird guns to fight back. Judging from the countless previous battles, The Ming army has always been afraid to shoot directly at my Eight Banners warriors, because they know they are not opponents."

He Luohui didn't say a word anymore, because what Duduo said were all iron-clad facts.

Shooting at each other within a distance of fifty steps, the Ming army's blunderbuss really can't compete with the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners soldiers.

The heavy arrows of the Warriors of the Eight Banners not only shoot more accurately, but also shoot faster, which can almost form a crushing advantage over the musketeers of the Ming army. Numerous previous battles have fully proved this point.

At this time, the sky outside the tent had already brightened, so Duoduo simply didn't sleep.

"Beat the drums!" Duduo said in a deep voice, "Call the kings Baylor to discuss!"

Soon, the continuous drumbeat sounded in the slave camp.

……

Chongzhen has gone down to the gun platform at the foot of the mountain.

"Your Majesty." Jin Shenghuan and Xu Yingwei rushed forward to greet him, bowing in salute.

"Excuse me." Chong Zhen raised his hands slightly, and asked again, "How many casualties were there in the battle last night?"

Xu Yingwei said: "There were no casualties in our scholar battalion."

Jin Shenghuan said, "We're fine too, even the ambush soldiers who were thrown out are all dead."

Chongzhen sighed when he heard the words, the Fu Lu army of the frontier army obviously couldn't do Yebushou of Jiannu, and I am afraid that only Hu Guozhu's Yi Ding could compete with Yebushou of Jiannu.

But it's obviously not necessary right now.

Immediately Chongzhen said: "Jin Qing, write down the names of all the soldiers who died in battle. After this battle is over, I will distribute pensions to the families of all the soldiers who died in battle, and then include their names in the Hall of Valor."

"Yes." Jin Shenghuan agreed with a solemn expression.

Chongzhen asked again: "How many Jiannu were killed last night?"

As soon as he mentioned the results of the battle, the corners of Jin Shenghuan's mouth immediately grinned.

The reason is very simple, this is not Jiannu, but a piece of silver.

The head of a real slave is fifty taels, and the head of the Eight Banners Han Army also has ten taels!
From the beginning of the war to the present, not counting last night, 1500 real slaves have been killed on the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain!
At that moment, Jin Shenghuan grinned and said: "Return to the Holy Lord, just now I have sent people down to the ditch to wrap the heads of Jiannu's corpses, and they have cut off more than a hundred of them, all of them are real slaves!"

In other words, Jiannu sent them another five thousand taels of silver last night.

Counting the previous ones, you can get [-] taels of silver just for the reward!

Of course, half of the [-] taels of reward money had to go to the scholar camp, after all, they fought together.

"Killed more than a hundred?" Chongzhen smiled and asked again, "Can you tell which one was killed?"

"Then it must be unclear." Jin Shenghuan scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly, "It can only be our town and the Shiziying who share the rewards equally according to the head."

Chongzhen also had no objection to this.

Anyway, he would never withhold rewards.

It is fifty taels of silver for a real slave, that is fifty taels of silver!
Immediately Chongzhen said again: "Jin Qing and Xu Qing, Jianu has suffered losses many times in a row, and he will definitely not let it go. If you become angry, you may jump the wall in a hurry, so the two of you need to be extra careful next."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I know what you're doing." Xu Yingwei said with a serious face.

Jin Shenghuan said again: "Your Majesty, can you send another team of scholars to each gun platform at the foot of the mountain?"

"No, you are a soldier like you as a scholar." Chongzhen flatly refused, "If it weren't for the fact that your gun platform is too prominent, I wouldn't let Xu Yingwei and the others come to help."

The scholars in the scholar camp are all treasures, so how can they easily join the frontline battle.

Chongzhen said again: "However, the night attack of Jiannu just now did expose some problems. If Jiannu invested more troops to attack from multiple sections of the parapet at the same time last night, you really don't care. Definitely keep it."

(End of this chapter)