Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

The time came to mid-May of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen.

A warm current swept across the land of the Central Plains, and the temperature along the Huanghuai River rose by more than ten degrees overnight. The Yellow River, which had been frozen for nearly half a year, completely thawed and formed ice floods.

Under the night, Badahai quietly lurks in the wilderness on the east bank of the Yellow River.

Tonight, it was the turn of Niulu, where Badahai was, to send out the ambush army, and Niulu Ezhen was sent to Badahai. Although Badahai was very dissatisfied, he had to bring Huang Deheng to lurk by the Yellow River.

Jiannu dug a moat dozens of miles long around Xuzhou City, and built a ten-foot-high parapet wall outside the moat. The blockade is not tight.

But no matter how tight the blockade is, it is impossible to be watertight.

Especially at night, there are often messengers from the Ming army trying to infiltrate.

As a result, Jiannu sent out a large number of Ye Bu Shou and Fulu Army. Ye Bu Shou was like a ghost walking in the dark night, and Fu Lu Army was even more of a ghost hiding in the dark, which often made the messengers of the Ming army hard to guard against.

In the past few months, countless messengers of the Ming army were hunted and killed by Jiannu Yebushou and the ambush army.

"Master." Huang Deheng's voice sounded under the silent night sky, "Drink some water."

While talking, Huang Deheng took off the sheepskin pouch at his waist and handed it over, which contained clear water.

"Hush!" But Badahai made a silent gesture, and he vaguely heard something abnormal.

Seeing Badahai's hand gesture through the dim starlight, Huang Deheng quickly put away the sheepskin handbag, took out the torch from his leather pouch, and prepared a suet torch at the same time.

At a certain moment, a black shadow sprang up from the wilderness ahead like a ghost.

Badahai jumped up abruptly, and at the same time he had fastened a heavy arrow to the bowstring and pulled back the big bow, at the same time he shouted sharply: "Torch!"

Huang Deheng lit the torch as fast as he could.

After lighting the torch, Huang Deheng threw it forward vigorously.

The burning suet torch drew a dazzling trajectory in the air, and landed in the night sky above the head of the shadow, illuminating the shadow at once. It really was a secret work of the Ming army!
It is easy to tell whether it is the Ming army's meticulous work, just look at the hairstyle on the top of the head.

When moving at night, Jianu usually balds his head, revealing the golden mouse tail behind his head.

Therefore, if the person wearing a hat or a felt hat is definitely a messenger or spy of the Ming army, just shoot and kill.

Badahai let go of the bowstring without hesitation, and only heard the sound of bang, and the three-foot-long three-edged heavy arrow tore through the air with a bang, and roared towards the back of the black figure.

The distance of less than twenty steps is basically nothing to Badahai.

With only a pop, the heavy arrow pierced through the black shadow's shoulder, and the black shadow fell to the ground with a muffled groan, and after two twitches, there was no more movement.

Huang Deheng waited for a while before approaching happily.

"Master, you are a poor ghost." Soon Huang Deheng came back with a dark face.

"I don't even have a big boy, and I don't have secret wax pills on my body."

"It's expected." Badahai smiled, and said again, "After confronting for so long, Minggou has already learned how to behave, so how could he bring money or letters with him?"

However, before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly heard the sound of Kacha.

"What sound?" Huang Deheng said in a low voice, "Master, I seem to hear something cracking."

"Shh, keep quiet." Badahai extinguished the torch, and signaled Huang Deheng to keep quiet, and the surroundings returned to silence, as if nothing had happened.

Soon, Kacha Kacha's voice sounded again.

Badahai and Huang Deheng turned their heads almost at the same time, and cast their gazes to the west.

The location where the two were lurking was actually quite far from the trench, but it was not far from the Yellow River, only a dozen steps away.

Looking at each other, Badahai and Huang Deheng reacted almost at the same time, and then shouted at the same time: "Navy division! Ming army navy! Ming army navy!"

Accompanied by the roar, Badahai drew his big bow,

And buckle a rocket on the bowstring of the big bow.

Huang Dehuan hurriedly lit the rocket again with the torch.

In the next instant, accompanied by a muffled bang, the rocket on the string flew into the air with a piercing scream, drawing a striking trajectory in the night sky.

Then, piles of beacon fires rose in the nearby wilderness.

With the lighting of these beacon fires, castles were revealed under the night, and these beacon fires suddenly burned on the castles.

Moreover, in addition to the beacon fires burning on these castles, there are also red barbarian cannons, and the muzzles of all the red barbarian cannons point to the river ahead.

Not long after, piles of beacon fires were lit on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Under the beacon fire, castles were also exposed on the west bank of the Yellow River. Hongyi cannons were also erected on the castles, and the muzzles of the Hongyi cannons were also pointed at the river.

At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see a magnificent scene.

On the east and west banks of the Yellow River on the east side of Yunlong Mountain, dozens of castles have been built along the seven or eight li long river banks, and one or two red barbarian cannons are mounted on these castles.

But the Yellow River is several miles wide.

The beacon fire on the bank alone cannot illuminate the river.

So the surface of the Yellow River was still pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

But if you think that there is no way to build slaves, you underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.

Flares are of course impossible in this era, but Jian Nu thought of fire boats.

Immediately, one after another fire boats burned from the shore, and then were pushed into the middle of the river, and then went down the river.

Dozens of fire boats slowly spread out on the river, and then slowly moved south along the ling flood, and soon covered the entire river.

At this time, if there were indeed warships of the Ming Army Navy on the river, they would definitely be illuminated by the flames of the fireboats, and there would be nowhere to hide.

Badahai's heart was raised immediately. If there were no warships on the river, then he would be lying about the military situation, and he would be punished most severely. Chasing the flag is also possible.

Huang Deheng, a dog slave, was even more nervous than Badahai.

If Badahhai is punished, his end will only be more tragic.

But fortunately, not long after, dozens of dazzling red lights suddenly bloomed on the surface of the river.

Accompanied by the red light, there was a huge booming sound, which was the warship of the Ming army navy firing.

Obviously, after finding nowhere to hide, the naval warships of the Ming army fired first, trying to destroy the fire boat released by Jiannu before revealing their position.

But shooting can also reveal the position.

The red muzzle flame is the most dazzling pointing light.

So the Hongyi cannons on the castle on the shore also fired.

A artillery battle between the navy of the Ming army and the Jiannu artillery was staged suddenly, and the artillery shells drew dazzling trajectories under the night, criss-crossing and covering the entire river.

From time to time, shells hit the castle on the river bank, raising smoke and dust.

From time to time, shells hit the Ming navy warships on the river, hit the mast, the mast broke immediately, and hit the parapet on the side, and the parapet immediately shattered inch by inch. The most unlucky thing was the sideboard, a big hole was punched out in the bulkhead of the ship immediately, and the river water quickly poured in through the big hole.

……

Zheng Hongkui's face had turned into charcoal, almost three points darker than the night.

Zheng Hongkui had already expected it before setting off from the navy camp at Qingjiangpu, so he did not choose to sail during the day, but sailed at night at the risk of being stranded. What he was worried about was Jiannu's Hongyi cannon.

In the end, he came to whatever he was afraid of, but in the end he was bombarded by Jiannu Hongyi cannons.

Seeing the dozens of red cannons erected on the castle on the shore firing non-stop, Zheng Hongkui was so angry that his teeth were gritted. These slaves are really hateful, and they actually built the castle.

What makes Zheng Hongkui even more angry is that the castle built by Jiannu obviously borrowed from the Ming army's blunderbuss platform, and it was also built very short, but the parapet was built extremely thick and had a large inclination.

Therefore, the shells of the naval warships hit Jiannu's castle with almost no effect.

"Uncle, we can't continue fighting like this!" Zheng Cai walked up to Zheng Hongkui with a face full of gunpowder smoke, and roared with a dark face, "Our shells can't hurt Jiannu at all, but Jiannu's shells can hit us hard!"

Speaking of this meal, Zheng Cai said again: "Now we only have two choices, either retreat the same way, or rush over desperately. It is impossible for Jiannu to block the entire river section. The river section with cannons is at most Seven or eight miles long."

Zheng Hongkui turned his gaze to Wang Chengen and asked, "What do you think, father-in-law?"

This winter, Wang Chengen stayed with Zheng Hongkui's sailors.

Bringing more than a thousand catties of peppers he collected from Huai'an Mansion.

Wang Chengen hurriedly said: "Everything depends on Mr. Zheng's decision."

Now Zheng Hongkui was stumped.

……

The huge cannon sound quickly alarmed Chongzhen in his sleep.

Putting on his clothes and getting up at the fastest speed, Chongzhen took Zhu Cijiong to the No. [-] blunderbuss platform on the ninth peak. This blunderbuss platform had the widest view, and he could clearly see the river surface more than ten miles long to the east.

The scholar on duty tonight is Zheng Sen, who immediately greeted Chongzhen.

"Mian." Chongzhen waved his hand and asked, "What's the matter with the sound of the cannon?"

Zheng Sen pointed to the east and said, "My lord, our navy has arrived."

"Navy?" Chongzhen opened his binoculars to point at the river to the east, and said, "The temperature has risen a lot in the past few days, and the Yellow River has also thawed. It's almost time for the navy to come back."

Zheng Sendao: "But the navy seems to have been stopped by Jiannu."

While speaking, Chongzhen had already adjusted the focus and had a clear view of the river surface.

But after observing for a moment, Chongzhen said: "This is also the expected result. Jiannuxiu's fortress borrowed from our blunderbuss. The Navy's Hongyi cannon is no different from Jiannu, but Jiannu's Hongyi cannon It can pose a threat to naval warships, and according to this style of play, our navy will have no chance of winning."

As early as more than two months ago, when Jiannu was digging trenches to repair the wall, he was building the fort.

Since then, Chongzhen has foreseen that the Navy will face huge challenges.