Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 278 Before the Great War
Chongzhen shouted again: "Du Yinxi."

Du Yinxi took a step forward and said, "The minister is here."

Chongzhen said: "When the towns launch a counterattack, they will lead the people of Xuzhou out of the city to fill up the blockade ditch. The blockade ditch between Yunlong Mountain and the Yellow River will be filled first!"

"The minister leads the decree!" Du Yinxi clapped his hands and agreed.

Chongzhen said again: "Jin Xuan."

Jin Xuan took a step forward and responded, "The minister is here."

Chongzhen said: "Jiannu has the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Outer Fan Mongolia. After our army launches an attack, the Mongolian cavalry will definitely rush to help in a short time. Our army's infantry may not be afraid of the Mongolian cavalry, but the people lack protection. When the Mongolian cavalry attack, there will be a large number of casualties, which will affect the operation of filling the blockade."

After a short pause, he added: "So, your cavalry battalion needs to go out of the city with Minzhuang, and is responsible for covering Minzhuang's landfill operations. If you have spare time, you can also help infantry fight."

"The minister takes the decree." Jin Xuan clasped his hands in agreement and backed away.

Chongzhen turned his attention to Zheng Hongkui again: "Zheng Hongkui."

"The minister is here." Zheng Hongkui stepped forward and promised loudly.

Chongzhen said: "When Jin Shenghuan and the others broke through the blockade, they launched an attack on the pontoon bridge on the river. After destroying the pontoon bridge, they first cooperated with the infantry to destroy the Jiannu Fort on the west bank of the Yellow River, and then supported the infantry from the three towns of Jin Shenghuan to the east bank to continue destroying the fort on the Yellow River. The Jiannu Fortress on the east bank must completely destroy the river defenses and penetrate the water transportation!"

"The minister leads the decree." Zheng Hongkui clasped his hands, and suddenly agreed.

Chongzhen finally shouted to the outside of Xingyuan Gate: "Yang Ponu."

Yang Ponu, who was guarding outside the gate, entered in response: "The villain is here."

Chongzhen said: "You pick a dozen or so people with good water quality, and now go out of the city with Fushui, go to Xiazhen and Pizhou to report, let Huang Degong and Lu Zhenfei send troops, and delay Jiannu at all costs!"

"Leadership." Yang Ponu turned around and ran out.

Chongzhen's eyes finally fell on Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude.

Seeing this, Lu Jiude and Gao Qiqian straightened their chests subconsciously.

Chongzhen smiled, and asked Gao Qiqian first: "Gao Banban, does your butt hurt?"

Gao Qiqian said with a sad face: "Long Live Lord, to be honest, this old slave really hurts."

The general soldiers and civil servants present wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and it was really hard for them to hold back.

"If you know it hurts, remember it better, and you must be cautious in what you say and do in the future." Chongzhen snorted, and then said, "You two took the eunuch soldiers from the two towns under your command and organized all the old, young, women and children in Xuzhou City. Just wait for Min Zhuang to fill up the ditch, then immediately leave the city and cut off the wheat seedlings!"

"Lu Banban, Gao Banban, you must tell all your parents and fellow villagers that your work is not for nothing."

"I will buy the wheat seedlings they harvested. Every hundred catties of seedlings are worth one tael of silver. No kid is fooled!"

Having said this, Chongzhen said solemnly: "But whoever dares to use grass as wheat seedlings will not only have no money to take, but will be punished!"

"The old slave is waiting for the order!"

Lu Jiude and Gao Qiqian were extremely excited.

Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's all go back and get ready."

"The ministers will resign." Zheng Hongkui, Du Yinxi, Jin Xuan and others all resigned.

In a blink of an eye, all the civil servants, generals, and dozens of scholars left, leaving only Chongzhen, father and son, and Li Xiangjun in Xingyuan. Li Xiangjun looked a little unhappy.

Zhu Cihong tugged at Zhu Cijiong's sleeve.

"Brother, what are you doing by pulling my sleeve?" Zhu Cijiong said with a dazed expression.

Zhu Cihong said in his heart that you, a young chicken, really don't understand anything, how dare you stay here to block your father's eyes?
Immediately, Zhu Cihong hooked Zhu Cijiong's shoulders while walking out and said: "When I was reading Taigong's Art of War yesterday, there was an article in it that I couldn't understand. Please help me to read it in detail."

"What is the Grand Duke's Art of War?" Zhu Cijiong looked bewildered.

"Let's go, let's go." Zhu Cihong couldn't help but pull away.

Watching Zhu Cihong's two brothers leave, Li Xiangjun finally found a chance: "Your Majesty, I also want to go to the battlefield, so you transfer the brothers and sisters in the National Disaster Troupe to my minister."

There was a hint of coquettishness in the words.

Chongzhen coughed dryly, and said: "How can the actresses in the National Disaster Troupe know how to fight? If you take them to fight against Jiannu, isn't that courting death? How about this? When the battle is over, you go back to Nanjing to recruit a battalion of female soldiers, and then You should train them well and go to the battlefield when you have a chance in the future.”

Li Xiangjun said: "Your Majesty must count on what he says."

"You are not joking." Chongzhen pulled Li Xiangjun into his arms.

Some things are hard to stop once they start, such as women's sex.

However, Chongzhen was very sure that he could not reach the level of King Zhou, King Zhou You or Li Longji. For him, female sex was just a means of decompression, and it was impossible to be addicted to it.

……

The moonlight is like practice, and the warm wind is blowing.

Shang Kexi is patrolling the pontoon bridge with Geng Jimao, Zu Zepu and other family members.

Zu Zepu was the second son of Zu Dashou. After the eldest son Zu Zerun was captured by the Ming army in the Battle of Xiazhen and escorted to Nanjing Jinchuan Gate for beheading, the second son Zu Zepu took Zu Zerun's post.

Looking at the vast Yellow River under the moonlight, Geng Jimao always felt a little restless.

At that moment, Geng Jimao took a few steps and caught up with Shang Kexi: "Uncle, my nephew feels that something is wrong, something might happen tonight."

Zu Zepu, who was following behind, couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Second Zu, what are you laughing at?" Geng Jimao said angrily.

Zu Zepu said: "I didn't laugh at anything, but last night you said that you didn't feel right, and you didn't feel right the night before, and you still didn't feel right tonight, so I'm wondering, brother, which night is it right?"

"Are you tired, nephew?" Shang Kexi smiled and patted Geng Jimao's shoulder, "Or you should go back to sleep first."

"Uncle, you don't even believe me?" Geng Jimao became impatient, "My nephew, I really don't feel right, something will happen tonight, we have to be prepared..."

While they were talking, there were sudden killing sounds in the direction of Xuzhou City.

"Huh?" Shang Kexi's expression froze, and at the same time he looked up to the west.

"Look, what did I say?" Geng Jimao said anxiously, "I said something was going to happen, you didn't believe it just now, the second son, how are you doing now? Have you nothing to say?"

Zu Zepu ignored Geng Jimao, and asked Shang Kexi, "King Zhishun, if the Ming army goes out of the city to fight back, they will definitely not only attack by land, there will definitely be actions by water, we must prepare in advance."

"Yes." Shang Kexi nodded and said, "Light the beacon on the boat."

"My lord has an order, light the beacon fire!" Zu Zepu immediately gave the order.

Following the transmission of Shang Kexi's order, the beacon towers on the more than [-] fishing boats serving as the piers of the pontoon bridge were lit one after another, and more than [-] piles of beacon fires instantly illuminated the entire river.

As of today, the Eight Banners Han army has collected more than [-] fishing boats.

And use these more than [-] fishing boats as piers to build five pontoon bridges.

Of course, these pontoon bridges can only be used by infantry, not cavalry, because the distance between two adjacent "bridge piers" is more than a dozen steps, and four strands of hemp rope are used to connect them.

Two strands of hemp rope are bound with three-foot-wide planks.

It is no problem for such a pontoon to pass people, but the cavalry shakes badly.

Shang Kexi stood in the middle of the first pontoon bridge upstream, looked upstream, and saw the silence under the moonlight, not to mention the bird boats of the military navy, not even a sampan.

But Shang Kexi did not dare to take it lightly, and transferred the left-behind Han army musketeers to the pontoon bridge, and at the same time ordered the forts on the east and west banks to burn their iron brazes red and prepare for firing.

However, there has been no movement in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

On the other hand, in the direction of Xuzhou City across Yunlong Mountain, there was a loud sound of killing, and the flames shot up into the sky, almost illuminating the night sky in the western half, indicating that the fighting there was extremely brutal.

Moreover, as time went by, the flames of war quickly spread to the Yellow River on the east side of Yunlong Mountain.

I saw that the Ming army kept coming around from the north and south sides of Yunlong Mountain and launched an attack on the blockade ditch where the Qing army was stationed. Even the Ming army stationed on Yunlong Mountain also launched a dive.

The sound of guns was rumbling, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the battle was extremely fierce.

"Not good!" Shang Kexi's heart sank when he saw this.

Zu Zepu also cried out: "The west bank fortress is in danger!"

"Quick!" Shang Kexi made a decisive decision, "The musketeers will split up to help the forts on the west bank with a team of a hundred people! At the same time, I understand that the commanders of the forts will never retreat half a step before the reinforcements from the ten kings arrive! Anyone who violates the order , Exterminate the entire clan!"

"Yes!" Zu Zepu gave a slap, got up and ran away.

Geng Jimao quietly slipped to the east bank of the Yellow River.

The west bank of the Yellow River is no longer safe.

……

The three towns of Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao have also launched attacks.

It is difficult to attack upwards from the foot of Yunlong Mountain, but it is very easy to dive down from the mountain.

It took less than a quarter of an hour for Jin Shenghuan's five thousand frontier troops to reach the Jiannu blockade ditch.

At this time, the Jiannu outside the blockade ditch had already been alarmed, and they had lined up behind the protective wall of the blockade ditch.

In the light of the flames, seeing the rows of Jiannu guarding behind the protective wall, Jin Shenghuan's more than a dozen lieutenants, generals, and guerrillas began to shrink back.

How can this be won?
"Chief Town, Jianu is ready."

"How can you fight this way, if you charge forward, you will die."

"Zongzhen, otherwise we'll howl a few times, and we'll get the meaning out of it."

In a word, these generals have been frightened by Jiannu for a long time, and they lost their eggs.

"Shut up!" Jin Shenghuan had some discernment anyway, he had already seen that Chongzhen was very determined this time, so if the frontier army of the Ten Towns was really too cowardly and made his old man lose face, he would definitely kill him.

So, it must be impossible to do nothing this time, and the Holy Majesty has to give face.

But it doesn't have to be too hard, as long as it's not the worst performing town.

In this case, even if the Holy Majesty's butcher knife cuts it off, it will not be able to cut him on the head.

Immediately Jin Shenghuan shouted: "Set up the tiger crouching cannon, and give me a blast first!"

Dozens of tiger squatting cannons were quickly set up, and the tiger claws were fixed with iron brazes, and the cannons were fired immediately.

(End of this chapter)