Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 280
Jin Shenghuan took down the fort easily with a whole Ming army.

Having tasted the sweetness, Jin Shenghuan still wanted to do the same, and said again: "Master Jin, come again."

Jin Xuan was about to agree, but a fast horse galloped towards him: "My lord, there are at least five hundred Mongolian cavalry in the south!"

"President Jin, we have to go. You can figure out what to do with these fortresses." After Jin Xuan finished speaking, he got on his horse with [-] cavalry and headed south with a rumbling rumble.

The main task of their cavalry battalion is to protect the people.

Assisting the infantry in breaking down the blockade is only a side mission.

"Mother thief, I won't even do such a small favor." Jin Shenghuan had no choice but to continue with the method just now.

Although he was still very afraid of the slaves in the fort, Jin Shenghuan was not as flustered as before, because he found that there were not many slaves in each fort, so he had to stick to it.

On the periphery, no reinforcements from Jiannu arrived for a long time.

Jin Xuan's cavalry has also been scattered, so there is no need to worry.

So they can safely and boldly dig the fort wall slowly.

At that moment, Jin Shenghuan shouted loudly: "Dig them all, dig them to death..."

Covered by a shield wall made of wooden plaques, Min Zhuang sweated profusely and tried his best to dig out the rammed earth wall of the fort.

The Jiannu guarding the fort realized the danger, but there was nothing they could do, because they were too few in number. If they rushed out of the fort to fight back, they would definitely be overwhelmed by the Ming army outside.

But there are not too many equipment such as rolling wood and stones on the fort.

Jiannu could only use a large bow, but the Ming army had a shield wall to cover them.

Finally, the slaves of one of the strongholds couldn't hold back and launched a counterattack.

Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan was overjoyed, and immediately shouted: "Spearmen line up!"

Immediately, hundreds of spearmen lined up in six rows, front and back, and pushed forward side by side with spears measuring one foot four feet. The dozen or so Jiannu and hundreds of Baoyi just rushed out of the fort, and they bumped into each other. On the Forest of Spears.

The dozens of coated servants rushing forward were stabbed into blood sieves as soon as they met each other.

The dozen or so Jiannu hiding behind were fierce and cunning, and they were actually divided into two parts. One half bent down, trying to stick to the ground to attack the spearman's lower body, and the other half tried to grab the spear and jump to the spear's spear. On the pole, attack from the top lane.

However, the courage of the spearmen of the Ming army also came up, so their technical and tactical movements became extremely skilled. The two rows of spearmen in the front immediately squatted down to give way to the work surface, while the four rows of spearmen in the back stabbed downward at the same time. Now, no matter whether he was on the road or trying to take down the road, Jiannu had nowhere to hide, and he was smashed into a sieve in an instant.

At the same time, Min Zhuang finally dug through the rammed earth wall of the fort.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, the fort collapsed.

"Next!" Jin Shenghuan waved his hand violently and rushed towards the third fort.

At this moment, a little eunuch rushed over: "There is a decree!"

"Mother thief!" Jin Shenghuan cursed in his heart, and immediately stepped forward to meet him.

"Jin Zongzhen." The little eunuch gasped, "The holy order is that after Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao's frontier troops break through the blockade ditch, half of the troops will be left to attack the fort along the blockade ditch, and the other half will immediately go to the west bank of the Yellow River. To launch an attack on the Jiannu Fort, we must cooperate with the navy to completely destroy the Jiannu River Defense."

"The minister leads the decree." Jin Shenghuan cupped his hands, turned around and shouted, "Let's go!"

Almost at the same time, the frontier troops of Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao also broke through the Jiannu blockade.

Immediately, Jin Shenghuan and other frontier troops from the three towns allocated half of their troops to attack the fort on the west bank of the Yellow River.

But this time, the resistance encountered by the Ming army was much more tenacious, because these dozens of forts on the west bank of the Yellow River were stationed by the Eight Banners Han army, and the number of the Eight Banners Han army was quite large.

The good news is that the confidence of the Ming army has also improved.

……

At this very moment, Chongzhen was on the No. [-] blunderbuss platform on the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain.

The No. [-] gun platform has a very wide view, and you can clearly see the battle situation in all directions to the east of Yunlong Mountain, south of Yunlong Lake, and west of Xuzhou City.

In general, the Ming army's offensive can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

Jin Shenghuan, Ma Huabao, and Wang Zuntan's frontier troops performed the best. They not only broke through the blockade, but also destroyed several forts along the blockade.

But the performance of the frontier troops of the Seven Towns in other directions was not as good.

So far, the frontier troops in six of them have just broken through Jiannu's blockade.

As for the rest of the town's frontier army, it almost made Chongzhen's nose crooked.

Because the frontier army in this town actually collapsed, yes, it was actually beaten to collapse by the Jiannu who were separated by a blockade ditch, it was really embarrassing to the extreme.

I have never heard of a more cowardly army than this.

The frightened bird in the idiom allusion is probably the same.

Chongzhen asked Wang Cheng'en with a dark face, "Wang Daban, whose military town is that?"

Wang Chengen said: "Go back to Lord Long Live, over there is Tang Yinghu Town, one of Gao Jie's subordinates."

"Tang Yinghu?" Murderous intent flashed across Chongzhen's eyes, this person was already on his list of must-kill generals, and after this battle was over, he was going to be beheaded to show his prestige.

At this moment, countless fire lights suddenly lit up on the surface of the Yellow River north of Yunlong Mountain.

"Father, the navy has begun to attack!" Zhu Cijiong immediately became excited when he saw this, pointing at the navy warships that suddenly covered the surface of the Yellow River, he said excitedly.

Chongzhen also hurriedly raised his binoculars.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, the naval warships all over the river can be clearly seen.

There are about ninety bird boats, lined up in three teams, front and back, thirty warships in each team, lined up on the river, driven by the oars at the stern, and go down the water.

Zheng Hongkui was still very cautious and did not invest all the warships.

Instead, at least fifty warships were left to guard the upstream direction.

Because the Guide Mansion in the upstream direction has surrendered to Jiannu, no one knows whether the surrendered army in Guide City will recruit fishing boats to improvise a navy to help in the battle.

There may also be naval divisions among the Eight Banners Han Army.

After turning around the "7"-shaped river bend in the northeast corner of Xuzhou, the navy fleet will soon enter the range of the Jiannu cannon.

However, at this moment, the torches on the naval warships were extinguished one after another, and the fleet that was still clearly visible just now disappeared into the darkness in an instant, and could no longer be seen.

This is to prevent the Jiannu forts on both sides of the Yellow River from aiming.

Without seeing the naval warships in the darkness, Jiannu's Hongyi cannons could only shoot blindly.

The Hongyi cannons of this era do not have the concept of accurate shooting, but they have long had sighting devices. Although these optical sighting devices are very simple and the accuracy is unbearable, they are used to aim at large targets like bird ships. , the accuracy or hit rate is still considerable.

So Zheng Hongkui didn't dare to be careless.

No longer seeing the navy's warships, Chongzhen could only move the field of view of the telescope to the south.

Then, a pontoon bridge appeared in the field of vision of the telescope. The five pontoon bridges at the front and rear cut off the Yellow River on the east side of Yunlong Mountain from the middle into six sections, and also cut off the water transportation of the Ming army.

With the help of the beacon fire on the pier of the fishing boat,

You can vaguely see Jiannu running back and forth on the pontoon bridge.

After a while, the Jiannu forts on the east and west banks of the Yellow River began to fire.

In the darkness, clusters of dazzling red lights suddenly bloomed, and it took a few breaths before the sound of bombardment reached the top of the mountain. This was because the speed of light travel far exceeded the speed of sound.

The river on the north side was still silent.

The warships of the Ming navy were not in a hurry to fight back.

Due to the shaking of the hull of the warship, the accuracy of the ship-mounted Hongyi cannon will only be worse than that of the shore-based Hongyi cannon, so it must be close enough to ensure the hit rate.

Chongzhen moved the field of view of the telescope to the west bank again.

The figure of the Ming army soon appeared in the field of vision.

But what I saw was that Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao's three frontier troops, about [-] Ming troops, were launching a fierce attack on more than [-] forts on the west bank of the Yellow River.

However, it didn't seem to be going very well.

Because the Han army in the fort has a large number of musketeers, and even tiger squatting cannons.

Not only the Ming army had tiger squatting guns, but the Eight Banners Han army also had tiger squatting guns.

"Father, the Eight Banners Han army's firepower is too fierce." Zhu Cijiong said anxiously, "It can't go on like this."

Xu Yingwei took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, students, please lead a thousand soldiers to attack and assist Jin Shenghuan and other three frontier troops to destroy all the forts on the west bank of the Yellow River before dawn tomorrow!"

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, then suddenly shouted: "Qu Shawei!"

Qu Shawei, who was standing outside the crowd, was taken aback for a moment.

Xia Wanchun bumped Qu Shawei with his elbow and said, "Instructor, Your Majesty is calling you."

Only then did Qu Shawei come to Chongzhen with a bitter face, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, your loyal servant Qu Shawei is waiting for your call at any time."

"Thank you for your loyalty." Chongzhen smiled, and then pointed to the battlefield on the east side of Yunlong Mountain and said, "Take the artillery team from the Shizi Battalion to help the battle, and use our Ming Hongyi cannons to destroy these forts one by one!"

"Of order." Qu Sha flicked her hand slightly, and led Xia Wanchun down the mountain in a hurry.

When Chongzhen looked back again, he saw that the navy warship had already fired its cannons at the floating bridge on the river.

Zheng Hongkui faithfully implemented Chongzhen's combat intentions, and did not blindly launch artillery battles with the Jiannu Forts on the east and west banks. Instead, he concentrated his firepower and gave priority to destroying the five pontoon bridges on the river.

At this time, the naval warship was only fifty steps away from the first pontoon bridge.

As clusters of red light bloomed, streams of water rose into the sky.

From time to time, shells hit the fishing boat as a pontoon pier. When it hit the bow, the bow shattered in an instant; when it hit the stern, the stern shattered instantly;

The beacon tower built on the fishing boat was also overturned, and the fire quickly spread to the hull.

After a while, at least more than [-] fishing boats started to catch fire, and more than a dozen fishing boats sank to the bottom of the river. The entire pontoon bridge was quickly broken into several pieces, and the slaves on the bridge also fell into the water one after another.

But the navy of the Ming army also paid a heavy price for this.

Because when the navy fired the cannon, it also exposed its own position.

In less than two hours, at least ten warships were sunk.

(End of this chapter)