Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 609
"Ming Dog is here!"

"Don't hide anymore, get up quickly."

"Fucking up for me, get up and prepare to meet the enemy."

"The golden juice is on fire, the gray bottle is ready, and there are ten thousand enemies, hurry up and bring the ten thousand enemies here!"

Mr. Qian's roar resounded throughout the gun platform, but Zhang Zongren was still in a daze. The half-hour-long bombardment just now stunned him.

"Get up, get up!"

While Zhang Zongren was in a daze, he had already been kicked by Mr. Qian on the ass.

This kick woke up Zhang Zongren in an instant, he quickly turned over and got up, and then entered behind the parapet with a spear, and looked forward, only to see that the Ming army had already lined up within fifty steps.

"Archers, shoot arrows, and musketeers, fire!"

Mr. Qian's roar sounded again, and the dozen or so archers on the gun platform hurriedly drew their bows and fired arrows, and the only two musketeers also quickly raised their matchlock guns and aimed at the opposite side.

The next moment, the bang bang sound of the bowstring vibrating.

Immediately there was a "bang" gunshot, and of the two matchlock guns, only one fired smoothly.

Zhang Zongren anxiously looked at the Ming army on the opposite side. He couldn't see it very clearly in the dark, but it should be that no one was shot, and he didn't see the Ming army fall to the ground anyway.

"Oops, missed."

"Fourth, you are blind."

"It's too close to hit."

Immediately, Lian Yong's ridicule resounded from the gun platform.

Lian Yong, who was ridiculed, decisively took another musketeer as his back.

"That's what I said, I made a sound anyway, unlike Ma Liu who didn't even let out a fart."

After the round of bombardment just now, these brave practitioners seemed to have passed the initial panic period, and each of them even made fun of the two musketeers who did not perform well.

However, this is only an illusion.

Just as Lian Yong was booing, dense gunshots suddenly rang out.

But the Ming army on the opposite side opened fire, and a dense rain of bullets poured over in an instant.

Lian Yong, who was still huddled behind the protective wall just now, fell down a dozen or so in an instant, including the musketeer Li Si, who was shot directly in the door and fell backwards to the ground.

"Squat down, squat down quickly!"

Mr. Qian's voice sounded again.

Zhang Zongren quickly squatted down.

After squatting down, Zhang Zongren realized that Li Si was lying at his feet.

With the light of the fire, Zhang Zongren could clearly see that Li Si's face was bloody from the nose down, leaving only a huge hole, but his eyes were still open.

Zhang Zongren felt a hum, and was stunned again.

Zhang Zongren suddenly realized that this was not a fight, but a war.

Fighting kills people. From this moment on, he may be killed by the Ming army at any time, so the great fear unstoppably controlled Zhang Zongren.

……

The North Korean army has come to the slope protection of the first blunderbuss platform.

The infantry of the Ming army, who were in charge of covering the North Korean army, had already stood in line arrays behind the slope protection, using the self-generating guns to suppress the Jiannu on the opposite gun platform.

Jian Nu on the opposite gun platform has been completely suppressed.

Li Yucheng also didn't see a Ming soldier fell to the ground after being shot.

"Li Yucheng, it's your turn." A staff officer of the Ming army rushed over.

"Yes!" Li Yucheng responded loudly, then turned around and shouted, "For Daming, come with me!"

"For Daming!" Hundreds of North Korean troops responded loudly, and then followed Li Yucheng down the ladder to the ditch.

Inside the ditch, bundles of wheat straw thrown down by villagers in advance were burning, and clusters of flames illuminated the originally pitch-black ditch as bright as day.

In addition to providing light, burning straw sheaves can also destroy Jiannu traps.

Many crossbow agencies were burned down, and even many landmines were detonated.

It's just that there are still a lot of crossbows and landmines left, and the most annoying thing is the barbed wire.

When the North Korean army went down to the bottom of the trench and charged forward, people kept being pierced by caltrops and fell to the ground. Even worse, they were shot through their bodies by crossbows or directly blown away by landmines.

Overall, however, the number of casualties is not large.

After paying the casualties of more than [-] people, Li Yucheng's centurion rushed under the protective wall of the Jiannu gun platform.

The height of the parapet is actually only five or six feet, but with the one-foot-deep trench, the total height is more than four meters.

"Set up the ladders, quickly set up the ladders!" Li Yu gave an order, and the following North Korean army quickly set up the four wooden ladders that had been carried over.

"Follow me!"

Li Yucheng, the second dog, is indeed brave.

With a loud roar, Li Yuxian took the lead in climbing up the ladder.

By this time, the battle for fortifications had reached a fever pitch. Jiannu on the blunderbuss platform realized the danger, and began to probe out desperately in an attempt to fight back.

Gray bottles were thrown down one by one.

Buckets of gold juice poured down.

The most terrifying thing is the enemy of ten thousand people, who can burn people to death.

The North Korean army who stepped on other ladders to attack was hit head-on by Jiannu. Some were poured on the head and covered with gold juice, some were covered with lime after the ashes bottle was broken, and some were sprayed by the flames of the enemy. When he was right, he immediately fell down from the ladder with his face covered, and the Korean army on the three ladders was quickly defeated.

One of the ladders was even burned by the enemy.

However, Li Yucheng miraculously stepped on the ladder and climbed to the edge of the gun platform.

The four Jiannu came out and tried to stab Li Yucheng down the trench with their spears, but just as they probed, a dense row of guns came from the opposite side, and the four Jiannu were knocked down in an instant.

Taking advantage of this brief gap, Li Yucheng untied two grenades from his waist and pulled the fuse.

According to the instructions of the instructor of the Ming army, Li Yucheng threw the grenade upwards after counting to three.

As soon as the two grenades passed the top of the parapet wall, they exploded violently. Accompanied by loud noises and dazzling lights, hundreds of sharp fragments flew in all directions in an instant.

Due to the advancement of casting technology, the improved grenade has a thinner body and greater lethality.

There is definitely no way to compare it with the long wooden handle grenade of the German army during World War II, but it is definitely better than the border area made by the Eighth Route Army, at least it will not explode in half.

The next moment, there was a lot of screams behind the wall of the blunderbuss platform. You don't need to look to know that many Jiannu must have been killed by grenades.

The two grenades that Li Yucheng threw up just now exploded in the air.

Li Yucheng took the opportunity to jump onto the parapet, and when he looked closely again, he saw that the Jiannu behind the parapet were already lying on the ground in disorder, and several Jiannu were covering their faces and crying.

But there was also a Jiannu who rushed over with a spear.

Li Yucheng decisively raised the short gun and pulled the trigger.

"Boom!" A gunshot sounded, and Jian Nu was shot in the face and fell backwards.

Li Yucheng picked up Jiannu's spearman's spear and strode forward.

Behind Yu Cheng, more than a dozen North Korean soldiers climbed over the parapet screaming.

In just a short while, Jiannu's first gun platform was breached.

……

Hong Chengchou's heart felt cold.

It was beyond his expectation that the first gun platform fell so quickly.

According to this rhythm, the quadruple blunderbuss platform on the east bank of the canal would last for about half an hour, and it might not even be able to wait until the arrival of the Eight Banners Han army led by Kong Youde.

No, you can't wait like this.

One must prepare for the worst.

At that moment Hong Chengchou shouted sharply: "Hong Er!"

Ding Hong Er took a step forward and said, "Master, the servant is here."

Hong Chengchou shouted: "You immediately inform Lian Yong on the west bank of the canal to cut ice and set fire to it, so as to smash the ice surface of this section of the canal as soon as possible, and set fire to it if it can't be broken, and use fire to melt the ice!"

"Hey!" Ding Honger turned around and ran away, and soon disappeared.

Watching Hong Er's figure go away, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but recall the battle of Juehua Island in his mind.

It was the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), and it was also the first month. After the old Han Nurhachi failed to attack Ningyuan, he poured his anger on Juehua Island, which is [-] miles away from the west coast of Liaoning.

Because of the severe cold, the North Sea was completely frozen.

Therefore, the Eight Banners Manchuria stepped directly on the ice and launched an attack.

The navy of the Ming army has completely become a decoration.

The Ming army was forced to dig a fifteen-mile-long ice trench around Juehua Island in an attempt to prevent the Eight Banners Manchuria from landing on the island.

But the weather was so cold that the ice trench dug by the Ming army froze again in a blink of an eye. Even if they set fire to it with wheat straw, it was not as fast as the ice layer refreezing. Finally, the Eight Banners Manchuria was able to land on the island.

1 Ming soldiers and civilians on the island were massacred.

The 8 shi of military food hoarded on the island was also taken away, and the Ming army suffered heavy losses.

However, times have changed, and now it is the turn of the Qing soldiers to dig ice trenches and set fire to the ice to prevent the Ming army from attacking. I wonder if the final result will be like the battle of Juehua Island?
Anyway, Hong Chengchou felt like a dream.

……

Inside the Ming army camp.

The Air Force's Speed ​​One soared into the sky again.

Of course, the bottom is tied with a cable.

Otherwise, this black light is blind, and the wind is so strong, I don't know where to fly.

Jiannu's changes could not escape the eyes of everyone on Speed ​​One.

"Your Majesty, look." Zheng Sen put down the binoculars, pointed to the fire on the canal in front of him and said, "Jianu is already setting fire to the ice, and it seems that he didn't bury gunpowder on the canal."

If gunpowder was buried in the ice of the canal, there would be no such trouble at all.

Directly ignite the gunpowder to detonate, and the ice layer on the canal can be blown up.

"This is also expected." Chongzhen said with a smile, "We chose neither a big port nor an important military town, but just an ordinary river. Jiannu can't bury the entire canal with gunpowder, right? How much gunpowder would that cost? It’s more than 1000 miles from Xuzhou to Beijing.”

Gao Qiqian said proudly: "However, Jiannu never thought that Long Live God had thought of it long ago, and he had prepared for it in advance. The ice sledge equipped by the supply camp can not only slide on the ice, but also drive on land. It can even sail in the river, so even if Jiannu melted the ice of the canal, it would be useless."

This time Chongzhen didn't stop Gao Qiqian, but took advantage of this flattery solidly.

Because the baggage carts of the Ming army's baggage camp are indeed a major pioneering work in the history of China.

(End of this chapter)