Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 86
Baiyintu also went all out this time.

Except for the remaining Jiala's Xianghuang Banner Zhennu Luezhen, and two Niulu's Han Army Banners to guard the navy's tank boats, the remaining 2 people were all sent up by Baiyintu.

[Note: Chapter 76 of the previous article has been revised, because there are a large number of canal gates and bridges, the bird boats of the Jiannu Navy cannot pass, they can only come to the water boats]

Including more than 1200 Xianghuang Banner real slaves, more than 1800 Eight Banners Han troops, more than 2200 Ming troops, and more than 3000 coats, all of them went to the battlefield.

Before officially launching the attack, Baiyintu dispatched dozens of white-armored soldiers to sweep both sides of the canal as usual. Yi Ding Yebushou, who was wandering around the perimeter of the defense line, did not entangle too much with Jiannu white-armored soldiers, so he got rid of the retreat in time and returned to Xia town.

After successfully intercepting information on the battlefield, Obai led more than 8000 people across the canal from the Taizhuang Gate Bridge fifteen miles north of Xia Town to the west bank, and then turned around and headed south.

In the past few days, Jiannu has been harassing the northeast corner of Xia Town.

Bai Yintu believed in Wang Aoyong's judgment, thinking that the Ming army had already transferred all the tiger squatting cannons to the northeast direction, and then the other directions would become empty.

So this time we will launch a surprise attack from the northwest.

Bai Yintu wanted to kill the Ming army by surprise.

At the beginning of the afternoon, Jiannu entered Xiazhen's defense line.

Immediately, more than 8000 people were divided into 20 teams, and launched an attack on the 20 outermost gun platforms in the northwest at the same time. Jiannu obviously made up his mind this time, and the fight quickly became fierce.

What does white-hot mean?Just no longer care about casualties.

In the previous few tentative attacks, Jiannu had only tried a little bit, and the casualties were reduced when they were slightly larger.

But this time, Jiannu no longer cared about these things. Anyway, he just pushed forward desperately, anyway, he rushed forward with all his strength, until the Ming army collapsed or penetrated the defense line.

In order to pursue speed, Jiannu no longer engages in geotechnical attacks on slope protection.

As soon as they came up, they pushed the vans and carts to the top of the slope under the artillery fire of the Ming army's tiger squatting guns, and then the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han army suppressed the firepower of the Ming army musketeers with the vans and carts.

The accuracy of the Ming army's tiger squatting guns is poor, and the loss is actually not big if you really go all out.

After suppressing the firepower of the Ming army, the Zhennu, Han army, and descending army quickly entered the trench.

After entering the trench, they no longer cleaned up the sharp wooden piles, bamboo thorns or caltrops under the trench, but directly removed the railings from the van and laid them on the bottom of the trench. In addition, before the attack was launched, more than 3000 coated In addition, more than 2200 soldiers of the Ming army also brought more than 5000 sacks filled with soil.

Relying on the barriers and sacks, the attack channel was instantly paved.

Then, the white armored soldiers took the lead and launched a strong attack on the Ming army's blunderbuss platform.

Jiannu's white-armored soldiers are really tough, not only tall and powerful, agile, but also extremely rich in combat experience, they are simply human-shaped killing machines.

The middle blunderbuss made the most rapid progress.

Three white-armored soldiers stepped on the human ladder to climb over the fence and enter the gun platform first.

Dozens of spearmen from the Ming army surrounded the gun platform in an instant, stabbing them randomly.

The breastplates, shoulders, bowls, and even the throat guards of the three white-armored soldiers were stabbed countless times in an instant, and even Hongyala would have been stabbed to death if they were replaced by other Jiannu.

But the three white armor soldiers were unscathed.

Not only was he unscathed, but he still had the strength to fight back.

The white-armored soldier at the front swung a long knife and cut a Ming army into two pieces.

The two white-armored soldiers in the back were still holding big bows, and they dared to draw their bows and shoot arrows within less than three steps. They only heard two bang and bang bowstrings, and the two spearmen of the Ming army were instantly shot by heavy arrows. Through the face door.

With such a catty distance, it was impossible for the spearmen of the Ming army to dodge.

"Quickly stab them to death!" The Ming army sentry officer roared at the top of his lungs.

However, the angry roar of the sentry officer of the Ming army brought disaster for himself instead.

The two white-armored soldiers grinned grinningly, drew their heavy bows and buckled their heavy arrows at the same time.

There were two more bang bangs, and the roar of the sentry officer of the Ming army stopped abruptly. Two heavy three-edged arrows shot into his left and right cheeks at the same time, piercing his entire head twice.

"The sentry officer was killed!" The Ming army on the gun platform collapsed instantly.

First, a Ming soldier turned and fled, and then panic quickly spread.

The three white-armored soldiers strode forward to catch up. Behind them, more Hongyala, vests, infantry, Eight Banners Han soldiers, and Ming soldiers jumped over the wooden fence like a tide and entered the gun platform.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the first gun platform was captured.

……

It took more than a quarter of an hour for Chongzhen to take his two sons to the pier of the canal.

It took another quarter of an hour to get on the boat and climb up the [-]-meter-high mainmast.

Then, when Chongzhen opened the three-section binoculars and aimed his field of vision at the outer defense line in the northwest, he was extremely surprised to find that several of the outermost blunderbuss platforms had already fallen.

Although it was nearly three kilometers away, I could still see clearly with a telescope.

After all, Chongzhen's telescope was given by Tang Ruowang, and its magnification is twice as high as that of other double-section telescopes, so it can see farther and more clearly.

"Father, what's the matter?"

Brothers Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong couldn't see clearly.

With the naked eye, it is difficult to see the situation three kilometers away.

"Not good, very bad!" Chongzhen's expression was extremely solemn, and he did not pass the telescope to one of the two sons as usual, but kept paying attention to the battlefield ahead.

When Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong heard this, their hearts shuddered.

The situation of the Ming army is indeed not good, or very bad.

In the past few days, the northeast has been harassed by Jiannu.

So the three towns in the northeast already had some combat experience, and their confidence and morale had risen, but the three towns in the northwest hadn't fought a single battle yet, and their confidence and morale hadn't improved much.

Now that he was suddenly attacked by Jiannu with all his strength, he was in a hurry.

It didn't take long for the Chongzhen father and son to go up to Wangdou, that is, a little over a quarter of an hour, when more than a dozen blunderbuss towers fell one after another in front of them, and one of the Jiannu had even advanced to the second line of defense.

It was also at this time that the report of the defeat ahead also reached Huang Degong's admiral, Xingyuan.

Huang Degong hurried to the canal pier and personally reported the military situation to Chongzhen Wu.

"Your Majesty, sixteen of the first blunderbuss platforms in the Northwest District have been lost, and the second blunderbuss platform has also been attacked. The situation is very critical. I request that the tiger squatting cannons of the Northeast and Southern Districts be released. And the musketeers are transferred to the Northwest District to strengthen the troops and firepower of the various gun platforms in the Northwest District!"

Huang Degong's reaction couldn't be more normal.

The Jiannu offensive is so fierce, and it is fighting in the Northwest District, so it is the best solution to transfer the musketeers and tiger squat guns in the Northeast and South Districts to the Northwest District.

Just as Chongzhen was about to nod, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

This time, Jiannu only invested nearly ten thousand people to attack at the same time from more than a dozen blunderbusses in the Northwest District, so the Ming army could also send musketeers and tiger squat guns from the other two regions to help. Hundreds of thousands of troops launched simultaneous attacks from 75 blunderbuss platforms in the Northwest, Northeast, and South districts?

Where else can the Ming army draw reinforcements from?
Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

It turns out that there is such a big loophole in his carefully designed defense line!
If Jiannu invested heavily and launched an all-out attack at all costs, then the more than [-] relatively simple gun platforms in Xia Town's defense line might not be able to withstand it.

It seems that it is necessary to continue to strengthen Xia Town's defense.

Furthermore, you might as well inspect the quality of Xia Town's defense line now, and consider it a project acceptance.

Let's see if we can use up all of Jiannu's vigor with a heavy blunderbuss until they can't move anymore.

If Jiannu's full onslaught was finally blocked, it would prove that Xia Town's line of defense was correct.

As long as he defended this time, even if Duoduo and even Dorgon led the main slave-building force to come in person next time, they might not be able to break through the more thorough and stronger Xia Town's defense line.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen made a decision in his heart.

"Don't worry, this is just the beginning, let Jiannu be rampant for a while."

"Your Majesty, I want to go ahead and take command." Huang Degong made another request.

"No." Chongzhen resolutely refused, "All the gun platforms in front of us only need sentry officers to sit in charge, and send people to call back the chief soldiers, deputy chief soldiers, guerrillas, guards, and all."

Huang Degong could only stay on Zheng Hongkui's flagship and was in a hurry.

Zheng Hongkui suddenly pulled out a long bamboo tube from his back and handed it to Huang Degong.

"What?" Huang Degong looked at Zheng Hongkui blankly, "Zheng Gueran, what is this?"

"This is not a thing. This is called Tamba, a kind of grass." Zheng Hongkui grabbed a small piece of golden shredded tobacco from a kit hanging on the bamboo tube, and stuffed it into the copper pot attached to the bamboo tube.

Light the shredded tobacco first with the fire sickle, and then take a deep breath.

Immediately, a contented expression appeared on Zheng Hong's face, and he said leisurely: "Smoking can calm the mind, yes, it can also relieve fatigue. When you are tired, take a tube, and you will feel refreshed in an instant, really."

"Really, how can there be such a god?" Huang Degong took it with doubts.

Huang Degong took a big puff after taking the pipe, and then coughed violently, almost choking to death.

"Ah, hey, Uncle Jingnan, it's your first time smoking. You can't take a big puff. You have to take a small puff first." Zheng Hongkui quickly took back the dry pipe to demonstrate to Huang Degong, and took a small puff.

Huang Degong took another small puff from the pipe.

A faint pungent feeling penetrated into the heart and lungs in an instant, and the eyes widened after a while.

"Hey, it seems that it really has the magical effect of calming the mind." Huang Degong said in disbelief, "I was flustered just now, but now I suddenly stop panicking. It's strange, it's really strange."

"Didn't lie to you." Zheng Hongkui said with a smile, "Uncle Jingnan, I'm sending you off."

"Give it to me." Huang Degong said happily, "Then I won't be polite."

"Why are you being so polite?" Zheng Hongkui whispered again, "From now on, please take care of Jingnan Bo."

"It's a trivial matter." Huang Degong waved his hand, "My brother, don't be so polite."

Well, it would be too cost-effective for Zheng Hongkui to become brothers with Huang Degong with only a pipe of dry tobacco.

(End of this chapter)