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Chapter 119 Missing Peach?Still counting on surrender?

"Bang bang bang-"

The deafening sound of gunfire resounded through the mouth of Minge Valley in Tongbai Mountain.

The bursts of fire were so continuous that it was hard to tell which were real gunshots and which were echoes from the mountains and valleys.

Early this morning, after He Yilong tried to turn around and rush out of the gap from Shen Shuren's side, the two armies fought fiercely. The bloody battle was the first time since Shen Shuren led the army.

Pioneer dead soldiers of He Yilong's tribe fell in batches at Taniguchi, and the corpses were quickly piled up into piles.Let the attackers struggle and fight on their heels.

The allusion of "buying the heels and fighting" first came from "Three Kingdoms", which is about the last battle of Ji Han and Zhuge Zhan's death battle against Deng Ai.It is often interpreted by beginners as "let the soldiers bury their heels to prevent them from retreating as deserters", and then use it to blacken Zhuge Zhan's glue pillars and play the tricks without knowing the art of war.

In fact, there is no such thing as deliberately burying your heels.It's not just that there are too many corpses, and you will sink into them if you take a step.

The situation He Yilong faced today was obviously more difficult than when Zhuge Zhan faced Deng Ai.

The comparison of movement and movement on the battlefield is horribly weird - He Yilong has never faced a large-scale firearms battalion before, but it is really rare in his life to fire firearms to such a degree and use them so well at the right time, place and people.

Usually, when firearms clash, there should be loud gunfire on the battlefield, but the screams can occasionally overwhelm the guns, allowing people to feel the killing effect firsthand and adjust their auditory nerves by the way.

But today's queuing and firing, the gunshots were several times higher than usual, but the screams were pitifully rare. The contrast between movement and stillness made the living hair stand on end and shudder.

Only the officers who were lucky enough to survive a few more rounds could see clearly what happened—because the valley was too narrow, the front was only about a hundred people wide, and there was no way to turn around.

Firearms were thrown into the crowd, and any soldier might be hit by three or five shotguns at the same time, so he didn't even have a chance to scream, and he was killed directly.

Usually, one soldier killed in battle will produce at least three to five times as many wounded.Now, the casualty ratio has fallen below two to one, and one dead person is less than two wounded, and the wounded will soon be trampled to death, crushed to death, and suffocated to death, and the screams sound much cleaner and sparser.

The tactics that the officers and soldiers usually practice are the stacking method, that is, the "three-stage attack" that takes turns to shoot forward.Now, it is urgent to switch back to the more old-fashioned "Fan Die Method". After the soldiers in the rear row load the ammunition, they pass it to the soldier who shoots, and a dedicated person is responsible for aiming and shooting.

In places where the terrain is relatively open and open, the shooting efficiency of the stacking method will be higher. If a person focuses on one gun, he will be more familiar with his own weapon.

But today’s special occasions are all blocked there. In order to make the first row as close as possible, the officers and soldiers did not even leave a corridor for the soldiers to take turns to advance and retreat, and nearly 200 people lined up densely.

And Shen Shuren now has about [-] muskets, and all of them are fixed-loaded ammunition with paper cartridges. After frantically handing and changing guns, the front row can fire a shot almost every three or four seconds.

The front of the battle has already become a complete death zone, even if Da Luo Jinxian descends to earth and the overlord of Western Chu is reincarnated, there is no way to rush over.

Rushing to the front, there are also long-handled battle axes and hooped bayonets to serve.

As the battle situation gradually stabilized, Shen Shuren, who had always been cautious and reluctant to go to the front line to supervise the battle, rarely went to a place three hundred steps away from the front line in person, climbing up and holding a telescope to look into the distance.

In the last battle of chasing and eliminating Liu Xiyao, he hid on the boat and handed over the frontal command to Zuo Zixiong.

This time, the two bandit chieftains in Lian Mie Ge Zuo's Fifth Battalion are still famous figures named "Ge Zuo" respectively. It would be too wasteful not to take this opportunity to gain fame.

The Tongbai Valley is so steep, no one from He Yilong can charge over [-] steps ahead, and it is also beyond the attack range of the enemy's long-range weapons, which makes Shen Shuren very calm.

After watching it for a long time, Shen Shuren himself was aroused by the tragedy in front of him, put down the binoculars, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

"It's a pity that there are no photos to take in this era, otherwise I must record my heroic demeanor of climbing high to look at the enemy's situation, talking and laughing and commanding to defeat the enemy.

Well, but it’s not hopeless. Without photos, we can find some painters who can paint more realistically. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were painters from Jiangnan who borrowed from Western oil painting techniques and pursued realism. It seems that the details of facial features can be painted very realistically.

It's a pity that I didn't master the method of light and shade, and perspective. It's really not good. After a few years, when I develop, let Zheng Chenggong wipe out the Dutchmen of the big officials.Capture all the Dutch captives, and let the Dutch East India Company hand over the scientist Descartes and the painter Rembrandt in exchange for hostages!

At that time, I will let Rembrandt be my queen, specially recording my heroic appearance, why can't I draw dozens of portraits that are more famous than Nahuang's crossing the Alps?Rembrandt seems to be the same age as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, probably only 35 years old. "

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The bloody battle on the first day ended in the strong and strange contrast between Shen Shuren's easy-talking and laughing, and the bloody massacre in the front line, which was like a Shura field.

In normal times, such a heavy casualty would have caused the thieves to collapse and retreat long ago.Today, because of being surrounded on all sides and jumping over the wall in a hurry, 5000 people died before they finally retreated.

After breaking through the siege several times in a row with heavy casualties, the energy of He Yilong's troops was completely wiped out.In the next five or six days, no large-scale charge could be organized, at most it was just some tentative sneak attacks.

The food and grass of He Yilong's men were also being consumed gradually. There was not much food for traveling with the army, and it would be good if they could eat for more than ten days.

It took several days to march after entering the valley and fight Liu Guoneng, so counting the days, the food brought before will definitely be eaten up in three or four days.

Of course, He Yilong's troops didn't only have food to eat with the army, after all, they also controlled Pingjingguan, a pass in the mountains.

Usually, there are at least one or two thousand and as many as three to four thousand people stationed here, and they will also stockpile some food for the garrison to keep food for a long time during the war, at least to ensure enough food for three to half a year. The food is delivered from the rear.

However, the food that was originally planned to feed 3 garrisons is now fed to more than [-] people, and the time is shortened by ten times, and it will last ten days and a half months at most.

Neither Shen Shuren nor Liu Guoneng hoped that the troops would suffer too many casualties, and the enemy would be starved to death after half a month of siege, which was definitely worth the price.

On the other hand, also after the large-scale bloody battle that day, some complaints came from behind Shen Shuren——

Before the Ming army fought, there were very few such opportunities to continue to use firearms for half a day. That is to say, each firecracker was fired three or five times before the battle, and then it entered hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, the logistics supplies and ammunition ratio of the Ming army were also prepared according to conventional operations.

Even though Shen Shuren paid more attention to firearms than others, and repeatedly emphasized the need to ensure the production of gunpowder and bring more ammunition with the army, but he had no experience at the beginning and did not understand the details, so he made a general request to "prepare twice as much ammunition as the other Ming army." used.

This time, He Yilong and He Yilong continued to line up in the valley for a day to shoot, and the Ming army immediately suffered from ammunition shortage and logistics couldn't keep up.

Fortunately, He Yilong had lost his nerve and didn't know the situation, so he didn't charge again.Let Shen Shuren slowly make up for this shortcoming, learn a lot from a fall, and order the troops to prepare more ammunition next time.

From this, he also realized a problem: he planned to start from April, and after the existing firearms soldiers were equipped with bayonets and long-handled battle axes, most of Huangzhou's military production capacity would be piled up on the production of new firearms.

Now it seems that the mass production of ammunition is more important than muskets, and the subsequent allocation of military resources has to be re-adjusted.

The production ratio of the Ming army before was to ensure that each musket was equipped with twenty or thirty rounds of ammunition.When it came to Shen Shuren, no matter what, he had to improve to "keep at least the ammunition that can ensure that all muskets can be fired a hundred times", otherwise, if there are too many guns, it will be a fire stick.

Experts always look at the logistics when fighting wars. No matter how good the ordnance data is on paper, it is useless if the logistics can't keep up.

Shen Shuren's side maintained the siege, checking for leaks and making up for gaps, but He Yilong's side finally couldn't sit still.

On May 25th, that is, the tenth day after He Yilong's troops failed to break out of the siege, He Yilong began to reduce the food rations for his troops and changed to eating only one meal a day.On the other hand, he also started to send envoys, wanting to ask Liu Guoneng or Shen Shuren to accept the surrender again.

All the envoys he assigned were very scared, after all, the envoy sent to Liu Guoneng's place last time was directly beheaded.But under the threat of He Yilong's knife, they could only go on their own way.

Anyway, the envoys sent by He Yilong at first were not important people, and he didn't feel sorry for being killed.

As a result, the envoy sent to Liu Guoneng was killed again.

There is no way, Liu Guoneng knows He Yilong too well, and also despises him very much, so he refuses to give him a chance to believe it again—he knows that He Yilong followed Zhang Xianzhong, and has already had the experience of falling back twice, how could he Stepping on the pit for the third time?

Besides, Liu Guoneng's identity is sensitive, if he casually contacts the thieves to negotiate a deal, it will only damage his trust in the court, so he can only be extra careful in this regard.

In contrast, those sent to Shen Shuren did not have the risk of being beheaded directly.

Shen Shuren received the envoy very politely, and asked about the purpose of his visit. After learning He Yilong's purpose, he seemed a little surprised:
"He Yilong wants to surrender? Does he still have credit? At the beginning when Chen Qiyu and Xiong Wencan recruited the thieves, they just allowed the territory to defend themselves and submit to the imperial court in name, but it turned out to be a catastrophe! Why should I believe it now? them!
It's not impossible to talk about surrendering, let him surrender in person with He Yilong's bare shoulders, and the whole army will put down their weapons and accept the imperial court's arrangement.

Also, what are you? Can you agree to this condition on behalf of He Yilong?Next time, he either directly accepts it all and surrenders in person, or if he wants to bargain, he can also exchange it for a substantial one. "

The Nameless Messenger was soft-spoken, submissive and dared not resist, so he could only act as a mouthpiece and bring the words to the audience first.

(End of this chapter)