In the big tent of the Ming army.

"If your subordinates are not effective in combat, please punish the commander!"

Tuba and Uzhito stood with their heads bowed, their old faces full of shame.

They were full of confidence before, and they slapped their chests to ensure that they won Peony Peak, but now it seems that their faces are swollen.

Lose face!

This battle was too disgusting, and it can be said to be the most wretched battle since the Ming army set out.

Even if some troops were ambushed by the Qing army before, they didn't fight so badly!

Mao Yuanyi waved his hand and motioned for the two of them to sit down first.

He comforted: "The marshal has basically seen the battle situation, you have fought very bravely, and it is already very good, waiting for the guilty and meritorious service, and the unified liquidation after the war!" ”

Tuba and Urito's hanging hearts finally relaxed, and the two of them said happily: "Thank you to the commander, the last general will definitely be guilty of meritorious service!" ”

Mao Yuanyi's poetry and songs, water and land battles, cavalry artillery, and platoon formations are proficient in everything, but they are lacking in military discipline and are not strict.

He hated the Qing army and longed to kill all the Eight Banners captives, but he was notoriously merciful to his own people.

If it is the general of the Tianwu Army of the Eastern Protectorate, Mao Yuanyi can still reprimand a few words, but these two people are the people who conquered the Northern Protectorate, or the Mongols who belong to them.

They are not as good as the Tianwu Army in the war, and this time they can actively ask for battle, and they can already be regarded as excellent if they do not avoid the war and preserve their strength, and they can't take the requirements of the academic tyrant to be difficult to be a scumbag.

Mao Yuanyi nodded slightly and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we captured the two towns of Tieshan and Xuanzhou in one fell swoop in a few days, and broke the gate of the Qing Kingdom.

Now our army is only 200 miles away from the nest of Jiannu, but there is also this Pyongyang fortress in the middle, everyone talks about how to fight next! ”

In response to this kind of battle, the generals in the tent discussed a lot and proposed various methods to break the city.

Zhu Youneng, the country's surname, took the lead and said: "If you want me to say, directly transfer Hongyi heavy artillery from Xuanzhou and forcibly bombard Pyongyang City!" ”

Qi Guangyang, the deputy capital protector, objected: "From Xuanzhou, which is three hundred miles away from my camp, a large number of heavy artillery is transferred from there, and even if it is the fastest land and water, it will take three or four days. ”

"The Zanhua Department has just received news that the Manchu Eight Banners of the Qing court are reinforcing Pyongyang, there are 40,000 people, if there is no accident, they will arrive tomorrow!"

Zhu Youneng frowned: "The Qing court now has a total of only tens of thousands of Manchurians, and now there are 40,000 horses at once, is the eldest nephew going to fight for his family and make the banner people extinct?" ”

The generals are by no means indifferent to the heirs of the bannermen, and what they are most concerned about is how to capture Pyongyang before the reinforcements of the Manchurian Eight Banners, at least they must pull out the thorn of Peony Peak, otherwise the Ming army will pay a greater price in the future.

Someone proposed to divide troops to block the Manchurian Eight Banners, but they were immediately vetoed by other people's generals.

Behind Pyongyang is the Taedong River, and if you want to cross the river and snipe at the Manbaqi, it is really a lone army to go deep and the risk is too great.

There are also proposals to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and the Eight Banners will be destroyed halfway across the Taedong River, but this premise must suppress the firepower on the city of Pyongyang, so as not to cause large-scale casualties to the Ming army on the riverside.

Mao Yuanyi was a little embarrassed, what these generals said made sense, and the biggest problem now was how to ensure that the Ming army would break through Pyongyang with minimal casualties.

In the two wars of the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming army suffered 30,000 to 60,000 casualties, and the Japanese army suffered 80,000 casualties.

is also a battle to enter the dynasty, Mao Yuanyi strives to minimize the battle loss ratio, so that the data is better, at least much lower than that of the Wanli Dynasty.

Why is Lao Mao so persistent?

Because he was born in the year of the first Wanli Aid War, which coincided with the battle of the Ming Army's Eastern Expeditionary Army to conquer Pyongyang.

Long Xiang Bo Yang Qili stood up, hugged his fists and said: "Military commander, the last general is willing to lead Long Xiang to seize Peony Peak at night!" ”

Mao Yuanyi's eyes lit up, and he said: "Peony Peak is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how do you attack it?" ”

Yang Qili was nearly forty years old, with a beard, and looked very calm, he replied: "The last general is only responsible for the beheading operation, and I hope that other generals will help me in this matter of capturing it afterwards!" ”

"Operation Decapitation!"

The generals in the tent looked shocked, capturing the thief and capturing the king first, hitting the snake and hitting seven inches, killing the enemy's main general through precise strikes, and completely destroying the enemy's will to resist, this is not an easy task!

However, no one thinks that Yang Qili is bragging, because the Longxiang he mastered was created by Emperor Tianwu in his early years, and it was a state-level special force in the Ming Dynasty.

Long Xiang did not accept all the masters in the night, and he made countless meritorious contributions over the years, and last year he went deep into the northern plains of Siberia, eliminated a military camp of the Russian Cossacks in the Far East, and retreated.

Mao Yuanyi asked: "Is Uncle Long Xiang sure?" ”

Yang Qili said in a firm tone: "The last general is willing to make a military order, and before dawn tomorrow, bring out the gold and nod his head!" ”

"Good!"

Mao Yuanyi said excitedly, immediately appointed Yang Qili as the vanguard, and ordered Qi Guangyang to lead 3,000 Ming troops to respond.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Ming army retreated twenty miles after pulling out the camp in order to confuse the enemy.

In the middle of the night, in the dark night fog, Yang Qili personally led five hundred dragons to march towards Peony Peak at night.

After the five hundred people disappeared into the fog, Qi Guangyang also ordered the three thousand generals who attacked at night to slowly march in the direction of the indicated Peony Peak, and prepare to rush to the camp to harvest.

Twenty miles away, soon arrived, and the bright shadows of the North Korean patrols holding torches on the Peony Peak could be faintly seen at the bottom of the mountain.

At this time, it was the time of Yin, it was the time when people slept the deepest, the Korean defenders on the Peony Peak fought fiercely for a long time, and saw the retreat of the Ming army, and relaxed their vigilance for a while, sleeping like a dead pig.

"Prepare to attack, deal with the sentries first!" Yang Qili calmly ordered.

The five hundred dragons did not put on their cloaks at night, and quickly divided up, sneaking into the Peony Peak like ghosts.

The environment tonight is very good, although the moon is in the sky, but because of the fog, only a bright shadow remains, and the visibility on the ground is not high, and it is not clear from a little distance.

As low-grade cannon fodder, most of the soldiers of the North Korean flag are underfed and malnourished, and many of them are blindfolded, that is, night blindness.

A few North Korean soldiers on night patrol were at best pretending to be with torches, and they couldn't see what was going on in the distance.

On the contrary, Long Xiang did not accept all the good food and drink at night, and screened the blindfolded birds at the beginning of its establishment, and carried out night assembly training for a long time, and had rich experience in field night raids.

The places where torches and lanterns were lit in various parts of Peony Peak became the primary target of Long Xiang's attack at night, and the teams acted separately according to the predetermined plan.

Yang Qili silently approached the blind sentinels with the night guards, and they used a series of physical methods such as covering their mouths, cutting their throats, or twisting their necks.

After cleaning up the sentinels on the periphery, Yang Qili led people to continue to touch the North Korean flag barracks.

Along the way, they infiltrated the barracks as if they were in a no-man's land, and also changed into the uniforms of North Korean soldiers, deceiving several groups of North Korean soldiers patrolling the battalion along the way.

A word popped up in Yang Qili's heart to describe the North Korean soldiers: "It's so good!" ”