Fifty-two-year-old Manchurian veteran Ai Xin Jueluo. Bahana was dressed up and climbed the castle on the small black hill behind the Montenegrin fortification. The castle here was built in the Goguryeo era as a stone city. During the years that Duoduo was in charge of Manchuria, it was constantly built, and it was built to resemble the kind of mountain castles in Japan.

Little Montenegro Castle is of course very strong! As long as there are two or three thousand elite soldiers defending to the death, it is difficult for the opponent to break in a short time even if there are tens of thousands-the castle is on the mountain! And the little black mountain is not too small, so it is difficult for the cannons placed at the foot of the mountain to reach the castle on the mountain. And it was a lot of work to transport the cannon up the hill and find the right place to set it up......

However, the cannons mounted on the castle of Little Montenegro also had a limited range and were not enough to block the coastal flats west of the castle - 17 miles west of the fortress of Little Montenegro to the sea, which was not within the reach of any cannon at this age.

In addition, there is another passable flat land to the southeast of the Little Black Mountain - the Little Black Mountain Fortress is 12 miles southeast to the sea. Again, no kind of artillery can hit that far.

In order to block these two seaside passages, Duoduo had two long bases built to the west and southeast of Little Black Mountain, which are the so-called Long Fortresses of Black Mountain.

These two long bases were built by Bahana, and this Manchurian veteran, the old elder of the Aixin Jueluo family (and Nurhachi's contemporary), of course, did not want to see the country that Taizu and Taizong had worked so hard to fight for was completely buried like this.

That's why I was very careful when I supervised the construction of the Montenegrin fortification! First of all, he ordered two long moats with a length of 17 li and 12 li, a width of 3 zhang, and a depth of 2 zhang.

Then he had two long barricades of the same length made out of the earth from the trenches.

In the end, he also asked people to build one fort every three miles, six in the west and three in the east, a total of nine forts were built.

The Montenegrin long fortress defense system, which is composed of mountain cities, moats, long fortresses, and fortresses, can definitely be described as impregnable. But no matter how strong the defense line is, it can't be defended without enough troops......

Holding the binoculars and seeing the artillery positions of the Ming army concentrated in the southwest direction of Little Black Mountain, Bahana's heart sank.

The Ming army at least placed more than 100 cannons in front of the western fortress of Montenegro - real artillery! They all look big...... Definitely not a 3-pounder gun, not a 6-pounder gun, at least a 12-pounder gun, and some are still 24-pounder!

Bahana knew the general situation of the Ming army's artillery system - the Ming army's artillery system was learned from the Swedish ancient second master, consisting of 3 pounds (jin) guns, 12 pounds (jin) guns, and 24 pounds (jin) guns, of which 3 pounds (jin) were responsible for beating people, 12 pounds (jin) were responsible for fighting artillery (suppressing artillery), and 24 pounds (jin) were responsible for fighting cities. Moreover, the Ming army also "independently developed" the wooden pallet flowering shell, and the destruction ability of the artillery is world-class!

And the appearance of more than a hundred siege and assault artillery guns on the front of the Montenegrin long base undoubtedly means that the main force of the Ming army is also in this direction.

If the Ming army did not place independent artillery regiments in front of the Montenegrin long base, then these field heavy artillery belonged to at least six to eight divisions of the Ming army......

With 3,000 men in the hands of Ibhahana, it is impossible to hold the long base under any circumstances.

Just when Bahana felt a burst of despair, a series of fires suddenly appeared on the artillery position of the Ming army on the opposite side!

The artillery of the Ming army has already fired!

Bahana hurriedly turned his head to look in the direction of the west base of Black Mountain, and saw columns of smoke rising into the sky in various postures, and at the same time he heard a roar of succession.

"It's a flowering bomb...... How much gunpowder is this! How much silver do you get...... "When he saw the pillars of smoke that burst from the blossoming bombs, Bahana's heart was about to break.

It's not a war, it's throwing money!

The gunpowder that the Ming army knocked out in one day in the long fortress of Montenegro is probably more than the amount used by the Qing army in Anton in a year! How do they have so much gunpowder? Doesn't their gunpowder cost money?

This battle ...... How to fight!

Just as he was thinking of this, someone around him was already shouting, "Aung Bang Zhangjing, the Ming army's brigade...... That's a lot! ”

Bahana hurriedly looked behind the artillery position of the Ming army, and there was a large piece of shining light - this was formed by the reflection of sunlight from the bayonet inserted in the muzzle of the musket! Looking at this large piece of bayonets, I am afraid that the number of people is not less than 10,000!

This is the first wave of the offensive!

The old man sighed and said to the left and right, "I can't keep it...... Let the brothers all retreat to the mountain city! ”

"Withdraw to the mountain city? And then what? ”

"Then ......," Bahana sighed, "and then take refuge on the banks of the Yalu River......

"To the Yalu River?" A Manchurian kid in his twenties muttered, "We don't want the Jinzhou commercial port either?" ”

The Jinzhou commercial port is just behind the long base of Montenegro, which is a commercial market carefully built by Jabbs, and it is certainly not comparable with Nanjing and Shanghai. But outside the gates, it is definitely a first-class prosperous place. Vladivostok, known as the "Pacific Capital", does not even have a single percent of the Golden State Commercial Market in terms of prosperity and commercial taxes!

The father of this Manchurian child was the first batch of old people to follow Duoduo out of the customs, and he himself grew up in the bustling Jinzhou commercial port, and often went to the Lushun Mansion on the side of the Ming Dynasty to play.

Now I suddenly want to abandon my prosperous hometown and go to stay on the edge of the Yalu River, which is really a bit reluctant!

Bahana sighed, "Let's go...... Let's go, if you want to live, you have to go far! ”

......

"Haha! Rush up! Haha, it's already rushed up......"

On a high ground behind the artillery position of the Ming army, Li Yuanyin danced and said to Zhu Chunchen beside him: "Governor, our people have rushed up...... The first wave is in your hands, it's really good! ”

Zhu Chunchen didn't even look ahead, because he was looking down at the military report he had just received. The military newspaper said that the Young Guards Division had successfully landed at the mouth of the Liaohe River, and that a large camp had just been abandoned by the Qing army was found near the nearby Liangfangkou Pass, and the scale of this large battalion was very amazing, enough to accommodate 80,000 to 100,000 people!

"Admiral Li, look at this ......" Zhu Chunchen stuffed the military report at hand, "Qin Mingtao has discovered the main force of the Qing army, and it is at Liangfangkou Pass, there are 80,000 to 100,000 people!" ”

"What?" Li Yuanyin was taken aback, and he didn't have the heart to look at the big victory ahead, "The landing failed?" The losses of the Young Guards Division are not big, right? ”

The Young Guards Division was an infantry division with the nine-sided boys as the main force - the original plan was to divide the six regiments of the boys' army into six Ming infantry divisions. However, the Battle of Pingliao started ahead of schedule, but it disrupted the Ming army's grouping plan, so the infantry regiments of the six junior armies were simply organized into a division. Because this division was particularly numerous, well-equipped (all flintlock muskets), and the level of training was particularly high, it was used for the Liaohe estuary landing.

However, no matter how elite the troops are, it is estimated that it will be difficult to defeat the enemy who is several times their size in a landing battle.

"The landing was successful......," Zhu Chunchen said, "The Qing army somehow took the initiative to retreat and gave up the Liangfangkou Pass. ”

"And where did they retreat?"

"I don't know," Zhu Chunchen said, "Doni must have wanted to put the Guards Division ashore and fight again......"

"Then let's ......"

"We've got to hurry! 100,000 people, the Young Guards Division can't withstand it for too long, they don't even have cavalry! ”

Li Yuanyin also became nervous, "My subordinates immediately transferred six black cavalry battalions and three heavy cavalry regiments to form a cavalry group, and after breaking through the Black Mountain fortress, they led them to rush to the aid of Liangfangkou." ”

His six Black Cavalry battalions were divisional units, while the three heavy cavalry regiments were independent units, temporarily attached to the Liaodong Legion. If these cavalry are pinched together, it is a cavalry cluster of more than 10,000 people, and the 6,000 heavy cavalry of them are equipped with Indian folded horses and Arab horses, and the impact ability is so strong that it is completely beyond the imagination of the Qing army.

"Okay, okay...... You go yourself," said Zhu Chunchen, "and hand over the large army to Deputy Admiral Wang Zhou!" ”

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