Chapter Forty-Eight: Breakthrough (Ask for Collection)
Matsuyama Castle, which had been noisy in the middle of the night, hung out a series of heads outside the south gate early the next morning.
The drums and music disturbed the Qing army on the opposite side, and Haoge and others personally led the troops to the outside of the city. Wang Tingchen then asked someone to escort Xia Chengde to the city, and cut off his head in front of Haoge and others.
"Here's this dog's head for you!" Then he picked up his head and threw it dozens of steps away......
Haoge's face was pale, just like when Turai was under the city of Niuzhuang, he consciously was insulted and provoked by the Ming army. The Ming army was still laughing loudly one by one on the top of the city.
The grumpy Hauge was so angry that he wanted to drum up his troops and go into the city, and chopped the royal courtiers with a knife.
"Prince Su is angry, Prince Su is angry...... "Mandahai and Adali are so persuasive."
This Songshan is not an unconquerable fortified city, but there are tens of thousands of Ming troops inside, with both firearms, and more good generals can sit in the town, attack and fight, and the Qing army will be knocked out of a big tooth even if it can be taken. And if the loss of their own troops is too large because of the war, it will not be beneficial to the Manchus.
There are too few of them.
There are more than 300 cattle in the army, and the total strength of the Manchu army is less than 100,000. Besides, most of the cattle records don't have 300 flags at all! With the addition of the Menghan army, the general calculation of 1340,000 people is also the end.
There's really no room for waste.
After the previous battle with Hong Chengchou, it was already a lot of losses. How can you eat Matsuyama again?
Wang Tingchen watched the Qing army retreat outside, and there was no surprise on his face. The Qing army's calculation was to trap the Ming army, not to conquer Songshan. Don't look at Jianyu, with Kong Youde and other traitors, they organized a good gun and artillery army, but the Qing army's siege ability is still touching.
If you don't mention Songshan, just look at Jinzhou, and you can see it.
The situation soon returned to calm, and the two armies continued to face each other. The Qing army did not face the battle, and the excitement of the Ming army did not last long. The current situation is that the food in Matsuyama Castle will be exhausted.
When the Ming army saw that the Qing army did not accept the recruitment, he soon quieted down, which was the correct solution.
It's just that what the Qing army absolutely didn't know was that Songshan City, which looked dead and silent on the outside, was splashing with hot blood flowers inside.
Headed by Adjutant General Zhu Wende, one by one's names were added to the list, and in just one morning, there were as many as 100 loyal and brave soldiers who were willing to die as the vanguard of the army. Li Wu was really moved, in such an environment, if there was no fluctuation in his mind, then he was really hard-hearted.
The powder packet is also being made intensively, and there is even a fire fold. The power of the powder packet is extremely powerful, but if you don't ignite the fire, no matter how powerful it is, it will be useless.
Then you have to take into account your own safety issues, as well as the amount of charge of the powder pack, and even the position of the carry, to ensure that the flame will not go out due to accidents, and then the size of the powder packet.
These are not what Li Wu has to consider. Hong Chengchou will come up with the most convenient plan in the shortest possible time. Li Wu also did not hesitate to believe that Hong Chengchou would come up with a most suitable method. Because these civil and military people in front of them are not mediocre!
They have been under siege for a long time, they are about to run out of food, when a way of life to break out of the siege suddenly appears in front of them, how can these people not work hard? How can you not try your best to create all the conditions and fight for your own vitality?
Zheng Zhilong only gave a 'human bomb' method, and didn't think about anything else at all, and the reason was that it was unnecessary.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and late night came.
Songshan City still seems to be silent on the outside, and in the dark night, tens of thousands of soldiers and soldiers are taking advantage of the luster of the stars and the moon to make the final preparations before fighting.
The 300 death squad led by Zhu Wende hid in the brightly lit house, carefully checking everything. The big medicine bag on his back, the small medicine bag he carried in his hand, and even the grenade hanging from his waist.
In addition to them, there were five hundred elite soldiers, all dressed in battle armor, with a layer of pockets on their chests and backs, and one small pocket after another containing grenades.
Wrap the medicine in silk, take advantage of the yellow bamboo tube on the outside, and fill some broken iron and gravel inside. Each small one is three or two catties, and the most is four or five catties. Grenadiers, this is not what Li Wu told Hong Chengchou, but they deduced it from the powder packet.
After all, human beings are intelligent creatures, with thoughts and inspirations. It's not a bead on an abacus, you flick it, it moves.
On the sea, warships are already in place. When night fell, Hong Xu and Zheng Sen had already led them to the offshore.
On the dark sea, the glimmer of the stars and the moon makes it impossible to see the sea three or five miles away.
Zheng Sen sat cross-legged on the stern tower with a sharp sword in his hand, looking out onto the shore. For tonight's battle, he has a very different feeling from the others.
He and Shi Lang both witnessed the tragic situation of the Ming army in the past.
There are corpses of Ming soldiers floating on the sea one after another, and that shocking scene can still clearly appear in front of the two of them. So for today's actions, Zheng Sen and Shi Lang have a different feeling in their hearts.
Now Zheng Sen is still on the big Wuwei boat, and Shi Lang has led some of the men and horses in the Volunteer Battalion and the Bald Army to quietly land on the coast.
Hong Xu was also nervously arranging the walk.
Whether it's a bird boat or an blacktail boat, it won't be able to enter the coastline at all. It was calculated that the time was accurate, and when the Matsuyama Ming army broke through to the coast, it was just in time for the night tide, and the bird boats and blacktail boats were also approaching too sadly. It's better to calculate the time accurately and take advantage of the rising tide to allow the warships to approach the Qing army camp on the coast closer.
Zheng Zhilong didn't know when Duoduo would be able to send troops to arrive, in fact, he also saw that the Qing army reinforcements were two white flag soldiers and horses, which confirmed that he had really instigated the Songjin battle.
How could he go and inform Shen Tingyang to lead the ship north again.
This time to transport the soldiers, whether it is to bring Zheng Sen's volunteers ashore, or to transport a large number of defeated soldiers of the Ming army onto the ship, the only thing that can be relied on is to go one by one. That's a big problem.
But what should come is still back. When an explosion came from the shore, when a raging fire suddenly ignited in Songshan City, illuminating half of the sky in the west, Hong Xu drew his sword on the bow of the ship, "Kill, ......"
"Kill—" Zheng Sen shouted as he waved his sword as he rode a boat. When the time came, the positions of the two immediately changed.
At this time, Shi Lang had already led the men and horses to rush straight to the Qing army camp in front. He didn't have a lot of people, but he won suddenly.
The three Qing military camps only a few miles away from the coastline are now in a panic.
Leaving aside the sudden disturbances of the Ming army in Matsuyama, the former would threaten them at least until the Ming army broke through the first line of defense. But the sudden shouting of killing behind them, as well as the lanterns and torches that were suddenly lit up on the sea, illuminated the sea clearly, and even revealed tall warships.
The sailors of the Ming army have already been killed. The officers of the three Qing barracks all understood what was going on. Although it is not clear how the Ming army inside and outside was connected, it is clear that the Ming army of Matsuyama is going to break through.
This is where the ships of the sea come to meet them!