"Listen, brethren." The sky darkened, there were no stars or moon, and darkness covered everything.

Cangzhou has been cloudy for the past two days, and Zheng Zhilong has also asked the local old farmers, and they all said that it is going to rain. Someone in the army suggested that it would not be too late to attack when it rained.

Zheng Zhilong didn't listen.

"The Tartars thought they would be fine if they dug a few ditches and fenced themselves off, but they were wishful thinking. We're going to sneak up on them and throw the grenades out in a swarm. They were blown up, and they looked at how they still held the trenches. ”

Li Shixuan gave up the iron armor, and the latter made a noise as soon as he moved, how could he still sneak attack the Qing army? At this moment, wearing leather armor, he stood in front of the bombardier of five hundred people, shouting loudly.

Zheng Zhilong and the others watched them from a distance, this was the front army of tonight's battle, and the only thing they were responsible for was throwing grenades. The soldiers and horses behind them are the main force responsible for the assault.

The follow-up troops of the two battalions, followed by the Iron Man Army, which could not hide their whereabouts at all.

"Papai ......" two fireworks rose into the sky. The method that Zheng Zhilong used first, Qing Jun learned it really quickly. The only problem is that the time when the Tartars release the fireworks is too regular.

At least in the period from the end of the ugly hour to the beginning of the second hour, this is the time when the Tartars change the guard, and the fireworks are set off quite regularly.

If there were no problems with what had been observed in the previous days, Zheng Jun would have at least half an hour of safe time.

And half an hour was enough for 500 people to rush to the front of the Qing army's position.

The bright fireworks illuminated Haoge's face, and Haoge, who was standing at the head of the city, looked at the camp outside the city that was revealed in the light of an instant, and a trace of apprehension flashed in his eyes, can his own arrangement really hold Cangzhou?

Outside Cangzhou City, he arranged more than 30,000 green flags, surrounded by Cangzhou on all sides, and the surrounding water was impassable. Waves of musketeers, gunners, and archers were hidden in the trenches, far and near. Behind it was a breastwork, and at intervals of only ten paces there was a ravine, in which a large number of sword-bearers and swordsmen were hidden......

Once the front is attacked, the sword players and spearmen behind can quickly rush in for reinforcements.

Buckhouse said that such an arrangement is like an iron bucket, although it is not as strong and reliable as a fortress, but it can be arranged in a short time, but it is a strong but huge amount of work cannot be achieved by a fortress.

Hauge also felt that the arrangement was as solid as an iron bucket, and he couldn't think of a way to break it.

If there is a flaw in this bucket array, it is that it cannot be moved.

This made him feel ashamed to say this. In the past, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was invincible in the field, and the Nikan who fought was holding his head and running around, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry came and went, and the Han'er only dared to shrink into the city. But now, it was the male soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who put out the turtle shells, and everything was turned upside down.

But no matter how embarrassing it is, no matter what, as long as he can stop Zheng Zhilong in Cangzhou, this will be a great achievement for the Qing Dynasty.

But it was precisely because he was facing Zheng Zhilong that Haoge felt worried.

This is Zheng Zhilong!

In the past few years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Zheng Jun have fought one war after another, who dares to underestimate Zheng Zhilong's ability? Who would dare to continue to treat him as a bandit and a pirate?

This is a person who can do what ordinary people cannot.

Whether it is organizing a large-scale firearms unit, or organizing manpower and material resources to build impregnable fortresses on Juehua Island, Jinmen, and Qilu. This is what ordinary people cannot.

Facing such a person, Haoge was really afraid that Zheng Zhilong would be able to do it again.

And just when Hauge's heart was worried and difficult to settle down, Buckhaus in Cangzhou City was writing a letter under the oil lamp: Your Excellency, Noble and majestic, brave and wise and far-sighted, you can feel at ease when you see this letter, which proves that I am at least alive. But I have to tell you the bad news, the Qing Empire built by the Tatars is in a state of passivity. Zheng Zhilong's sudden power broke the Qing Empire's earlier good situation, and now they seem to have returned to the same starting line as the Ming Empire in the south.

Zheng Zhilong sent a powerful army to attack the Qing Empire's hometown, and His Excellency the Prince Regent had sent more than 20,000 cavalry to reinforce Guanwai in order to maintain his authority and dignity. But that didn't ease their passivity.

Zheng Zhilong personally led another army to attack north, this army was also very strong, and the Qing Empire's troops in the Yanjing area were seriously insufficient, and the troops they transferred back from the interior were still on the way, so I have a very bad feeling now......

Buckhouse wrote to Batavia as usual, and at the end of the letter he wrote a request to go home and recuperate, though he knew that there would be no reply from the Governor.

As someone who has been in China for several years, Batavia will not withdraw him at this critical moment.

As a result, Buckhouse's letters became more and more perfunctory, and he was not the only one in this contingent to write to His Excellency the Wise and Wise Governor.

It was pitch black outside Cangzhou City at night, standing where the Qing army was located and looking south, the direction of the Zheng army's camp was flickering with countless dim lights, which were Zheng army soldiers smoking.

In the Zheng army, whether it is an officer or a soldier, it is all good!

Many Qing soldiers looked at the flickering lights on the opposite side, and felt stable in their hearts. Zheng Jun is smoking, he's having fun, it's very comfortable, isn't it?

The two teams of grenadiers have quietly figured out their positions! Everyone was dressed in black clothes and black pants, and even the slasher on their backs was wrapped in black cloth with its scabbard. They have about half an hour now, if the people who set off the fireworks today are no different from the previous days.

Later, Gan Hui and Shi Lang will also lead their own teams into battle, and Hong Xu will command the follow-up troops to prepare.

To be honest, the turtle formation of the trench and the chest wall that Hauge is putting up now is really nothing. In the era when machine guns were not yet born, they did not have barbed wire and mines to protect the Qing army's trenches, which were symbolic.

The Qing army, which was limited by the width of the trench and the density of firepower projection per unit area, was congenitally defective with thin firepower. If you don't play sneak attack, when tomorrow dawns, Zheng Zhilong will ask someone to dig soil and dig a ditch, and go directly to the front of the Qing army's position, what means can the latter have to counteract?

It's just that when the distance between the two sides is reduced to a certain extent, they throw grenades at each other to see which one can't hold it first.

However, this grenadier night attack is also possible, and the grenade rain falls from the sky, and the two Tartars have a hard time.

Watching the teams leave the Zheng army's camp, Zheng Zhilong naturally didn't go back to the tent to rest, just watched the sound of gunfire and explosions in the dark night, and the sound of shouting and killing in the night.

"What? Aren't you worried that we'll lose the battle? "For the time being, I haven't received the previous letter, Zheng Zhilong is not in a hurry, Hong Xu has already taken the follow-up troops led by the Iron Man Army to kill.

He simply chatted with Zheng Sen beside him.

"The boy thinks our army will not be defeated." Zheng Sen cut the railway.

"What do you say? The battlefield is unpredictable, anyone can win, and everyone will lose. Why won't our army be defeated? ”

"Because our army is more well-trained than the Qing Army's Green Banner, its body is stronger, its morale is stronger, and its armor rate is more." Zheng Sen immediately said the reason, with these four points, Zheng Jun really has no possibility of failure tonight.

"That's just the green flag of the Tartars, and there are still a lot of eight flags in Cangzhou City."

"The Eight Banners of the Tartars are in Cangzhou City, and they will come to reinforce after hastily gathering one place, and the child thinks that our army has been defeated."

Hand grenade plus bayonet, this lethality is really strong. Haoge evenly distributed more than 30,000 people around Cangzhou, and even if he paid a little attention to the defense of the lower south, it would be at most 10,000 people.

Of course, this is a lot more than the number of troops invested by Zheng Jun.

It's just that the trenches let the 10,000 Qing troops be distributed in a linear pattern in the south of Cangzhou, and the Zheng army's night attack by the grenadiers, or the subsequent attack, are all standard and can no longer be standard key breakthroughs, and they are vertical commandos.

If there is still a problem in such a battle, it is a big problem within Zheng Jun.

And once the soldiers break through the interception of the Qing army, these green flag soldiers will only have one result, and they may even be defeated.

"This, this ......" tonight is definitely a sleepless night for Hauge, and the appearance of Zheng Zhi's Dragon King Banner has already shown the reason. Zheng Jun's night attack was expected by him, so he was already neatly dressed at the moment, sitting on the south gate tower of Cangzhou with his waist knife, ready to command the army to counterattack at any time.

However, after the dense explosions and gunfires one after another, the sudden collapse of the Qing army's defense line was unexpected by him.

As long as the forward front can block the surprise attack of the Zheng army, then he can mobilize troops from other sides to besiege the south of the city.

However, the sudden collapse of the Qing defense line in the south of the city made all this fall into vain.

Hauge underestimated Zheng Jun's resilience.

By the time the 500 grenadiers in front touched the front of the Qing army's position, the Qing soldiers had already discovered them. Then the guns were fully fired, and they really knocked the front rows of Zheng Jun to the ground, but the front fell, and the rear followed. In the midst of the guns and arrows, Zheng Jun rushed to a distance of thirty paces in front of the Qing army's formation, and threw grenades one by one.

This group of bombardiers selected from the whole army can still throw more grenades before and after the trenches of the Qing troops, and naturally it is impossible for all of them to fall into the trenches, but even if it is one of two or even three of them, they will already be able to reimburse the Green Flag soldiers in front of them.

Throwing the grenade directly into the trench - it was definitely beyond the imagination of the Tartars.

In Hauge's eyes, this grenade is a standard defensive weapon. The two sides set up a battle, and it was easy for the defenders to throw grenades one by one to kill and injure the enemy, but how could the enemy put the grenades in the trench? It's like a shell into a trench, it's not impossible, but it's too difficult and too inefficient.

The Qing army didn't do this training at all, and he didn't even think about it.

One grenade after another immediately cleaned up the Qing army in the trench in front of them, even if it was a cold weapon green flag soldier ten steps later, one grenade after another continued to fly over, it was a piece of cake. As long as they take a few steps forward, it is.

If the cold weapon Green Flag soldier behind him was not holding a knife and gun, but a musket bow and arrow, it would still be able to give Zheng Jun a good kill. But there is no 'if' on the battlefield, some are just left behind without regrets, and some are just victorious or defeated!

The Green Flag soldiers of the Qing Army, who had suffered heavy losses from the grenade, had not yet reacted from their shock, and the grenades of the Zheng Army had already drawn out their machetes behind their backs and poured into the trenches, and the shouts of killing and screaming suddenly rang out on the Qing army's position.

Some of the Qing soldiers who survived the explosion just now didn't have time to rejoice in the joy of escaping death, how could they still have the courage to resist? They all jumped out of the trenches and ran towards Cangzhou City, or fled to the Qing soldiers on both sides.

Behind "Kill, ......", a large number of soldiers and horses of the Zheng army were already shouting and rushing towards them.

Who wrote history for 5,000 years

Who wrote history for 5,000 years