"Melerjang," Eshan was already nervous, "since the enemy is here...... Shouldn't we get out of the way? ”

Tu Hai frowned and glanced at this old Manchu who seemed to be frightened by the elite of the Ming army, shook his head and said, "Now is not the time...... It's night, what kind of soldiers are we? Running away at night, you can't chase others and break up? You don't even have to fight, just chase and chase our soldiers! ”

Eshan was speechless, because he knew that Tuhai was right. Their more than 10,000 soldiers are easy to restrain during the day, and at night when the lights are dark, they are not locked up in the camp and are allowed to desert. If there is another elite pursuit of the Ming army, there is no need to fight, and if you catch up for one night, the custodian will be less than half.

Tu Hai said: "Our camp already occupies a Zhuangzi, and after being reinforced, it is no worse than an ordinary castle...... There are not many of them, it is impossible to surround us, even if they are besieged, they are not afraid, the prince's army is more than sixty miles away. ”

"This ......," Eshan nodded, "It's still Melle Zhangjing who thinks thoughtfully, and the officials admire it." ”

Tu Hai said with a smile: "Eniulu, you and your people don't want to participate in tonight's deployment...... Take a good rest, and let's retreat north together after dawn tomorrow. ”

"Good!" Eshan sighed, his people finally didn't have to fight against those murderous Ming troops anymore...... Thinking of this, he felt uncomfortable again, and the way of the world became too fast! More than ten years ago, when he was still a teenager, what he heard every day was how useless the Ming army was, how brave the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers were, and it was a drizzle to fight ten at a time. How can it be reversed now?

This Qing Dynasty Sanxing, shouldn't there be an end to it?

O ancestors! Eshan prayed in his heart that he must bless the Qing Kingdom!

Less than three miles south of Kongjiabao, where more than 10,000 Qing troops were stationed under Tuhai's headquarters, a group marching in the dark had stopped advancing amid the continuous whistles, and then completed the unfolding of large areas of ripe but unharvested wheat fields.

Then, the officer leading the team began to give orders one by one.

"Pack light, get off the backpack!"

"Check the ammunition, check the bayonet, check the cuirass and helmets...... In addition to ammunition, bayonets, cuirasses, helmets, all equipment, all baggage teams are concentrated! ”

"The company commanders are out of line, ready to receive orders!"

In the dim moonlight, in the midst of the sound of orders, the soldiers completed all the movements neatly and quickly, and then waited there quietly, during which there was no unnecessary sound, and not a single soldier was scolded by the superior for doing something wrong.

In fact, this kind of march in the dark, unfolding in the dark, and advancing towards the designated goal in the dark, has been done by the "young soldiers" of these Young Guards Divisions in the past four or five years.

This kind of thing is as natural to them as eating and sleeping, and nothing can go wrong.

In the midst of this silence, suddenly the sound of horses' hooves, the sound of labor trumpets, and the shouts of unknown people came together.

"Stop, stop...... This is it! ”

"Guards on alert!"

"All artillery squads open their positions!"

The person who was shouting was Sun Shining, the artillery staff officer of the Young Guards Division, and as the artillery staff officer of the division, he was also the chief of staff of the artillery regiment. In this evening, his task was to command four 12-pound cast-iron short cannons to support the infantry in launching an attack on the Qing army holding Kongjiabao.

According to the information obtained by the Ming army, Kongjiabao, located in the north of Liangfangkou Pass, was built by Kong Youde's people, and was once the station of Kong Youde's department, which was once very strong. Although it is in disrepair now, it is still not very easy to fight.

Fortunately, the Young Guards Division landed with 4 12-pound cast iron short-barreled cannons and a large number of flowering shells this time, so whether or not they can break through Kongjiabao tonight depends on whether these 4 12-kilogram guns can be accurate!

As soon as the four artillery squads were deployed about two and a half miles south of Kongjiabao, Qin Mingtao came up with several staff officers from the division headquarters.

"Master Shuai, 4 12-pound guns are in place...... However, the earthen walls of Kongjia Fort are relatively low, and it is difficult to be hit by direct fire, so his subordinates suggested using flowering shells to bombard the enemy troops in the fort. But it was too dark to see the location of the earthen wall. ”

Qin Mingtao nodded, and said to a regiment commander beside him: "Send a battalion to touch it, scatter tactics, and lead the enemy on the earth wall to open fire." ”

Shooting in line was always just one of the many infantry tactics of the Fusilier Age, which also included skirmishers (light infantry, chasseurs) who could shoot accurately, as well as snipers who specialized in sniping the enemy, and even ordinary line infantry built and relied on fortifications for defense......

The Young Soldiers of the Nine Sides are professional soldiers who have been rigorously trained since childhood, so they can master a variety of tactics, including skirmishers, which are very effective against opponents with low levels of training and lower officer standards.

The former "Manchurian Heavenly Soldiers" are now a weak brigade with poor soldiers and even worse officers in Qin Mingtao's eyes!

"Ancestors bless, ancestors bless, ancestors bless......" Righteous thoughts have words, and Tuhai, who prays for the blessing of his ancestors, is of course also a low-level officer.

Although in history, he was an elite officer among the three generations of Manchurian aristocracy, and was a hero of the Kangxi Emperor Ping San Domain. But his military knowledge was completely outdated, and he simply did not know how to deal with a modern professional army.

Bang Bang Bang ......

The sudden sound of gunfire interrupted Tuhai's thoughts, and he hurriedly walked out of his Chinese army, a Confucian temple that had long been abandoned, and several officers guarding outside the Confucian temple saw him come out and immediately surrounded him.

"Meler Zhangjing, it's south of Zhuangzi, and Zhuangzi is south of guns!"

"The Ming army barbarians are attacking!"

"Meler Zhangjing, what should I do?"

These officers were all Manchurian nobles in their twenties, and they should have been the masters of Beijing in history, but now they can't even be the landlords outside the Guan, and they are all nervous.

Tu Hai seemed calm, "What are you panicking about?" Kongjiabao is strong and is not afraid of their ...... Let's take a look. ”

After he said this, he strode towards the place where the gunshots rang out, and only halfway through the road, he heard the gunfire in front of him more densely, but it was not the particularly crisp sound of the Ming army's flintlock pistol, but the dull sound of his own arquebus.

This time it seems that the arquebus overwhelmed the flintlock pistol!

Tu Hai laughed and said to the left and right, "Did you hear that?" It's all our arquebuses...... In the wilderness, our guns are not good, we always suffer, and now we are fighting against the wall, and the situation is different! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a thunderous roar came from the front, and Tu Hai's heart that had just been put down was hoisted again, and he quickly turned his head to look at the place where the explosion sounded more than a hundred steps ahead, and there was an orange fireball in his eyes!

Blossom bombs!

And it also entered the Zhuangzi!

It turned out that the flowering bomb that exploded did not hit the wall, but crossed the wall of Zhuangzi, landed in the village, first smashed on the hard ground, then was bounced up, flew into a yard crowded with mules, horses and livestock, and finally exploded in mid-air!

There were no casualties, but the wounded and frightened mules and horses seemed to have blown up their nests, all of them lost control, broke free of the ropes, some of them smashed open the wooden door of the yard and rushed out, and a few healthy horses jumped over the low courtyard wall and rushed to the narrow street outside, rushing along the street, but fortunately, an officer next to Tuhai reacted quickly and dragged him to the corner of the street, so that the frightened mules and horses did not knock over. But two of the officers and soldiers who were with him were unlucky, knocked to the ground by mules and horses, and trampled on them several times, one was killed on the spot, and the other vomited blood, and was about to whimper!

Tu Hai gasped, and before he could react from the shock, a few more roars rang out, and this time two fireballs suddenly rose from the small Kongjia Fort!