"Get on the bayonet!"

Zhang Cheng from Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, gave the order in the official dialect with a Beijing accent, and the young soldiers of the Nine Sides lined up behind him silently put their bayonets on the muzzles of their guns, and there was the sound of a small piece of metal colliding.

It was already early in the morning, the darkest time of the day in Liaodong, but for the officers and men of the Young Guards Division, who were accustomed to night fighting, it was the time when they could show their skills.

Behind Zhang Cheng, the deputy of the official worship Qianhu and the commander of the first battalion of the second regiment of the Guards, there is a jungle of bayonets!

Zhang Cheng glanced back, and with the help of the dim moonlight, he saw thousands of helmets behind him undulating slightly, and everyone formed a dense skirmish line in a standard kneeling position, looking at Zhaojiazhuang, which was being bombarded on the opposite side - after suppressing the artillery of the Qing army, the Ming army pulled six 24-kilogram mortar cannons onto the battlefield and used them to bombard the Qing army. Although the firing range of this artillery is short, but the power is amazing, the 24 pounds of wooden pallets are a large area as soon as they explode, and the huge fireballs continue to rise on the forward positions of the Qing army, which is the main direction of attack of the Ming army's young guard commando.

Sixteen 3-pound bronze cannons were also pushed to the front line, but they did not fire, just squatted quietly in the night. Zhang Cheng knew that eight of the sixteen 3-pound guns had been loaded with shotguns, and eight had been loaded with solid shells - once the attacking troops were blocked on the front line, these cannons would be pushed up for fire support!

However, Zhang Cheng didn't think that this would happen, because he was full of confidence in the group of nine-sided teenagers under his command!

Thanks to his efforts, his battalion was the vanguard battalion in the offensive operations that were about to begin, and he himself knelt at the front of this battalion, with a cold face and silence.

As one of the few southerners in the New Army officer corps, where northerners make up the absolute majority, Zhang Huangyan's nephew (who was recommended by Zhang Huangyan to be a military colonel) has always been more stern and hardworking than northerners. Because only in this way can he gain a foothold in the army - because Zhu Cihong implements the elimination of the last position among the officers, so those high-ranking officers want to have a few stern and hard-working villains under their hands.

Because he was too strict with his subordinates and didn't give his colleagues a good look, Zhang Cheng had the nickname of Zhang Xiaogui, which means that Hades is good and the little ghost is difficult.

Of course, the senior officers who have a lot of "performance pressure" like such imps, and if they are all bad good people and sycophants, they themselves have to let people be eliminated from the last place......

When Emperor Zhu's baby Young Guards Division was formed into the army, he transferred "all kinds of little ghosts" from various divisions of the New Army to serve as battalion commanders and company commanders, and Zhang Cheng and Zhang Xiaogui were also transferred to the Young Guards Division.

Because all of his colleagues are difficult (they are not good people), the pressure on Zhang Cheng is even greater, not only to be a "ghost", but also to be a "ghost" who is not afraid of death, so that he can have a chance to climb up!

Seriously, now Daming is really a tyrant and a cool official, and there are basically no good people who can stand firm in the officialdom. And what makes people even more speechless is that under the rule of Zhu Cihong, this kind of wicked and cool official basically will not have evil retribution.

Unloading the mill and killing the donkey is not Zhu Cihong's style!

are all cool officials and villains for the country and the emperor...... Great loyalty, the history books will say good things about them!

"Division commander, all the troops that launched the attack have all entered the launching position!"

A staff officer strode up to Qin Mingtao and saluted and reported.

Qin Mingtao will be put in the position of the commander of the Young Guards Division by Zhu Cihong, and it is conceivable what kind of person he is. He was originally a martial artist in Chongzhen for 16 years, and he made meritorious contributions in guarding the gate of the palace in the Battle of Tianjin, so he entered the eyes of Emperor Zhu. But he was able to rise to his current position because he was strict in governing the army and ruthless in his use of troops - just look at the series of night attacks since he landed at the mouth of the Liaohe River, you can know how ruthless he is with his troops!

Now it is a very cold day, and it has just snowed heavily, and the battlefield on the east bank of the Liao River can be said to be icy and snowy, and the temperature at night is more than ten degrees below zero. Let a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys climb the ice and snow in this weather, and attack the stronghold of the Qing army...... Moreover, he used 8,000 people from four regiments to attack more than 20,000 people on the other side, which was simply inhumane!

However, Qin Mingtao's ruthlessness is also extremely necessary in this decisive battle.

Zhu Cihong spent a lot of money and a lot of time that was more precious than money (how precious is the emperor's time!). It's not enough to be immoral! Although the created Young Guards are brave and good at fighting, if they really want to use it to fight a dignified battle, they can't help but consume tens of thousands of Qing troops in turn-at this time, Qin Mingtao also knows that he has collided with the main force of the Qing army!

It would be stupid to fight with others at this time!

As for the retreat of the troops back to Liangfangkou Pass, it is safe, but in this way, the main force of the eastern captives can return to Shenyang safely, so that Huang Degong, who is alone in the north road and pretends to be the main force, will be suspended - now that heavy snow has fallen in Liaodong, the mobility of the black spear and mule soldiers will drop sharply, and they can only shrink up and hold on. When the time comes, he will definitely be found out by Dongyu, and maybe he will defeat Huang Degong all the way without a violent beating. As far as the overall situation of Pingliao is concerned, if Huang Degong loses this way, it will be very disadvantageous.

Therefore, Qin Mingtao adopted the tactics of night attack and day defense, fully carrying forward the advantages of the young guard division who were good at night combat (all of them were forced by the inhuman Emperor Zhu to work overtime), and chose to attack at night, and during the day they either rested, defended, or marched. In short, it is not to fight with Dongyu in the daytime!

However, the use of more than 10,000 men (including artillery and a regiment's reserves) to attack Nikan's more than 20,000 people at night was really a ruthless use of troops, and if the attack failed, and the enemy's reinforcements were too large, the losses would be heavy.

Of course, Qin Mingtao also understood this truth, he stood on a cart transporting mortar cannons at this time, looked north, and saw that under the light of the stars and moon, rows of cold light like waves flashed, which were the bayonets of muskets and the tips of spears in the hands of eight thousand young soldiers.

Master Qin's face had already cooled down, and he didn't say much, and waved his hand lightly: "Start attacking!" ”

The staff officers and heralds around him immediately conveyed the short order, and in front of the place where Master Qin was, a row full of suona hands sounded the order to march together.

The little ghost Zhang Cheng had been waiting for this moment for a long time, so he jumped up immediately, pulled out his sword, and pointed forward: "Father Weijun, Bao Daming, Guards, advance!" ”

"Father Weijun, Bao Daming...... Fight the enemy! ”

The young soldiers of the Guards suddenly shouted wildly! Then there were waves of cold light, and all the eight thousand officers and soldiers stood up, and then took Zhang Cheng's infantry battalion as the lead, so as to advance step by step, pointing to Zhaojiazhuang!

Nikan was also neatly dressed at this time, and with his Manchurian soldiers, he braved the threat of a flowering bomb that would explode on his head at no telling when, and went to the front line.

It is clear where the Ming army will attack! That's where they're shelling frantically, and all Nikan can do now is concentrate his forces as much as he can to get bombed...... The bombing can't kill many people, and it's three or five hundred at the top, but the blow to the morale of the troops is very big -- no one can stand it if they don't fight back just by being bombed!

However, Nikan is also ruthless, and gave a death order: no attack! Second, don't retreat! Third, it is not allowed to lie down to avoid the cannon - because lying down is just pretending to be dead, and you will not get up!

You have to stand straight and be bombed!

"Lord Wang, the barbarians of the Ming army have come up!"

A "black" man, who was probably affected by the flowering bullet and whose face was blackened by gunpowder, rushed to Nikan and reported in a trembling voice.

"What's the panic?" Nikan shouted, "Haven't you killed the Nanban? ”

The "black man" shook his head, "Lord Wang, this group of southern barbarians is different!" The momentum is amazing, and the fierceness is extremely ......"

"So what?" Nikan glared at him, "The Regent's reinforcements are already on the way, as long as we hold on until dawn, we can win!" ”

As soon as his words fell, there was already a crackling gunfire in front of him, and the arquebuses of the Qing army began to fire!