From Lingyuan along the Daling River to the east, about 100 miles can reach Yizhou, the Ming army set up a sentry fort on the top of the mountain about 20 miles away from Yizhou, and observed the movement of Yizhou City at any time. In order to facilitate the observation of the soldiers in the sentry fort, the Military Affairs Institute specially changed some binoculars from the Tessie people and sent them, which solved the big problem. In the past, with the human eye, you could only see the approximate size of the city wall when the sky was clear, and it was not much different from not seeing anything, so you could only observe it closely. The problem is that everyone has eyes, you can see others, others can see you, and when the time comes, the two-legged Ming scouts will definitely not be able to outrun the six-legged Jurchen patrolmen.

It's much easier to do with a telescope, scouts can get closer while observing, turn around and leave immediately when they find something wrong, and be safe when they return to the mountain. In order to avoid a sneak attack by the Jurchens, the roads around the sentry fort were all flattened and dug by the soldiers, even if the Ming army wanted to go down, they had to hang it with a basket, although it was troublesome, but it was worth it for safety↓ It was because these observation methods made the Ming army find out that the defenders of Yizhou had changed generals, and it was the rebel general Sun Degong who everyone hated, if Wang Huazhen, the governor of Jizhou, knew about this, he would grit his teeth, because Sun Degong was his self-confessed confidant back then, but he betrayed him and became a big trouble.

After many reconnaissances, the Ming army found that Sun Degong would personally lead a team out to inspect every two to three days, and the accompanying soldiers were in a team of dozens of people, sometimes two teams, sometimes three teams and four teams, scattered to inspect on both sides of the Daling River to see if there was anything abnormal. After observing for a long time, I found that Sun Degong had a habit, that is, when he arrived at a small dirt slope, he always liked to ride his horse to the highest place and stop, and then look west and east for a while, not knowing what he was thinking. The Ming army sometimes eliminated the horse that had won the merit and suddenly lost his hoof and threw him off the dirt slope and died, but the possibility of the horse stumbling is very small, and even if it falls, it is estimated that the small dirt slope will not fall to death, and the most people will be injured.

Because everyone didn't understand what Sun Degong's habit meant, they asked Liu Xingzuo, who was about to leave for Phi Dao, Liu Xingzuo was appointed as Mao Wenlong's deputy general, and replaced Chen Jisheng in the Southeast Military Region□ Xingzuo was originally in Yizhou and should understand the inspection path, everyone thought he could have a reasonable explanation, who knew that Liu Xingzuo only said lightly after hearing it, "I used to look left and right there back then" and there was no follow-up.

However, the Ming army has its own explanation, Liu Xingzuo is the person who came over anyway, he was looking west because he was nostalgic for his homeland, and he was looking east because he did not forget his home and country and hated to drive away foreign races. And Sun Degong is different, he looks to the west because he still has a grudge against Daming and is thinking about conspiracy, and when he looks to the east, he is looking forward to the psychology of the master to reward the bones, and the emperor Taiji wants to reward him, and he must punish and kill such a hardcore traitor.

At the beginning of February, a few people came to the sentry fort closest to Uiju, and these people were accompanied by high-ranking generals, so it turned out that the soldiers in the sentry fort knew that it was not trivial. Three of them were small and each had a musket in their arms, which was not the dark black musket of the original Ming army, but a shiny black musket. In the past, the musket was cast with iron and then drilled, the cast iron was fragile so it was easy to blow up and hurt himself, since Ni Yuanlu began to use coke to make fine iron in the new Wang Gong factory, the cast musket did not need to be made of fine iron to make guns, and the fine iron toughness was good and it could be made very small without exploding.

The three gunmen were thin but muscular, and in addition to using binoculars to observe during the Jurchen patrol every day, they were training themselves how to climb the cliff with their bare hands. Seeing that they could easily go up and down without baskets in a few days, the soldiers guarding the fort wanted to knock off the protruding stones on the cliff wall on the spot, because their Jurchens also touched them.

In the gap between the Jurchen patrols, the Ming scouts quietly approached the high slope that Sun Degong liked to stand on several times, and found that there was a large stone on the high slope, and the sand and gravel were not dirt underneath, which gave the Ming army a bold idea. It doesn't matter why Sun Degong likes to ride a horse and stand for a while every time, maybe he just likes to listen to the sound of horses' hooves stepping on stones, since there is sand and gravel under the flakes and stones, instead of unusually hard soil when frozen, it can be completely planed loose to make him fall with people and horses.

The soil slope is not high enough and the slope is very gentle, so the fall is not dead, the Ming army found that as long as Sun Degong falls, he will roll down the gentle slope for more than a dozen steps or even dozens of steps, and then he can ambush the three gunmen in the dry grass and kill them with one blow. After careful calculation, everyone felt completely sure, so they quietly touched the soil slope in three days, slowly cut the sand and gravel under the stone, and at the same time used a smaller branch to top the stone in the hollowed out. Everyone's abacus is that the sand and gravel under the flake stone will fall if it is hollowed out, and now it can only be supported by branches to ensure that it will not be blown away by the wind, and the weight of people and horses cannot bear it anyway.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, the three gunners came to the bottom of the dirt slope with their guns and waited, according to the predetermined plan, Sun Degong would lead people to pass by after an hour, and then according to the custom, he would ride his horse to stand on the stone for a short time, and express his unknown feelings. If Sun Degong falls down the dirt slope and then rolls along the gentle slope for dozens of steps, he will enter the absolute range of the musket, and the three gunners shoot at the same time, and it is estimated that Sun Degong will die nine times in his life ♀, and the three gunners are people who have undergone long-term training, and their physical strength and marksmanship are one in a hundred, if nothing else, Sun Degong's death will be today.

The ambush place is more than ten miles away from Yizhou, and it is also seven or eight miles away from the Ming army's sentry fort, once the three gunners can desperately flee, and the Jurchen soldiers want to ride around the bend to chase after them or it is still possible to catch up, so the Ming army put large and small stones on the place where they must pass to hinder the speed of the horse. If the Jurchens abandon their horses and chase on foot, everyone will fight for a few miles of physical strength and endurance, as long as they insist on seven or eight miles, they can run to the bottom ♀ of the sentry fort, when the basket of the hanging man is already waiting for the hanging man in the recess of the mountain, and two tiger squat cannons are also placed on the top of the recess facing the way to come, and it is enough to kill people not much and scary.

The three gunners have been trained for a long time, but it is still very abrasive to wait quietly for an hour, the weather in early February is still cold, although everyone is wearing thick robes, but it is still a little difficult after a long time, the three of them are rubbing their hands and joints at any time, for fear that they will not be able to do it when the time comes≮ The fort side is also very nervous, several senior generals have taken out binoculars and are paying close attention, and at the same time constantly ordering their subordinates to take all precautions, waiting for the arrival of Sun Degong.

Maybe there is something to do on this day, he is a quarter of an hour later than the last time he came, fortunately he still came, and walked to the dirt slope and thought about it or prepared to put the horse on the soil slope ≯ Seeing that everything is going to go as planned, who knows that the horse is disobedient at the critical moment, I don't know if the animal sees or smells something, or that it has abnormal sensing ability, anyway, it sways left and right and does not walk over. Sun Degong tried several times and his horse did not listen to the command, which made him very surprised and angry, which attracted the attention of the accompanying soldiers.

A soldier said flatteringly: "Is this horse afraid of the wind today, or I will lead it by the way." After saying that, he shouted to the horse as he walked back: "Come here, it's okay!" ”

As soon as he finished saying that he was fine, he saw him roll down with a snort, and rolled far along the gentle slope, Sun Degong was so surprised that he opened his mouth and couldn't speak, and the soldiers around him also stared at him and didn't know what to say.

The three Ming soldiers who were ambushed in the dry grass saw that things had changed, and felt that the opportunity was not to be lost, and immediately raised their guns to aim at Sun Degong on the dirt slope, and then lit a fire and fired, and when they saw Sun Degong fall down in response, they knew that they had succeeded, and immediately turned around and ran as planned. Who knew that after chasing for a short time, two horses stepped on the rolling stones and slipped their hooves, throwing the people on the horses off' Seeing this, the real people were even more angry, and they abandoned their horses and ran after them. 、

In this way, one side ran and the other side chased, and there were people behind who cleared the messy stones on the road and chased after them, and ran to the cliff when they saw it, and the three gunmen ran along the cliff in their hearts.

One of the three gunners was unlucky to be hit by an arrow in his back, but fortunately he was thickly dressed in winter and the distance between the two sides was long. The two who were not injured hurriedly ran the injured into the recess of the mountain inside, sat in the hanging basket that had been prepared long ago, and waited for the hanging basket to be successfully pulled up the cliff before they were relieved. Everyone borrowed the wounded's clothes to take a look, only to see that the arrow was only inserted into his shoulder and did not hurt his internal organs, so they hurriedly pulled out the arrow and put it on the medicine package.

In fact, when the Jurchens ran to the vicinity of the cliff, they did not advance at all, they all knew that there were Ming troops and artillery on it, and hundreds of people gathered around in the distance to point and point because they had lost the command of their leader. Probably to better deter the Jurchens, the Ming army moved the cannons of the two tiger squat cannons forward, which means that we are prepared, if any of you are not afraid of death, come over' The real people discussed for a while and then dispersed, but when they left, their eyes looked up without fear or envy, but with some disdain in it.

After a while, everyone learned that Sun Degong was not dead, because he was far away from his head and his power was not strong enough, so he broke one of his eyes but failed to penetrate his brain, but he also became blind because he couldn't heal it. There were also two shots, one of which hit the armor without causing much damage, and the other shot went in through the gap in the armor and hit him in the thigh, and it is said that he could no longer ride a horse because of the tendons. The military general can't ride a horse or see things, this military general has no combat effectiveness, although he didn't kill it, it was equivalent to killing half to death, which was a limited completion of the task.