The full moon of the fifteenth is like a crystal jade plate hanging in the eastern sky, the clear light is like a pour, the colorful clouds are flying, the wheel corridor of the field road is faintly recognizable under the moonlight, the team of thousands of people marches on the official road to the west, and the rumbling sound of carriages and horses and footsteps echoes in the boundless moonlit night.

In ancient times, due to nutritional deficiencies, there were many cases of night blindness, and it was difficult for these people to walk at night without light even on full moon nights. The emergency lights distributed by Yang Ming to each company are now starting to work, the front, middle and rear of the team, the emergency lights are tied with wooden sticks and held high, just like the photographic lights of later generations, the cold white light is projected on the road ahead, and the radius of dozens of meters is as bright as day, because of the adjustment of the human eye, the place outside the projection area is extremely dark.

Yang Ming rode on horseback, looked down at the luminous hands on his watch, the army had set off for almost two hours, it should be almost Zunhua, his tablet had a satellite map, but there was no GPS signal, he couldn't determine his location, he could only guess and estimate.

"Scout ahead, are you close to Zunhua City?" Yang Ming asked on the walkie-talkie.

Two miles away in front of the large army, two scouts on horseback were riding their horses, they were wearing leather armor, carrying long-handled eyebrow sharp knives in their hands, quivers hanging from their waists, and sentry horn bows hanging from their horses.

Looking towards the front left of the official road, Zunhua City under the moonlight was shrouded in a layer of misty clear light, the light of the torches on the city wall flickered, and the four fields were silent, and no human voices could be heard.

"General Qiyu, four miles ahead of the large army is Zunhua City."

"All-Army Lighting Control!" Yang Ming gave the order on the walkie-talkie.

All the emergency lights went out, the light of the road instantly dimmed, the pupils of the human eye expanded to adapt to the brightness of the environment, and the corridors in the field of vision began to gradually appear, and the long march under the moonlight had a dreamlike feeling.

"Yunqiu, take off the night vision goggles." Yang Ming deflected the reins, rode the horse closer to Yun Qiu, and demonstrated the X27 night vision goggles on the helmet in front of him, "Turn the switch here." ”

Yun Qiu broke the night vision goggles in front of her according to Yang Ming's movements, turned on the switch on the mirror, and suddenly exclaimed "Huh" - the vision in front of her instantly turned into daytime, the fields, roads, trees, and marching people and horses were all clearly visible, the sky was floating with white clouds, and the round moon and the sky full of stars were shining.

"Well, I told you you'd be scared." Yang Ming said to Yun Qiu with a smile.

Yun Qiu turned her head to look at Yang Ming, but saw that he was wearing night vision goggles and looked weird, and was about to sneer at him, when he suddenly thought that he was also like this, and his thoughts were paused, but he remembered the two poems that Yang Ming recited to her before setting off - "I wish to be a winged bird in the sky, and I am willing to be a Lian Li branch in the earth", and the always cold tone became soft

"Yang Ming, be careful when crossing the city."

"Well, if it's Huang Taiji in the city, this is indeed a good opportunity to turn the tables." Yang Ming nodded and said lightly, "But I bet that Yue Tuo didn't dare to come out, he was defeated today, and his sharpness has been lost, and he no longer has the guts." ”

At the mention of Huang Taiji, Yang Ming saw Yun Qiu's body tremble subconsciously.

"Yunqiu, have you ever seen Huang Taiji? What kind of person is he? Yang Ming asked in a casual tone.

"The Great Khan is something that can be seen casually." Yun Qiu's voice became cold again, "It's that when he used to be a four-baylor, he saw it once or twice from afar, but he couldn't talk about seeing it." ”

"I heard that he is naturally intelligent, he likes to read our Han people's books, and he is also willing to mention the reuse of Han people, and he is very dissatisfied with this many big and small flag owners, but he doesn't dare to say anything. I don't know anything else. ”

Yang Ming knew that he couldn't learn more about Huang Taiji from Yunqiu, after all, the levels were too far apart.

The two of them talked and walked, and after a while, Zunhua City appeared in front of them.

Zunhua City was built in the Tang Dynasty, originally just a small city built of earth, in 1378 in the 11th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in order to defend against the Mongol invasion in the north, commanded Shi Zhoubao to expand the Zunhua City, expanded the city to the west, and reinforced the city wall with bricks. During the reign of Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong, due to the "Gengyin Change" of the Mongol Tatar Department plundering Beijing, the government and the opposition were shaken, in order to strengthen the defense capability of Zunhua City, the governor of Shuntian and the capital of the imperial history Mengchun rebuilt the city and added the southeast city tower. In the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang, the prime minister of Jizhen military training affairs, used the guest army he brought from Zhejiang to demolish and redesign the entire Zunhua City. After the reconstruction, the circumference of Zunhua City is 1251 zhang, the thickness of the city foundation is 30 feet, the height is 3 zhang 6 feet, the city wall is built with 1341 battlements, there is a city gate on the east and west, north and south sides respectively, respectively named Zhenhai, Dai Jing, Shi Xun, Gongji.

If the Houjin army comes out of the city and attacks the Shunyi army in a horizontal formation, then whether it is a machine gun or a mortar, it is difficult to effectively block it, and the Shunyi army is likely to be defeated or even annihilated. On November 13 last year, tens of thousands of Huang Taiji's troops took advantage of the night to "sneak through Jizhou", and Yuan Chonghuan's 20,000 Guanning iron cavalry retreated in the city and did not dare to come out, so that Huang Taiji easily broke through the Jizhou defense line and reached the city of Beijing.

If there was no big victory today, Yang Ming would not have dared to take such a risk to cross the city, according to his judgment, Yue Tuo had just suffered a shocking fiasco today, and he should not dare to come out, even so, Yang Ming still arranged precautionary measures.

"Xie Qingyuan of the Fourth Company listened to the order and resisted the city gate to prevent the enemy from going out of the city to attack and harass."

According to Yang Ming's order, the grenadiers, archers, and pikemen of the fourth company separated from the marching army column, and silently touched towards the south gate of Zunhua City, until they reached a distance of 200 steps from the city gate, with cavalry divided into two wings, archers and pikemen in the center of the deployment in a defensive formation, and the grenadiers were still placed in the front row, and their 67 grenades were sharp weapons across the era.

The Houjin army in the city had already heard the sound of chariots and horses marching in the distance, under the light of the full moon, dimly saw a large army passing outside the city, and then saw a team coming towards the city gate, the figure was getting closer and closer, and immediately sounded the alarm in horror, with the sound of the sharp alarm gong, the city was in a hurry, more torches were lit, and the firelight jumped and danced on the city wall.

"Yunqiu, you go with the big army, I'll go over there and have a look." Yang Ming decided to go to the city gate with the fourth company in person, he took the 249 machine gun from his own soldiers, and said to Yun Qiu while installing the 200-round magazine.

"I'll go with you!"

"No, you follow the big army, and we'll keep in touch at all times." Yang Ming took out an ANPRC154 single-soldier handheld radio from his bag on horseback and handed it to Yun Qiu.

"This ...... How does this stuff work? Yun Qiu watched Yang Ming use the walkie-talkie to give orders all the way, and even joked and chatted, both surprised and envious of this artifact, and now that Yang Ming gave her one, she was a little at a loss.

"It's very simple, supermarket aunts will use it." Yang Ming gave Yunqiu a brief demonstration, "Turn it around here, and it will open, and you can hear the sound; To speak, press here. ”

After that, Yang Ming took two of his own soldiers and rode away in the direction of the city gate, the horses' hooves rattled, and they arrived in front of the array of the fourth company in a few minutes.

"How's it going?" Yang Ming stopped Xie Qingyuan from dismounting and saluting, and directly inquired about the battle situation.

"General, they seem to be pounding cannons." Xie Qingyuan reported on horseback.

At a distance of 200 steps and 300 meters, the bow and arrow can't be shot, but the tiger squat cannon can hit it. Tiger squat cannon is a kind of front-loading gun, before using to clean the gun chamber, and then the gunpowder into the barrel, bury the fuse rope, use a wooden horse to tamp the gunpowder, and then paste a layer of mud, and then load into the iron projectile, ignite the fuse rope to fire, the whole set of procedures is very cumbersome.

"Don't panic, that thing can't be hit." Yang Ming comforted Xie Qingyuan. When Huang Taiji sneaked through Jizhou, he also sent 200 horsemen to the city gate, Yuan Chonghuan tens of thousands of troops went out of the city to meet the battle, the two sides stared at each other for four hours, and did not move each other, and finally Yuan Chonghuan ordered the deputy general Zhou Wenyu to send a cannon, and did not hurt a single hair, and the Houjin 200 cavalry turned around and swaggered away.

According to the history in Yang Ming's memory, the current Houjin army has no experience in using artillery, and it will not use artillery to measure the angle of fire, and the accuracy is very poor.

Xie Qingyuan nodded calmly, he has been in battle for a long time, and his perceptual experience of cannons is richer than Yang Ming, and his performance is naturally as calm as a mountain, but Yang Ming, although he said that he was not afraid, he was still a little worried about being injured by a small probability event, so he turned over and got off the horse and hid behind the horse's buttocks.

If it were someone else, this kind of cowardly behavior would definitely be reprimanded by Xie Qingyuan, but Yang Ming is different, no matter what he does, it is reasonable in the eyes of these officers, Xie Qingyuan silently deviated from the reins, and rode the horse to move before Yang Ming's horse, which can be regarded as adding another layer of protection to him.

The cannon on the city wall was fired violently, and the huge cannon sound shattered the tranquility of the moonlit night, Yang Ming reflexively shrunk his neck, and looked up again, and he couldn't see where the projectile fell in the night vision goggles.

Yang Ming raised the machine gun, aimed at the red dot mirror, and knocked down the gold soldier with a point shot, and the torch in the hand of the gold soldier fell off, and fell down from the city head leisurely, fell down from the city wall slowly, fell to the root of the city wall and rolled over a few times, burning brightly and darkly. The surrounding Houjin soldiers were obviously frightened and fled in all directions, and the torches in their hands fled in a panic, and it took a while to reunite.

After another moment, the Houjin soldiers opened fire again, and the muzzle of the tiger squat cannon sprayed sparks, and the projectile still flew somewhere. During this night, the Houjin gunner could not observe the landing point of the projectile, and there was no way to correct the angle and direction of the cannon, so the cannon could only rely on the blindness.

Yang Ming was too lazy to pay attention to the sound of the Houjin army's artillery, he broke the bipod of the 249 machine gun, and put the machine gun on the ground and aimed at the city gate, three hundred meters away, a small city gate, a machine gun can be completely blocked, for the Houjin army, the time window for going out of the city to fight no longer exists.

"If Huang Taiji is in the city, what will he do?" Yang Ming asked himself secretly in his heart, suddenly, he felt a shock in his heart, and a cold sweat broke out from his back - if the current opponent was Huang Taiji, he would concentrate all his forces to come out of the east gate and go south around the city to carry out a decisive attack on the Shunyi army that was passing through the city! The journey out of the city from the east gate was only two or three miles longer than the south gate, and it had little impact on the cavalry.

"Company Commander Xie, have you brought all the grenadiers?"

"Yes, General." Xie Qingyuan turned around and agreed, Yang Ming's anxious tone made him feel inexplicably nervous.

"Quickly send ten grenadiers back to the Chinese army company!"

Without waiting for Xie Qingyuan to answer, Yang Ming pressed and held the send button on the walkie-talkie, and ordered, "Master Ding, lift the light control, and the whole army will speed up." ”

"Yes!" Ding has three answers.

"Duan Side, ten grenadiers will immediately go to the Chinese army company, under your command, pay attention to the defense of the left flank!"

The emergency lights in the marching team were lit, and a large army that stretched for two miles appeared under the sky, and the speed of the march of the team increased, and the Houjin soldiers on the city wall suddenly saw this scene, and there was a commotion in shock, and rows of torches flickered chaotically.

In the noise on the walkie-talkie, Yun Qiu's cold voice came out, "Yang Ming, how is the situation over there?" ”

This was the first time that the officers heard a female voice on the walkie-talkie, and they called Yang Ming by his name, and the noisy walkie-talkie suddenly fell silent.

"It's okay on my side, they don't dare to go out of the city, and the cannon can't be fired accurately, it's just a sound; Just go your own way, be careful to maintain discipline and don't get confused. Yang Ming said in a relaxed tone.

The procession had already passed more than half of the procession, and now it was the baggage convoy at the rear of the procession, nearly a hundred carts rumbling forward under the traction of mules and horses, flanked by the guards of the third company of cavalry sergeants.

The last vehicle rumbled past, and behind the vehicle were a dozen pike cavalry at the end of the entire team, and in the night vision goggles, Yang Ming saw that the spears of these cavalrymen were not hung on horseback, nor on the victory hook on their waists, but they were holding guns in both hands and gradually moving away in a vigilant formation, their backs and rumbling cars disappeared into the moonlit night.

The situation he feared did not happen, and the Houjin army did not leave the city, they held torches on the city wall and watched Yang Ming and the more than a hundred sergeants of the fourth company turn around and leave.

Yue Tuo may regret this night for the rest of his life, just as people have regretted Yuan Chonghuan's mistakes under the city of Jizhou for hundreds of years.