Chapter 52: Fearless in the Face of Danger

The reason why Diao Zheng was able to be promoted from a soldier and now has become Yan Chongxi's left and right arms, and he has become a deputy commander, not by nepotism or by being mixed up with the horse, this person is a brave and resourceful person, Zheng'er Bajing is a real general tempered in blood and fire, not only brave and abnormal when he goes into battle, but also very calm and composed, and he is also very good at learning in war, and he is known for his resourcefulness when he fights in peacetime. This is also the reason why Xiao Tianjian gave him this important task this time, that is, he valued his calmness and wit.

After Diao Zheng finished the pre-war mobilization, he did not rush to immediately lead his troops out of the camp to find the officers and soldiers to fight hard, but ordered his subordinates to rest on the spot first, and let people bring the war meal over, so that his subordinates could have a full meal first.

This time he mobilized more than 2,000 people under his command, and the remaining hundreds of people were assigned to the other three sides as a team, and each team will be divided into a group of auxiliary soldiers who have just been selected, each responsible for guarding one direction and one direction, and the remaining 2,000 people will follow him as an assault force, ready to be pulled out to fight with the officers and soldiers in the field.

As for the officers and soldiers, they were really busy after arriving at the place, they pulled out the artillery carried by the army and placed them in front of the army, and all kinds of swarms of rockets were also lifted out and erected, after all, they are all soldiers and horses outside the customs, both the quality of equipment and the quality of training are stronger than some of the officers and troops in the customs, and the firepower is also fierce enough, if Diao Zheng is rushing out to fight with them at this time, he will suffer a lot of casualties, so Diao Zheng is very clear about his weaknesses, and he is not in a hurry. Instead, he ordered all the soldiers and civilians in the battalion to take refuge under the trenches and low walls dug out on the spot, let the officers and soldiers launch an offensive first, and then seek an opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

And the officers and soldiers occupy an absolute advantage in strength, and they will not wait for the Xingtian Army to go out to fight a decisive battle with them, so it didn't take long for the officers and soldiers to arrange artillery and rockets around the outside of the camp. ”

As the military command flag was waved and the war drums sounded, the officers and soldiers of the various units who had already made preparations, the gunners and those soldiers who operated the rockets excitedly began to fire the guns and the rockets.

In an instant, the area around Nanying Village was like a boiling pot, the sound of artillery roared in pieces, and a large number of rockets rose into the air from the ground like flying crows, and in an instant, they flew towards the camp of Nanying Village, and all kinds of shells also flew away, smashing heavily into the camp of Nanying Village.

Suddenly, a cloud of dust rose in Nanying Village, and the cannonballs smashed heavily into the camp, and the gray stones flew up for a while, but fortunately, Diao Zheng was in a hurry before the officers and soldiers came, dug a lot of trenches inside and outside the camp and built a series of earthen walls, so that after these officers and soldiers' shells fell into the camp, they could not jump up and continue to fly forward, and they were blocked by the earthen wall, and the earthen wall was poured with water again, and became extremely strong. Ice and earth often smashed on the earthen wall fly around, leaving a pit.

But after all, the official army is the Guanning army, they are equipped with artillery but some of the Hongyi cannons, more than 2,000 catties of Hongyi cannons fire, but the power is very huge, the Ming gunners in order to strengthen the firepower, in addition to stuffing a cannonball in the barrel, but also stuffed into some small cannonballs, a dozen is a piece, once the cannonball jumps and lands into the crowd, it will cause great damage, and at the same time, once the cannonball hits the earthen wall, even if the frozen earth wall can not stand, when even if it is bombarded, Soldiers and civilians who often hide behind earthen walls will be blown out and die a horrible death.

After all, there are many people in the camp, I have never seen such a battle, the shells are constantly falling, and the rockets are sprinkled like raindrops, from time to time someone will be torn to pieces by the bullet, or the arrow screams and falls, and suddenly there is a scream and crying in the camp, some timid people even jump up and want to escape to a safe place, the result is that there is no safe place for them to shelter at this time, and many people who jumped up were immediately shot to the ground by the overwhelming rockets. Fell victim in vain.

The officers and soldiers don't care whether you are a criminal army or an ordinary person, they carry out indiscriminate treatment, and they want to break up these criminal army and ordinary people at the beginning, so that they can easily attack the camp.

Looking at the panicked people, some of the soldiers of the Xingtian Army shouted wildly and told them to avoid under the earthen wall or jump into the trench, and some soldiers rushed out to press the people who jumped back into the earthen wall or the trench, scolding them for being stupid.

However, this kind of scolding is good for the people, and the people understand them, after the initial chaos, the people also found that it is much safer to hide under the earthen wall or in the trench, so they have settled down, and no longer dare to jump out casually, so that after paying a certain price, Nanying Village did not become as chaotic as the officers and soldiers thought, but began to stabilize, under the overwhelming rockets and shells, the officers and soldiers gradually did not see the appearance of people in the battalion.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a layer of rockets was spread everywhere in the entire camp, the ground seemed to have suddenly grown a layer of arrows, the earthen walls and trees were shot like hedgehogs, some of the wounded were screaming, and the cries of women would also be heard out of the camp from time to time.

Gao Qiqian looked at the situation of Nanying Village triumphantly, admiring the spectacular scene shown by this kind of artillery and a large number of rockets, when he saw that Nanying Village was not moving, he proudly asked a general who followed him: "My big firearms are really powerful, this time I won't kill the thieves and people in the camp!" ”

The general hurriedly bowed down and replied with a flattering smile: "Back to the words of the high eunuch, how can the rats of the Xingtian Army be our opponents, today there is a senior eunuch here to supervise the battle, and the officers and men in the army are all brave, how can the thief army stand such a scene, it must have been frightened!" As long as Gao Dajian gives an order at this time, all the troops will attack together, and he will be able to wipe him out immediately! ”

Gao Qiqian laughed sharply: "Haha! So what are you waiting for? Let's attack! This prison wants to wipe out this gang of thieves in one fell swoop! Rescue these people who have been held hostage by the thieves! ”

The shelling and rockets that lasted for a long time gradually stopped, although the Hongyi cannon is very powerful, but the heat dissipation is a problem, can not continue to fire a lot of shells, after a few shots, you have to stop and wait for the gun body to cool down, otherwise it is easy to cause gunpowder spontaneous combustion, and the official army's Hongyi cannon does not use a customized cloth bag, once the gun chamber is overheated or a little spark, it will cause spontaneous combustion, so the official gunners should be very careful, so as not to cause self-injury, as for the rocket does not have this problem, However, there is a problem that the flight is not very stable, and once the officers and men start to attack, they will not dare to fire rockets again, otherwise they will not be able to shoot the enemy well, but they will shoot their own people from behind.

After a large number of officers and soldiers received the order, they immediately lined up with shields and guns, or with three-eyed guns, bows and arrows, etc., and began to line up outside the Nanying Village camp...... Wansheng ......" began to advance towards Nanying Village.

The tactics of the officers and soldiers are just like this, the front row is the fire gunners and archers with three-eyed guns or a small number of bird guns, followed by the sword and card players to press the formation, followed by the infantry with spears in armor, first with archers and gunners to hit the enemy, and then with the sword and card players to cooperate with the spearmen to attack, and the tactics used by the Tartar soldiers are not fundamentally different, but just use some more firearms, but the same tactics, once they encounter the Tartars, often because the Ming soldiers will be greedy for life and afraid of death, they dare not fight hard, As a result, they will be defeated by the Tartar soldiers, and today they seem to have this danger that does not seem to exist, after all, the number of enemies is too small, and they still have a large number of cavalry in the rear, no matter how this battle is fought, it seems that they should have won, so one by one the Ming soldiers stared at the camp of the Xingtian Army, and the morale was quite high and pushed forward.

The camp of Nanying Village was silent at this time, and the newly selected auxiliary soldiers who were extremely nervous were all sweating with their palms, and some were trembling and hiding behind the outer earthen walls, a little at a loss, and there were often one or several generals of the Xingtian Army squatting beside them, constantly comforting them, so that they did not have to be afraid, and listened to their greetings later, and then got up to fight with the official army.

Most of the soldiers of these Xingtian Army are firecrackers, their faces are sinking as if they are nothing, and some even have a smile on their faces, carefully inspect and wipe the self-generated firecrackers in their hands, and finally check the flint on the firecrackers, and begin to load the ammunition into the firecrackers in an orderly manner, tamp the ammunition with a sting, pound it at the fire door with a small awl, and tap the gunpowder body to make the gunpowder pour out of the fire door a little, enter the medicine pool, and prepare for launching.

Diao Zheng arranged one hundred and fifty musketeers in each direction, these musketeers were divided into three rows, grouped for rotational firing, although the firepower was not intensive, and the troops were thin, but the three directions were dug within dozens of paces of potholes, and the officers and soldiers wanted to get close to the outermost low wall, they could not use the attack tools such as the oars, plus a large number of auxiliary soldiers with bows who were improvised together, they should be able to hold out for a while.

However, because of the terrain, the officers and troops in the south are the most concentrated, and they want to use the south as a breakthrough to enter the camp of the Xingtian Army, and the officers and soldiers sent are very thick layer upon layer, and they are determined to solve this war as quickly as possible, exterminate this group of thieves here, and complete the task given to him by the Holy Lord, as long as these people are recaptured, as for how many people die, it is nothing to him, the more people who die, the better, just enough to use their heads as the heads of the thief army to invite credit, Therefore, after examining the terrain, he concentrated his main forces in the south, hoping to conquer this Nanying village in one fell swoop.

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