After walking for most of the day the next day, the scout came to report: "Report to the sir, a castle has been found 10 miles ahead." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"How big is it?" Jiang Beiming asked.

"Back to sir, the scale is not large, it seems that the garrison does not exceed six hundred."

"No more than six hundred, such a few?" Jiang Beiming turned his head to Xu Lang and asked, "It should be Fuxin in front, is their castle so small?" ”

"Almost." Seeing that the scout was gone, Xu Lang replied, "Even in our time, the population of Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County was only a few hundred thousand. The Mongols are still very scattered, and this is already a relatively large castle. ”

"Shall we fight then?" Wang Qianxiang asked.

"Fight is definitely going to fight." Xu Lang thought for a while, "The key is how to fight." We don't have artillery, and if we attack, I'm afraid we will have some casualties. ”

"That's easy to do." Jiang Beiming looked up at the sky, "It's going to be dark soon, the Mongols may not know about our arrival, let's attack at night." ”

It was getting dark, and the Yulin army found a place two miles away from the castle to hide.

On the third watch, Ye Zhan and Ding Jun quietly touched the front of the castle with a battalion of soldiers.

Ye Zhan held up the telescope he asked for from Xu Lang and looked at it for a while: "Ding Jun, the city wall here is not very high. You will climb up with the assault team in a moment, remember, there is only one mission, control the city gates, and don't get too entangled with the Mongols. The orders of the chiefs, our goal is Shengjing, we can't delay too much here, just open the city gate. ”

"I know, sir." Ding Jun replied, "Such a small castle is easy to take down. ”

"Don't underestimate the enemy." Ye Zhan patted Ding Jun, "Let's act." ”

"Yes, sir." Ding Jun led 50 commandos to the bottom of the castle.

The walls of this castle are only 5 or 6 meters high, and Ding Jun did not use tools such as ladders and hooks and locks to directly build a human wall.

The three commandos secretly showed their heads on the city wall, and there was only one sentry shuttling back and forth on the city wall, and the three team members looked at each other before crossing the city wall at the same time.

"Who?" A Mongolian shout rang out, and he was answered by three crossbow arrows fired at the same time.

Three ropes fell from the top of the city, and 50 commandos climbed the walls.

Ding Jun held a handcuff in one hand and a crossbow in the other, and looked left and right: "Try not to shoot, occupy the city gate." ”

The sound of crossbow strings sounded, and in a few moments, several Mongols guarding the city gate were shot to the ground.

The gates opened slowly.

"Into town." Ye Zhan, who received the signal, gave the order.

"Let's go into town." Jiang Beiming, who received the report, gave the same order.

More than 1,000 Yulin troops stormed the castle, and the Mongols were awakened from their sleep, and their hasty and sporadic resistance was quickly extinguished.

"Report sir." Ye Zhan reported loudly, "We have taken control of the entire castle. ”

"Did they catch their heads?" Jiang Beiming asked.

"Report to the sir, the leader of the Mongols is not in the castle, but we have captured a Kala Ezhen of the Eight Banners Tartar."

"Really?" Jiang Beiming really felt very strange that there was actually a Houjin Jiala here, "Bring him here." ”

It didn't take long for a stout back to be really brought in by the five flowers. This Ezhen was being pushed and shoved while constantly cursing in Manchu in his mouth.

"Get on your knees." Ye Zhan kicked in the crook of his leg, and this Ezhen leg was weak and fell to his knees.

"What's your name?" Jiang Beiming's chin raised.

After listening to the translation, he raised his head and stared at Jiang Beiming unconvinced, and kept saying something in his mouth.

"What did he say?" Xu Lang asked.

"Back to my lord." "He said his name was Tuktan, and he said it was wrong for us to attack them, and we should fight them openly." ”

"Zhengda Bright?" Jiang Beiming said with a smile, "He thought this was a sports competition, and he had to pay attention to Ferbrai." ”

The interpreter didn't understand the meaning of the sports competition and Fairpolai, and looked at Jiang Beiming puzzled.

"Doesn't he want to be upright?" Xu Lang said, "Tell him, let him take us to Shengjing, and let him see what Zhengda Guang means." ”

After listening to the interpreter's words, Tuktan suddenly became panicked and shook his hand repeatedly.

"Your Excellency." "He said he wouldn't take us to Shengjing, and if he did, his family would die." ”

"Did he think that without him, we wouldn't be able to go to Shengjing?" Jiang Beiming chuckled lightly and waved his hand, "Let's take him down first." ”

"Ye Zhan." Xu Lang asked Ye Zhan again, "How many prisoners have we captured, and how much grain have we seized?" ”

"Back to sir." Ye Zhan replied, "We have captured more than 300 Mongols and Eight Banner soldiers, and the food is enough for us to eat for half a month." ”

"Ye Zhan, you first lead people to take care of these prisoners and food." Jiang Beiming ordered, "At the same time, inform me to hurry up and rest tonight, and we will set off at five watches tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes, sir."

Seeing Ye Zhan go out, Jiang Beiming asked Xu Lang and Wang Qianxiang: "Everything else is easy to say, let's go straight to Shengjing tomorrow, but what about these captives and the grain that can't be taken away?" ”

"It's a bit of a problem." Xu Lang scratched his head, "It's impossible for us to take so many prisoners, but it's impossible to kill them all." ”

"Chief Jiang, do you think this is okay?" Wang Qianxiang came up with an idea, "Let's just take their officers tomorrow, and all the remaining captives will be locked up and distributed to the Mongols in the castle if they can't take away." ”

"Is that okay?" Jiang Beiming hesitated, "You distributed the grain to the Mongols?" ”

"I'll see it." Xu Lang said, "Let's take the officers away, and they will be leaderless." The grain was divided, so that even if the Manchus occupied this place again, there would be contradictions between them and the Mongols. There is no better way but to do it first. ”

"Okay." Jiang Beiming didn't have any good way, "Let's do it first." But what should we do after we go to Shengjing? Directly to the siege? ”

"Why are you confused again?" Xu Lang smiled, "Our target is not Shengjing, but Taomin's mine. That's what I think, let's go to his mine first, this is Tao Min's lifeline. The Eight Banners in Shengjing will definitely come out, let's find a way to ambush him again. ”

"You have a lot of ideas." After Jiang Beiming finished speaking, he looked at Wang Qianxiang, "Qianxiang, if you don't have any opinions, just do what Xu Lang said." ”

"I don't have a problem with that." Wang Qianxiang replied, "But I have an idea, if we go to the mine, can we leave some people behind, and take advantage of the Eight Banners to go out of the city and let us conquer Shengjing." ”

"This can't be." Xu Lang said, "We have too few people. Although the entry of the Eight Banners this time is basically pouring out, their Shengjing will leave at least a few thousand elites, and we still have to fight an ambush war, so we can't divide the troops. ”

Two days later, on a mountain 10 miles away from Shengjing, the Yulin army set up camp.

"You see, it's the result of scouts." Jiang Beiming pointed to the map and arranged the task, "This is the Tartar mine, and there are very few guards, only more than 200 people. The mine is only more than 7 miles away from Shengjing City, and it is in a mountain col, so it should be relatively easy to ambush. ”

"Is it an ambush directly in the mines?" Xu Lang asked, "Not on the way?" ”

"According to the scout's report, there are no suitable places on the road." Jiang Beiming replied, "The specific way to do it will be arranged after we lay down the mine tomorrow." ”

"But is it too late?" Wang Qianxiang asked.

Jiang Beiming didn't answer this question, but asked Ye Zhan: "Ye Zhan, give you 5 companies, can you take the mine in one hour?" ”

"No problem, sir." Ye Zhan replied immediately.

"It's not enough to take it down, it's going to destroy it." Xu Lang reminded.

"Mr. Xu." Ye Zhan asked, "How can you destroy this mine?" ”

"How?" Xu Lang thought about it, now there is no explosives, this mine is open-pit mining, how to destroy it, Xu Lang really doesn't have any good ideas for a while.

"It's easy." Wang Qianxiang said, "Isn't there a coal mine, and if you set fire to it, they can't save it." ”

"Yes, sir." Ye Zhan is another upright.

"Wang Qianxiang." Jiang Beiming ordered again, "You send scouts to lurk outside Shengjing, and keep an eye out for when they come out." If Ye Zhan sets the fire, Shengjing will definitely know, and we must keep abreast of the movements in Shengjing at any time. ”

"I know, Chief Chiang."

"Do you have any questions?" Jiang Beiming looked around at everyone.

"I have one more question." Xu Lang asked, "We only have 1,000 people this time, and there are no continuous firecrackers, if the Eight Banners are above 3,000, how can we ambush them?" ”

"Like last time, can't you set fire?" Wang Qianxiang suggested.

"I'm afraid not." Xu Lang replied, "Ye Zhan needs to set fire to the mine immediately, and the Eight Banners will not rush into the fire, so I'm afraid we will have to find another way." ”

Jiang Beiming thought silently for a while: "Xu Lang, are you sure that the Eight Banners will definitely come out?" ”

"I guess so." Xu Lang didn't know what Jiang Beiming thought of again, "The mine is burning, can they not come out of the nest?" ”

"And what if there's a fire in the mine?" Jiang Beiming asked, "Eight Banners won't send 3,000 people to fight the fire." ”

"Good idea." Xu Lang understood what Jiang Beiming meant, "Ye Zhan, don't burn too much when you set the fire tomorrow, you have to pretend to be on fire." Let's make preparations with both hands, if the Eight Banners don't come out much, let's ambush; If the Eight Banners come out, we will burn down all its mines, and then we will take advantage of them to fight the fire and go to Shengjing. I'm going to keep them from looking at each other. ”

"Okay, that's it." Jiang Beiming gave the final order, "Have a good rest tonight, and set off tomorrow morning at four watches." ”

On the fifth watch of the next day, more than 1,000 Yulin troops arrived at the mine outside Shengjing.

"Wang Qianxiang." Jiang Beiming called a few people together again, "You lead people to set up an ambush on the opposite hill first, this place can only be fought like this." Ye Zhan, take your people to attack the mine immediately, no matter who it is, those who resist will be killed. You set aside a company for me, Xu Lang and I blocked the exit and couldn't let anyone go. ”

"Yes, sir." The crowd replied in unison.

Ye Zhan and Ding Jun went down the mountain with 500 Yulin Army soldiers.

The people in the mine seemed to sense something, and several Eight Banners soldiers ran in the direction of Ye Zhan.

"Battalion commander, the Tartars are here." Ding Jun reminded.

"I see it." Ye Zhan shouted on his horse, "Brothers, charge!" ”

The Eight Banners on the opposite side saw clearly that the person who came was not their own, and they turned their horses' heads and began to run back, followed by 500 war horses.

Since the cavalry of the Yulin Army was composed of infantry and war horses, there was no unified saber, and everyone was holding cold weapons that they had temporarily found, and only the torches and flintlock pistols in their hands were unified.

500 torches were thrown into the mine, which exploded and was littered with miners fleeing in all directions.

The 200-strong Eight Banners gathered in a hurry, and under the leadership of their Niu Lu Ezhen, they began to counterattack the Yulin army. But among these 200 people, there were only a few dozen armored cavalry, and the rest were some unarmored infantry.

The bow and arrow and the fire gun are firing at each other, and the range of the bow and arrow of the Eight Banners is not as good as the fire gun of the Yulin Army. Several rows of gunfire rang out, and a third of the Eight Banners were knocked down.

"Keep charging." Ye Zhan hung up the flintlock pistol, took off his big knife, and stared at Niu Lu Ezhen opposite. (To be continued.) )