Chapter Fifty-Eight: Defending the Fort, Trying the Water Mirror

Hao Shaoqi was very happy after receiving the task of attacking the fort. He had never managed so many soldiers at once before, and Liu Zongmin left him an army of more than 100,000 people. Last time he wanted to show his face in Tongguan, but he almost put his life on the line and returned defeated. In this attack, Xiurong thought that he would definitely get back a little face by cooperating with General Liu Zongmin and a tiger Li Guo, but he didn't expect countless casualties, but he was defeated again, and even Li Guo was injured, and the angry Liu Zongmin vomited blood.

However, although Hao Shaoqi is a little reckless, he is not a fool, he knows that with the ** of the opponent who defends the city, it is impossible to rely on people to enter Xiurong City, even if tens of thousands of people die, he may not be able to enter it, he is worried about what to do, and he is ordered to shoot down that nasty battery. This made Hao Shaoqi's spirit lifted. Because although he can't beat Xiurong, he shouldn't have a problem with more than 100,000 people to defeat that fort.

In order to hit this fort, Hao Shaoqi did not dare to be careless, in addition to sending people to carefully map the terrain around the fort, he also took people to carefully observe the situation of the fort at night. He found that the fort was surrounded by barbed wire. But he didn't worry, those barbed wire fences could be pulled by horses, and they could be cut with knives. The height of the fort is not as high as Xiurong Castle, and it can be climbed up from all sides with a ladder or from the steps of the trail.

The defenders of this fort are also a reinforced company, more than 100 infantry, and the company commander of this company is also a veteran of the kiln gang who is coaxed by the ox, and he joined the kiln gang team from the wild boar ridge. He was also the commander of this battery. But there are more than 20 mortars and five heavy mortars. With only these five heavy mortars, the Dashun army outside the northern city wall of Xiurong did not dare to deploy troops. This time also let the defenders on the battery know how powerful the heavy mortars were.

Recently, the commander of the command center personally sent a telegram saying, "After the Dashun army stops attacking Xiurong City, it is likely to attack your forts. Be sure to remember that the kiln people are watching you. ”

This made the company commander both nervous and excited. He urged the soldiers to get ready over and over again.

Both sides are actually ready for a battle at the fort.

However, when Li Jing returned to the command center of Yaogang, he reported: "There is no Li Yan's team besieging Xiurong this time, and Li Yan has already changed his guard and left. Now in the camp is Hao Shaoqi's team. ”

Ouyang He smiled slightly when he heard this and said, "Mr. Chen, it seems that Li Zicheng has been fooled." But I really want to add a little bit to Li Yan's old friend. I'll write a letter to Li Yan now, and in a while, Li Jing, you will send someone to shoot into the camp where Li Yan turned out. ”

Li Jing said: "It seems that Mr. Ouyang wants to add a little bit of discord to the plan!" ”

Ouyang He's letter is like this,

Brother Li Yan:

Last time I received your letter. Your intentions, we have already understood Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang also appreciates your talent, and hopes that you can make up your mind as soon as possible, seize the opportunity to come, and we will work together for a great cause. Mr. Zhang said, you don't have to take care of your army, as long as you can come, we will have as many troops as we want.

Brother Ouyang He

When Li Jing sent someone to shoot the letter into Hao Shaoqi's camp, the letter was quickly sent to Li Zicheng's big tent. Li Zicheng looked at the letter, his face was expressionless, as if he had glanced at a blank piece of paper, and there was no reaction. This made Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance dare not ask about the content of the letter. Li Zicheng also carried the letter in his arms and did not mention it again.

The fort that the Dashun army wanted to attack was built with the needs of defense in mind. The height of the whole turret is six zhang, that is, twenty meters, and there is a circle of porthole-like corridors around the fifteen meters of the fort, which can lead directly to the top floor of the fort, in order to arrange more infantry, because the infantry arranged only on the top floor is limited. Three layers of barbed wire and ** positions have been arranged on the ground around the fort. The lower part of the fort is built with large stone cement joints, and the inside is compacted with earth and stone. A number of rooms were built in the corridor at fifteen meters away, which could be used as a storage place for ammunition supplies. If necessary, the cannon on the turret can also be pushed down to avoid attack.

Hao Shaoqi's attack on the Yaogang Fort was carried out from the east and west directions at the same time, and their plan was to divide the troops to the north and south to surround the fort after approaching the fort. On the fort and the position on the side of the kiln, as well as on the north wall of Xiurong, the people of Yaogang are using binoculars to observe the attack of Dashunjin, because they have not found their artillery, so the people of Yaogang have not started.

When the march of the Dashun army was almost complete, they had to start their old tactics, lighting firewood and grass and raising smoke to cover the artillery advance. When the red-coated artillery of the Dashun army began to bombard, the heavy mortars on the north wall of Xiurong, where they were found, began to exert their might. As the earth trembled, the muffled explosion of a mortar shell in the distance came. At this time, under the cover of smoke, the tiger squat cannon and bowl mouth gun that were pushed close to the fort also began to fire at the fort. At the same time, the attacking Dashun army also divided its troops to surround the fort, and without pause, the well-trained Dashun soldiers began to charge the fort. In front were the shieldmen, behind were the wagons and soldiers carrying ladders, while the archers and musketeers took turns firing at the batteries under the command of the officers.

At this time, the twenty mortars on the turret began to speak, and they did not need to aim precisely at this time, but only aimed at one target, and after covering it, they changed the direction and covered another target, and so on all sides kept rotating to cover the target. Because the attacking team of the Dashun army was too dense, around the fort, the area covered by **** was a piece of fragmented corpses, because the weather was too cold, the blood shed by the soldiers of the Dashun army was immediately frozen into purple-black blood clots. However, the soldiers of the Dashun Army who were charging behind would soon rush over without hesitation on the broken corpses of their companions.

At this time, on the artillery positions on Xiurong City and Yaogang, heavy mortars began to speak. Heavy mortar shells fell in such a dense charging team as the Dashun army, and each shell would blow up the soldiers within a few feet, and many corpses would be shattered. At this time, it no longer makes sense for the soldiers to be brave or not, and no matter how brave they are, they will not enter the area blocked by heavy artillery. Under the blow of heavy mortars, the brave attacking team of the Dashun army soon became disjointed before and after. Some of the soldiers who had escaped the heavy artillery and mortar attacks were quickly hit in front of the barbed wire by the bullets fired from the batteries.

In this attack, Hao Shaoqi's soldiers attacked and retreated quickly, and they were repulsed before they could rush to the iron net.

Hao Shaoqi, who was supervising the battle in the back, did not believe that it would be so difficult to attack a fort. When I attacked Xiurong at the beginning, although I also suffered heavy casualties, I was still able to attack the city and erect the ladder, how could I not even attack under the fort today.

In fact, he didn't know that the defensive range of Xiurong City was much larger than that of this fort, and there was no such dense shelling. So they still have a chance to attack the city. But this is different, not only Xiurong's heavy mortars can hit here, but also the cannonballs of Yaogang can directly support here. In this small area, under the dense artillery fire, no amount of flesh and blood is enough to fight. Their understanding of war is still stuck in the era of cold weapons, and their understanding of artillery is also the cannon of the era of cold weapons. How can you understand why you were repulsed without getting close?

But at this time, Hao Shaoqi couldn't think of these things, what he thought was that in this case, he would not be able to substitute with Li Ziqi. After he ordered the two officers to be beheaded, he immediately began a second attack, which was launched from both the east and the west, and when the smoke rose, the sound of artillery and heavy mortars, mixed with the sound of shouts, quickly shook the sky.

However, this time, Hao Shaoqi's order was that they were all dead and not allowed to retreat. No matter how many people died in front of them, on the left and right, and how many people were blown away, as long as they were not dead, they still rushed forward, and finally rushed to the barbed wire, but the bullets that greeted them on the castle mercilessly shot them down one by one. The soldiers of the Dashun Army in the back continued to rush up, and some people swung their knives to cut the barbed wire and rushed over, but as soon as they stepped into the barbed wire, there was a bang under their feet, blowing them up into the sky. Inside the barbed wire fence is a ** array. But even so, it could not stop the impact of the soldiers of the Dashun Army, and the front fell and the rear continued to rush. The soldiers who rushed out under mortar fire felt that there was a safe zone inside the barbed wire. Because shells never fall here. The first barbed wire fence was quickly detonated by the soldiers of the Dashun Army, and then a layer of soldiers' corpses was covered. But when they rushed to the second line of barbed wire, it was difficult to make any further progress. Because the closer you are to the battery, the more accurate the soldiers on the battery will be.

Occasionally, the cannonballs and crossbows fired by the Dashun army at the fort have almost no effect on the fort. The company commander on the battery kept muttering, "What the fuck is this war, is it just killing people?" But now he kept shouting to the soldiers, "Don't let them come up." ”

Many of the soldiers guarding the fort were fighting for the first time, and they had already passed the fear barrier at this time. At first, they were a little nervous, but as they kept shooting, they gradually found it no more difficult than shooting training. Bullets are limited during shooting training, but bullets can be released on the battlefield. Later, I felt a little tired from shooting. Fortunately, the company commander of the guarding battery also saw it and ordered a shift change to shoot.

The company commander guarding the battery, before the start of the battle, gave the order to the squad leader and deputy squad leader armed with rifles to "shoot the officers who commanded it." "But this order is almost impossible to carry out, because the soldiers who can rush into the fort are already difficult to see which officer is the officer, and besides, the officers here can't think of commanding, that is, rushing forward with the current, and there is also the fact that the soldiers of the Dashun army charge forward without the command of the officer, they themselves rush forward.

Finally, more than 30,000 people commanded by Hao Shaoqi rushed into the barrage together, and even Hao Shaoqi, who was famous for not being afraid of death, did not dare to let the soldiers behind him charge again. Not long after Hao Shaoqi saw his soldiers finally rushing into the barrage, the guns on the north wall of Xiurong, the kiln gang and the fort also stopped firing, and the muskets in front of the fort gradually thinned out, and finally the gunfire stopped.

He knew that his more than 30,000 people were gone. But when the smoke cleared, he saw that his soldiers had not crossed the second barbed wire. Hao Shaoqi stared at the life-devouring monster-like fort with blood-red eyes, and ordered to "return to the camp".

The company commander who was guarding the fort immediately sent a telegram to the kiln gang to report the victory. In fact, the lookouts with high-powered binoculars on the water tower in Yaogang had already used the telephone to report the situation to the command center.

This battle, which was already very close to the kiln, was the sound of heavy mortar explosions, which had been heard very clearly in the kiln. The Kiln Men were talking everywhere about the battle on the other side of the fort. But this does not delay what the kiln people should do at all. There are still a lot of people in the mall, and people basking in the sun in the square still come to bask in the sun.

When Zhang Zhimu received a call from Chen Yufeng, he could already hear it from the sound of the stopped cannons.

Zhang Zhimu said into the phone: "What's the matter, it's still early in dark, so they called it a day." They're too lazy too. ”

"Haha! I see that they are scared by our shells. Li Wei called from the artillery position and said that he wanted to lead a part of the people to go out quietly at night, shell the camp of the thief army and then withdraw. Let me scold him. Let him stay honestly, and if he acts without an order, he will not be spared. Chen Yufeng said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "You must not attack. We must now show weakness, not strength. Don't scare us into the king, if they don't work for us, we will be busy in vain. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "The show has just begun, and they haven't woken up yet. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay! Tell the battery to be careful of their night raids and give the soldiers something to eat. Hao Shaoqi suffered a loss, and he wouldn't swallow this breath like this. I have a drawing that I haven't finished, so I won't go there first. ”

Putting down the phone, Zhang Zhimu pushed open the door and said to Yang Yulin and the others: "The thief army has retreated again." The beauties cheered again, but Zhang Zhimu obviously felt that the cheers of the beauties were much quieter than the previous times.

Back in the house, Zhang Zhimu, who was in a happy mood, quickly finished the last bit of the bicycle drawing. Then, he called Li Yunhe to come over.

Li Yunhe, who came in, was not empty-handed, he brought Zhang Zhimu a few water mirrors, breathing tubes and fins. There are two adults and two children.

Li Yunhe said: "They have done it according to your requirements, and I will let them make two smaller ones for Xiaoqing and Xiaohu." I don't know if it's good or not, the glass is all tempered glass that they specially made. The air cylinder and the like have to wait, the high-pressure pipe is fine, and the medium-pressure pipe has to be properly handled, and the protection is not easy to get when it is higher than the medium pressure. Let's wait until they're all done. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay! I'm going to try out the hydroscope snorkel tonight. ”

While talking to Zhang Zhimu, Li Yunhe flipped through Zhang Zhimu's drawings and asked, "What's the good thing, there are no fewer drawings?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said proudly: "Give me something amazing today." This is a bicycle that can be ridden on two wheels. ”

Li Yunhe pointed to the two bicycles depicted in the picture and asked, "Are you talking about people riding on these two-wheeled bicycles and walking on the road with two feet?" ”

"No, it's a man sitting on this saddle, waiting for two pedals with his feet, and this pedal drives the big sprocket through this big crutch, and the big sprocket drives the chain, and the small sprocket behind it turns and the wheel behind it turns. Then the car will move forward on its own. Zhang Zhimu patiently explained.

Although, Li Yunhe is often made by Zhang Zhimu with some very magical things, and he is dizzy and chattering, and he is used to the magical things that Zhang Zhimu made for him. But he still felt that what Zhang Zhimu said was a little ridiculous, and said, "Hehe! You're bluffing me again, aren't you? How can people sit in these two wheeled cars without falling, you are joking today. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I can't explain it to you now." Well, you can get me all the parts according to my drawings, and I'll show you how I rode you on two wheels. ”

Li Yunhe said: "Okay! ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "The difficulty of these things is this chain. After you get the parts, don't assemble them, and I'll tell you how to assemble them myself, and this thing can't be tightened or loosened. And then there's the tires, which are the same as those on your wagon, just a little smaller. ”

In the evening, when Zhang Zhimu took Yang Yulin, Xiaoqing, and Xiaohu to swim, Huang Yukun said: "You are really, Li Zicheng has hit the door, and you still have the heart to swim." ”

Zhang Zhimu laughed and said: "We have muskets and cannons, and we can't beat Li Zicheng's big knife and spear, so we won't do anything, we can surrender." Ha ha! In my eyes, Li Zicheng is working for us! ”

On the way, Xiaoqing asked, "Uncle, what are you doing with these things today?" A big bun. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I want to teach you to snorkel with a snorkel today, so that you can open your eyes." Don't ask, I'll tell you when I get there. ”

When he arrived at the swimming pool, Zhang Zhimu saw that some students who did not go home during the holidays also swam here. Zhang Zhimu called them over and asked, "How is it, is your holiday food okay?" ”

One student said, "Mr. Zhang, our food is good." Many of our classmates are reluctant to go home because they are afraid that the food will be too bad when they go home. Our big families don't have as much food as our school. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay! I've seen that you all know how to swim, and today I've brought a few good things, so let's learn them together. ”

Of course, these students were happy.

Zhang Zhimu took out his flippers and said, "These things are called flippers, if we put them on, they will help us move forward in the water." It's called a water goggle and a snorkel, and when we bring it with us, we can swim on the surface while looking at something underwater. But we used to breathe through our noses, but now we need to breathe through our mouths through a breathing tube, and you need to get used to it. I'll go into the water and show you how to do it. After speaking, Zhang Zhimu took a water mirror and spit a little saliva on the glass inside the water mirror, and then smeared the saliva on the entire water mirror glass, and then soaked it in the water.

Zhang Zhimu said: "You remember, before you go into the water in the future, you must paint the water mirror with saliva before the water is not wet, otherwise after you go into the water, the water mirror glass will be frosted and foggy." Then you won't be able to see anything underwater. ”

Zhang Zhimu took the water goggle and bit the breathing tube and jumped directly into the water. Yang Yulin on the shore was startled, because the snorkel could enter the water, but Zhang Zhimu jumped down like this.

When the mouth of the breathing tube was exposed to the water, Zhang Zhimu blew hard, blowing the water out of the breathing tube and the one-way membrane, and then exposed the mouth of the breathing tube, buried his head in the water, and swam quickly on the surface of the water with flippers.

After a while, Zhang Zhimu went ashore and asked, "Who will try it first?" ”

A student came over to try it, and Zhang Zhimu helped him put on flippers and put on a hydroscope snorkel. However, the student said that the water mirror was not tightly belted for fear of water leakage.

Zhang Zhimu said with a smile: "The water mirror is not tightened with a rubber band on the outside, as soon as you get into the water, the pressure in the water will press the rubber of the water mirror and your face." Generally, when you first enter the water, there will be a little water in the water mirror, but when you press the water mirror with your hand and blow through your nose, the water in the water mirror will be blown out. Don't be nervous. ”

In this way, Zhang Zhimu taught them to snorkel with a hydroscope snorkel one by one in the water.

The students said, "It seems that swimming with a water goggle saves a lot of effort." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Of course, you don't have water goggles to swim your head to show the water, but with water goggles, you can put your head into the water, this time you can increase a lot of buoyancy, of course you can save effort." Its snorkel floats on the surface of the water to breathe, as long as you don't fall asleep, you can lie on the surface of the water for as long as you want. It doesn't take a little effort. ”

In the end, when Zhang Zhimu took Xiaoqing Xiaohu into the water, Xiaohu raised his head from the water with a water mirror and said, "I can see the thighs." ”

Yang Yulin said next to him, "Little bastard, don't learn well." He pressed the little tiger into the water again. At this time, Xiaohu didn't know what he said wrong, but he knew that he said something that shouldn't be said, so he took advantage of the situation to swim away with flippers.

Xiaoqing said, "Little fool! "I also swam away.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Haha! Little thing, I don't know what I said wrong. ”

As they walked back happily, they suddenly heard a dense burst of artillery again.

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Paragliding, rubber model airplanes, piano making, and building an air force. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".