Volume 18 Chapter 36 Boldly Trying New Tactics (I)
The advantages of the special operation were vividly exerted in this continuous mountains, and as soon as the remaining French troops fled to the mouth of the valley when they entered, the special forces of the Ming army, which had already been ambushed on the mountain beams on both sides, suddenly appeared out, and then a wave of grenades rained down.
"Boom, boom", after a burst of explosions, the French army suddenly howled, and there were less than 100 people who could stand up.
At this time, they did not dare to run, and they threw away their guns one after another, and knelt there without moving.
It's terrifying, it's terrifying, it's almost annihilated, and I don't know who the enemy is, who will dare to fight this battle!
Soon, countless special forces surrounded them from all directions, rushed up and tied them up, those who could move and those who couldn't, as long as they didn't die, they were all tied up.
The French soldiers really thought that they had seen ghosts, what kind of people were these, the clothes on their bodies were colorful, they couldn't tell what color they were, there was grass on their heads, and their faces were even more messy, no different from ghosts!
The special forces of the Ming army are naturally not ghosts, they are dressed up to hide, and now it seems that the effect is quite good, although it can't be really shadowed, but if the enemy doesn't look carefully, he really can't find it.
Anyway, why didn't Fu Yunlong order these people to be killed, it seems that they even killed the civilians who transported grain and grass, and these defenders who came out of the fortress should be killed, right?
There is naturally a reason for not killing them, because there is also a trick in the special operation, which is the tactic of deceiving the city gate and taking the fortress in the enemy's rout.
They haven't tried this new tactic yet, it's still only in the theoretical stage, and if possible, Fu Yunlong is ready to try it.
In order to analyze whether tactics are feasible, it is necessary to first understand the situation in the fortress, and these prisoners have an additional purpose, that is, they are used for interrogation.
This time it was not only the special forces of the three legions who came, but also a lot of Jinyi secret agents who accompanied the army, including those who were proficient in French, and after these prisoners were interrogated by them for a day, the situation in the fortress had been roughly clarified.
The garrison of this fortress is 10,000, and the grain reserves in it are not much, so there are only ten days of food left.
This time the food did not arrive on time, and even the soldiers who went to lead the way did not hear from them, and the garrison general of the fortress was already in a hurry, but he seemed to think that some rogue had robbed them of their food.
These French soldiers were already frightened, and they would answer whatever the secret agents of the brocade guards asked, and there was no need to resort to torture at all.
Once discovered, they will send people back to report it, and then more people will be sent to the fortress to encircle and suppress the rogue and take back the grain.
Based on this information, Fu Yunlong analyzed that if none of the thousands of people in this group went back to report, it was estimated that the fortress guard would send more people, because if he didn't send it, he would have nothing to eat!
It seems that the tactics of the fish and the pearl are really likely to succeed, Fu Yunlong is moved, winning a fortress is a great record, this risk is worth taking.
On the one hand, he sent orders to his men nearby, and transferred two more squadrons, and on the other hand, he sent people to inform the Spanish defenders to send 10,000 horses to prepare to take over the fortress, while he continued to stay in the ambushed valley, mending and covering up, trying to restore the valley to its original state.
There is no way, this valley is the most suitable place for ambushes in the third bastion and the outer connecting passage, and the rest of the place is not as good as here, and there is no big battle here, but hundreds of mines have been blown up under the hillside and the small stone bridge in the middle has broken.
These are not difficult for them, just shovel some turf and cover the area that has been blown up by the mine, and it is not difficult to cover the small stone bridge back to the same appearance as before, as long as the stone surface is treated to make the whole bridge look old.
After a busy day, the valley was basically restored to its original state, and the other two squadrons were already in place, Fu Yunlong hid with nearly five thousand people, waiting for the arrival of the next wave of enemies.
As for those French prisoners, they had already been taken to the hidden valley where the grain was hidden to be educated, and those who knew each other would lead the way to the Ming army as fish, and those who didn't know each other would be embarrassed, anyway, the beads were the main thing, and the fish had one or two rows in front of them.
Similar to Fu Yunlong's analysis, on the third day, a large group of men and horses were sent out in the fortress, and this time there were more than 5,000 people, almost filling the entire valley!
With 5,000 men and horses, with 10 artillery pieces, it seems a bit difficult to annihilate them all, but Fu Yunlong can't manage so much, the opportunity is rare, if he can annihilate these 5,000 people in one fell swoop, the hope of taking the fortress will be greater.
This time the small stone bridge did not complete the task, and the three enemy artillery pieces were scrapped by just pitting them, but the snipers were quite fierce, almost a bullet to eliminate an enemy, and the enemy troops in the valley had not yet woken up from the chaos, and hundreds of people fell.
The French commanders seemed to use the same method to judge the enemy, that is, to judge the number of enemies according to the intensity of gunfire and the amount of gunsmoke, and when it was concluded that there were not many enemies, their reaction was the same, that is, to rush directly!
However, this time they still have seven artillery pieces, which is a little threat to the Ming army.
Fu Yunlong naturally won't just use the old routine, this time he not only planted mines under the hillside, but also buried other places, it can be said that the entire hillside is densely packed, mines are everywhere, the enemy wants to rush up, it is impossible, only below as a target!
This is a fire between muskets and artillery, to be precise, it is a fire between the howitzers of the French army and the sniper rifles of the Ming army, and it stands to reason that the artillery should have the advantage.
However, the howitzers of the French army were front-loaded, while the sniper rifles of the Ming army were rear-loaded, plus there were only seven howitzers left in the French army, and the soldiers who loaded the ammunition were always under special care from nearly twenty snipers, so the howitzers of the French army did not fire a few shells, while the sniper rifles of the Ming army never stopped.
As for the French troops rushing up the hillside, they were purely here to die, countless mines and traps were waiting for them, and every step required great courage.
The Ming army on the mountain beam waited for a long time, but the French still did not rush up, and they had lost nearly half of their men and horses before they even entered the range of the flintlock guns.
At this time, the French commander had been beaten into a sieve if he was the same as the last time, and as for the French soldiers, after losing half of their men, they also chose to flee, and at the mouth of the valley, there was also a squadron of Ming special forces waiting for them.
A tragedy was staged again, of course, this was relative to the French army, and for the Ming army, it was not a tragedy, but a big victory.
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