Chapter 70: Li Li Turns Back Against the Siege The night attack begins a bloody battle

Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance arrived in Annan and began to feel a little depressed when they went ashore to relieve themselves. They can't get involved in the war at all, and Li Zicheng doesn't know where the spirit comes from, and everything is decided by studying it with Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong in Yaogang.

Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance also understood that the first few feet in Annan still had to rely on the help of the kiln gang people. The situation is also like this, they took a big ship like the Hongze Lake, and they almost vomited out their intestines, and their officers and soldiers were all landlubbers, that is, some of the past sailors, which were also the sailors in the rivers, and it was good to sit on a small boat and not jump into the sea one by one, and they couldn't fight at all when they went ashore. The army of the Yaogang people not only had good weapons, but also did not get seasick, and did not delay anything when they went ashore, and solved the Haiphong port cleanly. There was no unconvinced part of the Dashun army, and they repelled the attack of more than 100,000 Annanes, relying on the help of cannons on the warships of the Yaogang people, and their own army basically cleaned up the battlefield. Although Mu Yi is only the deputy commander of the Yaogang Water Army, and he is not the most senior general in Yaogang, Li Zicheng can't help but be extremely respectful to him, and it is really a problem for others to make some efforts. Otherwise, let's say that there are more than 100,000 Annan people, although the equipment is not very good, and they are all short in stature, but they are completely killed by themselves, and they are not allowed to kill for a few days.

This time to Tokyo (Hanoi), only Song Xiance followed the army. Niu Jinxing simply stayed in Haiphong Port to do the work of forming a government.

Song Xiance also admired the advance plan made by the Yaogang people, and the battle started on the side of Haiphong, but the article started from the Guangxi side, such a big picture can not help but make Song Xiance, who has always been good at strategy, a little sweaty. However, Song Xiance's explanation to himself was that the people of Yaogang had such conditions to make such a plan. This makes me feel a little better.

It wasn't until the Annan army surrounded him again that Song Xiance also began to get busy. As soon as he got busy, Song Xiance was well-organized, and the characteristics of decisive command were manifested again.

Li Zicheng and their 50,000 troops were very large, very large, and they were arranged around a mountain pack, which was also a very large and large joint camp. The mountains on this side of Annan are very similar to the mountains in Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty, and many mountain bags are suddenly erected from the flat ground to be a mountain bag, and there are few gentle slopes around. The mountain bag occupied by Li Zicheng and them is on the bank of the Red River, and it is composed of several connected mountain bags to form a mountain bag group. Song Xiance is very optimistic about this terrain. It is backed by the Red River, and there are warships on the river that can provide fire support.

Song Xiance had the officers and men use ropes to hoist their artillery to the top of the hill, where the line of sight was wide and the firing range was wide. They can give full play to the advantages of their large number of artillery. Song Xiance also knew that the artillery shells on the Yaogang warship were powerful, but it was also equivalent to silver casting. Therefore, Song Xiance decided not to use the kiln artillery fire easily at the critical time.

There is no shortage of trees and bamboos in Annam, and the officers and soldiers have long cut down many trees and bamboos and built layers of fences. What reassured Song Xiance even more was that the kiln gang gave them fifty heavy machine guns, all of which were water-cooled, and now there was enough ammunition, which was not enough to eat human flesh. Besides, after the reorganization of the officers and soldiers, the musket has not played a role. When they fought with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong's officers and soldiers guarded the city and did not come out, they couldn't get in, and the muskets were useless. Later, Zheng Zhilong's army surrendered, and the muskets were even more useless. It's time to open up meat with the Annanites as well.

The officers and men of Annam, who had just come over from the siege, would not have believed the horrific scene of being shelled as described by the officers and men who had fled from Haiphong Port, otherwise they would not have put themselves in such a formation and surrounded the Ming army in their eyes.

After seeing the scene of the shelled position, Li Li knew that the situation was not good, and he must launch an attack as soon as possible, otherwise the Ming army's artillery fire would cover the camp at any time. But now hundreds of thousands of troops have gathered around Tokyo at once, and the camps are connected to the camps, and there is no end in sight. Since these troops were transferred from various places, it was very difficult to transfer command. Behind the hundreds of thousands of troops were many more people who were carrying food supplies. Tokyo (Hanoi) is very chaotic all around. The rain that falls from time to time makes it muddy everywhere. Li Li finally summoned the main generals of the army besieging the Ming army and held a meeting. Since all the generals who came here were high-ranking generals, at the meeting, in addition to saying some words to boost morale, he also explained the reasons for the failure of the attack on Haiphong Port, and stressed that we must pay attention to the artillery fire of the Ming army, which came this time was very powerful. He also asked them to go back and tell the officers and men that when they encounter artillery bombardment, they can't run around, it's useless to run around, and the best way is to rush up, and their artillery fire will not work when they are in a melee with the Ming army. It is also necessary to tell the officers and soldiers that if they retreat, they will die, so that the terror can be shaken.

Li Li's words were very timely, and those new generals did not believe that the artillery fire of the Ming army would be so powerful. They believed that these were all deliberately exaggerated statements by the officers and soldiers who had lost the battle, and that they were making excuses for losing the war. But Li Li himself said this, and they all had to take it seriously. Le Le was a king, a hero in the hearts of the generals, a god-like man, who believed in him and was absolutely loyal to him.

After the time of the attack was unified, the generals of Li Li rushed back to their camp.

In the humid and sultry weather of Annam, Li Zicheng's officers and men were very uncomfortable, but fortunately, everyone had raincoats, which could be sheltered from rain, and everyone had light mosquito nets, so that they could avoid mosquito bites at night. The soldiers' food is also very good, they really can't start the fire, and they can also eat canned cattle or canned mutton from the kiln. Canned food is the soldiers' favorite food, and the taste is absolutely impossible to make on their own, especially the feeling that the beef can melt in the mouth is really wonderful.

The soldiers did not expect that the battle would start at night.

The soldiers of Nan'an were very good at night fighting, and they had one way to deal with the Ming army before, that is, to use the night to attack and disturb. However, this time they carried out a large-scale night attack.

In the past, the Annan people fought with the Ming army, and they basically won a lot by chance, and rarely opened up the battle as they do now. Because at that time, they still put themselves in a weak position and adopted all feasible methods to fight against the Ming army. And now it is a country facing the invaders, and it is necessary to send the most powerful army and use the dignified position to drive the enemy out. The mentality is different, and the tactics are also different.

At night, the Annan army, which had been fully mobilized and prepared, wore a camouflage net woven of straw and quietly touched the camp of the Ming army. But before they got close to the fence of the Ming army's camp, they "boomed" and stepped on the **.

In the silence of the night, the explosion of ** can be transmitted far away, and as a result, the sneak attacks everywhere have turned into strong attacks at the same time.

The camp guarded by 50,000 people was attacked by more than 100,000 people at the same time, and the scene was very huge, and the shouts of the attackers shook the heavens and the earth.

Something happened, Song Xiance and their camp, immediately according to the plan, with a bowl mouth, fired the flares made by the kiln gang people on the heads of the Annan soldiers who had made the gong, with the sound of "dong dong" explosion in the air, the air suddenly lit up with a dazzling light, the inexperienced Annan soldiers looked up at the flares, their eyes would be spent, and they needed to wait for a while to see the scene in front of them. Because the eyes can't adapt to the sudden bright light from the night. Then the Dashun army fired a few more *** in front of the formation, and the fire burned for a long time. Seeing the secret Annan soldiers pouring up densely, Song Xiance ordered the artillery on the mountain to open fire immediately. After Li Zicheng's army fought with Sun Chuanting, they captured too much artillery, so they also had a lot of artillery. Most of the artillery was lost in Shanxi, but they knew how powerful this thing was, and as soon as they had the opportunity, they immediately resumed artillery.

Although Li Zicheng's artillery fired shells were all black, it was still enough to blow up the infantry. Li Zicheng's artillery "dong dong" and "all through" artillery of various calibers bombarded wildly, and there were special officers to supervise the formation. Therefore, the soldiers who could not be moved by the bombing were killed, and they bravely rushed to the Ming army camp by taking advantage of the artillery fire of the Ming army's ammunition. At this time, the Annan soldiers kept stepping on the **, which was very dense and specially bombed the legs of the Annan soldiers. The soldiers who were bombed could not die for a while, and one by one they rolled and cried on the ground with their broken legs, making the scene very terrifying. At the same time, the Ming army camp shot out batches of bows and arrows, although the light was dark at night, and when the dense bows and arrows were fired blindly, they also shot down a lot of the group's charging Annam soldiers.

Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the artillery of the Annam army also began to shell the camp of the Dashun army, and for a time the artillery fire in the camp of the Dashun army was also scattered.

This time, Song Xiance didn't need to let the heavy machine gun fire, he knew that the battle would continue, and when the Annan people attacked at dawn, the heavy machine gun would suddenly burst into force and catch them off guard, and the effect would be very different.

However, there were still Annan soldiers who rushed close to the camp fence, and at this time, muskets stretched out of the black holes from the cracks in the fence, and with the "bang" gunshots, one by one the brave Annan soldiers fell in front of the fence.

The attacking Nan'an soldiers seemed to be more afraid of flares than of cannonballs, and the dark night was their cover, but a dazzling flare above their heads completely exposed them, which made them feel that they were the targets of cannonballs and bows and arrows. Fortunately, the time for the flare to be lit was very short, and it passed after a while. However, the opponent also understands that the flare is on for a short time, so if one flare is dimmed, another one will be hit soon. This seriously dampened the morale of the attacking Annam officers and soldiers.

When the east was a little white, the Annan army, which had left behind a piece of corpse, stopped the attack.

In response to this attack of the Annamite people, Song Xiance did not use heavy machine guns, nor did he use his hands, let alone ask for artillery support from the warship. Song Xiance knew that although Annan was numerous, he didn't know much about the situation on his side, and they could defeat them with conventional means in their first attack. Besides, Song Xiance arranged three lines of defense in front of the battle, and if it was really not possible, he would ask for artillery support, and it would be too late to use the killer weapon. The battle commanded by Song Xiance was fought beautifully. The soldiers fought with confidence, and Song Xiance himself felt a little light on his face. Since the war with the Yaogang people in Shanxi, it has never been so happy. Song Xiance knew that Li Zicheng still understood his own ability. Otherwise, he would not have slept on the air-conditioned boat of the kiln man and handed over all the command of the front to him.

Li Zicheng is really a commander who knows people and makes good use of them, he knows that Song Xiance is always half a beat short of dealing with the Yaogang people, but he is still easy to deal with the Annan people in front of him. Until the sound of the cannon in the middle of the night, Li Zicheng woke up from his dream, Li Zicheng didn't even get up from bed, turned over and fell asleep again. He knew that no matter how much the Annan people tossed, they couldn't escape his own calculations and everyone's calculations.

When it was dawn, Li Zicheng got up and washed up and came to the restaurant.

Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong both admired Li Zicheng very much.

Mu Yi said: "King Chuang! Can you really do it, you can sleep last night when there was a lot of artillery fighting? ”

"Haha! With you here, there are tens of thousands of Lao Tzu in front of me, what can the people of Annam do to me? Li Zicheng laughed and said, "I'm afraid that if you leave, it will be time for me to sleep." ”

"Don't worry, King Chuang!" Zheng Zhilong said, "Before you came, I was discussing with Commander Mu, why should we accompany you and pack up the Annan soldiers on the front line of the Red River before going back." Anyway, the family didn't urge us to go back, as long as you don't bother us, we'll have a fun with you! ”

"Oh, brother!" Li Zicheng arched his hands and said, "With you here, I feel much more at ease, so I dare to bother you!" ”

"Let me tell you about the situation, last night, the Song army fought very well. I haven't used heavy machine guns, hand **, and I haven't asked for our artillery support. According to the telegram of the Song Army, a total of 10,000 or 20,000 Annan soldiers were killed on all fronts last night. Our soldiers were also killed and wounded by Annam artillery fire, one or two thousand wounded. What is infuriating is that the Annamite people learned to be obedient, and at dawn, they withdrew all their artillery, not knowing where they were hidden, and they could not destroy them. The Song division had already sent scouts with radio stations to swim from the Red River by boat, and they were preparing to bypass behind the Annan army. The scouts had been trained at the kiln posts, and when they spotted the artillery of the Annam army, they would report back the location of their artillery positions. We can destroy them with artillery fire. Mu Yi introduced the situation to Li Zicheng.

"Huh! This battle was fought like child's play. Li Zicheng said, "Old Mu! When you were at war with us, were you like that? ”

"That's right! Commander Mu, when you beat us, did you do the same, like playing? Zheng Zhilong also asked Mu Yi.

"Haha!" Mu Yi heard both of them ask this question, but did not answer them, laughed and said, "I think it's very strange, not long ago we were still fighting with broken heads, and now we are suddenly a gang, fighting together!" Ha ha! ”

Li Zicheng and Zheng Zhilong looked at each other and laughed.

Zheng Zhilong said: "We people together, the Annan people are opponents!" ”

"That's right!" Li Zicheng said, "If we don't often fight with our own people, no outsiders will be our opponents." As Mr. Zhang said, we can't afford to have internal friction anymore! ”

When Li Li heard the news that yesterday's sneak attack had failed, killing and wounding nearly 20,000 people, he angrily scolded his generals for being incompetent. A general said, "Your Majesty! The artillery fire of the Ming army last night was too intensive, and most of our dead and wounded were wounded under their artillery fire. Compared to them, our artillery fire is simply too weak! ”

Li snorted with his nose: "You can't stand this kind of artillery fire?" You fools! Their real cannon hasn't fired yet! ”

The generals were a little dumbfounded when they heard this, and they didn't speak when they looked at each other.

"You go back immediately, immediately organize a full-scale attack, we have losses, and the Ming army also has losses. We couldn't give them a chance to breathe, so we took advantage of our numbers and kept attacking until we were exhausted. "Li Li knows where his advantages are, so their tactics are still right. But what Li Li didn't know was that the gap between their strength and their opponents was too big. This is not something that can be solved simply by numerical superiority.

Just after noon, Annam's army began to attack again. Because it was dawn and the army was easy to deploy, the Nan'an army deployed more than 150,000 troops on the whole line in front of the Dashun army formation. At this time, their artillery did their best to fire at the position of the Dashun army, regardless of the exposed target, and covered the infantry to charge forward with ladders. The scouts, who were observing the Annam artillery position on the mountain, immediately reported the location of the Annam artillery position to the flotilla on the Red River.

Through the radio, they coordinated with Song Xiance's artillery, and while Song Xiance's artillery opened fire on the Annan offensive team, the cannons on the Yaogang warship covered several artillery positions of the Annan army.

The artillery shells of the Dashun army were constantly exploding in the attacking ranks of the Annan army, and those soldiers who were not bombed heard the rumbling thunder in the air, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion from the artillery position behind them, which was different from the explosion around them, it was the explosion of the earth trembling. It didn't take long for the artillery of Annam's army to stop talking.

At dawn, you can see that most of the rice fields in front of the Ming army array, the Annan soldiers who bravely attacked, in addition to many people who were constantly shot by the Ming army, were constantly knocked down, and there were also people who constantly stepped on the **, fell to the ground and cried for their fathers and mothers, but as long as the attacking soldiers could charge without pause, they were all brave to attack forward. With bursts of dense bows and arrows, they were shot, and suddenly there were bursts of "bang bang" from the Ming army's position, which had never been heard before. This kind of gunfire is more terrifying than the sound of firecrackers. What was even more terrifying for the attacking Annan soldiers was that many of their brothers around them were either shot in half of their heads or their arms broken, and there was a big hole in their backs when they passed through their chests, and their deaths were very terrifying. With the terrifying sound of gunfire, a string of bullets swept along the rice field, knocking down the soldiers charging on the rice field one by one. Because the formation of the attack was so dense, some bullets could penetrate the soldiers in front and hit the soldiers behind, and the bullets flying along the paddy fields rarely flew through the air, and those that did not hit the front would also hit the behind.

In front of the entire Ming army's position, a terrifying "bang bang bang" sounded, which was the voice of death, but the Nan'an soldiers could not retreat, and retreating was also death. The soldiers all knew that it was more unjust to die or die on the way to the charge, and to be killed by the overseer behind them.

In front of all the heavy machine gun positions, it was soon turned into a bloody alley, and the route of the Annan soldiers behind them chose to avoid the strafing of the heavy machine guns. The Annam soldiers, who dodged heavy machine-gun fire, had to dodge bows and muskets before they could rush into front of the fence of the Ming camp. The soldiers who approached the camp on the flesh and blood of their brethren were to see something they had never seen before. They often just saw something flying towards them in a circle with smoke in a circle, and before they could see it, it exploded. Each hand ** can blow down several Annan soldiers.

In the face of the continuous influx of Annan soldiers, Song Xiance and their army were a little soft-hearted. This kind of offensive method, Song Xiance also used it when they dealt with the Yaogang people in Shanxi, but it was not like this, regardless of how many people died in the front, the back was constantly rushing to the front. The artillery on the mountain of the Dashun army was hot, and the rate of fire was obviously reduced. The ** in front of the position has long been gone, and it has been stepped on by Nan'an soldiers. However, Annan soldiers still poured in. The soldiers guarding the front line of the Dashun army had already changed positions with the soldiers behind them several times, and those archers could not pull their bows and arrows.

In several places, Annan soldiers have begun to build ladders to climb the fence of the stockade. Song Xiance, who was observing with a telescope, discovered this situation, although he knew that even if the Annan soldiers attacked a position, the soldiers behind could also drive them out, but he could not give the opponent such a chance. Song Xiance picked up the radio and asked Mu Yi's fleet for artillery support. The trained staff officers also gave Mu Yi the coordinates in front of several positions where the situation was not good.

Soon there was a "boom" of shells bursting through the air. Then, those Nan'an soldiers who saw the hope of breaking through the position and were shouting to attack continued to explode a thunderbolt above their heads.

This time, Mu Yi and they greeted the Annam soldiers with 130 shells with a close-up fuse. Such shells are simply too effective against the infantry that is attacking intensively. The prefabricated shrapnel on the shells covered the target several tens of meters below the explosion point at once. Needless to say, the Annan soldiers had never seen such a terrifying thunder, even Song Xiance and the other generals who were observing with binoculars did not know that there was such a terrifying thing.

In the area covered by the shells in this way, all the Annan soldiers who did not die also stopped the attack. The heavy artillery of the kiln post will be in front of the position, covering several areas behind. Annam's army stopped attacking on all fronts.

Song Xiance reported to Li Zicheng that at least 70,000 or 80,000 people were killed or wounded in the attack of the Annan army. The corpses in front of the position were piled up.

Mu Yi said to Li Zicheng: "The weather here in Annan is too hot, and the corpses of the enemy will soon decompose, and if you don't get it right, there will be a plague." ”

Li Zicheng said: "Yes! But where do you get some lime? ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "Hehe! We don't have to worry about it, we send letters to the Annan army with shells, informing them to come and collect the bodies, and we guarantee their safety. Even if Li Li didn't want to collect the corpses, he also had to consider the emotions of their soldiers. ”

"Yes, yes! Good way! Li Zicheng said.

"Someone, immediately print a batch of leaflets, and inform the Annam army to collect the bodies of their brothers. We keep them safe! Mu Yi ordered the staff officer.

The people of Yiyaogang were familiar with this kind of thing, and soon printed a lot of leaflets on wax paper informing the Annan army to come to collect the corpses, and fired them into various camps in Annan with cannonballs.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".