Of course, Li Zicheng learned a lot of things from the appendix of the "Chongzhen Anthology" sent by the mysterious eunuch, so he had a certain certainty. There is no doubt that the fewer people and the more familiar they are with each other, the less likely it is that something will go wrong. Therefore, the selection of locals with the same accent is as large a proportion as possible, and whether or not they are outstanding in martial arts is not the most important criterion. As long as the courage is not too bad, there is no doubt that in Xiao Xuan's view, whether or not obedience is the most important criterion for a new modern army.

Of course, in order not to be surprised, when these selected teenagers were about to set off, Li Zicheng still personally lectured: "You remember, no matter what you find, even if you find the enemy's sentinel or even the person who is coming from the surprise attack. The person who carries a special firearm can fire a warning shot, and the person in charge of stepping on the spot and preparing in advance in the evening is also a good idea, not to light the fire too early. Be sure to light the torch after the explosion has been heard. The light of the fire should not be too large, and the side facing the enemy should be covered with a shield, and the person who moves should wrap a white cloth around his waist before making a temporary assault. When the first phase of the operation is completed, the assault will be launched, understand? In order to prevent accidents, this time the horse team will not be used as the front team, so you must be careful when you act... ”

"Got it!"

When he heard that the teenagers' answers were a little more solemn and not too impatient, Li Zicheng's heart was reluctantly relaxed. This has not been practiced, and no one knows whether the words of "Chongzhen Anthology" are correct. Even up to this time, Li Zicheng was still unsure in his heart whether he had received so much help and whether he was deliberately trying to integrate the civil forces in the northwest to catch them all.

When night fell, the temperature in the Guanzhong Plain, near the mountains, was still a little cold for people who were nervous and marching. The groups of young men at the front groped in the darkness with special lanterns filled with incense and seemed to be closed on the outside, and groped their way through the darkness of the night with the guidance of a feng shui master who was very experienced in judging distances during the day.

Fear made these children, who were the pioneers of the night raid, afraid to come out. After arriving at the designated location, he began to slowly start the earthwork with a special steel hoe coated with black charcoal, and it took about half an hour or so to secretly dig out the foxhole that could accommodate him while lying down, and camouflage himself with a camouflage official website with a shelf that had been prepared for a long time. After pulling the incense upwards again, the wooden board that was facing backwards was removed, allowing the glimmer of the incense to disappear like a star in the dark night.

According to the faint light of these fireflies, the teenagers who lurked in the dark found a temporary assembly site, and began to quietly carry out the earthwork with a heavy burden of ammunition.

After getting through the initial tension, some brave teenagers are also mostly at ease in their hearts, because they are inferred by common sense. With such a well-organized night attack, there is no possibility of failure at all.

However, these people still underestimated Hong Chengchou and even He Renlong, who commanded the troops, and even at night, in order to prevent the peasant army dogs from jumping off the wall in a hurry, they also sent a lot of outpost spies. Although most of these sentinels tend to regard this kind of latent sentry as a beautiful thing to sleep, a few people with a little sense of responsibility still noticed that there seemed to be some abnormal lights and noises in the dark night, and they wondered if someone was digging the tunnel. The soldiers on guard, who did not dare to slack off, quietly sneaked back to the camp.

Hong Chengchou, He Renlong and others did not dare to slack off after getting the news, and quickly launched a plan to deal with the night attack. In order to prevent panic and bombing of the camp, although most of the camp leaders still rest as usual, they are on loose duty as usual. However, hundreds of family nuclei began to quietly arm themselves, ready to strike a fatal blow at any time to those who planned to steal the camp.

The wait lasted for more than two hours, and there seemed to be no movement until midnight, which began to arouse suspicion.

"Is it a suspicious tactic? The people who listened to the earth did not seem to notice any sign of the army gathering ... He Renlong felt that with the level of those chaotic people, even if they improved, it would be impossible to organize such a silent night attack without any signs, just some faint light night raids.

Hong Chengchou also judged that even if a small group of people came to steal the camp, it might be more of a raid and disturbance: "It's enough to let one-third of the family members take the shift, and then come to prepare for war on the eve of dawn." If the night raid hadn't started soon after dark, it would have been at dawn... ”

As Hong Chengchou judged, it wasn't until the dawn on the eastern field began to light up that there seemed to be a hint of movement a few miles away. The Ming army who listened to the land also discovered the arrival of a large number of horses from the listening urn. Thousands of officers and soldiers in the entire Ming army battalion were also fully mobilized at this time, ready to deal with the night attack at any time.

At this moment, a violent explosion suddenly rang out one after another from at least the four directions of the entire battalion, east, west, north and south. The loud explosion seemed to be a sound that some firearms and gunpowder explosions in the barracks might not have.

Because it was suspected that the enemy troops lurking in front of the camp were planning to surprise attack, many Ming troops also began to prepare for battle at this time, and even lit torches on the periphery. However, the enemy's ambush and surprise attack did not appear outside the fence of the camp at the first time, and 40,000 stones with a total of more than 20,000 catties fell from the sky from eight directions.

For the sake of saving precious gunpowder and the quality of gunpowder, only 300 catties of gunpowder of relatively poor quality among the gunpowder seized along the way were only pushed by the more than 20,000 catties of stones. It is far from the quality of gunpowder in the militia textbooks in the later years of the Mao era, and even the gunpowder used by Xiao Xuan's guards. The gravel flew a little farther than a hundred paces away, and the closest one was only a few dozen steps to the camp.

Even so, more than 40,000 stones thrown from multiple directions that had been prepared long ago also covered most of the area of the camp where Hong Chengchou and He Renlong were located.

If these stones falling from the sky were to face the Manchurian armor soldiers, they might not be powerful enough to hit people hard, but in the face of the Ming army, where the vast majority of the armor was just "leather armor" and even had little decent individual protection, the blasting attack brought by such inferior gunpowder also caused hundreds of people to be disabled in the first time, and nearly 1,000 people were slightly injured. What's more, such a blow was almost indistinguishable from before and after, and many military horses and even those who were responsible for supervising the battle in peacetime were also hit, so although the casualties were far less than half, the entire battalion quickly fell into chaos.

When the cavalry with torches approached the camp and fired a rain of arrows, the Ming camp, whose morale was on the verge of collapse in the blasting attack, quickly collapsed.

(End of chapter)