It was not the first time that the team led by Xiao Xuan had encountered an opponent, following the example of the original battle of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and "treating others in the way of others". During the Battle of Fuping, Li Zicheng and others emulated these methods. Of course, Xiao Xuan always had the idea that he should pay attention to the opponent's similar attack methods in the future. Therefore, when building fortifications at night, no matter how simple or poor the conditions are, the general shield cover protection can effectively resist stones weighing at least two catties from hundreds of meters away by reducing the width of the tunnel and increasing the density of troops. If the opponent uses heavier stones to carry out blasting attacks, of course, it will effectively break the defense, but when blasting more than a few pounds of stones, it will encounter huge problems in terms of accuracy, processing difficulty, or the same weight of ammunition and even the excavation of blasting foxholes. Therefore, it is possible to pose some threat and not suffer too many casualties in this kind of blasting attack.

However, what Xiao Xuan didn't know was that for this decisive attack, Hei Huan Bolie had been planning for a long time. Since the defeat in the battle of Qingyuan Nanyuan in the autumn of the first year of Chongzhen, how to defeat Xiao Xuan's department, which was heavily defended and had stronger and stronger firepower, in the offensive has become a key direction of research at the upper level of the Eight Banners.

Unlike many northern ethnic minorities who only valued brute bravery in the past, in terms of tactics and weapons, even ordinary leaders never despised them. The final result, in addition to betting on the night battle attack to see if there are any loopholes in the opponent's night battle defense, it is only effective to imitate the battle of the Seven Years of the Apocalypse. And after learning some of the situation of the Battle of Fuping through espionage and also conducting some deduction tests outside the gate, it was found that this was not a very easy thing.

Not only did the Son of Heaven guard often change positions at night, but they also paid great attention to the construction of overturned fortifications during the march and field battles. Many individual shields and other specialized materials are also used as a common means of being covered at night.

Because there is no way to infiltrate the army led by Xiao Xuan personally, no one knows how strong the standard of protection of the main force of the legendary forbidden brigade is, for the sake of insurance, and to be able to do the same in the end, the only way to use a lead bullet weighing three catties, the same weight as a Western four-pounder cannonball, as the main ammunition for the blasting projectile attack. In this way, when the projectile is controlled to more than two inches, it does not take much effort to open the pit.

In this way, a lot of ammunition seized against the Ming Dynasty in the past wars of Jianzhou at this time was used, and there were still a large number of ammunition in stock. At the same time, he smuggled a lot of finished lead bullets from the Guan, and finally collected about one million catties, with a total of more than 300,000 pieces of lead bullets weighing about three catties, which is almost the vast majority of the families outside the Guanxi are even richer. However, it is also strange to say that in the past six months or so, it seems that whether it is in the direction of Shanxi, the Guanning Army, or the direction of Jiaodong and Liaodong, the formal border ban on the border has opened a wider opening than in the past, and it seems to be a virtual existence. Obviously, in the face of a rebellious emperor internally, there are also people who blatantly support the opponents outside the Guan. Through months of smuggling and importing directly from the border army and even from various places, this previously unimaginable accumulation of ammunition has been completed.

Millions of catties of ammunition and 120,000 catties of gunpowder are also not small numbers in terms of scale, and a lot of manpower and horses are needed to carry them. In the past, the Jianzhou army did not have much remaining logistics space to carry so much ammunition, unless it weakened its own cavalry and even shield armor. However, when the main force could be directed against the grassland, it quickly completely subdued the opponents on the grassland. With more than tens of thousands of horses for logistics, the problem of using this huge amount of ammunition for transportation was finally solved.

Of course, the preparation is not limited to this. It is also because of the many actual combat exercises and tests that have been carried out over the past few months that we have been able to mobilize the whole army to carry out this all-out attack.

After the explosion, the three pounds of lead bullets that continued to rise into the air were as dense as black clouds, but when the sky was not completely bright, they could not see the trajectory clearly, which further increased the threat and lethality. It wasn't until the whole position seemed to be boiling a little and the wails rang out one after another, that many officers and men of the teaching brigade began to notice that something was wrong, but at this time, after falling to the ground, they began to drill into many trenches and even cliff holes with fierce force. The destructive power of the three-pound buckshot projectile thrown from two or three hundred paces away also seemed to be no less than that of an ordinary trebuchet. Although many shields and prisoners blocked the second attack of the ricochet, the first attack was not blocked at all.

Hundreds of thousands of lead bullets that fell in a very short period of time caused nearly 10,000 people to die or maim in the first place, not including those who suffered minor injuries due to the collision after the ricochet. The brigades, from the Teaching Brigade to the Guards Battalion and the Brave Guard Battalion, seemed to have completely lost their combat effectiveness for a time under this heavy blow. What made Xiao Xuan somewhat fortunate was that he still had a cliff hole near the command position that had a relatively strong bearing capacity, and the guards of his own soldiers escaped a catastrophe. Zhou Yuji, Sun Yingyuan and others were only slightly injured, and the main leaders were among them, Li Zicheng, Li Guo and others were far less aware of the regulations, and in this catastrophe-like blasting attack.

After suffering a serious blow and the army of tens of thousands of people almost completely lost any ability to act, the main forces of the Jianzhou Army in all directions took the opportunity to launch a full-scale raid in the early hours of the morning, and rushed into the fortified area under the cover of smoke screens.

Even when he recalled it a few years later, Xiao Xuan had palpitations. This is the most dangerous situation he has encountered since he crossed over, and it is even more dangerous than the original battle of the Noon Gate. If the officers and men had been a little more hesitant to recover their state, or if the main force of the Jianzhou Army had grasped the dawn more accurately, the whole army would have fallen into the danger of annihilation. And the protagonist himself is likely to be finished in the way of a lot of supporting villains in the air.

When the blasting attack ended and there were a lot of wails from the opposite side, many Jianzhou officers and generals couldn't hold back their excitement at this time, because this group of opponents who had brought the greatest threat to the army was likely to be wiped out by themselves in this way.

It's just that at the beginning of the full-front assault launched by the Jianzhou Army, there didn't seem to be too many screams or even the sound of hand-to-hand combat, and the attack seemed to be a little earlier. The trenches and ramparts in the darkness also do not seem to be fully exposed.

(End of chapter)