Chapter 22: Laying Out the Battlefield
In the evening, Huang Sheng invited Sun Yuanhua to accompany him, and drank a farewell wine with Mao Yuanyi, Sun Yuanhua was drunk, patted Huang Sheng's shoulder and shouted: "Good sons are not afraid of life and death, kill all directions, my generation should follow suit!"
Huang Sheng began to ask the maid Qiaozhen to buy a lot of beef as early as two months ago, and personally taught them how to make beef jerky. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This thing is so good that it won't spoil for a year or two as long as it's kept properly, and the disadvantage is that it costs too much silver.
Huang Sheng thinks that the silver is not brought by life and is not taken away by death, and there is no point in keeping it.
It is not as useful as storing food, and the Ming Dynasty is a natural and man-made disaster in the future, and the people are hungry, and food is the most important strategic material, of course, we must be prepared.
Huang Sheng also taught the women of his family to make 'naan' to be used as dry food for the march. 'Naan' is made of flour as the main raw material, mostly fermented noodles, but does not put alkali and a little salt.
This food is regarded as the life of the Uyghur, Kazakh and other ethnic groups, and has been passed down for thousands of years.
The biggest advantage of this thing is that it can be stored for a long time without deterioration, and it is very convenient when you need to eat.
Huang Sheng's whole family is preparing for the ambush battle, and the family is in full swing. The women piled up the freshly baked 'naan' like pot lids.
Huang Mingli and the others were all wiping their armor and weapons, and Huang Mingdao was training the newcomers to listen to orders.
Huang Sheng went to Ma Shihu to discuss the matter of sending troops, and was ready to knock him on a big bamboo pole, and brought a few family members to his station.
Seeing that three or four days had passed, this rough man had not moved, and he was a little breathless, and he was thinking about going to Huang Sheng to ask what was going on.
Seeing that Huang Sheng was overjoyed, he was busy welcoming him into the living room, and before Huang Sheng could take a sip of tea and wine, he began to ask him when he would leave.
Huang Sheng said: "General rest assured, this officer is ready, but there are too many materials to transport for ambush warfare, and there are not enough horses." ”
War horses are the treasure of cavalry, as long as they are good soldiers, they will serve their war horses as relatives, and the horses of the cavalry are equivalent to his wives.
Ma Shihu said: "Not enough horses? This......? In this way, Xia Guan will find a way to help the adults get a few horses. ”
Huang Sheng is bad, he doesn't want war horses, but borrows, and only asks for ten horses.
Huang Sheng said: "General, how can this official ask for your war horse for nothing, you only need to borrow ten good horses from this official." ”
The market price of ten war horses is three or four hundred taels of silver, and the price of pulling horses and pack horses is about twenty taels of silver each.
Huang Sheng is going to fight, life and death are unpredictable, and it is very likely that the ten war horses that were borrowed will not be able to find the creditor.
Although Ma Shihu was embarrassed, he gritted his teeth and agreed: "Okay, the lower official will lend ten high-grade war horses to Lord Huang, but I don't know when the lord will leave?" ”
Huang Sheng said: "The official will go to the ambush in three days, as for where is the battlefield chosen?" This is a Level 1 secret and should not be told to anyone. General, you don't need to ask, you just need to wait for good news in Ningyuan City. ”
Huang Sheng didn't dare to tell him his marching route and ambush point, Ma Shihu would not intentionally leak secrets, but he was not allowed to tell others.
If a third person knows, more people will know, and finally the risk of leaking secrets will appear, which is related to the life safety of himself and more than 20 family members.
Ma Shihu has been in the army for a long time, and he also knows the virtue of the Ming army, and he understands why Huang Sheng is so careful. He said: "Lord Huang needs to be cooperated?"
Huang Sheng said: "General, you only need to set off from Ningyuan City in ten days, and leave some clues there when we pass through the hilly area of Lianshanyi according to our pre-set route. Then go to Jiannu to play a majestic show in front of his eyes, and then slip away. ”
The two made an appointment and talked about how to lure Jiannu, and Huang Sheng took the family to pull back ten war horses.
Now the number of people who went to participate in the ambush reached twenty-five, and there were twenty-eight horses.
Huang Mingli, Li Dagang, and the seven soldiers who had worked hard all gave them the best horses.
All the other horses were used to carry supplies, and all the horses needed to carry a month's worth of supplies, which were already very heavy, as well as gunpowder, armor, weapons, axes, saws, shovels, and other tools.
Although it was only the beginning of August, Huang Sheng, who was cautious, took everyone's cotton clothes with him, and his team went to the wilderness to lurk, and he couldn't get out for a while.
Suddenly there is a cold snap, and the result is tragic, which will cause attrition due to illness, so it is necessary to take precautions.
This time, although there were more than a dozen people in the family, they were not fighting forces, but laborers, and they had to lead horses and carry burdens when marching.
There were too many supplies, so seven good horses were set aside for Huang Mingli and Black Tiger to ride, twenty-one horses were not enough to carry the supplies, and the others needed to carry things on their shoulders.
On the third day of the eighth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Sheng quietly left Ningyuan City with his family and came to the vicinity of the abandoned Lianshan Station.
It is the crisp autumn season, and there are trees everywhere, there are mountains but not big, water but not very deep, and there is a large forest.
Several former Liaodong soldiers are too familiar with this place, and Heihu and Li Dagang have come to reconnoiter many times before.
Huang Sheng took all the family members to the predetermined campsite, which had a water source and was a mountain col, and only a sheep intestine trail could pass through this place.
Huang Sheng arranged two secret sentinels at the dangerous point of the trail, and asked them to use an eight-fold clairvoyant telescope to observe the movement, and agreed on a warning code.
Everyone put down their baggage and led the horses along the trail for an hour to reach the predetermined ambush site, and after the ambush was successful, evacuate along the trail.
If you find that there is a Jiannu chasing, the person who is cut off can block the road. If the pursuing enemy takes a detour, it will take half a day to reach the camp.
Every time Huang Sheng arranged, he was prepared for a rainy day, first thinking about how to escape from the enemy's pursuit when he failed, and then he began to think about how to defeat the enemy.
The ambush site is the official road leading from Quang Ninh and Jinzhou to Lianshanyi, and although the road is in disrepair, it is relatively wide.
Jiannu should have come to reconnoiter the movements of the Ming army, they were all soldiers with a mission, and it was impossible to leave the official road and take the path to drill the forest.
If you still want to use the method you used to deal with Ta Gukan last time to lure Jiannu away from the official road, it is a little unrealistic, and you can hardly see ordinary people moving around Lianshan Station.
Jiannu is not stupid, he didn't find Hermes-Epitek all the way, and suddenly there were Hermes-Epitek women here, and they would chase them into the mountains and forests without warning?
Huang Sheng didn't want to hit the luck, and looked forward to Jiannu whose head was squeezed by the door, so he honestly set up an ambush on the official road.
There are only seven of them who are real warriors, and they can't block all the Jiannu who want to calculate here.
Because there is only an ambush point of his choice, the road is narrower than a hundred meters, and it is only slightly narrower, and it is not dangerous, and it is impossible to block the road in advance.
Jiannu rode over from the official road, and they could see the situation here from afar, and they would not rush up regardless of the roadblock in front of them.
I chose this place because I was leaning on a mountain bag, but the mountain bag was too small and not steep to pile up a lot of wood in advance, and when Jiannu came, I cut the rope and suddenly blocked the road.
The advantage is that there are many stones here, and the ground is also very stony, so you can place the designed earth bomb here, and when it explodes, you can enhance the power of the bomb, and I hope that it can be used to solve the problem of lack of manpower.
This time, the expectations were not high, and instead of thinking about being able to destroy all the enemies, I wanted to inflict damage on them as quickly and effectively as possible.
Then everyone jumped out and cut off the head of Jiannu and fled along the path, as for whether Jiannu, who had suffered a loss, was looking for trouble with the Ming army deployed nearby. Zanhua General Huang can't take care of it, he is only responsible for his own family.
Huang Sheng brought 300 catties of gunpowder this time, and prepared to make them into bombs, or he shot and detonated them, and each bomb used 50 catties of gunpowder, a total of six.
When it explodes, it can completely cover this 100-meter official road, and when the Jiannu team comes, the first bomb will be detonated when they are about to pass here, and then Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao will take Han Kuan and Han Guang and they will be divided into two trios and fully armed.
Huang Sheng detonated the remaining bombs in turn, of course, these bombs were getting farther and farther away from Huang Mingli.
The sudden attack on Jiannu must have caused a lot of casualties, even if they were well-trained and able to stay in danger, it should be impossible for the war horses to obey their master's command after being frightened by such an explosion.
Huang Mingli was wearing three layers of iron armor to attack on foot, and it was a surprise, and it should not be a problem to assassinate those Jiannu who were already injured on the spot. He will also shoot accurately to cover Huang Mingli and them to engage the enemy.
Only arranged for the black tiger to follow Huang Mingli, they first used the infantry bow to carry out long-range attacks to provide cover for them, and then decided whether to ride a horse to follow the attack according to the changes in the battlefield, and strive to pick up the missing pieces and expand the results of the battle, but he gave him a death order, and he must hear six explosions and the dust settles before he can ride his horse and gallop.
This kid is not stupid, he was watching from the side when he tested the bomb in the mountains and forests near Ningyuan.
He patted his chest and promised that he would not be stupidly bombed by adults, my black tiger is living a comfortable life now, but I don't want to die in vain.
The biggest task now is to clear this section of the road where it can be used as a slave bunker, as well as the camouflage of your own sniper position.
It is also necessary to make it impossible for Jiannu to attack himself, that is, Jiannu cannot reach his position.
There is no good way, which is to dig deep into the trench on the side of the road in the direction of your ambush, to ensure that people can't jump down and climb up, and collect the dug stones to increase the explosive effect of the bomb.
Use the cut wood and dirt to make a cover, so that when you and the loader move positions, you will not be noticed by the Jiannu when you bend over.
On the side of the official road ten miles away from the ambush point, several piles of rocks were piled up at intervals, which was Huang Sheng's creation of a strange illusion to confuse the enemy.
When the real bombs and rocks appeared, Jiannu must have turned a blind eye, these bombs were ten steps apart, fifty steps away from Huang Sheng's sniper position.
Huang Sheng didn't worry at all that he couldn't hit with one shot, the bomb was too big, that is, the target was very large, and the accuracy of the flintlock rifled gun in his hand was much stronger than that of the Lu Mi gun.
The workload is not easy, the family members are tired enough every day, but fortunately, Huang Sheng brought a lot of beef, and the nutrition can keep up, these people are used to it, and they all grit their teeth and work hard.
Nine days later, the arrangement was finally completed, and Huang Sheng arranged for the Black Tiger to ride back and forth from the official road many times, correcting all the doubts he could find again.
Huang Sheng was full of confidence in this ambush, this kind of combat method, where could those deep mountain hunters who had just walked out of the mountains and forests and didn't even master the vocabulary be able to deal with it.
Jiannu didn't know that there was anything similar to a landmine, and he didn't expect that the pile of rocks at the foot of the mountain on the side of the official road would suddenly explode.
It is estimated that this time the Jiannu who slipped through the net will be scared when they see the pile of rocks when they march in the future, and they will definitely avoid it.