The Ming army bombarded all afternoon, but after nightfall, it was over, but the losses of artillery, guards and defenders on the main fort were not small, and the dead could not get out of the city, and they were afraid of the plague, so they had to be buried inside the fortress, and the wounded were even more wailing. Although only the southeast area was fiercely attacked by the Ming army today, and it was only one-fifth of the entire fortress defense system, the result was that the morale of the defenders was greatly reduced.www.biquge.info

The belief in holding on and waiting for a turn of events took a sharp turn after the large number of casualties, and even the whispers of the officers and non-commissioned officers below had reached the ears of Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong, the two commanders of the Qing army.

"We can't go on like this, we have to think of a way, otherwise tomorrow let the Ming army bombard for another day, the city will not collapse, and the army's heart will collapse."

Although Liu Guangbi is a commander, his official position is higher than that of Bu Shilong, but most of the defenders in the fortress are Bu Shilong's subordinates, and it is impossible for this subordinate to bypass any military action.

Hearing this, Bu Shilong, who was frowning, nodded solemnly, and then replied: "Indeed, as the military gate said, the morale of the soldiers below is extremely low now, and if you come again tomorrow, this city will not have to be defended." And ......"

The impact of the Ming army's fierce offensive on morale is an external factor, and the grain grassland in the city is also trying its best to supply in order not to reduce morale in these days, but this is a relatively large fortress, and there are no grain fields and vegetable fields in it. Since the Ming army captured here, the rate of food consumption has far exceeded their imagination. The lack of food is not enough, but if you want to last a few more days, if you do not reduce the proportion of food, I am afraid it will be impossible; But if you do, morale will only drop faster.

"We must get the Half Moon Fort back, and it is best to destroy all those short and thick cannons, so that we can have the qualifications for a showdown with Chen Wen!"

This is the most active time of the day for rats, so there is a saying about rats. Of course, if you attack at night, you will naturally choose this kind of soldier when he sleeps the deepest, and the success rate will be greater.

At two o'clock, several torches at the northeast wall of the main fort were suddenly extinguished, as if they had been blown out by the night wind. This kind of thing is not impossible, but taking advantage of this night, although there are not many people, but at a glance they know that they are all proud sons of the army like personal soldiers and family members, and slowly descended to the outside of the city with ropes. In the end, he took over some of the tools hanging from the city, and there was no movement that would easily cause the Ming army to notice hundreds of meters away.

Knowing that Suosuo was like a rat moving, this small army of more than 100 Qing troops swam across the moat, and sneaked to the opposite bank without even putting down the drawbridge.

Although the fort wall in the northeast direction was not the main attack direction of the Ming army, in today's battle, the ricochet shot of the Ming army against the left protrusion of the fort wall in the southeast direction still caused a lot of damage to them. However, since this was not the main direction of attack of the Ming army, and the Half Moon Fort was still in the hands of the Qing army, with this cover, they did not alarm the Ming army in this direction, and began to sneak south. And there, it was the main direction of attack of the Ming army, and the artillery positions of the Half Moon Fort and the mortar were in that direction.

However, if you want to get there, you must first enter the zigzag trench system, which is the first difficulty of this Qing commando, fortunately, these Qing troops are Liu Guangbi, Bu Shilong and some of their cronies and officers' personal soldiers, family members, long-standing battle formations, similar things have not been done, it can be said that they are familiar with the road.

Creeping forward, in the middle of the night without searchlights, the small troops of the Qing army slowly approached the trenches, crawling closer and closer, but also crawling slower and slower, especially when they heard the Ming army's patrol passing, they stagnated, and even their breathing slowed down a lot.

They were all green battalion soldiers drawn from the north, almost all of them were from the Ganxi green battalion, and in terms of vigilance, those Mongols on the steppe who might encounter wolves at any time were much worse than the Ming army in the interior, so that in this slow grind, they gradually approached the location of the trenches.

A patrol passed by, and the leading officer lying on the ground did not even raise his head, and the approximate distance between the Ming army and them could be known by the vibration and hearing of the ground alone. Especially at the head of the city, he has already seen the direction of the trenches, even if these Ming troops have gone, he knows it well.

Speaking of the personal vigilance of the patrol, this Ming army is indeed inferior to the opponents he encountered when he was not collecting at night, but this Ming army is also very different from other armies, their discipline is very strict, and it can be seen from the interval between patrols, and there is rarely a time period when there are personnel gaps in each area. Even if there is, it is very short in time, and it seems that it has been specially calculated.

Lying in the distance for a while, he finally figured out the patrol rules of the Ming army, which is a basic quality that does not collect at night, but the officer who led the team never thought that he had been promoted to an officer for many years, but he took out these housekeeping skills in such a mainland as Guangxin Mansion.

Taking advantage of this interval, the Qing army continued to crawl forward until they stopped at a distance that would not attract the attention of the patrol and was fast enough to rush into the trenches, and pressed their bodies to the ground, as if trying to blend in.

Before long, the patrol came again, and the light of the torches was extremely blurry when it reached the ambush point of the Qing army, and the soldiers of the patrol were also a little sleepy—they had been patrolling for an hour, and after this patrol, they were about to hand over to the next team, and then go back to sleep, so that even once they thought of the word, they couldn't even control their yawns.

The patrol passed through this area quickly, and no one subconsciously looked at the location of the Qing army, but it was a large black area, and they couldn't see anything, it was completely intuitive, and they often had a negative voice in their hearts.

The back of the head of the last Ming army was facing the direction of the Qing army, and the officer who led the team slowly raised his right hand, and then waved his hand, and one of the most elite Ye Bu behind him rushed out like a fox rabbit in the forest.

These nights were well trained, even the knives were smoked, and the light of the fire did not reflect even the slightest on them, and their steps were even more brisk, and they soon rushed to the edge of the trench.

The first night jumped into the trench without retracting, and his toes were on the ground like dragonflies, and then his whole body rushed towards the Ming patrol in the distance like an arrow from the string.

It is impossible for a large living person to jump off a trench almost one person high without making a sound. There was a slight sound behind him, and the last patrolman subconsciously turned his head to look, and saw a pitch-black short knife slashing at his neck!

Before the patrol could scream, the patrol had his throat slit. Next, before the corpse fell to the ground, he bypassed the corpse without a dodge that night, jumped behind the Ming army in front, covered his mouth, and the short knife immediately cut through the throat.

All this happened so fast, so fast that the night of the fortress, which was claimed to be the best at fighting in the dark night, felt as if it was an extraordinary performance at this moment. At this moment, he was holding the corpse of the Ming army, and the Ming army behind him also had another night to hold on, and he didn't make too much noise. However, the patrol of the Zhejiang Ming Army was not like a zombie to deal with errands, and the footsteps behind him suddenly became chaotic, and the Ming Army who reacted immediately discovered these murderers.

"Enemy attack!"

Shouts rang out, and the patrol immediately engaged in a fierce battle with the Qing army in the trenches. The patrol of the Ming army raised the alarm, but they were good at fighting in formation, and in this trench with a width of only a few meters, they fought with the Qing soldiers who had already come close to them, which was really not their strength, and they were soon killed by this Qing army.

The Qing army commando of the brigade entered the trench, and the alarms of the Ming army around them had sounded one after another, and even a flag flower was hit in the night sky.

Assassination does not change the raid, and the raid does not change the attack, this is perfectly normal. The officer leading the team knew very well that as a defender, it would always take some time to find the enemy and organize the troops to counterattack. The length of reaction time stems from the quality of the defenders, and the officer leading the team does not dare to underestimate this Ming army, but this is no longer the edge of the trench system, and if you want to rush to the set goal, it is only a few hundred meters, this time is enough!

According to the original plan, the Qing army commando team quickly divided into two teams. The group of Qing troops, numbering seventy or eighty, headed straight for Half Moon Fort. Another Qing army, numbering only about 30 men, rushed to the mortar position, carrying four logs that were not very long, which were supposed to be the pillars of a house in the city, but here they were used to plug the muzzle of the cannon -- to fill the cannon with much more gunpowder than the normal charge, and then to plug the muzzle with this thing, and to light the fuse, it was a huge flowering shell.

Half Moon Fort was a little closer to their starting point, and the Qing army set off with a flag flower at the same time. Almost at the same time as the flag flower ascended to the sky, even the suspension bridge slowly fell, the fortress gate was wide open, and another Qing army was already eager to try.

There are two ways to climb the Half Moon Fort, one of which is that the Half Moon Castle originally opened in a small door facing the main fort, and from here you enter the lower floor, and then seize the upper floor through the stairway. The other is just the opposite, but it is like the Ming army during the day today, crossing the moat and climbing the ladder to clean up the Half Moon Fort from top to bottom. The Qing army's plan was to use both directions, and as a commando, their task was to copy the route of the Ming army.

The officer who led the team ran wildly all the way and soon brought the non-commissioned officers there. The Ming army filled in the moat there, and the ladders were fixed, which they had already seen during the day. But now, the rope that fixed the ladder had not been cut, and it was obvious that the Ming army in Half Moon Fort was still in a panic and did not react to this raid.

"God help me!"

As soon as the officer gave the order, the Qing army climbed up together with the ladder they brought, and this group of Qing soldiers who were as agile as monkeys were not slow, and climbed up at a very fast speed.

Half Moon Fort was originally lower than the main fort, the Ming army did not cut the fixed ladder but became a big arm of the Qing army, the fastest Qing army climbed on that ladder, and soon one of his hands climbed to the parapet of Half Moon Fort. Victory was within reach, and the Qing army couldn't help but speed up under their feet.

As the first person to ascend first, this Qing army can be described as a master of art and bold, after stepping on the upper ladder with his right foot, once he exerts his strength, his entire body is also raised several feet, and even his head is above the height of the parapet wall.

It was pitch black on the Half Moon Fort, but he could still see clearly with the help of the moonlight that it was full of Ming troops. At this time, a big foot directly covered his face and kicked him out.

The shout of the fall sounded, and the officer leading the team raised his head, but what he saw was not only a fallen subordinate, but also one after another black iron balls that could not be seen in the night without the sparks spewing from above. And in the next second, the moment they were engulfed by the flames of the explosion, it happened that Liu Guangbi and the others, who were very anxious at the head of the city, looked at each other.

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Just jumped into the trench and killed the acquaintance of the night Bushu rushed to the front of the Qing army commando team heading to the mortar artillery position, many years of night without collecting career made his eyes have long been accustomed to everything in the dark night, under his leadership, the Qing army moved fast, and soon arrived at the entrance of the trench not far from the artillery position.

However, at the entrance of the trench, there was already a team of Ming troops waiting for him at this moment, but when he saw clearly the guys in the hands of the Ming army, he smiled contemptuously.

"A bunch of auxiliaries."

It was a Ming army of about fifty or sixty people, each with a short-handled shovel in his hand, and only the officer who led the team was carrying a waist knife, but he didn't even have a shield, and it was probably just a command knife.

It's not that he hasn't seen such an officer with an auxiliary soldier continue to rush to work at night, although there are more than them, but the auxiliary soldiers are auxiliary soldiers, as long as they rush up and slaughter an officer, the remaining auxiliary soldiers will not even have the desire to fight, and nine times out of ten they can still let them help do some work.

The task is very simple, which is to destroy the mortar, and this Ming army, he also firmly believes that it can be solved in an instant. The rest of the thing is to pour gunpowder, bury the lead, and repair the log according to the caliber, as long as it is stuffed in, even if the Ming army rushes over, this thing will become a parting gift to the Ming army, and by the way, it can also cover their evacuation.

Thinking of this, the Qing soldiers who had the same thoughts rushed over, and the others rushed towards the auxiliaries, and as the most prestigious warrior in this team, he deservedly killed the officer.

Ye Bushu has already changed to a sword and shield, and as soon as he engaged, he successfully suppressed the Ming army officer, forcing the opponent to retreat one after another, only the ability to parry, but there was no power to fight back.

Xi Tian Ji horse racing, Sun Bin used the upper horse to the middle horse, the middle horse to the lower horse, and the lower horse to the upper horse, two wins in three games, which not only helped Tian Ji win the gambling game, but also sought the resources for himself to be promoted, which can be said to be successful. This time, as the most powerful individual soldier, Ye Bushu has suppressed the officers of the Ming army, and it is easy to win.

A moment later, the officer had been cornered by the night's reluctance. I didn't stop thinking that as long as I killed this officer, the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army would inevitably collapse, and I had entered a state of selflessness with all my heart. In the face of such martial arts, he could only defend passively, relying on continuous retreat to barely be killed, but when he reached this dead end, he had no way to retreat.

Seeing that he was about to win, he suddenly realized that something was wrong there, and at this moment, the shouting and killing sounds were all accents of Ganshan and Zhejiang, but most of the wails were made by his fellow villagers, and several of them sounded so familiar!

With a slash, the officer barely held the blade, but there was no room for turning around. The next cut will inevitably be divided into winners and losers, and even the outcome can be predicted. However, at this moment, that night did not accept an inexplicable squat, giving up the head that was about to arrive.

The squatting that did not collect at night not only surprised the officer, but also the owner of the sapper shovel that almost wiped his scalp was also stunned.

In a place like a trench, long soldiers can't be used, and theoretically it's still the world of short soldiers such as sword and shield soldiers, and the patrol team they easily solved just now is an example. However, when they faced the siege of the Ming army's sappers with sapper shovels, these guys who used to dig food in the soil seemed to be more suitable than them to fight in this kind of terrain.

The instinct of not collecting the night saved his life, rolled over and rolled to the side, and cut down a Ming army by the way, but the first to enter his eyes was one of his countrymen who was besieged by several Ming troops. The rattan card had been beaten to tatters, and even the waist knife was broken, but those rounded sapper shovels were still unforgiving, and they only hacked the Qing army to the ground in an instant.

He never expected such a situation, and he wanted to climb the trench at night, but the officer and the Ming army who had just attacked him rushed forward first.

The role reversed, only in this moment, Ye Bushu was pressed back by these two guys who fought more and less, and soon retreated into a dead corner. At this moment, the waist knife that was not collected at night had been broken by the sapper shovel, and the officer slashed at him, and he had to use his shield to block it. But at this moment, a gale struck, but he had no capital to resist.

In the next second, Ye Bushu fell to the ground, and the Ming soldier who shot later stepped on his neck and pulled out the sapper shovel that had been embedded in the skull, and spit on his corpse with a mouthful of spit.

"Damn, since I joined the engineering team, I can't even get the credit for a beheading, this time I can be regarded as earned, look at that one who dares to say that Lao Tzu is an auxiliary."

As he spoke, the sapper rushed to another Qing soldier without wiping the blood and brains from the sapper shovel, and the officer also wiped the saber, then put the knife into the sheath, picked up another sapper shovel and followed. By the time Chen Wen arrived, the battle had already ended, and it was the sappers who had not wiped the blood and brains off the sapper shovels, as if this was the only way to prove the identity of their soldiers.

The night attack of the Qing army caused dozens of casualties to the Ming army, and such a casualty figure made Chen Wen very uncomfortable, but when he figured out the origin of the nearly 200 corpses of the Qing army, he didn't say anything - family members, personal soldiers, and night soldiers, these are the proud sons of the feudal army. After this night's loss, there are probably not a few such warriors left in the fortress. And the rest of the defenders will probably lose their hearts because of this.

The next day, the Ming army began to prepare for the artillery bombardment according to the plan, but there was not a single soldier on the head of the Qing army. The Ming army on the Half Moon Fort thought that the Qing army did not dare to continue firing, so they did not pay attention to it, but the cannon was not loaded, but the white flag was hung on the city, and even the suspension bridge slowly fell.

The Qing army of the brigade escorted the Qing army officers such as Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong, who were tied up by five flowers, and fell to the ground one after another after crossing the suspension bridge, claiming to be a capital crime. On the Ming side, the Ming army took advantage of the situation to disarm them, and also pocketed the increasingly dilapidated fortress.

The defenders of the fortress are a feudal army, even if it is an elite like the Ganshan Green Battalion, its combat effectiveness and ability to endure casualties are significantly higher than other green battalions, but like tonight, a large number of losses of elite family members and personal soldiers will still lead to the collapse of military morale. But if Liu Guangbi and they don't take this risk, let the Ming army's mortar and ricochet fire continue to rage, and they will soon have no chance to turn the tables around.

Throwing these Qing troops into the prisoner camp, Chen Wen didn't bother to pay attention to those Qing army officers, and Liu Guangbi, who was the leader, would definitely not be able to escape Ling Chi's execution, which was inevitable, who let the tragedy from the massacre of Jinhua to the massacre of Nanchang, and then to the tragedy that happened in Ji'an and Yongfeng in the past two years is also related to him, but what makes Chen Wen feel a headache is where to cut this guy, which is a headache.

"See? The bastion, broken. ”

On the fortress, if it weren't for the Ming army behind him, James would have collapsed to the ground. But just as his begging eyes fell on Chen Wen, this "devil" took out a document from his arms.

"As far as I know, James's initials in English are J, can you explain to me what the name with the F starts on this document for the construction of the fortress?"

English was rarely used even by the British aristocracy in this era, preferring to use the nobler French. Their mother tongue was spoken by ordinary people, and no one could have imagined that this language would develop to that extent in later generations.

Hearing this, James's body began to tremble unconsciously, but in the next moment, he still answered this.

"It's written in Latin, not English."

This answer is a little interesting, Chen Wen nodded with a smile, and then said: "Yes, it's Latin, then in Latin, James's initials should also be L, what the hell is this Franco, huh?" ”

Chen Wen doesn't know Latin, but he is not without talents who know Latin, and now Charles Kingsley, an Englishman who is the head of the translation section of the Military Industry Department, knows Latin, which is one of the guys he eats with, and even Zheng Qi, who is already making final preparations for the sea trade, knows a little bit, how can he be deceived by this guy.

"Playing English with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has nine years of compulsory education; Playing Latin with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has talents in his entrainment. You want to live, so you pretend to be this to add weight. It seems that there is no nonsense in the Ten Commandments, but it encourages the evil spirit of you guys! ”

After waving off the Jesuit monk, Chen Wen's subordinates also knew how to dispose of this garbage.

In less than half a month, even under the two fortified cities of Guangxin Mansion City and the northern fortress of Guangxin Mansion, Chen Wen finally liberated his troops. The Nantang Camp and the Chun'an Camp set off the next day and went north to Raozhou Mansion to recover the lost territory.

Soon, the vanguard of the Ming army that marched west into Nanchang also came with good news, and the Ming army successively attacked Nanchang, Jiujiang and Nankang, and recovered the area on the west bank of Poyang Lake. And the prefectures and counties near Nanchang, after receiving the news of Hong Chengchou's death and Cai Shiying's capture, most of them also fell to the wind.

On the third day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Yongli, the Ming army came to the city of Yuanzhou. This province is located in the west of Jiangxi, close to Huguang, and the two prefectures of Ruizhou and Linjiang to the east have surrendered to the Ming army, and in addition to Huguang, only Ji'an Prefecture in the south is left in the bordering area.

The army was arrayed under the city, not only the Yiwu battalion and half of the iron cavalry battalion of the Ming army, but also a large number of soldiers from Ruizhou Fu and Linjiang Mansion, who were also eager to make contributions in front of the Ming army, so as to clear their identities as soon as possible.

The herald stepped forward immediately, holding an iron horn and shouting to the Qing army at the head of the city: "Commander Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to aid and suppress the general military officer, specially give python jade, act cheaply, hang the seal of the general, the left army governor's mansion, the young guard and the prince Taibao, Xiuguo Gongjun military order, crusade against Jiangxi rebels." Those who obey the instrument will not die, and those who resist the king will be killed, and they will descend early! (To be continued.) )