Nine Plains.

Sun Yi stayed in Machi Village for two nights.

In the early morning of the third day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the rain that had been falling for two days finally stopped.

The happiest of the two days was Kikige. Under the big walnut tree in the yard, Sun Yi made a swing for her with thick hemp rope and wooden planks, Qiqige sat on the swing and swayed, and the Muni Mountain in the north was particularly clear, as if she could grasp it in her hand as soon as she stretched out her hand.

Kikige hummed softly:

The wind blew through the grass

Mount Muni stands in front of you

The majestic body rises into the clouds

Guarding our peace

The water of the Uzhtu River is sweet

Quietly gushing out of the mountains

irrigated our homes

The flow of silence never changes

Muni Mountain is continuous

Like a sacred psalm

Teach me to be kind and brave

Hold up the blue sky of the grassland

……

Dahai could hear it, "County Lord, ...... Muni Mountain and Wuritu River sung in this song?" ”

Qiqige replied: "Oh, Muni Mountain is the green mountain, and the Wuritu River is the Yellow River. ”

"But how did I hear the Mongols call the Yellow River the Hatun River?"

"The Wuritu River is a long river, and the Hatun River is the Queen Mother River, both of which refer to the Yellow River."

Qiqige giggled and said, "Brother Yi said that the Han people call the Yellow River the Mother River, and we Mongolians call the Yellow River the Queen Mother River." Dahai, do you say that the Yellow River of our Mongolians is a generation bigger than the Yellow River of the Han people? ”

Dahai was amused, "It's all the same, they are all mothers, and daughters-in-law will become mothers-in-law after all." ”

Kikige said while imagining: "If only the day I became my mother-in-law, it would be great if the battle on the grassland could be over......

Dahai sighed. He felt as if Manchukuo had been at war every day since he could remember.

"Dahai, you look much better today."

"yes, I can walk on the ground." , Dahai retracted his thoughts and asked Qiqige: "What about Your Majesty?" ”

"The first brother went to the boss in the front yard, and the chief of staff said that the Manchurian soldiers in Shimen began to retreat."

Dahai asked tentatively: "Did the news of the chief of staff come from the kind of talking box?" ”

Kikige giggled even harder: "Dahai, that kind of box is called a walkie-talkie." ”

……

During the rain, both the Manchukuo army and the allied forces in the Shimen Waterway ceased military operations.

The Shimen River, which was originally unstable, became turbulent, and the water was arbitrarily diverted in the valley, and the river suddenly opened up a lot, and the road by the river became narrow and cramped, and the thin layer of soil was slippery when stepped on. Turbulent branch ditch rainwater collects into the main channel of Shimen, blocking the waist and cutting the muddy road into several sections.

Sakhalian led the remnants of the defeated army like mud monkeys from wading through the ravine and returned to the right flank of Manchuria, and then began to develop a fever.

The horses were cut off from grass, the soldiers were cut off from food, and the Manchurian soldiers soaked in the rain for two days.

On the morning of the third day of the new year, when the rain stopped and the river continued to rise, Gilharan immediately ordered the rear of the army to withdraw from the valley.

The Manchurian contingent was crammed into a long line of snakes on the road by the river. The wheels of the carts were sunk in the mud, the hooves of the horses trampled on the filthy water, and the hungry Manchurian soldiers could no longer see the original color of their clothes.

Sun Dingliao, chief of staff of the coalition forces, decided to "stay in the guest". "Come if you want, leave if you want, do you think Shimen Water is the Daling River?"

Yang Liulang, commander of the first battalion, dispatched a team of archers and a team of three-eyed gunners to climb over the Great Wall of the Warring States Period and march in the opposite direction along the route of Manchukuo's last attack on Dongshimen Mountain.

Within two days, the soldiers of the first battalion had each put on a new pair of hemp rope straw sandals on their feet and a new pair of linen leggings on their legs.

However, when Yang Liu led the men and horses to cross the mountain beam on the east side of the Shimen Waterway, the shoes and leggings no longer mattered whether they were old or new.

Immediately at the foot of the mountain is the river, and on the outside of the river is the retreating party of Manchukuo, with no head in sight from front to back. The carts loaded with camp tents blocked the road, and the Manchurian soldiers leading the horses pointed to the carts and complained.

Yang Liulang ordered the archers to assemble two combined cicada cannons and first test fire straw bag mines without explosives.

-- There were not many explosives brought in by Langshanchuan in the past two days, and the amount allocated to the first battalion was limited, so all the straw bale mines used by the first battalion for test firing were replaced with sand of equal weight.

One sand-filled bale mine fell into the river, and the second hit one of the Manchurian soldiers in the ranks. The bullied Manchurian soldiers found an ambush on the mountain, and shouted to remind their companions to pay attention.

Under the watchful eyes of all the Manchurian soldiers, the third straw bag mine fell into the ranks of the Manchurian soldiers, and with a "boom", a hole appeared in the dense ranks of the Manchurian soldiers.

"Boom",

Another straw bale mine exploded in the Manchurian ranks, where there was nowhere to hide, and the frightened horses twisted their necks restlessly, and the desperate Manchurian soldiers grabbed the reins of their horses.

After the three rounds of straw bale lasers were fired, the Manchurian troops under the mountain became scattered.

Yang Liulang instructed the archers to start over again in a different place on the mountain beam.

The rumbling explosions in the valley startled Gil Harang, who was in charge of the break. He had a heavily armored man at the end of the line, but he didn't expect the enemy to attack from the flanks.

Gilharan personally rushed to the position where the ballista was attacked and commanded the counterattack. I saw that only two or three heads were exposed on the mountain beam, and the flying thunder flew out one after another from the invisible place behind the mountain beam.

Gilharan had heard Sakhalian say that this kind of flying thunder was very powerful, and Sakhalian was defeated by this kind of flying thunder at night. But how this kind of flying thunder can be sacrificed, how far it can fly, and how many coalition forces there are are are all mysteries. Sakhalian only knew that the thunderbolt would roll down the hillside and be less powerful.

So Gil Harang decisively ordered to send fifty armor armor from the attacked team to storm the mountain beam from the front and destroy the altar that launched the thunder!

The Manchurian soldiers, who were attacking head-on, had to cross the Shimen River first. Yang Liulang ignored it at all, and concentrated on choosing a place on the other side of the river where there were many Manchurian soldiers and did not hide from the depths to fire artillery.

The attacking Manchurian soldiers finally crossed the river and began to climb the mountain. The speed of climbing is slow due to the slippery slopes after the rain. At the same time, because the Manchurian soldiers were attacking from the back, the bowstring lost its strength after the bowstring was damp, and it was difficult to pose an immediate threat to the ambush soldiers on the mountain beam.

Yang Liulang used this time to calmly command the ballista to kill and injure as many Manchurian soldiers as possible in the team under the mountain, each cannon taking a few lives.

The Manchurian soldiers who were climbing the mountain were still 60 feet away and were about to climb the mountain beam, when suddenly a row of three-eyed guns appeared from behind the mountain beam, and when they raised their hands, a row of guns rang up, raising clouds of smoke.

The Manchurian soldiers, who had been plotted at close range, howled and rolled down the hillside and fell into the Shimen River.

A row of archers appeared in the smoke of gunfire, firing a flurry of arrows at the surviving Manchurian soldiers. The arrows pierced directly into the bodies of the Manchurian soldiers, who fell one after another and slid into the river in various positions.

Gilharan was convinced that the Coalition's Flying Mines were indeed unleashed on the slopes.

Gil Harang ordered 200 Manchurian soldiers to wear heavy armor as the vanguard, and 300 Manchurian soldiers did not wear armor to respond, and took the eastern mountain beam with all their might! At the same time, the Manchurian soldiers, who were not attacked in the front and rear, went up the mountain and flanked them.

The heavy armor of the Manchurian soldiers was dipped in water when crossing the river, and it seemed to have a thousand catties attached to their bodies. Halfway through the climb of the mountain, the heavily armored Manchurian soldiers stopped firing flying thunder behind the mountain beam.

The heavily armored Manchurian soldiers climbed the mountain beam, only to find a chaotic footprint behind the mountain beam.

"Boom",

"Boom",

Another explosion rang out in the ranks behind.

Gil Harang was suddenly sweating profusely, and this time the coalition army attacked the four red-coated cannons who were retreating in the Manchurian ranks!

Gil Harang immediately organized the Manchurian soldiers to cover the red-coated artillery. But as expected, by the time the Manchurian soldiers climbed the mountain beam, the coalition forces had already moved.

In fact, the task of a battalion sortie was to slow down the enemy's retreat.

Yang Liulang organized the two ballistae into a group, a total of three groups, and distributed them in different positions, using the firing position of the ballista to confuse the Manchurian soldiers.

The Three-Eyed Gunners and Archers responsible for cover are centrally dispatched. If there were few Manchurian soldiers who came to attack, Yang Liulang would use the three-eyed gunners and archers to eliminate them; If the invading Manchurian soldiers were not easy to deal with, Yang Liulang organized a retreat.

The first battalion repeatedly attacked and harassed the Manchurian soldiers at different positions on the mountain beam on the east side of the Shimen waterway, and the Manchurian army's marching speed in the river valley was greatly slowed down, and Gil Harang was finally forced to leave four or five Manchurian heavy troops on the mountain beam to guard.

At noon, Yang Liulang, who had completed the mission, led the team back to the Great Wall.

The guests have been retained by the first battalion, and the next one will depend on the third battalion.