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"Are you saying that the Qing soldiers in Jiaozhou will definitely attack at night?" Ren Siqi asked. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Then I can't say for sure, maybe the Qing soldiers in Jiaozhou are as timid as rats and dare not come." Huang Fengwu shook his head and said. The things of war are ever-changing, who can say for sure?

Ren Siqi nodded, thoughtful, "If the enemy army is attacking at night, what is the most appropriate time?" ”

"Of course, it's before dawn, when people sleep most soundly, and if there is a sudden attack, the whole camp will definitely be in chaos!"

"Good!" Ren Siqi slapped the table and danced Huang Fengwu.

"Regardless of whether the enemy will attack at night or not, let's just give them a night attack on the city!"

"The order goes down, the third watch gets up, each person has a can of canned fish and meat, and after they are full of food and drink, they will immediately attack Jiaozhou City!" The more Ren Siqi thought about it, the more excited he became, and he didn't discuss it with Huang Fengwu, so he called the guards who were in charge of the order and gave his own order.

"Why are you like this, I still haven't agreed!" Huang Fengwu said dissatisfied.

Although Huang Fengwu was dissatisfied, he still recognized Ren Siqi's order. She also wanted to test whether the army she had worked so hard to train was capable of night raids.

A night attack is easy to say, but it is a test of the quality of an army. In the darkness of the night, the road could not be seen clearly, and few armies could march in such conditions and organize themselves to attack the enemy.

As for most of the current Ming army, the march during the day is chaotic, let alone at night, if they are allowed to attack at night, I am afraid that half of the ten-mile journey will be lost.

After confirming the night attack, the two of them rested separately and waited for the moment to come.

At the third watch, the soldiers of the whole battalion were woken up, and they did not light torches or cook food, but ate the canned fish and meat that had been distributed by moonlight. One can contains two catties of fish, which is enough for one person to eat.

Half an hour later, the whole battalion began to form a team, more than 200 soldiers were blindfolded and could not see at night, so they were left in the camp, and the others quietly went out of the camp gate under the command of Ren Siqi and Huang Fengwu, and touched towards Jiaozhou City.

In the sky, a crescent moon was like a hook, sprinkling a cold light on the earth, and an army marched out of the camp in a long queue and headed west.

Although there was moonlight, they could only discern the road under their feet, and they could not see clearly from a distance, and the speed of the team was not very fast.

At this rate, it will take at least half an hour to get to the foot of Jiaozhou City.

When it was about three or four miles away from Jiaozhou City, the sentry in front suddenly ran over quickly and reported to Ren Siqi that the east gate of Jiaozhou City was opened, and an army came out of it.

The Qing soldiers in Jiaozhou City really dared to attack at night! Ren Siqi was a little shocked.

If we continue to move forward now, the two armies will soon meet for an encounter!

"Let's ambush them and take them by surprise!" Huang Fengwu suggested in a low voice.

Ren Siqi thought carefully for a while and rejected Huang Fengwu's suggestion.

"Send someone back to the camp, tell the brothers who stayed in the camp, tell them to abandon the camp immediately, get on the boat, and tell the sailors on the boat that no matter what the camp is, they are not allowed to get off the boat to rescue them." Ren Siqi issued an order, and there were more than 600 sailors on more than 30 ships when he came, and they all lived on the ships.

"What are you going to do?" Huang Fengwu asked in surprise.

"What? I'm going to have a fight with the enemy, and they're going to attack theirs, and we're going to attack ours. ”

Ren Siqi continued to order, and the whole army took refuge to the north side, giving way to the avenue under their feet.

It was too dark for the moonlight to see, and if you fought the enemy in this situation, even if you had the upper hand, you would fall into a chaotic battle because you couldn't see clearly.

On the contrary, the Qing soldiers in Jiaozhou City went out of the city to attack their own camp, and the city must be empty, and if they take the opportunity to attack the city, they have a great chance to take the city. As for their own camp, the food and baggage are all on the boats in the river, and the camp is just an empty camp, so what is there to give to the enemy?

Huang Fengwu is a person who is familiar with military books, and he doesn't need Ren Siqi to explain, he quickly understands Ren Siqi's intentions, and can't help but secretly praise it in his heart.

Nearly 2,000 troops quietly avoided the north of the road, and lay down more than a hundred paces from the road, and at night, such a distance was not at all discovered by the enemy.

After a stick of incense, there was a faint sound of footsteps coming from the front, and Ren Siqi raised his eyes to see a black queue coming from the west. The light is insufficient, and even through the clairvoyant mirror, only the outline of the Qing army can be seen.

The Qing soldiers also did not light torches, and they also marched by moonlight.

After a long while, the Qing army's procession disappeared from view, and its footsteps were inaudible.

Ren Siqi ordered his soldiers to get up, return to the avenue, and touch Jiaozhou City again.

At a distance of three miles, the time for a stick of incense arrived, and when they reached the city of Jiaozhou, looking at the outline of the black city wall, everyone let out a heavy breathing sound.

Jiaozhou city on Thursday, about three zhang high, open three city gates in the east and west, each city gate has the city gate tower of double cornices. The city gates are all double gate structures, and there are city walls connected between the two gates, which is the so-called urn city. There is a moat about one zhang wide outside the city, and the river water leads directly to the Jiaolai River.

Although the city is not too big, it has a very complete defensive function.

Originally, there were many dwellings outside the city, but in recent years, wars have been frequent, the Shun army, the Ming army, the homeless people, the bandits, the conquest is endless, the dwellings outside the city have been abandoned, and the people have either moved into the city or fled to other places.

Especially in the first few months, after the Shun army occupied Jiaozhou, in order to prevent the Ming army from attacking the city, all the dwellings outside the city were demolished.

Following Ren Siqi to Shandong was the infantry army Jin Yufei battalion, the battalion supervisor Ren Likun, and the four subordinate teams were Tang Ni, Ren Baoquan, Sha Qianli and Chen Mingyang. Then there was Huang Fengwu's 1,000-strong Zhoushan New Army.

Ren Siqi thought about it for a while, and ordered Jin Yufei to take the Tony team to the south gate, and Ren Likun to take the Ren security team to the west gate, the two of them did not need to attack the city, they only needed to block the city gate to prevent the Qing soldiers from escaping from the city.

When I came, I brought more than a dozen bamboo ladders, each of which was more than a zhang long, although it could not reach the city wall, but it could be sandwiched on the moat, so that everyone could cross the moat.

Sha Qianli and Chen Mingyang led their men to quickly cross the moat from the bamboo ladder and came to the city wall.

A Daishan veteran shook the flying claw in his hand, and the flying claw flew up more than three zhang high, firmly grasping the battlement at the head of the city. This kind of flying claw was used in naval battles to catch enemy ships for broadside battles, but I didn't expect it to come in handy for sieges.

Listening attentively, there was no movement at the head of the city, so he grabbed the flying claws and crawled towards the sunken head.

Climb to the top of the city, take the rope from your shoulder, tie it firmly to the battlement, and throw it under the city. As a result, more and more soldiers climbed up the rope to the top of the city. (To be continued.) )