"Brother Liu, I persuade you to agree to come down when Wang Ting tries there, isn't it just to add a pair of chopsticks, fourteen-year-old Lori, I can't sentence you if you sleep, I can't think of it."

Chen Xinfeng rushed to the barracks, and as soon as he walked into Liu Minyou's office, he shouted at Liu Minyou, who was buried in office. Liu Minyou looked up and saw that it was Chen Xin who came back, showing some joy, after listening to Chen Xin's words, he put away his smile and shook his head and continued to write his plan, he had received the news yesterday, and there was no surprise when he knew that Chen Xin arrived today.

"I can finally return the duties of the provisional commander-in-chief to the original owner, and you can worry about Lushun. I don't have to worry about you, I've figured it out in the past few days, if you want to marry yourself, I won't agree. ”

Chen Xin sighed: "What do you say you are always doing with Li Ranzhu, isn't there a group of wives and concubines in this era, Wang Tingqian and you are both officials, and they happen to be the right people." If you think she's too young, can you slow down and have a round of room? ”

Liu Minyou stopped his pen and looked at Chen Xin, "It's not a matter of size, Wang Tingqian is an official of the imperial court, what kind of officials are we?" Sooner or later, you will rebel, and if the royal court tries to stand on the side of the court, you will definitely let me draw a line with his family, and then I will have feelings, I can't do this, don't persuade me. ”

"I can assure you that on the day I pull the flag, the royal court will be the first to draw a line with the court. If he was a person with a dead brain, he would not give up the color in the governor's hands to Lu Zhi. He has been an official for many years, and he has long understood these things, this official and that official are officials, and if I don't shave his hair, he can't do it desperately. ”

"Lushun is all fighting, you are still talking about Xiao Loli here, Huang Taiji is going to tear up your nest in southern Liaoning."

Chen Xinman said indifferently: "I have five thousand headquarters infantry in Lushun, one garrison, three battalion artillery teams, and more than 20 field guns. There are more than 40 sea and land red artillery, 200 furlong machines, more than 2,000 cavalry, more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers, complex trench fortifications five or six miles wide, dozens of trenches, 100 ships, the defensive advantage of internal line mobilization, and the reserve force that can set off at any time in Dengzhou. I can still be afraid of him. ”

Liu Min glanced at him, "The Emperor Taiji is an army of 100,000, do you have anything serious?" If you have something serious, say it, if you still talk about Lori, just shut up and go to Lushun. As soon as the army of Jiannu came, and you were not in Dengzhou, Wang Ting's hair turned white. ”

"If you have something, you write a seal to impeach me, and you will hand it over to Wang Ting for trial."

"Impeachment?!" Liu Minyou was almost choked by saliva, he quickly stopped writing, "You're not sick, are you?" I'm fine, what are you doing with impeachment? ”

"I will impeach you too. Let's Dengzhou Town should make it more lively in the imperial court. ”

"Why is that? You're not going to be a bandit, and your brain is broken. ”

Chen Xin said, "Your brain is broken, I was on the road that day." Thinking about the things in Qingzhou......"

"What's the matter in Qingzhou?"

Chen Xin hurriedly changed his words: "Isn't Qingzhou a bandit, I heard that the imperial court is interested in letting Dengzhou suppress bandits, and it is best to include Qingzhou in Denglai, I thought." Now Denglai is harmonious, and our Dengzhou Town is the strongest town. defeated the Liukou, if this time we can resist the whole army of Houjin with the power of a town, it means that our power is not under Houjin, the court will always be uneasy, Qingzhou will probably not be able to do this, so you have to impeach me, as long as there are contradictions within Dengzhou Town, the imperial court will engage in the trick of checks and balances, Qingzhou may also set up a general army under the governor of Denglai, I also found Geng Zhongming to impeach me, now you come again, see how the imperial court arranges, the grasp is at least much greater.

"You want to get a Qingzhou general soldier out?"

"Why not, now that the war is raging every year, the military department is chaotic and the general army, there are more and more general soldiers, Tongzhou, Changping, and Baoding have general soldiers, why can't we get a Qingzhou general soldier, as long as the imperial court feels that it can restrain me, then the possibility of success is very high, Geng Zhongming's meritorious service this time, the opportunity is the highest. Wang Tingqian will also think about it this way he may not understand the system of Dengzhou Town he may take this opportunity to win you over and marry your daughter will be more active and work with Geng Zhongming to balance me, and it will be much smoother to have this general soldier. ”

"You're tired of thinking about these intrigues all day long, so what should I impeach you?"

"Boss!"

"Just talk about it?"

"Yes, you can make up your own reasons and write down your dissatisfaction with me in your heart, as long as the court knows that you are dissatisfied with me."

"Will the court believe it? It was easy for them to know what I was going through. ”

"It's not so easy to find, besides, now that the regimental training battalion has won the battle in Henan, you are self-aggrandizing, unwilling to be possessed by me, and want to climb up, some people have reached a certain status, they will have this thought, at least the court officials will automatically accept this reason, and they will be at ease with Dengzhou Town."

"Then don't say it, even I believe it."

Chen Xin laughed and said: "Out of thin air, I made a Qingzhou general soldier, and there was a deputy general and a staff general." What is the reputation, Geng Zhongming got the general army, the number of soldiers is still Lao Tzu, he has asked me to send officers to his camp, he only retains the current standard battalion of 1,100 soldiers, I only need to give him an extra 500 soldiers, the main barracks at least 3,05, I also earn 2,000 soldiers, and there are more soldiers, why not. This is more than seven hundred taels a month, why doesn't he do it, and there is another benefit to this matter, I also want to test the reaction of the imperial court, and whether Wen Tiren is reliable. ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said: "Are you using too much power, I advise you not to use these brains, the most important thing in our Dengzhou Town is unity, in comparison, how does the emperor think is still secondary, I am impeached, Wang Tingtry is a hard-working person, in case he makes this matter public, what will the civil and military affairs in Dengzhou Town think of me, no matter how you explain it, it will eventually leave a pimple in people's hearts, and the gains outweigh the losses, so Geng Zhongming can impeach you, I can't, don't forget what you said yourself, simple is the best." ”

Chen Xin frowned, lowered his head and thought for a moment, and gave Liu Minyou a thumbs up, "Minyou has a point, then this matter is over, I will go to Shang Kexi to impeach me, and see if I can get him to the Dongjiang General Army." ”

"Why him?"

"He sent more than 100 people from his family to Dengzhou, of course I want to choose him. Moreover, I have promised to take care of his family, and now that the main ones are in business, these people are under the care of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and without affecting the rules of the trading company, they will be treated as favorably as possible. ”

"Trading is everywhere."

"It's called an exchange. Our business on Shicheng Island is doing well, and there is no loss of money, his color and military pay are in the hands of the trading company, and even agreed to even use the salary ticket to issue the soldier's salary, and the soldiers on the island began to use the salary ticket to shop in the trading company, there are these, Shicheng Island is my Dengzhou Town, and I hit the nail in Dongjiang Town, so I naturally want to help him. ”

Chen Xin finished speaking as a matter of course. stood up and said: "I'll go to see Wang Tingxian, ask him for arms and food, and then go directly to Lushun from Shuicheng." I'll think about Lori's matter again, and I'll talk about it when I come back from Lushun. ”

Liu Minyou stood up to see him off, "Go quickly." Lushun has already started fighting, pay attention to his own safety, and the intelligence said that Houjin has more than 20 Hongyi cannons and hundreds of shield cars. ”……

The north of Lushun City is filled with gunsmoke, and the soldiers under Xiguan Mountain are like clouds, and the Houjin soldiers of various colors are spread all over the land.

There were bursts of thunder in front of the Houjin Front, flashing red cannon flames. Twenty-three Hongyi cannons of various calibers continued to roar, and six to twelve pounds of iron bullets were fired at the Dengzhou earthen wall a mile and a half away. Iron bullets whizzed and fell into front and back of the earthen wall, splashing patches of black dirt. The Dengzhou earthen wall was silent, and there was no return fire.

Huang Taiji in the pre-war military discussion. Yue Tuojian attacked the large pier at Tiger Tail, and although the casualties may have been heavy, once it was conquered, it would be possible to seal the only waterway with Hongyi cannons, which he insisted was the key point.

But after everyone went to Iron Mountain to check. It was very difficult to find and was strongly opposed by the two major Baylors. The reason was that the terrain there was narrow, the forces could not be deployed, and both wings would be shelled by Ming warships. There are more than 20 warships of the Ming army in the inner harbor, and there are dozens of warships outside the port. What's more, they don't have a water master, and in the narrow place of the tiger's tail, which is a long strip, the roots can't hold on.

Huang Taiji finally put the attack point in the middle section, the mountain defense line on both wings is very difficult to attack, the height of the mountain body is much higher than the earthen wall, the mountain is layered with defense, there are also trenches dug, and the shield car can not be used, the Ming army can also mobilize troops from the earth city to reinforce, especially on the side of the Golden Mountain, not only will be hit by the artillery fire on the Ming army's earthen wall, but also by the artillery bombardment of the Ming army warships in the port and at sea, he does not want to attack the most difficult mountain defense line at the beginning, so he first tried the middle of the earth wall front.

The two Hongyi cannons of the Ming army on Xiguan Mountain were returning fire, these two cannons came from Guangdong, which were brought to Beijing by the mercenaries of Francoji in the year of Jisi, and then came to Dengzhou with these instructors, and were transferred to Lushun by Lü Zhi. Fired a six-pound iron bullet, the body tube is 28 times the diameter, the range is longer than Chen Xin's field artillery, the artillery adjusts the elevation angle to the maximum, relying on the condescending, continuous cannon fire under the mountain, the firing range is as high as more than two miles, when it lands to form a high parabola, it is almost impossible to form a ricochet, but the power of the shell falling is not small, and almost all the bones that are hit are gone, causing a lot of confusion to the Jin army on the west side.

After the three rounds of the iron red cannon, the cannon body was hot, and they stopped to dissipate heat, and the golden drum sounded, shaking the heavens and the earth, and more than 200 shield cars behind the artillery array began to advance. Today was their first tentative attack, and in view of the difficulty of the attack, this time there were as many people from each banner as Jin, one hundred archers per banner, a total of one thousand, one thousand Mongol soldiers from the outer domains, two hundred musketeers each from Wuzhen Chaoha and the Tianyou army, and three hundred men on horseback, totaling two thousand seven hundred soldiers, plus more than one thousand coats to push the shield carts.

"Push and go." Zhang Zhongqi howled loudly, whipping more than 30 Bao Yi under his command with wooden sticks, they pushed five shield carts, and on both sides of him were two hundred shield carts in a neat line, discharging a front of more than a mile, and rumbling away under the impetus of thousands of Bao Yi, and the whole front marched in unison, like a wooden tide.

The eight-foot-tall shield was made of locust wood, shaped like a car, with four small wooden wheels underneath, and the front guard and roof were eight inches (25 cm) thick, and could defend against all known muskets of the Ming army.

Part of the excellent shield car front guard plate is not fixed, but fixed with a live pin, lead bullet hit on it, the guard plate will tilt and unload, lead bullet iron bullet is often refracted in the other direction, the people and horses behind the shield car are not injured at all. (Note 1)

The rough shield car front guard is fixed, so that it is easier to make zuò, and the back of the wooden board is ribbed with thick wooden strips, and the protection is also excellent, Zhang Zhongqi's command, there are three such rough shield cars.

Behind Zhang Zhongqi was a line of archers and musketeers, and behind him was Bayala, who supervised the formation. Bayala held a strong bow in his hand, but the arrows used in his hands were not sharp arrows, twenty light arrows with cloth heads, and the cloth heads were full of red dye, and anyone who dared to hesitate to enter would shoot with red arrows, and those who were found to have red marks after the war would be beheaded, so that each Bayala could control a longer front.

Zhang Zhongqi looked at the earthen wall in front of him in the gap between the shield carts. There are still more than three hundred steps away, but it is already within the range of the opponent's artillery, and the black earthen wall in front of it is silent. Only the flags fluttered in the wind, and the flying tiger with teeth and claws could be vaguely seen, and the road in front was full of potholes and trenches, and there were some large stones, which were painted with different paints, which were the shooting marks of the Ming army.

Although Zhang Zhongqi faced the ferocious, he was actually the one who was most feared behind the shield cart. He had already seen the power of this Dengzhou soldier, and some people fled back to Mi Island, and there were many rumors in various villages, and the combat power of that Dengzhou soldier was undoubtedly very strong. Fortunately, he was not there in the Battle of Fuzhou. After Taktan came back, he whispered to him that he had heard that they had defeated the entire white flag in a white-knuckle battle, and that fear deepened in Zhang Zhongqi's heart every day, so he would only talk so much to the dumb man when he left home.

Except for temptation. They also had to remove the marker stones along the way, and the Later Jin soldiers also used this method to mark distances. So they are well aware of the role of stones.

Three hundred steps, a red light flashed on the opposite side, and a cloud of white smoke erupted.

With a "whoosh" sound, a three-pound four-pounder cannon shell flew out at a speed visible to the naked eye, crossed the low flat trajectory, and landed on the ground before it could fly to the shield car line, splashing a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, and the iron bullet flew forward again, slowing down a lot, and it bounced on the ground again, hitting a shield car on Zhang Zhongqi's left flank. ，

There was a loud bang, the iron bullet slammed into the front guard, the shell that had slowed down was blocked by the thick wooden board, the shield car shook violently, the front half jumped up, and countless pieces of wood chips burst out from the back of the guard, like raindrops to the rear, large and small flying sawdust became like sharp blades, piercing the body and face of the rear bread, and the coat of the back cart screamed at the same time, covering his face and chest and screaming loudly.

Zhang Zhongqi had long known this fate, he had seen the power of nearly 100 Hongyi cannons of the Ming army in Luanzhou, and the two archers waved their knives and slashed to the ground, hacking to death all those miserable clothes.

After the Jin soldiers reached the marker of 300 paces, the cannon in front of them rang out continuously, and the gaps in the earthen wall were fired one after another, and on this more than one front, there were eight Dengzhou artillery positions, eight field artillery and Hongyi artillery. Dengzhou Town has exercised many times here, all gun gauges are pre-calibrated angles, these field guns do not pursue direct hits, but use extremely low trajectory to form ricochets, standard charges make the accuracy greatly increased, and the hit rate is as high as 50%.

Behind the shield cart sawdust flew everywhere, the wounded coat rolled on the ground and wailed, and the archers who oversaw the coat had no mercy and hacked all the howling coats to death. Forcing the remaining coat to remove the shooting markers, the shield leader continued on their way, filling in the potholes beyond the barrage.

As they approached, the Ming artillery fire became more accurate, and the shield carts came to a halt after being hit, and the line became no longer in order.

In the screams, the number of casualties increased rapidly, and the terrible screams continued, and the nervous collapse of the clothes around him continued to scream and escape, and they were killed by the archers who pressed the formation behind, and the place where the shield cart passed was full of corpses.

"Don't look back, go forward!" Zhang Zhongqi had already lost the wooden stick, and he swung his scabbard to slap the panicked Huang Shan in front of him, "Protect the door with your hands, don't want to run!" ”

Zhang Zhongqi only cares about that Huang Shan, he said to the dumb man that Lushun grabbed the coat, in fact, he never expected it, this group of Dengzhou soldiers would not be bad if he was not arrested as a coat, for him, the most valuable asset is this Huang Shan, in Liaodong, where there are few people, the coat is more important than the cow.

Huang Shan turned his head to look at Zhang Zhongqi, his face was full of beads of sweat, his lips trembled violently, his eyes were full of panic, the deafening sound of cannons, the whistling iron bullets, the wounded with bloody flesh and blood, and the tragic shouts, he usually cheated and played tricks, such a scene did not appear in his most frightening nightmare, Huang Shan's spirit was already on the verge of collapse.

"Bang", there was another loud bang, fifty paces away an eight-pound iron bullet with a roar smashed a shield cart to pieces, the shield cart exploded countless wooden blocks, flew into the air, and fell into the group of archers behind, followed by two loud bangs, the two shield carts became parts, and the coats and archers behind them fell all over the ground.

Huang Shan screamed hysterically, turned around and was about to flee, Zhang Zhongqi swept his feet with a scabbard, and put him to the ground, and several other coats next to him threw down the shield cart and ran around, the bowstring behind him rang continuously, and those people were shot like hedgehogs.

Huang Shan struggled desperately on the ground, and let out some meaningless shouts in his mouth, two archers from the same village came over and were about to hack Huang Shan to death, Zhang Zhongqi did not dare to stop it, and looked desperately at this valuable asset that was about to disappear.

Suddenly, there was a sound of gold, the two archers hesitated slightly, Zhang Zhongqi was excited, and hurriedly pulled Huang Shan up, and shouted at the remaining Niu Lu Baoyi: "Follow and withdraw, you are not allowed to run around!" ”

The Houjin soldiers turned around and retreated, their pace much faster than when they came, the formation was still neat, and a small number of archers guarded the remaining coats, preventing them from leaving the shield carts, because the Dengzhou army destroyed the ecology, and they had to cut down qualified timber to climb two mountains.

The crowd burst out of the potential for survival, pulling the shield cart and walking fast. The artillery of the Ming army pursued for a round and then stopped firing. Zhang Zhongqi dragged Huang Shan to follow at the end, and quickly withdrew from the dangerous distance of three hundred steps, he finally saved this asset, and it can be regarded as saving a life.

"It's time to do something good." Zhang Zhongqi finally had time to think about it.

PS: Note 1: "Mountains and Seas Chronicles" :(Jiannu) its siege tools, then with acacia elm, eight inches thick and more than eight feet high, such as a sedan chair, there are four small wheels under it, to the people to control it, its plates are all with live pins, every time the lead and iron bullets hit it, like a board and real live, so that the lead bullet encounters the car to go back, the lead bullet folds and the car rises with the resurgence, can not hurt people and horses in nowhere to hurt, with the siege pushed to the city to pave the ground.