This thing was built in a hurry, naturally there are many immatures, and failures are frequent, but in order to deal with the Tartars outside the city, they are also pulled on the horse, as long as the debut performance of this thing is successful, it will inevitably be entangled in the Tartars with incomparable shock and deterrence.

Cheng Mingjiu's worries are not unreasonable, but the Tartar soldiers are imminent, and there is not much time left for them.

Li Xin said to Cheng Mingjiu: "You go and gather the elite of the five hundred infantry battles now, conduct a coordinated combat exercise with this artillery car, and use this thing to attack the Tartar military camp tomorrow night." ”

Cheng Mingjiu was shocked, the general had been silent on the surface, and he didn't seem to care about the defense, but he didn't expect that he had already planned it, and immediately sent his own soldiers back to transfer the troops.

The area of this craftsman's workshop in the city was originally not large, but after the previous Tartar broke the city, many Ming troops in the vicinity were burned down, and Li Xin simply expanded the site of this craftsman's workshop, so that the five artillery carriages could move forward and backward in the courtyard of the field.

Soon, the 500 elites of the infantry battalion were transferred over, and according to Li Xin's arrangement, after an order, the five artillery wagons rushed forward, and the elites of the infantry battalion followed closely behind, using the artillery wagons as a cover, slowly advancing.

Many soldiers of the infantry battalion were dissatisfied with following the artillery carriages, thinking that it was an insult and contempt for them, they were all people who were not afraid of death, what would it look like to let the artillery take the lead?

It was Li Xin himself who explained to them the advantages and necessity of such a tactical coordination, and these people reluctantly agreed with the tactic of following behind the five artillery carriages.

Throughout the afternoon, the infantry battalion entered the yard in batches to train with the artillery wagons in order to adapt them to this coordinated tactic.

Cheng Mingjiu was still worried, "This behemoth, if it falls into the trench, I'm afraid it will be ......."

Li Xin seemed to have a way to deal with it a long time ago, and said directly: "So it is very important to do a good job of early intelligence, the Tartar army of 100,000 is surrounded by water in Jinzhou, although the military camp is densely built, but not all the military camps in all sections are dug trenches, and the typing barracks outside the south gate have no trenches at a position of hundreds of steps, and only some things are placed to resist horses and obstruct things, these things are not worth mentioning in front of our artillery carriages." ”

The more Cheng Mingjiu listened, the more frightened he became, so many things were actually done without his own awareness, which shows how rigorous the general's secrecy work is, but at the same time, there is also a faint loss, which cannot be expressed.

Li Xin seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Ben Shuai hopes that this kind of secrecy system will become a kind of customization in our Three Guards Army, except for relevant personnel, it must be kept secret from the vast majority of people, I don't know what you think?" ”

Cheng Mingjiu has no reason to object, he is confused by Li Xinyu's attitude of attaching so much importance to intelligence, but he also subconsciously believes that it is extremely necessary for the general to do this, so this information should not be divided into distant and close relatives, but only between people who need to be contacted, and people who do not need to be contacted, so that it is possible to keep the information secret to the greatest extent, or after the information is leaked, it is easier to investigate the source of the leak.

"Great General Mingjian!"

Li Xin glanced up at the setting sun, which was about to completely sink below the ground level, and the dark red glow emitted was no longer enough to illuminate every corner of the earth.

"After burying the pot and cooking, after 5,000 people have eaten their meals, they will launch a surprise attack with the artillery trucks!"

After hearing that Li Xin gave the order to raid the Qing army's company camp in the middle of the night, Cheng Mingjiu's eyes showed irrepressible excitement, to be honest, how many days and nights have been held in this Jinzhou City, unable to advance or retreat, let the Tartars advance and retreat, he has already held back the anger in his belly, and today he finally has a chance to take a breath of evil in his chest.

Lu Jiu next to him also lit up, "Thirteenth brother, what about me?" Do you have a mission? ”

"Naturally, your cavalry is indispensable, and you cooperate with the Bekoer Department to annihilate all the Qing troops that may appear on both flanks."

At midnight, the south gate of Jinzhou City quietly opened, and five artillery carriages slowly drove out, followed by the infantry battalion of the Three Guards Army, as well as the cavalry of Lu Jiu and Beikoer.

The distance of three miles is not far, but the sports car is not much faster than walking, and Li Xin, who watched the battle on the wall of the south gate, seems to have walked for a whole century. Due to the great victories in the past few days, the vigilance of the Qing army has been extremely lax, but the movement of the 5,000-foot camp and the more than 2,000 cavalry is not small, and finally after the artillery cart has traveled a distance of two miles, the Qing army camp has discovered abnormal movements outside the barracks. Suddenly, there were flames everywhere, and it was obvious that the soldiers inside the Manchu military camp lit torches on a large scale.

This is also in Li Xin's expectation, if the Three Guards have touched their noses and have not moved, then the Qing army will not deserve the reputation of being invincible. Of course, although this reputation is just bragging, it also reflects the reality that the Ming army is afraid of the Qing army like a tiger.

Li Xin found that the Qing army was not in a hurry to send troops out under the condition that the enemy situation was unknown, but only sent some scouts sparsely, and although the rest were already in full battle, they were tightly gathered in the barracks.

In fact, it didn't matter whether the Qing army broke out of the barracks or not, because the five artillery wagons were strong and powerful enough, and in the face of the simple rejection of horses and the original wooden wall, they could easily break through the wall, and then the cannons fired in unison, which would definitely teach these dog Tartars to be shocked.

The communication between the city and the city depended on the rhythm of the horns blown by his own soldiers, and it took a lot of effort just to train the communication soldiers who carried these horns. Speaking of this matter, it has to be extended to when he was in Taiyuan, but the battalion officers and generals around him did not pay attention to it, so they didn't take it seriously at all.

Until now, this method of horn communication, although complicated, has been unmistakably superior at night. Through the continuous messages sent back by the horn under the city, Li Xin's brows couldn't help but furrow.

Because, there was an accident in the city.

Cheng Mingjiu was in a hurry, because when he was close to a hundred steps away from the Qing army's camp, the No. 3 car among the five artillery carriages was actually unable to advance. After receiving the reply that he could not recover immediately, Cheng Mingjiu immediately made a decision and ordered the remaining four artillery carriages to continue to advance, and the No. 3 artillery carriage to be repaired on the spot, if it could not be repaired before the army withdrew to the city, it had to be blown up with gunpowder in the car.

At the same time, Cheng Mingjiu sent back the way that the No. 3 artillery vehicle was unable to move forward and that he had decided to send a message through the horn. Soon, he got Li Xin's reply, only four words, "let it go"!

Cheng Mingjiu didn't know how this communication soldier used to transmit such a complex sentence back to the city, but he also felt the speed and convenience of this communication method in the dark, if in the past, in this kind of black light blind situation, the order flag has lost its effect, then it can only use scout communication, the battlefield shape is changing rapidly, and I don't know how much time it will take to go back and forth, I am afraid that there is not enough time to wait for a reply.

Cheng Mingjiu was also born in infantry, so he never rode a horse when attacking and fighting, and even the armor he wore was the scaly armor that was commonly seen in the Ming army, but the general's general flag only followed him to his left and right.

Fifty steps, forty steps, thirty steps, seeing that the distance is getting closer and closer, the Qing army assembled in the company camp has not yet moved, if it was in the past, the long arrows that rained would have been fired in volley.

Suddenly, the sound of fighting suddenly sounded on both wings, and Cheng Mingjiu knew that this was the cavalry of Lu Jiu and Beikoer who had fought with the Qing army who were trying to sneak attack their wings. In just this moment, the rain of long arrows in the Qing army camp fell, and soon the soldiers of the infantry battalion fell to the ground.

But this could not stop the march of the soldiers of the 5,000-step battalion of the Three Guards, and at a distance of less than twenty steps from the wall of the Qing army, they had only followed the artillery of the infantry battalion of the Three Guards Army to open fire, and there was only one of the six opportunities on the battlefield for them to fire.

By the time they had reloaded, everyone had already broken through the wall, so the artillerymen of the 1st Artillery Battalion had to seize the only chance to fire their guns in this battle anyway.

Countless lead shots were wrapped in hot air and smashed into the camp of the Qing army, and in the darkness, Cheng Mingjiu couldn't judge how many initiatives the other party had, but he could also judge from the screams coming from the opposite side, this round of salvo shots would definitely make them the first to take the lead.

However, at this juncture, Cheng Mingjiu suddenly had some unwarranted worries, if this artillery truck could not break through the wall of the Qing army, the battle would fall short, and the army of more than 5,000 foot battalions was blocked out of the wall, and it would inevitably become a live target for the Qing army's bow and crossbow, and would be shot alive.

Even if the military fortress fails to break through and wants to retreat, the cavalry of the Qing army will definitely rush out of the barracks and follow and kill, if this is the case, the battle situation in Jinzhou is in danger. Cheng Mingjiu shook his head and shook out this kind of thought, which was similar to unfounded worries, because the No. 1 artillery truck took the lead and had already crashed into the wall of the Qing army's joint camp.

At the same time, Cheng Mingjiu's heart was also tightly raised to his throat, and he didn't even dare to blink his eyes to look at the effect of this collision.

The situation that Cheng Mingjiu was worried about still happened, and the collision of the No. 1 artillery truck made the wall of the Qing army shake violently a few times, but there was still no tendency to fall. Immediately afterwards, the No. 2 artillery cart also crashed into it, and the wall of the wall still shook violently, and it also fell without a sound.

There were only two artillery carriages left, and Cheng Mingjiu couldn't help but pray silently, God, you won't let the Three Guards fall short like this, right? The No. 4 gun car, which was a few steps slower, also crashed headlong......