Chapter 128: Attacking the Heart
There were a few dull sounds of landing, and Huang Shan looked inside the trench, then leaned the hoe against the wall of the trench, sat down and panted. His position was in the middle of the earthen walls of the two opposing sides, and they were approaching the town of Dengzhou with a trench.
They dug the trench for a few days, and the loss was also very large, they didn't know how to dig at first, and as a result, they went straight to the past, and were beaten by the muskets of the Dengzhou soldiers during the day, so they kept improving, and dug horizontally at night, and gradually found a way, that is, to go straight at night, and horizontally during the day, and they were about to approach the barrage ditch.
However, the progress is not fast, if they feel that it is fast, Niu Lu really wants them to stop, so as not to become the key part of Dengzhou Town. In the past few days, Dengzhou Town has continued to carry out scattered raids, and the counterattacks are concentrated in the position of the yellow flag, the kind of catapults are fired from time to time, and Abatai has lost more than half, but if the other positions are too close, they will also be hit hard by the other party, so they have also found a trick in this Niu Lu, that is, not to be a bird.
Huang Shan said to Zhang Zhongqi, who was supervising the work next to him: "Master, if you dig in front again, the Dengzhou soldiers will be able to throw porcelain thunder in the horse ditch." â
"Lao Tzu knows." Zhang Zhongqi glanced behind him, the main earthen wall there was already as high as one zhang and five feet, surpassing the earthen wall of Dengzhou Town opposite, but when the opposite shot was raised, they could only shoot at seventy paces, while the opponent could shoot directly, and there was no advantage in fighting. And the other party's artillery is very active, there is an opponent's platform opposite them, there are a few furlong machines on it, as long as anyone accidentally shows their figure, the opposite side will have to fire a few cannons, it is also very terrifying to be hit by a few taels of iron bullets, Zhang Zhongqi has seen a village of people being knocked off half of their bodies. It was the first time he felt that Franc was so terrifying, the last time he met Zhang Chun's car formation. I didn't think Franc's scream was so terrifying.
"Be smart." Zhang Zhongqi said to Huang Shan, "If you break through this Lushun, Lord Ezhen may carry the flag for you or something, and this is how your master and I came." â
"Thank you for the master's lift, the villain must work hard." Huang Shan diligently slapped the soil on Zhang Zhongqi's body, and took out a gourd for Zhang Zhongqi to drink.
A shout suddenly sounded on the opposite Dengzhou front, and it was a loud voice when I heard it, speaking in Chinese, although it sounded a little stuffy. But the sound traveled far and wide.
"Brothers of the Han people who dig the trench, don't give your life to the tartars, dig a little further, run into the horse ditch, and lie on the ground when you see a place with a white flag. Waiting for our Han soldiers to receive them, they came over and behaved uprightly, with food and clothing, and they can divide the land in Dengzhou, and recover Liaodong in the future, and each family still has a hundred acres ......"
"Huang Shan, don't listen to their nonsense. Our head has been shaved, one of them will be fifty taels, and they will be cut off after the head, and there is no good thing in Dengzhou Town. â
The voices outside continued to shout. "Lord Chen of Dengzhou Town announced that as long as he surrenders voluntarily, Dengzhou Town will never cut off his head, and there are several Han brothers captured in the Battle of Fuzhou. They are now serving as auxiliaries in Lushun, and this time they are outstanding. The future is very good, and I will let them tell you about it. â
Zhang Zhongqi said: "Fake, don't believe ......"
A loud voice sounded, "Brothers, brothers, I am the white house of the blue flag, I fled to Dengzhou Town the day before yesterday, there are white flour steamed cakes here, and Dengxiang is smoking, the soldiers are too good to say, think about what life you have in Jiannu, it is not as good as pigs and dogs, if you can kill the head of Jiannu, you will be rewarded with one hundred taels at a time, and the ......land will be divided in Dengzhou immediately."
Zhang Zhongqi was speechless for a moment, this Bai Youwu was their Niu Lu's coat, a few days ago in the morning, he suddenly disappeared, and he thought it was shelled and gone, but he fled over there. It was the first time for Zhang Zhongqi to encounter such a battle, although the bread in the trench did not speak, but Zhang Zhongqi could keenly feel the change in their mentality, especially the reward of one hundred taels of silver for killing the head of the Jiannu, which immediately made the archers of the overseer in the trench nervous, and their hands were all on the hilt of the sword.
The people who shouted on the opposite side one after another, there were those who were captured in the Battle of Fuzhou, and those who were captured in the Battle of Jinzhou, all of them were coated, one by one with a name and a surname, most of Zhang Zhongqi didn't know him, but at the beginning, the white house was never fake, and Zhang Zhongqi heard that voice was indeed him. These people scolded Hou Jin Bing, and told the tragic experiences of their relatives, friends, wives and children, most of which were true, and these people cried and scolded later, and even Zhang Zhongqi remembered a lot of past events.
In the end, Zhang Zhongqi's jaw almost dropped, the white flag of Buck Mountain, the former white flag of the Baya La, that is Zhang Zhongqi's infinite admiration of the storage zĂ i, actually surrendered Dengzhou. He shouted repeatedly in Yi and Mongolian, but Zhang Zhongqi could only understand a little, probably to pick up the Yi Ding of Ye He and other tribes who were conquered by Jianzhou back then, and to turn over the massacre of these tribes by the Jianzhou Department back then.
The Houjin Front was quiet, only some of the Paishku and Bayala were scolding, but the scolding was very unnutritious, and the other archers in the trench overseer looked around the coats fiercely, and those coats had different expressions. Zhang Zhongqi is also a little scared, those who have wives and children in Liaodong are fine, but the most afraid is Huang Shan, a single person who has nothing to worry about, in case he is really ruthless, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not do something desperate. Thinking of this, he leaned over to the archer.
"Phew, the dog thing is shameless, the Great Khan is so good to him, he actually went to vote for Nikan." Huang Shan scolded over there, "Master, the slave can't wait to kill his whole family." â
Zhang Zhongqi said fiercely: "Why do you need to go, the Great Khan will send someone to kill his entire family in two days." â
Huang Shan was indignant, "Master, the slave thinks that he should arrest his entire family and kill him in front of Nabak Mountain." It's good to warn those wall grasses. â
Zhang Zhongqi patted Huang Shan approvingly, "Work hard, even if Lushun can't be broken, you will always be able to make meritorious contributions in the future, and you can live a good life if you raise the flag, don't believe the nonsense of Dengzhou Town." â
"The slave absolutely doesn't believe it, the slave only listens to the master." Huang Shan said firmly.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another cannon fire in the middle of the road, Huang Shan raised his eyes, and a stone bullet rose into the air and fell towards the position inlaid with yellow flags......
With a pop, a Yu Ding with a yellow flag was heavily pressed into the soil by a two-foot-diameter stone bullet, and the upper half of his body was completely covered by the stone bullet, and a pasty red mixture flowed from below.
The surrounding coat was screaming and crying. One of the coats suddenly jumped up, ran to the top of the earthen wall like crazy, stood upright and shouted to the opposite side, the sound of guns on the opposite side, the whole body of the coat shook, and he fell on the earthen wall, and the opposite side kept stopping, and the surrounding Franco-pong machine ping-pong was released towards the soldier's body, and the debris around the corpse flew wildly. The musketeers also fired two rounds, and did not stop until the coat did not move again.
"Master, I can't beat it, this Dengzhou town is biting us, and we are the hardest here to fight on the whole line. There are only thirty armor soldiers left in the slave's Niu Lu, and last night he ran two coats, and before leaving, he cut off the head of a Yu Ding, and today he is still showing off on the earthen wall over there, and Yu Ding's brother killed three coats in a row, which ...... If you go on like this, you won't have to fight and you'll die. That Dengzhou town is vicious. â
A Niu Lu Ezhen guarded Abatai and cried, Abatai's face was pale, and the yellow flag color of his camp was like a magnet, and Dengzhou Town stared at it. The strongest counterattack of the day is here, but the two white flags next to it are ignored. His six Niu Lu had more than 500 armor soldiers, and now there were only more than 200 left, and Niu Lu had really killed two of them. All the Niu Lu under his command complained bitterly, and the other Niu Lu around him also seemed to be frightened. The progress of digging the trench was no longer than the yellow flag, and Abatai felt that he was completely fighting the town of Dengzhou.
He left the cow and returned to his shelter, which was close to the earthen wall, and was extended in the trench, reinforced with two layers of rough wood from dismantled shield carts, and those who didn't know thought it was an anti-artillery bunker of the First World War. Under the threat of the opponent's stone projectiles and the close throw of porcelain mines at night, this group of Houjin soldiers invented a thousand strange bunkers, and even the anti-artillery holes on the side of the trench came out, which could squat down two people. If Chen Xin were standing here, he would definitely sigh at the creative power of the people.
"What the is this fighting?" Abatai threw the porcelain bowl on the table to the ground, Huang Taiji neither gave him manpower nor removed him, if he lasted a few more days, there would not be many soldiers left in his six Niu Lu.
There was a musket overhead, and then there was a chaotic footsteps, it was Wuzhen Chaoha who stopped shooting with the artillery fire, and another Niu Lu Erdenbu next to him moved over, and he was also full of sorrow, "Master, I just dug the barrage ditch, half of our people have gone, and more than half of the coat has been lost, how can I live this year." â
Abatai did not speak with a gloomy face, and Erdenbu drove the others away, and then lit a incense stick for Abatai. Abatai smoked a cigarette, and there was a dizzy feeling in his head, as if the pressure had temporarily decreased a lot. This kind of incense is smuggled in North Korea, in the Houjin converted down to forty-one packs, Huang Taiji reprimanded these ministers many times, saying that they are discouraged, but the sales of the people are still very large, especially on the battlefield, the soldiers are under great mental pressure, it is not easy to get a cigarette, the rest of the banners responsible for transporting grain and grass are sold in private, and every time the grain is transported, some must be entrained, and the price is as high as two coins and a pack of silver.
Abatai knew that this thing was made on the other side, and he didn't know what their price was, and he heard that even the surrendered coatings could be drawn, just across such a trench, and the price was very different. Sometimes he even wanted to run to the earthen wall and ask the other side.
"You want to stand up to Lao Tzu, and today I went to find Lao Ba, but he was still not allowed to retreat, only said that the flags did not return, and the two yellow flags would be given a handle if they retreated first."
"Our two yellow flags deserve to be ......" Erdenbu shook his head, "The entrance, Daling River, Chahar three battles, our flags have also lost a lot, when did the Great Khan make up for us, but he kept building new Niulu, the old two white flags are only thirty-one Niulu, changed to two yellow flags Until now, it has been sixty-one Niulu, he said that all flags should be equal, and he kept building Niulu for his henchmen, twenty or thirty households are also a Niulu, and then patched the mouth inside, our six Niulu is only not in and out, and the slave heard that there are a few people in Orsai, Now they don't listen to their masters, but to the ...... of Hauge."
"Don't talk about it." Abatai interrupted him and said, "If we don't get something out, the Great Khan won't let us go." This matter can't be delayed, do you have gunpowder, what did Zhu Shiyin say, did he give gunpowder or not? â
"He said that it was not easy to urge gunpowder, and it was necessary for the Khan to nod his head."
Abatai stood up with a slap and slapped his palm on the small table, and the simple table in front of him was almost slapped, "A Han dog dares to push back with Lao Tzu, where is he?" â
"Not far behind, he asked his coat to dig a special pit to hide from the cannon."
"Lead the way!" Abatai suppressed his anger, and the two of them took Goshha straight to the position of Uzhen Chaoha, and two more Uzhen Chaoha stood guard at the door, and when they saw Erdenbu about to come to stop him, Erdenbu went up and kicked over with both feet, and Abatai walked into the dark tunnel.
There was smoke inside, and he was also smoking incense, Zhu Shiyin saw that it was Abatai, stood up with a smile, took out a cigarette and was about to hand it over, choking a scabbard, and a knife was on his neck.
"Seven, seven Baylor, this, how does this say......"
"To give gunpowder?"
Zhu Shiyin said with a bitter face: "Give it, the slave will give it immediately." â
"Let people move to Lao Tzu's earthen wall."
"The minions will tell someone to move." Zhu Shiyin was so frightened that his feet trembled, "What else does Qibeile want?" â
"Send 200 Han soldiers to Lao Tzu, put 10,000 of your bird guns in lead, 20 in each bag, and mix 5 taels of gunpowder in each bag. Each bag is equipped with a fire rope. â
"Seven Baylor, you're going to make a fire thunderbolt? But the fire rope is not used by birds, the bird is afraid of its speed, and the fire and thunder bullets are afraid of its slowness, which is completely different. â
Abatai raised the blade and patted Zhu Shiyin's face gently, "No matter what you do, I'm going to use the fire and thunder bomb tonight, otherwise I'll cut off your head first." â