371. Huguang Night Battle

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Zheng Kezang's voice fell, and that night, the Qing army took advantage of the starry moon and the moon to start the operation.

In fact, the Qing generals still had a lot of experience in warfare. No, the attacking Qing army did not choose to be physiologically alert in the first half of the night, but quietly left the camp near dawn, and in the first half of the way, they slowly sneaked until they were expected to be close to the edge of the trench. It's just that the Qing army didn't notice that Zheng Jun had set up a hidden bamboo stick array along the water barrier when he was cleaning up the corpse, and as a result, under the effect of his own weight, the relatively sharp bamboo stick pierced the thin-soled military shoes of the Qing soldiers, causing a buzzing sound of pain and the impact of the human body falling to the ground.

The sound shook Zheng Jun's sentinels in the Mamian Fort in various places, and countless grass fireballs were thrown out one after another, instantly illuminating several areas. Seeing that their act of stealing and dumping the muck had been discovered, the Qing army, which had not done anything for a long time, simply started fighting with open fire, and hundreds of lower-level officers and soldiers rushed to the trenches.

Zheng Jun's artillery fire soon rang out, and the fire on the sentry tower also continued to fight, but the grass fireball from the Mamian Fort was either quickly extinguished naturally or was drowned by the Qing army's muck, so in the case of poor vision, Zheng Jun's shooting was blind in many cases, and the losses caused were only known to God.

However, because the green battalion soldiers who fought against the trench were mainly playing with the 100-meter impact and throwing some debris, and there was no attempt to violently resist the law, the Zheng army, which was desperately shooting outward from the earthen wall, horse face fort, sentry tower, etc., had almost no losses, but there was still a fierce battle at the gate.

Speaking of which, it was also because of the darkness that the Zheng army, which expected that the Qing army might discredit the operation, did not set up a garrison that was vulnerable to attack on the side of the low wall in front of the gatekeeper, but only set up a staggered arrangement of rejecting horses inside and outside the broken large wooden door latch to slow down the impact of the Qing army, so a group of green battalion soldiers who stole chickens and dogs easily touched the place very close to the doorstop, and captured the undefended low wall section without any loss.

However, after the low wall section changed hands, the door leading to the rear end of the high wall at the rear end of the Qing army was closed, and if it was to break through, it would inevitably alarm the garrison Zheng army, so the Qing army had no choice but to return to the front of the door plug and try to remove the heavy repulsion horses connected by iron cables. But before the Qing army made a move, the actions of the muck brigade were revealed.

Because the ejection height of the simple stone thrower was very limited, Zheng Jun did not arrange it behind the high walls on both sides of the door stopper, so he could not shoot grass fireballs for lighting to the front line of the door stopper. However, the alarmed Zheng army garrison was still prepared to throw a number of torches into the front of the low wall and the doorstop, and the flying torches only illuminated the extremely limited darkness, but it was enough to reveal the truth, so the dense platoon hit it, causing great bloodshed to the Qing army.

Since the Qing army came to touch the door, they were naturally prepared, and after being hit, they not only used bird guns to fight back, but also brought tiger squat cannons, which were big killing weapons at close range. When the tiger squat cannon with the barrel raised at an angle of 60 degrees shot out a piece of scrap copper and rotten iron, Zheng Jun had to usher in the first casualties of the night.

At this time, the rear support troops of the Zheng army had already arrived, and in view of the fact that the passage was not very wide, this infantry team discharged a compact three-column formation in the darkness behind the rejection of the horse, with the front row half squatting, the middle and rear rows staggered, and the flat end of the infantry pointed directly at the firelight. Crowded door plug entrance.

"Put!" With a low shout from the team leader, the mouths of the thirty fire guns jumped in unison, and suddenly the Qing army, who was slashing the heavy rejecting horses, howled wolf for a while. "Stand up, load." The team leader continued to order, and at this time, there was a crackling sound of Qing army birds shooting from outside the door, and the two Zheng soldiers who were sent in the first row immediately fell down, but the team leader didn't look at it, just ordered. "Deputy (leader), drag people down, load up the ammunition, let's come again!"

The infantry team exchanged casualties with the Qing army through the rejection of horses, and the high-wall garrison, which was temporarily suppressed by the Qing army's bird guns and tiger squat artillery, began to throw the ignited earth-shattering thunder one by one in the direction of the Qing army. The flames ignited by the earth-shattering thunder that exploded in mid-air lit up the night sky, and the flying shrapnel knocked down the hideous-looking green battalion soldiers.

The Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and the Qing army was still attacking, whether it was the Qing army who was ordered to fill the water barrier, or the Qing army who wanted to seize the gate at night, one by one they were crazy and frantic, and they were determined to serve the alien ruler in this tragedy of cannibalism.

After paying a great price, the Qing army that attacked the gate finally cut down and removed the rejected horses outside the gate, rushed in, and stabbed the white soldiers of the Zheng army through the rejected horses inside the door - Zheng Kezang's intention was to turn the 6th division of the Zheng army and the Longxiang army of the naval division into all-firearms troops, but due to the expansion of the army, not only did the first few old divisions not complete the established change, and even the ratio of the original infantry team and the white soldiers in some of the newly trained divisions was reversed, but fortunately, in order to cooperate with the change of clothes that would definitely come, the original sword and shield soldiers were replaced by spearmen, so in the stabbing of the stab, Zheng Jun everywhere did not fall behind at all.

The Qing army was unable to hold on to the gate for a while, but it was extremely successful in front of various water barriers. Since the width of the Zheng army's trench was only between one zhang and one and a half zhang, and the Qing army had made some progress in the previous daytime landfill, the Qing army had tended to complete the task of filling the land after using the cover of the night to withstand the Zheng army's fire.

"My lord, I just ran to the front to see it." The panting pro-soldier reported to the commander in charge of the operation. "It's basically filled." The director still didn't believe it, but the soldiers swore an oath. "Adult, if the little one lies, you will cut off the small one's head at dawn, really, fill it in again, and there will be mountains ahead."

With similar reports everywhere, Shanahai finally ordered the troops to be withdrawn in order to appease the Green Battalion.

When the crisp gong sounded, the Qing troops, whether they were halfway through or close to the water barrier area, dropped their burdens one after another, and rushed back several times the time, leaving their backs in the afterglow of the Zheng army's cannon flames.

Of course, unlike the Qing army in the water barrier area, which can flee back as long as it is not too unlucky, the Qing army in the Mensai area does not have such convenience. Although the white soldiers of the Zheng army were blocked by the rejection horses set up by themselves and could not pursue for a while, the earth-shattering thunder dropped from the high wall and the bursts of guns still left more casualties for the fleeing Qing army.

The task was considered a victory, but when the number of people returning to the camp was counted, the Qing army could not laugh. Zheng's shooting may have been inaccurate due to the darkness of the night, but the Qing army still left at least 3,000 soldiers and horses, some of whom were killed by artillery fire on the spot, or some were wounded and did not withdraw, or some went to the wrong camp and were annexed by other troops, but there were also deserters who slipped away during the night.

The leaders of the Qing army camp who lost their hands may be depressed, but Shanahai and Nartu are very satisfied, in their opinion, it only took less than 7,000 people to break through the outer barrier of the Zheng army, and also give the Zheng army a certain amount of damage, this deal is still very cost-effective, so they also set up wine overnight to celebrate the achievements of the green battalion units, which also improved the morale of the green battalion soldiers for a while.

Shanahai is a veteran, so naturally he will not forget the vigilance of the battalion when he celebrates, and it is really a shame for Zheng Jun to concoct him in the same way. But after a thousand calculations, he still didn't expect Zheng Jun's revenge to be so fierce, just when some of the Qing troops in the Qing army camp were eating in the dark, and some of the vigilant Green Flag soldiers were drooling, the shelling was born.

Zheng Kezhang opened six passages, transported out eighteen three-inch cannons, and two miles away, indiscriminately shelled the Qing army's battalion for more than ten miles for half an hour. If it were daytime, the two-mile journey, the Mongolian horse team would be able to arrive in minutes, and even the horse team would only be an infantry attack to make the Zheng army's artillery team look good. But it was night, and it was the darkest dawn, who knew if the Zheng army had ambushed the brigade outside and waited for the Qing army to throw themselves into the net, so the beaten Qing army had to hide in the camp and endure until the Zheng army withdrew unharmed.

The bombardment dampened the morale of the Green Battalion, which had just recovered, and the dead and wounded sent by the Zheng army again the next day made the Green Battalion feel sad that the rabbit had died. As a last resort, Shanahai had to take another day of truce, but on the same day, he received good news: Balhu had returned.

Of course, Balhu did not come back alone, he captured more than 3,000 dependents of the officers and soldiers of Yichang Town who followed Cao Zhongying to Zhengzheng from Jingzhou, Yichang, Changyang, Zigui and other places. When the Qing army pressed this group of crying old and weak women and children to appear in front of the Zheng army's battle line, the Zheng army was a little dumbfounded, what did the Qing army want to do to drive the people to join the ants? It's disgusting.

The Zheng army was furious and warliked, but the loud voice from the Qing army made the new annexed army, which mainly served as an auxiliary soldier, frightened and cried, and the Zheng army had to send reserves to monitor the movements of the new annexed army.

"It's too despicable to use women and children." Facing Zheng Kezang's silent face, Cao Zhongying, who showed a very painful expression intentionally or unintentionally, said. "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, that your ministers will take revenge on the Tartars."

"The loyalty of the Qing and others, Lone knows." If it weren't for the role of the new annexed army to break the fighting spirit of the green battalion, Zheng Kezhang wouldn't have had to say so much to Cao Zhongying. "But what the Qing prisoners did was intended to shake the hearts of the army of this domain." This is also part of the willingness, after all, many of the current Zheng army are newly attached to the army, and many of them have soldiers from the North, who push themselves by others, so they must naturally have a shadow in their hearts. "So you can't turn a blind eye, so come here." Zheng Kezhang ordered. "Send an envoy."

"What!" No such thing as a Balhu in Shana could have been so effective, so effective that it made him and Nartu restless. "Hai Rebel is willing to exchange the same captured banner people for this batch of rebels." It must be known that Zheng Jun captured more than 10,000 Beijing flags in the battle of Changzhou, and also captured a lot of flag soldiers and flag officers in other battles in 66 times. "Lord, what do you mean?"

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