Chapter 310: The "Peace" Brothers (I)
With Zhu Youcheng's order, the Jinyi Guards, who had already been strong, rushed to the cave with their firearms. The soldiers of the Jinyi Guard are experienced, and in order to take advantage of the enemy, they have already loaded a bullet in their firearms, and they can take the life of a rebel with just a pull of the trigger.
King Shin asked a little worriedly, "Brother Cheng, will this injure our own soldiers by mistake?" β
Zhu Youcheng said curiously: "How is it possible? β
"Artillery fire here, soldiers charge over there. The artillery has no eyes, how can we tell which are our soldiers and which are the rebels who are extravagant and Chongming? β
Zhu Youcheng laughed: "It's true that the artillery doesn't have eyes, but our artillery's eyesight is very good." Besides, a signal had just been sent from the mountain that the shells were running out. If we don't charge now, when our artillery stops, the enemy can push the stone down the hill and block our Jinyi guard's advance, and then the losses will be great. β
After speaking, Zhu Youcheng took King Xin's hand and said, "Okay, now it's our brothers' turn to go up the mountain to shake their majesty." βββ
Besides, on the rebels' side, they were blown up by this cannonball flying from all over the sky, and one Buddha was born and the second Buddha ascended to heaven.
The crow trembled with fright, he had suffered a great loss from artillery.
When he followed the old thief chief Nuer Ha Chi south to rob, he didn't know the power of the artillery, and he was a little closer to the city wall, and was grazed by a cannonball, and he was raised in bed for half a year before he recovered, and now he still has a large scar on his back.
Yu Chongming has seen the world, besieged Chengdu Mansion before, and seen the power of artillery. But this round of shelling made him strange, because he could not figure out where the Ming artillery came from.
The cave is surrounded by sloping land, and the only high ground is the two peaks on the left and right, but they are all about a thousand steps away from the cave. The artillery should be out of reach.
Although the artillery of the Ming army was amazingly powerful, it had a limited range. Legend has it that the red-coated cannons placed in Liaodong had an amazing range, but they were very heavy and inconvenient to transport. That is, even if they borrowed the redcoat cannon. It was also impossible to transport the cannon up two high and steep peaks.
Yu Chongming ordered loudly: "Come here, go to the entrance of the cave and see where the artillery of the Ming army is." β
If you know where the artillery of the Ming army is, send a surprise soldier to blow up the artillery, and then with the steep terrain here, the Ming army will return in vain. Therefore, the key to a qiΔ is to find the specific location of the Ming artillery.
The rebels reacted quickly - quickly, of course. It was a matter of life, and they hung up after the slow reaction - they closed the gate as soon as the second shell of the Jinyi guard entered the cave.
With the protection of the gate, the rebels were much more emboldened. He took the initiative to ask Ying to reconnoiter the location of the Ming army's artillery.
But the henchman went for a long time and didn't come back.
Gao Chongming was about to send another person to urge, when he saw the rebels stationed at the gate retreating like a tide.
The crow roared, "You want to die, and you dare to leave your post without permission?" β
One of the rebel soldiers said, "Raven. You don't have to stand and talk without back pain. We just don't want to die, so we withdraw it. You don't see it. The artillery of the Ming army is so scary that our gate is like a papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and it can't be blocked at all. If it was just a cannonball, it would have been fine, but later the Ming army threw a big black and round iron ball into our door, which looked like a cannonball, but it exploded when it was touched. How many of our brothers have been blown to pieces......"
Neither is the crow scolding. Neither was he comforted, so he waved his hand to let the soldier retreat.
Yu Chongming remembered the whereabouts of the henchman who went to reconnoiter the location of the Ming army's artillery just now, so he asked, "What about Hao Ping?" Have you seen where Haoping went? β
Many of the soldiers shook their heads, and one soldier said, "Dead, terrible." Extravagant people figured out the guΓ² shooting hole to peek at the situation of the enemy army. As soon as he put his eyes on the wooden door, a cannonball pierced the gate and shattered the head of the extravagant man like a crockpot. We can't bring back the head of the extravagant man, so we plan to snatch the body of the extravagant man back. Several soldiers raised their hands and feet, and were about to carry the luxury man back, when a strange thing hit the luxury man in the stomach. Before we could be afraid, the thing suddenly exploded, blowing the extravagant and the soldiers who carried the extravagant to pieces......"
Hao Ping seems to be just an ordinary henchman, and he doesn't seem to have any blood relationship with Hao Chongming, but if someone knows the name of this other son of Hao Chongming, they know that Hao Ping is probably not so simple.
Another son of Hao Chongming is named Hao An, and Ping and An can be combined into one word: Ping'an, they are Ping An brothers.
Yes, this is a secret that no one knows about Luxury Chongming, Luxury Ping is the son of Luxury Chongming, and he is the eldest son, and he will inherit the responsibility of King Liang in the future.
It turned out that Yu Chongming, like An Bangyan, was afraid that the rebellion would fail and cut off his children and grandchildren, so he hid his eldest son. But he was afraid that he was not by his side and his son's education was wasted, so he pretended to need a small servant to serve and arranged Haoping by his side.
I didn't expect to count thousands of calculations, but I didn't calculate that Haoping actually died on a seemingly simple task.
Shocked and angry, he yelled "oops", then spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.
As soon as Yu Chongming fell, the task of commanding the remaining rebels fell on the crows.
Raven counted the remaining rebels and found that the number of rebel soldiers killed in the explosion was not large, so far, just five hundred.
However, it seems that the number is not much, but the loss is not small, because these five hundred people play a very key role in the rebel sequence, and all of them are reimbursed, which makes the crow feel distressed.
These five hundred are archers among the rebels, and if they die, the rebels' long-range strike capabilities will be greatly weakened.
Ranged units are generally deployed in forward positions and are also the most vulnerable units.
In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking the cave, Yu Chongming placed archers at the entrance of the cave, hoping to rely on the condescending advantage to kill and injure a large number of Ming troops.
There was nothing wrong with this plan, but unfortunately this group of Ming troops got such high-grade artillery from nowhere, and they could hit the cave at the foot of the mountain, and as a result, the first line of defense completely collapsed, and the long-range troops stationed at the entrance of the cave were blown to pieces.
The crow pondered for a moment and ordered: "The artillery of the Ming army will not turn a corner, and if we hide in the corner, we will not be injured by shells." The strategic purpose of the Ming army was obvious, first to destroy the fortifications at the entrance of our cave with artillery, and then to direct the infantry to climb the mountain and attack the cave. There's a time lag here, and if we use it well, we still have a chance to turn it around. This opportunity is that when the Ming artillery runs out of shells, and the infantry has not arrived, we can return to the entrance of the cave, push the boulder at the entrance of the cave down the cliff, and smash the infantry of the Ming army to pieces......"
"Raven, there are no more stones. The Ming army threw some strange iron balls into the cave, which exploded when they touched it, and now there is not even a big stone at the entrance of the cave, and it has all turned into sand. β
"What strange iron balls? Rare and strange, it was the flowering shell of the Ming army. The crow was very disdainful of the rarity and strangeness of the rebels, and suddenly, as if he had only heard the crux of the matter, exclaimed, "What, there are no more big stones?" β
"Yes, the one of the Ming Army...... The shells were so powerful that the whole hole seemed to have been plowed over, and there was fine sand everywhere, and even the shadows of the stones could not be seen. β
"It doesn't matter," the crow muttered, "there are still a lot of stones in the back hole, and we can move some more ......"
"If you want to move, Lord Wu will move, but we won't move anyway. I don't want to think about it, how heavy is the stone, can we move it? Besides, if we come over, all the stones will turn into sand, and how much we will move and how much we will change, isn't this a waste of our efforts? A rebel shouted.
"That is, people use cannons, we use stones, doesn't this seem that we are too primitive? If you want to use it, you must also use knives, guns and sticks, so that the Ming army can see the bravery of our people. A young man with a strong body said.
The crow sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that extravagant Chongming is really the backbone of the people. Usually when he is there, he doesn't feel it; As soon as he fell, the Yiren rebels immediately turned into a plate of scattered sand, and no one listened to military orders anymore. (To be continued......)