Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Shelling of the Camp
Back in time, before Li Xin entered Lu Jiu's military tent, Akzia broke free from the hemp rope that bound him in the dark. The reason why he came to Li Xin's tent in the middle of the night was to find an opportunity to take revenge on this Southern Dynasty descendant, this matter is unaware, even if Dolgon investigates, who can embarrass himself for the sake of a subordinate and two ministers. I came twice in a row, but I never found a chance, but I didn't expect to be knocked unconscious and tied up this time.
It was too embarrassing for Akzi to make a noise, and when he passed through Dorgon's tent, he found the tent door open and the lights flickering in the house. This aroused his vigilance, and he came to the door and called a few times, but when no one responded, he felt that it was not good, and when he entered the house, he saw a half-naked woman with a jade body lying on the couch and fainting.
Something is wrong!
This was Akzia's first reaction when he saw this, where did Dorgon go when he was not in the tent? Looking at the messy scattered utensils in the tent on the ground, he had a flash of inspiration in his mind and associated this qiē with Li Xin.
Tonight, the behavior of this Southern Dynasty descendant was very abnormal, and it was just enough to knock himself unconscious, and he even violated the military order and went out of the account in the middle of the night and did not return for a long time. Akzia thought of the scene here again, and slapped his thigh fiercely, could it be that the southerners kidnapped Dolgon?
If the speculation is true, it will be a catastrophe for the Qing army. Akzia didn't dare to think any further, so he turned around and ran, stepped out of the tent, but he tripped over something, and rolled out of his feet. But he didn't care about it, he had to inform Aobai Zhangjing as soon as possible, most of the vigilance of this big camp was in charge of the people of Aobai, and if something really happened, they would have to walk around without food.
The Great Tent of Dorgon was the center of the whole barracks, and all the military tents of the generals and dignitaries were settled in this center, and the military tent of Ao Bai was not far from here, and it was only a matter of moments for Akzia to crawl outside his tent.
Unlike Dolgon's place, the outside of the tent was heavily guarded, and before it could get closer, it was stopped by the night guards. Where can Akzia still take care of the number of courtesies, and said anxiously to the left and right: "Something is wrong, 100,000 urgent, take me to see Ao Bai Zhangjing!" ”
The night guard naturally recognized Akzia as Aobai's confidant, so he no longer stopped him, and at the same time came to the tent to communicate.
Ao Bai was woken up in his sleep, and immediately had an ominous premonition, and while wearing his armor, he ordered someone to call Akzia in.
"Woe to you! His Royal Highness King Rui may have been poisoned by Li Xin, a descendant of the Southern Dynasty? ”
As soon as this remark came out, he was shocked and asked Akzia to explain what had happened. Akzia hid his own joints to look for trouble, but was knocked unconscious and tied up. Instead, he described the piles and scenes of no one in Li Xin's tent, a mess in Dolgon's tent, and a woman who didn't know whether to live or die.
After listening to Akzia's simple description, Ao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.
"His Royal Highness King Rui went to Hejian overnight, and he was not in the barracks, because there were not many people who knew about it in a hurry!"
But halfway through speaking, Ao Bai said worriedly: "The behavior of the Nanren is indeed suspicious, but it is even valued by His Royal Highness King Rui, and you and I are not good to do much beak before." Now that he dares to violate the military order, he can be severely punished to set an example! ”
When Akzia heard that Dorgon was not in the army, the catastrophe disappeared into invisibility, and his face changed again, and he immediately became vigorous again, not at all like the mourning of the concubine just now.
"Akzia, please take your life, and the whole battalion will search for Li Xin!"
Ao Bai nodded in agreement, and waved his hand to signal him to go out and act immediately.
Then he summoned his lieutenant into the tent and solemnly ordered: "Blow the trumpet, line up!" Go and capture the Han Army Banner Lu Jiuzuo, and all the men and horses in the department will be disarmed! ”
Unlike Akzia, Li Xin disappeared for no reason, and he would not simply think that this son would only escape overnight, especially since he still had 300 cronies of horse thieves brought out by Gao Yang. As the saying goes, seven inches to fight a snake, Lu Jiu was Li Xin's henchman before, and if he wants to contain Li Xin, he only needs to control Lu Jiuyi's potential crisis to be resolved.
After that, he picked up the wolf on the table and wrote two warrants, and called the personal armor.
"Send this warrant to the camp of King Gongshun, and hand it over to King Gongshun with your own hands without delay."
"Take this one and inform the battalion commanders, no orders, no rash action, all on standby!"
Aobai's biggest concern was the camp roar, so the first warrant was to strictly order the men and horses of each battalion to act without permission. And also know the importance of artillery, and the artillery battalion must be foolproof at critical moments.
Although Aobai's face was as usual, his back was already soaked with cold sweat. He became more and more unable to see through the depth of Li Xin's person, Dolgon would never give people a favor lightly, such a courtesy, even if Mr. Fan went out with the army, it was only so, which showed that this person must be extraordinary. Thinking about it further, his previous inadvertence in Gaoyang City may have been due to this person.
Thinking of this, Ao Bai couldn't hold his breath anymore, and personally took the armored warriors to the camp of the Han Army Banner Lujiu. As soon as I walked halfway, I heard the sound of firearms exploding, followed by startled horses, thousands of horses were frightened, how could the one-person high wall in the barracks stand up? In an instant, the commotion dispersed.
Ao Bai frowned, and immediately ordered the armored warriors to change the direction of travel, and went straight to Kong Youde's firearms battalion. At that time, all the firearms of the Qing army were concentrated in the camp of Kong Youde, and when the firearms exploded at night, people's first reaction was naturally that there was something wrong with Kong Youde, and Aobai was no exception.
At the same time, Kong Youde's remorse in his heart is useless, and he no longer excuses himself to be perfunctory. Li Xin's detonating of the firearm is tantamount to pushing everyone into a corner, there is only one way to go for the rebellion in front of him, and if he doesn't fight, he will be defeated and eliminated by the Qing army, and there is still hope of getting out alive if he fights.
"What do you pay attention to, you know if you are virtuous, and you have to act quickly. At this time, take advantage of the chaos to touch the firearms battalion, once the matter is completed, the Qing army will inevitably be in chaos, and we will definitely not take care of us anymore, and we will definitely be able to escape by then......"
Kong Youde didn't finish speaking, Li Xin had already taken the lead in coming out of the account, so he had to follow, but when the whole person was exposed to the night again, he was stunned by the qiē in front of him.
The barracks, which was originally pitch black and had no fingers, was illuminated by hundreds of torches, and everyone rode horses and swords unsheathed.
"This, this ......"
Li Xin said coldly: "Brother Kong get on the horse, let's kill all the way to the firearms camp, and we will go out of the Tartar camp from today!" ”
As Li Xin expected, the riot came so suddenly that the 300 horse thieves swept through barely met the slightest decent resistance, and they rushed straight into the firearms battalion.
However, what Li Xin did not expect was that when the 300 horse thieves stormed the firearms camp, they met resistance, and the feather arrows in the camp rained down. Li Xin was horrified and led the people around the side of the firearms battalion.
Li Xin also made a discovery that he had never ridden a horse before and had such superb riding skills and was able to control the war horse under his crotch freely, perhaps some of the remaining information of the original "Li Xin" was at work.
Lu Jiu urged the war horse tightly and shouted: "Thirteenth brother, the Tartars are prepared, what should I do?" ”
Looking at Kong Youde again, he waved his hand repeatedly, saying that he had no idea about the changes that had occurred in the firearms camp.
"Let's go, go to school! I've got my own plans! ”
The Qing army camp was not big, and the horse thieves did not stop like a storm, and they rushed to the school field in the blink of an eye. Li Xin pointed to the edge of the school field, a shadow.
"Go and get that tarpaulin off!"
As the tarpaulin was pulled away, an iron cannon appeared in front of everyone.
"This, this?"
Kong Youde was pleasantly surprised, when did Li Xin hide an iron cannon in the school field, and he didn't know how. As a matter of fact, this was the smallest caliber iron cannon that was led out of the firearms battalion during the test the day before yesterday, mainly for the purpose of testing the iron cannon to fire flowering shells. Li Xin deliberately found an excuse not to send him back to the camp before nightfall in accordance with the rules, and now it came in handy.
"Brother Kong, I'll leave the rest to you!"
Although Li Xin knew the principles of how to make these weapons, the operation of the cannon was a complete blank slate compared to the old soldiers who were accustomed to using firearms. Of course, Kong Youde didn't dare to delay, he was now riding a tiger, and if he wanted to escape, the only way out was to mess up the Qing army camp, and turn the world upside down before everyone had the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
I saw him skillfully push the cannon body and aim the muzzle of the gun at the firearms battalion that was originally under his command. Immediately, he cleaned the gun chamber, charged, fed, compacted, and did it in one go. Finally, he used some strangely shaped ruler-like tools to aim at it a few times.
"Guys, get out of the way!"
Kong Youde snapped a warning, and at the same time the torch reached for the fuse stuck in the tail of the cannon.
"Boom!"
The cannon rang out suddenly, and the flowering shells made a white arc in the night sky, smashing into the firearms battalion.
Everyone covered their ears but did not hear the expected earth-shattering explosion, and the skyrocketing fire.
Kong Youde spat on his palms and rubbed his hands vigorously.
"Damn, come again!"
The sighting system of ancient cannons was extremely primitive and extremely inaccurate. The impact point of the first shell is usually used as a reference for the subsequent shells to correct their trajectory. Therefore, it is not surprising that no target was missed.
Just as Kong Youde was about to fire the second bullet, Lu Jiu pointed in the direction of the firearms battalion.
"Thirteenth brother, look, the Tartars are rushing over!"
Li Xin fixed his eyes on it, and the firearms battalion really opened the door, and a team of Qing army armor soldiers rushed out from inside. Li Xin's gaze swept over the faces of the horse thieves one by one, this was the first time he had led the horse thieves into battle, but there was an indescribable sense of familiarity coming to his face.
Although the horse thieves looked nervous, they were different from the horror of the people, but there was a hint of determination to die calmly in their eyes. This kind of determination is neither for the sake of the country and the nation, nor for the sake of the Ming court, but they have been prepared since the day they began to be horse thieves.
Li Xin never expected that the horse thieves, who were supposed to be a rabble, had such a high morale that they did not lose their will to fight even when they were in a desperate situation.
"Draw your sword, meet the enemy, and block the Tartar!"
All hope lies in the iron cannon controlled by Kong Youde, and the Qing army must not be allowed to take a step closer.
The shape is extremely critical, Kong Youde, who has always boasted of being accustomed to seeing strong winds and strong Lang, also sweated on his head, this is the first time he has played with fire inside the enemy camp, in case he misses again, will he still have a chance to fire a third shot?
The torch is pressed to the tail fuse again!