Wan Qian refers to whether the peak can bear the contact of the fifty-second section

On August 22, the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Jingshi

The Emperor had been in poor health since the beginning of August, and the generous young man was completely ill to cope with the looming crisis of his reign, so he fell into a severe depression.

Tianqi felt that there was probably no benefit in removing officials, after all, for hundreds of years, the candidates of the Ming Cabinet were all recommended by the court, and then the list was presented to the emperor, and generally the Son of Heaven only had the right to approve it or not. Therefore, Apocalypse has long lost hope for the cabinet, but using force to change this status quo is inconsistent with his character, so the desperate Apocalypse has nothing to do but torture himself.

After the imperial doctor diagnosed, he told the queen and Wei Zhongxian: The emperor is a heart disease, and the decoction is probably useless, so it is best to have something to make the emperor happy, so that his body can slowly get better.

Wei Zhongxian once suggested that the emperor go to fight more carpenters to distract himself, but after the battle of Ningjin, Tianqi couldn't even fight carpenters to relieve the worries in his heart, so he didn't want to do it. Wei Zhongxian also went out of his way to choreograph some dramas and let the actors perform in front of the emperor's sickbed, and after watching it with a smile, Tianqi said to Wei Zhongxian: "It's too noisy, don't bring them in again in the future." ”

On August 15 and 6, Tianqi was so sick that he couldn't get out of bed several times, and the imperial doctor and the queen who accompanied him were very worried for a while, and Wei Zhongxian was also crying behind his back and his eyes were red. The emperor's body weakness and night sweats became more and more severe, and he once complained to the imperial doctor who inquired about the situation: "Every time I think about state affairs, I am so uncomfortable that I can't sleep all night, and sometimes I can almost fall asleep in a trance, but I am always awakened suddenly." There was a cold sweat all over the body. ”

Fortunately, the emperor's health improved a little, and Apocalypse regained some appetite on August 20, and he also fell asleep in a daze a few times, and after waking up, Apocalypse also regained some blood on his face. He said to the queen who was undressed and guarded by the bedside: "I dreamed that Huang Shuai sent me another piece of good news, and I stood on the Daming Gate again, and the people in front of me were cheering. Alas, I really can't wait. ”

August 24th. Three thousand miles from Guiyang to the Beijing Division, Wei Zhongxian once again personally carried the Song Shu from the Master of Ceremonies to the Tianqi Palace, Zhang Heming reported in the Song Shu that Huangshi had arrived in Guiyang, and the offensive against the southwest rebels was about to begin. Apocalypse was already depressed at this time, but after hearing it, he got out of bed as if with divine help.

After checking the dates of the song, Apocalypse was relieved and praised the speed of Yellowstone's march to the surrounding ground attendants. That day, the young emperor ate two bowls of rice in a row for the first time. I also happily chatted with the queen for a long time. In the end, he remembered his carpenter's shed, so he sent a few little eunuchs to take good care of it, so as not to let the tools get caught in the rain.

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On the 25th, far away in Guiyang, in the southwest,

Zhang Heming received Huang Shi's report, in which Huang Shi did not mention that he had proposed a plan to go straight out of Chishuiwei, as if he had completely forgotten about this matter. From beginning to end, Huang Shi praised Zhang Heming's foresight, and described the whole plan as if it were Zhang Heming's idea. Moreover, he said that the surprise attack on Chishuiwei was a successful realization of Zhang Heming's clever plan, and praised it desperately.

In addition, Huang Shi also emphasized that thanks to the guidance of Zhang Heming, especially his idea of first reconnaissance and then in-depth thinking, this method not only perfectly preserves the idea of dividing the rebels into two, but also greatly reduces the risk of being ambushed and counterattacked, which is the so-called "excellence". After the Rock Battalion reconnoitred Chishuiwei without any danger. Huang Shi admired Zhang Heming's strategic vision even more, so he said that he was still adhering to Zhang Heming's steady style and was cautiously expanding the scope of reconnaissance and search.

After praising Zhang Heming as rare in the sky and unique on earth, Huangshi enclosed the existing military action plan with the letter, which was of course another letter. After the capture of Chishuiwei, the middle section of the Chishui River was already controlled by the Ming army, and the central breakthrough stage had been completed. At present, the Ming army naturally began to develop to the two wings, and the fire battalion and the Xuanfeng battalion deployed on the flanks at the beginning have now begun to reconnoiter and advance, and Huangshi asked Zhang Heming to give guidance on this plan.

Zhang Heming thought about it for a while, and then wrote back to tell Huangshi not to be greedy for merit, not to be rash, etc. After he has written a reply and sent someone to send it out immediately. Zhang Heming couldn't hold back the pride in his heart anymore. He gathered all his disciples and disciples. Publicized to them a letter from Huangshi - such a famous military general, in the letter to Zhang Heming, the tone was as respectful as a primary school student. Honestly, I asked him for advice.

"Thinking about Xiong Tingbi's house, he was still scolding the old man for being a 'straw bag' behind his back, hum, ridiculous. He also said that the military strategy of the old man and Ye Daxue came from drama and storytelling, and they could only be taken out for ...... Take it to the *, hum, Xiong Tingbi is really a scum. Zhang Heming has not allowed others to mention the grievances between himself and Xiong Tingbi over the years, but now he took the initiative to take it out, and he also talked about it, right and wrong are at ease in the hearts of the people, and he Zhang Heming is not afraid of the world's comments at all.

In the midst of everyone's flattery, Zhang Heming was still unsatisfied, and happily summoned the hundred officials of Guiyang to the mansion, and said it again, from "divide and rule" to "think twice before acting", Zhang Heming finally completely took this strategic plan as his own. However, in the end, he also highly praised Huangshi's martial courage and Huangshi's loyalty.

According to Zhang Heming, he has been brewing this plan in his heart for a long time, but in the past, he looked at the generals in the southwest and did not find a fierce general who could implement this heart-digging strategy. It wasn't until Huangshi came this time that Zhang Heming finally found someone who could be entrusted with the important task. In the end, Mr. Zhang set the tone for the cooperation between himself and Huang Shi: "Although the old man is full of strategy, no one can achieve this great achievement without Huang Shuai!"

After everyone was convinced, Zhang Heming also talked a little about his worries, that is, in the current situation, Huangshi may be overheated, so Zhang Heming has sent someone to persuade Huangshi to be cautious and not to be greedy for merit: "There is a saying in the art of war: 'Generals are outside, and military orders are not subject to'. But the old man was really worried, so he hurriedly sent someone to chase Huang Shuai, as long as Huang Shuai could listen to the old man's words, then Chishuiwei would be in the palm of our army. ”

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On the ninth day of the ninth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, at noon, near the Platts Institute

A pair of Yongning Xuanfu Sidi brothers were sitting on the ground eating, and more than 100 people around them were Yongning natives. They were laboriously transporting the food of the world to Manichae. Since learning of the Ming army's surprise attack on Chishuiwei in the middle of last month, Yu Chongming hurriedly dispatched troops. Prepare to go to reinforce Chishui.

But then the news got worse and worse, Sichuan and other places reported that the scale of the Ming army's mobilization was unprecedentedly strong, and in just 20 days, tens of thousands of Ming troops received a strict order to march to Banzhou, and this time the person in charge of the command is said to be the first general of the Ming State, Huangshi. This man led the troops to travel 3,000 miles in 80 days to fight in the southwest, and the story was well known to everyone in the four provinces. Not to mention the huge deterrent power implied by the speed of this march, let's just say that Huangshi is so menacing, and his sharp spirit can be seen.

Around the 22nd. After Luxury Chongming reluctantly assembled the army, there was bad news from Chishui, thousands of Ming troops appeared in Chishuiwei like heavenly soldiers airborne, and the castle was lost in a blink of an eye, and at this time, the first batch of reinforcements sent by Luxury Chongming was even almost two days away from Chishuiwei.

While frightened by the speed of the Ming army's movements, Yu Chongming estimated that the strength of this Ming army would be very limited, so he hurriedly led all the main forces to Chishui, and finally arrived at Mani on the 28th. By the time he got here, he had already gotten several reports one after another.

Because Xuan Chongming repeatedly explained that Chishuiwei was an important communication line between Shuixi and Yongning, and the geographical location could not be overemphasized, the reinforcements sent by Xuan Chongming immediately tried to recapture Chishuiwei, but they were attacked head-on by the Ming army. The first attack lasted less than a quarter of an hour before it completely collapsed, and more than seventy people were killed.

On the 27th, several support troops sent by Yu Chongming in advance met and repaired for a period of time. The offensive was launched against Chishuiwei again, but this time it was faster than the last rout, and the Ming army had already transferred artillery into Chishuiwei, and more than 3,000 rebels were killed more than 270 people in the blink of an eye, and hundreds of people were killed after the rout.

The continuous fiascos made the morale of the Yongning rebels extremely low, but they were not completely without gains, first of all, they learned that the Ming army stationed in Chishuiwei was indeed not strong, probably four or five thousand people; Secondly, they noticed that the Ming army had no desire to expand its depth, and it seemed that all its forces were trying their best to maintain the supply line of the Chishui River.

Therefore, Yu Chongming judged that the supply capacity of the Ming army had reached the extreme, and they could no longer rely on a single river to maintain more troops. And that makes sense. After all, the Ming army came too quickly. Most likely, they were not well prepared. However, over time, the Ming army will definitely build more ships to transport supplies. At that point, I'm afraid it won't be a matter of a few thousand.

In line with the principle of leniency for the enemy, Yu Chongming temporarily estimated that Chishuiwei had 5,000 Ming troops. Then, according to the general law, there should only be about 2,000 soldiers among them, and Yu Chongming thought that he could still deal with this number, so he hurriedly pounced on Chi Shuiwei fiercely. At the same time, the reconnaissance cavalry went out in all directions, intending to cut off the supply line of the Chishui River of the Ming army in one fell swoop, and then eat this deep Ming army.

Whether it is the speed of the march or the combat effectiveness, this Ming army is an elite that Yu Chongming has never seen, so he thinks that this must be the backbone of this Ming army's offensive, so he plans to put aside all distractions and eat this core Ming army first, so as to give the Ming army a serious defeat in terms of strategy and morale.

More than 30,000 field elites of the Yongning Xuanfu Division gathered in the Mani Institute, and the remaining natives were gathered and desperately moved the grain and grass reserves from Yongning to the Mani Institute through the Platts Institute, and the two brothers were also urgently recruited a few days ago.

"Brother, the head man said that as long as this battle is won, the marriage will be released. When the younger brother spoke, his eyes were full of longing.

The local officials in the Yunnan-Guizhou region are all landlords for generations, and there will be no change in a thousand or two thousand years, and the local people will always be the subjects of the local officials. Last year, Yu Chongming's youngest son became an adult, so he forbade the local people to talk about marriage according to the tradition of Tusi until his youngest son chose a good wife and concubine.

The natives did not dare to resist this kind of behavior in the slightest. The Ming Dynasty repeatedly tried to implement land reform and return to the river in the Yunnan-Guizhou region. But they all failed because of the collective boycott of Tusidi. According to the agreement and practice between the Ming government and the local Tusi, cases involving the local people can only be handed over to the local officials to deal with, and no matter how much the local people are wronged, the Ming officials have no right to intervene.

In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were people who fled to the rule of the imperial court because they couldn't bear it, hoping to get shelter. But over time. The deterrent power of the imperial court's military force in Yunnan is constantly decreasing, and the local officials are becoming more and more emboldened. If something goes wrong, they will raise troops to make trouble. Therefore, in the past hundred years, if you encounter the fleeing local people again, these people will finally be sent to their local officials without exception, because the Yunnan and Guizhou political divisions of the Ming Dynasty no longer have the courage to fight against the Tusi on a large scale, and "changing the land and returning to the stream" has become an empty word.

"Yes, do you have any girl you like? Take advantage of this opportunity to marry home quickly. My brother sighed. Because of the absolute authority of the local officials for thousands of years, when these native people got married. The wedding night in the bride's land is owned by the local officials, and the Yongning Xuanfu Division is naturally no exception, and the elder brother of the two brothers was the victim back then.

Because this has been the case in the local area for thousands of years, this brother has no idea of resisting, and besides, he is powerless to do anything. A few days ago, in order to boost morale, Yu Chongming announced that as long as he could win the battle this time, not only would he not ban marriage, but his father and son would also give up their first night rights for a year.

The younger brother stuffed the food in two bites. The girl he liked was still waiting for him in his hometown, and his younger brother was full of energy when he thought of his sweetheart: "Okay, but first of all, we have to win." ”

"Well, wait a minute. The elder brother looked at the younger brother with a smile on his face, and also swallowed the food in his hand, ready to get up to carry the food.

After standing up. The younger brother squinted at the forest beside the road for a while, and suddenly shouted, "Brother, there seems to be something shining in the forest." ”

"Huh?" the elder brother stuffed his mouth full of food, he heard the words and glanced back, but because he squatted and didn't see anything, he swallowed a few times with great difficulty, but failed, and after choking, the elder brother beat his chest desperately while searching for a gourd filled with water on the ground.

After finding the kettle. The brother couldn't wait to open the stopper. He took two hard puffs and waited until he turned around to talk to his brother. He saw that his brother's mouth was already wide open, and he looked ahead in surprise, unable to even make a sound.

The elder brother looked around, and the people around him all looked at the eastern woods in a daze, and then there was a messy sound coming from that direction, and the elder brother stood up with the gourd, and squinted towards the forest.

"Buddha. ”

With an exclamation, the kettle slipped from between the released fingers, and the elder brother looked at the old forest, which was said to be an old forest in the deep mountains sixty miles wide, and the leaves were so dense that they could almost block the sun. Not to mention that there are impassable swamps inside, and no one likes to walk from Lin Zhou to the universal place through this mountain forest, let alone hundreds of people.

The sunlight shone into the forest through the gaps in the leaves, shining brightly on the iron armor of the officers and men of the firefighting battalion. After receiving the report from the spies just now and walking to the edge of the forest, Wang Qinian ordered the soldiers to rest for the last time, and then put on iron armor and marched in columns. Although it seemed that the opposite side was just a team of auxiliaries, the fire battalion still lined up in battle formation, and the pikemen all stood up one by one.

Walking behind the fire battalion A is the advance team of the engineer team, in addition to the fire battalion's own engineering team, Huang Shi also brought the engineering team of the headquarters directly under the jurisdiction of Funing Town. They built bridges over mountains and rivers along the way, erected one suspension bridge after another in the mountain trenches, and cut down a lot of logs, and used them to build a passage in the swamp, so that the baggage team could drag the six-pounder guns with them.

With Wang Qinian's order, the heavy infantry of Team A put down the masks on their helmets, and they walked over with firm steps, ruthlessly stepping branches and weeds into the dirt. The crowd poured silently from the woods onto the avenue. Although the Fire Battalion C was ready for battle, the group of enemy troops opposite them looked like Ben had no weapons, and it was clear that the enemy troops were already frightened.

Wang Qinian walked up to the official road with a handcuff in one hand and a saber in the other, and some of the original more than 100 enemy soldiers on the opposite side had already run away, and the rest were shrunk into a ball on the ground. Wang Qinian looked down at the two people lying at his feet. The two men looked like a pair of young brothers, with an overturned gourd on their legs, still bubbling out, the older one still holding the younger one tightly in his arms, and four black eyes looking at him motionlessly, showing a look of grief and despair.

The two brothers, who thought they were in danger, looked at the leader of the steely Ming Jun and looked down at them a few times. Then he put the long knife back into its scabbard, and then strode away with his head held high. The Ming army behind was also dressed in dazzling armor. The steel-skinned humanoid monsters streamed past the brothers, and no one looked at them again, as if they had lost interest in them.

After the brothers could turn their eyes again, more Ming soldiers came out of the forest, and some even brought out a few horses. But no one ever paid attention to the brothers, as if they didn't exist, wrong. It was as if none of the men of the Yongning Xuanfu Division existed, and these Ming soldiers all leaned their spears on their shoulders and silently followed the footsteps of their predecessors.

The brothers nervously watched as the soldiers crossed past them, and they made their way onto the main road, then dispersed in a strange formation. Suddenly, a question came from behind their ears, which scared the two brothers into a tremble. When they looked back, they saw a kind smile on the face in front of them. There are also familiar vernaculars.

"Excuse me, these two brothers, we are going to the universal place, can you tell us how to go? Thank you. The smiling interrogator looked like a local, and behind this local stood a Ming soldier wearing a yellow helmet. The helmet of the Ming army was not only a strange color, but also a tall red tassel with a white feather stuck on the ground. It looks like it's almost a foot long.

This Ming soldier with a strange helmet was dressed in military uniform, wearing purple leather armor, and a swarthy round box hanging from his neck, he did not hold any weapon in his hand, but a copper-yellow metal rod, after noticing the eyes of the two brothers, the Ming army also smiled and nodded at them,

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When Huang Shi came out of the forest, Ouyang Xin was gathered around a wooden pier with several engineering officers from Funing Town, bending over and discussing something. When Huangshi walked over, Ouyang Xin and the others stood up to Huangshi's luggage. Huang Shi glanced at the wooden pier, and a piece of paper was spread out on it. There is also a helmet pressed with paper feet.

"Brother Ouyang, according to the regulations, you are not allowed to take off your helmet on the battlefield. ”

"Yes, Dashuai," Ouyang Xin first agreed, and then pointed to the back of his head, with a charcoal pen in his ear: "Dashuai, the humble position is just for convenience." ”

"The pen can be held in the hand, but the helmet is not allowed to be taken off. ”

"Yes, Commander. Ouyang Xin picked up his helmet from the wooden pier and put it on, then untied the compass box hanging on his chest from his neck, pressed it under the piece of paper, and then casually picked up the monocular leaning against the root of the tree, and pressed the side of the paper with it.

After doing these tasks, Ouyang Xin pointed to the piece of paper with charcoal, which was the map that had just been drawn by several of their engineer officers: "Dashuai, we are located between the Universal Institute and the Mani Institute, about fifteen miles to the north is the Universal Institute, and forty-five miles to the south is the Mani Institute. According to the captives, most of the food and grass of the thieves were in the universal place, and the main force was in the Manichae. ”

"Well done, this march, Brother Ouyang should be the first to take the lead. ”

"Dashuai, although we should be closer to the world now, we still haven't walked directly to its city......"

Huang Shi interrupted Ouyang Xin's apologetic voice. This time, he relied on sappers to maintain his direction along the way, and the distance from the target was more than ten miles away, which was already remarkable, after all, all maps in this era had a lot of errors. The horses that had been drawn out at the head were assigned to the sappers, who were heading north and south along the road in order to draw a topographical map of the road.

The two teams at the head of the fire battalion had already headed north to the universal place, and Huang Shi instructed the herald behind him: "Let the baggage team leave the food alone, and give priority to transporting medicinal herbs and cannons." ”

"Yes, Commander. ”

Then Huang Shi instructed: "Pass the order to the C, E and Geng teams behind, and after they come out, they will search and advance to the south to prevent the enemy from returning to the division." ”

"Yes. ”

In the past few days, the fire battalion has taken turns to advance and rest in the forest. So Zhang Chengye, who set off at the beginning, and they all fell behind. Although this forest can make surprise troops, a large amount of grain and grass can only be transported by a solid road, so if Huangshi can't take the weight of Yongning Xuanfu Division, then the troops that can be replenished through this forest are also limited.

This time the troops sent to Yellowstone brought enough food, so the troops moved very slowly, thanks to the well-trained baggage brigades, they were together with the engineering corps. Using various tools, he finally dragged hundreds of thousands of catties of food, armor, artillery and other materials to keep up with the large army. Now, even if Huangshi can't get the grain and grass of Yongning Xuanfu Division, he can support it here for more than three days. And when I came from this forest. Huangshi hides a lot of grain along the way, even if you have to walk back, then the spare grain in other places is enough.

As long as the road to Chishuiwei was not in the hands of the Yongning Xuanfu Division, Na Yu Chongming and his army would have been in a de facto situation of being surrounded. Now the main goal of Huangshi is to quickly capture the universal institute, once the universal institute falls, then the Yongning army between the place and the universal institute and the road of Lin Zhou will immediately lose supplies. They either abandoned their positions and fled, or waited to starve to death between the world and Lin Zhou.

The food stored by the Yongning Xuanfu Division in the world was enough for tens of thousands of troops, and taking it could greatly reduce the logistical pressure on Huangshi, so that he did not need to rush to open the road to Lin Zhou to transport grain. And once he takes the universal office, even if Huangshi encounters the worst situation - Chishui Wei is lost, he can light a fire to burn the grain of Yu Chongming clean, so that the fire battalion can safely return to Lin Zhou no matter what, because there is no food. Yu Chongming and his army had to go home hungry.

The horse team was left behind again this time, because there were a lot of grass and branches in the woods, and it was easy to hurt the horses' eyes if they were not careful, so they could only keep moving cautiously, and it was estimated that they would not be able to get out of this deep mountain and old forest for a while. Before nightfall, two six-pounder guns were dragged out of the woods. Yellowstone didn't wait any longer, he left a squad to defend south, and then took the rest of the troops with him. The fire battalion will carry a fire and march north at night along the road, hoping to launch an attack on the world at dawn tomorrow.

Every time a whole infantry formation came out of the woods, it would take over the defensive post from the remaining troops, and the original remaining troops would immediately go north to catch up with the larger army. Huang Shi took away more than half of the firefighting battalion engineer team, and the rest were handed over to Ouyang Xin to command along with the engineering team of the headquarters.

At noon on September 10, the last three infantry and horse teams walked out of the woods. The officers and men of the horse team were suffocated when they crossed the mountains and forests, and now that they were finally on the road, they jumped on their horses one after another. Hurry to the north. Teams C, E and G began to move south after a little rectification. Yellowstone's order was to move the front as far south as possible, and to compress the enemy forces southward. The more difficult it is for them to escape back to Yongning's lair by gnawing on the bark and grass roots.

"There is a ridge seven miles ahead, and a stream running across it in front and behind, so that there is an open field in front of and behind it, and although it is not very large, it is large enough to hold a thousand troops. ”

After the returning sappers reported the terrain, Ouyang Xin drew the map. Zhang Chengye is now a senior officer, so he is also the temporary commander of the three-step team, and after looking at the map, he immediately ordered to speed up: "This place must be in the hands of our army."

Ouyang Xin has been in charge of sappers for a long time, so he doesn't know much about fighting. Seeing that Zhang Chengye was about to set off in a hurry, he commanded the engineer team to follow, and at the same time asked, "Brother Zhang, is this location very important?"

"It's very important," although Zhang Chengye followed Huangshi far earlier than Ouyang Xin, he was one level lower than Ouyang Xin in terms of position, Ouyang Xin is now a quasi-senior officer in the Funing Military Land, and Zhang Chengye is just a middle-level officer: "Both sides of this ridge are relatively narrow roads, and only here can the troops be deployed. ”

"Oh. Ouyang Xin replied simply, although he was still a little unsure, but since there were regulations, there was nothing to consider, because their engineering regulations were also the basis for action. Huangshi has always wanted to build a professional army, so his requirement for the officers and soldiers of Funing is to be as professional as possible, and this purpose is mainly achieved by familiarizing themselves with the regulations of their own work.

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"Thieves ahead! ”

When you are less than two miles away from the target location. Tanma reported that an enemy force had arrived.

"How many thieves are there, and how far are they?" asked Zhang Chengye nervously. If the opponent occupies this open area, then the Funing army can only attack the enemy in a horizontal formation from the road in columns, although this is not impossible, but I am afraid that it will increase the difficulty of the attack.

"Hundreds, coming towards us from the opposite road, I can't see the exact number, it's a little more than three miles from the mountains. ”

"The whole army is running forward. Zhang Chengye yelled. They ran first, and the soldiers of the fire battalion were armed with helmets and weapons. The whole army troted forward. Ouyang Xin hurriedly asked the sapper team to give way, and then they all turned around to help the baggage team drag the armor.

By the time Ouyang Xin ran to the destination panting with a suit of armor on his back, the three teams of soldiers in the firefighting camp had already spread out behind the mountain, forming a horizontal formation, and some of the firecrackers had already climbed the ridge and began to deploy the firecracker position.

The baggage and engineering teams desperately carried the armor, while the officers of the infantry ordered the fighters to sit on the ground. Take a final pre-battle break.

"The retreating mixed thieves should have rushed to the rear. Zhang Chengye walked down the ridge and put on the iron armor leisurely, he could see that he was in a relaxed mood, so he had the time to introduce to Ouyang Xin: "Their marching speed is too slow, but the number of people is not clear, our army does not need to be close to the opposite forest, as long as it is enough to hold this ridge." ”

After Zhang Chengye put on his clothes, he drank a bowl of stream water. Then he slowly walked up the ridge. The officers and men of the engineering corps and the baggage squad stood behind, nervous and curious about the situation ahead. At the same time, the officers of the baggage team were also so anxious that they jumped to their feet, anxious that the artillery could not be dragged up for a long time.

After a while, an order seemed to come from the ridge, and the pikemen who remained on this side of the hill stood up one after another, slowly walked up to the high ground under the guidance of the officer, and then crossed the front line. Gradually disappeared from Ouyang Xin's field of vision, and in the end, he could only see countless guns and blades with cold light poking their heads out of the horizon one after another, pointing densely at the sky.

After a while, those gun blades sank neatly down a few times, one by one below the horizon, and then the rest also fell forward, and in the blink of an eye, Ouyang Xin couldn't even see a gun. He couldn't help muttering, "It's begun, the thieves are coming." ”

In fact, the senior engineer officer was wrong again, Zhang Chengye just asked the pikemen in the front row to walk forward in unison for a while, and then asked the soldiers to put the spears flat. so as not to affect the shooting range of the firecrackers behind.

On the other side, the Yongning army seemed to be shocked by the encounter with the Ming army here. They also seem to be aware of the value of the terrain here, but now that the Ming army has been deployed. Then they won't be able to come out and line up. Zhang Chengye coldly watched his opponent put on armor and give troops on the road, and prepared for war in a chaotic manner.

After the Yongning army finished wearing armor, they dispersed directly into the woods on both sides of the road, and Zhang Chengye knew that they planned to form a horizontal formation in the woods, and then cross out to fight. This attempt made Zhang Chengye just sneer, lining up in the woods not only delayed time, but also wasted physical strength, and the entire fire battalion maintained a terrible silence, watching the opponent's figure gradually emerge from the woods diagonally below, and there was still a distance of about fifty meters between the Ming army and the battle line of the Ming army walking down half the hill

The crossbow is a weapon with high weather requirements, even in Liaodong, the bow and crossbow will be greatly affected when it is cloudy, and the bow and crossbow cannot be used at all due to the humid climate here in the southwest, so all that is used here are blowing arrows and throwing stones. After seeing that the other party showed an attempt to attack from a distance, Zhang Chengye ordered everyone to kneel. Some stones were thrown from the opposite side, and a lot of poisoned arrows were blown, most of these weapons could not reach the position of the fire battalion, and the blowing arrows and stones that hit the spearmen of the fire battalion were also powerless to penetrate the iron armor on the Ming army, but they just made some jingling sounds helplessly.

"Gunner, shoot!"

One hundred and fifty Ming gunners on the top of the hill launched a volley, and after the gunpowder smoke erupted from the chamber of the gun, a series of screams came out from the edge of the woods 100 meters away, and many Yongning soldiers fell to the ground, making a heavy sound of flesh hitting the ground.

"Gunner, shoot!"

Another hundred and fifty musketeers fired a volley, and heart-rending screams rang out again at the junction of the woods and streams, and more Yongning soldiers fell to the ground, and those who were hit by the Ming army's musketeers almost quickly swallowed their last breath. And those who were shot in the limbs, their hands and feet were almost immediately broken by the 24-millimeter caliber buckshot, and the wounded rolled on the ground, making a helpless sound of dying pain.

After two shots, Zhang Chengye noticed that his opponent seemed to hesitate, and at this moment, the Ming army's musketeers fired a third volley. The enemy in the field of vision seemed to retreat in a hurry. Just opposite Zhang Chengye, a Yongning soldier seemed to be drunk, staggering a few times under the gaze of the Ming army, then turned around and hugged a big tree, and sat down slowly, slowly, slowly, on the ground, his hand holding the tree moved down, leaving a broad red mark on the trunk.

There were chaotic shouts on the Yongning army's position, and after a while, the figure shook again in the woods opposite, and the Ming army waited patiently, this time the Yongning army did not seem to plan to shoot at the Ming army again, and they paused at the edge of the woods before emerging from the entire demarcation line.

Countless pairs of feet stepped across the stream, and the Yongning army held the rattan card in front of him, and pressed up towards the Ming army in black, and it seemed that they also had more than a thousand people.

Zhang Chengye had already raised the handcuff to his ear, and this time the new weapon in his hand was a new weapon in Funing Town, a flintlock handcuff specially issued to officers.

Boom!

With a gunshot from Zhang Chengye, four hundred and fifty Ming guns fired a powerful salvo; At the same time, the pikemen of the Ming army also stood up after this volley, ready to start hand-to-hand combat with the support of the musketeers.

However, there was no need for them anymore, and the enemy in front of them left behind nearly a hundred corpses and almost as many wounded, and the remaining seven or eight hundred Yongning soldiers discarded their armor and weapons, and fled into the woods in a swarm. The Ming army carried out another pursuit with firearms, and put down a group of Yongning troops who were running behind.

The turquoise hillside was littered with corpses, spreading halfway up the mountain to the front of the stream, and the stream was now filled with a dozen Yongning soldiers, dyeing the otherwise clear river with a few wisps of red.

More than 700 Ming army spearmen on the mountainside lined up in a neat horizontal line, the spears in their hands were as dense as a jungle, and the Ming army gunners behind them also recovered their upright posture, and they all looked ahead with fire guns upright.

Zhang Chengye estimated that there were 1,000 to 2,000 Yongning soldiers on the opposite side, and the entire battle took no more than half an hour, and the other side left nearly 400 corpses, but did not cause the slightest casualties to the Ming army. Both defeats were caused by firearm volleys, and there was no need for white-knuckle combat at all.

"It's really bad, what kind of battle is this fighting? It seems that it is a miscellaneous soldier of the guard. ”

Just when Zhang Chengye sighed, there was a crushing sound of wheels and wheels on the hillside behind him, and soon, two six-pound cast-iron cannons poked out of their black holes from both sides of Zhang Chengye.

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