Chapter 22: The Siege of the Four Counties
At noon, with Lin Qing's order, the whole army began to bury the sound of cooking in pots, and soon the cooking smoke ignited, and the officers and soldiers finished their lunch, rested for an hour, and then continued on the road.
The day passed quickly, and the officers and soldiers led by Lin Qing only walked nearly thirty kilometers in one day, and the progress was very slow, and Lin Qing frowned when he saw it.
But Lin Qing also did it, and the officials and soldiers at the end of the Ming Dynasty were like this. The officers and men had not practiced for too long, and their physical fitness was seriously lacking in all aspects, and before they had gone far, they complained of misery and could no longer walk, and one by one they were paralyzed on the ground, refusing to walk, and could only stop and go along the way.
But no matter how slow you go, you will go to Qingyang County tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and soon after dark, you will set up a camp and have dinner, and the brave officers and soldiers will gather together in twos and threes, telling meat jokes and laughing, not worrying at all, tomorrow's war, and the timid will close their eyes, kneel on the ground, and ask the gods and Buddhas to bless themselves and bless themselves to survive.
Wang Luo looked at the officers and soldiers passing by on the top of the mountain. The formation is scattered, and the chaos is the same as the aunt in the vegetable market buying vegetables. Looking at the chaotic army, Wang Luo shook his head disdainfully.
Wang Luo beckoned to Wang Tiancheng, asked him to be by his side, and began to arrange the battle plan, Tiancheng, you first take the scouts to kill the guards for me, and then divide into two pairs of people, a team quickly looks for the position of the tiger squat cannon, defend the four cannons for me, others destroy, and those officers and soldiers who can use artillery are also captured alive as much as possible. They are of great use. There was also a detachment to find the location of the horses, drive the horses out of the camp, and protect them, our army lacked war horses.
Then I took the remaining soldiers and soldiers to charge directly in the battalion, attacked the camp with rockets, made the officers and soldiers of Heshui County confused, and then gathered the main force, first killed and scattered the officers and soldiers of Heshui County, and then drove these defeated soldiers, led by the defeated soldiers, broke through Lin Qing's musket rope array, and then defeated Lin Qianzong's family in one fell swoop.
Wang Tiancheng listened to Wang Luo's words, clasped his fists and said: Please rest assured, the leader, his subordinates will definitely complete the task.
After the plan was determined, I asked the whole army to eat dry food, and was not allowed to make a fire to cook, so as not to be discovered, and then the scouts led by Wang Tiancheng followed in the front, and I led the Huaxia army to follow in the rear.
Soon the day passed, and the sky gradually darkened.
Wang Luo led the army, and then the officers and soldiers were not far away, sitting on the ground, eating dry food one by one, and quickly finished eating, the veterans closed their eyes and fell asleep, and the recruits who were well trained in all aspects and had just been incorporated into the elite soldiers, panicked in their timid hearts, closed their eyes and prayed, and the bold ones were also excited, thinking about how to kill the officers and soldiers at night, take revenge, and then at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the officers and soldiers were more ruthless than the thieves.
After a while, the recruit finally fell asleep in all kinds of cranky thoughts.
Six hours later, it was already completely dark, and the time had come to wake people up one by one, sort out their weapons and equipment, and begin to encircle and suppress Lin Qianzong's group of officers and soldiers. The troops carried torches and marched quickly one after another, like Lin Qianzong's camp.
At the forefront, Wang Tiancheng led scouts to reconnoiter the enemy situation five kilometers away.
There is an official road on the way to Qingyang County, but the road is very poor, the ground is uneven, the road is narrow, and only two horse-drawn carriages are allowed to go side by side, which will affect the speed of the whole army.
However, according to the current speed of our army, it will arrive at Lin Qing's camp at about one o'clock in the evening, rest for two hours, wait for the physical strength to recover, and then launch an attack at about four o'clock in the morning when the people are most sleepy, which will definitely get twice the result with half the effort and kill the officers and soldiers in one fell swoop.
The only thing to be wary of now is whether Wang Tiancheng can wait for the scouts to uproot the dark posts around the camp, if they are not cleaned, when the sneak attack comes, the dark whistle will sound an alarm, and then the sneak attack will become a strong attack, and the difference between a strong attack on the camp and a sneak attack will be big, and it will cause unnecessary losses at that time.
The officers and soldiers led by Lin Qing and the camp where they were stationed were backed by the mountains, but it was a pity that they could attack from the east, west and south, and there was a stream in the camp, which could provide daily drinking water for the army, so it can be said that Lin Qing still had some vision.
The camp was surrounded by a fence, and the family led by Lin Qing was close to the innermost part of the mountain, and the horses and four tiger squat cannons were placed in the direction of the east and west respectively. The outermost part is the officers and soldiers of Heshui County, and once there is a war, they can use the officers and soldiers of Heshui County as a buffer, and then see if they are going to support after the assembly is completed.
Two large bonfires were placed at the camp gate for lighting, and two officers and soldiers stood guard to show warning, and there were a few hidden piles around the camp, both light and dark, to ensure the safety of the camp. Of course, these things are carried out by the officers and soldiers of Heshui County, and the elite soldiers led by Lin Qing only need to rest well, save up their spirits, and enter the scope of Qingyang County tomorrow, so that they can burn, kill, and loot.
Although the plan is good, someone must implement it, and the dark whistle that was originally one person and one person, because the weather was too cold, leaned together in twos and threes, snuggled together to keep warm, and was directly served by Wang Tiancheng.
Although the sky is dark, the moon is extremely bright tonight, and with the help of the moonlight, it can illuminate the way forward, so that you will not lose sight of your fingers. Wang Luo lay on the ground and looked at the bright moon in the sky, sighing in his heart, in the previous life, the environment was seriously polluted, the lights were bright, where could I see such a bright moonlight at night, now in this world, the air is clear, the night is beautiful, but it still can't hide the darkness of the world, the court government is not only incompetent, but also does not control the life and death of the people, I know that the officials and businessmen collude, desperately make money, as for the life and death of the people, in the vast majority of officials are so insignificant, so that the people are not happy, and then under the oppression of corrupt officials, had to leave his hometown and change his children. Wang Luo only hopes that through his own efforts, he can kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials, open warehouses and release grain, and divide the land equally, so that the lifeless people can have hope for life. Let the period of the Xiaoice River that affected my China end as soon as possible.
Overthrow this dim dynasty as soon as possible, destroy the Houjin Jurchen led by Huang Taiji, and avoid the ten days of Yangzhou, the three massacres in Jiading, the Guangzhou massacre, etc., which cannot be counted.
As for why the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with only a few hundred thousand people, could command hundreds of millions of Han people, but the Han people did not dare to resist, it was all by bloody massacre, and as long as you resisted, I would slaughter the city, one city resisted and one city was slaughtered, and ten cities resisted and ten cities were slaughtered. The more people kill, the less resistance there will be.
For the Manchu rulers at that time, anyway, you Han people, the population is large, thousands of times that of our Manchus, and you can't kill them all. If you are disobedient, those who dare to resist will be killed, as long as those who dare not resist are left behind, and act as slaves and maids of the Manchu Dynasty.
The sound of hurried horses' hooves interrupted Wang Luo's train of thought, it was the scouts led by Wang Tiancheng who had returned, Wang Tiancheng had already removed the secret posts around the officer and soldier camp, and brought back a few tongues by the way, so as to inquire about the situation of the official army camp.
Soon Wang Tiancheng pressed the captive, walked into the camp, and waited for the tied captive to come to Wang Luo.
Wang Luo passed the method of separate inquiry, the disobedient leather whip served, and then the leather whip education, the prisoner quickly told Wang Luo about the situation of the camp of the officers and soldiers. made Wang Luo have a general understanding of the situation of the battalion, as well as the deployment of troops, and the specific location of the war horse and tiger squatting artillery.
In the camp of the officers and soldiers, the officers and men of Heshui patrolled once every half an hour, and the food and materials of the officers and soldiers were concentrated in the middle, which was personally guarded by Jin Yi, the classic of Heshui County.
There are war horses and four tiger squat cannons on the side of the east gate and the west gate at the oblique angle, so the east gate and the west gate camp will be denser than the south gate, the number of people in the east and west gates, a total of four hundred, one gate is stationed with two hundred people, and the south gate has at least one hundred people, but the south gate camp, the fence is the strongest, and the rest of the east and west fences are all coping with things, and they fall to the ground with a light push.
Therefore, the battle plan was changed, Wang Tiancheng fought in the east, with a hundred people, those who could ride horses were converted from infantry to cavalry, and those who could not ride horses were converted from infantry to infantry on horseback, and the cavalry took the lead in the charge, and the cavalry infantry followed closely behind the cavalry to fish in the water, first rushing to kill the officers and soldiers who dared to resist, eliminating the momentum of the officers and soldiers in Heshui County, and then using the defeated army as the front to break up Lin Qianzong's family.
Wang Luo led the people to attack from the west, captured the artillery troops in the west, and then charged and killed them with infantry, and where there was resistance, he bombarded his mother with tiger squatting, killed and scattered the officers and soldiers, and drove the cavalry, and the two armies converged and attacked Lin Qianzong's family together.
After half an hour of night marching, I finally arrived at the camp where Lin Qing was stationed, and calculated the time, the patrol at this time had just passed, and the next patrol would have to wait for half an hour, and it was estimated that they would all go back to sleep. Wang Luo waved his hand, and two sharpshooters came out of the army, squinting and aiming, and before the officers and soldiers guarding the camp gate could react, an arrow pierced the throat, and the officers and soldiers covered their throats and fell silently.
A group of Huaxia troops walked forward quickly to approach the fence, hooked the fence with a rope and pulled it violently, and the rest of the people, each separated by four or five zhang, dragged a section of the fence and quietly put it on the ground.
Wang Luo took the Huaxia army and entered quietly, like a devil entering the village, and those who shot did not want to shoot. I had the detailed location of the Tiger Squat Cannon in my head, and I quickly found the place where the Tiger Squat Cannon was placed. Walked into a nearby tent, covered his mouth and put a knife on the neck of the family, quickly found the gunner, collected the weapons of the rest of the men, tied them with ropes, and honestly stayed in the tent, waiting for the end of the battle.
Soon there was a shout of killing in the east, only to see Wang Tiancheng leading the cavalry to rampage through the camp again, killing and killing, where he passed, the fire was all over the sky, as long as he saw that there was a newspaper regiment in the camp to resist, Wang Tiancheng led the cavalry to a massacre, and the officers and soldiers who were killed scattered and fled before they gave up.
Hearing the shouting and killing from the east, Wang Luo also led people to kill from west to east, and when he saw the officers and soldiers who gathered again, he didn't say a word, first bullied the tigers and cannons, and then led the Huaxia army to rush and kill the officers and soldiers who were dizzy, messed up the phalanx, and had to obey and run to the east.