Chapter 199: Escape
"Yes." Both on and under the city wall, the Ming officers and soldiers replied one after another.
"Make a fire and make food, and the gunners prepare the gunpowder and the shells, and the gunners and sailors prepare their wagons, put the artillery on the carts, and go out of the city in two quarters of an hour." Lin Xu said.
The Ming soldiers moved one after another, the men made fires to cook, the musketeers and gunners began to withdraw from the walls, and the sailors pulled out the wagons that had originally transported the supplies of the Chinese merchants.
The city is a busy scene.
"It's almost sunset, so you want to set off at night." Chen Shangchuan was shocked when he saw this.
"If you don't set off at night, if you set off tomorrow morning, you will definitely be discovered by the fans, the Ming army has no horse team, and if you are entangled by the soldiers, you are afraid that you will die in nine deaths, so you must march at night." Lin Xu said.
"The night is dark, and many soldiers can't see the road, so how should you march at night." Wang Shi on the side said indignantly.
"Our army has its own methods." Lin Xu looked at Wang Shi and the others proudly.
During this period, most people had night blindness due to lack of vitamin intake.
Faced with the situation that the Ming soldiers could not walk at night.
Liu Yu specially ordered the Ming army to boil cod liver oil, and Luzon was surrounded by coastal areas, so naturally there was no shortage of seafood.
Although cod liver oil could not completely cure night blindness, the Luzon Ming army basically did not have a situation where soldiers could not see the Tao at night.
"Fanren is cunning, I am afraid that when I go out of the city, I will inevitably deploy sentinels around, so I will send soldiers to attack and harass Fan's camp at night to contain Fan's army, and you will take the opportunity to go out of the city." Chen Shangchuan Road.
"Then thank you, General." Lin Xu nodded, it would be great if he could contain the army under the city.
At night, the Ming army began to move.
On the city wall, more than a dozen Ming army Buddha cannons and stone cannons opened fire one after another.
With the flash of fire at night, lead bullets and stone bullets were smashed towards the camp of the Fan army.
For a while, the sound of artillery startled the camp into chaos, and from time to time a stone bullet flew by.
Wang Shi, the general of Pinghai Yingzhen, personally led 300 soldiers out of the city to attack the Fanren camp.
For a time, the front army of Fanren was directly killed by the soldiers of the Ming army of the Pinghai camp, and the Zhenla soldiers who were caught off guard were defeated.
Rockets were shot into the camp tent and set the camp on fire.
Although the Zhenla generals were still on guard against the night attack of the Ming people, they could not stand the dereliction of duty of the soldiers below.
Less than half of the original number of rejected horses should have been placed outside the former army camp, and two or three out of ten patrol soldiers deserted.
How could such a precaution be able to prevent the night attack of the Ming people?
Wang Shi, who entered the front army tent of the Fan army, was even a little surprised, if he knew that these soldiers were so negligent in guarding at night, and he directly led the army to attack at night, why bother to let Lin Xu lead the army to rescue the Qianhai camp.
However, after all, the army was outnumbered, and the generals of the Chinese army, the left and right armies reacted one after another, and immediately led the troops to counterattack the front military camp tent.
Wang Shi didn't love war, and when he saw the army coming, he directly led the Ming army to evacuate immediately.
Seeing the Ming army suddenly killing and fleeing inexplicably, these generals were all at a loss.
"What are you doing in a daze? These damn Ming people actually dared to break into my camp at night and kill me. Hidden Wu looked at the Ming army who fled in the wilderness, and shouted angrily.
Just before sunset, he had already instructed his generals to be on guard and be wary of a sudden night attack by the Ming people in the city.
Who would have thought that his generals would really take their words as a deaf ear.
Really let the Akito kill in.
You Mingren killed it, forget it, and suddenly ran away after burning someone else's former barracks tent, what the hell is this?
The generals on the side saw that the commander was angry like this, and looked at the Ming army in front of him who had fled in the wilderness, and led the troops to chase the Ming army in the distance.
And the artillerymen on the tower of the city saw that the Ming army had reached the city, and opened fire one after another.
The thunderbolts on the city wall opened fire one after another, shooting out one flowering shell after another.
It landed more than 200 paces away, and the pursuing army was caught off guard.
These generals were attacked by the Ming army and forgot the power of the Ming artillery this morning, and when they rushed to two or three hundred steps away from the city wall, they were bombarded by the Ming artillery.
The Ming army didn't try to hit many people, but just used cannonballs to form a wall to block the pursuit of the soldiers.
Wang Shi, who fled into the city, couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the gradually closing city gate and the firelight outside the city.
"Little brother, the two hundred brothers in Qianhai Camp and the people in the village depend on you." Wang Shi sighed and said softly.
When the Ming army attacked the camp of the Fanren people, Lin Xu took hundreds of Ming officers and soldiers to set off towards the Qianhai camp at night under the guidance of the local village soldiers.
The march at night was already dangerous, and the Ming army even carried artillery on this trip.
But the artillery was consigned in carriages, and the group was all elite soldiers in various towns, so their legs and feet were not slow.
On the way, there were indeed several people who whistled and secretly whistled.
The Ming army slaughtered a few people, but also ran one or two.
As for the few people who fled, the Ming army did not pursue.
Because the camp of Fanda who was attacked by the Ming army in the city had already been in chaos, how could it be possible to send troops to surround this hundred-strong force.
When Lin Xu led the crowd to quickly rush towards the Qianhai camp.
In the Qianhai camp, Li Shi and many soldiers and generals were around the bonfire.
At sunset, the Quang Nam soldiers retreated.
The breached north gate was covered by sand and wooden planks and other debris at this time, and the walled gates were damaged everywhere, and the Ming army and the people in the city were stepping up repairs.
At this time, several generals in Qianhai Camp Village were surrounded by the bonfire with a sad face and did not say a word.
"Retreat." Finally, one of the generals stood up and kicked a piece of burning wood away, sending countless flames flying around.
"We must retreat, the defenders of Naynon City will not come to our rescue." The general shouted angrily, his face grim in the firelight.
"If we retreat, what will happen to the thousands of fathers and villagers in the village?" A co-ordinator approached and asked resignedly.
"Then each has its own destiny." Li Shi closed his eyes, as if he had made a decision.
"It's impossible to defend the village, and at the end of this day, you have also seen the offensive of the Fanren." Li Shi looked at the general in front of him and said.
"If we forcibly defend the village, at most at noon the next day, the gate of the village will be breached, and none of us will be able to escape at that time."
"Now we open the four gates of the north gate, the west gate, the south gate, and the east gate, so that thousands of people in the village can flee first, and we will be behind the palace." Li Shi picked up a wooden branch and gestured on the ground.
"When the time comes, how many people will be able to escape depends on their own lives." Li Shi shook his head, but there was no color on his face.
"The Qianhai battalion will flee from the back door with the villagers, remember to drive the people to the north gate and the west gate, these two gates are closest to the Fanren camp, and after the people in the village have attracted the attention of the people, we will escape from the back door." Li Shi used a branch to mark the direction of the four walled gates on the sand, and admonished.