Chapter 86: Jiannu can't attack anymore
Bai Yintu also went up to the hill to watch the battle.
I saw that the northwest corner of Xia Zhen's defense line was already boiling.
However, the east, west, north, and south areas were still silent, and the Ming troops stationed in these two areas and the Ming troops sitting at the core of the defense line were all immovable.
Seeing this, Bai Yintu's face showed a slight sadness.
Bai Yintu is also a veteran of the battlefield who has been in a hundred battles, so he naturally knows that there is a certain risk in sparing no effort to attack with all his might like this.
If the Ming army is also mobilized and continues to invest its forces in the northwest region, then there will be no problem, the big deal is to fight into a stalemate situation, and in the end it will be up to see who lasts.
The physical strength of the Eight Banners is still trustworthy.
But now, the Ming army in other regions is not moving.
There is another possibility, that is, once the Qing army's attack does not go well and falls into a stalemate, the Ming army is very likely to take the opportunity to outflank the rear, which is very troublesome.
After all, he now only has one Eight Banners soldier left in Jiala.
As for the two Niu Lu's Zhenghuang Banner Han Army, not only is their combat effectiveness not enough to be comparable to that of the Eight Banner Soldiers, but they also have to stay at the dock to guard the Cao boat, which is useless at all.
However, this worry only flashed in Bai Yintu's mind.
With the cowardice of the Ming army, it should not have the courage to take the initiative to fight with the Qing soldiers.
At that moment, Bai Yintu raised his binoculars again and set his eyes on the battlefield again.
……
At this time, it was already the time of Shen Zheng, and a full hour and a half had passed from Jiannu's attack on the Xia Zhen defense line until now.
Jiannu has continuously broken through the eightfold platform,
Towards the center of the Xia Zhen defense line, the big platform broke through more than a thousand steps away!
It's just that it can be clearly felt that the speed of Jiannu's advance has gradually slowed down.
It took less than a quarter of an hour for Jiannu to break through the first heavy platform on the periphery, but it took more than a quarter of an hour to break through the second line of defense, and two quarters of an hour for the third line of defense.
The eighth line of defense, which had just been broken through, took nearly half an hour.
Ao Bai was so tired that he couldn't breathe, and just now he personally took Yabulan and another white-armored soldier to take the lead in breaking into the eighth heavy platform and killing the Ming army.
It's just that Aobai's physical strength is also fast to the limit.
The white-armored soldiers are also human beings, the same flesh and blood, and their physical abilities are also limited.
Wearing a triple armor weighing more than 80 catties, and carrying a large bow with a total weight of more than 20 catties, a horse chopping knife, a one-handed hammer and 14 three-edged heavy arrows, he advanced more than 1,000 steps (1.5 kilometers) forward, and repeatedly climbed a wooden fence one zhang high in the middle and fought to the death with the spearmen of the Ming army.
With such a fierce fight,
Physical replenishment simply can't keep up with the consumption.
It's useless for you to chew ginseng as a turnip.
"My lord, I can't hold it anymore, why don't you take a break and attack again?"
Yabran was also too tired, and the chain mail and cotton armor were soaked with sweat.
"No, you must not rest, and if you rest, you will not be able to attack." Ao Bai knew that he must not stop at this time, and at this time he could only kill all the way to the end.
"Hold on, just hold on a little longer."
"We're about to break through the Ming army's defense!"
"Huh!" Yabran responded, and then turned around and yelled at the Eight Banners, Han Army, and soldiers behind him, "The warriors of the Qing Dynasty, have you seen the Sun and Moon Banner in front?" ”
"That's the Ming Army's Zhongjun Daxu!"
"As long as the Ming army's Chinese army camp is broken,"
"Cut off the Chinese army, and we will win!"
"Great Qing Wansheng!" The Eight Banners roared one after another.
With a roar, the Eight Banners, who had just reached the end of the crossbow, miraculously regained some sharpness, and roared and launched an attack on the platform on the ninth defense line.
……
"Father, Jiannu has hit the Nine-Fold Altar!"
The ninth-level platform is less than 600 steps away from the canal wharf.
At such a close distance, you can already see it faintly without a telescope.
The tidal wave of shouts and killings emitted by Jiannu continued to pour into the ears of the two brothers like a magic sound, making the little brothers feel frightened for a while.
Zhu Cijiong was a little breathless.
However, Zhu Cihong was still able to calm down.
"It's not a big problem." Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief instead, and said lightly, "Jiannu has reached the end of the strong crossbow, and they are about to be unable to attack, and the ninth heavy platform will become their end." ”
"Really? That's great! Zhu Cijiong was overjoyed when he heard this.
Zhu Cihong also breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that we can hold it again this time." ”
"Hold? Hong'er, your requirements are a little too low. Chongzhen's eyes showed a cold light.
"Huh?" Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong cast stunned glances at Chongzhen at the same time, what does the father mean by this?
Chongzhen had already slid down the rope, and after going down to the deck, he asked Wang Chengen to summon the generals of the towns, deputy commanders, guerrillas, and garrisons.
Seeing this, Huang Degong hurriedly put away the dry tobacco pipe.
Soon, the general soldiers of the ten towns, as well as the deputy general soldiers, guerrillas, garrisons, and capital divisions, all gathered on the ship, adding up to more than a hundred people in total.
Chongzhen began to give pre-war lectures.
"In the past few days, I have heard a lot of people complaining."
"Saying that our Ming soldiers will only be turtles with shrunken heads, they were blocked at home by Jiannu and beaten for almost ten days, and they didn't dare to take the initiative to fight back even once, this is a group of cowards who have no eggs!"
"I also know that you are all holding back the fire in your belly."
"But I want to tell you that our Ming soldiers are not turtles with shrunken heads."
"The reason why we don't fight back is because the time has not come, and when the time comes, this revenge will be avenged!"
"But now, the time has come to fight back and take revenge, you go back and tell my words to the soldiers of all towns, I don't have a coward in the Ming Dynasty!"
"If you don't fight back after being beaten, you will suffer a loss and swallow your anger, this is not the backbone of our Ming soldiers!"
"My Ming character is that if I am beaten, I must fight back, and I must take revenge if I suffer a loss, even if it is five years, ten years or even a hundred years!"
"The dignity of the Ming Dynasty cannot be desecrated!"
The emotions of more than a hundred high-ranking generals were stirred up by Chongzhen at once.
After a slight pause, Chongzhen shouted again: "Now I order you to immediately return to the camp to prepare for a counterattack, and launch a counterattack on all fronts after hearing the Chinese army's horn cannon!" This time, we will kill all the Jiannu! Don't let any of them go! ”
Kill all the slaves? The mood of more than a hundred high-ranking generals rose to the highest point at once.
How long has it been since they heard such an exciting pre-war speech?
"Kill all the slaves!" Chongzhen roared again, then raised his right hand and waved it forward.
"Kill all the slaves!" More than 100 high-ranking generals snorted, and then dispersed.
Seeing more than a hundred high-ranking generals scattering away, Chongzhen called Hu Guozhu to him again.
"Hu Guozhu, you will take a thousand Yiding along the west bank of the Xinqu in Xia Town to the back of Jiannu now."
"I expect that there will still be a certain number of Eight Banner soldiers left in the Eight Banners Raid Formation, and your task is to contain this Eight Banners soldiers, and not let them take over the Jiannu who are trapped in the defense line of Xia Town!"
"Command!" Hu Guozhu turned around and hurried away.
"Zheng Guerrilla!" Chongzhen said to Zheng Hongkui again.
"Jiannu poured out of the nest this time, and there won't be too many troops left at Taizhuang Wharf."
"This is the best time to sneak attack their boats, you will lead the sailors to attack, and you must destroy all the boats of Jiannu in the shortest possible time! I want them to lose all their money! ”
"Command!" Zheng Hongkui waved his hand and shouted, "Set sail!" ”
The sailors of a dozen bird boats raised their mainsails as fast as they could, while the iron anchors in the bow were raised, and the two rocking oars in the stern began to stir the river, and the warship, which had been stationary, began to move forward.
Seeing this scene, Chongzhen breathed a long sigh of relief.
If nothing else, this time it should be a big win.
……
On the hill, the Baiyintu has begun to struggle.
Years of experience in battlefield battles constantly reminded him that the Eight Banners are now in great danger, and it should still be too late to withdraw their troops.
Although the Eight Banners were still stubbornly advancing at this time.
But Bai Yintu can see that the Eight Banners are almost at the end of their crossbows.
On the other hand, the Ming army did not even send reinforcements from other directions to reinforce, but with the Ming army of more than 100 guns captured by the Eight Banners, it almost exhausted the spirit of the Eight Banners.
It must be admitted that this defensive formation of the Ming army is really powerful.
Such a heavy platform gives people the feeling that they will never be finished.
I finally knocked out one, there is another one in front, you knock out another one, and there is another one in front, this feeling is really desperate, suffocating, and too tiring.
But if the troops are withdrawn like this, Bai Yintu is not reconciled.
If you can't win this battle, not only will you be avenged for the defeat of Ansan, but you will definitely be ridiculed by these bastards like Bahana when you go back, and the yellow flag will become a laughing stock from now on.
Turning his head to look at the sun that was setting towards the horizon, Bai Yintu thought to himself, attack for half an hour!
If Aobai still can't break through the Ming army's defense line within half an hour, or can't completely defeat the Ming army, then it is better to withdraw the troops and become a laughing stock than to fall into a big fight.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a swan sound in his ears.
Well! This is? Baiyintu suddenly gave birth to a first-class unease, the sound of the Ming army's horn?
Huo Ran turned around, and Bai Yintu was a little surprised to find that a group of heavily armed Yiding had already surged out from the canal in front of him.
The Ming army reserved a passage on both sides of the canal.
These passages can be crossed by the Ming army, but not by the Eight Banners.
Because it will be attacked by the Ming army's guns and the Ming army's naval division warships.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of Yiding poured out of the canal and began to form a formation.
Seeing this scene, Bai Yintu suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, the more he was afraid of something, the more he came, he was worried that the Ming army might take advantage of the opportunity of the Eight Banners' physical exhaustion to launch a counterattack, and the result was really coming.
As for the Qianyi Ding in front of him, he is obviously just a vanguard, responsible for containing a Jiala in his hand.
The main general of the Ming army on the opposite side was obviously also capable, and he hit the vital point of the Eight Banners with only one blow.