Jin Shenghuan led a general Ming army to easily take the walled fort without much effort.

Jin Shenghuan, who tasted the sweetness, still wanted to concoct it in the same way, and said: "Lord Jin, come again." ”

Jin Xuan was about to agree, but a fast horse galloped over: "My lord, I found Mongolian cavalry in the south, there are at least five hundred horsemen!" ”

"Mr. Jin, we have to go, you can figure out how to do it yourself." After Jin Xuan finished speaking, he took three hundred cavalry and turned over his horse and rumbled south.

The main task of their cavalry battalion was to protect the people.

Assisting the infantry in destroying the blockade is only a side quest.

"Entering the mother's thief, I won't help with this little favor." Jin Shenghuan had no choice but to continue with the method just now.

Although he was still very jealous of the slaves on the walled fort, Jin Shenghuan was not as flustered as before, because he found that there were not many slaves in each walled fort, so he could only defend it.

There was also a delay in the arrival of reinforcements from Jiannu on the periphery.

Kim Hyun's cavalry has also been scattered, so there is no need to worry.

So they can rest assured that they can dig the fort wall slowly and boldly.

At that moment, Jin Shenghuan yelled: "Dig it for me, dig it for me to die......"

Covered by the shield wall made of wooden plaques, the people sweated like rain and desperately excavated the rammed earth wall of the walled fort.

The Jiannu guarding the fort realized the danger, but there was nothing they could do, because their numbers were too small, and if they rushed out of the fort to fight back, they would definitely be overwhelmed by the Ming army outside.

But there are not too many rolling wood and stones and other equipment on the fort.

Jiannu can only use a big bow, but the Ming army has a shield wall to cover.

Finally, one of the walled forts couldn't hold back and launched a counterattack.

Jin Shenghuan was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately shouted: "Spearmen array!" ”

Hundreds of spearmen immediately lined up in six rows in front and back, holding spears of one foot and four feet and pushing forward side by side, and the dozen or so Jiannu and a hundred or so Baoyi just rushed out of the walled fort and crashed headlong into the spear forest.

The dozens of coated minions who rushed to the front were stabbed into blood sieves as soon as they saw their faces.

The dozen or so ken slaves hiding behind were fierce and cunning, and they were actually divided into two parts, half of them bent down and tried to attack the lower plate of the spearmen against the ground, while the other half tried to grab the spears and jump onto the shafts of the spears and attack from the top road.

But the courage of the spearmen of the Ming army also came up, so the technical and tactical movements also became extremely skillful, the front two rows of spearmen quickly squatted down, giving way to the work surface, and the back four rows of spearmen stabbed downward at the same time.

At the same time, Minzhuang finally dug through the rammed earth wall of the walled fort.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the fort collapsed.

"Next!" Jin Shenghuan waved his hand and pounced on the third walled fort.

At this moment, a little eunuch rushed over: "There is a will!" ”

"Thief!" Jin Shenghuan scolded in his heart and immediately stepped forward.

"Mr. Jin." The little eunuch gasped and said, "There is a decree of the saint, after the border army of Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao broke through the blockade ditch, half of the troops were left to attack the fort along the blockade ditch, and the other half of the troops immediately launched an attack on the Jiannu Fort on the west bank of the Yellow River. ”

"Commandment." Jin Shenghuan waved his hand, turned around and yelled, "Go!" ”

Almost at the same time, the border armies of Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao also broke through the Jiannu blockade.

Immediately, Jin Shenghuan and other border troops of the three towns divided half of their forces to attack the fort on the west bank of the Yellow River.

However, this time, the resistance encountered by the Ming army was much more tenacious, because these dozens of forts on the west bank of the Yellow River were garrisoned by the Eight Banners Han Army, and the number of the Eight Banners Han Army was quite large.

The good news is that the confidence of the Ming army has also risen.

……

At this moment, Chongzhen is on the No. 1 platform at the top of the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain.

The field of view of the No. 1 platform is very broad, and you can clearly see the battle situation in all directions such as east of Yunlong Mountain, south of Yunlong Lake and west of Xuzhou City.

In general, the offensive of the Ming army can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

Jin Shenghuan, Ma Huabao and Wang Zuntan performed the best in the border army of the three towns, not only breaking through the blockade lock, but also destroying several walled forts along the blockade ditch.

But the performance of the Seven Towns Border Army in other directions was worse.

So far, the border troops of the six towns have just broken through the blockade ditch of Jiannu.

As for the rest of the town's border army, they really almost made Chongzhen's nose crooked.

Because the border army of this town actually collapsed, yes, it was actually defeated and collapsed by Jiannu across a blockade ditch, which is really embarrassing to the extreme.

I have never heard of an army more cowardly than this.

The frightened bird in the idiom allusion is probably no different.

Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen with a dark face: "Wang Daban, whose military town is that?" ”

Wang Chengen said: "Back to Long Live Lord, over there is Tang Yinghu Town, one of Gao Jie's subordinate generals. ”

"Tang Yinghu?" Chongzhen's eyes flashed with a hint of murderous intent, this person has already been on his list of must-kill generals, and when this battle is over, he will be killed by his head.

At this moment, countless lights suddenly lit up on the surface of the Yellow River north of Yunlong Mountain.

"Father, the sailor has begun to attack!" Seeing this, Zhu Cijiong immediately became excited, pointed to the sailor warship that suddenly covered the surface of the Yellow River, and said excitedly.

Chongzhen also hurriedly raised the binoculars.

Through the telescope's field of vision, you can clearly see the naval warships all over the river.

There were about ninety bird boats, lined up in three groups of thirty ships in the front and rear, lined up on the river, and driven down the river by the aft rocking oars.

Zheng Hongkui was still very cautious and did not invest all the warships.

Instead, at least fifty warships were left to guard the upstream direction.

Because the Guide Mansion in the upstream direction has already surrendered to Jiannu, no one knows whether the surrendered army in Guide City will recruit fishing boats to temporarily put together a sailor to help in the war.

There are also sailors in the Eight Banners Han Army.

After turning the "7" shaped bay in the northeast corner of Xuzhou, the fleet of sailors was about to enter the range of the Jiannu cannon.

However, at this moment, the torches on the sailors' warships were extinguished one after another, and the fleet, which was still clearly visible just now, disappeared into darkness in an instant, and was no longer visible.

This was to prevent the Jiannu batteries on both sides of the Yellow River from aiming.

If you can't see the sailor warship in the dark, Jiannu's Hongyi cannon can only fight blindly.

It is true that the Hongyi cannon of this era did not have the concept of accurate shooting, but there have long been observation and sighting tools, although these optical observation and sighting tools are very simple, and the accuracy is unbearable, but they are used to aim at large targets such as bird ships, and the accuracy or hit rate is still quite impressive.

So Zheng Hongkui didn't dare to be careless.

Unable to see the naval division's warship anymore, Chongzhen could only move the telescope's field of view southward.

Then, the pontoon bridge appeared in the field of vision of the telescope, and the five pontoon bridges in front and back cut the Yellow River on the east side of Yunlong Mountain into six sections from the middle, and also cut off the transportation of the Ming army.

With the help of the beacon fire lit on the pier of the fishing boat,

You can vaguely see that there are Jiannu running back and forth on the pontoon bridge.

After a while, the Jiannu forts on the east and west banks of the Yellow River began to fire cannons.

In the darkness, one after another dazzling red light burst out, and it took a few breaths before the roar of cannon reached the top of the mountain, because the speed of light traveled far faster than the speed of sound.

The river on the north side was still silent.

The warships of the Ming naval division did not rush to fight back.

Due to the shaking of the hull, the accuracy of the ship's Hongyi cannon will only be worse than that of the shore-based Hongyi cannon, so it must be close enough to ensure the hit rate.

Chongzhen moved the telescope's vision to the west bank.

The figure of the Ming army soon appeared in the field of vision.

But I saw that the border army of the three towns under the command of Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao, about 9,000 Ming troops were attacking more than 40 forts on the west bank of the Yellow River.

It's just that the fight doesn't seem to be going very well.

Because the Han army in the fort had a large number of musketeers, and even tiger squat cannons.

It is not only the Ming army that has tiger squat artillery, but also the Eight Banners Han army.

"Father, the firepower of the Eight Banners Han Army is too strong." Zhu Cijiong said anxiously, "It can't go on like this." ”

Xu Yingwei took the opportunity to say: "Holy Lord, the students please lead a thousand soldiers to attack, and they are scheduled to assist Jin Shenghuan and other border troops of the three towns to destroy all the forts on the west bank of the Yellow River before dawn tomorrow!" ”

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Qu Shawei! ”

Qu Shawei, who was standing outside the crowd, was stunned for a moment.

Xia Wanchun hit Qu Shawei with his elbow and said, "Instructor, the Holy Lord called you." ”

Qu Shawei came to Chongzhen with a bitter face, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty the Emperor, your loyal servant Qu Shawei is waiting for your summons at any time. ”

"Thank you for your loyalty." Chongzhen smiled, then pointed to the battlefield on the eastern edge of Yunlong Mountain and said, "Take the artillery team of the Shizi battalion to help the battle quickly, and use our Ming Hongyi cannon to destroy these forts one by one!" ”

"Yes." Qu Sha swiped her hand slightly, and hurriedly went down the mountain with Xia Wanchun.

When Chongzhen looked back again, he saw that the sailor warship had already fired at the pontoon bridge on the river.

Zheng Hongkui faithfully implemented Chongzhen's combat intentions, and did not blindly start artillery battles with the Jiannu batteries on the east and west banks, but concentrated firepower and gave priority to destroying the five pontoon bridges on the river.

At this time, the naval warship was only fifty paces away from the first pontoon.

With the bloom of red light one after another, a column of water rose into the air.

From time to time, a cannonball hits a fishing boat that serves as a pontoon pier, and if it hits the bow of the boat, the bow of the ship will be shattered in an instant, the stern of the ship will be shattered in an instant, and if it hits the middle of the hull, the whole fishing boat will immediately break into two sections from the middle.

The beacon tower erected on the fishing boat was also overturned, and the fire soon spread to the hull of the boat.

After a while, at least 30 fishing boats began to catch fire and burn, and more than a dozen fishing boats had sunk to the bottom of the river.

But the Ming army also paid a heavy price for this.

Because while firing the cannon, the sailor also exposed his own position.

In total, in less than two hours, at least ten warships were sunk.