It is not far from Weihekou Daying to Jinghai County.

After receiving the urgent report, Hong Chengchou immediately led 20,000 Eight Banners Mongolia to rush to the aid of Jinghai County, and then asked Kong Youde to lead 20,000 Eight Banners Han Army to follow up.

Until now, Hong Chengchou still did not believe that the Ming army would attack Beijing by land at all costs.

But even so, the Ming army could not easily cross the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, at least not the red-coated cannons.

Nearly in the evening, 20,000 Eight Banner Mongols entered the vicinity of Jinghai County, and a sentinel battle broke out with the scout cavalry of the Ming army at night when the road was opened.

The skirmishes are smaller, but they are more brutal.

During the day, when the light was good, the flintlock pistols of the Ming army had a clear advantage.

But after dark, the Ming army's flintlock pistols were not as effective as the Eight Banners Mongol bows and arrows, because the bows and arrows were more concealed and reacted much faster.

In a skirmish skirmish, it's hard to get a second chance if you miss a hit.

In hand-to-hand combat with cavalry, scimitars are also more useful than bayonets.

So the scout cavalry of the Ming army soon began to shrink and relinquish control.

The Eight Banners of Mongolia scattered in all directions, and soon controlled the area within a radius of dozens of miles from Jinghai, and even wrapped the entire camp of the Ming army from all sides.

After gaining control of the battlefield at night, Hong Chengchou was able to get a close look at the reality of the Ming army.

At this time, Hong Chengchou and a few family members were standing on a small mound dozens of meters high, condescendingly spying on the camp of the Ming army.

I saw that under the night, the southeastern suburbs of Jinghai County were full of campfires of the Ming army.

Through the campfire, you can vaguely see the tents of the Ming army, there are tens of thousands, a radius of seven or eight miles, and the camps can vaguely see mules and horses and cannons placed together.

Hong Da said, "Master, Minggou is really arrogant!"

Hong Er also said: "Yes, not only did they not dig trenches and arrange antlers, but they didn't even erect fences, so these Ming dogs are really not afraid of our Qing soldiers launching a night attack?"

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but move in his heart, night attack?

At that moment, Hong Chengchou asked Hong to call Bart to the top of the hill.

Bart is a capital of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and is extremely brave.

"Bart, how far can you reach the outskirts of the Ming army's camp in the night of the Eight Banners Mongolia?"

"I haven't tried this before." Bart scratched his leather helmet and said, "However, five hundred steps should be fine, if you get closer, it will alarm the Ming army's ambush army."

"If you send out cavalry to attack at night, can you break into the camp of the Ming army?"

"If the Ming army didn't have an ambush, then there would definitely be no problem, but if there was an ambush, it would be hard to say."

Hong Chengchou frowned and asked, "Has the Ming army set up an ambush, shouldn't it be clear that you Eight Banners Mongolia will not collect at night?" You still don't know?"

Bart was immediately a little unhappy, aren't you embarrassed?

"Lord Ministry, how can you know about this unless you go into the camp of the Ming army to spy on it? It's the tent of the Ming army, whether the Ming dog is sleeping inside, or is he waiting for us to attack at night, how do the outside know it?"

Hong Chengchou hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to give it a try, and immediately ordered: "Bart, the headquarters ordered you to immediately send a class of cavalry to launch a night attack, pay attention, the rank of the person, the hoof cloth, do not make a sound before approaching the Ming army camp, after breaking into the camp, give priority to destroying the Ming army's materials, especially the red-coated cannons and gunpowder."

If the Ming army is unprepared, a class of horn cavalry is enough to succeed.

If the Ming army was prepared, it could bear the loss of one Jiala.

"Whew!" Bart got down on one knee and hit a thousand.

……

Hong Chengchou was thinking about the night attack, and Xu Yingwei was also planning the night attack.

Xu Yingwei was telling Chongzhen about the night attack plan on the map.

"Holy Lord, the Air Force has already reconnoitred during the day."

"There are eight layers on both sides of the canal, and four on the east and west banks."

"If you want to keep the logistics channel safe, at least

A gap over 2,000 paces wide needs to be opened, and at least one infantry brigade needs to be left in the gap."

Chongzhen nodded in approval.

The canal defense line is certainly the focus.

It is only natural that the remaining forces should be strengthened.

So it is necessary to leave an infantry brigade.

"Most of the defensive fortifications built by Jiannu are about two hundred steps apart from the two adjacent forts, so we need to capture at least eighty defensive fortifications tonight."

Chongzhen asked, "Is the ice in this section of the canal safe?"

The safety of the ice in this section of the canal will have a direct impact on the attack on the West Bank.

Xu Yingwei said: "Scouts have been sent to investigate, but they may not be able to find out clearly, after all, both sides of the canal are now all Jiannu's platforms, and there are still Lian Yong garrisons in each platform, and our scouts have a hard time touching it, and it is almost impossible to dig through the ice to see if there is gunpowder buried in it without alarming Lian Yong."

"Then we have to improvise then." Chongzhen nodded and asked, "Has the North Korean army been arranged?"

"Back to the Holy Place, the Korean army has already made arrangements." Xu Yingwei said, "The minister selected 8,000 Korean troops and organized them into 80 brave death squads, and each death squad was responsible for a platform."

Well, it's said that it's a death squad, but it's actually a specialized mine and a crossbow.

In fact, as soon as they arrived at the canal in the afternoon, the Ming army launched a tentative attack on Jiannu's defense line, and found a fatal hole in Jiannu's defenses.

That is Lian Yong, who is responsible for guarding the canal platform, and the equipment is very poor.

Not to mention flintlock guns, the number of arquebuses is very small, and there is no tiger squat gun.

The vast majority of Lianyong is armed with spears and short bows, spears usually only have wrought iron spearheads, and short bows are also made of old mulberry wood, and cotton armor may not be able to shoot through.

However, there were a lot of thistles, crossbows, and mines in the trenches around the platform.

In addition, there are many enemies, ash bottles, and gold juice in the Jiannu Fortress.

In order to reduce the pressure on logistics support on the Ming army's side, weapons and equipment have been highly standardized, such as iron thistles, crossbows and ash bottles, which have been eliminated, and even partial vans have been eliminated.

Because in the wargame deduction, it was found that the partial van has become a negative asset.

The protection that could be afforded to the Ming infantry was limited, but the restrictions were many.

Realizing that the partial van car had become a burden, Chongzhen did not hesitate to remove it.

All in all, the Ming army has completely eliminated the original defensive weapons such as ash bottles, gold juice, and 10,000 enemies, but Jiannu has done the opposite and relied more heavily on these primitive defensive weapons.

It is an undeniable fact that these primitive defensive weapons are indeed very useful in defensive warfare.

Even if the Ming army was already equipped with much more advanced firearms, it would also suffer from the damage of these primitive defensive weapons in the battle, and the servant army would be needed to act as cannon fodder.

Of the 40,000 Korean troops who followed Zhu Cijiong to Liaodong before, 20,000 stayed in Liaodong, and the remaining 20,000 have been transferred by Chongzhen to the Beizhi battlefield to serve as cannon fodder.

This is also determined beforehand.

If you encounter a hard bone, let the servants go to the army.

……

Li Yucheng was quietly waiting for the military horn to sound.

Li Yucheng had high hopes for the upcoming offensive, because the last time he was in Liaodong, he had heard Xu Wuniu and them say that those who performed well in the Northern Expedition had the opportunity to enter the Guozijian without examination.

[The problem of slow update of new chapters is in the can.]

Picking up the clay wine jar, Li Yucheng poured a big sip hard.

In the cold weather, I drank the sparkling wine, and I only felt the coldness of the body, one word, cool!

While drinking wine, he chewed on the pork jerky, which was rewarded by the Ming Emperor, and the Korean soldiers who participated in tonight's night attack each had a can of Ming wine and half a catty of pork arm.

After eating and drinking, Li Yucheng began to check the weapons and equipment on his body again.

The weapons and equipment of the North Korean army were somewhat uneven, with flintlock guns, but more were arquebuses, and even bows and spears, but considering that tonight's night attack was mainly close combat, the Ming army issued an additional short gun to each Korean army, in addition to four grenades per person.

It is an improved five-pound grenade, not the original ten-pound grenade.

Li Yucheng likes the short guns very much, the shape is exquisite, like handicrafts, and the lethality is not bad, and it is enough to penetrate chain mail or cotton armor within 20 steps.

There is nothing wrong with determining the firing mechanism,

Li Yucheng began to check the bullet bag again.

The bullet pouches of the Ming army have also developed to the second generation.

The first generation of bullet bags were made of linen, and small holes were sewn into the cloth belt one by one, and then the paper shell was stuffed into the cartridge, and a small hole was filled with one round.

This kind of bullet pouch is actually made by Chongzhen based on the bullet pouches of later generations.

There is no problem with this kind of bullet bag to hold metal cartridge shells, but when it is used to hold paper shell cartridges, there is often a problem that paper shell bullets are flattened and not easy to take out.

So soon improvements were made to the bullet pouch.

The current bullet pouch is a real bullet pouch.

It is four leather boxes, crossed by two leather straps and crossed on the chest.

Each kraft box can hold 50 rounds of paper shell fixed ammunition, which adds up to 200 rounds, that is, a base number.

In addition to the four kraft boxes containing paper shells, there is also a calfskin box that is used to hold the primer pack, which is a total of 200 primer packs.

Li Yu counted them one by one.

As soon as the count was finished, a horn suddenly sounded outside the tent.

"The trumpet sounded!" The North Korean soldiers who were resting in the tents were startled.

"Don't move!" The next moment, the voice of the Ming army sounded outside the tent, "The time for the attack has not yet come, you just eat and drink yours, and I will inform you when the time is up."

Li Yucheng immediately sat back down, and then listened attentively.

Only hear that the northwest corner of the large camp has already heard dense gunfire.

It sounds like the Ming army is letting go of the guns, what's going on?

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