"Planing! Plane! Planing ......"

Early in the morning, as Cao Wenzhao expected, the Jin army began to prepare various equipment to attack the stone fort, and the most prominent of them was the shield chariot that the Jin army was good at using.

After suffering the loss of the rifle, Huang Taiji ordered the people to build 300 simple chariots weighing 1,000 catties in one go.

It's not so much a chariot as a coffin on a car.

However, in order to counteract the impulse of the cannon, and to allow people to push it, the inside of the rectangular shape, which resembles a coffin, is separated by wooden planks, and filled with some fine sand and rags, as well as the skins of horses killed yesterday.

There were six layers of baffles, and when the chariot was pushed, the heavy infantry could hide behind it and wait for the charge to succeed, and then engage the Ming army in short combat.

In addition to these, as Cao Wenzhao thought, the tens of thousands of armor left on the battlefield yesterday were stripped off by the Jin army and worn on some healthy women in their thirties and forties.

They held large improvised shields in their hands, which were nothing more than planks wrapped in horse skins.

The sound of planing wood sounded all morning, and the Ming army also observed it all morning.

The news reached the forts in the rear, and the men and horses in charge of defending the forts knew that they would face a bitter battle today that would be even harder than yesterday.

At the same time as the sentry cavalry returned, Cao Wenzhao distributed the remaining 550 artillery pieces in his hand to Wulibao, Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort.

Counting the fifty guns that were transferred to the Shence Guard yesterday, each stone fort has two hundred cannons.

As for the stone bullets, in the night last night, the Ming army transferred a lot of stone bullets from other stone forts in the rear, and took local materials, polished tens of thousands of stone bullets, and collected 50,000 packs of loose bullets.

This wild river pebble as a scatter will damage the cannon chamber, but for Cao Wenzhao, all he wants is cannonballs, and the wear and tear of the cannon is not calculated.

In short, in one night, the Ming army raised a lot of stone bullets and scattered bombs in various forts, and other stone forts in all directions also sent gunpowder in a steady stream.

The soldiers of the Shence Guard would not arrive on the battlefield until the afternoon, which made the pressure on the Ming army a little greater.

Fortunately, Guo Sangdai sent Tang Qi to pass the message, and now he is leading the army to pull the two hundred artillery pieces of the Tuomu River Guard along the Duoerbi River, and more than 300,000 catties of gunpowder to the south, and it is expected to arrive at the battlefield at noon the day after tomorrow, which is half a day faster than Cao Wenzhao and their expectations.

For Cao Wenzhao and others, this may be regarded as the last good news before sticking to the bloody battle......

"Woo-woo-"

"It's coming!"

When the horn sounded, Cao Wenzhao clenched the long knife in his hand.

He stood on the Beishan Fort, and the plain nearly two miles in front of the fort had been built with barbed wire, horse rejection, sheep's horn walls, trenches, trenches, and other fortifications.

More than 4,000 foot gunners stood in the trenches, while the remaining 1,000 gunners and 1,000 foot gunners were stationed next to 200 guns.

The artillery was full of stone shells and scattered shells next to it, and the ten guns on the North Hill Fort were also aimed into the distance.

From the perspective of the Ming army in Beishan Fort, there is a low mountain with a height of twenty or thirty zhang in the northwest direction at the end of the plain, the mountain is very gentle, and the flag of the Ming army is fluttering.

It was where more than 2,000 cavalry of Cao Bianjiao's department were stationed, and when the horn sounded, it was clearer than Cao Bianjiao's department than the Ming army in Beishan Fort.

Tens of thousands of Jin troops pushed more than 100 shield carts into the mountain pass and attacked towards Beishan Fort, and there was also a team of five or six thousand soldiers and horses, which also pushed more than 100 shield carts towards Xishan Fort.

Seeing this, Cao Bianjiao turned his head and ordered Tang Qi to pass the word, and Tang Qi also received the order to pass the news to Cao Wenzhao in the rear.

Cao Wenzhao has no special arrangements, to put it bluntly, to defend is to fight hard and fight in a stupid battle, just hold on, there are not so many bells and whistles.

The only thing that needed to be operated was the order flag beside him.

Once the two-zhang command flag is waved, it is the moment when Cao Bianjiao and his more than 2,000 cavalry under his command are needed, and Cao Wenzhao will not use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

"Woo-woo-"

The sound of the horn became louder and louder, which made the Ming army guarding the trench more and more nervous.

"The size of the Jin army is not more than 10,000 people, and the total number of our two armies is 9,000, so there is no need to be afraid!"

"Golden Army ......"

The Tang cavalry, who were running back and forth, began to convey military information to stabilize people's hearts, and many Ming soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news.

Although he is a Shangzhi, most of the Shangzhi Infantry Guards have never fought, which is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty suffered a great drought and could not attack the country on a large scale and use the enemy army to train troops.

Not only the upright, but also the arch guard battalions.

At present, the best equipment is Shangzhi, but in terms of combat experience, the first to bear the brunt is the Western Army Governor's Office and the Southern Army Governor's Office, which participated in the war of feudal domains.

Although the process was a little cruel, after this battle, the Shangzhi infantry guards were able to give full play to the advantages of equipment on the battlefield.

Yesterday's bloody battle made the foot soldiers of Eagle Yangwei, Shenwu Guard, and Leopard Taowei see the cruelty of frontal combat, and today's bloody battle will teach them how to defend on the plains......

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The cannon sounded, but it was not the artillery of the North Mountain Fort, but the West Mountain Fort artillery across a mountain range.

With a terrible whistling sound, the stone bullet shot out from the rear of the Xishan Fort defense line and hit the Jin Army's shield car that had already entered the firing range of Erli.

Of the 200 stone shells, less than 15 hit the shield cart.

Faced with the improvised shield cart, they broke through four or five layers of partitions in an instant, and finally got stuck in the mezzanine.

"Beep-"

"Drum march!"

The sturdiness of the shield chariot gave many Jin soldiers and horses confidence, and Zilharang, who was in charge of commanding the 6,000 men and horses, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this scene.

What he was most worried about was that the Ming army had come up with an artillery that was sharper than the Yanshan artillery, and even the shield car could not be defended.

But now it seems that although the research of the Ming army's firearms has made rapid progress, the technology of artillery is still in the past, and the shield car tactics of the Jin army can still be used.

Thinking of this, Zilharang commanded the army and began to approach the West Hill Fort little by little.

He used the clairvoyant mirror captured on the battlefield to observe the Ming army's defensive line, and the terrain of Xishan Fort was also doomed, it was more suitable for a small number of troops to defend.

Although it is not as wide as the terrain of Wulibao, which is no more than 300 paces wide, it is only 500 paces wide, and the left and right sides are surrounded by mountains and dense forests, which are very suitable for defense.

As long as there are enough men and horses on the defensive line, it is not difficult to hold the mountain pass.

For example, at the moment, Liu Bian and Shen Chaofeng are two, one commands five hundred divine guards to guard in the trench, one commands seven hundred cavalry to cruise, and the other five hundred cavalry dismount to control the two hundred artillery.

Although there were only 1,700 men, it was enough to defend Xishan Fort.

They relied on nothing else, the Apocalypse XI rifle in their hands.

The Jin army pushed the shield carts forward at a rate of forty paces per minute, most of them some healthy women in armor.

Some of these healthy women wore Ming army armor, some wore Jin army armor, in short, they were dressed in a variety of ways, and Huang Taiji asked them to wear armor not to protect them, but to let them attract more firepower.

If they wear the same armor and enter the Ming army's formation, it is very easy to cause visual confusion to the Ming army, and it is easy to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, so whether it is the Ming army's foot fighters or riflemen, they will first deal with the Jin army women wearing the Ming army's armor.

With the footsteps of the Jin army, time passed little by little, and when the five minutes passed, the rumbling cannons on the Xishan Fort position continued to sound, and two hundred stone bullets bombarded the shield cart of the Jin army like a violent storm.

As the distance of the Jin army continued to get closer, the accuracy of the artillery also began to rise, and in this round of 200 rounds of stone shelling, more than 20 stone shells hit the shield car.

It's a pity that, like the stone bullets in front, they are basically stuck in the mezzanine of the shield car.

"Will the Jin Army's shield car crash through the barbed wire?"

In the trench, Shen Chaofeng looked at Liu Bian worriedly, but Liu Bian was confident:

"Barbed wire is wrapped around the walls of horses and sheep's horns, and there are trenches behind them."

"It takes at least two minutes to clean them up before attacking."

"Two minutes...... That's enough for the brothers to reload twenty times! ”

The five hundred rifles were loaded twenty times, that is, twenty shots.

Not to mention the 6,000 people of Zilharang, 10,000 people had to retreat in disgrace.

"You'll have to save a little bit." Shen Chaofeng was worried that Huang Taiji was deliberately depleting their ammunition, because the people who were sent to attack Xishan Fort were mainly healthy women in armor and a small number of soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Yellow Banner.

"No need to ......" Liu Bian glanced at Jin Jun's healthy woman and said casually:

"Anyway, it's all going to be shot, plough the court and sweep the holes...... Your Highness is not just saying this. ”

"Jianyu and the northern captives and traitors under his command will be punished by everyone!"

After saying that, Liu Bian raised his hand, and the hundred household officials lying next to him also immediately blew the wooden whistle.

"Beep-"

The wooden whistle sounded, which also meant that the Jin army had entered the firing range of one mile (four hundred paces).

All the Divine Guardians began to take aim, and although they couldn't see anything at this mile distance, all they had to do was hear the whistle blow.

Perhaps it was yesterday's crushing battle that gave them confidence, so that none of the people in the trench panicked, and they all waited quietly for the second whistle to sound.

"Bang bang bang-"

They didn't wait for the whistle, they waited for the cannon sound of the Beishan Fort in the next mountain range, and not long after the cannon of the Beishan Fort sounded, their artillery also roared again.

A large number of artillery shells rained down on the path of the Jin army's advance, dealing a heavy blow to Zilharang's troops.

Some of the shield carts that had been shelled once were pierced one after another after receiving the second round of shelling, so that the healthy women behind the shield carts were hit by the shells one after another, the shields in their hands were broken, their arms were broken, and their white bones were protruding, which was extremely terrifying.

"Uhh

"It hurts! Hurt! ”

Jianzhou Jianwomen's ability to resist pressure is very strong, but when they are really injured on the battlefield, the horror of the battlefield still makes them unable to walk, and their faces are pale.

For this group of healthy women, most of the soldiers of the Jin Army felt guilty in their hearts.

Letting women go to war is undoubtedly the greatest humiliation for the men of a nation, but there is nothing they can do.

Under such a close shelling, more than a dozen shield carts of the Jin army were pierced one after another, and for a while, the healthy women behind the shield carts suffered heavy casualties.

"How could it be ......?"

Seeing that the shield cart was pierced by only two stone bullets, Zilharang, who was sitting in the rear army, had a blank mind and a dry mouth.

In the past, even if the Ming army's Yanshan five-jin cannon shelled the Jin army's shield car within one mile, it would take at least five or six stone bullets to penetrate the shield car, but now......

Zilharang didn't know what to say for a while, and he naturally didn't understand the increase in the power of artillery and stone projectiles after the Ming army replaced the propellant.

"The infantry continues to advance, and after cutting the barbed wire, the horse infantry is ready to outflank from the two sides!"

When the battle began, Zilharang discovered that the power of the Ming army's overall artillery had been greatly improved.

In order to make up for the mistake of decision-making before the war, Zilharang could only hope that the remaining shield vehicles would break through the barbed wire defense line as soon as possible and enter the trench to engage the Ming army in a short battle.

It is a pity that his combat intention was not realized, because the remaining more than 80 shield carts were subjected to another round of shelling within five minutes after he gave the order, and this shelling scrapped more than 30 shield carts.

More than fifty shield wagons covered the Jin army's healthy women to reach the barbed wire position, and the riflemen of Shen Cewei had not yet fired, even if the two sides were only less than ten paces away.

A group of healthy women in armor brandished heavy waist knives and slashed at the barbed wire, and while sparks were scattered, Liu Bian also picked up a wooden whistle and put it to his mouth......

"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang!"

Dense gunshots rang out, and hundreds of them poured out for a while, and the healthy women who tried to break the barbed wire were shot and fell down one after another, and the following healthy women also poured up one after another.

It's a pity that a lot of blood can't save the Jin Kingdom and the Jianzhou Jurchens, the continuous gunshots are ringing, and Zierharang also looked at this scene that he will never forget, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

Let the more than 4,000 healthy women rush up, wielding their waist knives and slashing, even if they use their shield carts to ram the barbed wire, but the barbed wire formation does not move, and the heavy rejection horses are constantly dragged and plowed out of the ravines on the ground.

Braving the dense rain of bullets of the Ming army, the healthy women's team pushed the shield cart to attack many times, but as rounds of bullets continued to hit, in the end, even the shield cart was overwhelmed, and a bullet passed through multiple partitions and hit a healthy woman, and blood was scattered everywhere......

"Failed ......"

Looking at the dwindling team of healthy women in front of him, Zilharang couldn't bear to look directly, so he could only turn his head sideways and order to the Zhenghuang Qijia Laezhen beside him: "Retreat." ”

"Yes!" Zhenghuang Qijia Lama couldn't stand it for a long time, so he personally snatched the gong and quickly sounded gold.

The sound of "bells and bells" sounded, and many women of Jin Guojian knew that this was a military order to retreat, so they retreated one after another.

This is a funny scene, but also a helpless scene, a humiliating scene......

For the Ming army, this was very funny.

For Zilharang and other generals of the Jin Army, this was very helpless.

For the men of the Kingdom of Jin, this is very humiliating.

"Bang bang bang-"

The war will not end with the roar of the Jin army, the roaring artillery and flying stone bullets, as well as the soldiers of the Ming army who constantly get up and shoot are the true portrayal of the battlefield.

Originally, the healthy women of the Jin Army pulled the shield cart to cover the retreat, and they could successfully retreat, but most of them fell on the retreat road without military training.

They faced the men on their side, and one by one they fell, and some of the Jin Jun who were watching turned their heads sideways, unable to bear to look directly.

It's just that for the Ming army, even if it is a healthy woman, it also represents the head of the silver reward.

Bullets continued to be fired, and more than 4,000 healthy women were shot in the back and fell down one after another in such a sad situation, and only more than 300 people successfully retreated.

"Beep-"

Liu Bian blew the whistle, and all the Shencewei riflemen stopped firing, began to chat and laugh, and skillfully cleaned up the residue left in the chamber of the paper shell fixed ammunition.

"Today is just a temptation."

Shen Chaofeng put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and Liu Bian also bowed slightly.

The two of them didn't feel that there was anything immoral about shooting the healthy woman, because this was a war or a war of extermination.

When Nurhachi rebelled and slaughtered the Ming army, he showed no mercy, so why should they be merciful?

The two chatted and laughed, but compared to them, Zilharang had cold hands and feet.

He rolled over and dismounted, walked to the horse and looked at the battlefield.

On the narrow plain a mile in front of the Xishan Fort position, corpses lay all over the place, almost filling the place.

Blood flowed down the wounds of the corpse, spread in all directions, and when it encountered some potholes, it gathered into "puddles".

There was a kind of sadness in Zilharang's heart, although he had obtained information about the firepower of Xishan Fort and the combat power of the Ming army, but this information was exchanged for thousands of healthy women......

"Withdraw the troops...... "Zilharang said no more, or rather he forced himself not to think about it.

He walked back to the warhorse, turned over on the horse, and retreated with the men of the Jin Army, who were trembling with fear and low morale.

They came with more than 6,000 men, but when they retreated, only about 2,000 remained.

"Beep!"

"Clean up the battlefield!"

As they gradually disappeared, Liu Bian and several hundred household officials blew wooden whistles one after another, shouting words to clean up the battlefield, and then walked out of the trench and came to the rear artillery position and began to laugh and talk.

Compared with them, more than 1,700 Ming soldiers and soldiers went to the battlefield.

They opened the barbed wire fence and appeared on the battlefield covered with corpses, looking at the "works" they had created.

Some people have no heart and lungs, and they are very excited to go up and start harvesting the first level.

For them, the head of a healthy woman is the silver reward of white flowers, and it is a treasure that can make their family live a better life.

It's just that for some emotional people, it is a little difficult for them to adapt to such a "work" created by themselves up close.

"Little Lord Zhu, why are you stunned here? Cut the head! Don't send money to your father and mother at home? ”

"Huh? Oooh...... This is cut, this is ......"

On the battlefield, when Zhu Fuju was slapped in the face, he turned his head and saw the old face of his little flag officer, he immediately came back to his senses, took the axe and began to chop the head of the healthy woman.

Just looking at the neck of the healthy woman with her back to him and taking off her helmet, he couldn't bear to do it for a while.

He is not a good man, as a soldier who has been in the army for three years and is guarding the Taining Mansion, he has cut down not ten but eight of the heads of the northern captives.

Just cut off a woman's head, this is his first time.

He is a side descendant of the Qin Prince's Mansion out of the five suits, and since the King of Qi confiscated the fields of the vassal kings and distributed them to the clan, the life of the clan has actually been good.

For example, the three members of Zhu Fuju's family divided 150 acres of land in Lutai County, Xi'an Prefecture.

Before the division of land, his parents were tenants in the county king's mansion, taking care of ten acres of land, but even so, he still couldn't make ends meet every year, and his father Zhu Cunji didn't dare to give birth to him until he was twenty-three years old, and he was already the oldest leftover man in the Ming Dynasty.

He is twenty years old this year, and Zhu Youzhen was four years ago.

His purpose in joining the army is simple, that is, to make money.

Although the three members of the family were given 150 acres of land as clansmen at that time, the three of them would never be able to grow it, and if they invited tenants, they would have no money and food.

In addition, the land cannot be sold, so the sixteen-year-old Zhu Fuju joined the army and took the army silver to the family to ask someone to help farm the land.

During this time, he was assigned to the Shen Ce Guard in Taining Province as an infantry man, and it was not until two months ago that he was reloaded with a rifle.

He didn't have any thoughts or complaints along the way, and even felt very happy.

Compared with the days when he used to be a tenant for the county king's mansion, the current life is very comfortable.

His parents added two younger brothers to his family, and the family suddenly became five, and with the severe drought and migration in Shaanxi, it became more and more difficult to hire people.

At the beginning of this year, after he wrote to his father that he was going to fight, he also wrote back to him, hoping that he was safe, and at the same time sent him thirty-two taels of silver, thinking that after the war, as a soldier, he bought some captured cattle at a low price.

At the end of this war, the five-month vacation he had accumulated in the three years of his army could be used, just enough to take the ploughing cattle home and relieve some of the burden on the family.

Although thirty-two taels of silver is a lot, the price of the captured ploughing cattle is also ten taels and one heads, and this amount of silver can buy three heads at most.

In order to reduce the burden on his family, Zhu Fuju thought about killing more Jianju, getting more heads, getting more silver after the war, and buying more ploughing cattle to go home to reduce the burden on his family.

Therefore, in their small banner, he is actually the most desperate person in this battle, and the most diligent in harvesting the first rank.

It's just that today, looking at the heads that were cut off by him, I don't know why, Zhu Fuju was a little confused.

This kind of simple one-sided slaughter made Zhu Fuju wake up a little at this moment, he was thinking, are they human beings or animals?

Emperor, King of Qi, Lao Nu, Huang Taiji, Cao Zongbing, Liu Commander......

Are they people in power, dressed in silk, talking about etiquette, and cloaked in cultural skins, or are they greedy livestock?

For the sake of their power, the young men on both sides of the Ming and Jin sides, as well as the healthy women who died under his Zhu Fuju, were thrown into the wilderness and their heads were cut off.

At the sound of a whistle, they weaved with a group of young people around them through the barbed wire, horses and horn walls.

At just a whistle, everyone began to rush towards the enemy army, dreaming of making a deed, returning home, and showing off their bravery with the girl they loved.

However, people like them end up with only a bullet or a hammer, and they die without seeing the enemy who killed them, and they fall into the mud.

The corpse that had not yet completely lost its breath was also dragged away, and its head was cut off, which became someone else's military merit and reward......

Zhu Fuju cut the head a little numbly, and when the cleaning was over, they stacked the corpses without the head and burned them together, and collected the armor.

In the process, Zhu Fuju was very numb, and it was not until everything was dealt with that he returned to the trench and lay down, leaning his rifle on his shoulder, not knowing what he was thinking.

His experience was played out on various battlefields, until the Jin army in front of each stone fort was repelled by the Ming army stationed there, and all the soldiers happily cut their heads and cleaned up the battlefield.

It's just that they are happy and unaware that today's battle is just an appetizer before the big war......

Update the second chapter around five p.m.

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