"The head of more than 11,500 healthy women, the head of 1,200 Jianyu men, Huang Taiji is really ruthless......"

At dusk, when the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the sunshine in Beishan began to slowly disappear, and Cao Wenzhao, who was standing at the head of Beishan Fort, couldn't help but "praise" Huang Taiji.

When he looked up, he saw that the plain in front of Beishan Fort was stained with blood, and on the side of the mountain range, thousands of corpses waiting to be burned were piled up, which made people feel desolate.

"Huang Taiji is testing the combat power of the forts today, since he dares to use a healthy woman on the battlefield today, he will definitely dare tomorrow."

Cao Bianjiao leaned on the female wall, frowning, and Cao Wenzhao, who was opposite him, also bowed slightly:

"Although they only have 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, they still have more than 200,000 women and children."

"If they really break through at any cost, it's hard for us to hold ......"

Fighting a war of annihilation with less siege and more is the ability that Bai Qi has, not his Cao Wenzhao, so Cao Wenzhao knows very well that it is already great that they can besiege the Jin army, but it is very difficult to prevent the Jin army from breaking through.

In this case, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but feel a little distressed, but fortunately, someone sent good news at this time.

"Commander-in-chief! The 1,600 riflemen of the Shen Zewei have been assembled and have been assigned to Wuli Fort and Xishan Fort. ”

Yu Linwei commanded Xiao Shen to go to the stone castle and brought good news, which made Cao Wenzhao breathe a sigh of relief.

He looked at the list of heads in his hand, and among the four directions of the Jin army's breakthrough today, they left the most heads in Xishan Fort and Wuli Fort, followed by Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort.

Dongshan Fort was garrisoned by Yu Linwei and Tiance Wei, plus the road was too long, and the direction was northeast, which was contrary to the direction of the Jin army's breakthrough, so Huang Taiji just asked Yue Tuo to take 5,000 healthy women and 5,000 red flag banners to attack to strengthen the momentum.

After leaving behind the corpses of a thousand healthy women and more than 400 men, Yue Tuo led the people to retreat.

Although the direction of the second Beishan Fort is not good, it can still break through after at least going north, so the strength of the attack on Beishan Fort is about 10,000 people.

I have to say that there is no rifle defense, only with rifles and artillery, in today's battle, Cao Wenzhao and they did fight a little hard.

Fortunately, the gap between the strength of men and women is there, and the Jin army women are just women in armor, so after a normal battle, the Ming army relied on the position to behead 2,200 healthy women and more than 800 men, which allowed the women and children of the Jin army to rout on their own.

Compared with them, Liu Bian of Xishanbao killed more than 3,700 people, and Zheng Ze, a thousand households in Wulibao, relied on the terrain to kill more than 4,300 healthy women.

Over the course of the day, more than 11,500 Jin soldiers were killed, while the Ming army was mainly killed and wounded in Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort, and the scale was not large, and the number of direct battle casualties was only 780.

After calculation, the Ming army in Beishan Fort and Dongshan Fort still had a casualty ratio of one to five, and the casualty ratio of the Jianyu horse infantry was less than one to two.

The casualty ratio between the men of the two armies is getting closer, because the men of the Jin army can hide among the women and children to sneak attack, but the Ming army cannot.

"If you fight like this, the position will definitely be lost, Huang Taiji and they have at least 100,000 healthy women behind them to consume, if these healthy women are all in battle, then ......"

Cao Bianjiao was a little jealous, but Cao Wenzhao shook his head: "Their armor is not enough, simply letting a healthy woman without armor send her to death, it will have little impact on the battle situation." ”

Speaking of this, Cao Wenzhao's face was embarrassed:

"What I'm worried about is that Huang Taiji will use healthy women to confuse our army, and then press heavy troops on any of the four mountain roads, intending to break through."

"Will they attack Wulipu?" Cao Bianjiao thought of Wulibao, which was garrisoned by only a thousand people, but Cao Wenzhao shook his head:

"If you want to attack Wulipu, you still need to pass through a bush, and it is only less than two hundred steps to pass through the river valley of Wulipu, and it will take a long time for hundreds of thousands of them to want to go through."

"You only need to deploy a thousand Divine Riflemen, and it's enough to defend this place."

"What I'm most worried about now is Huang Taiji's breakthrough from Xishan Fort and Beishan Fort."

"Here we are? No way? Cao Bianjiao was a little surprised, he turned his head to look at the battlefield, you must know that although they have a wide battlefield here, they also have the most soldiers and horses.

Not counting the 1,600 riflemen of the Divine Guards who had already arrived on the battlefield, they still had more than 9,000 people here.

"We have the most people here, but we are also the place where we can produce the most results."

Cao Wenzhao clenched the hilt of the knife on his waist, looked at the Ming soldiers who were laughing behind the defense line, and said with a calm face: "Of the 1,600 Shence guards who have just arrived on the battlefield, 500 people have been transferred to Wuli Fort, 500 people have been transferred to Xishan Fort, and the remaining 600 people have been stationed in Beishan Fort. ”

"In addition, of the remaining 138,000,000 rounds of ammunition, 50,000 rounds will be sent to Beishan Fort, 38,000 rounds will be sent to Wuli Fort, and 50,000 rounds will be sent to Xishan Fort."

"As for the artillery, transfer the two hundred guns and gunners of Wulipu back to Beishan Fort."

Cao Wenzhao ordered word by word, for fear that Cao Bianjiao would miss something, and even looked through it himself.

After he was sure that all the military orders had been written down, he nodded with satisfaction, and Xiao Shen, the commander of Yu Linwei, also frowned:

"Wulibao only has a thousand paces, will there be too few people?"

"No, it won't." Cao Wenzhao said confidently: "After Wulibao, there is Balibao, and after Balibao, there is Hara Mountain City, Huang Taiji will not choose this road." ”

"What's more, as far as the terrain of Wulibao is concerned, I'm afraid that Huang Taiji will have to fill up the river valley in front of the defense line with his corpse in order to successfully break through."

Cao Wenzhao is very confident that Wulipu is not only the width of the river valley plain is not enough, but there is also a height difference.

In the valley, which is 200 steps long and has a height difference of three or four feet, if you really want to break through successfully, I am afraid that 100,000 women and children will die.

Cao Wenzhao didn't think that Huang Taiji would exchange the lives of 100,000 people for the livelihood of 30,000 or 40,000 people, so after a simple arrangement, he returned to the Yamen of the Baihu Mansion in the stone castle to rest.

After resting, he couldn't help but say to the quartermaster Sima who was following him:

"This place is flat enough, if the people are relocated in the future, they can let the people use the stone fort as a point to graze and cultivate the surrounding hills."

"Yes......" Quartermaster Sima wrote down these words, and Cao Wenzhao returned to his bedroom.

As the night gradually darkened, the Ming troops on the mountain roads in the four river valleys were draped in blankets in the trenches, baked bonfires, and gradually began to sleep.

It was the night of March 19, the 11th year of the Apocalypse, and it was two hours away from the 20th day of the 11th year of the Apocalypse.

Today's temptation left the Jin army dead and wounded more than 10,000 people, which made almost all the Ming troops believe that it was impossible for the Jin army to launch a second attack.

However, when the time came to Zi Shi (23 o'clock), the overwhelming sound of trumpets sounded from the camp of the Jin army, which startled all the Ming troops to get up one after another and lie on their own trenches.

"What's going on? Jianyu attacked at night? ”

Cao Wenzhao, who had just fallen asleep for less than an hour after taking off his armor, walked out of the bedroom in a panic, carrying his clothes in his hands, while the two relatives guarding the door also looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

They could only hurriedly help Cao Wenzhao put on his clothes and armor, and when they were wearing armor, the Qianhu official in charge of the Tangqi Expedition walked quickly to the Baihu Office and waved Cao Wenzhao, who had just walked out of the backyard:

"General soldier, Jianyu has not left the camp, but the horn is constantly sounding, it is estimated that it is a plan to exhaust the enemy."

The strategy of exhausting the enemy, this strategy is often used by Zhu Youzhen, so that the generals of the Ming army also like to use it.

However, it is not the Ming army that is using tactics at the moment, but the Jin army.

Although Cao Wenzhao was not capable of commanding more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, he was not a fool, and he knew in his heart that it was impossible for Huang Taiji to use the strategy of exhausting the enemy against them, because the Ming army was waiting for work.

Therefore, this trumpet must have been used as a cover for some other sounds.

"Commander-in-chief! Total Soldiers! ”

Sure enough, Cao Wenzhao's speculation had just come up, and the deputy Qianhu who was in charge of the Tangqi investigation report walked into the hall in a hurry and said to Cao Wenzhao and Tangqi Qianhu:

"Jianyu pushed out the shield cart from the formation, and attacked the four river valleys, plains, and mountain roads, and the crowds were crowded in the night, and it was impossible to see how many soldiers and horses came out!"

Deputy Qianhu's words made Cao Wenzhao's heart tighten, and he hurriedly asked: "Jianyu didn't shoot a torch?" ”

"Nope!" Deputy Qianhu nodded without thinking, which made Cao Wenzhao have a bad premonition in his heart.

There was no time to delay, so he hurriedly led people out of the hundred houses, walked up to the walls of Beishan Fort, and looked at the darkness with a clairvoyant mirror.

It's a pity that in the dark, only the cottage in front of Beishan Fort is lit up by Cao Bianjiao, and the position in front of Beishan Fort is lit with fire, and the rest of the place is dark.

Cao Wenzhao looked up at the sky, but the sky was gloomy during the day, and it would not suddenly clear at night, so naturally there was no moonlight.

"Huang Taiji, this guy has a good calculation......"

Cao Wenzhao smashed his fist on the women's wall, and there were seven or eight generals around him, one of whom also said:

"During the battle of Sarhu, there was a heavy fog, and the people and animals were not clear five steps away, and at that time, Jianlu used the fire to attack our army with the goal of igniting the artillery."

"It's pitch black right now, and you can't see your fingers, and our army lights a torch alone, won't it become a light in the darkness?"

"In addition, birds and beasts are accustomed to night vision and can see at night, although humans are not as good as beasts, but when the torch is extinguished, some human figures can be roughly seen."

"Chief soldier, do you want to let the departments extinguish the torches?"

The words of this Qianhu caused the people around him to nod uncontrollably, because no matter how inferior the human eye is to a beast, it can still see some close-up figures clearly.

But if the torch is lit, the human eye can only see the light around him, while the Jin army can use the light of the fire to see the Ming army a hundred steps away, so as to attack.

You know, there are still a lot of bird-gunners in the Jin army, and it would be bad if the Jin army formed a phalanx in the dark to line up guns against the Ming army......

"Don't worry!"

Cao Wenzhao raised his hand to stop the generals, and then said to the quartermaster Sima:

"There are fireworks in all the stone castles, right?"

"Before the war, His Highness had already made people ready, and each stone castle had five thousand fireworks, which were lit at a rate of one in ten seconds, enough to last until dawn."

Quartermaster Sima's words made Cao Wenzhao breathe a sigh of relief, and then said: "Let people move the fireworks out and light them at a rate of ten seconds." ”

"The last general ordered ......" Quartermaster Sima responded, then turned around and left, and arranged for someone to handle it.

When he left, the generals couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:

"Fortunately, Your Highness is well prepared."

"Jianyu is good at night attacks, and his Royal Highness has already thought about it."

"It's okay now......"

The generals relaxed, but Cao Wenzhao did not relax.

He propped his hands on the women's wall, his brows furrowed, obviously aware of the problem with the Ming army's fireworks.

Five thousand fireworks, set off for six or seven hours at most, that is, it can survive tonight, but tomorrow is not good......

In addition, even if there are fireworks, if the Jin army insists on breaking through tonight, the encirclement of the Ming army will be in jeopardy.

To put it bluntly, with a number of less than 30,000 people, it is impossible to prevent more than 300,000 people from breaking through, even if Bai Qi, who is good at fighting more with less and often fighting encirclement and annihilation battles, will not be able to stop the Jin army from breaking through at all.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen did not expect the Ming army to rely on the stone fort and a small number of infantry to prevent more than 300,000 Jin soldiers and civilians from breaking through, so he allocated more than 20,000 cavalry to Cao Wenzhao, and these cavalry were used to pursue and harass.

After all, 2,600 Divine Guard riflemen and more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition were enough to consume a lot of elite Jin Army in Stone Castle.

As long as the number of soldiers of the Jin army is equal to the number of Ming troops in Beishan, then the Ming army in Beishan can rely on mobility to bully the Jin army and attack and kill all the way.

For example, at present, there are still more than 800 miles of road to break through to Beishan from the north bank of the Duoerbi River, and the Jin army will have to walk for at least ten days.

Ten days is enough time for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people to die.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that Huang Taiji was dragged down too much by women and children, so that Cao Wenzhao dragged him for three whole days on the north bank of the Duoerbi River.

In addition, Cao Wenzhao wanted to win too much, so the Ming army broke out in a bloody battle with 20,000 casualties in a single day in this river valley.

Fortunately, the situation in Beishan was still expected by Zhu Youzhen, and Cao Wenzhao could also rely on Zhu Youzhen's handwriting to deal with Jin Jun calmly and calmly.

Zhu Youzhen prepared a lot of materials for the Beishan defense line, although the quantity was not enough because of the suddenness of the war, but there were materials to deal with all kinds of wars.

As for the war, Zhu Youzhen still adhered to the concept of "fighting a war is fighting logistics", prepared all kinds of materials properly, and then used people to lead the troops.

"Woo-woo-"

Gradually, the sound of the horn got closer and closer, looking at the dark night, Cao Wenzhao took a deep breath and quietly waited for the next battle.

Holding the same idea as him, there are also generals such as Cao Bianjiao, Liu Bian, Shen Chaofeng, and Zheng Ze.

Among them, Cao Bianjiao is the most prominent.

He rode his horse to the gate of the wall, and no one was allowed to light the torches.

His eyes were blurred for a few seconds as the light faded, but then he saw the moving figures in the night.

The figure was crushed, hidden in the darkness, almost occupying the valley.

In this situation where it is not clear whether the other party is a healthy woman or a man, facing this team that is almost crowded with the river valley and plain, it is a brave general like Cao Bianjiao who dares to go straight to the big formation, and he can't help but sweat for himself.

His senses are the most direct, compared to him, Liu Bian, Shen Chaofeng, Zheng Ze, as well as Yulin Wei Xiao Shen, Tiance Wei Yang Hong and others who are cruising in the rear, do not have an intuitive feeling of the number of Jin Jun.

But even so, the group of Ming soldiers lying in the trench and riding on horseback couldn't help but get nervous when they heard the thunderous footsteps.

However, in this case, many emotional soldiers have no pressure, such as Zhu Fuju, who is lying in the trench of Xishan Fort.

"I can't see a good ...... Can't see a good ......."

Zhu Fuju muttered, just because he knew in his heart that footsteps of this scale could not be done by the soldiers of the Jin Army alone, so in the Jin Army attacking Xishan Fort, there must be a large number of women and children.

It's just that Zhu Fuju's self-consolation was finally broken by the sound of fireworks.

"Bang!"

When the sound of firecrackers rang out at the head of the West Hill Fort, a firework was shot into the sky, and then crackled and exploded.

Just for a moment, Zhu Fuju saw clearly the "Golden Army" he was facing.

His pupils constricted instantly, just because what he saw was a group of healthy women who didn't even have armor, only wore cotton clothes, and held some weapons, not even healthy women, they could only be called ...... Woman.

The women ranged in age from twelve or thirteen to their forties.

For the Ming soldiers, these women reminded them of their wives and children far away from home.

Respect for the elderly and love for the young...... This Confucian proposition was originally intended to protect the weak and prevent people from bullying the weak, but on the battlefield, the kind of education received from childhood became a moral requirement that bound the Ming soldiers.

"Jianyu didn't even let go of his own women and children, shameful!"

"Isn't it a bit ...... to kill women?"

"They don't even have armor......"

Zhu Fuju didn't speak, and some of the younger Ming soldiers couldn't help but complain in the trenches.

Before they went to war, they never thought that they would really attack women and children.

Although His Royal Highness King Qi said that the plough court swept the holes, they only thought that it was simply to kill all the men above the wheel, and they never thought that they could not even let go of women and children.

"Beep-"

A shrill whistle sounded behind them, and Zhu Fuju, the hundred household officials of their small banner, also walked in the trench with a calm face and scolded:

"Whether they are women or children, as long as they have weapons, they have only one name...... Built! ”

The Baihu official turned around, faced the Jin army that was surging under black pressure, pulled out his long knife and looked around:

"You pity them today, how can you ever think about how the people of Liaodong were humiliated?"

"Tens of thousands of people in Liaodong were captured and escorted to Jianzhou like livestock, or they were taken to Jianluwei (Xingjing) by old slaves, and they were exhausted to death as livestock."

"This is a battlefield, not a library, and there is no one, only friend and foe."

"If you can't get down, stuff your head into your crotch."

"If you are killed by this group of women and children that you despise, then after you die, you will go down to the underworld and see the group of Liaodong people who were enslaved to death by the old slaves, so you will go around the Huangquan Road with interest and hide far away."

"Beep-" After saying that, the hundred household officials blew the wooden whistle again: "Be on guard!" ”

The random scolding of the hundred household officials can be regarded as stabilizing the Ming army on the position, and everyone continues to be vigilant.

Zhu Fuju in the trench didn't finish listening to the words of the Baihu official, because he felt that the first half of the Baihu official's words were enough for him to make up his mind.

"yes...... Jianyu enslaved the people of Liaodong, how could these women and children not receive the benefits of the Han people being enslaved? ”

"If you want to blame, blame the rebellious old slave!"

"If he doesn't rebel, with the benevolent government of King Qi, the Jianzhou Jurchens will definitely be properly resettled like the Miao people in the southwest and the Beijun in the northwest."

"It wasn't me who killed these women and children, but the old slave killed them himself, but he took another way......"

Thinking about it, Zhu Fuju took a sip of water, then continued to hold the rifle in his hand, lying in the trench and waiting for the military order.

However, in the face of women and children, Liu Bian, who was in charge of defending Xishan Fort, did not intend to waste bullets because he had something better.

"Artillery fills with shotshots, greets ...... with shotshots"

"Yes!"

Liu Bian said lightly, and the hundred household officials next to him hurriedly responded, and then asked the gunners under his command to start placing the propellant and scatter packs.

"One hundred and fifty paces to fire." Liu Bian calmly faced the battlefield, calmly facing the tens of thousands of women and children rushing towards him, without any expression on his face.

For him, as long as he is on the battlefield, he can ignore the gender and age of the other party and order an attack indiscriminately.

If he has a little mercy, his soldiers will be hurt a little.

Soldiers can be soft-hearted, but he can't.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

Fierce artillery rang out, and the three-pound loaded shotguns were fired in defense of hundreds of pieces per artillery, knocking down the women and children of the Jin army who came first.

Unarmored women and children were no different from fragile scarecrows in the face of the gun's scattershots, which could kill them on the spot even at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

Just a round of artillery bombardment, the women and children of the Jin army who followed one after another fell in an instant, and Liu Bian was unhurriedly commanded the 1,200 Shenwu cavalry in Xishan Fort to change into infantry guns, and all went down the trench.

Against these people, it is not cost-effective to use a rifle at all, and it is the same with a slow rate of fire.

"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang!"

The fire lit up for a moment, and then one by one, the lead bullets and the sound reached the front of the Jin army, knocking down and killing hundreds of Jin troops.

The fireworks in the Xishan Fort in the rear were lifted into the air every ten seconds, giving Liu Bian plenty of time to look at the battlefield.

"It's all women and children......"

When Liu Bian saw that the tens of thousands of people who were surging in were women and children, he couldn't help frowning instantly.

At the moment when he frowned, one after another shield carts were pushed out by the women and children, and all the women and children hurriedly hid behind the shield carts and began to attack the Ming army with daytime tactics, trying to consume the bullets of the Shen Cewei.

Seeing this, the thousand households of the Shen Cewei looked at Liu Bian, but Liu Bian did not move: "Don't care, let the artillery be replaced with stone bullets, and give me all the shield carts!" ”

"The last general commands!" When Qianhu heard this, he immediately asked people to run to the artillery position.

Such a scene appeared not only on the battlefield of Xishan Fort, but also on the battlefield of Wulibao and the plain to Dongshan Fort.

However, compared to the battlefield of Xishan Fort, the 1,000-5-mile fort guards who occupied the geographical advantage faced only less than 20,000 healthy women.

Due to the woods, they could not push the battlefield, so they could only stalemate for a while.

The battlefield of Wulibao was stalemate, but Dongshan Fort did not.

If the battlefield of Xishan Fort is a pure duel of hot and cold weapons, then the battlefield of Dongshan Fort is the alternation of hot and cold weapons.

On the battlefield to Dongshan Fort, 10,000 healthy women went to the battlefield under the supervision of more than 5,000 soldiers of the Han and Fourth Battalions, and the goal was to rush past the Yulin Guard cavalry and attack Dongshan Fort.

However, it was not so much an attack as a one-sided slaughter.

The Yulinwei, Tiancewei, and Lu Long and other guards and cavalry who were horns of each other stationed their horses on this plain, and for this cavalry team of nearly 14,000 iron horsemen, tens of thousands of healthy women were just tens of thousands of lambs to be slaughtered.

The three cavalry were horns of each other, trampling their horses back and forth, and the light of the cavalry could be seen from time to time in the darkness, followed by the neighing of the horses and the roaring of the knights.

In the dark night of the plain battlefield, the one-sided massacre of the Ming army caused the healthy women to collapse collectively after only a thousand casualties.

They fled towards the Han Fourth Battalion in the rear, and the generals of the Han Fourth Battalion did not let them continue to send them to death......

"Alright, that's pretty much it, let them go back to the battle and rest."

When the familiar voice sounded, Liu Aita on the back of a Mongolian horse gave an order, and the soldiers of the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty heard the words and hurriedly began to let them go.

If they could, they didn't want to send women to death.

"This doesn't seem to be in accordance with the rules set by the Great Khan......"

As soon as Liu Aita gave the order, Fan Wenhuan beside him couldn't help but speak, but Liu Aita just glanced at him, and then said:

"We're just bait, and right now we've got the Khan wanting."

"What you should know......" Liu Aita said, also looked at Fan Wenhuan, and after staring at him for a few seconds, Liu Aita set his eyes on Beishan Fort:

"The real battlefield is not with us, but with the Great Khan, not to mention, let the Ming army continue to slaughter women and children, do you think the people below you will think so?"

Liu Aita glanced at his own military formation with words, and Fan Wenyu also glanced at the battlefield with hindsight.

"This ......" He found that all the soldiers of the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty lowered their heads and buried them deeply, obviously unable to accept the scene of sitting back and watching their women and children being slaughtered.

Looking at this scene, Fan Wenhuan only felt that his mouth was dry, and he thought that if he continued like this, I was afraid that the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion of Han would really defect, and he was equally happy.

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's plough court sweeping and the traitor's military order not to stay, I'm afraid that the soldiers of the Fourth Han Battalion and the Mongolian Eight Banners would have defected a long time ago.

Fan Wenyu couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead, while Liu Aita sneered in his heart.

However, when he continued to glance at the soldiers of the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty, looking at the low morale, he had to say that Huang Taiji's move with women and children might have helped him.

Thinking of this, the corners of Liu Aita's mouth couldn't help but rise slightly......

(End of chapter)