"General, in this battle, our army captured 1,281 surrendered soldiers."

It wasn't until the evening of the same day that the captives who surrendered were finally counted, and the number of captives captured surprised even Su Yan, who had been mentally prepared.

"One thousand two hundred and eighty-one people, this Xu Yujing is really a good skill." After a while, Su Yan finally held back such a sentence.

Here, Chen Ying was still reporting the situation of the captives: "Among the soldiers, 737 people are young and middle-aged, but they are all hungry, and the remaining 544 people are old and weak, as they say, there are more than 600 defenders in the cottage, as well as more than 300 or 400 women and children. ”

"Six hundred defenders, that's a bit tricky." Su Yan looked at the cottage that blended into the night, and said: "Even if you don't count the armored guards around Xu Yujing, the terrain of the cottage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is really a bit difficult for our army to attack it." ”

Chen Ying also sighed and said, "If we have a falcon cannon or a half-cannon in our hands, this cottage can be easily captured." ”

The falcon cannon and the semi-cannon are the primary artillery that can be recruited after the construction of the artillery foundry, and these two types of artillery are also in vogue in this era, of which the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries are the golden age of falcon artillery, and it will be eliminated by new artillery when the eighteenth century is approaching.

Even the Falcon Artillery, which will be eliminated by new artillery in the near future, is an "artifact" sought after by the military in East Asia, where technology has gradually lagged behind the West.

It is worth mentioning that in the early nineteenth century, nearly two hundred years later, the Qing army seized a falcon cannon built in 1601 from the "Vietnamese" pirates in the fifth year of Jiaqing (1800), which was deeply loved by Ruan Yuan, the governor of Zhejiang, who not only renamed it "Zhengwei Cannon", but also personally wrote the inscription for it, touting it as the magic cannon of "riding the sea and running thunder, ten thousand sound power, worthwhile, and being strong".

This shows how huge the gap between East Asia and the West is in terms of military science and technology.

Su Yan didn't want such history to happen again, and he also believed that he came to this world with a total war system to change history.

Su Yan didn't continue this topic, he said: "Chen Ying, send someone back to the county seat, let Liu Wenmin prepare and prepare, I will relocate these surrendered troops so that they can live and work here in peace and contentment." ”

"Yes." Chen Ying was ordered to leave, and after he left, Su Yan followed out of the military tent, looking at the soldiers outside who were digging trenches outside the position, and thinking about how to take the cottage.

And so on –

Su Yan looked up at the cottage with only sparkling lights, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and an idea came to mind.

"Chen Shenggui, bring Chen Shenggui to me." He shouted to the guards outside the tent, and a moment later, Chen Shenggui hurried over.

"Chen Qianhu, I want to launch a night attack tonight, you go and order a hundred soldiers who can fight in the night, and assemble outside the garrison in half an hour to wait for me."

Chen Shenggui guessed that Su Yan would make a move before he came, but he didn't expect him to launch a night attack tonight, he was stunned for a moment, quickly reacted, and asked, "General, do you want to lead the troops yourself?" ”

Su Yan nodded and said, "Also, go and prepare a set of armor for me." ”

Chen Shenggui didn't stop him, he nodded, turned around and left, and it didn't take long to send a set of face armor, Su Yan put on this set of armor with the assistance of the guards, the armor was the same as his body size, but there was a faint smell of sweat on it, which could be seen which soldier it was taken from.

Su Yan didn't have any opinion on this, he hadn't gotten a set of his own special armor yet, and it was already good that Chen Shenggui could get him a set of armor of a similar size.

Half an hour later, a hundred soldiers of the Zhongwu Battalion, who did not suffer from night blindness, were assembled outside the garrison, and Chen Shenggui knew that the most important thing in the night attack was concealment, so they did not bring torches except for their respective weapons.

Seeing Su Yan walking out of the station, Chen Shenggui took the initiative to step forward, hugged his fists and asked, "General, do you really want to go into battle in person?" ”

"Hmm." Su Yan bowed, then looked at the hundred soldiers standing under the moonlight, and said: "Don't talk nonsense, I will personally lead you to attack the cottage at night, and after taking the cottage, each person will be rewarded with two taels of silver." ”

"Willing to kill the enemy for the general!"

The soldiers whispered in unison.

"Okay, let's go."

Su Yan waved his hand and took the lead along the mountain road towards the cottage.

Xu knew that a battle was about to take place here, and at that moment, a dark cloud drifted by, obscuring the bright moon hanging high in the sky, and also shrouded the visibility of the earth in a haze.

This just helped Su Yan, who was about to launch a night attack, and they bent low, and quickly climbed to the mountainside and came to the gate of the cottage under the cover of the night and the surrounding trees.

Hiding behind a big tree, Su Yan looked at the soldier on the sentry tower behind the gate of the cottage, according to the equipment, the soldier should be the first to follow Xu Yujing's rebellion "own person", that person did not raise his vigilance because the army was at the foot of the mountain, at this time he was leaning on the spear with his head down, dozing.

Su Yan then carefully observed the wooden wall that surrounded the cottage, this wooden wall was made of countless logs with sharpened tops, more than three meters high, and behind the pointed wooden wall stacks, from time to time there were several soldiers with spears patrolling.

After reading it, Su Yan beckoned to Chen Shenggui and asked in a low voice, "Is there a way to climb over the wooden wall?" ”

Hearing this, Chen Shenggui looked at the wooden wall, nodded, and said: "Your subordinates can climb the city wall in person, open the walled gate, and wait for the walled gate to open, and then the general will lead the army to drive straight into and seize the cottage." ”

"So I'll leave it to you." Su Yan nodded and said.

After the two talked, Chen Shenggui named the names of several soldiers, took advantage of the fact that the thieves did not pay attention to the outside, bent down and ran under the wooden wall, and threw the rope with an iron hook tied to the top of the wall stack, and after making sure that it was fixed, he took the lead and climbed up the rope sensitively.

"Capture the Gate!"

Chen Shenggui knew that he could not clean up the defenders on the wooden wall, so he directly led people to jump off the wooden wall and kill the walled gate, the soldiers standing guard behind the walled gate were drowsy, and the enemy finally reacted when he ran in front of him, and just wanted to shout at the top of his throat, he was cut to the ground by Chen Shenggui, who took the lead, and then pushed open the walled gate, raised the torch, and shook towards the darkness outside.

At this time, the soldiers who patrolled the night found the enemy behind the gate of the village, raised their voices to warn, and heard the shouts of the guards, Chen Shenggui immediately made a decision and said: "Leave one person to meet the general, and the rest will follow me to kill the main village!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the group ran towards the main village in the depths of the village, and as they ran, they also consciously set fire to the wooden houses along the road, intending to create more chaos.

Soon, the village was filled with shouts and shouts, and the thieves who had been woken up by the guards had just remembered to look for weapons, but when they saw the fire outside, they couldn't bother to meet the battle, and they looked for water to put out the fire, or panicked to escape from the cottage.

At this time, Su Yan also led the soldiers outside into the cottage, shouting "surrender or kill", while slashing any thief with a weapon in his sight.