? Chapter 372: The soldiers fought in two ways under the city

On the battlefield, there is still the smell of last night's fighting, the wood that has not been burned out everywhere, some are still curling with green smoke, not far away, several large flags, obliquely 'inserted' in the ground, and a few more are discarded on the ground like this, and they have long been trampled to the point that they can't see what kind of 'color' they are.

Mu Shi rode a horse, walking slowly, while looking at the surrounding situation, not far behind him, his two personal soldiers, unhurriedly followed behind, this is the camp of the Tartars after the war, although it is said that the brothers have searched for the remnants of the enemy, but there are still fish that have slipped through the net, of course it is good to be careful.

Last night's battle was brilliant, this is the first real victory in the sense of the West Route Army and the Tartars, but unfortunately, in front of the fierce attack, it is just a small force of Tartars, a large share of Tartars, and when they annihilated these Tartars who had fought for their lives to impact Liu Xiaoliu's troops, they had already left the battlefield at night.

Mu Shi knew from the scouts that the Tartars who were more than twenty miles ahead had re-established their camp, but this time, the attack and defense were transposed, and the Tartars were guarding and containing the stragglers on the one hand.

"Little Liu, how did you come up with the idea of putting chains on all of our tiger squat cannons?" Liu Xiaoliu greeted him, and he heard Mu Shi ask.

Mu Shi smiled slightly, it seemed that he was in a very good mood, a night of fierce fighting, all the artillery in front of the Tartars, not a single 'door' was lost, except for the two 'shots', the gunpowder 'was loaded a little more, and the cannon chamber burst out of the crack and could not be used, but this was an acceptable attrition. However, when he heard that the Tartars were braving the rain of bullets to grab the cannons, he was dumbfounded when he saw that all the tiger squatting cannons were connected by huge iron cables and then fixed to the ground.

Speaking of this, Liu Xiaoliu was also a little happy: "It's not what I thought of, I Rong Qi gave me a wake-up, he said, our run is small, if you use a set of ropes, you will immediately pull and leave, if it is his tartar, he will do the same, is it easy for our cannons to come, even if they are all scrap iron, they can't cheap tartars, so I tied them all with iron chains, it is easy for them to drag a 'door' cannon, and they have the ability to drag these dozens of 'door' cannons away together!" ”

"Rong Qi is also a narrow ghost, his brain is quite lively, it seems that there is indeed a reason for adults to use people!" Mu Shi nodded, pointing at the battlefield with a horsewhip, "After this night, have we lost anything?" ”

"Hey, hey!" Liu Xiaoliu laughed a few times, and said with some smugness: "The corpses of the Tartars have been examined, and there are more than 1,200 people in total, and our people have been injured less than 300, and the real damage is only 100 people!" ”

If this was placed in any force fighting against the Qing Kingdom, this would be quite a great victory, but Mu Shi had a smile on his face, but he didn't have a look of great joy.

"I've just walked all the way and seen it, but these enemies may not all be real Tartars, but just some rabble, and the number of true Tartars among them is only a handful!" Mu Shi's whip pointed at the soldiers cleaning the battlefield and said: "Their banner is not the Qing Dragon Banner, this is the 'Mongolian' ancient Tartar, the real Eight Banners of the Tartars, but there is no loss!" ”

Liu Xiaoliu was silent, he fought all night, who the opponent was, he knew very well in his heart, he just didn't understand, these 'Mongolian' ancient Tartars who came to die one after another, and there was no Manchu Tartar behind them to supervise the war, why were they so desperate.

"After cleaning up the battlefield, go back to the camp to rest, the brothers are tired and miserable!" Mu Shi raised his head and looked ahead: "The war has just begun, after suffering such a big loss, the Tartars will not give up, if we don't go to them, they will come to us!" ”

--------------------- long-lost dividing line----------------------

Under the city of Xichuan, there was a strange scene, in the head of the Qing defenders, you can clearly see that in the enemy's continuous camp, there began to be a large group of men and horses, bypassing Xichuan, towards behind them, and in front of them, there were groups of enemy troops, rushing out, behind them, some improvised siege equipment, has been slowly pushed out of the enemy's camp.

The top of the city was also busy, and people were running around, and behind the city, the captured men were sending bundles of arrows, firewood, and even iron pots to the city in the midst of the angry scolding of the soldiers.

Among these people, there are Koreans, Han Chinese, and even ' The ancients, in this lonely city, they are not so much the people as slaves, their life and death, all in the thought of the Tartar soldiers in these cities, perhaps, just because they are walking slowly, or they fall into a fight, the next moment, there will be a steel knife flying over, so that their heads are in different places, the whole city, everywhere is filled with the smell of panic, and for these Tartar defenders, killing is undoubtedly the best way to vent this uneasiness in their hearts.

Under the banner of the city, there stood a Qing general, dressed in a black 'colored' robe, in his forties, with a white face and no beard.

He is Bahn, the general of Bong'eun, the defender of Heecheon City, and at present, Heecheon and the surrounding Heecheon, among all the Qing generals, he is the leader. At this moment, he stood at the head of the city, looking into the distance, the enemy's army divided into two ways, slowly pulling all the way, all the way towards his own city.

Yin Sheng of the Fengzi Battalion, for his troops, is still a little overestimated, in fact, all his people, of course, here refers to the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, full of battles, but more than 3,000 people, in fact, these people are already the majority of the Qing Dynasty's troops placed in Korea. If these people are facing tens of thousands of troops, if he is still a little apprehensive, at this moment, the enemies gathered under his city to prepare to attack the city, but there are only a few thousand, then he will not have the slightest anxiety.

He even regretted a little, after seeing the enemy's military situation, he ordered the "gate" and "hole" of the city "gate" to be blocked too early, of course, this cannot be said that he was wrong, no matter who faced tens of thousands of enemy troops with 3,000 troops attacking the city, he would not be so stupid to go out of the city to go to the field, since he could not get out, it was natural to prevent the other party from coming in, and completely block the city "gate", that was the most stable way.

However, at this time and that time, especially when he saw that the enemy was preparing to attack, he couldn't help but show a sneer on his face, although Xichuan did not have a red-coated cannon and other sharp weapons to defend the city, but just by virtue of the location, the bow and arrow in his hand was enough to make these arrogant enemies suffer.

"Lord Yun, the brother of the craftsman's camp said that it takes two days to make the ladder to the city, but this trebuchet can be made today!"

"yes, got it!" Yun Qingshan nodded, these siege equipment could not be achieved by relying on the craftsmen in the artisan camp alone, but even if there were soldiers to help, they could not be conjured overnight, and he had already been mentally prepared for this.

The East Route Army and the West Route Army, when they set off, although they did not cancel the peacetime establishment of the Fengzi Battalion, but, according to the wartime establishment, they were reassigned the number, the old battalion, that is, the troops of the first battalion of the Fengzi, according to the heavenly and earthly branches, were assigned to each thousand households, for example, A, B, C, D, and the original troops of the second battalion of Fengzi were assigned to the number according to the number, for example, one, two, three, four.

All, whether it is Mu Shi or Yun Qingshan at this moment, their subordinates, except for one or two backbones of the old battalion sequence, most of the other people are these thousands of households with numbers as their numbers, they call it, Battalion X.

"Call the 7th, 13th, and 27th battalions to go up and feint, let me see the 'color' of this group of Tartars!"

With his order, a crowd of black oppressors poured out from three directions at the same time, rushing towards the city in front of him.

The biggest feature of the so-called feint attack is to cover up one's own intentions. In the course of an army's attack on the enemy, in order not to allow the enemy to judge the specific direction, position, and strength of our attack, we concentrate our forces to defend our main attack direction and strength. Therefore, at the same time as launching an attack, another or several troops will be sent to launch a false attack on the enemy, so that the enemy cannot judge which is the main attacking force, and achieve the purpose of dispersing the enemy's defensive forces and covering the main attacking force to win the victory.

But it's all a feint attack, that is, a tentative move, the feint attack of the Fengzi battalion, the order is very clear, in the case of trying to preserve their own strength, toss out the biggest movement, so, these thousands of people moved, the entire battlefield, shouts, wild shouts, surrounded by the siege equipment that was slowly 'approaching' in the back, launched an offensive, and the people on the city wall looked like they couldn't tell at all, this was an all-out siege, or a bluff.

In the front are the sword and shield soldiers, their shields, can effectively prevent the enemy's 'shooting' attack, in fact, according to the speed of these soldiers' advance, even if they reach the city, the siege equipment behind has not come up, then for the enemy standing on the city, there is no threat, not to mention, Xichuan is a relatively decent city, the city wall may not be high enough, not strong enough, but the moat is there, it is not, they swim across the river, and then climb up the city wall!

When the idea of setting up the sword and shield soldiers was originally placed, its main purpose was to prevent local long-range arrows or enemies approaching the musketeers, and attacking the city, which was a very technical work, was not taken into account, but, in any case, this shield guarded the siege equipment approaching, which seemed to be a very big threat.

"Prepare the rockets, burn those of theirs first!" Barn didn't mind these soldiers at all, without the siege equipment, these soldiers couldn't get to the top of the city, they were just a group of live targets, no different from a herd of cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

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