Chapter 869: That Year, I Followed the Xuan Ge Camp to Fight Ghosts (1)
June 9, 41, is definitely an extremely important day for this plane of the world, for many historians and history lovers of the flower planters in the future.
Because it was this morning that an artillery battle took place in the Pearl River Valley.
It can be regarded as a key turning point in determining the subsequent direction of a famous historical event; It is one of the few bright spots in the subsequent history of this nation, which is extremely humiliating.
It's a pity that the Daqing Imperial Court, which was the ruler at the time, definitely appeared as a negative image in this incident.
For the need to rule, to cover up their own incompetence.
Therefore, for a long time after the incident, they strictly forbade the public discussion of the incident.
Some of the relevant records themselves, because of the problem of the buttocks, do not have much credibility at all, and at the same time, they have also taken measures to crack down on the records of some folk readers.
So much so that there are not many relevant records that can be handed down.
On the side of the Great Yin Fleet, there were almost no survivors alive.
In short, what was the process of that artillery battle on such a day; There is a huge controversy in the academic world, and everyone has their own opinions.
Because in the hands of both sides, there is basically no key evidence, and no one can convince anyone for a while.
As for what happened specifically, we can still see some relevant content from the memories of Huang Ashan, who participated in the artillery battle that day.
Because I was thinking about the younger generations of Huangjia Village, I still have to harvest early rice tomorrow, and I can't listen to my story too late.
Huang Ashan stopped halfway through the story of helping Xuange Battalion carry cannons and fight ghosts.
Then, this one is now eighty and nine years old, and among the surrounding ten miles and eight townships, he is definitely a well-known long-lived old man.
On crutches, he returned to his ancestral house with three wooden rooms.
His wife died more than 20 years ago, and the children and more grandchildren who are still alive are now in Yangcheng and the magic capital, busy with other things.
Originally, they all wanted to go over with him to take care of and enjoy the blessings, but Huang Ashan, who was inseparable from his homeland, did not go after all.
After returning to the deserted ancestral house, Huang Ashan went straight back to the master bedroom.
Just after lying on the bamboo bed in the master bedroom, he didn't feel a trace of sleep.
Because in the previous narration, the most profound memory in his life has been irrepressibly turned out in his brain.
At this moment, it is still like Yangcheng only emerged a few years ago, and that thing called a movie keeps flashing in his mind.
Everything is still fresh in my memory, as if it had happened yesterday.
Every detail in it, who said something, did something, and how they died, everything is clearly remembered......
It's embarrassing to say, when Hu Biao and Hu Leader of the Xuange Camp asked, 'What to do'.
In an impulse in his head, he called out '* his yin and ghostly mother, kill them to take revenge~', at most a quarter of an hour or two has passed, in fact, Huang Ashan, a decrepit boy, has some regrets in his heart.
I regretted that I was so impulsive at that time.
You must know that in the rumors, the cannon of the yin man and the ghost guy is really powerful; So many imperial armies in Yangcheng have run away, relying on their muddy legs in the countryside, can they really win the big ship of the Yin people?
But the cowhide has been blown out, and everything can only go on.
Fortunately, the twelve taels of silver allocated for carrying the cannon, and the twenty taels of settlement fee for signing up for the cannon; There were a total of thirty-two taels, all of which were brought back by the four uncles who did not sign up.
Huang Ashan thought that if he didn't die this time, he would go back to repair his ancestral house and marry a wife.
If he died, he would have a beautiful one, with at least eight dishes on the table, including six meat dishes; Let everyone have a good meal, and then blow and blow and send him away.
In the time that followed, a total of 1,027 of them who had signed up to fire guns were assigned to different gun positions by a turnip and a pit.
These gun emplacements are also camouflaged with a large number of tree branches, wild grass, etc., and they look quite hidden.
It's also a coincidence, he, Luo Yaqiang, Slug, and two other men from Huangjia Village, a total of five people, happened to be assigned to the two-thousand-pound cannon they carried all the way.
It is up to the five of them to operate this cannon.
On this hill alone, nearly 30 cannons were densely arranged, of which there were as many as 15 or 6 cannons of 2,000 catties.
Why is Huang Ashan so sure that this door was carried by them?
Quite simply, when he came down from the Big Horn Fort with the two thousand guns on his shoulder, he remembered that he had hit a big rock behind the barrel.
By now, a white mark can be seen on the cannon.
After the artillery position was assigned, a man from the Xuange camp, who looked white and fat, looked more like a rich man than the rich man of Huangjia Village, and called the shadow horseman.
He called together more than 200 people who were operating the cannons on the hill and began to teach them how to fiddle with them.
directly held a two-thousand-pound cannon and demonstrated to everyone how to load, aim, ignite, and fire.
I don't know what other people think, anyway, Huang Acan understood it after listening to it once, and then after personally operating and firing a few shots, he felt that it was not difficult at all.
Not only the reloading and firing actions, but also the aiming and ballistic estimation are the same.
Because after firing a few shots, once this young offspring stands behind the cannon and squints his eyes to aim, he can feel that there is an invisible dotted line appearing.
Tell him where the shells will end up and how many muzzles need to be adjusted in order to hit the designated target.
However, even Huang Ashan himself felt unreliable when he thought about this matter; Because I was afraid of being laughed at, I didn't tell anyone else......
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The dish in the evening was not the taro roast pork that Huang Ashan never remembered, but it was replaced with a deep well roast goose roasted from lychee wood, as well as barbecued pork and green vegetables.
It's also a good thing that I usually can't eat once a year.
After eating and drinking, he was in charge of commanding the thirty cannons on the hill, and the shadow rider of more than 200 people, beckoned everyone to rest early directly on the side of the gun position, and one person rested early with a mat.
He said that because of the big ship of the Yin people and ghosts, he might be killed at some point, and he had to raise his spirit.
But as soon as he thought of setting off a cannon to fight against the yin people and ghosts, Huang Ashan's heart was full of strange thoughts.
For example, will you be able to survive, and what if you are crippled?
In the future, if you marry a wife, what kind of wife should you marry; It would be nice if it was the kind of girl from the God of Wealth, not only beautiful, but also able to give birth to a son at a glance.
If you really want to marry such a person, let yourself break your ribs and make soup for him, and you won't blink your eyes.
Under all kinds of chaotic thoughts, this decrepit boy just can't sleep at all.
The same should be true for bucktooth strong, slugs, and even other people on the hill; Anyway, I keep hearing the sound of people tossing and turning.
In the end, I don't know how long it took for Huang Ashan to slowly fall asleep; When I slept to Zhengxiang, I suddenly heard a loud cannon sound in my ears.
In a flash of excitement, Huang Acan bounced up from the ground.
reacted, knowing that it was the Yin Ship that finally came, he was ready to lift the branches covering the artillery, ready to bombard these Yin people and ghosts who were fighting the streets.
But just as he was about to start, there was a suppressed shout from Lord Shadow Rider in his ears:
"Stay put, this is just a reconnaissance ship of the Yin people, just use a small part of the artillery to beat him away; Other fire points, not yet exposed. ”
What 'reconnaissance ship' and 'fire point', Huang Acan didn't understand at that time.
However, the meaning of not being able to fire a cannon is quite clear.
Depressed in his heart, he suddenly scolded in his mouth: "Hit the street~"
Then, the face of the Shadow Rider showed obvious surprise; After two or three counts, a sentence came out of his mouth:
"Pretty boy, do you have something to find Hu Biao?"
"No, not at all." Huang Acan's mouth hurriedly expressed, and at the same time, he had already reacted in his heart, and he seemed to know a terrible secret......
also recalled that after such a scene, eighty-nine-year-old Huang Ashan showed an obvious smile on his face.
But after a while, the expression on his face became heavy again, because the memories that followed were full of painful memories of blood and fire, battle and death.
(End of chapter)