Chapter Seventy-Nine: Breaking the King's Sword!
Early the next morning, a few miles northeast of the Yellow Lawn, there was a certain halfway up the mountain.
Wang Wu came with Hao Shaoqi to investigate the defense of the Qing army in order to prepare for tomorrow's breakthrough.
In the depths of the line of sight, there are faint layers of fences standing around the foot of the mountain, and several camps are built along the mountain.
The green flag planted on the camp is clearly recognizable.
If the Ming army wants to break through, there is only a frontal breakthrough, and there is no other way!
I can't see clearly how the Huguang Green Battalion arranges the defense system.
This made Wang Wu more anxious.
What he wore on his waist was the Li Zicheng saber given to him by Hao Shaoqi - the Chuang Wang Knife!
This knife has been obtained by three people since Li Zicheng's death.
One is Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo;
the second is Li Zicheng's brother-in-law;
The third is Hao Shaoqi.
Now the little-known Wang Wu has become the fourth owner of this knife.
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.
After all, in the original time and space, the owner of this knife did not have a good ending.
Li Zicheng died tragically, Li Guo died of illness, Gao Yigong died in battle, and Hao Shaoqi was captured and killed.
It is similar to the waist knife of the current Qing court's auxiliary minister, Kupilon.
Both love the Lord.
"Yaowu!"
Just when Wang Wu was in a hurry to see clearly, Hao Shaoqi called out to him and handed him his clairvoyant mirror.
"Thank you Hao Shuai!"
Wang Wu hurriedly took the clairmile mirror, and looked carefully at the Qing army's defense line with one eye.
At this look, his heart suddenly burst out, and his brows were furrowed.
It turned out that the Qing army on the opposite side was actually a flood company camp, using wood to build a fortress to connect the various floods, and outside the fortress and picking trenches and rows of piles, it was surrounded by dense turns.
Figuratively speaking, the Qing army built many turrets along the foot of the mountain, but the turrets were not connected by barbed wire, but were closely connected by wooden piles.
The stakes used are all logs that are one foot around and five feet long.
The Qing army buried half of the logs in the soil and half exposed them to the ground, and the distance between the front and back of each stake was only five inches.
What is the concept of five inches, which is about equivalent to fifteen or sixteen centimeters in later generations!
Such a narrow distance and such a tight line, the Ming army wanted to pass through the defensive line formed by wooden stakes, and there was no other way than to split the wooden stakes with large axes to form a gap.
Because, even if such a thick wood is burned with fire, it will have to be burned for several hours!
Yuan Zongdi and Hao Shaoqi had fought the Qing army's defense line three times before, but each time they returned in vain.
According to Hao Shaoqi, the difficulty of the Qing army's plum blossom piles was secondary, mainly because they could not get close to the Qing army's defense line.
"These battalions in Huguang are equipped with a large number of firearms, and when we approach, they do not fire them, and when we approach the stakes, they will shoot arrows at us from the wooden barriers. The distance was too close for us to block
Damn, these green camp dogs used to make us scared, and now they only dare to hide as shrunken turtles, if they dare to come out, my old Hao will cut them eighteen! ”
Hao Shaoqi looked at the Qing army defense line in the distance.
But if the Qing army doesn't come out, no matter how much he can fight, it won't help.
To put it mildly, people don't care about you if your throat is broken.
Wang Wuxin said, This shows that the Qing army has become smarter after being beaten by you!
In other words, he would not play with Hao Shaoqi and their trapped beasts.
Because, in this situation, the Qing army can win if it is surrounded by it!
Putting down the clairvoyant mirror, Wang Wu asked Hao Shaoqi: "Hao Shuai, who is in command of the Qing army opposite?" ”
Hao Shaoqi snorted: "It's Yu Dahai's traitor!" ”
"In the sea?"
Wang Wu was not very familiar with this person.
"Brother Wang, this Yu Dahai is Zheng Guogong awarded by the imperial court."
It was Hu Yinxuan, the chief military officer under Hao Shaoqi, who spoke.
According to him, Yu Dahai was originally a subordinate general of Zeng Ying, a famous general of the Sichuan Army, and he was quite brave.
After the Qing army entered Shu, the Qing general Lu Guangzu led his troops to attack Zhongzhou, but was defeated by Yu Dahai and Li Zhanchun, another fierce general under Zeng Ying, and more than 1,000 ships were burned.
Later, he was controlled by the Yongli Imperial Court, and was promoted to the Marquis of Jing Nan first and then to the Duke of Zheng Guo.
"In the sixth year of Yongli, the Tartars captured Yu Dahai's mother as a hostage and forced him to lead the crowd out of Sichuan and into Chu to surrender to the Qing Dynasty"
Speaking of which, Hu Yinxuan also admitted that it was excusable for Yu Dahai to surrender to his mother, after all, loyalty and filial piety were in a dilemma.
But after this person surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he immediately turned around and attacked the Ming army for the Qing court, and spared no effort, which is shameful.
Because he has made too many contributions to the Qing court, he has prospered in the sea and is now the governor of the left capital.
Hao Shaoqi snorted: "I heard that this traitor was raised by the Qing court, and he was also awarded a bullshit title of Jingqi Nihafan!" ”
"Jingqi Nihafan" is the meaning of the viscount.
Wang Wu subconsciously thought that Yu Dahai was much stronger than Hong Chengchou.
Because Hong Chengchou was just awarded a third-class Ada Ha Fan by the Qing court last year, that is, the world lord of the light car captain.
is three levels lower than Yu Dahai, a junior.
I don't know what Mr. Hong, the great hero who really died at home, felt when he retired at home.
Hu Yinxuan sighed and said: "Brother Wang, if we fight hard regardless of casualties, we can't break through the barrier of Qinggou, but then at least thousands of people will die." ”
The death of thousands of people meant that Yuan and Hao had to suffer one-third of the casualties.
It is equivalent to a direct collapse.
That's not the problem!
Yu Dahai is only the first line of defense set up here by the Huguang Green Battalion, and there is another one behind!
The defender of the second line of defense is also a Ming general.
This person's name is Mu Shenghui, a native of Datong, Shanxi, and is now the chief soldier of Yunyang.
Dealing with the Ming army by surrendering troops was a consistent method of the Qing court.
The Cao family's Baoyi Nuta Abai, who was let go by Wang Wu, revealed to Wang Wu that the Jingxi general Mulima would select troops to surrender everywhere, and planned to launch a general attack on Li Laiheng after the beginning of spring.
At that time, as soon as the war began, the selected Ming army surrendered troops naturally as the first wave of attackers, both as strikers and cannon fodder.
If Wang Wu really surrendered with Tian Shouyi at that time, there was a high probability that he would participate in the final battle against the Ming army on the mainland.
The same is true of the three tribes of horses, dang, and towers that he killed before.
Whether you want to or not, as long as you descend, you have to swing the butcher's knife at your past comrades.
"How does Brother Wang plan to break through the Qing army's defense line tomorrow?"
Hu Yinxuan saw Wang Wu's solemn expression, thinking that he was afraid when he saw the tight defense line of the Qing army.
Wang Wu didn't answer, but turned to Hao Shaoqi and said, "Can Hao Shuai get some big axes for the last general?" ”
"I have a batch of big axes and Lao Yuan, enough for you to cut stakes, but,"
Although Hao Shaoqi is the Marquis of Nan'an and the general of the old Shun army, he is unwilling to use his identity to force Wang Wu to lead the troops to sacrifice.
He thought that Wang Wu's method of destroying the enemy was still the method he and Lao Yuan had used before.
As a result, the casualties must be very large.
Therefore, Hao Shaoqi was a little hesitant.
Wang Wu said directly: "As long as there are enough big axes, the last general will have the confidence to break through the defense line of the Qing army and tear a hole!" ”
"It's good to have faith, but you have to be mentally prepared,"
Hao Shaoqi hoped that Wang Wu would think clearly, and if necessary, he and Lao Yuan could also gather some elite soldiers for him, and they couldn't let all the soldiers who had finally stood out on the Western Front be buried here.
In that case, they would be sorry for the martyred Lao Liu.
Wang Wu said confidently: "Hao Shuai means that the last general understands that there are no immortals on the battlefield since ancient times, but Hao Shuai can rest assured that the last general will have a way to deal with the Qing army's firecrackers!" ”
What's the solution?
Dirt method.