Chapter 114: Huanglongshan Cemetery

The second wave of attacks gave the general Mulima too many hopes.

The generals of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp also looked forward to this wave of attacks, even if the five Niulu of the two white flags could not break the main village of the Ming army, at least they had to pull out a few fortifications under the mountain, showing the fighting spirit of the Manchurian soldiers who were not afraid of death.

In this way, the surrender of the army and the green battalion will not be underestimated.

Santu, the deputy capital of Manchuria with the white flag, may be the one with the strongest fighting spirit among the generals who went to Manchuria except for Mulima.

The reason is that he has just received bad news, his brother-in-law Du Min, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners of Xi'an, was killed in Wushan, and his son Seng Ge was also martyred bravely in Lao Mugang.

So far, even the body has not been found.

Intelligence shows that the thief Wang Wu, who killed his brother-in-law and son, is very likely to be among the Ming army opposite.

Because, it was from here that the Ming army rushed into the opposite Huanglong Mountain.

The pain of losing a child made Santu turn his grief into strength, and personally put on armor to urge the soldiers to launch an offensive against Huanglong Mountain.

It's just that the five Niu Lu who fought with two white flags accounted for thirty percent of the old armored people, but in the face of the Ming army's fortifications built along the mountain, under the high danger of the reverse village, even the old armored people couldn't help but be frightened, and their intuition told them that it was impossible to easily take the Ming army's stockade.

The "woo-woo" horn was followed by the sound of war drums.

The impassioned beat of the drum made the two white flag Manchurian soldiers abandon their chaotic ideas, and they had to move forward, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

If you don't die of a thief, you will die of the law, and there is no choice.

Drawing the lesson of the two red flags being shelled by the Ming army, the five Niu Lu of the two white flags did not attack Huanglong Mountain in the same wave, but were divided into three batches.

The formation is no longer tight, but in a loose queue, which can minimize the damage of the Ming artillery.

However, what puzzled Santu and the Manchurian soldiers was that they approached the foot of Huanglong Mountain very smoothly, and the Ming army did not fire a single shell from beginning to end.

The Ming army's depletion of medicine may be the only explanation.

Whether this is the case or not, Mulima, who has been watching the battle with a clairvoyant mirror anyway, breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now, the general was still very worried that the two white-flag armored men of Wuniulu were also defeated by the Ming artillery.

In that case, the face of the Eight Banners of Manchuria will be lost today!

As long as Santu led his troops to the foot of the mountain, Mulima was confident that he would clear the Ming fortifications one by one, even if the casualties were heavy.

To this end, an order has already been given to prepare the third batch of offensive forces.

It is the man in armor with two yellow flags and two blue flags.

In order not to let the Eight Banners think that he Mulima did not take the lives of his Manchurian disciples seriously, he even deliberately asked his son to participate in Sulma, and he was also armored and ready to go into battle.

The forests of Huanglong Mountain are extremely dense, the terrain is also extremely dangerous, and the fortifications of the Ming army rely on the geographical advantage to repair in the steep places, and even build on the cliffs, which is destined to attack the Manchurian soldiers from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain will pay unimaginable casualties.

"After this battle, I won't come to this Maolu Mountain if I die!"

Many Manchurian soldiers looked at the steep terrain in front of them and their scalps were numb.

The Ming army on the hill remained silent, hiding in a place where the Manchurian soldiers could not see, ready to strike a fatal blow at the Tartars.

Wang Wu is also very patient.

Since Mulima sent him a real Tartar head, he must let General Jingxi get his wish.

The artillery of the Ming army destroyed a few pieces, but it was still able to organize an artillery bombardment.

However, Wang Wu ordered the Manchurian soldiers with two white flags to approach the foot of the mountain, because he had to make Mulima and the Manchurian soldiers who came to send them to death a little sweet.

People, only after tasting hope will they pay for it.

Guo Sheng, the former governor of the city, also looked at the Manchurian soldiers who were lining up at the foot of the mountain with great interest, and the offensive of the Qing army just now made the deputy general of Liugou of the Chongzhen Dynasty an eye-opener, and even his confidence was improved countless times.

Just as the Yaowu brothers said, let this Huanglong Mountain become the cemetery of the real Tartars, and let them shed their last drop of blood here!

At the foot of the mountain, the deputy commander Santu ordered the two red flag wounded soldiers who were killed in battle and the wounded and could not be removed to the rear, while organizing the officers to deploy how to attack.

The only mountain road up the mountain stretches up from the foot of the mountain, like a long snake on the mountain several times, I don't know how long.

I don't know how many defensive points the Ming army set up on this mountain road.

What is certain is that if you attack up the mountain road, the Manchurian soldiers of five Niu Lu are afraid that they will lose at least two.

After carefully observing the terrain, Santu did not choose to concentrate his forces on attacking along the mountain road.

Instead, he ordered more than 400 armored men to be commanded by the first assistant commander of the seventh staff of Manchuria under the white flag, and commanded a feint attack on the mountain road under the command of Shi Ertai.

In addition, the officers and men of the 3rd Commander of the 7th Staff, under the command of the Commander Chakdan, launched an attack along the dense forest in the direction of about half a mile on the left flank of the mountain road.

Santu judged that the forests there were too dense for people to move around, so the Ming army's defenses might be weak.

The 5th Commander of the 8th Staff, under the command of the Commander Taagang, used a rope to climb and attack on the edge of a deep stream on the right flank of the mountain road.

The terrain there was indeed too dangerous for the Manchurian army to rise on a large scale, but it also limited the range of activities of the Ming army.

The first and second Niu Lu, the remaining 5th Manchurian staff with white flags, served as reserves under the command of Santu, and attacked from whichever side made a breakthrough.

Shi Ertai soon led his subordinates along the mountain road to carefully touch the top, and about half an hour later, Shi Ertai's troops were attacked by the Ming army who were ambushed in the mountain road.

That is, the Qing army approached the Xu Lin Department defending the first line of defense.

The fighting and roaring and gunning of the two sides immediately resounded.

The Manchurian soldiers, who went deep into the mountains in the other two directions, were soon met with stubborn resistance from the Ming army.

The Ming army, which occupied the advantage of the terrain, was condescending, and killed the Manchurian soldiers who came up from below to lose their armor.

The Shiertai Division, which feinted along the mountain road, was even driven directly to the foot of the mountain by the Ming army with broadswords, losing as many as more than 100 people.

The Manchurian armorers who died in battle were either directly hacked to death by the Ming army, shot by the Ming army's crossbowmen lying on the trees, or pierced through the double layer of cotton armor at close range by the fire gun.

Some died in the traps that the Ming army had already arranged.

The dozen or so Manchurian veterans wearing iron armor who walked in the front unfortunately fell into the pit full of bamboo tips, because the iron armor on their bodies did not pierce the vital point, but without exception, either their feet were pierced by the bamboo tips, or their calves were poked out of a few bloody holes.

One by one, they wailed and screamed in the pit, and they couldn't climb out at all.

What's even worse is that when the Ming army attacked and drove the Manchurian soldiers on the mountain road down the mountain, some Ming troops carried the hot water that had been boiled long ago and poured buckets into the pit.

The old Manchurian armor-clad people in the hot pit are all ripe.

The Manchurian soldiers on the left and right flanks, one along the dense forest and the other along the edge of the deep stream, also suffered heavy losses.

Many Manchurian soldiers didn't even see the shadow of the Ming army, and they were killed by the sudden cold arrows.

From time to time, Manchurian soldiers rolled down from the mountain.

The Ta'a Gang, who was advancing up the deep stream, kept slipping and falling into the deep stream below, and fell on the spot and either the bones of the whole body were shattered, or the whole person was completely deformed.

This battle made the Manchurian children who participated in the war suffer enough.