Chapter 160: Bombardment of the Would-be Invaders
And when all the Waiko retreated, Misty Hidden Thunder began to direct the Waiko to rearrange the Wokou. And immediately found several other Japanese leaders and gathered together to discuss. The Misty Hidden Thunder Hide felt like it was attacking just now, and it didn't have any effect. I wanted to organize a master as an assault team to break through the defense of Mandarin Duck Villa first. Fog Hidden Lei Zang thought that as long as they could attack the Mandarin Duck Villa, then the archers of the Mandarin Duck Villa would have no effect, so they could easily capture the Mandarin Duck Villa.
Just as the misty hidden thunder treasure gathered all the Japanese leaders together, Wang Chao, who was in the watchtower, gave the order for an artillery attack. At this time, the gunners of the Mandarin Duck Villa, who received the order, immediately lit the lead of the artillery. As the fuse burned, a cannon emitted a "boom...... Boom", a rose cannonball, instantly fell into the group of Japanese invaders, in the group of Japanese invaders sent out a violent explosion, one by one the Japanese invaders were instantly blown away.
These cannons were secretly left by Zhu Yu and Chen Dacheng when the Mandarin Duck Army was disbanded, and they were always arranged by Chen Dacheng on the cliffs on both sides of the wall of the Mandarin Duck Villa. Chen Dacheng used the cliffs on both sides to build forts, so few people knew that there were also artillery in Yuanyang Villa, a weapon only available to elite troops in the imperial court. In fact, there were not many artillery pieces in the Mandarin Duck Villa, and there were not many shells, so at the beginning, Wang Chao did not let the artillery open, and waited until the Japanese invaders retreated, got together again, and their morale also declined, and then let the artillery suddenly launch an artillery bombardment, wanting to wipe out the morale of the Japanese invaders in one fell swoop. At the very least, there is a guarantee that the pirates will not attack again today.
Sure enough, when the shells exploded in the crowd, those would-be pirates instantly lost their fighting spirit and began to flee with their heads in their hands, and soon all the pirates ran away. Even the leaders such as Wuyin Leizang were blinded by the artillery, and they all used their skills and fled to a distance for their lives.
Seeing that the pirates ran out of the range of the artillery, Wang Chao immediately ordered to stop the shelling. And the leaders of the Japanese Bandits, such as the Fog Hidden Thunder Zang, only stopped after running for more than a mile. Immediately, he gradually came to his senses, and one by one began to disperse the whole team of his subordinates from the artillery. When the leaders of the misty hidden thunder and the others gathered together the frightened group of subordinates, several leaders began to count the number of people. And the results of the inventory once again made the leaders such as the fog hidden thunder surge like thunder.
As a result of the inventory of Wuyin Leizang and others, during today's half-day attack, more than 400 people were missing and dead, more than 400 people did not return, and hundreds of people were injured, which can be said to be a heavy casualty. In addition, on the first two occasions, Jiang Bugui killed one or two hundred people when he forcibly stormed the blockade of the Japanese invaders. Of the Japanese who came to attack the Mandarin Duck Villa this time, five or six hundred people were killed and two hundred were injured. How can this not make the leaders of the Japanese robbers such as the Fog Hidden Thunder Zang thunder like thunder?
After integrating the team, Fog Hidden Thunder Zang originally wanted to return and continue to attack Mandarin Duck Villa, but seeing those subordinates, like defeated roosters, looked dejected, and had no fighting spirit at all, so Fog Hidden Thunder Zang had no choice but to give up the idea of continuing to attack today. After discussing with several other Japanese leaders, they decided to take a group of their men back to the original camp, wanting to rest and have a meal to recuperate and recuperate. Prepare to continue the attack on Mandarin Duck Villa tomorrow. After the leaders of the misty hidden thunder and other leaders returned to the camp with a group of Japanese robbers, they immediately ordered the men to prepare meals, wanting to treat their subordinates first. After the Japanese had eaten, the leader of the Misty Hidden Thunder began to visit the frightened men from tent to tent to camp to calm them and raise their morale in anticipation of a smooth attack tomorrow.
And when the Japanese retreated, Jiang Buhui personally ran to the outside of the village to take a look. After confirming that all the Japanese had run back to the camp, Jiang did not return until he returned, Mandarin Duck Villa. When Jiang Bugui told Wang Chao the news that he had returned, Wang Chao said with a smile: "It seems that the Japanese will not attack today, and we can rest and rest." It seems that the owner's strategy has been successful. Haha......"
At this time, Jiang Bugui asked suspiciously, "What kind of strategy did Uncle Chen have that was successful?"
Hearing Jiang Bugui's question, Wang Chao explained the reason. It turned out that as early as when Jiang Bugui and Chen Hongying went to Fuzhou for help, Chen Dacheng had already arranged tactics. In fact, Chen Dacheng's tactic is very simple, that is, when the Japanese attack, first release a wave of Japanese to attack near the wall, or directly put a small number of Japanese on the wall, and then, suddenly attack with all his strength to block the follow-up of the Japanese invaders, so that some of the Japanese who have already attacked become a lone army.
Then besiege and kill these lonely widows with all their might, and when they see their comrades being killed, they are really inactive and powerless. The morale of the Waiko will definitely be affected, and at this time, the leader of the Waiko will definitely form a new formation and organize the next wave of attacks. And because the Mandarin Duck Villa has never used artillery in the battles with the Japanese Invaders, Chen Dacheng guessed that these Japanese Invaders who came to attack must not have known that the Mandarin Duck Villa also has artillery, a weapon of great destruction for long-distance attacks. Therefore, the formation must start right out of the reach of the bow and arrow, and this distance is exactly the range of the artillery.
At this time, the artillery of the Mandarin Duck Villa suddenly shot and bombarded these widows. At this time, the Japanese will definitely flee for their lives, and under the blows of successive defeats, the morale of the Japanese will definitely become very low, so the leader of the Japanese will definitely take the army back to the camp, intending to rest and recuperate to improve morale, so that the Mandarin Duck Villa can successfully delay for a day under the condition that the casualties are not large.
And Chen Dacheng knew that as long as he could delay for one day, then the reinforcements would be one step closer, so that the loss of Mandarin Duck Villa would be reduced by one point. Therefore, the tactics arranged by Chen Dacheng at the beginning were mainly to delay time. And Chen's approach proved to be successful. Sure enough, the pirates returned to the camp to rest.
After listening to Wang Chao, Jiang Bugui once again had a strong sense of admiration for Chen Dacheng, a famous anti-Japanese general. Then Jiang Bugui and Wang Chao got off the watchtower and walked towards Chen Dacheng's residence. After arriving at Chen Dacheng's residence, Jiang Bugui and Wang Chao reported to Chen Dacheng the battle situation when the Japanese invaded just now, as well as the news that Jiang Bugui had found that all the Japanese had returned to the camp.
After hearing this, Chen Dacheng nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Since I knew that you could find reinforcements from the Huashan faction, I knew that even if you just left and the Japanese invaded us, our Mandarin Duck Villa would only need to hold for six or seven days at most, and we could wait for the arrival of reinforcements." So I arranged it, a tactic of stalling for time. Now it seems that the first calculation has been successful, and then we will implement it, my second calculation. As long as this second plan can be implemented smoothly and achieve a certain degree of success, then tomorrow the Japanese will not have the morale to come and attack our Mandarin Duck Villa. ”
Jiang Bugui and Wang Chao heard that Chen Dacheng said that he had a second plan, and their eyes lit up, and then Jiang Bugui opened his mouth and asked: "Uncle Chen, do you have any other clever plans, do you need my help?" (To be continued.) )