Chapter 159 The war begins at a very small point

"He looks down on us."

Qian Shaoshao stretched his neck and watched Lu Xiangsheng go away, and said with some dissatisfaction.

Yun Zhao said: "Let's fight this battle first, judging from the news from Shengjing, Huang Taiji has sent Dolgon with 10,000 horses and horses to recapture Lantian City, not only that, but the Mongolian Eight Banners, which have not been established for a long time, have also followed 20,000 people, and the four Mongolian princes are under the unified command of Dolgon.

Less, this time, the pressure here is greater. ”

Qian Shaoshao sneered and said, "What pressure can there be?" This time, we will definitely let Jiannu's head in Lantian City bleed. ”

Yun Zhao said: "I'm not as optimistic as you think. ”

Qian Shaoshao said: "Don't think so much, it's impossible for us to give up Lantian City, since we can't give up, then it's better to fight to the death, if we don't fight, there is no way to make the situation clear."

After all, you can't pass the level of the dead, I don't even know how you came up with this kind of thought, you are not a cowardly person, but, in this matter, you are too hesitant.

I even think you value Lu Xiangsheng too much.

He is the commander of the army, since he is a person who goes to the battlefield, he should face death calmly, I think Lu Xiangsheng is ready to die on the battlefield, but you don't! ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "So you want to help me make up my mind?" ”

Qian Shaoshao looked at Yun Zhao's eyes and said, "Let's fight to the death once!" Regardless of the outcome! ”

Yun Zhao nodded and said, "Then fight once?" ”

Qian Shaoshao said with a smile: "You have to fight once!" ”

Yun Zhao pinched his chin and said, "Now that Dolgon is behind, shouldn't we touch Yue Tuo and Du Du first?" ”

"Let Battle take the Mongol cavalry air group out to attack the camp."

"After Lu Xiangsheng attracts the attention of Yue Tuo and the others?"

"That's the case, Yue Tuo is Lu Xiangsheng's old opponent, and he should pay more attention to Lu Xiangsheng."

Yun Zhao nodded, and agreed to Qian Shaoshao's suggestion.

He understood that Qian Shaoshao's suggestion was not his suggestion alone, but the collective opinion of Gao Jie, Yunjuan, Zhang Guozhu, Li Dingguo, and Zhang Guofeng.

They don't value Lu Xiangsheng as much as Yun Zhao does, in their eyes, since it is already the time for the two armies to clash, it is a ridiculous behavior to talk about what there is and what is not.

Lantian County, which has become stronger, has given these people enough pride to use all the things that can be used in this world as their arms to achieve their goal of victory.

The wheat field outside Zhangjiakou was smoking, and it was Lu Xiangsheng who sent someone to light the dry yellow wheat field that had not been watered for a long time.

The fire rolled inward from the periphery of Zhangjiakou until it reached the ditch dug by the serfs to isolate the flames, and then slowly extinguished.

This behavior caused a strange picture to appear on the plain outside Zhangjiakou, the wheat fields near the city were green, and the farmland ten miles away from Zhangjiakou was all turned into ashes.

Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates rode horses back and forth on the black wheat fields, repeatedly intending to get within ten miles of Zhangjiakou, but were always driven away by the cavalry brigade that appeared in the Manchu camp.

During the day, these people came at night, and after taking the opportunity to attack a few times, they were ambushed by the Jiannu cavalry and killed more than 200 people.

After learning from Yun Zhao that Dolgon was going west soon, Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates harassed Yue Tuo and Du Du's camp more and more frequently.

Later, it almost reached the point of killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 yourself.

Until this time, Yue Tuo and Du Du still closed the walled city built outside Zhangjiakou, and there was no appearance of a large-scale move except for sending a few cavalry to deal with Lu Xiangsheng's harassment.

Yun Zhao also sent Li Dingguo to participate in the harassment of the Jiannu camp according to the agreement with Lu Xiangsheng, and on two occasions, Li Dingguo took advantage of the fact that the Jiannu cavalry was attracted away by Lu Xiangsheng and quietly approached the Yuetuo camp, but unfortunately, both times were discovered by the Jiannu rangers and had to return in a huff.

Until one day, Yue Tuo suddenly heard the sound of artillery, and when he walked out of the big tent to check, he found that there was smoke rising in the northwest corner of his three-mile-long camp.

It didn't take much effort for Yue Tuo to receive the news that his camp was bombarded by Lu Xiangsheng's artillery.

"Lu Xiangsheng has long run out of ammunition and food, how can there be such a big movement, not only does he have the strength to harass us, judging from the battle situation these days, the strength of the Tianxiong Army has not only not weakened, but has become more and more powerful.

Now, even the artillery is out, this is impossible. ”

After listening to the report of the battle damage, Du Du was a little angry.

Fan Wencheng said hoarsely: "This is not Lu Xiangsheng's power, it should be the power of Lantian County here."

The northwest of Zhangjiakou is a mountainous area, guarded by our men, and now, without even receiving a warning message, the enemy has placed artillery on the hill and began to bombard our camp.

The minions thought that they had heard the news that Prince Shuorui was going west, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, wanting to fight with us first, and the two Baylors must not be fooled, don't look at them as harassing us, in fact, we also tied them firmly to Zhangjiakou, which is a good thing.

As for the artillery on Ma'anshan, the two Bellemo should be worried, they should be happy, the minions heard that the artillery in Lantian County is quite desirable, even surpassing the Hongyi cannons we captured in Liaodong.

If we can capture a batch of these cannons, even if the battle damage is severe, it will be a great achievement. ”

Yue Tuo smiled: "That's true, the cannon is bulky and not easy to move, and a certain family thinks that it can indeed be tested once."

Ordered the cavalry deputy commander to find out the location of the enemy's artillery, and after figuring out the situation, attack immediately, and the speed should be fast, so as not to let those enemies destroy the Hongyi artillery. ”

The herald left in a hurry, and Yue Tuo looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "I have already sent a message to Gushan Ezhen of Lao Hahe, asking him not to abuse your family."

After the end of this battle, the commander personally said to His Majesty that the defeat of Zhangjiakou is a matter of your ability, not any change in your loyalty, Fan Wencheng, give your Majesty a good contribution, I will not treat any slave who is loyal to us. “

Fan Wencheng burst into tears......

The fact that the cannon could reach the walled city indicates that the enemy's artillery was less than three miles from the northwest corner of the walled city.

However, the northwest corner of the walled city is a saddle-shaped mountain that is not too high, and it stands on the highest point and overlooks the entire Jiannu camp.

At the beginning of the camp, Yue Tuo had sent five hundred scouts to be stationed here, a few days ago Lu Xiangsheng's harassment level continued to increase, the scouts here suffered heavy losses, not waiting for Yue Tuo to replenish the troops here, in the daytime, was actually captured by a group of guys dressed in black.

Yue Tuo was also preparing to recapture the mountain before evening, but unexpectedly, the enemy actually moved the artillery.

The person who attacked Ma'anshan was Li Dingguo, who quietly came to Ma'anshan at night last night, raided Jiannu's stronghold on Ma'anshan at dawn, and then used pack horses to transport cannons from the bottom of the mountain, and bombarded the Jiannu camp with artillery without waiting for Jiannu to react.

The artillery bombardment did not stop until the barrel was about to turn red, and then it had to stop.

The purpose of this was to make the enemy misjudge and think that there were many cannons on Ma'anshan.

The light artillery of Lantian County can fire twenty solid projectiles in a row, and beyond this number, the breech will turn red.

Even so, for every three bombardments, it was necessary to clean the chamber with a large bristle brush and water, and the continuous bombardment of two light guns would make Jiannu think that there were at least five or more Hongyi cannons here.

Yuetuo, Du Du chose to camp in an impeccable place, one side of Zhangjiakou City, one side of the Yanghe River, one side of the close to Ma'anshan, only due north, is the endless wasteland.

In this case, it is unlikely that Jiannu will be lured out, and the only way to achieve the goal is to rely on the decoy of artillery.

Sure enough, when the artillery stopped bombardment and began to water and dissipate heat, a group of Manchu Qing infantry came out of the northwest corner of the dilapidated camp and launched an attack on Ma'anshan without stopping.

Li Dingguo looked at the swarming Jiannu foot soldiers, smashed his mouth and said to Zhang Guofeng: "Today is our good day." ”

Zhang Guofeng said with a smile: "It's better to be careful, after beating Jiannu, continue to retreat, and I will wait for you on the opposite hill with artillery." ”

Li Dingguo entered the position without saying a word, and Zhang Guofeng ordered the artillerymen to unload the 500-pound barrel from the gun carriage, put it on the backs of two camels connected together, and carefully retreat to the high ground behind along the path on the top of the mountain.

Lying in the half-man-high trench, Li Dingguo carefully aimed at a fierce Jiannu, and after pulling the trigger, the firearm made a muffled sound, but the Jiannu on the opposite side did not react, and continued to climb up with a shield.

A team glared at Li Dingguo hatefully, and Li Dingguo was a little shy when he saw it, and then he remembered that dense group fire was the correct way to fight.

Seeing that Jiannu had reached a hundred and fifty steps away, Li Dingguo discarded the firecracker, raised his big bow, and shot the Jiannu he wanted to kill just now with one arrow.

As the arrow was fired, the sound of gunshots like fried beans rang out on the mountainside, and from time to time there was the roar of grenade explosions.

Jiannu, who had just entered the firing range, fell to the ground one after another under the dense guns, even holding a cowhide shield could not stop the invasion of Lantian County's specialty sub-medicine, this kind of iron-egg-encased lead sub-medicine hit the tough cowhide shield as simple as penetrating a blank piece of paper.

However, accuracy is still an issue.

More than 200 people fired at the same time at a not very open intersection, which was a real rain of bullets.

The Jiannu foot soldiers fell at the intersection, their longbows tossed aside, and until this moment, they had not fired a single arrow.

Shoot from the back...... Thirty steps are required!

"Buzz" Three terrible whistling sounds swept over Li Dingguo's head, and he could see very clearly that three thick crossbow spears flew over his head.

Immediately after the sound of "buzzing" was endless, Li Dingguo leaned his back against the trench, looked at the crossbow arrows flying over the trench, and once again expressed his praise for the trench to the team around him.

No one can say that they can face such a thing as a crossbow without changing their face, and this large weapon that can shoot 800 paces is a lifeless thing if it stands in its way.

The scalp-numbing buzz of the ballista disappeared, and Li Dingguo saw that the team was not beckoning the brothers to get up and shoot again.

Instead, he poked out a strange pole and shook it from side to side before he stood up and blew the whistle loud.