Birshan, who barely stood up, stomped his trembling feet vigorously, and was about to continue running down the hill when he saw a large group of black-clothed soldiers silently passing by his side and rushing towards the fortress.

That was the main attacking force of the Ming army led by Deng Shan and Huang Qishou. When they saw that the Japanese soldiers had succeeded, they immediately launched a general attack according to the plan.

There were three violent explosions on the mountain in one night, especially one of them was at the foot of the fortress, and the captives on Baitai Mountain were also very frightened, and for a while they were scurrying around like headless flies. Even the low-level officers were terrified, where did anyone restrain their subordinates.

The warning whistle on the fort sounded several times, and most of the captives were still stunned. It wasn't until the captives in charge of the defense of Baitai Mountain began to cut people with the Overseer that they finally reacted, and looked under the fortress with their bows and guns in a mess.

They were greeted by a dense volley of Mini shells.

The outer wall of the fort was torn open by nitrocellulose a hole more than two feet wide - the Japanese soldiers did not dig deep into the wall, so the blasting effect was greatly reduced.

However, the Ming army moved extremely quickly, and more than 500 people quickly poured in from this small gap, and then lined up under the inner wall of the fortress to fire a volley upwards to suppress the fire.

Thirty percent of these men were from the hunter battalion, and their marksmanship was extremely accurate, and from time to time a captive would be shot and fall from the wall.

Subsequently, more than a dozen ladders arrived and were erected on the top of the fortress wall. At this point, the Jianyu officers finally determined the place where the Ming army was attacking, and hurriedly brought hundreds of people to reinforcements.

By the time they reached the gap in the fortress, the first group of soldiers from the Broken Battalion had already reached the top of the inner city.

Deng Shan was the first to climb the fortress, and at this time stood in a line with more than a dozen soldiers, using sabers and other people's bayonets, and stabbed directly at the oncoming captives.

Suddenly, there were screams repeatedly, and the seven or eight captives at the front were killed. The people in the back couldn't see how many Ming troops had come to the city, and most of them had been frightened by nitrocellulose and demoralized, so they immediately scattered and fled.

On the inner layer of the fortress, there were shouts, "The city is broken!" ”

"The southerners have attacked......"

"Defeated, defeated, run!"

In a moment, Deng Shan led his troops to form a simple infantry line at the head of the city and began to fire volleys on both sides. As more Ming soldiers climbed the inner walls of the fortress, the rout of the captives became faster and faster.

Birch Hill ran down the hill in shock, gasping for breath for a long time, and when he looked at the mountainside again, he saw that the fortress was already bright with torches. Immediately, two green signal flares rose into the air, and a burst of cheers broke out in the Ming army camp.

After a long time, the soldiers of the Shimazu army finally found him and carried him back to the camp with all hands and feet, and one of them pointed to the mountain and said excitedly: "My lord, the enemy city has been captured!" ”

"It's—so fast!"

"Hey! Some people in the Ming Dynasty said that there were at least 1,000 people in the enemy city. My lord, you have a lot of achievements this time! ”

Until the next day, Huashan watched the Ming army escort hundreds of captives down the mountain, but heard several officers of the Toyotomi army behind him snickering and whispering.

"I heard that when the Shimazu army was retreating last night, someone thought that the nitrocellulose on their backs was in the way, so they threw it down the mountain."

“soga！ No wonder there were two explosions! ”

"Originally, the Shimazu army only killed more than 300 people, but this time more than 100 people were killed."

"It is said that even Hisamori Kayama was almost killed by the explosion......"

"Haha, Yaga!"

A few people walked behind Birch Mountain, but they didn't recognize him covered in bandages.

The fortress of Baitai Mountain has to be broken, and the road of Tashan can barely pass, after all, the firepower of the fortress on Yushan can only cover the east side of Tashan, and as long as the Ming army walks close to the west side, the Jianyu on Yushan will only have dry eyes.

Do you want them to go down the mountain and raid the Ming army? It's a shadowless thing.

The Jianyu of Yushan also saw the huge explosion and fire in the direction of Baitai Mountain that night, and heard the loud sound of thunder, and it was rumored that the Ming army was calling the sky to thunder and broke through the fortress of Baitai Mountain, but I was afraid that the Ming army would also cast a spell on Yushan, where would they dare to take the initiative to provoke?

For the sake of prudence, Zhu Linmiao still left 800 broken camps here to keep an eye on the enemy army in Yushan, while the brigade passed through Tashan all the way to the north, and arrived in the area of Rufeng Mountain two days later.

Another month passed, and two extremely heavy 42-pounder cannons were transported to Tower Hill in large quantities.

This is the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau for the Northern Expedition to Liaodong specially made heavy weapons, all bronze casting, the cannon weighs more than 6,000 catties, the power is extremely amazing, but it is too cumbersome to move.

When the gunners finally saw the fortress on the fish mountain, they couldn't hide their excitement - after several months of driving, they were almost out of the birds, and they finally caught something that could be enjoyable.

The gunners skillfully selected the position, set up the cannons, calculated the elements, loaded and aimed.

With two loud bangs, a huge projectile of forty-two pounds shot out three miles away, smashing directly into the outer wall of the fortress from the foot of the mountain, and the huge impact force made the fortress tremble.

The bombardment lasted only half a day, and although it did not cause much substantial damage to the fortress, the rumbling sound of the cannon was enough to break the morale of the captives.

The captives guarding the fortress will go out of the city to beg and surrender, so far, the Tashan line has been completely recovered.

Located south of Matsuyama, Mt. Rumine is the highest peak of the Matsuyama Mountains, and from there, it can be used to hold the main road to the north.

Songshan is followed by Jinzhou, which is the only access to Shenyang. Once you pass Jinzhou, there is no danger to defend along the way, and you can approach the city of Shenyang in a few days.

Similarly, if the people of Shenyang want to go south, this is also the only way. Therefore, Rufeng Mountain has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

Since the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming and Qing dynasties broke out in fierce battles on the Songjin line, back and forth for three years, and finally because the Ming army was attacked by Azig in the grain field of Bijia Mountain, and finally ran out of grain and was defeated. Since then, Jianyu has had a smooth road to the south, and the Ming army has no strength to go north.

After a few years, when the two armies met again in Rufeng Mountain, they had changed their offensive and defensive positions.

30,000 elite Ming field troops, plus more than 13,000 Japanese, Korean, Australian, and Mongolian servant troops, a total of 43,000 troops are at the foot of Rufeng Mountain. Behind them, it was no longer the unbearable logistics of the Chongzhen Dynasty, but the continuous arrival of supplies supported by wooden tracks.

On the opposite side of them, there were only 4,000 defenders, and another 5,000 battalions of Haoge were hurrying in. More Qing troops will take at least half a month to arrive, and even a month if they are slow.

However, the three large fortresses between Songshan and Rufeng Mountain, as well as a number of small fortresses used for support nearby, can be said to have been in operation for a long time.

Although the terrain near Songshan is wider than that around Tashan, as long as it is based on the high potential of Rufeng Mountain, the cavalry rushes down to Jinan to resist. The only thing that can really carry out the battle of the large corps is a clearing between Jinzhou and Rufeng Mountain.