According to the plan of the Qing army, once the Ming army attacked the mountain, the artillery on the mountain could bombard the Ming army's formation at a long distance, and when the Ming army got closer, all kinds of small artillery could be powerful; The Ming army rushed to within 100 paces, and the Qing army's rolling wood stones, bird guns, self-generated fire guns, and bows and arrows could also be condescendingly defeated. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"If the Ming Dog storms my mountain, the corpses of the Ming Dog will be all over the field!" Guo Weifan looked at the defense line he was guarding with satisfaction and said.

However, Guo Weifan waited for a long time, but he did not see the attack on the mountain, only to see the Ming army digging a trench under the mountain, setting up camp, and some auxiliary soldiers went to cut down trees in the woods behind, and they were building something, which seemed to be in accordance with the steps of the siege.

Guo Weifan wondered in his heart: Something is wrong, can this attack on the mountain be the same as the siege of the city? If you are attacking a city, you can use auxiliaries to push a shield cart and get close to the foot of the city wall. But to attack the mountain, can the shield cart push it up? Digging trenches to prevent us from descending the mountain to counterattack, but what use are they building siege tools? Can the siege car go up the mountain? In addition, why did Ming Dog set up camp at the foot of the mountain? Do you want to trap us? But they couldn't surround the mountain, and there was a passage behind us to transport grain and grass up the mountain, so what was their purpose?

And so the whole day passed, and night fell on the earth. Pigeon Mountain is surrounded by darkness, and occasionally there are scouts of the Qing army or Qiongzhou army with torches passing through the low hills, but the Qing army scouts suffered a big loss, and the Ming army sharpshooters who were ambushed in the dark relied on the advantage of rifled guns, aiming at the torches and shooting, and the scouts sent by Guo Weifan were killed countless times.

Guo Weifan asked the scouts to extinguish their torches and go down the mountain to spy on the military situation, so as to prevent the Ming army from sneaking up overnight. However, these Qing soldiers also had night blindness, and if they did not light torches at night, it would be pitch black in all directions, and they would not be able to see anything clearly, and they would not dare to walk.

Several scouts stubbornly went down the mountain without torches to spy on the Ming army's intelligence. If the torches were not fired, they would not have been shot by the sharpshooters of the Ming army, but the Qing scouts were miserable, it was pitch black in all directions, and after walking a few steps, someone fell and rolled down the hillside; After a few more steps, someone stepped into the air and fell down the mountain; After a while, someone kicked something and tripped and fell to the ground, and this fall fell directly to the foot of the mountain.

Three miles away, the Ming army outside the range of the Qing army's artillery was brilliantly lit, and in the Qing army's village on the mountain, there were only sporadic lights now. On the side of the Ming army, the lanterns and flames were dotted all over the mountains and fields, like stars falling from the sky.

In the camp of the Ming army under the mountain, there was a sudden earth-shattering shout, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and countless lanterns and torches emerged from the camp, like a rolling fire dragon, rolling towards the hillside. The moving fire dragon was accompanied by an earth-shattering roar, sweeping across the hillside, stirring between heaven and earth.

"Minggou is going to attack the mountain at night! Get ready! When the dog is in range, the cannon will be fired! Guo Weifan jumped up from the hanging bunk between the two big trees.

This kind of hanging bunk, which is said to be an imported product produced by Nanyang Company, is a kind of rattan bed with good elasticity, which can be hung up and tied to a tree at both ends, and it is very comfortable to sleep on. And the vine is still very strong, so you don't have to worry about breaking. In fact, this kind of hanging is a common item in the South Seas, and it was originally used on ships.

The Qing army, which had just fallen asleep, woke up, crouched behind artillery emplacements, foxholes, trenches and wooden fences, staring at the moving fire dragon at the foot of the mountain.

Guo Weifan waited patiently, and after a while, he estimated it, and saw that the torch had entered within three miles, so he shouted: "Minggou has entered the firing range, fire!" ”

The six red-clothed cannons in the Qing army camp on the mountain spewed out flames, making a deafening roar, and the solid cannonballs flew out of the muzzles with a roar, and smashed towards the long formation of fire dragons at the foot of the mountain. However, the cannon was fired at night, and the effect was obviously not good, and the cannonball smashed into the long line of torches, and did not smash a few torches.

The momentum of the Ming army's offensive seemed to be shaken, and the speed of the long torch dragon movement slowed down, as if the Ming army was looking for a place to hide from the shelling of the mountain.

After a while, the torches moved again in the direction of the Qing army camp on the mountain.

The Qing army opened fire again, destroying a few torches, but the shouts under the mountain still shook the sky, as if it was very crazy.

In fact, the Qiongzhou army arranged a suspicious array, the real elite soldiers were sleeping in the barracks, and the people who were sent out to attack and disturb the Qing army were a group of auxiliaries, and there were not so many auxiliaries who played torches, and there were a lot of auxiliaries shouting and building momentum behind, all of which were hiding behind, hiding outside the range of the Qing army's artillery. In front of them were a small number of auxiliaries, carrying a long log with torches tied to it, and each auxiliaries could carry at least six torches.

The artillery bombardment of the Qing army at night was inaccurate, and the formation of the auxiliaries was very scattered, most of the torches were empty underneath, and a piece of wood was picked up, and the Qing army's shells were fired, and only a few unfortunate auxiliaries were killed and wounded.

At this moment, the Ming army under the mountain opened fire, only to see a few cannon sounds in the Ming army camp, in the firelight, the white smoke rose from the brilliant camp of the lights, and the shells flew towards the red-clothed artillery position on the hill of the Qing army with a piercing whistling sound.

"Minggou fired so far away? Can you hit us? Guo Weifan was very puzzled.

It soon proved that the artillery bombardment of the Ming army was extremely accurate, and the eight guns only had three rounds of shelling, and all the six red-coated cannons of the Qing army were beaten into a pile of scrap metal. What made Guo Weifan feel even more strange was that the whistling sound of the Ming army's cannonballs was extremely harsh, and it seemed to be the sound of a giant cannon over sixty-four pounds.

According to the hit rate of this kind of shelling, only a huge cannon of more than sixty-four pounds could accurately hit the target from a distance of three miles.

"How could Minggou transport such a huge cannon?" Guo Weifan was puzzled. According to the calculation of weight, a 64-pound cannon weighs at least 10,000 catties, and such a heavy cannon is very inconvenient to transport, so it can only be used as a battery gun, placed on the seaside, and used to deal with ships on the sea, and it cannot be transported in the field at all.

After the Qing army's most ranged artillery was destroyed, the torches became bold and continued to approach the hill.

However, when the Ming army moved to a mile away from the Qing army, it stopped advancing, and only shouted on the hillside, and the torches were extinguished a lot, and the remaining torches were shaking, as if they were demonstrating to the Qing army.

The Ming army used auxiliaries to confuse the Qing army, and the soldiers could sleep in peace. However, the Qing army's auxiliaries and soldiers couldn't sleep, and the torches of the Ming army were just a mile away, and they could attack at any time, and the Qing soldiers on the mountain didn't dare to close their eyes at all.

After tossing all night, when it was time for the fourth watch, the soldiers of the Ming army who had slept well got up one after another. Breakfast had already been prepared in the camp and distributed to every soldier.