However, Xie Yongchang was soon relieved, because the fortress itself was extremely strong, and the periphery was protected by wet soil, and the Qing army's Hongyi cannon had extremely low destructive power to the Ming army's fortress seven miles away, so he could only move the cannon forward.

As soon as he moved, he fell into Chen Biao's arms.

"Fire!" Chen Biao gave an order.

As soon as the Qing army's Hongyi cannon advanced to the firing position, the gunners were scrambling to dig a pit in the ground to fix the gun position, and lift the cannon from the car to the shelf, when they heard a burst of cannon sound on the hill.

"There's a thief cannon on the top of the mountain?" Liang Huafeng heard the sound of cannons, raised his head, and saw the white smoke rising from the top of the mountain, and several black dots rising into the air, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Four black dots rise into the air, pull an arc in the air, fly to the highest point, the black dots become smaller, and then smash down to the ground.

"Cupola?" The artillery team of the Qing army was originally a surrender of the Ming army, and the Ming army was once equipped with a cupola cannon similar to the mortar cannon, but later because the cannon had a short range and poor accuracy, it was eliminated and replaced with a direct-fire gun.

A Green Battalion soldier who had withdrawn from Hangzhou shouted in horror: "It's the siege cannon of the thieves!" This cannon is extremely powerful! ”

Before the words fell, the shells had already landed on the artillery positions of the Qing army and exploded, raising clusters of scarlet fireballs.

The exploding flowering shells burst out with sharp shrapnel, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers who had not had time to run away fell screaming. The gunners of the Qing army suddenly formed a chaotic formation and fled for their lives.

The accuracy of the copper mortar cannon improved by Dai Zi is still not high, but the flowering shell can make up for the difference in accuracy.

In the third round of shelling, several Qing artillery pieces were destroyed. The Qing gunners behind all scattered and fled, and no one dared to approach the Hongyi cannon. The Ming army continued to shell and blew all the artillery of the Qing army into scrap copper and rotten iron.

Without the Hongyi cannons, the Qing army was simply unable to capture the fortress in front. Those seemingly scattered fortresses actually echo each other. There is no entrance or exit from the front, and the Qing soldiers can only enter from the back. However, there is a wooden fence between the fort and the fort, and the sword and shield men behind the wooden fence can throw 10,000 enemies, defend with the defense weapons, and have pikemen to assist, and at the same time form a cross fire between the fort and the fort. The Qing army attacked the wooden fence and was attacked from both sides.

"I can only attack the mountain!" After analyzing the situation on the battlefield, Mulima felt that it was easier to attack the mountain than to attack the Ming army camp in front.

The Qing army of the green battalion launched an attack on the mountain, and the result is needless to say, the Ming army on the mountain was condescending, the rolling wood and stones were smashed down in rows, the arrows were overwhelming, and the mortars on the hill also joined the bombardment of the Qing army, and the green battalion soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The hillside was littered with corpses, but not even a single hair of the Ming army could be injured.

The attack on both flanks was blocked, and the Qing army on the left and right could not move forward at all, but the Qing army on the middle was steadily advancing. The Ming army had no hills on both sides of the road to use, and there was no countermeasure of the copper mortar cannon to the Qing army's Hongyi cannon, and the result was that the fortifications built by the Ming army were destroyed by the Qing army's artillery, and the Ming army was forced to retreat and build positions behind; After the Qing army occupied a new position. He set up artillery again and bombarded the Ming defense line in front.

The Qing army advanced step by step. The Ming army retreated.

After seven days and seven nights of fierce fighting, a large open field appeared in front of the Qing army in the middle road.

"Lin'an! In front of it is Lin'an City! There was a cheer of excitement from the ranks of the Qing army.

Ao Bai Zhong army camp, the main general of the middle road Luo Keduo asked Ao Bai for battle: "Lord Ao, the front is Lin'an open land, if the thieves go out of the city to fight, our army just gives full play to the advantages of cavalry!" Fought for so long in the mountains. The cavalry is used as infantry, and the warriors of the Eight Banners have long been suffocated. ”

"Yes! In the open field, our cavalry was invincible. If the thieves retreat to the city, the small city of Lin'an will not be able to withstand the artillery bombardment at all, and we can wipe out the pirates in the city. Prince Kang said. Thinking of the more than 2,000 Manmeng Eight Banner soldiers who were damaged by the two incompetent people of Songkui and Zhangtai, Jie Shu felt a pang in his heart. One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. If it weren't for their incompetence, how could the heroic and combative Manmeng Eight Banners have been defeated so badly. But Ao Bai didn't punish these two guys, and he didn't even write about their recitals, just scolded them.

Zhuo Butai, Kabula, Suo Etu, Uhe, Zhang Chaoxuan and other generals asked for their orders and asked to fight.

"Big brother!" Zhuo Butai said, "The thieves are good at fighting in the mountains and water network areas, while our army is good at fighting on flat ground. There is open land under Lin'an City, and we should take advantage of the victory to pursue it! As long as you capture Lin'an, you can point to Hangzhou! ”

Who knew that Yue Le, who was very calm, disagreed with everyone's opinions: "Lord Ao, Xiao Wang thinks that although the terrain in the Lin'an area is open, the barbarian fortifications are very perfect, there are a large number of trenches and deer to resist horses, and it is difficult for the cavalry to attack in a roundabout way, so they can only attack from the front. With Lin'an as the center, the barbarians are concentrating their forces to confront us, and our army is afraid that it will suffer too much loss. What's more, the thieves on both flanks have not yet been resolved, and if they flank us, I am afraid that the front army will fall into an encirclement! ”

Zhuo Butai said: "Prince An is too cautious, right? The two-winged thieves were pinned down by our army and could not be rescued at all. As long as we take Lin'an, we will cut off the food routes of the two-winged thieves, so that the Haikou will be self-defeating. ”

Ao Bai, who had never expressed his position, looked at Yue Le, as if he was pondering something, and only asked after a while: "Then Prince Yi'an only sees it, how should our army behave?" ”

Yue Le replied: "Lord Hui, our army should not attack rashly, we should also build fortifications and confront the barbarians head-on, and when the barbarians can't bear it and come to attack us, we will fight and retreat, lure the barbarians out of the fortifications, and then outflank them with cavalry to cut off the back road of the barbarians, so that our army will be able to win a complete victory." ”

"Confrontation?" Ao Bai sneered, "If we don't take Hangzhou, what will we use to confront the barbarians?" They have granaries in Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou to supply, and there is a steady stream of food. And our army has to rely on Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei for long-distance supplies! Do you think thieves are as idiots as you are, and will lead you out of the fortifications? They will only confront us in Lin'an and consume our food and grass! What's more, there is also a group of thieves who have come behind us and threaten the safety of our grain at any time! Although the thief team does not have many troops, and the old man is also on guard, but if the time drags on for a long time, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes! Once the thieves seized the opportunity to rob the grain and grass once, the army of more than 100,000 people was in turmoil. Defeat is bound to be! ”

"Yes, Eun Xiang is wise! Our army should attack head-on! Conquer Lin'an in one fell swoop! As long as our army arrives at the city of Hangzhou, the granaries of those thieves in Huzhou, Jiaxing and Songjiang will return anyway and defect to our royal division! When the time comes, the thieves will defeat themselves without a fight! "Bamburshan slapped a sycophant.

Ao Bai nodded: "Our army has been steadily advancing, and the thieves are constantly attracted by our army to the two wings, and the heavy troops are gathered on the two wings. The mid lane has been released. Our army attacked many people, and the barbarians must have suffered heavy losses! As long as the Chinese army is vigorous, it will be able to seize Lin'an and point its sword at Hangzhou! As for the attacking manpower, attack with the Green Battalion! ”

Bambulshan slapped another sycophant: "Enxiang, although our army's frontal attack has suffered great losses, there are few people in the Ming Dog, so we will exchange the green battalion soldiers, even if it is two for one." Three for one, we don't suffer! As long as the losses of the middle road Ming dogs are too large, their two wings of the grain road are broken, and they can only return to Hangzhou. As long as they retreat, we will win! Anyway, what the imperial court wants is for us to recapture Jiangnan, and we don't care how many casualties there are. ”

Anyway, no matter how many Green Battalion soldiers die, Ao Bai and the others will not feel distressed. According to the plan of the Qing court, as long as Jiangnan is recovered. Except for a few in the southwest, the Ming army is still resisting, and the southeastern Ming army is alone overseas. No longer poses a threat. And more importantly, according to the information obtained by the Qing court, Zheng Chenggong will not live long, as long as Zheng Chenggong dies, the Zheng family army will inevitably fight among themselves, and there will be no chance again.

"Woo-" The horn let out a long, low sound. The Qing army launched an attack at noon.

Attacking from the west to the east, it was backlit in the morning, and the soldiers were irritated by the sunlight and did not take advantage of the attack. The sun was scorching at noon. However, it has entered the second half of September, and Jiangnan is not so hot.

The Qing army concentrated its forces to attack Lin'an City, but the Ming army did not retreat to the city wall. Because the Qing army had the advantage of artillery, the small Lin'an city wall could not withstand the bombardment of Hongyi artillery, so the Ming army chose to dig a trench outside the city and build a criss-crossing defense line to resist the Qing army's attack and wait for the opportunity for a counteroffensive.

Ao Bai set up a luxurious lineup, with the veteran Luo Keduo led the army to break through the middle, Songkui led the army to attack the side, followed by the Eight Banners cavalry led by U He on standby, once the infantry filled the trench and broke through the middle, the Qing army used cavalry to attack and kill the Ming infantry.

The Qing army could not break through the middle defense line for a while and a half, and a large number of green battalion soldiers paid a heavy price and captured a section of trench, and the Ming army organized ironclad soldiers to counterattack and recapture the lost trench. The two sides fought repeatedly in the west of Lin'an City, killing the sky in the dark, and fought fiercely until dark, and the two sides only withdrew their troops.

Knowing that the Qing army had begun to attack Lin'an City, Wang Yuyou immediately made a decision and ordered the ambushes on both flanks to attack and launch a fierce counterattack against the Qing troops on the left and right.

The right side counterattacked, and the Bobcat battalion led by Shi Fu took the lead. This mountain army will be like a right hook fist, hitting the Qing army in the back and cutting off the retreat of the Qing army in the middle. Following the mountain army were the Shenji Battalion, Huwei Battalion, and Taixi Battalion of the Qiongzhou Army, led by Jiang Zhiping, Gong Xiaoda, and Wang Defeng, respectively. Also assisting in the battle was the Zheng Jiajun Right Guard Battalion, led by Zhou Quanbin; Zheng Jiajun's black musket team in Ding Town, led by Huang Ting; Zheng Jiajun Zhiwu Town, led by Yan Wangzhong.

Most of the people at that time had night blindness, especially the ordinary Green Battalion Qing soldiers, who couldn't see anything when it was dark.

However, the Qiongzhou Army does not have this problem, the Qiongzhou Army is rich in meat on weekdays, and often eats foods rich in vitamin A such as fish and shrimp and mutton, and every soldier's eyesight is very good. Zheng Jiajun's night vision was slightly poor, so Zheng Jiajun followed behind the Qiongzhou army, and waited for the Qiongzhou army to successfully attack at night, and after dawn, Zheng Jiajun came to help the battle, assisted the Qiongzhou army to hold the position, prevent the Qing army from counterattacking, and completely blocked the retreat of Luo Keduo, Uhe and Songkui.

The Qiongzhou army marched in the mountains and forests in front, extinguished all the torches, and was led by the Lynx battalion, with the help of the faint moonlight lighting, flexibly walking through the mountains and forests. Zheng Jiajun followed from a distance, carrying torches and walking along the mountain road by the stream.

Soon the Qiongzhou army left the Zheng family army far behind. Because it was a sneak attack at night, Zheng Jiajun, who could only walk at night with torches, could not get too close to himself, so as not to be discovered by the Qing army.

Ma Chaoxing, Cai Dezhong, and other commanders of the special combat team personally led more than 200 special combat personnel to join up with the Yebu Detachment that had just been gathered in various places, and according to the information provided by Ye Bushu, they crossed the small road and went straight to the camp of the Qing army.

In order to prevent night attacks, in addition to being sentry at the door, the Qing army camp was densely packed with spies and scouts for several miles outside the camp. Whether the sneak attack can succeed or not depends entirely on whether the Qing army spies and scouts on the periphery can be eliminated silently and prevent them from sending signals.

The Ming army's Songjin battle was a fiasco because a large number of people were hunted by the Qing army at night, and the generals of the Ming army lost their eyes and ears, resulting in an attack on the Beacon Mountain grain hoarding site.

The current situation is completely reversed, the Eight Banners Army has degenerated and corrupted after entering the customs, and the scouts and scouts are all selected from the green camp. Originally, the quality of the green battalion army in this era was good, even if Li Dingguo or Zheng Chenggong were asked to steal the camp, they might not be successful. However, they don't want to say that they are compared with the special combat team of the Qiongzhou Army, even if they are far from the scouts of the Eight Banners outside the gate back then.

Cai Dezhong and Ma Chaoxing led people to hunt and kill the Qing army scouts scattered in the mountains, forests and wilderness with crossbow arrows, daggers, and flying knives, and cleared a safe passage for the night attack of the lynx battalion.

After cleaning up the Qing army scouts and spies, Cai Dezhong learned a few night owl calls and sent out signals.

It was already midnight, which was equivalent to twenty-three o'clock in the night. Back then, there was no need to be now, modern people have a rich nightlife, and for many people, twenty-three o'clock is just the beginning of the night. There were no electric lights and no other electrical appliances back then, so I had already fallen asleep at this time, and even Li Zhifang, the commander of the rear camp, had already fallen asleep.

The Ming sergeant bit the title in his mouth, quietly approached the Qing army camp, and ambushed him.

Shi Fu looked at the gate of the military camp and saw that there was a bonfire at the door, and two Qing soldiers were sentry. Piles of bonfires were lit inside the camp, illuminating the camp area. However, there is very little movement around the camp.

Wang Xinyu was not sure to directly attack the Chinese army camp in Aobai, but against Li Zhifang, who was relatively weak, he still had eight or nine points of certainty to win. Even if the sneak attack fails to turn into a strong attack, Li Zhifang's troops are not very many, and they are not very strong, and a strong attack by the Ming army in the night attack can guarantee the capture of the Qing army camp.

"Do it!" Shi Fu shouted.

All the Ming soldiers took the title out of their mouths, shouted, and rushed towards the Qing army camp. Before the people arrived, a row of random arrows shot the two Qing army sentries at the door into hedgehogs.

"Kill!" The soldiers of the Bobcat battalion rushed to the gate of the camp, cut the ropes, and lowered the drawbridge. Several soldiers picked up logs and smashed open the gate of the camp and rushed in. Someone picked up firewood, took fire from the bonfire, lit the torch, and threw the torch at the tents of the Qing army on both sides.

The Qing army camp suddenly burst into flames, and the Qing soldiers who woke up from their sleep did not even have time to put on their clothes, and as soon as they rushed out of the tent, they were confronted by the fierce mountain soldiers. (To be continued.) )