Chapter Sixty-Eight: Fire!

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Taking advantage of the last bit of winter, Chen Ming quickly went down the iron village with a hundred people.

He didn't walk like the rest of the army to show that he was 'approachable' and to get closer to each other. Rather, a group of mules was ridden, yes, mules, not horses. In the mountains, a mild-tempered mule is more assured than a horse.

Chen Ming touched a purse on his waist with his hand, which was embroidered by Li Xiaomei for him, and he had been hanging on his waist for a while. Chen Ming didn't have any feelings about this thing in the past, and even at the beginning, he was a little uncomfortable, how could he think that a big man with a sachet hanging on his waist was a kind of beauty? But now it's different, and he can calm down the restlessness in his heart a lot by touching this purse.

Thinking of Li Xiaomei's strong face just now, and thinking of Li Xiaomei's calm ......voice just now, alas, Chen Ming always felt that men should be by her side when a woman gives birth, and the first thing a child sees when he opens his eyes should be his parents. [Digression, the newborn baby does not open its eyes, and the short ones will wait for a while to open their eyes, and the long ones are possible for ten days a week]

This is the influence of his previous life, and it is also recognized by Chen Ming's heart...... A kind of guideline. But now he really has the possibility of missing the moment when Li Xiaomei gave birth, the ghost knows what level the green battalion soldiers opposite the Phoenix Terrace will be, and the ghost knows what kind of dog this battle can become......

Phoenix Terrace.

Just when Chen Erbao hurriedly sent someone to Tiezhai to report the news, the militia groups, which had been quiet for a month, became busy. They began to actively cut down trees, and in Xu Shilian's eyes, these militia groups were no different from the people who accompanied the army in the Ruzhou battalion. Except for cutting down trees and making their own equipment, their flesh and blood have no effect in front of a fortress like Phoenix Terrace.

The wide surface of this battlefield is too narrow. Although the Chen family set aside the Drinking Horse River and a slip of land on the south bank, so that the Qing army seemed to be able to avoid the artillery fire of Fenghuangtai, don't forget that it is winter, and it is in the mountains. If the Ruzhou battalion didn't completely take down the Phoenix Terrace in front of them, what could they do since they slipped to the side?

The slippery land to the south is full of stones, and if you don't spend a lot of effort to clean it, you can't pass the carriages and horses at all, not to mention that there are still a certain number of muskets on the side of Phoenix Terrace. The Qing army's chariots and horses could not pass, which meant that the logistics supply could not be supplied, and the Ruzhou battalion, which could not even guarantee food and sleep at night, was killed in Xiaonangou, and there was a bird in Tiezhai?

Chen Erbao didn't have to go out in the Phoenix Terrace, he could watch the Ruzhou camp go west, and then wait for the good news. Xu Shilian led his troops to surrender, but in addition to this, he could only freeze to death and starve to death.

As the Sipin Division, Xu Shilian is a middle-level general in the Qing army, and some generals still have the basic military literacy, he knows very well the battle situation in front of him, and he doesn't have to think about anything else if he can't open the Phoenix Terrace.

This particular war environment and the bitterly cold weather doomed everything that should have been.

Xu Shilian ordered the militia to cut down trees and make long ladders and shield carts, the latter being the old tricks of the ancestors of the Qing army when dealing with the artillery of the Ming army. It's old, but it's OK as long as it's useful!

The two Weiyuan general cannons with the army were dragged to Fenghuangtai, and before the news was delivered to Tiezhai, the shelling had already sounded. After more than an hour of shelling, Xu Shilian saw the solidity of Phoenix Terrace. It's really like what Li Zhao said, the adhesive on the exterior of Phoenix Terrace is as hard as a stone.

The two Weiyuan general cannons fired six shots at the front and back, hitting the front of the Phoenix Terrace with three shots, and the remaining nine shots were either close or far away, and fell into the inside of the Phoenix Terrace, and the Qing army could not see the effect. Xu Shilian's eyes were on the cement wall where the three shots hit, and the three iron bullets left three bowl-sized potholes on it, but that's all.

This made Xu Shilian almost give up his preparation to speak with a cannon. If he wants to rely on two Weiyuan generals to bombard such a phoenix platform, he has to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse. Xu Shilian asked the gunners to make more adjustments, and the Phoenix Terrace would not collapse, so aim the muzzle of the cannon at the closed fort on the left and right. The Phoenix Terrace, which is not very wide, if the two forts on the left and right collapse, the deterrent power of the artillery in the hands of the Chen family will be greatly reduced. The front of this phoenix platform is too narrow and narrow, and once the two forts are removed, the transverse surface is shortened by half.

When Chen Ming and his men rushed to Phoenix Terrace late at night, the small and long fire dragon made the Qing army who were watching at night see it from afar.

Reinforcements came in from the Phoenix Terrace. This news, along with the specific number of people, was reported to Xu Shilian and Li Zhao. After getting up the next day, Xu Shilian didn't react to the news at all. Because he still didn't really regard the Chen family as an evenly matched enemy in his heart, he continued to firmly believe that as long as the men and horses of the Ruzhou battalion withstood the two cannons in the hands of the Chen family, they would undoubtedly win an absolute victory when the swords and soldiers really met.

Chen Ming only squinted for more than an hour, and climbed the city wall as soon as it was dawn. Looking at the camp in the distance, looking at the artillery forts that the Qing army had begun to build and reinforce, he also poked his head out to look at the potholes left on the city.

Chen Ming's expression was very relaxed, and his relaxation even loosened the frozen aura of Phoenix Terrace a lot. At this stall where the Chen family had just 'fallen into the grass', the morale of the military was maintained to a considerable extent on Chen Hui and Chen Ming's father and son.

Although Chen Ming promoted the fall of the entire Chen family at the beginning, the opposition within the Chen family was obvious to all, but after Chen Hui's return, after Chen Hui firmly stood on Chen Ming's side, the dissent within the Chen family quickly disappeared. It's not that everyone has changed their minds, but Chen Hui's qualifications and prestige make everyone keep their mouths shut for the time being, and see the effect in the future before talking about the future. This is the influence and cohesion that Chen Ming said does not have.

But in terms of military force, Chen Ming's prestige is now higher than Chen Erbao's, who made Chen Erbao passively accept and Chen Ming is the dominant one in the whole process? Chen Ming had already seized the initiative, so Chen Erbao's position was still extremely important, and the weight of the entire Chen family's speech had become a lot heavier, but he was suppressed by Chen Ming in the team.

The relationship between the two of them is a bit handsome. Chen Erbao is a well-deserved general, but Chen Ming is the marshal who commands the general.

Now Chen Ming is relaxed, and in the eyes of the troops, Chen Ming is confident. Everyone's eyes and will are pinned on Chen Ming's body, and Chen Ming's relaxation makes everyone rush to relax. Even Chen Erbao's expression loosened a little, at least it made people look less stressed.

"Boom ......"

When the smoke of the cooking in the opposite camp was extinguished, the sound of artillery returned. Chen Ming was standing in the barracks, and he was not worried about the shelling from the opposite side at all. Just three or four pounds of iron balls, the size of a child's fist, if you can collapse the closed fort built with one-foot-thick iron reinforcement cement and stones, Chen Ming will die.

The Manchu cannons are so powerful, and the general's cannons are not on the earth, what kind of rebellion is he making.

"Put your heart in your stomach. With this kind of small cannon, it can't open the Phoenix Terrace even if it is scrapped by itself! ā€

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