If Peng Shihan knew about the situation in Juyanbao on the night of the tenth, I am afraid that he would have to jump higher than Gui Zhen. net

That night, at the 83rd Battalion of Juyanbao, Cao Zhan felt that all his strength was spent on sighing.

It took only eight months to build Juyan Fort, although it was a miracle that the emperor directly promoted, Zhang Hanwan, the governor of Anxi, and Jia Hao, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, worked closely together from both the military and political sides, and did not hesitate to work at any cost, but it is still called a move against the sky.

Now it seems that God is taking revenge, the battalion commander Yang Jiyuan and the marching staff officer died of illness in the collapse of the southern corner tower, and the deputy commander who took over and several other staff officers in the battalion suffered another bombing accident, either dead or wounded. The previous four wing-commanders had been killed and wounded, and the remaining two wing-commanders, one of whom had died of a stray bullet, and the other had just taken over the command and rushed to the southern city wall, when he was seriously injured by the premature explosion of the grenade.

Although the casualty rate of the Yinghua red-clothed officers was much higher than that of the soldiers, the fact that a battalion was swept away in two hours from the commander to the officer on the main wing can only be said to be another miracle.

Now there are only two deputy wing commanders with a group of sentry commanders leading the whole battalion, and the original battalion office, only Cao Zhan is the only seedling.

Du Lianbai, who is over 40 years old and has nearly 10 years of military experience, is the main one, and Hao Jingshan, who graduated from Whampoa Academy in 11 years, is the deputy according to his qualifications.

The two deputy wing commanders had to command more than 1,000 people in the fort, including the twenty-pound gun post transferred from the division headquarters, and everyone didn't think there was any problem. Whether it is the Anglo-Chinese military discipline or the many years of actual combat tradition, the principle that the command power cannot be broken down has been condensed, and it is no longer the old days that other relationships can be climbed. Disagree with the size of the mountain ecology deployed by colleagues. Without Officer Lang, the captain is on top, even if it is all finished from the lieutenant to the lieutenant, there are still non-commissioned officers. Anyway, as long as there are people who can lead troops. The troops should not have broken up.

However, there are some situations that are always not taken care of by military law and tradition, such as at the current military meeting, Du Lianbai believes that it is necessary to go out of the city and fight a battle to grab a position under the southern city wall to weaken the enemy's attack. Problems with the quality of the southern wall caused a corner tower to collapse and the battalion command level was almost wiped out. To defend the fort, it was necessary to strengthen the southern defenses.

Deputy Hao Jingshan disagreed. He believed that the casualties outside the city were too great to be conducive to a lasting defense. The southern defenses, though porous, were not enough to pose a lethal threat by relying on the strength of the Mongol attacks.

The sentry commanders in the battalion all felt that Hao Jingshan's opinion was more serious. There was no positive response to Du Lianbai. In view of the glory of the 6th Praetorian Guard Division's untimidity and the principle of obedience to command, everyone did not dare to openly support Hao Jingshan. There was a terrible silence in the camp.

Cao Zhan felt that there was something wrong with the army's heart, so he sighed vigorously.

"Staff Officer Cao, what do you say?"

Du Lianbai suddenly asked, and Hao Jingshan and more than a dozen sentinels also looked at Cao Zhan with a look of hope.

"Me? I...... I'm just, just a marching staff officer. Little lieutenant. ”

Cao Zhan's scalp is numb, he is a civilian to join the army. He was not qualified to lead troops, and he never thought that he had the qualifications to meddle in combat command. At the moment, everyone looked like they were waiting for him to come up with an idea, which was completely unexpected by him.

Hao Jingshan said: "The staff officer is not only a captain, but also the only officer in the battalion who can speak, if you don't speak, how can everyone rest assured?" ”

Cao Zhan saw it, don't look at the two people's faces when they took over the command, but in fact, a big mountain has been pressed in their hearts, and the two can't compete with each other, because the pressure is too great, and now they have to find him to share the burden. Baidu search

"Me, I think ......"

This is just a bystander, when Cao Zhan's mind turned to the topic, the fear that had been driven away quietly occupied his body and mind, making him feel out of breath again, and he wanted to say something casually, but as soon as he got up, he swallowed it all back into his stomach. ..., I want to settle down in the survival of Yanbao in a word, can I talk nonsense?

But isn't this an opportunity!? The husband's name will go down in history, at this moment!

Realizing this, Cao Zhan's face suddenly turned red.

But the blood on his face came and went quickly, this is not only the survival of the Juyan Fortress, as a military Chinese, the meaning of this battle, he understands more deeply than ordinary warriors. Not to mention the lives of more than 1,000 people, the overall situation of the Northwest, the great cause of the North Garden, the blood and sweat of tens of thousands of troops and millions of people, and the consumption of tens of millions of silver, success or failure may be between your own words......

At this moment, Cao Zhan suddenly admired Yu Yunwen five hundred years ago, he was not in the military, but he resolutely stepped forward and turned the sky away, he was really not that material.

Du Hao and the others saw that Cao Zhan's face changed again and again, but they still couldn't make a sound, they both shook their heads secretly, and said in their hearts that this was just a young man under twenty years old, and he couldn't stand such pressure, how could he be expected to stand it.

The two were about to continue arguing, but Cao Zhan finally squeezed out his voice: "There is indeed a problem with the southeast fort wall, if the cannonball hits a crack in the lower left edge number 602, it is estimated that that section will all collapse." ”

At first, it was as thin as a mosquito, and gradually the voice became louder: "If you can't stop the enemy from shelling on that side, judging by God's luck in landing on Juyan Fort...... That section of the wall will surely fall. ”

When it came to luck, everyone shook their heads and smiled bitterly. Thinking about it again, my mind is also heavy, so it seems that it doesn't make much sense to go out of the city and not out of the city.

A light rose in Cao Zhan's eyes: "Since it is bound to collapse, why don't we pick it up ourselves first?" Build a low wall in the gap, so ......"

Others frowned and were puzzled, and picked it up themselves? Du Lianbai and Hao Jingshan's faces also turned blue.

"Everybody's nervous, but you can't make jokes like this to coax people......"

"Staff officer, this is about the survival of Fort Juyan!"

Cao Tan stammered: "That's why it'......"

At the same time that Cao Zhan was reprimanded by his colleagues as whimsical and even frenzied, in the felt tent outside Juyanbao, Zasaktu Khangge Keyan Pile was pacing restlessly, and the Wuyi Mountain black tea in his hand was already cold, but he didn't realize it.

"The Han Chinese red-coated cavalry has already appeared in the rear, and there are even rumors that Noyin Ula has been captured by the Dzungar Xiaoceling Division, which is the only way for us to retreat north. The Ministries of Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan have been discussing in private. If there is no progress, this coalition army will probably disperse! ”

There was a hint of temptation in his next words: "Do the Rakshasas not care about this victory or defeat at all?" If we win, we have to give them Tangnu Ulianghai and accept their titles. We lost. They simply waved their troops south and occupied our Kobdo and Uriya Sutai!? ”

His son Baledar was standing beside him, and when he heard this, his face twitched, but his tone of voice was very calm: "Father Khan, the Rakshasas do not have the strength to go south. The Rakshasa people are in the Far North Wasteland, and dozens or hundreds of people can occupy a large area of land, but there are too few locals. They have guns again, and naturally they are effortless. And in Mobei, we have hundreds of thousands of Khalkha Mongolians, and the Rakshasas are not crazy. It is impossible to coerce by force. ”

"This time, the three divisions of the alliance went south, and the guns and cannons given by the Rakshasas were enough to arm their army in the entire Far North, the Tobolsk overseer Ivanov, and even the governor of the Siberian Yamen. Their future has been weighed on by this, and they stand with us in Khalkha Mongolia......"

Ge Keyan Pile sighed, "But even with the guns of the Rakshasas, you can see that our people have used all their strength. Fathers, sons and brothers suffered heavy casualties, and everyone was still desperate. This is beyond our limits, but we haven't even climbed the walls! ”

Baldar said in a deep voice: "The Chelrech Overseers have helped us find the weak underbelly of the Han people's city defenses. Father Khan, tomorrow you will have to work a little more on the other two Khans, pushing them to hand over the command of the army to the Governor of Cherrekh. As long as the Overseers can command the siege, it will take three to five days at most, and the fort of Juyan will be broken! ”…,

He accentuated his tone, almost gritting his teeth, "This is the only option!" ”

Gěkı Yan Pile was stunned for a moment, then nodded helplessly.

On November 11, Cherrekh rode his horse to Da Xuan, and without concealing his identity with his cloak, he shook his head at Baledar half reservedly: "You are really relieved to give me command of the army?" But you have made a wise choice, and you should have done it a long time ago, but you will not realize it until you have to pay thousands of lives. ”

Turning his gaze to Fort Juyan, Cherrekh smiled slightly: "The Han people should have learned some city defense and artillery techniques from other Europa countries, built such a nondescript fortress, and used sophisticated artillery. But for us Russians, their construction techniques are still too crude, and the use of artillery is also very young, they are more civilized than you Mongols, but only ......"

He cocked his little finger and hooked: "It's a little stronger." ”

As if the finger was the switch, as soon as the words fell, there was an endless roar in front of me, and I saw that a section of the city wall about ten zhang wide in the southeast of Juyan Fort suddenly disappeared, raising the old high smoke and dust.

The besieging army that was gathering cheered, it collapsed, the wall of the Han people collapsed!

Looking at the corner towers on the left and right of the city wall, and the tall towers in the city that peeked out from the gaps, Cherrekh's originally high-spirited expression became gloomy, and the hand with the little finger cocked turned into a fist.

"Rush in and win!"

"Eternal Heaven bless! This is the Immortal Heaven bless us! ”

"The king of Khan has decreed that whoever is the first to storm into the fort will receive a hundred tents!"

Mongols with muskets and spears on them rushed up, and the guns roared behind them. After many days of hard fighting, there was no progress, and the original spirit had fallen to the bottom, but today, the wall of the Han people has collapsed by itself, revealing a huge gap, which is like the dawn before dawn, so that all the Mongolian officers and soldiers are excited.

The guns were much more sparse, until within half a mile, the rain of bullets that had been so loud and almost impossible to raise their heads did not appear, and the gap behind the trench was so close that it seemed to be a stride, and the first wave of the thousand Zasaktu Khans shouted excitedly, as in the past when cattle and sheep were driven on horseback.

"I don't want a hundred tents, the king of Khan said that he will marry the lord of Shandan to the bravest Battle!"

Batel of the Zasaktu Khan tribe first ascended to the high Jigeri and patted his chest and smiled heartily.

"Of course it's me!"

Almost everyone thinks so, and only by thinking this way can they resist the fear of death, and in the past month or so, they have seen too much death, and the fear in their hearts is too full.

Nearly half of the Han city wall collapsed, and there were many fewer bullets from the intact city wall and corner towers, and a thousand people rushed to the front of the ditch after only a few dozen people were lost, and then climbed up the ruins less than a foot high, Juyan Fort, like a woman who had been torn off most of her dress, was about to fall into their arms.

The ladder falls. Hundreds of people crowded outside the trench, firing their guns and preparing to cross the ladder. This shot had been fired, and there was no need for them to shoot again. The spear stabbing and waist knife, as well as the natural martial bravery of the Mongols, were enough to break the resistance of the Han Chinese.

At this moment, the guns of the Han people roared like thunder, bullets, flowering shells, and cannonballs the size of fists, as if they were sweeping the fallen leaves by the ditch. In an instant, the upper half of the smoke and dust, and the lower half of the bloody stumps, suddenly pulled out a long line.

More than 100 people who crossed the ladder were swept away in an instant. The people behind who hadn't stepped on the ladder subconsciously lay on the ground, including Gao Jigeri, who didn't grab the ladder. The sight in the corner of his eye made his heart suddenly cold, and his body, which was hot from the delicate face of Lord Shandan, became stiff.

The tower, the figure of a six-sided tower in the city, passes through the gap in the city wall. Clearly revealed. Smoke and flames were bursting from the tower's body, and the bullets that shot from it weaved a web of death in front of it. …,

Damn, that seems scarier than the walls......

Gao Jigeri gritted his teeth, unwillingly calculating the distance. If you rush under the crumbling walls in front of you, the tower's guns won't be able to hit you.

Rough and calculated. Gojigeri turned his plan into action, with him at the helm. Hundreds of people bravely got up and stepped over the ladder and rushed under the city walls.

Fluffy......

Knock Knock......

Seeing that the figure of the tower was not there, he was in a dead end, but the sound of gunfire still did not stop, Gao Jigeri was suddenly sweating, the sound of gunfire was wrong, the direction was wrong......

There was a muffled sound, and the companion's body splashed with clouds of blood, and fell to the ground silently, while the smoke and flames of the corner towers on the left and right sides bloomed more than ten feet away, so clear that Gao Jigeri could judge that the bullets pushed by several balls of smoke were his own.

In an instant, the left and right thighs, arms, and waist, as if they were being hit by several big men, wielding sharp maceheads, slammed hard, and Gao Jigeri's figure swayed left and right, shook the blood fountain, and fell to the ground.

"Gojigeri-!"

His companions behind the trench cried out in a mournful voice, and watched as Gao Jigeri's head was first shot from the right, almost half of his skull was thrown out, and he was falling to the left, and was shot in the neck by a shot from the left, and his body was twisted and fell down in a strange position, with his upper body facing up and his lower body facing down.

Front, left and right, the steel from the guns was like a raging wave, and even if you lay on the ground, you could not escape the fate of being swallowed by this raging tide. In just ten minutes, more than half of the thousands of people who rushed to the front of the trench were killed or wounded. Some people who had been frightened into frenzy turned around and ran, but in just a few feet away, they were completely accurate targets. So the remaining three or four hundred men poured into the trench like ants, trying to take advantage of this two-foot deep trench to hide from the guns.

They couldn't climb out of the trench anymore......

"Stupid!"

Behind him, Cherrekh frowned and muttered, and Baldal dropped his binoculars and gritted his teeth, unwilling to face ahead again.

Grenades exploded merrily in the trenches, and the shooters on the corner towers and ramparts took a good moment to aim before firing. Under the crossfire from three sides, this thousand-strong commando team fell in front of the trench.

It had only been half an hour since the Mongols cheered at the fall of the wall, and when the sound of gunfire had gradually subsided, it seemed that a strong wall had also collapsed in the hearts of the Mongols.

"Sure enough, it's a staff officer, and only you readers can see through this trick!"

"It's called ...... Break and stand? Staff Officer Cao, Juyan Fort depends on you! ”

At the height of the hexagonal tower in the fort, Du Lianbai and Hao Jingshan patted Cao Zhan's shoulder left and right, but Cao Zhan's face was blue and his body was still trembling.

It finally works......

Cao Zhen shouted in his heart, he was too nervous, this was his plan, if there was any mistake, he couldn't afford to take responsibility.

Yesterday he offered a plan to tear down the city wall, and everyone was puzzled at first, but after thinking about it for a while, they felt that this was not a clever move.

Hao Jingshan was the first to think through: "That's right! Instead of waiting for the walls to collapse and you are in a hurry, it is better to preemptively arrange them! ”

Du Lianbai also understood Cao Zhan's intention: "Attract enemy troops to attack? Only the upper half of the southeast corner tower collapsed, and the lower half was intact. The corner towers form crossfire, and with half of the city wall, the hexagonal fortress in the city can also develop its firepower, and then it will be a three-sided attack......"

Everyone had a consensus, so they tore through the wall overnight, sorted out such a gap, and then concentrated firepower on the tower to make a firepower net, and sure enough, the Mongols were recruited.

The reason why Cao Zhan was able to have this strategy was because he, a reader, had seen through the history of the Anglo-Chinese War. His Majesty the Emperor was in Shaozhou, Changsha, and Jia Dadu in Jiangxi all played like this. Luring the enemy into the urn, or encircling on three or four sides, isn't this the same idea in the entire northwest battlefield at the moment? It can be used on Juyan Fort with a little flexibility, and the reason why this military fort is built on six sides and the corner tower is convex is also this intention.

At this moment, seeing the disastrous scene of thousands of dead and wounded people in the city, this strategy really worked.

The blood gradually pushed to the already numb body, and Cao Zhan exhaled heavily.

"Let the Mongols leave mountains of corpses in this gap, and see if they dare to fight this side!"

He laughed, and his laughter was a little more confident than usual. (To be continued......)

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