Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

A huge explosion sounded one after another at the bottom of the mountain, and the smoke and dust were billowing up and down the mountain, making the 100,000 troops who were fighting looming, and even the wave of shouts and killing could not break away from the smoke and dust.

Li Dingguo was dressed in armor with the word "mountain", below the waist, with an iron mesh skirt and net pants, and iron mesh boots.

In front of the gunsmoke-filled array, there are all kinds of firearms, including Franc machine guns, tiger squat cannons, fire guns, thunderbolts, three-eyed guns, divine fire flying crows, a swarm of bees, hundreds of tigers rushing arrows, and so on.

In the combat units of the Ming army, all kinds of firearms were already very important equipment. Each musketeer was equipped with 2 powder canisters, one for propellant and one for primer, and carried 300 rounds of lead bullet. It is worth mentioning that the propellant at this time already used granular gunpowder instead of the previous powdered gunpowder;

The proportion of its ingredients is 1 tael of nitrate (75.75%), 1 yuan and 4 cents of sulfur (accounting for 10.6%), and 1 yuan and 8 cents of willow charcoal (accounting for 13.65%), which has basically reached the optimal ratio of black powder (75% nitrate, 10% sulfur, and 15% charcoal).

And Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were not only soldiers of the Ming army, but some of the rebels under them were also from the renegade Ming army, so whether it was the Ming army or the rebel army, firearms have been widely used.

Due to the problem of firing angle, the Franc machine gun and the tiger squat cannon used more solid bullets at the same time, which did not have great lethality to the left army on the mountain, but the rockets such as the Divine Fire Flying Crow and the Hundred Tigers Rushing Arrows caused a great threat to the left army on the mountain, and after this kind of rocket was fired, it was easy to ignite the mountain fire;

It is now the late autumn season of September, the grass and trees on the mountain are withered and yellow, and it is easy to catch fire, and the black smoke that fills the entire mountain envelops the entire mountain, making the left army on the mountain feel suffocated. At the same time, it also blurred the line of sight, making it difficult to see the movements of the rebels under the mountain.

Li Dingguo's concentrated firearms bombardment this time alluded to the meaning of the artillery preparations before the charge of the army in later generations, and the fierce explosion sounded like a war drum, although the damage caused was limited, but on the one hand, it could hit the morale of the other side, and at the same time it could greatly boost the morale of his own side, and more subtlely, after the thick smoke filled the mountain, he could cover up his own actions.

After the artillery fire was prepared, Li Dingguo gave an order. The drums suddenly changed, and the first wave of 40,000 rebels rushed towards the tiger's mouth like a storm crashing on the shore, this kind of charge was limited by the mountain, there was no need to pay attention to any formation, all the horses and horses just rushed up desperately, which was just right for the rebels who lacked training and were not even in an orderly formation.

Countless black shadows loomed in the smoke of gunpowder, and the huge shouts were like rolling thunder. The sound shook the sky, and the momentum was incomparable.

Due to the narrow terrain on the mountain, and the fortifications where they were built in a hurry, Wu Xueli only had time to put down a few Franc cannons. At this time, all of them were loaded with scattered shells, and one cannon after another roared, and waves of iron balls and nails burst down, causing heavy casualties to the rebels who rushed up the mountain.

At the same time, a rain of arrows rose into the air. Like a dark cloud roaring under the cover, nailing out a thorn forest under the mountain, the wounded rebels let out a terrible howl. Like a terrible ghost crying, corpses were soon everywhere on the slope, and the scarlet blood stained the wood and grass red, and merged into a trickle, gurgling down the mountain.

The rebels who rushed to the middle of the mountain continued to shoot indiscriminately into the mountain with firecrackers, thunderbolts, three-eyed guns, etc., "Bah! The sound brought out tongues of fire, which also brought casualties to the left army on the mountain.

This will be the most difficult battle fought by Zhang Xianzhong's rebels since Nanchang, but for Zhang Xianzhong, as long as he takes Yuanzhou, even if most of the 200,000 casualties are not afraid, in just one month, his strength in Huguang has grown to 500,000, and as long as he wants, it is not difficult to pull up a million troops.

Therefore, even if he suffered heavy casualties in the attack on the tiger's mouth, he did not hesitate, his current hundreds of thousands of troops are basically untrained, and the cruel battlefield is used instead of training, so that the hundreds of thousands of troops of good and bad can be left with the inferior and the superior in the war, which is beneficial and harmless to him;

Zhang Xianzhong has been raising troops for more than ten years, and he knows this truth very well.

The tiger's mouth is bleeding, and the wind is smooth on Yuchun Mountain.

Lu Daqi asked Qin Mu to take the initiative to attack and find an opportunity to attack the enemy, Qin Mu asked him to recognize Li Xiangjun as a righteous daughter first, and he didn't know if he was stunned. Qin Mu didn't have much hope for this, he just found a reason to embarrass Lu Daqi, so that he could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

On the watchtower of the camp, Qin Mu, Liu Meng, Huo Sheng, and Su Jin were each holding a monocular to look down the mountain, and Liu Meng and the others let out startled cries from time to time.

They are like a few little children who have gotten a novel toy, and they can't put it down, because it is Huo Sheng, and their mouths keep exclaiming: "It's so big, it's really getting bigger, it's so big."

Qin Mu couldn't help it, and blurted out: "Big your sister, is it as big as a papaya?" ”

"Papaya?"

Huo Sheng was still a little dazed, and Liu Meng and the others were already laughing like thunder. When Qin Mu was in Yuanzhou, because he couldn't see the scene of the battle between Hu Yansan and Wang Yuncheng, he suddenly remembered to make a telescope, the threshold for making a telescope is not high, as long as you know the principle and find a good craftsman, you can make it.

The magnification effect of these telescopes made so far is about fifteen times, which has already amazed Huo Sheng and others, I really don't know what they will be amazed if they are given a military telescope for later generations.

"Huh!" Su Jin suddenly exclaimed.

"Su Jin, what's wrong?"

"Your Excellency, come to the opposite mountainside, that, that mountainside, I just seemed to see people and horses walking in the forest."

Qin Mu and the others immediately raised their binoculars and looked at the opposite mountainside.

The northern region of Yuanzhou is the Jiuling Mountains, which are stacked with mountains and mountains, and are towering and high. It is trending northeast to southwest. It extends to Jiujiang Lushan in the northeast and inserts it into Hunan in the southwest. The Yuchun Mountain where Qin Mu garrisoned is a part of the Jiuling Mountain Range, there are many dense mountains and forests nearby, there are many lonely peaks, remnant mountains, dissolution buckets, and dissolution ditches, as well as dark rivers and karst caves of different shapes and sizes, and there are relatively few open flat lands.

Such terrain is not conducive to the movement of the army, but it provides the most haode hiding for a small group of people and horses, and when Qin Mu and a few people look again, there is no movement on the mountainside several miles away, and the mountains and forests are lonely.

"Su Jin, are you mistaken?" Qin Mu asked.

"Probably not, my lord, I saw it very clearly just now, and I did see someone on the opposite mountainside, and there was only one."

"Send someone over and check it out, damn it, don't let the enemy touch it under your nose and don't know it."

Qin Mu gave an order, Su Jin personally led a team of men and horses, and immediately rushed to the opposite mountainside, and before Su Jin could report, several horses galloped back one after another under the mountain.

Qin Mu watched from the wall in Yuchun Mountain, so he naturally had to keep abreast of the changes in the entire battle situation before he could talk about watching from the wall, and it was inevitable to send a large number of scouts every day.

The few horsemen who hurried back reported the same information to Qin Mu, and found that many small groups of rebels appeared around Yuanzhou.

Several scouts reconnoitred in different areas, but they all found that small groups of rebels had infiltrated them, and Qin Mu immediately realized that this matter was unusual. There are many mountains near Yuanzhou, but a small group of men and horses are not blocked by the mountains and are easy to penetrate, and the destructive power cannot be ignored when the enemy is dark and we are clear.

Half an hour later, Su Jin came back and caught more than a dozen rebels, Qin Muying came out and asked, "Su Jin, how is it?" ”

"My lord, this group of rebels has a total of fifty people, the leader is called Wang Erma, he and a few people ran away, the last general interrogated, Zhang Xianzhong sent a large number of small groups of people to infiltrate Yuanzhou, the total number of them do not know, their gang set off from the west of the tiger's mouth last night, got lost in the mountains, and inadvertently broke into the vicinity of Yuchun Mountain."

"Ants move." Qin Mu muttered four words, it seems that Zhang Xianzhong is planning to give full play to the advantage of being large in numbers and play the trick of ant moving.

Ling Zhan said: "My lord, I don't think that's the case, once these large small groups of people are successfully gathered, even if it is to form a thousand people and one liliang, it will pose a serious threat to Yuan Zhou, and even cause us a lot of trouble." ”

Qin Mu nodded, swept everyone and asked, "What countermeasures do you have?" ”

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PS: In the past few years, I have been immersed in writing books, few friends have gathered, the amount of alcohol is small, yesterday I drank a small bottle of strong wine with a few friends, and I still have a hangover in the morning.

It's been quiet in the past two days, there are no more people scolding in the book review area, there are few monthly tickets and recommendation tickets, and even the number of clicks is pitiful. I can't help but think of the "From Baicaotang to Sanwei Study" I read in the textbook when I was a child, I liked Lu Xun's articles very much when I was a child, and I still remember that there was no one in the school in the book, and Mr. shouted in the study: "Everyone has gone there!" ”

At this moment, Haoyuan not only wanted to ask, but everyone went there;

I still want to ask, where has the time gone?.

(To be continued......)