Chapter 18 The First Battle

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 After Liuzhou surrendered, Zhu Hengjia led his army, traveling both by land and water, along the Qianjiang River and into Qianjiang County in the lower reaches of the Hongshui River.

After the magistrate of Qianjiang County received the news that the magistrate of Liuzhou had surrendered to the Jing vassal, he killed cattle and cooked sheep to entertain the Jing army.

Zhu Hengjia ordered the troops to rest in Qianjiang County and prepare for a decisive battle with Chen Bangchuan's army.

Chen Bangchuan saw that Jing's army was strong and he hurriedly asked counselor Hu Zhigong for advice: "I regret that I didn't listen to your advice and failed to occupy Qianjiang and Binzhou in time. Now that Jing's army is strong, what if I want to lead the army back to Si'en?"
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Hu Zhigong was shocked and cried: "This is a way to die. The general treats me very kindly. I will definitely prepare a good coffin for the general."

"Why did you say this, sir?" Chen Bangchuan asked in surprise.

"The general's headquarters only has seven thousand, and the remaining more than ten thousand are the wolf soldiers of various chieftains. The wolf soldiers fight to capture. If the general returns to Si'en without fighting, the wolf soldiers will have no profit. After retreating, they will inevitably return to the strongholds.

It is no longer used by the general. The general asked himself, can seven thousand people withstand the tens of thousands of Jing's troops?"

"But there is no danger to defend Sanli Camp, how can we fight decisively?"

"The Daming Mountain to the west of Shanglin County has steep terrain. The general can camp there to block the Jing army," Hu Zhigong said.

"Our army is small and it is difficult to fight a war."

"The general can defend Longtou Mountain by himself, and choose generals to defend Fengshan, Huangdao Mountain, and Yilingyan, depending on the danger. There is a river named Chengjiang on the mountainside of Daming Mountain, and there is a small stream in Chengjiang that leads directly to the water source behind the mountain. Wait for the battle.

When the army is in full swing and Jing's army is tired, the general selects an elite force and quietly rides on sheepskin rafts from Daming Mountain to Xiashuiyuan, behind the Jing's army. If they attack from the front and back, the Jing's army will be defeated." Hu Zhigong offered advice.

"The Jing army has very powerful weapons and cavalry, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with it." Chen Bangchuan was not confident.

"Haha! I expect there will be heavy rain in the next few days, and the Jingjun's weapons and cavalry will not be able to function." Hu Zhigong smiled slightly.

"Oh. Sir, can you observe the sky?"

"No, I have cold legs. My legs hurt when it's about to rain."

"Haha! It is said that the Jing vassal has an adviser Zheng Feng, known as Zheng Zifang. I think he is better than Zheng Feng." Chen Bangchuan was very happy.

Chen Bangchuan personally led 1,500 troops and 500 Luoluo troops, together with the ancient chieftain Wei Biao, and the Anding chieftain Wei Feng, and 3,000 wolf troops to guard Longtoushan; he ordered his son Chen Zengyu to lead 800 troops, together with Baishan chieftain Cen Xuan and Duyang chieftain Wang Long.

Three thousand wolf soldiers were ordered to guard Yilingyan; guerrilla Chen Bangping was ordered to lead a thousand troops, and Xinglong Chief Wei Xingyao, and Dingluo Chief Wei Gao's three thousand wolf soldiers were to guard Fengshan; Yang Jie was ordered to lead 700 troops, and the old city was

Chieftain Li Bao sent two thousand wolf soldiers to guard Huangdao Mountain; he also ordered guerrilla Chen Yifeng from the Central Military Camp to lead three thousand soldiers to make rafts of skin and wood, recharge his batteries, and prepare to drift to the water source to attack the rear of Jing's army.

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Liuzhou garrison Zhang Cunwu led 3,000 Liuzhou soldiers to join Zhu Hengjia.

Zhu Hengjia left Sun Gui's water camp to guard Qianjiang County. He led his army from Nandan to defend Sanli Camp and rushed to Lin County in a mighty manner. Along the way, there were forests of swords and guns and flags flying.

When he arrived at Shanglin County, Zhu Hengjia was very surprised and asked the county magistrate why Chen Bangchuan had stationed troops in the Sanli Camp for so many days but did not attack Shanglin County.

The county magistrate replied that Chen Bangchuan was afraid of offending Magistrate Li of Liuzhou.

Zhu Heng was overjoyed and said to the generals: "This Chen Bangzhuan has been grinding and squirming during the war. He is not even as good as a woman."

After hearing this, the generals laughed out loud and became arrogant and arrogant. They regarded Chen Jun as a weak chicken and a tile dog.

Zhu Hengjia ordered Xunzhou to guard Sun Qi, and led eight hundred Xunzhou soldiers to guard Shanglin County. After a short rest, he rushed to Daming Mountain like a wolf and a tiger.

After observing the enemy's situation, Zhu Hengjia personally led the army to attack Longtou Mountain; he ordered Ping Nanbo Shi Qiwen to attack Yilingyan on the left side of Longtou Mountain; he ordered Liuzhou to guard Zhang Cunwu's tribe, and Yong'an Huang's soldiers attacked Qifeng on the right side of Longtou Mountain.

Mountain; ordered guerrilla Li Yiming's troops and Yong'an Wei's native soldiers to attack Huangdaoshan; ordered the cavalry battalion general Yang Wu to guerrilla Zhao Desheng, leading the cavalry to patrol between Yilingyan, Longtoushan, Qifengshan, and Huangdaoshan, so as to

The enemy's mountains cannot be considered both head and tail.

After the arrangement was completed, Zhu Hengjia asked Zheng Feng with a smile: "How do you think of the solitary platoon's ability to arrange the formation?"

Zheng Feng couldn't help but praise: "The use of troops to supervise the country is really like Sun Wu's style."

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On November 16, the 18th year of Chongzhen's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the Battle of Daming Mountain began.

Hanging crossbow, ground crossbow, bamboo stick trap, poison arrow, spear dart??

As soon as the battle started, Zhu Hengjia knew that he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of Sien's wolf soldiers.

Although the weapons and equipment of these wolf soldiers are simple, they are extremely suitable for fighting in mountainous areas. Their rattan armor is made of thousand-year-old vines. It is light and strong and saves physical strength. Our own cotton armor and mountain armor are too thick, so the sergeants wear armor.

Climbing a mountain, you will be out of breath after a while; their daggers are short and flexible and will not be stuck by branches, while their Yanling knives and long knives are easily affected by branches; their spears and spears cannot be used, and their large shields cannot be used.

There was no use for it at all. The soldiers could only fight with short swords and small bucklers.

What's even more frightening is that the other side has all kinds of weird weapons. A Jingjun soldier brandishing a short knife just rushed to the mountainside when he was shot in the throat by a dart blew out of his mouth by a wolf soldier. The soldier's knife

The arrows are tempered with poison, and the blood seals the throat, which is very scary; a sentry commander led dozens of brave sergeants to climb up, and the opponent's strange spear launcher actually fired dozens of spears at once.

Jing Jun fell down seven or eight people at once and could only retreat slowly. Although these weapons could not shoot far, they were extremely lethal when used at close range.

In just half an hour, more than a hundred of the Jing army who attacked Longtoushan fell.

Zhu Hengjia was so distressed that he ordered the tiger crouching cannon to come close to bombard him, and the gunmen and archers moved forward to cover; he ordered the sword and shield soldiers to replace their long knives with short knives, and the long cards for rattan shields; the pikemen sawed their long spears short;

Groups of five are used as a unit, climbing in separate groups, leaving gaps between each group to avoid rolling logs and rocks.

In order to save the soldiers' physical strength, Zhu Hengjia ordered each battalion to take turns attacking the mountain.

Wave after wave of attacks are launched, like a rising tide; waves of attacks are repelled, like an ebbing tide.

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"Kill", a tall and powerful Jing Jun primary school commander split open the stomach of a Chen Jun primary school commander with a knife, disemboweling him and dripping with blood; "Whoosh", a Jing Jun commander fell to the ground after being hit by an arrow; "

"Boom", a Chen Jun soldier was hit by a bird gun??

The beautiful Longtou Mountain has turned into a hell on earth.

At Qifeng Mountain on the right side of Longtou Mountain, Zhang Cunwu, the Liuzhou garrison of the Jing Army, saw that the mountain was too dangerous and difficult to attack from above, so he ordered his sergeants to set fire to the mountain. Chen Jun's guerrilla attack against Chen Bangping showed no fear and cut an isolation zone on the mountainside. Zhang Cunwu saw the fire and attacked.

When Chen Bangping found out, he and Wei Gao, the chieftain of Dingluo, ambushed on both sides of the Tianping in the back mountain and deliberately let the Yong'an Huang soldiers climb up to the Tianping.

After the encirclement and annihilation, the Yongan Huang family lost more than 300 soldiers.

On the battlefield of Huangdao Mountain, the Jing Army's guerrilla force Li Yiming was unable to attack for a long time, so he launched a fierce attack. He organized a team to supervise the battle, and ordered the Yong'an Wei soldiers who were assisting in the battle to go to the front, and he led the army behind. All the sergeants who retreated were killed. The Jing Army once attacked the top of the mountain.

, Unexpectedly, Chen Jun guarded Yang Jie's troops, equipped with 300 firecrackers. Yang Jie ordered the firecrackers to line up and fire a volley, killing a hundred Yong'an Weishi soldiers at one time, and the soldiers were defeated. Li Yiming had to send an order to retreat.

The battlefield was in a stalemate, and Zhu Hengjia's eyes rested on Yiling Rock on the left side of Longtou Mountain. By capturing Yiling Rock, he could outflank Longtou Mountain from the left wing and cut off Chen's army's retreat.

Zhu Hengjia ordered Ping Nanbo Shi Qiwen to capture Yilingyan at all costs.

In order to support Shi Qiwen, Zhu Hengjia ordered all 30 Fran cannons carried by the army to be transported to Yilingyan. The people stopped the artillery and bombarded with all their strength. The mountain road was rugged, and heavy artillery such as general cannons and red cannons could not be transported.

These thirty Fran cannons are the strongest firepower of the Jing army.

"Yilingyan! I must take it down!" Zhu Hengjia became furious.

At the Yilingyan Jingjun position, battlefield veteran Ping Nanbo Shi Qiwen did not attack with all his strength at first, but only tentatively reconnoitred Chen Jun's troop deployment.

He found that the Duyang chieftain Wang Long's tribe of the Chen army guarding the hill on the right side of Yilingyan was the weakest, so he ordered the artillery to concentrate firepower on Wang Long's tribe with General Zhao Erhu, and ordered his most elite battalion to attack Wang Long's tribe, and then used another battalion to attack Wang Long's tribe.

Contain the Yilingyan Chen Army and Chen Zengyu's tribe, and a battalion of soldiers restrained the Chen Army's Baishan chieftain Chen Xuan's tribe.

When the flag was raised, the three battalions attacked at the same time. The battle went smoothly, and they reached the top of the mountain on the right side of Yilingyan in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Bangchuan ordered his ace, five hundred warriors of the Yi people, to climb from the cliffs from Longtoushan to Yilingyan to the top of the right side of Yilingyan.

These Luoluo soldiers were recruited from Yunnan by Chen Bangchuan who spent a lot of money. They have lived in the mountains since childhood. They are the best mercenaries and natural mountain warriors. They are brave and tenacious by nature and are never afraid of death.

The Luoluo soldiers arrived at the battlefield and knocked down Jingjun's momentum. Wearing rattan armor, carrying poisonous crossbows, and holding machetes, they attacked Jingjun who climbed to the top of the mountain. They chopped with knives, bitten with their teeth, and used

He fired a crossbow, cut off his left hand and used his right hand to kill the enemy. When he was injured on the ground, he slashed the legs and feet of the Jingjun soldiers with a knife, and even rolled down the cliff with Jingjun in his arms. The morale of the Jingjun army collapsed and they were driven away from the hilltop bit by bit.

Come down.

Shi Qiwen was not upset, and continued to attack after reorganizing his troops. He felt that his troops were far superior to the enemy, and it was only a matter of time before he could capture Yilingyan. The two sides of Jingchen and Chen fought repeatedly around Yilingyan, and the flowers and plants on the rock were stained red with blood.

, exceptionally bright.

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When Chen Bangchuan sent troops to Longtou Mountain, Chen Bangchuan said viciously to the small school sent by Yilingyan to ask for help: "I don't have a single soldier here. Tell Chen Zengyu, don't think that he is my son, because I will be reluctant to kill him."

Leaving Yilingyan, engaging in military law!"

Beside the stream on the mountainside of Longtoushan, three thousand elite soldiers of Chen's army were sitting on sheepskin rafts and wooden rafts, eating and drinking mountain spring water. They were waiting for Chen Bang's military order. At the critical moment

Give Jingjun a fatal blow.

Chen Bangchuan asked Hu Zhigong anxiously: "Mr. Hu, didn't you say it's going to rain soon? Where's the rain?"

Hu Zhigong was also puzzled: "I am always so accurate in predicting rain, what happened this time?"

Just as I was thinking about it, the patter of raindrops began to fall, and slowly the raindrops turned into raindrops.

"Order the military camp to attack!" Chen Bangchuan was ecstatic.


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