Chongzhen Ming Dynasty: Starting from Meishan Chapter 528 Snowy Night Attack
"Xu gave me advice, it seems that Jiannu has withdrawn his troops?"
Seeing Jian Nu starting to retreat one by one from a distance, Gao Qiqian couldn't help but be overjoyed, right? No way? He's not going to win the battle again this time, right? Then he really wants to become a Marquis.
Throughout the ages, how many eunuchs have been awarded the title of marquis?
Well, the exception is Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang is the great companion of the Long Live Lord.
Gao Qiqian was full of longing, but Xu Yingwei poured cold water on him.
"How can such a good thing happen?" Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "Jiannu was just frightened by our air force and couldn't think of a way to deal with it, so he retreated, but he will come back soon."
"Let's do it again. At least the problem is solved today."
Gao Qiqian was still very happy: "We can leave at night."
As long as you can leave, you don't have to stay here and wait for the slaves to attack.
While the two were talking, horns suddenly sounded from the north and east.
Immediately, the Mongolian cavalry watching from a distance swept towards the west and south.
Seeing this scene, Gao Qiqian's face suddenly fell. He couldn't leave.
Xu Yingwei never considered leaving. Even if he left, he would have to win the battle before leaving.
Because Chongzhen had clearly told him that the purpose of this battle was to build confidence in the field, so he would never leave before a decisive victory was achieved.
At that moment, Xu Yingwei shouted: "Pass the order."
"All infantry brigades should hurry up to widen and deepen the trenches."
"Each transport camp seizes the opportunity to repair sidecars."
"Moreover, the medical soldiers will step up their efforts to treat the wounded soldiers."
"Landmines should also be buried in front of trenches, and more landmines should be planted."
Anyway, when I came to Liaodong this time, I brought a lot of landmines with me.
While giving the order, Xu Yingwei turned around and got out of the chao car.
"Xu Wuniu!" With a low shout, the scout captain Xu Wuniu came over.
At this moment, Zheng Sen's No. 1 speed car slowly lowered, still three feet above the ground. Zheng Sen anxiously climbed over the guardrail and jumped off the gondola. As a result, he fell to pieces because his legs were numb.
"Brother Omu, this etiquette is really too much."
Xu Yingwei smiled and said: "There is no need to give me a bow ceremony."
"Who's going to punish you?" Zheng Sen turned over and got up and pouted several times.
After spitting out the dirt in his mouth, Zheng Sen grinned and said, "Brother Youzhen, this battle was so enjoyable. I have never fought such an enjoyable battle in my life!"
"It sounds like you have fought many battles." Xu Yingwei rolled his eyes.
Zheng Sen let out a light ugh and said angrily: "Anyway, I'm no less young than you."
After saying this, he added: "I won't tell you anymore. I have to quickly replenish tung oil and bombs to blow up Jiannu again. It's not that easy for Jiannu to escape. How can he outrun our air force?"
"Don't worry, Jiannu didn't run away." Xu Yingwei pointed to the Mongolian cavalry who were surrounding him, and continued, "Also, I have a suggestion. Do you want to listen to it?"
Zheng Sen asked: "What suggestions do you have?"
Xu Yingwei said: "Don't bring grenades this time. The grenades are very lethal, but they are too bulky. You can only carry ten at a time, and they take too long to land."
"That's true." Zheng Sen's face immediately fell.
Xu Yingwei said: "So, you might as well bring a few more scouts."
"Bring scouts?" Zheng Sen's eyes suddenly lit up.
Is it to take the scout cavalry equipped with Type 20 rifles into the air, and then let them descend from a high altitude to shoot the Mongolian cavalry with Type 20 rifles?
The speed of lead bullets is much faster than grenades.
This picture is so beautiful that Zheng Sen feels excited just thinking about it.
At that moment, Zheng Sen continued: "There is no problem in bringing your scouts, but I also have a condition. You have to lend us twenty Type 20s from our air force. How about that?"
"No problem." Xu Yingwei nodded happily.
Now Zheng Sen replenished the speed car with 2 barrels of tung oil.
Xu Wuniu also selected 20 scouts and prepared to fly to heaven.
In this way, plus the commander and driver of each flying car, a total of 40 people formed an aerial hunting team, which would be able to hunt the Mongolian cavalry from the air unscrupulously.
However, if nothing else happens, another accident will happen.
The charm of war is that it is always full of variables.
Until the last moment, you never know what will happen next.
Just as the Air Force replenished the tung oil for the flying car, and just as Xu Wuniu and 20 other scouts boarded the flying car to prepare to take off, a strong northwest wind suddenly blew on the Liaohe Plain.
The wind force reached level 5 or 6 at least, and it continued to increase.
At this time, if it takes off for combat, the speeding car is likely to be blown away by the strong wind. It is impossible to defeat the level 6 wind by relying solely on the artificial power output of 1 horsepower and 01 horsepower in an instant.
"Fuck!" Zheng Sen couldn't help but curse when he saw this.
"Quick, put out the stove, put the helicopter away, quick!"
Thanks to Zheng Sen's quick response, the Air Force was able to collect the aircraft in time.
That is to say, not long after the Air Force put away the aircraft, the wind suddenly increased again.
This time, the wind force increased to level 8, blowing up all the sand and gravel on the plain.
This time, not only the Ming and Qing armies suffered, but the Mongolian cavalry responsible for monitoring the Ming army suffered even more. They even covered their faces with sweat towels and were still unable to open their eyes due to the strong wind.
But this is actually a good thing for the Mongolian cavalry.
Because he avoided being hunted by Ming army scouts.
Originally, Xu Yingwei not only planned to let the scouts hunt from the air on a flying car, but also planned to send out the remaining scout cavalry to hunt down the Mongolian cavalry outside.
If it hadn't been for the strong wind, hundreds or even thousands of Mongolian cavalry could have been hunted down no matter what.
However, this sudden northwest wind directly frustrated Xu Yingwei's wishful thinking. The wind was so strong that people could not open their eyes. How could they shoot? They could only cancel it.
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Dorgon had already retreated five miles away.
Cao Eryu took the army's clothes and set up the tent, and spread the felt on the ground.
Dorgon sat down on the felt. He was so tired from the day that he didn't want to move.
"Hengjiu, you guys should sit down and have a rest. You've all been tired for the whole day." Dorgon motioned to Hong Chengchou and several die-hard traitors to also sit down and have a rest, and asked Cao Eryu to serve soju.
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The wind suddenly increased in strength, blowing the big tent to the point of collapse.
Cao Eryu hurried out of the tent and took his wrappings to reinforce the tent.
After Ning finished, I glanced outside the tent and said worriedly: "Master, this is a white-haired wind. Maybe there will be heavy snow this evening, which will be troublesome."
"It's no trouble." Dorgon smiled and said, "We Eight Banners Manchurian warriors have grown up among white mountains and black waters. What kind of battles have we not seen? A mere wind and snow is nothing."
Seeing that Dorgon was determined, Ning Wan and I didn't say anything more.
If it really snows heavily, the Qing army will have a hard time, as will the Ming army.
And there is another benefit of snow, that is, it is even less likely that Chongzhen will run away.
Dorgon then ordered: "It is my decree that we will give the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Camp extra food tonight. In addition to enough wheat rice, we will also add four taels of dried venison per serving!"
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It got dark quickly.
The northwest wind also stopped.
But after the wind stopped, it started to snow.
Fortunately, the rain is not heavy. If it continues to rain until midnight, it is estimated that it can accumulate to two or three feet thick. This will definitely have an impact on the actions of the infantry and cavalry, but this can be overcome.
After a feast, the 50,000 Qing troops returned to the battlefield.
Dorgon couldn't help but look happy when he saw a bonfire lit on the Ming army's position from a distance.
Because this means that the Green Battalion can use the cover of night to close to 300 or even 200 steps, and then use the light of the campfire to aim at the wall of the Ming army's side carriages and directly approach and bombard them.
At such a close distance, and using darkness to detect light, you can shoot very accurately.
If no accidents occur, at least hundreds of sidecars can be destroyed with just the first shelling.
At that moment, Dorgon shouted: "Pass an order, let the Green Camp put a bit on the camel, quietly get close to it, and then start bombarding after approaching 200 steps, and try to cripple the Ming army's sidecars outside in the first round of bombardment."
wall!"
Dorgon's order was quickly passed on, and the Green Camp began to sneak forward quietly.
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Since the periphery of the battlefield had been blocked by Mongolian cavalry, the Ming army did not know that Jiannu had returned.
When Jian Nu came back from killing Xu Yingwei, he was sitting with Zheng Sen and other Qin Wang scholars having dinner together. The other soldiers had already had dinner, but they had only eaten now.
They only ate dry food and did not get out of the way of the small stove.
This means to endure hardship first and enjoy later.
At least so far, the moral of the scholars is still very good.
Zheng Sen took a sip of wine and said, "Jiannu probably won't come tonight."
"It's hard to say." Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "If I were the commander of Jiannu, I would have caught us by surprise tonight."
"What a surprise." Zheng Sen said suddenly.
"Didn't you secretly send out dozens of ambushes?"
"Have you seen all this?" Xu Yingwei said with a grin.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, there was a bang outside the position.
"The mother-in-law is really here!" Zheng Sen jumped up from the ground.
Xu Yingwei's reaction was faster than Zheng Sen's. He jumped up and shouted: "Send the order, all infantry battalions extinguish the bonfires immediately, extinguish all bonfires immediately, quick!"
The messenger quickly hung up the three-color signal light.
After seeing the signal light, the surrounding Ming troops extinguished the bonfires one after another.
In an instant, the entire Ming army position fell into darkness.
In the darkness, the soldiers of the Ming army who had been sitting on the ground to rest stood up one after another, and under the guidance of the bugle, they quickly entered and lined up behind the wall of the side compartment.
In the blink of an eye, the line array was rearranged.
This time it was a dense array shoulder to shoulder.
"Everything is there, fix the bayonet!" The soldier's command sounded again in the darkness.
Upon hearing the command, the Ming soldiers pulled out their bayonets and put them on their blunderbuss tubes.
The soldiers in the front row even mounted their flintlock rifles with bayonets on the wall of the side carriage. A long row of faint cold light immediately appeared in the darkness, and you could see clearly when you got closer.