Except for one remaining yellow-flag-mounted true slave raiding formation, and two Niu-lu Han military flags guarding the navy's canals, the remaining 8,000 people were all sent up by Baiyintu.
[Note: Chapter 76 of the previous article has been revised. Because there are a large number of canal locks and bridges, the bird ships of the Jiannu Navy cannot get through, so they can only use canals]
Including more than 1,200 real slaves with yellow flags, more than 1,800 Han troops from the Eight Banners, more than 2,200 surrendered troops from the Ming Dynasty, and more than 3,000 coats of clothing, no one was left, and they all followed on the battlefield.
Before launching the official attack, Baiyintu sent out dozens of white-armored soldiers to sweep both sides of the canal as usual. Yiding Yebu, who was originally wandering around the perimeter of the defense line, did not get too entangled with the white-armored soldiers of Jiannu, and got rid of them in time and retreated back to Xia.
town.
After successfully implementing battlefield information interception, Obai led more than 8,000 people across the canal from the Taizhuang Gate Bridge fifteen miles north of Xiazhen to the west bank, and then turned around and headed south.
In the past few days, Jiannu had been harassing the northeast corner of Xia Town.
Baiyintu believed Wang Aoyong's judgment and believed that the Ming army had transferred all the tiger squatting artillery to the gun emplacements in the northeast, so that the cannon emplacements in other directions would become empty.
So this time we will launch a surprise attack from the northwest.
Baiyintu wanted to kill the Ming army by surprise.
At the beginning of the afternoon, Jian Nu entered outside the Xia Town defense line.
Immediately, more than 8,000 people were divided into 20 teams and launched simultaneous attacks on the 20 outermost gun platforms in the northwest. Jiannu was obviously determined this time, and the fighting quickly became intense.
What does intensification mean? It means no longer caring about casualties.
In the previous few exploratory attacks, Jiannu had only tried them lightly, and the casualties were reduced when the casualties were slightly larger.
But this time, Jiannu no longer worried about these things. He just pushed forward desperately and charged forward with all his strength until the Ming army collapsed or penetrated the defense line.
In pursuit of speed, Jiannu no longer conducts geotechnical attacks on slope protection.
When they came up, they pushed the sidecars and carriages to the top of the slope protection under the fire of the Ming Army's squatting cannons. Then the musketeers of the Eight Banners and Han Army used the sidecars and the carriages to suppress the Ming army's musketeers.
The accuracy of the Ming Army's Crouching Tiger Artillery was poor, so the losses would not be huge if they were to risk their lives.
After suppressing the firepower of the Ming army, Zhennu, the Han army and the surrender troops quickly entered the trench.
After entering the trench, they no longer cleaned up the sharp wooden stakes, bamboo thorns or iron caltrops at the bottom of the trench. Instead, they directly removed the railings from the sidecars and laid them at the bottom of the trench. In addition, before the attack was launched, more than 3,000 wrappings were
In addition, more than 2,200 Ming soldiers surrendered and brought more than 5,000 sacks filled with soil.
With the help of blocks and sacks, an offensive channel is instantly opened.
Then the white-armored soldiers took the lead and launched a strong attack on the Ming army's gun platform.
These white-armored soldiers of Jiannu are really powerful. Not only are they tall and agile, they are also extremely experienced in combat. They are simply humanoid killing machines.
The gun platform in the middle is progressing the fastest.
Three white-armored soldiers stepped on the human ladder and climbed over the fence first to enter the gun platform.
Dozens of Ming army spearmen in the gun platform immediately surrounded him and stabbed him randomly.
The three white-armored soldiers were stabbed countless times in their breastplates, shoulders, bowls, and even their throats in an instant. Any other Jiannu, even Hongya La, would have been stabbed to death long ago.
But the three white-armored soldiers were unscathed.
Not only was he unscathed, but he still had the energy to fight back.
The white-armored soldier at the front wielded his long sword and slashed diagonally, cutting a Ming army into two pieces.
The two white-armored soldiers at the back were still holding large bows. They dared to draw their bows and fire arrows at a distance of less than three steps. They heard two bang-bang sounds from the bowstrings, and the two Ming army spearmen were instantly hit by heavy arrows.
Through the face door.
With such a huge distance, it was impossible for the Ming army's spearmen to avoid it.
"Stab them to death!" the Ming army sentry roared at the top of his lungs.
However, the roar of the Ming army sentry officer actually brought death to himself.
The two white-armored soldiers laughed ferociously, drew their large bows, and at the same time nocked heavy arrows.
With two more bang bangs, the roar of the Ming army sentry suddenly stopped. Two heavy three-edged arrows shot into his left cheek and right cheek at the same time, piercing his entire head twice.
"The sentry officer has been killed!" The Ming army on the gun platform collapsed instantly.
First, a Ming soldier turned around and ran away, and then panic spread quickly.
Three white-armored soldiers strode forward to pursue them. Behind them, more red-toothed warriors, horse-armored soldiers, infantry-armored soldiers, Eight Banners Han Army soldiers, and Ming Army soldiers climbed over the wooden fence like a tide and entered the gun platform.
In less than two quarters of an hour, the first gun platform was captured.
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It only took more than a quarter of an hour for Chongzhen and his two sons to run to the canal pier.
It took nearly a quarter of an hour to get on the ship and then climb up to the 20-meter-high mainmast to look into the battle.
Then, when Chongzhen opened the three-section monocular telescope and aimed his vision at the peripheral defense line in the northwest, he was extremely surprised to find that several of the outermost gun towers had actually been lost.
Although we were nearly three kilometers away, we could still see clearly with the telescope.
After all, this telescope in Chongzhen was given by Tang Ruowang. Its power is twice as high as other double-section telescopes, so it can see farther and more clearly.
"Father, how are you?"
Brothers Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong can't see clearly.
With the naked eye, it is difficult to see clearly what is happening three kilometers away.
"No, very bad!" Chongzhen's expression looked extremely solemn. He did not hand the telescope to one of his two sons as usual, but always focused on the battlefield ahead.
When Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong heard this, their hearts trembled.
The situation of the Ming army is indeed not good, or very bad.
In the past few days, the northeast direction had been harassed by the slaves.
Therefore, the three towns in the northeast have some combat experience and their confidence and morale have improved, but the three towns in the northwest have not fought a battle yet, and their confidence and morale have not improved much.
Now Leng Buding was attacked by Jian Nu with all his strength, and he was immediately in a panic.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Not long after Chongzhen and his son arrived at Wangdou, which was a little more than a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen blunderbuss towers were lost one after another in front of them. One of them was Jiannu
It has even advanced to the second line of defense.
It was also at this time that news of the defeat at the front reached Huang Degong's headquarters.
Huang Degong hurried to the canal dock and personally reported the military situation to Chongzhen Wu.
"Your Majesty, sixteen of the first-level gun platforms in the Northwest District have been lost, and the second-level gun platforms have also been attacked. The situation is already very critical. I request that the Tiger Crouching Cannons from each gun platform in the Northeast and South Districts be transferred.
And the musketeers will be transferred to the northwest district to strengthen the troops and firepower of various gun platforms in the northwest district!"
Huang Degong's reaction is perfectly normal.
The Jiannu offensive was so fierce and the attack was in the northwest area, so the best solution would be to transfer the musketeers and tiger squatting artillery from the northeastern area and the southern area gun platform to the northwest area.
Just as Chongzhen was about to nod, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
This time, Jiannu only invested nearly ten thousand people to attack simultaneously from more than a dozen gun platforms in the northwest area. Therefore, the Ming army could also dispatch musketeers and tiger squat artillery from the other two areas to rush to support. However, if one day Jiannu invested
How about a simultaneous attack of more than 100,000 troops from 75 gun platforms in the northwest, northeast and south districts?
Where else can the Ming army draw reinforcements from?
Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
It turns out that there is such a big loophole in my carefully designed defense line!
If the Jiannu invested heavily in troops and launched an all-out attack at all costs, then the more than 500 relatively simple guns on the Xia Town defense line may not be able to withstand it.
It seems necessary to continue to strengthen Xia Town's defense line.
Furthermore, you might as well take this opportunity to check the quality of Xia Town's defense line and treat it as project acceptance.
Let's see if we can use a heavy blunderbuss to drain Jiannu's energy until they can no longer attack.
If Jiannu's all-out attack is finally blocked, it will prove that the idea of Xiazhen's defense line is correct.
As long as we hold on this time, even if Duduo or even Dorgon arrives in person with the main force of establishing slaves next time, they may not be able to break through the more sophisticated and stronger Xia Town defense line.
Thinking of this, Chongzhen made a decision in his heart.
"Don't worry, this has just begun, let Jiannu run rampant for a while."
"Your Majesty, I would like to go to the front and take command." Huang Degong made a new request.
"No." Chongzhen refused decisively. "We only need sentries to guard the gun stations in front, and send people to recall the general soldiers, deputy general soldiers, guerrillas, guards and all the generals."
Huang Degong could only stay on Zheng Hongkui's flagship and was anxious.
Zheng Hongkui suddenly pulled out a long bamboo tube-like object from his lower back and handed it to Huang Degong.
"What?" Huang Degong looked at Zheng Hongkui blankly, "Zheng Youqi, what is this?"
"This is not a toy. This is called Tamba wild rice, a kind of grass." Zheng Hongkui grabbed a small piece of golden tobacco from a bag hanging on a bamboo tube and stuffed it into a copper pot connected to the bamboo tube.
Light the tobacco with a fire sickle, then take a deep breath.
Immediately, an expression of satisfaction appeared on Zheng Hong's face, and he said leisurely: "Taking it can calm the mind, and by the way, it can also relieve fatigue. Take it when you are tired, and you will feel refreshed instantly. It's true."
"Real or fake, how can someone be so amazing?" Huang Degong accepted it doubtfully.
Huang Degong took the pipe and took a long puff, then coughed violently and almost choked to death.
"Ah, ah, Uncle Jingnan, it's your first time smoking. You can't take a big puff. You have to take a small puff first." Zheng Hongkui quickly took back the dry tobacco pipe and showed Huang Degong, taking a small puff.
Huang Degong took the dry tobacco pipe and took a small puff.
A faint spiciness instantly penetrated my heart and lungs, and my eyes widened after a moment.
"Hey, it seems to have a wonderful effect on calming the mind." Huang Degong said in disbelief, "I was panicking just now, but now I'm not panicking all of a sudden. It's amazing, this is really amazing."
"I'm not lying to you." Zheng Hongkui said with a smile, "Uncle Jingnan, I'll give it to you."
"Give it to me." Huang Degong said happily, "Then I'm welcome."
"Why are you being so polite?" Zheng Hongkui whispered again, "Please take care of me from now on, Bo Jingnan."
"It's a trivial matter." Huang Degong waved his hand and said, "My brother, there is no need to be so polite."
Well, it would be a great deal for Zheng Hongkui to become brothers with Huang Degong using only a pipe of dry cigarette.
