In July in the south, at the height of the scorching heat, Bai Wang was holding a telescope under the shade of a mountain tree and looking due north. Within more than ten miles south of Tongling City, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were scattered in the shade to repair their troops and horses.
It was disorganized, but he knew that once his men and horses left their positions, these scattered officers and soldiers would immediately come to attack them.
Of course, he will not leave the position to use his own shortcomings against others' strengths. He will use the advantages of the terrain to consume the strength of the officers and soldiers to achieve his goal of turning against the guests.
Seeing that in addition to troops and horses, all the officers and soldiers were mobilized, as well as various artillery, trebuchets and other long-range weapons, I knew that today was going to be serious. Although I was confident, I did not dare to be careless. I ordered all the troops to strengthen their positions in the scorching sun and send out their troops.
After adjusting to various breakthrough points, from the foot of the mountain in the east to the river bank in the west, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked the generals to repeatedly check whether there were any loopholes. He did not want to give the little eunuch any opportunity to take advantage of.
After all this hard work, the sun above our heads was still blazing hot at Shenshi (three o'clock in the afternoon). The trees and grass on the ground were all drooping and dying. The soldiers were also as hot as dogs, breathing heavily with their tongues hanging out, and they drank heavily.
With mountain spring water.
"Have you ever searched for the whereabouts of the eunuch?" Bai Wang asked several soldiers around him. These people had been observing the officers and soldiers with telescopes, hoping to find the general's location and then attack him with heavy artillery. If they succeeded, they would
Get twice the result with half the effort.
"Report to the commander, but they haven't been found. Maybe they have returned to the city!" The soldier shook his head.
"If you ask me, just bomb in a crowded place. If possible, the eunuch will be killed. Even if the eunuch is not hit, there will be no loss," Wang Yi'en muttered.
Yuan Sanzhong believed that targets could not be cleared at fixed points, and it was meaningless to just bombard them randomly with two cannons. However, Wang Yi'en and Bai Wang both felt that it could at least disturb the enemy and confuse the enemy's mentality. Yuan Sanzhong believed that it was a waste of ammunition, and it would be better to wait until the officers and soldiers were easily discovered during the attack.
Where the generals were, they were aiming their artillery fire at that time, but now it is easy to arouse the enemy by attacking casually.
"Since the officers and soldiers know that we have artillery, there is no need to worry about alerting the enemy." Bai Wang decided to fire a few cannons first to confuse the enemy's morale, and then look for opportunities to bombard the opponent's general when the war started!
With Chang Yu's caution, since he knew that the rebel army had at least two red-coated cannons in its range at this time, how could he not do something to cover up, not raise flags, not get together, and look like ordinary soldiers once he took off his armor?
At that time, I was in the forest by the river with Wu Sangui and others, leaning against a tree trunk, whispering or closing my eyes to meditate.
A sudden loud noise exploded several meters away, injuring several people and causing them to scream in agony, causing the surrounding soldiers to run around. Chang Yu looked at the several holes that had been destroyed in the tree trunks around him. The closest ones were less than ten meters away from his head.
Centimeter was also shocked, thinking that he might have been discovered by the bandit army!
"Lord Governor, let's go!" The Chen Suole brothers pulled Chang Yu from the left to the right and ran towards the woods to the north. Chang Yu yelled at the rebels as they were running, but he thought that he would do the same thing.
Dry.
There was another loud bang, but it came from the east. Chang Yu was relieved. He knew that the bandit army was just randomly bombarding them. Of course, he knew their intentions very well, but there was nothing he could do about it.
However, the loading and reloading process of the red cannon is cumbersome. It takes two or three minutes to fire one shot, and it is also very troublesome to turn the muzzle. The bandit army only has two cannons, even if they fire randomly, the damage to the city will not be much, and Chang Yu
If you don’t believe it, he will fire endlessly. How many shells can he have?
But Bai Wang didn't expect to cause much damage to the officers and soldiers. What he wanted was to make the officers and soldiers panic and restless. In fact, he did it. However, Chang Yu hid in a forest with his back against a big tree. Even if the artillery shells came, he would not
A place where it would be extremely difficult to hurt him.
"Let him remember this account first, and settle the old accounts with him in the evening when the weather cools down." After Chang Yu said this, he decided to take a nap first, so that he could have enough strength to fight happily later.
Evening is just before sunset, to be precise between 5:30 and 7:30 in the afternoon. In ancient times, it was called Youshi, which is between 5 and 7 o'clock. In summer, the day is long, so the sky is still bright after sunset, and it is not even until 8 o'clock.
Darken.
It was the scorching heat of July, and Unity Time was here. The sun was setting and the heat had subsided. Chang Yu, who had woken up from his sleep, went to the river to take a refreshing bath. After landing, he summoned the generals to arrange their troops.
The Nanjing soldiers and horses whose main frontal attack was changed to Lu Daqi were led by Jin Shenghuan, and Wang Tizhong's descendants assisted from the west wing. The cavalry of Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and the three guards of Dongchang changed their full steps to infantry and then prepared for the battle. Wu Weiying's Shenji Battalion and the stone-throwing
The aircraft were responsible for suppressing firepower, and various ministries assigned nearly 500 archers to the east wing to snipe the archers on the rebel highlands. At the same time, Lu Daqi was ordered to dispatch a force of 1,000 men to attack up the mountain from the east to disturb the enemy.
"We must capture the rebel position before dark. We only have this one chance. If we fail once, it will be extremely difficult next time," Chang Yu said solemnly, sweeping away the generals.
Everyone nodded, and they all understood that if they couldn't get away with spending their money to fight this time, there would be no chance of a next time.
"Everyone is at your position, wait for the order to attack." Chang Yu shouted, and the generals left with the order.
The officers and soldiers began to mobilize their troops. Naturally, they couldn't escape the gaze of Bai Wang on the mountain. They turned their heads and glanced westward. The setting sun was swaying over the western mountains, so they took a long breath and sent the order to prepare for battle.
"When officers and soldiers attack, they must first use artillery to suppress it. Let's attack his artillery array first. Although we can't stop his attack, we can still cause chaos in his formation." Yuan Sanzhong suggested, and Bai Wang agreed.
Then, just as the officers and soldiers mobilized their troops and horses to advance towards the rebel position, the rebel army's two red cannons opened fire and bombarded the officers and soldiers in the middle. The people were immediately thrown off their horses and the formation was in chaos.
But this is not the Shenji Camp!
How could the Shenji Battalion be at the front? Wang Tizhong at the front and Jin Shenghuan's main attacking force!
"Fuck them, they were quick to attack." Chang Yu cursed in a low voice and asked the flag bearer next to him to order the Shenji Battalion to open fire.
The main firearms of the Shenji Battalion, in addition to infantry guns, are more than 200 squatting tiger cannons and more than 100 generals of Zhankou. The squatting tiger cannon only weighs about 40 kilograms. It is similar to the mortars of later generations.
The cannon can be fired from different places while holding it. It is very mobile and flexible, so how could Wu Weiying let them all huddle together and let the rebel army bombard them with big cannons? Instead, they were lined up and scattered among the various military formations.
The rebel archer positions are their main targets.
An order was given to fire hundreds of artillery pieces, and at the same time nearly a hundred trebuchets were started. The shells and stones poured down like a torrential rain on the rebel positions and the mountains to the east. Sparks flew for miles around for a while, and explosions and screams were heard endlessly.
Although the Tiger Crouching Cannon has a small range, its shells are very lethal, because it can fire explosive shells. A shell contains more than a hundred lead bullets or stones and can cover more than ten meters in the surrounding area. Those who are hit will be injured, and it can also fire solid bullets.
If the bullet hits it, it will be meat, not to mention that the Zhankou General's range is much further than that of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
For a moment, bullets rained down from the enemy troops. On the mountain, Bai Wang hid under a rock and turned pale as he watched the firepower attack. He did not expect that the firepower of the officers and soldiers would be so fierce, and he had a vague feeling of something bad in his heart.
Almost at the moment when the artillery fired, Chang Yu gave the order, and Jin Shenghuan and Wang Tizhong led their troops to attack the rebel position directly. There were deep pits and trenches all over the place, and the rebels were hiding here in groups. However, they were blocked by the Shenji Battalion.
A burst of artillery bombardment caused no casualties. Faced with the tide of officers and soldiers rushing towards them, there was no way to stop them, so they had to retreat continuously and set up a defense line outside the range of the artillery.
"The Shenji Battalion charges forward." Wu Weiying was now an experienced commander. He didn't even need Chang Yu's advice when the rebels retreated. He asked the artillery to press forward to clear the way for the troops attacking from the front and reduce the pressure.
"East, east, Lao Wu is adjusting his firepower to the east..." Chang Yu shouted over there. It turned out to be the rebel army. The archers on the mountain saw the officers and soldiers rushing into the position and began to shoot quickly to suppress them. They occupied the high ground and had a long range.
Just now, we were outside the range of the Shenji Battalion, so the damage was less, and we also took advantage of it.
It's just that they didn't take advantage of this advantage for long, because before the war started, Chang Yu designated this place as a key attack target. The previous artillery bombardment could not reach them, but as the army rushed into the position, the artillery of the Shenji Battalion also began to advance forward.
They began to greet them, and in addition, the five hundred archers who had been formed earlier also began to rush in and shoot upwards. In just half a tea time, they were greeted by a rain of cannonballs and arrows, and the rebel archery positions on the mountains were silenced in the blink of an eye.
, the archers turned around and hid in the forest to escape for their lives, having no time to suppress the attack of the officers and soldiers.
Bai Wang yelled angrily and was about to rush out to take command when a shell suddenly hit him. He was so frightened that he hurriedly ducked under the rock. It turned out that he had also entered the shooting range. What the hell...
Just when he was getting angry, the soldiers came over with panic on their faces: "Commander, the officers and soldiers have sent more than a thousand people to attack the mountain and come towards us..."
"The mountain is steep. You are high up and guarding them. Their few people can't make any waves. This is just a way to disturb the enemy..." Before he could finish his words, another soldier reported urgently: "There are hundreds of officers and soldiers killing people behind the mountain."
Come over here!"
What! Bai Wang looked horrified and said, "Hundreds of officers and soldiers sneaked into the back of the mountain. Are you all just losers? Go and stop me. Don't we have hundreds of brothers behind the mountain?"
Bai Wang was a little hysterical and punched the rock hard. He was such a wretched bastard. He was so shady!