Li Zhi looked at Hong Chengchou quietly and didn't speak for a long time.
Hong Chengchou was a little nervous. He looked at Li Zhi and said: "Xing Guobo's unrivaled and powerful soldiers should pull out his sharp sword at the critical moment and give Dongnu a thunderous blow. If he uses it everywhere, he will worry about the military teacher getting tired."
Li Zhi smiled and did not reveal Hong Chengchou's thoughts. He stood up, looked at the map, and asked: "I heard that the Tatars have trained tens of thousands of firecrackers. Are there any firecrackers in this camp?"
Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "Among the 20,000 Qing soldiers, there are 10,000 fire-gun soldiers, and there are more than a dozen small Hongyi cannons."
Li Zhi walked around the map and said with a smile: "This camp must have ditches dug to protect it and earth walls built inside."
Wu Sangui was stunned and said: "Uncle Xing Guo is right. There is a ditch dug outside the camp, an earth wall built next to the camp, and a wooden shed above the earth wall to prevent rain."
Li Zhi nodded, knowing that the Tatars had learned from the camp he built at Qingshan Pass. He smiled and said: "Okay, I will supervise the battle from the rear and watch your troops attack the city and build the camp from the front!"
Hong Chengchou was overjoyed when he heard this. He held Li Zhi's shoulders and said, "Uncle Xing Guo understands righteousness and is really the pillar of the country."
He turned around, waved his hand to the other generals, and said loudly: "Everyone, go back and reorganize your army. Tomorrow morning I will send out all my troops to attack Dongnu's camp!"
The generals sang their promises loudly and exited the tent.
Li Zhi also left and led several regiment leaders to ride to his camp.
Halfway through the ride, Zheng Kaicheng said: "Uncle, Hong Chengchou is clearly using us as slaves. He wants us to go up when it comes to difficult situations, and he wants us to go down after taking credit. What does this mean?"
Li Laosi was also puzzled and said: "My boss, Hong Chengchou treated us like this, why don't we fight against it? If it doesn't work, we will go back to Tianjin and stop fighting!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "This is not Hong Chengchou's idea, it is the intention of the people above. I think Hong Chengchou is very obedient to the people above him and will not change his mind easily. If we quarrel with Hong Chengchou now, there will be a feud between the generals. This will
If something goes wrong in the decisive battle, it is our responsibility."
Zheng Kaicheng asked: "What do you mean?"
Li Zhi laughed and said: "Hong Chengchou relied on his 40,000 troops and did not pay attention to the 20,000 Tatar camp. But he didn't know that the Tatars imitated all the camps we built at Qingshan Pass.
This camp is not easy to attack if we use firearms to defend it. Since Hong Chengchou is afraid that we will come up to take the credit, let them suffer some hardships in front and see what hot weapons are."
Zhong Feng laughed loudly when he heard this.
Zheng Kaicheng raised his hands and said, "Uncle, you are brilliant!"
####
The next day, all the troops marched out and attacked in the northeast direction. Hong Chengchou managed the army cautiously and sent out countless scouts along the way to carefully investigate the surrounding situation. It took him three days to reach Bijia Mountain where the Tatars camped.
When they arrived at Bijia Mountain, 40,000 Ming troops were like a rainbow, surrounding the Tatar camp. Li Zhi's 15,000 soldiers and horses guarded the back road to supervise the battle as the palace army.
Li Zhi stood on horseback in the middle of the army, using a telescope to observe the Tatar camp in the distance.
The Tatar camp is built on a raised hill. The hill is not high, and there is a gentle slope at the foot of the camp. The gentle slope has a drop of three to four meters and is more than 40 meters long. The entire camp follows the topography of the hill.
It was built in a circle with a circumference of about five or six miles. Four deep trenches were dug outside the camp. Those trenches were one foot wide and difficult to cross. There was a small river to the south of the camp, and the water flowed into the walls protecting the camp.
in the trenches, turning those trenches into moats.
The Tatars suffered a big loss in Qingshan. They admired the thermal weapon camp built by Li Zhi and went to learn it this time. Li Zhi looked carefully with a telescope and found that there were thorns on the ground outside the camp, followed by caltrops.
A wooden shed was built on the wall of the camp to protect it from rain, so that the arquebusiers could still fight on rainy days.
Li Zhi saw the tight defense of the camp and secretly admired it. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was indeed one of the most viable military organizations in this era. Although the riding and archery skills they had always relied on were defeated by Li Zhi's thermal weapons, they immediately turned around.
After passing the corner, I started to equip thermal weapons to fight, and my reaction speed was really fast.
On the other hand, the Ming army has used a large number of thermal weapons since the founding of the country by Zhu Yuanzhang. However, over the years, it has become worse every year. Not to mention the large number of muskets, there are only a few cannons in the field. Now the Ming army and the Qing army are fighting
, there are not as many artillery pieces as the Qing army.
How long can the Ming army last with such soldiers and horses against the Manchu and Qing Dynasties?
Seeing Li Zhi using a telescope to observe the enemy camp, Hong Chengchou and others were very envious. Seeing Li Zhi holding the telescope and peering carefully, everyone knew that this telescope must be able to see very far. It is said that Xiyi is thousands of miles away
The mirror can clearly see people more than ten miles away. I wonder how Li Zhi’s binocular tool compares with Xiyi’s telescope?
There were so many new weapons in Li Zhi's army array, and every one of them was very practical. Hong Chengchou and others wanted to borrow some telescopes to have a look, but they were too embarrassed to ask.
Li Zhi put down the telescope and discovered the embarrassment of Hong Chengchou and others. After thinking about it, Li Zhi smiled and said: "This thing is called a telescope. It can spy on the enemy's reality from dozens of miles away. It is very practical."
Hong Chengchou and others heard the meaning of Li Zhi's words and seemed to be ready to let everyone try it out. They were all very excited and nodded one after another.
"I see!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "It is impossible to march and fight without telescopes. I will give four telescopes to the army gate and the three generals!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Hong Chengchou and the three generals were overjoyed.
Hong Chengchou wanted to say a few more polite words, took the telescope and said: "This thing must be precious, it cost Uncle Xing Guo money!"
Wang Pu took a telescope from Li Zhi's bodyguard and said with a smile: "Uncle Xing Guo is really a generous man. I, Wang Pu, will remember this kindness!"
The four people got the telescope, and they all raised it to look into the distance. After looking at it, everyone realized that this telescope was really amazing.
Yang Guozhu used the telescope to look at the Qing army camp ten miles away, then put down the telescope and looked at it with the naked eye. He said in surprise: "How good! I can actually see the faces of the Qing army behind the wall!"
Wu Sangui looked carefully with a telescope and said: "The Tatars are well-defended, and there are wooden thorns and iron caltrops in front of the wall!"
Hong Chengchou grabbed the telescope and looked at it non-stop, and said: "The defenses outside this camp are really sinister, and there is murderous intent everywhere. I don't know who came up with it."
Wang Pu said loudly: "I didn't expect that there are such talents in the Tatar army. If I catch him, I will definitely chop him to death to get rid of this harm for our Ming Dynasty!"
