At three o'clock in the evening, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was heading north to attack North Korea, was sleeping soundly, but was suddenly awakened by the whole army. In the dark night, a harsh gunshot suddenly sounded.
North Koreans attack at night!
Then, crackling gunshots continued to sound. It was obvious that the security troops had engaged in battle with the enemy.
The soldiers who woke up from their sleep picked up their rifles and rushed out of the camp. The platoon commanders and company commanders led the soldiers and rushed to the outskirts of the camp in the shadowy night, pointing their guns at the darkness in the distance.
When the Huben Army camped, they always dug a trench two meters wide and two meters deep 40 meters outside the camp to hinder the enemy's sprint. With such trenches, the enemy's cavalry could not approach the Huben Army.
In the space between the trench and the main body of the camp, a large number of caltrops were arranged.
The Northern Expeditionary Army had to confront the Koreans during the day and did not have time to build more complex defenses. This arrangement was considered tight enough to support the Huben Army in shooting enemies who tried to approach the camp. However, for these defense facilities to be effective,
The premise is that there is enough light to provide visibility at night.
If there is no light to see things at night, even digging ten trenches will not prevent the enemy from approaching.
The regular arrangement used by the Huben Army to provide vision is firewood piles. On a line eighty meters away from the camp, the guard troops of the Huben Army placed a large number of firewood piles. The firewood piles can illuminate a space of more than ten meters nearby, and between each firewood piles
They were spaced forty meters apart to form a lighting network, illuminating the enemy's situation on the front line eighty meters away from the camp.
More than ten meters behind the trench, between the caltrops, there was a second line of firewood piles.
These firewood piles require a large amount of firewood and have high requirements on the surrounding terrain. In order to obtain this firewood, the Tiger Army often needs to camp in areas with woods to collect firewood for lighting at night.
Generally speaking, such lighting conditions are enough to prevent ordinary army night attacks. Because the flags cannot be seen during night attacks, the enemy is also blinded and in a state of no command. The morale of the army in such a state is very low, and it will be shot by the Tiger Army.
In the last one or two rounds, they will often be defeated.
Only troops with incredible morale can launch a desperate night attack in the dark night. The Tiger Army has never encountered such a troop before.
But today, the Tiger Army encountered him.
The Koreans rushed to the firewood pile line with water basins, poured water on the firewood pile, and tried to extinguish the firewood pile. At this time, all the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were already guarding the earth wall, and they did not hesitate to shoot at the Koreans who put out the fire.
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However, the light was so dim at night that even the target next to the firewood pile was indistinct, and the soldiers' hit rate dropped significantly. After the soldiers guarding the fort killed the first batch of Koreans who rushed up, the Koreans behind were still moving forward.
Pour water on the pile of firewood one basin at a time.
The pile of firewood was quickly extinguished.
Zhong Feng frowned when he saw the North Korean soldiers coming one after another.
Zhong Feng was very surprised by the Korean people's desperate attitude. Originally, in Zhong Feng's mind, the small country of North Korea would not have such dead soldiers.
Zhong Feng underestimated the determination of the two groups of servants to protect their jobs.
Yangban servants are a group that does not engage in production. They rely on the economic privileges of the Yangban nobles for survival, and their social status is higher than that of ordinary farmers. They eat better than peasants, dress better than peasants, and marry more beautiful women than peasants.
They are second only to the Yangban nobles in North Korean society.
Li Zhi's series of actions in North Korea are obviously to finally eliminate the dominance of the two classes of nobles. If Li Zhi succeeds, these servants will lose everything. Their life of ample food and clothing will be ended, and they will starve like farmers.
Even if you have a good meal, work hard in the fields, and work hard all your life, you may not be able to marry a wife.
It is impossible for the two classes of servants to accept such a bleak ending.
Even if the servants burn their own lives, they must drive Li Zhi out to protect their own interests.
After the servants extinguished the first circle of firewood piles, they quickly rushed towards the trench. The light from the firewood pile behind the trench was limited, and basically could only cast a shadow on the figures beside the trench more than ten meters away. In the darkness, Huben,
The army cannot accurately aim at the vague target, and the hit rate is very low.
If the Koreans built a wooden bridge over the trench and rushed over, the Tiger Army would have to fight hand-to-hand with the Koreans. But looking at the momentum of these Koreans advancing one after another, it seemed that the trenches and iron caltrops could not stop them.
There are hundreds of thousands of North Koreans. If they really enter into hand-to-hand combat, the outcome will be devastating.
At the critical moment, Zhong Feng shouted loudly: "Light the flare!"
Two long and one short horns were blown. Hundreds of soldiers who had been prepared for a long time came to the front of the team and fired rockets equipped with illumination bombs into the sky.
The flare rose to the highest altitude and began to burn violently. Supported by the parachute, the burning aluminum powder and saltpeter emitted a blinding light, illuminating the land for several miles in an instant.
The Northern Expedition military camp, which was only three hundred meters long and wide, suddenly became as bright as day.
The North Korean servants who were busy building planks on the trench were suddenly illuminated clearly by the dazzling light, and looked at the hundreds of "little suns" in the sky in surprise.
After the flares were launched, the soldiers of the Huben Army discovered that many Koreans were coming. Behind the servants rushing into the formation, forty to fifty thousand Koreans sharpening their knives were bent over and hiding a hundred meters away, preparing to wait for the trenches and caltrops.
After being dealt with, initiate devastating hand-to-hand combat.
However, all these delusions of the North Koreans were put to an end after the flares were launched.
The violently burning aluminum powder illuminated everything, and the soldiers of the Tiger Army could clearly see the enemy 40 meters away.
Behind the North Korean soldiers, Park Dae-kyung, who originally thought the situation was promising, looked at the flares in the sky, and for a moment his face turned pale with shock.
What kind of method is this? It actually illuminates the area for miles around.
Is this something that humans can do?
Park Dae-kyung lived for more than fifty years and had never heard of such a method in the world.
Is this Li Zhi really descended from the stars?
He opened his mouth wide, but no words came out.
Next to Pu Dajing, Ping'an Dao soldier Yuhou Jin Jingyou was so frightened by the flare that he trembled all over and knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Fairy! Fairy's means!"
The other North Korean generals were even more panicked. Xianjingdao's soldiers and horses, Marquis Yu, turned around and ran away without saying a word. They were as panicked as if they had seen a ghost.
The North Korean soldiers on the battlefield were stunned when they looked at the flares in the sky. They were about to build a wooden bridge to pass through the trench, and they were stunned, and their movements stopped.
What is this thing, and how can it turn night into day?
Isn't this a night attack? How could it become like this?
Are the stars in the sky helping the people of Ming Dynasty?
They looked in panic at themselves exposed to the bright light and at the Tianjin soldiers holding rifles in the distance.
The soldiers of the Huben Army were not surprised by the effect of the flares. They had already seen this new equipment in training. In the suddenly clear field of vision, they began a massacre.
