On November 24th, everything in Yaozhou, Shaanxi Province was completely silent. Sixty-five thousand officers and soldiers, led by Cao Bianjiao, camped in the wild. The soldiers had already fallen asleep at this time.
Li Zhi's equipment was manufactured very quickly. For Fanjiazhuang Industry, which generally uses steam engine machine tools for mechanical processing, producing 50,000 sets of rainproof equipment is a piece of cake. And the flares used in night battles have been reserved for a long time and can be used directly.
That’s it.
It only took Li Zhi thirty days to prepare the equipment and sent a convoy to deliver the equipment to Cao Bianjiao's camp.
After getting Li Zhi's equipment, Cao Bianjiao tried it out and found that the effect was very good. Although the rainproof equipment cannot be used in heavy rain, it is no problem to deal with ordinary light rain. The effect of flares is even better, and it can completely change the weather at night.
Completely illuminated, like daylight.
Cao Bianjiao immediately sent troops south to attack Xi'an.
Cao Bianjiao went south this time without bringing the 25,000 weak soldiers from Datong and Jizhen. The morale of these weak soldiers was low and they were vulnerable to a blow. They were defeated as soon as they were attacked on the battlefield. They had no other effect except dragging down their morale.
There are only 50,000 people left in the New Army, and their morale is not as strong as before. If a war breaks out when these weak soldiers collapse and the morale of the New Army is destroyed, the gains will outweigh the losses.
Therefore, only 65,000 officers and soldiers went south.
Cao Bianjiao had new equipment, but Li Zicheng didn't know it. Facing the aggressive army, Li Zicheng chose to attack the camp at night.
In fact, night attacks were not uncommon in ancient wars. The most famous "Li Xuexue entered Caizhou at night" is a typical example of night attacks. Moreover, there were not so many people who were night blind in ancient times as imagined. If everyone is night blind, go to
Activities such as Lantern Appreciation during the Lantern Festival could not be held at all. In fact, during every festival in the Ming Dynasty, women in the market would go out together in the streets at night and laugh wantonly. This custom spread throughout the north and south, which shows that only a small number of people were night blind at that time.
The reason why the ancients avoided fighting at night was because the flags could not be seen at night, and it was easy to fall into chaos when fighting.
However, for the current Li Zicheng, it is worthwhile to bear the risk of falling into chaos. The fire gun soldiers have no vision in the dark and can only fight hand-to-hand with the intruders. In this way, the intruders can overwhelm the official army with their numerical advantage.
On a quiet night, Li Zicheng selected 150,000 insurgent soldiers who were not night-blind and marched toward the official camp.
The ancients' night attack focused on people holding grass in their mouths and horses holding horses in their mouths, which meant taking them by surprise. However, Li Zicheng knew that Cao Bianjiao, as a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, could not have no scouts outside the camp for defense. So Li Zicheng also gave up the attempt to attack suddenly. 150,000
People are working hard and the drums are strong, and we are advancing steadily.
As soon as the intruders approached the main camp of the army, the officers and soldiers were all awakened. Fifty thousand new troops walked to the edge of the camp carrying Lumi blunderbuss and pointed the guns at the incoming intruders.
Li Zicheng rode his horse and stood on a higher mound, observing the army's camp layout.
Following the example of the Huben Army, there were many firewood piles on the 30-foot line outside the new army camp. These firewood piles were tended by soldiers on duty at night, providing vision for the gunmen. But in Li Zicheng's eyes, these firewood piles were not a problem.
The piles can only illuminate a dozen meters nearby, and the light is shadowy. As long as the intruders send some hungry soldiers to attack the firewood piles, they can quickly extinguish these lighting fires.
The soldiers of the insurgent army shouted loudly to kill and rushed towards the fragile army camp.
The officers and soldiers started shooting.
However, the vision of the officers and soldiers at night is very poor. Even when shooting at enemies next to the firewood pile, insufficient light will cause the hit rate to plummet.
Amidst the crackling gunfire, the intruders did not kill many people, but they kicked and extinguished thousands of firewood piles along the 30-foot line of the camp.
There is also a line of firewood piles ten feet in front of the camp. But since the first line of firewood piles is so easy to deal with, the second line of firewood piles is obviously not a problem either.
Li Guo stood next to Li Zicheng, looked at the army camp not far away, and laughed.
"King Chuang, these new troops from the Beijing camp think they are Li Shashen's Tiger Army. With only over 60,000 people, they dare to go south to attack more than 200,000 of us. Let's teach them what it means to hit an egg against a stone!"
"Don't say we can defeat them in a rain battle. Even if it doesn't rain, we can also defeat them in a night battle."
Niu Jinxing raised his hand and said: "King Chuang, if we win this battle, our army can take advantage of the momentum to attack the defenseless Shanxi. By then Shanxi and Shaanxi will be connected, and our Chuang army will have great potential!"
Li Zicheng listened to the two people's words, took a breath and said nothing.
In fact, after traveling around Li Zhi's Shandong Province, Li Zicheng no longer had the ambition to compete in the world. Li Zicheng understood that he was no match for Li Zhi. Now fighting with the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Camp would not change the fact that he could not defeat Li Zhi.
.Li Zicheng now only hopes to defend Xi'an, and does not dare to attack Shanxi again, so as not to provoke Li Zhi's Tiger Army.
Song Xiance looked at Li Zicheng, saw the helplessness in Li Zicheng's eyes, and couldn't help but sigh.
Song Xiance was about to speak when he suddenly heard hundreds of "Boom! Boom!" sounds from the officer's camp. Hundreds of black things suddenly shot into the sky diagonally from the edge of the camp.
The black thing flew hundreds of feet into the sky, suddenly exploded and emitted a dazzling light.
Those hundreds of flares were like hundreds of small suns or dazzling stars, illuminating the surrounding area for several miles.
The Invading Army was attacking the army camp where two trenches had been dug in the dark, but their figures were illuminated by more than 300 flares. Hundreds of thousands of Invading Army soldiers were all exposed to the sight of the army in an instant.
Li Guo suddenly shook his body and shouted: "Oops!"
Li Zicheng's eyes suddenly turned blood red.
The officers and soldiers started shooting.
Amidst the gunfire like exploding beans, countless black smoke spewed out from the mouth of the Rumi gun. More than 10,000 rounds of bullets swept towards the invading soldiers who were attacking the camp like a storm.
At this time, the front line of the invading army had rushed fifteen feet away from the official camp, and the distance was very close. The bullets fired by the new army could be said to be perfect.
Whether it is a veteran who has fought against the bandits or a Shanxi recruit who has just joined the Chuang Army. Whether it is a captain of the Chuang Army in fish scale armor or a hungry soldier with only a spear, they are all vulnerable to bullets.
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The soldiers who broke into the front line were like mahjong being pushed down, with blood blooming on their bodies, and they fell to the ground.
The Chuang army had no time to react, and nearly 10,000 people were killed.
After one row of soldiers finished shooting, the second row took over.
Another storm of bullets swept in, and screams like slaughtering pigs came from the mouths of the soldiers who were hit. Thousands more people were killed outside the camp, and the scene was like a massacre.
At first, 120,000 cavalry fought in hand-to-hand combat with the imperial army for a long time, with no more than 10,000 casualties. But now they were shot twice by the imperial army's muskets, and more than 10,000 of the invaders died in one fell swoop.
There are two deep trenches ahead, and it is impossible to rush through them in such a bright environment.
With a "boom", the army collapsed.
However, the New Army soldiers did not let go of the fleeing rebels. The third platoon stood outside the camp and continued to shoot the fleeing invaders.
