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Chapter 847 The Dumb Eats Coptis

The military discipline of the Qing soldiers was strict, and once the order to attack was issued, they must go forward without hesitation.

The sound of the Chinese army's battle drums, urging them on, I saw the Manchurian Yellow Banner Tartars marching in the middle, with the Mongolian soldiers from the Outer Domain to the north, and the Mongolian soldiers from the Two Yellow Banners to the south.

Manchuria Xianghuang Banner Gushan forehead really worships the sound map, relying on the old to sell the old, he puts his old status in front of Prince Yu Duoduo, although Duduo can't do anything to him, but today he will attack the mountain with his Xianghuang Banner as the main attack, and Bai Yintu can't do the same reject.

"A dumb man who eats Coptis chinensis can't tell if he suffers!"

This sentence is very appropriate to the mood of Xianghuang Qi Gushan Ezhen Baiyintu at the moment.

After yesterday's battle, Prince Duduo of Yu, Gushan Ezhen'ashan and Baiyintu of Manchuria's Two Yellow Banners, accompanied by Mongolian Two Yellow Banners Gushan Ezhen'ashan and Da Lai, Mongolian Zhasak Ombu Chuhuer, Shanba, Gulusiqibu and others collectively discussed the subsequent war.

Of course, Gushan Erzhen Turge of Xiangbai Banner, and Baya Latuzhang Jing'e Shuo of Xiangbai Banner also participated in the military discussion. However, Karma, who was newly appointed Zasak of the Left Banner of Karaqin, recuperated due to serious injuries , did not participate in the military discussion.

Two schools of thought formed during the military discussion. One was that Gushan Ezhen Baiyintu of the Xianghuang Banner proposed to conquer Xingshan and Tashan first, and then return to attack Changlingshan.

Second, it was proposed by Gushan Erzhen Turge of Xiangbai Banner, that is to first conquer Changling Mountain with all its strength, and use it as a base for advancing. The Ming army in the mountains, Tashan and other places.

The focus of the dispute between the two opinions is whether to attack Changling Mountain first or attack Changling Mountain later.

Because of the disastrous defeat in the daytime, Erzhen'ashan and Dulai in Gushan, Mongolia's Two Yellow Banners, did not want to attack Changling Mountain again, so they supported Baiyintu's proposal.

But Baya Latiaozhang Jing'e Shuo and others supported Turge's proposal. In addition, Gushan Ezhen'a Mountain in Zhenghuang Banner also supported Turge's idea of ​​attacking Changling Mountain first.

His reason was that it would be unfavorable to attack Changling Mountain today, but his own losses are actually not that great, but if he retreats here and attacks elsewhere, it may affect the morale of the army.

Moreover, the layout of the defenders on Changling Mountain has been roughly figured out. As long as there is a proper plan, it is possible to go down to Changling Mountain in one battle.

After all, there are nearly [-] armored warriors in our own army, and there are also two red flags from Manchuria and other soldiers and horses rushing forward. At the same time, pulling out the nail of Changling Mountain first can also deter the Ming guards elsewhere.

The Zhasak of the Outer Kingdom of Mongolia has always seldom expressed its position in this kind of discussion of military strategy and major politics, and today it does not express its support for any party.

In the end, Prince Yu Dorgon made a final decision. Not only did he plan to attack Changling Mountain first, but he also decided that Baiyintu's Xianghuang Banner would be the main attack.

Baiyintu respected Duduo very much before, relying on Huang Taiji's favor, he repeatedly questioned Duduo's decision-making, so he was sent to the first round of the main attack.

Duduo's move, although suspected of public revenge, is also reasonable, and Bai Yintu can't refuse it at all.

Moreover, in order to avoid suspicion, Duduo even arranged the Xiangbai Banner commanded by himself as the main force of the second echelon attacking the mountain, and the Zhenghuang Banner was reserved as a reserve team, and also served as the supervisory team of the Mongolian Eight Banners on the north and south wings and the outer Mongolia.

At the same time, many sentry cavalry were also sent in the direction of Tashan to investigate the reality of the Ming army and the places where grain and grass were hoarded.

In the early hours of the morning, before dawn, Zhenghongqi's spies came to the foot of Changling Mountain. They brought news that around noon today, Zhenghongqi's army of nearly ten thousand Tatars would arrive here.

From Chenshi to Sishi, the Tartar army only watched from a distance and did not launch an offensive. Instead, they forced some coated slaves to come up in several batches to fill the trenches.

Watching them fill up the trenches in the distance one by one, but there is nothing they can do. There are only a few hundred of them in one wave, and the target is too small to hit with shelling.

The Xuanfu army also organized several charges, but it was useless to disperse them. Then they came up to fill the trench again under the pressure of the Tartars.

What's more, those Tartar warriors following behind the coated slaves kept shooting cold arrows, posing a certain threat to the soldiers of the Xuanfu army, so they were allowed to fill in the trenches.

After all, sooner or later the Tartars will come to attack. Could it be possible to rely on these trench-filling slaves to defeat themselves?

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At three o'clock, under the loud encouragement of the generals at all levels in the banner, the Tartars and Mongolian soldiers in front of Changling Mountain burst forward with hoarse shouts and rushed forward.

Looking at the Tartars rushing forward like a tide, in the binoculars, Chen Zheng, the leader of the Dushibu Battalion of the Xuanfu Army, saw it clearly from the high platform in the northeast corner of the front line of defense in Changling Mountain.

He understands that today will definitely be a new round of cruel and desperate fights!

Chen Zheng's eyes flashed coldly: Since these Tartars are not giving up, let them shed blood on their strong defense line and wring out their flesh and blood!

The turbulent flow of people from the Tartars below the mountain covered all the places under the slope on the east side of Changling Mountain.

Especially the ten passages under the mountain, which were wide at first and then narrowed, were already crowded with the attacking thieves, and before the thieves, there were still densely packed simple shielded chariots.

It turned out that the reason why the Tartars did not start attacking the mountain today was that they let those coated slaves desperately fill in the trenches, just to wait for these newly built shield chariots to arrive.

Through the two rounds of attacking the mountain yesterday, the Qing army not only roughly figured out the defense line of the Xuanfu army guarding the mountain, but also knew that it could not be captured here by brute force and bravery.

It is not easy to completely capture the defense line of the Ming army in Changling Mountain, and it cannot be completed in one or two days.

And Duoduo wanted to be the first to pull out the nail on Changling Mountain in order to show his prestige and deter the surrounding Ming guards. Therefore, before dawn, he forced the coated slaves to go out to collect firewood.

And used the felled logs to prepare a large number of shield vehicles. Although Duoduo knew in his heart that these shield vehicles could not stop the Ming army's artillery bombardment, it was better than nothing.

The first ditch in the distance has been basically filled in by the encased slaves, and some planks have been covered to facilitate the passage of shield vehicles.

As for the second trench, because it was too close to the defense line of the Xuanfu army, unarmored slaves could not resist the bullets fired by the soldiers of the Xuanfu army, so they were only sparsely filled.

Although the shield chariot was built temporarily, and the wood was insufficient, it could only be cut down several miles away, but the front of it was very strong from a distance, and it seemed impossible to shoot through it.

Seeing these shield vehicles, driven by the coated slaves, had crossed the first trench and were getting closer and closer to their own defense line, Tian Mingyu, the head of the left side of the Dushi Battalion of the Xuanfu Army, frowned.

Seeing them carefully pushing the shield cart up, Tian Mingyu quietly came to Chen Zheng's side, and asked softly, "General, why don't we shoot him a round?"

"Hum...hmm..."

With a calm expression on Chen Zheng's face, he snorted twice before saying, "Don't panic, our artillery was fierce yesterday, and we will leave it as a backup today. As long as we don't fire, the Tartars will always be in a panic." with.

Besides, his shield car always has to push through the second ditch. At this distance, our firecrackers are powerful enough. Why use cannons to fight mosquitoes? "

Suddenly, Chen Zheng shouted loudly: "The fire gun is ready!"

After Tian Mingyu heard the sound, he hurriedly turned around and yelled for an order. As the order was delivered, the gunmen of the Xuanfu Army behind the low wall began to nervously check the guns in their hands.

At this moment, rows of coat slaves rushed out from behind the Tartar shield chariot. Each team was carrying a long plank. They ran desperately, trying to put the plank on the second ditch.

"Fireball, let go!"

Chen Zheng shouted suddenly.

"Snapped"

From the general's platform of the Chinese army, there was a bang of a pistol.

As the herald yelled: "Fire, fire!"

The sharp and ear-piercing swan horn sounded immediately, spreading throughout the front line of defense in Changling Mountain.

Amidst the roar of the gunfire salvo, a grayish-white smoke rose from the low wall behind the three trenches, and lead bullets flew out one after another, shooting at the Qing soldiers behind the trenches.

Hundreds of Tartar-coated slaves suddenly shot out gusts of blood, and they all howled and fell to the ground and struggled.

Behind the low wall, the officers and soldiers of the Xuanfu army not only ensured their safety, they did not have to worry about the Tazi soldiers rushing to attack, but also their shooting range was very good.

After all, it has been operating here for a long time, and a lot of soil was taken out of the trench. After the low wall was built, the inner side was slightly raised. The grass is gone.

With such a good line of sight, it is not only easy to aim at the charging Tartars, but also very convenient to observe the casualties of the attacking Tartars after the gunfire salvo.

More than a dozen coat-coated slaves from the Tartars carried a large plank. After the volley of gunfire left more than a hundred corpses, they fled back in a panic. Only a few planks barely covered the trench.

This second ditch is the narrowest, if a person with agility runs and jumps, he can barely cross it. When the Tartars came, the soldiers of the Xuanfu army often took pleasure in this.

But now the Tartars are determined to lay planks so that the shield chariot can continue to move forward.

There was a strange roar behind the thieves' shield car, and the wrapped slaves who had just escaped came out again timidly, and their movements were obviously much faster.

I ran a few steps quickly, came to the wooden board that was discarded just now, and threw myself on the ground. After waiting for a while, seeing no movement behind the low wall, I seemed to have discussed it. rush forward.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Another round of gunfire roared, and the smoke rose and filled the air. More than a hundred coated slaves fell to the ground, struggling and howling in pain.

After going back and forth like this several times, many large wooden planks have been laid on the second ditch, but, in front of the ditch, there are pools of bright red.

And those slaves who died in battle, or those who were not yet dead, were forced to be thrown into the second ditch by the Tazi soldiers, just like when they attacked the city yesterday, the dead slaves should not be wasted, To be used to fill trenches.

Inside was a wrapped slave, although not very tall, but extremely stout, with a black and red face showing a slightly aged look, he ran back behind the shield chariot with his back bent.

I couldn't help but secretly rejoice that today's luck is really good. I went out to fill the trench three times, but I was unscathed. Thinking of this, I not only raised my hand to wipe the cold sweat on my forehead, but saw two rows of teeth marks clearly visible at the tiger's mouth on my right hand.

He turned his head and looked around silently, and it seemed that many familiar faces were missing: "Oh, there are some people missing here again, mother, it's really not a human life!"

He was squatting behind the shield car with only a jacket full of holes on his body. Even under the scorching sun, he still felt cold and had goose bumps all over his body under the cold mountain wind.

He couldn't help but slightly raised his big black and red face, closed his eyes and looked at the sun floating in the sky, hoping to bathe in the warmth of the sun and relieve the chill in his body.

The surroundings were still so noisy, but he didn't hear it, but he seemed to smell a scent of meat. In a daze, he tried to open his extremely tired eyes.

At some point, a small table appeared about ten steps in front of him. On it was a roast chicken and a bowl of stewed meat. The smell of meat seemed to come from here.

Immediately, he became full of energy, and even his eyes became bright. The tiredness just now was swept away, and when he stood up firmly, he saw a figure behind the square table.

A familiar voice drifted into my ears: "Second Brother Wang, Xiao Qi invited you to eat meat..."

It turned out that this person was none other than Wang Erdan, a native of Linyi, Shandong, who escaped from the Tartar bandit camp the night Zhang Cheng attacked and killed Yue Tuo.

At that time, Zhou Heihu, Zhu Hongwu, Zhu Yiqi and others who were also villagers in Linyi were also captured by the Tartars. They were detained together with Wang Erdan in the camp of the Qing army in northern Jibei.

But Zhou Heihu and others were always thinking of finding an opportunity to escape back to their hometown. Finally, Sun Chuanting, then governor of Qin Wang Bingma, organized a night attack on the Tatar camp.

Zhou Heihu and others took advantage of the chaos to break through the wooden fence, killed the guarding Qing soldiers, and led the villagers to escape from the Tartar camp.

But this Wang Erdan is an authentic farmer. He is afraid of the despotic power of the Tatar thieves, and at the same time, he is also bewitched by the Tatars. He thinks that even if he goes to Liaodong, he will farm the land for the Tatars honestly and dutifully.

What's more, the Tartar masters have said that there is nothing else in Liaodong, that is, there is a lot of land, and a handful of seeds can be harvested, but the only disadvantage is that there are too few people, and many lands are abandoned, and no one cultivates them at all , That's why they came to the mainland of Daming to arrest people.

At that time, Wang Erdan was thinking about who he would plant land for, wasn't it all farming?

What about in my hometown in Linyi?
After working hard every year, most of the harvest was taken away by the landlord. What was left for me could not even provide enough food and clothing for a year. Throughout the year, I had to suffer from hunger for more than half a year.

Therefore, he did not follow his compatriot Zhou Heihu to escape from the Qing army's camp at that time. Even his close fellow Zhu Yiqi tried his best to persuade him, but he failed to change his original intention.

The two rows of teeth marks on the tiger's mouth on Wang Erdan's right hand are still because he dragged Zhu Yiqi to death and asked him to accompany him to Liaodong to plant land for the Tartars, but Zhu Yiqi opened his mouth to ask for it!

At this time, he suddenly saw Zhu Yiqi appearing in front of him, and he had no time to think about it. He was about to step forward to recognize each other, but saw two more people behind Zhu Yiqi.

It was Zhou Heihu and Zhu Hongwu who led everyone to escape together back then, and Wang Erdan couldn't help being taken aback, especially Zhou Heihu's big eyeballs, which were staring at him angrily.

It seems to be saying: "Hmph, aren't you willing to farm land for Tartars? How can you eat my brother's meat!"

(End of this chapter)