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Chapter 495 Forced to cross the Yellow River (5)

It really made Li Zicheng guess right, Zhu Yousong sent out surprise soldiers again, similar to the broken moon formation, and still let the navy team take the lead.

The Li Zicheng Group's response was not unsatisfactory, and the measures it adopted were not ingenious and effective, but they were still half a beat behind.

Just when He Zhaoxiong led 500 people into the water and began to dig the warship of the Dashun Army, the Navy of the Dashun Army discovered and took measures. When the two sides were entangled underwater, Li Quan and Liu Chunhong led [-] death squads to touch the ship. The bank of the river facing the artillery battalion.

Seven hundred warriors jumped out of the river bank, each holding their swords, and charged towards the artillery camp of the Dashun Army.

This is not the first time Zhu Yousong has used this tactic to assault the enemy's artillery camp. It was used as early as when Zhu Yousong personally conquered Jiujiang.

At that time, Zuo Menggeng of Wuhan led an army in Jiujiang, and fought with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. Dozens of cannons blocked the entire river on the bank of the river.To forcibly cross the Yangtze River, the enemy's artillery battalion must be dealt with first.

At that time, Zhu Yousong asked the naval battalion to select elites to form a death squad to dive across the river, destroy the running platform of the thieves, and enable the imperial army to cross the river smoothly and take Jiujiang in one fell swoop.

Zhu Yousong used this tactic again today, almost two years later, and it is still very effective.

It's the same Expendables dive, but this time it's not exactly the same as last time.That is to choose at night, or to let people touch the shore in the middle of the night without anyone noticing, destroying the enemy's fort.

But today is broad daylight, so of course some strategies have to be adopted. First, use 700 small warships to deliberately lure them to fire, giving them the illusion of a ship being destroyed. Two routes, destroying enemy ships is another illusion, the key lies in the [-] men of Li Quan and Liu Chunhong.

All the foreshadowing was done, and now Li Quan and Liu Chunhong led their troops to land blatantly.

Once again caught off guard, more than forty cannons of the Dashun Army were stationed at high places by the river, and there were a thousand Dashun generals in the artillery battalion.

Li Zicheng's artillery battalion was only recently built. At first, the peasant army he led was a mobile operation, and the artillery fire of officers and soldiers was occasionally captured. Due to bottlenecks in technology and ammunition, it could not be scaled up.

Especially in the battle of Tongguan Nanyuan, after being surrounded by officers and soldiers, after Li Zicheng broke out of the siege, there were only [-] people left even himself, hiding in the mountains. This peasant army can be described as poor and useless.

Later, they made a comeback, entered Henan and met Li Yan, a great counselor, who put forward the slogan of equalizing the land and exempting grain, and the team grew stronger. Since then, they have only a few artillery pieces. Later, they entered Beijing and were soon driven out by the Tartars. After leaving Beijing and fleeing back to Xi'an, it took only more than two years to discover that the artillery battalion had developed rapidly. When Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor of Xijing, the Dashun Army had more than 3000 artillery pieces, and the artillery battalion had [-] soldiers, forming a scale of firepower.

Later, Zhu Yousong forced the Tatars to give up Beijing and flee. Li Zicheng thought that the opportunity had come, and sent Liu Zongmin to Beijing with an army of [-]. He took away [-] cannons and dispatched more than [-] people from the artillery battalion. As a result, some of them died in battle. Some returned to the imperial court, and only a small part followed Tian Jianxiu and returned to Xijing after defeat.

This time Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong jointly used troops against the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zicheng personally led the conquest, using almost all the artillery power.

This time it was only on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Li Zicheng's subordinates had more than forty artillery pieces.

The artillery of the Dashun Army is also mainly red-clothed cannons. Most of them were captured by the Ming and Qing troops, and a few were bought later.

Roughly twenty people are in charge of a cannon. Therefore, the artillery battalion of the Dashun Army on the south bank of the Yellow River has about a thousand generals.

These situations had already been figured out by the spies of the Ming army in advance, so Liu Chunhong and Li Quan were asked to use 700 people to deal with them.

Seven hundred warriors suddenly rushed into the artillery camp. Although the artillerymen of the Dashun Army had a thousand soldiers, they were caught off guard. In addition, these people were good at transporting artillery shells and aiming at them.Field combat and close combat are not their forte.

Li Quan and Liu Chunhong followed the fierce tigers on the mountain, commanding seven hundred warriors to rush in suddenly, and the artillery battalion of the Dashun Army was in a panic.

When Wang Shun, the commander of the artillery battalion, reacted, there were already casualties, and he quickly organized forces to fight back.

Li Quan and Liu Chunhong combined their swords and swords to defeat more than a dozen Dashun generals in a row, and the 700 men under them were also unstoppable, but the [-] Dashun troops could not withstand the [-] warriors.

In this surprise battle between Li Quan and Liu Chunhong, the artillerymen of the Dashun Army were killed in the space of a meal.

Leaving a lot of dead and wounded, blood spattered the fort, the remaining hundreds of artillery could not resist, the commander of the artillery battalion Wang Shun was also injured during the melee, and more than 400 remnants of defeated soldiers scattered and fled in all directions.

Li Quan and Liu Chunhong did not chase after them, and began to destroy their cannons. This time, the method of destruction was unique and simple, neither dismantling the forts nor smashing the cannons. It's a pity.

Zhu Yousong had already thought of a way for them, because Zhu Yousong knew that most cannons in the seventeenth century were afraid of water.Therefore, each of the seven hundred warriors now has an extra horn water bag on their bodies.

The water bag is not big, it can hold a liter of water.Hanging on the body like this does not affect the action and combat of the warriors.

At this time, the horn water belt has been filled with water, bulging, and drove away the artillery soldiers of the Dashun Army. Now the warriors began to take off the horn bag and open the mouth of the horn water bag, and pour water into the ignition source of the cannon and the barrel .

For a cannon, only three or four ox horn water bags are basically paralyzed.

Li Quan and Liu Chunhong had just finished the task when reinforcements from the Dashun Army arrived. Liu Fangliang brought 5000 troops and some remnants of the artillery battalion to recapture the fort.

The shouts were earth-shattering, and arrows were fired from far away.

"Brothers, withdraw!" Seeing that the task was almost completed, Li Quan would not fight them head-on, and gave an order, and ran away with Liu Chunhong and others.

When they reached the bank of the river, bang bang bang, plop plop, plop plop, Li Quan and others all went down the river like ducks. When Liu Fangliang's men and horses chased them to the river, there was only the surging water of the Yellow River, and Li Quan and others were gone. .

"Fire the arrows!" Liu Fangliang ordered, and hundreds of archers shot at the river again, and then retreated.

Fortunately for them, the fort was finally recaptured. Wang Shun and others commanded the remnants of the [-] artillery battalion to go back to continue operating their artillery, while Liu Fangliang returned with his troops and delivered an order to his Majesty Li Zi.

Wang Shun had just returned to the artillery camp with a few hundred people. He looked up, and at some point, the vast river was filled with warships of all sizes.

At this time, Li Zicheng ordered them to fire!
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