Prince Jingjin Nikan also received a report from his subordinates!
A checkpoint he placed outside was touched by the Ming army. It was a troop commanded by Dadan Zhangjing, equivalent to a quarter of Niulu, with more than 80 people. On the night of September 23, people were sent to A sneak attack and the whole army was wiped out! And no one knew that that night. It wasn't until other troops went to change defenses the next day that they discovered a village of dead people... More than eighty people were all dead, all stabbed to death with bayonets!
This group of Ming soldiers didn't even fire their guns (for fear of alerting the nearby Qing troops), but only used bayonets to kill more than 80 people. Isn't this too cruel? They are almost catching up with Manchuria's white-armored soldiers!
What made Nikan even more frightened was that it was impossible for all of these more than 80 people to die in the battle. Some of them must have been captured! And if someone is captured, then his ambush will be exposed...
Is the Ming Army brigade rushing towards me?
Nikan knew something was wrong, so he immediately called in his deputy Tan Tai to discuss the matter.
"Your Majesty, we don't have a camp here!" Tan Tai was also a little panicked. "We occupied a dilapidated village, dug a shallow trench, and erected a wooden fence... and our artillery also Not much, only one artillery unit, 12 3-pound cannons and 6 6-pound cannons, I’m afraid we won’t be able to defend it!”
"It doesn't matter, there is still time..." Nikan gritted his teeth, "Give me the order and start digging trenches and building forts immediately! Everyone has to work!" He glanced at Tan Tai, "You and I will personally Supervisor! No matter what, we must build the stronghold before the Ming army arrives!"
Now the Qing army cannot defeat the Ming army in the field, so the only way left is to build a stronghold!
In the original plan, Nikan was ambushing troops along the way, so he did not build a stronghold for himself. What's worse now is that the Ming army's scouts were so powerful that they found Nikan in ambush!
"But your lord, it's so cold outside now..." Tan Tai frowned, "How can those Han peasants and soldiers endure such hardship? Don't forget that the stronghold has not been repaired, and everyone has fallen down from exhaustion! "
"How is that possible?" Nikan said, "They can handle so many fields by themselves, but now they can't build a stronghold to save their lives? If the Ming army comes in, they will all die... ...They are all traitors!"
yes! The puppet soldiers are also traitors!
The current Ming Emperor is very bad. No matter what you threaten or never obey, just send it to the United States... The United States is so far away and so painful, who is willing to go!
If you don’t want to go to the United States and want to stay in this corner of the Northeast, then work hard to dig trenches and build fortifications!
While supervising their men to dig trenches and build forts, Nikan and Tan Tai also sent an urgent message to Doni, asking him to change his plan and let Yue Le's troops move closer to their side.
But Doni also received an urgent report from Yue Le - Yue Le was also discovered by the Ming army! Moreover, Yue Le also discovered that the Ming army was not as fierce and ferocious as the white-armored soldiers. Several of the checkpoints he sent out were copied by others! So I became nervous.
Now it's Dhoni's turn to be in trouble. Who will the Ming army attack first? Who should be allowed to move closer to whom?
And just when Dhoni was in trouble, Qin Mingtao and Li Shaowen had already made a decision to fight Nikan first! Because Yue Le seems to have built a stronghold there, which is more difficult to defeat. Therefore, Qin Mingtao and Li Shaowen decided to concentrate their superior forces to defeat Nikan first. However, Yue Le could not be let go. Instead, a regiment of troops was drawn out and scattered into skirmishers to harass and confuse Yue Le's troops, so that Yue Le did not dare to leave the stronghold easily. The remaining five regiments and all the artillery went straight towards Nikan's troops.
Like the previous Battle of Kongjiapu, this time the Young Guards Division still adopted the strategy of marching urgently during the day and immediately launching a night attack upon arriving at the destination.
And just like the Battle of Kongjiapu, the attack on Nikan's headquarters was also initiated by a Young Guards Infantry Regiment using skirmishing tactics.
That night, the heavy snow that had fallen for two consecutive days had stopped. The weather was very cold, there were no clouds in the sky, and the moon was bright, so I was very good at night fighting.
Nearly 1,500 musketeers formed a skirmish formation and slowly approached a farm called Zhaojiazhuang occupied by Nikan's troops.
Zhaojiazhuang is a large farm, but it is very dilapidated. At a glance, you can tell that it was the settlement of the soldiers and civilians of Liao Town before the rise of Hou Jin Dynasty. However, there are also some renovated buildings, indicating that after Duduo developed Guandong, some immigrants from Guandong lived here.
But now, the residents of Zhaojiazhuang have disappeared, leaving only the army led by Nikan.
When the battle started, Nikan, who was standing on the roof of a big house in Zhuangzi watching the battle, immediately felt something was wrong. The Ming army he encountered this time was completely beyond his imagination. It was not that they were strong, but that Nikan could not imagine how this army could spread out and fight in the snow on a winter night.
How do officers command? How to supervise the battle? What should we do if some people want to run away and some people want to hide and refuse to fight hard? And the officer couldn't see clearly at all. How could he judge merit in this way? How can we fight like this?
Look at the Qing army again. Although they are also fighting at night, before the enemy appears, piles of firewood are piled up in front and behind the forward position. As soon as the fire starts, the fire is lit. The position is brightly lit, so that Take command!
But how was the Ming army commanded?
Just when Nikan was confused, his deputy Tan Tai had already left the house and stood in the yard and shouted at him: "Your Majesty, the regent's order has arrived... let us dispatch immediately, Come closer to Prince An!"
"What? Send out now? Send out what the heck... We are all surrounded by enemies!" Nikan shouted back, "Send someone quickly to ask the regent for help and ask Yue Le to come closer to me!"
"Your Majesty, maybe Yue Le was also beaten..."
Nikan said: "That is false, we are the real one!"
"How to prove it?" Tan Tai asked.
yes! How to prove it?
When Nikan was in trouble, the Ming army was very considerate and "certified" him - they opened fire!
"Rumble..."
What fired was still four 12-pound short cannons, and what they fired were still explosive shells. The four shells landed in the snow very accurately, and then bounced up suddenly. One of them crashed into a house on the edge of Zhuangzi and exploded inside, destroying the entire house. I don't know if there was anyone inside? The other two exploded in the air after flying for a certain distance, and the other one did not explode and flew to nowhere.
"Quickly, push our 6-pound cannon up to counterattack!" Nikan shouted loudly at the soldiers standing in the yard responsible for conveying orders.
In fact, it is particularly unreliable to use a 6-pound cannon to counterattack a 12-pound cannon, because even a 12-pound cannon with a shortened barrel has a farther range than a 6-pound cannon. Moreover, the level of the Ming army's artillery was not comparable to that of the Qing army's artillery - they did not do so many difficult and difficult math problems for nothing! Moreover, they were also proficient in measuring distance and wind speed, and could very accurately hit the Qing artillery positions with explosive shells.
Therefore, as soon as the artillery battle between the two sides started, the Qing army's artillery was quickly at a disadvantage. In less than ten rounds, three 6-pound cannons went silent! The gunner of a 6-pound gun also suffered heavy casualties when a 12-pound wooden support shell exploded nearby. The firing speed dropped significantly, and only two artillery guns could barely fire.
While the Ming Army's four 12-pound cannons used explosive shells to completely suppress the Qing Army's 6-pound cannon, the Ming Army's skirmishers were also approaching the Qing Army's position step by step. Shooting at the Qing troops who appeared in the open caused a certain amount of losses to the Qing troops who were holding on to the stronghold, and also triggered panic. The latter, no matter whether they could see the target clearly or not, and no matter how far away they were, they kept charging blindly into the darkness. Fire the flash that appears.
The gun battle between the two sides quickly reached an intense level!
At this time, Nikan also came down from the height and entered the house occupied by his Chinese army. Tan Tai on the opposite side said: "The Ming army fired artillery... They were all heavy artillery of more than 12 pounds! We encountered Those who are up are their main force, now we must let Yue Le get closer to us!"
