The rocket launchers from both sides were coming back and forth, and the fight was lively, but not many people were killed. Several truly bloody hand-to-hand encounters were quietly unfolding under the cover of the roar of rockets.
What the two sides are fighting for are four abandoned villages located in the center of the battlefield. The names of these four villages all have the word "dong" in their names. They are called Gaoyangdong, Shuisedong, Yicundong, and Sangyamdong. .
Seoul is close to the stone mountain Bukhansan, so stone materials are very easy to obtain, so there are houses and yards built with stones everywhere. These four "holes" are no exception. There are some yards and houses built with stones in the village. Although they have been burned, the stone walls are still standing there.
If anyone can seize these four "holes", it will be very advantageous to seize the opportunity and cover one's own army whether to attack or defend.
Therefore, Kangxi and Zhu Heji both came up with a similar number of teams to compete for the first time... Among them, the Ming army came up with a battalion, and the Qing army came up with a staff leader.
Since it is important, why not put more troops into it?
This is because these four "holes" are not large and cannot be "filled in" even if too many troops are invested. Moreover, the movement of a large group of troops is too loud, and it is very likely to attract the opponent's large group, and then a big fight will have to happen!
At present, military strategists on both sides believe that it is best for the infantry brigade to build "anti-sugar fortifications" before fighting, so that the infantry can have a place to hide, and then launch an attack with the support of their own "sugar power" .
Although these four "holes" are important, they are not at the point where they have to fight as soon as they come up.
In addition, the commanders on both sides also wanted to test each other's depth through the battle for these four "holes".
Jin Chengkai, who belonged to the second leader of the Left Association Forward Battalion in the 11th Town of the Ming Army, also participated in this first battle, which was later called the "Battle of Four Holes".
His leader was sent to seize the village called Gaoyangdong. Although it was an inconspicuous small village, Jin Chengkai had visited it several times because a friend once lived here. He is very familiar with the situation in the village and knows that there is a large house in the village that once belonged to a certain "jun". This house has a low stone wall. As long as he captures this house, he basically controls the entire village.
So after he received the order, he immediately explained the situation to his superiors. His boss Zhao Yiyuan is an "old brother" from Guangfu. He has never attended a military academy, but he has rich experience and knows that the information he provides is valuable. So he immediately prepared a rope ladder for climbing the wall, and ordered his skirmisher lieutenant to set off and trot all the way to seize the big house!
Afterwards, Zhao Yiyuan led the remaining four deputy leaders to form a small column and quickly rushed to Gaoyang Cave.
Among the four deputy commanders, three of the fusilier deputy commanders were all Korean soldiers, and even the officers and non-commissioned officers leading the team were all Koreans—all originally Confucian students! Only the deputy chief of spears led by Zhao Yiyuan was composed of soldiers from the six provinces of the Ming Dynasty.
To be honest, the North Koreans under Zhao Yiyuan and Zhao Dazheng were very worried...North Korean soldiers are famous for being weak, although the North Korean officers and soldiers under Zhao Yiyuan were very good during training. Work hard, not "996" but "715"! Zhao Yiyuan, who has been in the army for six years, has never seen a soldier who works harder than them!
But can they actually do it on the battlefield? Fighting is not a job, it doesn't just require working hard.
These North Koreans wouldn't be frightened and disperse when they saw the Eight Banners soldiers, right?
Just when Zhao Yiyuan thought about the Eight Banners soldiers, gunshots, explosions and shouts of death suddenly rang out from the village ahead called Gaoyangdong!
Zhao Yiyuan reacted immediately and immediately shouted an order: "Blow the suona, blow hard, keep blowing... Everyone else, rush forward!"
Nowadays, every leader of the Ming army is equipped with a drummer and a trumpeter. The drummer carries a drum slung across his body and beats a lively drum sound when marching. The trumpeter carries a suona that can make a harsh sound. When played hard, the sound can be heard far away.
The purpose of Zhao Yiyuan asking the trumpeter to blow the suona was not only to give orders to his infantrymen to advance quickly, but also to send a signal to the deputy leader in the village ahead... He had to let them know that reinforcements had arrived. Got it!
The deputy leader led by Jin Chengkai was originally at the front. They have been training day and night these days. They have memorized the meanings of various trumpets, drums, and golden sounds, and they have also formed a conditioned reflex. Reaction.
Now they heard the sound of "charge" and started charging without hesitation!
And the sound of the suona doesn't stop, so their charge can't stop either!
Forty Korean fusiliers, holding their bayonet-mounted fusiliers, shouted and ran forward... No one thought about what was ahead?
Just when they were screaming and about to rush into Gaoyang Cave, twenty or thirty new Eight Banners shotgun soldiers wearing red cotton armor suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village, each with a flintlock rifle!
These twenty or thirty Eight Banners New Army shotgun soldiers were also well-trained. They immediately formed two horizontal formations, then leveled their muskets, aiming at the Ming army rushing up outside the village, and fired a volley!
Twenty or thirty lead bullets roared towards them, and before Kim Cheng Kai's North Korean soldiers could react, they knocked down six of them!
However, Jin Chengkai's mind was already very hot at this time. He was full of thoughts about making meritorious deeds, becoming an official, counterattacking, and letting the direct descendants of the Andong Jin family see how he could stand out!
So how can he care about the enemy's bullets? And he also forgot that the flintlock gun in his hand was also loaded with bullets, and he could fire as long as he pulled the trigger... He thought he was holding a long gun!
He did not fire, nor did he order his men to form a team. He just charged like crazy, and the Korean soldiers who followed him who had not been defeated also went crazy. Everyone charged with a flintlock rifle with a bayonet.
This shocked the musketeers of the Eight Banners New Army.
What does this mean? Did they have muskets? Why not fire?
Just when they were in a daze, Dadan Zhangjing, a Qing army commander who was commanding them, suddenly shouted, "It's too late... draw your sword and chop them to death!"
"kill!"
The musketeers of the Eight Banners New Army shouted, shouldering their muskets while shouting, then drew out their sabers and lunged forward with howls.
The martial arts of these new Eight Banners troops were actually far better than those of the Korean soldiers. Even Zhu Heji's old brothers from Guangdong could not defeat them. However, the elite soldiers under the Wu brothers were more vicious than them in hand-to-hand combat...
If they perform normally, Jin Chengkai and his men will definitely be chopped into pieces.
But Jin Chengkai's men did not respect martial ethics. They carried loaded flintlock guns and fought hand-to-hand with people. And it was not easy to fight, but when a hand-to-hand combat was about to happen, someone suddenly remembered that he was holding a gun, so he fired directly!
There was only a "pop" sound, and a lead bullet was pushed out of the muzzle by the explosive gunpowder. It flew less than five steps before slamming into the body of a sturdy man.
This burly man was holding a knife and was about to kill someone when he was suddenly hit hard on the chest, and then he realized that the flintlock gun in the hand of the man opposite had actually fired!
How could he do this?
How can you shoot during a hand-to-hand fight? How can you fight future battles if this is the case? As soon as he thought of this, he was so unbearable that he lost the ability to think. Moreover, the energy he had been unable to use no matter how hard he had gone, he didn't even have the strength to stand anymore, and he fell to the ground.
Then, before he loses consciousness, he hears more gunshots... and more people finally remember that they are Musketeers!
After a burst of bullets, almost ten of the Eight Banners New Army Musketeers guarding the entrance of Gaoyangdong Village were knocked down. The remaining people did not have the courage to fight anymore and ran into the village with exclaims.
