The obedient King Kong Youde never imagined that the Ming army, which was always known for its timidity and fear of slaves like tigers, would dare to penetrate deep into the heart of the Qing Dynasty where the warriors were stationed.
"What?"
With a look of disbelief on his face, he grabbed the Tianyou soldiers who were running in panic and shouted loudly: "What are you trying to do to rob the camp? Who's coming to rob my camp?"
Cao Shaozhong, the deputy general of the God's Blessing Army, rushed over with his men and shouted: "Marshal, it's not good. It's the Ming army... The Ming army attacked at night..."
Although Tucheng was already very noisy and chaotic at the moment, with panic and crying coming from all directions, Kong Youde still had an expression of disbelief.
He roared and asked Cao Shaozhong: "We are surrounded by Qing warriors on all sides. Where did the Ming army come from?"
"Marshal Huidu, the Ming army rushed in from Tumen in the south..." Cao Shaozhong replied.
At this time, there were cries and howls in Tucheng. Most of the two Tatars from Tianyou Army and Wuzhen Chaoha Artillery Camp woke up from their dreams. Some of them even rushed out of the camp wearing single clothes.
They ran around outside for a while, shivering from the cold night wind, and ran back to their tents shouting and screaming. In the panic, countless fires were kicked away, and countless hanging lanterns fell down...
Looking around, there were ignited tents everywhere under Tucheng. Fires were everywhere and screams were heard. Kong Youde stumbled to the northwest corner of Tucheng. He saw that the city was already in chaos. Groups of more than ten Ming troops were standing around. conflict.
"Assemble... Beat the drums and gather the troops... Kill the thieves... Kill the enemies... Kill the bright dogs..." Kong Youde roared at the top of his lungs.
Deputy General Cao Shaozhong said anxiously: "Marshal, Ming Gou came suddenly. Our team was blocked in the camp and couldn't get out. How could we gather together?"
Seeing that what he said was true, Kong Youde couldn't help but angrily cursed: "Damn it, Prince Youli doesn't have tens of thousands of warriors in the south, how did Ming Gou get here?"
At this moment, Chen Guangfu, one of Kong Youde's guerrillas, led more than a hundred people to rush in. As soon as he got close to Kong Youde, he shouted loudly: "Marshal, the general escort is late."
Seeing Chen Guangfu arriving with his troops, and there were more than 300 soldiers around him, Kong Youde gradually sobered up and calmed down. He shouted loudly: "Cao Shaozhong, you continue to gather troops and guard the artillery everywhere in the city. Chen Guangfu , lead your men and horses to rush down, fire with muskets, and kill these gangsters who are desperate for their lives."
Cao Shaozhong waved to dozens of soldiers, and then ran southward along the earth wall. They shouted and yelled all the way to summon the soldiers on the wall, and from time to time they raised blazing guns and shot at the bottom of the earth wall.
Judging from the way they fired their guns, they were all very casual. I don't know if they had no aim at all and were just shooting randomly for show.
Guerrilla Chen Guangfu also shouted loudly, greeting more than 200 God's Blessing Army, and slowly walked down a slope. Their formation was very strict.
More than 200 people were divided into four horizontal rows. Chen Guangfu was in the middle of the second row, shouting orders to control the pace of advance, and at the same time constantly pulling the chaotic soldiers around him into his formation.
There were only about twenty soldiers left around Kong Youde at this moment. He didn't take a closer look until now, and saw Ming cavalry clashing left and right everywhere in Tucheng.
They galloped wildly, and wherever they went, there was a sea of fire. Their anger reached its peak, but they were helpless.
Although he has more than 2,000 cavalry under his command, most of them were sent elsewhere to block the Ming army crossing the river northward. There are only less than 2,000 infantry and artillerymen here, and then there are the artillerymen of the Wuzhenchaoha Artillery Battalion.
Facing the fierce Ming army cavalry, they really felt a little powerless.
However, fortunately, after the initial commotion, many of the surviving God's Blessing Army had gradually gathered. They were shooting with muskets, holding spears, and even some soldiers were holding broken logs, and fought back bravely.
Seeing this scene, Kong Youde's chest was surging. He shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Du Leng is doing it here, go and gather the soldiers, we are going to fight Ming Gou."
A leader stepped forward and said timidly: "We are waiting to protect the marshal."
"Qiu Zi, protect Qiu Zi, get out of here, call the soldiers and horses..." Kong Youde roared and blasted them away one by one.
After a while, four to five hundred people gathered around Kong Youde. Of course, most of them were gunners from the Wuzhen Chaoha Artillery Battalion. However, most of them were from the Liaodong Ming Army. Fighting in battle was almost their natural instinct. The ability to come.
At this time, Chen Guangfu, a guerrilla from the Tianyou Army, also gathered hundreds of people under Tucheng, but there were shouts of killing all around, and they could not tell which side the Ming army was on.
In desperation, Chen Guangfu ordered hundreds of soldiers to form a formation in the middle of Tucheng in an attempt to intercept the Ming cavalry.
At this time, Kong Youde saw a group of Ming troops with less than twenty riders galloping from the north to the south. He hurriedly led hundreds of Tianyou troops around him to run towards the city.
He secretly thought in his heart that tonight the Ming army attacked the camp, and many of the small cannons in his artillery camp were smashed and burned. If he couldn't leave some Ming dogs, how could he explain it to Prince Li?
Although it shows that the military night attack was sudden, Kong Youde couldn't stand in front of Daishan and made it clear that he was unprepared for the loss. However, "nine times out of ten things in life are unsatisfactory," the development of the situation went against Kong Youde's wishes.
Just as he was halfway down the spacious ramp, he heard loud noises of "Boom! Boom! Boom!..." kept coming. Kong Youde was stunned by the thunderous explosions.
"It's thundering?"
Kong Youde had a look of horror on his face, and he shouted loudly: "What, what is this?"
"...The enemy of ten thousand people...the marshal...is the enemy of ten thousand people..."
A leader who followed him from Denglai to the sea and surrendered quickly ran up to him and reminded him intermittently.
In fact, as the commander of the Ming Dynasty's most advanced firearms force, how could Kong Youde not recognize the "Ten Thousand Enemy" weapon? It's just that he didn't want to see the scene before him.
"Damn Ming Gou, how could there be such a thing..."
He continued to murmur: "It's over... it's over... my Hongyi cannon... it's all over..."
Suddenly, his expression became almost crazy, and he yelled: "Kill, kill all these wise men for me."
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It turned out that Zhang Guangda and his group of more than 400 elite cavalry had each packed two cannons of ten thousand enemies in the saddlebags of their horses, in order to use them to bombard the cannons and heavy artillery of the Two Tatars after they rushed into the camp.
When they first quietly sneaked in from the south Tucheng gate, they were not in a hurry to use it. Instead, they rushed and killed in the Tucheng, setting fire everywhere. Especially when they encountered small cannons, they used heavy weapons to smash them. , or quickly set on fire.
It wasn't until he was about to break out after charging for a while in Tucheng that Zhang Guangda shouted loudly: "Ten thousand enemies, use ten thousand enemies to blow up the fucking cannon!"
After getting the order, the soldiers from the cavalry camp who followed Zhang Guangda reached out and took out the black iron lumps one by one. They lit the fuse on the fire next to them and threw them towards the high earth platforms around them.
As the rumbling sound became louder, the soldiers of the Xuanfu Army Cavalry Camp scattered everywhere, as if they had received orders, followed suit and threw iron lumps one after another.
In fact, the explosive power of ten thousand enemies may be able to blow up the Qing army's artillery. This is just a guess, but its other function is very useful, that is, as an order to retreat!
Before the night attack was launched, Zhang Guangda repeatedly warned the accompanying soldiers that the sound of explosions with tens of thousands of enemies was an order to retreat. Once the soldiers heard the sound, they would immediately throw out ten thousand enemies on the spot.
And at the same time, they moved closer to the brigade, worked together to break out of the Qing army's camp, and retreated to their own camp.
Kong Youde pursued to the south gate of Tucheng. He looked at the Ming army cavalry who had gone away, and his heart was filled with hatred. Just now he saw with his own eyes that a newly cast red cannon was killed by This bunch of bastards were blown up with ten thousand enemies.
His heart was still bleeding. These dozens of red cannons were almost equivalent to his life. He personally supervised the construction of these and even operated them himself.
Now, he was attacked and destroyed by a group of unknown Ming troops at night. How could he not feel distressed? He just saw a sudden "pop" and knelt down on the cold and hard ground.
With tears in his eyes, Kong Youde kowtowed in the direction of Shengjing City in the southeast, and kept repeating: "Your Majesty, Kong Youde is sorry for Your Majesty, and has let down Your Majesty's love and importance... Your Majesty..."
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At the beginning of Mao Shi, there was only a glimmer of light at the edge of the eastern sky, but the vast land was still dark.
On the wall of Jinzhou city, there is a figure like a pillar, Liaodong forward commander Zu Dashou, wearing a mink cloak, standing on the south gate of the inner city, looking farther south.
His face was full of excitement, and he said: "It's really not simple. This person is really a person, and he dares to sneak attack on the Tatar camp at night. I admire him, I admire him!"
It turned out that he and Zu Dabi had returned to the dilapidated South Gate Tower and had just undressed and lay down. They had not yet fallen asleep. When they were drowsy, they were awakened by a scream outside the gate tower.
I thought that the Tatars were attacking the city at night, which aroused the exclamations of surprise from the soldiers under their command. However, after leaving the gatehouse, I took a closer look and saw that there were columns of fireworks burning in the Qing army camp in the distance to the south.
In this dark night, the firelight was particularly eye-catching, but the scene in the Qing army camp could not be seen, but the piles of fireworks were clearly visible.
There was a hesitation in Zu Dabi's eyes, and he said softly: "Brother, do you think someone really raided the slave camp at night?"
"How can it not be true?"
The excitement on Zu Dashou's face became more prominent, and he loudly said: "Look at the slave camp, there are rising fires everywhere, it obviously doesn't look like it was done intentionally.
At this moment, the soldiers were sleeping soundly. Even if he wanted to prepare for war, he would not get up at this moment. I guessed that the Xuanfu army attacked the slave camp at night, so there were all these messy fires. "
He even said without hesitation: "Zhang Cheng, I really want to meet him now to see what kind of outstanding person he is!"
"Brother, could it be Uncle Chang's Ningyuan army attacking the slave camp at night?" Zu Dabi still didn't want to believe that it was the Xuanfu army that attacked the slave camp at night.
Zu Dashou turned his head and glanced at him, and said: "Da Bi, I also know that you wish for the best for Uncle Chang, and hope that Uncle Chang can become the most outstanding person in this Liao War."
He then continued in a sincere tone: "Am I not just like you? I sincerely hope that Uncle Chang will be better than his predecessors and become the brightest star of our Ming Dynasty. However, hope remains a hope and we still have to face the facts before us. Accept with optimism.”
Zu Dashou continued: "To be honest, I also hope that Chang Bo's Ningyuan Army will attack the Tatar camp at night. But Chang Bo's Ningyuan Army is stationed in the far southwest. Even if he wants to attack the slave camp at night, it will be too much. Ergon, the thief's camp.
How could he sacrifice the near for the distant and come here to attack the old thief Daishan’s camp at night? "
Zu Dabi smiled a little sheepishly and said, "Brother, you are right. Dabi is indeed wrong."
"Um."
Zu Dashou whispered to him again: "Zhang Cheng is now the commander-in-chief of the Xuan Mansion, and he and I are in perfect harmony with each other from afar. If you have the chance to meet him in the future, remember not to offend him."
After hearing this, an unconvinced look appeared on Zu Dabi's face again, and he said harshly: "Why, our ancestors are still afraid of him?"
Zu Dashou shook his head. As the saying goes, "There is no better brother than a good brother." Naturally, Zu Dashou knew the temper of his younger brother best.
At that moment, he said to him softly: "This is not a matter of fear or not. Zhang Cheng's ability is not inferior to the elder uncle, but may be better than the elder uncle.
Now, he has been promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu at a young age, and his future is limitless. However, even if he is transferred to Liaodong one day, he will not be able to compete with the strength of my ancestors' management for generations. "
Seeing that Zu Dabi could not help but nod his head, he continued: "But there is an old saying, it's called 'many friends, many paths'.
Nowadays, Zhang Cheng is in the west and my ancestral family is in the east. They were originally unrelated. Now that we have this opportunity to fight against slaves and bandits together, we naturally want to form a good relationship with them so that we can meet each other easily in the future. If anything happens, , and can also help each other. "
Zu Dashou looked at the fireworks everywhere in the Qing army camp in the south of Jinzhou City, and then said softly: "It is not easy for my ancestral family to accumulate this wealth. I think there are no outstanding talents among the younger generations. In the future, I may have to settle for my nephew, the eldest uncle." On the body.
My ancestral family and the Wu family have been friends for several generations, and now they are relatives. Naturally, we are like one family in Liaodong. My eldest uncle will naturally help my ancestral family maintain this family business. "
He went on to say: "However, now that troubled times have arrived, talents will surely emerge in large numbers in the future, but as long as he does not compete with my ancestral family for profits in Liaodong, he will make great efforts to make friends with me to expand the wings of my ancestral family.
Remember, 'One more enemy means one more wall'. If my ancestral family wants to survive in Liaodong forever, it must make more friends with young talents like Zhang Cheng. "
"I know, brother."
Zu Dashou saw that he spoke sincerely and knew that he understood what he said and that he had indeed lost his mind, so he stopped continuing the topic.
Just listen to him calmly say: "Today is destined to be a fierce battle. Whether the siege of Jinzhou can be solved depends on this battle!"
