"Why is this Huang Dusi?" Although Wang Jida already had an opinion, he still did not get angry directly.
After all, Huang Guangmao was still needed for combat command, so Wang Jida only asked and did not say anything else directly, leaving Huang Guangmao with a hint of respect on the surface.
Huang Guangmao replied: "The thieves are tough from the front, and there are elite teams sealing the mountain on both sides. I will wait for a few days and think of another way..."
After hearing this, Wang Jida's face instantly darkened: "Huang Dusi, are you afraid of the enemy?"
Sure enough, what he thought was right, this Huang Guangmao, like the other warriors, were all greedy for life and afraid of death.
To put it bluntly, there are only a few hundred thieves in front, and you, Huang Guangmao, still have hundreds of troops. If there is no other way, just rush forward and do it. The worst is to suffer heavy casualties.
However, compared with annihilating the rebel army, paying a small price is completely acceptable.
But Huang Guangmao didn't plan to move anymore. He even talked about finding another way. He thought Wang Jida was stupid. In the current situation, when a detour failed, there was no other way but to attack by force.
Huang Guangmao obviously didn't want too many casualties and wanted to preserve his strength.
This situation is something Wang Jida does not want to see.
If Wang Jida had a serious military supervisory position at this time, he would definitely pull Huang Guangmao down and behead him on the spot.
The country does not need such people who are afraid of life and death, and who are timid and afraid of progress!
Wang Jida continued with a sullen face: "Huang Dusi, you need to think carefully about the consequences of standing still in the face of a mere few hundred bandits."
After Huang Guangmao heard this, his expression became extremely ugly, and he even stared at Wang Jida for a while.
However, he only glanced at it and quickly lowered his head again.
Damn it, you know how to let me rush forward and fight for my life, why don't you lead the charge personally?
The credit for success is all yours, and the loss is all for me.
Moreover, this bastard didn't even give me the food and grass for the expedition to Funiu Mountain, and asked me to send my own troops to collect food.
However, so what...
Wang Jida's threat is right in front of him, does he really dare to ignore it?
Huang Guangmao really didn't dare...
After cursing a few words in his heart, Huang Guangmao finally said: "Your Majesty Wang, please calm down. I just plan to let the soldiers rest for a day. Tomorrow, we will continue to attack Songshan and we will definitely capture the Songshan thieves."
After hearing Huang Guangmao's words, the gloomy look on Wang Jida's face softened slightly, but he still said rudely: "Funiu Mountain is the land of our Ming Dynasty, and the people in the mountains are the people of our Ming Dynasty. I also hope that Huang Dusi will conquer Song Mountain as soon as possible and recover." Our rivers and mountains protect our people."
"On the day Songshan is captured, I will personally report my merits to the capital."
After saying that, Wang Jida glanced at Huang Guangmao again. He still had something to say. If the fight failed, don't blame Wang Jida for getting angry. At that time, he would have to impeach Huang Guangmao to remove his official hat.
Huang Guangmao also felt the threat in his gaze.
Although he didn't know what Wang Jida was thinking specifically, judging from the time he had been in contact with Wang Jida, Wang Jida must have had bad intentions.
If he cannot conquer Songshan, he may be in great danger.
Under the pressure of Wang Jida, Huang Guangmao had to continue to deploy the second round of general attack even if he was reluctant.
Early the next morning, the Ming army came out of camp one after another and divided into three groups to attack Songshan.
This time Huang Guangmao put the main attack direction on the right side, because during the first general attack, he found that the rebels on the left side had a lot of defensive troops, and it would be very difficult to continue to attack the left side.
As for the front, don't count on it. The open space in front of the valley is not so easy to break through. Even if you rush through and enter the canyon, it is a way to die.
When the time comes, there will be a wooden wall blocking the road, and there will be enemy arrows and artillery covering the front, left and right, and that will be the end result of being able to get in but not being able to get out.
As the only solution now, he could only choose to attack from the right side.
During the first round of attack, he found that the thieves on the right had fewer troops and the attack would be less difficult.
In order to ensure that the attack was normal, he also spent a lot of money this time. In addition to hundreds of county warriors who served as cannon fodder to consume the arrows of the rebel army and the physical fitness of the archers, there were also hundreds of soldiers attacking on the right side.
These hundred soldiers were the main force in storming the top of the mountain on the right.
There were also feint attacks with troops on the front and left sides.
On the front, there were more than 200 county warriors and civilians, and dozens of soldiers raided the formation.
On the left, there were about a hundred county warriors and more than thirty soldiers raiding the formation.
And he led the last dozens of soldiers and more than two hundred civilians to serve as the final reserve team. Once an initial breakthrough was achieved on the right side, he would not hesitate to invest in these reserve teams to decide the outcome in one battle.
When the Ming army launched an attack in three groups, all the Baoxiang camp units on Songshan Mountain were already well prepared.
At dawn today, Luo Zhixue and others on the top of the mountain discovered that the Ming army had made a fire in advance for cooking, and then concluded that the Ming army would probably make a big move today.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue also ordered breakfast to be prepared in advance so that the soldiers could eat in advance.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Ming army to come out of camp and form a formation. Soon the troops divided into three groups and headed towards Songshan.
"This time they are coming towards the hill on our right. Although they seem to be smaller in number, General, look, among the more than two hundred of them, the hundreds of people behind are all soldiers." Although Wang Xiazi There was only one eye left, but he could still tell at a glance that the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was not right.
Anyondo said: "The last time they attacked our left wing, they suffered heavy losses. This time, they will not continue to attack our left wing stupidly."
Luo Zhixue also gave the order at this time: "Let the second, third, and fourth teams of the baggage battalion reinforce Lin Dongsheng's right army."
"The cavalry sentry divided into two teams and went to the right side to support the units on the right side with bows and arrows."
In the previous defense line deployment, Xu He's Chinese army was stationed on the valley's front line of defense, Lin Dongsheng's right army was stationed on the right side of the defense line, and Wang Dazhuang's left army was stationed on the left side of the defense line.
Each of these three armies originally had dozens of troops. After learning that the Ming army was attacking, Luo Zhixue also urgently recruited troops and successively added dozens of troops to each of the three armies, expanding the size of the left, middle and right armies to three teams each, plus several There are a hundred soldiers in total.
The four teams under the baggage battalion were divided into two. The first team and the second team were personally led by Luo Zhixue and served as the strategic reserve team.
The third and fourth teams (prisoners of war and old thieves) were used as mobile troops. If there was a strong attack by the Ming army there, they would be sent there.
As for the cavalry sentry, it depends on the situation, but the passive defense is used as a mobile force to support the operations of various units with bows and arrows. If there is a counterattack, naturally they must assemble and rush out...
But after fighting for so many days, the cavalry sentries had no chance to attack and could only be used as archers.
The main reason was that the Ming army on the opposite side was still relatively cautious. During the first general attack, there were many frontal troops that directly blocked the channel for their own cavalry to attack.
Now for the second general attack, the Ming army also deployed more than 200 people in formation on the front, blocking the passage out of the valley.
During the two general attacks, although the Ming army did not block the road, they stayed in the camp and prepared for it. His cavalry could not just attack the camp stupidly.
But just because there was no opportunity before, doesn’t mean there won’t be opportunities in the future.
As the Ming army advanced, Luo Zhixue also ordered the mobilization of troops.
There was no surprise next. It was still Zhang Malin's artillery that started fighting.
It is worth noting that Zhang Malin's artillery has changed from two to four.
The two extra cannons are two of the three artillery pieces left on the battlefield by the Ming army.
At night after the first day of fighting, Luo Zhixue once again sent people to sneak back the three artillery pieces under the cover of night. Unfortunately, the artillery carts had been destroyed. They all joined forces and directly resisted. Came back with artillery.
At one point, they were counterattacked by Ming army archers, and only two artillery pieces were brought back. After bringing these two artillery pieces back, Luo Zhixue asked the craftsmen accompanying the army to get two simple wooden artillery carts for use.
Subsequently, the Ming army also sent people to bring back the barrel of the last artillery piece, and also temporarily built a new artillery carriage for use.
Zhang Malin commanded four artillery pieces and continued to bombard the Ming army in the open space at the foot of the mountain according to the old rules.
The Ming army took the last remaining artillery to the right. However, the Ming army could not use this artillery to attack the soldiers of the Baoxiang camp at the foot of the mountain. They wanted to let the hundred-jin short robe be used. To make it work, you have to pull up the mountainside and then attack the Baoxiang soldiers on the top of the mountain.
This is naturally very difficult.
On the top of the mountain on the right, the Baoxiang Camp also deployed a hundred-jin artillery captured from the Ming army, and another one was deployed on the top of the mountain on the left.
However, despite the fact that the Baoxiang Camp on the right only has one hundred-jin artillery, the two artillery pieces commanded by Zhang Malin personally on the mountainside on the left can still provide certain fire support for the friendly forces on the right.
After all, the place where the two sides are fighting is actually quite small. The width of the frontal battle is only a few hundred meters. Zhang Malin's two 200-pound artillery are deployed on the mountainside on the left side of the valley in front, but they are actually at the entrance of the valley. In the middle of the entire battlefield.
In a fight, it can still provide some fire support to the right side.
As Zhang Malin took the lead in firing, it also announced the beginning of the second round of the Ming army's general attack on Songshan.
Amidst the roar of artillery, the Ming army inevitably killed and wounded some people, but they did not stop, especially the Ming soldiers on the right who continued to drive the hundreds of county soldiers in front to climb to the top of the mountain.
After they started climbing the mountain, the archers in the Meibao Township camp also started shooting arrows.
It is naturally very convenient for the archers of the Baoxiang camp to shoot from a high position. On the other hand, it is not so easy for the Ming army to counterattack by shooting arrows at the top of the mountain.
Moreover, the Ming Army County Yongli who was leading the way didn’t have any archers either…
Suddenly, a large number of Ming army county warriors were killed and wounded by arrows. After a while, twenty or thirty people were killed or injured. Then these county warriors inevitably collapsed again.
And these county braves also learned wisely. Instead of turning around and running away, they ran towards the mountains and forests on the right...
The Ming soldiers at the back did not care about the county warriors who had fled!
They did not move forward as slowly as before. Instead, under the leadership of a sentry officer, they shouted all kinds of random slogans such as "kill!" and launched a charge towards the top of the mountain!
Seeing this scene, Blind Wang couldn't help but frown, and then whispered to Luo Zhixue: "General, it looks like they are risking their lives!"
