It is actually not far from Weihekou Daying to Jinghai County.

After receiving the urgent report, Hong Chengchou immediately led 20,000 Eight Banners and Mongolia to urgently rush to Jinghai County, and then asked Kong Youde to lead 20,000 Eight Banners Han Army to follow up.

Until now, Hong Chengchou still did not believe that the Ming army would attack Beijing by land regardless of everything.

But even so, the Ming army could not easily cross the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, or at least the red-clothed cannons could not cross the river.

Nearly evening, the 20,000 Eight Banners Mongolia entered near Jinghai County. At night, when the road was opened, a foresight broke out with the Ming army's scout cavalry.

Although the scale of the outpost battle is small, it is even more cruel.

When the light was good during the day, the Ming army's flintlock rifle had a clear advantage.

However, after dark, the Ming army's flintlock rifle was not as useful as the Eight Banners Mongolian bow and arrow scimitar, because the bow and arrow are more hidden and the reaction speed is much faster.

In a small-scale outpost battle, it is difficult to have a second chance if you don’t hit a single shot.

In the close combat of cavalry, scimitars are also more useful than bayonets.

So the Ming army's scout cavalry quickly began to shrink and gave up control.

The Eight Banners Mongolian nights scattered, and soon controlled the area within dozens of miles of Jinghai, and even wrapped the entire Ming army's camp from all sides.

After Ye Busheng gained control of the battlefield, Hong Chengchou was able to see the truth and reality of the Ming army at a close distance.

At this time, Hong Chengchou and several servants were standing on a small mound of soil dozens of meters high, and he looked down from a high place to explore the Ming army's camp.

Under the night, Ming army campfires were everywhere in the southeast suburbs of Jinghai County.

With the campfire, you can vaguely see the Ming army's tents, which are tens of thousands of roofs and seven or eight miles in a radius. You can also vaguely see mules, horses and cannons placed together in the camp.

Hong Da said: "Master, Minggou is really arrogant!"

Hong Er also said: "Yes, not only did not dig trenches, but also did not even lay down fences. Are these Ming dogs really not afraid of our Qing soldiers launching a night attack?"

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but feel moved, and he attacked at night?

At that moment, Hong Chengchou asked General Hong Bart to the top of the hill.

Bat is a commander-in-chief of the Eight Banners Mongolia and is extremely brave.

"Bat, how far can you reach the outer edge of the Ming army camp if you don't collect the night in the Eight Banners Mongolia?"

"I haven't tried this." Bart scratched his helmet and said, "However, five hundred steps should be fine. If you get closer, you will alarm the Ming army's Fulu."

"If cavalry attacks are dispatched at night, can they break into the Ming army camp?"

"If the Ming army did not lie in ambush, there would definitely be no problem, but if there is an ambush, it is hard to say."

Hong Chengchou frowned and asked, "Did the Ming army set up an ambush? Shouldn't you know clearly about the night of your Eight Banners Mongolians? How can you not know?"

Bart was a little unhappy immediately. Are you making things difficult for others?

"Mr. Master, how do you know about this unless you touch the Ming army camp to spy on it? It's the Ming army's tent. Is the Ming dog sleeping inside or waiting for us to attack at night with guns and live ammunition? How do you know about it outside?"

Hong Chengchou hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to try it once. He immediately ordered: "Bat, our department ordered you to immediately send a cavalry to launch a night attack. Pay attention, people are tied with pieces and hooves, and do not make any noise before approaching the Ming army camp. After breaking into the camp, give priority to destroying the Ming army's supplies, especially red-clothed cannons and gunpowder."

If the Ming army was not prepared, the cavalry of the Arctic will be enough to accomplish anything.

If the Ming army was prepared, they could bear the loss of a single Jiala.

"Yeah!" Bart knelt on one knee and hit a thousand.

...

Hong Chengchou was thinking about the night attack, and Xu Yingwei was also planning the night attack.

Xu Yingwei was telling Chongzhen about the night attack plan to the map.

"Master, the Air Force has already reconnaissed clearly during the day."

"There are eight levels inside and outside the canal, and four levels on both sides of the east and west."

"To ensure the safety of the logistics passage, at least one gap with a width of more than two thousand steps is needed, and then leave at least one infantry brigade to garrison it."

Chongzhen nodded in agreement.

The canal defense line is definitely the focus.

It is natural to strengthen the remaining troops.

So an infantry brigade needs to be left.

"The gun platform defense line built by Jiannu is mostly about 200 steps away from the two adjacent gun platforms, so at least 80 defensive gun platforms are needed to seize tonight."

Chongzhen asked: "Is the ice surface of this section of the canal safe?"

Whether the ice surface of this section of the canal is safe will directly affect the attack on the West Bank gun platform.

Xu Yingwei said: "Scouts have been sent to inquire, but they may not be able to inquire clearly. After all, there are Jiannu's gun platforms on both sides of the canal, and there are Jianyong stations in each gun platform. It is difficult for our scouts to touch it. It is almost impossible to chisel the ice layer without disturbing Jianyong to see if there is any gunpowder buried inside."

"Then we can only adapt to the situation at that time." Chongzhen nodded and asked again, "Has the Korean army arranged it?"

"The Korean army has already arranged the arrangements for the return to the emperor." Xu Yingwei said, "I have selected 8,000 Korean troops and organized 80 brave death squads, each of which is responsible for a gun platform."

Well, it's called a suicide squad, but it's actually a specialty for mines and crossbows.

In fact, when they arrived by the canal in the afternoon, the Ming army launched a tentative attack on Jiannu's gun platform defense line, and found a fatal defense loophole in Jiannu.

That is the training of the canal gun platform, who is responsible for guarding the canal gun platform, and his equipment is very poor.

Not to mention flintlock guns, there are very few clamp guns, and there is not even a single tiger squat cannon.

Most of the brave training equipment are spears and short bows. The spears usually only have wrought iron spear heads. The short bows are also made of old mulberry wood, and even cotton armor may not be able to penetrate.

However, there are quite a lot of caltrops, crossbows and landmines in the trenches outside the gun platform.

Also, there are many utensils in the Jiannu gun platform, gray bottles and gold juice.

In order to reduce the logistics support pressure, the Ming army has achieved a high standardization of weapons and equipment. Such as caltrops, crossbows and gray bottles have been eliminated, and even side vans have been eliminated.

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The protection that can provide to the Ming army infantry is limited, but there are many restrictions.

Realizing that the side van had become a burden, Chongzhen cut it off without hesitation.

In short, the Ming army had completely eliminated primitive defensive weapons such as gray bottles, gold juice, and ten thousand enemies, but Jiannu did the opposite and relied more on these primitive defensive weapons.

An undeniable fact is that these primitive defensive weapons are indeed very useful in defensive warfare.

Even though the Ming army was equipped with much more advanced firearms, they would still be killed and injured by these primitive defensive weapons in the battle. At this time, the servants needed to act as cannon fodder.

The 40,000 Korean troops who followed Zhu Cijiong to Liaodong before remained in Liaodong, and the remaining 20,000 people had been transferred to the Beizhi battlefield by Chongzhen, specifically acting as cannon fodder.

This was also confirmed before.

If you encounter a hard bone, let the servants join the army.

...

Li Yucheng was quietly waiting for the military roar to ring.

Li Yucheng had high hopes for the upcoming attack, because when he was in Liaodong last time, he heard Xu Wuniu and the others say that he performed well in this Northern Expedition and had the opportunity to go to the Imperial College without the examination.

Even the Korean army has the same chance. Thinking of this, Li Yucheng is full of hope.

Li Yucheng felt that he just lacked an opportunity. If there was a suitable opportunity, he would have a chance to become a famous general like Gao Xianzhi. Yes, he could become Gao Xianzhi of the Ming Dynasty.

Picking up the pottery wine jar, Li Yucheng took a big mouthful.

I drank the wine with gas in the cold weather, and I felt my body and heart-warming. One word, it was refreshing!

While drinking wine, they chewed pork jerky in big mouthfuls. This was rewarded by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Each Korean army who participated in the night attack tonight had a can of Ming wine plus half a pound of pork.

After eating and drinking, Li Yucheng began to check his weapons and equipment again.

The weapons and equipment of the Korean army were somewhat uneven, some used flintlock guns, but more were clamps, and even bows, arrows and spears. However, considering that tonight's night attack was mainly melee combat, the Ming army issued an additional short gun to each Korean army, and each person had four grenades.

It is a modified five-pound grenade, not the original ten-pound grenade.

Li Yucheng likes the short guns that are equipped with exquisite shapes and are like handicrafts. They have no bad lethality. Within twenty steps, they can penetrate chain mail or cotton armor.

Make sure there is no problem with the firing mechanism.

Li Yucheng began to check the bullet bag again.

The Ming army's bullet bags have also developed to the second generation.

The first generation bullet bags are made of linen, with small holes sewn on the cloth tape, and then the paper shell is fixed and the bullet is stuffed into it, and a small hole is filled with one round.

This kind of bullet bag was actually made by Chongzhen based on bullet bags from later generations.

There is no problem with this kind of bullet bag being used to load a metal shell, but when used to load a paper shell, the paper shell is often flattened and difficult to remove.

So the bullet bag was improved soon.

The bullet bags are now real bullet bags.

It is four cowhide boxes, cross-bodyed on the chest through two leather belts.

Each cowhide box can hold fifty pieces of paper shell fixed-loading bullets, which adds up to two hundred pieces, which is a base number.

In addition to four cowhide boxes filled with paper shells, there is also a calf leather box used to hold the drug induction bag, which is a total of 200 drug induction bags.

Li Yucheng has counted them one by one.

Just after the inventory was completed, the sound of horns suddenly sounded outside the tent.

"The horn is ringing!" The Korean troops sitting in the tent resting were startled one after another.

"Don't move!" The next moment, the voice of Ming army sounded outside the tent, "The time for the attack has not yet come. Just eat and drink yours. I will notify you when the time comes."

Li Yucheng immediately sat back and listened.

I heard the dense gunfire sounds sounded from the northwest corner of the camp.

It sounds like the Ming army is firing a gun. What's going on?

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