Chapter 100: Qualitative change is over
The Ming army bombed for an afternoon, and it ended after nightfall. However, the artillery on the main fort was caused by the Guardians and the defenders. The dead could not leave the city, and they were afraid of plague, so they had to be buried inside the bastion, and the injured were even more wailing. Although only the area in the southeast was violently attacked by the Ming army today, it was only one-fifth of the entire bastion defense system, but the result was that the morale of the defenders had a significant decline.
The belief in persevering and waiting for a turnaround took a sharp turn after a large number of casualties. Even the whispers of the officers and soldiers below had reached the ears of the two Qing army commanders Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong.
"We can't continue like this. We must think of a solution. Otherwise, tomorrow the Ming army will be bombarded for another day, and the city will not collapse, and the morale of the army will also collapse."
Although Liu Guangbi was an admiral and his official position was higher than Bu Shilong, most of the defenders in the bastion were Bu Shilong's subordinates. It was impossible for this subordinate to go around any military action he wanted to carry out.
Hearing this, Bu Shilong, who was frowning, nodded solemnly and replied: "It is true that as the military gate said, the morale of the soldiers below is already extremely low. If you come like this tomorrow, you won't have to defend this city. And..."
The impact of the fierce offensive of the Ming army on morale was external. In the past few days, the grain and grass in the city tried their best to supply them in order not to decline morale. However, this is a relatively large bastion, with no grain fields or vegetable fields. Since the Ming army captured this, the food consumption rate has far exceeded their imagination. It is not enough to lose food, but if you want to hold on for a longer period of time, it is probably impossible to reduce the grain ratio; but if you really do this, the morale decline will only be faster.
"We must get the Banyue Fort back, and it is best to destroy all the short and thick cannons so that we can be qualified to show off with Chen Wen!"
When it is midnight, this is the most active time for the rats in the day, so the saying of the rats is. Of course, if you attack at night, you will naturally choose this kind of soldiers to sleep the most, and the success rate will be greater.
At the second moment of the lunar hour, the torches at the fortress wall in the northeast direction suddenly went out, as if they were blown out by the night wind. This kind of thing was not impossible. It was just that while the night was not large, one group of people was not large, but when you looked at the skill, you could tell that they were all like personal soldiers and servants in the army, which used the rope to slowly go out of the city. In the end, they took some tools hanging from the city, and did not make any noise that could easily cause the Ming army to notice hundreds of meters away.
It was as if a mouse was moving. This small Qing army of about a hundred people swam across the moat and sneaked to the other side without even putting down the suspension bridge.
Although the fort wall in the northeast direction was not the main attack direction of the Ming army, in today's battle, the Ming army's jumping shots at the left protrusion of the southeast direction of the fort wall in the southeast direction still caused a considerable injury to them. However, since this place was not the main attack direction of the Ming army, the Banyue Fort was still in the hands of the Qing army. With this layer of cover, they did not alarm the Ming army in this direction and began to sneak south. And there was the main attack direction of the Ming army, and the artillery positions of the Banyue Fort and the mortar cannon were in that direction.
However, if you want to get there, you must first enter the zigzag trench system. This is the first difficulty of this Qing army commando. Fortunately, these Qing soldiers are all personal soldiers and servants of Liu Guangbi, Bu Shilong and some of their trusted officers. After a long battle, they have not done similar things. They are familiar with the road.
Crawling forward, in the late night without searchlights, the Qing army's small troops slowly approached the trenches, climbing closer and closer, but also climbed slowly. Especially when they heard the Ming army's patrol passing by, they stopped, and even breathed a lot.
They were all green camp soldiers drawn from the north, almost all of them were from Gansu and Shaanxi green camps. In terms of vigilance, the Mongolians on the grassland who could encounter wolves at any time were much worse than the Ming army in the mainland, so that they gradually approached the trenches as they slowly dashed.
A patrol team passed by, and the officer leading the team lying on the ground did not even raise his head. He could know the approximate distance between the Ming army and them just by relying on the vibration and hearing of the ground. Especially on the city, he had already seen the direction of the trenches, and even if these Ming army had gone to, he knew it clearly.
Speaking of the patrol team's personal vigilance, this Ming army is indeed not as good as the opponents he encountered when he was in the night, but this Ming army is also very different from other armies. Their discipline is very strict. From the intervals of patrol, it can be seen that there are few time periods for personnel gaps in each area. Even if there is one, the time is very short, and it seems that it has been specially calculated.
After lying in the distance for a while, I finally figured out the patrol rules of the Ming army. This is a basic quality that I can't accept at night. However, the officer who led the team never expected that he had been promoted to an officer for many years, but he took out these skills in the mainland, such as Guangxin Mansion.
Taking advantage of this interval, the Qing army continued to crawl forward until they stopped, which would not attract the attention of the patrol team and rushed into the trench at the fastest speed, and they would stop and press their bodies against the ground, as if they wanted to integrate into it.
Soon after, the patrol team came again, and the light of the torch shone at the ambush of the Qing army, it was extremely blurry, and the soldiers of the patrol team were also a little sleepy - they had been patrolling for an hour, and after this round of patrols, they had to hand over the next team, and then went back to sleep, so that even once they thought of this word, they could not even control their yawn.
The patrol team quickly passed through this area. It was not that no one subconsciously looked at the Qing army's place, but the dark large area could not see anything. It was just intuition, and it often made a negative voice in his heart.
The last Ming army faced the back of his head towards the Qing army. The officer who led the team slowly raised his right hand and waved his hand. The most elite Ye Busuo behind him rushed out like a fox and rabbit in the forest, like a windy fox under his feet.
These nights are well-trained, and even the knife is smoked. The fire shines on it and there is no reflection. The steps under their feet are extremely light and they quickly rushed to the edge of the trench.
The first Ye Bushu jumped into the trench, and his toes hit the ground like dragonflies, and then his whole body rushed towards the Ming army patrol in the distance like an arrow.
A living person jumped out of a trench that was nearly one person high, and it was impossible not to make a sound. A slight sound appeared behind him. The last patrolman turned his head subconsciously and looked at him. He saw a short black knife slashing at his neck!
As the rabbit rose and falconed fell, the patrolman had already cut his throat before he could make a shout. Next, before the body fell to the ground, Ye Buddie swung around the corpse, jumped behind the Ming Jun in front, covered his mouth, and then cut his throat with a short knife.
All this happened so quickly. Ye Bushang, who was known as the best at fighting in the dark night, felt that he had performed extraordinaryly at this moment. At this moment, he was holding the body of the Ming army, and another Ming army behind him was supported by Ye Bushang, and there was no loud noise. However, the patrol of the Ming army in Zhejiang was not just a few melons and a few zombies to deal with errands like zombies. The footsteps behind him suddenly became chaotic. The Ming army, who reacted, immediately discovered these murderers.
"Enemy attack!"
The shouts sounded, and the patrol immediately fought fiercely with the Qing army in the trenches. The Ming army's patrol issued an alarm, but they were good at fighting in a formation and fought against the Qing army soldiers who had already come close in this trench with only a few meters wide. They were not their strengths, and were soon killed by the Qing army.
The Qing army commando of the brigade entered the trenches, and the sound of the Ming army around them was already ringing one after another, and even a flagstone was knocked into the night sky.
It is normal for assassination to change into raids, and it is not a change into a strong attack. The officers leading the team are very clear that as a defender, it always takes some time from discovering the enemy to organizing the troops to counterattack. The length of the reaction time comes from the quality of the defender. The officers leading the team do not dare to underestimate this Ming army, but this place is no longer the edge of the trench system. It is only hundreds of meters to rush to the established target. This time is enough!
According to the original plan, the Qing army commando quickly divided into two teams. The Qing army, with a total of 70 or 80 people, headed straight for the Banyue Fort. The other Qing army, with only about 30 people, rushed to the mortar position. They carried four logs, which were not long. This was the pillar of a house in the city, but it was used to stuff the muzzle - loaded with gunpowder far more than the normal amount of drug in the cannon, and then used this thing to plug the muzzle to death, igniting the fuse, which was a huge flowering bullet.
Banyue Fort was slightly closer to their starting point. While this Qing army set out, it also lit a flag flower. Almost as the flag flower as it as it as it as the sky, even the suspension bridge slowly fell. The fort gate opened wide, and the other Qing army was already eager to try.
There are two roads to climb the Banyue Fort. One is that Banyue Fort originally opened in a small door facing the main fort. From here, they enter the lower level and pass the ladder to seize the upper level through the ladder. The other is just the opposite, just like the Ming army during the day, crossing the moat and climbing the ladder to clear the Banyue Fort from top to bottom. The Qing army planned to take two steps, and as the commando team, their task was to copy the route of the Ming army.
The officers led the team ran all the way and soon took the soldiers there. The Ming army filled the moat there, and the ladder was also fixed, which they had seen in the daytime. But now, the ropes that fixed the ladder were not cut off. It was obvious that the Ming army in Banyue Fort was still in panic and did not react to the raid.
"God helps me!"
At the command of the officer, the Qing army climbed up with the ladder they brought. The group of Qing army soldiers who were as sensitive as monkeys were very slow and climbed up at an extremely fast speed.
The Banyue Fort was already lower than the main fort, and the Ming army did not cut off the fixed ladder, but instead became a big help from the Qing army. The fastest Qing army climbed on the ladder. Soon, with one hand, he climbed onto the guardrail of the Banyue Fort. Victory was so great that the Qing army could not help but speed up the speed.
As the first person to climb first, the Qing army was very skilled and brave. After stepping on the ladder with his right foot, once he exerted force, his entire body was raised several feet higher, and even his head crossed the height of the protective wall.
The Banyue Fort was pitch black, but it was still possible to see clearly that the Ming army was standing with the help of the moonlight. At this time, a big foot directly covered his face and kicked him away.
The cry of falling sounded, and the officer leading the team raised his head, but not only saw a fallen subordinate, but also one black iron ball after another that could not be seen in the night, flying down from the Half Moon Fortress when they were engulfed by the explosion of fire. The next second, when they were engulfed by the explosion, Liu Guangbi and others on the top of the city were staring at it.
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Yebusu, who had just jumped into the trench and killed acquaintances, rushed to the front of the Qing army commando that was heading to the mortar position. His years of life made his eyes adapt to everything in the dark night. Under his leadership, the Qing army moved rapidly and soon arrived at the entrance of the trench not far from the artillery position.
However, at the entrance of the trench, there was a team of Ming troops waiting for him at this moment. However, when he saw the guys in the hands of the Ming troops, he smiled contemptuously.
"A bunch of auxiliary soldiers."
It was a Ming army of about fifty or sixty people. They all had short-handled shovels in their hands. Only the officer who led the team carried a waist knife, but there was not even a shield, and it was probably just a command knife.
He has seen such an officer who continues to work at night with his auxiliary soldiers. Although there are more than them, the auxiliary soldiers are auxiliary soldiers. As long as they rush up and kill an officer, the remaining auxiliary soldiers will probably not have the desire to fight in the last battle. In most cases, they can still help with some work.
The task is very simple, it is to destroy the mortar, and he firmly believed that this team of Ming army could be solved in a flash. The rest was to pour gunpowder, bury the leads, and repair the logs according to the caliber. As long as it was stuffed in, even if the Ming army rushed over, this thing would become a parting gift they gave to the Ming army, and would also cover their evacuation.
Thinking of this, Ye Busuosu and the Qing army soldiers who were the same thoughts rushed over. Others rushed towards the auxiliary soldiers. As the most famous warrior in this team, he fought against the officer without hesitation.
Ye Bushang had already replaced the sword and shield. As soon as he took the battle, he successfully suppressed the Ming army officer and forced his opponent to retreat step by step. He could only resist, but he had no power to fight back.
When Tian Ji was racing horses, Sun Bin used the upper and middle and lower fours, and used the lower fours to compete with the upper fours. He won two games in three games, which not only helped Tian Ji win the gambling game, but also helped him get the money to become an advance. This time, Ye Bushang, the most powerful single-soldier combat power, has suppressed the officers of the Ming army, and I think he can win easily.
After a while, the officer was forced into a dead corner by Yebusui. Yebusui thought that as long as he killed this officer, the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army would inevitably collapse and had entered a state of selflessness with all his heart. In the face of such martial arts, he could only passively defend himself and rely on continuous retreat to barely be killed, but at this dead corner, he had no choice but to retreat.
Seeing that he was about to win, Ye Bushang suddenly realized that something was wrong. In this moment, the shouts of killing were both from Ganzhou and Zhejiang, but most of the wailings were from his fellow villagers, and several of them sounded so familiar!
After a knife, the officer barely held the blade, but there was no room for a turnaround. The next knife would definitely determine the outcome, and even the result could be predicted. However, at this moment, Ye Bushang squatted inexplicably and gave up the head level that he was about to get.
Ye Busuo squatted down, not only beyond the officer's expectations, but the owner of the engineer shovel that almost wiped his scalp was also stunned.
In places like trenches, long soldiers cannot be used, and theoretically, they are the world of short soldiers like swords and shields. They just easily solved the patrol team. However, when there were not many of them facing the siege of the Ming army holding engineer shovels, these guys who used to dig food in the soil seemed to be more suitable for fighting on this terrain than them.
Ye Bushou's intuition saved his life, turned over and rolled to the edge, and chopped down a Ming army, but the first thing that came into his eyes was that one of his fellow villagers was besieged by several Ming army. The rattan card had been beaten to pieces, and even the waist knife was broken. However, the swung engineer shovels were still unforgivable and cut the Qing army to the ground in a flash.
He never expected that such a situation would occur. Ye Bushu wanted to climb into the trenches, but the officer and the Ming army who had just attacked him rushed up first.
The character was reversed, and only in this moment, Ye Bushang was suppressed by these two guys who beat less, and quickly retreated into a dead corner. At this moment, Ye Bushang's waist knife had been broken by the engineer shovel. The officer slashed over with a knife, and he had to use his shield to block it. But at this moment, a strong wind came, but he had no capital to resist.
The next second, Ye Busuo fell to the ground. The Ming army, who took action, stepped on his neck and pulled out the engineer who had been embedded in the skull, and spit it on his body with a mouthful of saliva.
"Damn, since I joined the engineering team, I can't even make a contribution to beheading. This time I've made a profit. Look at the one who dares to say that I'm an auxiliary soldier."
As he said that, the engineer rushed towards another Qing army without wiping the blood and brains on the engineer shovel. The officer also wiped his sword, then put his knife into the sheath, picked up another engineer shovel and followed him. By the time Chen Wen arrived, the battle had already ended. The engineers did not wipe away the blood and brains on the engineer shovel, as if only in this way could they prove the identity of their soldiers.
The Qing army's night attack caused dozens of casualties to the Ming army. Chen Wen felt very uncomfortable, but when he understood the origin of nearly two hundred Qing army corpses, he didn't say anything - servants, personal soldiers, and were not taken away at night. These were all the prides of the feudal army. After this night of damage, there were probably only a few such warriors left in the bastion. And the remaining defenders would probably be scared.
The next day, the Ming army began to prepare for artillery as planned, but there was no soldier on the Qing army's city. The Ming army on the Banyue Fort thought that the Qing army did not dare to continue shooting, so they did not take it seriously. Unexpectedly, the cannon was not loaded, but the white flag was first hung on the city city, and even the suspension bridge slowly fell down.
The Qing army in the brigade escorted Liu Guangbi, Bu Shilong and others who were tied up, and then crossed the suspension bridge and fell to the ground, claiming to be a death sentence. The Ming army took advantage of the situation to disarm their troops and also took the increasingly broken bastion into their pockets.
The defenders of the battalion were a feudal army. Even elite troops like the Ganzhou Green Camp, their combat effectiveness and ability to endure casualties were significantly higher than other green camps. However, like tonight, the large losses of elite servants and personal soldiers would still lead to the collapse of morale of the army. But if Liu Guangbi and the others did not do this time, they would let the Ming army's mortar and jump shot continue to rage, and they would soon have no chance to turn the tables.
Chen Wen was too lazy to pay attention to the Qing army officers. Liu Guangbi, who was led by the leader, would definitely not be able to escape the execution of Lingchi. This is inevitable. Who made the tragedy from the Jinhua Massacre to the Nanchang Massacre, and then to the tragedy that happened in Ji'an and Yongfeng in the past two years also related to him. The only thing that made Chen Wen feel a headache was that where this guy was, it was a headache.
"See? The castle is broken."
On the basin, if James had not been escorted by Ming Jun behind him, he would have collapsed on the ground. But while his begging eyes were on Chen Wen, the "devil" took out a document from his arms.
"As far as I know, James's first letter in English is j. Can you explain to me what the name that f was pronounced in this document for the construction of the bastion?"
English, even the British nobles rarely used it in this era, and they were more willing to use the French that seemed more noble. However, their native language was only used by ordinary people, and no one could have imagined that this language would develop to that level in later generations.
Hearing this, James' body began to tremble unconsciously, but the next moment, he still answered.
“It’s written in Latin, not in English.”
This answer was interesting. Chen Wen nodded with a smile, and then said, "Yes, it's Latin. Then in Latin, James's first letter should also be l. What the hell is this Franco, huh?"
Chen Wen doesn't know Latin, but he is not without a talent for knowing Latin. Now Charles Kingsley, the British man who is in the translation department of the Military Industry Department, knows Latin. He is one of the guys he is having sex. Even Zheng Qi, who is already making the final preparations for the sea trade, knows a little bit, how could he be deceived by this guy?
"I have nine years of compulsory education when I play English with me; I have Latin with me. There are talents in my entrapment. If you want to survive, you just pretend to be this to increase your investment. It seems that there is no lies in the Ten Commandments, but it will encourage the unhealthy trends of you guys!"
After repelling this Jesuit monk, Chen Wen's subordinates also knew how to deal with the garbage.
In less than half a month, Chen Wen finally liberated his troops, including Guangxin Prefecture City and Guangxin Prefecture's northern bastion. Nantangying and Chun'an Camp set off the next day to go north to Raozhou Prefecture and recover the lost land.
Soon, the Ming army vanguard who was heading west to Nanchang also received good news. The Ming army successively attacked Nanchang, Jiujiang and Nankang prefectures, and revived the area on the west bank of Poyang Lake. After receiving the news that Hong Chengchou was killed and Cai Shiying was captured, most of the prefectures and counties near Nanchang also surrendered in sight.
On the third day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Yongli, the Ming army was at the foot of Yuanzhou Prefecture City. This prefecture is located in the western part of Jiangxi, close to Huguang. The two prefectures in Ruizhou to the east and Linjiang Prefectures have surrendered to the Ming army. In addition to Huguang, only Ji'an Prefecture is left in the southern part.
The army was in formation below the city, not only the Yiwu camp of the Ming army and half of the Iron Cavalry camp, but also a large number of surrendered soldiers from Fu and Linjiang Prefectures in Ruizhou. They were also eager to make contributions in front of the Ming army so that they could whitewash their identities as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!