Chapter 225 Too despicable, my head exploded!
While the Qing demon army was setting up its formation, Zhu Heying's three town Jinyi personal army was also setting up its formation.
However, their main force does not have to set up a formation away from the camp, but directly relies on the carefully constructed camp, trenches and fences on the east side of the camp.
This is the benefit that Wu Sangui raised an army in Yunnan to Zhu Hetong, who was far away in Guangdong... Although Zhaoqing is more than 2,000 miles away from Kunming, Wu Sangui and his army, Tuhai, Sun Yanling and others faced a drastic change in the world and the environment they were in!
Originally, they could have fought a protracted battle with Zhu Hetang in Guangdong, and it would be fine if they fought for several years. But now, they have to seek a quick battle... Even if they give up the advantage of the battlefield, they have to bite the bullet and fight this battle!
The Ming army camp located west of Guichengdu, backed by Lingshan, left by Dinghushan, and right by Xijiang River, was just near the trumpet terrain, which was very narrow. The length of the eastern camp on which the Ming army needed heavy troops was only more than five miles or six miles. With the trenches in advance, the camp walls were built, and wooden fences were erected, it was enough to throw a town of 5,000 people, and no matter how many it was, it would not be able to be opened.
So Zhu Heying divided the three towns he had in his hands into three parts. Among them, Jinyi left town commanded by Zhao Hongkui was on the front line and defended the camp defense line. Zhu Heying also placed two of the three artillery battalions in his hands behind the camp defense line... Sixty three-pound cannons (64 full trunks) were all covered with fences, and placed them behind the wooden fence early. The black muzzles were like the fangs of beasts, quietly waiting to drink the blood of prey.
The Jinyiwei Qinjun Town commanded by Su Zhanhai was arranged on the second line as a reserve force, and guarded a river defense artillery tower at the foot of Lingshan. Zhu Hezang ordered the artillery tower in the Qinjun Town to arrange this artillery tower based on the bank embankment of the Xijiang River. A total of twenty-nine three-pound cannons were arranged, and the artillery troops were also equipped with ten Zhuge Machinery cannons for backup, and prepared one or two hundred ignition oil tanks.
The Jinyi Personal Army Right Town led by Lin Tianbo worked harder. After morning tea, they climbed the mountain to "exercise", and went to the slope of Dinghushan on the left side of the Ming army camp, and grabbed a high-level position. However, they did not carry the cannons up the mountain, and the cannon camp they belonged to was allocated to the Jinyi Personal Army Left Town.
Since neither side sent a small group of troops to interfere with the other party's formation, the formations on both sides were carried out very quickly. Just after three minutes of Chen Shi, the formations of both sides were basically completed, and the flags of the two armies were already flying in their respective formations.
Several lookout trucks were erected in the Qing army's formation at this time. Since the Qing army set up a formation on a flat low ground, the main generals of each division needed to use the lookout truck to climb up and look far and see the situation of the Ming army's defense line.
Especially, take a good look at what is behind the fence wall on the Ming army’s defense line?
Tu Hai and Zhou Peigong, who had become his confidant, boarded a huge watchtower together. Both of them took out a thousand-mile mirror and scanned the Ming army's defense line. The mile-long defense line had returned to tranquility. Behind them, the cannons and soldiers could be vaguely seen. Behind them was a long wall made of sandbags that were only as high as the chest, and behind the long wall were long spear forests and pitch-black muskets!
The Ming army holding spears and muskets were almost all wearing armor, some of which were cloth armor, some were Western-style plate armor, and their heads were wearing ship-shaped helmets made of iron. On the left side of the Ming army's defense line, on the slopes of the Dinghu Mountain, among the large forests, there were also Ming army flags fluttering in the wind.
No matter how far up and down the mountain, the two Ming troops were all solemn and neatly, silent. Even if they were several miles apart, Tuhai could still feel the murderous aura coming to his face.
Tuhai felt uneasy for a while. He knew that the army in front of him had been like this since its rise to the present, but it only took more than a few months... If they were given another year or two, God knew what it would develop into?
"Hey, why did the thief set up a execution ground outside the camp? Who are you going to kill?" Zhou Peigong seemed to have seen something strange at this time.
"The execution ground?" Tu Hai quickly looked at the Qianlijing in his hand at the direction of Zhou Peigong's finger. When he saw it, he was shocked, "Then, the one who tied up a lot of flowers and wanted to be stabbed looks so much like King Pingnan?"
Tuhai hasn't seen Shang Kexi for many years, but Shang Kexi's appearance is quite distinctive, so Tuhai can still barely recognize it.
"Then, you should be killing the King of Lao Pingnan to sacrifice the flag?" Zhou Peigong said again, "Who is there another person who was stabbed? Is it the King of Lao Pingnan's son?"
"Let me see..." Tu Hai aimed the Qianlijing at Li Chenggong, who was kneeling on the ground and was about to be killed. "I don't know... I should be the son of King Jing of Pingnan! This is the father and son going to the national crisis together. It is indeed respectable! The court's posthumous title seems to be very reasonable."
Tuhai was talking when a sound of horse hooves came, and then the King of Pingnan Shang Zhidian shouted in a crying voice: "Zhongtang, Zhongtang... The thief wants to kill me! That's my dear..."
Tuhai looked down at Shang Zhidian who was almost fainting from crying. He had to instruct Goshha, who was standing below to put down Wang Dou - he had to comfort Shang Zhidian!
Although his father is about to die, his father is a success and righteous person! That is the highest honor of being a slave of the Qing Dynasty!
However, before Tu Hai could say these words of enlightenment, thousands of Ming troops on the other side had already shouted in Cantonese Mandarin.
"Wu Sangui, the pingxibo, has raised his troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. He will sweep Guangxi soon!
Shang Ni is very happy, he is stubborn, resists the power of heaven, slaughteres the people of Guangdong, and is unforgivable. Today he is sentenced to sacrifice the flag...behead!"
As soon as the word "slash" comes out, it means that the knife falls and the head falls to the ground!
Two heads landed!
The unlucky Li Chenggong also cut off the bad news together... and he didn't even report his name.
The person in charge of the killing was Cui Liu, the artillery staff officer. When he saw Shang Kexi and Li Chenggong's heads cut off, he quickly called out: "Hurry, pick it up quickly... take it over, take it over, and send it back while it's hot!"
What are you talking about!
The two killer immediately carried the "hot" and their bloody heads came, and the eyes of the two dead heads could still move! Seeing that, Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai were kneeling beside each other burst into tears.
"Why are you crying? Put the box quickly, cover it with the lid, and send it back!" Cui Liu urged, while personally taking the two heads. He put them in two wooden boxes that had been prepared long ago, and then covered them with the lid. Then he held one of them and handed them over to Shang Zhixiao, "This is your magic head... you are not dead yet, hurry up and hold them back, maybe you can let the brothers meet for the last time!"
Then he took another wooden box and stuffed it to Li Rucai, "Please hold this demon head... and take it back and show it to Tuhai!"
What's the operation?
Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai were speechless in their hearts - they didn't show it to the public after beheading, and they were in a hurry to send it back to others, and they had to stay while it was hot... What's the rule?
However, Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai did not share the same theory with Cui Liu. They both obediently held two heavy wooden boxes and ran to the Qing army array, yelling while running.
"Don't shoot, I'm Shang Zhixiao..."
"Don't shoot, don't shoot arrows. I'm a good slave in the Qing Dynasty..."
Of course, he wouldn't shoot an arrow. Shang Zhidian on the opposite side had already recognized Shang Zhixiao! That was his brother, and he was holding a box containing his Ama. Shang Kexi is probably not brain-dead yet, so he is staying in that box now.
In order to meet his father for the last time, Shang Zhidian also took the initiative, rushed out of the military formation and went to face his brother Shang Zhixiao.
The two brothers soon met in the two armies. Shang Zhidian cried while turning over and dismounted, snatched the wooden box from his brother, held it in his arms, and cried, "Ama! Ama! The child is late..."
Shang Zhixiao also rushed up and hugged Shang Zhidian, crying: "Ama died so miserably!"
The Li Rucai, who was holding Li Chenggong's head, felt very sad when he saw that his brothers and sons were reunited, and he was so old that he didn't even marry his wife, so he stopped running away and sat on the ground in a wooden box and cried for a while.
The three of them cried in the middle of the battlefield. At this time, the Goshhas and the others from Shangzhidian arrived and surrounded the three of them, protecting them from disturbing the Ming army.
Chapter completed!