Dominate the Country

Li Dashixian has a poem called: Climbing the Phoenix Tower in Jinling. The first sentence is: The phoenix is ​​flying on the Phoenix Tower, the phoenix leaves and the tower is empty, the river flows by itself. This Phoenix Tower in Lushan County is still quite scenic. The water surface of Yinma River, which is flooded with sparkling waves, has recovered to a width of six or seven feet. The ice and snow in winter melted in the spring sunshine, and the water volume of the gurgling mountain streams increased suddenly.

And the next three sentences of the poem "Climbing the Phoenix Tower in Jinling":

The flowers and grass of the Wu Palace buried the secluded paths, and the clothes and hats of the Jin Dynasty became ancient hills.

Three mountains are half-fallen outside the blue sky, and the Egret Island is divided by two waters.

Always because the floating clouds can block the sun, Chang'an is not visible, which makes people sad. There is always a bit of similarity with the scenes in front of me.

The mighty Green Camp soldiers set out, and all the graves in Tumenji were burned by Baoning, and the bones were crushed and ashes were scattered. The ashes were scattered by the Green Camp soldiers along the mountain wind to the sky and earth, and Baoning also had people spread the news. Chen Erbao and other Tumenji children stationed at Fenghuangtai were about to shed tears.

Baoning successfully took Chang Rui's position and became Tumenji, the Huang family, and the most hated person of the Chen family.

Three streams flowed in from three different angles, just like three small cracks split in the mountains on both sides of the Yinma River Valley. The stone bridge on the river remained the same, and Chen Ming did not let anyone destroy it. This is a confidence!

The mountain road, which was not spacious to begin with, was divided into two by the shimmering water and land.

In this place, the mountains in front and behind blocked it. Tumenji could not be seen to the east, and Xiaonangou could not be seen to the west.

Of course, it was impossible for all the two thousand Green Camp soldiers to be deployed. All of them were brought by Baoning. There were about four or five hundred Qing soldiers in front of Fenghuangtai. Not far behind them, a camp was rising from the ground, and there were also four or five hundred Qing soldiers there. The two thousand green camps do not include the Lu camp in Tumenji, Baoning only brought half of them.

But this half of the people had twelve cannons that seemed super dense in China at that time. Although the two largest of these cannons were only the large-sized Weiyuan General Cannons weighing 560 kilograms, the small cannons should not be underestimated. For example, the two mother-and-child cannons.

As imitations of the French cannons of the Ming Dynasty, the two small cannons weighed less than 100 kilograms. But the firing rate was fast.

According to the inscriptions on the two Weiyuan General Cannons seized by the Chen family army after breaking through Tumenji, the twelve various cannons in front of them should have been made in the early years of Qianlong.

Chen Ming still remembers the inscriptions on the two copper Weiyuan General Cannons: Weiyuan General made by the emperor in Jingshan in the fifth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

"Boom boom..." Two consecutive cannons sounded.

It was not the cannons of the Qing army, but the two three-jin cannons placed on the Phoenix Terrace. This kind of artillery with a weight approaching 400 jin is obviously not suitable for the Chen family army. What the Chen family army needs is an artillery that can be used in the mountains to fight with the army. This kind of artillery can only be used for guarding. But when it is used as a guard, the range of this artillery seems a bit short. Finally, Chen Ming asked the artillery group to increase the weight of the three-jin artillery, and the weight directly exceeded the 500-jin mark. The amount of gunpowder that can be filled has increased by one third, and the range on flat ground has reached 550 meters to 600 meters.

Now the artillery on the left and right forts fired together. Because the arrogant Qing army has crossed the one-mile boundary. Two three-jin cannons fired at two Qing army artillery, and the first shot was of course off target.

Baoning's face changed drastically. Can the artillery fire of this Chen family thief be so far? Looking at the two iron bullets that passed through the Qing army column, as easy as breaking a clay doll, bouncing on the mountain road and stopping after exhausting all their power, he hurriedly ordered the entire army to retreat.

The two three-jin cannons on the Phoenix Terrace also stopped firing. Gunpowder is extremely precious to the Chen family. As of now, the Chen family has less than 100 barrels of gunpowder - the rest has become paper bullets and tightly wrapped fixed powder bags.

The former 50 paper bullets per unit is already a relatively large burden for the musketeers. The black gunpowder alone in the paper bullets of this era is three qian, which is about 11g. With lead bullets, it is infinitely close to one liang. The muskets used by the Chen family army are six points in caliber, which is almost equivalent to 2 centimeters. Lead bullets are very heavy.

A lead bullet plus black gunpowder and paper rolls, the weight of a paper bullet is almost equivalent to one liang [50g] in the 21st century, and fifty paper bullets weigh five catties. It is not easy to carry that thing on the waist.

The last time the Chen family army attacked Tumenji, the musketeers carried fifty paper bullets, and they didn't use half of them in the end. However, the probability of musketeers misfiring in battle is much greater than that in the test field, and the proportion exceeds 20%.

"Hehe, it's the same again. Don't they know the lesson of Ruzhou Camp?" Chen Erbao looked at the shield carts pushed out from the opposite Qing army camp and laughed contemptuously.

Chen Ming did not speak. The Qing army commander on the opposite side was a young man under 30 years old, but he did not show youthful vigor after arriving in Lushan. Instead, his methods were calm and effective. Such a person could not fail to know the process of the battle of Ruzhou Camp in detail. Moreover, Baoning also planned to provide cover. He had people light a bonfire in front of the formation, and the billowing black smoke covered the Qing army camp in the distance. And the triangular flags made Chen Ming only see that there were shield carts in the Qing army formation, but he could not observe the specific number of shield carts.

The shield carts pushed out from the Qing army position have changed. The Qing army's routine is not a brain-dead movie after all. The shield carts did not go directly to the Phoenix Terrace alone, and the number was far more than that of Ruzhou Camp.

Baoning brushed out twenty shield carts at one time. The Chen family army's failure to fight back made it very easy for the Green Camp soldiers to push the shield cart to a place ten feet away from the Phoenix Terrace - and then stop!

Twenty shield vehicles were divided into three rows, and the positions of each row were also staggered. Chen Ming on the Phoenix Terrace felt that this was not a siege, but a bunker.

Baoning continued to wave his hand, and more than ten shield vehicles emerged from the black smoke. Chen Ming didn't need to say anything at this time, Chen Erbao had already ordered the left and right artillery to bombard.

The battle lasted for a whole morning, and Chen Ming didn't know how many shield vehicles Baoning had made. Anyway, from the Phoenix Terrace ten feet away, and then extended eastward for an estimated distance of one mile, it was densely packed with shield vehicles.

Chen Ming asked the artillery team to bombard with hot bombs, but it didn't work. The quilts on the outside of the shield vehicles were soaked with water, and there was mud inside. Hot bombs were completely useless, and this thing was also relatively dangerous. Seeing that it didn't work, Chen Ming quickly stopped it.

Now Chen Ming also felt it was tricky.

He didn't know that this was the only feasible way that Bao Ning had found out of thousands of ideas after a month of hard thinking to attack Fenghuangtai head-on.

Many Qing soldiers had already withdrawn, and of course some remained on the battlefield. This was to prevent Chen's army from leaving Fenghuangtai to seize the vehicles.

Chen Ming waited for an entire afternoon but the Qing army didn't attack. He could only see that behind the densely packed shield vehicles outside Fenghuangtai, occasionally a Qing soldier with a bow or a shotgun flashed out, fired an arrow or a shot, and then hid behind the shield vehicle. Just like a groundhog.

"Order."

"Everyone be alert, and all hand-to-hand combat troops must wear armor."

Bao Ning didn't attack during the day, so it was obvious that he planned to see the real thing at night.