Chongzhen Undergraduates

"It's gunpowder. There is a smell of gunpowder around here, so send someone to look for it quickly."

Chapter 187: The Two Heavens of Water and Fire

"Report! It's not good, my lord, there is an ambush in the valley ahead, and Che Ergeturai has already encountered the enemy with the forward."

As soon as Zhunta finished speaking, one of his men ran over in a panic.

"Hurry up, get on the horse, there is an ambush here." Thinking of the gunpowder he just smelled and the feeling before, Zhunta immediately sat down to make a judgment.

"Whoosh!" A black clay pot flew over from the nearest hill.

When it was about to hit the ground, it exploded with a "bang!", and then saw a large piece of ground burning.

"Boom!" Another black clay pot exploded.

Immediately afterwards, a series of explosions sounded continuously around the area where the pottery had exploded.

"We've been tricked. There's a "bomber" buried here. Hurry up." Most of the Houjin soldiers had just come down, and these people started to feed the horses, and they hadn't had time to drink.

Around the entire Wande village, a series of explosions followed one after another, smoke was everywhere, and panicked crowds and horses were everywhere.

(ps: According to records such as "Chi Hai Tu Bian", "Military Training Records Miscellaneous", "Wu Bei Zhi" and other books, there are more than ten kinds of landmines used by the Ming army. According to the detonation method, there are burning, pulling, Tripping, machine, etc. The layout method, in addition to a single mine, there are also group mines that use a fuze to control the explosion, and a mother mine explodes to detonate several child mines.)

Zhu Youjian gave Li Yan tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, which can be produced in Tai'an itself, and it is dangerous to hoard a large amount.

The power of black gunpowder is really not great, but tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder are buried here, and the momentum generated is enough to make people frightened.

Dust was flying everywhere, faces were smudged black everywhere, and panicked war horses kept rampaging through the crowd.There were far fewer people injured by the direct blast than horses. One man and two horses turned this place into a pasture where horses run wild.

"Hurry up, let someone drive the horses towards the back road." Zhunta saw that he couldn't control the horses for a while, so he could only think about driving the horses towards the mouth of the valley first, at least leave here first.

"Boom!" Although these trained war horses were flustered, they were quite obedient. They were driven and led, and they quickly gathered together and ran towards the valley that just came over.

The landmine had almost exploded, and the scene gradually returned to calm. Zhunta finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where is the enemy?" Zhunta put on his clothes again, drew out his waist knife, and rushed to the front of the troops already in formation.

"I don't know, the enemy on the hill just now has already run away. Only one catapult was found. It should be done by the bandits nearby."

"xxx, this is not a bandit. Bah!" Zhunta spat out the dirt in his mouth and cursed viciously.He had also suppressed bandits in Shandong, but he had never encountered a bandit who dared to attack an army of tens of thousands with a catapult.

"Da di da du du, da di da du du..." Suddenly, a strange trumpet sounded continuously from the mountain behind him. The sound was loud and long, like a cry for death.

"Kill!" In an instant, countless torches lit up on the side of the Zhunta army formation, and countless enemies suddenly appeared, and then attacked here along the mountain.

"Array, block them." Zhunta's pupils shrank, turned around and stared straight ahead.

"Wow!" The Jin soldiers quickly turned around, and the armor rang together.

"Bang bang bang!" There was a sound of firecrackers, crackling and hitting the first row of Eight Banners soldiers, and more than a dozen soldiers fell in front of the formation.

Li Yan frowned, the armor of the Eight Banners was more powerful than he expected in resisting the firecrackers.

"Shield array!" The Eight Banners quickly changed their array again, and a large piece of shields stood in front of the array.

"The gunners retreat! The Franglers fire." Li Nian personally commanded one of his brigades and arranged for a whole battalion of Franglers.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Dozens of Francophones fired at the same time, and the shields in front shattered a lot.

"Replenish the formation!" Zhunta looked at with a sullen face, and one of his assistant leaders quickly arranged the shield behind him to make up for it.

At this time, the Eight Banners Army formation had already lined up a full three layers of shields.After a while of the Francophone firing, Li Nian never saw the infantry behind the shield again.

"Brother, do you want to go up and fight directly?" Seeing that the firearms were not effective, Li Nian was a little anxious. The subordinates he led had never fought against the Eight Banners.

"No, our tactics are only suitable for chaotic battles, not this kind of army formation. We can only rush if we break the formation."

When Li Yan saw it, he immediately understood that the bayonet technique taught by Zhu Youjian was only suitable for chaotic battles in encounters, or simple hand-to-hand combat.Facing such a uniform army formation, the effect is not great.

"Whoosh, whoosh!" Eight Banners began to fight back, a burst of strong bows came, and Lu Zhongjun immediately fell down.

"Quickly withdraw to the high point and guard the trenches." Li Yan quickly ordered, and a burst of bugles came, and the Lu Zhongjun quickly retreated.

Halfway up the mountain, trenches that have been dug a long time ago are criss-crossing.At this time, the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners were shot upwards, and the accuracy was not good enough, and there was a rain of arrows, and most of the soldiers hid in the trenches.

The bows and arrows of the Eight Banners are not like the longbowmen of the British army, they are not projectile.In addition, it is shot from the back, even if the arrow falls in the trench, it is not powerful enough to hurt people.

"Rush up for me, I don't believe it, and a broken ditch can stop us." Zhunta saw that the opponent's combat power was not strong, and his confidence immediately rose.

"Kill!" The heavy infantry of the Eight Banners began to charge up the mountain.Although the hillside is not very steep, it is relatively uneven. Soldiers can only attack along places with slightly gentle slopes, and such places are usually dug with several trenches.

"Brother! Their infantry is rushing up." Li Nian smiled and said in his heart: I was afraid that you would not disperse, so you sent yourself to the door.

"Prepare the long knife." Li Nian himself was the first to rush down the mountain with the long knife specially made before.

"Look, general, their moves are so strange. They are all stabbing and rarely chopping. And all three of them hit one of us."

Zhunta's face was too dark to be seen, and it was in the shadow of the moonlight, as if wearing a black face scarf.

With just one charge, the first wave of infantrymen charged up by the Eight Banners was completely wiped out, lying in disorder outside the trench.On the side of the corpse where the protection was weak, there were five or six holes bubbling with blood, and the attack from behind stopped suddenly.

Only then was Li Yan satisfied. After more than half a year, the thrusting hand specially trained by Lu Zhongjun finally saw the truth.

"It's not good, my lord. The horses encountered a flood and couldn't rush through. When they retreated, there was a muddy pond behind them, and more than half of the horses were trapped in the muddy swamp."

"Slap!" Zhunta slapped the soldier who reported the message. He didn't stop all of a sudden, and his body swayed. Fortunately, the guard next to him supported him.

At this time, everyone understood that this was a well-designed ambush.There is no ambush in the canyon, because the canyon is not long and it is easy to be detected.

The "explosive cannon" buried by the opponent is to confuse the horses. Adding water, this is playing with both water and fire.

"My lord, the water has reached the back of the formation. Although the water is not deep, there are farmlands behind. Once the water is flooded, it will be a quagmire. Our back road is blocked."

Let the heavy infantry wade in the mud?It's better to let them die in front of the battle.

"For the current plan, we can only find a slower hillside as a breakthrough. Everyone obeys the order, and the charge will start later. The Eight Banners warriors will open the way, and everyone will rush out together."

"twitter!"

Zhunta looked around, found a gentle valley without water, and then pointed at the waist, and groups of Eight Banners battle formations rushed towards that direction wave after wave.

The shield formation was at the front, followed by the heavy armored soldiers, and the archers quickly took cover along both sides of the hillside.When encountering a trench, do not approach directly at all, first shoot a wave of arrows, then throw flying spears, and then a wave of flying axes.Immediately afterwards, the shieldmen rushed to the front of the trench in formation, and another burst of throwing axes.

A squad of Lu Zhongjun was completely exhausted in the first trench.

"Brother! I'll take someone to block it myself." Seeing that the enemy army was about to break through the line of defense, Li Nian blushed.

Li Yan grabbed him and said in a gloomy voice: "No need, order to go down. The defenders of the third brigade retreat, let them go."