Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Get up quickly! It's cold today, I brought some delicious meat that can't be eaten, it's nice to eat together to keep warm."

"Wild girl, you are spoiled by your father's absence. When the princess brought dog meat to the palace to cook in a pot like you, it's a pity that you still publicize it when you see it, for fear that others will not know."

Chen Yuanyuan glared at Jiu'er. Now Jiu'er is sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes dressed in neither male nor female.Jiu'er has been running around the Jiangnan area all day, not knowing what he is busy with.

Chen Yuanyuan didn't understand, but Li Xiangjun was very impressed with this princess.Now the strange woman on the scene in Nanjing is not the oiran on the Qinhuai River, but Xing Hongyan on the official scene; Aunt Zhu on the scene;

These "three faces" are more difficult to provoke than the other, and more famous than the other.Especially the last one, even Li Xiangjun, who often enters the palace, has never seen his real face, but people always hear that Fang Jinnan often walks around in the palace.

On the contrary, Auntie Zhu treats people kindly, and when she is not talking about business, she is very well-behaved and sensible.

"I was kind, but you made fun of me. Tell me, who dares to bring fragrant meat into the palace for you to eat? This fragrant meat is a good food to keep out the cold."

"Hurry up and put back your glib mouth, so that you can quarrel with the Zhang family in the future." Chen Yuanyuan teased Jiu'er.

The so-called fragrant meat was specially ordered by Fang Jinnan to bring Jiu'er into the palace today.Both the intelligence department and the business department are somewhat involved, and Jiu'er is a big merchant for the Queen, so he naturally knows a lot of inside information.

Near noon, the smell of fragrant meat has permeated the entire dining room, making people salivate.Li Xiangjun despised Aimee Zhu from the bottom of her heart. In her opinion, a princess of a dynasty shouldn't be so ignorant of etiquette and too unrestrained.

Li Xiangjun wanted to refuse, but she forced herself to sit down with Chen Yuanyuan and Aimee Zhu.

"This fragrant meat is a specialty of Pei County, and it has been famous all over the country since the Han Dynasty. Even the cook today is the Xuzhou cook I specially sought out." Jiu'er praised the delicious meat, and unconsciously brought it out of Xuzhou .

When Chen Yuanyuan heard about Xuzhou, she put down her chopsticks, and couldn't bear to say: "Xuzhou City has been guarded for several months, and the soldiers in front may not even have a mouthful of hot soup, hey!"

Although Li Xiangjun was sitting with him, his ears immediately perked up.She knew that Chen Yuanyuan could never be a spy, and the topic of the Xuzhou war was brought up by Chen Yuanyuan, obviously it was not intentional.

"Don't worry! The fortifications designed by my father himself are absolutely exquisite. It's easy to stick to it for a few years, let alone a few months." Jiu'er picked up a good piece of meat, dipped it in the sauce and swallowed it in one gulp. The small mouth was pursed, but the mouth could not be idle.

"Nonsense again, there is no impregnable city in this world."

"Hechuan Fishing City!" Jiu'er answered casually.

Everyone is an old book reader. Li Xiangjun was ten times more vigilant when he mentioned Diaoyucheng, and she didn't want to let go of a word.

"The fortifications of Diaoyu City can rely on the mountains, but Xuzhou is a plain." Li Xiangjun took the initiative to probe.

"The matter is so important that few people know about it." Jiu'er quickly stopped talking.

Li Xiangjun was a little disappointed when she saw Jiu'er's attitude, but she didn't expect to find out anything all at once.

"Your father really thinks that others can't figure it out. This common saying is good: rely on mountains to eat mountains, rely on water to eat water. Without mountains and water, naturally rely on land. Xuzhou is a plain, so you can only rely on the land. The fortifications The secret is underground."

Although Jiu'er didn't say anything, Chen Yuanyuan blurted out, which saved Jiu'er from acting.

"Shh, good my Lady Chen, even if you are talented, you shouldn't say it." Jiu'er looked flustered, as if piercing the sky.

"This is at home." Chen Yuanyuan didn't care, she really didn't think her words were important.

"Xuzhou's defense is underground, and it's multi-layered. It's not hard to guess, but the fortification is most afraid of flooding. If the Jin soldiers find out, it won't hurt the Xuzhou defenders."

Jiu'er persuaded Chen Yuanyuan with a very soft voice, which made Li Xiangjun confirm that the news was very reliable.

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Laoshan on the other side of the Nanjing River is the main defensive area of ​​the Black Banner Army.

As the new official commander of the Black Banner Army, Li Nian is more like a qualified general than Deng Zhirong, and he has a murderous look all over him.And in the Black Banner Army, there are also some veterans who look murderous at first glance, and those who follow these veterans are some resolute but immature young people.

The Black Banner Army had no carriages or horses to ride on. Each of them was just an ordinary infantry, and they were carrying a big rucksack, which was so bulging that they didn't know what it contained.

The uniforms of these soldiers are even more strange, the whole body is the same color, even the helmets are no exception.They wore strange clothes with pockets all over the outside. Before these soldiers crossed the river, some Nanjing people laughed at them as merchant soldiers who went to negotiate business with Jin Bing.

Fortunately, the military discipline of this army is strict, and even when waiting to cross the river, it is rare to see soldiers whispering to each other, and no one has ever left the army without authorization.

Li Dingguo and Li Nian had never met before, but they had heard of Li Yan's name.He had some respect for Li Nian, and Li Dingguo would never dare to despise someone who could be used by Zhu Youjian as the commander of the Yulin Army.

Li Nian always thought that his brother would be in command of this battle, after all, where is Li Yan's friendship with the emperor?But he was also jealous of the lucky young man in front of him.

"In this battle, Commander Li must fight to the death." Li Dingguo said to Li Nian as he sent the Black Banner Army across the river.

"Don't worry, I will definitely show my ability to prove that I am not inferior to you." Li Nian made no secret of his thoughts.

Li Dingguo looked at Li Nian and smiled, and he could feel relieved based on this sentence alone. This person in front of him is not a good person.

After the Fujian navy blocked the Yangtze River, the Jin soldiers were unable to cross the river, and they were also afraid that the main force of the Ming army would reach the Jianghuai River.If Zhu Youjian and the boats in Hongze Lake are the hope left by Jinbing, they are two baits; then the nearly [-] black flag troops in Laoshan are the fishing line for Jinbing to continue fighting.

Only by stringing together fishing line and bait can the appetite of Jin Bing be lifted.

Chapter 392: Low-key battle

Trenches, in this era, are generally used as a defense system for camping or digging outside the city. No one thought of using it as a main fortification.Because trenches are not conducive to one's own initiative to attack.

However, the defensive positions of the Daming Black Banner Army in Laoshan were trenches criss-crossing the mountainside, which later generations will call "trenches".And this kind of trench has been dug for three days and three nights, and a large number of civilians are still digging.

There are no white soldiers in the establishment of the Black Banner Army, so the Black Banner Army will not consider using spear arrays to resist the cavalry of the Golden Soldiers. They must rely on terrain to set up trenches.

After Nikan took Chuzhou without bloodshed, almost overnight, a battle field of the Ming army suddenly appeared under the eyes of his army.

The main force of the [-] Ming army almost made Nikan's mouth water.He seemed to see another heavy addition to his military exploits.

"Kill me." Kong Youde looked at the not-so-high mountain on the opposite side, thinking about how long it would take to conquer it.In his opinion, such a gentle mountain is conducive to the infantry attack.

The One Thousand Han and Eight Banners were sent out, and they marched forward in a neat line holding firecrackers and various firearms.

Kong Youde smiled.At three hundred paces, there was no sound from the Ming army's position, and even all the Ming soldiers hid in the trenches in fear and did not dare to show their bodies.At this distance, some of Jin Bing's firearms could already shoot at the Ming Army.

250 meters away, the other side was still quiet, and the Ming army still didn't have the courage to stand up. Some people in the Jin soldiers line began to guess when the Ming army would turn around and run away.

Two hundred paces, the Ming army opened fire, but it was a small five-jin cannon set up behind the trench.Cannons are powerful, but there are not many cannons on the mountain, and not many people can be killed by one shot.Because the mountains here are covered with trees.

After two cannon shots, the shells hit some tree trunks, and only two or three golden soldiers were injured.The gold soldiers almost laughed out loud.

After 150 steps, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a large area was exposed.This distance was already very close to the attacker, and the golden soldiers began to charge.

The Ming army opened fire, but they didn't stand up and fire, and all the firecrackers were laid flat on the trench.Jin Bing discovered this time that they were facing a total of four trenches, four trenches built step by step at a distance of fifty steps.

The firing of the Ming army was also carried out in order with the entire row of trenches, and it really was a standard three-stage attack.Moreover, there are sporadic small potholes dug between the two adjacent trenches, and each pit has two long and large lifting poles.

The first wave of attacks in the offensive retreated naturally. Of course they knew that the Ming army would have sharp firearms.So, according to the usual practice, they came up again holding the signboard.

At 150 steps, the firecrackers of the Ming army rang again.But to Jin Bing's surprise, the projectiles of the Ming army could easily penetrate the thick wooden shields and cowhide shields in their hands, and the Jin soldiers who relied on shields to protect their lives returned to their hometowns without exception.

"Bastards, don't you know how to change iron shields?" Kong Youde angrily beat his subordinates with a whip. From what he saw, is there any better firearms troops than his Tianzhu Army in this world?

Kong Youde became angry, and he used all his firearms to fire at a position on the hillside.Kong Youde even used the seldom-used cork flower ammunition, which is too dangerous and generally not easy to use.

"Bang!" After a firework exploded, Jin Bing's flower bomb exploded on the Ming army's position, forming fragments within a radius of two or three square meters.Of course, some flowering bombs rolled down a little distance after hitting the position before exploding.