Chongzhen Undergraduates

This time Wu Sangui asked Li Benshen to bring [-] infantry to reinforce Hangu Pass, because he also took a fancy to his status that he would no longer be tolerated by Ming Dynasty.

Li Ben deeply thought of his uncle Gao Jie and his aunt Mrs. Xing.They all received preferential treatment from Zhu Youjian, only the generals of Gao Jie's department did not end well after becoming traitors.

"Kill me hard!" Li Ben hated Daming deeply from the bottom of his heart, and at the same time vented his hatred completely on the battlefield.

The Ming army in front of him, he already regarded as a bunch of dead people.

It was Li Benshenbu who attacked Hu Yiqing, but Hu Yiqing didn't know that he had been bitten by the [-] Zhou army.

"Teacher, we didn't do anything, why did we attract so many enemies?" Zhao Liangcheng looked at the black Zhou Jun, his jaw dropped in shock.

"Go and take care of the captives, don't make any mess." Hu Yiqing shook his head.With less than [-] troops fighting against an enemy that is obviously tens of thousands, how could this kind of thing happen to him.

Knowing that it would cause such a big trouble, Hu Yiqing would rather be a quail and hide in the woods behind the mountain.He knew now that he had stabbed a hornet's nest.

The surrounding area that can be defended is not large, only three or four small mountain peaks. Fortunately, there is food and gunpowder.

But there are not enough people.

Chapter 551: Zhang Mazi Digs a Pit into a Trenches

The price of a hasty fight is a lot of casualties, which is terrible for Hu Yiqing, because he has less than 2000 people.

For Li Benshen, the Ming army is his mortal enemy, no matter whether he encounters tens of thousands or thousands, he must win this battle.Li Benshen had already made up his mind that if the opponent surrendered to him, he would be under his command; if he did not surrender, he would be killed.Li Benshen knew Zhu Youjian well. If the Ming army surrendered at this time, it would be more into Zhu Youjian's eyes.

This is an unnamed valley, and it is impossible to name it some highland like later generations, and surveying and mapping in this era has not developed.

Hu Yiqing himself named this place: Hujiaao, and the three hills guarding the valley entrance were named respectively: Big Bald Mountain, Er Tuo Zi Mountain, and Yao Tuzi Mountain.These titles are very local and very rustic.

"Report! Commander, the second bald man can't stop him, so he needs reinforcements."

"Reinforcement ass, tell Zhang Mazi that I don't have any reinforcements. Send him ten more boxes of grenades at most."

Hu Yiqing was very puzzled. Generally, the first wave of attack in a war is basically tentative, but the Zhou army he encountered was very careless and risked their lives when they came up. investigative.

This was a brutal fight. Both sides almost entered the battlefield hastily, and neither had heavy weapons such as cannons. Meeting was a hand-to-hand fight.Battalion Commander Zhang Mazi was fighting the Zhou army on Ertuzi Mountain. The Zhou army invested more troops than the Ming army, but the fifteenth army was obviously stronger than the Zhou army.

The bayonets of the Ming army were obviously more fierce than the big blades used by the Zhou army. Once the bayonet stabbed the flesh, pulling it out could directly make the opponent lose his strength.This ferocious murderous aura also caused the attacking Zhou army to have lingering fears. After an incense stick of time, the Zhou army's pre-battle fight turned into self-protection. Every soldier of them was trying to avoid being stabbed by the Ming army's bayonet. own body.

Once a soldier is afraid of death, he will be timid about everything he does.Fear of death will inevitably lose morale, and an army without morale is a flock of sheep.Zhang Mazi stared at his blood-red eyes, like a beast eating red eyes, rushing forward recklessly with bayonets in both hands.The knife is his fang, and the enemy he stabs is the lamb trembling under his claws.

"Battalion Commander, our reinforcements are here." More than 20 soldiers of the Ming army carrying wooden boxes yelled loudly when they climbed over the hill.

"Reinforcements are coming, let's kill everyone!" Zhang Mazi rushed forward when he was happy.In this life-and-death battle, as long as one side has reinforcements, it will definitely be a wave of counter-killing, which is very effective in boosting morale.

Zhou Jun, who was fighting, heard the voice and ran back in fright.No one is stupid, they fight hard without reinforcements, if reinforcements come, wouldn't they lose their lives?!

"Where are the reinforcements?" Zhang Mazi ran for tens of meters, and realized that the voice behind him was wrong. He looked around, but apart from ten wooden boxes, he didn't even see a single extra human hair.

"Just under your feet, ten boxes of grenades have been reinforced." A soldier muttered.

"I'm xxx, I don't want this thing. It's over, it's over, I'm going to be killed..." Zhang Mazi felt his whole body was chilly, and he felt that this charge had already reached the foot of the mountain.

While Zhang Mazi was speaking, Zhou Jun had already counterattacked.There are only such a big mountain, and it is clear at a glance whether there are reinforcements. Zhou Jun retreated tens of meters, and when he turned around, he saw Ertuzi Mountain with few people.The matter is clear at a glance, there is no reinforcement, it is clear that the Ming army is cheating.Even Zhou Jun's general was very happy, thinking that if you cheat, you can cheat, why are you rushing to my territory.

Since it is the meat delivered to the mouth, then I am naturally not welcome.Then, more than three times the strength of the troops just overwhelmed them all at once.The Ming army, who was happily chasing just now, was instantly counterattacked by Zhou Jun.

"Quick, throw all the grenades out." Zhang Mazi roared out of breath, and rushed to the front of a wooden box with a stride, and smashed open the wooden box with the butt of his gun.

Fortunately, more than [-] Ming soldiers carrying wooden boxes ran behind and had not yet reached the foot of the mountain.The Ming army is now going up the mountain with its buttocks raised, while the enemy is shooting upwards with their heads up. The upwards are shot more than the downwards.If this wave of firecrackers came over, it would probably be enough for Zhang Mazi to drink a pot.

The only thing Zhang Mazi can use now is grenades.Only this thing can destroy the enemy's musket array.He looked at the musketeers at the foot of the mountain that had already started to line up, and his scalp was numb. Every black hole in the muzzle was the king of Hades who wanted his life.

"Throw it away." Zhang Mazi groped for the wooden handle of the grenade, swung his arm and threw it away.

"Battalion Commander, this thing doesn't have a pull rope." A soldier was still staring at the grenade wondering.

"Fuck, I forgot. Get down quickly." Zhang Mazi threw the grenade before he realized that it was the ignition cord that captured the Zhou army, not the kind of ignition cord equipped by the Ming army at all.

"Bang bang bang..." As soon as the Ming army climbed to the ground, a burst of firecrackers rang out.This is not a matter of dodging bullets, because most shots in this era are arrays, and arrays take time from aiming to design.Zhang Mazi fell down this time, which was equivalent to avoiding a round of enemy fire.

However, the enemy was shooting three times in a row, and the Ming army couldn't hide completely if they wanted to hide, unless you climbed on the ground and waited for others to catch the prisoners.

With a sound of "呲", Zhang Mazi struck a match and barely ignited a grenade, regardless of whether he threw it far enough or not, he just threw it out anyway.

"Bang", the grenade exploded at the foot of the mountain.To put it bluntly, standing on the mountain and throwing things down, the fuse was long, and the roll rolled to the foot of the mountain.The Ming army was amused when they saw it, and they followed suit one after another.Even if some grenades exploded without rolling to the foot of the mountain, this did not stop the Ming army from counterattacking.Zhou Jun saw that he couldn't take advantage of it, so he could only retreat. The first wave of attack on Ertuzi Mountain was completely aborted.

"Battalion Commander, shall we still rush down?" A company commander asked Zhang Mazi when he saw Zhou Jun retreating.

"Damn it, we have this thing, so we'll stay here. If the thieves dare to come, blow them up." Zhang Mazi suddenly realized that the reinforcements Hu Yiqing gave him were pretty good.

"What if they fire?" the company commander asked.

"You're right, you ordered to go down, on this mountainside, everyone digs a nest first. When the cannonballs start, we'll hide in the nests, and the cannons won't be able to hit us." Zhang Mazi remembered the trenches used during the Jianghuai War.That thing is quite useful for hiding ordinary bullets and gunfire.

The so-called digging individual bulletproof pits first, and then connecting the pits into a line, the trenches are naturally produced in this way.Zhang Mazi himself did not expect that the mountain he was on was finally built into a three-dimensional multi-layered fortification by him, and it became a textbook for the military academy later.Some of the skills and means of warfare, of course, are slowly developed from actual combat.When weapons and equipment develop forward, the corresponding battlefield tactics will naturally develop accordingly.

Li Benshen suffered a bit in the first wave of attack, but this did not affect his fighting spirit. On the contrary, Li Benshen thought that if he didn't eat up the Ming army in front of him, then why would he go to Hangu Pass?This Ming army clearly blocked the Zhou army's road to transport grain to Hangu Pass, so it's not enough to be happy.

"Push the cannon in red and give me a hard blast tomorrow." Li Ben got angry when he looked at the Ming army's position in the distance.

When he rebelled against Zhu Youjian, the weapons and equipment of the Ming army had not changed much. At best, Zhu Youjian was emphasizing the importance of cavalry.After that, Li Benshen didn't participate in many battles. In fact, he didn't understand the development of the Ming army.

It is said that the two companies that Hu Yiqing sent out as bait returned to the headquarters of the [-]th Army in Qinglong Mountain without any obstacles.

"Hu Yiqing was bitten by the main force of the Zhou army?" Deng Zhirong had a headache when he heard the news.Two thousand soldiers are actually not that important in the eyes of him as an army commander, but whether Hu Yiqing's matter is a chance, this makes Deng Zhirong's heart rippling.

Chapter 552: The [-]th Army defended Hangu tragically

Deng Zhirong's decision was not easy, because he finally established a position in Qinglong Mountain.But he had to respond, because Hu Yiqing was his subordinate.

Guarding Qinglong Mountain can contain the right wing of Hangu Road. If Zhou Jun wants to go out of Hangu, he must capture the Qinglong Mountain position.But if the front is extended westward to Hu Yiqing's side, there will definitely be problems with the supply of the [-]th Army.

The supply of an army is not the same as the supply of 2000 people. Deng Zhirong chose to supply Hu Yiqing, using Hu Yiqing as a bridgehead.In case Hu Yiqing can't hold it, Qinglong Mountain will be used as a second position.

But supplying supplies to Hu Yiqing is equally difficult. First of all, Hangu Pass is in the hands of Xia Guoxiang. Of course, it is impossible for the Zhou army to let the Ming army ostentatiously send supplies from the official road. They can only send them manually from Qinglong Mountain.Although 2000 people is not too many, it takes at least 1 people to deliver the supplies from Luoyang all the way to Hu Yiqing.

Some people will say, why not capture Hangu Pass?

The reason is very simple, as long as Deng Zhirong makes a formal attack on Hangu Pass, Xia Guoxiang will definitely run away, so even if the [-]th Army retakes Hangu Pass, what's the point.Deng Zhirong knew that it was easy to capture Hangu Pass with the strength of the [-]th Army, but it was very difficult to destroy a certain number of enemies.He also knows that Zhu Youjian doesn't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place now.

This battle, Deng Zhirong had to fight like this.

On the third day of the battle, there was not a single living sapling in the small Three Baldy Mountains.Li Benshen was also ruthless enough, he adjusted fifty cannons to aim at the three small hills.In this day and age, bombardment of this magnitude is sufficient to deal with the walls of state capitals.

From morning to night, the three Bald Mountains were full of killing sounds. If there was any interruption, it would be nothing more than another round of Zhou army's attack being repelled.

Zhang Mazi leaned halfway on a rock in the trench, his eyes were red from the heat, his lips were dry and chapped to the point of bleeding, his face and nostrils were filled with mud, and even his short eyelashes were stuck to the dirt. Together.