Lord of Ming Dynasty

It was getting darker and darker, but the enemy was obviously still able to handle it with ease. This made the general of the Qing army who led the army a little angry, and immediately shouted to attack the city from all sides and pushed the artillery up.

This pressure obviously cannot make the enemy make the decision to ask for help from Phoenix Ferry.

Even he knew that the enemy apparently thought they could wipe out their own troops, or drive them back, as if they were here to harass them.

But just after he gave the order to step up the attack, the sound of horseshoes sounded far away in such a quiet night, and shouts sounded in the distance, which was issued by the troops stationed on the periphery to guard.

After a while, several cavalrymen ran up the mountain and knelt on the ground, "Report to the general, the prince said, the enemy came out of the ferry with a force of 3000 people and came towards this side. I asked you to send troops to intercept it. At the same time, the prince said Now, let you go back to the division ferry, prepare to outflank the enemy's rear, and don't let the enemy run away from here."

The general is very happy, the enemy has been drawn out, so even if he can't break through the enemy's mountain city, he has completed the task, and it would be good to wait for the army to come back to attack the city.

However, the troops have already been released, and now they have jumped to a distance of less than 200 meters from the enemy. If the army of tens of thousands of people wants to stop them in a short time, the orderly soldiers will have to run and break their legs. They have to wait for this attack I'll talk about it later.

Anyway, the 1 army over there, how many troops does the enemy have at Ferry, even if it is [-] troops, it is said that it is just an ordinary brigade of the enemy's militia.

Such soldiers have about the same combat effectiveness as the strong men who have just been drawn into the team. The [-] soldiers who have passed through the Sishan Prefecture to fight the Huaxia Army, as well as the captured veterans of the Dajin Kingdom and the Daqing Kingdom, must be stronger than the enemy. The miscellaneous soldiers are stronger in battle.

What's more, it is said that the enemy's military strength is less than 8000, and many people have been placed in the surrounding villages. I came here this time and wiped out no less than 4000 troops. Each town has at least 1000 troops, so I am afraid there are only more than [-] troops. Come out at once With [-] troops, then there are only more than [-] and nearly [-] troops in the town.

Two thousand against thirty thousand, even if they have three heads and six arms, they still cannot escape the danger of annihilation. Even if the enemy increases troops from the other side of the river, they will have to mobilize for half a night, and then find a boat to cross the river. It's over.

It may even wipe out part of the enemy's reinforcements crossing the river.

In that way, there are enemy ships, and part of the enemy's troops can be wiped out. It is very easy to cross the river and break through the enemy's barrier.

It will take a day for the enemy's latest reinforcements to reach the ferry on the other side. By the time the enemy arrives, the prince's [-] troops may have already crossed the Yellow River.

The remaining 1 troops, whether the prince chooses to transfer back or continue to cross the river, is not a matter of his own consideration. However, with the prince's disposition, he will definitely not put all his old background into it. After all, this side is only to contain the enemy. The strong attack is Yao Qisheng's business. There is Suo'etu on the grassland, and Wu Sangui on the Datong side. They will not let all their soldiers and horses take on the task of combat.

While he was thinking, the Qing army's artillery over there had already started bombarding the city wall.

Ten ten-pound guns and eight nine-pound guns were dragged over from the mountain with great effort. It is said that these artillery pieces have long been discontinued in the Huaxia Kingdom, but on the Qing side, these artillery pieces are the favorite of field troops. The artillery has a long range, great power, fast reloading, and is light. The nine-pound gun weighs only more than 400 kilograms, which weighs almost a thousand catties, and the ten-pounder gun weighs only 480 kilograms. The Qing army's four-thousand-jin red cannon had a longer range, a faster rate of fire, and was easy to carry.

There is a special battalion of soldiers and horses carrying these artillery, and the other battalions carry three or four six-pound guns. The sentinel can also carry a three-pound gun for activities. It is easy to strike the enemy. The Qing army used this kind of firepower to defeat the big Golden country.

Chapter 845 Soldiers Suppress Phoenix Town

Fighting in full swing ahead, over there Tianying organizes more than 1000 troops, a field army dissatisfied with cavalry companies, half of the ordinary militia brigade has dozens of cavalry capable of fighting, an ordinary militia brigade has more than 900 small troops, and an elite militia brigade has more than 60 soldiers. Dissatisfied with the infantry company and an artillery company of the elite brigade, dozens of people walked for two full hours with four six-pound guns before they came out of the mountains and came to the plains. The soldiers of the militia company stationed in the countryside, as well as the soldiers of the No. [-] militia self-defense force.

The total strength has also reached more than 500 people, which is close to the strength of a squadron of an ordinary militia brigade.

The squadron of the ordinary militia brigade has 500 soldiers, and the elite militia squadron has 3000 soldiers. Because it is a militia force, the organization is relatively casual, and the garrison brigade is organized according to the regular strength of the Huaxia Army.

Most of the militia brigade is infantry, with a small amount of cavalry and artillery, and the weapons used are all different from those of the garrison brigade.

However, most of the militia units of the Huaxia Army have already got rid of the outdated equipment such as matchlock guns. There are still some remaining Jinkai 2 matchlock guns in the inventory, which have become the main weapons and equipment of the ordinary brigade of the Huaxia Army militia.

Of course, some ordinary brigades of the militia also use front-loaded flintlock guns, which are just flintlock gun equipment that has just been developed long ago. Although there are not many of these in stock, there are still many, especially after searching many places a few days ago The stocks were then shipped to serve the rapidly expanding militias and brigades of local villagers.

In fact, some militiamen in the stable mainland of Southeast Asia have long been replaced with better and more stable front-loading flintlock guns. Because the battle here is too eager, there is no way to equip them with better flintlock guns. They can only use stock The arquebus and plain-loaded flintlock were equipped.

As for the state-of-the-art flintlock guns, they are still rear-loaded. Rifled flintlock guns can only be equipped by the Guards Division, and the equipment of the Field Army is only equipped by the first ten brigades. A flintlock gun loaded with three bullets, the kind that is troublesome to operate, and the troops replenished by the field army or garrison troops and militia elite troops at the end are equipped with single-shot front-loading flintlock guns.

It is only a little more advanced than the weapons of the elite militia brigade, just a few small changes, but it is also more than ten levels more advanced than the enemy's weapons. Why do you say that, because the development of firearms of the Huaxia Army is very rapid, compared Under the so-called Moore's Law, the development of computer and mobile phone chips is even faster, and a batch of guns can be produced with a small change.

Therefore, there are many levels of gun equipment in the Huaxia Army, which also causes the logistics of the troops to be chaotic, or the burden on the logistics troops is increased. Ammunition and weapons arrive.

Marching to the outskirts of the ferry in Fenghuang Town, the men and horses hid in a natural river bed on the river bank, and then Tianying led his guards up a small hill to look in the distance. In the darkness, groups of soldiers and horses were running towards Fenghuang Town scattered. Go, he knew that this must be the way Wan Dou Ni told the battalion commander of the field army here, to send out troops with great fanfare, and secretly transferred the troops back.

At this time, the fire dragons in the distance are quickly encircling Fenghuang Town, and it seems that there are no less than ten thousand people in the torches.

The people in front had already exchanged fire with the Chinese army militia in a village near the town outside the town.

The fierce gunfire and flames showed that the enemy came prepared this time, and the enemy's firepower was not bad at all, and even the flames fired by the artillery could be seen.

The village is not big, only dozens of families, about a hundred houses, all of which are mud houses, surrounded by trees and vegetable fields. There are many enemy soldiers and horses, and the village is about to be surrounded. The militiamen in the village are resisting and quickly Withdrew from the village and fought back while running, well-trained.

Soon the enemy crossed the village and forced the militiamen into a small forest, surrounded by nearly a thousand people. The gunshots disappeared, and the enemy ran out from the woods. It was obvious that the militia was wiped out.

On the other side, about a mile or so closer to the town, flames were also raging into the sky. Several houses were set on fire, and the sound of arquebus firing continued, and there was even an explosion of artillery firing from somewhere.

The enemy was repulsed once or twice, and then pressed on all sides again. After half an hour of firefights, the other side was also wiped out. The enemy obviously suffered a lot of losses. The enemy carried out many corpses.

The enemy's force is very strong. Even if there is a firefight over there, there are still many soldiers and horses running towards the town.

There are two roads facing the town, one towards this side and the other towards that side. There is no obstruction, but now a lot of trenches have been dug on the road, and a lot of horses have been placed on the road. A temporary parapet was erected, and the enemy charged towards the trench, was repulsed twice, and then the enemy began to drag the artillery to attack the city.

A lot of torches began to appear on the banks of the river and road, on the hills, and halfway up the mountain. Even the torches appeared on the top of the mountain. It was five or six miles away from here, and about ten miles away from the town.

The enemy's forces flowed to the surroundings of the town like mercury pouring down the ground.

Firepower points were constantly being ignited around the town, and many muskets began to resist the enemy's invasion.

The enemy used muskets and artillery to attack those firepower points. The brigade went immediately, then retreated like a tide, and then bombarded those firepower points with artillery. Most of those firepower points were two or three hundred meters away from the town.

The battle was fierce, and even though it was five or six miles away from the town, the flames from the bullets could still be seen flying around like groups of fireflies, which looked very beautiful in the night sky.

Tianying was a little worried. Wan Douni's strategy only broke the enemy's strategy of attacking east and west, but it did not reverse the balance of the enemy's strength. It seems that the enemy's strength is very strong, at least more than 1. If you add the siege of Ruicheng The enemy, the enemy's strength may not be as many as 3.

Now the troops here are only two militia brigades as the main force, and their field army here is only two battalions of regular troops. The strength is only about a thousand people, less than a regiment of the Huaxia Army.

"Come here, order the infantry company to rely on the terrain to build fortifications here, tell them to keep their voices down, don't make a big noise, send people back to investigate the way back, see if any of our people are coming, and if there are any, stop them for me. Bring it here and send a militia infantry company to build a reverse fortification one mile behind to avoid being surrounded and attacked by the enemies from Ruicheng."

Since the enemy is attacking east and west, the enemy will definitely shift their troops to this side when they see that Ruicheng cannot be defeated. Tianying thinks that they should block the enemy's reinforcements here.

Then he sent cavalry scouts to ask Ruicheng for help. Even if Fenghuang Town used Wandou Ni's strategy, it might not be able to resist the enemy's attack because of the huge disparity in the number of troops.

Wan Dou Ni must have sent a signal to the corps for help, but when the reinforcements will arrive, I don't know, and now I can only stand by and wait for help.

8Chapter 16 Tenacious Mountain City

Here, Wan Douni received a request from Tianying's cavalry for help, and knew that the enemy army had begun to attack the ferry of Fenghuang Town. He stood on the gate tower, and the enemy's artillery fire had blown the gate tower crookedly. The kind that might collapse, but he still couldn't care about his own safety in his heart.

The battle has been going on for three hours, and the enemy still has no intention of retreating. The enemy's most violent assault hit the city wall, and members of the ordinary militia brigade on the city wall beat the enemy down with knives and axes.

In close combat, knives are more useful. Now it is not a pure rifle that pulls down and fires one shot, but a flintlock, and the enemy's flintlock is still the kind of gun that is front-loaded and single-shot. Maybe, it's the same here, only the cavalry company he brought has the three-shot breech-loading flintlock in his hands, and the cavalry is also equipped with the previous double-barreled short-fire guns, which can fire at least two shots. , Two such guns were hung on the saddle, filled with gunpowder, compacted, and blocked with wooden plugs, even if the horse ran, it would not fall down.

The infantry company he was carrying had flintlock guns developed in the early generations that could fire three rounds, but that kind of gun could not continue to reload ammunition for a long time, and it required very complicated operations to continue firing after firing a round First shot, the time is very short, but the enemy is a few meters away, and it will definitely not give you such a short time to reload. Therefore, even the soldiers of China's regular field army infantry company do not have much advantage in hand-to-hand combat.

If it is an advantage, the breastplates and watermelon-like helmets worn by these infantrymen are much stronger than the enemy's fur hats. The north is cold and windy, so many people in Shanxi are the same as those in the northeast. I usually like to wear a leather hat that can droop my ears, but this thing can't stop the knives, spears, and even bayonets of the Huaxia Army.

Don't forget that the Huaxia Army musketeers have been equipped with bayonets for a long time, and there are all kinds of fancy ones. According to everyone's preferences, those who have money can buy them by themselves. A standard bayonet like the five-six bayonet.

At this time, Wan Dou Ni did not let Ruicheng's artillery fire, giving the enemy a feeling of weakness, and wanted to firmly attract the enemy's troops here to relieve the pressure on the Ferry of Fenghuang Town.

He has already reported the situation here to the staff of the corps, but the corps has not yet sent reinforcements, or is simply unable to send reinforcements in a very short period of time.

The nearest support he received was a cavalry general banner unit sent by a battalion on the other side of the Yellow River. This unit was like no other in a war of ten thousand people, and it could not change the situation of the battle at all.