Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

"What are you afraid of? Isn't it just some low-level demons? You all brought the beads consecrated by the Great Lama of Xueyu and the fairy charms drawn by Master Zhang of Longhushan! What are you afraid of? Put on my armor and mount my horse... I will take you to patrol the camp and fight demons!"

"Dou, how to fight demons? How do you fight?" Someone still didn't open their eyes, and continued to ask Tu Hai.

Tuhai snorted, and roared: "You are all heavenly soldiers... Heavenly soldiers are not afraid of demons! You still have the beads of the great lama and the talisman of Zhang Zhenren. If you see the demons, you have to go around! Let me go out for a while, let the Nikans outside see the majesty of our Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers!"

It has to be said that this year's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are much stronger than their unworthy descendants... At least they still believe that they are Heavenly Soldiers!

Since he believed that he was a heavenly soldier, and when he left Beijing, Emperor Kangxi sent them a rosary that was said to be consecrated by the Great Lama of Xueyu himself and a fairy charm written by Zhang Tianshi (the 6-year-old one) in Longhushan, of course I am not afraid of Zhuge Yaodao's demonic methods.

So it didn't take long for the four assistant leaders, a total of eight hundred and eight banner heavenly soldiers, to assemble, all neatly dressed, riding horses that had been trained long ago to not be afraid of explosions, holding torches, wandering around the Qing army camp.While walking around, he shouted in Manchurian: "Children of the Eight Banners, Gods and Buddhas bless you, and you are not afraid of demons..."

Although most of the Han soldiers and green battalion soldiers could not understand Manchurian, they felt at ease when they saw hundreds of Manchurians riding tall horses and yelling.

With the Manchurian Heavenly Soldiers around, what do they have to be afraid of?

But with peace of mind, it is impossible for them to go back to sleep.The roar of the Ming army's rockets lasted intermittently for half the night, and the artillery barracks of the Qing army also roared along with it, and there were Manchurian soldiers on horseback shouting and turning around in the camp... This night in the camp of the Qing army It's so lively, who wants to sleep?

An hour before dawn, the Ming army's rockets had finished firing, the Qing army's cannons stopped roaring, the Manchu soldiers were hoarse, and tens of thousands of people in the Qing army's camp also stayed up all night and yawned. , Eyeballs are red... But it is impossible to go back to sleep.

Because according to Tu Hai's plan, today is the time for a decisive battle during the day!He doesn't dare to delay the time now, because the time is on Zhu Heqi's side!

So now all the ministries and battalions have to start cooking and prepare a day's rations...and of course there is a particularly hearty "last breakfast".

In addition, the "demon heads" from each battalion also gathered in Tuhai's Chinese camp and began to receive combat orders.

The "demon heads" who didn't sleep well last night looked a little tired at the moment, and most of them were a little nervous... Although Tu Hai, Kong Sizhen and the others strictly blocked the news of Wu Sangui's rebellion, there were always some "monsters" in the army. "Yaotou" has sharp ears and eyes, and I don't know where I heard some wind.

In addition, after Deqing Prefecture was occupied by the Ming army, all the Qing troops from Guangxi were worried about the safety of their families... Everyone was eager to return home, but the people above wanted to fight the Ming army in Guangdong. They were anxious. If he didn't dare to say it out of his mouth, his morale would not be much higher.

Last night, the camp encountered another "meteor attack". Although there were not many casualties, morale dropped sharply - although there were heavenly soldiers behind them who were "not afraid of demons", the heavenly soldiers were not afraid of them!

Tuhai also felt that everyone's morale was a bit low, but he still had some tricks.

I saw him looking around the "demon heads" in the big tent with a happy face, and then said with a smile: "I tell you a good news... The imperial court has cracked the secret of the sky thunder! We also have sky thunder in our army now." Already!"

Chapter 223 Beheading, give away!

In the first year of Ming Dynasty Dingwang Jianguo, November [-]th, early morning.

In the camp of the Ming Army to the west of Guicheng Capital, the noise gradually rose.The soldiers of Daming Jinyi's pro-army are also taking the time to enjoy a sumptuous "morning tea"... Only when they are full can they go to the battlefield with energy!

The rule of having a full meal and going to battle to kill people has never changed.

Cui Liu, who had been working all night last night, is now munching on an extra-large char siu bun. The snow-white cracked bun skin is wrapped with sweet, soft and oily char siew meat. It is so beautiful.

He raised his head and looked at the leading leaders of the artillery that surrounded him in a circle. They were all like him, devouring their food, and some of them had eaten two or three pork buns and were belching.

Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Cui Liu began to convey the order, "All artillerymen will be ready immediately after morning tea, no delay!"

The so-called big artillery is the artillery that uses the three-pound field gun—this three-pound field gun is improved from the six-pound naval gun on the British Great Eastern. The gun body is cast in bronze, and the shells used are also heavier From six pounds to three catties.

Under the eight towns of Jinyi in Zhu Heqi, each town has an artillery battalion equipped with twelve three-jin field cannons.There are a total of three towns of Jinyi pro-army on the battlefield at the foot of Dinghu Mountain, equipped with a total of 36 three-jin field cannons.

Cui Liu went on to say: "All the Second Artillery Soldiers stayed to make medicine together after having morning tea!"

The so-called Second Artillery is artillery that uses mortars and rockets that throw flower hammers... Their cannons are not as big as field artillery, so field artillery is generally called "big artillery", and they are "Second Artillery".

Well, the Second Artillery doesn't sound as strong as the Great Artillery!But the guy they use is still very powerful!

Unlike the Artillery Corps, which belonged to the township, the Second Artillery Corps belonged to the battalion, with one battalion directly under one leader.One lead and two artillerymen are usually equipped with two mortars and two rocket launchers.

In addition, all Second Artillery Soldiers must master the craft of "pharmaceuticals"... that is, the craft of preparing sugar medicine.The sugar medicine used by themselves and the sugar medicine used by the grenadiers must be brewed by them before the battle.

The place where Cui Liu is now is a "temporary pharmaceutical factory" specially set up for the use of the Second Artillery Corps.

After the Second Artillery Soldiers finished their morning tea, they had to start working to boil medicine.The process of boiling medicine is much simpler than it was at the beginning, and it is also safer.

First of all, the raw materials for boiling the medicine have changed from the original white granulated sugar and fire nitrate to bags of boxy "military white sugar" and fire nitrate.Among them, "military white sugar" has already added binders and catalysts, and as long as it is boiled and nitrated, sugar medicine can be prepared.Therefore, the words "military white sugar, strictly prohibited" will be printed on the paper wrapping these sugar cubes, and there will also be "Made in North Factory" and "North" trademarks...

Secondly, you don't use fire directly to boil medicine... It's hard to control the heat!So it was changed to the salt bath method, which is to heat the salt, and then use the salt to heat the "military white sugar", so that it is not easy to cause accidents.

Third, because the sugar medicine is added with a binder, the plasticity is greatly enhanced and it is not easy to break.So the boiled sugar medicine will be pressed into a flat square in a set of special copper molds.Then cut into pieces with a kitchen knife, and finally wrap them in oiled paper.It looks like sugar cubes for coffee.The oiled paper that was wrapped was also printed in advance, with the words "Special for Tianlei, poisonous and harmful" and "Be careful of moisture"...

These poisonous and harmful "sugar cubes" will also be packaged in special wooden boxes, and then distributed to the grenadiers or the Second Artillery for their own use.

These "sugar cubes" are small in size, so they can be directly filled into grenade hammers or flowering hammers together with lead bullets and a small amount of black powder for combustion.If you can't use it all up, just unplug the wooden tube fuze after the battle, you can take out the "sugar cube" inside, and it can be reused after boiling it next time.

In addition, the sugar medicine loaded into the rocket does not need to be made into "cube sugar", and it can be poured directly into the cylinder of the rocket before it solidifies.

While Cui Liu was busy supervising the preparation of sugar medicine by the officers and soldiers of the Second Artillery, Zhu Heqi was inviting Shang Kexi, Shang Zhixiao, Li Chenggong and Li Rucai to have morning tea in his Chinese military tent.

In the big tent, besides the four prisoners and Zhu Heqi, there were also Yang Qilong, Su Zhanhai, Zhuge Zhengyang and four "Renren-killing Confucianists" holding swords in their arms-these four Confucian beheading Confucians had already eaten and drank enough. After waiting for Shang Kexi, Shang Zhixiao, Li Chenggong and Li Rucai to finish eating, he sent them on their way.

Among the four, Shang Kexi had the best appetite. Four pork buns and a bowl of wonton noodles were not enough, so he ate a bowl of wonton noodles in front of his son Shang Zhixiao.

But Shang Zhixiao, Li Chenggong and Li Rucai have no appetite, Shang Zhixiao and Li Chenggong are better, nothing more than death... and that Li Rucai has a face of injustice, and he keeps begging: "I'm just a boss. , is a slave for one year, saint, please spare my little life!"

Li Chenggong snorted and taught Li Rucai a lesson: "Rucai, people are mortal, and death is as heavy as Mount Tai, and as light as a feather..."

"Bah! Li Chenggong, you really think you are Nurhachi's dry uncle!" Li Rucai doesn't buy into his little uncle now, "He has long since disowned our relative... Otherwise, the two of us will still be together." Are you from a coated slave?"

Li Chenggong taught him a lesson: "Rucai, the coated slave also received the emperor's favor!"

"Fuck, what kind of emperor's grace... I want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty! Sir, I want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty! Is it too late for me to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Zhu Heqian just smiled: "It's too late, too late...Shang Zhixiao, how about you? Do you want to turn back the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?"

"Hmph! I, Shang Zhixiao, am not afraid of death!" Of course Shang Zhixiao didn't want to, he still has this backbone!

Shang Kexi on one side nodded, "Good son!" Then he put down the bowl and chopsticks again, and stared at Zhu Heqi, who was sitting high above him, "The traitor surnamed Zhu, I finished eating, I want to kill or widow, listen Respect!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain of the big tent was raised, and then Cui Liu was seen walking in with two boxy wooden boxes in his arms.

Seeing the two wooden boxes, Zhu Hexi smiled and said to Shang Kexi and Li Chenggong: "Shang Kexi, Li Chenggong, today we are going to fight against the demons of the Qing Dynasty, and we need something to sacrifice the flag, so I will borrow your two heads for use! "

"Hmph, if you want to kill, kill it! I'm still happy..."

"Your Majesty, my slave Li Chenggong..."

Shang Kexi and Li Chenggong had only spoken halfway, and their mouths were blocked by the beheading Ru behind them.

Then Zhu Heqi said to Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai: "You two were going to kill, but the lonely family needs two people to help send the heads of Shang Kexi and Li Chenggong to Tuhai and Sun Yanling on the opposite side, so It’s cheaper for you two! Can you guarantee delivery?”

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At this time, the sky was twilight, and the sound of trumpets and drums in the camp of the Qing soldiers came one after another. Teams of Qing soldiers began to move out from their respective camps, and under the guidance of Goshha sent by Tuhai, they walked towards the planned position.

The cavalry of the Han army in the front had already advanced outside the Qing army camp. According to the plan, they would arrive at the battlefield first and occupy a good position for the infantry behind.At the same time, prevent the squads of the Ming army from harassing the marching army.

According to Tu Hai and Sun Sike's arrangement, the first battle of this battle is of course the local green battalion soldiers from Pingnan Wangfu and Xushun Gongfu's flag army... They are the main army!

Behind the Guangdong Green Camp and Banner Army are the troops of Sun Yanling and Ma Xiong from Guangxi.It's almost time for them to go to the death of Qing Yao in Guangdong!They were in a hurry to go home, so they had to fight!

The third formation consisted of the Northern Green Battalion soldiers led by Sun Sike and some of Tuhai's Eight Banners Celestial Soldiers - Tuhai's Eight Banners soldiers were divided into two parts, and the three cavalry led by them were the governor's team!

The Huo Lei soldiers led by Deng Zhong are not so idle, they are the killers of the Qing army on the battlefield today!

In addition, Tuhai also gathered all the artillery carried by the various armies and handed them over to Deng Zhong for unified command—whether Tuhai can maintain the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi for the Qing Dynasty depends on the ability of this "toilet loyal"!

Chapter 224 So despicable, my head exploded!

At the same time that the Qing Yao army was forming the formation, Zhu Heqi's three Jinyi troops were also forming the formation.

However, their main force does not have to be far away from the camp, but directly rely on the carefully constructed camps, trenches, and fences to the east of the camp.

This is the benefit that Wu Sangui raised in Yunnan to Zhu Heqi who was far away in Guangdong... Even though Zhaoqing is more than 2000 miles away from Kunming, but Wu Sangui joined forces, Tuhai, Sun Yanling and the others faced the general trend of the world and their own situation The general environment of the world has undergone drastic changes!

Originally, they could have fought a protracted war with Zhu Heqi in Guangdong, and it would be no problem to fight for a few years.But now, they have no choice but to seek a quick victory... Even if they give up their position on the battlefield, they still have to bite the bullet and fight this battle!

Located in the west of Guicheng Capital, backed by Lingshan Mountain, left by Dinghu Mountain, and right by the West River, the Ming Army Camp is just near the mouth of a trumpet-shaped terrain, which is very narrow.The length of the eastern camp that the Ming army needed to deploy heavily was only five miles or less than six miles.With trenches dug in advance, camp walls built, and wooden fences erected, it was enough to throw in a town of 5000 people, and no more could be opened.

So Zhu and Qi divided the three towns they had in hand into three parts.Among them, Jinyi Zuozhen commanded by Zhao Hongkui was on the front line, holding the defense line of the camp.Zhu Heqi also placed two of the three artillery battalions in his hands behind the defense line of the camp... 22 three-pound cannons (24 in total) were all covered by fences and placed on wooden fences early Behind, the black muzzle is like the fangs of a beast, quietly waiting to drink the blood of its prey.

The Jinyiwei Qinjun Town under the command of Su Zhanhai was deployed on the second line as a reserve team, and by the way guarded a river defense artillery barracks at the foot of Lingshan——Zhu Heqi ordered the artillery of the Qinjun Town to rely on the embankment of the Xijiang River to deploy A total of twelve three-jin cannons were placed in this fortress, and the artillerymen were asked to install ten Zhuge cannons for backup, and one or two hundred high-fire oil tanks were also prepared.

Lin Tianbo's Jinyi pro-army Youzhen worked a little harder. After morning tea, they climbed the mountain for "exercise".But they didn't carry the cannon up the mountain, and the artillery battalion they belonged to was assigned to Jinyi's pro-army Zuozhen.

Since neither side sent a small group of troops to interfere with the formation of the other side, the formation of both sides proceeded very quickly.After three quarters of the hour, the formation of the two sides was basically completed, and the commander-in-chief flags of the two armies were already fluttering in their respective formations.

At this time, a few telescopic carts set up watch battles in the formation of the Qing army. Since the Qing army was deployed on a flat and low ground, the chief generals of each department needed to use the telescopic carts to climb up and look far away to peek at the situation of the Ming army's defense line. .

Especially take a good look at what is behind the fence on the Ming army's defense line?

Tu Hai and Zhou Peigong, who had become his confidant, boarded a huge watchtower together. Both of them took out binoculars and scanned the defense line of the Ming army.The several mile-long defense line has returned to tranquility, leaning against the bamboo fence on the wooden fence, artillery and soldiers can be vaguely seen.Behind them, there is a long wall made of sandbags that only reaches the chest height of a person. Behind the long wall, there are forests of spears and pitch-black muskets!

Almost all the Ming soldiers armed with spears and muskets wore armor, some with cloth face armor, some with Western-style plate armor, and ship-shaped helmets made of iron.And on the left side of the defense line of the Ming army camp, on the slope of Dinghu Mountain, among the large forests, there is also a Ming army flag waving in the wind.

Regardless of whether they were up or down the mountain, the two Ming armies were all orderly and silent. Even though they were several miles apart, Tu Hai could still feel the murderous aura coming towards him.

Tuhai felt uneasy for a while. He knew that the army in front of him had only taken a year and a few months from its rise to its current state... If you give them another year or two, God knows what it will develop into?

"Hey, why did the traitor set up an execution ground outside the camp? Who is he trying to kill?" Zhou Peigong seemed to have seen something strange at this moment.

"Execution ground?" Tu Hai hurriedly looked at the direction of Zhou Peigong's finger with the binoculars in his hand, and was taken aback when he saw it, "Then, does that guy who is tied up and about to be knifed look so much like the old King Pingnan?"

Tu Hai hasn't seen Shang Kexi for many years, but Shang Kexi's appearance is quite distinctive, so Tu Hai can barely recognize him.

"Then, it should be to kill the old Pingnan King to sacrifice the flag?" Zhou Peigong said again, "Who is the other person who was stabbed? Is it the old Pingnan King's son?"

"Let me see..." Tuhai aimed the telescope at Li Chenggong, who was kneeling on the ground and was about to be stabbed, "I don't know... it should be the son of King Pingnan Jing! This is the father and son who went to the country on the same day. Respectable! The court's posthumous posthumous title seems very reasonable."

While Tu Hai was talking, there was a sound of horseshoes, and then Wang Shangzhidian of Pingnan cried out: "Zhongtang, Zhongtang...the traitor is going to kill me, Ama! That's my dear Ama... "

Tuhai looked down at Shang Zhidian who was about to faint from crying, and had to order Geshha who was guarding below to put down Wangdou—he had to comfort Shang Zhidian!

Although his father is going to die, but his father is Chengren and Yiyi!That is the highest honor of being a slave of the Qing Dynasty!

But before Tuhai could say these words of enlightenment to Shang Zhidian, the thousands of Ming soldiers on the opposite side had already shouted in Cantonese Mandarin.

"Ping Xibo Wu Sangui has raised his troops against the Qing Dynasty and joined the Ming Dynasty, and will sweep Guangxi soon!

It is gratifying to be rebellious, stubborn, resisting the power of heaven, slaughtering Cantonese people, heinous heinous, today he sacrifices the flag... cut! "

As soon as the word "cut" comes out, it means that the hand is raised and the knife is dropped, and the head falls to the ground!

What landed were two heads!

The unlucky Li Chenggong was also chopped off... and he didn't even give a name.

Cui Liu, the artillery staff officer who was in charge of supervising the beheading at the scene, saw that the heads of Shang Kexi and Li Chenggong had been cut off, so he hurriedly greeted him, "Hurry up, pick it up...bring it here, bring it here, and give it to me while it's hot." Send it back!"

What are you talking about!

The two beheaded Confucians came with their "hot" and bloody heads immediately, and the eyeballs of the two dead heads could still move!Seeing Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai who were kneeling next to him burst into tears.

"Why are you crying? Quickly pack the box, close the lid, and send it back!" Cui Liu urged, while personally taking the two heads, regardless of whether their eyeballs blinked or not, put them in the morning. Just prepared two wooden boxes, and then covered them again.Then he held one of them and handed it to Shang Zhixiao, "This is your Ama's demon head...it's not dead yet, hurry up and take it back, maybe you can let a few brothers see each other for the last time!"

Then he took another wooden box and stuffed it to Li Rucai, "You hold this demon head... take it back and show it to Tu Hai!"

What are these operations?

Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai were speechless for a while—after beheading, they didn't show it to the public, and they were eager to send it back to others, while it was still hot... What kind of rules is this?

However, Shang Zhixiao and Li Rucai did not argue with Cui Liu, they were very obedient, holding two heavy wooden boxes, and ran towards the Qing army formation, yelling as they ran.

"Don't shoot, I'm Shang Zhixiao..."

"Don't shoot, don't shoot arrows, I am a good servant of the Qing Dynasty..."

Of course he won't shoot and shoot arrows, Shang Zhidian on the opposite side has already recognized Shang Zhixiao!That was his own brother, and he was holding the box containing his Amma - Shang Kexi probably wasn't brain-dead yet, so he was staying in that box right now.

And in order to meet his father for the last time, Shang Zhidian also went all out, ran out of the army at full speed, and went to meet his brother Shang Zhixiao.

The two brothers soon met in the formation of the two armies. Shang Zhidian got off his horse while crying, snatched the wooden box from his elder brother, held it in his arms, and burst into tears, "Ama! Ama! The baby is late!" It's..."

Shang Zhixiao also rushed forward and hugged Shang Zhidian, crying loudly: "Ama died so miserable!"

And Li Rucai, who was holding Li Chenggong's head, saw the reunion of his brothers, father and son, and he was very old, and he didn't even marry a wife. howling.

The three of them cried in a circle in the middle of the battlefield. At this time, Shang Zhidian's Goshhas also flew to the three of them, protecting them from the Ming army.

The three of them cried for an unknown amount of time, when Shang Zhidian wanted to open the box and take another look at Ama.Suddenly there was a burst of flames, and the box he was holding exploded!

Chapter 225 This is also the King of the Two Ques!

My head exploded!

No, the head box exploded violently!

The 14 people, including Shang Zhixiao, Shang Zhidian, Li Rucai, and [-] other Shang Zhidian Geshha, were all affected by the blast and all died in this "head explosion" incident... Some died on the spot, Some are seriously injured waiting to die!

And this "head explosion" incident, needless to say, was a thunder attack planned by Zhu Heqi, the grandson of the third grandson of Zhu. The boxes containing the two dead heads were specially modified, with interlayers, hidden inside Two Nitrate Sky Thunder made by Zhu Heqi himself.