Lu Ming

Jingzhong Mountain has beautiful scenery and many scenic spots. It integrates the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.As early as the second year of Jiajing, Ma Yong, the general officer of Jizhen, built the Bixia Palace on the mountain, enshrining the statue of Bixia Yuanjun, and the incense became more and more prosperous.Since then, officers and soldiers of Jizhen, including Qi Jiguang, have often visited the mountain and left many famous stories.

The main purpose of the cross-traversing people to climb the mountain and worship the temple today is to collect local intelligence and investigate the military situation at the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Zhongqi, the newly appointed battalion officer of the Flying Tiger Battalion, after chatting with the old Taoist in Bixia Palace, went out of the palace to the viewing platform in front of the mountain.

The Bixia Palace is full of incense, so the old Taoist just now looks quaint and strange, but he is actually an invisible rich man. The viewing platform is paved with white marble from Fangshan, and the engravings on it are extremely exquisite.

On the viewing platform at this moment, a group of people headed by Qian Tieshan is standing around a set of pocket drones and looking at something.When Zhang Zhongqi walked in and took a look, on the LCD screen of the ground station, there was an aerial picture of Santunying City below.

"How many people are there? The old saying is that there are five or six hundred Tartars."

"Almost." Du Dewei, the vice-captain of the Special Forces, answered, "The same number was used in our initial investigation, and there has been no change in the past two days."

Zhang Zhongqi hummed: "Then when?"

"Tomorrow." Qian Tieshan stood up straight at this time, and looked around the surrounding mountain scenery with his hips on his hips: "Tonight, Lao Du will lead people to investigate again, and then we will have a meeting and wait for the supplies by the way."

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An unnamed valley not far from the foot of Jingzhong Mountain has become the advance base of the troops.This valley has a relatively high terrain, and there is a small river on the side that can provide water, so several rows of grass-green canvas marching tents have already been erected here.

On both sides of the river, two long rows of horses were drinking water with their heads down.A little upstream, the Flying Tigers who had come here earlier were carrying water in canvas buckets and preparing to set up pots for cooking.

Since the main force of the Houjin army had withdrawn, the Tartar soldiers who stayed behind in the cities in the back road had no fighting spirit. In history, after Sun Chengzong organized his troops, he took down all the cities in a single wave. .

The same Ming troops were beaten to the ground by the Eight Banners soldiers not long ago.

And these same Eight Banners soldiers, the first-class Sun Chengzong who had the superior force attacked the city, these people opened the city gate and whistled and ran away, with large and small bags on their horses.

This is what will inevitably happen: the strength of the Eight Banners soldiers is not in the city's offensive and defensive battles. What's more, the cavalry left behind have no long-term supply of food and grass, and their numbers are so small that they can't even fill the city walls.

In this situation, the Flying Tiger Camp, which is already separated from the Santun Camp by a mountain, has begun to camp out ostentatiously, and no longer cares about exposing the problem—the Tatar soldiers have begun to shrink in an all-round way, just waiting for someone to attack the city , There is no need to let go of the probing horse again.

As the soldiers who had been scattered over the past few days returned to the building one after another, the nameless valley became more and more lively, and the smoke continued to rise.

In the evening, a team of temporarily recruited auxiliary horsemen brought the first batch of supplies from outside the mountain on pack horses.

These auxiliary soldiers are the real support personnel.After they parked the convoy at the mountain pass in the south, they transferred the supplies to the pack horses, and then crossed the Baili Mountain Road to send the supplies here.

Seeing the arrival of the first batch of supplies, the cross-travelers who had already set up a temporary headquarters in the valley, no longer have to worry about the future, and began to prepare for the night's reconnaissance activities.At ten o'clock in the evening, the reconnaissance team led by Du Dewei, the deputy commander of the special forces, set off on foot on time.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. The reconnaissance team came out of Jingzhong Mountain Pass, and it was only a mile away from Santun Yingcheng, so there was no need to ride a horse.

Half an hour after departure, the team came to the deserted shanty town outside the moat.The special fighters wearing night vision goggles then released DJI drones equipped with infrared lenses and night vision lenses.

The drones released during the day can only take aerial photos at high altitudes. At this time, the drones released can approach hovering for investigation.Soon, the drone sent a detailed picture of the city, and Qian Tieshan at the Wuminggu headquarters also received the data at the same time.

When Santunying was in the third year of Wanli, Qi Jiguang, who was then the chief military officer of Jizhen, allocated funds for a large-scale maintenance of the city.

The rebuilt Santun Yingcheng is a masonry structure with a wall height of 3 feet, a top width of 1 foot and 5 feet, and a circumference of 7 miles.

There are three main gates in the city: Jingzhong Gate in the south, Binri Gate in the east, and Gongjing Gate in the west.Each gate is also built with heavy gates to strengthen the defense of the city.Fifty meters north of the east and west main gates, there are two side gates, commonly known as Xiaodongmen and Xiaoximen.

The city defense facilities of Santunying are very complete: the hopeful building on the city gate, the Ziji Palace on the north city platform, 5 turrets on the city corner, towers on the east and west gates, and 9 towers evenly arranged along the city platform. An enemy platform.

In addition, there are two water gates in the city, through which the water inside and outside the city can circulate.The water of the moat, 7 feet wide and 3 feet deep, is drawn from the nearby Henghe River. It not only circles the city, but also has a 350 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 7 feet deep Zhenhu Lake outside the east gate.

It's a pity that there is no supporting army to guard such a superb and complete city defense system. This choke point is surrendered.

While investigating the architectural details of the city, the infrared outlines of the Tatar guards wandering around the city wall were also clearly displayed on the LCD screen.

After scouting the city wall, the drone flew to the General Military Mansion inside the city...the main force of the Tartars was there.

Chapter 441 Quietly Entering the Village

Santunying City has a circumference of 7 li, and there are more than 800 barracks in the south of the city. In the city, there are buildings such as the Defense Department, the Governor's Government Office, the Guerrilla Office, the Deputy Commander's Office, and the Commander of the Loyalty Guard.

In the city, there are two east-west horizontal streets and two north-south vertical streets, forming a "well" character, and the town hall is located in the center of the "well" character.There are also 72 streets and alleys in the city, which are intertwined vertically and horizontally, just like a Go board, which is the standard military city regulation of the Ming Dynasty.

Such a large city, under normal circumstances, has less than two to three thousand people, and it is not enough to stand on the top of the city, let alone mobilize reserve troops to defend the city at any time.Therefore, the five or six hundred cavalrymen left here by the Manchu Qing Dynasty were, to put it bluntly, postmen who were used to watch the scene and maintain smooth communication with various places.

Theoretically speaking, this number of soldiers and horses is enough: Zunhua City at the west entrance of the Santunying Corridor is heavily guarded, and the three cities of Luanzhou, Qian'an, and Yongping at the east entrance are also occupied by Erbeile Amin's tribe. Not to mention the Xifeng Pass in the north, the main force of the tens of thousands of post-golden soldiers has just left the pass, and there are still many soldiers and horses stranded in the pass.

Therefore, Santun Yingcheng, located at the confluence of the three roads, is extremely safe at the moment, and there will be no war alarm at all.

Unless someone crossed over... And the crossing people set off from Tianjin in the south with soldiers and horses, pierced through the Baili Mountain Road all the way, and came to the outside of Santunying City.

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The monster with eight iron legs and red eyes was quietly floating in the air, and slowly flew towards the General Military Mansion in the middle of the city.

Most of the Tatar soldiers who stayed in the Santun camp lived in the General Army Mansion.The military city that was originally bustling and noisy, now except for the general soldier's mansion and the fire on the city wall, the rest of the place is dark and dead, and it has long been a ghost city.

The infrared camera on the drone quickly captured the flames in the General Military Mansion—seven or eight piles of bonfires were glowing on the school grounds in the mansion.

The wood removed from the house of the government government is burning, and pigs and sheep are roasting on the bonfire.Groups of Tatar soldiers were drinking and eating meat around the bonfire. Sometimes someone drank too much, and would shake the long sleeves of their leather robes and dance a Mongolian dance; Shoutouts and cheers.

The live broadcast of the happy bonfire party of the Tartar soldiers was all transmitted by the camera to the rear terminal equipment in real time.

In the tent behind the mountain, Qian Tieshan leaned on his arm and stroked the stubble on his chin with one hand, and said playfully at this moment: "Yes, the Mongolian dance is authentic, and it is at the same level as the yurt girls I saw back then."

"Forget about the yurt, Laozi Tuanjian ran to roast a sheep, and was brutally slaughtered."

When Zhang Zhongqi heard the word yurt, he began to recall while shaking his legs.

"No one dares to kill you this time, and the roasted lamb is free." Qian Tieshan grinned: "Tarzi Qingke, let's eat tomorrow."

The reconnaissance team led by Du Dewei not only recorded all the sentry positions on the city wall and the time of changing defenses that night, but also went around the city to investigate all the places suitable for entering the city.

After Du Dewei's team came back in the early morning, several time travelers quickly discussed a plan to take down the three camps: sneak attack at night.

As the first stronghold to be captured by the crossing crowd, the Battle of Santunying must be as fast and concealed as possible - there are still a series of battles to be fought, once the news leaks out, the Tartars in the cities to the east are bound to Be vigilant, or even run away directly, in that case, the loss outweighs the gain.

So in this battle, we can only enter the village quietly and work on the muffler of the gun.And after the incident, the people who travel through will do everything possible to block the news, and it will be a day if they can delay it, so as to buy time for subsequent actions.

After finding the focus of this battle, the plan was released.

In the daytime of the next day, apart from continuing to closely monitor the defenders in the Santun camp, the troops were still silently gathering and resting, and did not take any action.

Undoubtedly, night combat is the most powerful mode of warfare for the cross-travelers with all kinds of high-tech combat equipment, so the special operations team and the Guards Battalion are responsible for leading the charge at this station.

As for most of the indigenous soldiers with cold weapons, although the tasks are heavy, they mainly play an auxiliary role.

From the evening of that day, the temporary camp entered the pre-war silent stage.Everyone is doing the final preparations. Ming people are divided into small teams in their respective squads, and they skillfully listen to their team officers announcing the pre-war mobilization and assigning combat tasks.

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August 1630, 3, night.

The stars are shining brightly tonight, and the moon is shining brightly. It seems that it is not a good day for criminals.However, for the special forces galloping in the seventeenth century, these disadvantages did not constitute a problem.

The vanguard composed of 40 special forces, fully armed, set off from Jingzhong Mountain Pass at Xushizhong (20:[-]), and after a circle in half an hour, they came to the outside of the moat on the north wall of Santunying City in the dark.

Due to defensive reasons in ancient cities, in many cases, the most threatening side of the city wall would not open the city gate.This is the case with Santunying: the wall facing the Great Wall in the north is complete, and there are only gates on the south, east and west sides of the entire city.

The reason why the vanguard went around this wall was because there were the fewest sentry posts on this side.

At the head of the entire Santunying city, there are a total of eight watch posts.This number is quite responsible for the cavalry guarding an empty city and ready to retreat at any time.

According to yesterday's investigation, there are two lookout posts in each of the two turrets in the southeast and southwest of the city.These four watch posts are responsible for observing the east and west routes where the enemy situation is most likely to appear.

In the relatively safe northwest and northeast corner buildings, there is only one person on duty.There are also two mobile sentries, each responsible for patrolling half of the city wall.

The vanguard chose this time to launch the attack because these guard posts had just changed shifts, and as of tomorrow morning, no one would go up the city walls.

When the team detoured to about 100 meters outside the northern city wall, they stopped and started to release the drone first.

Since the north side faces the Great Wall, once the cavalry pass through the pass, they will face the wall immediately, so the shooting area under the city is clean and there is no shelter.This requires the raiders to release the drones in advance to keep track of the movements of the sentries in the two turrets at any time.

When the two drones were released, they quickly monitored the portraits emitting infrared light in the turret.

Seeing that the two portraits were sitting or lying relaxed, Du Dewei, who was leading the team today, immediately waved his hand and ran forward with three men who had already prepared.

Under the bright moonlight, the four bent their waists, tried their best to lighten their steps, and quickly ran across the 100-meter dangerous section and came to the moat.

The moat is not wide. Although it is three feet deep, it is only seven feet wide.The four of them deliberately dressed in simple clothes quietly went down the river and reached the opposite bank in a few seconds.

The opposite bank is at the foot of the city wall, and there is only a narrow edge for foothold.

But this place is enough.After Du Dewei crossed the river, he first contacted the rear with a throat mic, and after receiving the report that everything was normal, two team members took out the rope shooting guns from their backs, aimed at the city and pulled the trigger.

After two soft "bang bang" sounds, the umbrella-shaped rivets were driven into the green bricks at the top of the city.

Next is climbing.The ten-meter-high city wall was not difficult at all in front of the well-trained special forces, and the four of them quickly climbed to the top of the city along the ropes.

Du Dewei's current location was specially chosen, just in the middle of the north city wall.After gesturing to each other, the four of them took out their pistols, and in groups of two, bent their backs, they touched the watchtowers at both ends of the city wall.

The city walls of Santunying have a length of more than 800 meters on each side.Du Dewei bent his back and ran straight forward for 400 meters before he saw the turret.

At this time, he pushed the monocular night vision device on his head to his forehead: there were torches inserted inside and outside the turret, so the night vision device was unnecessary.Then, after hearing the position of the enemy sentry reported in the headset, the next moment, Du Dewei straightened up, stepped forward and pushed open the wooden door of the turret.

Wearing a leather robe, sitting on a pile of straw, the Mongolian sentinel who was munching on half a leg of lamb opened his mouth in surprise when he saw a monster enter the door.

In the consciousness of the sentinel, the whole purpose of his night shift is to observe whether there are torches and horseshoes sounding on the mountain road in the north—this means that there are changes in those passes on the Great Wall.

However, even if he was killed, he would never have imagined that someone would rush to the top of the city?Originally, he thought that the one who opened the door was a floating whistle.

The Mongols had no chance to find out the truth.After Du Dewei entered the door, he raised his pistol and shot at him without saying a word.The P229 pistol with a silencer did not make too much noise in the turret.

After killing the sentry, the two quickly entered the turret, and then closed the door.Not long after, another group of team members "cleared" reports came from the headset.The success of the two groups means that there are no sentries on the north city wall.

Immediately afterwards, the 40 team members under the city also came to the moat.Now that there is no threat from the top of the city, it is naturally impossible for the team members to wet their clothes and equipment for the two-meter-wide moat, so a simple cross-board was quickly erected here.

After the few people in front crossed the river, they followed the steel cable to the top of the city, and then threw down a few soft ladders, and then all the team members climbed up one after another.

During this process, the four team members hiding in the two turrets have been monitoring the two southern city walls, waiting for the arrival of the mobile sentry.

The patrol time of the two mobile sentries is not synchronized, but generally they come every hour.This time Du Dewei won the prize first, and shortly after the team members under the city wall had just reached the top of the wall, a floating sentry walked along the dark city wall, and Shi Shiran walked over.

After being reminded by the drone, the turret was ready.

The next moment, the wooden door was opened again, and an Eight Banners soldier wearing leather armor and a pig's tail walked in.

In the dim turret, a Mongolian in a leather robe was lying on his side in the haystack, seemingly sleeping, without making a sound.

"Urihan, you stupid pig, how dare you..."

The Tatar soldiers who entered the door were full of anger. After shouting at the Mongols in Manchu, he suddenly froze. Two torches were extinguished, and there was a smell of blood. After the Tatar soldiers who had killed too many people smelled the smell, they immediately felt something was wrong.

However, he was still too late: two pistols protruding from the corner fired at the same time, and the Tatar soldier was knocked to the ground after only drawing half of his waist knife.

Chapter 442 Contact

Half of the team members moved over after Du Dewei killed the floating sentry in the northwest corner.The other half were still waiting at the north city wall.

While waiting for the second floating post, the four of Du Dewei took off their previous wet military uniforms, dried their bodies, put on a full set of camouflage, and carried assault rifles on their backs.

After everything was ready, it was a long time before the second floating whistle came up.

Looking at his watch, he found that it was already 9:[-] in the evening. Du Dewei couldn't help feeling a little anxious: There are still a large number of troops waiting to launch an attack behind Jing Zhongshan, so it's not a problem to wait like this?

Just when he was about to forcefully send someone to rush in and kill all three sentries in one fell swoop, the remaining floating sentry finally moved.

In the whining night wind, above the east wall of Santunying City, about 20 meters away in the air, a small figure emitting infrared spectrum appeared in the hovering drone lens.

After waiting patiently for nearly 10 minutes, the wandering whistle that wandered all the way finally entered the gate of the watchtower in the northeast corner.

The moment the mobile sentry entered the gate, the remaining team members hidden in the north city wall began to move there. At the same time, Du Dewei heard the report that the mobile sentry had been cleared.

After the two teams that were divided into two were in place, Du Dewei began to follow the same pattern, ordering four teams from each group to use the cover of the city wall to go to the two turrets below to clean up the sentries.

For a city with a circumference of 7 miles, as long as someone does not launch flag flower rockets from the turret into the sky, or blow gongs and horns on the spot, the people in the general military mansion in the city will never hear the sound of ordinary silencer guns.

So when the two dedicated sentries were still watching the night in the direction of Zunhua, they were pierced through the back by the raiders who opened the door.

After controlling the two turrets in the southwest and southeast, the wall of Santun Yingcheng was completely occupied by special forces.

At this time, Du Dewei, who breathed a sigh of relief, began to order again and again: eight team members served as lookout posts at the four corners, and the other 20 people went down the city wall and began to infiltrate near the General Military Mansion, ready to attack and deal with emergencies at any time.

The rest of the team began to apply lubricating oil to the winches and ropes of the tower—putting down the drawbridge and opening the city gate.

The south gate facing Jingzhong Mountain is the most convenient gate to lead troops into the city.Just as the team members were putting down the suspension bridge, 200 guard battalion soldiers with guns on their backs came out of Jingzhong Pass quietly.

After crossing the short mountain road, when the soldiers of the Guards Battalion came to the moat, the suspension bridge on the city had fallen silently, and the latch of the city gate had also been removed. At the dark gate, several torches were lighting a circle of fire, leading the soldiers into town.

Under the command of a tall second lieutenant with a purple birthmark on half of his face, the well-trained soldiers began to change their formation, from four rows to two rows, and then walked across the suspension bridge with light steps.

At this moment, a burst of gunfire sounded like popping beans from the city.

……

After Mu Zhang'a stretched his waist and yawned long, he took a drink break and felt the urge to urinate, so he planned to release water on the spot.

Just as he was unbuttoning his trouser belt, several people who were still awake at the side began to shout and curse: "Mu Zhang, you wild roe deer, get away from the show."