Lu Ming

With such a large amount of smoke and dust, there must be a large number of cavalry approaching. This point can be judged by all the bannermen standing at the head of Qian'an City at this moment.

But the identity of the visitor is a mystery.

Because just yesterday afternoon, when the messenger from Zunhua passed through Qian'an County, he reported that he was safe.In this way, even if Zunhua was attacked by the Ming army yesterday, it would be impossible to retreat so quickly?

Besides, even if all the flag soldiers from Zunhua and Santunying abandoned the city, they should not go south to Qian'an after leaving the east entrance of the corridor. Is it reasonable to leave customs?

So Hutto was confused... He and his subordinates were confused at the moment, they really couldn't figure out who was coming from the opposite side.

But in any case, since a large group of cavalry is coming from afar, preparations still need to be done.So Hutto ordered the four gates of the county seat to be closed and the suspension bridge pulled up.

As for the Ming people in the Guanxiang under the city... These people are already very experienced in fighting soldiers. When they saw the city gate suddenly closed, they started to run to the mountainous area west of the Luan River.

It didn't take long for a cavalry team to arrive at Qian'an, a county town half surrounded by the Luan River.

Then the identity of the person who came was also clarified: Cao, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Tongzhi Xie Shou Zhangchao and other departments stationed in Nan'ao, was commanded by the department.

"It's actually the Ming army!?" After seeing the opponent's flag clearly, Heto was dumbfounded: "How is this possible?"

Heto was illiterate, including all the Tatar soldiers on the top of the city, but this did not prevent them from identifying their opponents: even though the visitor was wearing a strange one-piece green jacket, the two Ming flags in the front were As well as the square characters on the flag, they all revealed the identity of the comer.

Soon, an old man dressed in official uniform was brought to the top of the city.

At this time, 500 cavalry had already dismounted in the open space outside the city, and some of them took out water bags and hung them around the horses' necks.

"Which army came?" Hutto couldn't speak Chinese, but there was an interpreter beside him, so the interpreter asked in blunt Chinese, pointing to the flag.

After being brought up to the city wall, the old official in the county took a look at it, then recalled it, and then said to the translator: "Vice Lord, it is the army of King Qin from Fujian in the south, and the chief general is a deputy commander, surnamed Cao."

"WHAT?"

Hutto still didn't understand - don't use the template of later generations to set this information-poor era, none of these Tartars in the city knows the exact location of Fujian.

The old official was helpless, and explained a few more sentences: Fujian is south of the Yangtze River, and the deputy general of Zhangchao is probably on a large island outside Fujian.

"Bastard! Then how did this group of sea dogs get to my Qian'an County!?"

After Heto finally understood it, he couldn't help being furious, and he couldn't understand more and more: If they came from the sea, then there was no news from Yongping Mansion, which is closer to the sea in the east, and this group of people rushed to Qian'an inland. up?

Then he figured it out: "This group of people must have landed a long time ago, and they came in from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they wouldn't have come down from the north."

"Wolf smoke, let go of wolf smoke!"

Putting his hands on the top of the wall, he stared viciously at the group of people below the wall for a few times, and Hutto decided to set off a warning signal first.After he had calmed down just now, he had faintly realized that something was wrong: a large group of cavalry came from the north, but the Santun Camp did not call the police... There was always something wrong in the direction of Zunhua and Santun Camp.

Once the smoke is released, no matter whether the opponent has follow-up soldiers or not, Yongping and Luanzhou will raise their vigilance and send out sentries, so that they won't know until they are beaten to the bottom of the city like him.

After setting off the smoke, Hutto ordered messengers to go out of the city to report the news of the soldiers and horses to the neighbors.

After everything was done, Hetuo settled down and carefully looked at the group of Ming troops under the city.After a closer look and counting, Heto found that this group of people seemed to be powerful, but in fact they were not strong?

The total number of soldiers wearing green jackets in the city is only over five hundred, and two hundred of them are spearmen with bird guns... there are dozens of soldiers in floral clothes, probably auxiliary soldiers, standing in the back row.

Counting the horses again, Hutto now knows why this mere 500 people can create a noisy momentum: this group is actually one person with two horses, and now there are thousands of good horses gathered in the city!

"Is the general of the Ming army in the south rich?" Heto looked greedily at the bottom of the city, and all he saw was a group of handsome and good-looking northern horses.

These thousands of horses undoubtedly represent a huge sum of money.In the current situation of frequent wars in Ming Dynasty, 20 taels of silver may not be able to buy a good horse, so this is a huge wealth of more than [-] taels.

Heto, who has been in charge of the five Niulu all the year round and is already regarded as a high-ranking officer in the Xianglan Banner, must understand this value, so he is carefully weighing the possibility of leading troops to fight out.

Heto, Jiala Ezhen, is theoretically in charge of five cattle records and 500 people.However, since the army left the customs, Heto, who stayed here as a nail household in Qian'an, only left 400 people to deal with errands, so he didn't go out of the city for the first time today to fight. After all, he didn't know the details of these weird opponents.

Looking at it carefully now, the group of people under the city are purely rookies from the sea!

Right in front of Heto at this moment, two cavalrymen wearing green jackets and holding large banners were running across the city, waving the banners in their hands along the way, as if they were provoking the Tartars at the top of the city, attracting waves of people. cheer.

Next came the shooting performance: a cavalryman holding a three-eyed gun also galloped past the city, and then the tide-maker shot at the city head again and again, as if he could hit a certain Tartar soldier...the last shot was accidentally The gun exploded, and the guy threw away his gun in fright, and the cheers from the hundreds of people nearby were silenced as if they had been strangled by a chicken.

"Is this group of people sent by monkeys to be funny?" If the Tatar soldiers on the top of the city had ever surfed the Internet, they would definitely say this now.

This kind of provocative technique can no longer be described as clumsy. It not only exposed the details of this group of people, but also exposed their poor equipment.

Heto, who had dealt with the Guan Ning Jiangmen Group for many years, finally came to a conclusion for the mentally handicapped people in the city: "It's probably another general from the Ming Dynasty who was sent to die because of internal strife."

Niu Luerzhen, a close comrade standing beside Heto, who is also Heto's half-brother, Daheren, who knew Heto's thoughts well, said in a deep voice, "500 people, two hundred bird guns , only three hundred swordsmen."

Heto sneered, turned his head to the other chiefs of the city and asked, "A thousand good horses, do you want to fight them or not?"

At this time in the Qing Dynasty, there were not so many superiors and inferiors, so after hearing Heto's question, one of the Niu Lu immediately shouted: "Four hundred warriors beat five hundred smart dogs, Heto, what are you waiting for? I am afraid that you will be captured." Are your horses biting your hands too much?"

After seeing the number of visitors clearly, the rest of the gang leaders wanted to go out of the city to kill these gangsters. Now that Hutto spoke, everyone was naturally enthusiastic.

Not to mention four hundred, they have experienced the scene of a hundred Tatar soldiers chasing and killing five hundred Ming soldiers many times, not to mention that there are two hundred musketeers in the group below the city—the musketeers are in the eyes of the Tatar soldiers. Li is not a human being at all.

Send Bao Yi to watch on the tower, if any more cavalry come over, send a letter and report!

After Heto arranged for the lookout post, he drew his waist knife, stood on the top of the wall and shouted, "Put on your armor! Follow me out and kill these idiots!"

"Whoo!"

Five minutes later, Qian Tieshan, who was at the end of the line, looked at the watch on his wrist as he watched the suspension bridge slowly lowering and the city gate gradually opening, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief: "Finally, I have tricked these idiots out. If you don't come out, I will attack by force!"

Chapter 447

Although the offensive plan of the cross-traversing crowd is very flexible this time, in any case, Qian'an County, which is the first hurdle, is bound to be taken quickly.

Only by taking this place as soon as possible can the people who travel through can calmly deal with the next situation.

As expected, the Tartars on the top of the city lit the beacon and sent out messengers as soon as they saw the crossing crowd.Now the soldiers and horses of Luanzhou and Yongping must have moved, and Qian Tieshan must end the battle as soon as possible.

Therefore, if Hutto could not come out of the city to fight, it would not affect the ending of his imminent destruction-at most half an hour later, when Qian Tieshan found that the Tartars could not defend, he would order a strong attack.

There is no technical difficulty in storming. Whether it is a suspension bridge or a city gate, it will not work in front of the crowd.

The reason why they don't want to attack by force is because once they start fighting inside the county, the scene will easily become chaotic, the city will easily catch fire and burn their own people, and many enemies will flee.

Therefore, it is the best choice to lure out the soldiers and horses defending the city, but if the opponent is really unable to defend, in order to hurry up, they can only attack by force.

The gate of the city opened slowly, and when Heto and Daheren took the lead and rushed out of the gate tower with 380 armored elites, the green-coated army on the opposite side stepped back dozens of steps with shouts?

Heto, who was dressed in iron armor and wearing a classic braided iron helmet, couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene—it was the first time he had encountered a cavalryman who retreated before the fight started.

The retreat of the green jacket army just left the best attacking space for the Tatar cavalry.

Normally, against the Ming army equipped with bird blunderbuss and three-eyed blunderbuss, Tatar cavalry would charge repeatedly at a safe distance, luring the opponent to fire ahead of time, and then crush the enemy's formation at once.

This combat mode accompanied the Tartar soldiers all the way from Baishan Heishui to the foot of the capital, and it worked every time, and it worked every time. The Ming army never let everyone down.

Today, the performance of this group of green jacket soldiers has once again refreshed the three views of the uncle under the banner.Heto's current state of mind is like the tiger in Guizhou's donkey. He has completely seen through the weakness and incompetence of his opponent: "Who gave these idiots the courage to come here to tease our men?"

Reining in the horse's reins in the open space in front of the suspension bridge, Hutto looked happily at the silly dog ​​opposite him while waiting for his own cavalry to gather. Three minutes later, the elite Tatar cavalry had formed a regular formation of cavalry behind Heto, and the two armies faced each other far away.

Due to the opponent's retreat just now, the Tartars had room to turn around and repeat.The distance between the two armies is now 150 meters, and the Tatar cavalry can rush to a safe distance of 70 meters and play tricks to lure the opponent to fire.

The next moment, Hutto drew out his saber, raised his arms high, and drew three circles counterclockwise in the air.The more than 300 Tatar soldiers who had been cooperating for many years understood at this moment, and they held up their sabers and began to urge their horses forward.

The rumble of approaching horseshoes accompanied by strange screams, coupled with these bloody and murderous Tatar soldiers, the atmosphere on the battlefield was indeed raised to an extremely tense level.

Heto, who was at the forefront, had already run 50 meters away.As he expected, the soldiers on horseback on the opposite side began to raise their guns.

Hutto was absolutely sure that when he rushed forward another 30 to [-] meters, the opponent would shoot—first one or two scumbags who couldn't hold their urine would fire, and then everyone would pull the trigger.

For Heto, who was wearing heavy armor, even at a distance of 50 meters, these sub-drugs would only hurt at most, and would not cause substantial damage to him.

So he swung his saber vigorously, roared loudly, and tried his best to create an aura of charging forward.But in fact, the rein in his hand did not relax, and the horse under his crotch would turn and move sideways under his control at any time, crossing the front of the opponent's formation.

The next moment, Hutto rushed to a distance of 70 meters, and there was still a distance of 80 meters between the two sides.

At the same time, the gunners on the opposite side fired two volleys in unison.

Seeing the neat white smoke coming out of the formation, Heto grinned: As expected, these cowards from the south are far worse than the frontier soldiers, and they opened fire at such a distance.

Then he flew up.

Hutto was the most eye-catching when charging, so he was shot four times in the first place.After the huge impact was evenly distributed by the iron armor, his buttocks were pushed back, blood was pouring out of his mouth, and he flew straight up on the horse.

At this moment, time becomes extremely slow.Heto flew in the air, first glanced at the severed arm flying beside him in surprise, and then he saw the stream of fire sprayed out from the hands of those pied-clothed auxiliary soldiers in the corner of the opponent's formation.

In the end, when Heto slammed heavily on the corpse behind him, spurting blood from his mouth, and looking up at the starry sky, a thought crossed his mind: It turned out that this group of people retreated to prevent us from escaping back...

……

Starting from Tianjin, after walking through the plain for two hundred miles, the upper left corner is the capital city.If you go straight to the north, you will pass through a section of Yanshan Mountain, and you will be Santunying.

If you go to the upper right corner and pass through the plains around Tangshan, you will go around to Luan County below Qian'an.

In the Ming Dynasty, Luan County was called Luanzhou, and the city got its name from the Luan River.

Since Luanzhou blocked the main roads from the North China Plain to the cities of Qian'an and Yongping, the geographical location is more important. When the crossing crowd launched an attack, more than 800 Tatar soldiers gathered in Luanzhou city.

Early this morning, when the city of Luanzhou saw the smoke billowing up in the northern sky, the Xianglan Banner Jiala Erzhen Namutai, who was in charge of the defense, immediately began to gather troops and horses, opened the north gate and went to reinforce Qian'an.

Namutai fought bravely and executed orders without compromise. From another perspective, he was a bit stubborn.

In history, when Sun Chengzong led his troops to recapture the cities of Zunhua Qian'an and Yongping, there was a formal exchange of fire between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the only thing the Ming army gained was in Luanzhou.

At that time, the Tartar soldiers in Luanzhou City, under the command of Namutai, once opened up their posture and defended the city for three days.

Amin learned that Luanzhou was besieged in Yongping, so he sent general Baduli to lead hundreds of troops to help, and at the same time withdrew the guards in Qian'an and other places to Yongping.

After the Ming army drove away Baduli's reinforcements, they began to bombard Luanzhou City with Hongyi cannons.The guard Namutai felt unable to hold on after three days, and finally abandoned the city, and his troops dispersed to Yongping.

On the way to escape, Namutai's men were intercepted by the Ming army Ma Rulong, losing more than [-] people.Then Amin ordered the entire line to retreat out of Shanhaiguan and return to Shenyang. The Ming army recovered Luanzhou and other four cities.

That is to say, in the so-called "Zunyong Great Victory" in history, Sun Chengzong mobilized an army of 10,000+ King Qin to attack the four cities, but Amin calmly withdrew his troops and slaughtered Yongping at the end. Only the 400 people who were intercepted were dispersed.

In short, Comrade Namutai fought bravely and went straight, which is not discounted.

In history, after the Ming army attacked, he could persist in defending the city for three days. Then, after traveling through the plane of the masses and seeing the smoke from Qian'an, he also didn't think too much, and immediately called the city to defend the city. Half of the soldiers and horses went out of the city to rescue.

It didn't take long for a 400-man cavalry team to reach Qian'an, because the distance between the two sides was only more than fifty miles.

At this point in time, it was the time when Hutto unified his thoughts with his subordinates on the tower and prepared to go down and fight with the crossing crowd.

However, Namutai's reinforcements were forced to suspend just fifteen miles out of the city.

The reinforcements walked along the official road. At first, they went smoothly without encountering any obstacles, but as they were walking, Namutai suddenly saw that the front team had stopped moving.Then when he urged his horse to the front of the team and pushed aside his subordinates who were crowded into a large circle, he couldn't help but sucked in a breath of cold air.

On the official road in front of Namutai, at some point someone used sharp wooden stakes to tie a circle around his horse.The workmanship of this circle is very rough, that is, some branches have been cut and sharpened and inserted into the soil. The color on the branches is still very fresh, and it has not been more than an hour.

Ordinarily, one or two people can pull out all the branches of this kind of shoddy horse, but there is something strange among the horses-a wooden stake half a person's height is erected, and a two-foot-high wooden stake is placed on top of it. A square iron box.

After seeing this scene, Namutai immediately began to look around.The matter is not based on the horses themselves: since someone has set up this strange formation on the official road, it is to stop the cavalry.So Namutai quickly scanned to see if there was any terrain suitable for an ambush nearby.

In the end, there was nothing - in Namutai's sight, except for a forest 300 meters away, the rest was a flat river.

And this forest is so small that it can't even hide 100 people, let alone an army that can eat [-] Manchu soldiers in an ambush.

So after looking around, Namutai focused his attention again: "Tear down the horse."

Someone at the side heard the sound and got off the horse. After getting up, he easily kicked and threw the circle of pointed wooden poles that were carelessly inserted into the soil, which could not even be called according to the horse, by the side of the road.

"Bring the box here, don't open it."

After hearing the sound, his subordinates walked around the wooden post first, and after finding no mechanism, they stretched out their arms, and "lifted" the dark green iron from the wooden post with some difficulty under the eyes of everyone. The box—there is a handle on the box, just enough to carry it.

"Daniu Lu, there is something in this box, it is estimated to be bricks and stones, and it has some weight."

Sitting on the horse, Namutai did not answer, but raised his hands slightly, signaling his subordinates to raise the box, and then began to study the box in front of him carefully.

The dark green iron box is square, shining with a strange metallic luster.On the side facing Namutai, there are some ghostly symbols painted on with white paint, just like the chalk symbols painted on the foreheads and faces by warriors before going out to battle.

After Namutai took a closer look, he found that he didn't recognize any of these symbols, including the three letters "USA" in uppercase, which he couldn't understand at all.

Namutai still didn't touch the monster, but shook his finger, signaling his subordinates to turn the box around.

On the other side of the box, there were still ghost symbols. Namutai leaned slightly on the horse at this time, with his cheek close to the box, staring at the three letters "TNT" and frowning as he recalled.

The next moment, the box exploded.

It contained a full twenty pounds of TNT, the American standard.

Chapter 448

After a loud "boom", with the iron box as the center, a small mushroom cloud rose on the spot.

Due to the high energy density, in fact, all the shells and explosives of later generations can produce mushroom cloud effects, the difference is nothing more than the scale.

Each kilogram of TNT explosives can produce 420 million joules of energy, which is equivalent to the lethality of 200 melon grenades.The total energy produced by the 20 pounds of TNT in the iron box is 3800 million joules... The minimum standard for a bullet to kill is only 78 joules.

In the blink of an eye, a bright and dazzling ball of light rose, accompanied by a violent explosion. Within 0.1 second, the violent shock wave exploded in the form of a fireball, and a large crater with a radius of five meters appeared on the ground. All living things within 20 meters of the center of the explosion were all blown into pieces.

In the first moment of the explosion, the Namutai closest to the box was vaporized—the TNT made by the US imperialists contained a combustion accelerant. At this moment, Namutay only had armor iron pieces still burning violently.