Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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When the smoke from the "iron fist" fired by the Ming army's cavalry dispersed, the first trench in front of the Dajin Gate had been captured by the Ming army, and the Ming army had almost wiped out the two assistant leaders Sun Sike sent out to grab the silver. Qing Bing!

Seeing that the Ming army did not forcefully charge the second ditch in front of the Dajinmen, Sun Sike, who was standing in a doorway of the Dajinmen and supervised the battle, was relieved. Ah! If it were Wu Sangui, he would definitely not stop easily, and even if he used corpses to fill it, he would also fill the second ditch... Maybe he would rush into the Golden Gate in one go!"

It’s not unreasonable for him to say this, because he has a total of thousands of people in Dajinmen and Sifang City—this place is not very open, if too many people are crowded there, it will be fun if a rocket bomb hits them It's big.However, 500 of them were sent to rob money, and now all of them have been killed and robbed.

Therefore, the number of defenders on Dajinmen and Sifang City is insufficient. If the Ming army rushed up, these two strongholds would have to be lost, and Sun Sike would have to return to Sun Quan's tomb.

Just when Sun Sike wanted to call in some more troops to strengthen the defense, the battlefield that had just quieted down suddenly became noisy again.

This time it was not the sound of guns and artillery, but the yelling of the Qing infantry who had just been captured.

"The brothers on the Great Golden Gate listen up, the third grandson, Renyi, has spared us from dying!"

"Not only will you not die, but those who are willing to serve the Ming Dynasty can also serve as Ming soldiers, and those who are unwilling to fight will be paid to go home... We are caught like this and still have ten taels of silver. If we voluntarily go down the mountain and surrender, we can get ten catties of silver !"

"It's ten catties. Wouldn't it be good to take it home to marry a woman and buy dozens of acres of land?"

"Stop fighting, go down the mountain and surrender!"

"Sun Junmen, you should go down the mountain and surrender! The third grandson knows that you are a good man. He can make you a governor, an earl, and give you 20 taels of silver!"

Hearing these words, Sun Sike's face, which had just calmed down, turned livid again.

This third grandson of Zhu not only does not know how to fight, but also does not abide by martial ethics!

You just have to fight hard in the war, why spend so much money on it?There are [-] defenders in the Jiangnan camp!If you buy ten catties of silver alone, that's one hundred thousand catties... Isn't this also Wude?

Sun Sike was on fire, and the people down the mountain were shouting again: "Pay money, go home!"

Sun Sike hurriedly raised the binoculars to look, and found out that a sandbag wall had been erected at the Xianxia Mafang at some point, and the sound came from behind the wall.

Then he heard someone yelling in Mandarin with a Cantonese accent: "Bai Muyou, Baijiazhuang, Penglai County, Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, give ten taels of silver and send it back to my hometown!"

"Thanks to the third grandson, Tianen, long live the third grandson!"

"Beizhili's Tianjin government, Guo Zhongzhu, issued ten taels of silver and returned it to his hometown!"

"Thank you, third grandson, Tianen..."

"Xie Jun, Shuntian Mansion, Beizhili, issued ten taels of silver, and returned it to his hometown..."

"Wen Zeqian, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, will issue ten taels of silver and return it to his hometown!"

Sun Sike was in a hurry, and he roared: "The surname is Zhu, if you have the ability, you can fight with real swords and guns, what kind of hero is it if you throw money at it!"

The Cantonese accent laughed and said: "Hahaha, the surname is Sun, my family's third grandson has a lot of money, if you don't surrender, I will use the money to smash you to death!"

There is plenty of money... This is a meeting with a local tyrant!

Sun Sike is so heartbroken!He is so good at fighting, siege, field battle, and defending the city, there is nothing he is not proficient in, but now he meets a local tyrant who spends money!

How is this fight going?

The people below have been shaken!

It's still dark now, and he can still stare at it. If it gets dark, there will be a large group of people who will go to the mountains and forests to seek refuge.

Because this Zijin Mountain is the tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, it was not allowed to be cut down during the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty was gone, the population of Jiangning dropped sharply, and the demand for wood decreased.

Therefore, the trees on Zijin Mountain are extremely dense... Moreover, the Zijin Mountain is not very steep and does not occupy a large area. If you really want to drill into the forest, you can easily go to Zhu Heqi.

Maybe you can run a few thousand tonight, and by the day tomorrow, it will be the collapse of the army!

Thinking of this, Sun Sike said to Emperor Kangxi who was far away in Huai'an: "Your Majesty, the slave can't keep the camp in the south of the Yangtze River, and the slave has met a local tyrant..."

But Sun Sike is Sun Sike after all, it is impossible to surrender, and it is impossible to surrender in this life!

And he will not allow the people below to surrender casually!

Thinking of this, Sun Sike shouted: "The surname is Zhu, if you have the ability, let's fight in an upright manner, and we will fight to the death under the Zijin Mountain! Do you have the guts?"

And Yamashita's answer was: "Send money...go back to my hometown!"

Chapter 418 For the sake of the emperor, let's die together!

Of course Zhu and Qi would not allow Sun Sike to go down the mountain for a decisive battle.

He is a local tyrant who knows how to fight!

Although the southern slope of Zijin Mountain is not steep, it is not considered open because of the extremely dense forests - there is no problem for small groups of skirmishers to pass through there, but there is no formation for large troops to go down the mountain through such dense forests. .Moreover, heavy weapons such as artillery and cavalry are more difficult to go down the mountain through the woods.

If it was just some chaotic infantry rushing down, wouldn't they be mowed down by the cuirassiers of the Ming army?

So Sun Sike wanted to use the decisive battle down the mountain as a bait to trick Zhu Heqi into retreating his troops to the front line of Xiaolingwei.In this way, Sun Sike will be able to set up an formation in Xiamafang.

The terrain of Xiamafang is relatively open, and it also has a condescending location compared to Xiaoling Acropolis.If he could set up an formation in Xiamafang, then Sun Sike's chances of winning would be much greater.

But the local tyrants Zhu Heqi also started their business by cutting people, so how can they not know how to use the terrain?

Now that the Ming army occupied the first trench dug by the Qing army itself, it actually blocked the Qing army in the narrow terrain halfway up the mountain.

Sun Sike's [-]-strong army could not deploy on this terrain, and the Ming army still had ready-made trenches and fences to rely on. With a little modification, it could be used to resist the Qing army's offensive.

Although the Qing army is still standing on the commanding heights, it can rush down from the heights.However, in this narrow terrain, facing the Ming army with superior firepower and relying on fortifications, using a group of 2000 people to launch a series of strong attacks is to give away heads.

Of course, it would be extremely difficult for the Ming army to launch an upward attack on strongholds such as Dajinmen and Sifang City, which are located at high places and have strong fortifications.

It's not that they can't be defeated, but it's time-consuming, labor-intensive, and life-consuming... On the other side of Anqing, Zhuge's military division has only just advanced around the main city of Anqing after months of grinding.

But with Zijin Mountain's terrain and Sun Sike's ability, even if Zhu and Qi let go of the fight, it is more than enough to defend for three to five months.

But now Zhu Heqi is very disrespectful of martial arts and took out more than 100 million taels of silver to put silver bullets-this is blatant bribery, this is war corruption, and it is an act of disregarding martial arts!

Faced with Zhu Heqi, a local tyrant who can fight and has money and is willing to spend money, Sun Sike is at a loss.The opponents he has met since joining the army are not so "proud and inhuman"!

And based on his understanding of the moral integrity of the new Eight Banners soldiers under his command, under the temptation of "ten catties of silver" and "leaving alive", half of his army may disperse tonight...

So he had to fight it out before everyone knew the terms of the surrender induced by the third grandson of Zhu!

After his request to go down the mountain for a decisive battle was rejected, he had no choice but to grit his teeth, and said to Geshha beside him: "Put the official's general flag in Sun Quan's tomb... and then send all the leaders, Zuo Ling called to Sun Quan's tomb!"

After saying this, Sun Sike stopped staying inside the Golden Gate, but, surrounded by a part of Geshha, he strode towards Sun Quan's tomb located about one mile northwest of Sifang City—he was going to send his Chinese army to the tomb. Put it there, and then mobilize the main force to attack the Ming army at the foot of the mountain!

This Sun Quan's surname is Sun, and Sun Sike's surname is also Sun, maybe there is some relationship between them?Put the Chinese army on Sun Quan's grave, maybe you can get a little blessing!

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"Jianguo, Sun Sike's general flag seems to have been moved to Sun Quan's tomb! It seems that he wants to use Sun Quan's tomb as the location of the Chinese army to fight us."

"Okay! Now let's play the Gu family's supervisor flag, the Gu family will be supervising the battle on the tower of Xiaoling Acropolis today!

Little Zhuge, I'm counting on you on the front line... You must guard the trench in front of the Great Golden Gate, and you must not let the Qing Yao break through!As long as we can stay until dark, we will win! "

Zhu Heqi is also "behaved" now, and dare not take the lead anymore.So he sat in Xiaoling Acropolis, and then handed over the command of the former enemy to Zhuge Zhengyang, the son of Zhuge Sanhe.

Although this Zhuge Zhengyang is young, only in his early twenties this year, he is one of the most capable generals under Zhu Heqi.

Zhu Heqi now "has money and sugar for a reason." If there is anything that is worse, it is that there are not many famous generals under his command.Not counting those pirates, but only land generals, the more reliable ones are Zhuge Sanhe, Zhuge Zhengyang, Ling Zongjun, Su Zhanhai, Zhao Hongkui, Zhao Desheng, Liu Jinzhong... Oh, and his father Zhu Tianwang It's okay too.

And the "Zhuge No. [-]" sent by him this time is the most capable one among the generals of the Ming army town.

Regardless of his young age, he had studied the "sugar medicine weapon tactics" with Zhu and Qi earlier, and made a lot of achievements. He can be regarded as one of the few people who understand sugar medicine best in the world.Moreover, he is also a "Zhuge" who can pinch and count, and the people below are also a little superstitious about him.Therefore, when he led the troops, he had a strong execution ability, and the people under him did not dare to steal and play tricks, and they believed in his military orders.

Moreover, he is young, smart, and probably has a high IQ, so he has a strong learning ability.Not only did I understand Baitang with Zhu and Qi, but I also recently learned the latest European army tactics from "foreign consultants" such as Leibniz and Barthes, and gained some experience.

So Zhu Heqi is more at ease in handing over the soldiers to him.

And Zhuge Zhengyang's tactics are not complicated at all, that is, use three infantry battalions of flintlock guns and a field artillery company to stand outside the Golden Gate together, and defend the trench!

At the same time, rocket launchers were deployed in Xiamafang to bombard Sifang City, Shinto, and Sun Quan's tomb!

In addition, Xiao Zhuge placed the cavalry on the edge of Xiaoling Weicheng, which can not only protect Zhu Heqi, but also prevent the Qing army from jumping over the wall and going directly down the mountain from the forest.

The rest of the infantry battalions were placed in the open space to the south and west of Xiamafang, to protect the rear of the three fusiliers battalions on the front line; and to serve as a reserve team.

And Zhuge Zhengyang's own central army was placed near the artillery position in Xiamafang.

While Zhuge Zhengyang was busy dispatching troops, Sun Sike was also arranging for a decisive battle!

There is not much time left for him... It is almost noon now!

When it gets dark, more than half of his army may flee.Then... it's dead!

In such a situation, if you want to replace it with ordinary slaves, most of them will surrender.

But Sun Sike is not an ordinary slave, he is a slave who really loves Kang Mazi, a good slave who is willing to die for Mazi!

So when he was waiting for the following leaders and assistants to come to Sun Quan's tomb, he had already asked people to take out all the money he had brought to Zijin Mountain—more than [-] taels.

However, the money did not come from Sun Sike's embezzlement, but the military pay and rewards of the Jiangnan Camp that Kangxi had advanced for the next year, and Sun Sike's own savings.Among them, his savings are only more than 1000 taels of silver, and now he doesn't want it anymore, and he plans to share it with everyone!

"Brothers... you must know the current situation!" Sun Sike's eyes were full of tears, his face was full of loyalty and solemnity, "The surname Zhu didn't talk about martial arts, and he offered more than 100 million taels of silver to buy our soldiers Most of our subordinates are the New Eight Banners. They came here for money, and their family members are not guarding in Beijing. To the Qing Dynasty and the emperor...

In short, we people can't do it if we don't fight!If you don't fight, I'm sorry for the emperor, and it won't end well if it falls into the hands of Zhu.Even if you don't kill him for the time being, you can't escape the fall! "

Sun Sike not only loves Mazi Kang, but also knows what it is to be yourself?Do you know who the officers following him are?

He paused, then pointed to the money in front of him, and said, "Most of this money is the military salary issued by the emperor, and more than 1000 taels are Sun's private savings. Now take it all out and distribute it to the soldiers below!

In addition, I told the people below... as long as the bandit army under Zijin Mountain is defeated, Jiangning City will be theirs.

Take down Jiangning City this time and let them go for 20 days! "

Looting is the Qing Dynasty's "money ability"!

Historically, those armies at the end of the Ming Dynasty were all boring when they followed Chongzhen, but they were all kinds of brave when they voted for the Qing Dynasty, which was supported by the benefits of looting.

It's a pity that this system didn't work well when we fought against imperialism later. The government offices in London, Paris, Berlin, and Petersburg are all tens of thousands of miles away, so we can't grab them at all!

But this time, Jiang Ning was beside the Qing army.

On the afternoon of September [-]th, when the promise of "freeing Jiangning from looting" was spread in the Zijin Mountain Qing army camp, and after the money was handed out, the trapped Qing army finally got some morale. uttered their loudest cheers.

"Long live the Qing Dynasty! Long live the emperor..."

Chapter 419 This is the era of the moat!

When the Qing army entrenched in the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty was bewitched by Sun Sike, a good servant of the Qing Dynasty who wanted nothing but money and life, the soldiers of the local tyrants of the Ming Dynasty outside the Golden Gate were sweating profusely using their "earth trench tactics".

It is to dig soil outside the first ditch outside Dajinmen with a short-handled shovel called "engineer shovel"... Digging soil in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's grave is indeed quite a local tyrant. But what they dug out was only soil, nothing else good.And I didn't dig too deep, just dug a shallow trench along that trench, and at the same time piled the excavated soil on the north side of the shallow trench to form a low earth wall.

If a man more than five feet tall half-knelt in the shallow trench and then straightened up, he should be higher than the low wall above his shoulders.

If a man of the same height stood in the shallow trench, the earthen wall would probably reach his chest.

If there is another person standing outside the trench, the earth wall will reach his waist at most.

That is to say, if there are three rows of fusiliers standing in the trench in a kneeling position, in the trench in a standing position and outside the trench in a standing position, all the flintlocks can be fired without covering each other. Point the guns forward together and fire at the same time!

Since the fusiliers can form a denser formation, if three rows of fusiliers can fire at the same time, the scene can only be described as a rain of bullets!

And the low earthen wall and the shallow trench will become the support for the fusiliers to avoid the guns and save their lives on the battlefield.Now is not the era of solid shells. Line infantry can desperately hit the enemy's solid shells with their chests.Now is the era of sugar bombs. If there is no "earth moat" (earth wall plus trench) to block, then the infantry carrying the flintlock will probably be killed in groups!

In the era of smoothbore artillery bombardment in history, it was very common to fire the artillery for an hour or two before the infantry attacked.If the sugar cannon is replaced with "Kaqiu Killer" and blasted for an hour or two... Will anyone dare to be an infantry?

So Zhu Heqi and Zhuge Zhengyang thought for a long time, and finally "figured out" this genius trench tactic.

When this kind of tactic is fully popularized, Ming's infantry will have to have an engineer shovel in hand, and they will all become "soil masters".

Chen Yonghua's younger brother, Chen Yongxia, was a member of the First Musketeer Battalion, that is, the leader of the first battalion.He was originally a young man sent by the Yanping Palace to Zhu Hechi to learn "boiling sugar". Without this "double-material master-student" relationship, Chen Yongxia did not return to Zheng's army, but joined Zhu Heqi's "Central Army", and became one of the only three generals participating in the fusiliers battalion.

Now, like the hundreds of soldiers under his command, he has taken off his cloth mask and red robe, his arms are bare, and he is waving an engineer shovel to dig a trench and build a wall!

The current firepower of the Qing army is not weak, there are many General Weiyuan cannons that can fire large flower bombs!

And in the battle this morning, Chen Yongxia had also seen the explosive power of the large flowering bombs fired by General Weiyuan of the Qing army... and those were just black gunpowder bombs instead of sugar bombs that were several times more powerful.

If the trenches are not dug wider and the walls are not thicker, the Qing army will fight sugar bombs later, and his losses will be heavy.

When Chen Yongxia was heaping a shovel of dirt on the low parapet, he suddenly heard a thunderous roar, and then a cry that seemed to come out of his chest: "Bombardment..."

As soon as Chen Yongxia raised his head, he saw more than a dozen black spots appearing in the northeast sky, flying towards him at a very fast speed.

He immediately understood that this was a bomb fired by General Weiyuan of the Qing Army!

And the firepower is several times stronger than before!

"Avoid the gun!" Chen Yongxia yelled, and quickly rushed to his place inside the low wall with an engineer shovel, then took his cloth face armor and disc helmet placed against the wall, and then leaned against the low wall. Sitting down on the wall.

At the same time, the warning suona sounded.The fusiliers who were buried in the soil all stopped their work, and then took their positions at an extremely fast speed—they all had their own positions in the "dirt ditch", either against the low wall or against the "dirt ditch". the other side of the trench.

Just as Chen Yongxia put a cast dish-shaped helmet on his head, there was a huge roar from above his head!

He looked up, and found that a huge fireball suddenly appeared in the air tens of meters away from his head!