Chapter 130 Meat Grinder (Part 1)

It was late at night and the Jiannu camp outside the East Gate of Datong was silent.

The fires in most camps have been extinguished, and only a few tents in the central area have faint flames. There are burning fat torches on the fences around the camp. There are an arrow tower every twenty steps, and Jiannu is on guard on each arrow tower.

From time to time, a team of patrol soldiers walked by along the fence in a neat step, and the barracks were filled with a cold and murderous aura.

Wearing a black night-walking suit and with black cloth on his face and head, the Red Lady was like a dexterous female leopard, walking nimblely in the shadow of Jiannu's camp. Her figure seemed to be integrated into the endless shadow. The guard posts set up by Jiannu on the Arrow Tower and the patrol team did not find her existence.

Hong Niang volunteered to come to Jiannu camp to spy on the news.

For the past seven or eight days, Jiannu just surrounded Datong without attacking, but the cannons were fiercely attacking, and they kept bombing the middle wall between the East Gate and the Small East Gate. It seemed that he was determined to open the gap from here. However, Li Yan judged that Jiannu had other plans, but he could not guess for a while, so the Hongniu volunteered to sneak into the Jiannu camp to spy on the news.

Although Li Yan was worried about the safety of Hong Niangzi, he believed in Hong Niangzi's light skills and martial arts. Even if he couldn't spy on the news, it would be fine to escape without any problems. However, Li Yan still asked Li Hu and Jing Maocheng to lurk outside the Jiannu camp with several brothers with excellent martial arts to lurk outside the Jiannu camp to take charge of the response.

It's a coincidence.

In order not to let the Ming army in the city find clues, Jiannu's tunnel was dug from the Central Army camp, and he could only dig at night, because transporting soil during the day would make people discover it, and he did not dare to trench at night, so he could only transport the digging soil in the dark. Therefore, the entire camp fell into darkness early as the night came to an end.

This made Hong Niang's actions invisibly convenient.

So, Hongmao touched Jiannu's Central Army camp without much trouble, but when he arrived near the Central Army camp, the guards in Jiannu gradually became tighter. Hongmao did not dare to be careless and pressed her delicate body as close to the ground as possible, and wriggled forward little by little with the cover of darkness.

This was a long, boring and dangerous process. For half an hour, the Hongmao only wriggled forward for less than ten feet. Fortunately, the Hongmao was a woman. She had enough patience and hard work paid off. She finally approached the most suspicious tent and heard the cooing sounds made when the wheels of the car were turning.

In the darkness, you could vaguely see trucks coming in and out. Hongniang observed carefully and found that the trucks entering were empty, but what came out was full of things. A question rose in Hongniang's mind. What was Jiannu transporting out?

It was just a small tent, and there were so many things inside, as if it would never be moved.

Suddenly, Hongniang understood that Jiannu was digging tunnels, and all he transported from the tent were soil!

When it was almost dawn, Hongniangzi and the others finally returned to Leigong Mountain Camp. At this time, Li Yan had been guarding the mountain pass for a whole night. Seeing that Li Yan's hair and eyebrows were covered with cold dew, and the cloak was almost wet with dew, Hongniang's beautiful eyes turned red in an instant.

"Madam, are you back?"

Li Yan only said lightly, but Hong Niang heard the affection contained in this sentence.

Hongmao tried her best to prevent the tears from falling from falling from the eyes. In front of almost everyone, Hongmao looked cold and frosty, although beautiful, it was hard to get close to her. Only in front of Li Yan did Hongmao act like a woman, and was a gentle woman.

"My husband." Hongnie said with a sour nose, "I have already found out."

"Oh?" Li Yanxi said, "Jiannu really has other plans?"

"Yes." The Hongniu nodded and said, "Jiannu bombarded the city wall just a bluff. In fact, they were secretly digging tunnels and intending to sneak into the city from the ground."

Li Xuan on the side said: "Master, you must immediately pass the news to the official army in the city."

Li Hu disagreed and said, "Why tell the government army this news? Wouldn't it be better to let Jiannu enter Datong and destroy all the government army in the city? It would save us more effort in the future. Because Jiannu will leave after plundering, we will be able to get Datong without any effort."

"Nonsense." Li Yan frowned and scolded. "Although the government army is abominable, the people are innocent. We must not watch Jiannu break through Datong, nor can we watch the people in the city be slaughtered. What's more, Wang Pu's official army has helped us twice. A man should have a clear grudge and a grudge, and he must pay back the owed love."

Li Hu snorted and stopped talking.

"The news must be passed on to Wang Pu as soon as possible." Li Yan said this and told Jing Maocheng, "Senior Brother Jing, I will write a book. Please use an arrow to shoot the letter into Datong City."

Jing Maocheng responded respectfully: "Yes."

In Datong City, the general is heading.

It was already late at night, but Wang Pu and Zhen Youcai were completely sleepy and they were discussing Jiannu's tactics.

It has been so many days since Jiannu just bombarded the city every day, and never launched a decent siege. He had never even used the most commonly used siege siege tactics of the cave. Jiannu's actions were abnormal, and there must be some unknown intentions hidden here.

Zhen Youcai said: "It has been eight days, but the city wall that was bombarded by the red cannons has only been damaged by some fur. At this speed, even two months may not be able to collapse the city wall, but Jiannu has no intention of changing the tactics at all. This is a bit unusual. Hu Zhi thought that Jiannu used cannons to bomb the city might just be a bluff."

Wang Pu said: "In other words, Jiannu has other plans."

Zhen Youcai said: "What would be the real intention of Jiannu Land?"

The two of them fell into silence at the same time, closed their eyes and began to carefully sort out their thoughts. After a while, Zhen Youcai suddenly said, "General, there is a situation that seems quite abnormal."

Wang Pu said: "Let me tell me."

Zhen Youcai said: "In recent days, Bei Zhi has been paying attention to the reality of Jiannu. He found a strange situation. After nightfall, the Jiannu camp outside the three gates in the north, west and south were all bright torches. Only the Jiannu camp outside the east gate was pitch black and there were few fires."

"Didn't it..." Wang Pu's expression moved and he whispered, "What is Jiannu covering up?"

"What are you covering up?" Zhen Youcai murmured, "No turrets are used. Just to prevent us from seeing what Jiannu wants to cover up?"

The two of them thought hard for a long time and had no gains. Wang Pu finally said: "We will never be able to figure it out if we think about it like this. We have to think about it the other way around. If we were Jiannu, what kind of siege measures would we take?"

Zhen Youcai was able to penetrate it at a glance, and said with his finger: "If Jiannu's Red Barbarian Cannon cannot play a role, then they can only rely on the traditional siege tactics. The traditional siege tactics are nothing more than building cloud ladders, building soil platforms, or flooding fire attacks. However, the most commonly used thing for Jiannu is to siege the city... Huh, siege?"

The siege of the cave was the most commonly used tactic of Jiannu in the early days, and it was also the stupidest and most helpless tactic.

The so-called siege of the city is to let infantry carry tall and thick heavy oar shields near the foot of the city wall. Then, under the cover of oar shields, dig the foundation of the city wall, hollowed out the foot of the city wall, and then break into the city. The early Jiannu did not know any tactics and had no talents. It was a stupid trick that the slave chief Nuerhaci came up with. The effect was naturally not ideal, and there was no precedent for successfully breaking the city.

"Authentic!" Wang Pu and Zhen Youcai shouted almost at the same time, "Jiannu is digging authentic tunnels!"

At this moment, the young lady suddenly walked in, holding a wolf-tooth arrow as thick as a thumb in her hand. There was a letter inserted into the arrow, and she said to Wang Pu: "General, someone outside the city just shot this letter into the city."

Wang Pu took the arrow from Neng Niang's hand and took off the letter to view it.

After reading it quickly, Wang Pu said to Zhen Youcai: "Youcai, this letter was sent by Li Yan to shoot in. In the letter, Li Yan said that he had sent someone to sneak into Jiannu's camp and spy on it. Jiannu was indeed secretly digging the tunnel. The location was outside the east gate, which was exactly the same as our guess."

As he said that, Wang Pu handed the letter to Zhen Youcai again.

After reading the letter, Zhen Youcai frowned and said, "It seems that Jiannu has digging the tunnel is true, but how should he deal with it?"

Wang Pu said: "That depends on what Jiannu digs the tunnel for."

Zhen Youcai said: "Then you have to think about it. Of course, you should dig a few passages, enter the elite troops into the city and take the opportunity to seize the city gate..."

Halfway through that, Zhen Youcai won’t say that because all the five gates in Datong have been sealed, Jiannu will not play any major role even if he sends a small number of elite soldiers into the city through the tunnel. Moreover, it is not difficult for the defenders to deal with several tunnels. Filling water, fuel, and burning can make Jiannu steal a handful of rice without losing his ability.

"General." Zhen Youcai whispered, "The city is under high alert, and it seems that there is no threat to Jiannu dig a tunnel into the city?"

Wang Pu said: "If Jiannu only digs the tunnel under the city wall and then burys tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder, and once it is detonated, it will be bombarded..."

"Ah?" Zhen Youcai said with a whisper, "Jiannu wants to blow up the city wall?"

"It's probably that's the case." As he said that, Wang Pu's tone became more certain and he said confidently, "It's definitely that's it."

Zhen Youcai said: "It would be great if we could find the exact location of Jiannu, then we can be prepared in advance to make Jiannu's wishful thinking fail."

A faint ferocity suddenly flashed across Wang Pu's face and said, "I have a way."

"Huh?" Zhen Youcai said in surprise, "Can the general have already made a countermeasure?"

Wang Pu smiled and looked up and shouted, "Lu Liu."

Lu Liu came in and replied loudly: "Here."

Wang Pu said: "Call the monk immediately."

"yes."

Lu Liu agreed and took the order.

Jiannu camp, Dorgon held a tent.

Almost as soon as Wang Pu and Zhen Youcai knew Jiannu’s real intention, Fan Wencheng had already rushed into the tent and reported to Dorgon: “Master, the tunnel has been dug to the foot of the city wall.”

Dorgon said happily: "Really?"

"It's true." Fan Wencheng said, "I've dug up the foundation of the city wall, I can't make any mistakes."

"Okay." Dorgon's expression suddenly became extremely ferocious, and he raised his head and shouted, "Come."

One of Goshhas responded and knelt down and said, "What are the instructions of the master?"

Dorgon said: "Let Tong Yangxing come to see me immediately."

"twitter."

Goshha agreed and took the order.

Soon, Tong Yangxing became sleepy. He was awakened from his sleep. After entering the bill, Tong Yangxing quickly knelt down and beat him: "I wish my master a blessing."

"Forget it." Dorgon waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wencheng has dug the tunnel under Datong City. You can take people to fill the gunpowder and blow up the Datong City Wall for me."

Tong Yangxing suddenly felt energetic when he heard this and asked, "How big is the gap between the master?"

Dorgon said: "How big a gap can you explode?"

Tong Yangxing said: "If you fill in 20,000 kilograms of gunpowder, you should be able to explode a gap of about ten feet."

Dorgon said: "Then fill 20,000 pounds!"

"Zha." Tong Yangxing said, "The slave will take someone to fill the gunpowder."

Tong Yangxing is the only expert in the ground firearms among Jiannu, and he imitated the red cannons of Jiannu.

Tong Yangxing also studied the power of gunpowder explosion. This guy first led someone to expand the medicine room under the base of the city wall, and then built stones on all four walls. He filled the gaps with plaster to form a solid medicine room. After filling it with 20,000 kilograms of gunpowder, he then broke the stone wall from the entrance and blocked the medicine room. The stone wall was several meters thick. Only one inch square medicine trough was left in the lower corner, and the medicine was sprinkled with it, and the medicine was directly from the entrance to the tunnel exit.

After two days, everything is ready.

Dorgon brought all the nobles of the Jiannu Eight Banners, Mongolian Eight Banners, and Han Army Eight Banners to the Authentic Tabernacle. Tong Yangxing handed a torch to Dorgon and said respectfully: "Master, everything is ready."

Dorgon took the torch, turned around and looked at Haoge coldly, and asked, "Are the two yellow flag elite soldiers ready?"

Haoge snorted lightly and responded: "Baiyintu and Oboi have led two yellow flags to ambush outside the city."

"Okay." Dorgon said, "then I wish Oboi and Baiyintu a victory and a first success."

Although Dorgon said beautifully, his intentions were very sinister.

He said that he wanted to give the head attack to Oboi and Baiyintu to the two yellow flags. In fact, he wanted to take the opportunity to weaken the power of the two yellow flags, because the defender of Datong was Wang Pu, and even if the city wall was blown up, there would inevitably be a bad battle. Baiyintu and Oboi's three thousand two yellow flag elite soldiers were fighting with Wang Pu, and the two white flag elites who followed up were the two white flag elites who followed.

Haoge knew that Dorgon wanted to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the two yellow flags, but he had no choice. Because Dorgon is now the regent. He Haoge is just a small prince, and he can only act according to orders.

Another regent Yuetuo, who went to the army to fight, had no intention of protecting the two yellow flags. After all, the two yellow flags were too powerful. Yuetuo, as the lord of the Zhenghong flag, also hoped to take the opportunity to weaken the power of the two yellow flags. After all, the two yellow flags were too powerful and were not a good thing for the two red flags.

Dorgon smiled at Haoge in a sinister smile, pressed down the torch in his hand and ignited the inducing medicine at the entrance of the tunnel. The black gunpowder was squirted by the flames of the torch, and sparked quickly extended into the depths of the tunnel. A faint smell of gunpowder quickly spread in the air.

Everything is ready in Datong City.

As a modern person, it is not difficult to determine the exact direction of the Jiannu tunnel. You just need to turn a few urns upside down on the ground, and then listen with your ears on the bottom of the urn for a moment to roughly clarify the direction, because Jiannu's tunnel has extended to the stone foundation of the Datong City Wall, and is only twenty or thirty meters away from the ground in the city, and all the noises made by Jiannu have nowhere to be hidden.
Chapter completed!