Chapter 25 Shelling the Golden Army Camp
"It's wonderful, it's a second."
After hearing Li Rutai's detailed combat plan to dig the tunnel, Mangergutai couldn't help but nodded frequently.
According to Li Lutai's plan, the Jin soldiers attacked the city as usual during the day to put pressure on the opponent, and then used two to three nights to dig the tunnels late at night, digging all the way down to Wanghai Castle, waiting for an opportunity to attack the inside of Wanghai Castle.
"Then I will take people to dig tunnels tonight." Li Shutai said.
As night fell, most of the Jin soldiers stationed outside Wanghai Fort fell asleep peacefully, leaving only two Niulu soldiers to patrol. Mangergutai believed that although the artillery of the Ming army was powerful, they were all deployed on the city. If the Ming army left Wanghai Fort, they would definitely not be the opponent of the Eight Banners Cavalry. The two Niulu had more than enough troops.
In addition to the two Niulu's patrol soldiers, Li Rutai also quietly carried shovels and shoveled out of the camp with hundreds of soldiers, and began to secretly dig tunnels under the eyes of the Ming army.
This night will not be an ordinary night. The cold winter night is very quiet, with only the crackling sound of torches splashing, and the trivial sound of patrol soldiers stepping on the snow and dead branches.
Suddenly, the howling sound of artillery broke the tranquility of the night.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The loud noises shook the sky and the earth, and all the sleeping Jin soldiers were awakened by the sound of artillery!
The awakened Jin soldiers hurriedly grabbed the weapons at their feet and rushed out of the military tent like flies. Mangergutai also strode out of the main military tent.
"Why did the Ming army in Wanghaibao start shooting artillery again? Don't they know that it is impossible to hit us at such a long distance?" Mangergutai looked towards the head of Wanghaibao and was puzzled.
"Beller, the sound of the shelling is not like the Ming army artillery from the city, but like it comes from our rear." A patrolling Eight Banners Niu Luezhen reported to Mangergutai.
"You said there is a Ming army behind us?" Mangergutai thought carefully, "Is this possible?"
Boom! Before Mangergutai had time to react, the second round of artillery began, and a pitch-black iron ball fell from the sky and happened to fall next to the main army tent, and then exploded...
"Protect Master Beile!" The Eight Banners soldiers saw Mangergutai lying in the explosion of the shells and rushed forward to rescue him.
No one knew what happened to Mangergutai. The Jin soldiers in the dark were in chaos. The Eight Banners soldiers gathered together under the real shouting of Niu Lue. The Han soldiers who were recruited were completely out of control. Some Han soldiers fled around, and some Han soldiers blindly chopped and slashed at the surrounding friendly forces.
"Mustgers, go forward!"
In the darkness, rows of neat muskets attacked the out-of-control Jin soldiers camp under the command of the officers. Unlike the combs, the French rifles were lurking poisonous snakes in the darkness.
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
A shuttle of bullets swept across the darkness and shot dozens of Jin soldiers through.
"The Ming army is here, everyone flee!" The Jin soldiers who were attacked by the musket team were even more panicked, and they could not tell how many people there were in the Qingming army.
When the Jin army camp was in chaos due to the Ming army's raid, Li Lutai and others who began to dig tunnels were blinded.
"Is the army mutiny?" Li Ruitai looked at the noisy Jin soldiers camp. He was responsible for digging tunnels and did not find that the Ming army had left the city in Wanghai Fort. It shouldn't have been raided by the Ming army, right?
"Let's go back and set up defenses quickly. If the Ming army in the city discovers the movement of our camp, they will definitely go out of the city to attack." Li Lutai was not in the mood to continue digging the tunnel, but led his men to retreat to the camp quickly.
Inside Wanghai Castle, torches were raised high, and Chu Yun gathered all the main forces that could gather. At the beginning of the first cannon sound outside the city, Chu Yun received a signal from outside the city.
"Sir, the newly established Fourth Infantry Brigade on Guanglu Island has arrived. We can attack the Jin soldiers inside and outside!" Yang Tai was holding a rifle in his hand, unable to suppress his excitement.
"Everyone, our reinforcements outside the city have arrived. It's time to counterattack! When the Jin soldiers are driven away, this Jinzhou is the Jinzhou of our people! Let's kill!"
The gate of Wanghai Fort opened with a bang, and teams of musketeers rushed out of the gate! At the front of the team were musketeers riding on horses! They would attack the Jin army camp as fast as possible, forming a pincer attack with the Fourth Infantry Brigade outside the city.
"The Ming army in the city is here, let's run away quickly!" The Han army attached to the Eight Banners soldiers saw that the situation was not good, so they spread their legs and ran away.
Chu Yun came out with more than a thousand soldiers, but he was still afraid to win at this moment. Although he was surprised, he was facing three times his Jin soldiers, and there were also a large number of the most elite Eight Banners cavalry among this group of Jin soldiers. It would be bad if the ship capsized in the gutter.
However, things developed smoothly than Chu Yun imagined. As soon as the muslan cavalry launched the first round of attack, the Jin soldiers on the opposite side were defeated with one blow. No one commanded a large-scale counterattack, and at most only more than a hundred Jin soldiers gathered together. Moreover, the elite Eight Banners cavalry seemed to lose their fighting spirit and began to retreat to the north, not indulge in fighting.
"Where is Master Beile? Where are the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners?!" Li Ruitai, who was still holding a shovel in his hand, returned to the military camp, and the Ming army who looked at the fortress came over.
The blind Li Rutai found that the Sanbeile Manger Gutai was missing, and the Eight Banners cavalry of Zhenglan Banner seemed to have begun to retreat. No one in the Jin army camp commanded the counterattack.
"Don't kill if you disarm!"
The torches burning in the Jin army camp clearly looked like the Ming army who had attacked the Jin army camp in the middle of the night. The leading Ming army officer was blonde and blue-eyed, and had a handsome commanding knife around his waist. He spoke in awkward Chinese and said to the Jin army, "Don't kill if you disarm."
Chadri, the head of the French Ordnance Bureau who was summoned by Chu Yun a long time ago, was temporarily appointed as the captain of the newly established Fourth Infantry Brigade, and led three six-pound cannons and three hundred musketeers to raid the Jin soldiers from the rear as promised.
"Dear Ming army soldiers, we surrender, don't kill us!" After the Eight Banners Cavalry in the Jin army camp fled far away, the Han soldiers who remained in the camp gave up their resistance and surrendered to Chu Yun and the others.
"The situation is over, let's go!" Li Ruitai couldn't find Mangergutai, but thought Mangergutai had escaped when he saw that the situation was not good, so he took some of his confidants to take advantage of the chaos.
When a ray of sunshine in the early morning pierced the night, the Jin soldiers camp was completely controlled by Chu Yun. In this battle, hundreds of Jin soldiers were killed and wounded, and the number of soldiers captured was exaggerated. There were nearly two thousand people, which may be more than Chu Yun's army.
"Boss, we have gained a lot in this battle. Two thousand prisoners may build another Fu Liao camp!" Yang Tai said to Chu Yun happily.
"Yes, thanks to Mangergutai, he gave us a steam engine." Compared to the captives, Chu Yun was more concerned about the civilization points obtained. He repelled several attacks on the Jin soldiers and then successfully attacked the Jin soldiers' camp. The civilization points obtained in this military operation can already develop steam engine technology.
"What chicken? Steam chicken? Is it delicious?" Yang Tai asked in confusion.
"That's a good thing, you will know in the future. Let's go and take the Golden State since the Eight Banners Cavalry retreats!"
Chu Yun rectified his army and led more than a thousand musketeers and two thousand prisoners to kill Jinzhou in a mighty manner.
Chapter completed!