Chapter 269 Night Attack on the Rebel Camp in Houshan
"Is this plan feasible?" Zhao Peng asked.
Wang Quan took out the map from his sleeve: "I have drawn a detailed map yesterday. Marquis please see here. Although the rebels have a military camp on the hilltop, there is still a way to go. As long as our army attacks head-on, we do not accept sneak attacks from behind at night. After capturing the mountain camp, we attack the rebels from the hilltop and cooperate with the main force of the front-on attack to capture the rebels in one fell swoop."
Zhao Peng thought for a moment and remembered another thing: "But in this way, we will not be able to take down the rebel city today. You must act tonight and attack the rebel mountaintop camp in the early morning. Our main force will attack head-on tomorrow morning, which will delay for a day."
Wang Quan said: "It doesn't matter if we delay for a day. If we don't take it at night, we will be a man and a horse. As long as we take the city early tomorrow morning, we will definitely be able to catch up with the two rebel kings before they arrive in Nanning."
"Okay, then do it like this!" Zhao Peng nodded.
Next, Zhao Peng ordered two Qi family troops to launch a feint attack from the front.
The two Qi family army formations have a 100-pound formation and 800 musketeers, and have also strengthened forty 24-pound mortars and 200-pound light franchises. However, even if the enhanced artillery is used, if you want to use the 24-pound mortars and one-pound franchises, you will definitely not be able to chew the rebels' city, so you need to cooperate from behind.
"Bang bang bang" Forty twenty-four-pound mortar cannons fired one after another, and fire-rained meteor-like shells hit the rebels' walled city. The shells fell into the walled city and exploded, causing gravel to fly across the walled city and wooden fences collapsed one after another.
Most of the stones in Guilin are limestone, which are easy to cut, so it is easy to build a city. However, this stone is also easy to crush. If there are twelve pound field cannons, six pound field cannons or red barbarian cannons, they can collapse the city in a few strokes. However, the power of the twenty-four pound mortar cannon and one pound of Franchise is still relatively small, so it is naturally impossible to destroy the city.
After the artillery attack, the infantry formation advanced forward, approaching about seventy steps away from the city wall, and fired violently at the city wall with turtle dove guns and Lumi guns. At the same time, the cavalry of Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng also advanced with insidious bows and shot light arrows into the city wall.
The infantry artillery battalion carrying light Franc aircraft climbed up to a high place and shot violently into the city. A pound of shells plunged into the rebel camp from time to time, killing the rebels' flesh and blood and corpses everywhere.
The 24-pound mortar fires very fast, but Zhao Peng ordered the pace of launch and deliberately launched slowly to save ammunition.
The new army, which had a feint attack, attacked for a day, but no melee infantry attacked, all of them were hiding far away to fire guns, archers, and artillery. However, the attack on this day was not futile, but played a significant role. On the one hand, the mortar and light Franc aircraft caused considerable damage to the rebels, with more than 2,000 casualties; the second is that the lasting day of artillery bombardment also caused the city to be damaged by holes. The limestone wall was already full of internal injuries. As long as the attack was launched tomorrow morning, the walls could be quickly destroyed.
As the sky gradually became dark, Zhao Peng did not ask Wang Quan and the others to act immediately, but asked them to rest and sleep first, preparing to wait until midnight before getting up and setting off.
Zhao Peng himself lay down to sleep early. In order not to affect his actions, he drove Zuo Xianmei back to his camp to rest. In the middle of the night, due to the strict training in his previous life, Zhao Peng had a strong concept of time. At 10:40 at night, Zhao Peng, who was halfway through sleep, naturally woke up.
He took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. The hand pointed to 10:40. Zhao Peng quickly got up, went to Wang Quan and his friends to call Yebu Suan: "The time is coming soon, prepare to set off!"
The soldiers were all lying in their clothes. After being woken up, they just wiped their faces with cold water, then took a sip of cold boiled water to rinse their mouths, and then brought their weapons and equipment to set off.
"Tonight, I will take you from the back mountain to attack the enemy's small camp on the hill. After success, I will set fire on the hill and throw stones down the hill to cooperate with the frontal attack." Zhao Peng said.
Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng and others had already explained that in the early morning, once they heard an explosion from the mountain and saw the fire on the top of the mountain, they launched an attack from the front.
Zhao Peng personally led this small team of 200 people to come out of his camp and disappeared into the night.
In order to improve your eyesight at night, these Jinyiwei ate more fish and shrimps on weekdays, and often stewed beef and mutton with carrots or radish to supplement phosphorus and vitamin A, which can improve your eyesight at night. Therefore, although the soldiers did not use the tinder, they could move freely at night with the help of the faint light of the crescent moon.
Zhao Peng and two hundred Ye Bushang did not fire out torches. With their extraordinary eyesight, they walked steadily at night and soon arrived near the rebel city. Then they walked around a small path along the side and headed straight to the back mountain.
Wang Quan and his eleven Falcon players were equipped with two self-generated tiger-winged short guns, and the remaining 190 Ye Buying, of whom were equipped with two-barrel short guns, but they were still combs, and the fuse needed to be lit before shooting; fifty crossbows, each equipped with a hand crossbow, fifty archers, each equipped with a stone bow, and Zhao Peng himself also carried a bow, but his bow was a two-stone strong bow. In addition, no one was equipped with an embroidered spring sword and four thunderstorms.
The team passed by a path that almost no one knew, and to the bottom of the cliff, the soldiers threw out their claw hooks, hung them on a big tree halfway up the mountain, and climbed up with ropes. Soon they reached the middle of the mountain, then threw the claw hooks up, grabbed a large stone close to the top of the mountain, and then climbed up.
Wang Quan climbed onto the big stone, put down a solid thick hemp rope, and tied one end of the top to a tree. Yebushe below grabbed the rope and climbed up one after another. After a while, everyone, including Zhao Peng, boarded the big stone.
"This place is not far from the top of the mountain, and the slope is not steep, so you can go up without a rope." Wang Quan said.
Zhao Peng, carrying a bow and arrow, was the first to climb to the top of the cliff. What caught his eye was the brightly lit rebel camp. Perhaps it was because the rebels thought that the terrain of the back mountain could not be raised, so they did not arrange sentry guards at the cliff behind, but Zhao Peng and others climbed to the top of the cliff without any effort.
Two patrol rebels appeared on the mountain road ahead. Zhao Peng took out two heavy arrows, one of which was placed on the bowstring and the other in the palm of his left hand. He opened his bow and shot an arrow. Then he placed the second arrow on the bowstring, and then shot the second arrow.
This is a continuous bead arrow shooting method, which can shoot two arrows in a row, with extremely fast speed, making the opponent unable to defend.
"Swoosh" The first arrow flew quickly with the sound of the wind and shot through the throat of a rebel patrol whistle. Another rebel soldier saw his companion fall suddenly, and before he could come back to his senses, the second arrow also flew to his head. These rebels did not have excellent armor, and only had a weak red tassel goose-yellow felt hat on their heads, which was the Fan Yang hat, which could not stop the feather arrows at all.
The heavy arrow shot through the soldier's temple and came out from the other side.
After dealing with the two patrol soldiers, Zhao Peng made a gesture, and all the night-to-nighters had already climbed to the top of the mountain.
Ninety Yebusuo, who were equipped with a double-barrel short gun, lit the fuse, hung the fuse on the short gun, and fifty crossbowmen pulled the bowstring, hung the bowstring on the hanging knife, and then placed the crossbow arrow into the slot.
After being prepared, Ye Busuo rushed towards the camp gate. Halfway through, crossbowmen kept shooting and killing the enemy sentries they met on the way.
Chapter completed!