The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 107 Tartar's Sonic Attack

The heavy rain that had been raining for a whole day finally stopped, and the whole sky was washed clean and blue by the majestic rain, making it appear more vast and distant.

The moat excavated in front of the Erlong Valley Fortress was also filled with water and became a real moat.It's just that the traps originally set up at the bottom of the ditch have basically lost their effect, and the wooden thorns and caltrops buried at the bottom of the ditch have disappeared under the washing of the heavy rain.

Faced with this situation, Jiang Chuan was also very helpless. After all, God is fair and will not favor the Qing army or him.

Outside the valley, which had been ravaged by heavy rain for a whole day, there was finally movement in the camp of the Qing army. With the continuous sound of horns, teams of Qing soldiers drove out of the camp, and then began to line up at the gates.

Jiang Chuan watched from the tower, and said to Liu Ji next to him, "Military Master, are the Tartars preparing to attack the city?"

After observing carefully for a moment, Liu Ji shook his head and said, "It's not like, most of the Tartars below are cavalry, and they should be the vanguard of the Tartars. They don't have the ability to attack the city. In my opinion, they should be demonstrating to our army. The Tartars were drenched in heavy rain yesterday, and their morale will definitely be affected, so they simply put up a formation to demonstrate against our army in order to boost some morale."

"What the military adviser said is reasonable, so according to the military adviser, how should our army respond?" Jiang Chuan nodded and asked.

"Although the purpose of the Tartars is to demonstrate, of course they also have the purpose of luring our troops out of the city to fight in the field. Tartar cavalry are best at field warfare. If our army goes out of the city, it will be right in the arms of the Tartars. Therefore, it is the best policy for our army to stay still." Liu Jishen soundtrack.

"What the military adviser said is true. But we can't see the tartars being so arrogant, we should give them a little greeting gift." Jiang Chuan smiled, turned around and called: "Bai Mu, find Li Han from the artillery team."

Bai Mu quickly called Li Han over.

"Li Han sees the general, please give orders!" Li Han's mental state has obviously improved a lot in the past few days, and he seems to be full of energy.

He is now wearing a fine iron armor specially equipped for the generals of each battalion, a black helmet, and a long knife hanging from his waist. He does have some brave temperament.

Jiang Chuan sized him up and said with a smile: "My good boy, I'm in good shape. Let me ask you, if you shoot at the Tartar army formation, are you sure you can hit it accurately?"

Li Han's eyes lit up as soon as the firing was mentioned, and his whole body exuded a strong self-confidence.He took a step forward, raised his thumbs and gestured twice to the Qing army phalanx in the distance, and then said firmly: "General, no problem."

"Okay, you go and arrange all the cannons on the city wall to prepare, aim at the Tartar army formation, remember to use flowering ammunition. When you fire the cannon, I will do what you want." Jiang Chuan ordered in a deep voice.

"Promise! The general obeys!" Li Han took the order loudly, turned around and left quickly.

Soon, Li Han's loud orders came from all the gun positions, and the gunners began to get busy one after another.

The Qing soldiers outside the city didn't notice the movement on the city wall at all, and they continued to set up camps and form formations.

Yesterday's torrential rain caught the five thousand forwards of the Tartars by surprise. After braving the downpour and barely setting up their camp, basically everyone was drowned.That night, many people caught cold and had fever, and the whole camp was full of coughing and sneezing sounds, which annoyed the former general.

Originally, as former soldiers, they thought it would not take much effort to break through a horse thief's stronghold, but they didn't expect that when they went to the place and took a look, their hearts of making contributions suddenly cooled down.

This city wall, which is much taller than the city wall of Datong City, is simply desperate. The tall and wide city wall, the sturdy and tall city gate, the stone towers standing on the cliffs on both sides, and the wide and deep city gate. The moat of the city all shows that this so-called horse thief den is an extremely difficult bone.

Who the hell said this is a horse thief's lair, come out to me, and I promise to hack him to death!
The former army chief sent his greetings to the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the scouts who inquired about the news.But before the greeting was over, it was poured down by the overwhelming rain all night, so that the originally high morale dropped a lot overnight.

So as soon as the sky cleared today, he ordered the army to come out of the camp and line up.Its purpose is just as Liu Ji analyzed, one is to demonstrate, and the other is to lure the enemy out of the city to fight in the field.

He has also been in battle for a long time, so he naturally knows that his strength lies in field battles, not siege.First of all, they are cavalry, so they are not good at attacking cities.Secondly, even if they cameo as infantry to attack the city, they would not have any siege equipment.

So his idea is to form a demonstration and provoke the enemy.If the enemy dare not go out of the city to fight, their morale will inevitably be affected.If he went out of the city to fight, it would be exactly what he wanted, so it was the best of both worlds.

Morale is such a mysterious thing, it seems invisible, but it is very important on the battlefield.Experienced generals will find ways to improve their own morale and damage the enemy's morale, so as to win the battle.

This trick may be effective for ordinary soldiers, but it may not be effective for elite troops.It has no effect at all on Jiang's army, which is mostly soldiers of the base.

As long as Jiang Chuan is not impulsive, his provocative strategy is doomed to fail.

After the formation of the Qing army, the desolate sound of the horn horn stopped, and soon the rumbling drum sounded again.The drumbeat gradually accelerated from the slow at the beginning, and finally became hurried.

In the rhythm of military drums, the Qing army moved forward slowly, pressing towards the city wall.

And as they advanced, they howled and shouted. Many people also slapped their shields with weapons in their hands, or their weapons collided and knocked against each other, making wolf-like howls from their mouths.

If one person does this, it will make people feel uneasy. If five thousand people all shouted and shouted like this at the same time, the aura they burst out would be very frightening.Especially these soldiers of the Qing army who were born in the mountains and were brutal in nature, each of them was tough and powerful, and their aura was quite majestic.

Moreover, their howling and howling sounds became more and more violent and high-pitched with the rhythm of the drums, just like the howling of five thousand wild wolves.

The sound waves created by the Qing army rolled in, and Jiang Chuan felt his heart beating faster, and his body felt a little unstable. He hurriedly stretched out his hand to support the city wall, and said nervously: "Why do these Tartar soldiers feel like wolves? Sonic attack?"

Liu Ji beside him was obviously also affected by the rolling sound, his face was a little pale, he took a deep breath and said, "The Eight Banners are so powerful that their reputation is well deserved. I have heard in the past that when hunting people hunt, There will be thousands of people holding weapons from all directions, screaming and shouting in unison, using them to frighten the prey. When I saw it today, I didn't expect these Tartar soldiers to use the old hunting method on the army formation. The power of soul and mind cannot be underestimated."

Jiang Chuan frowned, looked left and right, and found that the soldiers on the city wall were basically the same, so he was relieved.

But the Qing soldiers under the city were getting closer and closer, and the sound of the attack followed the rhythm of the drums, wave after wave, which made people feel frightened and unable to control themselves.

Damn it, I have to break their rhythm, and I can't let this gang of Tartars continue screaming, otherwise even I, the coach, will be ashamed.

"Get ready to fire!" Jiang Chuan took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down quickly, and shouted to Li Jian behind him.

Li Jian held a red flag and a black flag in his hand. Waving red means attacking and waving black means stop.

The phalanx of the Qing soldiers stopped advancing when they were about an arrow away. Obviously, the chief general of the Qing army was also afraid that the city would attack them with crossbow arrows.

Moreover, after he estimated the height of the city wall, he extended it a lot further back according to the usual one-shot. He felt that his troops were in a safe position before he was relieved.

The drumbeats behind him became more and more dense, and the howls of the Qing soldiers became louder and shriller, and it even made people feel like a devil howling.

Jiang Chuan took a deep breath, and then suddenly shouted: "Fire!"

Behind him, the small red flag in Li Jian's hand pointed towards the city, and then waved it up and down three times.

Li Han, who was behind a cannon in red, stared nervously at the small flag. After seeing the flag waving, he shouted loudly: "Fire the cannon! Five quick shots!"

There was also an orderly behind him, with a red flag and a black flag in his hand. The small red flag waved downward fiercely, and then waved it back and forth in the air five times.

Seeing the semaphore, there was a gunner at each gun position, drew out the long knife at his waist, slashed forward and shouted: "Fire, fire!"

Immediately, the matchlocks on the tails of more than a dozen red-clothed cannons on the city wall and the four stone towers were ignited, and they began to burn with sparks.

Almost at the same moment, more than a dozen cannons let out earth-shattering roars, the muzzle flames flashed, and more than a dozen black shells roared across the sky and fell on the heads of the Qing soldiers who were still screaming and drinking.

The momentum of the Qing soldiers who launched the sonic attack was interrupted by the loud noise of the cannon firing. They all looked up at the dozens of black shells flying from space with wide-eyed eyes, and no one thought of avoiding them.

They never thought that there would be such a sharp weapon as a red cannon in a so-called horse thief's den, and there were more than a dozen of them, so they didn't realize that the loud noise was the sound of a cannon, so they didn't mean to avoid it at all. .

As for the news that all the thirty red-clothed cannons escorted by Tong Yangxing fell into the hands of Jiang's army, Dorgon and Duoduo naturally blocked them, and they would not let these low-level Qing soldiers know.

Even the former army chief general didn't know the news, which led to his cleverness to engage in this provocative tactic.

Therefore, when some Qing soldiers realized what it was that was falling on their heads, it was already too late.More than a dozen flowering bombs fell into the dense queue of Qing soldiers, and a violent explosion occurred in an instant.

The fragments of the cannonball exploded and flew around, accompanied by various iron nails, iron thorns, broken porcelain pieces, etc. placed in the cannonball, and even irritating things such as pepper.

In an instant, the sound of explosions sounded one after another in the formation of Qing soldiers, black smoke billowed, screams continued, blood flew, and even broken arms and hands flew from the crowd from time to time, it was a mess.

The sound wave attack of the Qing soldiers was instantly interrupted by a round of artillery shells, and the only thing heard on the entire battlefield were the screams and howls of the Qing soldiers and the neighing of war horses.

The former general of the Qing army who stood watching the battle after the battle was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.

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