Nanming Engineer

Chapter 453 Gestures
September [-]th, the second quarter of the hour.

In the early morning, the thick dark clouds that covered the blue sky and the sun in the past few days and almost pressed on people's heads became as thin as paper. Fragrant, the birds and beasts in the forest are competing to sing, harmonious and natural.The rising sun shines through the thin clouds and hits like flowing water, dispelling the last darkness and sprinkling brilliant vitality in the world.

The horns sounded, and the war drums sounded startled.

Groups of soldiers with helmets and armor came out of the Qing soldiers' wide-open gates, forming an army, with long spears and long knives piercing the sun, and their murderous aura shot straight into the sky.

There were eight formations on all sides, and tens of thousands of troops took their positions according to the strict formation requirements. The Jurchen Eight Banners army was still in the center, the Mongol soldiers were on the outside of the two wings, and the hard-pressed Han army was still on the front line.

Outside Shiling Pass, the trench repaired overnight by the Ming army has been restored to its original state. The shield vehicles piled up at the bottom of the trench were pulled out and piled up on the side of the trench near the Qing soldiers, and another wooden barrier was erected. , The Ming army deliberately turned the sharp wood outwards, and the wood seemed to be poured with kerosene, so it was wet.

The nobles such as Dorgon and Man Dahai rode steadily on their horses, and stayed safely on a higher slope in the rear of the Chinese army surrounded by the front and back of the guard barracks. They could see the situation ahead at a glance. .

"The Ming army has not moved, and it seems that they will not go out to fight us head-on." Man Dahai twisted the mirror body of a brass binoculars in his hand, looking into the distance: "However, the figure behind the low wall is shaking, and it is obviously full of soldiers. .”

After looking at it for a while, he respectfully returned the binoculars to Dorgon. This treasure is very rare, and Dorgon only has one, and it was pulled out of the Forbidden City that was burned to the ground when he invaded Beijing. , Dorgon regarded it as a treasure, except for the trustworthy generals, no one else would want to use it.

There is a vivid dragon carved on the mirror body. The dragon has four claws and its mouth is forward, as if it wants to bite the round mirror surface. The whole mirror is an exquisite work of art, which should be a gift from overseas red-haired ghosts to Emperor Chongzhen. .

Dorgon took it, stretched the mirror, and squinted one eye to look at Shiling Pass. Sure enough, as Man Dahai said, the Ming army in front of the pass also got up very early and was busy moving stones and arrows. It means to line up and fight.

He snorted, this was a little unexpected, he thought Wang Huan could defeat Nikan in the field, and he was also a bloody person, he would not hide in the pass and defend it. Today, it seems that he is just a timid person, the sky is fine I didn't dare to face the army head-on, I looked up to him last night.

Slowly turning the binoculars, Dorgon's line of sight gradually moved back along the low wall in front of the pass. He saw from the busy formation of the Ming army and observed the preparations of the Ming army. The more he watched, the more frightened he became. Seeing that in the formation of the Ming army, cannons of various sizes were pushed out. There were so many of them, like a herd of wild horses scattered on the grassland, everywhere.

In particular, there is a kind of cannon as big as a water tank, which has a strange appearance. The muzzle can be stuffed into the burliest and fattest soldier in the army. It is pushed by several people and placed behind two low walls. It looks a bit like a tiger crouching enlarged. Cannon, I don't know how powerful it is.

From this point of view, the rain did not stop yesterday, the Ming army still had some reservations about firearms, and did not use all their assets. Today, the weather is fine, the wind is sunny, and everything has been moved out. ,

Today's battle damage is probably worse than yesterday's!

Thinking about it, Dorgon became irritable, and the mirror in his hand moved a little faster, and quickly moved to the closed wall. The Ming army there was not as nervous as the closed people, and they were just preparing for battle as usual.

After shaking around a few times, Dorgon suddenly found a Ming army general in white armor and red cloak from the monocular, standing on the wall, holding a cylinder, and looking around.

The two telescopes faced each other in the same direction at the same time, and found each other in each other's mirrors.

That is Wang Huan?Dorgon swallowed a mouthful of saliva and swallowed hard.

That is Dorgon?Wang Huan's mirror stretched forward a few centimeters.

With complicated emotions, the two of them used the telescopes in their hands to look at each other across thousands of troops. The telescopes of this era were not very powerful, but they could still clearly see the person on the other side from a few miles apart. Appearance and physical appearance.

To be honest, Dorgon admired Wang Huan very much. He thought that apart from Hong Chengchou, the Ming court probably had no other object worthy of his wooing.I didn't expect that when the overall situation was about to be settled, such a monster would appear, and with a few gestures, it would dissolve the great situation that generations of Jurchen had painstakingly built. Why is it difficult?
It's a pity, Dorgon shook his head behind the mirror, this guy is stubborn, if he wants to stand on the opposite side of the Qing Dynasty, he can only be killed.

Wang Huan on the opposite side didn't know what he was thinking. He held up the mirror and looked at it for a while, then put down the mirror suddenly, stretched out his right hand, and gestured in Dorgon's direction.

Dorgon was startled. The gesture was very strange and he had never seen it before.

Is this some code word?Dorgon was a quick-thinking person and immediately made rich associations. Could it be that when he sent Wang Duo to surrender yesterday, there were Ming Dynasty guards or the emperor's minions present, so Wang Huan could not express his intention, so he took advantage of this opportunity to surrender to himself. the meaning of?
He frowned and put down the binoculars, thought for a while, and asked Man Dahai suspiciously, "Do you understand sign language?"

Man Dahai nodded, so Dorgon followed Wang Huan's example, stretched out his right hand, made a fist with one hand, the center of the fist upward, and the middle finger popped out, pointing to the sky.

"What does it mean?"

Man Dahai stared round his eyes, looking at the hand, not knowing why.

Dorgon called several other honorable generals and asked them to come and see. They stared wide-eyed and couldn't say anything except shaking their heads.

As a result, Dorgon became more suspicious, and he even wanted to stop today's harassing attacks, and save some time to send someone to check on the situation.

"There must be a mystery!" Dorgon pulled the rein in his hand and twisted it a few times: "But anyway, today is just harassment, the purpose is to consume the gunpowder of the Ming army, it is harmless, let's attack according to the plan!"

Man Dahai also thought suspiciously for a long time, then nodded, and ordered the guards behind him to start sending orders to march.

The drums suddenly became dense, like a violent storm; the horns were violent and long, like hell.

Bai Guangen scolded Dorgon's ancestor hundreds of times in his heart, then waved the long knife in his hand, and loudly ordered the soldiers to start pushing the shield chariot.

Today it was he who led the Han army into battle again, and he was the only one with only [-] soldiers, which had a strong meaning of cannon fodder.

The shield chariot was thickened and strengthened, the wood was doubled, and the wooden guard in front was one foot thick, and a dozen soldiers pushed the chariot with all their strength, which is not weak.

Behind the shield chariot, every soldier is wearing armor. The archers choose strong and skilled players who can shoot arrows a hundred paces away, and even two hundred paces when thrown. There should be no problem suppressing the bird gun.

But Bai Guangen knew very well that in front of the firearms of the Ming army yesterday, the blunderbuss was just a drizzle, and no matter how thick the wooden board was, it would not be able to withstand the thunderbolt-like iron bullet.

He turned his head to look at the formation of the Qing army, and there was a row of Mongolian soldiers not far behind him with horses and swords. They were the supervisory team. If anyone dared to escape without authorization, they would be deadly ghosts.

"Bah!" Secretly spit on the ground, Bai Guangen bowed his body, hid behind a shield car at the back, tried his best to blend in with the soldiers, and began to push forward slowly.

On the front of the Ming Army's position, at the muzzle reserved by the wooden fence of the low wall, the muzzle of the Shenwei Cannon has slowly risen, and the gunner with a big waist and a round waist began to send large iron bullets into the muzzle of the black hole.

(End of this chapter)