Valley Emperor

Li Xuan guessed that these ships should have been built by them at the rear, and then directly transported them with a lot of manpower.

The boats and rafts they build are small enough to be carried around with a little more people.

So it's no wonder that the spies of the new Tang Dynasty did not find any trace of their large-scale construction of tools for crossing the river.

"It seems that they are preparing to cross the river in the near future!" Zeng Ziwen said to Li Xuan on the hillside on the west bank: "And this crossing the river is probably going to be very fast. They are going to come ashore in one go!"

The Ming army deliberately concealed the idea of ​​building a river crossing tool in the rear, which must have been unexpectedly attacked.

Otherwise, it would not be a problem for them to build river crossing tools directly on the beach!

Li Xuan turned to Xie Ziwei at this moment and said, "The artillery team is ready. As long as the ships of the Puppet Ming Bandit Army appear on the beach, they will fire!"

The Ming army already knew that the artillery of the new army of the Tang Dynasty could hit the river beach about 400 meters away, so although they also built some fortifications on the river beach, they were all repaired in pieces, and the barracks were even more repaired. In a place hundreds of meters away from the river, it can effectively avoid the artillery attack on the side of the Datang New Army.

But if the Ming army wanted to cross the river, they had to move the boat to the beach, or even put it directly into the river. The soldiers of the Ming army also had to come out of the barracks and crowded on the beach to board the boat. At this time, they will become the target of the artillery team.

The dense crowd will make every shot of the artillery team not fail.

The only pity is that the land on the river beach is too soft, and the kinetic energy of the solid bullet will be quickly absorbed by the soft ground after hitting it, which greatly reduces the lethality of the solid bullet.

Xie Ziwei also said at this time: "The minister obeys the order, as soon as the puppet Ming bandit army sets foot on the river beach, my artillery team will fire six artillery pieces!"

Xie Ziwei's artillery team now has one 800 jin and five 500 jin artillery pieces. Needless to say, which Italian cannon is 800 jin, its power is quite powerful.

Even if it is a 500-pound cannon, it is actually not small, but it is smaller than the Italian cannon, and its farthest effective range can reach about 400 meters.

This distance is enough to effectively kill the river beach area on the east bank.

These two types of artillery are basically the same except for their weights. You can simply think that a five-hundred-pound cannon is a reduced version of an eight-hundred-pound cannon.

Since it is the same style of artillery, its weight and size have been reduced, and its power is naturally relatively reduced. However, the shortened effective range of 100 meters is not the actual effectiveness of this small artillery in the Lanjiang defense battle. .

Sure enough, as expected, the Ming army and the others started to carry boats, rafts and other river-crossing tools to the river beach that night under the cover of darkness.

At this time, Xie Ziwei's artillerymen also opened fire for the first time!

This is also the first real night artillery shelling of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but they also fired a few shots in the night before. First, it was used to scare the Ming army, and by the way, see if they could hit a few people. for training.

In addition, they have been in this ghost place for more than three months, not to mention every inch of land on the east bank, they are familiar with it, but at least the few hundred meters of river beach on the east bank, they are absolutely familiar with it, not to mention the last time. The battle of the Lanjiang River, that is, in the past three months, when they saw a relatively large number of Ming troops appear on the river beach, they would hit such a cannon.

Sometimes when I see the generals of the Ming army go to the riverside to inspect and so on, I will also fire a few shots to see if they can catch a Ming army official.

Although there are only a handful of victories in the past three months, and no major officials have been hit, but this cannon has been beaten, and naturally they will become old drivers. Now Xie Ziwei and the others are quite familiar with the terrain there, even in the dark , know how to adjust the gun position, and then fire.

With the sound of rumbling cannons, the night on the Lanjiang River became lively again.

On the west bank side, the six artillery positions on the parapet built by the new army of the Tang Dynasty burst into orange-red fire from time to time, and as the fire flashed, the rumbling sound of cannons spread all over the Lanjiang River for several kilometers.

At this time, on the beach on the other side of the river, black solid iron **** will flash from the night, and then smash on the land of the beach.

The shells provoked and fell, piercing the raft that had just been brought up, and the rafts built by the Ming army were torn apart and sawdust flying.

Some of the shells hit the soldiers of the Ming army who were carrying these ships and rafts. Most of the soldiers of the Ming army who were hit by the solid ball shells died on the spot without saying a word, because such a large solid iron ball hit people at high speed. On the body, the whole person can be smashed to pieces.

Those who didn't die on the spot were those who were hit in the limbs, but at most they screamed a few more times, because most of their limbs had been carried away by the shells, and they were quickly cut off with broken hands and legs. will die from excessive blood loss.

However, although the screams of the rumble of cannons continued to come out, the Ming army's movement of transporting the tools to cross the river to the river did not stop, but accelerated the progress.

Also, although Xie Ziwei's artillery team worked hard and kept firing, the distance of more than 300 meters was a bit far, and it was impossible to say where to shoot.

And it is very important that it is night, and the Ming army on the other side of the river did not foolishly lit a large number of torches to carry the tools for crossing the river. They only lit a few torches and carried them by the weak light.

And after these weak firelights were separated by a few hundred meters, the artillerymen on the other side of the river could not see clearly. They could only see some figures vaguely. It was impossible to hit the artillery shells in places where there were dense Ming troops, so naturally This reduces the lethality of the shells.

After all, this kind of solid shell must directly hit the enemy before it can cause a killing effect. Otherwise, even if the shell flew a few centimeters away from the Ming army, it would be useless.

This also means that if you want to achieve a good killing effect, you have to hit the crowd. If the enemy army disperses quickly, then the killing effect of solid shells will be greatly reduced.

After fighting like this in the middle of the night, even if Li Xuan could not see the effect of the shelling, the Ming army did not shrink back, but instead accelerated and dispatched more people to carry the boats and rafts. Bombing is unreliable.

If you fight for one night, it is estimated that you will not hit many Ming troops, but it will cause waste of ammunition and reduce the life of artillery.

The ammunition of the Datang New Army is very precious. Every shell, every pack of gunpowder, is produced after purchasing materials from outside at a high price, and the cost is quite high.

So after the second half of the night, Li Xuan simply ordered to stop the shelling, and then gave the entire army an order, except for the guard troops on duty, all the others should sleep.

Now a fool can guess that the Ming army will definitely cross the river on a large scale in the early morning.

At the same time, he also asked the messengers to pass the news that the Ming army was preparing to cross the river to the first and second mixed battalions overnight, so that the two troops came back overnight.

Since the Ming army has already decided to cross the river here, there is no need to guard against the Ming army coming from other places. As for the small-scale Ming army sneaking across the river, it will not affect the battle situation for a while.

Now the most important thing is the Lanjiang Ferry. Li Xuan must gather all the main troops and the Ming army for another life-and-death battle!

After all, the battle that is expected to come tomorrow will be another battle of national fortunes faced by the Tang Dynasty. It is hard to say what will happen if you win, but if you lose, it is definitely impossible for everyone to end up.

The rebellion of the Tang Dynasty has reached the stage where it is today. It is not just that Li Xuan can't be good. Other senior civil and military officials should not expect the Ming Dynasty to let them go.

You have occupied a county, and you have killed and wounded thousands of Ming troops before and after. The most important thing is that you are still defeated.

Under such circumstances, the Ming Dynasty must have caught one and killed the other!

If you want to survive, you can only pray that you escape fast enough.

After receiving orders from Li Xuan from the messengers, the two mixed battalions of the Datang New Army did not dare to delay, and set off overnight to rush back to the Lanjiang Ferry.

The first mixed battalion is about eight miles away from the Lanjiang Ferry, and they do not bring any baggage. The daily supplies are directly transported to them by the baggage unit. At the same time, they are still fighting at home~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The road is also quite familiar. Therefore, it is faster to travel lightly, and it is expected to be back tomorrow morning.

The second mixed battalion was a little further away, ten miles away, and they were also marching lightly.

But they didn't know that when they left for two hours, about three in the morning, a small ferry not far from the original first mixed camp, suddenly a large number of Ming troops appeared, and then they moved out directly from the back. There are a lot of boats and rafts, and when you go to the riverside, put down the boats and rafts to start crossing the river.

These movements of the Ming army were naturally discovered by the dozen or so soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who stayed here to monitor.

"There are a lot of them, at least hundreds of boats!" The platoon leaders of these soldiers looked at the rafts on the river and the lights on the boats, and their expressions suddenly changed.

These hundreds of ships can carry at least a thousand Ming troops across the river!

"Quick, go back on horseback and tell the adults that the Ming army is going to cross the river." As soon as the Ming army crossed the river, the platoon leader knew that something bad was going to happen.

This is not the kind of petty fight before. The Ming army only sent a few boats, dozens of people and hundreds of people to cross the river, but there are hundreds of boats at one time. The Ming army who crossed the river is at least thousands. , and may even reach two or three thousand people.

Now that our main force is guarding against the Ming army on the other side of the Lanjiang ferry, if there are two or three thousand Ming army detours behind our main force at this time, then the trouble will be big!

Immediately, two soldiers got on their horses, and then, without caring about the physical strength of the horses, they directly whipped the whip and urged the horses to run fast. They should tell the news to the battalion official of the first mixed battalion, Xitong, and even more so. The news was told to Li Xuan in the rear. ()

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