Li Yongfang sent men and horses to attack the Ming army at night, and they attacked Lonely.
Before it got dark, the Ming army's artillery team stopped shelling, and then all retreated to the Ming army's camp.
The Ming army's camp was not polite at all. After everyone withdrew into the camp before dark, they moved out almost all the things that could defend the camp and armed their camp to the teeth.
Iron caltrops, horses, and ditch walls surrounded the camp. Not to mention the night attack on the Ming army's camp, if there was any movement from the camp, the artillery team nestled in the Ming army's camp would crackle with shells.
Anyway, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the artillery shells were flying in, and no one could tell whether they could be hit or not. The formation was very scary.
And if Li Yongfang's night attack troops and horses crowded together and approached sneakily, it would be a lot of fun. The shells would wander around the crowd and take away at least dozens of lives.
If you want to avoid this unreasonable defense of the Ming army, unless Li Yongfang's people disperse into small groups of dozens or dozen people and sneakily approach the Ming army's camp, let alone how such a force can approach the Ming army's camp.
The greatest threat they pose to the Ming army is that they can get in front of the Ming army's camp. There are still a lot of firecrackers waiting for them in the Ming army.
Dozens of people, just one volley fired by a patrolling musketry team.
Therefore, the movement at night was not much smaller than the movement during the day. The only difference was that it was not so lively on the city. The roar of cannons from time to time lasted for half the night. In the second half of the night, the Ming army in the camp began again.
I couldn't hear any movement outside the camp.
This made the soldiers of the Nanhai Battalion who got up in the middle of the night to change their guard, all murmuring until dawn - these Tartars looked down on people so much. They fought in the first half of the night, but why didn't they fight in the second half of the night? We haven't had enough yet!
When it got daylight, the soldiers in the camp finally saw clearly the battle situation last night.
In the distance of two or three miles from their own camp to the city, scattered corpses of Tartars could be seen in almost every direction lying in front of the two armies. It can be seen that the Tartars in the city tried every possible means last night.
I wanted to get close to their camp, but during the day yesterday, when the artillery team was moving around, the people on the city top couldn't see the iron caltrops they laid casually.
These Tartars came out in the dark in the middle of the night to surprise the Ming army. The screams they heard when they stepped on these caltrops were a good indication of the direction for the artillery team that had been prepared in the camp.
The shells that followed the noise fell on these unlucky guys, and they died on the spot without even seeing the enemy.
There were enemy corpses in all directions, indicating that the enemy troops who attacked at night did not give up. After repeated attempts, they finally found that they could not gather the troops and rushed to the Ming army's camp, so they dejectedly arrived before dawn.
Go into the city.
After dawn, the Ming army did not send out troops to protect the artillery and bombard the city like yesterday. Instead, they remained on alert and began to widen and thicken the trenches outside the camp and rearrange other defensive measures in the camp.
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This is probably the only result of hundreds of lives lost last night - the Ming army became cautious.
On the other side, Li Zicheng's personal camp that attacked Panjiakou did not reach the city of Panjiakou at all, but directly set up a camp about ten miles away from Panjiakou.
This is the location chosen by Li Zicheng himself. The main camp is set up here. Maybe he can't stop Panjiakou's enemies from marching towards Zhenjiang Fort. However, if Panjiakou's enemies come towards Malanyu, they have to pass through him.
He is not worried about Zhenjiang Fort. Moreover, he hopes that the Tartars in Panjiakou will really have the courage to directly send troops to Zhenjiang Fort. If that is the case, then Li Zicheng will not be polite and will definitely attack with the whole army as soon as possible.
Seize the enemy's retreat.
The soldiers of the Nanhai Battalion may not be that interested in the tactics of digging trenches and besieging the city. After all, digging soil with a hoe is a hard job in the Nanhai Battalion, which consists of the remaining sons of the Central Army in Beijing.
If the soldiers of the Nanhai Battalion were given the choice between going into battle to kill the enemy and digging in the soil, I'm afraid 99% of them would choose to go into battle to kill the enemy directly.
But Li Zicheng's Guards Camp was different. People in the Guards Camp were simply enthusiastic about digging trenches to resist the enemy without fighting. Before they picked up swords and guns as soldiers, most of the Guards Camp
People all rely on farm tools such as hoes to make a living.
For them, picking up a hoe and digging a trench is as easy as eating and drinking, and as natural as sleeping.
The first thing to do when setting up camp is to dig trenches.
The soldiers of the Guards Battalion happily divided the areas. Except for the soldiers and horses who were sent out to guard, everyone picked up the digging tools and started digging from the feet they were responsible for.
It started as deep pits one after another. When the depth of the pits reached the point where people could only see their heads when they jumped in, they began to greet each other and started digging on both sides. Soon, the pits turned into
A line of deep trenches.
When the first circle of deep trenches surrounding their camp was formed, except for a small number of people who stayed inside and continued to widen and thicken them, most of them walked further away with their hoes, and then repeated
following this process.
Thousands of soldiers from old peasant backgrounds concentrated on doing the simple things they were familiar with. The efficiency was astonishing. The Guards Battalion was almost centered on the main camp, and a deep trench surrounding the main camp was expanding outward every day.
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Li Zicheng's order was that there must be a deep ditch at least fifty steps away, and there must be at least five such deep ditches.
As Jiang Wan, whom he considered to be his favorite disciple, he was determined to inherit this ditch-digging strategy from Jiang Wan and carry it forward. As long as the Tartars remained indifferent, he could even keep digging these deep ditches.
Digging down to Panjiakou City turned the vast world outside Panjiakou into a forbidden area for cavalry full of ravines.
When these trenches are numerous and deep enough and require more manpower, and his guard battalion does not even have enough soldiers, he even plans to directly ask for help from Zhenjiang Fort and recruit some young men to do these things. At that time, he
The soldiers could even be liberated, and they only needed to concentrate on dealing with the Tartars who Pan Jiakou said were unwilling to be surrounded by trenches by the Ming army again.
He was very happy to see that kind of scene. If possible, he would also like to replicate the battle where Jiang Wan captured Zhenjiang Fort. Of course, he was just thinking about it. He knew very well that the Tartars would never
He will allow these two military forts to be lost unless all the soldiers and horses from Zhenjiang Fort and those from Liaoyang are mobilized and spare no effort to fight a big battle with the Tatars. Otherwise, even if he takes Panjiakou,
I am afraid that I will be driven out by the Tartars soon.
The combat power of the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Tartars was not comparable to that of the Han military flags of these two military forts.