At night, the Tartars made several sneak attacks along various city walls. They were all small groups of small troops, but they ran away at a touch. It was obviously mostly a test. However, this was not enough for the Ming army in Zhenjiang Fort who was waiting hard.
To me, this is nothing.
The slippery and towering city wall did not worry about the Tartar heads popping up from the crenellations of the city wall. Although it was difficult to see the traces of the enemy due to the darkness of night, there was sufficient ammunition for the defenders on the city top to hear any movement below the city.
, let’s just fire off two rounds of firecrackers first.
The Ming army at Zhenjiang Fort fought this battle with great vigour.
It was just a pain for the people inside the city wall. The sound of firecrackers sounded from time to time, as if the Tartars would rush in at any time. That night, except for those with big hearts, few people could sleep peacefully.
The next day, the sound of cannons rang out again from the direction of T-shaped Fort. The sound of cannons and the sound of firecrackers were mixed together, and the sound lasted for more than an hour. Although they did not know how the battle was going, the people in the city felt nothing but the sound of gunfire.
The troops were being mobilized frequently and they did not hear any disturbing news. This meant that although there was fighting ahead, it was not as critical as imagined.
Feng Changxin also joined the Ding Zhuang Team. This has nothing to do with whether he is willing or not. The people who can enter the castle basically enter by household, and families without adult men cannot come to Zhenjiang at all.
fort.
The government's order is that one household must be identified, which suddenly resulted in four to five thousand more young men in the entire Zhenjiang Fort. Moreover, these young men have basically received some basic military training. Zhenjiang Fort has been very important to the people in the past year.
The guidance and placement finally came into play at this time.
Feng Changxin received the order from the government to go to the T-shaped fort at noon.
Under his leadership, dozens of young men rushed to the T-shaped fort with all kinds of food prepared in the morning. Before they arrived, the young men were a little stunned.
There was originally a large open space behind the T-shaped castle that was supposed to be covered with snow. What they saw was dead bodies all over the ground. There was almost no white snow on the ground. There was blood and sludge everywhere, almost all the sludge.
, it is also the color of black and red, the young and strong people don’t need to guess, they all know what dyed the mud into this color.
What shocked them even more was that the dead bodies underground were all wearing the uniforms of the Ming army in Zhenjiang Fort. Weapons were scattered everywhere on the ground, and they were all weapons of the Ming army.
Everyone felt so cold in their hearts. They saw so many dead officers and soldiers in the fort. How cruel was the battle?
"Join them to clean up the battlefield!"
An officer said loudly to Feng Changxin: "See if there are any people alive. If they are still alive, carry them to the shed over there. The doctor in the army will see if they are worth treating. Don't use the dead ones."
Don’t worry about so many things, just pile them over there!”
"Are these our brothers?"
Feng Changxin swallowed with difficulty. There must be at least several hundred people!
"It used to be..."
The officer glanced at him and said expressionlessly: "You all work more quickly. Someone is watching you. You are not allowed to search your property or mess with corpses. This is our general's order. Anyone who disobeys will be punished."
Discuss the crime!”
Feng Changxin heard the people behind him smacking their lips with regret. Apparently the officer's words frustrated the plans of those around him. He waved his hand and led the people into the battlefield, but he honestly started doing things as ordered, even just
It was as if the officers and soldiers standing around did not exist.
There are corpses underground, many of which are corpses, but many of them are difficult to call corpses. Those that can resemble human beings can be regarded as complete corpses. Many of them are half-body, with arms and legs separated from each other. Feng Changxin is now roughly
You can guess what happened to the bloody sludge underground. In addition to the blood flowing out of the corpses, I'm afraid the sludge also contains the scattered internal organs of the corpses that did not fall into the whole corpse.
"It was shot by the cannons of the officers and soldiers!"
Someone behind him said in a low voice: "It's really disgusting. What kind of evil did you do? You didn't even leave a whole body when you died!"
"Those with full beards and tails have holes all over their bodies. This must have been caused by fire cannons!"
"Shut up!" Feng Changxin glared at the whispers behind him: "The officers and soldiers are still watching, don't chew your tongue, the officers and soldiers lying on the ground are also officers and soldiers!"
"Yes, the officers and soldiers are fighting among themselves?"
Obviously Feng Changxin's prestige was not enough to keep this makeshift team quiet. After a brief pause, someone still raised questions.
"But from the look of them, it doesn't look like they are fighting among themselves!"
Someone was watching them eating and paying attention to the officers and soldiers here: "If these are our own people, they can still eat. Those lying on the ground may be their relatives and friends!"
No one answered their questions, only some cold eyes glanced over from time to time, and then some stern urgings were added.
"Boss Chen, the general asked you to send dozens of men up to help carry the ordnance!"
At the top of the fortress where it was connected to the city wall, someone shouted loudly. Someone responded and looked back, and his eyes fell on Feng Changxin.
"It's up to you. Take the people you brought up to move things! Waiter, you take them up and hand them over to Boss Li!"
Feng Changxin and the people he brought stopped what they were doing and followed the soldiers leading the way to look at the city wall. When they reached the city wall, he finally saw the situation outside that could not be seen under the city wall.
The open space in front of the castle was originally an open area covered with white snow, but now there were corpses scattered everywhere, as if a clean white cloth was stained by dots of ink.
The small ink marks are individual corpses, and the large ink marks are corpses connected together. And in such weather, if you are injured and are still in the snow, you will probably be dead in less than an hour.
The living have become dead.
Therefore, all he saw were dead people.
It's just that these dead people still looked like they were dressed as officers and soldiers. There were no dead horses or the Tatars that impressed him so much.
"Master Jun, why are these brothers outside the city..."
"They are the rebels from the Kongzi camp who surrendered to the Tatars!" The soldier leading the way had a good temper and said with a smile: "If you surrender to the Tatars, you will naturally die. Why, do you think it is a pity?"
"I just feel that such good clothes and weapons have been wasted!" Feng Changxin spat on the ground: "No wonder the military master below just said not to mess with corpses. Knowing that it is such a thing, who can resist doing it!"
Suddenly, he became worried: "With so many rebels dead, our officers and soldiers have suffered a lot, right?"
"Hahahaha!" The young soldier laughed: "There are no immortals in a war. However, compared with these damn guys, our losses are nothing. We won this battle with great victory. These
Even if the rebels in Kong Ziying are not completely dead, I'm afraid they won't be able to work for their master!"