In front of Alapo, Lei Qisheng commanded the soldiers of the Ming Army's artillery battalion, who were digging pits on the flat ground in front of the slope. With the strength of the people and the strength, thousands of pits were dug out in a short time.
The Ming army put iron lumps called "explosives" into the pits and carefully filled them with soil. These "explosives" varied in size, usually about the size of footballs. They walked around holding these big iron balls.
, the soldiers were panting from exhaustion.
In ancient my country, things similar to "landmines" first appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Battle of Shaanzhou in the fourth year of Emperor Gaozong's reign in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song army used "gunpowder cannons" (i.e. iron shell mines) buried in the ground to cause heavy damage to the Jin army. .
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, landmines with mechanical ignition devices appeared in the true sense. In the 11th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, the "Fire Dragon Scripture" written by Jiao Yu recorded: "The explosives are made of pig iron, on an empty stomach, put the powder in the pestle, and enter
A small bamboo tube with a fire wire inside and a long wire through the fire trough on the outside is used to identify the route that bandits must take. Dozens of them are buried in the pit. The medicine trough is connected to a steel wheel and covered with soil to keep the thieves unaware. The engine is turned on and the iron blocks are shaken.
Like flying, flames soar into the sky."
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in order to deal with the Jurchens, all kinds of landmines came out one after another. According to historical records such as "Hai Hao Tu Bian", "Wu Bei Zhi", "Military Training Records·Miscellaneous Collection", the landmines used by the Ming Dynasty army included
There are more than ten types. If distinguished by detonation methods, there are combustion, pull, trip, machine, etc. In addition to single mines, there are also group mines that use a fuse to control the explosion, and a mother mine to explode and detonate.
"Zi Mu Lei" of several Zi Lei.
Lei Chaosheng was commanding his men to work vigorously when suddenly someone tapped him on the shoulder. When he turned around, he saw that it was Shi Qiwen.
"General Lei, how are the arrangements going?" Shi Qiwen asked calmly.
Lei Chaosheng grinned widely: "Commander, don't worry, if the sand bandit dares to attack Alapo, I will ensure that he is well entertained."
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On October 20, the 20th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the Battle of Alapo began.
Following the dispatch of Sha Dingzhou's Central Army Dazhu, 180,000 allied troops of all ethnic groups appeared at the foot of Alapo.
The leader of the army, Mengzi chieftain Li Rifang, led 10,000 Mengzi native soldiers from Mengzi chieftains Li Risen, Li Shifan, and Li Jinping to rush to the front.
After capturing Menghua Prefecture, he heard that Wang Shuo had massacred Dali, and Li Rifang was not to be outdone and massacred Menghua. Li Rifang, who was red-eyed about killing people, took the initiative to ask Sha Dingzhou for orders to be the vanguard of this battle.
Mengzi is located in the hometown of Shadingzhou, near Wangnong Mountain. Among the various chieftains, Li Rifang is a close confidant of Shadingzhou. His tribe of 10,000 robbers is known as brave.
"My sons, I have asked the General Office for orders to capture Luxi without sealing the sword!" Li Rifang encouraged his subordinates.
After hearing this, the morale of Ten Thousand Mengzi Tigers and Wolfs was greatly boosted.
"Luo Luo!" (Yi language, tiger)
"Luoluo!"
"Luoluo!"
Groups of Luoluo soldiers shouted "Tiger!" "Tiger!" "Tiger!" and rushed towards Alapo.
Although the charging Luoluo soldiers were elite, they were not many in number. Shi Qiwen knew that it was not Sha Dingzhou's main force, so he did not let the general cannon and the thousand-jin Fran machine gun fire, but just asked the squatting tiger cannon to be ready.
With swords and guns shining, the soldiers climbed up the mountain.
Suddenly, with a "bang!" sound, a rogue soldier rose into the sky.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The explosives planted by the Ming army became powerful, overturning, maiming, and killing one soldier after another.
Weapons such as landmines are mainly used against the Eight Banners soldiers in the north and are rarely used in Yunnan. The Luoluo soldiers mainly come from the mountains in Yunnan and have never seen anything like this. As they ran, the soles of their feet suddenly exploded.
The victims' flesh and blood flew everywhere, and everyone was shocked.
Luo Luo soldiers are not afraid of death in battle. Even if they are injured, they still dare to fight. But the only thing is that they are superstitious about ghosts and gods.
They are not afraid of life or death, but they are afraid of ghosts and gods.
"Oh no, the Ming army has invited heavenly soldiers! We can't stop them!"
"Run quickly, the Ming army has evil tactics!"
An incredible thing happened. The warrior Luoluo, who was never afraid of death in battle, actually escaped.
They disobeyed orders and fled backwards.
"Damn it! Are you worthy of being a warrior of the Luo tribe?"
Li Rifang's younger brother, Li Risen, killed dozens of people before stabilizing the situation.
"Fuan'er, Ping'er, you two lead the charge for me!"
Li Rifang ordered his nephews, Li Shifan and Li Jinping, to lead a team to attack the mountain.
"Tiger!"
"Tiger!"
"Tiger!"
Li Shifan held a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and rushed up the mountain; Li Jinping held an iron rod and followed closely behind.
Seeing the two young men attacking the mountain in person, the morale of the Luoluo soldiers was slightly boosted, and they followed suit to attack the mountain.
The squatting tiger cannon in front of the Ming army's formation opened fire, with smoke billowing and the explosion causing the soldiers to fall over.
After finally approaching the top of the mountain, the Ming army's bows, arrows and firecrackers began to show their power, shooting down the soldiers one by one.
Shi Qiwen's son, Shi Xiaozhong, who was a guerrilla in the front camp, put on an iron finger, took off the hard bow with horns, nocked an arrow with his left hand, pulled the string with his right hand, narrowed his eyes, and aimed at a young general in red who was attacking the mountain.
The "whoosh" arrow is as fast as lightning.
Li Shifan, the young chieftain who was directing the attack on the mountain, suddenly fell down while holding his throat, and the "hero's knot" on his head fell off.
"Fan'er!"
Li Rifang, who was supervising the battle in the rear, burst into tears.
The Mengzi Tu army was defeated and retreated down the mountain.
Seeing that the Mengzi soldiers had retreated, Lu Huang, the chieftain of Ningzhou on the Ming side of the mountain, led the Ningzhou soldiers down from a high position to pursue the Mengzi soldiers.
"Tiger!"
"Tiger!"
"Tiger!"
Ningzhou soldiers killed Mengzi soldiers ruthlessly, and they wanted revenge.
At that time, the three heroes of the Luoluo people were in power, the Ningzhou Lu family, the Wangnongsha family, and the Amipu family, who were fighting against each other. Because the Ningzhou Lu family was given a surname by Taizu, they could dominate the other two families and were recognized by the Luoluo people.
Leader.
The Mengzi Li family was originally a general of the Lu family in Ningzhou, but he betrayed the Lu family and went to the Wang Nongsha family.
In the first year of Tianqi, Li Risen's father Li Fushun defected to Sha Dingzhou's father Sha Yuan, and led Sha Yuan to attack Ningzhou Chieftain Lu Zhong, causing Lu Zhong to be defeated and flee back to Ningzhou Xunwei Tucheng. After this battle, Ningzhou Lu's family
After the decline, Li Fuxun lost his position as the leader of the Luo tribe. However, with the support of Sha Yuan, Li Fushun occupied the Mengzi area that originally belonged to the Lu family.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Ningzhou soldiers, the Mengzi soldiers were rebellious. Lu Huang chased Li Risen to the foot of the mountain before returning.
The first battle was defeated because there were no landmines. Rumors spread among the Sha army that "the Ming army had heavenly soldiers to help" and "the Ming army cast evil spells on the mountain." Morale was greatly depressed for a while, and Sha Dingzhou was worried.
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"General Administration, this won't work, we have to find a way!"
Sha Dingzhou's number one think tank, Wan Meiren's brother-in-law Tang Jibin came to Sha Dingzhou.
Sha Dingzhou knew that his brother-in-law was always resourceful and asked him for advice: "Does Mr. Tang have any good ideas?"
Tang Jingbin said: "I have come up with a plan. The water of Ala Lake is flat, and there is a canyon on the lakeside that leads to the rear of the Ming army. You can order your men to build bamboo rafts, cross the lake ashore, pass through the canyon, and sneak attack the Ming army."
Sha Dingzhou found Wuding chieftain Shezhuo and Panjiang chieftain Cen Jilu, and ordered them to lead five thousand troops, cross the lake on bamboo rafts, and sneak attack the Ming army.
Both of these two people had conflicts with the Ming Dynasty.
She Zhuo, the chieftain of Wuding, was the remnant of the She family in Yongning. During the Tianqi period, She Chongming, the chieftain of Xuanfu in Yongning, launched a rebellion in Chongqing and established the Daliang Kingdom, which was known as the "She'an Rebellion" in history. After the She family in Yongning, Sichuan, was suppressed,
The She family in Wuding, Yunnan, survived because they were far away.
Cen Jilu, chieftain of Panjiang, was a branch of the Cen family in Sicheng in Yunnan. Historically, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and led the Qing army to cross Panjiang River to attack Li Dingguo.
When they heard that Sha Dingzhou had asked them to cross the lake to attack the Ming army, the two of them happily accepted the order.
The beautiful Ala Lake is sparkling with blue waves. Between the lake and the mountains, bamboo rafts shuttle in the lake. The local soldiers of the Luotong tribe use long bamboo poles to support the bamboo rafts at a very fast speed. They support the raft at Mao hour and arrive at Chen time.
The small bamboo rafts reached the shore, and groups of native soldiers came ashore to line up. In the front were the Shezhuo tribesmen wearing "hero knots" and leather armors or sheepskin coats; behind them were the soldiers wearing bamboo armors or Li Tongs (Tong tribe's soldiers).
A kind of short shirt) of the Cen Jilu tribe.
General She Chong didn't know that before they reached the shore, there were many pairs of eyes staring at them in the forest by the lake. Ning Haibo, He Jiuyi, took Zhang Guoyong, Zhao Desheng and 5,000 troops to follow Shi Qiwen. I have been waiting in the forest for a long time to prevent the soldiers from crossing the river to sneak attack.
"Ning Haibo, there are soldiers crossing the lake, do you want to kill them?"
Zhang Guoyong and Zhao Desheng were impatient.
He Jiuyi took a telescope and looked around: "Don't worry, kill them now. They escaped on bamboo rafts. Wait until they all get ashore and enter the canyon, then surround and annihilate them."
Groups of soldiers filed into the canyon, intending to cross the canyon and sneak attack the Ming army's rear.
They thought they were in the dark, but they unexpectedly fell into the Ming army's trap.
"Kill!"
The ambush troops rushed out from all sides. Pieces of rocks and rolling logs were thrown from the mountains, and artillery, bows and arrows, and bullets rained down on the soldiers.
The canyon was narrow and unable to dodge, and Shezhuo was killed by a shotgun on the spot. As soon as Cen Jilug escaped to the mouth of the canyon, Zhang Guo, who had been waiting for a long time, stabbed him in the head with a knife.
Five thousand native soldiers were wiped out.
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The sneak attack failed, Sha Dingzhou gritted his teeth and determined to attack hard.
He thought bitterly: "My 180,000-strong army can kill the Ming army with just a bunch of people."
Amid the overwhelming roars of tigers, groups of Tibetan tigers and wolves began to attack the mountain.
Luo Luo, who grew up in the mountains, climbs mountains very quickly. One after another, bending down and holding shields, they rush up the mountain in dense numbers.
Shi Qiwen, the Ming army commander on the hillside, looked at it and said with a smile: "The sand thieves are working hard!"
The flag of the Chinese army was waving, and the three-thousand-jin general cannon and thousand-jin Fran machine cannon on the mountain were no longer hidden, and began to bombard the sand troops. The tiger crouching cannon in front of the formation also fired ferociously canisters.
The explosive shells fired by the Ming army's thousand-pound Fran machine gun caused great casualties to the Saudi army. The shells exploded among the Saudi army, taking away many lives.
The solid bullets weighing twenty kilograms of the general's cannon were wreaking havoc in the rear of the Sha Dingzhou army. This kind of artillery shells are said to be able to penetrate thousands of miles with one shot. Some of them even landed in front of Sha Dingzhou's horse.
The wolf of the Luo tribe has been inspired with ferocity.
He ordered Dazhu of the Chinese army to move forward and personally go to the front of the formation to supervise the battle.
The general's personal visit greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers.
They shouted "Luo Luo" (tiger) and rushed up the mountain regardless of life or death.
Generals Tie Zhihu, Wang Shuo, Chen Changshou, Li Risen, Li Chenglin, and Qin Zugen became red-eyed and rushed to the mountain themselves.
Li Chenglin, chieftain of Bazhai, bravely climbed the mountain with two swords in hand.
"Boys, come after me!"
"Boom!"
A shotgun blast caused dozens of wounds on Li Chenglin's body. He looked at his chest in disbelief, lowered his head, and fell to the ground.
Yide Gong, the chieftain of cattle and sheep, was Sha Dingzhou's confidant. When he saw the Lord General coming in person, he was as excited as if he had been given blood. He rushed to the Ming army's formation and cut down several Ming soldiers.
A stray bullet came, Yide Gong paused, the steel knife flew out, and life passed away.
Seeing that the soldiers had already rushed to the front of the formation, the two sides began a hand-to-hand battle.
Shi Qiwen urgently ordered Lei to make a pilgrimage and release "shaking thunder".
"Zhentian Lei" is also called "Thunder Thunder Fire Ball". It uses a thin porcelain jar to hold iron coins and gunpowder, wraps it into a bamboo ball, and adds medicine to the ball.
To use it, just use a red-hot branding cone to ignite it and then use the "cannon" to throw it at the enemy.
The Ming army in the rear used trebuchets to light "shaking thunder" and threw it at the sand army; the Ming army in the front simply lit the fuse and threw it directly down the mountain.
This kind of ancient hand grenade "balls out and makes a sound like thunder." Not only can the broken pieces of porcelain when exploded can seriously injure the enemy, but the huge sound can also make the enemy frightened.
As the "sky-shaking thunder" fell into the sand army one after another, bursts of "rumbling" thunder sounded in Alapo.
The vigor of the Sha army was deflated and they slowly retreated.
Shi Qiwen on the top of the mountain observed carefully and felt that it was almost done, so he sent a signal to Li Dingguo, who was ambushing in Tielong Mountain, to attack.
Seeing Shi Qiwen's signal, Dinglu Marquis Li Dingguo's troops slowly fought their way out of the Iron Cage Mountain formation. After approaching the Sha army, they began to accelerate.
Like a torrent, it violently hit the flank of the sand army.
"Kill!"
Li Dingguo, dressed in a white helmet and white armor, charged forward like a fierce tiger down the mountain. The tassel of his bright silver gun was covered with blood. The red blood rained down and merged with the bay-red horse astride him.
In front of this god of death, the ferocious Luo Luo soldiers could not resist and began to collapse.
Wang Yaozu, the rising chieftain on the flank of the Sha army, saw that the situation was not good and led his troops to fight against Li Dingguo.
Li Dingguo raised his gun and stabbed Wang Yaozu in the chest.
A bright silver spear, shaped like a swimming dragon, rushed back and forth in the enemy formation. Killing the tribe of Sanwang Yaozu, Li Dingguo then killed the tribe of Yandian chieftain Ye Xiangyang. Chieftain Ye Xiangyang and Tushe (an official of the chieftain) Ye Zhengchang fought against Li Dingguo.<
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"What is the name of the coming general?"
"Li Dingguo of Yan'an".
The white robe was dyed red with blood, and under the sunlight, it shimmered with red clouds.
The bright silver spear was steady and agile, like a white python full of momentum. The three fought for more than ten rounds, but the second general was timid and weak, and gradually couldn't resist. Li Dingguo shot one by one, killing Ye Zhengchang, and stabbed Ye Xiangyang under the horse. In this battle, Li Dingguo's troops killed three chieftains and thirteen chieftains, which frightened the enemy.
Seeing Li Dingguo approaching his own army, Sha Dingzhou was terrified.
"Your Excellency, please lead your troops and retreat quickly. We and I will come to stop the Ming army."
The towering chieftains Wang Yangzu and Wang Nong led five thousand elite troops to stop Li Dingguo. These two men were all elite soldiers of the Sha army and barely managed to stop Li Dingguo.
Upon seeing this, Sha Dingzhou hurriedly ordered the entire army to retreat.
Shi Qiwen on the mountain saw Li Dingguo coming and ordered the entire army to attack.
The Ming army was condescending and attacked the Sha army from the mountains. Although the Luoluo soldiers were brave, their morale was in chaos and they could not stop the two armies. They were defeated and retreated. The towering chieftains Wang Yangzu, Wang Nong, and the French chieftain Long Shen died in the battle. in.
The Ming army pursued them for thirty miles before stopping.
Sha Dingzhou did not dare to fight anymore, so he withdrew his remaining troops to Heyang and defended them.
In this battle, the Sha army lost more than 70,000 people and suffered severe injuries.
The Ming army took advantage of the situation and approached Heyang, hoping to defeat Kunming in one fell swoop.
The blood on Alapo is cold,
I vow not to return Loulan until I break it.
Poor one hundred thousand good family sons,
The lonely soul looks at Dalao Mountain in the distance.