Chapter 231 Trap (Part 1)

Shi Lang said: "Mr. Marquis, this method is not possible. How long will it take to fill the river surface nearly a hundred feet wide? How can a humble navy watch Jiannu fill the river with his earth?"

A faint smile flashed across Wang Pu's face, and he turned around and picked up the teacup on the table and handed it to Shi Lang, saying, "Look at this again."

Shi Lang took the teacup from Wang Pu in confusion, thinking that this is just a cup of tea, what's good about it? He glanced casually, and Shi Lang looked away and was about to say something, his whole expression suddenly suffocated, and two terrifying lights suddenly appeared in his eyes, staring at the teacup in his hand.

It was a cold tea, because the weather suddenly became cold today, and a thin layer of ice was formed on the tea noodles!

Floating ice! Freezing!!!

Shi Lang's face turned pale in an instant. He thought of the harsh weather in Shandong. In such a cold weather, what if the canal freezes? Once the canal freezes, his naval warship will fall into the ice and be unable to move, while Jiannu can step on the ice and launch an attack on his naval warship directly!

Liaocheng, Dorgon's residence.

Duoduo sighed and said, "Everyone knows that the key to the victory or defeat of this battle is the Southern Ming Navy, but how easy is it to solve the Ming Navy?"

"Yes." Abatai echoed, "No matter how brave and good at fighting in our Qing Dynasty, we would never rush into the river to fight with the Nanming Navy, right?"

"Haha." Fan Wencheng smiled, "Two Princes, what if the servants have a way to let the Eight Banners Warriors of the Qing Dynasty rush into the river to fight with the Nanming Navy? Do you have the confidence to solve the opponent?"

"What?" Duoduo and Abatai said in a lost voice at the same time, "You have a way to get the Eight Banners Warriors to rush into the river?"

"It's just a joke." Fan Wencheng looked solemn and turned to Dorgon and said, "Master, the slave has no way to let the Eight Banners Warriors step on the river to launch an attack on the Nanming Navy, but God can!"

"God?" Dorgon said in a narrow voice, "What do you mean?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Master, the weather outside is already very cold now, and it is still getting colder. According to Nu, the canal river surface will freeze tonight. If such a cold weather lasts for another three to five days, several inches of thick ice will form on the canal river surface. At that time, our Eight Banners Warriors of the Qing Dynasty will be able to step on the ice and launch an attack on the Nanming Navy directly!"

"Yes, why did you forget this?" Dorgon said happily when he heard this, "Once the river surface is frozen, the Eight Banners Warriors of the Qing Dynasty can attack on the ice. Once the river is lost, the Nanming Navy will be vulnerable, and the Nanming Navy's warships will also be trapped by the ice layer. They can't escape even if they want to, hahaha."

"That's great." Duoduo also said happily, "As long as the Nanming Navy is dealt with, even if the weather turns warmer and the canal is frozen, Wang Pu who is trapped here will become a turtle in the jar. Hehe, just wait for Wang Pu to be captured alive. I will definitely tear him to pieces and avenge the late emperor and countless Eight Banners Warriors who died in the hands of this fang!"

That night, the "Wufeng Frozen" in Liaocheng became more and more powerful, and the temperature dropped sharply. The whistlemen in charge of the night were quickly frozen and their noses were swollen, with their hands and feet swelling. They quickly ran down from the arrow tower and began to run around. It was cold and the body would be frozen soon if they were not activated.

Thin floes began to appear on the canal surface.

The next morning, Dorgon climbed to the top of Liaocheng under the crowd of Dodo, Abatai, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Tong Yangxing and others. Standing on the top of the city, he saw that the canal was completely covered with ice.

"Give it."

Dorgon stretched out his hand and said that Goshha had already handed over the telescope.

Dorgon raised his monocular lens and looked in front of him. Looking through the mirror hole, he saw that the Ming Navy, ten miles away, was already in chaos. Dozens of naval warships were all trapped on the canal. The Ming soldiers on the ship were holding spears and bamboo poles in their hands and poles poles poles to the ice. Some soldiers were throwing burning cloth strips and throwing them on the river, trying to melt the ice with a small fire to get the naval warships back onto the river.

"Haha." Dorgon couldn't help but let out two pleasant laughs, "God blesses the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army navy is finished!"

Fan Wencheng, who was standing behind Dorgon, smiled and said: "I have already checked this morning. The ice layer by the river is already half an inch thick. As long as this 'Wufeng Frozen' lasts for another two days, the thickness of the ice layer will definitely exceed three inches, and the thickness of the ice layer in the center of the river will exceed one inch, which is enough for tens of thousands of troops to launch an attack from the ice surface!"

Duoduo, who was also holding a monocular lens next to him, was watching the situation. "The Ming Navy was trapped in the center of the canal. This section of the canal is relatively wide, and the attack distances on both sides are about seventy feet (210 meters). However, the left bank is close to Wang Pu's camp, which is not conducive to our army's attack."

"Yes." Abatai nodded, "I have to launch an attack on the Ming Navy warship from the right side. In this way, the musket team in Wang Pu's camp will be out of reach, and I can only watch his navy be destroyed by us!"

"No." Dorgon suddenly shook his head and said in a narrow voice, "Unless it is absolutely necessary, don't destroy these dozens of naval warships, as well as the Ming navy on the ship. It is best to force them to surrender! Since the death of Sanshun King Qu, our Qing navy has been dead in name only and we have to find a way to rebuild. This team of Ming navy is the cornerstone of our reconstruction of the Qing navy!"

The "iron case" of Sanshun King has been turned over by Dorgon. It was precisely through the "iron case" of Sanshun King that Dorgon pulled the Chief Regent Jirhalang off the horse and became a slave chief who monopolized the power.

Jiannu is lucky.

This "black wind freeze" lasted for four days, and it was snowing for half a day in the middle. The ice layer was covered with a layer of snow. With this layer of snow, Jiannu didn't have to tie a rope under his boots. He could directly step on the ice layer covered with snow to launch an attack on the Ming Navy warship trapped in the middle of the canal.

The Ming navy on the warship naturally would not wait to die. He was crazily poking the ice on the river with spears and bamboo poles. Many soldiers jumped onto the ice, slashing with knives and hammers, but all their efforts were futile, and human power was insignificant in front of nature.

The navy soldiers finally broke a hole in the solid ice layer. Before they could expand it, the gushing river water had condensed into floating ice again. Before they could pee, the porridge-shaped floating ice formed into solid ice again, and it was thicker and stronger than before!

Seeing the Ming Navy as tired as a dog but futile, the Jiannu Rangers who were surveillance on both sides of the canal leaned over unscrupulously, making waves of smug laughter on the horse's back, and responding to them was a row of dense platoons. Two Rangers were shot dead on the spot and fell down.

The remaining rangers flew away as if they were far away from the river bank.

It seemed that the danger was smelled from the air. The Ming army began to pound the ice crazily. The Central Army in the camp also extended a helping hand to the navy. Bales of hay were transported to the river to ignite, trying to melt the solid ice strata, but this little heat was too insignificant for the vast ice strata.

When the low horn sounded in the wilderness on the right bank of the canal, the Ming navy finally gave up its meaningless struggle and hid back on the ship. Now the only thing they could rely on was these fifty naval warships. The Central Army that came to support also fled back to the camp in shame.

“Woo…”

“Woo…”

“Woo…”

"Dongdongdongdong..."

The low and distant sound of the ox horns was tighter, and then the sound of fierce and suffocating war drums sounded. With the turbulent war drum sounds, teams of Jiannu Eight Banners soldiers emerged from the wilderness on the right bank of the canal, like a rapid but slow peak, crushing towards the wide canal surface.

Almost at the same time, more Jiannu appeared in the wilderness on the left bank of the canal.

The two Jiannu teams were huge and the queues were tight. Various flags were trying to cover the sky. The spears standing like forests and stretched armor reflected a cold and cold glow under the sun, extending from the front of you to the end of your vision. Time seemed to be frozen, and endless murderous intent spread and raging in the air.

The sound of trumpets and the intense sound of war drums resounded throughout the world, and the cold light that stretched to the end of the vision was slowly crushing towards the Ming army camp and the pitiful fifty naval warships in the center of the canal.

“Woo…”

The sound of horns that rose and fell became low as the sound of fierce war drums stopped abruptly.

The Jiannu army, which was crushing forward, stopped moving forward under the shouts of countless assistant leaders and gang leaders, and then began to arrange in an orderly manner under the guidance of various flags. The golden flag was the yellow flag, the golden flag was the yellow flag, the red flag was the red flag, and the black flag was the red flag...

"hold head high……"

"Dong...dong...dongdong...dongdong...dongdongdongdong!"

After just being arranged, the low horn sound turned and became high again. The intense drum sounded immediately, and it became more rapid and intense. In the end, it was like a rapid raindrop, smashing on the dry ground, splashing countless dust...

"Kill..."

"Push..."

The two thousand Han army Eight Banners and two thousand Korean Eight Banners who were leading the battle began to separate from the Jiannu formation on the right side of the canal. They howled and rushed towards the fifty naval warships in the middle of the canal. They rushed to the front two rows of oars and shield soldiers, each carrying an oversized oars and shields on their shoulders, and archers followed closely behind the oars and shield soldiers.

These oars and shields are about three inches thick, and the surface is covered with a layer of iron and three layers of cowhide. The Ming army's muskets can easily penetrate the wild boar skin on Jiannu's body, but it is impossible to penetrate such a strong oars and shields. Jiannu's tactics are very obvious. They are to use these oars and shields to resist the Ming army's muskets, and then use bows and arrows to kill and injure the navy soldiers on the Ming army's warships.

Although the range of the Ming army's muskets exceeded that of Jiannu's bows and arrows, the muskets were shot in a straight line. If they could not penetrate the solid oar shield, they could not kill the archers hiding behind the oar shield. However, the bows and arrows hiding behind the oar shield can be used to shoot upwards to kill the navy soldiers on the Ming army's warships.

There is a dirt platform more than two meters high in the middle of the Central Army camp. This dirt platform was originally available, but later Wang Pu raised it and reinforced it. Now it looks like a small low castle. The dirt platform is full of things, covered with oil cloth. I wonder what is underneath?

Wang Pu climbed to the Tutai surrounded by Li Chengdong and other generals of the seven towns, Liu Rushi, Liu Qingyan, Lu Liu, Nengniang and more than a dozen personal soldiers. The battle was about to happen, and Wang Pu didn't care about avoiding suspicion and took Liu Rushi and Liu Qingyan on stage to appear, but the two women were wearing military uniforms like Nengniang.

The military uniforms worn by Liu Qingyan, Liu Rushi and Neng Niang are somewhat similar to modern women's lapel uniforms. The military uniforms of the Central Army are blue, and Wang Pu's governor's dress is also blue, but their military uniforms are green and they are not wearing big caps on their heads, which is a bit like berets.

The well-tailed green military uniforms seemed to be tailor-made for the three women, outlining their delicate and convex bodies to the fullest, with endless charm in their heroic postures, and the green military uniforms reflected the fair skin color. Li Chengdong, Ben Benshen and the generals of the seven towns had seen such a beauty before, and they all looked straight!

But no matter how coveted they knew, they were all Wang Pu’s forbidden body. Who the hell dared to have a bad idea?

The right bank of the canal.

The two thousand Han army Eight Banners and two thousand Korean Eight Banners who were blocking forward have rushed out of the river bank and stepped onto the ice layer.

Teams of navy soldiers straightened their waists from the starboard side of fifty warships. With loud noises, rows of guns shot over. The Jiannu oar shield soldiers who were rushing in front immediately fell down more than a hundred people. The shooting distance was still a bit far, and the hit rate of Datong's muskets was too low.

The Jiannu Lulu Shield soldiers following behind immediately made up.

The ulu shields were treed one by one, and soon formed three shield walls on the ice. They moved slowly forward under the push of the ulu shield soldiers. The navy soldiers on the Ming army warship shot over several rows of gunfires, which made the Jiannu's ulu shields crackle. The Jiannu archer who followed the ulu shields quickly bent down and carefully followed the shield wall.

The navy warship on the bank of the river is seventy feet away from the center of the river, which is already beyond the range of Jiannu bow and arrows. The range of Jiannu bow and arrows is only fifty feet at most, so the Jiannu archers have to advance along the river surface at least twenty feet, so the arrows shot can obtain the Ming army warships in the center of the river.

"Boom boom boom..."

Accompanied by a violent roar, the earth suddenly began to tremble, and the four warships on the outermost edge fired.

More than forty Flang machine cannons fired at the same time, and the red light blooming was like hundreds of large fireworks blooming, extremely gorgeous. Within a distance of less than a hundred feet, the lethality of the Flang machine cannon is terrifying.

The solid oar shield that was more than three inches thick instantly exploded into debris. After more than forty solid iron bullets weighing dozens of kilograms penetrated through three shield walls in succession, they plunged into the dense Jiannu Formation with a shrill scream, just like more than forty blood plows plowed more than forty blood paths in the Jiannu Formation.

The complete Jiannu shield wall suddenly became fragmented and could no longer provide protection for Jiannu behind him.

The dense squads followed one after another, and Jiannu, who had lost the protection of the oar shield, fell down one after another. Seeing his companions falling down one after another, the remaining Jiannu completely lost the courage to move forward. He only regretted that his parents had fewer legs and threw down the heavy oar shield and fled in panic.

Duoduo, who was supervising the formation on the shore, was so angry that his face turned pale, and his right arm was raised high and slashed down hard.

A large rain of arrows rose from behind the Jiannu formation, like endless locusts, almost covering the sun in the sky. The more than two thousand Han army Eight Banners and the Korean Eight Banners who finally escaped back to the shore were all shot into hedgehogs in the blink of an eye. For the servant army, Jiannu wild boar skin never cherished their lives.

Looking at the bodies of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the North Korean who were dead on the shore, Duoduo nodded with satisfaction and waved his right arm forward. Two square arrays of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the North Koreans were shouting and storming. There were 10,000 Jiannu who attacked this time. In addition to the 5,000 Korean Eight Banners, there were also 5,000 elite soldiers of the 5,000 blue flags!

Five thousand Eight Banners of Korea used more than 2,500 giant oars and shields to build ten solid shield walls in front and behind, protecting the 5,000 blue-inlaid archers behind them and rushed towards the Ming army warship in the center of the canal.

"Boom boom boom..."

Accompanied by a huge roar of the shaking mountains, the Folang machine cannons on the Ming army warship opened fire, and dozens of scorching solid iron bombs entered the Jiannu formation, plowing dozens of bloody roads again. However, this time, Jiannu did not collapse. More than two thousand corpses were shot and lying on the river beach behind him. Jiannu, who went to fight this time, dared not retreat easily.

You may die in battle when you move forward, but you will definitely die in the future. Compared with the two, you can only rush forward with your teeth.

Amid the shouts of Jiannu Zuoling and Shenlingla, Jiannu in the back row quickly filled the front row, and more than 40 gaps that were plowed were quickly filled. The platoons fired by the Ming Navy hit the solid shield wall, and there was another trumpet sound, but not even Jiannu's hair was injured.

"Boom boom boom..."

Another huge roar of the shaking mountains, the second round of the Fran machine cannon came again, and dozens of gaps were plowed out of the dense Jiannu shield wall, scorching iron bullets whizzed past, and the broken limbs lying all over the ground, taking away hundreds of fresh lives, but the plowed gap was soon blocked again.

When the Folang machine cannon finished the third round of shells, Jiannu finally completed the journey of death of more than twenty feet. The Jiannu bow and arrow hiding behind the shield wall can finally fight back with the arrow. With the sound of trembling bowstrings rising and falling, waves of arrow rains swept into the air like locusts, carrying a sharp roar toward the Ming army warships in the middle of the river.

The Ming army soldiers guarding the deck fell down one by one, and the dense arrows almost shot the deck of the warship into a hedgehog. The Ming army soldiers who were lucky enough to have not died retreated into the cabin in panic.

This is the moment that Jiannu is waiting for!

Duoduo raised his hands and waved it forward with force. More than 5,000 Eight Banners of Korea and more than 5,000 Eight Banners of Han Army were launched at the same time. From the left and right wings, they rushed towards more than 50 Ming Navy warships in the center of the canal. A hideous smile bloomed coldly at the corner of Duoduo's mouth.

As long as the archers were used to suppress the musket team on the Ming Navy warship, there would be no suspense in this battle!
To be continued...